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2020-03-17

by shaenon on March 17, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Rimwolf
    March 17, 2020, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Unlike the 800, the 900 is self-cleaning.

    • D. Walker
      March 17, 2020, 3:31 am | # | Reply

      …granted, it cleans itself by flash heating to 3,000 degrees celsius using a brief fission reaction, irradiating the area and setting nearby objects on fire, but still…

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        March 20, 2020, 5:46 am | # | Reply

        I fail to see the problem

    • John Schilling
      March 17, 2020, 7:35 am | # | Reply

      I feel like it should also have a thing on top that tells the time.

      • Andy4Hire
        March 17, 2020, 7:48 pm | # | Reply

        Nice callback!

    • jdreyfuss
      March 17, 2020, 8:11 am | # | Reply

      They lost me once they got into the 1000 series. You’d think being able to control it with an app would be convenient, but it’s so hard to keep that connection secure.

    • Pygar
      March 17, 2020, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

      The new digital turboenstabulators just don’t do it for me. Lasers are nice, but the swirling knives added a certain charm…

      • Shadowmehr
        March 17, 2020, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

        There is something to be said for the simple analog tech, fewer ways for it to break down, longer lasting, etc.

      • s854
        March 17, 2020, 8:44 pm | # | Reply

        Even Dr Bloodworth got a bit tired of them eventually. That’s why he switched to large carnivores.

  2. awgiedawgie
    March 17, 2020, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Happy St. Gertrude’s Day all (the patron saint of cats).

    Drink some green beer, and feed your cats some leprechauns.

    • BMunro
      March 17, 2020, 2:31 am | # | Reply

      Doesn’t that turn their poop green?

      • Gyrre
        March 17, 2020, 2:38 am | # | Reply

        Probably.
        Here’s hoping they don’t have any trouble passing the golden coins of the buckles on the shoes, hat, and belt.

        • awgiedawgie
          March 17, 2020, 2:54 am | # | Reply

          Hopefully your cats have enough sense to not eat those parts.

          • jdreyfuss
            March 17, 2020, 8:11 am | #

            Clearly you have never met my cats.

      • Seph
        March 17, 2020, 9:43 am | # | Reply

        Green and sparkly, yes.

      • Robert Nowall
        March 17, 2020, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

        I get that with green icing from my Christmas cakes.

    • Barking Monkey
      March 17, 2020, 6:51 am | # | Reply

      If I’ve got a leprechaun infestation the lazy cat’s not doing it’s job. Bad Kitty! Now I’ve got to put out the snap traps and rat poisoned corned beef…Who’s going to clean up all these shamrocks? – cuz it isn’t me, I’m saying that right now!

    • Manifesta
      March 17, 2020, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

      I’m celebrating today by washing my hands with Irish Spring soap.

  3. BMunro
    March 17, 2020, 2:29 am | # | Reply

    Or he may be using his Dream-Beam to communicate that, in fact, he is coming.

    • Shadowmehr
      March 17, 2020, 11:56 am | # | Reply

      It scares me that this is a valid concept for this universe.

  4. Alphaghoul
    March 17, 2020, 2:38 am | # | Reply

    Oh shoot, I just remembered that I should have said that alpha males aren’t real from an earlier strip.

    • D. Walker
      March 17, 2020, 3:39 am | # | Reply

      To be fair, they aren’t real in regards to wolf packs – but they do exist in certain other species, notably chimpanzees and gorillas.

      That said, the popular imagining of what an “alpha male” is is pretty wrongheaded.

  5. Robert Nowall
    March 17, 2020, 8:08 am | # | Reply

    Can’t recall any of Leo’s backstory coming up before…

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      March 17, 2020, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

      My special effects record is on the turntable and I am holding the needle just above “Dun dun dunnn!”

      • awgiedawgie
        March 17, 2020, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

        You know, it’s so much easier to cue up sound effects on a reel-to-reel player than on a turntable.

  6. jdreyfuss
    March 17, 2020, 8:13 am | # | Reply

    Tip has a good point. A person who is otherwise good can be distant or abusive with his or her family and a person who is otherwise evil can be an emotionally supportive model parent.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 17, 2020, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

      I mean just look at Dave and Helen’s daughter. She seems to be reasonably normal and well-adjusted (at least she will be until she snaps), so they must be pretty good parents, despite both of them being evil geniuses.

      • Robert Nowall
        March 17, 2020, 6:30 pm | # | Reply

        Hard to imagine that, having seen them, er, behave. But it could be so.

  7. AYH
    March 17, 2020, 2:07 pm | # | Reply

    Could be just the fact that his creator was so overtly evil that Leo always knew where he stood with him as opposed to now where he is free but life is completely ambiguous and uncertian.

    Oblivious humans, sevret organizations, zombie swamp hive minds. The present is so messed up that he may be subconsciously looking back to the past where good and evil were much more clearly defined and he knew how everyone would act.

  8. Knuckles
    February 13, 2022, 2:10 am | # | Reply

    Surely it was invented for peacetime stabbings only

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