Annotated 2-10
For your benefit, here is the full text from the script of the balloons that run off-panel: “This isn’t quite the same problem one would have with sprockets, which aren’t as thin as the cogs. You can get away with the worn edges because they have more overall surface area to interlock…
“Say! I could help you sort these out by condition and age, you know! That way you’d be able to price them all accordingly, getting more value to your customers and increasing your profit when word gets out about your INCREDIBLE DEALS!”
Encounters like this are probably one of the gentler ways to let Syr’Nj know that being smart and offering assistance are not going to be enough to win her a place in Gastonian society. To be fair, I think even if a Gastonian nobleman came to our gear vendor with a pitch like this, he wouldn’t be thrilled about it, though at least he’d try harder to conceal his boredom.
Oh, hi Bandit!
Sure, we could sort out the cogs according to quality or better yet how about some round fuckin’ ears?
What’s really weird is why would Bandit opt to steal such a cheap looking hat? Practice? Trolling?
She really likes her hat.
To this day, I cannot fathom how that cloth was able to hold back that hair.
That hat must be much heavier than it looks. Given Bandit’s interest in it, I’d say there’s a few pounds of gold hidden within the fabric.
It was a Hat of Holding.
It actually wasn’t that much hair until even the tiniest amount of humidity happened.
It was leather, not cloth, per the notes on the previous page.
The sprockets were made by Spacely and the Cogs by Cogsworth
Darn it…Cogswell
My headcanon is that it was actually 20 saphs for the whole box.
I like Bandit’s hand hanging down in front of the speech bubble. It’s a cute touch.
“Yoinks, and away!”
Thud
“Yoinks. And, away?”
Slam
I am reminded of a couple of panels of Dumbing of Age….