Grrl Power #780 – Deconsecrated
Yeah, it’s a pretty big church. Or was. I modeled the interior after what I remember of the church my parents used to drag me too, and it was no megachurch, but it was a custom built job, and it had a balcony and a vaulted ceiling. Hope Joel and co. like that air conditioning bill.
The stained glass window blinding everyone while they shop isn’t ideal. In the comic, the building was built facing east so it would catch the sun in the stained glass for morning services, but like most comic shops, they don’t open at 8:00am. They probably open at 11am? By that time the glare from the stained glass window is probably mostly down at the diaz.
Still, it’s got to be annoying trying to bag and sort comics with that crap reflecting off the display case right into your eyes. Maybe there’s a curtain?
And yes, the parking lot behind Sydney is empty and if they’re doing the sort of business that would allow them to move into such a huge property, the lot should be busting with people waiting for the doors to open, but… I don’t know. It was a time thing honestly. That last panel took a while to draw, but for an in-universe explanation, maybe uh… that’s the employee parking lot and juuuuust off camera is where the customers park? Realistically, Sydney should have gotten mobbed by reporters and fans and alien abduction conspiracy theorists and about a thousand other people but damn, I don’t want to have to draw that every time she goes to the comic shop. Maybe I should draw it at least once just to establish it, then have Sydney discover a roof access door she uses from then on.
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It’s STILL a church, just of Halo.
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Arc-Swat Official Merch, I smell business partner.
Being allowed to sell Arc-Swat merch was part of the deal she made before signing if I recall correctly.
Having some exclusive, or maybe early access to, Arc-Swat merch might be part of the reason they managed to grow so big even with the patron hero of the shop MIA.
Don’t remember that part being said but it would be logical
Technically, the air conditioning bill should be fairly reasonable – that’s part of why old buildings in places like Italy have such high ceilings, it helps keep the room cool.
Thermostat at the bottom, cool / agitate the air at the top, and let it sink. The hard part would be heating it…
Not Necisarily. Ours has air return dredges built into the ceiling. Seriously in winter the Church and Gym combined last year had a lower electrical usage than the kitchen which uses gas, and the offices which is on its own meter because of how the building was constructed, well that and the School.
Add a little fountain or water cascade (and a ceiling light window that can be opened to let the water laden air out) and you have a poor man’s airco unit though it acts as a humidifier rather than as a de-humidifier.
Without an airco unit that would make your wallet cry out in agony just looking at it in the brochure you will not get an open building like this entirely comfortable, but simple classical (as in literally from the classical era) technologies(*) can get it quite close to comfortable in there. Well, unless Archon city is in the middle of the desert, then you will need drastic measures.
Keeping the building warm in winter may be a little bigger challenge because that high ceiling will cause a huge freezing downdraft in winter. I have seen old buildings with a four story atrium where they put parachutes in to break the downward flow of the air to prevent the people behind the reception desk from catching pneumonia. Not exactly stylish perhaps but effective if you do not have a lot of money to spend (it was a non-profit organisation so of course they did not have a lot of money).
The thick walls you want for summer also help some during autumn and early winter as they trap a lot of the summer heat and are slow to return it again (unfortunately most of that heat will go outside, not inside).
(* thick and massive walls, make sure the walls are shaded at the height of summer (with plants or with a porch and wide overhanging roof), paint the walls white. No south facing windows if you can at all avoid it. No honking big windows at all (sorry stained glass extravaganza ;)). Evaporate water inside and get rid of the humidity outside)
Air curtains are OK at separating comfort zones. You have to get them built properly, or they’ll be noisy.
Shouldn’t the stain glass be opposite? Unless Sydney went in the back.
No, Sydney went in the front, the glass is at the back
Only problem with the built-in humidifier is that comics don’t like moderate to high humidity.
Yups, was just thinking that
I don’t think Sydney cares for the new venue Joel. I mean what if her new vampire friends try to stop by and can’t come in because you built the new comic store or Holy Ground?
