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2013-12-16

by shaenon on December 16, 2013 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. John Campbell
    December 16, 2013, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Not to be confused with Ghost Ben Franklin, who’s in Australia at the moment.

    • Sparks
      December 20, 2013, 1:05 am | # | Reply

      Or Time-Traveler Ben Franklin, who is currently running the American Superhero Association.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        February 7, 2014, 5:57 am | # | Reply

        Or Ben Franklin’s Clone, who lives in Cumberland

        • Ardacil
          March 1, 2015, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

          I cannot like BrokenEye’s reply enough. Gotta love Dr. McNinja references.

        • KA$H
          March 6, 2016, 6:02 pm | # | Reply

          or girl ben Franklin, who’s in Oregon, I guess.

  2. Moe Lane
    December 16, 2013, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    Just let it go, My Name Is Not Zombie Ben Franklin With Mustache.

  3. Flah
    December 16, 2013, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    I thought Zombie Ben Franklin was vanquished back when Clone of Ben Franklin accidentally summoned a horde of zombie ninjas. Malibu or not, he should be fertilizer several times over by now.

  4. aureus
    December 16, 2013, 3:17 am | # | Reply

    Skin Horse / Dr. McNinja crossover?
    I’m down.

    • wykstrad
      December 16, 2013, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

      As cool as that would be, if they were going to do that, they’d have to point out that Zombie Ben Franklin lives in Cumberland, Maryland.

  5. Chris Sanner
    December 16, 2013, 6:47 am | # | Reply

    So Anna Sigma built Dracula’s moon laser!

  6. eddurd
    December 16, 2013, 6:48 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Lady Madonna”, The Beatles)

    Zombie Ben Franklin,
    Though you look the same,
    You inform the Emperor that’s not your name!

    Zombie Ben Franklin,
    He keeps calling you,
    Trying to correct him, but can’t get through!

     You inform the Emperor named Norton,
     ”Pardon, sir, but I am not that man!
     Can’t you see this mustache I am sportin’?
     My name is Dan!”

    Zombie Ben Franklin
    He keeps calling you!
    Zombie Franklin really lives in Malibu!

  7. K. Willsen
    December 16, 2013, 7:27 am | # | Reply

    A Dan who can’t get people to call him ‘Dan’? Maybe he’s been thrown out of the Dan Conspiracy!

    • Mark Temple
      December 16, 2013, 9:18 am | # | Reply

      maybe your just in till death.. and his unlife membership extension is still pending..

  8. Grantwhy
    December 16, 2013, 7:36 am | # | Reply

    A zombie grew a moustache? o.0

    or did he grow a moustache before becoming a zombie?

    • Ian thompson
      December 16, 2013, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      Well hair growth is a kind of excretion, and their bodies must process those brains somehow,Combine that with the law of conservation of mass and you get the picture.

    • She Who Must Not Be Maimed
      December 16, 2013, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

      Who says the zombie’s mustache is hair? I’m sure there are ways for a zombie to grow some sort of furry face fungus.

    • Daniel Barkalow
      December 16, 2013, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

      A curious scientific phenomenon is the fact that the fingernails grow after death, as does the… moustache.

      • mittfh
        December 16, 2013, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

        Technically, neither hair nor nails grow after death. What happens is that the skin shrinks, giving the illusion of growth.

        Of course, in the Narboniverse, things may work differently… particularly where zombies are concerned 🙂

        • Andy4Hire
          December 16, 2013, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

          True, but I’m pretty sure Mr. Barkalow was just adapting a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead quote there. (Though, to be fair, I might not have caught that either if not for the ellipsis before “moustache.”)

  9. Grantwhy
    December 16, 2013, 7:42 am | # | Reply

    also, a *pink* brain?

    Some type of marinade? Colouring/flavouring?

    Isn’t that cheating? :-p

    • Shaenon
      December 16, 2013, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

      Despite the term “grey matter” (which refers to one type of tissue in the interior of the brain, to distinguish it from the lighter “white matter”), brains really are pink or even red on the outside, because they’re covered in blood vessels. They lose color when dead and drained of blood, like the rest of the human body, but obviously Dr. Lee would take care to provide only delicious fresh brains.

      We here at Skin Horse take great pride in scientific accuracy, which is why this strip also includes a zombie who can grow a mustache.

      • John Campbell
        December 16, 2013, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

        This interest in strict scientific accuracy must be the reason we haven’t seen Artie violate conservation of mass even once.

        • Riven
          December 16, 2013, 10:54 pm | # | Reply

          I always figured that Artie was just _really_ heavy as a gerbil, and on the lighter side as a human. Or maybe the other way around.

        • JohnWWells
          December 17, 2013, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

          His hiccups draw mass from bodybuilders in other universes, and replace it when he returns to gerbil form. Unfortunately, the targeting on the replacement process is a little wonky, so a subset of bodybuilders in other universes have been turned into spherical balls of muscle.

  10. Pygar
    December 16, 2013, 11:39 am | # | Reply

    Probably they have Pepto-Bismol incorporated into them, so the zombies won’t get indigestion from all the yummy brains they will soon be eating!

  11. Smithnik
    December 16, 2013, 4:11 pm | # | Reply

    The idea that Skin Horse is scientifically accurate is very disturbing for those of us who apparently live in the same county as Zombie Ben Franklin.

  12. Shane Wegner
    December 16, 2013, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

    Do… do the brains have any thoughts before they are devoured?

    • Prodigal
      December 17, 2013, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      They all, each and every one of them, think “Oh no, not again!” Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly *why* they have thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

  13. woozy
    December 16, 2013, 11:50 pm | # | Reply

    Am I the only one who thinks this is a reference to Josh Kornbluth’s “Ben Franklin Unplugged”

  14. BMunro
    December 17, 2013, 3:25 am | # | Reply

    Presumably they don’t come with memories, so probably no moreso than a newborn baby. 🙂 And if it makes you feel better, brain tissue lacks pain sensors, so they shouldn’t feel anything when they are devoured.

  15. jdreyfuss
    April 13, 2014, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

    I saw Purple Ben Franklin on the SEPTA once when I visited my brother and sister-in-law.

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