Yeah, but they may not get around to using it. (Personally, I think it’s a bit implausible that A-Sig hasn’t just firebombed or nuked the biomass into a grease spot already, but the authors no doubt need to draw things out a bit longer while they ready a midget wearing costume jewelry to drop into a volcano or whatever bizarre-but-subtly-telegraphed-years-ago plot device they’ve cooked up to take down A-Sig just when victory seems in its grasp)
Well, Sweetheart’s former pack would probably be happy to come down and follow Sparkle into battle against the Biomass, if Sweetheart doesn’t want to do it. If the Biomass felt truly threatened, perhaps it would agree to behave better.
Sweetheart has seen a potential version of the future. She and the Skin Horse team need to recognize that this thing has become an existential threat to all other life on Earth, ever since it cut out the genteel grande dame Mama Cypress.
They really need an agency equipped to enforce the law on NHS’s. I’m not saying there should be one in-universe right now, since it was established that until they became public the government allowed them to police their own, and there wasn’t really enough time to establish one before the blindness epidemic, but once this is all resolved, there will have to be an agency similar to the BIA that oversees both Skin Horse and a police force equipped to handle NHS crimes.
This strip demonstrates that, while Skin Horse can investigate crimes by and against NHS’s, they’re neither equipped nor philosophically set up to handle that sort of thing full time.
The Biomass isn’t so much in need of total destruction but in need of a blight.
The American Chestnut, which once accounted for one in three trees in the US, still exists but in stunted isolated examples, leaving us with material to work with to engineer resistance to the chestnut blight. A similar Biomass blight would serve the same function, not killing the entire Biomass but permanently stunting it to a manageable form.
The Biomass isn’t monotypical though. It’s an aggregation of millions of organisms from hundreds or thousands of species, including plants, animals, and microorganisms. It’s disease resistant for the same reason that any multicellular organism is – as long as it can survive the loss of a few of its component parts it will survive just fine.
Don’t worry. I’m sure Anasigma has plenty of carnage to spare…
Yeah, but they may not get around to using it. (Personally, I think it’s a bit implausible that A-Sig hasn’t just firebombed or nuked the biomass into a grease spot already, but the authors no doubt need to draw things out a bit longer while they ready a midget wearing costume jewelry to drop into a volcano or whatever bizarre-but-subtly-telegraphed-years-ago plot device they’ve cooked up to take down A-Sig just when victory seems in its grasp)
Well, Sweetheart’s former pack would probably be happy to come down and follow Sparkle into battle against the Biomass, if Sweetheart doesn’t want to do it. If the Biomass felt truly threatened, perhaps it would agree to behave better.
Sweetheart has seen a potential version of the future. She and the Skin Horse team need to recognize that this thing has become an existential threat to all other life on Earth, ever since it cut out the genteel grande dame Mama Cypress.
Sweetheart’s pack: maybe three dozen members.
Biomass: over three dozen acres – and growing.
The pack would not have the advantage. Which is why neither sister is leading them into it.
C’mon guys, just a little carnage…
To the carnagery!
Shouldn’t they have red soles then?
They really need an agency equipped to enforce the law on NHS’s. I’m not saying there should be one in-universe right now, since it was established that until they became public the government allowed them to police their own, and there wasn’t really enough time to establish one before the blindness epidemic, but once this is all resolved, there will have to be an agency similar to the BIA that oversees both Skin Horse and a police force equipped to handle NHS crimes.
This strip demonstrates that, while Skin Horse can investigate crimes by and against NHS’s, they’re neither equipped nor philosophically set up to handle that sort of thing full time.
Maybe at that angle you just can’t see the red soles. Or maybe they’re just so filthy with swamp water that the red is covered up.
The Biomass isn’t so much in need of total destruction but in need of a blight.
The American Chestnut, which once accounted for one in three trees in the US, still exists but in stunted isolated examples, leaving us with material to work with to engineer resistance to the chestnut blight. A similar Biomass blight would serve the same function, not killing the entire Biomass but permanently stunting it to a manageable form.
The Biomass isn’t monotypical though. It’s an aggregation of millions of organisms from hundreds or thousands of species, including plants, animals, and microorganisms. It’s disease resistant for the same reason that any multicellular organism is – as long as it can survive the loss of a few of its component parts it will survive just fine.
Just tossing out that I still covet Tip’s fashion sense.
Why is Tip the only one with a shadow?
I assume that it’s some combination of white privilege and the patriarchy. Either that, or because he’s taller, so it’s more obvious.
Do you not see Sparkle’s shadow? I do.
Vampire dogs?
The other shadows just happen to be shaped like Shaenon’s signature
Sparkle’s shadow is above Shaenon’s signature. It’s shaped like three little lines.