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2022-01-15

by shaenon on January 15, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. Moe Lane
    January 15, 2022, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    That Chupacabra looks *pissed*.

    • Duane B.
      January 15, 2022, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      Ira must feel the same way.

      It’s not easy when you’re Mr. Green

  2. The Flower Cosmic
    January 15, 2022, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    I guess even giant hive minds can recognize a toxic relationship, eventually!

    • Duane B.
      January 15, 2022, 8:12 pm | # | Reply

      Was Dr. Jones an expectorant?
      She wasn’t a purgative.

  3. theysabet
    January 15, 2022, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Bye, HT; don’t let the door slam you in the ass on the way out!

    • Shadowmehr
      January 15, 2022, 9:00 am | # | Reply

      They are probably trying to time it right so it does hit him, just out of irritation.

  4. Alphaghoul
    January 15, 2022, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Wait, his original body was still intact all this time? And despite being the leader they rebelled? And the guys infected with flowers are actually part of the hivemind not subdued or something?

    • Frank
      January 15, 2022, 12:38 am | # | Reply

      They’re not out (yet)

    • woozy
      January 15, 2022, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      I didn’t know that could happen. I don’t think anyone ever said he was the hive mind leader (which sort of defeats the purpose of a hive mind). I had thought it was odd how he seemed to keep his identity and assumed the hive mind would just be him and he it. I’m not surprised the mind is pissed but I don’t see how Tiger Lilly made it happen.

      • Lord Dave
        January 15, 2022, 1:26 am | # | Reply

        Force of will.
        Hive minds are interlinked but if one mind is so strong willed that it bends the others, it basically becomes the leader.
        By exploding and being divided, the non-HT part could make decisions without his overwhelming will and they decided to not include him.

        • Owls
          January 15, 2022, 3:26 am | # | Reply

          Yeah, that’s how I read it as well.

          Sufficiently ‘strong’ minds seem capable of overwhelming it – H.T. was willful enough that he basically dominated it much like Unity-on-Brains seemed capable of it as well.

          Notably, it seems more individualistic now. Hitty did refer to it as a battle between a force of great Order (presumably, H.T.) and Chaos (presumably, Tigerlily).

          Alternatively, Tigerlily is just that Groovy.

          • David B Huber
            January 15, 2022, 5:07 am | #

            This is so much better than the conventional “spiral slice” destruction I envisioned! All the minds comprising the Biomass get a second chance.

          • Trivena
            January 15, 2022, 5:18 am | #

            This way we get a relatively-peaceful, non-kill-’em-all confrontation AND a boss fight scene! Everyone wins!

            …except HT. And hopefully Mr Green.

    • Knuckles
      February 21, 2022, 8:19 am | # | Reply

      Turns out when you get a taste of freedom, you can recognize tyranny for the bitter pill that it is.

      And Tigerlilly is nothing but an all-you-can-eat freedom buffet, baby!

  5. thejoemoose
    January 15, 2022, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Maybe it’s just me, or is that Pierson in the second panel?

    http://skin-horse.com/comic/have-a-bit/

    • David B Huber
      January 15, 2022, 4:26 am | # | Reply

      By George, I think you’re right!

    • Robert Nowall
      January 15, 2022, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe. Is that Lt. Eris with him?

  6. Trivena
    January 15, 2022, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    Well… oops.

    I’m impressed that he’s somehow managed to keep hold of something that looks very much like his original body through all of this, considering we thought Nick mulched it ages ago.

    • greenknight32
      January 15, 2022, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      The Biomass could regrow it at any time, and did so in order to eject him.

  7. greenknight32
    January 15, 2022, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    Now they can welcome back the original Biomass core, Mother Cypress will join the alliance, and Ira will be faced with Skin Horse, Tigerlily’s robot army, and the Biomass in a united front against him.

    So much for careful planning.

    • David B Huber
      January 15, 2022, 4:49 am | # | Reply

      Not to worry! Mr. Green has a backup plan for every contingency…

      • Daibhid+C
        January 15, 2022, 8:28 am | # | Reply

        I was trying to remember the strip where an A-Sig goon says it’s all part of the plan, Ira says “You don’t even know the plan”, and they reply “Eh, everything always turns out to be part of the plan.”

        Then I remembered that was Cigarette-Smoking Man in Monster of the Week. Possibly applies to Ira as well, though.

    • Trivena
      January 15, 2022, 5:16 am | # | Reply

      Since the Biomass was originally part of Mother Cypress, now that HT’s no longer got a controlling interest I wonder if she (or her descendant via seed) can just reassimilate the vegetable portion and assume control?

