He may respond to you
The addition of Maggie to this household has both unbalanced it terribly (if you are a fan of peace and quiet) and created a perfect equilibrium for Mrs Clovis, who was born to spar with Maggie.
The addition of Maggie to this household has both unbalanced it terribly (if you are a fan of peace and quiet) and created a perfect equilibrium for Mrs Clovis, who was born to spar with Maggie.
Actually, Mrs. Clovis may be right. Maggie should try wearing her helmet and see what happens. I love the chemistry between the two women, they are really different, but they have like a strong bond. But Penrose looks soooooo tired. Poor man.
Ah goodness, Penrose’s face in that final panel. The very picture of long-suffering Christian virtue.
They’re bonding on enduring the squabble.
There was definitely a feeling I wanted to convey with that panel and I was very pleased when I found it.
The way Penrose has his hand on the Sentai’s shoulder goes with his facial expression. “You see what I put up around here, Mate?”
Ramen Rider
I’d never seen a picture of Kamen Rider before I started this story – thank goodness I put his eyes at the alien angle. I spent significant effort trying to make the design NOT look like any extant character! I think I just have to keep the Secret Sentai away from motorbikes.
To be annoyingly nitpicky, Kamen Rider is not a sentai. He’s a tokusatsu. Being a sentai requires at least four other people in similar outfits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Sentai
I love “crash hat”.
AKA. “skid lid”
Maggie v Mrs Clovis is the Elsie Tanner v Ena Sharples de nos jours!
Ena Sharples is definitely part of Mrs C’s DNA.
Maggie’s “What if it’s his actual head” comment might be spot on. It could be an Ultraman deal, where it’s not a “suit,” it’s his actual form.
Maggie is gnashing her teeth a lot in this scene. This could lead to a need for dental work in the future.
I think Mrs. Clovis has that effect on people.
So exactly how far outside of the parameters of what constitutes “acceptable reality” in Steeple is this being’s existence? I’m not sure he’d provoke more than mild curiosity in Tackleford.
I think Tredregyn might actually be worse than Tackleford in terms of rum presences, apparitions, beasts and mooncalves.
Cool. 🙂
Any chance of ninjas? Sentai and ninjas aren’t the same thing of course, but neither are they entirely dissimilar. 😉
No ninja. Noneja.
An absence of ninja.
But [almost] everything’s better with ninjas. Oh well.
How about those creatures Mother Shipton had the Scary-Go-Round cast gather for her That One Time? Maybe they relocated. But probably not. 😉
On a marginally related topic, how big is the town of Tredregyn (which Google translates as “Ted Rejin”; Google’s clearly off its game today) compared to the town of Tackleford? Thanks.
But how would you tell?
What about an anti-Ninja? Or, if that does not suit, an Auntie-Ninja. Mrs. Clovis could be an Auntie-Ninja.
If you prefer, just pretend that the ninjas are in every panel, using their mastery of stealth.
The existence of Auntie-Ninja suggests the existence of Uncle-Ninja, too.
Is he a vegetable? According to Frank Zappa, if you ask a vegetable, the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.
But you do have to call the vegetable by name, ‘rutabaga’ for example.
(a comment that’s a day late)
“you performed…a very Christian act”
Isn’t it odd to think that “Christian” was once, in effect, considered a synonym for “good”? It’s so very not that any more, isn’t it? 😐
I am virtually certain that I and my daughters are the only people in Israel familiar with “Call Any Vegetable”.
If Maggie won’t wear the hat, Mrs. Clovis should put it on.
Just wear some willow around her hat and she’ll be a costermonger.