Was Dorado just setting up Ryan to be washing dishes for a year? Given the often supernatural aspects of this strip, I was expecting something more … demonic.
Bobbins.horse, like the first 75% or so of the original Bobbins, doesn’t usually seem to involve the supernatural. Of course, that’s probably not a hard and fast rule.
In keeping with never actually showing the terrifying monster — just a claw here, a shadow there — we’re never going to know what that totals to, are we?
We know exactly what we need to know: it is far more that Ryan could possibly afford. If the comic had named an actual amount, then people who read this 20 years in the future would laugh at how low the number is. (I seem to remember an old Dr. Suess book in which the kids were panicking because the Cat-in-the-Hat had ruined their father’s TEN-DOLLAR SHOES!)
What remains to be learned is why Dorado insisted on laying out this over-the-top repast knowing that Ryan would be unable to pay for it. Did he intend Ryan and Ljubjana to become unwilling organ donors, or possibly some other similarly nefarious motivation?
“for when you are ready”
That sounds like a loophole to me.
Today Hugo becomes a man. Of course, his father will probably lay him out with one one punch but it will give Ryan a chance to run.
I would not be so quick to dismiss Hugo’s fighting abilities:
https://bobbins.horse/comic/2018-12-07/
He might have to use all of those top three skills that make him dangerous.
….Wow.
I pray, PRAY, you never stop writing stories, Sir.
Ryan has hands. His hands have fingers. Those fingers aren’t probably calloused to any useful degree, but they’re capable of scrubbing dishes.
If Ryan doesn’t step up for the lovely Lubyanka and the haughty Hugo, I’ll be disappointed. SORELY.
He works in tips (dumpsters), and before that in a cannery. I imagine his hands are pretty calloused.
Was Dorado just setting up Ryan to be washing dishes for a year? Given the often supernatural aspects of this strip, I was expecting something more … demonic.
The night is young…
Bobbins.horse, like the first 75% or so of the original Bobbins, doesn’t usually seem to involve the supernatural. Of course, that’s probably not a hard and fast rule.
Possibly not even the dim and distant reflection of a guideline.
What an absolutely dandy turn of phrase.
(H)You go, Hugo!
In keeping with never actually showing the terrifying monster — just a claw here, a shadow there — we’re never going to know what that totals to, are we?
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
We know exactly what we need to know: it is far more that Ryan could possibly afford. If the comic had named an actual amount, then people who read this 20 years in the future would laugh at how low the number is. (I seem to remember an old Dr. Suess book in which the kids were panicking because the Cat-in-the-Hat had ruined their father’s TEN-DOLLAR SHOES!)
Especially because the events herein would — by that point — be set ~40 years in the past.
I’ve never loved Hugo more than I do now.
Could this moment be the origin of the Hugo we know and love? The true Hugo? The Trugo?
What remains to be learned is why Dorado insisted on laying out this over-the-top repast knowing that Ryan would be unable to pay for it. Did he intend Ryan and Ljubjana to become unwilling organ donors, or possibly some other similarly nefarious motivation?
Could this have been a plan for this very confrontation? And tabulated up the cost making that error to negate it? Wheels within wheels here.