Page 120 – The Sheriff Blues
I’m not sure if I should talk about this page or just let it stand on it’s own.
But, did you recognize the people in photos in the 2nd panel? It’s Jane’s mom and their murdered family doctor. The good sheriff has been a busy boy. Also, panel #8 is childhood friend or sibling, an image swiped from Caravaggio’s (NSFW) Amor Vincit Omnia aka “Love Conquers All”. Although in this case it’s jealousy conquers all.
Ammit! Ammit! Ammit!
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I’m having a bit of trouble deciding whether Nickenberry is truly delusional, or simply using a tried and true technique for avoiding justice. Unfortunately for him, he’s trying to argue with a god.
And, from the poisition of the needle in Panel 9, failing at it. ^^
My thought is that he believes the lies he tells himself. He’s a goddamn hero. Because the alternative is… well, not so flattering. These flashbacks are the events most likely to scare him straight, and he’s putting up an impressive fight.
Yet, on some level he was aware enough to let others do his dirty work as he gained authority.
What’s the saying? Everyone is the hero of their own story? Unfortunately for our villain protagonist here, Dark Jane isn’t his hero antagonist–she’s the narrator. And she tells it like it is.
So, uh, what’s gonna happen when everybody in the throne room sees Ammit? ‘Cause my guess is the whole soul-devouring thing is not an invisible phenomenon and there are a whole lot more witnesses now than there were last time.
Ammit only exists in “Dark Jane’s” dimension, where time has stopped for the outside world. So, the crowd in the throne room doesn’t see any of this. It all happens in the blink of an eye while the Sheriff’s body flies through the air. The only other witness is Sir Ezra, because he’s already dead.
The worst liars are the people who lie to themselves, who blame everyone else for their problems, and pile justification after justification onto their crimes until their righteousness is only a flimsy pretext. Go go Ammit.
Om-nom-nom, baby!
At the vote incentive: Ah, but the abracadabra is not to frighten you sir, it’s to weigh the sins of your soul against that feather, and maybe give you a chance to feel remorse for any wrongs you have done.
…By the way you have quite the portfolio of those.
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Mr. Sheriff seems quite impervious to empathy and remorse. He may come to regret it. 🙂
Aye, that impervious-ness is going to get him killed soon enough it seems. Seeing as the only way to break even with that feather with his portfolio would be to have had remorse and regret about what he did from the start. Now it’s all too little too late… unless a third party somehow messes with things.
Eww
what if his heart isn’t heavy with regrets?
He would be truly worse than any innocent(guilty) person