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Roy's mom gives him some insight on his father, and on life in the afterlife.

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Panel 1

Roy and his mom enter her home.
Sara Oh, Roy! Look at you! Leader of your own adventuring party! I’m so proud.
Roy Thanks, Mom.
Sara: Apparently, that doesn’t leave time to have children…
Roy: *sigh*

Panel 2

Sara: So I’m guessing you saw your father on the way in?
Roy: Yeah. He was pretty pissed about them letting me in over him.
Sara: Typical Eugene. Can’t be happy for his eldest son, because he’s too busy being unhappy for himself.

Panel 3

Roy: Serves the crotchety old bastard right, if you ask me. He can pretty much rot in Hell for all I care.
Roy’s Archon I think we are technically past the point where that would be a realistic possibility.

Panel 4

Sara: Don’t speak about your father that way, young man. 
Roy: You’re kidding.
Sara: I know you don’t understand, but there was a time when him and I were happy together.

Panel 5

Sara: Eugene is—and always has been—a very focused man. He picks one goal and pursues it with single-minded devotion.
Sara: When he decided his goal was to make me his woman, we had a very good life.

Panel 6

Sara: The problem is, he rarely sees one project through to the end.
Sara: He gets bored and refocuses his attention elsewhere. It took a few years, but he eventually drifted away from me and back to his career.
Sara: Only by then, we had kids and he was pretty much stuck with me.

Panel 7

Sara: It’s the same with this “Xykon” character.
Sara: When he swore that stupid Blood Oath, finding the sorcerer who had killed his master was THE driving force in his life.
Sara: But he gave it up to pursue other interests.

Panel 8

Sara: If he’s irritable now, it’s because the cosmic powers of the multiverse are physically compelling him to finish what he started back then, one way or another.
Sara: It must be driving him nuts.

Panel 9

Roy: You’re certainly more understanding than I am. Though he didn’t make YOU stand trial for your life as a means of getting in touch. 
Sara: I’ve been his wife for almost 30 years, I should hope I’ve gained some insight into the man.

Panel 10

Roy: Actually, about the marriage thing…
Roy: I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Dad was actually dating—

Panel 11

A man with long hair and chest hair, soaking wet in a towel, appears stage left.
Enriqué Sara, your shower, it is out of shampoo?
Sara: Not now, Enriqué, my son Roy is here to visit.
Enriqué: Ah, I understand. I will dress and let myself out.

Panel 12

Sara: Now what were you saying, pumpkin? Mommy’s listening.
Roy: …Never mind.
Enriqué: Excusing me, do you remember to where you were the flinging my codpiece?

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