Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/29/billy-dare-boy-adventurer-in-2.html
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the famed boy adventurer Billy Dare solves the mystery of the Murder in the Parlor by using some spiffy genre analysis.
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Needs more Quentin.
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“Next: Escape from the lowest genre” - Now wait just a goll durn minute.!
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It’s funny 'cause it’s true!
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Needs more meta.
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Also, what’s with that Roman numeral “viXI”
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The top bar means to multiply those numerals by a thousand. So 6011.
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Also, miss Chiddingfold is in fact Bianca Castafiore’s maid, Irma.
The plot thickens…
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I believe on the next page Billy falls into an actual rabbit-hole, and comments how “irony has become such a tired crutch for untalented hacks.”
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