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2020-09-09

by shaenon on September 9, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Dave Van Domelen
    September 9, 2020, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Artie has also read Ransom of Red Chief.

    • Towering Barbarian
      September 9, 2020, 1:04 am | # | Reply

      Either that or he understands what Dave would be inclined to do while rescuing her.

      *thinks it over*

      Probably both. ^_^

      • Shadowmehr
        September 9, 2020, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

        Agreed. When those two plotlines meet, no-one in the middle would survive.

  2. BMunro
    September 9, 2020, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    OK, Narbonic fans trolled. Any more red herrings to be thrown in our faces?

    • M
      September 9, 2020, 1:51 pm | # | Reply

      TBF, Shaenon has said that the authors don’t want too much Narbonic stuff in SH as it will confuse people who haven’t read it. Clearly, people who haven’t read Narbonic are fools and confusion is the least they deserve, but who are we to argue with the Word of God?

      • David B Huber
        September 9, 2020, 3:49 pm | # | Reply

        I agree, M. But the fashion of my folly is that once Skin Horse concludes I have Narbonic to look forward to!

  3. D. Walker
    September 9, 2020, 1:37 am | # | Reply

    It’s always possible they might shift to trolling fans of Monster of the Week instead.

    (Arguably they already are, since Konstantin looks more or less EXACTLY like Shaenon’s rendition of Mulder…)

    • Daibhid C
      September 9, 2020, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      And Echo Bravo and Alfa Alfa clearly think they’re Mulder and Scully style UST-ridden monster-hunters, rather than inept minions of the Conspiracy.

      • D. Walker
        September 9, 2020, 5:29 pm | # | Reply

        I mean, arguably Mulder and Scully were minions of the Conspiracy themselves, working for the FBI and all.

        • awgiedawgie
          September 9, 2020, 9:13 pm | # | Reply

          And they were occasionally somewhat inept.

  4. David B Huber
    September 9, 2020, 2:37 am | # | Reply

    It seems likely Mr. Green would have made a point of learning Unity’s linage and would be arrogant enough to believe that he could recruit Helen to his cause…

  5. Robert Nowall
    September 9, 2020, 7:06 am | # | Reply

    Darn. I was hoping to see what Helen and Dave have been doing on that island. Besides creating their daughter, I mean.

  6. kiralamouse
    September 9, 2020, 8:02 am | # | Reply

    I’m sorry, A-Sig has unimpressed me to the point where I’d be happy to see *both* Helens Narbon *and* Dave *and* Mell Kelly unleashed on them. Especially Mr. Green. Artie, find a better justification.

    • Josh
      September 9, 2020, 8:32 am | # | Reply

      I agree, it would be satisfying seeing the expression on Mr. Green/Ira’s face when such radical forces as the Narbonic cast would prove that his quest for normalcy was the greater reality blindness. But that bringing that much firepower would result in the instant eradication, if not utter disintegration, of A-Sig and, therefore, the justification for the existence of Skin Horse.
      I prefer to remain reality blind to that….

    • jdreyfuss
      September 9, 2020, 8:33 am | # | Reply

      He’s a pacifist. He’s always going to look for the solution that results in the least bloodshed, even for his enemies.

    • Robert Nowall
      September 9, 2020, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

      It’s somewhat disillusioning to realize that one’s government and civilization is run by a bunch of idiots. Then to find that they’re just fronts for another government and civilization, run by even bigger idiots…

      • Shadowmehr
        September 9, 2020, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

        What’s really terrifying is the thought the people tend to get the government they deserve, and if the civilization is run by a bunch of idiots, then who put them there in the first place?

        • s854
          September 10, 2020, 4:35 am | # | Reply

          People don’t get “the government they deserve”, though. In democracies, it’s heavily influenced by the system used to appoint governments.

          The USA tends to have more extreme governments than Ireland (as an example). The people are fairly similar, but a few dead white men made different choices in each country.

          • Paleomancer
            September 10, 2020, 9:18 am | #

            Not so much what is “deserved,” but no government can survive without some form of social support or acceptance… Including the very worst that have existed. Even if said support is no more substantial than “better the tyrant you know than the tyrant you don’t.” We tend to focus on outsiders, “bad apples,” minorities, or “psychopaths/sociopaths” as causes of issues, without considering the larger underlying issues within a society, because then what we think we have as a society might be a shared delusion at best; a sort of real-life “reality blindness,” if you will, but without the excuse of a conspiracy, just indifference.

