Everyone’s just having fun
This flagrant male shirtlessness lends the comic a homeoerotic aspect not really seen since… Kevin Keegan and Henry Cooper’s Brut advert. But as I said on Monday, that one’s too hot for TV so here’s Henry Cooper in the bath.
She’s feeling… very judged.
Nice to see Maggie be the one protecting Penrose this time. Hilarious to see Ludmilla treat her like a killjoy. Also, spectacular first panel. A composition so nice and elegant, very Egyptian or Art Nouveau.
Especially with Ludmilla and Brian kneeling in profile like that.
Or Renaissance. The Righteous Man between Demons and Angels.
With the forces of… good? arrayed to our right, and the forces of eeeevil on our left!
Clotilde and Maggie look a bit like David’s shoulder angels.
The forces of “diabolical evil” versus the forces of “good enough, maybe”!
Brian… could be a MAGNIFICENT Saint, if only a path could be found for him.
“Lord, grant me chastity…but not just yet.”
The Battling Priest class has -4 to saving throws versus harpies, sirens, and temptresses, in fact.
It would be a lot of fun to create D&D classes based on each of the major Steeple characters. I’m thinking old school AD&D, 1st or 2nd Edition. In 5E, they’d probably all be new options for existing classes, which wouldn’t be as fun to design, for me, at least.
Just remember, Brian’s Left Bollock gives +2 Vs. Holy Men.
It’s Maggie’s party and she’ll poop it if she wants to.
Look, Clo, “being charming” does not mean “casting charm person on them”.
Clo and Lud in panel 3 look like they are positively allergic to the thought of being pleasant.
“how could fun NOT be dirty? This doesn’t make sense! Make the words STOP”
“Dirty” is not in question. “Malign” is.
Every page is a bittersweet countdown to The End, now. Just 26 to go (plus a cover). I fully intend to savour each one.
Can I button Ludmilla up? Can I watch as Maggie buttons her up?
I’m sure Penrose is loving that they’re shouting about his best interests literally over his (aching) head 🤕
that first panel’s a nativity a few days early
Rev should’ve lashed himself to the mast
That might have tempted the temptresses most temptingly!
They wanted to lash themselves to his mast.
Or perhaps just lash his mast.
Clo, consent is a vital part of any good time.
Maggie and the witches must go back a long way. What on earth were they teaching at Tredregyn’s schools then?
Brian has been a whole lot less useful and a whole lot more useful idiot than I was hoping. Poor Brian.
Is homeoerotic when you dilute the eroticism until it’s like American beer/making love in a canoe?
I think “homeoerotic” is when there’s a relatively stable amount of erotic everywhere and over a period of time.
Actually, I think that it’s all just the same kind of erotic.
Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
No, it’s too perilous.
Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
No. It’s unhealthy.
You’re fine as you are, Ludmilla.
“inherently vulnerable to harpies, sirens and temptresses”
Which ones are they?
Well, we know who the were-moth siren is… https://steeple.church/comic/were-moth-siren/
Yes.
“Witch ones, are they?”
“Good old Naggy Maggie preaching from the high ground”? Sounds like she was considered a bring-down even before she “switched sides.”
two things to keep in mind- 1) These two went to school with Maggie, so their impressions of her were probably formed well before she got involved with the Church of Satan; 2) The Problematyc Systers are pretty horrible people, so it probably wouldn’t take much more than a little bit of basic human decency for them to see someone that way.