Stuart gets up, goes to all the trouble of organizing an event and basically, himself, states that “This is what people did, way back in the day, before they knew a fact that is so staggeringly well-known that we cannot fathom how people COULDN’T know it: the sun doesn’t ‘disappear.’ It comes back every year.” Grand. I think it’s kind of interesting as a metaphor. How did they manage to drag Cynthia to this and what do she and Sydney have to say to each other? Would they be like minded friends and sympathize with each other about the clueless liberals or would it be hate/rivalry at first sight? (Don’t think too hard about the astronomical implications of the light “triumphing” and days getting longer instead of shorter–there’s no way to make it work in a heliocentric model.) Is the “dark” side of humanity, the one that causes wars, etc, also necessary? Maybe, but does it have to lead to wars? Couldn’t we just sublimate into nasty football rituals or something?ģ. Be that as it may, if the light triumphed over darkness in June, the earth would become too hot to live on and humanity and all other life on earth would be destroyed. I don’t see Stuart as silencing Sydney, more the other way around. Janis and Raffi…hmm…Actually, I think that they’d be perfect for each other’s adolescent crushes.Ģ.
And of course, we have Raffi and Janis as dark-colored doppelgangers in the final panel, which is pretty much bifurcated into light and dark sides.with Mo’s head directly in line with the ’s the one always wearing black/white stripes.a sort of deconstruction of the light-dark binary? Mo as unstable third term? So what does this mean - Mo will be our savior? Mo-misery is the way to go? Mo and Sydney will never manage to cross the huge white/blank space separating them in the last panel, a space so blank it seems under erasure? Is Stuart’s light a version of the white whale? What does Bataille say about *that*, hmmmm?ġ. The circle of light can’t hide the social fissures - So the darkness is still pervasive the little flickering candles can’t do much.
Raffi’s arm in the second panel and Sparrow’s in the final one don’t seem quite Anatomically Accurate, which is A-typical of AB (how’s that for A-lliteration?) In panel four, Sydney’s arm seems used more as a chokehold than a gesture of affection. I’m so used to reading this strip down to the minute-est of minutiae, so perhaps I’ve gone to the dark side of over-analysis, but it strikes me that several of the arms-across-the-shoulders are slightly off in visual terms.
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