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2019-08-20

by shaenon on August 20, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. sweetuncleLESLIE
    August 20, 2019, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    That’s NOT his usual five-shot pistolover. He brought the Big Gun. Makes me go all ‘Vachel Lindsay’…Boom-a-lay, boom-a-lay….BOOM. So, waste some of these imposters..

    • Candace
      August 20, 2019, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      Well-spotted! Looks like some kind of 9 mil semi-auto. Wonder if this one also has a name?

      • jdreyfuss
        February 5, 2020, 10:29 am | # | Reply

        It looks like a striker fired semiautomatic with a square slide and no exposed barrel. I’m guessing Glock. The shape of James’ gun’s barrel looks like an IWI. It’s too small to be a Desert Eagle, so it’s probably a Jericho.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 20, 2019, 1:32 am | # | Reply

      The barrel looks right for Alice, especially in the third panel. The rest of it is a bit off, but Shaenon’s never claimed to be an expert at drawing guns.

      • Person5
        August 20, 2019, 10:12 am | # | Reply

        In fact I’m fairly certain she claims the opposite quite often.

        • Sheik
          August 20, 2019, 10:21 am | # | Reply

          I guess it’s just like what she says about drawing cars.
          Hummm….can’t draw guns, can’t draw cars…seems downright unamerican somehow.

      • SVGeezer
        August 20, 2019, 10:28 am | # | Reply

        “Shaenon’s never claimed to be an expert at drawing guns.”

        But can she draw expert guns?? (That gun looks pretty expert)

      • DonRCamp
        August 20, 2019, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

        She may not claim expertise, but that is DEFINITELY NOT a revolver. The slide is clearly rendered.

      • jdreyfuss
        February 5, 2020, 10:30 am | # | Reply

        That’s the grips on the back of the slide, not a cylinder.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 20, 2019, 11:17 am | # | Reply

      “Boom-lay-boom, boom-lay-boom, boom-baby.” The restless are native.

  2. Candace
    August 20, 2019, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    You’re right, Tip. James looks like total douche with that pencil mustache. His fashion sense is clearly inferior to yours. You should be able to thoroughly smash him in a fashion-duel.

    • Manifesta
      August 20, 2019, 2:19 pm | # | Reply

      In fairness,those uniforms are no one’s best look. James may dress as snazzily as Tip off-duty.

      • Barbara K
        August 20, 2019, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

        He probably dresses like Zorro: tight-fitting black outfit, mask, whip and cape. And hot boots.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 20, 2019, 5:45 pm | # | Reply

        Them’s fightin’ words. No one dresses as snazzily as Tip does.

  3. Salty
    August 20, 2019, 2:19 am | # | Reply

    I mean, I agree that The Asian Streak is the ultimate evil, but man does that not look good when Nick’s ‘evil opposite’ is black.

    • Stroth
      August 20, 2019, 2:43 am | # | Reply

      My first reaction was that since Nick is Jewish his opposite has to be a minority as well to balance. But yeah, even then it doesn’t look great.

      • Towering Barbarian
        August 20, 2019, 3:12 am | # | Reply

        So now we’re pretending that minorities aren’t human beings and therefore could never be evil? o_O

        • Robert Loughrey
          August 20, 2019, 9:16 am | # | Reply

          Who said that?

    • mrinku
      August 20, 2019, 3:35 am | # | Reply

      …and exactly how evil are they really?

      So far they haven’t actually done anything bad – Trinity attaking Unity is more of an inevitability, and the Skin Horse guys ARE the Intruders.

      Opposite-Nick has only had one line… and that was being frustrated with James.

    • Bubble181
      August 20, 2019, 6:32 am | # | Reply

      If all “Evil” characters were back, you might have a point. As it is, though, it’s one character who’s black vs how many who aren’t? We’ve seen several other “opposites”, Sweetheart became a cat, etc.
      Additionally, we don’t know if these are even Evil at all.
      This post comes off more as an ass-u-me situation than any actual racism going on around here.

      • nebulousrikulau
        August 20, 2019, 6:47 am | # | Reply

        They’re evil because they work for Anasigma. QED.

        And cats are always evil, too. No apologies. Meow.

        • Sheik
          August 20, 2019, 10:27 am | # | Reply

          Cats are always cats.
          Good and Evil are not a consideration unless we’re talking about a cat that does un-cat-like things. Then we are talking about a Bad Cat.

          • s854
            August 20, 2019, 2:35 pm | #

            12 billion Funny Cat Videos show that a cat doing un-cat-like things isn’t always Bad.

  4. Robert Nowall
    August 20, 2019, 10:48 am | # | Reply

    Does Tip-with-the-pencil-thin-moustache own a two-tone Ricky Ricardo jacket?

    • sweetuncleLESLIE
      August 20, 2019, 4:47 pm | # | Reply

      and an autographed picture….of Andy Devine?

  5. Nomi
    August 20, 2019, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

    Is purple-bangs lady in love with black anti-Nick? (Has anyone said his name yet?) But more importantly, why does Nick want them to shoot him? I don’t get it.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 20, 2019, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

      Nick would prefer getting shot over listening to Tip prattle on about facial hair.

      • awhyzip
        August 20, 2019, 4:31 pm | # | Reply

        Nick recognizes that his duplicate will be just like him — a pacifist. He’s calling their bluff.

        This key character point was recently reminded for us: http://skin-horse.com/comic/collection-of-4/

        • Barbara K
          August 20, 2019, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

          If he’s Nick’s opposite, he may feel that violence is a cleansing force. He’s holding a pretty big gun.

      • sweetuncleLESLIE
        August 20, 2019, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, A.D. As hip as NIck is to contemporary entertainment, that cry for merciful
        death is the cry of a guy who can’t stand one more ornamentalist’s belly-ache about nothing but SURFACE. How shallow. He whimpers for the coup de grace, to deliver him from the Universe of Fools, now that he’s caught in the Mysteries of Love.(etc)

        • Shadowmehr
          August 20, 2019, 9:00 pm | # | Reply

          I don’t know about the Mysteries of Love ™, but I agree that Nick has had it up to here with the nutcases he’s been travelling with.

  6. Some Bob
    August 20, 2019, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

    I’m suspecting that TIp’s counterpart is a female who is crossdressing masculine. Appropriately, that’s about the only group of people that a pencil moustache looks alright on.

    • Barbara K
      August 20, 2019, 4:53 pm | # | Reply

      I like your idea, “Some Bob”… but it looks like James, the Tip counterpart, may have slightly larger arm muscles than Tip. He may be lifting heavier things than sequin-laden gowns.
      Pencil mustaches do go well with swashbuckler masks. (Think “Princess Bride’s Dread Pirate” … oops – “Yet Another Bob”.)

  7. Knuckles
    February 9, 2022, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

    You can just tell that not-Nick is analyzing what Nick is saying, and thinking to himself “what is this guy on?”

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