Jason only appeared in a flashback in the issue 3 of the printed Steeple comic. He was mentioned in part one of this storyline. It’s was never explained exactly what happened to him but the assumption is he met his end due to the actions of one of the various sea creatures that Rev Penrose regularly fights.
At the end of part 3 of this story something came riding out of the sea on Maggie’s Harley. It looked like one of the mermen, but was wearing a cross, presumably the one dropped by Penrose when he was rescuing Maggie from her father. The consensus seems to be that it’s some sort of mockery / zombified version of Jason that’s been reanimated / conjured by Bob Warren (Maggie’s father) in order to mess with Penrose.
Steeple Vol. 1 is a must-buy for any fan of this series. One of my favorite comic purchases ever. I bought it a year or so ago and I’m still pulling it out to re-read!
If you want to read a summary of the printed comic, you can find it on one of John’ Allison’s tweets from a few months ago. It’s hilarious and it’s also on the first two pages of the volume 2.
No, no, the ones in the center would be the innerlopers (inner, not inter). The innerouterlopers would be the innermost of those lopers that are close enough to the edge of the group to qualify as outerlopers.
Just today i went to one of my friend’s funeral. This page hits really hard… I’m so sorry for Penrose and worried for whatever that creature can be. For the occasion, even Mrs Clovis is sweet too. Billie’s mass of thoughts has that something sad, romantc and decadent I like so much♡.
To me it appears more like Billie is trying her best to find the right words for ditching Rupert. It’s not that she’s hurt, it’s just that she does not enjoy the prospect of hurting him. I have my doubts Satan would give Billie a glowing performance review.
Aha, I’d assumed there was some off-panel dumping action that already happened. If she’s fretting over how to let Roops go while he’s prepping himself to propose…
I think that too. If Rupert is really trying to find the words to propose to Billie, it could all become a matter about who says it first. I’m afraid Billie wouldn’t have the guts to reject him if he talks before her.
Maybe she is thinking about how to let him down, and testing different lines in her head? “Come on, you can do better” -> but all the standart lines sound silly to her, and she’s afraid of hurting him.
I don’t know about the UK but in the US recycling is a horrible lie. Most of the stuff in the bin ends up in a landfill or being more carbon-intensive to recycle than the savings. The only thing really worth recycling in the US is paper and metal. Glass and the majority of plastic either can’t be recycled or should just be reused instead.
So CoS recycling seems petty in line with what I’d imagine their branch’s beliefs are.
I’d be very much surprised to find out that Billie is actually right to worry about hurting Rupert. Though, now that I think of it, the last we saw of Rupert leads me to wonder if he isn’t worrying about the same thing Billie is!
Billie seems to be if anything, very thoughtful. Both in being there for Penrose in this hard time, and while thinking how to let down gently the dude she was seeing no strings atached that aparently wants something more
I was going to comment on this. I am a minister and I wear a cassock, but unfortunately I don’t look sexy and curvaceous in it the way Billie does. Probably because I am the same age and shape as Mrs Clovis . . .
I do believe that the Tredregyn Church of Satan cassocks are made of velvet, based on what we’ve seen from the orgy scenes, the way the fabric drapes and etc.
I have no idea what Anglican cassocks are made of. The Catholics use silk for bishops and above, or are supposed to. But Anglicanism being more humble and austere or what-have-you, I wouldn’t be surprised if they use cotton and/or wool, and then how can you compete with silk and velvet?
My theory is that many of Mrs Clovis’ lines have infinite layers of alternating sarcasm (disguised as sincerity) and sincerity (hiding behind sarcasm).
It’s not just that the Church of Satan recycles. It’s that the Church of Satan keeps its recycling bins and bag so neatly and considerately arranged, leaving plenty of room for pedestrians.
Do What Thou Wilt may be the whole of the law, but apparently Be A Thoughtful And Tidy Neighbour is in the law’s appendix.
Panel 4 and Jason turns up at his own memorial service.
Like Tom Sawyer… COOL!
Can somebody point me to where Jason originally came onstage? I can’t remember anything.
Jason only appeared in a flashback in the issue 3 of the printed Steeple comic. He was mentioned in part one of this storyline. It’s was never explained exactly what happened to him but the assumption is he met his end due to the actions of one of the various sea creatures that Rev Penrose regularly fights.
At the end of part 3 of this story something came riding out of the sea on Maggie’s Harley. It looked like one of the mermen, but was wearing a cross, presumably the one dropped by Penrose when he was rescuing Maggie from her father. The consensus seems to be that it’s some sort of mockery / zombified version of Jason that’s been reanimated / conjured by Bob Warren (Maggie’s father) in order to mess with Penrose.
I guess Maggie’s Harley was also only in the printed comic… Gotta get that.
Tie-ins! Your sign of quality literature.
Steeple Vol. 1 is a must-buy for any fan of this series. One of my favorite comic purchases ever. I bought it a year or so ago and I’m still pulling it out to re-read!
If you want to read a summary of the printed comic, you can find it on one of John’ Allison’s tweets from a few months ago. It’s hilarious and it’s also on the first two pages of the volume 2.
There’s an interloper outside! The team need to think fast, and decide if outerloper is even a word.
loper (noun): a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
So, if there’s a herd of (say) horses that all have a loping gait, the ones near the edge of the group would be the outerlopers.
While the ones near the centre would be the innerouterlopers…?
Interloping outsider? Outsiderloper?
No, no, the ones in the center would be the innerlopers (inner, not inter). The innerouterlopers would be the innermost of those lopers that are close enough to the edge of the group to qualify as outerlopers.
