Closest thing to… you know…
I think that could be Big Ken (proprietor of Ken’s Arcade), who Brian (it has been established) can lift both greased, and ungreased. I never established whether Ken or Brian was greased. You may be asking yourself, exactly how many terrifying bearded men are there in Tredregyn? The supply may be inexhaustible.
My understanding is that for well over a century, the economic mainstay of the Tredregyn economy were the nearby terrifying bearded men mines. But of course Thatcher’s policies — combined with a GATT decision that effectively torpedoed global demand — put paid to that.
Has the possibility been eliminated that both Brian and Big Ken are greased during the greased lift?
This fellow reminds me of Ryan’s father’s old mate with the handlebar mustache, whose name I can’t recall.
Of a similar mindset as well, it seems.
Poor Billie. She looks so terrified and sad for the poor baboon… Now what will she do? Is this the beginning of a long story, in a vague neorealist style, in which she’s looking for a job and cannot find anything with increasing pain? Possible that after months inside the church of Satan she didn’t meet someone (apart from Les? Is that how she got the job?) that could give her a job?
If she is terrified and sad for the poor baboon, she may not have understood why the two of them are looking at her for the “closest thing to…you know” bit. The stuff that wouldn’t totally be legal over there either.
Come to think of it, I seem to remember that “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” was operating from a garage.
I hadn’t thought about it!!!! Those two are the worst! Poor Billie.
Yeah, I can’t see Billie doing this job without having to take a cry break every 20 minutes.
I think she’s more terrified for herself. Any woman with a normally functioning amygdala recognizes that look from creepy men and can figure out what they’re really talking about.
DIANA IS BACK
But having clawed at the coffin for so long is giving her manicure headaches.
AND THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL
Wait, doesn’t Maggie call him Alan in the Sesh Gremlin episode?
Maybe they’re twins?
This an unforced error I am currently unable to fix.
Perhaps he’s Alan Lester Goebbels (name legally changed in 2017)?
Why can you remember this, Richard, when I (who write the comic) can’t?
It isn’t fair.
I have changed the past because it was easier than amending the present.
I can’t help but think of how this applies to Destroy History.
Yes, Terry Pratchett introduced the time monks just precisely to address any inconsistencies in the discworld canon. No continuity errors! It was the time monks changing things around!
Given that you have the Agency from Destroy History, you can use them in the same capacity.
It would be irresponsible not to!
You posted a link to that strip yesterday. Makes it pretty easy to remember. 😉
OK, Friday.
And he didn’t even mention yet that the baboon may be stacking shelves and fighting back.
Out of fairness the baboon should be given a gun as well. Plus a short training course on how to load and shoot it.
E. O. Wilson said “If Hamadryas baboons had the Bomb the world would be destroyed in a week.” Cannot imagine what they would be like with repeating firearms
They tend to expend the whole lot of ammunition in the first confrontation — after that their combat effectiveness drops markedly.
the lining coming out of the stitching on his gilet. That’s my favourite detail
Billie shouldn’t feel too bad, I knew someone who quit a job (in a library!) after one day (well, she at least finished her shift, then called in sick the next day and never went back).
Time to get out the tambourine and start busking!
The colorway is mood dismal at the PIXY.
management technique needs work, Les
This is a hint Billie doesnt belong in the Church of Satan. I mean, killing baboons is doing what they wilst, right?
This is the Church of Satan sect that does ad campaigns to remind people to pick up their trash.
…they also regularly hold “service” with Black Mass orgies involving the elderly.
And Magus Tom has, at least once, threatened to cut out Maggie’s heart and eat it if she ever returned to the Church.
Let’s not get too precious about them, I’m just saying.
I’ve never addressed the Tom/Maggie thing in Steeple #5 but in the context of his personality as revealed in previous and subsequent stories, I think you can take that as high drama based on his hurt feelings rather than a literal thing.
OR IS IT &C.
My impression so far is that everything Tom does is high drama, if not outright camp.
All of the this. I tend to see Tom’s entire life as high drama based on his hurt feelings and desire to subvert the natural order.
Either way, I’m here for the ride.
You are an international treasure, John.
May God bless you with a long life and a happy drawing hand.
I like the Vape Escape ad.
If this is what Tredygrn’s population is generally like, I don’t think humanistic outreach is gonna work very well….
Shooting a Baboon though! Guess these lads need a war to fight in.
I think it’s just this corner of Tredregyn. Most of the folks, be they Christian, Satanist or unaffiliated seem at least pretty decent.
Everyone needs something to believe in. I’ve read Lovecraft, though.
Yeah, I’ve had a job that I knew in less than an hour that i would have to quit. Discussions about baboon murder would probably do it for me, too.