  8. Nick
    January 15, 2022, 3:48 am | # | Reply

    I get the feeling that the Biomass will be far less threatening now without HT.

    • David B Huber
      January 15, 2022, 4:24 am | # | Reply

      Agreed. But I for one am glad to see that H.T. survived.

  9. Urlance Woolsbane
    January 15, 2022, 4:33 am | # | Reply

    I love the angry little Jersey Devil, in panel 2

  10. Robert Nowall
    January 15, 2022, 5:39 am | # | Reply

    Paging Mme. des Souhaits.

  11. Matthew Keary
    January 15, 2022, 9:52 am | # | Reply

    So, the last ep of Expanse had a scene with a screen listing the members of the Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie strike teams. Alot of sci-fi easter eggs, with names from ST:TNG, BSG, Aliens, etc. etc. Among the names is “Garrity, K”, which the internet is attributing to Shaenon as a “real sci-fi author”. Kudos for the shout-out!!!

    • matteo
      January 15, 2022, 9:53 am | # | Reply

      oops, I usually post as “matteo”; carry on.

    • Dewy
      January 15, 2022, 11:07 am | # | Reply

      …along with Action, Adventure, Romance, Fantasy and Comedy. Yeah, I guess she’s a “real sci-fi author”, also.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 15, 2022, 11:39 am | # | Reply

      I often lament that Shaenon’s sci-fi story “Trash” never got completed. The few sample pages that she posted 9 years ago had me hooked, and then it just stopped.

    • OneUniverse
      January 15, 2022, 9:27 pm | # | Reply

      Now I’ll have to watch that episode again.

    • Candace
      January 16, 2022, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      Well, I wonder if H.T. has finally learned a lesson here. He drove off Renard, his only friend, and now he’s been kicked out of the Biomass. Perhaps he will finally be willing to work with others, but, of course, no one will trust him.

  12. Tiff Hudson
    January 15, 2022, 11:59 am | # | Reply

    I hear a sad kitty plaintively calling, “But Vaal hungers!”

  13. Robert Nowall
    January 15, 2022, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

    H. T. has lost all of his power. He calls for them all to devour. With no more than a shrug, he can be a new rug. I guess this adventure turned sour.

  14. Robert Nowall
    January 15, 2022, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

    By the waymeet…thought H. T. would have indigestion.

  15. Jim Janney
    January 15, 2022, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

    You don’t know rejection until the all-devouring mass spits you out again.

  16. D. Walker
    January 15, 2022, 7:18 pm | # | Reply

    So to echo one of the points that Alphaghoul made above, how is his original body intact?

    I mean… even overlooking all the unexplained implications of that time he swallowed a nuclear bomb…

    http://skin-horse.com/comic/nice-cup/

    …and the fact that there’s no way his original body could still be alive given the fact that it was literally full to bursting with plant matter…

    http://skin-horse.com/comic/issue-ever/

    …there’s still the issue of us having seen his actual corpse blown full of holes!

    http://skin-horse.com/comic/most-of/

    We know that wasn’t some plant doppelganger, because it has his skeleton in it! That’s the original HT, just skeletonized and plant-puppeted.

    So how, exactly, does he come back to life and get all his flesh and organs back? Being ejected from the hive mind is one thing, but magicking up meat and blood and all the rest from literally nothing is something else entirely! Or are we going to suggest that somehow the plant collective was able to “clone” his body from the DNA in his bones, or some other stupendous reach like that?

    • Josh L.
      January 16, 2022, 5:40 pm | # | Reply

      This is a universe with sentient water coolers and clockwork robots, an office building turned mecha controlled by a springpunk receptionist’s head bolted to a hammer-happy battlebot, and Zombie Emperor Norton (not to mention, in the extended universe, literal angels and demons), and you’re hung up on the mechanism by which the plant-based hive mind constructs bodies for its components?

      • Josh L.
        January 16, 2022, 5:45 pm | # | Reply

        “This weird and no weirder” is an odd stance for a reader of this strip to take, is what I’m saying.

  17. Forum Explorer
    January 15, 2022, 8:59 pm | # | Reply

    Aw, HT looks so sad.

    • Robert Nowall
      January 15, 2022, 9:08 pm | # | Reply

      He knows they will punish him. Is the “Babylon 5” marathon viewing still going on?

  18. Robert Nowall
    January 15, 2022, 10:32 pm | # | Reply

    You’re out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94HdaOB7cWY

  19. JoB
    January 16, 2022, 3:33 am | # | Reply

    Now, cue the other army dropping their mind link.”HURKay, we won!!”

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