And those outside the group altogether are the extralopers.
Yes, provided they are actually loping. Otherwise they’d just be nonlopers.
The non-lopers aren’t horses; they’re antilopes.
Before something begins loping, is it an antelope?
If something is the sister of one of the parents of something that is loping, does that make it an auntielope?
… unless they’re not loping because they’re unable, in which case they’re can’tylopes.
Not to be confused with can’telopes, which just means they are unable to secretly get married.
Intra-loper, perhaps?
Tiberius!
I worry that Tiberius the cat was done in by Caligula the hound.
Just today i went to one of my friend’s funeral. This page hits really hard… I’m so sorry for Penrose and worried for whatever that creature can be. For the occasion, even Mrs Clovis is sweet too. Billie’s mass of thoughts has that something sad, romantc and decadent I like so much♡.
Sorry about your friend.
I guess it never really occurred to me that Billie might be hurt over losing her beautiful idiot.
To me it appears more like Billie is trying her best to find the right words for ditching Rupert. It’s not that she’s hurt, it’s just that she does not enjoy the prospect of hurting him. I have my doubts Satan would give Billie a glowing performance review.
Aha, I’d assumed there was some off-panel dumping action that already happened. If she’s fretting over how to let Roops go while he’s prepping himself to propose…
I went too deep and imagined she was searching for a way to tell the satanists she was going back to the church.
I think that too. If Rupert is really trying to find the words to propose to Billie, it could all become a matter about who says it first. I’m afraid Billie wouldn’t have the guts to reject him if he talks before her.
Agreed, she seemed to treat it as a fun fling.
Maybe she is thinking about how to let him down, and testing different lines in her head? “Come on, you can do better” -> but all the standart lines sound silly to her, and she’s afraid of hurting him.
I am distracted by the discovery that the CoS is being responsible about recycling. Billie’s doing, probably.
Yes, I was going to post something like that. The great thing about this comic are the shades of grey between good and evil.
earlier in the comic there was a sign about keeping the city clean of litter and it was paid by the CoS.
The sign was probably the biggest piece of litter all around.
There are non-recyclables in that bin, just to keep Old Nick satisfied. Of course, that’s true in pretty much everyone’s bin.
Everyone wants to satisfy Old Nick?
I don’t know about the UK but in the US recycling is a horrible lie. Most of the stuff in the bin ends up in a landfill or being more carbon-intensive to recycle than the savings. The only thing really worth recycling in the US is paper and metal. Glass and the majority of plastic either can’t be recycled or should just be reused instead.
So CoS recycling seems petty in line with what I’d imagine their branch’s beliefs are.
It’s not easy seeing Penrose look so sunken and vulnerable in that last panel.
I have determined David Penrose is currently the backup quarterback for the Bears.
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Shh! Don’t tell anyone in town that he plays – shudder – American Football.
A very touching, thoughtful page.
I’d be very much surprised to find out that Billie is actually right to worry about hurting Rupert. Though, now that I think of it, the last we saw of Rupert leads me to wonder if he isn’t worrying about the same thing Billie is!
Billie seems to be if anything, very thoughtful. Both in being there for Penrose in this hard time, and while thinking how to let down gently the dude she was seeing no strings atached that aparently wants something more
I think both Billie and Rupert are mildly concerned about how to dump the other, with Billie overthinking it a bit more.
Billie brings some strong cassock game.
I was going to comment on this. I am a minister and I wear a cassock, but unfortunately I don’t look sexy and curvaceous in it the way Billie does. Probably because I am the same age and shape as Mrs Clovis . . .
Also you probably are not a minister in the Church of Satan. That just gives you a different frame for melding into the cassock.
I do believe that the Tredregyn Church of Satan cassocks are made of velvet, based on what we’ve seen from the orgy scenes, the way the fabric drapes and etc.
I have no idea what Anglican cassocks are made of. The Catholics use silk for bishops and above, or are supposed to. But Anglicanism being more humble and austere or what-have-you, I wouldn’t be surprised if they use cotton and/or wool, and then how can you compete with silk and velvet?
I’m thinking she probably got the Sexy Satanic Cassock from the same Satanic vestment supply place she got the Backless Clerical Jumpsuit.
Hmm. Billie’s not wearing Jason’s yellow coat. What if he wants it back?
Hmm, you wouldn’t happen to be a reader of Wilde Life, would you?
No, why do you ask?
Also, one of the reasons I love Steeple is that I’m not 100% sure what the ratio of sarcasm to sincerity in Mrs. Clovis’s last line is.
My theory is that many of Mrs Clovis’ lines have infinite layers of alternating sarcasm (disguised as sincerity) and sincerity (hiding behind sarcasm).
The shadowy figure leaning against the wall isn’t terribly well hidden from Billie now, is he?
Oh well, cubism. No biggie.
She was too busy thinking to notice.
Hell, I missed it the first time through, and I wasn’t even distracted by how to dump someone without hurting them.
Same.
Billie has been known to walk right past things without noticing them before, especially when she’s preoccupied. Why should she stop now?
It’s not just that the Church of Satan recycles. It’s that the Church of Satan keeps its recycling bins and bag so neatly and considerately arranged, leaving plenty of room for pedestrians.
Do What Thou Wilt may be the whole of the law, but apparently Be A Thoughtful And Tidy Neighbour is in the law’s appendix.
Being a thoughtful and tidy neighbor is what Billie will.
“Have you seen this cat? No? Well, now you have.”
I feel like “It’s not you, it’s me” would work on Rupert. He’d just think, “Well, I AM pretty amazing–I guess she’s right! Poor girl.”