About 40% teeth and claws
Maggie has really shaken things up at the Old Rectory. Everyone is embracing new, confusing behaviours. For example, here we see Reverend Penrose pass up the opportunity to slice a mer-beast in half. — Colours by Sammy Borras
I don’t like it a bit! The Rev should at least make Maggie study the mer-beast and deliver a report on it.
LIKE JASON WOULD HAVE!
dun dun
You didn’t let me kill it, you should take care of it
In one sentence Mrs. Mary Clovis sums up the philosophy of all celts.
“I could be shakin’ my head at *any number* of unrelated matters.”
At first I assumed the book held by Mrs C was some sort of sea creature reference book, brought to help with the task at hand, but maybe it’s just a random novel that she brought along in case she has a sudden need to project indifference?
Pretty sure we’ve seen Mrs Clovis with her reference book before: https://steeple.church/comic/wwffcd/
That was a different book though. That was a ring binder. This one appears to be a properly bound book. Yes, it is still probably a reference book (based on the picture, if nothing else), but the idea that it could be a random book she grabbed for snubbery purposes amuses me.
You’re asking a lot of our ever-suffering artist.
I’m not asking for anything at all. I have nothing but respect and admiration for Mr. Allison and his work, and am very grateful he has kindly chosen to share his work with us on the web for free. He certainly does not have to do that.
Thank you, John, your work is the highlight of my week. Don’t change a thing (unless you want to).
I took it to be an activity log. “Sunday: Chopped off 2 heads, smashed 3 eggs. Tuesday: Told Maggie I wouldn’t.”
Ominous “plop”?
I think it’s an ominous “blop”.
Whatever the sound, I think it’s the result of Mrs. Clovis getting back into the boat, so not overly ominous.
Yeah, I agree. It’s just the boat shifting as Mrs Clovis gets into it, I’d say.
I can’t tell if the motion lines in panel 6 are from the boat bobbing up and down, or the reverend shaking with indignance.
Both in love with Mrs. Clovis’ wit, but also feel the poignancy of her age.
I suspect that she was a flirty bit of stuff when she was young. WOuldn’t be at all surprised if she was a “bit-of-a-go’er”.
Good for her. Looking back over my life I wish I’d flattened a bit more grass.
I would love to know more about Mrs. Clovis’ past.
Penrose has changed so much♡. First thanks to Billie, now thanks to Maggie. It’s so sweet how he wants to make Maggie happy♡. I’m sure Mrs. Clovis is happy for Penrose, but she hides it by beating up the poor sea creature.
I suspect Reverend Penrose always had this side to him, buried somewhere under the hard shell his violent life has created around his heart, but now it’s able to come to the surface more, thanks to the influence of our two heroines.
When weeding, if you just clip off the tops of the weeds constantly, they keep growing back. You will be weeding forever. Perhaps Penrose knows that if just keeps killing the ones that show up, they will never stop showing up. The harder task is to uproot them, which randomly slaying whichever ones appear won’t effect.
He says that Maggie is ‘right’, I suppose that means that simply killing them off when they show up isn’t really the best way to deal with the problem, although cathartic.
“…wants to make Maggie happy…”
I’m not so sure he isn’t just terrified by her.
This is another valid possibility.
Too bad we missed the conversation where Maggie got Penrose to promise not just to not destroy the eggs but also to not kill the mother, though. Then again, Penrose only says that he TOLD Maggie he wouldn’t kill the mother, not that he outright PROMISED her that he wouldn’t do so. Hm.
Still hoping to eventually find out how Billie felt about this sort of thing before she and Maggie “switched sides.”
Which reminds me, Billie doesn’t “need” to tell her parents she’s become a Satanist, she can just tell them that she WORKS for Satanists (and lives on the premises) in a small town where there really aren’t many other job opportunities OR living arrangements, and that would be 100% true.
Besides, some people think Satanists control at least half the world’s economy, anyway. Which upon reflection on current events isn’t nearly as humorous a remark as I initially imagined it to be. 😐
For a man of his word, which I have always taken Reverend Penrose to be, “told” and “promised” are the same thing.
The whole premise of this storyline is that Billie does not, in fact, have a job at the Church of Satan. Her switching teams from the Church of England, which pays their curates, to the Church of Satan, which doesn’t, was the exact opposite of a job opportunity. Thus the demon invocation that kicked off the storm that both stirred up the denizens of the deep, and brought the Clotted Crime production — which is Billie’s actual employer now — to Tredregyn.
It occurs to me to wonder if the storm stirring up the marine wildlife is not just a coincidental side effect of bringing Clotted Crime here, but rather Baphomet’s way of providing even the Reverend with a job (that doesn’t involve anyone’s snoopy), in accordance with Billie’s request.
“The whole premise of this storyline is that Billie does not, in fact, have a job at the Church of Satan.”
I didn’t say she had a job there. I said she works there.
😉
One might even say that the Church of Satan has a job at Billie.
My children are at an age were I am asked “Are they working or still in school?”. So what I should say for the jobbers “Neither they got a job”
Just noticed, there’s a ‘c’ missing from “account” in Panel 3.
It looks fine to me and due to the permanent nature of things on the internet you are obviously incorrect about this
I think Maggie may have a point with this one. The monster sneaks around, scares the heck out of anyone that sees it, and *doesn’t* eat people. Maybe it’s just … a critter? The rules are different for those: I imagine that, if Penrose lived in a forest, he wouldn’t go out and punch every bear he saw.
…Although that would be funny.
In John Allison’s Britane, they’re probably devilbears. Using the axe is safer.
No, he wouldn’t go out and punch every bear, I mean… he favours axes, it would be way messier.
Oh. That’s very different. Never mind.