And there you have it! What did you think? What does this all mean! Thanks so much for reading and following the mystery- we hope you're ready for more!
You mean the scary tiny person looking down on them in page 6.25 wasn't enough to make you go "yup this is supernatural"?!
Man, I've been thinking this over for more than a day, and I still can't make any sense out of it. Some kind of magic/alien tech booby trap, but why? Last we saw the two brothers (cousins?) was here:
http://thepalecomic.com/comics/165/
when Chad was threatening to drag Ronnie to his mother and tell her about his stealing. And Chad wanted Nate's name, so he could "start fixing your mess".
Planting a booby trap on the dining table <> fixing any mess. It got the wrong people, for starters - Nate, who was presumably the intended target, was unaffected. And unless Ronnie has some very unusual parentage, I doubt McHenry is his mother. So why is he involved? Why would he care about a stolen pistol? Why this very showy, very attention-getting display?
TBH, when I first saw the stone, I was thinking about this scene:
http://thepalecomic.com/comics/39
where Molly describes granny's dreams of a shadow monster, and how losing the rug would be bad luck. I thought maybe Ronnie (the little sh*t) had wanted to get back at Granny B and stolen the rug. He was looking at it and smirking here:
http://thepalecomic.com/comics/39
So I was thinking some supernatural baddie and not three guys in a truck.
TL;DR - I have no idea what is going on.
You're picking up what we're putting down... there are still pieces missing of course!
A lot will be revealed in the next story arc. BUT I can say that Chad and Ronnie are not related. The biggest take away, I think, is that Ronnie is connected to McHenry :)
Are granny and mom dead?
Was "the gang" trying to get the kid instead, or any or all of that family?
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