I agree. The a-sig agent swears there are no a-sig bugs in the a-sig infiltration drone. But, for some reason, this a-sig agent was never able to swear that the a-sig Osprey was bug-free. Either Tip fails logic forever or there is info we do not have yet that Tip does.
To be fair, the Osprey is a much larger chunk of hardware than Violet, with a lot of bits that Dr. Lee probably doesn’t know much about… she’s a cyber-neurologist, not a helicopter mechanic. It’s probably easier and more certain to go over Violet with a fine-toothed comb and be fairly sure you’ve found, and properly identified, everything there is to find, than to do the same with the Osprey – outside the bits that actually interface with Nick’s brain-jar, where I’d expect Dr. Lee to be able to instantly identify anything out of place.
But that doesn’t address the problem of how wise it is to trust Dr. Lee in the first place. While she seems like a good person, and I don’t think she’d deliberately betray them… she is taking direction from A-Sig, and seems to have a sizable blind spot where “thinking about what she’s doing” should go. (This may be a necessary trait in someone who works with mad science as she does.) And you’ve got to assume that A-Sig can find out anything that Dr. Lee knows, whether she wants them to or not, if they decide that acquiring that knowledge is more important than keeping her services…
If A-Sig saw Virginia going through the Osprey looking for bugs (through those same bugs), she’d probably get in a lot of trouble. She could get around it with Violet by saying her backdoor, but she wouldn’t use it on the Osprey because of Nick.
Flip bird, meeting with the Skin Horse crew!
Showing my contempt for what you said!
Here’s to you …
You thought I had microphones implanted in my head!
Flip bird, sitting in the coffee shop!
Flip the bird in Doctor Wilkin’s face!
Can’t be stopped …
Flipping sure beats swearing when we’re in a public place!
Flip the bird … flip the bird …
Don’t need to filter a flipping word!
Flip bird, angry that you’re dissing me,
Saying all these mean and hurtful things!
Ironic’ly,
When it comes to flipping birds, then hands do more than wings!
With all the talk of how cleverly VioletNick is drawn to let us know who’s driving, has no one mentioned the hair? VioletBee always sported a demure braid, whereas VioletNick favors a scraggly ponytail. This does it for me even more than the eyelashes.
Oh yes. They definitely don’t suspect anything from the fact that both teams and the whole city of St. Charlie went unscathed from Violet’s self destruction sequence.
To covertly get back at him Nick, you should just talk Unity into eating another of his hats (which she may have already done depending on what that is above Tip’s head in the first panel). Or you could throat-punch him.
Stupid thought: since three of Virginia’s projects have ended up at Skin Horse, and she seems to run into them on a frequent basis, why hasn’t anyone suspected her?
Then again, perhaps there isn’t really spying as such, but two way communication between the managers? After all, Gavotte knows Goldbug, Violet let slip to Nick at the start of the adventure that she was Goldbug, and at the end of the adventure, Virginia reasoned that Violet was being piloted at the time by her boss, Mr. Green.
It’d also be pretty easy for Gavotte to plant a bug or two as well…..
I have the feeling that Gavotte is more likely to use Ambush bugs than the electronic type…
Are you suggesting she’d set up some sort of sting?
Better that than a swat team.
So, Tip, while you’re taking the paranoia for a spin… you do recall that Virginia works for A-Sig, right?
I agree. The a-sig agent swears there are no a-sig bugs in the a-sig infiltration drone. But, for some reason, this a-sig agent was never able to swear that the a-sig Osprey was bug-free. Either Tip fails logic forever or there is info we do not have yet that Tip does.
To be fair, the Osprey is a much larger chunk of hardware than Violet, with a lot of bits that Dr. Lee probably doesn’t know much about… she’s a cyber-neurologist, not a helicopter mechanic. It’s probably easier and more certain to go over Violet with a fine-toothed comb and be fairly sure you’ve found, and properly identified, everything there is to find, than to do the same with the Osprey – outside the bits that actually interface with Nick’s brain-jar, where I’d expect Dr. Lee to be able to instantly identify anything out of place.
But that doesn’t address the problem of how wise it is to trust Dr. Lee in the first place. While she seems like a good person, and I don’t think she’d deliberately betray them… she is taking direction from A-Sig, and seems to have a sizable blind spot where “thinking about what she’s doing” should go. (This may be a necessary trait in someone who works with mad science as she does.) And you’ve got to assume that A-Sig can find out anything that Dr. Lee knows, whether she wants them to or not, if they decide that acquiring that knowledge is more important than keeping her services…
If A-Sig saw Virginia going through the Osprey looking for bugs (through those same bugs), she’d probably get in a lot of trouble. She could get around it with Violet by saying her backdoor, but she wouldn’t use it on the Osprey because of Nick.
You guys are right. I’m going to change that.
Indeed. While Nick’s speech may still go through a filter, there’s nothing to hold him back from ASL or even, gods forbid, interpretive dance.
Maybe; if the filter is applied directly to his language center it might cover sign languages too.
It’s not, his blog is uncensored.
He doesn’t need hands to make rude gestures. He did that with his airfoils in the December 27, 2008 strip:
http://skin-horse.com/2008/the-suit-automatically/
Nick seems more the type for overt ops. Granted he has no will toward violence, but loud ‘n proud can be useful.
to borrow a phrase from The Whiteboard (i’m in an archive dive) his role would be the designated idiot (the distraction).
When I worked at a nightclub, I occasionally bore the mantle of “designated a$$hole”. This was more along my thinking. Confront and confound.
Nick needs to be careful with overt ops, the CIA just lost 231 agents to an overt op that went bad.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/231-cia-agents-killed-in-overt-ops-mission,31553/
He still can’t sxear, but they can’t censor his hands!
(TUNE: “Blackbird”, The Beatles)
Flip bird, meeting with the Skin Horse crew!
Showing my contempt for what you said!
Here’s to you …
You thought I had microphones implanted in my head!
Flip bird, sitting in the coffee shop!
Flip the bird in Doctor Wilkin’s face!
Can’t be stopped …
Flipping sure beats swearing when we’re in a public place!
Flip the bird … flip the bird …
Don’t need to filter a flipping word!
Flip bird, angry that you’re dissing me,
Saying all these mean and hurtful things!
Ironic’ly,
When it comes to flipping birds, then hands do more than wings!
One of your best.
It’s always fun when someone’s anger prevents him from actually hearing the apology and explanation that no one’s accusing him of anything, isn’t it?
With all the talk of how cleverly VioletNick is drawn to let us know who’s driving, has no one mentioned the hair? VioletBee always sported a demure braid, whereas VioletNick favors a scraggly ponytail. This does it for me even more than the eyelashes.
In Tip’s defense, A-Sig believes the Violet doll has been destroyed.
Oh yes. They definitely don’t suspect anything from the fact that both teams and the whole city of St. Charlie went unscathed from Violet’s self destruction sequence.
To covertly get back at him Nick, you should just talk Unity into eating another of his hats (which she may have already done depending on what that is above Tip’s head in the first panel). Or you could throat-punch him.
Stupid thought: since three of Virginia’s projects have ended up at Skin Horse, and she seems to run into them on a frequent basis, why hasn’t anyone suspected her?
Then again, perhaps there isn’t really spying as such, but two way communication between the managers? After all, Gavotte knows Goldbug, Violet let slip to Nick at the start of the adventure that she was Goldbug, and at the end of the adventure, Virginia reasoned that Violet was being piloted at the time by her boss, Mr. Green.