Issue 27, Page 21
Transcript
1: Tea is served to the two girls in rustic, worn out mugs.
Julia: When will we get to see Rhoda? The real Rhoda.
Rhoda: She’ll be back some day. She has a lot of work to do. A lot of growing.
Julia: And… who are you? What are you?
Rhoda: Answering either of those wouldn’t really solve anything for you right now.
2: Rhoda’s hands are seen lowering her sunglasses off her face.
Rhoda: It took Rhoda a long time to find the answers, and when she did, well…
3: The girls recoil and look away.
Julia: Fuckin’…
4: Rhoda sits at the table smiling just a little too wide with her sunglasses removed; her eyes, like the hooded figure from before, are empty sockets of dried blood, blind and gouged out.
Rhoda: You can see how much good that did her.
That’s what I was afraid of.
CALLED IT
Same!
Fucking hells…
She has “a lot of growing” to do … would growing back some eyeballs happen to be part of that? Inside the original sockets, ideally?
Maybe she can get prosthetic ones like Agent Jackson has.
… his what?? He got the REALLY good ones, then … 8-o
http://orderoftheblackdog.com/comic/issue-26-page-27/
Hold up. How was “Rhoda” able to read the text of that ritual on pages 17 and 18 without eyes?
We’re talking about/with an entity that’s *not really* residing within that body, and whose “real body” (??) has a history of remaining unseen by uninitiated bystanders …
The transcript for issue 20:page 16 states that the real body is “a writhing tower of worm-like snakes, all coiled around a dark gnarled tree with a multitude of glowing bulbs and flourishing flowers”.
I just had a thought. In issue 20, page 17, Tazim says “I’m always on the lookout for blossoming flowers: strong
spirits in mortal form”. Perhaps he/they are being more than metaphorical.