Annotated 28-29
Time to sink that ship. Sexual desire in Guilded Age often takes a back seat to matters of more pressing importance, and in Penk and Strulk’s case, it was only ever meant to serve as a marker for who he was and how he would change. A newly minted demigod has no more need to impress Regina George. Which is not to say the Fireseye pushes you beyond all sexual or romantic desire, as Penk will prove eventually and others will prove much sooner.
“I was chosen” was Payet Best’s line, once, but for Penk, the use of the passive is the important part. As I said to Phil then, “If there’s one distinguishing quality that Penk has that qualifies him for Captain America status, it’s humility. Captain America is a symbol, a living legend… to an outsider. Steve gets comfortable with that eventually, as Penk may. But in his own mind, he’s nobody special: he just signed up for this job because somebody had to and he couldn’t not.”
Rana looks like he’s even more closed off in that last frame than Goblaurence is. I think it’s because he’s posing for the benefit of the crowd like Auraugu is, but I’m not sure. Rana will be hard to read basically until he’s forced to end his denial of Yalaria’s fate and confront his grief.
After a week’s delay, I’ve published Act II, Scene I of Shakespeare’s Trump. It features Mark Zuckerberg, and returning cast members include “Karen” and a modern-day Russian spy. I’m aiming to have the next scene out sometime on the 6th, and I know what happens in it, but writing it’s going to be tough.
That humility is part of why I love Captain America so much.
Agreed, even as a little Canadian boy, the fact that he was compelled by what was right, even when he was weak, moved me greatly. And even as a Superhero, to contrast him with the other famously moral hero, Superman, he was just the best a human could be, not a god. That Captain America failed sometimes, that there were things he couldn’t do, but would always strive to do, because they were right, was very powerful to my child brain.
And the fact that he didn’t have any sense of preening, or self satisfaction, that was big for me. Along side Spiderman, it made him a more human character, which meant that as a child someone being like that felt much more possible.
I know I keep saying this, but Goblaurence’s goggles always make him look like comics Hellboy
Goblaurence looks to me like he’s thinking “Who appointed *you* leader?”
Penk maybe don’t say you’re the leader when you’re so close to hammerhead(or more specifically his mouth) because those eyes directed at you don’t look friendly (granted they never do but still)
Regarding Rana, raptors just have “resting murder face”. Though in truth, he just doesn’t look like he’s functioning on equal levels; he’s physically “there”, but mentally “out of there” for the most part. Also reminds me of this: http://www.pmslweb.com/the-blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/6-bluebird-of-happiness-meme.jpg