Clearly 18 December will see Lem being brought back (the kid Mildred refers to here as the onion eater). It’s been about a decade, so I wonder how he’s aged?
There’s something very sweet about the sincere way Brian tells Lorraine all the truth. The last few months have been a real disaster for the local church and a success for the CoS. Can’t wait to see how Penrose will thank him.
You can counter his disasterous truth with more truth!
“Wait, that guys a warlock from the Church of Satan! Was he here WEARING MY CLOTHES!?!? Well, that’s a lie right off the bat. I wouldn’t listen to him too seriously. Man thinks he’s a werewolf to.”
Make sense. But if Lorraine hate Penrose, she will always prefer to believe to Brian. Also, she could ask in the city and found proof that he said the truth.
“I’m sorry, Mrs Lumsford, he’s a bit touched in the head. lives in his own world. You can’t trust anything he says. We put up with him because it wouldn’t be right to just send him off into the world like that.”
It just occurred to me that in The Silvery Moon Lorraine thought she had them, too. As long as they can fix things up before someone higher up comes by they may be okay.
I’m simultaneously laughing and face palming at the same time. Oh Brian, what have you done? Well at least we know now that Billie was manipulated by dark forces so hopefully she and the Rev might has some leverage with that.
Alternately, the fact that Brian is obviously a Church of Satan official and known fabulist (Cardinal? Cathedral?) ought to weigh pretty heavily against any part of his statements that Lorraine does choose to believe and report up the chain.
Big question now is will Lorraine leave again before the Rev or anyone else returns to his house, leaving everyone unaware that she was ever even there until the hammer comes down from on high?
Although I guess the disarray of the house should clue the Rev in that someone has been there.
The Rev might either realize that he’d left Brian behind and that the mess resulted from the friendly Satanist dark lab retriever. Or, he might think he’d been burgled by an out-of-towner.
“So Mrs Lumsford heard all this from a… Cardinal Reginald Wemberley, you say? Never heard of him. She is aware that the C of E doesn’t HAVE cardinals, isn’t she?”
Nor is there a cathedral in Stroud. Or any possibility of a remedial cash grant, but that small fib served as a perfect lure for clues about the state true of the parrish, which I was subsequently able to corroborate.
Billie and Maggie will switch places and when the bishop comes to check everything will look just fine and Lorraine will get such a broadeside that she´d rather be a French ship of the line at Trafalgar
In the second-to-last panel Brian’s tipped head, the shadowy cast on Brian’s face, and the swivelling glace out of the corner of his eye all combine to make him appear actually quite sinister. Everyone seems to assume that Brian has acted out of benign ignorance, but what if that’s just a mask for malicious, deliberate sabotage? Brian’s been taken into the readerships’ hearts as the lovable cuddly doofus but he’s never to date been rejected as directly as the Reverend did in the last issue – could that have jolted to life a resentful streak?
The sheer joy of Brian in the last panel. Only true cluelessness can achieve it.
I’ve seen that same face on a family dog just after ripping a toddler’s brand new stuffed animal to shreds.
“Durrrrr….did I do good?”
Yeah… imagine…
It’s at times like this that I peruse the titles of forthcoming instalments for insight, coming up empty as usual.
Obfuscating John is obfuscating.
Clearly 18 December will see Lem being brought back (the kid Mildred refers to here as the onion eater). It’s been about a decade, so I wonder how he’s aged?
Not sure we’d see him here, as I assume he’s put down roots in Tackleford.
Roots, or a whole bulb?
The Bureau Will Not Be Pleased
Unfortunately, that face may be the last thing Brian sees.
Brian!!
Oh, Brian. At least be specific about what KIND of demons the Reverend is fighting.
So Lorraine will have no more doubts about Penrose being totally crazy.
There’s something very sweet about the sincere way Brian tells Lorraine all the truth. The last few months have been a real disaster for the local church and a success for the CoS. Can’t wait to see how Penrose will thank him.
