Chapter 24 p21 – Wait for the “but”
Dad Balachandran: Jany can come home any time she likes! As long as she has that Being do what it’s always done for this family.
Mom Balachandran: If she makes an order, it’ll be happy to follow!
Bianca’s mother (phone): Your Grammy and I always love to have you visit! But, Bee, you have to promise not to go on and on about this “pride” thing. It makes her so upset. Let her think you’re definitely going to meet a nice boy, like your sister did.
Newspaper: Local officer gives exclusive interview on his work with the “Order of St. Lily” cult investigation
“They gathered looking to find salvation — and almost none of them survived it”
Dr. Rosen (Hebrew): [It’s a real shame . . . Someone went to the effort to make a sigil the size of a city . . . and still botched what they were trying to do.]
Cohen: When it comes to those of us who have made mistakes . . . At some point we need to wise up and step back, so at least we don’t do any more damage.
This may be my favorite page to date. Hit me right in the feels, why don’t you?
Well. Good for you, Mr. Cohen. Here is the beginning of wisdom.
I wish my Trump-supporting parents had this much insight …
Seems like IF you’re going to do this, the first thing to try is to add something that does absolutely nothing to the end. Like a ‘Bob was there too’ kind of thing. See what it does, and wipe it out after an hour regardless. Then at least you can get a handle on how sensitive these contracts are to tampering.
When did Cohen get so smart?
Woah, back up! Timothy said they just burned down the compound and split, where’d all the bodies come from?
Subway tabloid sensationalism.
I mean… there WERE two deaths…
that said, what does it say about me that I had to re-read twice to see “almost none of them survived it” instead of “Almost none of them found it?”
Whoa. That may be the most character development we’ve seen from Cohen yet.
I’m going to wait for the other shoe to drop, though, in the form of the “…but” mentioned in the page title.
I sort-of see how the first three are cases where people insist on perpetuating their mistake but what about the fourth one? How did they make a mistake? Or are they stand-in for someone else’s mistake?
They’re reflecting on Josh’s mistake, which got him killed for a failure.
I considered drawing Marian and the-Donkey-as-Josh talking about it, but all the other panels are pretty much in the present, so it seemed like it would get confusing.