Breeding is camouflage
Wise words from Maggie, and of course Billie, reliable as a Casio, ignores good sense completely. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Wise words from Maggie, and of course Billie, reliable as a Casio, ignores good sense completely. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Oh dear.
Those “drunk bubbles” kinda resemble the trail of bubbles leading to a thought balloon, so in panel 5 it looks like Billie’s thinking fondly about her friends (and enemy), and in panel 7 it looks like she’s thinking about… Desmond?!
Either that, or she’s thinking about supporting John’s comics on Patreon.
I can’t unsee this, but I am also very okay with this (potentially) unintentional extra comedic effect.
In panel 6, she’s imagining panel 7.
And he’s imagining panel 4.
Judging by the way Billie looks at him, she’s only after that one thing too… Maggie, as the good friend she is, surely will understand and let her free to do what she wants. He really has beautiful eyelashes ♡.
Soon we will get to find out who in the Bobbinsverse has the worst taste in men; the reigning champion Shelley Winters or up and coming Billie Baker?
Billie has a long way to go to overcome Shelley. For now, it just seems like she wants to have fun.
Is Rupert using a Zambian Elite phone?
It appears to have a whole panel of optics on the back
Well spotted, Wicked Things readers will remember the kerfuffle about this eight-eyed beast.
The number of camera lenses on that phone made me guffaw! Must be an expensive model indeed.
Eventually technological evolution will reach a point where it’s normal for the entire back surface of the phone to be covered edge-to-edge with camera lenses. I can’t help but wonder, where will we go from there? I mean, how will anyone know whose phone is more advanced after that?
Bigger phones! Smaller lenses! More sophisticated circle-packing algorithms!
So basically the phone will become one big compound eye, seeing all things at all times? People will speak with amusement about the quaint olden times when you actually had to manually point the camera at something in order to take a picture of it. Horrors!
How else will our Zambian masters know what we’re doing at all times?
Back in the day, Saturday Night Live did an ad parody for a shaver that had an ungodly number of blades (I think four).
Little did I know that it was a prophecy, and it has been fulfilled.
Not merely fulfilled, but exceeded! Nowadays if a shaver doesn’t have 5 blades it’s considered cheap rubbish.
My razor has a single fixed blade, and it has been the same for more than three decades. I could never afford the sustained expense for cheap rubbish of whatever blade count. Of course manufacturing non-luxury goods that last a lifetime when used correctly does not really make for a customer base worth marketing to, meaning the product will not be considered at all.
YESSS! “wicked Things #3.”
Billie’s a Casio? I’m a Libra myself.
Satan is not the Lord of Good Decisions
But looking at panel 5 it’s clear she knows what she wants
As sort of a penance, she wants to get her snoopy involved after all?
I genuinely saved this bit of wisdom for posterity. I hope you don’t mind.
The Hunted becomes the Hunter.
The panels are growing more… shaggy.
Which week was this!?
Careful, Billie, you’ll scare him off.
Do what thou wilt, Billie. Do what thou wilt.
Someone’s getting a look at her snoopy soon-ish.
Wouldn’t *that* be an awkward moment for Baphomet to pop in to see how things are going with Billie?
Baphomet needs some sort of sacrifice.
Preferably with some sort of r*tual*ised s*xual misbehaviour.
Posh boys are totally expendable. Plenty more where he came from (though not necessarily blessed with such lovely eyelashes)
Remember the condition Billie put on her wish, though.
She neglected to add “and won’t regret it in the morning” to the Snoopy Clause, though.
Good point!
I see you finally put paid to the plus sign!
Well, with a smooth operator like that, Billie might even get lucky and be able to procure a virgin sacrifice. Assuming she cranks out the sacrificial dagger before giving in to lust. Wait, why would Baphomet prefer people to die rather than get dirty? This virgin sacrifice concept makes no sense.
From what I know it depends on the kind ritual that has to be performed. in some they have to sacrifice a virgin, in others someone who has just finished making love for hours.
Maybe Baph is up for a troy?
She’s not selling it, so she’s okay.
Billie is now looking at him as she would look her next meal. I don’t think he might be able to keep up with her…
On the other hand… Maybe Maggie wasn’t refering to sex being what he wanted…
“Maybe Maggie wasn’t refering sex being what he wanted”
But what else is there?
😉
I wonder if this is a sign that she has been with the church of Satan for months, or if she was always so bold, or if it’s just the alcool.
Shy girls don’t exist, shy circumstances exist
Billie was a Wild Child before turning to religion.
Before entering the church of England she had quite a past for someone so young. Also I don’t think sex bothered her even then, but she wanted to be a good servant of good and good anglican authorities probably shouldn’t do premarital sex, so she probably abstained as much as she could at that time. But those times are over for her.
