It’s an interesting strategy to make the actual big bads of your story the most cartoonish and silliest characters in the piece, and I gotta say I am surprised how well it’s working for me
Hold on what? Why would Burke be behind the Dark Circus? Why would he even need the Dark Circus if he was going to become the mayor? Out of every plot development so far, this is the one that feels most out of left field.
Not entirely, IMO. We know that Burke wanted to get the blood gun to become the new Strongman. For such a tiny, scheming man this might be incentive enough. And a private police force is not to be sneezed at…
Okay, we were pretty much told that Burke had ties to the Shadow Circus, but I wouldn’t have put money on “he deliberately sought Gilborn out before Gilborn even set foot in Pinfall”. I’m curious to see what Burke gained from this deal.
Also, I’m pretty sure the taller guy in the last panel is the same lawyer who represented Platt at McBell’s trial.
It’s an interesting strategy to make the actual big bads of your story the most cartoonish and silliest characters in the piece, and I gotta say I am surprised how well it’s working for me
Wow, I have no idea how this could fit together. Did Burke want the clown corps undermined?
Hold on what? Why would Burke be behind the Dark Circus? Why would he even need the Dark Circus if he was going to become the mayor? Out of every plot development so far, this is the one that feels most out of left field.
Not entirely, IMO. We know that Burke wanted to get the blood gun to become the new Strongman. For such a tiny, scheming man this might be incentive enough. And a private police force is not to be sneezed at…
Okay, we were pretty much told that Burke had ties to the Shadow Circus, but I wouldn’t have put money on “he deliberately sought Gilborn out before Gilborn even set foot in Pinfall”. I’m curious to see what Burke gained from this deal.
Also, I’m pretty sure the taller guy in the last panel is the same lawyer who represented Platt at McBell’s trial.
Y’know, the last time an antihero in a bathrobe and a mysterious intruder got into a tussle in a high rise apartment, it didn’t end so well
I love how the guy (prosecutor? Judge?) in the last panel is just sitting there with a literal bag of money…
(That wasn’t meant as a reply)
I just tried to imagine a clown with a Rohrschach mask… I mean they are already scary for lots of people, but still
When was that?
inciting incident of Watchmen, by Alan Moore