GFT Retrospective #23: Timmy Returner
Hello, Ticketholders! Or more correctly, hello, random people who click on my posts without reading them because your ADHD prevents you from reading anything longer than a tweet. Buy a book and go fuck yourselves. I have a job to do here. By the way, Fairly Oddparents reference.
As promised in the 2007 Annual, Timothy returns to raise some hell. Not literally; it’s too early in the series for that.
The basic idea of this issue is that Belinda is playing social worker and setting up “Timmy” with foster families, whom he either murders or tricks into committing murder themselves. That’s it. That’s the plot in a bloody nutter of a nutshell.
What makes this issue at least different is the structure. The “real world” doesn’t serve as a framing device as usual, but instead unfolds parallel to the fairy tale, with the twist ending of the latter mirroring what we knew about Timmy all along.
Maybe I’m just running out of things to comment on, but as the series goes on through the next twenty-five issues or more, you’ll see that while Belinda makes a good archetypal opposite for Sela, and her plans are deviously convoluted, she isn’t developed much as a character beyond being sexy and evil and having a large, but basically deus-ex-pouch-of-holding power set that lets her do just about whatever she needs to get the upper hand on our hero. When I get to Different Seasons Volume One, my attitude will change a bit, but expect me to get negative again really quick.
Stay tuned for some Fantasia and Game of Thrones action!
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