As he slumbered
Well, that neatly tidies up a number of plot points so you’ll never have to think about them again. Now we can concentrate on more important matters eg what a “croust” is.
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
Well, that neatly tidies up a number of plot points so you’ll never have to think about them again. Now we can concentrate on more important matters eg what a “croust” is.
What exactly IS a “croust”? That’s my number one question here, certainly.
Didn’t he write Remembrance of Things Past?
No, no. He wrote Remembrance of Things Cast.
A croust could involve Madeleine biscuits
The crousts are only illegal if the meat hasn’t been inspected _and_ you try to sell them. Otherwise it’s just normal croust or hunter’s croust. Now what sort of depravity could’ve led to a croust fire is anyone’s guess.
Snack, I think …
For those Americans (as a southerner I am NOT a ‘yank’) here’s a list you may find helpful. Though, I say that probably a quarter of these are common expressions in the U.S. too, at least on the East Coast. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/60-british-phrases-that-will-confuse-anybody-who-didn-t-grow-up-in-the-uk/ss-AAKPDqX?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=613a02d8de9d4a0698497c5b6d6ff66f&ei=17#image=61
Apologies: I will never stop quietly chuckling at the annoyance of everyone south of Connecticut but especially south of Maryland being unknowingly trolled by the British use of Yank. My (English) husband was the only person touring the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta one February weekday, and the tour guide there took him to task about British use of Yank for most of the tour. He was hilariously perplexed.
Hey, if the non-American use of “Yankee”/”Yank” is incorrect than so is the Southern US used of the word to mean “Northerner”. A REAL Yankee/Yank is specifically from New England. 😉
“To a European, a Yankee is an American. To an American, a Yankee is a New Englander. To a New Englander, he is a Vermonter. To a Vermonter, he is someone who eats apple pie for breakfast. And to a Vermonter who eats apple pie for breakfast, a Yankee is someone who eats it with a knife.”
I’m a Yankee.
I always preferred “Seppo” from the cockney rhyming slang of Septic Tank = Yank.
In the film Edge of Tomorrow there was a moment when the Tom Cruise character asks the Sergeant (Bill Paxton) “are you America?”. The Sergeant answers “No sir, I’m from Kentucky”. That was when I realised that being American was more complicated than I thought.
americaN – dang
Slang for a Cornwall Pastie. A great snack, whenever, I still think. I must have eaten my own weight in Cornish pasties back in the day. Traditionally beef, though now you can get them in seafood, chicken, pork and even (shudder) vegan.
Do the vegan ones contain Cornish corn?
No, Vegan vegans. Isn’t it interesting that Vegan vegans may be meat but vegan Vegans not? (I am assuming that Vega may be inhabited by individuals that can be both from the animal or plant kingdom, or whatever the equivalent on Vega would be for kings).
“Didn’t you say this was a vegan sausage?” — “Did it bite you?”
Since Vega is a star, I’d say any animal or plant life there would be incinerated pretty much immediately.
A very efficient way to bake a croust.
Recommended baking time: 0.3 nanoseconds.
I thought Oggie was a Cornish Pastie.
Well, the rain softly falling
And the oggie man’s no more;
I can’t hear him calling
Like he used to before.
Gareth seems not to agree with the Rev, or with empirical reality, about the nature of that van.
He’s still fighting the war… bro! Will someone have to call his commanding officer?!
You weren’t there, man. You weren’t there!
Having owned an orange VW Camper van I can say that is no less than it deserved.
Although, to be honest I rather miss the thing. It had its qualities.
My father owned a yellow one in which he’d take us camping when I was a boy. It had a fold-out extension on top of the van to reveal.a small hammock, positioned directly over the angular-edged central cooking area, which became my usual perch.
I’ll give you one guess why this practice ended one fine morning, bright and early, to the sounds of ripping hammock cloth.
Bear attack?
I initially misread that as meaning that you miss the Thing, aka the VW Type 181: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Type_181
I kind of miss it myself. It was so ugly it was beautiful.
You still have yourself.
I would love to have a Thing. I have a couple of friends who own them. He bought both back in the 80’s from another guy I knew, one to restore and one for parts. He ended up restoring both of them… sort of. The restored one (green) went with his girlfriend when they split, and the other one (white) he upgraded with a fire breathing turbocharged engine and he raced it for a while. I haven’t seen either of them in years.
