Escapist fun for nanas
I think I really get to the heart of the matter here. Escapist fun for nanas usually starts with a killing, or ends with a bunch of lads forming a paramilitary death squad. This isn’t their fault, it’s the fault of network television. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Typo in panel 2: “c” missing from “rescinded”.
As an editor by trade, I approve of this message.
I was assuming it must have been some weird British spelling…
Typo RESCINDED! Thanks.
I very much appreciate the Grocer’s Apostrophe in panel 1.
This was NOT how I expected Lewd Week to kick off.
Well there IS straddling involved, at least
Apropos. Top score for panel 4.
Agreed, but I was actually talking about panel 6 and now I’m not comfortable at all with what that says about my thought process.
Also, Sammy Boras is an *amazing* colorist of your work and deserves all kinds of further opportunity!
*Borras
Wasn’t Sam Beckett a credited writer on Season 1 of Clotted Crime?
The unholy priestess is mighty judgey about programmes she’s only heard bits of dialogue from.
“As you judge, so shall you be judged” is the other church.
Wait till the Harold Pinter episode comes round on reruns.
It’s just 27 minutes of him staring angrily at the camera in a darkened room, followed by 180 seconds of furious shouting.
But… let’s talk about panel 4.
We try not sexualize Belinda and Margaret.
How?! The woman has eyeballs on her …
Eyes are down here?
I take that to be a Community reference – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InceHncqTqk
Well it depends on whether you see sexualisation and objectivisation as the same thing or mutually exclusive concepts (and whether your ideas have any agency over the subject’s nature to begin with).
*You* try not to sexualize Belinda and Margaret. *I* merely happily note that they’ve already done it for me. Though it wouldn’t do for someone my age to leer, or even stare. It’s undignified.
I mean I was trying not to stare…
This panel gets the Sir Mix-a-Lot stamp of approval.
(I was going to say “tramp-stamp” of approval but we don’t know that, although as inked up as Maggie is, one can only assume…)
Fellas. FELLAS!
Sexy Young People
John is really adept at drawing a nice variety of butts, and panel 4 is a worthy portfolio.
BILLIE! How dare you insults Mrs Clovis and Maggie’s favourite show to watch together just for fun? I love this never seen before side of her♡. She has the evil skills for being a TV/cinematografic critics.
You have to admit, it’s an interesting sociological question; why are so called “cozy” mysteries filled with violence and gore?
See also Jonathan Creek
Maggie’s point in panel 4 makes me wonder why there wasn’t a bigger geriatric audience for Starship Troopers.
Maybe Nazi Doogie Howser disturbed them?
He used to be such a *good boy*!
Nana’s hamstrings are starting to tire.
Uh Maggie should suggestively straddle a grave for demonstration purposeses. Billy too
Is that a face under the dock in the last frame?
Bridge troll?
Merman?
Forming a paramilitary death squad causes more problems than it solves, which is why it is perfect for Network Television. Out charismatic lads can stop the bad guys before the credits roll, but then will have to deal with the consequences for the next eight episodes!
One hopes that it will be a better paramilitary squad than Archie’s from Riverdale, which put most of its’ points into youthful machismo and ski masks at the expense of any kind of effectiveness.
I imagine Nana would not object, though. “They’re all such good boys!”
Nana doesn’t look comfortable? My hips ache just looking at Billie in the last panel.
Allow me to warn you away from Vogue magazine layouts.
I see a typo when this turns up in my feed, click through to the website, and it’s already gone. Good work, commenters
My favorite part of this issue is Maggie’s “Permission Rescinded” face.
Indeed. Maggie just has the best facial expressions this run.
I had to scroll back a couple days to figure out how they didn’t show Maggie’s eye tattoo on TV. It turns out it was disguised as the zipper pull on her jacket.
I’m a nana. I LOVE murders.
Also things where a lost dog gets a loving home, stuff with babies, and anything with a clean-cut, firm jawed policeman with a chirpy sidekick.
