Not as angry as the name would suggest.
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I would think that too, but I thought the shadow in the final panel looked vaguely human. Maybe it's an evil spectral working with spirits or something? That'd be pretty cool.
As far as I can tell, there's at least two factions of spirits, the Cousinhood, and the Activity Consortium. What we really need is a handy chart to explain who's who.
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I was doing an Archive Binge recently. It's nice to see the little bits of foreshadowing going on. As regards the Cousinhood of Man, wasn't there an early strip depicting a trenchcoated figure referred to as being from another faction?
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They're like the Venatori Umbrarum, I think. Monster hunters first and foremost, basically.
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You mean Isabel? She's Latina, you know.
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Right. Why did I think it was Isabella?
Right, I don't think I've actually read her name in ages and was hedging my bets.
Frankly I wasn't sure. I thought Latina and then I saw her grandfather downed a Dojo complete with wearing a gi and was like "Okay, we're either doing some cross cultural stuff or I mistook a Latina person for an Asian."
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Her grandpa's (whose name is Francisco Guerra, by the way) gi is a bathrobe. Shaolin master he ain't.
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Oh, come on, there's... Well, that one normal kid in Mayview. I'm sure that counts for something.
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Cody? How about that girl also, whatshername, Violet?
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Not helping. If anything Max's family seems to indicate to me that Mayview is where the completely mental go to die.
Between this and the other conspiracies and the fact no spectral can leave town, Mayview sounds like a powder keg. And it just to happens that we get Forge and a fresh new agent the very day the town becomes shut down.
I smell conflict.
And you know what else? I think Boss Leader wants this to happen. I think she could resolve this issue in the time it takes for her to wrap her head up but doesn't for mystery reasons.
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For what its worth, I don't think they're really all that stuck. They just have to find the right door, man.
(I think they can use the doorman to get out. Maybe Max's family still has a key to their old place, hmm?)
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Violet got that one page earlier this chapter that suspicious focused on her for a bit. I personally think she's with one of the other factions.
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No, that was just a highlight to show Max was embarrassed to be seen being weird in front of one of the normals. (His blush made some think shipping implications and Zack debunked it.) shipping
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Translation for the spirit talk: The sunglasses spectral certainly destroyed him, Die with us, brother.
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Not as angry as the name would suggest.
Maybe, but it still looked kind of weird. It's always possible...
Anyway, where did you get that from?
And just who are these bozos?
edited 21st Nov '14 11:44:18 AM by KarkatTheDalek
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According to the comments, the eyes of the skulls correspond to comic pages and which word to translate in.
I got the same thing from the wiki. The last panel was posted in the comments, but I had to check the wiki for the first one.
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x3 The dogs or the dudes giving orders?
If I had to guess, I'd say the latter were human... maybe.
Perhaps the Cousinhood of Man can't officially enter Mayview without suffering blowback from the Consortium, so they're trying to force a conflict that will create a reason for them to be let in?
If they are spirits, they haven't done enough evil to understand the language the dogs speak.
edited 21st Nov '14 3:05:28 PM by JotunofBoredom
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Nine thousand nine hundred eighty-two reasons.
They understand what it says in the first panel, or at least the one guy does?
Mostly does better things now. Key word mostly. Writes things, but you'll never find them. Or you can ask.
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
Dudes in robes.
If I had to guess, I'd say that they're a group of evil spirits and spectrals, separate from the Activity Consortium, the Cousinhood, and whatever faction Doorman's a part of.
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The small spirit on the bigger one's shoulder whispers into his ear. Presumably it translates for them.
Huh, interesting that they don't know that Forge is still "alive" 
That is not generally the practice of groups that call themselves things like the Cousinhood of Man, no.