Annotated 27-11
You’ve got to be careful when it comes to scenes that hinge on your characters breaking out of their usual mode. I like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, but I would like it more if they stopped patting themselves on the back every damn time they have Holt do something wacky. “Look, it’s the SERIOUS character! Doing something UNDIGNIFIED! I mean… it’s like… HOW, WHY, WHAT?” I mean, it was refreshing in the clip above, but that was one of the first times they did it, and they act like every time is the first time. (I’d also like it more if it engaged more seriously with the issues surrounding law enforcement outside of that one woke episode, but that’s another talk.)
In Gravedust’s case, we’ve already had him do stand-up comedy, and had him smile often enough. But I wanted to make sure we’d never gotten a reaction quite like this from him before and never would again.
You’ll remember what I said in the last chapter about one character getting pulled back into their pre-Peacemaker life and their pre-existing relationships, and the other Peacemakers getting pulled along with them and seeing their ally in a new light. This is sort of a miniature version of that.
(Also, I appreciate the closing gag, in which Cliff is still mortal enough to get caught up in some of Gravedust’s nostalgia. It’d remove the meaning of the spirit world that we established through Gravedust if Cliff were simply a remote, stone-faced exposition dump.)
I wonder if those are *actual* hula hoop moves that he named.
I like Frigg going from ‘who is this hot wall of beef?’ to ‘gag me!’ as Gravy goes on his trip down memory lane.
Think the reaction is to the boiled desert moss.
Broiled desert moss. You lose all the flavor if you boil it.
“we’d never gotten a reaction quite like this from him before and never would again.”
Fucking oof, man.
For some reason — I think because of Cliff’s expression and the “smoke” behind him — when I read this page I always imagine “broiled desert moss” to be some sort of drug, like marijuana.
I heard from official sources that they’re definitely going to address law enforcement stuff in the next season. They threw out the original scripts they were working on as soon as the protests started.
I don’t know that I realized it until just now, but I think the “softening” you reference here is one of the things that made (and still makes) this comic such a delight. There are deep and important things going on, but enough humor and human moments to make the important stuff that much MORE important.
A++
Top work.
Cheers,
Côté