So, I finally got caught up all of
Highland Laddie, which was a fun read but left me feeling I was missing half the references. I thought it was a good idea taking the Hughie/Annie stuff away from the main book and giving it space to play out, because I had felt it was starting to drag badly in the The Boys itself.
The landscape of British comics and kid's literature was well represented with most of the Oor Wullie cast, the Dandy, the Beezer and (I couldn't decide) Alf Tupper or the Topper (probably the latter, given everything else), and the kid detective trope - but one hand it felt like I was missing many more, while on the other I couldn't decide why in this context you'd include a giant transvestive (the Fat Boab character) without referencing Danny's Tranny, or an even more gigantic female psycho without calling her Beryl or Minnie.
So what else was going on that I was missing, oh wiser heads?
And given the revelation re: Mr. Vigors, is it possible that
Mallory is Hughie's mysterious biological father?