How hard a name is “Bob” to remember? Mal is a manager, and one important managerial skill is to remember names, isn’t it?
Also, being succinct is a managerial skill. And he doesn’t really seem to have that one down, either…
You know, Mal may not be a good manager. Did anyone catch that before now? Hmmm.
He must have used other skills to get where he was at Sportsmart.
We should think of what those skills might have been.
And then maybe go looking for the bodies… or at least the forms for when they were fired, and why.
Hey, that’s a brilliant plan, and it should totally work, because that’s exactly what Lowell did to Hubris and that totally . . . worked . . . um, wait. Maybe it’s not a brilliant plan.
Of course, Lowell being Lowell, it probably WILL work on him.
Mal seems to depend on Shelly for the implementation of real skills.
I’m wondering how long it will take for Shelly to get weary of Mal and take up with that big guy who took a shine to her at the ‘Fest.
See, this is why Shelly and Jimmy are working on the more important roles. They’re the alphas.
Mal, believing to be an alpha, is lucky if he is considered to be a beta by the alphas. He’s more like a delta, or even a gamma.
And Peter, also believing to be an alpha, is nothing more than an omega being used as a figurehead when things go good, and as a scapegoat when things don’t.
And Lowell isn’t on his own. He’s on Team Paste. That includes Bob, whom Mal pretty much gave away his team’s entire game plan to. Wouldn’t it have been better to not give away corporate secrets like it was neighbourhood gossip?
No wonder Mal is not an alpha.
Mal has the “sucking up” skill. That works well, as long as there’s someone to suck up to. I don’t think Jimmy is interested in Mal in that way…
Just noticed that the panels get slightly darker as they go down (time progresses).
VERY subtle twilight artisticalization!