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2018-08-16

by Jeffrey C. Wells on August 16, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. dvandom
    August 16, 2018, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    The filter doesn’t seem to like Ira.

    • Moe Lane
      August 16, 2018, 12:08 am | # | Reply

      Good.

    • Towering Barbarian
      August 16, 2018, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      Figures. The filer isn’t human either. The real question is whether it’s able to intervene in a way that would do Nick any good. >_>

      • abb3w
        August 17, 2018, 8:09 am | # | Reply

        Hypothetically? It can identify the “cancel” command for the other overrides, and replace every swear with that.

  2. Alphaghoul
    August 16, 2018, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Pfffhahahaha, cuddle pumpkin.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      August 17, 2018, 5:04 am | # | Reply

      Hey, you don’t get to say that word! That is our word!

  3. awgiedawgie
    August 16, 2018, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Well, Ira, “fluffers” is rude… especially coming from a guy who watches as much porn as Nick does. But it’s not a swear word, so nyeah!

  4. Robert Nowall
    August 16, 2018, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    So where is home?

    • Pygar
      August 16, 2018, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      Lovetron?

    • awgiedawgie
      August 16, 2018, 1:10 am | # | Reply

      Omaha, Nebraska?

      • waynezombie
        August 16, 2018, 10:35 am | # | Reply

        There’s a place called Omaha, Nebraska,
        in the foothills of Tennessee.
        Where my sweetie told me that
        someday she’d meet me at
        the corner of Delancy Street and Avenue “B”.

        From the shores of California to the rockbound coast of Maine
        We’ll settle down in Washington D.C.
        In the Heart of Omaha, Nebraska,
        Where the best things in life are free in the foothills of Tennessee.

        There’s a place called Omaha, Nebraska
        In the foothills of Tennessee.
        Each night when day is done
        we watch the setting sun
        and listen to the mocking bird sing Mother Machee.
        When it’s showing in Alaska where the Swanee River flows
        I love you like the honey likes the bee.
        In the Heart of Omaha, Nebraska,
        Where the best things in life are free in the foothills of Tennessee.

        There’s a place called Omaha, Nebraska song lyrics, as sung by Groucho Marx

    • Seph
      August 16, 2018, 1:41 am | # | Reply

      Same difference.

  5. Clifton
    August 16, 2018, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    The reader who suggested a few days ago that Ira might be Collodi could be on to something. Compare Ira’s face in panel 2 here, to panel 4 here: http://skin-horse.com/comic/in-her-way/

    I would think that Ira and Anasigma have the opposite motives from Collodi, but at this point God only knows what Ira’s real motives are. Maybe he’s Collodi’s opposite twin.

    • Steven
      August 16, 2018, 12:48 am | # | Reply

      Maybe he knew Collodi? Would explain how Collodi knew not to trust Skin Horse, if he was acquainted with Ira and knew its real purpose. Ira’s certainly the right age to have known him, after all!

      • casimir
        August 16, 2018, 1:53 am | # | Reply

        He may have known Collodi quite well. From Clifton’s link I detect a familial resemblance.

        • casimir
          August 16, 2018, 2:04 am | # | Reply

          … and somewhere in these forums it must have been mentioned that Carlo Collodi was the author of The Adventures of Pinocchio.

        • Micher
          August 16, 2018, 4:10 pm | # | Reply

          We know Collodi had a daughter. We also know that Ira has a niece (the cast list was written by Ira, and he mentions his niece there).

          So, brothers?

          • awgiedawgie
            August 16, 2018, 8:45 pm | #

            But do we know whether Collodi had a human daughter? The daughter he spoke of (and to) in the film the SH gang watched at Whimsy World was, in fact, the Whimsy corporation itself. (He also referred to her as his “last child”, so he apparently considered all of his creations to be his “children”.)

            Not that this would preclude her from being the niece that is mentioned in the Cast page. His only mention of his niece there is that she loved the movie “The Last Starfighter”. Since Whimsy made adventure movies, it is not unreasonable to think she would like other aventure movies as well.

            If Ira is indeed Collodi’s brother, it could explain why he has been masterminding this whole affair — revenge on those who lynched Collodi 50 years ago.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 16, 2018, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      Well, he says that Skin Horse’s function was never to help non-humans. But he does not say that their purpose was ever to harm humans, either. Helping them was just a by-product of their job.

