A mouse of the church
Hugo’s faithful sidekick Ronny B was never pictured face on in Scary Go Round – by his own request. He has recently relented and allowed his young likeness to be shown.
Hugo’s faithful sidekick Ronny B was never pictured face on in Scary Go Round – by his own request. He has recently relented and allowed his young likeness to be shown.
I’m getting a real Big Night vibe now from Dorado.
I am so proud of Hugo right now.
Is Dorado… crying? What’s he looking at? Dare I hope that Ryan has somehow lucked into a last-minute reprieve? (Also: Yay! Hugo being heroic!)
And is that the Oldest Wine he is drinking?
Of course he’s crying. He’s listening to the tape of sad songs!
And reading The Letter.
Ronny B, you’re among friends here.
It looks like Dorado has an idea.
I am on pins and needles (which may be in Ryan’s future, I shudder to imagine the fate of those who dare to dine and dash Dorado, particularly when the door is locked and they live upstairs).
Does anyone else “hear” Hugo’s voice as kind of like LeVar Burton’s voice in the opening credits of “Captain Planet”? That’s probably just me, isn’t it?
“Hugo’s faithful sidekick Ronny B was never pictured face on in Scary Go Round”
That means he ultimately left Dorado’s employ to work at Hugo’s sandwich shop, right?
Also, finally, Hugo once again (or for the first time) refers to himself in third person. Back in Scary Go Round, that was half of his charm. IMHO. 😉
Not quite. To me Hugo sounds a little more like a younger version of Gustavo Fring of “Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul” fame, except with a little more outward traditional Latino male machismo.
I’m guessing Ryan pulled a move from Chevov’s short story, “The Bet,” and wrote a letter about his suffering and agony to shame Dorado into letting him skimp on the bill.
“the shadow of his strange cruelty”
This IS the guy who (IIRC and frankly what are the odds of that) sabotaged Esther’s classmate Carrot’s chance to get into college and trapped him in a life of low-paying servitude to Hugo himself, right? Not only does the apple not fall far, it doesn’t roll very far…
In Giant Days #13 you find out that Carrot’s fate was not as dark as that.
Curse you! OK my Giant Days subscription is in the post
Aha! I just re-read that issue of Giant Days yesterday. When I read them originally, I had no idea about all these other great comics in the Tackleford Universe, and therefore no idea who the various cameo appearances in it were: Carrot, Milford, Eustace, Shelley, Sarah Grote etc. How naive I was.
Also, the line in that issue, “I’m Susan Ptolemy and I think this sexy idiot is one of history’s greatest women” is one of my favourite lines in comics.
Wait. Eustace appears?
Issues 13 and 49, as well as self-published #1 (in the Early Registration collection)
I weep for the ill future of Ronnie B’s van, at the hands of Ryan himself, no less..
But Hugo and Ryan replaced it wit an ice-cream van! The best kind of van!
I don’t remember any of this.
Wait, is Dorado wearing Hugo’s H instead of his own D? Continuity!
I admit I did not notice that until you pointed it out. You have sharp eyes. Maybe Hugo handed it over as a symbolic rejection of Dorado’s abusive ways. Sort of the equivalent of turning in his badge?
That’s what is known in the business as a “mistake”
Just curious, did everyone had to write and calculate a bill with their hands at that time, or is that just Dorado’s stuff? I only remember the time when everyone uses a machine to print out a receipt.
I still occasionally go to restaurants that give you a handwritten bill.
Just wanted to note that George Formby was the master of the BANJOLELE.
But his songs never call it that; for example “With My Little Ukelele In Me Hands and many, many, many more because all his songs were about sodding ukeleles
Also this is mailing list content and you are going to upset future archivists by dealing with it in this public forum!!!!!
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Acts 16:31, 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, 1 Peter 1:17-21, Revelation 22:18-19