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2022-01-08

by shaenon on January 8, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. Proxiehunter
    January 8, 2022, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    And you’re losing. You’re playing five dimensional chess against pigeons *and you’re losing*.

    • D. Walker
      January 8, 2022, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      “I can’t believe I’m losing to a bird!”

    • BMunro
      January 8, 2022, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Pigeons won’t play the MAN’s game.

    • Sindri
      January 8, 2022, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      The classic joke is ‘you can’t win at chess against a pigeon, because no matter how much smarter you are it’s going to knock all the pieces over, shit on the board and strut around like it won.’

      • Seph
        January 8, 2022, 5:55 am | # | Reply

        A five-dimensional shit, in this case.

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      January 8, 2022, 11:06 am | # | Reply

      That’s me in the corner
      That’s me in a cock fight
      Losing to a pigeon

      • Robert Nowall
        January 8, 2022, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

        Hah!

      • Manifesta
        January 8, 2022, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

        Here, have a bunch of internets. You earned them.

      • StClair
        January 8, 2022, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

        *applauds*

      • Sean K
        January 8, 2022, 5:14 pm | # | Reply

        This is awesome.

      • Candace
        January 9, 2022, 12:56 am | # | Reply

        Most excellent!

      • Clifton R
        January 12, 2022, 1:39 am | # | Reply

        That is a thing of beauty.

  2. thejoemoose
    January 8, 2022, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    H.T. is all “Wait, we’re live?”

    • Robert Nowall
      January 8, 2022, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

      I think H. T. and Annex One both turned to look.

  3. David B Huber
    January 8, 2022, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    YES! Wonderful! Mr. Green’s carefully laid plans covered every contingency, manipulating every side into playing *his* game – and in dances Dr. Jones just as he’s showing off to Tip!

    I adore every panel, especially panel 4! 😉

    • greenknight32
      January 8, 2022, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      That’s the problem with trying to cover every contingency – it can’t be done, the possibilities are endless. Here comes the random element to screw up his plans – and there’s never been an element more random than Tigerlily, or more dangerous.

      • Jess
        January 8, 2022, 12:57 am | # | Reply

        He covered every possibility, but mads aren’t limited by silly little ideas like “possible”.

        • jdreyfuss
          January 10, 2022, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

          What did Helen say? Mad scientists never discuss things in terms of possibility, only plausibility?

      • Carl+Fishman
        January 8, 2022, 1:20 am | # | Reply

        Sorta like in Asimov’s Foundation books. The arrogant control freaks of the Foundation couldn’t predict the Mule, so he messed up their best-laid plans.

        • fulgur
          January 8, 2022, 3:50 am | # | Reply

          That’s an ominous comparison, because the 2nd Foundation – the one for social scientists – managed to get their plans back on track eventually.

  4. DWVR
    January 8, 2022, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Hubris check, Ira? He’s going to be quite surprised at how little of a grasp he has of the situation, now that Tigerlily has arrived. 5 dimensional nonsense indeed.

  5. palenoue
    January 8, 2022, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Reminds me of a DM I once played with. He’d work up this complex, intricate and detailed adventures for us players to struggle through, only to have us figure out a win in the first half hour then spend the rest of the night running around like idiots getting into all sorts of random trouble.

    • Candace
      January 9, 2022, 12:59 am | # | Reply

      This actually happens much more often to DMs than you might imagine. Some just cover for it better than others. Experienced DMs get very good at poker-face. (And improvisation when the players go off the rails.)

  6. muhamad Adhi Setiadi
    January 8, 2022, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    “i hate wasting human troops on non-human problem”
    So i guess those A-sig troops are not considered human by Ira.

    • dvandom
      January 8, 2022, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      Nah, he just hated having to waste them.

      • Andy4Hire
        January 8, 2022, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

        Right. Which of course doesn’t mean he isn’t still willing to waste them, if the situation warrants, just that it’s not what he’d prefer to do.

    • blahblah
      January 8, 2022, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      As Alfa Alfa noted a couple months ago, the A-Sig troops that were sent to fight the biomass and skin horse were the untrusted cannon fodder. Ira wasn’t too torn up when informed: http://skin-horse.com/comic/the-best/

      • Moe Lane
        January 8, 2022, 3:14 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, that. That fourth panel was the moment that I wanted to test if Ira could fly.

  7. Robert Nowall
    January 8, 2022, 6:31 am | # | Reply

    Is that a lightsaber?

    • Duane B.
      January 8, 2022, 7:19 am | # | Reply

      Clockwork powered!!!

      And it’s blue (special meaning for Star Wars fans)

    • SVGeezer
      January 8, 2022, 9:44 am | # | Reply

      A wind up mechanical lightsaber?

