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Character Q&As 2
24 Mar 2014 · page 343 of 1306
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Smug silent response Sam is best Sam.
Silly, smart-aleck Kate is best Kate.
omg
Rosie: Since your speciality seems to be "veggies & sides", why did you write a book on baking instead? Do you think you'll write any more?
So Awesome.
For Gladys and Edie: What'd you guys do with the loot from the unconcious guy?
For future agent man: What's baking like in your future land, and did you have to learn old techniques for your mission?
Future agent baker man is actually particularly impressive because he's apparently the first bread baker Gluttony pulled. Which means that he was trained to be the best one in over two hundred years. They probably call him up to handle hostage situations by wheeling in an oven, putting a few loaves in, and then just watching as the criminals are drawn out of the building glassy-eyed and drooling.
...well, the best bread baker in over two hundred years who also entered the hotel, I guess.
I should have guessed he wasn't from whatever time he was pretending to be since bakers haven't always had access to the wide variety of ingredients they do now. (And in the future.)
That picture of him on this page has not stopped being hilarious.
There is a fair chance our future baker is only middlin in skill. He is quite impressed at meeting someone of historic skill, suggesting lower skills on his part. Also baking likely seems to be only a hobby for him since he is a agent [of whatever], and expects promotions in that field. It would make sense that he was merely the best baker among possible agents, and they used some magic to make him seem highly talented to Gluttony. He would still have to have some skill to pull it off, but he can be a merely good baker instead of excellent.
Harry looks so different in black and white! I love it! (I may steal the way you draw curly hair.) Great work!
I think you missed out the sixth panel in that first answer :-)
It is so good to hear Harriet speak again.... and I notice that she always favors a full-bent pipe.
Most of my pipes are straight or slightly bent, but I have a few that are 3/4 bent. I pulled one out tonight to enjoy in her honor.
I wonder what sort of tobacco is Harriet's favorite? It is probably too much to ask for a fully drawn answer (for the sake of the one and only reader who cares).... but if there is an answer, I'd enjoy seeing it in a combox. Samual Gawith was blending tobacco in Kendal, Cumbria, in 1792.... and there were several Lakeland tobacconists from Harriet's era who are still blending pipe tobaccos. Venerable, they are!
'Cause that's how pipe smokers talk to each other. "Hi Harry! Whatcha smoking'?"
Even while wearing a frown, Harry still looks quite beautiful when she (or her sister) lets her hair down.
She does, indeed. ^^
XD uproarious laughter
Hoo-hee~! Go, go, Florence! You rock! ^^
Looks like the answer to my question is that Harry never stopped seeing Florrie as the little sister and underestimates her -- whereas Florrie knows all of her blind spots. It's awesome. I love it!
There are several possible theories. A not complete list...
Florrie was always her parents' favorite, and what Florrie wanted, she got. The habit has stuck.
Nobody really knows. The sisters just learned long ago that it was easier to let Florrie have what she wanted than to fight and end up with Florrie getting her way anyway.
Florrie married rich [She's probably a minor member of the tun] and uses her money to control the others [one reason our maid stays away since she married down]. While Harry will be famous in a year/decade/generation, right now she is struggling and has to accept free housing from her sis, which means putting up with any idea Florrie might have.
Harry's behavior is scandalous enough as it is. While she is not obsessed with public opinion, she still needs Florrie as proof she is not a fallen woman and so must defer to her younger sister.
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Ummm, "ton" as in "haut ton", not "tum" as a large barrel of wine.
Hey, I just finished going through the Darken archive today! Good comic. ;)
Gren where are you from?
For Nora or Florence: how can one of you be married to a wealthy gentleman and the other be a maid? Wouldn't a sister who is a maid ruin Florence in the eyes of Victorian "polite society" and far more than two sisters in masculine professions (or despite the posh name is all of the de Montfort fortune from trade) and surely the life of a Victorian maid is very, very hard so why hasn't Florence tried to help Nora financially or help her find a higher (and more respectable) position or trade that isn't as tough and low paid. Or was Nora plucked from a time before Florence married?