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2015-08-20

by shaenon on August 20, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. Candace
    August 20, 2015, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Awwww! I want to see Unity in a zombie axolotl hat now!

  2. Frank
    August 20, 2015, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    That axolotl does not look happy Unity caught it

    • Lord Foul
      August 20, 2015, 3:42 am | # | Reply

      It looks both confused and scared
      Which is weird

      • vincentmuyo
        August 20, 2015, 4:29 am | # | Reply

        Is it because she is The Destroyer?

      • greenknight32
        August 20, 2015, 9:56 am | # | Reply

        When you’re a terrifying, deadly monster, and somebody wants to cuddle you, that’s confusing. Scary, too – because, what kind of terrible monster isn’t afraid of poisonous, venomous, fire-breathing lizards?

        • darkstarling
          August 20, 2015, 11:14 am | # | Reply

          We, of course, know that the answer is ‘The BEST kind’ 🙂
          …If the power of love and friendship (and being poison proof) winds up winning over the Axolotls, Unity needs to get a transformation sequence.

  3. irdburns
    August 20, 2015, 7:06 am | # | Reply

    I want to see UNITY with a horde of new pets!
    Hmm, too bad she can’t aerosolize herself…

    • davidbreslin101
      August 20, 2015, 8:26 am | # | Reply

      Have you considered working for Anasigma? We- er, they- would value an employee capable of such ideas.

      • irdburns
        August 20, 2015, 10:56 am | # | Reply

        I’d never meet the shoeshine requirements.

        • Frank
          August 20, 2015, 8:07 pm | # | Reply

          You can telecommute!

          …which, of course, means something totally different in anasigma

  4. Robert Nowall
    August 20, 2015, 8:00 am | # | Reply

    Would axolotl zombies want axolotl brains? ‘Cause when it’s humans (even Unity) it’s human brains…

  5. Jack
    August 20, 2015, 8:03 am | # | Reply

    My copy of Volume 5 came!

    • irdburns
      August 20, 2015, 10:55 am | # | Reply

      Axolotyl brains probably grow back…

  6. Eddurd
    August 20, 2015, 8:44 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas”, John Rox)

    I wanna keep a mutant axolotl!
    They look as if they’d be a lot of fun!
    These would appear
    That they’ve been zombified …
    We’ll analyze ’em later if we somehow haven’t died!

    I wanna keep a mutant axolotl!
    You never said I couldn’t keep just one!
    They’re closing in,
    Our situation’s dire …
    They’re poisonous and venomous and full of napalm fire!

    Now we’re stranded in an alternate
    And strange reality!
    A dimension parallel
    That’s a little slice of hell
    And where an ax-o-lo-tl’s toasting me!

    I wanna keep a mutant axolotl!
    If you’ll agree, I might be keeping two!
    Don’t want a pup
    Or kitten I can coddle
    I only want
    Mutant axolotl!
    Who isn’t tame, so lotsa flame he’ll spew!

    • Freddie Freelance
      August 20, 2015, 9:22 am | # | Reply

      Oooh! Now *I* want to keep a Mutant Axolotl! And not just because the original singer of “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas” lives down the road from me!

  7. Andy4Hire
    August 20, 2015, 11:01 am | # | Reply

    OK, if you’ll pardon my ignorance here, I always figured “venomous” was just a subset of “poisonous,” but Sweetheart and Sergio seem to be using those terms in some other way. Am I missing something? Do biologists (or whoever) use those terms to mean different things?

    [Pauses, thinks a moment]

    Or is it that “venomous” means it’ll poison you if it bites you, whereas “poisonous” means it’ll poison you if you bite it?

    • Eddurd
      August 20, 2015, 11:03 am | # | Reply

      @Andy4Hire, correct. Cobras are venomous, mushrooms are poisonous.

      • woozy
        August 20, 2015, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

        which means, as one isn’t going to eat the axolotls, being poisonous is a bit of a non-issue. Although, hypothetically, I suppose something can be so poisonous that one can be poisoned by touching or breathing it’s fumes. Maybe. I *think* venomous also refers to a method of transfering and/or storing a specific poison, or venom, whereas as being poisonous simply means one is itself the poison. There are many poisonous frogs but I read recently of the first discovery of a venomous frog that release toxins through spiny barbs on its skin. Both are harmful if you touch them but the poisonous frogs are themselves toxic but the venomous frog has venom reserves.

        Then again, I might not know what I’m talking about.

    • GDwarf
      August 20, 2015, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

      The distinction for poisonous vs. venomous is roughly what you said: A venom is injected into the target, while a poison is (usually) ingested. That said, there are poisons that are absorbed through the skin or mucus membranes.

      The other way to think of it is that a venom is an active attack that requires the breaking of the target’s skin, while a poison is a passive attack that does not.

      Now the difference may seem unimportant, but it does matter. Most venoms aren’t poisonous: Provided you don’t have any cuts in your mouth/throat or ulcers in your stomach you can drink most venoms without any ill effect. Poisons, meanwhile, tend to still be problematic if they get under your skin in any way, shape, or form.

  8. BMunro
    August 20, 2015, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

    I would think the “dead and full of swamp vegetation” bit would tend to cancel out the fire-breathing, but it’s best not to assume in these sort of situations.

  9. Jabberwonky
    August 22, 2015, 3:09 am | # | Reply

    http://funnyjunk.com/Poisonous+vs+venomous/funny-pictures/5020190

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