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The Chimney Page 21
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The Chimney Page 21

on August 11, 2019
Chapter: Book 11: The Chimney
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  1. kaliyuga
    kaliyuga
    August 11, 2019, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Seems Vane had her own demons before a demon settled into her skin. Pretty crowded in there.

    • Honzinator
      Honzinator
      August 19, 2019, 12:58 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  2. B0mar
    B0mar
    August 11, 2019, 7:53 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Skatie
      Skatie
      August 11, 2019, 10:19 pm | # | Reply

      You were right. IT IS HORRIFYING THAT YOU WERE RIGHT.

  3. Skatie
    Skatie
    August 11, 2019, 10:27 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  4. Essymi
    Essymi
    August 12, 2019, 9:55 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Shyandya
      Shyandya
      August 18, 2019, 8:01 am | # | Reply

      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.

  5. Random Spanish Guy
    Random Spanish Guy
    August 12, 2019, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

    The bright red in between the faded colours makes this even more horrifying somehow. Yikes. This is all so emotionally charged too.

  6. Teh Gerg
    Teh Gerg
    August 12, 2019, 2:27 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • jsfury
      jsfury
      August 12, 2019, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

      Perhaps they are both cut from the same cloth.

    • B0mar
      B0mar
      August 15, 2019, 10:50 pm | # | Reply

      Pretty Clearly, it’s not just Opposites that Attract.

  7. Takedown275
    Takedown275
    August 16, 2019, 11:41 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder if one Vane’s machines that John used in his act caused his paralysis, that would explain her apparent guilt.

    • Manabi
      Manabi
      August 18, 2019, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • Honzinator
        Honzinator
        August 19, 2019, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

        Thank you for that.

  8. Tantz Aerine
    Tantz Aerine
    August 17, 2019, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

    It feels like they probably should have had this argument a bit earlier.

  9. Emm
    Emm
    April 10, 2021, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

    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.

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