Man in charge,
Sewer Santa dude!
Big and large,
Starts by being rude!
You just said
“Speciesist” — not me!
Got undead
At my company!
But I’m afraid he’s …
[CHORUS:]
Bad employee!
Playing in the back!
Bad employee!
That’s a real “life hack”!
Entity,
Undead with blue hair …
Come and see
What he made back there!
Seems it’s still
Moving all around …
Hard to kill!
Fun times we have found!
That’s why this guy is … [repeat CHORUS]
If zombies eat, they must poo. But… how do they actually gain nutrients from what they consume if they’re not alive any more… and further, how do they wipe widdout bits falling off?
And then there’s the question of what results when zombie pee/poo interacts with ordinary human-based sewage in a place like this; and now that UNITY is there, HER poo would eventually be added to the mix…
Shaenon, Jeff… Is UNITY’s excreta a viable vector for infection by her “blood”?
mnem
*Imagining the whole world being inadvertently taken over by UNITY’s blood, one sewer at a time*
I have broken two many brain bones trying to figure out how zombies work. They’re basically magic.
I imagine that anything that comes out of Unity can infect living tissue (she hacked up on some poor songbird in the last storyline), but fortunately the nanovirus doesn’t survive long in normal host bodies. This does not preclude the possibility of a mutated nanovirus causing a horrific but charmingly enthusiastic Unity Goo Scenario.
It’s the result of an extradimensional machine that preserves a mind and co-opts the closest exploitable conveyance to allow that mind to continue to interact with the environment.
Yeah, it’s magic.
Y’know, since whatever New Guy’s hacked up into a bioreactor is supposed to be “still moving”, you might have accidentally hit on what the Glurch is there.
Good Gad, there’s TWO of ’em!
(Also, guess what Sewer Santa leaves you if you’ve been naughty…?)
I’m not real sure I want to know what Sewer Santa brings you if you’ve been nice.
You’d better watch out…
!!! It looks like Unity has some competition for the rank of Cutest Zombie!
Is…is that a gender-swapped zombie clone of Davin?
I think that’s clone Dave.
Is that to the tune of “I Think We’re Alone Now” by Tiffany or by Tommy James and the Shondells?
Probably the Tiffany version, since that appears to be the version that inspired Weird Al’s existing parody “I think I’m a clone now”…
Weird Al beat everyone to that filk. What’s better is someone made an AMV with clips from Neon Genesis Evangelion featuring Rei Ayanami
Not so sure. Dave never exactly became the high energy type. This zombie is just too upbeat to be Davenport Based.
Can’t be; Dave stole Clone Dave’s body a few minutes after killing him.
“THEY”! “THEY” ARE SOME OF YOUR WORST EMPLOYEES!</AllCaps>
Don’t you dare depersonalize people, for whatever reason!
That stuff literally gets people killed!
That line just needs punctuation:
It’s: “Some of my worst employees…”.
I think by “it” he means “the correct subject of my previous sentence”. So yeah, like Tetra suggests.
Today’s strip reminds me once again how delightful Pancha’s color work is, and how much it adds to Skin Horse.
(TUNE: “Bad Company”, Bad Company)
Man in charge,
Sewer Santa dude!
Big and large,
Starts by being rude!
You just said
“Speciesist” — not me!
Got undead
At my company!
But I’m afraid he’s …
[CHORUS:]
Bad employee!
Playing in the back!
Bad employee!
That’s a real “life hack”!
Entity,
Undead with blue hair …
Come and see
What he made back there!
Seems it’s still
Moving all around …
Hard to kill!
Fun times we have found!
That’s why this guy is …
[repeat CHORUS]
Geekery does not die….
This scenario raises a disturbing question…
If zombies eat, they must poo. But… how do they actually gain nutrients from what they consume if they’re not alive any more… and further, how do they wipe widdout bits falling off?
And then there’s the question of what results when zombie pee/poo interacts with ordinary human-based sewage in a place like this; and now that UNITY is there, HER poo would eventually be added to the mix…
Shaenon, Jeff… Is UNITY’s excreta a viable vector for infection by her “blood”?
mnem
*Imagining the whole world being inadvertently taken over by UNITY’s blood, one sewer at a time*
Alll your questions are based on a misapprehension. Zombies clearly have very very very efficient digestive systems.
I have broken two many brain bones trying to figure out how zombies work. They’re basically magic.
I imagine that anything that comes out of Unity can infect living tissue (she hacked up on some poor songbird in the last storyline), but fortunately the nanovirus doesn’t survive long in normal host bodies. This does not preclude the possibility of a mutated nanovirus causing a horrific but charmingly enthusiastic Unity Goo Scenario.
It’s the result of an extradimensional machine that preserves a mind and co-opts the closest exploitable conveyance to allow that mind to continue to interact with the environment.
Yeah, it’s magic.
Already a project on that – Black Oil (I’m waiting for MOTW to get to those episodes….)
Y’know, since whatever New Guy’s hacked up into a bioreactor is supposed to be “still moving”, you might have accidentally hit on what the Glurch is there.
He’s not a speciesist, he’s an equal opportunity curmudgeon.
He simply has a low opinion of everybody, probably even himself.
It’s like that exchange in Dirty Harry that I really don’t feel like repeating on the record.
“I don’t like dwarfs much,” said Vimes, “but then I don’t like humans much either, so maybe that makes it better, I don’t know.”
Ooh! I hope its Flukeman