Unless she buys it anyway, just to try and puzzle out the story from the images, just as an exercise. Mind you, if she was interested in it at all (which she isn't), it would be strictly for the words... Maybe she can tell herself that she could learn Japanese? Good career move!* Or maybe someone could advise on the translation...themacnut wrote:Assuming the book's in English. If it's following the real-life sequences of events as Spidrift outlined, the book may be in Japanese, and if Ruby doesn't read Japanese, then no sale after all.
One suspects that Jung may even Have A Plan here.
Her choice of words all but admits that. The denial isn't really sustainable, which is why watching the comic spin it out too long could get a bit painful. At best, Brasca is right and Ruby is fairly significantly psychologically damaged, which makes the comic less than really funny.themacnut wrote:And Ruby, according to your own definition, you are a quite the "poor twisted freak" yourself.
*Envisage: Five years down the line, comics time, and Ruby has a high-flying job in international finance, speciality the Japanese market. But she always blushes and changes the subject when colleagues ask how and why she learned the language so fluently.
, in the business of keeping the little Platypus in business
