Fantastic facial expressions on these two! Does the Rev perhaps not want Maggie to know that he got suckered by the car salesman? Interesting excuse he comes up with – is Maggie at all convinced?
That’s not a sound effect, that’s a small swarm of flies that he trained to spell out words in the air while he’s brushing his teeth. (It was during a slow week.)
This is all wrong! A mirror switches front and back, not left and right. We should be seeing the backside of the letters, but they would still be running from left to right.
I mean, I can accept a haunted transformer car with its own will. But that mirror is the work of confused reality gnomes. You know, those who are in charge of arranging the world like you last remembered it because there is not enough world to put up for things you are not thinking about at the moment. I hate them because of my lightning fast memory meaning I constantly end up searching everywhere until finding things where I looked first for them. Just that they weren’t there yet.
Oh wait, wrong panel, but I can still answer that: his car has that particular “glow” of having recently been driven. He has realized that his car is, indeed, haunted.
I took this to be the steam one can often see rising from a still-warm engine on a cold morning, but now I’m not so sure. It does look rather ghost-like.
I don’t get the 4th panel too. Is that ectoplasm? Steam? Is the front windshield cracked? Is the left rearview mirror actually missing? Is the car on the driveway or on the lawn?
In a word, whence the “sh*t.”?
I read it more as the Rev, after years of dealing with the not-so-normal, keys into a vague sense “No, something is definitely up with this car” but doesn’t yet know what it is.
A car wouldn’t take too long to cool in the weather which makes shipskin jacket bearable. And the cloud’s source isn’t the hood.
My bet was on ectoplasm and Rev being capable of seeing it.
What’s the deal with Reverend having shades on when he takes a peek at the car but neither before nor after? Did he just put them on real quick for stepping outside and then took them off instantly, both off-panel?
That’s his “a nebulous gaseous area with a question mark in it representing mystery” detecting glasses. Otherwise, it would have wafted right past him.
Oh my lizardman, John, the facial expressions in this one are sublime.
– Maggie’s blush
– “Shit”
Special mention for “sinking feeling side eye” from the Rev in panel 3.
I also have to call out the ‘cuddly gorilla loom’ that Rev always takes when in conversation in Maggie, like he wants to be less tall for her but can’t quite figure out how. Top tier cartooning, sir.
So the reverend acknowledges that his new car is haunted and wants no one (especially Mrs. Clovis) to know… that’s fine. But telling Maggie lhe was crying, knowing exactly how she would react, just to distract her is a VERY dirty trick.
The Reverend really filling out those brown slacks in panel one. Bit of a ham-fisted tooth brusher though, isn’t he. Such a delicate caveman. How can you blame Maggie? I must say, I love her unrelenting, continuous, slightly-teasing-slightly-not tempting of the Reverend.
Fantastic facial expressions on these two! Does the Rev perhaps not want Maggie to know that he got suckered by the car salesman? Interesting excuse he comes up with – is Maggie at all convinced?
He now suspects the car is haunted, instinctively the car is a bro, and he is protecting its secret identity.
what is going on with maggie’s face in our penultimate panelette pls
I believe that is commonly referred to as a “blush”
Apparently those cheeks can also turn red under the right circumstances
I read it as Maggie’s arousal due to the Rev’s pretense of male sensitivity. I could be wrong?
I love how the mirror reflects the sound effects!
That’s not a sound effect, that’s a small swarm of flies that he trained to spell out words in the air while he’s brushing his teeth. (It was during a slow week.)
I just went back and looked at that panel with your joke in mind, and yeah, it’s funny.
This is all wrong! A mirror switches front and back, not left and right. We should be seeing the backside of the letters, but they would still be running from left to right.
I mean, I can accept a haunted transformer car with its own will. But that mirror is the work of confused reality gnomes. You know, those who are in charge of arranging the world like you last remembered it because there is not enough world to put up for things you are not thinking about at the moment. I hate them because of my lightning fast memory meaning I constantly end up searching everywhere until finding things where I looked first for them. Just that they weren’t there yet.
HSURB HSURB
I believe the plural of HSURB is HEGDE.
I believe it’s SEGUE
I love flirty Maggie and the Rev.
What IS going on in Panel 4?
She loves him, that’s what. More and more as the (fake) layers peel away.
