Seawolves, or wolffish, are nice little creatures who eat crab and sea urchins. (Awww.) Their Latin name, Anarhichas lupus, means “climbing wolf”, not “Anarchist wolf”, like I wishfully misread it for a split second.

It’s actually quite fitting to compare Aeron with something wolflike, because one of the many sources of inspiration for his character is Vargen (Wolf) in the Swedish children’s comic Bamse by Rune Andréasson, of which I have probably read every single issue since I was born until we moved away from Sweden when I was nine. At that time, when Rune A. himself still wrote the scripts for many of the comics, it had an obvious Socialist leaning. Vargen, with his troubled past, is my very favourite character in the comic. One of the things Aeron has from him might be the dressing in all black part …