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2019-09-25

by shaenon on September 25, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    September 25, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Hmph. I thought Ginny was the only one Ira paid attention to. Is Tip gaslighting Ira or is this actually a thing? o_O

    • dexitroboper
      September 25, 2019, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      Security guard Ira probably hit on Tip.

      • Seph
        September 25, 2019, 7:12 am | # | Reply

        Yep. Unity had to put up a Post-It with “Tip’s a hairy man with floppity man-parts,” to remind him.

        • s854
          September 26, 2019, 12:59 am | # | Reply

          I think that was because he called him Ma’am. I can’t quite imagine Ira-the-security-guard hitting on anyone.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 25, 2019, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      Ira in the Violet drone hit on Tip several times.

      • Kairamek
        September 25, 2019, 12:47 am | # | Reply

        As I recall Tip never reciprocated, so when Violet Bee was revealed to be a drone it was an “A HA!” moment.

  2. jenniferariadnepark
    September 25, 2019, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I would have thought that Mr. Green would be secure enough to embrace the many facets of his sexuality and gender identity reflected in all of his roles.

    Well, I hope a competent (and attractive) therapist can help him with that.

    • Dr. Steve
      September 25, 2019, 8:51 am | # | Reply

      All of his competent therapists were extirpated

      • Christian Rose
        September 25, 2019, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

        Attractive ones only followed if they turned down coffee.

        • Theitzal
          September 25, 2019, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

          Apparently these people forgot Tip is a therapist. Easy mistake to make really sometimes I forget he’s more then a crossdressing manwhore too.

          • awgiedawgie
            September 25, 2019, 5:21 pm | #

            Tip isn’t a therapist. He’s a research psychologist.

          • Andy4Hire
            September 25, 2019, 6:21 pm | #

            Indeed. A point reiterated here, not long after the strip awgiedawgie cites. Therapy puppets notwithstanding.

  3. sweetuncleLESLIE
    September 25, 2019, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Notice how often (in history) effective spies and secret agents have unusual sexual proclivities, often involving trying to keep secret their gay or pederastic behavior.
    Like the FBI founder, and our presidunce, for instance.

  4. thedoctor55
    September 25, 2019, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    That’s it Tip get in his head!

    • Candace
      September 25, 2019, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      Psychology – it’s not just for therapy!

      • Mister Steel
        August 2, 2020, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

        Technically, it’s not for therapy at all. That would be psychiatry.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 3, 2020, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

          More technically, a psychiatrist must be a psychologist, but not every psychologist is a psychiatrist.

          But, equally technically, a therapist doesn’t necessarily need to be a psychiatrist, but a psychologist is not necessarily a therapist.

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      September 25, 2019, 6:43 am | # | Reply

      Or his pants. Your choice.

  5. awgiedawgie
    September 25, 2019, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    I think the final panel here sums it up rather well.

    • Darkstarling
      September 25, 2019, 8:20 am | # | Reply

      It really does doesn’t it?

  6. Candace
    September 25, 2019, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    Has Mr. Green’s hair always looked like he had horns?

    • Efogoto
      September 25, 2019, 2:53 am | # | Reply

      When he was a gate guard, he always wore a hat that covered his hair. I don’t think he removed it until The Big Reveal that he was The Man Behind The Curtain.

      • Efogoto
        September 25, 2019, 2:57 am | # | Reply

        Here …

      • awgiedawgie
        September 25, 2019, 4:58 am | # | Reply

        In other words, he has permanent “hat hair”.

    • Christian Rose
      September 25, 2019, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

      Pointy haired boss.

  7. Alphaghoul
    September 25, 2019, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    So, it turns out he uses more identities besides Ira and Violet, Tip’s only met two of those identities, and I don’t think he ever found out Violet was Mr. Green, nor do I remember the Violet identity hitting on Tip. I guess this is the annoying Tip was confirming he was, is he messing with Ira Green out of spite or is he just hoping he can bang an old guy?

    • Thenardyr
      September 25, 2019, 1:21 am | # | Reply

      He is messing with a megalomaniac, and it could get him worse than killed.

      I think Tip met Panoptica on Bubble’s ‘ship,’ so he met Mr. Greene three times. Also the Violet drone hit on Tip in two story arcs. During the strike negotiations with the machine union she was a mediator. During the arc with the mad genius city-on-a-train she led the Anasigma team. Violet hit on Tip those times.

      • awgiedawgie
        September 25, 2019, 2:08 am | # | Reply

        When was it ever stated that Panoptica was Mr. Green? She really was a psychic working in AG-I. She simply blindly followed orders from Mr. Green, although if she had never met him in person, she would have had no idea of his true identity.

