I’ve met more than one 60-year-old who has kept themselves in shape and could absolutely take out someone who wasn’t expecting it.
Did you know Ricardo Montalban was in his 60s when he was in Wrath of Khan and that that was his actual chest?
Seriously! Or have the pet dinosaur that Tip brought to the roof with him (the one who has expressly been shown to be good at charging people down and knocking them over before they can react) handle things. Oh wait, we forgot he exists.
And Ira may mistakenly think that Nick still has verbal command overrides. That would give Nick the advantage. (Yeah, Nick already had the advantage, but still…)
Hopefully his escape vehicle will fail him, and he’ll end up plummeting underground, where there are invisible monsters, and… say, did anyone think to check his pockets for pigs?
Ira does, in fact, know how to play the game. Tip’s learning, though.
The Wizard does not, in fact, get to stay in charge of Oz (although a flying horde of minions is more the Wicked Witch’s game….but in a sense, Evil Cypress/The Biomass is the WWotE, no? The foe the Wizard sense Dorothy and Companions against in order to distract from the rot at the center?
He’s said that at least twice, once just a few comics ago. I figure both are fine, since they’re both long-established characters and he’s happy being either.
I’ve been introduced to many people who’ve later changed their names (with a couple of exceptions, women who got married and took their husband’s last name). I still tend to think of them by the name I got when I was introduced.
Oh, I remember some of my classmate’s names, but not all of them. I turned up an old school picture, and went, “Oh, there’s Tricia, there’s Jackie, there’s Kerry…there’s Hugh, there’s Robin, there’s David, there’s Doug.” But some of the others I’d recognize a face but couldn’t remember a name.
I know three guys who went by their middle names when they were growing up and decided after college to start going by their first names. (And they all went to the same university, though not at the same time. Must be something in the water there.)
When one of those guys got married, I had the pleasure of watching his fiancee, who knew him by his post-college name like I did, do double-takes every time a family member or older friend called him by his pre-college name at the rehearsal dinner.
Tip told the minions to seize him, but forgot to mention that they should hold on afterward. Typical new manager mistake, unrealistic expectations for minion initiative.
Thing is, I think Ira might be forgetting Tip’s hidden depths. In an actual fight, Tip is pretty dangerous. It’s easy to overlook that given his other behavior, but it’s always been there.
Many a fist has to fall, but it’s all Ira’s game.
All in this terrible game, that he plays for keeps.
You’ve arrested him, and his future’s looking grim.
But he thinks his guards are newbie creeps.
Once in a time he might stall, but it’s all Ira’s game.
Soon he will pummel their sides, in an elbow way.
And he will resist, and lash out with his bony-knuckled fists.
And he’ll make his getaway.
—from “It’s All in the Game,” words by Carl Sigman, music by Charles G. Dawes, sung by Tommy Edwards.
Ira knows the game can be played. So he goes on a fighting tirade. The goons start to buckle with his bony old knuckles. If he gets to the jetpack, it’s made.
Ira and HT will hook up, and future plots w be fouled by constant fanfic shipping them. Evemtually they realize that is where the $is and use it to buy Florida.
Ira is like in his 60s right?
“Age and cunning defeat Youth and enthusiasm!”. 🙂
I believe that is “age and treachery”, which fits the Wizard even better.
I’ve met more than one 60-year-old who has kept themselves in shape and could absolutely take out someone who wasn’t expecting it.
Did you know Ricardo Montalban was in his 60s when he was in Wrath of Khan and that that was his actual chest?
That, on the other hand, is a distinct upside of trainee minions
Oh, just shoot him already.
Seriously! Or have the pet dinosaur that Tip brought to the roof with him (the one who has expressly been shown to be good at charging people down and knocking them over before they can react) handle things. Oh wait, we forgot he exists.
Knowing the Oz tropes, I suspect that the Wizard’s next move is to escape upwards.
. . . Say, isn’t that Tip’s jet platform sitting conveniently in the background there?
Is Ira’s next line “I don’t know how to fly this thing” ?
I suspect he has James bond like ability to operate any machine, however… He’ll be airborne, but so will Nick.
And Ira may mistakenly think that Nick still has verbal command overrides. That would give Nick the advantage. (Yeah, Nick already had the advantage, but still…)
Hopefully his escape vehicle will fail him, and he’ll end up plummeting underground, where there are invisible monsters, and… say, did anyone think to check his pockets for pigs?
