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2020-10-13

by shaenon on October 13, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. BMunro
    October 13, 2020, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    The helmet! It does nothing!!

    • Towering Barbarian
      October 13, 2020, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      That’s what you end up with when you go with the lowest bidder. @_@

    • Carl Fishman
      October 13, 2020, 5:07 am | # | Reply

      Standard, really. It’s very common in comics, movies, etc. for the bad guys (especially the goons) to wear body armor, while the good guys seldom do. And it never does them any good at all. (EG; Star Wars stormtroopers; every s&s movie ever, etc.)

    • mickeyjf
      October 13, 2020, 10:54 am | # | Reply

      It covers any individuality the stormtrooper might have, thus reducing the ability of the reader/viewer to develop sympathy for him, allowing him to remain an anonymous, nameless bad guy. Less a physical barrier than a psychological one.

    • Pygar
      October 13, 2020, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

      The US has gone from the steel pot helmet, to the Kevlar Fritz helmet, to the current plastic helmet. Coming up: cardboard!

      • Bruce Munro
        October 13, 2020, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

        I’d like a puffer fish myself. https://www.deepseanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Porcupine-fish-helmet.png

    • greenknight32
      October 13, 2020, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

      No helmet is Proust-proof .

  2. Ogden Wernstrom
    October 13, 2020, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Even when he was still in elementary school, Proust used to tell me about his dream to supplant Tolstoy as the prototype author of big books everyone knows but nobody reads. This strip would have delighted him almost as much as the demise of the Yellow Pages.

    • David B Huber
      October 13, 2020, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      Ogden, I tried to support your excellent idea for a Steve, Kyle and Eddie subplot. I hope they get a chance to shine in the future!

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        October 13, 2020, 12:42 am | # | Reply

        The party thanks you for your service!

    • Pygar
      October 13, 2020, 12:29 pm | # | Reply

      “Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about-“

  3. David B Huber
    October 13, 2020, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    If Artie is also captive in panel 1, who lowered the boom in panel 3?

    • Rick
      October 13, 2020, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      Cinnamon, who we haven’t seen since Friday, before the Asig goon showed up

      • dexitroboper
        October 13, 2020, 1:19 am | # | Reply

        Or human-size Artie.

        • awgiedawgie
          October 13, 2020, 1:36 am | # | Reply

          That’s only possible if there are two Arties there, since Gerbil-Artie is in the goon’s hand in the first panel.

      • Candace
        October 13, 2020, 2:06 am | # | Reply

        Yup, clearly, Cinnamon got up on a high shelf and knocked off something heavy. Cats are surprisingly good at applying large amounts of kinetic energy to things that really ought to be too heavy for them to move. Also, many cats like knocking things off of other things. It’s been kind of a specialty of some of our cats over the years.

        • Robert Nowall
          October 13, 2020, 8:01 am | # | Reply

          Is Cinnamon a member of the Society of Knocking Things Off Other Things?

          • Circeus
            October 13, 2020, 8:29 am | #

            He was the founding president

          • waynezombie
            October 13, 2020, 12:12 pm | #

            Thank you for a very amusing Monty Python reference!

          • awgiedawgie
            October 13, 2020, 6:02 pm | #

            Again a reminder that Cinnamon is a “she”. So “She was the founding president.”

        • phredd
          October 13, 2020, 9:00 am | # | Reply

          Cats are scientists. Continually testing the theory of gravity.

        • khn0
          October 13, 2020, 9:06 pm | # | Reply

          Still wondering why she went with knocking only one of the parts.
          In the same time I’ve never seen a “all-in-one” book of the Search, and any of the four books of the augmented edition of the Pleiades Library or counterpart should be enough.

  4. Aardvarker
    October 13, 2020, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    Anasigma needs to implement anti-monologuing training into their troops. All of them seem to be more eager to chat with people they’re supposed to be shooting instead of just shooting them.

    • Candace
      October 13, 2020, 2:07 am | # | Reply

      This is true. It does seem to be a common failing in A-sig troops.

    • greenknight32
      October 13, 2020, 8:27 pm | # | Reply

      They emulate their leader.

  5. thenardyr
    October 13, 2020, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    Our first cat took an *intense* dislike to a friend. When our friend was sitting by the computer–somewhere my wife and I sat several times, every day–the cat jumped on top of the bookcase, knocking it over, spilling books all over our friend. I’d never seen the cat up there before.

    We refilled the bookcase, I bought the kit to secure it, but I’m a procrastinator…the very next time our friend sat there, same thing.

    After I secured the bookcase the cat tried it again, unsuccessfully…and I never saw her up there again.

