Bianca: Wait, wait, what? Does that mean your last Master was Stuart Cohen? And you never said anything?!
Patrick: You don’t like it when I talk about him!
Bianca: I figured magic-using Miranda’s rich white dad would be some guy named Mr. Lake! Instead, it’s rich white magic-user Cohen?
. . . Does this make Miranda Jewish?
Sparrow: Oh, no way. First, technically Judaism is passed through your mother. Second, that girl has no sense of humor.
Patrick: Also, she doesn’t believe in God.
Sparrow: Totally secondary to being Jewish. Trust me.
Ah, Sparrow making the fine distinction between being ethnically Jewish and religiously Jewish. Sometimes one and the same, sometimes a big difference!
Endlessly amused that their first reactions were about what it all implies about Miranda, not about Patrick’s history with and escape from his former master.
I think how they feel about Cohen is summed up with Patrick’s “You don’t like it when I talk about him!”
To be frank, it also highlights just how misplaced their priorities are for all this. They’ve been quite literally using the man’s money, but they’re concerned with his daughter? Doesn’t inspire much confidence for when they take Jany and the Lizard for the research.
I think they should be more concerned about Patrick’s revelation that he can say Cohen’s name, since name lore has been important in the past and Patrick seems to be having an emotional reaction to it.
But they haven’t met the dude and have no reason to think he’ll ever want to contact them, while Miranda shows up all the time and it’s important to their safety to understand who she is and what she’s thinking. Only natural to be more curious about her.
Then again, that’s not really happening here. They’re talking about Cohen and discuss Miranda as a brief aside. I figure they’ll be back to talking about Cohen by the next page.
I reckon the significance of being able to say Cohen’s name just has two things:
1. Patrick had been freed from contract with Cohen, even without his death. (i.e. Cohen no longer has control over him, as had been thought possible, which could have in some way made him a proxy for Cohen)
2. Standing orders are nullified after conclusion or nullification of the contract. (implications in this case has more to do with Kara Lynn’s standing orders from Jany’s grandma)
Pardon me, but when did Sparrow and Bianca find out that Miranda’s father was a white dude?
To the best of my recollection: during their most recent fight, when Miranda trapped Patrick in the circle, Bianca and Miranda were talking about the morality of mastery. Bianca said something about how Miranda should be conscious of what it means for Poe to choose a black human form, because Miranda is black. That’s when Miranda said she had a white father.
Confirming linkage:
http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-twelve-page-15/
Just finished an archives binge…good place to have to stop, I guess, if they’re finally going to talk about what happened. Though who knows if that’ll actually happen. Anyway, great work so far :)
Funny, she doesn’t look Jewish …
(Come to think of it, Patrick is half man, half dog. Is he his own best friend?)
“She doesn’t believe in God”
“Totally secondary to being Jewish”
XD Too true
~actual pagan Jew
Seems to be the case with “christians” too (note the lower case c and quotes)
I just hope her moms faimly isnt from egypt that would be…. conflicting