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“What I said wasn’t what you heard me say, what I said was the thing I’m saying now. I just said it, so it was definitely the thing that I said. Memory is fallible, and if you recorded what I said, it was probably recorded incorrectly because of solar flares.”
Of course these days, politicians and their spokespeople don’t even bother coming up with excuses. They just lie to everyone’s face and journalists just don’t call them out on it – at least not to their face. It certainly makes Arianna’s job easier, because you can say literally anything. Sure, your ideological opponents will gleefully ding you for each and every mistake, but the majority of the public obviously doesn’t care about boring stuff like “facts.”
This is among the many reasons that aliens have never contacted us. At least not in the real world. In the comic world, the Alari had a damaged space carburetor or something that forced them to land here. Whether or not they decide to vamoose the instant they can, or decide to take over the world while telling us they’re doing no such thing is another matter.
“I’m not drinking your president’s brain and gaining all his knowledge” (stick straw in president’s head) “Such accusations are wild fabrications and have no basis in reality.” (slurrrrrrrrrp)
So… as a journalist, you’d practically be obligated to go on a date with an interested alien party, right? I mean, the lifestyle piece you could write about it would be instant Pulitzer material, even if you just had Italian and kept the hanky-panky strictly above the waist. Assuming that’s where they keep their hanky-pankables, I guess. The very first article written about the dating lives of alien race X would be pretty incredible stuff.
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April 1, 2019, 2:11 pm | # | Reply
“I have discovered that this race eats their mates. THIS WAS ENTIRELY WORTH IT THIS WILL BE MY LAST ENTRY!”
Lyekka was a great character.
“Meep” all you want, youcannot excape your fate.
April 2, 2019, 10:34 am | # | Reply
I rarely read comments here, and almost never comment myself. But I had to reply to a fellow LEXX fan! Thank you for proving I’m not alone.
April 2, 2019, 6:41 pm | # | Reply
We are not alone! Yo way yo! :D
April 1, 2019, 3:50 pm | # | Reply
REPORTER (THOUGHTS): Meep! Can I have his babies. Can I? Wait, can I have an interview? Shouldn’t he be in quarantine?
:) I’m imagining Sydney actually paying attention and vouching for her new friend.
April 4, 2019, 2:55 am | # | Reply
I would genuinely love to see that
Big Red and Tiny Pink. That’s a ship being built right there in front of us.
Meep? She’s a humanized version of the road runner?
Their baby will be Beaker, but will do Hulk Smashes for every flap of his hands.
Dabbler has secretly been selling alien tech under the ACME brand name.
Don’t judge her for the weapons, judge her for her photorealistic life size paintings of tunnels.
Where do you think Vanta Black came from?
I keep thinking of Julie Brown’s song, “Earth Girls are Easy”.
…..and Yeah, I bet she is thinking about having his Babies.
Or at least perhaps, Friends with ‘Benefits’ ?!?!? Something she can remember on those Long Lonely nights.
Just the song? Why not the movie?
That song was one of my favourite parts of the movie.
April 1, 2019, 5:09 pm | # | Reply
Welp that is one big ole distraction. :P
April 1, 2019, 5:13 pm | # | Reply
“live news report. Here we have on the scene… er… jenna?”
*giant red face staring down at a blushing blank staring reporer*
“Next up. Fit men and why we like em”
April 3, 2019, 5:47 am | # | Reply
Hah had to laugh about that one. :P
April 1, 2019, 5:42 pm | # | Reply
Altus seems to be talking to the maroon-haired reporter like a little kid seeing his youngish and pretty female kindy teacher for the first time.
It seems a bit weird for an adult to not at least start with some sort of greeting (“Hi” or “Hello” or maybe “Nanoo nanoo” to follow Sydney’s joke) and followed by introducing themselves (“My name is..” or “I’m…”) and then at least asking her name, before launching into an “attempted approach to docking procedure for horizontal mambo” no matter how clumsily done.
Either “frozen deer in headlights” or “Run away screaming” or “Have some MACE” aren’t exactly un-natural reactions to a huge, intimidating looking dude suddenly coming up to you with that sort of line…
April 1, 2019, 5:53 pm | # | Reply
“reactions to a huge, intimidating looking dude suddenly coming up to you with that sort of line…” read that and immediately thought;
Do you mind if we dance with your dates?