Eh. I’m not sure about protestant/evangelical churches, but when the catholic church abandons a… church (or any other place that has been blessed), there’s an official ritual that lifts its “sacred ground” status.
I mentioned this elsewhere, we call it a Rededication. As in rededicate the property or land from God’s use to the use of its new owners. We used to actually call it a Deconsecration, but that was a while ago. Apparently at one point the Purchaser of a church property for some reason thought we were trying to desecrate the land they were buying from us. It was a Icehouse that someone left our church in there will. Think bar and grill with long troughs of ice and beer. What can I say it’s Texas.
Basically it askes for God to release the land from being dedicated to the Christian Church and or to the Lutheran church, that the memory’s of people time in the Church remain a blessing,(always a part of the ritual) and that God would bless the new and future owners. Technically we will leave that last bit out if asked, and since we often are transferring property’s to another Christian church we will specifically ask for a release from being dedicated to the Lutheran Church, not the Christian Church.
We will do a Revocation(which is not the same as a Deconsecration/Rededication) or Deconsecration if the current or new owners ask. And yes both have been asked for. The most recent Deconsecration that I know of was asked by a Lutheran because he was old school. Not sure who requested the revocations beyond the fact that the then buyer of the Parsonage asked for The Revocation. Seriously someone asked us to remove any and all Blessing of God made in the name of the Apostolic Lutheran Church from the House.
And before you ask no. An Icehouse was not the weirdest property we have had to deal with.
Wait until a Rabbi has to go into a food processing plant where there used to be Heinz making kosher foods, but has been bought up by someone who won’t be making any kosher food. Everything that was originally blessed by a Rabbi before will have to be Rededicated, from huge pickle vats to smaller processing lines & maybe even hand tools that were left behind.
Do you think that might be even more strange than an icehouse?
What about Stonehenge? Does it officially still have its Druidic mojo if there aren’t any more Druids?
When the Romans conquered a place they put their temples on top of native sacred sites. Then later the Catholic church put their buildings on top of all the Roman sites. I don’t know what the rules are for involuntary forfeiture.
The rules are “God built the universe; God owns it all; God will therefore allow any property to be dedicated to God regardless of the wishes of any prior owner (or deity thereof).”
Convenient rule, right?
Why? Why would the new owners bother with inviting a rabbi in to do their thing? If they are not Jewish or are secular, why would they want to waste the time on the flim flam and hocus pokus of some other religion, or any religion at all?
Would the fittings need to be rededicated if they’re going from Kosher to Secular production? I would expect it to be similar to ‘levels of specification’ in other settings: that some applications need the high-level fittings while others run fine with normal-level, but high-level fittings work fine for normal-level applications.
From a religion side, the deconsecration is an actual thing done with such sites. Now whether that works to remove the issues for vampires in this universe… *shrug*
It probably depends on the tenaments of that specific Churces. I think a revocation would since the new owners specifically ask for the withdrawal of Gods Blessing.
A Rededication that calls for God to Bless the future owners may very well extend the Blessed ground rule. Especially if the current owners would prefer the land to still be blessed. This is what happened when our church ended the lease on the strip mall we were useing at the time and returned it to use as a strip mall that was owned by a current member of the congregation. I think it’s now Tex-mex place?
The Ice house technicaly was just transferred to us under terms of the will. I dont think we actualy got around to Consecrating or Dedicating it, We did end up blessing it when we sold it to make the new owners happy.
As for ?Vampires? this is where it gets crazy.
Animalistic undead (Zombi /ghoul)are simply animals. They should be treated as rabid animals but humanly as far as that is possible.
