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angelamontoo · 2 years ago

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You ever think about the blorbos of your blorbos? I've decided I like the idea of Cornelius Leyden being a huge fan of The Yellow kid

Cornelius is a cultured man, I think he'd appreciate my man, Mickey Dugan for his cheery attitude and balance of humanisation of lower class people and his ratboy swagger. Idk when and how he'd discover this character, but he'd definitely amass a small collection of yellow kid merch over the years

I don't think Eric would like him so much or understand Cornelius fascination. It doesn't help that there's a bunch of these little dolls and figurines on a shelf right across from Leydens bed that seem to glare directly at Peters at night

(BTW if you're planning to look The yellow kid up for yourself, be warned that there's a lot of pretty racist depictions of people of colour in his comics)

#the mask of dimitrios #cornelius leyden #the yellow kid #mickey dugan #hogans alley #tbh i dont even know if it would be very likely for leyden go have heard of this guy #i just like the idea of a peter lorre character #and particularly one as meak but pleasant and bookwormish as leyden #having his own little guy to be obsessed with and talk about like we talk about his characters #every comment we've made about gogols big shiny head is one that corn probably made about TYK #hed call him a poor little waif and a sickly little rat who he just wants to wrap in a blanket and all that jazz #also im too dumb and havent researched the character enough to have opinions about how hes used to comment on journalism or struggles of #the working class #but leydens smarter than me and from a relatively closer time in history to the hogans alley comics than me #so he probably has a bunch of estute observations about where the comics work and fail as societal and political commentary #that youll have to imagine i put here in the tag's #honestly i need to think of more characters who would be suitable blorbos for the different peter lorre characters

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