Welcome to Chapter 24: The Guthrie! This is the big one. Everything has been leading to THIS. We’ve never tackled a chapter so big and so riddled with consequence. Honestly, I think both Marc and I are scared of this chapter. There’s just…it’s a lot. Think of it as a song that starts out quietly and gets bigger and bigger as it goes. That’s Chapter 24.
WHILE WE WERE AWAY
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How many fingers does that Harvey has?!
Haha. As many as he needs.
Oh God. Never has the introduction of a rabbit given me more chills and a feeling of foreboding.
Only Monty Python and the Holy Grail on a rewatch can compare, amiright?
Ok…Brock, I gotta ask, cuz I think I missed it along the way.
Why, by Ghu’s Gangling Gonads, is it called “The Guthrie”? Does it have something to do with Woody Guthrie’s guitar, with the sticker that said “This machine kills fascists”?
There’s a similar instrument in sci-fi, the White Violin from Charlie Stross’ Laundry Files: “… It’s bone-white because it’s made from polished bones—human bones extracted from more than a dozen living donors without anesthesia in the predecessors of the medical laboratories at Birkenau and Belsen. It’s an Erich Zahn original, with Hilbert-space pickups, and it plays the music of the hyper-spheres until the audience bleeds from ears, eyes and other orifices. I’ve seen it steal souls and lay the walking dead to rest. I’ve seen it whip up a storm and blast lightning across the floor of a megalomaniac’s floating fortress. It is not a suitable instrument for lullabies and nursery rhymes…” Its case has a sticker on it that reads “This machine kills demons.”
I don’t know that anyone has ever made the Woody Guthrie connection, but you’re spot on. That is EXACTLY why it’s named that. Plus, I just like the sound of it.
Yay! I finally got something RIGHT! Woo hoo!!!
Aw no. Awwww no. I’d already been pretty confident that Thrice was playing dumb with Dr Rocket right from the start, but this is only making me more suspicious. I suspect that’s not actually Harvey there.
That said, if this is a legit delivery, I’m surprised that Harvey’s not been with Doc the whole time; the last we saw him, he was with Doc and content enough. Pre-timeskip, so I suppose there’s been more than enough opportunities for them to be separated.
Yeah, Doc and Harvey have been apart for a bit. There was actually a line in Chapter 22–a very brief line–that explained what Harvey has been up to. No need to go back and check though, it’s referenced in the very next strip.