See, this is one of those plot holes I don’t understand. Ira is in the room monologuing, and Tip has two working thumbs. How does he resist the overwhelming urge to jam them into Ira’s eyesockets and intrapate him?
(Also, did you notice how nobody ever calls Ira by name when he shows up in a strip? In desperation, I googled “name of the old man in skin horse,” but all that came up was Nuckelavee.)
He is a lover not a fighter. Also Ira is not into him so Tip can not seduce him.this the reason why Ira is walking into the room and not afraid of Tip.
I believe Tip is operating on the expectation that there’ll eventually be a rescue operation, and that until then his most useful role is to soak in whatever intel might get carelessly mentioned around his cell. Bloody vengeful murder, while satisfying, would probably result in him getting quickly shot by guards, and is thus counterproductive.
Tip’s not an idiot. He knows very well that Ira wouldn’t walk in there unless he was 100% safe. Presumably Tip’s opted to not get shot, tased, or have his bones broken while Ira watches. Could be embarrassing.
I’m just sayin’. Dude must have nerves of steel not to murder a feeble old man that instantly hateable. He’s a better spy than I would be in his situation.
I mean. Am I the weirdo here? We all hate Ira, right?
Maybe there’s an “Ira did nothing wrong” meme making the rounds that I don’t know about? Ira fanbase? Sensitive Ira slashfics on AOOO?
I believe that Tip is quite capable as a fighter. I wonder a bit at his reluctance to STRIKE!!, but I just put it down as an expression of my own atavism. Maybe in reverse.
Tip is every bit as much a pacifist as Nick is. He hates killing. He only carries a gun (or two or three) because he knows that sometimes there’s no other resolution, and he was trained to be prepared.
I can NOT believe that we’ve seen two whole days of Tip in prison garb and he has not once complained about some crime of fashion to which he is being horrifically subjected. Perhaps he is in a simulation… but one with a “fashion filter” (similar to Nick’s swear filter)?
You know, Ira has nothing to offer Tip (outside of his freedom, which I don’t see forthcoming), and no demands either (gigantic voltron-like robots are hard to hide after all) which begs the question: what is he doing here?
Dispite his arrogance in speaking to Nick (who he planned to kill later) and Virginia (and can one ever understand the intricacies of the heart?) He clearly does not need to gloat.
The man isn’t stupid either, it’s doubtful he doesn’t know that Tip sticks to his morals no matter what. (the way he got picked up should be a dead giveaway to that) Which suggests he’s either attempting suicide by bringing a bunch of weapons into an enclosed space with a former doggie, or he’s planning it the other way around; with him doing the swinging.
His arrival is… Intriguing. I look forward to see what he does.
I hope it will be interesting.
Wasn’t Ira!Violet incorrigibly trying to get into Tip’s pants? (Could have been some other drone operator under orders to “secure Wilkin’s loyalty”, I guess…)
What I’m asking is, is this Spy vs. Spy becomes Bi vs. Bi?
Nope. It was Ginny he was after. He never had eyes for anyone but her. Think of him as the anti-Nick and you’ve got the idea. I’m enough of a Star Wars fan that I really am looking forward to the day that Ira says, “I am your father, Nick!”. ^_^
Under normal circumstances, he doesn’t need to gloat. Recently, however, his crush escaped an inescapable VR prison, grabbed some discarded wetware tech (Nick), and went on the run with a group of misfits he had thought safely placated. Now they are moving all over in a madtech mobile building that is impossible to miss no matter how much he deploys the Crown, helping the entities he is trying to destroy in unexpected and impossible to predict ways. The Wizard now probably needs someone to gloat at just to keep his confidence up.
One question that comes to mind is who is the Wizard golfing with? He doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who has a casual group to hang around with, so his golfing “buddies” have to have some purpose in his larger plan. This might be one last Chekov’s gun before the end.
Wonder whether he puts together a foursome?
At least Tip can take a bit of solace in that Ira is about to ruin a perfectly good walk.
I’d say any good walk would be ruined just by Ira coming along, so he’s ruining it twice.
Ira needs a makeover!
Indeed! That hair! Tsk, tsk…
If Zerkakker landed the I sorry on top of him, wouldn’t that be Ira-Nick?
Well, it looks like Ira’s having a good day at least. Maybe it will mellow him out some. ^_^
Aaaaaaaaghhh fscking autocorrect … “landed the Osprey”
It did ruin a perfectly good pun, but I kinda like the I sorry.
Kinda Ira-Nick that auto-corrupt ruined a good joke.
Switch it off. It’s a bane of our existence.
You know what they say, Tip… Be careful what you wish for. You may get it.
So the characters are aware that the authors are trolling them.
God, the author: six of one, half a dozen of the other.
. . . What?
When you’re a cartoon character, the author is your creator, i.e. a god.
I thought the ratio was six characters in search of one author…
See, this is one of those plot holes I don’t understand. Ira is in the room monologuing, and Tip has two working thumbs. How does he resist the overwhelming urge to jam them into Ira’s eyesockets and intrapate him?
(Also, did you notice how nobody ever calls Ira by name when he shows up in a strip? In desperation, I googled “name of the old man in skin horse,” but all that came up was Nuckelavee.)
He is a lover not a fighter. Also Ira is not into him so Tip can not seduce him.this the reason why Ira is walking into the room and not afraid of Tip.
After the incident of the man behind the curtains, I don’t think they’re certain Ira’s name is Ira. Though some’ll go on using it.
