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2022-05-12

by shaenon on May 12, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. David B Huber
    May 12, 2022, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Oh. My. Mell in panel 4 sounds just like Unity!

    I want to see Mell and Tip “.. running around beating people up” SO BAD!

    • Duane B.
      May 12, 2022, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      Mell has a hammer now, did she bring it? Or, find it?
      Either answer has it’s own questions.

      • Robert
        May 12, 2022, 1:10 am | # | Reply

        This is Mell. Weapons just happen around her. She can evidently access the Warner/Acme Continuum and just pull stuff out of Hammerspace.

      • David B Huber
        May 12, 2022, 6:59 am | # | Reply

        I didn’t notice Mell’s Mallet of Loving Correction until you pointed it out. Thanks, Duane!

      • Robert Nowall
        May 12, 2022, 8:41 am | # | Reply

        She has a hammer in the morning, she has a hammer in the evening, all over this land…

        (So what if it’s a mallet?)

        • David B Huber
          May 12, 2022, 8:58 am | # | Reply

          I have yet to read Narbonic, yet am entranced by the thought of Mell wielding Mjöllnir!

          • Wizard
            May 12, 2022, 8:17 pm | #

            Mell has rampaged through both Heaven and Hell. Asgard wouldn’t stand a chance.

      • fkberthold
        May 12, 2022, 11:51 am | # | Reply

        Hammerspace is a wonderful thing.

    • sheer_falacy
      May 12, 2022, 1:43 am | # | Reply

      You’ve got cause and effect wrong, Unity is the one who frequently sounds just like Mell. That’ll happen when you’re based on someone’s brain.

    • jarakin
      May 12, 2022, 9:01 am | # | Reply

      That would be because Project U.N.I.T.Y. used Mell as the base.

    • davidbreslin101
      May 12, 2022, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

      If Mel every got infected with Unity-blood….. Melception!

      • David B Huber
        May 12, 2022, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

        OOhh, that’s a SCARY thought!

        I wonder if the nanites would even be rejected?

      • Robert Nowall
        May 12, 2022, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

        Unity may be infected with Mell’s DNA.

      • Shadowmehr
        May 12, 2022, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

        The feedback loop would devastate the landscape for miles.

  2. Moe Lane
    May 12, 2022, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Hey, Tip. They’re coming back for you.

  3. Towering Barbarian
    May 12, 2022, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Tip had Mel completely figured out by panel 4. He really is a good psychologist. 🙂

    • Candace
      May 12, 2022, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      Well, he’s not really very good at being a psychologist, but he is good at psychology.

  4. BMunro
    May 12, 2022, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Love that giant mallet Mell seems to have pulled out of hammerspace in the first panel.

    • Landis963
      May 12, 2022, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, those just kind of happen for Mell.

  5. alphaghoul
    May 12, 2022, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Like I said, parallel Dupree.

  6. Candace
    May 12, 2022, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    Apparently Mell is one of the few people who can pull Tip out of himself. I’m impressed. (Although I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised.)

  7. Frank Hightower
    May 12, 2022, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if Tip realizes it was he who put Chris there

    • Candace
      May 13, 2022, 1:39 am | # | Reply

      Given that Tip applied to A-sig as Dr. Chris Sanders, I’m pretty sure he can guess what happened.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 13, 2022, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

        Minor caveat: Tip didn’t “apply” anywhere. Chris already worked for A-Sig, and so he already had a valid company ID that was not yet associated with a band of rogue rebels. That’s why Tip assumed his identity. It was an easy way in.

        But yes, I’m sure Tip knew all along that it was Chris’ name on the top of that org chart.

  8. Robert Nowall
    May 12, 2022, 6:11 am | # | Reply

    Sure Mell needed to break Tip out of the brig. Bureaucracy being what it is, Chris would never have been told he was in there in the first place.

    • David B Huber
      May 12, 2022, 9:53 am | # | Reply

      Agreed. And any generic “Release all prisoners” order just might have drawbacks…

      • Robert Nowall
        May 12, 2022, 10:35 am | # | Reply

        “Pulu se bagumba!”

    • bergerjacques
      May 12, 2022, 11:22 am | # | Reply

      And that’s assuming Chris would order Tip’s release.

      • Candace
        May 13, 2022, 1:43 am | # | Reply

        Given that Tip helped Chris win Marcie, I imagine that Chris would have let Tip out, if he ever found out Tip was incarcerated there in the first place, which is somewhat questionable.

    • Candace
      May 13, 2022, 1:41 am | # | Reply

      That seems highly probable.

  9. s854
    May 12, 2022, 7:18 am | # | Reply

    Does today’s revelation mean that we’ll be left having to be left to imagine how Tip Wilkin would look wearing white (or, at least, off-white) pumps? https://skin-horse.com/comic/fraught-pause/

    • David B Huber
      May 12, 2022, 9:54 am | # | Reply

      I’m surprised Tip is still wearing his prison garb.

  10. Midwestmutt
    May 12, 2022, 8:05 am | # | Reply

    Oh yes! I want to see Mell and Unity meet.

    • Wizard
      May 12, 2022, 9:24 pm | # | Reply

      I predict they’d either battle to the death or immediately become BFFs. The scariest part is, I’m not sure which option would cause more collateral damage.

      • dornbeast
        May 13, 2022, 12:06 am | # | Reply

        1. Attempt to battle to the death.
        2. Something bigger and more in need of clobbering arrives.
        3. “Whoever gets more kills owes the other one a drink.”
        4. PROFIT!

        • David B Huber
          May 13, 2022, 12:15 am | # | Reply

          A scenario offering optimal satisfaction.

  11. Robert Nowall
    May 12, 2022, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    Tip claims breaking-out wasn’t needed. At A-Sig he’s been superseded. With a mallet in hand, Mel won’t understand, no matter how hard Tip has pleaded.

  12. Kyle
    May 12, 2022, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    The first panel is a wonder. Shaenon is a once-in-a-generation talent for drawing people jogging while hefting comically giant mallets. Still, it’s the fourth panel that steals the show. Pure fanservice. Thank you.

  13. Duth Olec
    May 12, 2022, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

    Confused Mell is cute. Yes, I’m saying the violent, gun-loving lawyer is cute. Besides, she has a big mallet, mallets make anyone cute.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 13, 2022, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

      She was always cute. Frankly, I think she was cuter as a violent, gun-loving, plaid-skirt-wearing college student. But as long as she’s violent and gun-loving, she’ll always be cute.

  14. David B Huber
    May 12, 2022, 1:10 pm | # | Reply

    So Unity comes by her love of weapons naturally?

    • Robert
      May 12, 2022, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

      Nothing comes naturally to Unity.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 13, 2022, 5:11 pm | # | Reply

        Au contraire… Anything involving weapons and/or violence comes quite naturally to her. She doesn’t even have to think about it (which is, of course, part of the problem).

  15. Andy4Hire
    May 12, 2022, 8:41 pm | # | Reply

    Several of yinz in a few comment threads above have brought up the fact that mallets just happen for Mell, so in case anyone was looking for it, here’s the canonical reference in the November 7, 2006 Narbonic strip.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 13, 2022, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

      Ah, yes… the classics. Thank you for that.

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