Have we considered that Everett may be on the spectrum? He has a lot of sensory overload reactions and impulse control deficits.
Maybe it's just the authors way to vent and people interpret way to much into it
Maybe you're not interpreting enough
"Hark ye yet again- the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks"
This brings an interesting question to mind.
We know it takes 1 Mrs. True to take down Everett. How many average people would it take? If they all banded together in this moment and took him on, what would the casualty rates look like?
Everett is at least a minor toon force user, so normal power scaling doesn't apply. He can beat anyone or be beaten by anyone depending on which is funnier.
Mrs. True can usually overpower him because he's usually being a jerk to her, but when she's in the wrong she's usually cowed by him.
The entire city's population, all five boroughs, would fall like wheat before him. It might take a week, since he would have to keep replacing his umbrella.
I don't see any jostling from Everett's time.
Not how my last experience in NYC was
People who don't live here in NYC imagine it's constantly like times square on new years eve. It's far less than that.
The first time I was in NYC, I exited the train station and got turned around. I had printed directions but couldn't see the cross streets on it so I asked someone which way was north. He didn't say a word, just spun around and did a two-handed point like a cartoon.
I walked for several blocks expecting to see the street I had to turn on. After a few blocks, I walked into a real estate office and asked for help.
Yeah, the dude just fuckin lied. I had been walking west. So I walked another 2 miles in the hot summer sun, really soaking up the aroma of leaking garbage bags piled on the sidewalk. I fuckin hated NYC after that.
But then I wound up going back 8 years later and it was all right. I don't love NYC but I don't hate it anymore (and congrats on graduating to garbage cans lol)
Was in Manhattan a couple years ago, it wasn't so bad. Crosswalks are where people get pushy. Most people try to keep to themselves.
On the other hand it is the only place I have ever witnessed someone getting on their car horn at an ambulance
Also. Everett is clearly a Philly man, as he should be.
FWIW the cartoonist Condo lived in Ohio (Toledo, Cleveland, and Findlay) from 1882 to some time after 1910:
