Air Raid Robertson

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Dames, Danger, and Dissonance Page 3

Air Raid Robertson

on May 28, 2011

We haven't seen Spider-Butler in a while, so I decided to give him a brief cameo in this story. I do consider him a valid character, but I can only really use him if the plot takes place in Air Raid Robertson's house.

And, since the premise of the series is that Air Raid Robertson is traveling around and having adventures in weird places, there are long passages where we see no Spider-Butler.

Some of you already know this, but for the rest of you I'd like to point out that the Jackie Casablancas character is a caricature of Peter Lorre. Mr. Lorre was a character actor who shot to fame after playing a serial killer who preyed on little girls in Fritz Lang's classic film M. He went on to play seedy forigners in many other movies, including Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. Lorre's voice and features are frequently lampooned in comics and cartoons. Caricatures of him have appeared in Looney Tunes, Batman, Ren & Stimpy, and many others.

Lorre's character in The Maltese Falcon was named "Johnny Cairo". The role of my Peter Lorre analogue is similar to that, so I decided to call him "Jackie Casablancas".