Panel 1:
Pauline puts an arm around Matt, who has the world's most forced 'dumb' look on his face.
Pauline: I tells you, this kid's amazing! Great reflexes, speaks three languages, doesn't think twice about jumping in and out of windows... A natural born crimefighter!
Panel 2:
Tony and Mistaire look at Matt skeptically.
Mistaire: I don't like where this is going.
Tony: Matt's...USEFUL for something!
Panel 3:
Pauline smiles and eyes Tony and Mistaire.
Pauline: Then we found out about YOU two. You could do a lot of good things with a little training.
Panel 4:
Tony is intrigued, but Mistaire isn't going for this.
Tony: What, like superheroes?
Mistaire: NO.
Panel 5:
Tony looks at Mistaire's exposition jazzhands.
Mistaire: Sargreon's mad enough at us already. We can't just go tossing magic around in public!
Panel 6:
As Tony and Mistaire bicker mildly, Pauline edges in close to them.
Tony: Why not? We can wear costumes or something.
Mistaire: It's against the--
Pauline (interrupting Mistaire): The extraterrestrial interference act?
Panel 7:
Mistaire makes jazzhands at Pauline, who grins smugly.
Mistaire: Um...yes.





'Extraterrestrial interference act' is a dumb name. But laws always have long descriptive sorts of titles like that right? Anyways, this is the first mention of Matt's trilingual background, and it won't be explained for a while. Part of the fun, I think, is to drop little characterization bits every so often. It works that way in a lot of long-running cartoon shows. You get to know right away who's the wacky one and who's the leader and so on, but you get to KNOW know them through careful observation. On Pokemon, James's bottlecap collection and Jesse's love of um...eating snow with soy sauce on it, those aren't major plot points. But we like them better for knowing their habits. Since I know my characters inside and out, I don't have the right perspective to see if it's working in this comic though.