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2018-07-10

by shaenon on July 10, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
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  1. D. Walker
    July 10, 2018, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Calling it now – Nick is actually going to be totally right about this, and A-Sig will secretly be run by his mom.

    • K. Iceclaw
      July 10, 2018, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      That’s… plausible, at this point.

      • D. Walker
        July 10, 2018, 12:39 am | # | Reply

        I mean… maybe his precognition isn’t from the whole time loop thing. Maybe they’re genetic!

    • awgiedawgie
      July 10, 2018, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      Maybe A-Sig’s actually run by Nera’s mom, and that’s why she’s always off on those “mysterious assignments”!

      • K. Iceclaw
        July 10, 2018, 9:50 am | # | Reply

        That also crossed my mind. Probably more likely really.

    • Robert Nowall
      July 10, 2018, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

      Well, Jonah Yu does eat paste…

  2. David B Huber
    July 10, 2018, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    And Mr. Green will turn out to be Ira!

    • D. Walker
      July 10, 2018, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      Nah, “Ira” isn’t a color name.

      It does mean “watchful” in Hebrew, though, which is fitting.

      • David Palmer
        July 10, 2018, 1:11 am | # | Reply

        Maybe it’s short for Iradescent. He is the leader because he is all the colors.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 10, 2018, 1:15 am | # | Reply

        It’s also Latin for “anger”… which is kind of interesting.

        • Guesticus
          July 11, 2018, 9:38 am | # | Reply

          Believe you are thinking of ‘Ire’, unless ‘Ire’ came from ‘Ira’

          • awgiedawgie
            July 11, 2018, 12:46 pm | #

            Yes, “ire” comes from “ira”. The main forms in Latin are “ira” and “irae”.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        July 11, 2018, 5:17 am | # | Reply

        Obviously they threw all those color names around in order to mislead would-be investigators, much like a certain kind of herring.

  3. awgiedawgie
    July 10, 2018, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Nera’s got a point. Jonah’s relying on his precog a little too much. The problem with having a superpower is that, until you can learn to master it at least, it tends to dull all your other senses. In Jonah’s case, his precognition dulls his normal cognitive ability.

    • matt w
      July 10, 2018, 8:16 am | # | Reply

      Even pre-precognitive Jonah would’ve walked into that one, I think.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 10, 2018, 11:24 am | # | Reply

        Well, Jonah is precognitive, and he did walk into that one, so you’re right.

        • matt w
          July 11, 2018, 8:55 am | # | Reply

          I meant “pre-precognitive”–before he became precognitive. (I’m still right, though.)

          • awgiedawgie
            July 11, 2018, 12:49 pm | #

            Ah… I totally read your first comment wrong. And yes, you’re still right.

  4. Alphaghoul
    July 10, 2018, 3:22 am | # | Reply

    Unless this has been asked already, how come the Jersey devils are docile and cooperative now?

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      July 10, 2018, 6:39 am | # | Reply

      They’re high on Tip’s attractant?

    • soft
      July 10, 2018, 7:51 am | # | Reply

      I’m thinking they were only super aggressive before because of the “rage” spore machine. The snakes biting them while hopped up on allergy meds allowed them to calm down while the machine was still running, and I would assume the machine eventually ran out of spores or was dismantled by someone.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 10, 2018, 11:38 am | # | Reply

        Well, I don’t recall anything actually mentioned anywhere in the comic (it never came up during that storyline), but I assume that with the Devils pacified by the Cobras’ prophylactic venom, Virginia had plenty of time to shut the machine down properly — probably after she dispatched Red Knight and finished repairing the injured robots.

    • Robert Nowall
      July 10, 2018, 10:03 am | # | Reply

      On their meds?

  5. katfairy
    July 10, 2018, 8:40 am | # | Reply

    Truth.

  6. Frank
    July 10, 2018, 10:03 am | # | Reply

    I’m with Jonah on calling it that. “Wishing Swamp” just doesn’t have the same ring to it

    Also, you’d think Jonah would be more upset at being called a perversion

  7. Robert Nowall
    July 10, 2018, 10:04 am | # | Reply

    But the last time we saw her, the Cypress was dying off…

    • awgiedawgie
      July 10, 2018, 11:21 am | # | Reply

      That’s why Tip wants to give her the Devils… to rebuild her biomass.

      And there’s no possible way that could go wrong… right?

      • Robert Nowall
        July 10, 2018, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

        Would’a thought Bitey and Alt-Bitey would’ve replenished that by now…

        • Frank
          July 10, 2018, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

          Wait, what if what’s killing Cypress is Alt-Bitey?

          • awgiedawgie
            July 10, 2018, 7:56 pm | #

            We already know that Alt-Bitey restored Cypress’ health back at A-Sig. But that’s all he was — a cure. He’s just a chemically enhanced coon-skin hat. He can’t do anything on his own to replenish her depleted mass. And even if Bitey and Alt-Bitey could reproduce — which is questionable at best — they haven’t had any time to do so. Besides, for all we know, Alt-Bitey stayed with Tip, and Bitey left with Unity.

            And we also know that it was the lightning and the raging fires above ground that have caused her current deterioration. She needs organic material and moisture in a bad way.

            There is, of course, the fact that Unity has been left alone with the Cypress. In the alt-universe, she allowed herself to be subsumed in Colma. Maybe she’ll do it in Carbondale in this universe. Y’know… just to save Granny Swamp from dying. Combine that with the Jersey Devils, and you have an organic biomass army with very little impulse control.

      • Shadowmehr
        July 10, 2018, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

        Thousands of suggestable, irritable, razor-toothed plants gathered into a group mind with a tree calling the shots? Nah, it’ll be totally fine. I doubt anyone would notice it/them moving to a better spot for further growth.

  8. jdreyfuss
    February 3, 2020, 1:41 pm | # | Reply

    Heh. Sapient bayou-mass.

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