“Non human” sentient souls. Here your looking at People like Scionia and her people https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-743-introducing-escorpia-and-shes-dead/
Guess what. There are grounds for this possession being considered somewhat unethical Organ harvesting. Yes The three criminals died by murder. But the Souls in this case evaded being claimed by God or Satan. So guess what? Them possessing dead/or dying bodies? That one will Be at best one hell of a legal fight, but ironically because organ donation is ok you have one case of preforming an unauthorized medical procedure, two cases of maybe aggravated self defense, one case of unintentional homicide since she did not realize she possessed a super, and three more cases of UAP. Believe it or not it’s entirely possible for her to go in and say look because of this spell I can bring these people back from the dead, I just need dead bodies. (Or maybe just donated organs or even just donated blood and some tissue )
Dead body animated by something but with original or otherwise human soul(even a damaged soul but I never got a straight explanation of that!). Believe it not this may actualy be treated by many Christians and Catholics as a medical condition! See previous. Granted one that makes you basicaly crazy, Solar phobic, and with a weird dietary needs, but so long as you don’t try to turn people into vampires……yah we kind of have to try and treat you like anyone else with a potentially terminal disease.
People with no soul or somehow possessed br some kind of spirit? Well if the vampire is dead and has no soul it is some kind of automaton. If it is somehow dead but somehow possessed by a soul that animates it,. Well depending the vampire may be treated as a medical condition or a spiritual possession. Demonic possession of a living body is, apparently, something else and is covered by exorcism . Other than being told it’s complicated, Spirits are not souls, and so on….it may or may not be possible for your dead body to be possessed by another soul.
As if any more evidence were needed that religion makes people do crazy dumb shit for crazy dumb stupid reasons based on their own specific fairy tales and delusions… Thanks for your post.
I think we can safely say that souls do exist in the Grrlverse, or else Sciona’s people couldn’t have been stored in a “soul battery”, but that only proves the existence of Ailari souls. It could be that Sciona’s extraordinary resistance stems from the fact that she has a soul whereas most beings do not. Maybe only those species known as “angels” or “demons”possess them. Makes an interesting justification for the way Ailari seem to treat other races.
Don’t get too crazy over the use of the word ‘soul.’ It could just be their term for a quantum field generator, after all.
I think we can safely say that vampires if vampires are welcome, then they won’t feel any ill effects (aside from looking at the price tags!)
As an old vampire once said:
“Don’t ever invite a vampire into your house, you silly boy. It renders you powerless.”
The fact that Werewolves are unaffected by the moon in this universe makes me think the vampires probably don’t care much about religious symbols.
They aren’t unaffected by it, they just don’t howl at it.
From chapter 446 : “The moon has *nothing* to do with werewolves”.
If werewolves don’t change at the full moon, I’m guessing vampires fear less the priest holding the cross than the crowd with forks and torches behind him.
Anyone else bothered by the stained glass flipping around to produce the image as projected on the floor? If the depiction of Sydney is holding the orb in its right hand from an outside perspective, then the projection on the floor/wall/stuff on the inside should also be holding the orb in its right hand.
Accurate. Also, for Dave’s concern, stained glass doesn’t tend to let in a whole lot of light, and what does get in is scattered. There wouldn’t be much glare.
Spoken like a person who has never been blinded because the sun is shining right through the stained glass window above the pulpet into your eyes no matter where you move on the pew.
I’ve honestly considered wearing sunglasses to church sometimes.
That doesn’t look like stained glass as much as printed-on glass.
Is that a thing?
I can’t place any real-world examples.
It could just be a clear vinyl applique on a round glass window, an actual stained glass window that huge wouldve been phenomenally expensive and taken more than 52 days to craft.
The acolytes of the Church of Halo work fast and cheap.
It depends on the glass – some just applies a colour-filter to the light and otherwise lets it through as normal (which projects a nice image on the floor/wall, but isn’t that pretty to look at); others also diffuse the light, which makes it less useful for look through, but means it has a pretty glow from a wide range of angles.
The amount of light also varies, depending on how broad a range of frequencies get let through, and how much gets filtered out.
That, or the image should be upside down. Depending on where the window is.
I’s say that in this projection of Halos head it should be on the right,
the hand with orb and the colors of the floating orbs are oriented correct.
Unless, of course, the inside projection comes from a beamer somewhere on the ceiling.
