Talk:Blood Circle

Something wrong with the chronology?
Hey, I think one of us is confused about the chronology. :-)

panel 4 (sepia) Van says "When the Heterodyne Boys forced the circle to go underground, things got tense." Panel 5: "Finally they agreed on the current system -- one family in charge for one year, and that family controls all the sins." In panel 6 we learn that if "the master control device" (not "the snail") isn't passed on after a year, the family is killed. And the picture in that panel shows a device that isn't snail-shaped. In panel 7, Van says "Later they agreed to use the snail race.  To keep it random."

So I think your "Then the Heterodyne Boys came" in paragraph 4 has to be wrong. It seems to me that prior to the Boys, the Heterodyne had the device all the time. The year-timeout feature must have been added later. (By whom?)

I grant you that Charlemagne says "[the Boys] wouldn't even bequeath the snail!" And that doesn't make sense unless the snail was already in service before then. But, the whole idea of rotating through the families was a workaround for the only thing that made sense pre-Boys, namely, the Heterodyne controlling them all (both families and sins) all the time. And I trust Van to make sense more than I trust the late, lamented Charlemagne.

P.S. Do you realize this "short" story has been running for almost three months? Bkharvey (talk) 02:17, October 22, 2017 (UTC)