Annotated 45-9
FB: LAW AND ORDER: GASTONIA seemed like a sure thing, but Ardaic kept solving the crimes before the first commercial break.
Taro does understands that it’s important to mix some truth in with the lies. He really did want that “I’m proud” from Dad.
“Procedure compels” Ardaic to do a lot of things, actually.
Some of you recognized the servant that Taro tries to finger here. The irony is that while this is a cover story from Taro, it’s actually mostly right: Brock is actively working against the Iwatani family! He couldn’t have anticipated that family getting a lot smaller while he was doing his espionage, but his goals and his allies’ are more or less unchanged.
Just curious, what is Ardaic doing with his hands in panel 3?
Looks like he’s brushing his fingers off on the back of his palm- just touched a corpse, after all.
This was a detail John added, so…sounds good to me.
Shouldn’t Brock be tagged?
Actually, looking at the original page, Iwatani senior was tagged as well.
Right on both counts. Fixed.
Okay, my memory is letting me down again — who’s Brock, and from where are we supposed to know him?
(also, I seem to remember there was some way of finding comic pages featuring certain characters, by using the tags but apparently I forgot how to do that and can’t figure it out on my own…)
Click the tag. It’s a link.
ohhhh… I feel stupid now. Thanks.
That’s okay! You were close!
“LAW AND ORDER: GASTONIA seemed like a sure thing, but Ardaic kept solving the crimes before the first commercial break. ”
Eh, so did Inspector Columbo. He always pinpoints the murderer after the first five minutes on the crime scene.
That didn’t stop the show from being a success.
OTOH, give Ardaic some credit. Sometimes, as IRL, the culprit is so sure of being the smartest thing in the room, while in reality they are very transparent, if not downright stupid…