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2020-03-23

by shaenon on March 23, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Robert Nowall
    March 23, 2020, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Wow.

  2. palenoue
    March 23, 2020, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Revenge of the mads?

  3. Marisa Mockery
    March 23, 2020, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    I guess that answers if androids dream about electric sheep. The answer is a resounding NOOOOOOPE

  4. Frank
    March 23, 2020, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    When they said prepare to meet your maker, i didn’t think they meant this!

    • Robert Nowall
      March 23, 2020, 9:19 am | # | Reply

      It’s been said she has a Cousin Bidet in the Maragda building. I never thought service was *his* only joy.

      • jdreyfuss
        March 23, 2020, 9:52 am | # | Reply

        Self actualization requires self realization. A bidet has a particular purpose, so it probably is his joy. Don’t ascribe human values to a NHS. Just because he’s sapient doesn’t mean he wants the same things or is repulsed by the same things as we are.

        • Robert Nowall
          March 23, 2020, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

          Difficult to say with a lot of the Skin Horse crowd. Artie and Dr. Lee were way more comfortable than Tip about smelling bad after crawling through Colma sewers…

  5. chh01
    March 23, 2020, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Factory recall nightmare. I get that when I eat too much cake.

  6. WuseMajor
    March 23, 2020, 1:28 am | # | Reply

    So, at least two of the creations of Mad Science are having dreams where their Creator shows up and says “I’m coming for you.”

    I feel like this is not a coincidence.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 23, 2020, 1:31 am | # | Reply

      Chekhov’s coincidence?

      • M. Alan Thomas II
        March 23, 2020, 2:56 am | # | Reply

        Once is chance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is conspiracy.

        • Christian Rose
          March 23, 2020, 7:42 am | # | Reply

          Three times is enemy action.

          • Shadowmehr
            March 23, 2020, 11:49 am | #

            How about three times is a conspiracy of enemies?

          • Rick Mangekian
            March 23, 2020, 3:09 pm | #

            I thought it was three times a lady?

          • Robert Nowall
            March 23, 2020, 4:58 pm | #

            Three times a charm.

    • Christian Rose
      March 23, 2020, 8:36 am | # | Reply

      3, unless we’re ignoring the “I’m coming for you even though you’re a twerp” line from Friday.

      • Seph
        March 23, 2020, 8:56 am | # | Reply

        The cobras aren’t a creation of mad science per se. They just ate some lab samples that made them smart.

      • awgiedawgie
        March 24, 2020, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

        And Alfie wasn’t dreaming that. It was one of the zombies saying it.

        Hmmm…. I wonder if the “lab samples” the cobras ate were zombie-related?

    • Seph
      March 23, 2020, 8:58 am | # | Reply

      Artie will be dreaming of Helen—with whom I assume he’s still on reasonably good terms.

      • Robert Nowall
        March 23, 2020, 9:14 am | # | Reply

        It was Mell who gave him nightmares.

        • Pygar
          March 23, 2020, 6:57 pm | # | Reply

          And me… brrr! But I never voided my cloaca…

  7. trenomata
    March 23, 2020, 3:55 am | # | Reply

    Wait, isn’t Alfie a result of the department of radiation? I really don’t see them trying to come after anything they made in a negative way.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 23, 2020, 7:27 am | # | Reply

      It’s Bubbles who had the dream. Remember, she used to be the office water cooler at Annex One.

      • Robert Nowall
        March 23, 2020, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

        Didn’t think Alfie’s bit *was* a dream—thought it was one of the undead zombie refugees the Good Ship Habakkuk was hauling.

        • awgiedawgie
          March 24, 2020, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

          I think Alfie’s bit here in the fourth panel is because he was especially startled by Bubbles waking up from her dream. “I just vented my cloaca” is just his polite way of saying he shat himself.

  8. Urlance Woolsbane
    March 23, 2020, 5:06 am | # | Reply

    Is Unity going to have one of these dreams?

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      March 23, 2020, 7:57 am | # | Reply

      Nick has those dreams all the time.

    • Ysabet
      March 23, 2020, 9:21 am | # | Reply

      If Unity had one of those dreams, SHE would be the one coming for her creator instead of the other way around. Run, Dr. Lee, run!

  9. Robert Nowall
    March 23, 2020, 9:14 am | # | Reply

    Change your pajamas, Alfie, and go back to sleep.

  10. jdreyfuss
    March 23, 2020, 9:57 am | # | Reply

    So did Alfie vent himself in response to his dream or Bubbles’ scream?

    I bet the future of breakroom technology involves a dedicated water line and filter, rather than a bottle fed cooler.

    • Daibhid C
      March 23, 2020, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

      My interpretation was that the future of breakroom technology was a water cooler that said “Service is my only joy”. Note that the first panel seems to be from the perspective of whatever she’s presenting, and that Bubbles is not visible from that angle.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 24, 2020, 4:55 pm | # | Reply

      The dream here was Bubbles’. Alfie was reacting to her scream upon waking from it.

  11. wykstrad
    March 23, 2020, 11:28 am | # | Reply

    I assume the series of unruly meetings that followed this reveal, followed by the sacking of several unrelated personnel and the decision that “we billed DoD for this; we might as well sell it to them–they’re already paying $800 a pop for tactical toilet seats” is the sort of gripping drama that you save for the printed collections.

  12. Jon
    March 23, 2020, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    Naturally, Bubbles would wake up from a dream about her creator screaming the one word she can use that wasn’t programmed into her. Her learning to say “not” was a fairly big deal at one point, as I recall.

  13. Ogden Wernstrom
    March 23, 2020, 2:53 pm | # | Reply

    What is a therapist’s job, if not to trick the patient into funding espionage with themselves as target? What is the point of social services if not to gain the beneficiary’s dependence? At last it is Halloween — let’s take off our masks and scare people.

  14. Robert Nowall
    March 23, 2020, 5:24 pm | # | Reply

    Can it be ennui, a guarantee that makes you sad and so blue?
    Oh, no, it isn’t ennui, I’ll come for you.

    Can it be the sting, this cosmic string, that casts you into a stew.
    Oh, know, it isn’t the sting, I’ll come for you.

    You cost several billion
    The due date has come.
    And this is the hour,
    The power of experimental.

    Is it all a dream, this evil meme, that terrifies senior crew?
    You know this isn’t a dream, I’ll come for you.

    —from “Love In Bloom,” Leo Robin / Ralph Rainger, sung (and parodied) by too many to mention.

  15. Adept Arcanist
    June 28, 2020, 6:56 pm | # | Reply

    …Is Artie about to have this dream too, or is it only the creations here right now…?

  16. Knuckles
    February 13, 2022, 2:38 am | # | Reply

    So Bubbles is the product of DoD budgetary excess?

    And now she’s in charge of her own aircraft carrier, how lovely!

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