Sonichu 10 Page 72
SONICHU {telepathy}: Thank you, Magi-Chan.
CONSTABLE LOUIS PEREZ: Sonichu, my bro.
SONICHU: Constables Gerald Grant and Louis Perez! Yo, Lou, how’s your wife and little Lou?
LOUIS PEREZ: Just chillin’, thanks for askin’.
CONSTABLE GERALD GRANT: Little Robbie givin’ you a good race?
SONICHU: Rob’s getting faster every day, and my little ladies are doing good in school too. Rosey’s still super-fine!
GERALD GRANT: That is good to hear.
LOUIS PEREZ: Listen, man, don’t worry about Inos; we’ll send his stash to the NASA rocket, clean him up good, and send him to a soup hotel room with a warning. We’ll sit with him until the ambulance arrives.
SONICHU: Awesome. Well, I gotta fly; y’all keep it real. Peace.
GRANT AND PEREZ: Peace, Sonichu.
This page introduces two never before seen or even acknowledged characters to Sonichu, and the first non-jerkop cops to be featured, Gerald Grant (left) and Louis Perez (right), who were just summoned by Magi-Chan relaying Chris’s memories of speaking to Inos to their brains. It is possible that the two are based on Eddie and Lou, Chief Wiggum’s right hand men on The Simpsons. Apparently, despite their lack of presence in the story, they are close friends of Sonichu’s, close enough that they know of his family and he knows of theirs.
Perez is apparently Hispanic (note that Lou from The Simpsons is intended to be black), and he and Grant seem to be filling the classic “salt and pepper cops” trope seen in commonly in 80’s cop movies. Perez stands as one of fairly few characters of color to be portrayed positively, as well as in a position of authority, and was likely written to be non-white in anticipation of the criticism that Chris would receive about having Inos being portrayed as a stereotypical stoner.
Their title is listed as “constable”, which is not used at all in the entire police force of the commonwealth of Virginia - in the United States, the usage of the “constable” title has always been inconsistent, and many states have either phased out the office or, like Virginia, have never had them at all after the colonial era. Thus, it is likely that Chris picked it up from TV or movies, most likely something British as, in the UK, “constable” is the title for their lowest ranking police officers and is thus much more widely used in their popular culture.
The two are incredibly unprofessional and casual for on-duty officers, with their frequent use of slang and other informal dialogue. For instance, Perez describes his wife and young son to be “just chillin’” when Sonichu enquires about their continued wellbeing, and the pair send Sonichu off with a “Peace” as he heads off to his next murderous misadventure.