Another thing of note in 2.6:

Lisa ignored Brian’s question and winked at me, “Girl’s gotta have her secrets.”

“Lisa’s half the reason we haven’t failed a job yet,” Alec said.

“And our boss is a large part of the rest,” Lisa finished for him.

“So you say,” Brian grumbled, “But let’s not go there.”

This is some nice early foreshadowing of Coil’s power. Lisa’s saying Coil is responsible for them not failing jobs, but she’s the only one who actually knows how and she won’t tell Grue why she’s so insistent about that, which annoys him given that he can’t actually see Coil’s influence for himself.

Ahaha! I continued rereading 2.6 after finding that one quote about Justin Bieber, and I came across my first reaction to the name “Empire Eighty-Eight”, back when I was blissfully ignorant of the connotations of the number:

Empire Eighty-Eight… let’s hope they’re not 88 villains, that’s a bit much. Maybe they’re a bunch of retro villains who love 1988? 

That sounds like a pretty fun AU!

Consider also Empire ‘78, led by Kaiser, Emperor of the Discoteque, and his ex-wife, Purity, who shoots multicolored strobe lasers.

krixwell-liveblogs:

So I’m rereading my own liveblog and I just noticed something:

Due to the comment about Lung being more dangerous than 50 people with guns, I sort of assumed that there were around 50 people in the gang. However, it turns out I missed a wording from chapter 1.4 that gave some insight into how many people were actually present in Gestation:

I could have fit a cell phone back there.  With a cell phone, I could have alerted the real heroes about the fact that Lung was planning to take a score of his flunkies to go and shoot kids.

“a score”

So Lung had about twenty of his followers with him. We do know Oni had a portion of the gang with him elsewhere, but if I remember correctly, that was a smaller portion. In other words, we’re probably looking at a number closer to 30 members than to 50.

Of course, this number went up quite a bit when Bakuda was put “in charge”, due to her recruitment practices.

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A car pulled up, and another three guys dressed in gang colors got out and and joined the crowd.  Shortly after, the group – twenty or twenty five in total – started walking north, passing below me as they walked down the street. 

Oh. Right.

So I’m rereading my own liveblog and I just noticed something:

Due to the comment about Lung being more dangerous than 50 people with guns, I sort of assumed that there were around 50 people in the gang. However, it turns out I missed a wording from chapter 1.4 that gave some insight into how many people were actually present in Gestation:

I could have fit a cell phone back there.  With a cell phone, I could have alerted the real heroes about the fact that Lung was planning to take a score of his flunkies to go and shoot kids.

“a score”

So Lung had about twenty of his followers with him. We do know Oni had a portion of the gang with him elsewhere, but if I remember correctly, that was a smaller portion. In other words, we’re probably looking at a number closer to 30 members than to 50.

Of course, this number went up quite a bit when Bakuda was put “in charge”, due to her recruitment practices.