Narrator: He did not.

Gus couldn’t have just shown up in the city and gotten to work, right? Someone must’ve been keeping their eye on Maggie…

Alex Platt surprising us and the mayor with surprising levels of wisdom.
kinda wanna see the next page just to see if the mayor goes like “yknow what you got a point there, kid”

It’s someone with a wooly coat hood and a navy blue cap. Could be anyone.

Joe, the difference between you and Platt Sr. is that you made the clown thing happen. You have fans that enjoy and appreciate the clown thing you’re doing. I know you’re feeling the burnout on Clown Corps. but… don’t think you’re unappreciated for it, okay? You are.

He certainly is. He’s just, y’know, working hard for and dedicated to himself and his own best interests rather than for and to the best interests of the city itself.

Pretty sure that’s her going up the ramp in the 4th panel.

However nice the perks may be, people generally don’t go into politics just to have a good time and get their egos stroked. They do it because they want the power to shape the world for the better. The catch, of course, is that their concepts of “the better” can vary enormously…

You may be right. “The last ten years” lines up with Maggie’s apparent death a decade ago (see Chapter 6, page 139, panel 4). And we know Detective Soto found some kind of connection between Burke’s office and the Shadow Circus, though we still don’t know what yet (see Chapter 6, pages 72 and 75).