Did anyone remember to check the roof for dinosaurs?
Good point, Trivena! I can see Panini erupting from the foliage he’s been grazing on and going all Big Red on the man who struck his master…
He knows how to rappel.
If he takes off on the jet platform, he’s just begging someone to shoot him out of the sky.
Ira does, in fact, know how to play the game. Tip’s learning, though.
The Wizard does not, in fact, get to stay in charge of Oz (although a flying horde of minions is more the Wicked Witch’s game….but in a sense, Evil Cypress/The Biomass is the WWotE, no? The foe the Wizard sense Dorothy and Companions against in order to distract from the rot at the center?
Looks like Ari hasn’t let himself go since leaving service.
(Before anyone gets angry that I misspelled “Ira”, his real name is Ari Green. See Figgs and Phantoms.)
sounds fishy… uh, finnish, to me.
Ah, I forgot that. I’ve just been calling him “Ira” because I coulda sworn that he’s said his Ira persona was the closest to the real him.
He’s said that at least twice, once just a few comics ago. I figure both are fine, since they’re both long-established characters and he’s happy being either.
I’ve been introduced to many people who’ve later changed their names (with a couple of exceptions, women who got married and took their husband’s last name). I still tend to think of them by the name I got when I was introduced.
ooooooooooooh internet pseudo adresses
old highschool band surnames
yeah happens to me all the time
Oh, I remember some of my classmate’s names, but not all of them. I turned up an old school picture, and went, “Oh, there’s Tricia, there’s Jackie, there’s Kerry…there’s Hugh, there’s Robin, there’s David, there’s Doug.” But some of the others I’d recognize a face but couldn’t remember a name.
I know three guys who went by their middle names when they were growing up and decided after college to start going by their first names. (And they all went to the same university, though not at the same time. Must be something in the water there.)
When one of those guys got married, I had the pleasure of watching his fiancee, who knew him by his post-college name like I did, do double-takes every time a family member or older friend called him by his pre-college name at the rehearsal dinner.
He did, but I think he’s deluding himself about being more like a kindly old man than a ruthless shadowy manipulator.
Yeah, in Figgs and Phantoms he says both simultanously, claiming to be more Ira Rosencrantz than Ari Green.
Bony old man knuckles, military training… same difference, I guess.
How many MIBs does it take to subdue an old man?
Depends, if the old man is an MIB himself. (He isn’t wearing black, but he’s certainly functionally one.)
Gandolf the grey, Gandolf the white.
it seems your clothing gets lighter when you go up in rank.
Ooh, that’s gonna leave a mark!
Very impressive!
Tip told the minions to seize him, but forgot to mention that they should hold on afterward. Typical new manager mistake, unrealistic expectations for minion initiative.
Ira got the drop on Tip? Is there a self-defense school he attended we don’t know about. That’s so unrealistic, Skin Horse.
It’s easy to forget that Ira (like Tip) has hidden depths.
Perhaps the sequel strip “Zerhakker and Wilson Investigations” could feature Ari Green as their arch nemesis?
Thing is, I think Ira might be forgetting Tip’s hidden depths. In an actual fight, Tip is pretty dangerous. It’s easy to overlook that given his other behavior, but it’s always been there.
Wait, did they cuff his hands in front of him or did they just forget to cuff him at all?
It looks like he was (supposedly) presenting his hands to be cuffed, but before they could actually do so, he started throwing elbows.
Many a fist has to fall, but it’s all Ira’s game.
All in this terrible game, that he plays for keeps.
You’ve arrested him, and his future’s looking grim.
But he thinks his guards are newbie creeps.
Once in a time he might stall, but it’s all Ira’s game.
Soon he will pummel their sides, in an elbow way.
And he will resist, and lash out with his bony-knuckled fists.
And he’ll make his getaway.
—from “It’s All in the Game,” words by Carl Sigman, music by Charles G. Dawes, sung by Tommy Edwards.
*Applause*
..and so appropriate.
Ira knows the game can be played. So he goes on a fighting tirade. The goons start to buckle with his bony old knuckles. If he gets to the jetpack, it’s made.
Ira and HT will hook up, and future plots w be fouled by constant fanfic shipping them. Evemtually they realize that is where the $is and use it to buy Florida.