      Skin Horse’s underlying purpose may, in fact, be to enlist non-humans, which would be more in line with Collodi’s original purpose. And now that Ira both has all the information on them, and has rendered the vast majority of the human race blind to them, that may be fairly easy to do.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 16, 2018, 12:56 am | # | Reply

        Oops… typo. I hate not having an ‘edit’ button.

        “But he does not say that their purpose was ever to harm non-humans, either.”

      • Robert Nowall
        August 16, 2018, 1:10 pm | # | Reply

        True enough. Nothing that’s been said so far indicates what *side* Ira is on.

  6. Dusty
    August 16, 2018, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    Somewhere Keiser Söze is reading this arc and wiping a tear of admiration from his eye

  7. Seph
    August 16, 2018, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    Did Gavotte know about the true purpose of PSH? Also, where has Gavotte been this whole time? I feel like she might be due for a reentrance.

  8. Marisa Mockery
    August 16, 2018, 1:50 am | # | Reply

    I am very uncomfortable with my favorite character being in a hostage situation. I really hope someone notices Nick’s stream and lets Dr. Lee know what’s going on….

    • OneUniverse
      August 16, 2018, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

      Do you think Ginny being in a cage over a spike pit may inhibit her ability to help Nick?

  9. David B Huber
    August 16, 2018, 3:56 am | # | Reply

    This gives me hope that Nick is just pretending the filter is active, having hacked his safeties so “buttermilk pancakes” only deactivated the swear filter…

  10. Seeker
    August 16, 2018, 3:56 am | # | Reply

    I was re-reading the Cast page, because someone in the Comments from a couple days ago pointed out:
    -The biographies are almost certainly all written by Ira
    -Tip is holding that balloon in Gavotte’s picture

    I didn’t find any fresh insight, but I was reminded how much I /love/ the joke in Sweetheart’s image– she’s looking at a box labeled “Files A-W”. Why that odd alphabetical collection? Because the next box of Files gets its own shadow government / paranormal TV show. (And because Sweetheart is generally more interested in the plain ol’ Files than those weird ones.)

    • Seeker
      August 16, 2018, 4:00 am | # | Reply

      …And now I notice that there’s also a pair of tinted spectacles in the bottom corner of Sweetheart’s cluttered storeroom. Oz imagery?

    • Feech
      August 16, 2018, 11:22 am | # | Reply

      Ooh, good eye on the alphabetized files.
      I think the balloon Tip is holding in Gavotte’s profile is a Winnie-the-Pooh reference.

    • Clifton
      August 18, 2018, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

      I hadn’t picked up on the Cast pages being written by Mr. Green/Ira, but I think you’re right!

      That ray gun thing in Sweetheart’s cast photo looks familiar too, but I can’t place it. Maybe it shows up somewhere in Narbonic? On the left, that’s a sewing tomato with needles sitting on a box with part of Unity’s name visible – must be a sewing kit for stitching her parts back on.

  11. Dr. Steve
    August 16, 2018, 8:34 am | # | Reply

    It looks like “The End” – so why does it also feel like foreshadowing? Might these characters appear in some future convoluted story?

  12. greenknight32
    August 16, 2018, 9:05 am | # | Reply

    I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Sweetheart is hiding on board. Once she realized Nick had the only copy of her files, she would have gotten very protective of him. Ira aroused her suspicions by his failure to show shock at a talking dog, too: http://skin-horse.com/comic/engage-in/

    • Frank
      August 16, 2018, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      Cut to “Ira, I found your balloon!”

  13. Robert Nowall
    August 16, 2018, 11:31 am | # | Reply

    Will Ira and Nick get respect when they get home?

    • Shadowmehr
      August 16, 2018, 9:26 pm | # | Reply

      Ira demands respect from A-Sig, and gets it on threat of extirpation. Nick, not so much.

  14. Caora
    August 16, 2018, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

    The people noticing stuff from old strips and linking them in the comments, as well as making connections to things i forgot literal years ago, are the true heroes of Skin Horse.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 16, 2018, 5:44 pm | # | Reply

      Well, it’s just the way my mind works with material I’ve obsessed over.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 16, 2018, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

        It helps to have read through the entire archives well over a hundred times. “Obsessed” is putting it mildly.

  15. bergerjacques
    August 17, 2018, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    Next thing to be revealed is that Ira is also founder of Whimsey….

    When will Ira’s hair turn orange?

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