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2022-01-31

by shaenon on January 31, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. engima42
    January 31, 2022, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Ira is like in his 60s right?

    • Towering Barbarian
      January 31, 2022, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      “Age and cunning defeat Youth and enthusiasm!”. 🙂

      • Shadowmehr
        January 31, 2022, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

        I believe that is “age and treachery”, which fits the Wizard even better.

    • Pseudowolf
      January 31, 2022, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      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?

  2. Urlance Woolsbane
    January 31, 2022, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    That, on the other hand, is a distinct upside of trainee minions

  3. Moe Lane
    January 31, 2022, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Oh, just shoot him already.

    • D. Walker
      January 31, 2022, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  4. Owlmirror
    January 31, 2022, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    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?

    • Duane B.
      January 31, 2022, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      Is Ira’s next line “I don’t know how to fly this thing” ?

      • mickeyjf
        January 31, 2022, 12:51 pm | # | Reply

        I suspect he has James bond like ability to operate any machine, however… He’ll be airborne, but so will Nick.

        • awgiedawgie
          January 31, 2022, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

          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…)

    • ebonysable
      January 31, 2022, 2:06 am | # | Reply

      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?

      • Trivena
        January 31, 2022, 6:06 am | # | Reply

        Did anyone remember to check the roof for dinosaurs?

        • David B Huber
          January 31, 2022, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

          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…

    • Robert Nowall
      January 31, 2022, 5:15 am | # | Reply

      He knows how to rappel.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 31, 2022, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

      If he takes off on the jet platform, he’s just begging someone to shoot him out of the sky.

  5. mnemex
    January 31, 2022, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    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?

  6. Bob Vermilion
    January 31, 2022, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    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.)

    • khn0
      January 31, 2022, 2:13 am | # | Reply

      sounds fishy… uh, finnish, to me.

    • Nim
      January 31, 2022, 2:25 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • Bob Vermilion
        January 31, 2022, 3:59 am | # | Reply

        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.

        • Robert Nowall
          January 31, 2022, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

          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.

          • khn0
            January 31, 2022, 5:41 pm | #

            ooooooooooooh internet pseudo adresses
            old highschool band surnames

            yeah happens to me all the time

          • Robert Nowall
            January 31, 2022, 8:54 pm | #

            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.

          • Andy4Hire
            January 31, 2022, 8:59 pm | #

            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.

      • Trivena
        January 31, 2022, 6:09 am | # | Reply

        He did, but I think he’s deluding himself about being more like a kindly old man than a ruthless shadowy manipulator.

      • Daibhid+C
        January 31, 2022, 8:20 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, in Figgs and Phantoms he says both simultanously, claiming to be more Ira Rosencrantz than Ari Green.

    • Trivena
      January 31, 2022, 6:08 am | # | Reply

      Bony old man knuckles, military training… same difference, I guess.

  7. Robert Nowall
    January 31, 2022, 5:16 am | # | Reply

    How many MIBs does it take to subdue an old man?

    • BMunro
      January 31, 2022, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

      Depends, if the old man is an MIB himself. (He isn’t wearing black, but he’s certainly functionally one.)

      • Duane B.
        January 31, 2022, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

        Gandolf the grey, Gandolf the white.
        it seems your clothing gets lighter when you go up in rank.

  8. David B Huber
    January 31, 2022, 5:51 am | # | Reply

    Ooh, that’s gonna leave a mark!

    Very impressive!

  9. cjmaloof
    January 31, 2022, 9:39 am | # | Reply

    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.

  10. bergerjacques
    January 31, 2022, 10:04 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • David B Huber
      January 31, 2022, 10:36 am | # | Reply

      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?

      • John
        January 31, 2022, 11:01 am | # | Reply

        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.

  11. jdreyfuss
    January 31, 2022, 11:49 am | # | Reply

    Wait, did they cuff his hands in front of him or did they just forget to cuff him at all?

    • StClair
      January 31, 2022, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

      It looks like he was (supposedly) presenting his hands to be cuffed, but before they could actually do so, he started throwing elbows.

  12. Robert Nowall
    January 31, 2022, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • David B Huber
      January 31, 2022, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

      *Applause*

      ..and so appropriate.

  13. Robert Nowall
    January 31, 2022, 2:57 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  14. Totally got this
    January 31, 2022, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

    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.

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