Considering the shadows the former church has its front to the east, southeast.
Stained glass also tends to look like a dark blob from the outside during the day time. Given the outside shot I had been picturing it as *painted* on, made up to look like stained glass. (Also, needs more interior lines on the starbursts; the face and shirt could be painted stained glass, but those starbursts with their interior angles would be near impossible to cut from glass with traditional techniques.)
I would have figured you’d be harder pressed to do the halo symbol inset into the shirt without first breaking up the shirt, especially considering the acute angles of the thing.
Really, they should have made the shirt wrinkly, and used those wrinkles, and Sydney’s figure, to define where the additional caning went.
and yes, I was and am a proponent for the theory that it is paint, gel, or window cling applied over an otherwise clear window.
Window cling cut with a vinyl cutter would be pretty easy. Masking with electrical tape would look good for awhile.
There are stained glass window kits. You can buy sun catcher kits to practice on and then when you’re ready, buy full tubes of paint and full packs of leading to make whatever size you want. When my congregation bought a hall with plain windows, we made large framed panels on plexiglas to hang in them. Works wonderfully.
I wonder if it is real stained glass, or glass that has been treated in the desired color?
It would be a lot cheaper to do it that way. Plus comic most comic book stores don’t have much of a budget in the first place.
This comic book store didn’t have much of a budget either…Until Sydney joined Archon & Arianna talked to Joel about cutting some deals. Granted, Sydney wasn’t present for the negotiations, but Arianna had a contract with Sydney’s siganture on it to work with.
Couldn’t the energy tentacle squeak through the space between the doors and flip open the deadbolt for her so she could let herself into her own store instead of waiting for Rufus to get around to opening it for her?
Probably, but she knows she’s been gone for what everyone else things was months. Even Sydney is smart enough to know that breaking in might not be a good idea right now. Especially when she can presumably see the people inside through the glass doors and just knock normally.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed the glass window image being flipped on the inside. The orb should be in her right hand.
Yes, a mistake was made. But look at how he made that projection follow the topology of the store so well. I think I’d have been tempted to just blur it to the point you couldn’t tell, maybe do a few breaks using a deform tool and an incomplete selection, and call it good.
The only mistake made, is by people not knowing which end of the building has the window and which end has the front door
Nope. The only way to get that image would be if the stained glass were on the wall she entered, and a huge mirror on the opposite wall.
Probably the easiest fix would be to mirror-swap the prior page image of the round part of the glass, so that the orb is in her left hand, and it matches the light-shadow here.
Oh there is no doubt that his artwork is amazing. I wasn’t trying suggest otherwise, or point out any mistakes. I’d give my non-dominant arm to draw half as well as he does. I just happen to be one of those OCD types that immediately felt my brain involuntarily jerk, focus, and obsess over the inconsistency. Honestly, I wouldn’t have bothered to say anything unless someone else noticed it too. My friends tell me that my obsession over non-important details is excessive. – So really, I’m just glad I wasn’t the only weirdo who did a double take. lol
Amazing artwork, great comic, and I love the spazy Sydney.
/clicks stop watch.
By the way I think the betting pool is still open until 4:45 am central/Dallas Texas time with the pool rolling over at 5:15 when additional bets can be taken.
And really to be honest no one should have bet for today.
What?
Syd already knows about the betting pool. She overheard Arriana and max talking about it. She just did not know about the church part.
Hey, even the great Gary Larson knew the sting of time crunch. A perfect example is his Far Side comic titled “It Was Late and I Was Tired.”
I like Rufus, and I think Sydney likes him too (in a ‘haha, you got me’ friendly kind of way). Also, he reminds me of their DM from the first pages.
Looking back, and I’m calling it possible nay probable that he IS the DM from the first few pages. Or rather will be the DM from the first few pages, you know what I mean… :-)
Now that you’ve made me look back at the first few pages there’s some odd things going on there. All summed up of page 4. Sydney is driving to work, and all while having the orbs stowed away. Page 4 is in the future, but she generally flies everywhere now, and has the orbs out permanently even when asleep.
