We can all just agree that whatever is happening in this comic page is what had to happen. In every regard.
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Archive for February, 2024
8 comics.
JASON! I put him at the top of the page months ago and he never appeared. Well, he’s here now, as blue and lovely as ever. It’s Jason’s time to shine!!
A little shop for Bob? Lovely.
EDIT: For some reason I wrote “CROWLEY” not “WARREN” on the shop. None of my friends who see the comic early, or indeed the Patreon readers, spotted this and pointed it out! Bob Crowley is an old character from Scary Go Round. What a prize I am. This has now been corrected.
There’s no denying that the Extreme Freaks are extreme, but they seem a decent enough bunch. Sadly they do not appear on any of the remaining pages. You’ll just have to get to work on your “head canon”.
Well, that comic has answered every question you ever had about Magus Tom Pendennis. There’s nothing left to ask, nowhere left to go.
Are YOU a potentate of piety? Or just piety-curious? Meet potentates of piety in your area NOW!
Whatever the witch influencers did to Brian in this comic just came home to roost. I’m sure everyone’s fine.
So here we are. The final Steeple page. I wrote about “finishing” the story on my Patreon at the start of the year (the post should now be unlocked). As always, I am very grateful to you for reading.
While that Patreon piece is a nice bit of writing about endings I liked, I don’t think I wrote the mechanical truth of this final, rather abrupt Steeple story – that I simply took all the remaining Steeple stories I had notes for and showed you what they were in 22 pages. Every one is a plot thread that might have played out across a “proper storyline” – Billie’s return to her parents’ house, Brian on straight street, Bob’s bookshop, the Reverend having to choose between a cosy life and his duties in Tredregyn, Tom and the Extreme Freaks, Jason’s escape, Lumsford getting her hands on the parish, the Clovis crime arc (inevitably a second crossover with Solver). A couple of years of material! Rather than just stopping dead where I was, or describe these ideas to a handful of people at conventions, I thought it might be nice to show the unused stories to you in some sort of comic form.
From Monday, the action will return to badmachinery.com for a three-part story that I can only describe as unique among my works. I hope to see you there.
