The flashback uses the same coloring style we saw in back in baby Nevada-san’s childhood holiday.
Bennett (thinking): Everything makes me think about her now. Even this storm . . .
Bennett’s memory:
Bennett (flashback): Hold that steady. A little thing like a citywide power outage is no excuse not to finish The Reagan Diaries.
Cybele: ‘Kay!
Bennett: And don’t do that!
Bennett (present): I’ve decided how to spend this afternoon. Grab a phone and get me in touch with Stu Cohen.
Boston. (North of the storm.)
Cohen: Berith? Astaroth?
Cybele: Nope, nope.
Cohen: Ieiazel? Mebha? Heri?
Cybele: Still nothin’.
Cohen: Al-Qahhār? Al-Wahhāb?
Cybele: That one’s pretty!
Cohen: But not yours, I take it.
Cybele: Nuh-uh. But it would be neat if it was!
angels
And some demons apparently! But all abrahamitic religion related as far as I can see.
heh, trying to see if any names ring a bell for her original name. Maybe he got through the greek and norse pantheons in only a few minutes. That or he’s decided to start with the more obscure longer list. Which is kind of sad if he thinks they are all demons and angels, as many in “demonology” books were actually demofied pagan dieties. So even if you stumbled on the right name, you could have the wrong mythology. Same too with Greek, Roman, or any other that has had cross cultural influence.
*to put it simply as a weird fact: there is evidence that Poseiden predates Zeus and most the other Greek gods as being worshipped in Southern Greece before the Hellinistic unification of the religion and establishment of the mythology best known today.
Of course most of them are! I kinda went with demon interpretation instead of gods because we had almost exclusively abrahamic images in the comic and angels count for me as another sort of “being” than gods. On the other hand I hope that the “book religions” don’t hold the (only?) ultimate truth in this universe!
It’s called brute-force attack.
tsundere Bennett innit. Cybele’s a cutie.
I didn’t realize it was a flashback until I read the transcript, so I was all kinds of confused.
…and it probably didn’t help that I forgot to make the space around the panels white there, as I’ve done with every other flashback ^_^; It should be fixed/clearer now (if you’re still seeing the old image, refresh the page).
On the other hand, I really appreciate the change in colour scheme. You know you’ve got your storytelling-through-art chops when your readers can tell what’s going on and feel the atmosphere without text. :D
BTW, I like the transcripts, it makes your strips so much more searchable.
Is this the first time we’ve seen that his first name is Stu?
In-comic, yes.