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2018-08-14

by Jeffrey C. Wells on August 14, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. thejoemoose
    August 14, 2018, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Ira is Ari backwards. [facepalm]

    • thejoemoose
      August 14, 2018, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      Also, ROSEnkratz XD

    • Manifesta
      August 14, 2018, 6:12 am | # | Reply

      Well I knew there wasan anagram in there somewhere.

  2. Alphaghoul
    August 14, 2018, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Welp, there you go, Ira was Mr. Green all along. A creepy old man didn’t knock off Dr. Lee because he was attracted to her, also he had to stay there after it was shutdown to aviod suspicion.

    • Dave
      August 14, 2018, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      I guess that part eludes me, what would staying in the abandoned building have accomplished regarding his cover story?

      • awgiedawgie
        August 14, 2018, 12:56 am | # | Reply

        It reinforces the idea that he was nothing but a senile old man.

        “Remember your three O’s: Obscure, Obfuscate, and Obliterate.”

        • harryvoyager
          August 14, 2018, 1:21 am | # | Reply

          Also, he had a dedicated computer to work on. It was relaxing.

          Is it sad or disturbing that I find myself empathizing with that?

        • WuseMajor
          August 14, 2018, 1:21 am | # | Reply

          One of the points they make in the Prestige really. Sometimes the secret of a good trick is committing wholeheartedly to a persona.

      • bergerjacques
        August 14, 2018, 9:41 am | # | Reply

        Lots of advanced Minesweeper and Solitaire.

  3. Bruce A Munro
    August 14, 2018, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    You know, I think I’m going to go back and read this from the beginning, now that we’re heading into endgame.

    • Madman
      August 20, 2018, 1:35 am | # | Reply

      I just did that. It was pretty fascinating.

      • The J is Silent
        March 29, 2019, 9:01 am | # | Reply

        I’m doing it now; a few months after you.
        It makes for an interesting reread, now that we know what to look for.

        • awgiedawgie
          March 29, 2019, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

          I’ve always been of two minds (but that’s a story for another time) about re-reading the story after I know crucial details. I still enjoy it, but it completely changes how you see certain things.

  4. Clifton
    August 14, 2018, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    Rosenkrantz is dead.

    • D. Walker
      August 14, 2018, 2:38 am | # | Reply

      Rosenkrantz is undead.

      • Fan of Most Everything
        August 14, 2018, 7:00 am | # | Reply

        Rosenkrantz was a figment of Guildenstern’s imagination the entire time.

        • waynezombie
          August 14, 2018, 7:37 am | # | Reply

          Or was it Guildenstern who was a figment of Rosencrantz’s imagination that was a figment of Guildenstern’s imagination….

          • Towering Barbarian
            August 14, 2018, 10:14 am | #

            Kinda depends of whether the coin comes up heads or tails, doesn’t it? ^_~

    • Robert Nowall
      August 14, 2018, 10:21 am | # | Reply

      You guys have all read or seen too much Tom Stoppard.

      • Gyrre
        August 15, 2018, 2:32 am | # | Reply

        ‘Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ is a good movie.

  5. Steven
    August 14, 2018, 1:15 am | # | Reply

    I still can’t believe it. What a heck of a reveal…

  6. Moe Lane
    August 14, 2018, 1:47 am | # | Reply

    :Looking at Ira’s jacket:

    Good God. He *is* Number 1.

  7. EvilMidnightLurker
    August 14, 2018, 3:07 am | # | Reply

    …Shannon? Are you a Mad Plotter?

    • EvilMidnightLurker
      August 14, 2018, 3:11 am | # | Reply

      Darn new phone autocorrupt has to be trained to recognize Shaenon.

    • codebracker
      August 14, 2018, 3:52 am | # | Reply

      She snuck in references to him being Oz over the years (Scarecrow=Unity, Tin man=Nick, Lion=Sweeheart, Dorothy=Tip), so all signs point to yes

    • Bauke
      August 14, 2018, 4:52 am | # | Reply

      See last Sunday’s update… (Spoiler: Yes, she is)

    • bergerjacques
      August 14, 2018, 9:43 am | # | Reply

      She fooled me. At the beginning of this entire arc, it looked more like Alice through the Looking Glass than Oz.

