Hire some heavy plant
Could the mysterious TRIDENT be the pavilion smashers? Or is that too simple a solution? — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Could the mysterious TRIDENT be the pavilion smashers? Or is that too simple a solution? — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
“No! I’m supposed to get everything without any effort!”
Sorry, Magus. It doesn’t work that way.
The Church of Poseidon is in town?
Nice of the Rev to help Tom pick up his Satanic fliers.
Christian charity at work!
Yes, but will he give them back to Tom once he’s picked them up?
Litter is evil.
Helping Tom is why Penrose is better than him.
I like those small little ways Penrose wins against the COS from time to time.
Ah, competition is the lifeblood of healthy enterprise. ISN’T IT THOMAS
Destroying Tom’s pavilion doesn’t constitute “competing” with Tom, though. It constitutes small-scale corporate terrorism. OSLT.
BTW, Rev, I believe that the proper phrase is “bloody so-called church.” No one’s [so-]calling it a, specifically, “bloody church” except you yourself. I know, nitpick nitpick nitpick nitpick nitpick. 😉
To join you in the Church of Nitpicking, I think there’s a “do” missing in Mrs Clovis’s first sentence.
Also wondering whether Tom’s “Nooooo” has more to do with the Trident pavilion or with the touch of Clovis’s nimble fingers on his Satanic shoulder.
I’ve fixed Titia’s typo but Ronald’s isn’t a typo, that’s a piece of idiosyncratic speech that just read better that way round.
Reads much better to these Irish ears. I dread the thought of the sound of a world where everyone’s speech is uniformly homogenous.
Why yes, I do like me some redundancy, why do you ask?
Not only reads better, it’s a grammatically correct example of expletive infixation.
The inserted ‘bloody’ is an intensifier that should not otherwise alter the parsing of the phrase around it. As example, no one interprets ‘un-bloody-believable’ as ‘believably non-bloody’
This is my kind of comment +1
Seconded. English does have a complex order of precedence for adjectives and adjectival phrases, but sometimes if you are talking while bending down to pick up pieces of paper, the words don’t always come out in the best order.
And, in fact, “so-called bloody church” follows the so-called Royal Order of Adjectives, while “bloody so-called church” doesn’t. Which is why the former sounds better without it being obvious why… native English speakers instinctively follow the Royal Order of Adjectives without most of us even being consciously aware of it.
It’s the same reason that “big red rubber ball” sounds natural, but “red rubber big ball” doesn’t, despite there being no logical difference between them.
I’d say that it would depend on the meaning of “bloody”. If it means covered with blood it is good as it stands. As an expletive, not so much. Substitue “accursed” and see how it sounds.
“Red Rubber Big Ball” sounds like a webcomic I’d read.
Your reply reflects theoretical capitalism, whilst my comment reflects actual in-practice capitalism. Tomato, tomahto.
Not toothpaste. Sugarless gum.
True that. Sounds like it should be toothpaste. “No need to floss, use Trident Toothpaste and spear your gums clean!”. But alas, it is still just gum, and not a very good gum at that (IMO).
Mrs. Clovis is talking about the newly-introduced Trident™ toothpaste from Amstrad.
It’s, ironically, Sugar-free!
The “dent” part of “trident” is from the same root as the “dent” in “dental”, and is sometimes used in the names of tooth-related products (as it means “tooth”). I suspect that’s why it sounds like “a new kind of toothpaste” to Mrs Clovis.
That is certainly what the marketing team for Amstrad Trident toothpaste would like people to believe, but it was actually originally named after the fact that, in trials, the average test subject wound up with three cavities (or “dents” as they were euphemistically referred to in all in-house documents). Those involved in the research started to sarcastically call it “tri-dent” toothpaste, and the name stuck.
This may not be true but it should be.
I’m beginning to think that whoever called “Flavorr Flav” might have to check in at his betting agents’…
Just find someone with three teeth and there’s your man.
Tom’s eyes bug out twice on the same page! Hell’s-a-poppin’, as it were.
I don’t think we’ve ever seen Tom display exactly that emotion before.
(low, gravelly voice) “Let tooth decay know you mean business. Trident: the ultimate deterrent.”
Uh oh, does this mean the return of Shelley Winters’ former abductors who’ve returned with their dark twisted interpretation of the Tibkins books?
Compared to contacting the Old Ones, Satanism is kind of low calorie
Satan isn’t exactly a youngster, you know.
