This is where Jarvis’ story starts falling apart for me. I have to believe he’s bullshitting Syr’Nj here, just to get through this scene. Let’s start with the most obvious thing: why does Ardaic need to tell Mother Scarlett shit if panel […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wow, that’s a fantastic shot of Syr’Nj kicking this page off. As usual, I don’t praise John nearly enough: he’s providing hella crackle to a chapter that necessitates a lot of standing-around-talking scenes. Ardaic’s line of questioning is partly meant […] ↓ 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…
