You and Tantz Aerine have the best takes on this horrifically moving scene. I cannot get Tainted Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9TKu6HVQrU&feature=youtu.be out of my head … or, even more so The Eurythmics’ I Need You which involves being pinned down and one’s back breaking – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgsTfTM2uUE&feature=youtu.be Hmm. Something about attractive, frightening redheads and guys with scruffy facial hair. I’m fun at parties, too. Dear Sweet Mother of God, it’s hard to look away from this relationship, and it’s horrifying how many other lives its sucking into its malign maelstrom.Well done, Erin.
Looks like you’re right, JuiSaysHi, and I need better Glasses. I do SO hate being right about the Anesthetic! It’s small comfort to explain to someone undergoing Brain Surgery that the Brain doesn’t feel pain, and it’s only necessary to use a Local on the Scalp. Oh! and I really have to keep you conscious. I need to Shock you, to see what something does, before I Cut.
(On a totally different note, those tears are perfect. The art on this page, all the details like the tiny drops clinging to his eyelashes, just amazingly well done.)
I think she uses the past tense here, as she is referring to the atrocities she _did_ in order to learn how to do a successful surgery on him. So I believe that to her mind, he is not committing an atrocity now. Now she is just healing him. So she doesn`t need to justify that.
While we don’t know what happened for certain yet, we have some good clues as to how Hunter got paralyzed by piecing together flashback scenes. It appears to have been due to one of Vane’s machines, and herself, in an accident, but not one used in his act.
In Via Dolorosa #01, Vane’s moving freight using a steam-powered exoskeleton. Then she has her arms (and those of the machine) stretched out in front of her, looking at them. In the penultimate panel, Hunter comes in the door behind her. Later in Via Dolorosa #19, the final panel goes back into a flashback and Hunter’s lying on the floor, apparently paralyzed since the next page shows him stuck in bed due to paralysis.
It looks like Vane accidentally broke his spine with that exoskeleton, a machine she probably built herself.
Vane and Hunter are two sides of the same coin. Vane killed and dissected her own patients to restore Hunter’s mobility against his will, and Hunter killed and experimented on prostitutes to restore Vane to life against her will.
They are two thoroughly broken individuals with nothing left in the world but each other.
Seems Vane had her own demons before a demon settled into her skin. Pretty crowded in there.
You and Tantz Aerine have the best takes on this horrifically moving scene.
I cannot get Tainted Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9TKu6HVQrU&feature=youtu.be out of my head … or, even more so The Eurythmics’ I Need You which involves being pinned down and one’s back breaking – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgsTfTM2uUE&feature=youtu.be Hmm.
Something about attractive, frightening redheads and guys with scruffy facial hair.
I’m fun at parties, too. Dear Sweet Mother of God, it’s hard to look away from this relationship, and it’s horrifying how many other lives its sucking into its malign maelstrom.Well done, Erin.
Looks like you’re right, JuiSaysHi, and I need better Glasses. I do SO hate being right about the Anesthetic! It’s small comfort to explain to someone undergoing Brain Surgery that the Brain doesn’t feel pain, and it’s only necessary to use a Local on the Scalp. Oh! and I really have to keep you conscious. I need to Shock you, to see what something does, before I Cut.
You were right. IT IS HORRIFYING THAT YOU WERE RIGHT.
This is so much worse than I could have imagined.
(On a totally different note, those tears are perfect. The art on this page, all the details like the tiny drops clinging to his eyelashes, just amazingly well done.)
Now back to screaming in my head for a while.
I think it is rather chilling that she says “I WOULD HAVE DONE anything”, not I am doing everything. 0.0 What went so wrong between these two.
I think she uses the past tense here, as she is referring to the atrocities she _did_ in order to learn how to do a successful surgery on him.
So I believe that to her mind, he is not committing an atrocity now. Now she is just healing him. So she doesn`t need to justify that.
The bright red in between the faded colours makes this even more horrifying somehow. Yikes. This is all so emotionally charged too.
I used to think that John was the mad scientist type besides being a sorcerer, con man, and so on. Now I see that madness applies to Vane maybe more.
Perhaps they are both cut from the same cloth.
Pretty Clearly, it’s not just Opposites that Attract.
I wonder if one Vane’s machines that John used in his act caused his paralysis, that would explain her apparent guilt.
While we don’t know what happened for certain yet, we have some good clues as to how Hunter got paralyzed by piecing together flashback scenes. It appears to have been due to one of Vane’s machines, and herself, in an accident, but not one used in his act.
In Via Dolorosa #01, Vane’s moving freight using a steam-powered exoskeleton. Then she has her arms (and those of the machine) stretched out in front of her, looking at them. In the penultimate panel, Hunter comes in the door behind her. Later in Via Dolorosa #19, the final panel goes back into a flashback and Hunter’s lying on the floor, apparently paralyzed since the next page shows him stuck in bed due to paralysis.
It looks like Vane accidentally broke his spine with that exoskeleton, a machine she probably built herself.
Thank you for that.
It feels like they probably should have had this argument a bit earlier.
Vane and Hunter are two sides of the same coin. Vane killed and dissected her own patients to restore Hunter’s mobility against his will, and Hunter killed and experimented on prostitutes to restore Vane to life against her will.
They are two thoroughly broken individuals with nothing left in the world but each other.