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2019-11-23

by shaenon on November 23, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    November 23, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Another fine example of a Spark engaging his intellect too rapidly for his self-preservation instinct to help him! ^_^

    • awgiedawgie
      November 23, 2019, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      Funny… in this case, he strikes me more as a minion who had a rare moment of clarity, but was too stupid to keep his mouth shut.

      We lose more minions that way. Thank goodness for revivification.

      • Daibhid C
        November 23, 2019, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

        We call that the von Zinzer effect.

        In this case, however, Pierson is the inventor of the eyeball-razor chimp and the murder hospital Dr Taintor refers to, so I’m going with madboy.

        • awgiedawgie
          November 23, 2019, 5:09 pm | # | Reply

          I wouldn’t call it the von Zinzer effect. He learned fairly early on the wisdom of closed lips.

          Peirson probably is Mad, since I was under the impression that everyone other than Tip on this team was supposed to be already Mad, to negate the effect of the Cypress driving team members insane.

          Although death traps – even ones with awesome names like “eyeball razor chimps” – are not necessarily the product of Mad science.

  2. Frank
    November 23, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    ah, so that’s why it’s a murder hospital!

  3. David B Huber
    November 23, 2019, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    “We’ve got monsters, madmen and murderers. Any more ‘M’s you can think of? If so, we’ll probably have them next!”

    • Efogoto
      November 23, 2019, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      Mulch …

    • dornbeast
      November 23, 2019, 12:53 am | # | Reply

      Musicians, mechanics, metahumans, mimes, and morons.

      • David B Huber
        November 23, 2019, 12:57 am | # | Reply

        Mimes?! Now that’s scary!

        • Paula Goodwin
          November 23, 2019, 4:01 am | # | Reply

          So you think musicians are scary

          • awgiedawgie
            November 23, 2019, 4:05 am | #

            One word: KISS

          • Sir William
            November 24, 2019, 2:19 am | #

            The Knights in Stanley’s Service?
            😛

    • Dr. Steve
      November 23, 2019, 9:47 am | # | Reply

      speaking of mulch, how about mendicants

    • Robert Nowall
      November 23, 2019, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      Many many moons ago…

      • Typeminer
        October 12, 2022, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

        Monster metal-munching moon mice . . .

  4. awgiedawgie
    November 23, 2019, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    So, Peirson is right, and the sweaters are a red herring. Phillips never was Phillips, but just the catalyst to get them to kill off their own members.

    But what of the Knitting Ninja?

  5. E. Bernhard Warg
    November 23, 2019, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    Is Tip’s missing collar a mistake or a clue?

    • awgiedawgie
      November 23, 2019, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      It is becoming more than a little perplexing, isn’t it?

      • David B Huber
        November 23, 2019, 12:54 am | # | Reply

        Given Shaenon & Jeff’s penchant for elaborate setups, it must be significant as well as deliberate. It wouldn’t surprise me if the one-off binary sequence of “Tip’s Collar” spelled out a message! 😉

    • Rimwolf
      November 24, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

      I see it in panel 1; there’s just not much of it showing

      • awgiedawgie
        November 24, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

        The image has been altered. It wasn’t there when the comic was first uploaded.

        • s854
          November 24, 2019, 7:20 am | # | Reply

          Tip has been wearing the collar ever since the guy with the eyepatch gave it to him. It’s all there in the archive. It does look a bit funny in the strip with the puppets (http://skin-horse.com/comic/electronic-mail/), though.

          • Rimwolf
            November 24, 2019, 8:37 am | #

            It used to be missing starting at 2019-11-08. It’s still absent (as I write this) in 2019-11-11 and 2019-11-12

          • awgiedawgie
            November 24, 2019, 10:17 am | #

            It’s still missing on 2019-11-09 as well, but that strip doesn’t show up in the archive for this chapter because it has the wrong chapter title on the page.

            I’m also still curious about Tip’s top being bold purple on 2019-11-20, but then it’s been dark blue ever since.

          • Daniel Barkalow
            November 25, 2019, 7:49 pm | #

            It reappears on 11-13 immediately after a panel where Tip’s neck is hidden by his hand. Before 11-08 was changed, it also disappeared immediately after a panel where Tip’s neck is hidden by his hand. I think 11-08 was right the first time, but 11-23 was wrong the first time.

  6. K. Iceclaw
    November 23, 2019, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    ‘Murder Hospital’ is my favorite phrase of the day.

    • waynezombie
      November 23, 2019, 10:14 am | # | Reply

      I’m waiting for the soap opera on Netflix.

  7. memnarch
    November 23, 2019, 1:39 am | # | Reply

    I <3 Robots indeed!

  8. BMunro
    November 23, 2019, 2:30 am | # | Reply

    Of course, it could be the duplicates are unaware they are duplicates until they are, shall we say, activated…

    • awgiedawgie
      November 23, 2019, 2:48 am | # | Reply

      If they are duplicated accurately enough, it would include their memories and thinking, so that would indeed likely be the case.

      • BMunro
        November 23, 2019, 7:16 am | # | Reply

        Which is pretty solid existential horror for a wacky webcomic. But then anything riffing on “Annihilation” … (Especially if they have the book series in mind, which is an order of magnitude creepier than the movie.)

    • Robert Nowall
      November 23, 2019, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

      Pretty much why I mentioned “Who Goes There?” the other day. Often looked like the duplicates didn’t know they were duplicates—or worked hard to give that impression.

  9. Seph
    November 23, 2019, 6:04 am | # | Reply

    Convenient it has one of those …

  10. Robert Nowall
    November 23, 2019, 7:59 am | # | Reply

    Don’t touch him, he might be infectious.

    • awgiedawgie
      November 23, 2019, 9:11 am | # | Reply

      Oop! Too late. Oh, well…

  11. David B Huber
    November 23, 2019, 11:18 am | # | Reply

    What if the vector of infection is the sweaters and only a Tip makeover can save the victims?

  12. David B Huber
    November 23, 2019, 11:20 am | # | Reply

    The good news is this suggests the originals are not destroyed during the duplication process.

    • David B Huber
      November 23, 2019, 6:45 pm | # | Reply

      Surviving the diagnostic wing of the murder hospital, on the other hand…

  13. warpzone32
    November 23, 2019, 11:45 am | # | Reply

    Guys! I’ve got it! Collared Tip is real. Collarless Tip is a swamp clone!

    • Daibhid C
      November 23, 2019, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

      Alternately, since we still don’t know what happened in the Missing Time, collarless Tip is the real one, because the swamp clone stole it from him.

  14. St. Clair
    November 23, 2019, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

    Someone’s getting duct-taped to a ****ing couch before we’re done here.

    • Shadowmehr
      November 23, 2019, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

      Well yes, but that was pretty much guaranteed before plant Things were involved.

    • jdreyfuss
      February 5, 2020, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

      Is it Friday already?

  15. Shadowmehr
    November 23, 2019, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

    Pierson is realizing that sometimes, it’s just better to keep your mouth shut.

    • awgiedawgie
      November 23, 2019, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

      Peirson is realizing that just a teensy bit too late.

  16. jdreyfuss
    February 5, 2020, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

    I guess they don’t activate once their cover is blown then.

  17. Knuckles
    February 11, 2022, 11:06 am | # | Reply

    Ahh, so a combination of Night Trap and The Thing

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