Annotated 40-5
Side note to the last few pages: I’ve noticed for a long time how superhero movies have affected heroes’ use of masks. In comics, masks are often easier to draw than regular faces, but in movies, the face is a key part of an actor’s toolset. So the films kept finding ways to unmask Spider-Man mid-fight, they never even bothered to try masking up Wolverine, and characters like Batman and Green Lantern would get these more “open” mask designs that allowed the actors to emote more clearly than something more comics-accurate would. Iron Man films mostly introduced the “view inside the helmet” approach to rendering the character, too. (And yes, I know comics do a lot of unmasked or half-masked fight sequences, visual variety is fun. But it still seemed to happen a lot more reliably in superhero movies, especially earlier ones that were a little underconfident about the genre.)
In our comic, I’m not sure which version of WAV was easier for John. But I know which version was easier for Flo to letter, so I’m always amused when Flo’s scripts likewise find some way to get that mask off him, even if it’s only in time to render an undigitized speech bubble or two.
The last few panels are already a clue that things are not as expected here. There shouldn’t be time for HR to give Frigg any instruction, should there?
HR is channeling his inner Palpatine here. I approve.
Happy New Year, guys! See you in 2022!
HR should really know better than try to give orders to Frigg. She does not usually take that sort of thing lightly.
Actually, when the demon started taking control of Frigg, I was half expecting her to just barf the stupid thing right up again because there’s only space for one demon inside Frigg, and there’s already one living there, and it no time for this bullshit.