Comments on: “Torch”– part III, page 35

By: Oneiros

Oneiros — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:36:56 +0000

Went to SPXPO this weekend. Carla reminded me that “Fight Scene” is part of the Sin-Eater hardback. Silly me.

By: Oneiros

Oneiros — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:35:37 +0000

Hm. Part of Jaeger’s family by adoption. Interesting. I like that. Carla once said that Jaeger helps keep Magri grounded, so there’s a continuing relationship there.

That all kinda fits in with the Jesus story. His disciples were kinda like family.

By: Hmpf

Hmpf — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:03:35 +0000

I think that in most of the series, Jaeger’s ‘family’ (in the currently dominant, narrow, ‘marriage and blood relations’ sense) is just his daughter. And, later, her kids. (Well, and Roy, and possibly Jaeger’s still nameless half-sister too, of course.) There’s the possibility that he has other children, of course, but I’m getting more of a sense of adoption – in a very wide sense – from Jaeger. I think he kind of assembles a tribe of sorts, over the decades spanned by the series. The Grosvenor kids are part of it, and Brom is, probably, and Xini, and who knows how many other people. Judging from the end of Dream Sequence, Magri may have gotten adopted into it, too.

By: Oneiros

Oneiros — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:37:17 +0000

Grandchildren? I suppose so. He did have at least one grown child there.

I took another look at Dream Sequence. I think he grows a lot of facial hair at that time because he didn’t want to be recognized as the source of the face that was in all those movies, including porn. As he’s walking down the sidewalk, his clean-shaven face shows up on the screens that are on the building wall, advertising various movies. His likeness was recorded at MunkyTown in King of the Cats, then digitally used for various other movies. The extra facial hair in Dream Sequence, then was grown to hide his identity. Carla wrote in some notes at the end of Mystery Date that he’d grow facial hair to change his appearance in a disguise way. So that helped him look older in Dream Sequence. And so, again, his inadvertent change of hair played a part in his drama. At MunkyTown, he cut his hair to get in, and so was not readily recognized as an Ascian. And then in Dream Sequence, with the extra hair, he happened to look like the monster in Magri’s world, so got blamed for the craziness in Elsewhere.

We don’t know much about Jaeger’s family, so pretty much anything’s possible, there.

- Chris

By: Hmpf

Hmpf — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:05:30 +0000

In Dream Sequence Jaeger has grandchildren. (Two, I think.)

By: Oneiros

Oneiros — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:36:27 +0000

To my knowledge, the timeline is not skipping around. At least that’s my impression. A daughter of his was shown in The Rescuers. I think Jaeger right now, in Torch, still has kids and a family, though we’re not shown that at all. He looked very different in Dream Sequence, for sure, though. I’d need to look at Dream Sequence again, to see how old Marcie looks. To my recollection, she looked like she was just in her twenties.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:11:24 +0000

I think the oldest we’ve seen Jaeger is when he gets captured and brought to Magri in Dream Sequence? He has kids by then, doesn’t he? And Marcie is early-middle-aged by that story. I think he’s aging normally, we’re just jumping around in time from story to story.

And that is one shit-eating grin on Coward if I ever saw one. You can almost see the thought bubble. “Yes, yes …. JUST AS PLANNED.”

By: Oneiros

Oneiros — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:26:48 +0000

I checked in “Five Crazy Women” this morning. Jaeger looked older at the beginning of the “So” issue. He looked as young as usual in the first issue when he was ringing up his “girlfriends”. But alas, I don’t know where my “Fight Scene” is!

By: Oneiros

Oneiros — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:42:40 +0000

Jaeger looked older to me in “Five Crazy Women” than he did in “Sin Eater”. But I think it’s possible he’s not aging at a normal rate. Maybe got that Wolverine-type healing factor going on.

By: Peter Tupper

Peter Tupper — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:00:44 +0000

I still think Jaeger is not aging at a normal human rate (i.e. compared to Rachel). Jaeger looks pretty much the same in “Five Crazy Women” as he does in “Sin Eater”, and we know that the main story of “Five Crazy Women” takes place some time after “Torch,” ie. years apart.