Europe, 1930s. Jacques carries the bags of some well-dressed older patrons onto a stately and high class train car. The train station around them is large and there are a few well-dress patrons milling around. Jacques is outfitted in a uniform.
Jacques (caption): I knew working on the Orient Express would be glamorous.
Old man: Scuff that luggage and I'll have your job.
Panel Two:
Jacques holding a small tray with a placid look on his face as a young well-dressed woman holding a martini glass berates him.
Jacques (caption): I got to rub elbows with the moneyed elite.
Well-dress woman: This tastes of swill. Make a better one!
Panel Three:Jacques holding a small bag for a well-dressed young man as the young man vomits violently into the bag.
Jacques (caption): But I was never made to feel lesser than them.
Vomiting man: Huuuuuurrrrph!
Panel Four:
Jacques staring into a bathroom/water closet. He has rags and a bucket in his hands and look of incredulous disgust.
Jacques (caption): And, yes, the job had its downsides.
Panel Five:
Jacques standing on the outside back railing of the last car of train, a cigarette in hand/mouth, looking out and admiring something unseen with a wide smile of contentment.
Jacques (caption): But I got to experience the most wonderful luxuries.
Panel Six:
Reveal the stunning beauty of the European countryside which is what Jacques was admiring in the previous panel.
Jacques (caption): Some that even the guests could not enjoy.
Panel Two:
Jacques holding a small tray with a placid look on his face as a young well-dressed woman holding a martini glass berates him.
Jacques (caption): I got to rub elbows with the moneyed elite.
Well-dress woman: This tastes of swill. Make a better one!
Panel Three:Jacques holding a small bag for a well-dressed young man as the young man vomits violently into the bag.
Jacques (caption): But I was never made to feel lesser than them.
Vomiting man: Huuuuuurrrrph!
Panel Four:
Jacques staring into a bathroom/water closet. He has rags and a bucket in his hands and look of incredulous disgust.
Jacques (caption): And, yes, the job had its downsides.
Panel Five:
Jacques standing on the outside back railing of the last car of train, a cigarette in hand/mouth, looking out and admiring something unseen with a wide smile of contentment.
Jacques (caption): But I got to experience the most wonderful luxuries.
Panel Six:
Reveal the stunning beauty of the European countryside which is what Jacques was admiring in the previous panel.
Jacques (caption): Some that even the guests could not enjoy.
I love this page, Perry. You play the optimstic, can-do attitude for some solid laughs in the early going, but that turn in panel 5 and 6 is so sweet - all the more so because of those lighter moments at the start. Wonderful stuff.
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