— Exercise for class: Explain the differences between
a nation; a people; a race; a state; a culture
— by that token, does Nuëlle mix apples and hand grenades in her
first statement? Also comment on her statement that she is "
Jewish by way of her mother"!
— Weirdly enough, I used to own the horrible top Nu's wearing in the last panel.
— If you don't understand what the last panel shows, the girlscouts failed you.
— Perhaps thanks to the dreamy expression, there's something Harlekijnesque about Soleil in this strip. Indeed there are some parallels in that both characters try to look on the fun side of life, and for all we know, are prepared to protect that side with a very large mallet.
—
Fire (DC).
Sunspot (Marvel). Note that Sunspot's last name is also da Costa. I'm not sure whether to think they're mysteriously related across canons, or whether writers somehow think there's only one "Brazilian name." And that's not even going into how Fire's writers seem to use
broken Spanish more often than Portuguese.
— The 2nd panel is a piss-taking on the
one drop rule, of course.
{{title: #010 — Heritage}}
[[At night. Nuëlle and Soleil are on Ipanema beach. There are fireworks in the background.]]
SCA: I still don't understand your heritage.
ENG: Jewish. By way of my mother. British too, same way. Part Brazilian. Part Italian.
SCA: You had three mothers??
ENG: And a father.
ENG: Seriously, that's such an American question. In Europe, people will just tell you whatever's printed in their documents. Or … something. You just don't get that 'Oh, I'm 1/64th Cherokee' shit there.
SCA: I'm asking for a reason. If you're Brazilian, you may have superpowers. Like Beatriz da Costa.
ENG: Like who?
SCA: Fire from DC Comics. Marvel also has a fire guy from Brazil.
ENG: Brazil, hot, fire powers? That's the best they could do? Seriously?
SCA: /Try/ it.
ENG: Try what?
SCA: Like, make fire.
[[ENG tries to make fire, the girlscout way]]
This is /so/ not working!
