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2018-12-24

by shaenon on December 24, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Iron Man
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  1. awgiedawgie
    December 24, 2018, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    “The forgetful one?”

  2. dr brain
    December 24, 2018, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    good choice, dr lee

  3. awgiedawgie
    December 24, 2018, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Surely, Ira must be touched by her devotion to Nick.

    • Towering Barbarian
      December 24, 2018, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      He probably is. I think we’ve come to the moment where the Wizard helps Dorothy return to Kansas. ^_^

      • Shanoah Alkire (arcum42)
        December 24, 2018, 3:32 am | # | Reply

        “Why yes, my dear, I have a perfectly serviceable helicopter you can escape in. Let be just check the controls…”

        *The helicopter’s autopilot engages while he’s in it, leaving her behind.*

    • David B Huber
      December 24, 2018, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      In an “If I can’t have her, no one will!” kind of way. 🙂 “And don’t call me Shirley!”

    • Dorcus
      December 24, 2018, 1:41 pm | # | Reply

      He deliberately misunderstands her devotion to Nick. Ira is in love with Dr. Lee, and like a lot of people in unrequited love he refuses to be honest about his actions and feelings, or hers.

      -He imprisons her to get a chance to awkwardly try to romance her.
      -He did lots of other attempts to force her company and chase her love.
      -He tries to kill his romantic rival (Nick) to “win” her love.
      -He casts her love of Nick as “guilt” rather than an even *consider* she’s in love with Nick.
      -He ignores the problems and implications all these often-contradictory and clearly selfish actions.
      -and of course, He constantly puts on masks and acts to try and “win” her, believing his “being a lying sneak chasing pussy” is “doing anything, BEING anything, for love.”

      How do I know? I know the pattern, Shannon’s knows/watched/lived with/made comics about the pattern. Hell I have BEEN the pattern. Loneliness makes you do dumb stuff. I grew out of it, Ira didn’t.

      • awgiedawgie
        December 24, 2018, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

        …yet.

  4. Towering Barbarian
    December 24, 2018, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, he and Nick are *definitely* related! ^_^

    But “I help Anasigma run several agencies” isn’t exactly the same as running Anasigma so it sounds as though he isn’t the Big Bad we thought he was. @_@

    • Rex Vivat
      December 24, 2018, 12:17 am | # | Reply

      Really? Because to me, that sounds like an ever bigger bad. “Don’t look at the king, look at the man advising him from the shadows” kind of bad.

      • Robert Nowall
        December 24, 2018, 12:28 am | # | Reply

        He was the Great and Powerful Ira. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

  5. Robert Nowall
    December 24, 2018, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    No, the one who lets her and Nick and Gavotte out of the building.

  6. Treesong
    December 24, 2018, 1:37 am | # | Reply

    Well, he was coming on to her in the simulation. Seems he still has hopes.

    • Bruce A Munro
      December 24, 2018, 2:30 am | # | Reply

      If he still thinks he has a chance after almost removing her brain and literally throwing her friend’s brain into the rubbish, he’s either amazingly dense or a sociopath.

      • Candace
        December 24, 2018, 3:48 am | # | Reply

        I’m going with sociopath here. Although she might have let Ira/Mr.Green schlorp her brain if she hadn’t had anything particular to do. After all, she was curious about what it would be like.

        However, disembodying Nick and then throwing his brain away kind of seems like a non-starter for Virginia having any kind of positive relationship with Ira. Seems that Ira’s not the “mensch” Nick thought he was.

      • Robert Nowall
        December 24, 2018, 9:33 am | # | Reply

        Perhaps he likes his women in hospital scrubs and covered in organ slurry.

        • Shadowmehr
          December 24, 2018, 9:54 am | # | Reply

          Rule 34 lives on, for better or worse . .

  7. Dr. Steve
    December 24, 2018, 10:09 am | # | Reply

    Quite the love triangle. I guess she would be the hypotenuse. I’m sot sure what Ira’s angle is, but she sure thinks Nick is acute guy.

    • awgiedawgie
      December 24, 2018, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

      Well, he’s been surreptitious about everything he’s done, so I guess that makes his angle oblique.

    • Toby Fernsler
      December 24, 2018, 11:16 pm | # | Reply

      so what is the relationship between Ira and Nick, as expressed in geometry?

      • awgiedawgie
        December 25, 2018, 12:16 am | # | Reply

        I would say they’re opposite angles, and Virginia is their common vertex.

  8. j_f_rivkin
    December 24, 2018, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

    “many-colored”? So _he’s_ Roy G. Biv! I should have known.

    • Robert Nowall
      December 24, 2018, 10:22 pm | # | Reply

      What’ll he say? “Oh, be a fine girl kiss me?”

  9. Toby Fernsler
    December 24, 2018, 11:11 pm | # | Reply

    “The one who gets out of my way” would be the assertive answer..

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