I believe Tip is operating on the expectation that there’ll eventually be a rescue operation, and that until then his most useful role is to soak in whatever intel might get carelessly mentioned around his cell. Bloody vengeful murder, while satisfying, would probably result in him getting quickly shot by guards, and is thus counterproductive.
Tip’s not an idiot. He knows very well that Ira wouldn’t walk in there unless he was 100% safe. Presumably Tip’s opted to not get shot, tased, or have his bones broken while Ira watches. Could be embarrassing.
Or Tip just realizes that killing Ira wouldn’t necessarily stop the events that have been set in motion.
I’m just sayin’. Dude must have nerves of steel not to murder a feeble old man that instantly hateable. He’s a better spy than I would be in his situation.
I mean. Am I the weirdo here? We all hate Ira, right?
Maybe there’s an “Ira did nothing wrong” meme making the rounds that I don’t know about? Ira fanbase? Sensitive Ira slashfics on AOOO?
Shut up, you fool! You’ll make it exist simply by speculating about it!
I believe that Tip is quite capable as a fighter. I wonder a bit at his reluctance to STRIKE!!, but I just put it down as an expression of my own atavism. Maybe in reverse.
Tip is every bit as much a pacifist as Nick is. He hates killing. He only carries a gun (or two or three) because he knows that sometimes there’s no other resolution, and he was trained to be prepared.
I can NOT believe that we’ve seen two whole days of Tip in prison garb and he has not once complained about some crime of fashion to which he is being horrifically subjected. Perhaps he is in a simulation… but one with a “fashion filter” (similar to Nick’s swear filter)?
that prisoner number looks greek to me
It’s the artist’s signature—what it says has always eluded me, too.
I take that back. I *think* it may be “SKGJCW19”—initials and the year.
Right, except that there’s a “/” between the two sets of initials: SKG/JCW19
Some days (like this past Saturday), it’s much easier to read.
I can’t help but believe it’s significant that Ari Green is referring to Tip as “Captain Wilkin”…
I’m quite certain he’s called him that before. I don’t feel like doing an archive dive to find it, but I’m 99.9% sure of it.
It’s all he called him into the Violet Drone.
Dr Dennis Wilkin, Captain US Army, he’s just being formally polite, as every decent James Bond villain knows this is more chilling than insults.
You know, Ira has nothing to offer Tip (outside of his freedom, which I don’t see forthcoming), and no demands either (gigantic voltron-like robots are hard to hide after all) which begs the question: what is he doing here?
Dispite his arrogance in speaking to Nick (who he planned to kill later) and Virginia (and can one ever understand the intricacies of the heart?) He clearly does not need to gloat.
The man isn’t stupid either, it’s doubtful he doesn’t know that Tip sticks to his morals no matter what. (the way he got picked up should be a dead giveaway to that) Which suggests he’s either attempting suicide by bringing a bunch of weapons into an enclosed space with a former doggie, or he’s planning it the other way around; with him doing the swinging.
His arrival is… Intriguing. I look forward to see what he does.
I hope it will be interesting.
Wasn’t Ira!Violet incorrigibly trying to get into Tip’s pants? (Could have been some other drone operator under orders to “secure Wilkin’s loyalty”, I guess…)
What I’m asking is, is this Spy vs. Spy becomes Bi vs. Bi?
Nope. It was Ginny he was after. He never had eyes for anyone but her. Think of him as the anti-Nick and you’ve got the idea. I’m enough of a Star Wars fan that I really am looking forward to the day that Ira says, “I am your father, Nick!”. ^_^
Tip too. The line I remember goes something like “I think there’s something wrong with my girlness”.
Under normal circumstances, he doesn’t need to gloat. Recently, however, his crush escaped an inescapable VR prison, grabbed some discarded wetware tech (Nick), and went on the run with a group of misfits he had thought safely placated. Now they are moving all over in a madtech mobile building that is impossible to miss no matter how much he deploys the Crown, helping the entities he is trying to destroy in unexpected and impossible to predict ways. The Wizard now probably needs someone to gloat at just to keep his confidence up.
WHY DOES IRA SUDDENLY HAVE DARK SKIN?
Compare his skin in this image to his skin when Virginia was escaping from him, and it is now just a hair lighter.
I went back to one with Ira on Annex One guard duty, and he seems about the same.
No I’m with Manifesta here. I went back to the first strip he shows up in and his skin is /definitely/ darker here.
;p
Hate to burst your bubble, but it’s not.
Here is the first strip where we see Ira (once the strips started being coloured).
Tip’s skin is precisely the same colour in both that strip and today’s: R229 G195 B158
Ira’s skin in that strip is R162 G134 B101. In today’s, it is R195 G169 B138 – considerably lighter.
He now has time to tan.
One question that comes to mind is who is the Wizard golfing with? He doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who has a casual group to hang around with, so his golfing “buddies” have to have some purpose in his larger plan. This might be one last Chekov’s gun before the end.
Good point. Though it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that he still has hidden depths. ^_^
Watch as Tip resolves the whole plot by seducing Mr. Green.
I hope Annex One smashes him in the face with with the lobby he used to work in.
Or maybe turns him into knick-knacks M can mount on his desk.
Maybe it’s because I recently finished a Monster of the Week archive binge, but I suddenly find myself wondering if Mr. Green smokes
Y’know, Mr. Green is an absolute bastard.
But I will credit him where it’s due for addressing Tip by rank.