Nah, Tip’s just depressed. Otherwise his prison garb would be more along the lines of Lady Gaga’s outfit in that video where Beyonce breaks her out of jail (I forget the name of the song).
Mell’s Comedic Sociopath meme neutralizes Tip’s Crossdressing Casanova meme. If they ended up boinking, it would have to be something painful and alarming for Tip, like the time he had a “near miss” with Unity.
I cannot envision any possibility of them boinking (goinking). One: Last we knew, Mell was in a monogamous relationship for all eternity with Caliban. Two: Mojo notwithstanding, Tip is so self-obsessed that Mell would sooner kill him than sleep with him (frankly, that probably applies to a lot of people who are not nearly that self-obsessed).
That’s very nice of Mell to do some pro bono work for a couple of old friends. I guess it was relatively convenient, since she was already there for some paid work, and even appeared to get some looting in. (Unless another party was paying for the “information retrieval”.)
Wait… how (and more importantly why) did they get Tip all the way from Kansas to the Maragda building? Surely there was a suitable Anasigma brig somewhere closer?
It’s certainly plot convenient, but I’m not that surprised – ASig’s in a war that they’re suddenly losing badly (or are they?) and a high-profile prisoner drops into their laps? They want to keep him, Keep him somewhere defensible.
Alternatively: That’s where the truck that find him was heading, and pricing notwithstanding, they still wanted to get the hell out of there. ASig ground troops haven’t really seemed to be recruited for their initiative so far.
“ASig’s in a war that they’re suddenly losing badly”
…except literally when they captured Tip, he told them they’d won, precisely because the non-human sapients have left the planet? As far as Anasigma is concerned, they’ve won entirely, just with the expensive loss of a fleet of drones.
Well, if the troops were sent to Kansas from HQ, and found out when they got there that there was no one left to fight, there would be no reason really for them to go elsewhere. The most likely choice would be to return to HQ in any case.
Capturing Tip at least made the trip somewhat worthwhile for them. I don’t know why they would have any reason to drop him off somewhere along the way, if they were going back to HQ anyway. They could present Tip as a consolation prize.
Figures. Here’s something I worked up a few weeks ago, but didn’t post ’cause the storyline changed. It almost fits here.
Goodbye…proved too much for the man
(He couldn’t take it.)
So he leapt out of the life he once knew
Said he’s going off to find
Some alien world.
The world that blew the mind
A few scenes ago.
She’s leaving, leaving, on the UFO to Lovetron
(Leaving on the UFO to Lovetron)
Seems he’s leaping up (leaping up to try)
To a funkier world sublime.
Sure he’ll try to be right by her side.
He’ll be with her (he’ll try, he will)
On that UFO to Lovetron
(Leaving on the UFO to Lovetron)
He’d rather be on her world,
Than live without her, this time.
He kept scheming
To see he’d be a star
(A bureaucrat star, and he got pretty far)
(He really made it)
But his goal collapsed the hard way
When she told him something new.
She was not from this Earth,
But she came from a world afar.
So he took a flying leap
Off a lion he once knew.
She’s leaving, leaving, on the UFO to Lovetron
(Leaving on the UFO to Lovetron)
Seems he’s leaping up (leaping up to try)
To a funkier world sublime.
Sure he’ll try to be right by her side.
He’ll be with her (he’ll try, he will)
On that UFO to Lovetron
(Leaving on the UFO to Lovetron)
He’d rather be on her world,
Than live without her, this time.
(Her…world…ain’t his…hers and hers alone)
All aboard, all abord, all aboard,
On the UFO to Lovetron.
Her world (his love)
Her world (all aboard)
A man, a girl,
Hers and hers alone.
He’s got to go, he’s got to go,
He’s got to go, yeah, UFO to Lovetron
—from “Midnight Train to Georgia,” written by Jim Weatherly, sung by Gladys Knight and the Pips.
Even though its Mell bringing the good news all around, I’m having some minor conflicts that the cavalry arriving to save the day are the lawyers. At least with Mell, there are many extralegal ways in which she is dispensing justice that I can admire.
bergerjacques: She was working with the people who supposedly control the world, yesterday, which means it was effectively a fight between lawyers and politicians.
Just last month I was looking at the Skin Horse calendar and thinking “It’s sweet how Mell and Sergio still keep in touch”. And now he and Artie are guilting pro pono work out of Mell.
Y’know, from where we’re sitting, we saw Chris and Marcie gassed well before Tip got caught by those A-Sig soldiers. Suggests two possibilities. Either (a) Mell is working some other game besides bringing the CEO-apparent to the A-Sig Board *and* freeing Tip…or (2) Artie and Sergio came up for air long enough to exercise Artie’s well-known stochastic skills.
