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2017-09-01

by Jeffrey C. Wells on September 1, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Sure as You're Born
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  1. Robert Nowall
    September 1, 2017, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Tip Wilkin proves the pen is mightier than the sword—but the sword is important, too.

    • Efogoto
      September 1, 2017, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      You might have an extra space after “pen” there.

      • Sasha Honeypalm
        September 1, 2017, 10:10 am | # | Reply

        ^^ *snerk*

  2. gyrre
    September 1, 2017, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Hmm….I wonder if Tip’s mojo can teleport the camera crew as well?

  3. Chrisn
    September 1, 2017, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    That’s the chilliest reception that we’ve ever seen Tip get from a women. Any bets on whether things will warm up soon?

    • D. Walker
      September 1, 2017, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      It’s a TV news reporter. They aren’t human – they’re soulless corporate drones.

      The basic requirements of their job are a total lack of human empathy and dignity, and an unquenchable thirst for ratings through cynical manufactured sensationalism. Tip is powerless over them.

      • The Crimson F*cker
        September 1, 2017, 1:00 am | # | Reply

        Not as soulless as, say, the Partnership Collective, but there’s a different reason for that.

        • stevemnd
          September 1, 2017, 10:31 am | # | Reply

          igotthatreference.gif

      • Rex Vivat
        September 1, 2017, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

        Tip’s powers worked on an actual corporation, so what protects corporate drones from them?

        • D. Walker
          September 1, 2017, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

          I don’t believe how powers actually worked there, nor even that he was using them.

          I believe Whimsy was merely playing the role of the fantasy princess kissing her handsome prince as thanks for being rescued. She’s doing the classic lean-in with eyes closed and puckered lips that you would expect a small child who watches too many Disney movies to do while playing pretend. She certainly wasn’t going in for make-outs, which is the respond we typically see to Tip’s mojo.

          Now, sure – she does choose Tip to smooch over anyone else. But note, there literally were no other men present, as they’d all been ordered off the premises just seconds before. And even if they hadn’t been, Tip was still the best match for a fantasy prince of those that remained – male, conventionally attractive, and well dressed.

          • D. Walker
            September 1, 2017, 3:30 pm | #

            how = his

          • Rex Vivat
            September 1, 2017, 3:45 pm | #

            Tip is never not using his powers. He can crank them up, but they’re mostly passive. And sure, she went for it in a childish way, but that’s just because his powers were working on an extremely naïve and sheltered person, not because they weren’t working.

    • Nomi
      September 1, 2017, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      Not so chilly. She said he’s hot.

      • Towering Barbarian
        September 1, 2017, 1:00 am | # | Reply

        I’m with Nomi on this one. Note also that it’s been lampshaded within the story itself that she’s given him instant news access and belief on the strength of nothing more then a dry cleaning receipt. The fact that’s ready to make lemonade from a lemon doesn’t change that. ^_^

      • BRGR
        September 2, 2017, 5:47 am | # | Reply

        Still the chilliest. It’s all relative.

    • Pygar
      September 1, 2017, 12:38 am | # | Reply

      As has been more than apparent since November, reporters are often not *like* us. To any normal person, when a dispatcher says, “It’s after hours, no one but me to answer the phones”, they call back in normal working hours. To a reporter, it means “call every number you can find, and crab when the same person answers”. Even Tip must catch-and-release sometimes…

    • OneUniverse
      September 1, 2017, 1:27 am | # | Reply

      I’m waiting for Foxy Cop to meet Tip before I bet on the Talking Head here.

      • matt w
        September 1, 2017, 6:39 am | # | Reply

        As if Tip has to choose….

  4. dvandom
    September 1, 2017, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Frankly, “Hot Guy In Drag Claims To Be A Spy” may get better ratings than the truth.

    • mickeyjf
      September 1, 2017, 11:49 am | # | Reply

      “May” ?

  5. OneUniverse
    September 1, 2017, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    Is Tip channeling Dr Who and his Psychic Paper?

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      September 1, 2017, 2:56 am | # | Reply

      I believe in this case, the correct term is “Psych Paper”

    • EvilMidnightLurker
      September 1, 2017, 3:55 am | # | Reply

      I think it’s sort of the opposite.

  6. Kate Cunningham
    September 1, 2017, 9:19 am | # | Reply

    Okay, I already like this reporter.

  7. Bruce A Munro
    September 1, 2017, 6:25 pm | # | Reply

    She obviously has a clear sense of reporting priorities.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 1, 2017, 7:41 pm | # | Reply

      Always have “Plan B” waiting in dry dock in case “Plan A” doesn’t float.

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