Ya, seriously. How the hell does he not recognize his own wife’s voice, or uh, cleavage for that matter? or her HAIR!!! I’d say eyes too but she has some sort of odd white eye cover thing, wouldn’t that block vision to some degree?
Mirrored one-way safety glass, probably, and the whiteness is an artistic convention? I don’t know, can you make one-way glass with something other than mirroring?
I would like to think that she’s got a voicebox modulator built into that high collar to fuzz out her natural voice.
You say that like he’s seen them both regularly over that time. From this page we know he met Miss Melee 20 years ago, and Janice asked him out 4 years after that, so that would be 16 years ago. We know from issue 2 that Miss Melee dropped off the radar 15 years ago. Meaning there was only a 1 year period he was both Janice’s boyfriend and Miss Melee’s mechanic. Put in perspective, it’s not such a tough pill to swallow. And hey, 14 year old daughter, plus 9 months, their engagement was likely short, emotional, and surprising.
Have you ever read As You Like It by Shakespeare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It. In it, Rosalind, the daughter of the Duke runs away from home (Father is an evil Duke who usurped the title from his brother.) and disguises herself as a man so that she can travel more safely in the nearby forest. Meanwhile, Orlando, Rosalind’s lover also runs off to the forest, realizing that his life expectancy is very short otherwise. (His brother is jealous and trying to kill him.) Hilarity ensues in the normal way Shakespeare comedies. I have seen the play in two fashions. In both, Rosalind teases Orlando. However, in one style, Orlando has recognized Rosalind and is actually only pretending not to be aware of the true situation. The other style of directing has Orlando fooled by Rosalind. The writer could leave the situation ambiguous as in the Shakespeare play. The reader could then be left to answer for himself “Does he know?”, “Does she know that he knows?”, “Does he know that she knows that he knows?”, etc.
You should also note that her own daughter has not recognized her. If you really want a complication, imagine her daughter donning a disguise and meeting with her mother. You would then have “Does the mother know?”, “Does the daughter know that the mother knows?”, “Does the mother know that the daughter knows?”, and so on.
You could make it a three way with “Does the daughter know that that the father knows the mother’s secret identity?” along with the various derivatives.
If he has known all these years and kept it a secret, then he keeps his head a lot better that one would expect after what happened with the Brazillian Ninjas. 🙂
Okay, comedy rules would suggest that the next page will have Mark’s internal dialog reveal that he knew all along.
^this! 🙂 I came here to post this, but wasn’t going to do as good a job.
Or he is that good not letting her know that he knows. 🙂
Or he’s just that dumb.
Ya, seriously. How the hell does he not recognize his own wife’s voice, or uh, cleavage for that matter? or her HAIR!!! I’d say eyes too but she has some sort of odd white eye cover thing, wouldn’t that block vision to some degree?
Mirrored one-way safety glass, probably, and the whiteness is an artistic convention? I don’t know, can you make one-way glass with something other than mirroring?
I would like to think that she’s got a voicebox modulator built into that high collar to fuzz out her natural voice.
You say that like he’s seen them both regularly over that time. From this page we know he met Miss Melee 20 years ago, and Janice asked him out 4 years after that, so that would be 16 years ago. We know from issue 2 that Miss Melee dropped off the radar 15 years ago. Meaning there was only a 1 year period he was both Janice’s boyfriend and Miss Melee’s mechanic. Put in perspective, it’s not such a tough pill to swallow. And hey, 14 year old daughter, plus 9 months, their engagement was likely short, emotional, and surprising.
Have you ever read As You Like It by Shakespeare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It. In it, Rosalind, the daughter of the Duke runs away from home (Father is an evil Duke who usurped the title from his brother.) and disguises herself as a man so that she can travel more safely in the nearby forest. Meanwhile, Orlando, Rosalind’s lover also runs off to the forest, realizing that his life expectancy is very short otherwise. (His brother is jealous and trying to kill him.) Hilarity ensues in the normal way Shakespeare comedies. I have seen the play in two fashions. In both, Rosalind teases Orlando. However, in one style, Orlando has recognized Rosalind and is actually only pretending not to be aware of the true situation. The other style of directing has Orlando fooled by Rosalind. The writer could leave the situation ambiguous as in the Shakespeare play. The reader could then be left to answer for himself “Does he know?”, “Does she know that he knows?”, “Does he know that she knows that he knows?”, etc.
You should also note that her own daughter has not recognized her. If you really want a complication, imagine her daughter donning a disguise and meeting with her mother. You would then have “Does the mother know?”, “Does the daughter know that the mother knows?”, “Does the mother know that the daughter knows?”, and so on.
You could make it a three way with “Does the daughter know that that the father knows the mother’s secret identity?” along with the various derivatives.
If he has known all these years and kept it a secret, then he keeps his head a lot better that one would expect after what happened with the Brazillian Ninjas. 🙂
If you look back at Issue 1, I’m pretty sure the ‘freak out’ was for the daughter’s benefit, and he knows exactly what’s going on.
Unless he’s actually known all this time…like how to you not know your WIFE