Chapter Eight Page 1
Take a look at the updated character page! Profiles of Jany, Kara Lynn, Walker, and Cohen have been added and expanded, and there are shiny new images to go with.
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Washington D.C., a few days after the capture of Cybele . . .
Photographer: Mr. Bennett! If you could turn a little to the left —
Bennett: Madam, I will not! My principles are firm, and I will not be baited by “gotcha questions” from the liberal photo industry!
Assistant: Congressman, it doesn’t make it any easier to powder your face when you’re shouting like that.
Representative Arthur Bennett (R-MA)
Bennett (thinking): I don’t have time to cater to these people. I’m a busy man. I have to revise campaign speeches, memorize talking points . . .
Cut deals on bills . . . personally stamp my signature on a ton of form letters to constituents . . . Decide what to order when major donors take me out for dinner . . . Cybele will just have to sit tight until I can find the time to rescue her. She’ll understand, I’m sure. She’ll be fine . . .
Representative Karen Park (D-MA)
Park: Arthur. We need to talk.
Dun dun DUNNNNNNN.
I’m humming “Like a Boss” when I read his internal monologue.
Karen: “I’m sorry, Arthur, I’m just not right enough for you. In fact, I’m totally to the left.”
(To continue the left/right puns.)
Poor Cybele.
AWWWWWWWWWWW YEEEEEEEEAAH!
Political intrigue, game playing, king-making, all the stuff that makes political stories interesting. *Leans back* Erin, lay it on us!
Please let them arrest this dirtbag and throw away the key…
That internal monologue is pretty spot on – he forgot the committee meetings, but, yeah, that’s a pretty standard day right there.
I wonder which committee Bennett is on? Given his focus on social issues over economic, maybe something HHS oversight.
I’m actually sensing some vulnerability in Bennett here, though it is still only a tiny amount, if present at all.
As much as it shames me to admit, I only just fully got it on *this* page that Bennett is a Stephen Colbert parody (what do we call a parody of a parody?) and that Cohen is a parody of Jon Stewart. It was the first panel that clued me in. Forgive me, Lady Erin; T_T I’m not worthy of fake news greats.
Not a problem! They’re homages, yeah, but it’s good that they’re different/original enough to not be recognized right away ^_^