Walker: How long do you want to stay here? Any big projects you need to get ahead on?
Park: Let’s not wear out our welcome. This place is . . . unsettling.
Walker: Oh?
Park: Maybe it’s different for you. But to me . . . the light is all wrong.
And you never see the sun.
It’s as if “Meggido” is a place that doesn’t have one.
And on that charming note, back to Washington . . .
Driver: . . . Do I get a tip?
Bennett: “To remove tough fabric stains, use a paste made of baking soda and water.”
Bennett (thinking): Takes days to get down to D.C. . . . insists on meeting at a restaurant instead of the office . . . And now it turns out the restaurant is at his hotel? I can’t tell if Cohen’s jerking me around, or coming on to me.
(SQUEAL!)
hmmm, a land with light but no sun. Sounds like Other World (the land of faeries and gods). Makes you wander if there are any locals watching the games that the human masters just don’t see.
forgot to post something, the Cohen thing; if he can manipulate the contract to do things like trap the Beings I wander if he can make the contract visible and see the name of the pact holder. Like checking the ID tag kind of deal, no need for permission or asking if you can just bring it up and look at it.
Hm. I wonder if they’re doing this to speak confidentially, since no one can record them here.
“Squeal” is a hilarious sound effect pun.
Innuendo, innuendo, gosh! Three comments and no one’s talked about it yet??
I like Bennett even less now – people who do not tip servicepeople anger me.
why?
Tips are for going above and beyond a job well done. To be left up to and decided by the customer.
PAYCHECKS are for just doing your job. You get that from your boss not the customers.
the thing where everybody is entitled to a 20%tip and get angry if its less is much more annoying than somebody not giving it.
and that guy was begging. don’t I get a tip?
Tipping customs vary wildly by country. However, in the United States, it’s such a social norm that it’s legal to pay employees in tipped positions less than minimum wage. (And Bennett, as a legislator, should know this.) The system assumes customers will tip, even though there’s no way to enforce it.
If the person does an acceptable job and you as a customer don’t tip, you’re taking advantage of your lack of accountability to screw over a below-minimum-wage employee.
It’s entirely possible he didn’t deserve it. Especially if he had to ask.
Then again, it IS Bennett.
That was the breaks of a car and not a political groupie, right?
I think its the car that dropped him off speeding away.
Looking through the past few strips, Erin, I must say that your art has improved loads since Shine. Most of the old art physically differentiated characters largely by hair style and hair colour but now you’ve put a lot of thought into the face shape, jawline and things like that. It’s at the point where I naturally (and subconsciously) registered Karen Park as an indian nation member–before that mention of the sun or lack thereof.
This realisation just made me respect you and your comics a whole lot more. ^^ (previously I barely cared for the art, bothering more about the concept, characterisation and issues… now I really feel that this is a complete, full-package piece of work)