    • Candace
      October 13, 2020, 2:33 am | # | Reply

      Great story! Housecats are definitely a lot more capable than most people imagine.

      (At least, people who don’t have a lot of experience with cats. I suspect some people who have or have had cats would never have considered having a cat in their house if they had any notion in advance of what cats are capable of when they are truly motivated. Of course, once you’ve had at least one really great cat, you’re hooked, and are forever doomed to be a cat-servant.)

    • Steverino
      October 13, 2020, 8:27 am | # | Reply

      We has a cat that did something similsr. She used to walk across the piano keys justfor the music. One day, when the piano tuner was there, he said the plastic mechanism neded to be fixed because the plastic was crystallizing. He took the mechanism out to take to his shop. When the cat jumped up on the piano and started to walk across the keys, there was no sound. The cat stopped for a moment, then jumped off and never went on the piano again.

    • notStanley
      October 13, 2020, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

      old joke: Cats are proof the world is not flat. If it were, they would have knocked everything off the edge by now.

  6. M. Alan Thomas II
    October 13, 2020, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    Cinnamon is the obvious culprit, but I hold out hope for Antonio Smith, Forensic Linguist.

    • Casey
      October 13, 2020, 1:47 am | # | Reply

      Wouldn’t he go with the Riverside Edition in hardcover?

      • awgiedawgie
        October 13, 2020, 2:08 am | # | Reply

        He’d go with The Exhaustive Works of Shakespeare, Large Print Edition.

    • mickeyjf
      October 13, 2020, 10:58 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think he’d treat a book so rudely. Also, If I recall, he’s the “swing in on a rope” rescue type.

  7. davidbreslin101
    October 13, 2020, 7:36 am | # | Reply

    “Throw the book at him, Carrot.”

  8. Robert Nowall
    October 13, 2020, 8:02 am | # | Reply

    That was easier than my idea. I would have had Artie turn into his human form, and while the guy was stunned by his inhuman hotness, gather up Cinnamon and the even-more-stunned Sergio and get out of there.

    • greenknight32
      October 13, 2020, 8:36 pm | # | Reply

      Better yet – while he’s stunned, punch his lights out. He’s not holding a gun now. Though, from a comedic standpoint, a good solid kick in the nards might be better.

      • s854
        October 13, 2020, 9:01 pm | # | Reply

        Or he could just grab the gerbil and go.

        The gun’s not important. It may not even work now, given that it leaked magic smoke yesterday.

  9. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    October 13, 2020, 8:27 am | # | Reply

    I’m sure he’ll be in search of lost time when he comes to

    • Robert Nowall
      October 13, 2020, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps he’ll have a remembrance of things past, too.

  10. jdreyfuss
    October 13, 2020, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

    Might I suggest “The Cask of Amontillado” next?

    • Shadowmehr
      October 13, 2020, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

      Too thin. He’s have to go with the complete works of Poe, if one is available in a single volume.

      • awgiedawgie
        October 13, 2020, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

        I have the complete works of Poe. It’s not very heavy. Maybe if you could find a large-print edition…

        • tyersome
          October 13, 2020, 8:07 pm | # | Reply

          If “The Cask of Amontillado” doesn’t count as heavy in your books, I’m scared to ask what wood?

          • Shadowmehr
            October 13, 2020, 8:23 pm | #

            The Divine Comedy would probably raise quite a knot if thrown or dropped with sufficient force.

          • Robert Nowall
            October 13, 2020, 9:45 pm | #

            Wood. That’d be better than a book.

          • awgiedawgie
            October 13, 2020, 10:22 pm | #

            Um… The Cask of Amontillado is a short story. It’s only 26 pages long.

            Poe’s complete works is only 700 pages. War and Peace is 1200 pages.

            Or did you mean “heavy” as in something you wouldn’t want to read before going to bed? If that’s your question, might I recommend a wonderful 2 book set called The Veritas Project (Hangman’s Curse and Nightmare Academy) by Frank Peretti. It’s definitely not a bedtime story.

    • David B Huber
      October 13, 2020, 11:54 pm | # | Reply

      If a cat on Bookcase A knocks off The Complete Wheel Of Time Collection while a cat atop adjacent Bookcase B knocks off The Complete Sword Of Truth Collection, would their point of intersection form a Quantum Singularity?

    • Seph
      October 14, 2020, 10:33 am | # | Reply

      Having the AΣ goon shout “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR,” as he lost consciousness would be a plus.

  11. Seph
    October 14, 2020, 10:31 am | # | Reply

    I feel like Sergio would be more likely to use the original French title, _À la recherche du temps perdu_—even if the edition in question used the English title.

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