Talk:Maria Calavera/@comment-1292715-20191011105907/@comment-35434444-20191011170656

Wow you guys are really laying it on hard.

Ok fine -- I guess I won't show up next time, leave the Messiah dribbling useless spermatazoa and listen to the sweets sounds of lamentation caused by Salem torching the world into hellfire even more than   she already has from the comfort of my secluded mountainside conservatory with a glass of gin and my reading backlog. Enjoy the apocalypse you little pisants!

In all seriousness though, my theory is that Maria showed up on the train as an homage to   the wok of a talented young writer by the name of Raymond McNeil entitled Whitebook. More specifically a sagely train hopping old bum character called Valentin who is the only man wise and genre savy enough not to go anywhere near the eponymous presumably Lovecraftian-cult-infested town of Whitebook that would go on to be one of the inspirations for the Brunswick arc.

I mean honestly --   if you have any taste at all the allusions are perfectly clear!