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Anyone who’d been theorizing WAV was Best was getting a big boost from the imagery in today’s installment, which echoed Best’s fall and the attempt at rescue that preceded it, albeit in reverse order.
Just as Gravedust has to adjust to life without his life-and-death powers, Byron has to adjust to life without his axes. He picked up a dagger and sword along with the other accoutrements he got from Hollister and Clair.
FB: “Byron does his best to prevent the release of FLAT MAN: THE FILLING FLAPJACK.” Was this close enough to Batman: The Killing Joke, a widely panned animated movie being released then, to be satisfying wordplay? I’m not sure, but I had to look up Flo’s alt-text joke to get that, so call it even.
No no, you don’t get a pass for not knowing about them megamens.
That raises the question: what happened to Byron’s axes? Were they entombed along with his body? If so, what happened to his body? Did it vanish when Byron came back, or is it still where Syr’Nj left it? Are there now two Byrons in existence (a living one and a dead one)? Should we be calling him Schrodinger’s Byron?
Gravedust was probably burdened enough carrying Byron’s corpse into the desert and Syr’nj and company ended up fleeing the country in a bit of a rush. Axes are probably somewhere accessible, but not worth the risk of popping into Gastonia for.
Oh yeah, I’d forgotten that Gravedust had the body with him.
And Byron had been mummy-wrapped to keep his insides on the inside after Bandit pulped him, so yes, his axes would have been the last thing on anyone’s mind at the time.