Jul 30
Richard and Glossman really are just ragebaiter and ragebaited
If the Blackgaard saga happened when humor was super brainrotted, Richard would 100% do 6 7 just to pull Glossman’s leg
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Richard and Glossman really are just ragebaiter and ragebaited
If the Blackgaard saga happened when humor was super brainrotted, Richard would 100% do 6 7 just to pull Glossman’s leg
An old comic I made featuring Phillip Glossman, a character who I believe is VASTLY over-hated. I loooove his writing and Paul McCusker’s performance, he’s so unique and interesting. The Blackgaard Books also gave him more lore that I totally ate up, even if I don’t really care for the books in general. He’s one of my favorite Odyssey villains I’d love to hear ya’lls thoughts on him as well!
(This art is from May 2025)
Top 3 AIO characters you would put in a jar and violently shake?(affectionately, because you cherish them)
YAY THANK YOU, I was hoping to get one of these Two-thirds of these characters will come as no surprise to anyone, I'm sure, but whatever. It's my jar now. Mwahaha.
1: Bernard Walton. Blame my dad for giving me a fanfic idea eight years ago that I then decided to "research" to death (meaning listening to every Bernard episode I could find to make sure I wrote him right... which led to this, whoops) Like yes, he's kinda just a silly guy who gets annoyed at everything. And that on its own is great. Every episode he's in is pretty much comedy gold (not to mention literal gold, at least in Four Corners lol). He is a storyteller and he is a prankster and he is hilarious. But he's also just. UGH. He's way more loyal than he'd ever admit (see First Hand Experience), he's way more clever than anyone gives him credit for (see ALL his parts in DBD and the Blackgaard Saga in general), he keeps his head in a crisis (fifth house on the left), he will be a straight-up hero and still refuse to let anybody call him one (also fifth house on the left). He's definitely tough, but he can also be so gentle, especially with kids (also fifth house on the left - basically that episode has a lot of great Bernard moments). He's so stubborn, in a bad way AND a good way, because he'll butt heads with everybody to the point of getting himself thrown in jail (third degree), but he'll also stand by the truth even if it loses him a lot (nova rising). Him and Eugene are family and also one of the duos of all time (and I'm STILL mad he wasn't more involved in the Leonard Meltsner saga), but you could throw him in with just about any characters in any story and I feel like something fun or cool would come out of it. I just. I really like him.
2: Arthur Dent. This one also started from having to write him in a fanfic and suddenly realizing "Wait, he's actually kind of awesome". (That's also where the idea of him and Bernard being friends came from, but that's a whole other can of worms). It's still so crazy to me that he's in literally eight episodes, and yet he had such a huge impact on the saga! Like, he starts out as just this nice guy, and maybe a little odd, but he's not a jerk (he's also not the smug snake his CANON design makes him out to be, but I'm not going to rant about that right now). But it's like, we know Novacom is bad, even if we don't know why at first, but then Dent is just. Not bad. Which is cool storywise, because now you don't know what to think. He's polite, even when he's dealing with an angry mob (or an angry Connie lol), but he's also not a pushover (sorry Shakespeare, but you could never). I genuinely think Charles was lying when he said Dent wasn't a "team player", because all I've heard is him trying to work with other people and keep the balance. Even when he goes rogue! He tries to work with Jack and Joanne! He tries to get Whit to help! He's trying to be a team player, but Charles keeps disrupting that. Whatever it is that he does to Dent (and I do have theories about that too), it kinda poisons the well, making people think he's insane and thus not describing reality in his warnings. It does make him alone, and it does make him lose his mind, and if he's going to be alone that means it's all up to him. So he goes and he blows up the tower, because that's what it's gonna take to save the world. Because he's right. Because he has to be right. Because he doesn't know what he'd do if he was wrong. And then they just leave him in the hospital until the end of time, just like they did their last saga wildcard. He had such a wild arc, and we don't get to see most of it, and that's INSANE
