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06:02 / 07.09.01

In the second issue of volume one (Down and out in Heaven and Hell,part 1), when Tom takes Dane to the alternative London, Dane suddenly has a scar on his forehead, which he comments on ("Ey, where did this scar on my forehead come from?"). The scar stays there until about halfway through the nest issue, when Tom swaps Dane's eyes for the pigeons.

I have never worked out why the scar is there, or what its symbolising. Anybody have any ideas?

07:09 / 07.09.01

Yeah, the whole homeless sequence is basically Dane's shamanic initiation. A common part of the initiatory process involves being destroyed in some way and then put back together with something extra added. The destruction process could be anything from a hallucinatory vision of demons ripping you to pieces, to an experience where everything you cling to as 'reality' is pulled out from under you and you're flung into an alien world. This is basically what happens to Dane on the streets of London. King Mob says something like "He's going to have to be put through the mill, poor sod".

As mentioned, the reconstruction process often includes a foriegn object being included in the new form. This is acted out when Dane goes into the underground tunnel (the modern shamanic cave) and has his visionary blue mold inspired experience with the 'aliens' who insert an 'alien stone' into his head. Note that the word 'Barbelith' is supposed to mean Alien Stone. Also note the similarities to King Mob's similar initiatory experience within Uluru/Ayers Rock.

This is what the scar on his head seems to have been all about. The sequence is elaborated on in a separate issue a bit further down the line, where we get to see more of what went on during the blue mold/alien sequence. can't remember the issue number, think it's the one called 'London'.

07:21 / 07.09.01

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Isn't this explained in the one of the later issues of volume 1(the last temptation of jack I think, part of the three coverspread of issues anyway) when jack is on his own and has a flashback to what happened in the tunnels,meeting the aliens and barbeltith("I am not the god of your fathers") and they give do something with his ajna chakra /holystone?
sorry for tthe vagueness running on memory.

Pin

08:15 / 07.09.01

It's the issue at the end of Apokolipstic, called "London", and is the one the one where Dane get's Tom's Tesco bag out of the lockers and hitchs a ride to Liverpool. I think it's #16, but I can't be totally sure...

16:44 / 07.09.01

Yeah.. parrallel to all the shamanic stuff it's easy to suppose he bumped his head while high on blue mold & the Scab eventually flaked off...

Still the flash-back sequence definatl shows some alien stone being incerted in his forehead...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

17:40 / 11.09.01

Jack can save King Mob from a horrible cancery-tumoury several-bullets-in-the-gutty death, and you're wondering what happened to his finger?

03:35 / 14.09.01

I'm much more interested in King Mob's lip ring in volume 2. Is it on his upper lip, or lower lip? No, really, read Sensative Criminals again.

Clarification: issue 16 features the alien flashback, 21 features the "god of your fathers" line, I believe.

mbz