      It IS Tigerlily Joner we’re talking about…

      • Robert Nowall
        January 8, 2022, 3:26 pm | # | Reply

        Just how is a lightsaber powered? The Force?

        • awgiedawgie
          January 8, 2022, 4:20 pm | # | Reply

          It probably depends on which books you read, but from what I’ve read, yes, the Force powers a special crystal that is embedded in the handle. I don’t remember enough about it to go into any more detail.

          • Robert Nowall
            January 8, 2022, 10:15 pm | #

            Haven’t read that many of the books, and avoided the movies after the three prequels.

            I did get the first printing of the original novelization—started with a paragraph about a planet around two suns that could be mistaken for a third sun. They nearly lost me, right there, with that.

    • Bathymetheus
      January 8, 2022, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

      I’m assuming vibro-knife. A long-ago staple of SF, now largely forgotten. I don’t recall any stories in which the blade was illuminated, but it would make sense because so dangerous.

  8. ebonysable
    January 8, 2022, 6:33 am | # | Reply

    …does Tigerlily know she’s talking into Mister Green’s camera, or is she talking into her own camera? Maybe a random camera? Or does she think she’s monologuing to thin air?

    • Duane B.
      January 8, 2022, 7:21 am | # | Reply

      Yes….Yes she is.

    • Frank
      January 8, 2022, 8:28 am | # | Reply

      Since it says “livestream” I’m guessing she just discovered the power of Twitch and considers it a “not The Man” tool

      • davidbreslin101
        January 8, 2022, 10:03 am | # | Reply

        Ooooh, it’s so The Man. How better to keep the mads down than convincing them they have to monologue to camera for 18 hours a day to keep their fanbase?

        • 5-tons-of-flax
          January 8, 2022, 11:10 am | # | Reply

          I wonder if her blog is sing-a-long.

        • Frank
          January 8, 2022, 4:07 pm | # | Reply

          you sly dog, you got me monologuing!

  9. Frank
    January 8, 2022, 8:36 am | # | Reply

    I do feel sorry for the Biomass, but I also see Ira’s point here

  10. David B Huber
    January 8, 2022, 8:45 am | # | Reply

    Given Mr. Green’s apparent intent to torture Tip by making him watch his friends incur casualties during the battle, I can only conclude his concern with the Biomass’s superiority was that Team Skin Horse wouldn’t be able to inflict much damage before being wiped out. It’s likely he expects Tip to be broken by the carnage and will terminate him when he’s done gloating.

    Is it too late to withdraw my support?

    • David B Huber
      January 12, 2022, 5:46 pm | # | Reply

      OTOH, Mr. Green is modest, leaving the “my” out of his “careful planning” speech…

  11. Shadowmehr
    January 8, 2022, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    I am reminded of a DC comic where Ra’s Ah Ghul, who literally had centuries of experience, lost a game of chess to the Joker, because neither of them knew what he was going to do next. You can’t plan for chaos, you just weather it out.

    • David B Huber
      January 8, 2022, 9:22 am | # | Reply

      I’d love to read that one! Do you recall the issue, Shadowmehr?

      • Shadowmehr
        January 8, 2022, 8:37 pm | # | Reply

        Sadly, the precise issue and Batman comic has been lost to the mists of history and memory.

      • Frank
        January 8, 2022, 10:07 pm | # | Reply

        LMGTFY
        https://joker11940.tumblr.com/post/62976205701/jolioisearchive-the-joker-beats-ras-al-ghul-at
        Legends of the Dark Knight #143

    • Robert Nowall
      January 8, 2022, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

      Next time, poker.

  12. Robert Nowall
    January 8, 2022, 9:47 am | # | Reply

    The live feed is showing the fight. Non-humans to battle, the plight. But to make it more silly, we have Tigerlily jumping in with a saber of light.

  13. awgiedawgie
    January 8, 2022, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

    I said it the other day, and I’ll say it again… I would pit Tigerlily against Ira any day.

    • OneUniverse
      January 9, 2022, 11:40 am | # | Reply

      I’m still waiting for Gavotte’s return…

  14. Duth Olec
    January 8, 2022, 9:37 pm | # | Reply

    I mentioned a few days ago I thought Tigerlily was the loose end Ira said he had to take care of, so I’m actually a bit surprised it seems he didn’t account for her. What did he think she was doing after he left Annex One?
    Also I love Tip’s expression in the last panel.

    • Robert Nowall
      January 8, 2022, 10:18 pm | # | Reply

      I imagine there will be several loose ends when things end. But, if I recall right, Ira put on a military uniform, which made me think he was dealing with the Area 51 / Groome Lake crowd, the ones we saw in the story that introduced Nick.

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