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Summary
Austin smokes out the spirits with Sage, while Lord Fanny drops into a
trance - King Mob, Boy and Robin need help. In the installation underground
they are surrounded by the enemy, and Jolly Roger is being controlled
by Quimper. Robin uses her abilities to enter the head of one of the people
controlled by Quimper, who then goes rogue - shooting his own people.
Quimper reels from the shock. The rest of the cell respond to this distraction
to fight their way out. Colonel Friday activates his armour and drags
Quimper into the Outer Church to be 'repaired'. Meanwhile Fanny and Jack
are starting a spell by pouring corn around the installation and making
a pentagram out of postcards. Roger is freed from Quimper's control. They
grab the anti-viral agent and attempt to escape. King Mob carries up the
rear to give the others time to get out. He and Jolly Roger are then left
alone, they suit up and travel on the porcelian train into a massive underground
city....
Characters
o Emilio
o Austin
o Mason Lang
o Jack Frost
o Lord Fanny
o Ragged Robin
o Jolly Roger
o King Mob
o Boy
o ElFayed
o Mr Six
Analysis
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Annotations
o [page 1] [panels 3-4] What's it trying to write here? If "You
fuck I" is indeed all it's writing, this combined with the I/You globe
on page 15 leads me to think that this is a reference to certain Buddhist
(and perhaps Hindu) beliefs that duality is an illusion, and that all
people are in fact one person, and one with the Buddha. The trick is
realizing this, and treating all people as you would yourself, since
you are them. The forces of Control only profit by spreading divisive
illusions (divide and conquer, yes?). [RD] Could this be a riff on the
Horta from Star Trek, who etched "No Kill I" in a tunnel as a message
to Kirk and Spock? [HE]
o [page 9] bottom: A reference to 1.12? [CG]
o [page 12-13] A possible reference in this sequence is to the
system of E-prime, produced by D. David Bourland Jr., which is English
without the word "is," designed to "remove the 'essentialist or Aristotelian
game-rules from our neuro-linguistic programming.' A source for this
is Robert Anton Wilson's Quantum Psychology, which is written in E-Prime.
There's also a great story in Wilson's Schrodinger's Cat trilogy where
someone is asked the value of a dollar bill that echoes part of this
sequence. And, of course, the lesson is given by El Fayed and Mr. Six
(who isn't Big Malcolm here). [JBU]
o [page 14] On the cube you can read "this sculpture means total
control only." In the circle with the window you can read: "how wr..."
= "how wrong" ??? "the man" [PV] Also see 2.12, pages 2-3 for another
look at the Outer Church. These two sequences share at least one image.
Also, is that Justice League of America villain Prometheus' house in
the upper lefthand corner of page 14? Grant says these two series are
growing closer... [JB] Three bubbles down from "the crooked house":
it looks like Jack with his brains blown out [FF] Or possibly it's King
Mob. In 2.12, it's said that the Church and those in it exist out of
time so they know all that was and is to happen. [L] Also, in one of
the very small bubble son page 14 is an unoccupied toilet; reminds me
of the Harlequin from 2.07 [JB] The sled-like thing in the bubble next
to the spiked wheel chair appears again in 2.10, page 3. [L]
o [page 15] [panel 1] Are these backwards thoughts Quimper's?
Some people claim that Quimper may be some kind of corrupted spirit
that originally helped children; perhaps this is where this comes from.
See also 2.04, page 14, panels 3 and 4. [RD] Could that be Bobby from
1.12 ["Best Man Fall"] and 2.10? It looks like he has short blond hair
and a teddy bear that might be the mysterious 'Boody.' [FF/JB] Also,
recall that the aliens told Dane, "As a child, we spoke through your
/(toys)/" in 1.16, page 12. [JB]
o [page 17] [panel 4] Doom is a popular and violent video game.
[PV/JB]
o [page 18] [panels 1-2] Gideon Stargrave bought and flew a stealth
bomber in 1.17, page 20. [RD/JB] panel 4: "Fly brother, fly" is a line
from the Kula Shaker album, which KM was listening to in 2.02 [RD]
o [page 22] [panel 2] Fanny charges a sigil as described by Morrison
in the letter column of 1.16. [RL] For those of you who are less observant
- she is masturbating. [TEC]
o [page 25] "Forget Baden-Powell": The founder of the Boy Scouts
is Lord Baden-Powell. [Daisy] Baden-Powell also wrote the unfortunately
titled book, "Scouting for Boys." [JBU]
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