April 1, 2019, 10:14 pm | # | Reply
Oh, look at the time.
April 1, 2019, 5:54 pm | # | Reply
Two thoughts cross my mind:
Eleanor Shellstrop: “Scared is the best kind of horny!”
Altus introducing himself and adding in a little Marshall Mathers: “Let me introduce myself.” (puts out hand to shake) “I’m slim shady.”
April 1, 2019, 7:41 pm | # | Reply
Was thinking more “Strolling Bones”
April 2, 2019, 6:57 am | # | Reply
Are you suggesting that the bedroom would be a “good place” for the two of them?
April 2, 2019, 4:01 am | # | Reply
“It seems a bit weird for an adult to not at least start with some sort of greeting …”
That is understandable. But remember he is an alien. His culture may have never developed that weird affectation.
April 3, 2019, 8:19 pm | # | Reply
*Tosses you a Yorpie Treat!* :D
April 1, 2019, 6:36 pm | # | Reply
Not sure if just a new artwork style or plot device but everyone not an alien or Sydney looks like they got botoxed lips. Arianna especially.
Maybe they did? Courtesy of Deus introducing a new tracking chip type from a galaxy far far away.
April 1, 2019, 7:29 pm | # | Reply
Ari always had thick lips, you are just not use to her without her patented “Bite Me” shade of red lipstick
April 1, 2019, 6:44 pm | # | Reply
I would pay good money to see Sydney pop up and whisper to her, “Just don’t let him poke it in your ear. I had to get stitches.”
April 1, 2019, 7:28 pm | # | Reply
Okay, guess Sydney was expected to arrive on the doorstep, just not quite so soon
April 1, 2019, 10:49 pm | # | Reply
And maybe the back door step not the front one ;)
April 1, 2019, 8:14 pm | # | Reply
I believe that’s in the comic “empowered” one of the reasons there was a rise in superheroes was that many STDs for [and from] aliens have side effects resulting in abilities and powers qbove the human baseline.
April 1, 2019, 8:57 pm | # | Reply
personally. I had imagged a bit of a jumbs in during a mission and does a epic save for how Sydney got back but this is cool too
April 1, 2019, 10:08 pm | # | Reply
Arianna only said “I’m calling it a night” truly Arianna is a master at this. That can mean many things, including “it’s time for you people to leave the premises until tomorrow and we have more to say.”
April 1, 2019, 11:14 pm | # | Reply
Can't wait for Anvil to see altus and intimidate him with her interest
April 2, 2019, 3:47 am | # | Reply
I read “altus” as “anus”.
Which made sense, when viewed from my cultural perspective.
I can still remember Buffy (my Jack Russell Terrier) being in heat, chasing a boy sheepdog around his garden, and into the next field!
Bow tie is just how much do with that she has to go
April 2, 2019, 4:08 am | # | Reply
Haha you can get in to be able and willing the bridge is just don’t have been established for the same way to be in town of them from a flashback within an interesting to get the bridge is a good day at work and decision making sure that she was a long and hard to get some sleep in my life with the team to do that she is just hope I can be used to it would never have no matter where the same time travel and vacation planning for your own posterior cruciate ligament injury and I think it’s just don’t have been bouncing back from a very young man I’m sorry baby.
April 2, 2019, 9:55 am | # | Reply
uh, what? “We humans have invented a thing called punctuation. It helps with separating thoughts into distinct blocks of text. That way we lesser beings might have some semblance of a chance of understanding what points you are trying to convey.”
In other words – what the hell was that previous spewage of word vomit supposed to mean? Did anyone understand it? Or am I too sleep deprived to make sense of it?
April 2, 2019, 10:33 am | # | Reply
It appears to be an excerpt from some old professor’s PhD dissertation.
April 2, 2019, 7:52 pm | # | Reply
Or the beginnings of Skynet ramping up on it’s learning curve…
or more likely a spammer/ spam account robot using it as a way around the ANTI-spammer filters of various sorts, it isn’t COMPLETE random gibberish that would get blocked automatically, but it’s structured enough that the filter would pass it as belonging to a “real” person, it’s only when an ACTUAL real person reads it does it fail the Turing Test… DaveB you may want to moderate that account for a bit, especially with a nonsense name like that…
April 4, 2019, 4:50 am | # | Reply
Actually… it seems like one of those spambots that’s using random word salad to try to get as many search engine hits as possible. I’ve seen them before when doing Google searches for uncommon phrases that don’t usually generate many hits. Usually if you follow the link, it goes to a site loaded with all sorts of malware. Though why it’d post [b]here[/b] I don’t know.
