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2013-01-16

by shaenon on January 16, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Dave Van Domelen
    January 16, 2013, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Omega Protocol is hard on the language, never mind the candy.

  2. Anderson
    January 16, 2013, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. So does Tip have a couple boxes of spare bullets hidden in his bra or something, or has he *actually* just used half his bullets (I assume it’s a 6-shot he’s using…)?

    • Diane Castle
      January 16, 2013, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      Tip uses the ‘Rushuna Tendou’ reload technique. Watch for it.

      • Andrew
        January 16, 2013, 1:11 am | # | Reply

        Wait, was that Nabiki Tendou’s fighting technique?

        • Norman
          January 16, 2013, 5:42 am | # | Reply

          No, Nabiki’s technique involved cash and photographic emulsions, not lead ^_^

    • Sam Setter
      October 26, 2018, 4:03 pm | # | Reply

      At one point in “Swing from My Branches” IIRC he claimed his standard load out was alice and 1,000rds of ammunition. Tip most definitely has more ammo.

  3. Towering Barbarian
    January 16, 2013, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    I thought Ginny was an Anasigma employee? How did she last so long with them if she’s that squeemish about things? o_O

    • Daibhid C
      January 16, 2013, 3:48 am | # | Reply

      Mostly through denial, I think. In David Langford’s not-at-all-based-on-his-time-at-the-Atomic-Weapons-Establishment novel The Leaky Establishment, the hero divides nuclear weaponry scientists into two groups: the hawks and the ostriches. The hawks are the agressive types who enthusuastically measure things in kilodeaths, and the ostriches are the ones who say “This is an interesting application of the theory, but lets not think about why we’re actually doing it.”

      Ginny is an ostrich.

    • Tetra Valent
      January 16, 2013, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

      She doesn’t strike me as being squeamish here. I think she’s just worried that her performance evaluation will be low if she’s only associated with such “minor” murders.

  4. Andrew
    January 16, 2013, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    I have to ask, what’s 17th degree of murder? And does the 6th degree of murder involve Kevin Bacon?

    • MutantSentry
      January 16, 2013, 1:48 am | # | Reply

      There is no 6th degree…

      • Smithnik
        January 16, 2013, 10:51 am | # | Reply

        What, you can’t have a Rokudan in zombie-killing? If not, then a lot of anime fans have been seriously misled…

  5. Eddurd
    January 16, 2013, 3:49 am | # | Reply

    If it was minus-40th degree, you wouldn’t be able to tell if he was undead or unalive.

    (TUNE: “I’ve Got No Strings”, Washington & Harline)

    I didn’t kill the walking dead;
    I didn’t shoot him in the head!
    Hear the sigh From Doctor Lee;
    It’s not 18th degree!

    A non-non-lethal shot I tried;
    I’m not committing morticide!
    There’s no pulse; he’s fine, you’ll see!
    It’s not 18th degree!

     O-me-ga Pro-to-col
     Is a protocol that sucks!
     Oh, hell, it still works well,
     Right until a zombie ducks!

    So these undead I won’t un-kill;
    He’ll lurch again, oh yes he will!
    He was shot un-fatally;
    It’s not 18th degree!

  6. Jerry C
    January 16, 2013, 6:00 am | # | Reply

    That has to be the fifth strangest bit of dialog yet in a comic.

  7. Zap Rowsdower
    January 16, 2013, 9:06 am | # | Reply

    So, killing a zombie gives them a pulse?

    • woozy
      January 16, 2013, 10:48 am | # | Reply

      No, psychology is a very soft science.

    • Smithnik
      January 16, 2013, 10:48 am | # | Reply

      Apparently, any form of un-zombifying gives them a pulse. We have two examples, this strip and the new zombie love story movie that’s coming out. Of course, once they’ve no longer not got a pulse, killing them might be murder, even if they don’t know they’re now previously dead.
      I think it’s called Omega Protocol because it makes forensic linguists go utterly mad and start killing anything that moves, or doesn’t.

  8. Classic Steve
    January 16, 2013, 9:17 am | # | Reply

    On Monday in “Girl Genius,” zombies were afraid that lightning would make them cease to be dead.

    • woozy
      January 16, 2013, 10:51 am | # | Reply

      Well, in the movie Dr. Frankenstein didn’t shout “it’s undead! It’s undead!”

      • Anderson
        January 16, 2013, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

        Well, he *was* a mad scientist. There are standards to uphold when you do that kind of work.

        • woozy
          January 17, 2013, 9:51 am | # | Reply

          My point was: if lightening makes a bunch of dead material, such as that from which Frankenstein’s monster was constructed, alive, then the worrying zombies had a valid concern; being struck be lightening *could* cause them to stop being dead.

  9. Shadowmehr
    January 16, 2013, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

    There has to be an award somewhere for dialog being that badass and that silly at the same time.

  10. Treesong
    January 16, 2013, 9:23 pm | # | Reply

    Kudos to Eddurd for that temperate pun, and I heartily agree with Shadowmehr. The best dialogue in Skin Horse since roughly forever.

    • Andrew
      January 16, 2013, 10:04 pm | # | Reply

      Oh my God. Worst pun ever.

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