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2022-05-04

by shaenon on May 4, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. dvandom
    May 4, 2022, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    PRIORITIES!

    • Darkstarling
      May 4, 2022, 7:14 am | # | Reply

      Beat me to it

  2. Moe Lane
    May 4, 2022, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    …You know what? I’ll take it.

  3. Robert
    May 4, 2022, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Happy Birthday to youuuuu….!
    And Happy Star Wars Day toooo….!
    (And Many Moooorrrre…!)

    • David B Huber
      May 4, 2022, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      Three cheers for Shaenon!

    • Bubble181
      May 4, 2022, 3:40 am | # | Reply

      Hurray! Hurray! HUZZAH!

    • Robert Nowall
      May 4, 2022, 4:45 am | # | Reply

      Yes. May the Fourth be with you.

    • Sean K
      May 4, 2022, 6:50 am | # | Reply

      May the Fourth be with Shaenon, always.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 4, 2022, 9:44 am | # | Reply

      A happy birthday you will have!

    • OneUniverse
      May 4, 2022, 11:49 am | # | Reply

      Bon anniversaire, Shaenon!

    • Blofeld's Cat
      May 4, 2022, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

      Twenty-one again!

    • Duane B.
      May 4, 2022, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

      May the fourth (wall) be with you ……always

    • shaenon
      May 4, 2022, 3:42 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks, everybody! I have Covid right now, so this is kind of not my ideal birthday. But I’m vaxxed up and getting better!

      • Robert Nowall
        May 4, 2022, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

        And let’s all add “Get Well Soon.” Get well soon, Ms. Garrity.

      • Andy4Hire
        May 4, 2022, 6:33 pm | # | Reply

        Happy birthday! And also happy birthday (observed) for when you feel well enough to actually celebrate! (May it be soon!)

      • Robert Nowall
        May 4, 2022, 7:13 pm | # | Reply

        Being sick on your birthday’s not breezy, all fevered and rotten and queasy. As long as seems best, take time off to rest, and above everything—take it easy.;

      • Manifesta
        May 4, 2022, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

        You should be like the Queen and have an Official Birthday that you can celebrate when you feel better.

      • Robert
        May 4, 2022, 9:44 pm | # | Reply

        Dagnabbit! Covid, you’ve nailed me twice (month-long colds) but now you’ve gone too far!
        My doctor agrees what I had was covid; mostly it was being as creaky and stiff as the Tin Woodsman. I hope yours is much faster and easier on you!
        “I think I’ll go on a little walk… I feel happy, I feel happy… I don’t want to go on the cart!”
        I like the Official Birthday idea!

  4. John Campbell
    May 4, 2022, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    No business plan survives contact with the enemy.

  5. thejoemoose
    May 4, 2022, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if the Board knows of the new org chart.

    • OneUniverse
      May 4, 2022, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      So they’re gonna fire Tip?

  6. alphaghoul
    May 4, 2022, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Interesting, he apparently didn’t create the organization, it’s more specifically a company, this wasn’t it’s original purpose, and there’s many more reality sight humans besides the underlings and mister green himself. And he’s head on on that “genocide is salvation” bit isn’t he?

  7. Owlmirror
    May 4, 2022, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    There’s also the homicidal aspect of Anasigma. Or did someone forget that humans were also killed and maimed as part of Green’s company policy?

    Not to mention all the humans who were debrained against their will and their bodies destroyed and their naked brains put into helicopters or into a walnut VR, or whatever. I don’t even know what legal term(s) would describe that sort of thing.

    I have to wonder how much the surgical teams and bleeding edge life-support systems and whatnot all cost.

    • Frank Hightower
      May 4, 2022, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      Extirpation has to make money somehow. Maybe walnut harvesting generates bitcoin?

  8. Frank Hightower
    May 4, 2022, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    ah yes, “for all mankind”

  9. Daniel Kelly
    May 4, 2022, 1:37 am | # | Reply

    Technically, Tip was Mr. Green’s boss when everything went south for A-Sig, so really it’s his fault.

    • jdreyfuss
      May 4, 2022, 8:03 am | # | Reply

      Only within the shadow government, not at Anasigma.

  10. TheItzal
    May 4, 2022, 2:14 am | # | Reply

    How can he resign wasn’t he already fired by Tip?

    • bergerjacques
      May 4, 2022, 9:46 am | # | Reply

      That was my understanding. I thought he had already been upended just before Tip hastily resigned.

      • Daibhid C
        May 4, 2022, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

        Like jdeyfruss says above, Mr Green was running the Shadow Government on behalf of A-Sig and was fired from that. It’s a bit confusing because the Persons In Black didn’t seem to be clear on the difference, which was probably intentional on his part.

  11. Dewy
    May 4, 2022, 2:24 am | # | Reply

    Prediction! I think the “board” is about to find out who’s really in charge.

    • jdreyfuss
      May 4, 2022, 8:04 am | # | Reply

      They are. That’s how corporations work.

      • Dewy
        May 4, 2022, 11:54 am | # | Reply

        Touché 😀

  12. Eddurd
    May 4, 2022, 3:33 am | # | Reply

    Happy birthday Shaenon!!

  13. Robert Nowall
    May 4, 2022, 4:47 am | # | Reply

    All this time, there was somebody they could have gone to, who was over Ira?

    • Shadowmehr
      May 4, 2022, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

      They still needed to infiltrate to get to the org chart to find out who they were in the first place.

  14. Foradain
    May 4, 2022, 4:47 am | # | Reply

    There people go again, supposing for other people without consulting them…
    Tell me, Mr. Green, why did you suppose that Mr. Zerhakker would only blow up some of the drones? Maxim 37, sir!

