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2018-11-07

by shaenon on November 7, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. awgiedawgie
    November 7, 2018, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Bees like funnel cakes? Maybe I’ve been making them wrong.

    • thejoemoose
      November 7, 2018, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Extra sugar works wonders.

    • Anson
      November 7, 2018, 1:23 am | # | Reply

      I’m more intrigued by the implication that funnel cakes predated intelligent life.

      • Bruceski
        November 7, 2018, 1:25 am | # | Reply

        Funnel cakes are a necessary indicator of intelligent life. Before that they’re just grunting lumps of meat.

        • reynard61
          November 8, 2018, 11:16 pm | # | Reply

          Stealing that! (With a bit of modification.)

        • Rejutka
          August 30, 2019, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

          All intelligent life has cake.
          http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=081005

      • Knuckles
        February 8, 2022, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

        Bold of you to assume they meant the intelligent *human* life.

    • waynezombie
      November 7, 2018, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

      Considering the number of bees that hang around the food vendors at the Arizona State Fair, I’m not surprised.

  2. Dave
    November 7, 2018, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Guess I haven’t been paying close enough attention, because Lovetron being real and Bees being aliens is a surprise to me too.

    ….

    So is Tigerlily actually Gavotte’s daughter in a anthropoid form?

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      November 7, 2018, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      The first indication of Lovetron’s reality was in Mixed Up Files, when Pavane, having infiltrated the VR, mentioned it. Then, in the Hundred Dressed, the opossum scientists blasted off to it, namedropping Pavane on their way out. But it wasn’t until this arc that we learned that it was a genuine planet.

      As for Tigerlilly, her presence in the mirror universe as a perfectly sane individual suggests that she’s quite human.

      • jrwences
        November 7, 2018, 1:12 am | # | Reply

        Thanks for reviving memories of Berenice as a hot soccer mom.

      • Shadowmehr
        November 7, 2018, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

        Which also may make previous theories about alien possession more likely.

  3. Urlance Woolsbane
    November 7, 2018, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Well, it looks like Shaenon and Jeff *did* anticipate Doctor Who. Now to see if our heroes can locate the Lost Moon of Poosh…

    • thedoctor55
      November 7, 2018, 12:46 am | # | Reply

      “Who would want to steal Poosh?”

  4. Robert Nowall
    November 7, 2018, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    So did they find any intelligent life?

    • Shadowmehr
      November 7, 2018, 8:22 pm | # | Reply

      Probably one of the more relevant questions posted on this forum.

  5. Owlmirror
    November 7, 2018, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    As best I can find, the oldest bee in amber dates to 100 million years ago.

    That’s a pretty long time to wait for intelligence and/or funnel cakes.

    Interestingly, the same page above talks about an idea that the lineage of hominids that became humans might have gotten a boost from honey. It sounds kinda speculative, but there it is.

    • Barking Monkey
      November 7, 2018, 6:49 am | # | Reply

      I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps they thought one of the dinosaur lineages would develop intelligence? If so the fact they got mostly-insectivorous birds instead makes it a spectacularly bad call. At least they got a lot of flowers out of it.

    • greenknight32
      November 7, 2018, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      When you are a collective intelligence, the hive mind goes on beyond the life span on any individual – they are effectively immortal.

      • greenknight32
        November 7, 2018, 9:27 am | # | Reply

        Typo – that should be “of any individual”. Anyway, they’re not totally immortal – a hive can die out – but as long as the species continues, there is continuity of the hive minds.

        • Owlmirror
          November 7, 2018, 10:06 am | # | Reply

          Thing of it is, not all bees form eusocial hives.

          I also have to wonder about related insects like wasps and ants (which can also form eusocial colonies/hives) — are they supposed to be aliens too?

          As implied further down, this sort of thing gives evolutionary biologists a headache.

          • Gyrre
            November 7, 2018, 8:35 pm | #

            What are two of the primary causes of speciation?

            Prolonged isolation of one population from another and genetic drift.

  6. thedoctor55
    November 7, 2018, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    “Not all bees are aliens! Don’t be daft!”

  7. David B Huber
    November 7, 2018, 2:28 am | # | Reply

    To my ear that last panel sounds like Melissa is being facetious, pulling Dr. Lee’s leg..

  8. Ray Radlein
    November 7, 2018, 2:49 am | # | Reply

    “Did you hear that sound? It was like a million evolutionary biologists crying out in pain”

  9. Mental Mouse
    November 7, 2018, 5:47 am | # | Reply

    “Commander, yhose alien ‘observers’ have nearly complete control of Earth’s agriculture!”

    • s854
      November 7, 2018, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

      It’s not that bad. If you get rid of the bees, man can still live by bread alone.

  10. casimir
    November 7, 2018, 9:45 am | # | Reply

    Random wild theory #47: Turns out “funnel cakes” overrides “blueberry waffles”.

  11. =Tamar
    November 7, 2018, 9:47 am | # | Reply

    Those little things hanging in the air around them… is Gavotte beginning to manifest in bee forms?

    • Dr. Steve
      November 7, 2018, 9:53 am | # | Reply

      Fireflies… take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand…

    • Owlmirror
      November 7, 2018, 10:08 am | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure they’re meant to be stars. Note that there are none when the background is the arcade and other buildings on the boardwalk.

  12. Dr. Steve
    November 7, 2018, 9:54 am | # | Reply

    The emergent of intelligent life (likely) *from* homo sapiens. Which may *to* hive intelligence and/or mad genius?

    • awgiedawgie
      November 7, 2018, 11:43 am | # | Reply

      I’m sorry, was that supposed to make sense? Your comments are usually more coherent than that.

      • Dr. Steve
        November 8, 2018, 10:07 am | # | Reply

        but not by much… sorry… if human are evolving, do the bees think we are evolving into mad geniuses, or a hive mind, or both?

        • awgiedawgie
          November 8, 2018, 10:37 am | # | Reply

          They see that the emergence of intelligent life has ceased. They see that we’ve become so “intelligent” that we’re now destroying the planet, so they’re leaving… and they’re taking the recipe for funnel cakes.

  13. Robert Nowall
    November 7, 2018, 9:55 am | # | Reply

    Bees communicate by dancing. Probably “Lovetron” does sound better that way—you couldn’t hear it.

    • awgiedawgie
      November 7, 2018, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      Yes, but these bees quite clearly communicate by speaking as well, and the term “mother tongue” implies that speech is involved.

      • Mark Hollomon
        November 7, 2018, 11:52 am | # | Reply

        ASL is many peoples mother tongue.

      • serpentrose
        November 7, 2018, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

        Since when do bees have tongues?

        • Robert Nowall
          November 7, 2018, 6:02 pm | # | Reply

          Far as I can tell, bees gather pollen with their proboscis. I might take that as “nose,” but it might be a stretch.

  14. bergerjacques
    November 7, 2018, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    Don’t eat the glowing yellow irradiated snow – the lost rough drafts of Frank Zappa songs.

  15. Frank
    November 7, 2018, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

    Yay, happy ending! There is no colony collapse disorder, just bees going home!

  16. Clifton
    November 7, 2018, 11:27 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder, is that “C’mon” as in “What did you think?” or as in “Follow me now”?

    Also, I feel like I should be making an Oz connection with the bees, but it’s not coming to me.

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