Also things with sewing, dancing and cookery. Strictly Come Baking In A Dress You Sewed All The Sequins On By Hand Yourself would be my “must watch” dream programme.
I don’t like Philip Schofield (That gopher carried him. CARRIED HIM I TELL YOU) Carol Vorderman or that bearded bloke who looks like he’s made of plastic. Does some advert or other for something or other.
Sounds like you potentially mean Rylan? He did appear on the celebrity baking show though so that might present you with a real dilemma.
Can’t believe Rylan’s getting a bashing here. He’s the future of light entertainment in this country. You can’t knock a lad for being well-groomed.
Not sure when these things end with a paramilitary death squad, but you’ve got my attention now, Clotted Crime!
Watch any episode of pensioner’s favourites Magnum PI (modern), NCIS:LA, SEAL Team, Hawaii 5-0 (modern) to witness a (near) weekly paramilitary death squad execution of “perps”.
I had no idea until this moment that there was a modern Magnum. My childhood ruined again? No thank you.
It won’t ruin your childhood, that’s safe. It might ruin 42 minutes of your present, though.
PS I LOVE OLD MAGNUM TOO
There is no such thing as “old” Magnum — there is only one Magnum, and it is Tom Selleck. Imposters need not apply.
You know who I miss? MacGuyver.
I can’t even remember if he killed his enemies death-squad-style or not, because even if he did, it was usually with a single blowtorch, an overripe banana, entirely too much education in chemistry, and a Rube Goldberg machine hinging entirely on the fact that the spoons in the kitchen at the crime scene were vintage silver and not just stainless steel.
Such a classic energy lacking in today’s over-resourced death-squad detectives.
I feel like the claim at least, well for the first few seasons and/or random rerun episodes I caught anyways was that MacGuyver never kills anyone.
Though I’m also remembering the title as MacGuyver instead of MacGyver which is the actual name so my memories might be off in other ways. A bit unlikely because The Guyver totally kills his enemies a lot in the usual Dark Hero style, but possible.
Presumably this is why at least the OG MacGyver (theres a reboot of it too that I know nothing about other than it started in 2016?) had to do all sorts of crazy awesome inventions out of random objects. It distracts the audience from all the lack of Death-Squadding.
MacGyver (old and new) doesn’t use a gun, generally improvises what we’d call a “less-lethal” solution or alternatively gets in a fist fight. He does hang around with people with guns who do the shooting for him. But I think he and his team manage to avoid the death-squad zone, just travelling all over the world to kidnap, rob, spy on people and occasionally blow things up
*swoon*
If Magnum doesn’t even have a moustache, what’s the point?
He’s got a weak little ghost goatee. I think it’s a tribute to Raylan Givens’ goatee in Justified, but given the mighty Magnum ‘tache it succeeds, it feels like an insult.
I thought John Bolton was the “modern” Magnum PI, he’s killed millions with his death squads.
Jay Hernandez is ridiculously charismatic, all the cast of modern Magnum are, it’s a pity about the moustache, it’s also a pity that half the episodes are about a rogue mercenary team terrorising Hawaii, while the other half are people the TV camera loves solving bizarre crimes
I just feel like if the production team hasn’t realized that the mustache *is* the star of Magnum and that the actor wearing it is essentially a replaceable extra with a few speaking lines, they’re doing it wrong.
The A-Team may be paramilitary, but they are not a *death squad*!
When B.A. Baracus comes for you, you merely pray for death
“Total nana garbage fodder”?? But what about the nutwork? Best since Lord Larry I’ve heard.
Came for the humor, stayed for the sexy ladybums. God I love this strip.
I greatly appreciate the apples in panel 1 giving a decent approximate unit conversion in their price of 2 pounds per kilogram. And if that’s signage is pre-tax at about a 10% rate (as is wont to occur in certain parts on this side of the pond), that makes the approximation all the better!