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2020-08-24

by shaenon on August 24, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    August 24, 2020, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    So is this a subtle(?) demotion or is Echo going to be the Soviet-style “political officer” within the new and official Skin Horse? o_O

    • Robert Nowall
      August 24, 2020, 7:31 am | # | Reply

      All the real troublemakers went rogue.

  2. Robert Nowall
    August 24, 2020, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    They’ve met before.

  3. Alphaghoul
    August 24, 2020, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    So it looks like even Anasigma acknowledges how ridiculous their evil organization is. Say, why didn’t he get knocked off for knowing about Mr. Green’s crush?

    • awgiedawgie
      August 24, 2020, 12:46 am | # | Reply

      Maybe that’s related to one of the “blows to the head”. After all, when someone’s incompetence and ineptitude are as useful as E.B.’s, why kill them when you can simply jog their memory?

      • Robert Nowall
        August 24, 2020, 12:48 am | # | Reply

        If it comes to losing one’s memory, perhaps Mr. Bravo reminds Mr. Green of himself as Ira.

  4. Frank
    August 24, 2020, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart’s “Sanity” poster!

    • Andy4Hire
      August 24, 2020, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

      Oo, well spotted.

  5. Robert Nowall
    August 24, 2020, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    For what it’s worth, “The Lee of the Stone” is from “Mrs. Frisby and the Secret of NIMH,” if we’re still on that.

    Also, for what it’s worth, it’s been many years since I’ve read it…Google is a magnificent tool for tracking down a phrase like that.

    • Frank
      August 24, 2020, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

      This is particularly memorable to me because I saw the movie after the book and it was one of the few times when I went “wait, that’s actually that way in the book!”

      And in the very next spanish class, we covered the spanish equivalent (don’t look at me like that, it was really hard to get a hold of a movie in the 90s!)

  6. thejoemoose
    August 24, 2020, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Oh no, not him again.

    On that note, was one of those trainings involved Jonah?

    • Shadowmehr
      August 24, 2020, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

      Jonah’s instructions are probably why he’s survived all five inspections.

  7. casimir
    August 24, 2020, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    …interesting salute.

    Either that, or he missed his forehead.

    • Daibhid C
      August 24, 2020, 7:10 am | # | Reply

      I am choosing to believe we’re seeing him midway through the Full Rimmer.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 24, 2020, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

      Considering all the blows to the head, I’m inclined to think that he indeed missed his head with the salute.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 24, 2020, 4:03 pm | # | Reply

        British or French salute. Palm open and back. I’d like to think Echo Bravo might have joined the French Foreign Legion to forget, but he probably forgot why he joined.

  8. Candace
    August 24, 2020, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Oh, dear. Dr. Englebright and Echo Bravo may both be at Skin Horse now. This can’t possibly go well.

    • s854
      August 24, 2020, 4:57 am | # | Reply

      Candace: It didn’t go too well for Dr Engelbright when she last worked with Echo Bravo, but went better for Imogene Frog.

      I’m just surprised that she seems to have no idea who he is. Maybe we’ll find out why this is later.

      • Sheik
        August 24, 2020, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

        Perhaps the key to Anasigma’s continued success (and lack of corruption) is not a constant turnover of personnel but ongoing memory purges.
        It would go far and explain so much.

        • Candace
          August 25, 2020, 1:22 am | # | Reply

          You might just have something, there, Sheik.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 24, 2020, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

      Did we ever get Dr. Engelbright’s first name?

  9. M
    August 24, 2020, 7:12 am | # | Reply

    And since this is of course an immensely frustrating and nervewracking moment for the narrative suddenly to switch tracks again, that is precisely what the narrative will now do.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 24, 2020, 9:19 am | # | Reply

      I’ll miss Renard and #12 in the Mothership, looking around, and #12 saying, “you people are funny-looking.”

    • David B Huber
      August 24, 2020, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

      This transition is infinitely preferable to a panel-spanning announcement of “The End” 😉

  10. Robert Nowall
    August 24, 2020, 3:59 pm | # | Reply

    I made it through the video,
    Somehow I made it through.
    Didn’t know how wrong I was
    About my work shoes.

    I’ve been beat,
    Indiscreet,
    It’s been bad, they were mad, it’s true.
    But it made me feel,
    Yeah, it made me feel.

    Hoo, like some version
    Multiple very worst times.
    Like some version
    Where I’ve been beat,
    It’s so fine.

    Gonna take all I can, ma’am
    It sure will be a blast.
    Been waiting for more to do,
    ‘Cause all that stuff is past.

    It’s so fine,
    This assign,
    I’ll be here,
    We’ll be pumped and primed,
    ‘Cause it made me feel,
    Yeah, it made me feel,

    Like some version
    Multiple very worst times.
    Like some version
    Where I’ve been beat,
    It’s so fine.

    —from “Like a Virgin,” Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, sung by, as Ira once put it, “that horrible Madonna woman.”

  11. casimir
    August 24, 2020, 6:49 pm | # | Reply

    Dr. Engelbright appears to be wielding an industrial strength redacting pen.

  12. Shadowmehr
    August 24, 2020, 8:52 pm | # | Reply

    This is A-Sig after all. You’re probably right.

  13. Kayjayoh
    August 26, 2020, 1:53 pm | # | Reply

    I don’t remember who either of these people are. One of those times when I wish Skin Horse did character tagging.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 26, 2020, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

      Dr. Englebright worked for The Institute and delivered Tigerlily to repair Moustachio. Later, she became Sweetheart’s assistant in the reinstated Skin Horse.

      Echo Bravo, among other adventures, was the agent Mr. Green sent to “guard” Tigerlily, knowing full well that Echo Bravo’s ineptitude would actually allow Tigerlily to easily escape.

      • Katherine Olson
        August 27, 2020, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

        That helps, though I’m honestly still lost.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 27, 2020, 5:29 pm | # | Reply

          I can look up some links for you, but it’ll have to wait until tonight.

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