End the war
Maggie’s eyebrows may be my greatest ever comic creation. Eyebrows are very important to character design. Think about how many choices you get on Mii Maker or the Memoji creator on the iPhone. Eyebrows are a living, vital thing. As men tend to discover in their forties, when their eyebrows suddenly begin to sprint for the moon.
When I entered my forties, my eyebrows did not so much sprint for the moon, as more they quietly built up their fortifications over time and then, when strong enough, suddenly declared themselves sovereign nations, independent of the tyrannical rule of my face.
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Where is my ear hair off to then? I en’t even 40 yet.
Uh oh. That seems to be Buttons’ magic flute melody in the first panel wafting far offshore…where it appears that a dark, menacing speck on the horizon is there to receive its lilting strains.
Did Tom get our good Reverend a kraken attack for Christmas?
That’s very thoughtful, and it will likely be his favourite present this year.
Right???
Maggie is really beautiful, scary, modest… no, that no. I love to see Billie drink the unknown drink in Maggie’s bottle with no problem♡.
Your greatest ever comic creation? I don’t know about *that*. I mean, Maggie’s eyebrows are indeed great, but greater than Desmond Fishman? Is that even possible?
Better than SHELLEY??
My hair generally has decided to seek greener pastures. The eyebrows are exploring exciting opportunities above, below and to the sides of the Designated Eyebrow Zone; the hair on my crown has decided to dedicate itself to its first love, swirling down the drain when I shower. A few hardy souls have decided to attempt to colonize the outside of my ear.
Is it odd that Maggie hasn’t made the connection that this is the same site where she found the Sentai? That doesn’t seem like it would take much of a leap (no pun intended).
And isn’t it also where Billie found the belt emblem?
A lot of coast in Tredregyn, a lot of cliffs, several coves and beaches, it’s a little peninsula.
I think Maggie can be expected to be a bit quicker to catch on to things than Billie, though. Look how long it took the latter to realize that Tom probably wasn’t going to give the Reverend anything nice. And in contrast look how quickly Maggie figured out whose idea it was for Tom to give the Reverend a gift in the first place. 🙂
Billie always tries to think the best of people.
Hey now! It seems Tom got Penrose a fight with a twenty-story merfolk monster for Christmas – there’s an argument to be made that it’s *exactly* what the Reverend always wanted, or at least always thought he wanted.
I’m seized with the need to know what the rest of that flask’s inscription says.
Same. An engraved flask has to be a gift, right?
Especially one that says “To Maggie” on it. Panel 4 is so tantalizing- if it wasn’t for Maggie’s hand, we’d be able to see the whole text clearly.
I think it says TO MAGGIE / LOVE FROM / FREDDY
Some poor lost soul who could have been famous with the right support from a loving woman, probably.
It actually DOES look like that’s what it says! Hmm… Although, I’m pretty sure the person you’re thinking of would have used an “ie” at the end of the name, not the “y” that seems to be there.
I know, so close! I’m inclined to think that the second line contains just the three partially obscured letters. LOVE THE / BOY (or something along those lines, though I can’t imagine much reason for a Eustace crossover; perhaps LOVE FROM / DOT)
I rather think it’s Maggie’s hair. I hope it’s as much fun to draw as it is to look at it every day. Those whorls!
Maggie’s increased role in Steeple over time is down to how much fun it is to draw her mad hair!
I prefer to think my unruly eyebrows are not a curse, but a gift…possibly from the spirit of C. Aubrey Smith.
That belt buckle keeps sparkling – and it sparkles in the same colours as the sentai’s suit!
If Billie had put it in her bum bag and let it stick out a bit … the sentai pointing from his pencil to her “fanny pack” … I think that would have helped determine his target group of affection
“Pointing from his pencil to her fanny”? Well, that would establish an “affection target group,” all right.
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I am a woman in my fifties and my eyebrows do that too. Maybe not quite as dramatically as some male eyebrows I have seen, but dramatic enough.