Again, that was more likely DaveB avoiding huge giant SPOILERS!!!!
Or she’s getting sick of being constantly peppered by questions from reporters. Driving with the orbs hidden makes sneaking in a lot easier than flying in with the orbs visible.
Or it has been requested that she drive, instead of fly, as sighting her was causing traffic issues…
If the halo projection comes from the window overhead
the image should be flipped imo.
Looking at the shadows the sun is shining straight behind Halo.
The stained glass window is at the back of the building, Sydney entered from the front
As I mentioned at a later comment, the shadows put the window and the entrance at the same side.
I agree that DaveB is not always as precise as he should be with his shadows and buildings etc.
Sorry Dave, it is a honest observation.
Look at where Sydney is pointing while she’s incredulously(sp‹?›) responding to Rufus, when he asks who she is (panel 5)
Aaaand now we know that Sydney’s the sort of person who will swear in a church.
…. tbf, there wasn’t much doubt about that to begin with, but now there’s confirmation.
Got to say, that projection of the stained glass looks more like a bad watermark. It’s upside down, should be mirrored and is striking the back of the cabinets somehow.
It looks to me that the entrance is on the opposite side of the Church of Halo than the entrance. So the stained glass projection is actually correct for that angle. The stained glass is above and behind on the right side of the last panel so you can see it when you enter.
@daedster is right about the positioning (as are a few others in the thread) but @Morri is right about the mirroring. From that angle, you should have the same left/right orientation as the image seen from outside. Basically, (ignoring her own shadow) she’d see the same image on the glass (while hovering outside), as she sees on the floor if she were in the same position but moved forward to the other side of the glass.
Unless they have front and Back stained glass, which is not that unusual.
Don’t sweat the lack of a crowd. Really early in the morning and nobody would be there, except for the owners dealing with stocking. There might have been somebody from the press there, but they didn’t try and get close to here because maybe she already has a reputation with them? Besides, the last panel had to be difficult to draw.And as an abandoned church Joel could have gotten a pretty good deal on the property.
also remember that it’s been 2 months
The News buzz about Sydney’s shop moving to a new huge location has probably long since passed through the excitement cycle
Specially with Sydney not being there in person
Plus it’s probably 8AM and most comic book stores don’t open until 10 or 11.
I mean…. they are built with great floor space in mind. A conversion like that isn’t a bad idea, but it might rub some people the wrong way.
Honestly, building on the sites of deconsecrated churches is fairly accepted these days. Although I’m sure that it sucks for people who have cherished memories of baptisms and weddings to see a brewery, or a rock-climbing gym, in that place.
not particularly. Churches being sold are not uncommon at all
Dragon’s Lair in Austin has about that much floor space. Great store too. Wish I still lived there still.
I agree, some people might be rubbed the wrong way.
But those same people think RPG’s are tools of the devil, and comic books are exclusively for young boys (if superheroes) or very young children (if Disney or, maybe, Harvey, don’t know how they’d handle Casper or Wendy), so they’re not likely to be customers anyway.
Do the stairs with the red carpet now lead to Sydney’s throne? Or is it still an altar?
Probably the super rare merch.
Altars aren’t on the mezzanine. When it was a church that would have been seating.
Other stairs, under the stained glass window. Opposite the doors she just came in through.
It’s to the pipe organ. All the REALLY high class hero and villain lairs have a pipe organ.
And the really LOW class ones have a disco ball and color organ.
Or a bucking bull.
Notes
Halo apparently let her orbs tap on the glass.
That Rufus has a survival instinct and is not to be seen in the wide view.
Only 2 new hires(maybe), Rufus and Blondi, who may or may not be Brad. The lady is probably Olivia.
Maxima has a T shirt now apparently.
I double checked with Pastor. For us at least selling a church property always involves a Ceremony of Rededication. Regardless of if the property is being resold to another church, or for private or Commercial use. It’s basically asking for the memory of its past to be a blessing for all members past, and for its use to be a blessing on current and future owners and users.
