Crawls
Now here’s a sad schism. The old pals, rent in twain. But Brian always keeps a good thought for people and Tom is no exception. I’ve had “Brian goes straight” on my to-do list of Steeple stories right from the start.
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
Wow.
Looks like Ludmilla’s “you aren’t going anywhere fun” was to be interpreted as “I’m going to magically sap all the hellraising partygoing wildness out of you”
Which may produce a happier Brian? Not that he was really unhappy.
I think he’s been pretty consistently the happiest of our main characters.
I’m not getting _hugely_ happy vibes from Brian on this page.
Sapped the goat right out of him, if you look closely
I suspect, at this point, Brian wouldn’t lift Big Ken greased OR ungreased.
I’m sure Big Ken miss that very much.
Not that he couldn’t lift Big Ken greased OR ungreased, were the situation wholly unavoidable. It’s not like his hair was the secret to his great strength… right?
Sounds like he’s landed on his feet
And he’s getting plenty of fibre.
No.. NO…. NOOOOOOO!!!!! This is too sad! Even Tom seems to want to help Brian return to be the metalhead he was. So far the only good things that have happened in these three months are the death of Maggie’s grandmother (if it really happened) and the fact that Penrose now lives with the awesome red-haired writer with a beautiful smile.
Speaking of which, I wonder what Penrose thinks of having an occasional leader of the legions on hell as his prospective sister-in-law. Or of having moved to one of the few places where running into eldritch creatures is more likely than in Tredregyn.
For me Penrose can only be happy to have moved to Tackleford. I can’t see him be satisfied without having to fight some evil creature once in a while. About his relationship with Erin, I would really love to see them having to spend time together. It could be extremely fun.
I’m not sure I agree about running into eldritch creatures being more likely in Tackleford. In Tredregyn, sea monsters invade the town every single night, and everyone is well aware of the existence of various types of eldritch creatures. In Tackleford, the Mystery Kids had to actively SEEK OUT weird stuff in order to encounter any such beings, and it seemed like many of the residents were unaware of the existence of such beings (although this seemed a bit inconsistent at times).
I don’t think the people of Tredregyn are really aware of this. Before seeing them, Maggie thought the sea people were just a legend and it seems that they mainly attack the part of the city where the Church is. It’s true that in Tackleford people don’t seem to see the weird things happening around them. But it often feels like some sort of choice and not true ignorance.
I see Brian is making a lot of new connections.
Laying a lot of cable
Why does that sound like a euphemism?
So I just have a Bad Mind?
I don’t know about English, but in Swedish it definitely is a euphemism.
In the US I’ve heard “laying pipe” used euphemistically.
Playing with the band, broadly speaking
Openreach!?!
I mean, Satanism I can understand and sympathise with, but Brian has made some terrible moral decisions if he has resorted to this.
“God forbid the man get a DAY JOB”
next thing you know, he’ll reveal he did some contract work in Davos…
You can bet that the Church of Satan will have a much higher download speed than upload.
Three months? Who helped him with his chains?
What in the name of all that slithers is a “bothy”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothy
You.
-first sight of Panel 3-
(JAW DROPS)
-first sight of Panel 4, now that I know it’s *Brian*-
HIS HAIR!!!
I find all of this deeply disturbing.
I’m sure the horrible scream emanating from behind Tom is nothing to worry about.
Oh, Oh gods… he’s not so different visually tbf.
It is looking like Not-So-Happy-Endings (of any kind) seem to be happening to the Main Cast (I suspect that there are evenings when The Reverend feels that old ache in his muscles, his body longing for the adrenaline thrill of combat!).
There’s a feeling he gets, when he looks to the west.
Well this was a shock. In my wildest dreams I never imagined Brian as a cable repairman. Is that what lifelong training as a warlock gets you in the everyday world?
“Token ring connections work very well provided that you get the termination right. You have to terminate a black goat using a silver-bladed knife by the light of a full moon.”
I was right! He’s been Crushed by the Wheels of Industry
I blame that fascist groove thang
Now he’ll never find the brown note. And did Billie say she is now staying with Brian? That must be a sad household.
…but with solid internet, at least
I had to read this three times before my mind would allow me to realise that this is, in fact, *our* Brian.
I’ve never been more devastated to see a broadband repair-man in my life.
This was a bleak, eventful three months.
Oh and hey, my town got a mention! Correctly in the context of the BT service constantly bastarding out. Get a move on, Brian.
No one is going to comment or speculate about why Tom is so sweaty? I imagine has something to do with why he’s leading Brian away from the front door.
Maybe it has something to with his new shorts. Just running on a treadmill by himself watching Clotted Crime perhaps?
Maybe he’s been running up that road, running up that hill, and/or running up that building.
If Tom makes a deal with God, I’m outta here.
Oh Brian…
Brian I am so sorry.
I kind of find it hilarious that well-groomed, clean-cut Brian with a steady job horrifies this community far more than whatever in the Satanic damnation is going on behind Tom.
Because the change in Brian IS more horrifying.
At least the doorbell is still reporting with the correct typeface. Now that I know to Look Around You, I don’t think my heart would be able to handle it if “DING DONG” were rendered in the comic in Helvetica.
Came for tea and comfort, found the community. On steeple.church, you can always read the comments. Also, oh, Brian!
It seems a shame that with the number of pages left, Ludmilla and Clotilde will likely never suffer any (or at least adequately described) comeuppance for the havoc they cause numerous other characters.
Like a whole new man, rebirthed in the holy vision of fibre optic cables.
I hope he at least got Maggie’s bike fixed before setting out on this new career. And I see John has been good to his word on using blackletter for doorbell sound effects in Steeple.
If Mrs Clovis is in trouble with the law then we might have to get Lottie back.
Charlotted Crime
It’s a sobering thought that changing from the Church of Satan into Telecom Services really seems like crossing over to the dark side. From “Do what thou wilt” to “Crush their hopes and throttle their bandwidth unto the third and fourth generation.”
Yes. I live in a rural area in the UK and our internet is rubbish. A little while ago, by chance, I got to talking with the local manager of OpenReach. I asked him what I had to do to get a good internet connection. He said “Move house”.
Having just – this week – had our new fibre internet fitted, I know that Open Reach check daily before the install to make sure the necessary kit has arrived (by GPO) and – annoyingly – daily that you’re expecting their engineer – so there’s no way its a surprise visit. Don’t know how John could have checked, though!
Even if they did check with the CoS, there’s no way Tom’s *new associates* would remember to mention something like that to him, would they now?