Yes, Chris and Marcie were gassed long ago. but we don’t know who actually did the gassing. All we know is that Mell was sent to fetch the body (bodies, since they apparently didn’t tell her enough about what Chris looked like, or – more likely – she just wanted to invoice them for two bodies).
I’m pretty sure it’s implied that Mell either did the gassing, or had minions do it on her behalf. I suppose she *could* have hired the Dane for that, but I suspect she could find someone less expensive than the Dane for that particular task.
Not even falling off a flying saucer can rattle Tip’s priorities
Yes, Mel, exactly what part of your life to date told you that someone like Tip couldn’t possibly exist?
I think she just kinda tunes out Artie a lot and Sergio is known for a stilted perspective.
I mean, look at those shoes. They go with *nothing*.
Also, Mr. Green must not have known about Tip being here….?
He was in a meeting, they couldn’t interrupt it to tell him
Or he PUT Tip there and was feigning not knowing where he was…
I think that it was that Tip was wearing high heels when last seen—you know how hard it is to run in heels.
I doubt Tip even tried to run. I mean, from his perspective, what would have been the point? He had lost everything, including hope.
Mell appears to be immune to Tip’s mojo – at least at this low ebb.
Obviously Tip didn’t even play the Org Chart gambit when the A-Sig strike force took him into custody.
A hopelessly unstylish uniform: Tip’s one true nemesis.
Unless, unless I say, Mell’s next sentence continues “You ARE very attractive!”
After all, Tip is incapable of clashing with his surroundings. So there’s been no incentive to change out of the drab prison garb A-Sig provided…
Nah, Tip’s just depressed. Otherwise his prison garb would be more along the lines of Lady Gaga’s outfit in that video where Beyonce breaks her out of jail (I forget the name of the song).
He was too upset, I think
Mell’s Comedic Sociopath meme neutralizes Tip’s Crossdressing Casanova meme. If they ended up boinking, it would have to be something painful and alarming for Tip, like the time he had a “near miss” with Unity.
I cannot envision any possibility of them boinking (goinking). One: Last we knew, Mell was in a monogamous relationship for all eternity with Caliban. Two: Mojo notwithstanding, Tip is so self-obsessed that Mell would sooner kill him than sleep with him (frankly, that probably applies to a lot of people who are not nearly that self-obsessed).
You know, I really can’t recall anything about Caliban? Darn cheap brain.
That’s what happens when you get your brains from a second-rate dispenser. Always insist on brains certified by Dr. Lee.
I wonder if Dr. Lee takes trade-ins…
I can’t wait for him to be reunited with his love.
That’s very nice of Mell to do some pro bono work for a couple of old friends. I guess it was relatively convenient, since she was already there for some paid work, and even appeared to get some looting in. (Unless another party was paying for the “information retrieval”.)
Oh, someone will pay for that information, eventually. Either to get it, or to ensure that it’s not released…
True that.
I’m sure Artie would pull sad, pining faces – and through multiple timelines, Sergio is one of very few people that Mell would consider a true friend.
Not that she won’t complain bitterly at then about having had to do it of course.
Wait… how (and more importantly why) did they get Tip all the way from Kansas to the Maragda building? Surely there was a suitable Anasigma brig somewhere closer?
Can there be anywhere suitable?
Glamprison. It’s like Club Fed, only better dressed.
It’s certainly plot convenient, but I’m not that surprised – ASig’s in a war that they’re suddenly losing badly (or are they?) and a high-profile prisoner drops into their laps? They want to keep him, Keep him somewhere defensible.
Alternatively: That’s where the truck that find him was heading, and pricing notwithstanding, they still wanted to get the hell out of there. ASig ground troops haven’t really seemed to be recruited for their initiative so far.
“war that they’re suddenly losing badly”
Surely that part of the plot was written *before* current events starting in late February???
I didn’t even tell twig that parallel while I was writing that comment!
“ASig’s in a war that they’re suddenly losing badly”
…except literally when they captured Tip, he told them they’d won, precisely because the non-human sapients have left the planet? As far as Anasigma is concerned, they’ve won entirely, just with the expensive loss of a fleet of drones.
That’s very fair – though I’m not sure how much of the org would realised that victory yet? I mean the person who routed them is still there.
I guess I fall back on ‘not the most selected for initiative, and that’s where the transport was heading anyway.’ option, then.
Well, if the troops were sent to Kansas from HQ, and found out when they got there that there was no one left to fight, there would be no reason really for them to go elsewhere. The most likely choice would be to return to HQ in any case.
Capturing Tip at least made the trip somewhat worthwhile for them. I don’t know why they would have any reason to drop him off somewhere along the way, if they were going back to HQ anyway. They could present Tip as a consolation prize.
