HELL ON WHEELS pt 2 starts on Monday
Here’s a cover designed to intrigue. Feel free to divine which of these disparate elements relate to the plot and which ones I put on there deliberately to confuse and mislead you. Because it’s a real grab bag of the irrelevant and relevant. The whole story will be up on my Patreon for $3-and-up subscribers on Monday. This one has turned out particularly well, maybe my favourite Steeple story so far.
I’m guessing that Des will not be too important to the plot. But the final battle will be an epic fight between the generic cyber changer and the sesh gremlin!
Well, the wormhole obviously is relevant, since it refers to general relativity physicist Roger Penrose, who undoubtedly will put in a cameo appearance (probably on 16/08/2023) visiting his cousin David and getting inexorably drawn in to the whole Tredregyn situation.
I love how Billie’s weapon of choice appears to be a cake. So on-character.
She could be a contestant on UK Bakery Tent (from the new and wonderful, The Great British Bump-Off)! If she were to go on though, I have a feeling Rev. Penrose would have quite a bit of explaining to do with the Bishop as to why one of their most promising young vicars is saying she’s a COS member on live television.
Ah, that’s probably a much better interpretation than my “Distributor cap”
It’s a hyper-realistic cake made to look like a distributor cap.
Hyper-realistic? Pfeh! It doesn’t have the right number of strawberries for a distributor cap.
The unbranded cyber changer use an extremely rare 7-stroke engine.
Ah, I have to apologize and retract that statement. I have no idea how many cylinders might be standard in this model of car.
Aaand, I didn’t see PI’s comment until after posting my retraction. More egg on my grill^h^h^h^h^h face.
Don’t worry, Hoos-foos, that’s not egg on your face, it’s just a hyper-realistic cake that looks like an egg.
I guess cake on my face is less embarrassing? Okay, I’ll take it.
[exit, stage left]
She’s the only one on the page who looks happy. Maybe because she’s the only one who has cake.
Is it a cake? I thought it was a footstool.
It’s a footstool cake. Cake like a footstool. Footstooly-cake.
Using a cake as a footstool is not a good idea. Using a footstool as a cake is even worse.
Come closer, little child, and try some of this toadstool cake
I thought it was a bongo??
That was actually my thought at first, too.
Oh, that’s not ominous at all.
Stellar cover!!! Figuratively and literally!!!
The thing that worries me is that Billie is the only one who seems happy about being sucked into the black hole while everyone else isn’t happy.
Well, obviously! She’s the only one who’s going through with a supply of CAKE!
At last Mr. Furman has to come back to face the music! (“What fresh hell hath I wrought?”)
Also loving Maggie’s new outfit and uh oh, it looks like the Kresh Demon is back.
The Sesh Gremlin, too!
Magus Tom is “high key thicc with the sauce”
I am seeing far more of Tom here than I would ever want to.
At least Brian’s wearing more than his underwear this time.
Utter brilliance.
Oh my goodness!
Such a lovely cover.
I SPY A SESH GREMLIN
Given what’s transpired so far, I assume that’s an AMC Sesh Gremlin.
Well played!
Sesh Gremlin fans are going to be very disappointed by this story.