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2022-05-17

by shaenon on May 17, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. casimir
    May 17, 2022, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Kudos to Pancha for Tigerlily’s glitter dress.
    Really nice effect!

    • Candace
      May 17, 2022, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      It is really beautiful!

    • David B Huber
      May 17, 2022, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      Yes, it puts your average superhero costume to shame!

  2. Candace
    May 17, 2022, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    I’m sure Tigerlily will make a very good pirate captain.

    • Shadowmehr
      May 17, 2022, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

      Really? I would peg her as a fairly wicked one.

      • Candace
        May 18, 2022, 12:52 am | # | Reply

        Well, that’s fair. What I really meant to say was that I thought Tigerlily would be good at being a pirate captain. Apparently I was too tired when I commented last night to recognize that my phrasing could have been clearer.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 17, 2022, 7:23 pm | # | Reply

      I’ll like the flag—a skull and crossbones with the skull wearing a space helmet.

      • Shadowmehr
        May 17, 2022, 8:58 pm | # | Reply

        Instead of black, the background will be the same sparkly combo that Tigerlily is wearing now.

  3. Jeff K!
    May 17, 2022, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Pay no attention to the bees behind the curtain!

  4. The Chief
    May 17, 2022, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    Is THIS the official Oz line up then? The lion for the lion, Unity for the Scarecrow, Tigerlily for the Tin Man, Sweetheart for Dorothy, and Pavane for the Great Wizard of Oz?

    • Robert Nowall
      May 17, 2022, 2:50 am | # | Reply

      Unity is the Patchwork Girl, who was Madame-Not-Appearing-in-This-Film.

    • Daibhid C
      May 17, 2022, 3:02 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think there is a THE official Oz line up. The Mr Green reveal hinged on an almost completely different one; as mentioned above Unity is mostly the Patchwork Girl (although she was the Scarecrow for the purposes of Mr Green); and there is way too mich Nick-for-the-Tin-Man stuff for one confrontation to say “actually it’s Tigerlily”. This is the official Oz line up for the thing we’re doing just now.

    • skullthetroll
      May 17, 2022, 11:06 am | # | Reply

      For me, in this particular storyline Tigerlilly is Dorothy. She was black and white square and then revealed her true colors. She’s disrupting the power structure and her dog Toto (Sweetheart) is the one that actually pulls the curtain away.

      • Robert
        May 17, 2022, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

        “The Wizard of Oz” with a Black Dorothy?! Inconceivable! I can’t let this wiz past!

        • Robert Nowall
          May 17, 2022, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

          Well, they tell me the Broadway musical was pretty good. The movie was not—mostly bad casting and bad acting.

  5. David B Huber
    May 17, 2022, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    This is so interesting! We’ve long known there’s no 1:1 correspondence between Skin Horse cast and Oz characters. But…

    That reference to “pulling the curtain away”… Could Pavane be the humbug Wizard?Tigerlily=Dorothy? Leo=the Cowardly Lion? Unity=the Scarecrow? Sweetheart=Toto?

    Perhaps Ira is more the Gnome King?

    • BMunro
      May 17, 2022, 2:04 am | # | Reply

      A “humbug” made of humming bugs?

      Or you can have more than one wizard.

    • Chuck Kramer
      May 17, 2022, 7:55 pm | # | Reply

      I’m thinking Virginia Lee is closer to Dorothy. Lost in the bad side and finding her way home. Unity, I suspect, is the Patchwork Girl. Moustachio is Tick Tock the Clockwork Man. And Tip, of course, is Ozma. I was thinking HT was probably an analog for the Hungry Tiger. Then there’s the fact that there was a swarm of bees in the original Oz book.

      But — and I haven’t seen anyone else mention this before, so I apologize if someone has — I swear I was also seeing hints of Rocky Horror Picture Show in this. Including the Transexual Transvestite who could not board the ship. (Okay, that may be a stretch). Any thoughts?

  6. Nick
    May 17, 2022, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    Last time I hecked ,Pirate crews did try and be as accommodating as they could be for their crew.

    • greenknight32
      May 17, 2022, 4:22 am | # | Reply

      In the case of the actual pirates of the Caribbean, they had to be – they were a democratic organization. The men had individual contracts, and they elected their captains! Most of the time they weren’t technically pirates but privateers – military contractors, hired to loot the Spanish treasure ships by the other European powers – but when they had no assignments they would revert to random piracy to keep the plunder coming in.

  7. LordDave
    May 17, 2022, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    Inhalers full of springs instead of that square medicine stuff.

    • Duane B.
      May 17, 2022, 10:31 am | # | Reply

      Spring Surprise in inhaler form.

      • waynezombie
        May 17, 2022, 10:46 am | # | Reply

        Nestled in purest Swiss microcrystals, steel springs leap out and pierce the lung tissue!

        • Robert Nowall
          May 17, 2022, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

          Ew. Stick with Crunchy Frog.

  8. Robert Nowall
    May 17, 2022, 2:51 am | # | Reply

    Perhaps Leo is allergic to cat dander…

    • awgiedawgie
      May 17, 2022, 7:12 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps… Or he’s allergic to dogs.

      But asthma doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re allergic to anything.

  9. Seph
    May 17, 2022, 8:56 am | # | Reply

    Today in googles I never thought I’d make, “Can lions get asthma?”

    • Lady E
      May 17, 2022, 12:29 pm | # | Reply

      I would assume so. I had a cat with asthma and lions are just family sized cats.

  10. jwghaller
    May 17, 2022, 9:02 am | # | Reply

    All this and free healthcare too? A pirate’s life’s for me!

  11. Dewy
    May 17, 2022, 11:24 am | # | Reply

    “I don’t like it”
    “You don’t like it?”
    “I don’t like it and I don’t wanna do it!”

    • lunar
      May 17, 2022, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

      Well, if you don’t like it, what do you want?

  12. Robert Nowall
    May 17, 2022, 11:39 am | # | Reply

    They’ve turned all the children against her. These battling rebels incensed her. But treating them this way has caused a remiss day. Though she was more intelligent, sir.

    • Duane B.
      May 17, 2022, 8:41 pm | # | Reply

      She would have won, if it weren’t for those pesky kids.

  13. James R. Baerg
    May 17, 2022, 11:52 am | # | Reply

    BTW how many noticed that in the filename story Gavotte asks Tip
    “and how hard will you hang on?”
    not long after he loses his grip on the flying saucer in the comic strip story.

  14. F. Frankie Frankenstein (@DaFrankiestein)
    May 17, 2022, 9:36 pm | # | Reply

    Oh this is tremendously delightful.

  15. The Flower Cosmic
    May 17, 2022, 10:11 pm | # | Reply

    Dang, space pirate would suit her to a T…

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