IVIV Doc goes to find Wolfmann
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 1 10:05:41 CDT 2009
John C. writes:
> Yeah. But to what extent can he trust Penny?
As we come to learn, his P.I. intuition is right about Penny, so that's a major reason he didn't go to her first, maybe?
John C. also writes:
quite a few
> of the principal characters are very much in the grey zone, aren't
> they?
Which might lead one to say that, even in this short book, drawn mostly in short sketches and scenes, TRP creates characters that are NOT just cartoons, as has been charged against him? (not that there's anything wrong with that!). Discuss.
I think, John, I see Bigfoot more unambiguously than you do, though. Others?
>
Her and Shasta
> are both
> potential candidates for the role of femme fatale. We can't
> be too
> sure about Mickey, or Bigfoot. When it comes down to it,
>
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