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2022-04-10

by shaenon on April 9, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Robert Nowall
    April 9, 2022, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    So Sweetheart isn’t staying, either.

    • Daibhid C
      April 9, 2022, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

      Nope, she’s decided she’d rather be with Unity than be at the top of the org chart.

  2. thejoemoose
    April 9, 2022, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Dorothy and Toto about to head home? Or is the curtain about to be pulled away?

    • Glotos
      April 9, 2022, 1:01 am | # | Reply

      Dorothy’s home was a black and white world. So are they heading back to page 1?

      • thedoctor55
        April 9, 2022, 1:51 am | # | Reply

        Well,at this moment they are in Kansas and for Kansas,color is in black & white. 😉

      • Robert Nowall
        April 9, 2022, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

        That’s just the movie. In the book Kansas was just as real as Oz.

    • SVGeezer
      April 9, 2022, 10:16 am | # | Reply

      Curtain! Curtain! Curtain!

      curtain, curtain, curtain……

    • Bruceski
      April 9, 2022, 4:16 pm | # | Reply

      Kansas sure has a lot of walnuts…

  3. mnemex
    April 9, 2022, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Still waiting for the other shoe to drop.

    • Seph
      April 9, 2022, 8:45 am | # | Reply

      In order for it to drop, at least one of the main cast needs to be inside the ship.

      • ranthalling
        April 9, 2022, 9:28 am | # | Reply

        Very good point! To be honest, those 2 are very effective investigators, even if it sometimes seems like pure luck.

  4. David B Huber
    April 9, 2022, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    This is a poignant yet surprising development! Still…

    That poor saucer.

  5. Moe Lane
    April 9, 2022, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Wait.

    There’s an army coming.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 9, 2022, 1:26 am | # | Reply

      And Chris and Marcie need rescuing, too.

    • Duane B.
      April 9, 2022, 1:29 am | # | Reply

      Two little kings playing a game.
      They gave a war and nobody came.
      from the song “Zor and Zam”

      • Robert Nowall
        April 9, 2022, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

        Haven’t heard that in years (though a local radio station played their “Cuddly Toy” this morning, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard that on the radio.)

  6. Candace
    April 9, 2022, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    This can’t go well.

  7. Urlance Woolsbane
    April 9, 2022, 2:45 am | # | Reply

    Okay, crackpot theory time, inspired by a certain classic Doctor Who serial: What if Lovetron doesn’t exist, or never existed at all, and Pavanne is planning to remake the Earth in its image, destroying all humans, and then to deceive her passengers into thinking they’re on another planet?

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      April 9, 2022, 3:00 am | # | Reply

      But why take Tigerlilly, you ask? Well clearly they need to siphon her (now latent) funky madness to effect the transformation of Earth into Lovetron

      • Seph
        April 9, 2022, 8:48 am | # | Reply

        Maybe they already siphoned it—that’s why she’s gone all normal.

    • davidbreslin101
      April 9, 2022, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

      ….is that a “Trial of a Time Lord ” reference? I’ve NEVER seen anyone make a “Trial of a Time Lord ” reference before!

      • Tiff Hudson
        April 9, 2022, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

        I think it’s a reference to “Invasion of the Dinosaurs”, a Pertwee series.

        • Solarbird
          April 9, 2022, 7:42 pm | # | Reply

          Now there’s a story I’d like to see get a special edition. It’s such a great script but… damn, those effects take you right out of it.

        • Urlance Woolsbane
          April 10, 2022, 1:05 am | # | Reply

          Yeah, I was alluding to “Invasion of the Dinosaurs”, though I can see why the Ravalox subplot from “Trial” came to mind

  8. alphaghoul
    April 9, 2022, 3:28 am | # | Reply

    I didn’t get to read yesterday’s when it came out, what does “jump bones” mean?

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      April 9, 2022, 3:49 am | # | Reply

      To shag, I believe

    • Shufflecat
      April 9, 2022, 4:02 am | # | Reply

      “(To) jump (your/his/her/their/my) bones” is American (and maybe also UK and/or English Commonwealth nations?) slang for sex, specifically with the instigating partner as the grammatical subject, and implying an element of aggressive horniness.

      Basically, “I wanted to jump your bones” would be a modern(-ish: it’s originally 90s slang, so it may be retro now) equivalent of “I wanted to ravish you”.

      • anonymous
        April 9, 2022, 7:21 am | # | Reply

        It’s at least 80s slang, Shufflecat, appearing in a 1984 Night Court episode.
        https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660662/quotes/?ref_=tt_trv_qu

        • mickeyjf
          April 9, 2022, 10:50 am | # | Reply

          Louis McMaster Bujold even uses it in one of her (25th centuryish?) Sci fic novels.

      • Robert Nowall
        April 9, 2022, 8:01 am | # | Reply

        A post on The Straight Dope cites an article in Esquire from 1965, though mention of it in the sense of fighting occurs in a British folk song (not cited).

        • khn0
          April 9, 2022, 8:59 am | # | Reply

          Yeah I’ve met both uses. We foreigners always have to be wary of what we think to know.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 9, 2022, 10:56 am | # | Reply

      If I had to define it as clinically as possible, I’d say “To unleash all at once one’s pent-up sexual energy upon the object of one’s affection; to attack sexually.”

