Clotted Crime!
“Clotted Crime” is the name of Mrs Clovis’ favourite TV show and was dealt with, at considerable length, in the four-part story of the same name.
NO MORE BONERS I SAID
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
“Clotted Crime” is the name of Mrs Clovis’ favourite TV show and was dealt with, at considerable length, in the four-part story of the same name.
NO MORE BONERS I SAID
I wonder how Mary feels about unsexy sex.
As long as it’s procreative, she’s probably fine with it.
I suspect Mags has wanted to relieve the Reverend for a while now…
By having more than just a word in her hands?
That word could well be more than enough!
That’s worth two in the—… you know, I’m just going to stop there.
I wonder if Penrose managed to keep his pants this time, or if against not one, but two witches he has lost even more…
In what way is “relieve” any less dangerous a word than “boner”, we may well ask!
You folks are making it unbearable not to make Joker jokes about this storyline.
We’ve already seen GD X Bat-like Man. Maybe the time is right for Steeple vs Joker too.
Perhaps Steeple v. Joke-maker? I mean, if care needs to be taken with the fledermaus man’s name, should a similar scrubbing be solicited for the name of the man of jocularity?
The Humorist
Catchphrase: “interested in how I got these blemishes?”
We really do inhabit a civilisation
Humorist/Duck Dixon unholy alliance incoming!
He was called “Batman” pretty consistently in the Giant Days crossover, though. Esther called him “the Bat-like Man” a couple of times early on, clearly as an Esther-ism, and many of the readers assumed, incorrectly, that it was for legal reasons. I think a lot of the readers just prefer to believe that for some reason.
Wait, I’ve got it. Joke-Maker x The Living Joke!
tbf, there are lots of words which are dangerous in Maggie’s hands
Especially if she’s using sign language. Otherwise, they’re usually dangerous in her mouth.
Wait- I get it now. Maggie and Billie are us, the readers! They’re going to have the same arguments and discussions that we’ve had, aren’t they?
I agree with Billie, Mr. Clovis was probably a bad man and Mary killed him to defend herself. Then she began helping the church by trying to make amends.
Would she have kept his aftershave in that case, though? I’m thinking something else is going on here, somehow.
Love is complicated! There are mixed feelings there!
Billie might be right. But for Maggie, Mrs. Clovis is the rough but good grandma with a heart of gold that she always wished she had, instead of the monster she has. She will never be able to accept the idea that she could be a murderer. I wonder in what condition they’ll find Penrose.
Billie has some fanfastic facial expressions on this page. You do amazing things with eyes and eyebrows, John.
We’ve never seen Billie so angry. It is not even so much “new side of the character” as just uncharacteristic. It must be explained and therefore, in due course, it will be. Tick, to paraphrase somebody, tock.
I think that’s just her pretending-to-be-someone-stabbing-someone-else face.
I’m slightly surprised that John did not title this post “No more boners.” But I suppose seeing that in the sidebar would have sent us readers into a frenzy.
I can’t recall when I’ve last been opposed to a good frenzy. Maybe when playing footie as a lad, as the British like to put it. But certainly not since!
I seem to recall him once saying that he intentionally never uses the final line of the page as the title.
Except for the once or twice when he broke that rule.
Soon to be the title of a Private Members’ Bill.
I see what you did there.
Billie moves her fist up and down, miming… a knife. Right, a knife.
Easy there, Sean. What would Mrs. Clovis think?
Yer all filthy. Y’should all be ashamed – ASHAMED!!
Judging by Billie’s apprehension at the word “boner,” it sounds like her senses of morality are starting to come back.
And Maggie is acting casually depraved
Revd Penrose may know all about Mrs Clovis’ backstory.
Hence the dehumidifier?? 😱
I’m pretty sure the dehumidifier was just an excuse for getting away from Brian (or his music).
I knowww, I’m just going deep!
How long will Lumsford hang loose at the Priory? Long enough to find Princess Sparkles and the sharp ax collection?
We know the secret.
“Mrs. Clovis” is an alias.
She is really Mrs. Ravoon
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiRAVOONMS.html
Une bonne heure with the boner?
How debonair.
Isn’t that a cheap airline?
I can’t recall if this was actually stated anywhere, but I’ve always had the sense the Mrs. Clovis has been at the rectory a lot longer than Reverend Penrose has. Which would raise a lot of interesting possibilities.
I definitely see Mrs. C. as the kind of person everyone in town says, “Oh! She’s ALWAYS been there! I can’t remember the place without her!”
She was there when they bought the copper for the church bell from Ea-nāṣir
Should check her cuneiform against that of the Ea-nasir tablet!
As if Ea-Nasir’s low grade copper would last as long as Clovis!
Poor old Ea-Nasir. Imagine if thousands of years from now, the only evidence you ever existed was a one-star Google review.
Apparently he collected his complaint letters so maybe he’d be proud.
What a gorgeous page!
Thanks again Mr. A
(STAB STAB)
Me, myself, I’m sad that there’s only 9 pages left in this story.
But I’m also eagerly anticipating the “best albums of the year” Xmas filler. If that’s still a thing? Pls pls, pls!
I still do the list, there hasn’t been a 5-day fun filler feature for (checks) eight years. Could it return this year?
I’d still love to see Feats of Strength: Tredregyn one day!
I miss the kind of raw, bizarre, unpolished, utterly beautiful guest comics you once solicited in your youth.
Me too! Webcomics were such a thing back in the day that I got massive responses to requests for art like that and some of them were genuinely stunning. That’s how I was introduced to Lissa Treiman. I can’t imagine that if I ran a similar competition now, I’d get more than two or three. I’ve never received a piece of fan art for Steeple (not that I expect any!!) but that sort of very creative reader feedback definitely feels part of a very different time. Though here are loads of Giant Days drawings out there on Instagram if you look – it’s just about how the work connects.
In Mary’s defense, Ghosty Clovis (which I will be calling him until we know his actual name) as a representative of the spirit world has not seemed like the nicest gentleman.
I get it that he’s dead and feels he was unjustly murdered, and that has a deleterious effect on one’s personality – but if he wore Brut because he liked the sound of the word, and was beating Mary or whatever, even I’m not sure how I’d have wanted that one to go down.
I don’t think Mrs Clovis would have gone on holiday leaving a bottle of Brut lying around just by accident. She’s too tidy and methodical for that. There’s either a simple explanation or she wanted it to be found.
There was something about the way she spoke to Maggie when she asked her to watch the place that seemed a little… deliberate, maybe? Like she had ulterior motives for wanting Maggie to stay in the house. It’s always hard to tell with Mrs. Clovis, though.
I’m still on Team Vacuum Cleaner Ghost.
MRS CLOVIS IS INNOCENT!!!!
Free MODOC!
Free?! I demand that today’s youth PAY for their Mental Organisms Designed Only for Killing, just like I did when I was their age!
The Joker demands MORE boners!
https://www.tumblr.com/connorratliff/123089728932/batmans-greatest-boner