            I would also say that the ineptitude of Anasigma is clear even in-comic, as transgenic, supernatural, and synthetic lifeforms clearly struggled with getting rights within the larger in-setting human society, making reality blindness unnecessary to control either party. Which is pretty much on point….

      • awgiedawgie
        September 9, 2020, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

        That’s disillusioning?! You’ve basically described government in general for the past several hundred – if not thousand – years.

    • Caelo
      September 11, 2020, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      So… That went places. As for your comment on unleashing the Narbon-Davenports on Asig… well Helen, Dave, and Mel are Evil. Sure there all likely to go to Arties aid, but they would probably kill everyone in the world other than Artie in the process. It’s funny to think the narbonaverse exist only because certain people remain unmotivated. Finally Asig has the Cure so Green and Co. have to have interacted with Helen by some means.

  7. jdreyfuss
    September 9, 2020, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    He wouldn’t be putting Helen and Dave on a remote island with an army of questionably well-trained mercenaries. He’d be putting an army of questionably well-trained mercenaries on a remote island with Helen and Dave.

    • Pygar
      September 9, 2020, 10:41 am | # | Reply

      … with Mel Kelly only a teleport away…

    • awgiedawgie
      September 9, 2020, 9:21 pm | # | Reply

      You seem to have mistakenly added the word “well” in front of “trained”. I think it’s more accurate to call them “questionably-trained”.

      • Towering Barbarian
        September 9, 2020, 11:40 pm | # | Reply

        No, no, no! They are definitely well-trained! See the way their mouths salivate each time a bell rings? ^_~

        • awgiedawgie
          September 10, 2020, 12:19 am | # | Reply

          I’d call that conditioning rather than training, but either way, it’s still questionable.

      • jdreyfuss
        September 10, 2020, 8:11 am | # | Reply

        They’re supposedly well-trained, but that presumption is questionable. Thus, questionably well-trained.

        • awgiedawgie
          September 10, 2020, 11:58 am | # | Reply

          But “questionably well-trained” implies that they are well-trained, but the type of training is questionable. I mean, yes, the type of training is questionable, but so is the assertion that they are well-trained at all. It would be more clear to simply say that they’re “supposedly well-trained”, as you did in this comment. But if you call them “questionably-trained”, that is even more accurate, because it calls into question everything about their training – both the type of training and how well they were trained.

  8. OneUniverse
    September 9, 2020, 9:06 am | # | Reply

    Is Madblood a potential subcontractor?

    • Pygar
      September 9, 2020, 10:42 am | # | Reply

      Only if his Mommy lets him…

    • Towering Barbarian
      September 9, 2020, 11:43 pm | # | Reply

      Madblood seems to be the sort who has standards so it probably depends on who asks him. Dave could probably talk him into it during a game of Donkey Kong or maybe D&D. ^_^

  9. Bear
    September 9, 2020, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

    IIRC we have reason to believe that the daughter Helen and Dave created leaves Artie standing, in terms of being capable of doing unexpected and dangerous things. Depending on her current age I guess, which is unclear. And that the absence of teleport machinery on this end is not necessarily a secure barrier, against her OR, with the use of his machinery, against Dave or Helen.

    Honestly they’re only “Look Artie’s Portal Went Down Lets Go See Why” away.

    • Doug Relyea
      September 9, 2020, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

      I agree about the portal. They might even know why it’s down. (Artie slagged it, not it’s a component failure.)

    • MJ
      September 9, 2020, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

      Eh, I’d say there is a 50% chance they don’t even notice. Mad Scientists aren’t exactly known for their observational skill.

    • jdreyfuss
      September 9, 2020, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

      The comic appears to be happening more or less in real time, in that each storyline that doesn’t continue directly from the last starts roughly on the first day it starts, so she would be in her teens about now.

  10. Speef
    September 9, 2020, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

    Noooooooo, bad Artie! 🙁

  11. awgiedawgie
    September 9, 2020, 9:28 pm | # | Reply

    So, apparently Artie didn’t think of setting it to blow up just after he went through.

    • WuseMajor
      September 9, 2020, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t think Artie is planning to escape. Or at least, he’s not planning to escape to hide at his mom’s house.

  12. Frank
    September 9, 2020, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

    Two words, Artie: Time bomb

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