These are all God’s creatures
A rare action page in my oeuvre. I think Reverend Penrose is the only character I have ever invented specifically to have fights. He’s forced me to develop my drawing technique in unexpected ways. This page turned out unexpectedly well given the shambles that presented itself in rough form in my sketchbook. It was really just inchoate lines. Panel three contained the sound effect “SHWANG!!” and I have no idea what it was meant to indicate.
The J’Accuse smoke emanating from Lotte’s fingers is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
Warned you guys, those things are lethal!
If the Rev Penrose doesn’t pay attention he can lose both an eye and an axe.
SCHWANG was Wayne and Garth’s vocalization for a sword being drawn.
That was ‘SCHWING!”. “SCHWANG” could be the sound of something heavy bouncing off a plexiglass fishtank…
SCHWANG is simply the past tense of SCHWING.
Then what’s SCHWUNG?
Past perfect.
“Have schwang” (meaning, in this context, play guitar) is a slogan of the YouTube channel That Pedal Show. I think they used to sell a t-shirt of it at some point, and currently sell a sticker. https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com/products/tps-sticker-pack-3-5-designs
“HURL” > “SHWANG!!”
Maybe SCHWING. but that’s pushing it
The Rev can handle two weirdos no problem.
Pretty sure it’s not the sound made by someone flapping helplessly, so there is that.
Does the Reverend mean that he can’t promise not to damage the tanks, or he can’t promise that those are all God’s creatures?
I’m pretty sure the former. For the Rev, God’s creatures are anything that is not trying to strangle him that day.
The Reverend has consistently shown a pretty anti-aquatic stance.
*Lottie comes back into the room, finds the Flovorrians out cold, several fishtanks smashed, and Penrose trying to strangle a goldfish*
Lottie: Rev! Unhand that Cypriniform!
Penrose: It’s got a… BENTHIC look in it’s eye! It can’t be trusted!!
I like how Lottie is holding up her index finger while she warns the Rev. not to hurt any fish. My reading is: “Don’t make me use my j’accuse powers on YOU, Reverend!”
Guess he was drawing the axe perhaps? Seems tho’ that the sheath is more of a clip, which isn’t conducive to a good weapon unsheathing sound.
It’s a good zero stance clothesline, though!
I have an extra sharp hatchet/hammer.
While maybe no longer built for fighting as I was ten years ago, give me anger and I’m built for fighting.
The problem becomes not using the hatchet while putting down the misguided, but also protecting against property damage.
I am still confident, given adequate anger, and said hatchet/hammer, but enough self control to use only the hammer part, that I could put down ruffians, and afterward scoop innocent fishies into other tanks before their demise.
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Hopefully those fishies can coexist and not eat each other.
I am not knowledgeable of fish.
I might try to pay attention to salt v. fresh water though.
“Don’t make me disappointed… YOU WOULDN’T LIKE ME when I’m DISAPPOINTED”
I hope Penrose will be able to not destroy the fishtanks. NO ONE wants to disappoint Lottie! Even if she’s asking for the impossibile.
This is a lot more physicality than Lottie is used to in her investigations!
I love a good hurl, me.
SCHWANG = to swing (or have swung) a dude what needs it in a fight
‘Schwang’ is a great “hard thing (like a skull or shoe) impacting a metal object” sound.
Imagine that Lottie finds Shelley stuck in prophet mode and is unable to return her to normal?.
Pretty sure Shelley will return to normal, but not before Flovorran hijinks ensue.
There are only three pages left (four if you count “Heretofore unconnected plot elements”). Not time left for a lot of hijinks.
So John, my wife wanted to know something. Did you do extensive research for this fish store? OR are you a secret shopper at Purleys Aquatics, that sells Fluvals? Her Fluval canister is getting old and was wondering if they had good prices.
Get her an Eheim, it will last forever.
I used to keep tropical fish. I lived on a street that had a combined aquatics shop and VHS rental shop – Fish World and Video World. When the Video World side closed down, it was replaced by Pond World. When the thriving Fish World moved across the road into larger premises in a pub, Fish World/Pond World became “Scruffs 2 Cruffs”, a dog groomers. Why “Cruffs” and not the more appropriate “Crufts”, I never found out.
Possibly legal reasons?
“Pond World” sounds like the title of a short story that eventually developed into a blockbuster movie starring Kevin Costner.
My local aquatics shop (back in the early- to mid-80s) doubled as a video arcade, albeit with a handful of machines that were no longer cutting-edge in 1982 – Asteroids, Battle Zone, and I forget what else. Later the council threatened to put his rates up if he had more than one turned on at once. Eventually the shop closed and an antiques shop moved in.
I used to keep guppies myself. I bought six. By my count I had given away several hundred when the experiment finally came to an end a year or two later, having not realized at the time that the guppy is also called the “millionfish”. They are beautiful though!
I like the long receipt unfurling from the till.
E.O.D. Z-read perhaps? (Oh god I’ve worked in retail too long it’s consuming my mind)
While I’ll be sad to see this story end, I have to admit that I’m looking forward to discovering what the “heretofore unconnected plot elements” are.
Watch The Raid and John Wick until your eyes bleed. Then watch https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=drawing+action+scenes
…actually, I rather like the way the good rev throws the unworthies around like rotten cabbage.