I admit I would pay good money to watch a fire breathing, turbo charged VW Thing in a race.
I never saw him race it, but he’s part of a group of air-cooled VW enthusiasts I hung around back in the 80s and 90’s. I only ever see one of them these days, but he’s got some cool stuff. He still drag races type 1 VWs all the time. His shop is full of them. His big car dragster has a 3 liter type 1, turbocharged, and running injected alcohol. It makes around 700 horsepower at the crank. (He’s got a crank dyno just for VW tuning.) Unfortunately he hasn’t raced it in about 3 years because he has health problems. But he still goes out and races a steel body Beetle all the time. It’s more of a 300 hp car.
I miss The Thing.
IT’S CLOBBERIN’ TIME!
I assume the van driver’s “extreme relaxation” explains how he nearly got the Reverend killed.
His judgement calls might have been… impaired. Illegally? Possibly, not yet.
On the page where the VW first appeared, in the comments, Beck pointed out that the VW looks like the one that not-entirely-competent coven of witches was using in Steeple #4 (since the first 5 issues aren’t online, I’m linking to a Solver page where John shared an image from that issue- scroll down). So, the driver may be a “she”. https://badmachinery.com/comic/human-league-hitmaker/
Not all plot points tidied up! I still don’t see how the Rev’s car managed to squeeze between the two others. Surely Gareth could not have used his generic cyberchanging powers without shredding the passenger within, and if he did manage it *surely the Rev would have noticed!* Time for me to try again with my generic 1:45 metal model cars…
When it comes to evil Decepticon-ish overlord, a VW van isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind.
That’s how they get you! They’re insidious.
My dad’s tried to kill me! And I don’t think it was even an evil robot.
More than meets the eye, and all that.
If there’s anything in this story that could be the ancient enemy, it’s probably got to be the phaeton.
Here in the States, we would say “dankest” rather than “nangest”, but… yup.
Things I have heard/read being described as dank: memes, kush. I don’t know what kush is, so I will assume that kush = memes because the resulting absurdity of the last panel is amusing. (At least, I will hold to that assumption for twenty minutes…)
I’m sure I heard about the father and son’s illegal meat on the Beef & Dairy Podcast.
Love the further retro callback of colorful Mandelbrot set designs a well
And here I was thinking the Nangest Kush is one of the lesser-known summits of the Himalaya.
It is very high
I thought Nangest Kush was a character in Beast Wars.
It was climbed solo by Aleister Crowley in 1902 when he was part of the Eckenstein-Crowley expedition to K2.
Apparently he never really came down again.
Seriously Penrose? That Vw camper was openly aggressive!
Pretty dank fractal background there, too.
(Memo to self: “fracground”? see if domain name is available)
There was a big feature on crousts on last night’s Countryfile. So now we know where John gets his reference material; I expect we’ll be seeing John Craven pop up before long…
Apparently ‘Croust-Time’ is Cornish miner’s slang for lunchtime – or dinnertime if you’re not a heathen.
I’ve got a question for John, do you have a favourite among the old Marvel Transformers artists?
Geoff Senior of course!
Good man!
I actually liked Andrew Wildman most when I was a kid, but as I got older I started to appreciate Senior more
Important safety tip, kids: if you fear assault by a giant sentient robot while asleep, like up the best weed you got.
This has been a free Public Service Announcement.
On the other hand, if you fear assault by a giant sentient robot while asleep, you may already have had enough weed to be start experiencing paranoid delusions.
Probably best to have more weed anyway.
I wish I could edit my posts after posting them.
Don’t we all.
Whoa, cut him some slack. He just made one teeny mistake!
In the universe of this comic, I think having an ever-present background fear of giant sentient robots, sea monsters, demon bears, etc. is just common sense.
This is flipping brilliant
So, was the orange camper van a cyber-changer of the evil variety? The report didn’t say anything about it, but then Gareth was checked over pretty carefully in car form, and they never noticed that he was actually a robot. Granted, these two were not exactly experts in human-cyborg relations, but still…
I gotta be honest John. You need to kill the fractals in the last panel.
No! Leave them!
I love the foreground/background contrast in that panel!
Plot point I want explained: why Gareth waited all that time at the used car lot, when he could have taken himself off to some other barn to continue his wall-staring
He’ll stare wherever
Being a Cormishman I forget that terms like croust may not be more widely known.
(that depiction of the Cornwall Live site is very accurate apart from the lack of pop up ads!)