When she was too late to save the Professor, she used the most straightforward approach her keen, but afflicted mind was able to come up with - she used the Professor's body to continue her research. You think this sounds almost too good to be a background comic in our favourite crapsack world? Check that 6th frame then. She actually loved that Professor and tried to obtain a cure for him - notice the red spot on her papers on the 5th frame? That's because during the 4th frame she tried to invent a cure for his illness (infecting frogs to research how the disease actually works) after she noticed him suffering from it on the 3rd frame. There are no reasons to think that she had animosity towards the Professor. Why would she need him to be dead, anyway? In real life, there can be a lot of reasons for that, of course, but the comic hints on no such thing. So, maybe she actually inflicted him with a disease to obtain his corpse? That was a much more interesting and fitting idea for a background of our beloved Doctor, but something still felt off.Īnd then I've noticed that order of the panels does not aligns with my second interpretation of the comic. Especially considering the fact that she is a Plague Doctor, after all. That felt dumb, so I got here and stumbled upon your comment, which made me look at the comics for a second time.Ĭhecking again, I've noticed the persistence with which that red spot on the handkerchief is drawn. My first thought was that the Professor (for a lack of an actual name) was already dying, and she has just "carped" the "diem", so to speak, and dissected his corpse just for the sake "FOR SCIENCE!". In other words, she's not evil but she has a very, very dodgy attitude towards human remains. (Ben Franklin's neighbour in London left lots of human bones in the cellar of their shared house, for example.) This hasn't gone away - look up the Alder Hey Children's Hospital scandal for some recent macabre activity. In summary, PD isn't a serial killer, but she's certainly creepy in a way a lot of historical anatomists were. The skull suggests this wasn't the first time she seized an opportunity either.Īnyone spot the 'Stress Halo' formed around her head by the blood? I doubt she rubbed out her lecturer, but she certainly took a very, err, 'keen' interest in his decline, and dissected his body while the poor sod was still warm. Or she's a bit like Doom Guy (also left-handed). As /u/CaptainWafflebeard has noted, Doc Beaky is left-handed - on the one hand, this could allude to the 'left-hand path' (this time, of science rather than the occult), or a certain irony, given that lefties tended to be pathologised and suppressed in our world.
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