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Sep. 8th, 2004 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensI read Peter David's Fallen Angel. Comic. One trade paperback out so far. This quote from his journal may help explain why.
See, here's the truth of it: Everything and everyone in Bete Noire serves a specific function. They have something they're there to do. And the longer you're there, the more the city gets into you, and you into it. The more it protects you. The more it preserves you.
And Benny's been there a long time. A real. Long. Time. Longer than Dolf. Longer than Juris. Longer than just about anybody (which is my way of saying that, no, those people who thought he was actually Benito Mussolini were wrong.) He's one of the first citizens and, as such, has very special status.
The Fallen Angel doesn't kill him for two reasons: 1) She understands that he serves a function, and 2) She couldn't kill him if she tried. She knows this because she did try once...in a story that, who knows, maybe I'll get to tell.
Is the city capable of such dark doings? Next issue, we're going to see our first aerial view of Bete Noire...and its layout should make you understand some stuff.
I look forward to the next issue.
Just thought I'd mention it.
See, here's the truth of it: Everything and everyone in Bete Noire serves a specific function. They have something they're there to do. And the longer you're there, the more the city gets into you, and you into it. The more it protects you. The more it preserves you.
And Benny's been there a long time. A real. Long. Time. Longer than Dolf. Longer than Juris. Longer than just about anybody (which is my way of saying that, no, those people who thought he was actually Benito Mussolini were wrong.) He's one of the first citizens and, as such, has very special status.
The Fallen Angel doesn't kill him for two reasons: 1) She understands that he serves a function, and 2) She couldn't kill him if she tried. She knows this because she did try once...in a story that, who knows, maybe I'll get to tell.
Is the city capable of such dark doings? Next issue, we're going to see our first aerial view of Bete Noire...and its layout should make you understand some stuff.
I look forward to the next issue.
Just thought I'd mention it.
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Date: 2004-09-08 04:48 pm (UTC)And I have an amazon order on ice for a couple of weeks while they wait for some obscure cookbook a friend recommended for me to turn up. It's so easy to just add to orders....
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Date: 2004-09-08 08:06 pm (UTC)A wonderful comic
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