You can counter his disasterous truth with more truth!
“Wait, that guys a warlock from the Church of Satan! Was he here WEARING MY CLOTHES!?!? Well, that’s a lie right off the bat. I wouldn’t listen to him too seriously. Man thinks he’s a werewolf to.”
Make sense. But if Lorraine hate Penrose, she will always prefer to believe to Brian. Also, she could ask in the city and found proof that he said the truth.
“I’m sorry, Mrs Lumsford, he’s a bit touched in the head. lives in his own world. You can’t trust anything he says. We put up with him because it wouldn’t be right to just send him off into the world like that.”
It just occurred to me that in The Silvery Moon Lorraine thought she had them, too. As long as they can fix things up before someone higher up comes by they may be okay.
Besides, she knows he’s a BS salesman. How much would she really believe any of that? Or know what to make of it?
But she so WANTS to believe that there’s malfeasance afoot. I doubt she learned anything from her previous experience.
I’m simultaneously laughing and face palming at the same time. Oh Brian, what have you done? Well at least we know now that Billie was manipulated by dark forces so hopefully she and the Rev might has some leverage with that.
Henceforth the action in panel 3 shall be known as a “spoot-take.”
It stands for “Sudden Powerful Outburst Of Tea”
Nice!! Better than my “Sustained Pressurization Obtaining Oolong Trajectory.”
Perhaps they can convince Lorraine or her Bishop that Brian was all some weird hallucination
I am open to being convinced of that myself
Alternately, the fact that Brian is obviously a Church of Satan official and known fabulist (Cardinal? Cathedral?) ought to weigh pretty heavily against any part of his statements that Lorraine does choose to believe and report up the chain.
Big question now is will Lorraine leave again before the Rev or anyone else returns to his house, leaving everyone unaware that she was ever even there until the hammer comes down from on high?
Although I guess the disarray of the house should clue the Rev in that someone has been there.
The Rev might either realize that he’d left Brian behind and that the mess resulted from the friendly Satanist dark lab retriever. Or, he might think he’d been burgled by an out-of-towner.
“So Mrs Lumsford heard all this from a… Cardinal Reginald Wemberley, you say? Never heard of him. She is aware that the C of E doesn’t HAVE cardinals, isn’t she?”
Nor is there a cathedral in Stroud. Or any possibility of a remedial cash grant, but that small fib served as a perfect lure for clues about the state true of the parrish, which I was subsequently able to corroborate.
*true state
Brian should get his own spin-off where he travels from place to place solving problems, like the dog in The Littlest Hobo.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiii……t
Billie and Maggie will switch places and when the bishop comes to check everything will look just fine and Lorraine will get such a broadeside that she´d rather be a French ship of the line at Trafalgar
Lorraine — Tredregyn’s Gladys Kravitz.
Ha! Great reference!
Oh boy things are all coming to a head
And wait ’til you see what’s ahead!
Coming to a head? Does that mean the central character will turn out to be Mick?
Mick should quit while he’s a… ah, never mind.
In the second-to-last panel Brian’s tipped head, the shadowy cast on Brian’s face, and the swivelling glace out of the corner of his eye all combine to make him appear actually quite sinister. Everyone seems to assume that Brian has acted out of benign ignorance, but what if that’s just a mask for malicious, deliberate sabotage? Brian’s been taken into the readerships’ hearts as the lovable cuddly doofus but he’s never to date been rejected as directly as the Reverend did in the last issue – could that have jolted to life a resentful streak?
The hearts shooting out of him in the last panel would argue that Brian thinks he’s done right by the Rev.
And, I mean, how’s he going to go troll agricultural shows for merry widows with the Rev if the Rev’s been sent to bad priest jail?
wait, so he just skipped out & left the parish inspector general (or whoever she is) waiting for biscuits? short attention spam maybe?
I hope the “spam” was on purpose, but if not, it’s among my favorite typos of all time.