Well yes, it is pretty obvious.
Ira has turned a new leaf and now works for a North Carolina company making roof trestles for a charity program called “Homes for the Homeless”. His job is in final assembly in a building called Spandex 2. (That last bit might not be absolutely correct)
Wow, that’s a gigantic moodkiller right there. The genocidal murderer is still at large? Yikes. That doesn’t sit will with me at all.
I mean, it’d be nice if received some nice ironic karmic retribution, but I’d settle for just knowing he was rotting in a jail cell or something.
Although, now that I’ve got ironic karmic retribution on the brain, well…
Personally, I’d want Dr. Lee and Nick to have caught up with him during the time skip, schlorped his brain out of his skull and put it into a jar, and then hooked it up to the extirpation VR simulation. Heck, maybe this is that! Maybe they modified the simulation, and Ira only THINKS he’s biding his time at an Annex 2 that doesn’t actually exist, making plans and waiting for “the right moment” for eternity.
The barbed wire, concrete wall, and No Trespassing feels more like details that an extirpated Ira’s brain would add into his simulation, rather than things that Chris’s new regime would put into a new Annex 2.
Annex two… hmm… whatever happened to that Anasigma field team who bore a striking resemblance to the Skin Horse team, and Trinity, who were all deemed important enough to be included in the cast page…? Surely a new core field team for Skin Horse hasn’t been formed…
With any luck, by the time Ira’s in a position to do anything impactful, the status quo will have shifted and he’ll have been proven wrong. Or he’ll be legitimately senile or worse. I don’t wish that fate on anyone, but he’s not exactly a spring chicken.
Once I built up Skin-Horse, got it done,
Made it chase after crime.
Once I built up Skin-Horse, now they’ve gone,
Brother, just a waste of time.
Once I shadow-governed, it was fun,
Chaos and slaughter sublime.
Once I shadow-governed, now it’s gone,
Brother, just a waste of time.
Once in bright green suits, gee, you could tell,
Boy were these stormtroopers dumb.
Hundred thousand boots were creating fresh Hell,
And still I could not overcome.
Say, don’t you remember? I was the guard.
I helped them rise up and climb.
I was a member—hey, don’t dismember!
Brother, just a waste of time.
—from “Brother Can You Spare a Dime,” words by E. Y. “Yip” Harburg, music by Jay Gorney, from the revue “Americana,” then sung by Rudy Vallee and by Bing Crosby, and by lots of others.
Back in the beforetimes, I seem to remember that the National Archives facility in College Park, MD was Annex 2 of the National Archives. Among other things stored there are the surviving records from many WWII ships.
J. Yu only sees probabilities. But there’s always X-Factor possibilities. With Ira next door, it’s hard to see more, but the problem is stuffed with volatilities.
Huh…Annex Two.
(Also damn it Arii/Ira. I thought you would have devoted your time to something more constructive. Like Knitti-uh golf?
The sign pretty clearly says “FX TWO”. This is the second site of a Factor X producer.
(Jeez, everyone else is doing it…)
Go, Ira! Go! If anyone can be be some X Factor it’s you. 🙂
The presence of razor wire around Annex Two bodes well for a friendly neighbor policy…
Is it to keep people out?
Or to keep someone in?
A little from column A, a little from column B.
Still Anasigma, it’s probably to keep the employees in as much as any inmates.
Maybe…Ira isn’t working there.
Maybe…He was sentenced there.
Hmmmmm….
Heck yeah! And the sign says something about North Carolina Trestles. It’s sooooo obvious! Isn’t it? Maybe? In the broadest possible sense?
“No Trespassing.”
Nonsense! “NC’s Tresses”. They’ll do absolute wonders for Tip’s hair.
Hmmm…
I could’ve sworn it said “Notre Dame Tres Leches Cakes”.
Well yes, it is pretty obvious.
Ira has turned a new leaf and now works for a North Carolina company making roof trestles for a charity program called “Homes for the Homeless”. His job is in final assembly in a building called Spandex 2. (That last bit might not be absolutely correct)
Tres could be spanish for three.
No reason anex two has to be in the U.S.
Wow, that’s a gigantic moodkiller right there. The genocidal murderer is still at large? Yikes. That doesn’t sit will with me at all.
I mean, it’d be nice if received some nice ironic karmic retribution, but I’d settle for just knowing he was rotting in a jail cell or something.
Although, now that I’ve got ironic karmic retribution on the brain, well…
Personally, I’d want Dr. Lee and Nick to have caught up with him during the time skip, schlorped his brain out of his skull and put it into a jar, and then hooked it up to the extirpation VR simulation. Heck, maybe this is that! Maybe they modified the simulation, and Ira only THINKS he’s biding his time at an Annex 2 that doesn’t actually exist, making plans and waiting for “the right moment” for eternity.
The barbed wire, concrete wall, and No Trespassing feels more like details that an extirpated Ira’s brain would add into his simulation, rather than things that Chris’s new regime would put into a new Annex 2.
…who says Annex 2 is new?
The extirpated Elites can feel superior, pitying poor Ira and Engelbright over in the Annex Two VR.
What if…
What if everyone’s in a VR simulation and it’s not even really five years later at all?
There is no spoon.
There..are..four..lights.
It’s all going according to plan!
Annex two… hmm… whatever happened to that Anasigma field team who bore a striking resemblance to the Skin Horse team, and Trinity, who were all deemed important enough to be included in the cast page…? Surely a new core field team for Skin Horse hasn’t been formed…
From what Ira just said, he is not at the top yet.
I wonder how high up in the chain of command he really is?
Well he got fired for loosing them money, so he’s at the bottom now
Had to take the job. He’d lose his government pension otherwise.
It looks to me like he’s working security on Annex Two front desk!
As long as there is a security desk anywhere in the world, Ira will find a reason to sit behind it. Just look at the guy, he’s in his happy place.
Well, if Tip could pretend to be Chris and work his way to the top, maybe Ira can pretend to be Konstantin and work his way to the top.
It certainly gives us an excuse for a sequel if Shannon and Jeff ever feel like getting things going again. 🙂
With any luck, by the time Ira’s in a position to do anything impactful, the status quo will have shifted and he’ll have been proven wrong. Or he’ll be legitimately senile or worse. I don’t wish that fate on anyone, but he’s not exactly a spring chicken.
Once I built up Skin-Horse, got it done,
Made it chase after crime.
Once I built up Skin-Horse, now they’ve gone,
Brother, just a waste of time.
Once I shadow-governed, it was fun,
Chaos and slaughter sublime.
Once I shadow-governed, now it’s gone,
Brother, just a waste of time.
Once in bright green suits, gee, you could tell,
Boy were these stormtroopers dumb.
Hundred thousand boots were creating fresh Hell,
And still I could not overcome.
Say, don’t you remember? I was the guard.
I helped them rise up and climb.
I was a member—hey, don’t dismember!
Brother, just a waste of time.
—from “Brother Can You Spare a Dime,” words by E. Y. “Yip” Harburg, music by Jay Gorney, from the revue “Americana,” then sung by Rudy Vallee and by Bing Crosby, and by lots of others.
Back in the beforetimes, I seem to remember that the National Archives facility in College Park, MD was Annex 2 of the National Archives. Among other things stored there are the surviving records from many WWII ships.
Ira! Get away from my deck logs!!
J. Yu only sees probabilities. But there’s always X-Factor possibilities. With Ira next door, it’s hard to see more, but the problem is stuffed with volatilities.
This strip answers yesterday’s observation.
I’m glad the series did not end on this line, though it would have been one hell of a final line.
This one is not a giant mech building though.
…not yet, anyway.