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MARIE
We need to get this out of here. You know the thing this book was responsible for conjuring last time… we can’t have something like that show up here.
THOMAS
Was this the thing you guys were talking about? At Grand Park? I saw it on Twitter! I’m so mad I missed it!
MARIE
It was a monster, Thomas.
THOMAS
… a cool monster.
MARIE
A COOL MONSTER?
JEMMA
It was pretty cool.
She gets a look from Marie.
JEMMA
In a terrifying, destructive way.
THOMAS
But that’s what made it cooooool.
We need to get this out of here. You know the thing this book was responsible for conjuring last time… we can’t have something like that show up here.
THOMAS
Was this the thing you guys were talking about? At Grand Park? I saw it on Twitter! I’m so mad I missed it!
MARIE
It was a monster, Thomas.
THOMAS
… a cool monster.
MARIE
A COOL MONSTER?
JEMMA
It was pretty cool.
She gets a look from Marie.
JEMMA
In a terrifying, destructive way.
THOMAS
But that’s what made it cooooool.
Can someone feed Tommy-dork to the next nasty monster? Please?
I’m starting to get on board with the “Thomas is a goober” commenters. Terrifying, destructive monsters are only cool in the movies.
Oh, god, he just went from Goober to really Annoying.
Snek food.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds Thomas irritating.
Marie in panel 7; Urgh, I’m surrounded by idiots
I’m so glad I finally decided to read Rubi! I just started 2 days ago and caught up last night. Such an awesome story, amazing characters, and gorgeous art. I’m hooked 🙂
Don’t forget to read Candi, if you haven’t already
In Thomas’ defense, from what we saw, no one was actually injured by the ‘terrifying, destructive’ monster. Hell, since it manifested at a park, the only property damage was to temporary structures. And he, himself, only heard about it on Twitter, which was probably heavily biased towards people oohing and aahing about it (especially in his Twitter feed, since most people Follow others of a similar nature to themselves, so he’s probably got a fair number of folks fascinated with the supernatural on his feed).
Now, it’s possible he’d be just as gooberish if the snek had destroyed someone’s home, or even worse, if it’d had a body-count. If that happens, yeah, time for snek-food. But right now, he’s just foolishly naive about what COULD have happened.
Yeah no one died. His reaction is similar to folks who are bummed out when they didn’t feel a small earthquake. Everyone gets excited about those when no one gets hurt, and it’s all over Twitter for the first hour or so after they happen.