April 4, 2019, 5:03 am | # | Reply
Gah. I’ve been spending too much time over on the forums for Carry On and Freefall. Used the wrong type of brackets for the bold section.
Anyway, it doesn’t surprise me that a spambot would be able to post here. The software that DaveB uses doesn’t make any attempt to check that the email address is valid, you don’t have to create an account to post here, and there’s no Captcha or even an “I am not a bot” checkbox.
The good news is that if someone follows a link on Google and it ends up here because of the spambot, at least their computer won’t get loaded with malware, and DaveB might even end up with a new reader. (And he can delete the post or block that IP address, assuming the bot always posts from the same IP.)
April 2, 2019, 12:06 pm | # | Reply
Dude, never take Acid with Tequila.
April 3, 2019, 10:39 am | # | Reply
April 2, 2019, 4:41 am | # | Reply
rape whistle! rape whistle!
April 3, 2019, 12:44 am | # | Reply
“Ah, you have a device to imitate my people’s mating call; how considerate!”
April 2, 2019, 5:54 am | # | Reply
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April 4, 2019, 11:45 am | # | Reply
Wrong baby? … :
April 2, 2019, 8:23 am | # | Reply
“drinking [our] president’s brain and gaining all his knowledge” Well the joke’s on you then.
Disgusted by adnauseum politics
April 2, 2019, 8:27 am | # | Reply
And it is equally true for every single president since the nineteenth century.
Equal bags of sewer gas.
April 3, 2019, 2:17 pm | # | Reply
Yeah, just remember which president was in office at the time of this webics setting (2011)
April 2, 2019, 12:44 pm | # | Reply
When the folks who own a majority of the press are in bed with the politicians (so to speak), it makes it a lot harder for the journslists to call out the liars. Job security vs doing their job.
Thankfully there’s alternative news media, but you have to vet it. However, there are some that actually cite all of their sources.
April 2, 2019, 12:47 pm | # | Reply
Jenna’s brain… yup, tall, dark, exotic accent, (check, check, check).large (feet, hands, ears) – triple check…
April 2, 2019, 2:28 pm | # | Reply
Honestly, has this reporter never herself bought party supplies after work (or heard of a friend or familiy member or co-worker who did this), who then took them home, and then the day they were due to be at the office, forgot to take them to work in the morning?? (I’m calling BS on her if she’s never once heard of this ever happening. It’s like a standard office party comedic mishap trope!)
April 2, 2019, 4:16 pm | # | Reply
Careful how you finish that line, it could be taken the wrong way.
You’re very pretty; you’d be even prettier on my floor.
You’re very pretty; you’d be even prettier mounted up against my wall.
See terrible endings that could be taken in one of two ways, one not so good.
April 2, 2019, 8:01 pm | # | Reply
or he’s copying the tactics of Achillies by trying to distract her from whatever she was thinking about saying…
April 2, 2019, 9:33 pm | # | Reply
As long as he doesn’t copy Achilles by talking about “mouth feel.”
April 3, 2019, 2:52 am | # | Reply
I do not recall having heard that term before it appeared in this comic. Yet since I have spotted it several times, and have found that Sydney’s dislike has rubbed off on me. “Texture” is a perfectly good word, so that new affectation is irritating to me. We don’t use “bum feel” to describe how a chair or cushion feels. Nor use “paw feel” for anything we are touching that way.
April 3, 2019, 1:46 am | # | Reply
am I the only person that took Altus’s actions as those of a sapient that is absolutely clueless about a species social customs and expectations?
April 3, 2019, 2:45 am | # | Reply
Well he has only just arrived on the planet this minute, so that is fairly probable.
Plus please allow me to point out that your assumed species-wide social customs and expectations are not actually such. There are plenty of places where saying “You’re very pretty” (or equivalent in the local language) would not raise eyebrows.
