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2018-08-15

by Jeffrey C. Wells on August 15, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. Pygar
    August 15, 2018, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Let us hope that this Sunday is sketches of that last… Brass Bikini Leia, of course…

    • Eddurd
      August 15, 2018, 2:17 am | # | Reply

      You mean Hutt-Slayer Leia? When she strangled her captor with her own chains?

      • Robert Nowall
        August 15, 2018, 4:12 pm | # | Reply

        “Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah…”

    • Carl Fishman
      August 15, 2018, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

      If I ever spring for the level of Kickstarterdom that involves a personal sketch, I now know what it must be!
      And say; isn’t it getting to be time for another such extravaganza?

  2. Dave
    August 15, 2018, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Guess this answers my last lingering question on if Ao/Green was the remote drone, or if Ira was.

  3. Alphaghoul
    August 15, 2018, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Aha, Mr. Green and Goldbug are the same person, but I forgot the Dr. Ao part of the story.

  4. David B Huber
    August 15, 2018, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    It would require a team-up of Jonah (& his quantum precog) with Nick and Nera”s hacking skills to counter Mr. Green’s nefarious plot at this point – whatever it is!

    Mr. Green did go in to his office occasionally. But I wonder if he’d dare call Virginia from the guard shack as well?

    • Jon
      August 15, 2018, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t see why not. Probably could’ve used some sort of relay to keep the call from getting traced back. And if anyone asks why Ira’s on the phone, he can just claim he’s calling into the Home Shopping Network or something.

      • s854
        August 15, 2018, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

        I think Ira must sound quite a bit different to Mr Green, as Virginia didn’t realise that they were the same. It’s hard to spot distinctive ways of speaking with conversations like , though.

        On an unrelated note, Nick told Violet Bee that he had copies of the Skin Horse archives when they first met.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 15, 2018, 11:13 pm | # | Reply

          Not exactly. Nick said he had “all their data”, but since Sweetheart’s final task before Skin Horse was dissolved was scanning the basement archives, it is reasonable to believe that Nick only had all of their current data, which included their previous encounter with Violet.

          Now, he really has all their data.

          (To be fair, it is equally possible that Nick really did already have all their data, and Sweetheart’s task of scanning everything was completely superfluous.)

  5. Moe Lane
    August 15, 2018, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    And that was my last bit of sympathy for Ira burning away.

  6. Jan
    August 15, 2018, 2:30 am | # | Reply

    I’ve been reading some old strips with Violet Bee in St. Charlie… noticed a clue to who Mr. Green was hidden in plain sight:

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

    Well played!

    • Sasha Honeypalm
      August 15, 2018, 8:18 am | # | Reply

      Well-spotted!

    • Jon
      August 15, 2018, 4:03 pm | # | Reply

      Not to mention, we’ve got both GODOT and Rosenkrantz in the same scene. It’s like freshman Intro to Theater all over again.

    • Kirala
      August 15, 2018, 9:44 pm | # | Reply

      Well, crap. It looks like that arc also foreshadowed Nick’s trigger phrase.

      (I was gonna say that’s where Ira learned it via Violet, but let’s face it, surely Mr. Green knew all A-Sig’s secrets at that point.)

      (Although I wouldn’t put it past Ginny Lee to keep some kill switches to herself, so it’s possible A-Sig didn’t know that particular passphrase till this point.)

  7. Kaos
    August 15, 2018, 2:33 am | # | Reply

    Green, Violet, Ao, Gold.

    Dude likes colors.

    • Dave
      August 15, 2018, 2:58 am | # | Reply

      Seems like colors and flowers were his “tell” all along.

  8. Manifesta
    August 15, 2018, 3:24 am | # | Reply

    Ira/Ginny/Nick has the potential to be one really messy love triangle. Ira has the power and, presumably, the will, to keep them apart, if he pulls that “If I can’t have her, no one can” shit.

  9. WuseMajor
    August 15, 2018, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    I’m a little unclear why he thought Dr. Lee wanted Nick pulled out of the VR early. I haven’t seen any real indication of that.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 15, 2018, 6:15 am | # | Reply

      She, of all people, knew that if he had stayed in the VR till the end, he would have been a mindless killing machine. She had spent enough time with him inside his “apartment” to know that that wasn’t him. He’s just a kid who likes video games just a little too much… and swearing. Can’t forget the swearing. But he’s not a killer.

