[345] Eyeliner

[popo]

I wish that I watched horror movies so that I could make a witty pop culture reference
So is that his real appearance as a ghost, or did he merely change his form, and that part of the room? I wonder if that corner resembles his old bedroom.
Edit: I forgot the D'awww at the second panel.

[Yin]

I think it could be his old bedroom, manifesting all psychic-like. A comforting place?
Reminds me of Ju-on, somewhat (I never watched it, but it still reminds me so).

[mudmaniac]

I would believe that the current storylines with Mort would have it that particular ghosts take whatever form they please, and can affect their surroundings. Most likely kid here is remembering how he looked while still alive and is pretty much looking like that because he expects as much.

Being asian, I have to watch a requisite 1 horror movie a year (tho reruns do count). This piece has "The Ring." "The Grudge" and "The 6th Sense" in on it. However, it has "Gunnerkrigg Court" thrown in for good measure.

[alya1989262]

Why would a dead boy be in the storage room of a hospital? Wouldn't the corpse be still in the bedroom (I suppose the hospital stuff still haven't checked in on him and discovered he's dead)?
I think the psychopomps projected his hospital bedroom into this storage room.
Maybe the projection in the storage room serves to talk to his spirit/soul? Maybe they projected the room there, because he doesn't know he's passed on, so they want everything to be as normal-looking as they can be! And they can't keep his soul in the bedroom where he died, because they don't want him to see his own dead corpse!

... That was morbid.

[todd]

What a cliffhanger for the beginning of the weekend! I'm looking forward to seeing what happens in the next page on Monday, and how Annie interacts with the little boy.

[ceezedby]

Then again, maybe the storage room *was* his room. Note how the pipe in panel 1 exists in both 'rooms'. The window could have been bricked over, but the supporting corner pillar would still be there.

Who knows how long ago the kid died (and still doesn't realise it), and how long the guides have been quibbling over his soul.

[another]

Hello to everyone.

Seems to me that the boy just dragged his immediate surroundings of where he got stuck with him.

[popo]

ceezedby said:

Who knows how long ago the kid died (and still doesn't realise it), and how long the guides have been quibbling over his soul.

I don't think very long. They just approached Surma, who has been in Good Hope for at least 6 years.
EDIT: Hello another.

[cenit]

Well....if the boy is dead...and has been for some time....shouldn't he be in the morgue? (Did I spelled it right? Cuz that's how I spell it in Spanish)

That would be a good reason to mental/ghostly project your old room

[alya1989262]

cenit, that's why I think he only just died... The psychopomps should be escorting his soul away as soon as he dies. They won't be waiting around for him to get to the morgue.

[another]

His body is probably already in the morgue, this is just his spirit?

[fr4tbrn]

I agree with another. Aside from Ketrak, all guides mentioned so far seem to do their duty (at least at Good Hope) during the night. The boy might have died during the day and now his spirit is still roaming around, waiting to be collected. (Even if he isn't intending to wait)

Also, I doubt that just the power of a young child's spirit could make a storage room seem like his hospital room, so it is probably the doing of one of the guides. Maybe because it would seem strange for a child (Annie) to be playing in a dead patient's room? (At least more strange than a storage room)

[cenit]

alya1989262 said:

The psychopomps should be escorting his soul away as soon as he dies. They won't be waiting around for him to get to the morgue.

But that's the thing, his dad and mom had their own guide, and the girl chose to follow her mother. The boy didn't make out his mind (and I can see the two guides arguing over him), so that's why I think some time passed since the boy died and the Guides decided to ask Surma for help

[popo]

fr4tbrn said:

Also, I doubt that just the power of a young child's spirit could make a storage room seem like his hospital room, so it is probably the doing of one of the guides.

I dunno, Mort is able to do alot more than that, and he's pretty young.

[Yin]

I doubt it would be too much time. A few days at the most.

[alya1989262]

I'm thinking a few hours at most. They're Gods; they don't have that much time to lose, right?