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"what's going on on page 15, panel 1? Who's doing the talking ("This one couldn't be more than ten years old...") ?"
I think those lines are being spoken by Feely’s neighbour (Mrs. Twine, was it?) to her husband, just after getting in the front door – on the previous page she saw a small figure in a child’s jacket being brought by Feely into his home, so she thinks Feely’s a pedophile (and she’s not the only one…those cat-killing kids called him a pedophile, and a woman told her child to “stop looking at that man – he’s not nice”). Later Mrs. Twine spies Feely burying a small box in the garden and giving some kind of ritual speech over the grave… My guess is she now thinks Feely is a pedophile Satanist.
But are those lines just “lagging” from the previous page, or is “Secret Original” listening to them through that earpiece thing?
Also…
“Secret Orignal” = Superman – in the “real” world – i.e. Christopher Reeve, his body broken, confined to a wheelchair.
“S.O.” potters about, a cripple voyeur, getting his kicks by watching the lives of others play out before him in screens of boxes/frames, like Christopher Reeve in the Rear Window remake.
Of the many excitements and delights offered by Rear Window (or at least by Hitchcock’s version), I especially enjoy the scenes of people “crossing-over” from the everyday world into the Spectacle, and vice-versa. The Filth (and Grant Morrison comics in general) offer similar delights, of course! |
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