How about you wait until AFTER he's done shaving you?
"too late now, boy"
the old toad didn't really pick the best moment to announce that.. o.O
A great page. It speaks volumes to the attitudes of the day, of the air of complete cocksure societal control, that he is willing to say those things as the target of his abuse holds a razor to his neck. An entire oppressive culture summed up in two panels.
Yes, indeed. I always recall Malcolm X's analogy when Master was sick, as his servant fronts concern, and asks whether "we sick" or not. 500 year fever dream.
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