In general, however, I can't stop thinking about 'the heart of Mora'. Who lives there? What do they do for work? It looks like rather diverse jobs like Siv's and Torb's take place outside (they can't be quarantining when they go to work!), and overall 'outer Mora' seems like a pretty sophisticated place. Maybe that's where Sweden's technological industry is located?
Governmental work and/or super rich?
Yes, they likely are ripping off Emil seeing as they're making the deal with Tuuri and not him... Emil's occupation as cleanser apparently voided all the life insurance policies he had, if any and presumably going to the Silent Lands would do so as well so at least that leaves out one way they can use Emil to make cash...
Alternatively, they could just not respect him or his intelligence.
116 - 126
Ah, yes Emil and his bag full of explosives. Was he allowed to take it from the Cleansers? Did he effectively steal them, even by accident? Was that an oversight by the Cleansers? They don’t seem to be the tightness run ship.
On page 124, “That’s my Number! What are they going to do to me?” I do want to make a joke but feel really bad for him. He is just being dragged along and is very confused.
Pages 125-126, we were told a bit about the differences between Finland and Sweden, the lack of electricity in Finland, but Lalli’s interaction with the moving walkway is the first time we are shown. Unless I already forgot something from the past pages.
Honestly, Lalli not knowing what a horse is may make sense. Mammals (stans cats) can be infected so domestic animals could be less common. On his A1 character profile, it says he is not well educated, Tuuri may just know what a horse is from books. And if you know what a moose is but not a horse, calling a horse a moose is not the most out there thing to do.
127 - 141
I think page 127 is the first time I could say the panel layout was bad. I think there were 1 or 2 times thus far that I thought the layout was great that I did not mention. Most of the pages are good but this one is confusing. I think she did something similar in a Redtail’s Dream but with arrows and a recall in the “bunny comic” doing something similar but the layout worked really well. [Note: Yes, the bunny comic is bad but I am talking about panel layout.]
Aha! On page 128, Tuuri implies that horses are uncommon in Finland (or at least the places she has been before).
Our first peek at the Hotakainen’s backstory. Fittingly ominous and does not tell too much at once.
I talked about the fat jokes before, so I will not comment on it here. But if memory serves, it’s that last one in A1. I have my doubts on that but we will see.
When Tuuri tells the kids that one of them is adopted, are the boys looking at Anna or is Håkan and her looking at Sune? (This is rhetorical, I do not think there is a true answer.)
I find the comment from Tuuri on not seeing kids in a long time interesting. I don't think the Västerström children are much younger than she was when she became an apprentice in the military and Lalli is two years younger then she is.
I wonder if Emil’s mother would have made sure he got a proper education. Or a least a better one.
Did they need Siv to leave her job? It was Torbjörn's idea to do all this and so him quitting makes sense. Either Torbjörn and Siv could look after their kids while the other does the work and if they don’t want to take care of their own children, Siv could still be making some money at her job.
