The three children are each given jobs in the Reptile Room: Violet is given the job of inventing traps for new snakes found in Peru, Klaus is told to read books on snakes to help advise Uncle Monty and Sunny’s job is to bite ropes into usable pieces. The snake’s name is a misnomer since it is harmless Monty intends to use it to play a practical joke on the Herpetologist Society in revenge for them ridiculing his name, Montgomery Montgomery. They meet The Incredibly Deadly Viper, which Monty has only recently discovered. The children are fascinated by the many snakes in the Reptile Room, a giant hall in which Monty’s reptile collection is stored. He says that his old assistant, Gustav, had suddenly and unexpectedly resigned. Monty tells the children that they will be going on an expedition to Peru, once his new assistant, Stephano, arrives. Each of the children can have their own room. He is much of a more friendly man rather than Count Olaf and gives the children free rein in the house. He invites the children in for coconut cream cake (or in Sunny’s case, a carrot). Montgomery, or “Uncle Monty” as he prefers to be called, is a short, chubby man with a round red face. Montgomery is the Baudelaires’ “late father’s cousin’s wife’s brother”. Montgomery Montgomery, who lives on Lousy Lane, in an area that smells like horseradish. After being taken away from their horrible guardian Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire children are taken by Mr.
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In the aftermath, Joe exchanges words with Jed Parry, a deeply disturbed young man among those who came rushing to help. Joe is among the bystanders who race to seize the balloon, which is damaged, close to the ground, and being pushed by high winds toward a precipice. Joe Rose, a middle-aged science writer, takes his wife Clarissa to London's Hampstead Heath for a picnic-and stumbles into a tragedy when a man and his young grandson, on a jaunt by balloon, get into serious trouble. A sad, chilling, precise exploration of deranged love, by the author of, among other works, the novels The Innocent (1990) and Black Dogs (1992). “One of the great things about Ben is the absolute commitment to the world he’s drawing, the detail he brings out, how well thought out it all is, never faked, never guessed at-or never appearing to be guesswork, even if it is. One of the fun things with the Mignolaverse is seeing these amazing artists draw things (only another artist has done before), so in the first pages you see Ben revisiting some characters only Guy Davis had ever drawn, before returning to the titular character, designed through an odd collaboration between Mignola and (Richard) Corben. “So after many years on Baltimore, it’s nice to have him back in the Mignolaverse. Meaning we don’t let him get away for a minute. That led to Witchfinder, the first time he actually worked with Mike, and Mike’s felt a strong commitment to Ben ever since. Matt had advocated for Ben in the first place, Ben’s first big fan at Dark Horse. It was actually my assistant, Matt Dryer, who a few years later hired Ben for his first Hellboy-related job, on one of the books spun off the animated series. “The first thing I did with Ben was a Dracula story set in the Buffy comics, so this opening scene brings back some oddball memories. |