Depends on what mythology you’re on. If the Old Ones exist, ol Satan boy is pretty much a fairy tale.
Simple solution or not, Mrs. Clovis looks so satisfied that it’s hard to believe she’s not involved in the destruction of the pavilion.
I think she lives vicariously through the destruction caused by others.
Who know…who know…
It’s a stock response, seeing the CoS get destroyed should invoke a certain degree of delight. Penrose is abnormal.
I’m sorry to say this, but the existence of the CoS in the city is really convenient for Penrose. They organize social events for the youthand for the seniorcitizens. They advertise to remind people to take care of the city and the environment. All things that Penrose clearly is not interesting, or able, to do and would take away time to his mission to fight the Evil that come from the sea. Without the CoS Penrose would be screwed and he know that deep down.
Then she’s chosen her place of employment well.
Ironically, it turns out to be the Triumph Motorcycles pavilion.
Merpeople? Witches? Ah, Clovis has summoned mer-witches, a most dangerous combination! <>
That last panel is a thing of beauty. Tom looks almost human.
Human? He looks like a frightened monkey!
Well, that is more human than he usually looks…
I’m with Mitch, I see “frightened monkey” as a big step up for Tom.
Ok, looks like we’re all good so far, can we all agree on no “funny” comments to be made about how convenient it is that the clouds are spelling out some expository text? Deal? Deal. Thanks all.
How convenient that John A (author of Steepel) has written “afternoon” in the sky rather than putting it in a caption box guess chemtrails are getting much cleverer lol (lots of love)!!!!!!!
The Trident logo looks a little like the Hells Kitchen one. I’m really rooting for an upcoming cameo from Gordon Ramsay, and some effing and jeffing about the state of the vegetables on Billie and Maggie’s stall.
Gordon Ramsay would fit right in in this world.
Gordon Ramsay fit right in? This is Rick Stein’s turf. Gordon would sleep with the lobsters in the Camel estuary.
Rick Stein? Don’t you mean… THE BOSUN?
Oohhh yeaasss.. Yes. Well, ahem, it does look like him. I realised that, of course, but I didn’t want to spoil the surprise for the others (runs outside and hides under a rock for the next hundred years).
Oooh, perhaps it’s nuclear toothpaste!
You know how during that time between Marie Curie discovery radioactivity and her dying of radiation poisoning there were a *lot* of quack cures based on radioactive stuff. And yes, that included radioactive toothpaste.
If I didn’t believe so strongly in his goodwill to all men, I’d think the Rev was throwing akanbe at Tom there.
Don’t think I ever seen Ms Clovis that giddy.
Yes, some heavy plant!
Remember, Christians, you can’t spell “JCB” without “J.C.”
Oh no, it’s the Church of Aquaman! If it was Jason Momoa vs. Rev. Penrose, I’m not sure who I’d put my money on.
Okay, so NOT another sect of Satanism, but a new cult entirely! Could Tom and David have finally found a mutual enemy?
“Hire some heavy plant”
Does that mean hiring a double agent or just like a tree to bash the building down?
Heavy plant is big construction machinery – backhoes, cranes, etc
As JA says. We used to see signs saying ‘Heavy Plant Crossing’ as children going down to Cornwall, and imagine giant aspidistras or something. And petrol stations used to advertise ‘Agency Two-Stroke Toilets’…
When I visited England I was in the heart of metropolitan London. I clearly missed out in not having gone to rural Cornwall instead.
It’s from the Church of… Neptune?
(Either that, or the Church of Forks….)
Trident? It’s obviously some sort of organization for people who only have three teeth.
Church of Poseidon, maybe?
Drat! One-upped AGAIN!
Does this herald a teamup of Penrose & Pendennis? If so, their tabloid name would be “Penis”, just sayin’.
Featuring a couple of oddballs
I’m slightly concerned that “trident” is just a mask for Maserati.
Once those Mediterranean mer-folk bring newfangled ideas to the Scilly Underislanders there’ll be no stopping their path to equality.
Oh! The humanity!
Generally, when Maserati is involved, it is inequality rather than equality that is the focus.
Trident is probably the Ukrainian Right Sector recruiting National Front rubes from Cornwall. Just friendly off shore pals.
Penrose seems to be reaching into a tool bag for his own version of heavy plant in the last panel.
The commenting on the current page doesn’t seem to be working.
Trident? does the sea creatures decided it was better to change the strategy and start recruiting instead?