The Laughing Man has had a tendency to pop up in artworks recently, even (especially?) when he was not mentioned in the text. Let's keep track of his appearances and have fun trying to guess what he could be up to
The pic above is a 2009 painting called
Cool for Cats by Gerald Brom (who also painted the legendary
Harlequin's Back cover). I don't think it was used in any
Shadowrun book, maybe Brom just wanted to revisit the character for fun. The picture can be seen in his artbook (I took a photo of the page with my phone, hence the bad quality). For some reason I get the feeling Caimbeul is hanging out in New Orleans in this painting.
Here's an old sighting of the painted elf:
In the French version of
Runner Havens, a chapter was added about Marseille. In one piece of art, Harlequin can be seen enjoying a cigarette in a local bar. Not surprising considering Harlequin owns the island of the Château d'If, off the coast of the Phocean city.
In
Market Panic, Harlequin was apparently showing up as an AR projection during some sort of trial, mocking the proceedings. This doesn't seem to match any particular event described in the book, but I may have missed something.
AFAIK, the latest sighting of Harlequin was in
Court of Shadows, where he was playing cards with some courtesan, and by the looks of it massively annoying his opponent. You can just feel the smug smirk he's hiding behind his cards. As we know from
Worlds Without End, it's not his first visit to the Seelie Court either.
So, have you found other cameos of the Laughing Man in a SR book recently?