Of course he is also invading her personal space, by getting uncomfortably close. But that is less of a social custom and more of an instinctive space humans provide one another. So whilst there are clueless individuals in society who do violate that, and a few nations which can tolerate much less space (Japan springs to mind), I would generally agree ‘do not intrude on personal space’ is a species wide expectation. There are very few places where putting your face that close to a strangers would be comfortably accepted.
April 3, 2019, 3:18 am | # | Reply
her hair I think matches his face tone
April 3, 2019, 2:20 pm | # | Reply
Cereally? It’s one thing to claim that her hair is red, butt to claim her hair and his face are the same shade? o_O
April 3, 2019, 2:19 pm | # | Reply
Pinkie is acting like an interviewee (specially a political one) has never tried to distract or lead her away before…
April 3, 2019, 9:14 pm | # | Reply
Well, in her defense, he does look a little different from the average human interviewee…
April 4, 2019, 1:03 am | # | Reply
Was referring to Ari doing the distracting, not Altus being the distraction
April 3, 2019, 7:03 pm | # | Reply
Are we finally about to find out Pinkie’s real name? Will she pull a ‘Suzie’ and fluff it to hilarious results?
Tune in, next Thursday! :P
April 3, 2019, 7:34 pm | # | Reply
She already said her name.
I thought everybody knew “Meep, The Press.”
April 4, 2019, 2:02 am | # | Reply
April 4, 2019, 5:09 am | # | Reply
I remember a news blooper where they were talking about Sean Penn and how he had punched a reporter in the face (again).
“We will return to [b]Beat[/b] the Press … um, [b]Meet[/b] the Press… after this message from our sponsor.”
April 4, 2019, 5:09 am | # | Reply
And I did it again. Used [] instead of .
April 3, 2019, 7:31 pm | # | Reply
Anticipation for the release in the morning.
Will Sydney’s parents be at the party, given that she has been gone a while.
Still want to eventually hear what happened with Marble Maiden and the other vigilantes Archon hoped to apprehend and recruit.
What about the Rogues Gallery for #186? We’ve seen Deus, Vehemence, Vale, Cthillia, and the flaming demon whose name I am unsure of. Will one of the others make a move while the world’s attention is distracted by the Alari?
April 4, 2019, 12:15 am | # | Reply
don’t forget Max’s not-quite-dead Nemesis from her tour in the Second Gulf War/Afghanistan
April 4, 2019, 1:11 am | # | Reply
Unless I am mistaken I believe the two in shadow in the center panel were at the fight in the parkinglot.
Just leaving the religious nut guy in top center, and the masked lady *whose mask has cute stickers all over it* on the middle right to yet make an appearance.
Religious nut..eh, I once wrote a guy whose powers made him believe he was the second coming of Christ, and any super that joined him was a reincarnated angel, and any super that rejected him he proclaimed to his cultists was a demon. Unless I ever find a floppy drive again those stories are lost…and probably for the best; I’ve grown to not care much for the cultists claiming super powers are either evil or good, its like a one episode thing; and not something I’d like to see done on the regular.
Mask girl though as my interest. A mask wearing character like that, especially interested in a powerful individual as a trope tendency to end up being someone powerful (I know I’ve used the trope…inconsistently between forms…but the mental image of white masks on the end of black hair like tendrils just feels dark and mysterious to me; even if any other form she has either a black armored face or no mask at all), but I digress. You do tend to see these as pretty powerful, and the stickers make me think of a (child like god); like they just want someone powerful enough to “play with”.
But yeah, of that group those two I think seem to be the only ones we haven’t seen yet anywhere else. Although if these are all not just the imagination of the speaker but in-story reflections (as all the rest turned out to be), this implies the fire demon Dabbler beat was watching Earth television…
April 3, 2019, 7:40 pm | # | Reply
Vote ,move to first
April 4, 2019, 5:49 pm | # | Reply
well,well nice sexy alliens…
But if journalists can do his work and dont waste time in stupid things,the real problem is taking Alari as refugees maybe make the Earth the next Target or a priority for his enemies,Alari are more superior in military or technology resources and lost his homeworld ¿How terran world nations match against Alari enemies? i think many nations disagree accepting Alari as refugees (or at least want give his permission or a secondary opinion).
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August 7, 2019, 8:12 am | # | Reply
Pretty sure if I was in that sort of situation, and was female… or I guess even if I wasn’t… I’d be VERY threatened by that.
Seriously Altus… that is skeevy. Don’t do it.
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