Chapter 2 • Page 83
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MMMM THE COLORING *chef’s kiss*
Diane and Sal mvps. I know Sal comes across as an asshole, but in reality, he really cares about Anna. If anything, I think he knows how shitty her mother is, how tough her life is. A lot of people who read this comic probably have never known what it’s like to be abused, to know poverty, to know true hardship… The world is ugly, and unlike Diane, who Anna literally called a “Stepford wife” in Cheap Thrills, I think Salvatore has actually dealt with a lot of tough shit. (Yes I know she has epilepsy, but ableism=/=monetary privilege) My take is that he’s trying to help her toughen up, so that she can grab her life by the horns instead of getting yanked around by it. He actually seems to have good intentions, but he’s bad at execution, plus… He’d never admit that he’s clearly a softie when it comes to his wife that he loves, or Anna…like the swing (chiding Anthony for not putting it up, and doing it himself with Eric), letting Anna eat dinner with them and stay over very often, or that clearly expensive violin gift when she was young. That’d be so unmanly….soooo unmanly…for an ItalianAmerican cultured man to admit he dearly cares for a waif that simply became endeared to the family, and Sal, through his brother dating said girl’s mother. I think Sal is rough around the edges, but he loves and is loved by Diane for a reason.
Adding color to illustrate how bright and happy Anna’s perspective once was, to the bleak black and white it is now, is really subtle but powerful. Very impressed with this reboot!