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2020-05-28

by shaenon on May 28, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Urlance Woolsbane
    May 28, 2020, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    So this, I assume, is Sweetheart’s dream.

    • casimir
      May 28, 2020, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      Poutine in a Florida bar?
      Gotta be a dream!

      • heckblazer
        May 28, 2020, 2:23 am | # | Reply

        There actually was a place in Key West.

      • Lady E
        May 28, 2020, 6:33 am | # | Reply

        There is a good poutine place with a bar in Indianapolis, IN. I would believe there is one SOMEWHERE in Florida.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 28, 2020, 9:27 am | # | Reply

        Florida is infested with Canadians, though poutine is more of a French Canadian thing and most of the ones down here are the other kind.

      • jarakin
        May 29, 2020, 12:04 am | # | Reply

        South florida is a land composed entirely of immigrants and tourists. Often Canadian tourists. Honestly wouldn’t surprise me.

        • Ysabet
          May 29, 2020, 12:33 am | # | Reply

          We natives of non-peninsular Florida kind of separate the northern area as “Real Florida” and the peninsula as “Where People Work For The Rat.” Ah, Florida, I miss you (I live in AZ now.)

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        May 30, 2020, 4:40 am | # | Reply

        Oh, I assumed those were chili fries

    • Gyrre
      May 28, 2020, 5:09 am | # | Reply

      That looks like Capt. Braum(sp?) to me.

    • Seph
      May 28, 2020, 6:59 am | # | Reply

      The question being how long we’ve been in Sweetheart’s dream.

      • Doug Relyea
        May 28, 2020, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

        Quite possibly since May 10, 2020 (rather serendipitous.) May 11th for the regular strip.

        • Daibhid C
          May 28, 2020, 2:26 pm | # | Reply

          I’d hope for May 13th at the absolute earliest. Sweetheart learning abut Nick’s dream in her own dream is a level of recursion I’d like to avoid unless actually necessary. (Sweetheart learning about Tip’s dream in her dream would be less of a problem, because there’s no previous evidence he had a dream.)

          But I’d prefer a later date (like, today) as there’s been a lot of plot development over the past week that I would hope has actually happened.

  2. Robert Nowall
    May 28, 2020, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Captain Bram, coming to get Sweetheart, I presume?

    • D. Walker
      May 28, 2020, 1:38 am | # | Reply

      Not necessarily. Nick’s dream-bubbe said nothing about coming for him, she was just judgemental and disapproving. And we still don’t know what Tip’s dream was like, although he seemed to not have found it unpleasant at all.

      What I find weird is that they a few strips later, they both describe it as they dreamed of people who MIGHT come for them, which is weird on its own, and also weird because we the audience didn’t actually see them say that in the dreams.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 28, 2020, 5:06 am | # | Reply

        Perhaps the distinction is that Tip and Nick are mostly normal human beings. Tip has a little werewolf venom and some essence d’Unity running in his veins, and Nick has various “enhancements”, but overall – biologically – they’re both mostly human.

        And I can only assume that Tip’s mom and Nick’s bubbe were both even more normal human beings, whereas all the other non-humans’ creators were Mad.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 28, 2020, 7:48 am | # | Reply

        The key is that the dream figures are the “creator” (or perhaps perceived to be, in Bubbe Z’s case.)

        • awgiedawgie
          May 28, 2020, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

          Yes, but Nick’s and Tip’s dream were unique in that their “creators” said they might be coming for them, while in everyone else’s dream, their creators simply said “I’m coming for you.”

          • Robert Nowall
            May 28, 2020, 12:18 pm | #

            Would either of them remember a dream that accurately?

          • awgiedawgie
            May 28, 2020, 12:45 pm | #

            Why wouldn’t they? I very often remember significant dreams in detail for a long time.

  3. Moe Lane
    May 28, 2020, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    “If I actually see you, the voodoo man wins.” I like that.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 28, 2020, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      If “Skin Horse” is ever repackaged in new books, that’d make a great title.

    • Gyrre
      May 28, 2020, 5:12 am | # | Reply

      That definitely implies she recognizes his voice. Maybe she’ll be the first to cognizant enough to make sense of these dreams.

      • casimir
        May 28, 2020, 11:54 am | # | Reply

        Sweetheart has dealt with Anasigma mind manipulation before. She’s got that going for her.

    • Shadowmehr
      May 28, 2020, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, mind games or not, I don’t think she’s quite ready to make nice with Remy. A great way to summarize it.

  4. Frank
    May 28, 2020, 1:40 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart: Why did you come here?”
    Captain Bram: For you
    Audience: Awwww
    Sweetheart: AAAAAAUGH!

    • Gyrre
      May 28, 2020, 5:12 am | # | Reply

      Nice

  5. jdreyfuss
    May 28, 2020, 7:47 am | # | Reply

    Come on, Scully Sweetheart, after being presented with direct irrefutable evidence you still don’t believe?

    • Robert Nowall
      May 28, 2020, 9:25 am | # | Reply

      In her *last* encounter with Captain Bram, Sweetheart brought about the end of the world by being unable to close a fire door. Sweetheart might believe that possible, but the rest of us are skeptical.

      • Christian Rose
        May 28, 2020, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

        Sweetheart didn’t necessarily believe that it was possible, Anisigma just asked her to prove a negative.

  6. David B Huber
    May 28, 2020, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

    Captain Bram wouldn’t accept the paranormal any more than Sweetheart does. But he might manifest as a figment of her subconscious mind to guide her in shaking free of Anasigma’s insidious control…

  7. Ysabet
    May 28, 2020, 7:52 pm | # | Reply

    Poor Sweetheart, she’s gone to meet her maker… **badum-ching!**

  8. felbloodreaper
    May 28, 2020, 10:14 pm | # | Reply

    Don’t discount the possibility that Anisigma or Gavotte had the Captain cloned.

    • David B Huber
      May 28, 2020, 11:09 pm | # | Reply

      I like that idea!

    • awgiedawgie
      May 28, 2020, 11:15 pm | # | Reply

      I’m not sure whether I like that idea or not. It adds a whole new layer of complexity to an already tortuous plot.

      Of course, what makes it all the more disturbing is the fact that it’s entirely possible.

    • Dewy
      May 29, 2020, 1:41 pm | # | Reply

      Eww. Considering what happened to his body after he died, I’m not sure I want to know where they got the genetic material.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 29, 2020, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

        Well, in Sweetheart’s VR hell when she was talking to him, he said he never found his spleen, so maybe that’s the one thing that A-Sig did find.

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