Annotated 35-28
So, yeah, we skipped past one of the errant tentacles catching up with Prill. I thought I’d get more pushback from Flo on that, but she was a bit skittish about lingering on death scenes of children and may have suggested it if I didn’t.
It was, I think, the right call. Muting the impact of Prill’s death just a bit, focusing solely on the people it affects, means that the emotion of the story ramps up smoothly as we approach its climax.
And the comparison-by-crosscutting draws some unexpected parallels between the hero-worshipping boy who died enabling his idol to destroy this monster and the hero-worshipping nun who… um… uh-oh
Gring and Prill were siblings. I think she’ll have a rough time of it for a while, but I expect that with time she’ll find her own way to help others, albeit a lower-risk way.
Panel 2: Holy-powered leaps. Definitely.
There’s an old question. Would you trade away the rest of your life, for five minutes that truly mattered?
Probably would. Not seeing myself doing anything special in the long run, so short and sweet could be good.
Depends for whom and what it mattered.
Seems like a bad trade.
*gestures above* the perfect range of answers. :D
The short , glorious life of the Irish hero Cu Chulainn From wiki
Born Sétanta, he gained his better-known name as a child, after killing Culann’s fierce guard dog in self defence and offering to take its place until a replacement could be reared. At the age of seventeen he defended Ulster single-handedly against the armies of queen Medb of Connacht in the famous Táin Bó Cúailnge (“Cattle Raid of Cooley”). It was prophesied that his great deeds would give him everlasting fame, but his life would be a short one.
He is known for his terrifying battle frenzy, or ríastrad[8] (translated by Thomas Kinsella as “warp spasm”[9] and by Ciarán Carson as “torque”),[10] in which he becomes an unrecognisable monster who knows neither friend nor foe.
Hmmmm, anybody we know?
That was a pretty badass speech for someone who was supposed to be the “bad” guy. I love Penk. Talk about growing into the person you always wanted to be.
He’s supposed to be a bad guy?
But he’s a drummer, not an anti-paladin.
Making Prill’s death happen off-camera is probably the right choice… but I have to say that it is confusing. If I were to read this for the first time with no anotations, I would definitely think I missed a page
I looked back just to be sure. I didn’t remember him dying, off-panel or on, but I also don’t remember a lot of things about this comic.
That is a pretty great speech, and a very good montage and all — I just wish Penk could have saved the words for later, just grabbed the friggin’ drum already and got back to business a little bit faster …
“Ho-hum, I’ve got another 6 pages to mosey on back. The monster’s already killed one ‘champion’, surely it’s met its quota?”
Rachel uses Nun-flash-attack. It’s super effective. What has been seen can’t be unseen.
It’s interesting – I feel like the off-camera death *should* work, but doesn’t. I think maybe because it’s also out of the timeline? We know it happened, but not when.
Actually reminds me when I accidentally skipped an episode of Deadwood, and you went from having two alive child grifters to dealing with the aftermath. (Which actually worked, for some reason)