  10. Wesley
    August 15, 2018, 6:28 am | # | Reply

    …. ROSEncrantz, GOLDbug, VIOLET Bee, Mr GREEN and AO. Was there ever an orange or indigo codename he used? He’s batting 5 out of 7 for the Rainbow.

    (Ao can be Blue or Green in Japanese).

    • Rimwolf
      August 15, 2018, 8:24 am | # | Reply

      Apparently it’s the color scheme of Oz from the books (which I haven’t read):
      “The regions have a color schema: blue for Munchkins, yellow for Winkies, red for Quadlings, green for the Emerald city, and (in works after the first) purple for the Gillikins, which region was also not named in the first book.” (https://www.colourlovers.com/print/blog/2009/03/11/the-colors-of-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz)

    • Clifton (aka From The Volcano)
      August 15, 2018, 9:48 pm | # | Reply

      As Rimwolf says, the 5 colors for the 5 regions of Oz (counting the Emerald City) is an important part of the books, and those readers who grew up on Oz and made the connection have been hunting for Mr. Green’s red secret identity for a long time – only to find out he was right under our nose all along.

  11. St. Clair
    August 15, 2018, 10:49 am | # | Reply

    Forgive me if this has already come up, but I just realized/remembered:
    The proper name of the Tin (Woods)Man was Nick Chopper.
    Well played.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 15, 2018, 10:58 am | # | Reply

      It has, but it bears repeating. Zerhakker does mean chopper in German, possibly Yiddish, too.

  12. Robert Nowall
    August 15, 2018, 11:01 am | # | Reply

    Removing spectacles is another Oz books reference. If I recall right, the inhabitants of Emerald City all wore spectacles and when they removed them Emerald City didn’t seem so emerald. (I say “if I recall right,” it ‘s been some time since I read them.)

    • Rimwolf
      August 15, 2018, 11:15 am | # | Reply

      On reread, I see this was even called out at the time: http://skin-horse.com/comic/mesh-gloves-better/

  13. Pygar
    August 15, 2018, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

    Has he, personally, ever said he had the hots for her, or was that simply inferred from his regard for her?

    • awgiedawgie
      August 15, 2018, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

      As far as I recall, he has never personally said so, but others, including Nick, have assumed it.

      • Moe Lane
        August 15, 2018, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

        “Omniscience. Chicks dig it.” Or something to that effect.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 15, 2018, 2:26 pm | # | Reply

          That’s not exactly a declaration of desire.

          • Shadowmehr
            August 15, 2018, 6:15 pm | #

            Maybe not desire for a specific person, but it does seem like a declaration of lust in general.

    • Jon
      August 15, 2018, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

      He hit on her while piloting the Violet Bee drone.

      • Pygar
        August 15, 2018, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

        One rubbery smooch, followed by a convenient BSOD leaving Dr. Lee only a USB cable away from learning Violet is reused Nick/Unity software… info she needed to shut down the drone and repurpose it… Sometimes, you have to sacrifice a pawn…

  14. Jon
    August 15, 2018, 4:06 pm | # | Reply

    So… he let Nick — a theoretical love rival — go simply because he had a crush on Dr. Lee? That’s… yeah, I don’t know if I buy that 100%. But maybe we’re not meant to?

    Also, what is with Dr. Lee and Jewish guys? … actually, don’t answer that. I’m pretty sure I get it.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 15, 2018, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe it’s the circumcision.

      • D. Walker
        August 17, 2018, 4:23 am | # | Reply

        Aww yeah, gimme that sweet, sweet, millenia old religious genital mutilation tradition that arose to serve as a xenophobic shibboleth…

        Yeah, baby, just like that! Now, pick up that donkey jaw bone and club one thousand dirty, filthy Philistines to death with it! Unnnghhh!

  15. Carl Muckenhoupt
    August 18, 2018, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Hey, here’s a strip that just became retroactively ironic: http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-572/

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