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2019-02-02

by shaenon on February 2, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Iron Man
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    February 2, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Aides like that are worth their weight in gold. ^_^

    • OneUniverse
      February 2, 2019, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

      And yet, she’s on the list of those who know of Ira’s hopeless crush…

      • Towering Barbarian
        February 2, 2019, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

        Since Ira himself is also on that list one presumes that there is an “immune” section on that list and that she as his personal secretary would be a part of it. And since I’m a compulsive shipper I’m also hoping that when Ira finally accepts that he and Ginny are not to be that he will start noticing her instead. ^_~

        *starts humming “Take a Letter, Maria!”*. =^_^=

        • awgiedawgie
          February 2, 2019, 8:35 pm | # | Reply

          You seem to be under the mistaken impression that Ira will someday accept that he and Virginia are not to be. Ira is obsessed, and has progressed to the “it’s not the having, it’s the getting” and perhaps the “if I can’t have her, no one can” stages. He is determined to prove that they belong together, even if he has to put her brain in a jar to do so.

          • Towering Barbarian
            February 2, 2019, 10:35 pm | #

            Rooting for something to happen is not quite the same as being certain or even believing that it will happen. But when I’m in shoujo shipping mode I tend to be enough of a “I just want everyone to be happy!” type to root for such things anyway. Keep in mind that he’s a L/E version of Nick because I suspect that this means he still has more scruples and limits than he realizes. ^_^

  2. Owlmirror
    February 2, 2019, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Maybe it’s just me, but the assistant’s skin tone seems . . . off. A word that came to my mind is “pallor”. The dot eyes also seem wrong. The face also seems very stiff and unexpressive, although we’ve only really seen four panels.

    What came after the T-1000? The T-X, right?

    • awgiedawgie
      February 2, 2019, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      There have been others who have only dots for eyes. Most recently, the technicians who were attempting to remove Virginia’s brain, as well as several other A-Sig employees.

      As for her skin tone, it’s only ever-so-slightly darker than that of one of the agents who had taken Virginia to the hangar to dismember Nick (okay, the agent said “dismantle”, but still…). They had dot eyes as well.

      • Owlmirror
        February 2, 2019, 1:10 am | # | Reply

        I don’t mean that the skin tone seems too dark or light; I mean that it seems grayish.

        According to a color inspector, the skin color is #d2c4b4, FWIW

        Maybe it’s just me.

        • Mental Mouse
          February 2, 2019, 5:50 am | # | Reply

          No, I don’t think it’s just you. Besides the skin, there’s something odd about that hair, and the body language is off. Given that last especially, and that our Shaenon has shown truly Mad Skillz in depicting body language (the Violet Bee drone being an extended tour de force), I’m pretty confident that the secretary is not an ordinary human subordinate.

          • reynard61
            February 3, 2019, 2:27 am | #

            Betcha she’s from the Stepford Employment Agency…

            (“The Agency to use when you need employees without agency!”)

    • Bruce A Munro
      February 2, 2019, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      If she’s a robot, that would explain why she is allowed to know about his crush on Dr. Lee: aides that can be programmed to keep their mouth shut are, indeed, worth their weight in gold.

      • Theitzal
        February 2, 2019, 5:20 am | # | Reply

        Nah, any Narbonic alum knows that dot eyes means she’s a gerbil who’s been modified to look human.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      February 2, 2019, 3:41 am | # | Reply

      No, after the T-1000 came the T-1000S, then the T-1000 Plus, then T-1002 (production on the T-1001 was halted after overwhelmingly negative consumer response to the demo, though critics still considered the T-1002 to be little more than a dolled-up copy of the T-1001 with token bits of T-1000 crudely tacked on), then the T-1002S, then the T-1002SD, then the T-1002SD Plus, then the T-1002SD Plus Ⅱ, then the T-1002SD Plus Ⅱ: Collector’s Edition, then the T-X

      • davidbreslin101
        February 2, 2019, 4:03 pm | # | Reply

        I had the T-1002S, but the damn thing kept crashing. (I think they upgraded the helicopter pilot app in a later release?)

    • Shadowmehr
      February 2, 2019, 10:20 am | # | Reply

      You’re forgetting the Wizard’s stance on non-humans. He wouldn’t have any androids, cyborgs, or enhanced in his inner circle. There are full humans who can be mistaken for robots just due to temperament, training, and skills.

      • Lunar
        February 2, 2019, 9:33 pm | # | Reply

        He wouldn’t *knowingly* have any non-humans in his inner circle. Perhaps the machine union has snuck in a mole.

      • Owlmirror
        February 3, 2019, 6:37 am | # | Reply

        I think he would be OK with part or full machines as long as they were under his complete control.

        It’s not just the non-human sapience that bothers him; it’s the non-human sapients with independent agency.

        • Owlmirror
          February 3, 2019, 10:33 am | # | Reply

          Come to think of it, he’s not too hot on human sapients with independent agency. Other than himself, of course.

          “How dare you have shoes that are not exactly as I have instructed that they be!”

  3. Frank
    February 2, 2019, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Did I say torture? I meant loyalty

    • Shadowmehr
      February 2, 2019, 10:23 am | # | Reply

      A quote from Torquemada, I believe.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 2, 2019, 8:36 pm | # | Reply

        Ira learned from the best.

        • Moe Lane
          February 2, 2019, 11:47 pm | # | Reply

          “Torquemada!”

          • Robert Nowall
            February 3, 2019, 12:45 am | #

            Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

  4. awgiedawgie
    February 2, 2019, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    “Stage 2 is about to launch.”

    That cannot be good.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      February 2, 2019, 3:23 am | # | Reply

      But you can thwart Stage 2. Can’t do that with Stage 1.

      • Sheik
        February 2, 2019, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

        Thank you
        I learned a new concept: Watsonian vs Doylist.
        I don’t know if it will stick the first time but it is a good reference.

    • David B Huber
      February 11, 2019, 10:23 pm | # | Reply

      Submitted for your consideration: A Man with a Plan and a Gate, which latter allows him to execute his Plan over and over until it turns out just the way he wants…

      What if Ira can use the Second Gate to find nearby realities similar enough to trial run his fiendish plans, uncovering his opponents’ secrets and countermeasures “in preview mode”?

      What if Gavotte can trick him into running his actual campaign in a “sandbox reality”, winning the New War but never realizing it wasn’t “his” Earth? Would it even matter?

  5. Leslie
    February 2, 2019, 7:15 am | # | Reply

    Tension mounts. Focus returns to priorities. Ira feels alive….(?) he needs this sense of power.( OUR lesson plan: more specialized cooking shows, and teach ‘eating the rich’. Unity directed to prepare teachable units on humane methods of obtaining basic foodstuffs for the recipes).

    • kermit
      February 2, 2019, 10:33 am | # | Reply

      Do they have to be humane? Asking for a friend.

  6. Robert Nowall
    February 2, 2019, 10:41 am | # | Reply

    Just can’t let go of Dr. Lee, can you, Ira?

    • Guesticus
      February 7, 2019, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

      Would you? o_O

  7. OneUniverse
    February 2, 2019, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    Ari/Ira seems just like your ordinary Fortune 500 CEO, so how bad can that be?

  8. darkshallfall
    August 15, 2019, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

    For some one who claims to be doing this for the world, he’s killing a lot of innocent people in the process, with those fires, droughts, snowstorms, hurricanes, hurricanes produce tornados, it’s not just gonna hit just nom-humans.

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