Deny
We can all just agree that whatever is happening in this comic page is what had to happen. In every regard.
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
We can all just agree that whatever is happening in this comic page is what had to happen. In every regard.
Well, it would appear that news of the upcoming newly available secular living spaces has already reached the attentive rotting ears of potential boarders.
Ocean views and a short commute! What more could a sea monster want?
Absolutely nothing in this story is heading where I expected. I do hope the Reverend’s axe collection is safe.
All nicely boxed and labelled!
“Did they pack up my axe spray?”
“You mean Axe body spray, Reverend?”
“No…”
Doesn’t work in Britain because here it’s called Lynx :’)
Curses!
My maths teacher taught me to always label my axes.
Y?
“Bah, why do we need this old can of zombie repellent? Let’s just throw it out.”
*from outside* “Braaaaaaiiiiiiins…”
I think those are mermen, not zombies. Although, given Jason, maybe they’re both?
I think ShifterCat was illustrating a point with a parallel example to this story.
Merzies?
In which case, Gerry and the Pacemakers may make a surprise appearance.
Non, no, the supernatural beings they deal with are Fairies
And it would not be the first time Gerry showed up in a John Allison comic.
They’re no Freddie and the Dreamers!
This explains why Lorraine has so much power. And now I can’t help wondering if maybe she’s actually working for Trident. This kind of behind-the-scenes corruption and manipulation through ambition and seduction seems directly out of their playbook. Although, of course, there are plenty of people like that who aren’t part of some evil Satanic conspiracy.
Ok, now we’re hewing just a little too close to reality for my liking…
I don’t think she’s part of Trident, but I admit that Lorraine would look really good wearing red trousers.
I feel sick . . .
When I saw her purple scarf, I knew she had designs upon the episcopate . . . but I never envisaged THIS! 😮
Love, love will tear them apart, again.
Wow… Lorraine, who could expected her to be like this? With Derek as an accomplice to her diabolical plan… This is a great revelation that explains so many things! What a powerful page. It really has a lot of dark tension.
But I have to say, even if they are two ……., I like this slimy couple. I will be a bit sad when the sea creatures will interrupt them in the best moment and tear them apart.
I’d say the bishop is not so much an accomplice as a stooge.
Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
— Pam Dylan, of course
(I’m pretty sure the bit about “writers and critics who prophesize with your pen” that opens the next verse is a reference to Shelley.)
Percy Bysshe?
Winters, Oracle of Flovorr.
Never trusted her.
What a twist!
That’s what Bishop Bergerac said when Lorraine was done.
TMI!
Heretics and whores… Projection much?
“…and all the heretics and whores will look down when we cry, ‘Save us!’ and they will say… NO“
I think there are some eldritch folks who think times have not changed much at all. They might have a bone to pick with her.
And it might be her bones they pick.
It’s close to midnight/and something evil’s lurking in the dark
I hope the fishmen have their choreography down for the inevitable dance-off. But I have to wonder what attracts them to the area – is the church a Des res?
Anyway, Tredregyn because you tread upon my … region.
Didn’t Des show up for the Christmas mass?
https://steeple.church/comic/hes-such-a-delicate-flower/
Des moved to Tredregyn in Patreon-only comic “Cattywampus”, he doesn’t identify as a merman, being strictly speaking the result of the union between a British blueblood and a “Jenny Haniver”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Haniver
But.. is he an “Extreme Freak”? We know Tom was considering him… https://steeple.church/comic/tippy-tap-tap-tippy/
Looks like a real life episode of Clotted Crime with a bent Bishop and Lumsford as the hench ripped from the pages Fleet Street.
and by “real life” you mean, “webcomic,” right?
Well, in my town the Archbishop was removed for sex scandals. So I don’t mean “webcomic”, I mean real bent bishops.
So is this how Jason gets back into the scene?
New rector of Sunken t. Piran’s, the Church Beneath the Waves
Damn, I did not expect Lorraine to be this wittingly sinister, and it looks like she’s corrupting the bishop with lust and dreams of power. I really hope that our heroes can expose these charlatans.
When you put it like that, she is a bit Lady Macbeth here.
These two may not survive to encounter our heroes again.
JUSTICE!
Unless we get the Vicar of Flovorr. I think her closing the curtains is a little sus (as The Kidz these days say…)
I think her closing the curtains makes perfect sense without any unstated motivations, considering what she seems to be doing to the Bishop. I doubt she’d want that to be seen, on the off chance someone was out walking in that weather.
Why not both?
Many miles away
There’s a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark…
ScottishCornish lakeJust more… synchronicity (II)
I just can’t take Lorraine seriously. She looks too much like Ronnie Corbett.
Sorry!
Exciting news, I’ve just been nominated for a British Comedy Award for my “Sorry!” joke
Well played.
… and it’s goodnight from her.
First we take the Bishop
The we take Lumsford
*Then. Argh.
“Green shambling creatures of the deeps, they were, trailing algae, decaying skin and unresolved plot threads.”
it’s serious
They’ll be urgently sending for David pretty soon.
The bishop needs a kick up the arse, Len Brennan-style.
Yes, what did the Bishop think David Penrose has been doing all these years? Didn’t he notice that the St Pirin’s Axe and Cleaver budget was a bit above the normal.
Think of this as a commentary on modern society yeah?
I don’t know – you’d be surprised what the average CodE parish spends on axes and cleavers.
There isn’t a PCC meeting goes by without a big fight about it.
Well, would you rather have them sign off on an item “cleav.&axe” or on an item “cleavage”?
CofE, not CodE
Buggerit!
I kinda thought CodE might be apropos for the last panel. You know, what St. Pirans might become.
I bet Lumsford is working for Bob Warren and he is the developer who wants to build on the Church Land.
We only saw the torso of that special, one-off individual but still it didn’t quite look like it could be Lorraine
She could be Bob’s secret agent. But I think the possibility for her to be just a woman who wants power (or to be the lover or someone in charge) and is using the church for this is way more scarier.
On the otehr hand, someone like that’s exactly the sort of person who might gravitate toward Bob’s circle.
DECEIVE, INVEIGLE, OBFUSCATE