The Nightstar Zoo

Ahahahaha.


Eh. So Ellen and Schlock are going to be taken by the Uuplechans and tried for, well, whatever probably.

Looks like her deathwish is acting up again.

I figure she simply thinks that if they have to make a copy of Kevyn, they should also make a copy of her, so that the new Foxworthy couple is still on the same page about everything.

Pretty much, yeah.

with a side of "this Elf wants to 'be with him'", IMO.

Really though, can you blame her?

THIS Ellen remembers her husband coming to a huge epiphany about their relationship and how he's been an arrogant asshole, and -honestly- decided that he needed to change, on his own.

The new Kevyn out of the vat will probably get force-fed that recording to "catch him up", but Vat-Kevyn is never going to have a chance to come to that conclusion organically.

Vat-Elf being reset to the same time-frame gives that grand marrige epiphany a second chance to actually happen organically, rather than Kevyn being force-fed it from scratch and Ellen (Oh so patientlyh, because she's known for that sort of thing) waiting for him to catch up.

I'm not saying it's the -healthiest- thing to do. But I understand the motivation.
It seems like getting a new "you" decanted costs is time.

Of course of the Uuplechan turn out to be reasonable, but not too lenient, and just put her in jail for a while, then her entire plan will get derailed.

Why do you all think she's lying at this point?


Yes, earlier she said "I'm leaving last" and that was a lie, but at this point what is the purpose of further lying? Why bother? No, she's being truthful, she has no spoken intentions of dying, she just wants alone time to sort her feelings out and maybe she's right, maybe the Uuplechans will accept her surrender as a gesture of good faith.

Of course we all suspect that she'll end up alive and in continued possession of the ship... and end up having to fish all the parts out of the shitter.

Because this isn't the first time she's demonstrated self-destructive tendencies?

The thing about Laz-R-Us is, you can actually survive your (successful) Heroic Sacrifice. In some sense.

I think evileeyore may be right, and she's not lying, since if she really wanted to kill herself, she could simply draw her sidearm and blow her brains out. Or set the ship to self-destruct. Waiting on others to do the deed is not reliable; that next long-gun shot may not come there, or the Uuplechan may sentence her to life imprisonment instead of death.

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The MacNut
Artist and writer of The Vanguard, a space opera superhero comic.

Made me laugh while carefully sipping very hot coffee. You owe me a new soft palate.

You should really have expected that. That's Chekhov's lavatory. It was mentioned thus it has to spill. Inconvenience of retrieving ship parts was too big a point to not come around later.

If you wanted to self destruct, you won't bother hiding parts, but would wait until it was fully manned, and hopefully near other ships.

So, beyond retard-stupidity dialed to 15, what's the point of all this?
I mean, really?

Filler before the Sunday strip, where some plot development actually happens?