Oh wait, wrong panel, but I can still answer that: his car has that particular “glow” of having recently been driven. He has realized that his car is, indeed, haunted.
I’m sure you’re right, but it looks like the Rev caught a quizzical ghost escaping the car. Maybe it overslept.
I took this to be the steam one can often see rising from a still-warm engine on a cold morning, but now I’m not so sure. It does look rather ghost-like.
looks like the Rev figured it out.
Does the car know that he knows?
I think all he’s figured out so far is that there definitely IS something strange about the car.
The car IS reacting to the Rev’s dark look.
The Rev’s usual reaction is to now reach for the nearest axe for some “car repairs”.
I’ve just had a (very) minor bit of surgery on my face, and any laughter tugs painfully at the stitches.
That reflected “brush brush” frigging near killed me.
For me it wasn’t so much LOL as, a nodding (arms crossed) respect for the creator. A hat’s off situation, if you will.
A better diversionary story would have been: “Sorry Maggs, but I was head banging to some vintage rock and roll. You know how it is.”
…of course the way it played out Maggie is even more infatuated with The Reverend Mister Tight Pants.
I don’t get the 4th panel too. Is that ectoplasm? Steam? Is the front windshield cracked? Is the left rearview mirror actually missing? Is the car on the driveway or on the lawn?
In a word, whence the “sh*t.”?
In the script it says “a nebulous gaseous area with a question mark in it representing mystery”
Imagine being me for a minute
Just a work-saving move, then?
I might not have the right sort of mind to appreciate this form of art.
I read it more as the Rev, after years of dealing with the not-so-normal, keys into a vague sense “No, something is definitely up with this car” but doesn’t yet know what it is.
I, too, hate it when I see a blob of mystery first thing in the A.M.
“First, coffee. Then, mystery.” Coffee mug idea, you’re welcome.
Agreed. The only thing worse is when there’s a blob of mystery floating IN my coffee.
I just assumed it was dew evaporating off the windscreen, which the car is using to say, essentially, “whut?”
Am I the only one who read it clearly as the heat rising off a car that has been driven??
A car wouldn’t take too long to cool in the weather which makes shipskin jacket bearable. And the cloud’s source isn’t the hood.
My bet was on ectoplasm and Rev being capable of seeing it.
*sheepskin ofc
bad correction of ‘shipskeen’
Does the Reverend do exorcisms? Maybe he’s more of an axe man?
🎵He’s the axe man,
Yeah, yeah, the axe ma-a-a-an! 🎵
And he’s wake-ing for no-one but Lee. Ok, Jason, but that wouldn’t scan.
He does axercisms.
What’s the deal with Reverend having shades on when he takes a peek at the car but neither before nor after? Did he just put them on real quick for stepping outside and then took them off instantly, both off-panel?
Those are his magic shades wot help him see the aliens
I don’t think he’s wearing shades. I think he’s just giving the car a dark look.
That’s his “a nebulous gaseous area with a question mark in it representing mystery” detecting glasses. Otherwise, it would have wafted right past him.
He’s dealing with it
Oh my lizardman, John, the facial expressions in this one are sublime.
– Maggie’s blush
– “Shit”
Special mention for “sinking feeling side eye” from the Rev in panel 3.
I also have to call out the ‘cuddly gorilla loom’ that Rev always takes when in conversation in Maggie, like he wants to be less tall for her but can’t quite figure out how. Top tier cartooning, sir.
So the reverend acknowledges that his new car is haunted and wants no one (especially Mrs. Clovis) to know… that’s fine. But telling Maggie lhe was crying, knowing exactly how she would react, just to distract her is a VERY dirty trick.
The Reverend really filling out those brown slacks in panel one. Bit of a ham-fisted tooth brusher though, isn’t he. Such a delicate caveman. How can you blame Maggie? I must say, I love her unrelenting, continuous, slightly-teasing-slightly-not tempting of the Reverend.
So many things to love about this episode, but I truly admire the Rev.’s exclamation. Very true to life.
I need to know who the electric tooth brush belongs to!
The Rev has a manual one, and Mrs Clovis doesn’t live at the Rectory, so clearly it must be the car’s.
It’s the Reverend’s – perhaps a birthday present from his brother – but he always forgets to charge it.
That last panel is some first-rate Maggie hair.
This car is so getting revved.
So how does your brother, whoops. How does the Reverends brother feel about the lack of gift usage?