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2020-02-01

by shaenon on February 1, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. sweetuncleLESLIE
    February 1, 2020, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Ah, 3rd panel. Collar-bomb! About time to weed out the Veggie Tip imitation.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 1, 2020, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      Small problem… the only one with an explosive collar is the real one.

  2. David B Huber
    February 1, 2020, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    Time for Tip to borrow a page from Unity’s playbook and exclaim “No, no Niue! That’s not a hat!” Then, when faux Tip turns, BLAM! – leg sweep! (Or unleashing Alice – I’m not picky)

    • awgiedawgie
      February 1, 2020, 1:29 am | # | Reply

      Or borrow a different page from Unity’s playbook, and break out the gardening tools.

      • OneUniverse
        February 1, 2020, 11:37 am | # | Reply

        Fertilizer included.

  3. BMunro
    February 1, 2020, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    I have to assume HT is also into this, because I can’t see why else he’d have clone-Tip try to eliminate Tip Original Flavor when he’s got giant moving vines and zombie bears that could accomplish the job a lot faster.

    • ducksandwaddler
      February 1, 2020, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      Man. You have to wonder what HT’s Very Secret Diary is like…

      (If anyone here has not googled, “Very Secret Diaries,” you are missing a great joy in life…

  4. Nigel
    February 1, 2020, 2:25 am | # | Reply

    Tip. <3

  5. Jonathan Fisher
    February 1, 2020, 2:55 am | # | Reply

    From an audience perspective, this is better than TipSex. More snark and more relatable. But if Tip doesn’t have a moment where he realizes that he, too, can have something better than TipSex, he will have failed to reach his Life’s Mission.

    I just hope that the authors actually realize what the have set up, here, and that I don’t become a toxic jerk if they miss this Foreshadowed Superpower Moment.

    What is it, you ask? ROT13 spoilers, but yeah, this is what Tip was born to do. And no, not sexytimes stuff, this is way more important…
    Pbyyrpgvir.
    ZNXRBIRE!

    It’s just a guess, but it is so perfect that only something more perfect could top it. I am eager to see it implemented or bettered, but I’m also desperately worried that it got missed…

    Worst part? I could see it taking WEEKS to reach this payoff. Or it could happen on Monday. Because self-awareness is like that, it comes both in self-generated lightning bolts at the start to end the foolishness early, and in offhanded comments from strangers weeks into the disaster.

  6. Robert Nowall
    February 1, 2020, 7:12 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know why Daphne is so interested. Neither Tip is a tiger.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 1, 2020, 9:01 am | # | Reply

      Note that she is writing a blow-by-blow (innuendo not intended) of this battle. Who’s to say that she isn’t making them tigers in her script?

      • Daphne
        February 1, 2020, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

        …. His fur stiffened as the other tiger faced him off and they began circling each other. Incandescent eyes meet a smoldering glare and roar “You will not insult my friends!” ….

      • Ysabet
        February 1, 2020, 10:38 pm | # | Reply

        …..and here I figured she was writing an RP fanfic…..

  7. Pyre Light
    February 1, 2020, 11:54 am | # | Reply

    I never realized before that Daphne bus actually a Jeffrey Wells self-insert.

  8. Ogden Wernstrom
    February 1, 2020, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

    This comic keeps missing its chance at a happy ending, but maybe it will come this time. Everybody vegetates happily ever after (everybody who lives, that is — the machines will get theirs once the humans are assimilated), we get the One True Pairing that the whole comic has built up to (Leo/Werewolf Vegetable Tip), the End.

    Also, my last cryptogram attempted spoiler (thinking the pod people were Anasigma’s attempt to control the Cypress) was a bust, but my overall record is OK. A couple were right, and one or two more might come in under the wire.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      February 1, 2020, 4:48 pm | # | Reply

      I’m kidding of course — Jonas/Panopticon will always have my heart. Just to remind everyone what definitely happened off panel —

      Pano telepathied her plans for the future to Jonas. He couldn’t help but use his foresight to see what would happen if he joined her, and saw what he saw her telepathy.

      Jonas and Pano together could have taken on anybody and anything, with 95% of the power of an “Arwen keeps the One Ring” situation but 30% less evil. The one thing stopping the growth of their power would be their destiny to have a single child. Jonas and Pano would die nine months apart, like Miriel wasting away after birthing Feanor. The story of that child would become the story of the mutiverse.

      Jonas chose to stay with Nera anyway, and that gets us to this point.

      You don’t see that kind of future without leaving something behind. Pano looks through everything like it is gauze, seeing the world where her dreams still remain. Jonas still lives here, but Nera suspects his faraway looks are about more than just his future sight. She does not ask and he does not say.

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        February 1, 2020, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

        That should have been, “Pano saw what Jonah saw using her telepathy.” Also, let’s all be glad I never tried to be a writer.

        • awgiedawgie
          February 1, 2020, 6:09 pm | # | Reply

          Writers have proofreaders to catch those typos, and they have editors to tell them when their stories are bloody insanity.

          • David B Huber
            February 1, 2020, 8:39 pm | #

            Bloody insanity = best seller 😉

          • awgiedawgie
            February 1, 2020, 9:01 pm | #

            Sheer madness = best seller.

            Bloody insanity =/= sheer madness.

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