It’s a combination of the cotton balls in her ears, and hyperfocus. At some level, she’s heard the commotion behind her, but she’s dismissed it as just a butch fight breaking out or something, without ever thinking about it consciously.
Or at least, that’s what I’m telling myself. :-p
So here´s my theory: Ruth is Superbutch or is related to superbutch in some way. Because we see that she had an adoration for Amelia Airheart when she was a child, and that´s all the evidence I have
I definitely think she could be— on top of her love of Amelia Earhart and superheroes like Dame Dynamite, I also wonder if it’s really such a coincidence that the night Lillian first saw Superbutch was also the night she first met Ruth. On the other hand, I think I might see Ruth in the background of this panel, so who knows? (I also sort of have a theory that Lillian herself might be Superbutch, and she’s being an unreliable narrator in order to protect her identity, but that one’s probably a little more farfetched.)
Sticks, your bad decisions just passed the event horizon and is currently accelerating.
Sticks has a talent for that! 🙂
How deep are those napkins wedged in her ears?!
I don’t know but I would love to know her secret. Plus I wonder how much of it is her hyperfocus…she seems to have lots of that!
It’s a combination of the cotton balls in her ears, and hyperfocus. At some level, she’s heard the commotion behind her, but she’s dismissed it as just a butch fight breaking out or something, without ever thinking about it consciously.
Or at least, that’s what I’m telling myself. :-p
Even my gritty old high school principal avoided girl fights. Sticks is tougher than I thought if she can go ‘meh’ and ignore it.
So here´s my theory: Ruth is Superbutch or is related to superbutch in some way. Because we see that she had an adoration for Amelia Airheart when she was a child, and that´s all the evidence I have
I definitely think she could be— on top of her love of Amelia Earhart and superheroes like Dame Dynamite, I also wonder if it’s really such a coincidence that the night Lillian first saw Superbutch was also the night she first met Ruth. On the other hand, I think I might see Ruth in the background of this panel, so who knows? (I also sort of have a theory that Lillian herself might be Superbutch, and she’s being an unreliable narrator in order to protect her identity, but that one’s probably a little more farfetched.)
Well, the truth is quite simple. You see, SuperButch is — Wait, wait, no! Becky, I wasn’t really going to tell — AAAAAAARRRRGGGHHH! Plop.
That’s def Ruth in the background. Hmmn.