let us endeavor to tell.

These are just a few clips from the episode.

somehow makes it sound like this 1,400-page epic historical novel is a bland self-help book ("practical"?)

honestly, contender for funniest sentence of all time: "it feels as though the author has no definite opinion on politics, religion, or even the central plot of the story."

VICTOR HUGO???

NO OPINION?

bonus runner-up, because i like how it makes it sound like javert is the one droning on about the sewers:

started putting my doodles in an actual notebook (yes it's not a sketchbook shhhhhg it's ok) and redid a few of the old ones; here's the first page :D

"the IRS" is my pen name for comics; it's from an old inside joke about taxes (don't worry about it)

he is ruthless and cruel. he thinks entirely in black and white and follows the letter of the law like it is gospel. in the book he is our conduit into the justice system, he is it’s face and its name. he is the law personified. shaped and moulded into the perfect blank slate, being fed information and believing it blindly, doing exactly as he’s told without question. he is exactly what the system was made to create.

by calling him a bad cop it removes the very purposeful intent behind his character. it makes it seem as though the systematic violence and oppression which he enforces, and the ways in which he enforces it, are personal choices - even mistakes. when in reality they are the actions of a completely unjust governmental system, working as it is intended to.