        • Landis963
          September 25, 2019, 9:32 am | # | Reply

          There was a scene where an AGI member was pushing Panoptica to mind-whammy Sweetheart, with both parties completely oblivious to the fact that Sweetheart was mind-whammying herself quite nicely, thank you.

          • awgiedawgie
            September 25, 2019, 1:42 pm | #

            Meaning what, exactly?

          • Landis963
            September 25, 2019, 6:47 pm | #

            That Panoptica can’t be Mr. Green, as Mr. Green (in his Ao body) was talking with Panoptica near the end of What Big Teeth. I have the proof linked in my name.

          • casimir
            September 25, 2019, 8:49 pm | #

            That’s not Mr.Green. That’s just a guy in a green superhero costume.

          • awgiedawgie
            September 25, 2019, 9:29 pm | #

            The AG-I guy in green is here.

            Dr. Ao Otori is here.

            Notice the hair is different, the nose is different, and Dr. Ao’s skin is several shades lighter and less yellow. It is clear to me that they are two different people.

            It is also quite likely that Dr. Ao does not actually exist, but was only a VR simulation that Sweetheart saw, since Mr. Green had hijacked the whole thing. And we also saw Dr. Ao in the VR simulation when Virginia was extirpated. We’ve never seen him outside a VR world.

        • Christian Rose
          September 25, 2019, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

          I’m with you Awgie, I don’t remember that at all

          • Landis963
            September 25, 2019, 6:45 pm | #

            It was near the end of What Big Teeth. Link is in my username. The point being that Panoptica can’t be Mr. Green, as the two of them were seen in the same place.

    • OneUniverse
      September 25, 2019, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

      Virginia Lee figured out Violet Bee was controlled by Mr. Green, and she had ample opportunities to relay that information to Tip, so how he knows about previous meetings can be implied off-screen, so to speak.

      I’m waiting for more gloating from the megalomaniac, monologue-ing himself into Tip’s control.

  8. Bruceski
    September 25, 2019, 1:39 am | # | Reply

    For some reason this reminds me of a line from Shlock Mercenary:
    “You only mock me because you think you control me.”
    “To be fair, I also mocked you when *you* thought you controlled *me*.”

    • Darkstarling
      September 25, 2019, 11:25 am | # | Reply

      Ah Xinchub. What’s he doing these days? Has Petey’s Reform program been through enough of a stress test yet?

      “So you admit I have a soul.”
      “Yes. But it is torn, battered, and soaked in the blood of the innocent.”
      “Heh heh, yeah.”
      “And it’s when you stop being pleased about that fact that we’ll know you’re making real progress.”

    • Darkstarling
      September 25, 2019, 11:27 am | # | Reply

      “I started doing evil things for the greater good and over time I came to enjoy them.”
      *grins*
      “Happy memories?”
      “Yeah. Good times, good times.”

      I can imagine Mr Green saying ALL of these things.

  9. Historian
    September 25, 2019, 3:36 am | # | Reply

    Tip practicing therapy judo…

    It’s a good thing for Ira he doesn’t have his therapy puppets with him.

    • khn0
      September 25, 2019, 4:44 am | # | Reply

      Ira used therapy puppets when he was in the violet drone

  10. Moe Lane
    September 25, 2019, 7:17 am | # | Reply

    “I’m not locked up in here with all of you, Ira. You’re all locked up in here with me.”

    • David B Huber
      September 27, 2019, 12:00 am | # | Reply

      ^this!

  11. Robert Nowall
    September 25, 2019, 7:25 am | # | Reply

    Tip assumes Ira would kill him because Ira’s attracted to him. That Ira might kill him because he’s insufferable never occurs to him.

  12. Sleepy John
    September 25, 2019, 8:30 am | # | Reply

    Go for the self-confidence, Tip.

  13. Dr. Steve
    September 25, 2019, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    Aaaand… the scales ‘tip’ in Tip’s favor

  14. Robert Nowall
    September 25, 2019, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

    Don’t kill him, Ira. Who’ll be the fourth guy in your foursome?

  15. Frank
    September 25, 2019, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

    My freudian slipped

  16. Shadowmehr
    September 25, 2019, 8:38 pm | # | Reply

    Engaging in a battle of words and wits with someone trained to get into people’s heads? I thought Mr. Green was a bit more savvy than that.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 26, 2019, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

      Apparently even Ira forgets that Tip is a doctor of psychology.

  17. mickeyjf
    September 25, 2019, 8:40 pm | # | Reply

    Go Tip!

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