A bottle of Guinness
Other suggested names for Elton John covers bands: Benny & The Jest, The Daniels, Your Thong.
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
Other suggested names for Elton John covers bands: Benny & The Jest, The Daniels, Your Thong.
The big question: does his skeleton help with drainage?
The buried skeleton reminds me of a murder case we had in this country some time back (last century actually) in which a man was killed by his partner and buried in the flower garden. That’s not exceptional, but his name was ironically Doug Gardner which is hard to forget…
I have that found God has a clever and quite dark sense of humor. Maybe being eternal does that to you.
get Detective Digby Burroughs onto the case!
“He’s beneath the front steps” just didn’t have the same ring.
I’m sure on the next page those fictional detectives from Clotted Crime will solve this mystery.
Or maybe Lottie happens to be in the neighborhood getting her head clear after the events of her last storyline.
I’m going with the name of the next page. “Clotted Crime!”
Maybe Maggie is going to apply the principles used by the “Clotted Crime” folks to solve the mystery!
You mean, she’ll just decide that the vicar did it?
Is it weird that I heard “Goodbye England’s Nose” to the tune of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”?
I believe it’s meant to be “Goodbye English Rose”, Elton’s reworking of “Candle In The Wind” as a tribute to Diana from 1997.
Yeah, I immediately started singing it to the “Goodbye Norma Jean…” part of “Candle”
Of course it is, but that’s not where my internal pop star went.
*this is a little helpful typo notice*: the single lonely ” in panel 3
“Brut” is well-named.
Do they still make it??
Yes. It is not dead which can eternal lie.
Billie is wondering what some of us are wondering too. Did good old Mrs. Clovis killed her husband? Why the ghost decide to come out just now and why possess Maggie? By the way, hilarious page with funny faces.
Girls need to get back out to the kitchen, the witches are messing w/ the rev. unattended.
I’m sure he’s fine!!!!!!
Still, many of us will only be comfortable on his behalf when these two get down to the kitchen and distract them with the task of re-summoning that ghost to request some clarifications.
Fine…ly ground into a powder?
Classic Bobbinsverse characters free-associating into the wild blue yonder here. Also, the state of Maggie’s pupils in the last frame is cause for concern; would the reek of stale Brut alone really be sufficient to cause that?
In this case: yes
As someone who graduated high school in 1981, I can attest that the state of non-stale Brut can do that, too.
The Geordie Sir Elton cover band is called Tyne Dancer.
Whose imagination are we seeing when Mr. Clovis’ skeleton is pictured? Is that Billie’s, Maggie’s, or simply John’s? Because, given the cloven cranium, they’re envisioning a gruesome end to poor Mr. Clovis!
I would think it’s Billie’s. But look at his face! He looks so happy!
Might have something to do with the bisection of the Sadness centre of his brain.
Cloven Clovis!
When I first started reading Steeple, back in the early Steeple days, I had a theory that Mrs. Clovis was actually the Devil, based in part on her name’s similarity to “cloven”. I abandoned that theory very early on.
I’m assuming Benny & the Jest is the Living Joke’s Elton John cover band.