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2021-08-25

by shaenon on August 25, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. Candace
    August 25, 2021, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Another trip to Black Suit Warehouse? I wonder how often this happens to Echo Bravo?

    • Shadowmehr
      August 25, 2021, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

      Probably a lot. And he might get a frequent customer discount.

    • OneUniverse
      August 25, 2021, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

      That’s the easy way to maintain clothing compliance, thus avoiding extirpation.

  2. palenoue
    August 25, 2021, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Visit the Black Suit Warehouse where the prices are UNBELIEVABLY low because *redacted*

    • jdreyfuss
      August 25, 2021, 9:29 am | # | Reply

      You’re gonna [REDACTED] the way you look. I guarantee it.

      • skullthetroll
        August 25, 2021, 10:04 am | # | Reply

        Buy one suit get [REDACTED], free!

        • Robert Nowall
          August 25, 2021, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

          I hope [REDACTED] is socks and underwear, for all our sakes.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 25, 2021, 11:22 am | # | Reply

      I wonder if that’s where the gang went to get theirs for their first day at the Maragda Building… http://skin-horse.com/comic/training-meeting/

  3. Pygar
    August 25, 2021, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    The weapon looks to be a Strohl Mark 1. A later mark is to be seen in “Schlock Mercenary”…

  4. Ogden Wernstrom
    August 25, 2021, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    That’s why saucer tech is such a white elephant. If you’re advanced enough to transport living things across interstellar distances, you shouldn’t need to make yourself vulnerable to asymmetric warfare from puny Earthling tech.

    1. Launch UFO equipped with at least two kinds of life support.

    2. Accelerate ship fast enough to travel between the stars before everybody dies.

    3. Decelerate to velocity of target planet.

    4. Land. Greet natives. Take samples.

    5-8. Repeat steps 1-4 to return home.

    Your reward for achieving this technically daunting feat is to accelerate the technological development of a bunch of creepy space worms who, the minute they no longer want anything from you, will paint a white line down the middle of the galaxy and lay claim to everything on one side of it.

    Now, rational space travel:

    1. Missile launches from surface. No life support systems needed.

    2. Accelerate missile between the stars. Time frame is flexible.

    3. Missile strikes meteor in deep space, deflecting its orbit.

    4. Meteor smashes into alien planet a couple centuries later.

    5. Alien planet is plunged into years of frozen darkness. Dominant species and their civilization are wiped out. Peace and quiet reign. If by some chance life survives, they still won’t know where the attack came from.

    6. Repeat application every 65 million years or until alien infestation clears up.

    Simple, safe, and cheap. Clearly real-life space aliens are more practical than Pavane.

    (I was never here, and these are not the droids you are looking for.)

    • David B Huber
      August 25, 2021, 7:14 am | # | Reply

      Eminently practical, Ogden. Except you’ve overlooked the most important, overriding motivation.

      Flavor.

  5. Trivena
    August 25, 2021, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart said the intellects are ruthless and military. She didn’t say anything about them being SMART.

    • nebulousrikulau
      August 25, 2021, 6:16 am | # | Reply

      Yes, but how did Sweetheart know that his name for that suit was ‘Ruth’?

    • jwghaller
      August 25, 2021, 9:55 am | # | Reply

      There is the old saying about ‘military intelligence’ being an oxymoron.

  6. BMunro
    August 25, 2021, 3:29 am | # | Reply

    So St. Charlie has clashed with flying saucers before? Or did they just develop anti-saucer technology on a theoretical basis, like the anti-Homeric-Cyclope ray, which they developed in case St. Charlie was ever attacked by one of the Cyclopes from “The Odyssey?”

    • Tawdry Quirks
      August 25, 2021, 3:42 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps it’s a byproduct of the Bicycle Tech Wars. Somehow one (or more) of the bicycle mads was involved.

    • jwghaller
      August 25, 2021, 10:05 am | # | Reply

      The way I see it, theoretical physicists and mathematicians come up with abstract theories that turn out to have unexpected real-world applications all the time. Who’s to say that Dr. Jitters’s absentminded doodling on a napkin wouldn’t later turn out to be completely relevant to flying saucer conflicts?

      (For some reason I’m thinking of Leonardo of Quirm from the Discworld series, who keeps coming up with amusing little ideas that he assumes that nobody would ever be silly enough to try to do anything bad with, since they are so obviously dangerous.)

  7. Robert Nowall
    August 25, 2021, 6:09 am | # | Reply

    That “get nekkid” gun must be a big hit at parties.

    • Shadowmehr
      August 25, 2021, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      Only if the can’t get the finite improbability generators working.

  8. Semper Solus
    August 25, 2021, 11:40 am | # | Reply

    Physically going to Black Suit Warehouse is a pain, but they stopped doing delivery by government order. It was a security risk.

    Just like how people kept finding Google’s secret data centers from all those pizza deliveries to nowhere.

  9. Sheik
    August 25, 2021, 11:42 am | # | Reply

    I was impressed by the fact that whatever it was that burned off his clothes didn’t burn off his chest hair in the process.
    That’s a pretty darned selective application of heat.

    • Lady E
      August 25, 2021, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

      Unless it only affects polyester or some other non-natural fabric. Which leaves the “quality” of the black suits in doubt.

      • BMunro
        August 25, 2021, 3:42 pm | # | Reply

        A-Sig is, after all, an evil organization: they’re probably cheap, too.

  10. Robert Nowall
    August 25, 2021, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

    The fools from the Institute have their city. And A-Sig runs the Institute—what a pity. There’s a weapons collection, now in their intellection of ruthless clothes-burning subcommittee.

    • Candace
      August 26, 2021, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      Good one!

  11. Nathan Alderman
    August 25, 2021, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

    I greatly enjoy Off-Brand Dollar Store Mulder & Scully.

    • Candace
      August 26, 2021, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      Same here!

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