You sure the tapping wasn’t her tapping her foot in irritation?
Given that her orbs actualy orbit either one is possible.
Apparently they have a lax dress code, because it looks like Olivia is going shirtless today. XD
I thought the same, but it is just a pink tube top. :(
She’s wearing/advertising one of the items from the Official Archon line of merchandise. Something based on Dabbler’s input.
Yeah, was wondering where Rufus went as well, until noticed that the building has a double set of doors with a narrow entrance way in between (and it almost looks like another set of doors far to the back on what would be the side, can just make out a handle in panel seven)
Great for meet and greets with the congragation, and keeps the heat and cold out of main church.
I don’t think there is a parking lot problem? Rufus had to unlock the door, so unless he ushers in every customer they aren’t open yet.
But Sydney was surprised that there wasn’t a line waiting for them to open at the old location. Making the lack of same at the new location a parking lot problem. I mean, unless moving and changing the name of the store drove away their customers, which would make it a couple of really terrible business decisions.
I’m worried all that exposure to direct sunlight’s going to fade the comic-book covers something terrible. Joel may have dropped the ball, commercitecturally speaking.
The stained glass difuses the light. I am in three to five different church buildings in the course of a typical week.
Also, most modern glass has a UV filter coating for energy efficiency, and the colored material may also be something engineered to help with that.
Rufus and the blond guy behind Joel round out the RPG game from the opening sequence. Looks like its a game for the store employees.
After a while they go back to being Event Horizon Comics….
That reminds me that Sydney advertised her web site of that name. I wonder if Joel got the new store a new site? The new name is hard to easily web-ify.
Isn’t the stained glass on the front of the store? Shouldn’t it be projecting the colored light the other direction?
No, stained glass is on the back, so that it is behind the pulpit and the congregation faces it during the service.
Is that how it is in Protestant churches? In the Catholic churches I’ve been in, the wall behind the alter was solid and held the crucifix and the organ pipes (if present). The big stained glass window was behind the congregation.
Depends on the building. I’ve seen either position for the big windows, without any clear trend by denomination. In most cases, the Crucifix was free-standing, with the organ console to one side of the choir area (between congregation and altar) and the pipes above, which would not get in the way of a window.
Don’t worry about the emptiness. Just chalk it up to its not opening time yet!
I have worked a few malls and shopping centers. Most customers know when opening time is and try to come after that. So empty parking lot is no big deal. Lack of press, do they even know her schedule? I mean she has been missing for 52 days.
Who is that wearing micro-shorts, thigh-high boots and nothing else in the background?
She has on a peach colored top, and it’s Olivia.
*dais
Old churches have a bell tower. i can see her loving a classic Batman style entry point like that.
I don’t think this is an “old” church. Probably late 70’s, early 80’s. If it did have a belfry, it’d probably be electric.
And not all old churches have a belfry.
If they built a church in the 70’s or 80’s but included flying buttresses, I can’t imagine they wouldn’t continue the theme to include a bell tower.
Point, but it’d likely be a foreshortened, forced perspective, suggestion of a bell-tower with, at best, a speaker system that “sorta-sounded” like bells.
There could easily be no access between it and the interior of the church.
There’s a starship parked at the Archon building, another one wrecked nearby, and there was a lightshow to end all lightshows just a few hours ago. All this in front of reporters. Along with Halo’s arrival.
I think the early crowd is going to be piled up around Archon HQ, as near to the action as police lines will permit.
And Sydney has plenty of money to install as many hatches and secret entrances as her heart desires. Even a flipping door batcave type entrance if she wants one. She may take a while remembering that she’s relatively wealthy now, she’s not exactly had time to settle into the idea.
Dragon’s Lair in Austin has about that much floor space. Great store too. Wish I still lived there still.
Sorry, laptop didn’t show posting first time so reposted.
