If Reynolds were a more suspicious sort, he might wonder why this leave of absence that Ardaic came up with just now requires no paperwork on his part. But in addition to his sometime naivete, he does have the gnomish […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One thing that expert manipulators know is that there are a variety of tools you can use to move people where you want them to go, and you’re generally better off not applying more force than necessary. Blowhard tyrants stretch […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apart from a brief flashback, this is it for Pardo’s appearances in Guilded Age. Flo deserves credit for the deep irony here, that Pardo was the one who instigated this “altruist conspiracy” and has now, like Robespierre, become its victim as it’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As we started preparing to (oh no, spoilers) say goodbye to Pardo, I did my damnedest to reconcile him and Iwatani as they were here with the very, very different versions of them that showed up in their respective first speaking roles. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Flo’s script for the first panel includes the detail that Pardo lost not only work friends and extended family, but illegitimate children as well. That’s a bit of a wrinkle in his generally benign character…but we don’t know what his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
