Story Comments
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A Wake cont... |
Lars was truly
ignorant of events, and Anna was played to perfection by Lono. The
spilled glass and pills could look like Lars poisoning himself, but
more obviously, Anna poisoned the bottle, believing Lars was in
league with Vasco over the death of their father. She refuses a top
up, \and sips only from her own, uncontaminated glass. Strangely
Lars spills most of his drink, and so has probably ingested very
little. Remi's dismembering actions put him into the Monster camp.
Shepherd could have found Remi at any time as he was at home with
Ma, which weakens the argument for him being the Saint, as Graves
dealt with the Saint on his own. If he is the
Monster, Remi's demons he's wrestling could be his obsession with
chopping people up. There's a nice irony to placing him in a meat
factory if his MO is to disembowel on a regular basis. As Shepherd
explained to another of the Atlantic City sleepers, they were all
given jobs Graves and Shepherd thought they'd like. Medici plays his
hand well with the Trust by voting against the absorption of the
Nagel assets, thereby achieving his aim, turning the attention of
the other houses onto Graves whilst strengthening his own power
base. The conversation between Graves and Ronnie echoes The
Godfather series, with Don Vito Corleone picking up oranges in a
street market. Graves' only possible reason for sending Ronnie to
Italy is to recover Echo Memoria. They will have realised that
Branch hasn't done as he was told, and selected Ronnie as a
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Amorality Play |
Not a lot to offer the big
picture in this one-off, but a little more depth and consequence to
the contents of the attaché, to graves as he recalls a death, just
one of many, but one which stands out for its absurdity, and to
Lono, as he shows some restraint in his encounter with Tyler.
Whether this restraint will prolong Tyler's life beyond the next few
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Punch Line |
There's a lot of symbolism in the
cockfight against the context of
the story as a whole. Parallels can be drawn with many of the key
players. Lono continues to belittle Loop, which may eventually come
to a head. The Simone family were Dallas based. Mia Simone's demise is pure comedy, but
the literal impact of her arrival on panel leaves you wondering how
exactly Remi executed this elaborate dispatch. Dizzy is the 120 pounds
of flesh Wylie refers to. Does Graves' "one of us" death
comment refer directly to the three of them assembled, or to the
Minutemen as a whole? When Wylie says Graves cannot touch them, this
suggests Graves' influence is worthless in Mexico. The fact that
Graves will never go to Mexico is mentioned in several other places,
so why is this? Wylie's reply to Graves' "We need you" raises
questions of who exactly "they" are, why "they" need him, and why
Graves needs Dizzy. Obviously Graves was the one who called Vic,
knowing this would set Lono and Co. after Wylie in Mexico to recover
Dizzy. At no stage does Vic name Dizzy, who's identity is still a
mystery to Lono following Shepherd's dying conversation with him in
Coda Smoke. The AC flashback begins to
shed light about divisions in the ranks of the Minutemen regarding
whatever it is Graves refused to do. The very nature of the MM and
their reason for existing is at the core of this argument, and Wylie
and Victor are correct in their assessment of the situation.
Shepherd's comment on what job Lono is doing: "That would be his..."
needs a resolution soon.
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