Comments on: 02/24/2018

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 03:28:41 +0000

Thanks Nigel!

By: Nigel

Nigel — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 07:40:56 +0000

Also, FWIW, Bruno thinks she has to befriend Katalin to reconnect with Stanley: hxxp://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6984 Plus as someone who willingly puts herself in difficult situations, I don’t think she’d leave Katalin after Stanley put her in her care.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 07:37:21 +0000

Katalin first came up when Bruno was travelling around Europe (and specifically when she meets Stanley in Budapest; that’s why he’s there).

Links (mangled slightly in case they get marked as spam):

Stanley tells Bruno he’s adopting Katalin: hxxp://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=5392
Adoption info: hxxp://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=5394
Bruno meets Katalin: hxxp://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6979
Katalin despises Bruno: hxxp://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6986

And I suspect Katalin would take “I don’t know how good your English is yet” as an insult.

By: ronald

ronald — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 04:29:02 +0000

Me getting all of that wrong doesn’t change that Bruno could leave Katalin with Agatha and go home, though.

Bruno doesn’t know she’s in a comic strip; she doesn’t know that she’s being subjected to a “test of character” that she has no chance of escaping. The fact that she’s keeping herself in an unpleasant situation for no obvious reality-based reason just kind of confuses me, that’s all.

By: Regulus

Regulus — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 01:27:29 +0000

Wait, how did Bruno accidentally insult her?

By: Peter Rogan

Peter Rogan — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 01:10:29 +0000

I can’t find a reference to Katalin before January 5th of this year. Either I’ve missed a phone call from Europe or some strips are missing, but she simply appears as Stanley’s adopted daughter after Bruno let herself into the house. Yet I’m sure there was at least a mention of her at some point. Somewhere. At some time.

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 23:09:17 +0000

Can any one point me to the strip hen Katalin first appears? There isn’t a tag for her. Thanks.

By: ronald

ronald — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:46:24 +0000

“Katalin isnâ€™t French. Sheâ€™s Roma/Hungarian. Stanley adopted her in Budapest.”

Oh, okay, sorry about that. Thanks.

By: beardedillustrationa

beardedillustrationa — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 19:23:33 +0000

Katalin may be being a pill, but it’s not without reason. Stanley wouldn’t have wanted to adopt her if she was just a horrible child. It’s a shitty situation and she’s taking it all out on Bruno for superficial reasons. Hopefully she’kk cone around, but life isn’t that simple.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:46:58 +0000

Katalin’s not unsympathetic. Her adoptive father is in jail overseas, her house burned down, and now she’s in the care of someone she despises. It’s Bruno’s unfortunate position to be the adult in all this.

Also, yeah, the comic says that the main reason why Stanley could adopt her is because she was eleven and Roma, which made her hard to place. She probably had a difficult life before Stanley took her to the States. The two people she’s closest to, Amy and Stanley, have very complicated relationships with Bruno, and the first time they met, Bruno (inadvertently) insulted her. It’s not like she *doesn’t* have reason to be prickly to Bruno.