  8. Ogden Wernstrom
    August 14, 2018, 3:27 am | # | Reply

    Poor Ira has gotten so senile, he doesn’t remember how to babble.

  9. Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
    August 14, 2018, 8:02 am | # | Reply

    When i grow up i want to be Ira G.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 14, 2018, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      You want to be Ira Gershwin? 🙂

      • Moe Lane
        August 14, 2018, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

        …That wouldn’t be a bad gig, though.

  10. Robert Nowall
    August 14, 2018, 10:22 am | # | Reply

    I guess that explains why he stayed at Annex One. Tigerlily was another of his projects. So were Chris and Marcie, I suppose.

    • greenknight32
      August 14, 2018, 6:48 pm | # | Reply

      Also, he had more time to do his real work on his computer. Went from having few visitors to deal with to almost none, perfect place for an evil mastermind to hatch his plots undisturbed.

      • Shadowmehr
        August 14, 2018, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

        Come to think of it, isn’t that why Tigerlily was there? I think she even said so herself. We just were looking at the wrong mastermind.

  11. Pygar
    August 14, 2018, 11:44 am | # | Reply

    That third panel… who was real, the nice Oscar Zoroaster (?) or the frightening Wizard? My early childhood was over before Apollo 11 landed, but… wasn’t all the Green of the Emerald City just a hoax? Can’t recall the reason for it…

    • Lady E
      August 14, 2018, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      I want to say that the green came from spectacles with green lenses that everyone had to wear in the book.

      • Mental Mouse
        August 14, 2018, 1:36 pm | # | Reply

        There was at least one kids-book version with the spectacles (that came with the book). I don’t *think* that was in the original, but it’s been too long since I read the original book.

  12. Mental Mouse
    August 14, 2018, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

    And yes, Shaenon is a Mad Plotter all right…

  13. Robert Nowall
    August 14, 2018, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

    By the way, does this mean that Ira alias Ari wrote the brief descriptions of everybody in the cast list?

    • Micher
      August 14, 2018, 6:08 pm | # | Reply

      “I took the liberty of arranging for him to be transferred to Project Skin Horse…”

      So apparently yes. Well spotted.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 14, 2018, 6:26 pm | # | Reply

        I was wondering why they haven’t been updated in a while.

      • Efogoto
        August 14, 2018, 6:46 pm | # | Reply

        Right above the line you quoted, he mentioned “[m]y niece”.

        Nera? Tigerlily? Ginny? Marcie? Manifesta?

        • Robert Nowall
          August 14, 2018, 11:41 pm | # | Reply

          Niece implies brother or sister which implies family.

    • This Guy I Know
      August 15, 2018, 11:35 am | # | Reply

      Speaking of, check out Tip in Gavotte’s picture. A bit more meaningful after Sunday’s exposé, yes?

  14. thoughtsofmotion
    August 14, 2018, 6:04 pm | # | Reply

    Oh holy moly. I’m doing a re-read of the comic and here’s another little hidden gem:

    http://skin-horse.com/comic/perpetually-under/

    “A Violet is a Violet is a Rose”
    Violet Bee is Ira Rosencrantz
    GADOT knew…

    • Shadowmehr
      August 14, 2018, 8:01 pm | # | Reply

      G.O.D.O.T., and good grief you’re right. Since they hinted that he/it is still out there, will G.O.D.O.T. be the unexpected curveball that derails the Wizard’s plans?

    • Carl Muckenhoupt
      August 19, 2018, 5:47 pm | # | Reply

      There’s a subtler mention of Rose later on in that chapter:

      http://skin-horse.com/comic/reminding-himself/

      As one of the commenters there points out, this, like the “A Violet is a Violet is a Rose” bit, is also based on a Gertrude Stein quote:

      “Once upon a time the world was round and you could go on it around and around.
      Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell everybody all about it and they wanted to tell all about themselves.
      And then there was Rose.
      Rose was her name and would she have been rose if her name had not been Rose. She used to think and then she used to think again.”

      • Madman
        August 20, 2018, 1:38 am | # | Reply

        Holy &^&*!#.

  15. David B Huber
    August 14, 2018, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

    Perhaps Ira comes by his long game perspective naturally?

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