    • awgiedawgie
      May 4, 2022, 9:40 am | # | Reply

      He probably didn’t figure Nick into the equation at all. He probably figured what few drones would be destroyed would have been from conventional weapons.

      • bergerjacques
        May 4, 2022, 9:49 am | # | Reply

        Nor did Mr. Green/Ira realize just how profoundly … inspiring … Dr. Lee can be. (Though I’m sure he had some ideas in that direction….)

  15. Sean K
    May 4, 2022, 6:52 am | # | Reply

    Hmm, I wonder if these shadowy board members all have the same first name…

    • jdreyfuss
      May 4, 2022, 8:02 am | # | Reply

      No, placing money above coolness would be very un-Dave of them.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 4, 2022, 9:42 am | # | Reply

        Who said they’re placing money above coolness? They’re just placing money above Mr. Green’s idea of “saving humanity” – and genocide is decidedly UN-cool.

        • Bernerlb
          May 4, 2022, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

          But they’re only objecting to the genocide because it didn’t make money…

          • awgiedawgie
            May 4, 2022, 8:12 pm | #

            Exactly. Coolness isn’t even part of the equation.

    • Andy4Hire
      May 4, 2022, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

      I had the same thought, Sean K. And I noticed that, if you assume none of them change seats between the first and fourth panels, there are five shadowy figures visible in today’s strip.

  16. chicgeekmsw
    May 4, 2022, 7:40 am | # | Reply

    Happy Birthday!

  17. jdreyfuss
    May 4, 2022, 8:05 am | # | Reply

    Amazing how something probably written years ago is relevant to a current world event.

    • mickeyjf
      May 4, 2022, 10:36 am | # | Reply

      My thought exactly. Seems like Shaenon did this in Narbonic also..? Who really has the time travel machine?

    • s854
      May 4, 2022, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

      jdreyfuss: I don’t know when this strip was first conceived of, but I’m fairly sure there were at least a few wars going on then, too. What’s unusual about the “new war” is how brief it was. Short conflicts happen in our world (the last war in Nagorno-Karabakh only lasted a few months), but they usually last for years.

      • jdreyfuss
        May 5, 2022, 10:25 am | # | Reply

        It’s the campaign of genocide that lost money part that seems particularly relevant though. And the purging of the military leader by the civilian leadership as a scapegoat to try to hold off their own inevitable demise.

  18. Robert Nowall
    May 4, 2022, 8:46 am | # | Reply

    Green’s genocide moves proved too failable. It wasn’t at all unassailable. Now that he lost to Skin-Horse his ouster has been forced. Is his old job at Skin-Horse available?

  19. awgiedawgie
    May 4, 2022, 9:43 am | # | Reply

    There’s no such thing as a war that doesn’t lose money.

    • Bubble181
      May 4, 2022, 10:51 am | # | Reply

      In the general sense, of course, that’s very true. It’s still a bit of a platitude, though – in the individual sense, wars can be very, very profitable. I don’t think I make a politically overly sensitive statement if I say that practically every war, there have been actors who’ve gotten (sometimes exceedingly) rich off of them. War profiteering has a specific term for a reason, but it doesn’t even have to be nefarious or Evil (selling weapons to both sides, hoarding and selling necessities at huge margins) – someone has to make the uniforms and boots for the troops, after all.
      For a specific company, war can be very interesting.

      • Sheik
        May 4, 2022, 11:19 am | # | Reply

        Just think of all that dated inventory being shoveled into Ukraine at this very moment! It has to be replaced by new and improved (and expensive) inventory!

      • David B Huber
        May 4, 2022, 11:40 am | # | Reply

        But.. but Daddy Warbucks was such a nice man! 😉

      • awgiedawgie
        May 4, 2022, 8:25 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, for whoever is supplying everything, war can be very lucrative. The war itself, however, will always lose money, simply because war spends money, but doesn’t make any back.

  20. Sasha
    May 4, 2022, 10:20 am | # | Reply

    Happy (shared) birthday, Shaenon!

  21. The Chief
    May 4, 2022, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

    Blow up all you want. We’ll make more.

  22. Shadowmehr
    May 4, 2022, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

    Does this mean the Wizard isn’t going to leave by a green balloon, but by a golden parachute?

    • awgiedawgie
      May 4, 2022, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

      I was thinking more along the lines of cement shoes.

  23. Duane B.
    May 4, 2022, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

    I was hopping for a combination oubliette / composting toilet.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 4, 2022, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

      Hopping for a toilet? Well, hurry on.

      • Duane B.
        May 4, 2022, 8:38 pm | # | Reply

        I was trying to reply to “Shadowmehr’s” comment about Mr. Greens. green balloon or golden parachute exit from A-sig.

        An oubiliette is a top loading dungeon in which I wanted to place Mr. Green

  24. notStanley
    May 4, 2022, 3:46 pm | # | Reply

    The Force? No, this is Dave Brubeck Day, memorializing the 5/4 time in Take Five!

  25. Bruce A Munro
    May 4, 2022, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

    They’re really not a very competent evil company if they can’t pass along the cost of the war to the American taxpayer.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 4, 2022, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, you can be sure that they did. (Mind you, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are a competent company.) But they lost money, which means their year-end bonuses are what is really suffering here.

  26. Danny Sichel
    May 4, 2022, 11:23 pm | # | Reply

    Birthday. Yay. Shaenon. Happy.

    in some order.

  27. shikomekidomi
    May 6, 2022, 5:11 am | # | Reply

    Huh, somehow I’d forgotten that Anasigma was a corporation and not a government organization (Tip’s climb up the labrynthine power structure by favor trading would work in either).

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