This entire vigilante shift seems to be Mustard regressing to her high school bully roots. Binky called her out on looking for people to terrorize. I wonder where she goes from here?
I’m not sure this is the real version of events. The corndog the clown bit is absolutely a thing that happened, and it’s not in here. Could just be an omission for the sake of tone, of course.
Holy heck. Squeaky got assaulted by a balloon tank, Oats was nearly hanged off the side of a building, Gus had the lower half of his face obliterated…and this still feels like the most brutal thing Echo has done. Maggie’s death seems to have truly changed who Morgan wanted to be, and as sorrowful yet relieved as Mustard must have been that her sister was alive, she brought the ugly past with her and shoved her face into it. In chapter five she wondered if Maggie would be proud of her, of who she had become. Of all the grieving people in the world who wish they could hear the answer to that question firsthand, Morgan actually got to…and look what it’s done to her.
Maybe this’ll be what’s needed for her to truly change, to become someone who never would act the way she did when she first came back in black.
This page, suddenly and with great force, is making me ask myself why the guy who could argue anybody into anything found it so important that the woman who could reproduce any funny trick she saw not be able to speak.
Nah. It’s a fun theory, but Gus’s arguing ability is pretty explicitly described as something that can’t be learned, like PJ’s sleeping or strongman’s strength.
Yeah I think it’s more nuanced. Some abilities have pretty specific circumstances. Like being born with a bigger body and muscles is different from sleep walking, but neither can be mimicked, yet I don’t think PJ’s sleep quirks can be given through genetic manipulation science like strong man’s. McBell just improvises which can’t really be taught, but learning how to gaslight people could probably be studied. Or even stuff like Fuschia’s tech can be copied but not her intelligence.
I don’t know what to believe anymore.
Ted Chiang has a short story about the unreliability of personal narratives, even ones that define us— The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_of_Feeling
I had a feeling there was a Rashomon bent to this. Glad to see a second take on the same flashback to really confirm it.
You can’t get rid of me that easy…
‘Cause I’m with you to the end of the line
It’s incredible how well this lines up with page 3 of the chapter. Love this.
This entire vigilante shift seems to be Mustard regressing to her high school bully roots. Binky called her out on looking for people to terrorize. I wonder where she goes from here?
I’m not sure this is the real version of events. The corndog the clown bit is absolutely a thing that happened, and it’s not in here. Could just be an omission for the sake of tone, of course.
I think probably omitted for brevity
Holy heck. Squeaky got assaulted by a balloon tank, Oats was nearly hanged off the side of a building, Gus had the lower half of his face obliterated…and this still feels like the most brutal thing Echo has done. Maggie’s death seems to have truly changed who Morgan wanted to be, and as sorrowful yet relieved as Mustard must have been that her sister was alive, she brought the ugly past with her and shoved her face into it. In chapter five she wondered if Maggie would be proud of her, of who she had become. Of all the grieving people in the world who wish they could hear the answer to that question firsthand, Morgan actually got to…and look what it’s done to her.
Maybe this’ll be what’s needed for her to truly change, to become someone who never would act the way she did when she first came back in black.
This page, suddenly and with great force, is making me ask myself why the guy who could argue anybody into anything found it so important that the woman who could reproduce any funny trick she saw not be able to speak.
Oh my fucking god…
………..OH.
Nah. It’s a fun theory, but Gus’s arguing ability is pretty explicitly described as something that can’t be learned, like PJ’s sleeping or strongman’s strength.
I don’t know. It would certainly make sense if Gus was a genetic freak, but I can’t find a page that “explicitly” confirms the source of his ability.
Some relevant pages:
https://clowncorps.net/comic/chapter-5-page-10/
https://clowncorps.net/comic/chapter-5-page-30/
https://clowncorps.net/comic/chapter-5-page-70/
https://clowncorps.net/comic/chapter-5-page-87/
Yeah I think it’s more nuanced. Some abilities have pretty specific circumstances. Like being born with a bigger body and muscles is different from sleep walking, but neither can be mimicked, yet I don’t think PJ’s sleep quirks can be given through genetic manipulation science like strong man’s. McBell just improvises which can’t really be taught, but learning how to gaslight people could probably be studied. Or even stuff like Fuschia’s tech can be copied but not her intelligence.
Wow. How did I not put that together?
That… seems suddenly incredibly relevant, yes.
Siblings relationship are hard to describe no matter how far apart you are and how you grow up apart.
Seems to me that they are getting along like most sisters who are close in age.
The previous version of this flashback was in color; this one is in black-and-white. Should we be reading anything into that? And if so, which way?
No yeah i was just thinking about that! Why wouldn’t she be able to copy his techniques and make Mustard believe anything?
Even if this flashback is accurate, that could still be the case. Mustard, vigilantism aside, has changed from high school.
On the other hand, and idk if I’m reading too much into things, so grain of salt, but in Mustard’s flashback Maggie took a bit out of the corndog.