So, will he be dead when she wakes up in the morning, or will he just vanish mysteriously leaving Billie as the prime suspect?
The second seems funniest.
If he dies, do they call Lottie back in to investigate?
No, that would only be if he disappeared. The way that Shelley disappeared. Lottie’s a specialist.
Sammy’s colors remain fantastic and I will be thrilled if you keep working with her!
This story wraps up in February and fingers crossed, Sammy will be with us the whole way.
Her palette is just a bit more saturated and vivid than your usual and I absolutely adore the change.
MAGGIE: All he cares about is [expletive deleted]ing you.
BILL: …Oh, the *horror*.
What about the letter that Maggie needed to be drunk to read? Am I the only one who cares? Probably. 😉
She seems to have forgotten all about it. Which makes me suspect it was something urgently important…
Maybe it’s from this person:
09/24/2021 Think bigger, Warlock Fitzpatrick
Which reminds me, can warlocks be women? Google think so. 🙂
Warlock Fitzpatrick is Brian.
Oh. Sorry about that. 😐
Tom and Brian hold high ranks within the Tredregyn Church of Satan – Magus and Warlock, respectively.
I thought warlock was the male equivalent of the female witch.
If a warlock is the male equivalent of a witch then simple logic dictates a witch is the female equivalent of a warlock. 😉
Any number of real-life people (of whatever gender) — whether Satanists, Wiccans, or other — identify themselves as “witches.” Others identify themselves as “warlocks.” Since Satanism is a real-life religion, those terms are found in this fictional Satanic church.
Of course, technically, in fiction, anything goes. On “Bewitched,” Samantha’s male relatives were identified as “warlocks” (except for that one who was an elf) yet in “Harry Potter”, it’s “witches” and “wizards.”
All that said, it seems to me that if women can be vicars and rabbis and ministers and so on, they can just as easily be warlocks. But I’m not sure. Which is why I raised the question in the first place. 😉
“If a warlock is the male equivalent of a witch then simple logic dictates a witch is the female equivalent of a warlock”
This doesn’t necessarily follow. A female actor can be an actor or an actress. A female poet can be a poet or a poetess. A female wizard can be a wizard or a wizardress. Witch/warlock’s actually somewhat more complicated, due to the history of both words, and the range of different definitions both words have.
Chekhov’s letter?
If reading it drunk was the goal, then reading it hung over will be even better! Probably.
If I’m not mistaken and frankly what are the odds of that, the general line of thought is that when you’re drunk you feel GOOD and when you’re hung over you feel BAD. Thereby implying that Maggie wants to feel GOOD while reading this letter because she presumes its contents are going to be BAD. If she reads it hung over, BAD + BAD = EVEN WORSE.
So, one can’t be considered to have taken advantage of another’s drunkenness if one is *oneself* drunk, right? I’ve wondered that same thing regarding claims that in “Sixteen Candles”, Ted took advantage of Caroline, because I’d think that since they were BOTH drunk, it kind of evened out. Uh, right?
Not my intention to make excuses for that plot point — and “Sixteen Candles” had any number of other problematic elements, I don’t for a moment dispute that — I’m just clueless, is all. No one who’s read more than three of my posts can have failed to catch onto that. 😐
Hey Ronald, great question.
I could write a whole treatise on the subject but this seems like the wrong forum for a deep law/philosophy discussion. I’d say that if you drive drunk and hit another drunk driver you are still responsible for your own actions. At least according to US law.
Well, inasmuch as Billie and Rupert are both drunk, it seemed mildly relevant. I just shouldn’t have gone off on a tangent, that’s all. 😐
Definitely relevant.
I was mostly talking to myself in that comment to keep from writing 1k words but wanted to admit that I really wanted to.
Baphomet needs some sort of sacrifice.
Preferably with some sort of r*tual*ised s*xual misbehaviour.
Posh boys are totally expendable. Plenty more where he came from (though not necessarily blessed with such lovely eyelashes)
Remember the condition Billie put on her wish, though.
“Posh boys are totally expendable.”
Perhaps, but nana-beloved television stars aren’t.
I’m in twice. How did I manage that?
Pure talent. It’s a gift.
“Breeding is camouflage” is a great line.
Maggie: Posh boys like this one are only after one thing.
Billie: Aw yis!
Billie: What a coincidence! Me, too!
I keep looking at the title of next Wednesday’s page now.
That casts a new and unsettling light on Friday’s.
Prediction: On Sept. 27 we will see the first conversation between Penrose and Tom since the original series.
It’s –possible– that since people started noticing the list of upcoming comics, I’ve started trolling the audience with them.
This is absolutely the correct way to use titles
I absolutely LOVE the first 3 panels. Incerdible.
Maggie’s face in panel 3 is for the archives.
That second panel looks so refreshing. It’s like a well done ad; I want a big glass of cold *something*.