    • Clifton
      April 9, 2022, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

      Here’s a fine demonstration: https://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-163/

      • Moe Lane
        April 10, 2022, 12:56 am | # | Reply

        …thirty minutes later…

      • JoB
        April 10, 2022, 3:40 am | # | Reply

        … notes the “(Want the original art for this strip?) Buy Now” button under that page (but not the adjacent ones) …

  9. Shadowmehr
    April 9, 2022, 9:16 am | # | Reply

    Exit scene, stage up. Curtain falls, then rises on Act III.

    It would be amusing that at the end of this, it’s revealed to all be an opera created by the silverfish and being watched by Tip.

    • Sheik
      April 9, 2022, 11:33 am | # | Reply

      Speaking of the silverfish, I’m wondering what’s happening to the other basement dwellers?

      • Daibhid C
        April 9, 2022, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

        I got the vague impression that Annex One, The Office Building That Walks Like a Giant Robot had included the basement, so probably they’re here somewhere. We know the cobras are, anyway.

        • Robert Nowall
          April 9, 2022, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

          I was wondering about the Annex One building. Without Hitty, they don’t have enough fusion pie to keep it moving. So I suppose it’ll just be there, standing in the middle of Kansas, fron now on.

          • Robert
            April 9, 2022, 3:46 pm | #

            Yes, for it to move would be (ahem) Impossible…

  10. Robert Nowall
    April 9, 2022, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

    Long as we’re posting notions…I’m a little mystified by the notion that the Undead, apparently, get to go, but the living humans don’t. After all, the Undead (at least the ones that have always been one person and not Unity) have everything that made them human. Why bring them along, if that’s the case? Do they gain virtue by being the Undead?

    • Towering Barbarian
      April 9, 2022, 2:17 pm | # | Reply

      Probably. They no longer qualify as human after all. I’m still thinking in terms of C.M. Kornbluth’s The Marching Morons, Damon Knight’s To Serve Man and the Pied Piper of Hamelton as to how this will turn out. There is nothing Pavane is doing here that IRA would not endorse. And note that none of the non humans were being persecuted. They were merely being…ignored. 🙂

  11. greyhobbit13
    April 9, 2022, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

    Oh heck. I don’t know if I can take this. Are we at the end? I mean, all things come to an end, but dang. I think we have most everybody wrapped up. What’s next?

    • David B Huber
      April 9, 2022, 5:24 pm | # | Reply

      Objectively yes, all the plot threads are being tied off in neat little bows.

      BWAA-HA-Ha-Ha-ha!

    • awgiedawgie
      April 9, 2022, 8:35 pm | # | Reply

      There’s still Chris and Marcie at least. And I’m not sure Jonah and Nera are resolved yet either.

    • M
      April 10, 2022, 3:39 am | # | Reply

      And what actual deal with Lovetron is, the relationship between Ira, Gavotte and Pavane, and maybe the fates of various minor characters. And just over eight months to sort that lot out sounds possible, depending what other plot twists may be round the corner.

  12. Robert Nowall
    April 9, 2022, 4:44 pm | # | Reply

    They totally wanted to do it. So Unity helped them get through it. Sweetheart lost inhibition and made a decision, So right now it looks like adieu-it.

  13. Solarbird
    April 9, 2022, 7:44 pm | # | Reply

    Wow.

    Wasn’t expecting Sweetheart to go.

    Not that I blame her. I just… I think I expected some sense of duty to make her stay.

    • Venator Animarum
      April 9, 2022, 9:19 pm | # | Reply

      I rhink it’s what Unity just said that made her decide. Although i doubt that she meant it that way, it touched Sweetheart’s sweet heart.

  14. awgiedawgie
    April 9, 2022, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

    I still suspect Ira and Pavane of being in cahoots, and they only want to get the non-humans out of the way. There is no Lovetron. Having Unity on board may be the non-humans best chance of survival.

    • Robert
      April 9, 2022, 9:55 pm | # | Reply

      Didn’t Gavotte once make a chummy phone call to Ira, about Nick? Still something major to be learned about her and the “humbug”…

      • awgiedawgie
        April 10, 2022, 6:47 am | # | Reply

        I’ll admit I don’t exactly trust Gavotte, since she knew about Ira all along, but she was always trying to get humans and non-humans to live in harmony. Both Ira and Pavane want to get the non-humans off the Earth. Pavane claims she’s rescuing them, but what if that’s a ruse, and she’s just an instrument of Ira to get the non-humans to eliminate themselves voluntarily (albeit unknowingly)?

  15. DWVR
    April 9, 2022, 11:05 pm | # | Reply

    This couldn’t be The End now, could it?

    • David B Huber
      April 10, 2022, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      Interesting you should say that.

      I admit that final, beautifully rendered panel has a coda feel to it. If this WERE the last Skin-Horse strip it wouldn’t be unworthy.

      But I can’t help but feel our Authors have a more grandiose finale in mind…

  16. The Flower Cosmic
    April 10, 2022, 10:20 am | # | Reply

    Oh, damn. This is really sweet but really sad…

  17. Robert
    April 10, 2022, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

    (Dave Bowman voice) “It’s full of walnuts…”

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