I can’t wait for him to be reunited with his love.
Shouldn’t take him long to find a mirror.
BINGO!
Do you mean his wardrobe or Tigerlily?
Oh, it’s definitely himself. https://skin-horse.com/comic/operational
Mell and Tip bantering is everything I didn’t realize I wanted *heart eyes*
+1
It’s perfect, isn’t it?
Figures. Here’s something I worked up a few weeks ago, but didn’t post ’cause the storyline changed. It almost fits here.
Goodbye…proved too much for the man
(He couldn’t take it.)
So he leapt out of the life he once knew
Said he’s going off to find
Some alien world.
The world that blew the mind
A few scenes ago.
She’s leaving, leaving, on the UFO to Lovetron
(Leaving on the UFO to Lovetron)
Seems he’s leaping up (leaping up to try)
To a funkier world sublime.
Sure he’ll try to be right by her side.
He’ll be with her (he’ll try, he will)
On that UFO to Lovetron
(Leaving on the UFO to Lovetron)
He’d rather be on her world,
Than live without her, this time.
He kept scheming
To see he’d be a star
(A bureaucrat star, and he got pretty far)
(He really made it)
But his goal collapsed the hard way
When she told him something new.
She was not from this Earth,
But she came from a world afar.
So he took a flying leap
Off a lion he once knew.
She’s leaving, leaving, on the UFO to Lovetron
(Leaving on the UFO to Lovetron)
Seems he’s leaping up (leaping up to try)
To a funkier world sublime.
Sure he’ll try to be right by her side.
He’ll be with her (he’ll try, he will)
On that UFO to Lovetron
(Leaving on the UFO to Lovetron)
He’d rather be on her world,
Than live without her, this time.
(Her…world…ain’t his…hers and hers alone)
All aboard, all abord, all aboard,
On the UFO to Lovetron.
Her world (his love)
Her world (all aboard)
A man, a girl,
Hers and hers alone.
He’s got to go, he’s got to go,
He’s got to go, yeah, UFO to Lovetron
—from “Midnight Train to Georgia,” written by Jim Weatherly, sung by Gladys Knight and the Pips.
Artie probably changed to gerbil and gave her the sad, pleading look. Hey, it worked to get people to play boggle with him!
She once destroyed (will destroy?) the universe for the sake of Artie. Breaking Tip out of A-Sig is nothing.
Even though its Mell bringing the good news all around, I’m having some minor conflicts that the cavalry arriving to save the day are the lawyers. At least with Mell, there are many extralegal ways in which she is dispensing justice that I can admire.
bergerjacques: She was working with the people who supposedly control the world, yesterday, which means it was effectively a fight between lawyers and politicians.
Just last month I was looking at the Skin Horse calendar and thinking “It’s sweet how Mell and Sergio still keep in touch”. And now he and Artie are guilting pro pono work out of Mell.
Y’know, from where we’re sitting, we saw Chris and Marcie gassed well before Tip got caught by those A-Sig soldiers. Suggests two possibilities. Either (a) Mell is working some other game besides bringing the CEO-apparent to the A-Sig Board *and* freeing Tip…or (2) Artie and Sergio came up for air long enough to exercise Artie’s well-known stochastic skills.
Yes, Chris and Marcie were gassed long ago. but we don’t know who actually did the gassing. All we know is that Mell was sent to fetch the body (bodies, since they apparently didn’t tell her enough about what Chris looked like, or – more likely – she just wanted to invoice them for two bodies).
Agreed, awgiedawgie.
Mell: “It says right here, ‘Leave no witnesses.’ Transport is a tenth the price of disposal. I assumed you’d want to economize.”
(of course she was only billing A-Sig to gain Plausible Reliability.
)
P.S. – I kinda hope Chris and Marcie were gassed by The Dane, because it would be delightful to watch Mell go through him without slowing down!
Something to be said for Mell vs. the Dork Knight… mostly, “Pass the Popcorn”!
I’m pretty sure it’s implied that Mell either did the gassing, or had minions do it on her behalf. I suppose she *could* have hired the Dane for that, but I suspect she could find someone less expensive than the Dane for that particular task.
Yeah, but gassing really isn’t Mell’s M.O…. She’s more of a bonkonnahead kinda girl.
Aww, Mell’s doing something for her buddy Sergio!
Tip’s failure with sneakers presumed. Exaggeration, Mel had assumed. This legal adviser gives no moisturizer. So his jailbreak is pretty much doomed.
I’ve really been missing Mel. It’s good to see her again.
Artie & Sergio knew exactly how Tip would react, and they *still* sent him the sneakers. Sadists.
They could at least have sent glam sneakers.