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Transfer: "Seventeen". Ladytron reference? God, I hope so.
When you made the connection I downloaded the song. The impact that this comic has had on my playlist tendencies...
Kinda icked out by the whole 'my hot girlfriend's making out with a sleazy mark while I monitor them and get off on whispering intimate and controlling things to her' sequence, especially since the scene transition into Kaito and Ruby's sex was so well done.
I'm not entirely convinced by their relationship, to be brutally honest. On the one hand, it reminds me of one of the better elements of the later seasons of Alias -- where Lauren Reed and Sark end up as lovers/partners in a similar fashion to Kubark and Zephyr, ultimately played as evil counterparts for Sydney and Vaughn, and I'm left feeling that they're going to end up in conflict with Kaito and Ruby (assuming, again, that Ruby gets to do something besides have sex sometime in the near future -- but let's be honest, it's probably going to be them against Kaito and Sasa Lisi). At least that's what I'm telling myself because they're whole plotline seems rather disconnected as these things stand...
But I suppose that was part of the point with this arc, right? How the world functions without a Casanova (either good or bad, native or imported), so everything's rotating around a central absence rather than trundling along a straight line.
And yet, Zephyr is the evil twin (and you have to question whether her fetish is having sex following a massacre or having sex while watching herself seduce a mark on screen) and as much as I enjoy the comic I'm not sure that Fraction's quite getting himself away from the problemmatic subtext that bad girls have squicksome sex. Or, perhaps the clarity she was beginning to achieve with the last arc - going to Coldheart Island and finding her mother again - is gone without Casanova. Which means? I don't know. I suspect that something happened on Coldheart and that's why she's back and that's why she's putting herself into this relationship.
It's not like Zephyr has particularly good taste in men or what you'd call equal power relationships -- look at Newman Xeno, they were troubled times ten.
There's something -- I don't know. Kubark and Zephyr are almost predicated on problemmatic sexual portrayal as part of their interaction -- no matter how hard Zephyr might try, she's a bad girl in this reality and Kubark's bad and so their relationship's going to be bad. Look at the elder Benday. But at the same time, she gets to run around and be bad and shoot things and have power while Ruby hasn't done anything.
Mostly just thinking outloud now, someone feel free to respond, cut down, admonish, suggest a connection...
Maybe I just miss Ruby Berzerko and the Season 1 supporting cast, who seem to be cut loose in the wind; Cass's absence does affect them and I'd like to seem some story-time devoted to WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
It didn't help that the whole thing reminded me of a similar scene in The Venture Brothers, a show that, like it or not, definitely lives on the same street as
Casanova.
This is very true, particularly given the Jonny Quest references in both series.
Id-monkey Kubark with his hands down his pants, though, continues to win me over, though I'm still not sure the scene should get a pass.
It's a good panel, a lovely panel, but I'm not entirely won over by Kubark yet. He's no Sabine Seychelle.
Sasa Lisi is becoming more appealing to me now that the other characters are being obliged to take her seriously - I like that Sabine is the first to do so, considering he's probably the biggest female-objectifying fetishist in the book - and she does look rather fetching with her hair up.
Sasa Lisi needs more panel time, but I can totally understand holding off on her, with her Barbarella shag timeship and the gratuitous costume changes, popping secondary arms, and air of mystery. She could quite easily become a cliched parody of an it-girl. That said, she and Kaito need to get into some spy action already. |
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