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2018-03-03

by shaenon on March 3, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Hundred Dresses
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  1. tuiteyfruityt
    March 3, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Niue is gonna love it. Sailors and parrots are like two peas in a pod.

    • felbloodreaper
      March 3, 2018, 11:08 am | # | Reply

      She’d have loved the hat though.

      • Shane
        March 4, 2018, 10:33 am | # | Reply

        HE WASN’T WEARING IT BEFORE SO SHE HATES IT!

  2. Kitirena
    March 3, 2018, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Considering how many people (myself included) have a thing for certain types of school_girl_ outfits, this is strangely appropriate somehow…

    • awgiedawgie
      March 3, 2018, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

      Indeed. But to be perfectly honest, I’d much rather see it on a schoolgirl. On that drone, it’s just all kinds of wrong.

  3. John Campbell
    March 3, 2018, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart’s instincts are the Village People?

    • Manifesta
      March 3, 2018, 5:58 am | # | Reply

      Or Donald Duck.

      • Nobody
        March 3, 2018, 10:57 am | # | Reply

        She put on Pants this time, so not him.

    • OneUniverse
      March 3, 2018, 2:10 pm | # | Reply

      I was thinking of some sort of Goblin porn stripper, but Village People could be the inspiration.

    • Towering Barbarian
      March 3, 2018, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

      Possibly Sailor Bubba. ^_^

  4. Otakubouzu
    March 3, 2018, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    No helping Tip now, eh.
    If after seeing this he is not moved to correct this, i wonder what will put him out from this slump.

  5. David B Huber
    March 3, 2018, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart’s comment in the last panel reminds me of every puppet master subsuming their identity…

  6. thedoctor55
    March 3, 2018, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Oh yeah,no problem. Great outfit…….if you’re Donald Duck!

    • JSStryker
      March 3, 2018, 12:44 am | # | Reply

      Except Donald doesn’t wear pants…

      • Pedantry In Motion
        March 3, 2018, 3:06 am | # | Reply

        It’s actually a common misconception. Even though variants of the genus subucula such as “hotpants” and “underpants” contain “pants” in their common name, they cannot properly be considered part of the same clade. So it’s technically incorrect to call what the drone is wearing in today’s strip “pants”.

        In fact, while Donald Duck wears neither pants nor shorts of any kind, he does in fact wear what is properly classified as a kind of gaff or dance belt underneath his feathers. With male duck performers, such an undergarment is key due to the labyrinthine biology of their reproductive system. So in all truth it is optimally accurate to call this a Donald Duck outfit, since the drone is dressed identically to Donald Duck but for the lack of feathers.

      • Robert Nowall
        March 3, 2018, 11:39 am | # | Reply

        Good thing Sweetheart-drone is. I still don’t know whether that’s a codpiece or not.

        • awgiedawgie
          March 3, 2018, 3:26 pm | # | Reply

          And we don’t want to know, either.

          • Robert Nowall
            March 3, 2018, 5:39 pm | #

            Keep your pants on, Sweetheart, we don’t want to see.
            Maybe you’ve got one or maybe thirty-three.
            Maybe it’s a codpiece or it could be real.
            Keep your pants on, Sweetheart, it’s got no appeal.

  7. Aevylmar
    March 3, 2018, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    It’s the male version of Bubbles’s outfit. The thing that she was wearing when Unity was dating her.

    Really, I shouldn’t have been surprised.

    • Bruce A Munro
      March 3, 2018, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

      Ah, that makes sense.

    • Thenardyr
      March 3, 2018, 4:05 pm | # | Reply

      Excellent observation. I was too traumatized by the fourth panel to attempt any analysis, though I doubt I would have ever noted that w/o help.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 4, 2018, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      Actually, the only thing remotely close that Bubbles was seen wearing was on the ship, and that was after she and Unity broke up. And even that really wasn’t very much like this outfit. Other than that, Bubbles was always in spring and summer dresses, and none of them looked anything like this. There were also a few business suits, and none of them looked anything like this either.

  8. Candace
    March 3, 2018, 1:46 am | # | Reply

    Oh, dear. Tip may be beyond help at this point.

  9. Towering Barbarian
    March 3, 2018, 4:22 am | # | Reply

    So does this mean that Sweetheart is ready to go out and punish Negaverse Generals “In The Name Of The Moon”? o_O

    • davidbreslin101
      March 3, 2018, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

      “Pretty Soldier Sailor Sweetheart”? Hm. That actually kinda works.

  10. Mental Mouse
    March 3, 2018, 7:41 am | # | Reply

    Oh, Sweetheart — once Niue even sees that (or any) hat, taking it off won’t help…

  11. Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
    March 3, 2018, 8:55 am | # | Reply

    Hopeless, unshaven, dissatisfied with his job… sounds like a, uhm, “normal” person. At this rate Tip will not be able to perceive that Sweetheart’s speech in a few days. Which should give him a lead on tracking down the cause of the reality blindness, maybe able to sense The Weird with only his Left ear and eye.
    “When everyone is weird, the man with one normal eye is king. A poorly dressed king.”

    • Towering Barbarian
      March 3, 2018, 6:35 pm | # | Reply

      That is such a lovely notion that I hope you are correct! It would be like Tip to have such an idea in mind. ^.^

  12. Robert Nowall
    March 3, 2018, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart oughta be punished for this. Where’s that ol’ rolled-up newspaper?

    • awgiedawgie
      March 3, 2018, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

      Consumed in the volcano… along with Captain Bram.

  13. Bruce A Munro
    March 3, 2018, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

    Sweetheart, that’s not how instincts work.

  14. Claire
    March 3, 2018, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

    Y’know, when we first saw this drone I thought, “It looks like Fred from Scooby Doo.”

    • D. Walker
      March 3, 2018, 10:53 pm | # | Reply

      It also looks a lot like how Shaennon draws Fox Mulder in Monster of the Week.

      And of course, she draws Fox almost identically to how she draws Konstantin in this comic.

  15. Benedict Ide
    March 3, 2018, 5:38 pm | # | Reply

    Panel two there’s a weird line between “woman” and “wants”- it looks kind of like a text caret, except SH is clearly hand-lettered. A mystery…?

    There is also another small error which is that there appears to be some sort of unseeable terror in panel three which cannot be looked directly at without damaging the soul, which might need to be addressed.

    • D. Walker
      March 3, 2018, 10:51 pm | # | Reply

      Possibly it could be that the word “woman” was placed slightly too far right, and got photoshopped a pixel or two to the left to correct it in a hurry, but the background layer was set to black instead of white by accident and it didn’t get noticed?

      • awgiedawgie
        March 4, 2018, 1:25 am | # | Reply

        I was thinking that, too, since it’s a perfectly straight line. A hand-drawn line — even using a straight edge — couldn’t be that perfect. It might be that it was transparent when it was shifted, and only turned black when it was uploaded.

  16. WJS
    August 4, 2019, 8:41 am | # | Reply

    OK, I don’t know whether to laugh or cringe.

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