So, you may notice I have a new banner up there (below the strip/above the blog). Here are the bullet points.
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And, TAGS NOW WORK! Link on a tag to, say, “Dimitri,” and you can see all the strips he’s in (click on the strip title, if you wish to get to the “purchase prints” buttons). And Hallelujah, thank you to Brian Huisman, who helped me out with some of the coding for the new buttons as well as fixing the tags.
Y’know, I was going to comment on Red9’s name sounding like an X-Wing pilot, but I figured it was just one of those bizarre coincidences. Guess this page shows what I know.
Spider-mode Yuri still creeps me out.
@Sirbacon, it was a coincidence, Red9 was named that without remembering the final scene of Star Wars. But when I was writing today’s strip and saw the chance to make the gag, how could I resist?
I find Yuri’s mental state to be far more frightenin than her tick-form. (Only six legs do I espy.)
@Christopher9, your subconscious is strong with the force!
Good ta know that remote control has some pretty good range to it….
This was entirely too true to Yuri and entirely hilarious simultaneously!
@Leland – Them Eebs do quality work!
Actually, if I had to retro-guess, I’d say Yuri probably is wired into the communications system (larynxes are *so* 20th century) and Martina’s remote is hopping through the comm system.
Yuri started creeping me out a while back, so I’m desensitized to it (in a good way that allows me to enjoy the story better, and only until Chris comes up with some fresh horror).
Mr. Zorilla’s face in the last panel, however, almost made me laugh out loud. I love those out-of-nowhere scene jumps.
man I didn’t think yuri looked like a tick till someone else mentioned it.. creepy. I was thinking Unicron with gripper arms. But yeah a Tick is worse.
Her one woman star wars show really gets across how much of a goner she is mentally.
man, I always liked Yuri. I sure hope she’s not too far gone.
I sure hope someone has given the order to the eebs that after Yuri wakes up, they are not to accept any further orders for body modifications from her or disable that sleep button. (Although I honestly wish I had one of those once in a while.)
Yuri continues to disturb… The funny thing is, I caught myself being more troubled that she gets through a firefight by reciting “Star Wars” line-for-line than the fact that she’s turned herself into a cyber-tick.
I guess this finally drove home the worrying truth that I’ve known people in real life who would probably do this to themselves if they had the opportunity. Humanity can be scary.
Was that “eebs report in” some telepathic contact? Or was it part of the Star Wars hommage?
Also, are they all named “red” because they’re from the same, uh, “factory”?
Lastly, are they just going to let Yuri drift off like that? I mean, she’s now in a wingship that no one is piloting!
Of course by “now” I mean “at this point in the story”, since the last panel is quite the vociferous reminder that all this happened long ago.
Also, it scares me that you got Hallip’s quote backwards
@JKCarroll, that is a very intelligent idea. Ha! I can’t say anyone will think of it. 😉
@DevinParker, yes, many people i think would be happy to go Yuri’s route. AND I must admit, as much as her reciting Star Wars while fighting a space battle is a sign of her mental decline, if I found myself in a space battle, I wouldn’t be surprised to find me quoting it myself.
@Frank, it’s simply in hommage. If they were Eeb names I would have used actual numbers rather than spell out the numbers (like I did for Red9). Also, the unmanned ship situation is handled first thing in Wednesday’s strip! 🙂
@Frank, “Also, it scares me that you got Hallip’s quote backwards.” Ha! Glad someone was paying attention. 🙂
@Herandar: “I find Yuri’s mental state to be far more frightenin than her tick-form. (Only six legs do I espy.)”
Ticks have 8 legs as well – they’re also arachnids. Maybe she’s an insect?
Also, you don’t need to apologize to Lucas, Chris. He owes us all. 😉
@Christopher, thanks. You know, this talk about Yuri’s body modifications help put things in perspective for me. The next time my daughter comes to me and starts in on wanting a piercing or a tattoo, I can think about that small change, visualize Yuri, and calmly say to her:
NO FREAKIN’ WAY! HAS YOUR SATELLITE LOST ITS ORBITAL PARAMETERS? YOU’RE GOING TO START WITH ONE SMALL PIECE OF METAL INSERTED INTO YOUR SKIN, AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOU’LL BE A HUMAN TICK SCARING CHILDREN AND GIVING YOUR MOTHER A HEART ATTACK!
It’s good to keep things in perspective and to nip these ideas in the bud.
I have to retract my earlier comment about clamp, and clamp like technology not being applied to other species.
Though an ebb hybird might not be a step rather than a leap torward general domination.
Dear Chris: you are too good at this.
Also: WHERE IS PIERROT? We should have pictures of him and Krep that say Never Forget. You are just so good at this that it is almost possible, and that is scarier than even Yuri’s transformation. 😛
@Kathleen, never forget who? 😉
@Chris. Well, I should, especially after tweeting it!
Krep and Perrot were merely thrown into a lava pit, I doubt they have died.
If I may Quote…
https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2010/12/14/spacetrawler-102/ “It’s an interesting thing, death in Science Fiction. With technology so advanced, if the author wants to make sure the reader won’t think the character will be brought back to life, the author can’t just shoot or dismember the character, the character really needs to be disintegrated.”
Perhaps Migroots have a terriffic since of humor , ” Hahahahaha You should have seen the look on your face when we threw you into that lava!”
More arms the better to move with, also I would expect she is linked to not only more cyber-eyes on her body but to any such system she can hack. Wish she wasn’t so dangerous now. Reminds me of the pilot for the “6 Million Dollar Man.” At the end Oscar Goldman was keeping him in electro-sleep till needed again. I wonder if Yuri will be able to override the nanites in her?
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