Her limited points of articulation
When I was 13 or 14 I had a dream of turquoise boots, a very vivid dream. Perhaps that dream was a premonition of drawing this page.
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
When I was 13 or 14 I had a dream of turquoise boots, a very vivid dream. Perhaps that dream was a premonition of drawing this page.
Look at Clo, being concerned and helpful. I don’t think she is quite so bad after all. Lud is a piece of work though.
Handling Holy Water had no effect on Billie. Perhaps she is a double-agent working for the powers of Heaven after all, as several people have suspected.
Probably Clo is the less bad of the two.
I’m pretty sure holy water doesn’t automatically have an effect on people who belong to the Church of Satan- only on those who are particularly infused with demonic forces. As for the rest, I think this scene from Secret Sentai gives some insight into Billie’s beliefs. https://steeple.church/comic/bwaak/
It seems worth mentioning that mere contact with Billie’s hand was enough to burn Tom Pendennis’s flesh: https://steeple.church/comic/everythings-falling-apart-mick/ I took this to mean that she is so far from him on the good/evil spectrum that touching her hand has the same effect as splashing holy water on a vampire.
Maybe Clo just doesn’t want to be projectile-vomited upon.
I think Ludmilla is less concerned with Maggie’s welfare than worried that if the scene went on any longer she might get ectoplasm on her dress herself, and that would be horrible and droopy for her big starched collar.
Clotilde, even. I keep getting the witches’ names mixed up
You are not alone, I had to make myself a note :/
Well, it’s not like he threw her a bunch of water; he threw her a container that had Holy Water in it.
The water itself never touches Bille
Was Lud manipulating the seance scene? No axe in this scene, Penrose shows quick thinking and restraint.
I too suspect Ludmilla. She’s enjoying the show too much.
Penrose thinks really fast. It was a great group action! Clotilde’s use of the broom is particularly funny and I love Billie’s satisfied expression in panel 6 and how crazy Maggie looks. Now…WHAT HAPPENED????
I didn’t even notice the broom! So much action going on, I guess
But it’s priestly cholera.
Since it’s from Lourdes, it’s self-healing cholera.
As if anybody needed halos around the diarrhetic jets.
Great maneuvering by Billie and the Rev!
To think it took Fr. Damian Karras at least a week to get the demonic forces out of Regan, while Billie and Rev. Penrose got it out of Maggie in barely ten minutes.
I take it Maggie’s not much of a water drinker.
Well, there’s one spirit I can think of who would never drink WATER.
I have some turquoise boots! Well, green, but close to turquoise. I’d need some help to get the rest of me to look like Maggie though 😊
Frankly, although my coloring is right, it would also take a good deal of help to get me to look like the Reverend Penrose. Like a gym membership and a personal trainer or six. My hair no longer has as much color as David’s, but my beard is much the same as his.
There’s a reason I went with the Selkie Daddy for my gravatar. It’s pretty accurate, except I’ve got more grey in my beard these days, and I don’t turn into a seal that you can prove.
I’m too tall and brown-haired to do a Penrose impression, although I am good with an axe.
Refill it from the tap, and nobody tell Mrs C!
Isn’t Dream of the Turquoise Boots an album by Sting?
Girl with the Turquoise Earring is, I’m pretty sure either an album or a song, but I’m too lazy to check
No, no, it’s a Moody Blues song.
Mister Allison knows his holy water. Saint Bernardette of Lourdes famously contracted cholera as a child. Unfortunately, another link is that people throughout the world have caught cholera, and other nasties, from drinking non-potable, but presumed holy, water.
Catholic holy water on an Anglican? I would have thought they’d need some kind of adapter.
Analog technology. If the juice is of the right strength and polarity, matching things mechanically is all that is required. Though an unbalanced connection might cause Maggie to hum.
At any rate, I get whiplash from all those devil worshippers conspiring to drive out a spirit from Maggie by using holy water. Mrs C will not be amused by the loss of her vial, but “we had to use it on Maggie” will likely be met with “well, that I can understand”.
Just hoping Mrs. C wasn’t saving that water for a special occasion!
And it was a ’62 vintage! Rare; good, earthy taste with only a little cholera and rated for up to Type VI Demons, Ice Devils and Level 4 possession.