3: ...Phillip Glossman. This one was HARD okay, there were so many I could have put here, but then I started talking it out and found myself shaking the jar. So like, yes, I know this guy is a snake in the grass, I know he's reputed for being Odyssey's most annoying bad guy. And like, yeah, he's bad. But he's also so interesting! (Be forewarned, I am about to ramble about the Blackgaard Chronicles books) Because he's still bad even in the books - and even a little worse! He deliberately plants the doubts in Connie's mind about Whit being fair! But then he also keeps trying to get away. He hates being under Blackgaard's thumb, and he wants out, he wants to live a good life so bad, but he can't get away. But what makes that even crazier is that Paul McCusker was exactly the same way about it! He hated the character! He kept trying to write him out of the show! And yet he kept getting pulled back in. Just like Glossman in the books. The even bigger thing is Lizzy. I am 100000% convinced she is based on Paul McCusker's wife Elizabeth (the description matches! Elizabeth McCusker is literally British!). And the fact that Lollar gave Glossman a glimmer of humanity by giving him a long lost love based on the actor's real life wife is just so cool to me. (I'm also 80% convinced that she's going to end up being Miss Minion, an assistant of Edwin Blackgaard in the early episodes. The Character was played by Elizabeth McCusker, and the sixth book has a scene mentioning Lizzy attending one of Elwin's plays in England. Which would be absolutely crazy, because the first episode with her aired right after Glossman left Odyssey again at the end of "Timmy's Cabin", so she just missed him.) But yeah, basically, I think Glossman's characterization in the books is Phil Lollar's tribute to Paul McCusker. And that makes me a little crazy ngl
Honorable mentions:
Walter Shakespeare (I was so close to putting him in the top three, but then I was like, nah you can't put two polite British guys in the same post, get some variety - I will be talking about him soon though) Maude Walton (definitely goes in the shaking jar, but I feel like most of the stuff about her is just from my headcanons) Eugene Richard Maxwell Mitch Wally Haggler (GRC for the win!) Lawrence Hodges Tom Riley
Fun bonus, characters I would put in a jar and shake very very gently: Agnes Riley, Justine Baker
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Daddy Blackgaard??? Daddy Blackgaard.
Some more fanart of Adventures in Odyssey, of an intense moment in Book 1 of the Blackgaard Chronicles, called 'Opening Moves', in which local weasel Phillip Glossman realizes just how cut off he is from his old love, forever bound to his malicious benefactor...
"Don't ever think of running away from me, Phillip. I know where you live, and I know where Lizzy lives. I will always find you..."
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The text is from a song that inspired this piece, Buy the Stars, by Marina and the Diamonds. I never thought one of their songs would remind me of Glossman, yet here we are!
Hey, I’m Lucy. I knew of Adventures in Odyssey from the VHS tapes I watched as a little girl, but as I grew up, I learned it was originally a radio program. This year, I’d been meaning to get the Blackgaard Chronicles, because the compilation album’s cover intrigued me w/ the chess pieces and all. Now that I’ve listened to it & am introducing a friend of mine to it now, I’m just really glad that there are people here like you who love it too and put time and effort into your fan work. I’m so glad you included Lizzy from the Blackgaard books in Chapter 20 too. I can’t wait for Book 6, because quite frankly, I need more piping hot tea on Blackgaard and Glossman in my life.
Hi Lucy.
First things first, thank you so much for words. We truly appreciate it. We love doing what we do as we get express our love for this fandom and interact with incredible fans like you. You’ve very sweet. We’re so thankful and glad that you’re here as well. ♥️
So glad that you choose to begin listening to the Blackgaard Chronicles. As you know by now those episodes are so good! That saga is literally a MASTERPIECE. (Since you loved it so much be sure to check out the Novacom saga if you haven’t yet. That one is AMAZING too!) Hopefully, your friend thinks it’s great too. 🤗
So happy to hear that you loved the inclusion of Lizzy in the story. We love putting references, callbacks, and mentions in our work to events and characters that we know of from the books and the show. It just helps to add even more depth to the story.
We’re right there with you waiting impatiently for book 6. It’s going to be LIT. 🔥 They always are but especially since this one will feature “A Name Not a Number” (we LIVE for Jason and Tasha content 😍) And of course we can never have enough “piping hot tea on Blackgaard and Glossman” as you put it.
Phillip Glossman moodboard
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So it feels weird saying this out loud cause I’ve never done so before, but from the moment I found out what gay was I thought Phillip Glossman was gay. It wasn’t something I thought a lot about really, it just kind of became headcanon without my really intending it to. I feel like it would be another of the many reasons he hates Whit and Odyssey and Whit’s End