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2022-01-12

by shaenon on January 12, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. dvandom
    January 12, 2022, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Artie is nothing if not genre-savvy.

    • Megs
      January 12, 2022, 7:53 am | # | Reply

      FACTS

  2. Lord Dave
    January 12, 2022, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Artie showing off his mad genius laugh.

    • Shadowmehr
      January 12, 2022, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, I read a kind of borderline hysteria in that laugh too. Growing up with Helen Beta Narbon, he probably recognizes an endgame plan in motion.

  3. Ladon
    January 12, 2022, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Artie says no Monty Python ending.

    • Candace
      January 12, 2022, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      Well, Artie may well be the most intelligent sapient on the planet (unless it’s Mr. Green), so maybe he’s called this one right. Although I’m picturing a biomass Tigerlily, which would at least be better than biomass H.T.

      I wonder if Tip would join the biomass if Tigerlily were in charge. I guess he could still fashion any outfit he wanted to – it would just be made out of plant stuff. Being green might limit his fashion choices though. Outcome uncertain.

      • Seph
        January 12, 2022, 4:25 am | # | Reply

        It isn’t easy being green.

      • khn0
        January 12, 2022, 6:33 am | # | Reply

        rodents know their felines…

      • fractalwolf
        January 12, 2022, 11:10 am | # | Reply

        Doesn’t *have* to be green. http://skin-horse.com/comic/tea-with/

        • Candace
          January 13, 2022, 12:36 am | # | Reply

          Well, that’s true – I’d forgotten about that. Thanks for the ref!

  4. greenknight32
    January 12, 2022, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Of course, the teeth are the first thing HT’s losing.

    • greenknight32
      January 12, 2022, 12:38 am | # | Reply

      That is, unless Dr. Jones decides to begin operating in the belly of the beast.

  5. ngmatt
    January 12, 2022, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Be honest, that was everyone’s reaction who knows this comic as well.

  6. Dewy
    January 12, 2022, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    Think about it. If this had been Helen, and she had allowed this to happen to herself, you KNOW it’s what she wanted to happen. Tigerlilly may not be as many steps ahead as Helen but I will bet any amount of money that she had a smirk on her face as the jaws closed in.

    • Kether
      January 12, 2022, 3:35 am | # | Reply

      Exactly. You all remember the Narbonic guest strip with the white room? The biomass has eaten that.

    • Owls
      January 12, 2022, 5:55 am | # | Reply

      I’m reminded of Madblood’s speech about madness.

      “The inside of your head is much bigger than you ever could have imagined, and you’re worried that you might never find your way out. I may as well spoil the suspense: you won’t. What you are now, Mr. Davenport, is what you will be forevermore: lost in the storm.”

      It really makes the Mads seem more tragic… and the Biomass has just added *that* to it’s Great Unity. H.T. is about to get a sharp lesson that he’s not as clever as he thinks he is.

      • Robert Nowall
        January 12, 2022, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

        What happened to the mad scientists who went in with Tip into Carbondale? Dr. Taintor is around but has he been assimilated? What of the others?

        • David B Huber
          January 12, 2022, 4:15 pm | # | Reply

          Most Mads wouldn’t assimilate (Dr. Peirson being a prime example). I expect many of them have simply wandered off as independent offshoots.

      • Landis963
        January 13, 2022, 10:58 pm | # | Reply

        I much prefer Madblood’s gloating, an arc before. “My mind is steel and lightning and opens to the sky! Poor insect, you dare speak to me about THINKING? **BWAHAHAHAHAAaa**ah, I needed that.”

    • Kai
      January 12, 2022, 2:12 pm | # | Reply

      Artie’s seen this exact plan of action before. Artie’s been *part* of this plan before, when he and Helen Beta dynamited their way out of a monster’s gullet.

  7. Maikel Yarimizu
    January 12, 2022, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    Funky Green Goddess Ascendant!

  8. Robert Nowall
    January 12, 2022, 3:40 am | # | Reply

    “This guy in Boston gets into a cab and says, ‘Take me to the hospital.’ The cab driver says, ‘The Peter Bent?’ The guy says, ‘It’s worst than that. She bit it off.’ “

    • matteo
      January 12, 2022, 9:56 am | # | Reply

      I grew up on Mission Hill, within sight of the hospitals in Brigham Circle, so I get it.

      • awgiedawgie
        January 12, 2022, 9:42 pm | # | Reply

        I’ve never even been to Boston, and I still get it.

  9. David B Huber
    January 12, 2022, 4:50 am | # | Reply

    Artie’s joy at H.T.’s comeuppance is understandable given their history.

    • Candace
      January 13, 2022, 12:48 am | # | Reply

      Well, let’s face it – everyone has bad history with H.T., except maybe Renard, and Renard was clearly disappointed and sad about what his friend had become. H.T.’s one saving grace was that he respected his old friend enough to give him a chance to get away after Renard declined to be assimilated.

  10. Al
    January 12, 2022, 8:55 am | # | Reply

    Cue swelling hero music!!!

  11. Robert Nowall
    January 12, 2022, 10:51 am | # | Reply

    Tigerlily, the Biomass swallows. But Artie, in laughter he wallows. More than he can chew, it’s all a preview, for the mayhem and chaos that follows.

  12. Robert Horton
    January 12, 2022, 12:29 pm | # | Reply

    I never warmed up to Artie, much… until now. It was like the moment when Mary Richards finally “got” Chuckles the Clown…

    • Dewy
      January 12, 2022, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

      Well, Artie has always been a bit insufferable. Not always his fault due to his great intelligence but, for most, he comes off as a know-it-all jerk sometimes. The fact that he never seemed to take any responsibility for the problems he caused could also factor in. He’s not nearly as bad in this strip as he was in Narbonic, though. He seems to have grown a bit as a character.

    • Robert Nowall
      January 12, 2022, 9:44 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe you don’t know him like we know him. He did seem more human when he was a gerbil in his “Narbonic” days…

      • Robert Horton
        January 13, 2022, 12:24 am | # | Reply

        No, I just didn’t warm to him then, either!

    • awgiedawgie
      January 12, 2022, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

      Let’s just hope Artie doesn’t end up like Chuckles did.

      • Robert Horton
        January 14, 2022, 2:06 am | # | Reply

        You like him better in his shell?

        • awgiedawgie
          January 14, 2022, 7:09 am | # | Reply

          The “moment” that Mary finally “got” Chuckles the Clown was at his funeral.

          • Robert Horton
            January 14, 2022, 10:49 am | #

            … because an elephant shucked him out of a peanut shell costume…

          • awgiedawgie
            January 14, 2022, 11:02 am | #

            Precisely my point. He didn’t survive.

  13. TheSexyMenhir
    January 12, 2022, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

    Honestly this has me more worried. If this was really what she planned, we would be seeing the aftermath, not artie talking about it.

    • Kai
      January 12, 2022, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

      Unless the author is setting it up. Because they’ve never, *never* done that before.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 12, 2022, 9:48 pm | # | Reply

      Gotta hem and haw until the weekend so we still have a cliffhanger on Saturday, even though she got chomped on Tuesday.

  14. darkshallfall
    January 12, 2022, 11:39 pm | # | Reply

    Tigerlilly is gonna kill him from the inside. I’ve seen a lot of other comics and shows do it lol. Slice and dice them from within, especially since she had a sword, looked like an energy sword, or for all I know a “Funky Grove” sword lol.

  15. Mel
    January 17, 2022, 7:18 pm | # | Reply

    THERE’S my boys! 😀

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