Re: Jan Baer
It looks like a tee shirt with a colour in the pink family. Though it is too light and muted for proper pink so probably carnation or amaranth rather than pink. Or any of the over 20 colours in that family that most men have trouble telling apart ;)
And Dave could have intended for a more beige/tan/nude(*)colour which ups the possibiities towards the hundred different named colours :)
Looks like he went for something pink though that is mute and brown enough to be mistaken for skin colour. Though to be fair, I strongly doubt Dave wanted to make it appear as if Joel had started a particularly sleezy branch of hooters ;)
(* yes, those are all colours and they are all different colour families too)
Note that there’s a difference between ‘can tell colours apart’ and ‘able and willing to remember and use the specific rather than family name’. My colour differentiation ability was rated well above average when it was tested a few years ago, but I couldn’t have told you the specific names of any of them – even if I knew them in the first place, remembering without context is a completely different skill.
Is there a second identical stained glass window on the other side of the building? Because otherwise that image beaming down on Joel is upside down since Sydney is still at the front.
There is only one stained glass window, its at the back, and Sydney was at the back of the building (go back and look where the grass was versus where the parking lot was) last page.
Just looked again and you’re right, the parking lot does put the entrance on the back, so the orientation of the light beam checks out after all. My mistake!
Where did Rufus go in the last panel?
Staid in the entrance way to re-lock the front doors
Not seeing cash registers or their digital equivalents.
If I did, shouldn’t they be closer to the door?
Yes and no. Placing them closer to the door would theoretically help with grab and dash shoplifting, or the “I’ve already paid for this” shoplifting, but otherwise, no.
I’ve seen comic book shops, including one fairly large, where the counter was on the opposite wall from the entrance doors. I guess they preferred seeing people come in to being the last line of defense to stop people getting out without paying.
That, and they can put a discrete picture at the entrance of Sydney cutting that tank to pieces and a tagline underneath of “shoplifters will be dealt with quickly and decisively”
How long before Joel points out that he’s got at least as much reason to be upset as she does, if not more so? From his point of view his business partner has been MIA for WEEKS. He’s been sending her texts, he’s been trying to keep the business going without her.
She comes back and finds that they’ve relocated, expanded, and are clearly doing well for themselves. So what is she complaining about?
Best way to show Rufus values her.. privacy I guess. if she knows he won’t SQUEEE every time he sees her
Not.. well it’s a bigger church than usual. but not as big a deal as people think. There’s a restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky called Joey Bologna’s Italian Restaurant. it’s in an old small catholic church
Halo- JOEL How am I supposed to get in to work if I can’t fight my way through the mob. And who leaked which days I’m here to work?
Joel- Why didn’t you use the Quasimodo Entrance? And probably Arianna… It’s upstairs. Used to be the Bellfry. We couldn’t afford to move the bells…Arianna offered, but I’m thinking of having it wired to the alarm…also they’re valuable or historical…not sure.
it is likely that the comic store opened a while ago. I am also guessing it is early in the morning and I don’t know any shops that people wait in front of for hours except for special occasions like openings or release days.
If that were true, (unless you mean opened as in grand opening), then Rufus wouldn’t have had to come unlock the doors to let Sydney in.
They’re still in pre-open prep. Put out the new merchandise, make sure the soda fountain machines are working, (or better yet, relocated as far from the comic books as possible,…maybe Kentucky), make sure the overnight backup completed okay and the computer is working and has a good internet connection (for both the credit card machine and to look up things for customers), make a bank run for the morning till, (so many 1’s, 5’s and maybe a few 10’s (but probably not), also a few rolls each of quarters, dimes, nickles, and pennies), pick up any litter that you missed seeing in the dim light post-close (or that the closing team “missed seeing” as they wanted to get things over with and gone).
Normal morning chores for a store.
No, they mean openings, as in opening big shipments of special products, like when a new movie gets released and people swarm like feral blood-gophers to get hold of the products first so they can sell them at jacked up prices on eBay
I assumed that it was relatively early and the other people wouldnt make it till then.
Should be more hugs any second!
From Olivia, yes :D