Crisis of masculinity
I would argue that it’s more of a leaflet than a pamphlet, but everyone’s heart seems to be in the right place.
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
I would argue that it’s more of a leaflet than a pamphlet, but everyone’s heart seems to be in the right place.
Masculinity on the Internet often seems to reflect what I saw among males around me in high school (pre-WWW), and which I solemnly swore not to emulate. It’s a shame that it endures.
Despite being, as evidence confirms, way too educated for the job market, I still parsed that as ‘pre-World War Won.’
Yes, I nodded and said “Yes, we are seeing masculinity that reflected wars in which artillery was the deciding factor while infantry had to rush and hide in trenches”
I sat there for a good minute or two trying to figure out which World War it referred to and then which parody war it referred to (like Z) before brain clicked.
Love asking the Satanist for tips on being holy when no one is watching
Perhaps it’s like politics where left wing and right wing diverge but then meet up again on the other side.
She and Billie will end up promoted to someone’s should angel/demon pair.
Shoulder. Ducking auto carrot
Which will be which, though?
yes
Also, which will be witch?
I’ll see myself out.
So which one is Crowley and which one is Aziraphale?
Maggie’s got Crowley’s cool-but-secretly-soft style and Billie has Aziraphale’s nerves. Let’s get them together for dinner at the Ritz and see what happens
I could see them being paired for Brian’s conflicted conscience. Though they could often jump around as Eve’s hipster Angel/Devil pair did in Octopus Pie.
Octopus Pie was so good.
Does Brian really have a conflicted conscience, though? He pretty much just seems to follow his whims without looking back.
Who could possibly rate THEM?
John Allison?
I’m pretty sure Shelley and Desmond are John’s shoulder angel/devil.
I would’ve said a Winters sister on each shoulder.
Des is more of a shoulder slaad.
But Erin’s 50.1% good. That’s WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR. Despite her old job, I don’t think she’d qualify as a shoulder devil.
This is how coffee enemas were accidentally invented.
I would happily come over and play 3-way cribbage with Maggie and Billie. To keep them out of trouble. Yeah, that’s it.
I volunteer to be the 4th!
Obviously you are not a cribbage player. (Cribbage can be played between two or three players. Not more.)
I don’t know why you couldn’t play with four. It’d work out more neatly than three. Five card hands, everyone dumps one to the crib.
There aren’t four tracks on a cribbage board is the simple answer.
You play in teams of two.
And the card play is as Mr. Campbell described.
I thought the “neck” manosphere ad read “Thick Necks: Why you need 2 to get 1”.
Gosh dang it all if I wasn’t curious.
It’s ’cause you’ll be sticking one out all the time and will probably lose it.
“To get what you want, you’re going to have to stick your neck out…no, no, your other neck.”
That is exactly what it says. Get a thick neck today!
That sounds like an awful sale. “Need 2? Get 1”
Well, a bodybuilder’s neck is basically like two normal necks crammed together.
Shave face, put on wiry glasses, don a really sketchy outfit, terrible haircut, scowl everywhere
Ready to take on the world. The females LOVE that Dean Thompson swaggggg. PEAK MASCULINITY.
I love all those awful Alpha male clickbait headlines on panel 5 and really not all that far off from the real thing.
I like Billie’s super close-up photo as her avatar.
Beautiful page full of Maggie. The way she’s watching the pamphlet at the end and then deciding to ask Billie for help is hilarious ans sweet. This is so good. The big party is about to start!
I thought that iced tea is an abomination to the Brits.
Or is that just Maggie’s Satanic side creeping out?
Panel 7 made me laugh out loud on the bus.
Seems like if Billie had any tips on how to stay holy, she’d be the one watching over Mrs Clovis’s cottage right now.
Billie’s problem is staying unholy when no-one is watching. But Billie is also a true believer, she always thinks Someone (and Someone Else) is watching, and she’s decided to do what she wilt anyway, even if that is sometimes a little too holy for a Satanist.
Did I see negging in there? Anyways a good time to link an xkcd comic
https://xkcd.com/1027/
It’s always a good time for xkcd
Is Mrs. Clovis going abroad on her holiday or staying in the UK? If she’s taking a flight, maybe the reassurance and comfort of the DVT socks that the girls bought for her back in “Christmas With Clovis” will help ameliorate her… distemper when she returns to the bombsite that was her cottage. And if not, maybe if Mrs Clovis is pinned down and given a rigorous session with the head massager she’ll forget all her worries
I think Mrs Clovis will be extremely disappointed if she comes back and finds that Maggie hasn’t broken any of the rules, frankly. She wants to be able to complain and hold it over Maggie.
Maggie, that peach emoji is… open to misinterpretation. Just don’t invite him over for eggplant parmesan.
Glad to see I’m not the only one thinking that. That poor cottage will soon be full of young men who have taken care to wear clean underwear and bring good wine.
I think Maggie is realizing that herself in panel 8 (perhaps after having sent the text).
I like that we’ve left it ambiguous, but I’m thinking she did not quite hit send.
(or maybe, hit send after having done a ‘select all’?)
I think she knows perfectly well what the peach emoji means, but is rationalizing to herself that it has interpretations that don’t break the rules and is therefore OK.
If Maggie is genuinely concerned about boys being lonely… that explains a lot of her choices! Lass! Boys are always lonely…
Hmmmm, I’m not getting the PS icons in the last panel.
Red alert, sirens are blaring, emergency in progress
This may help: https://emojis.wiki/police-car-light/#platforms
I am intrigued by the last contact under letter “b”. Would be fun to have that person come over!
I’m thinking it could be Brian.
Maybe it’s Bob Barker.
Bzzmond Bishman
I can imagine Maggie discovering that name on her phone after a night on the town, with no memory of how it got there or who it belonged to. Calling it blind is too scary, but if she deletes it, then she’ll never find out who it was.
So it will end up being Schrodinger’s Contact?
Both alive and dead? You sure you don’t mean Chekhov’s contact?
I mostly meant that by not deleting it, and also never using it, she maintains the potential for multiple outcomes without realizing them.
Maybe Zebus, Warrior Child’s older brother?
Bzrkr!