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I might be clueless, but I'm so confused about the comic up to this point. I haven't been following the forum, so perhaps all of this has been hashed out before. I poked around a bit, but didn't see anywhere obvious where it had been discussed. So let me recap what I think has happened so far and perhaps someone out there can tell me what sort of Twilight Zone voodoo I'm missing:

1) Brice accidentally kills Laura and goes on the run.
2) His dad sends Scottie out to give Brice Scottie's I.D. and a car.
3) Tony and Brice meet up and drink heavily.
4) Scottie and Brice swap IDs.
5) Sam and Uthalla catch up with Scottie, Brice, and Tony. Tony acts like he's never met Sam before.
6) Sam and Uthalla abduct Scottie, thinking they have Brice.
7) Tony molests Brice and murders him, leaving his body by a river to rot.
Uthalla accidentally kills Scottie. He gets skinned and returned to his father who probably assumes it is actually Scottie since didn't return from the swap.
9) Sam doubts Uthalla killed the right guy. He's seen a photo of Brice's skeleton rotting by the river. He heads out to find Brice.
10) Sam finds the guy Brice sold the car to and the apartment he had been staying in. He finds Scottie's I.D.

So my questions:
A) Why did Tony act like he didn't recognize Sam?
B) How did Brice manage to sell a car, get an apartment, and take Scottie's I.D. back to it if he left the bar with Tony (who then murdered him)?

I would really appreciate it if someone could clear this up. Thanks!

Also, while I'm here, let's all say a big "Rot in Hell" to Brice, I mean Joran, as he enjoys the next 26.5 years in a Peruvian prison.

I hope he gets shanked to death during the final week of his stay.

Welcome!

First thing to learn about the slopiverse is nothing is as it seems.
Second, a state of confusion and not being sure what's actually going on is, well, like our own world, pretty much SOP. Lots of times something becomes clear later on, only to result in more unanswered questions than it answers. I'm not the one to answer your questions, as I'd surely be wrong (I usually am in real life, why would it be different here?)

Personally, I've never understood Uthy. *Shudders* Is she mammalian or reptile? Where did she get boobs ("They're real"), hair, or (gawd) a snatch? Why isn't she long dead? Why didn't Tony kill her off when he had the chance?

And I'm not convinced the skeleton by the river is Brice. Possibly; where else would he be? But there's enough doubt in my mind that that could have been some other critter, and Brice could have ducked the Big One by the skin of his teeth, and Sammich catches up with him later.

“If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius”

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I had the same initial impression about Sam and Tony being or acting like strangers but the revelation that they greet each other "you're a man of refinement and taste" colors the differently when I reread the scene. The later meeting at the Maple Log revealed how much code and subtext there is in their conversations. A casual eavesdropper wouldn't notice anything out of the ordinary when the brock and vepr are talking about murders, targets for kidnapping, and torture in public places. Those two have a professional past of work for hire of a very unsavory sort and their skills are not just in violence but of being discreet/unnoticeable.

As for Brice and the we have had many forum arguments and theories about it/them. We don't know how events turned out after the rape of Brice. Tony seemed to be taking his time in telling Brice to not lie if he had only been intent on fucking and killing the reynard. Then there was the fever dream Tony had revealing a bloody-mawed reynard holding a shotgun and the introduction of the character "Anthony." Combine the current comic arc with these events/images and some shit went down that really changed things from what last we saw by the river.

It isn't clear but there is a narrative at work.

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Howdy and welcome to the forum.
Mulefoot and his support staff work very hard to keep the story interesting.
Yes we keep things a mystery, but we do leave lots of clues around.
At the end of this story you will find out what happened at that river's edge.
Uthy will have her own story after this to explain what she's all about.
This past year has been a roller coaster for Mulefoot.
I think and hope this coming year will be more stable for him and his ability to have time to work on Slop.
Hang in there.. all will come to pass.

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Actually, Mulefoot, the jury was still out on #8. There were people arguing whether or not Brice was the body by the river without any conclusive proof either way. Pretty much the issue of Brice's survival was a matter of faith with many forumites surprised at "Anthony's" sudden appearance. Even afterwards there were people questioning if he was just a red herring and that there was no way that Brice could've survived Tony's trap. If you ask right now, even with all the story known to date, there is probably a tiny minority of sloplicants who still think Brice was killed by Tony Ray. Hafeliel just read the archives and has all the events fresh in his mind and didn't see through your trick. Heck, the only reason we forumites got as far as we did in figuring out the misdirection is because we had time to scrutinize each page and pooled together our observations.

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It should be obvious at this point Brice survived.

I doubt if he'll survive Sam though.

As to Uthy's "real boobs", Oh they were real alright, they just wen're hers. She's definitely psychotic. And raised by mammals so she has serious self identification issues.

Uncle.

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