I bloody legged it, didn’t I?
Maybe… MAYBE I have too much of a soft spot for a Jack Kirby-esque science fiction notion. But what harm has it ever done anyone?
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
Maybe… MAYBE I have too much of a soft spot for a Jack Kirby-esque science fiction notion. But what harm has it ever done anyone?
Billie seems to have a soft spot for a dashing and tragic robot.
Unfortunately, David also has a soft spot, that she’s digging her claws into.
this is AMAZING, thank yoou
The 80s airfoil got shaved off?
Maybe that is like a beard for car bots.
An automotive mullet.
The Hirou Onoda of Valleymen!
Connecticut? That one’s a long way from home!
It’s on the river Thames, probably not far from Cricklade
What harm has that ever done anyone? Well it might have given me cataracts.
I think we all need a Cosmic Conduit in our lives.
Every time I glance at that bottom panel, for a moment, I think it’s a drive-in, with Billie and David starring in a romantic comedy or something. Then, I realize the cars are facing the wrong way, and the screen in actually an inserted panel.
I do like the idea of going to see Steeple: The Movie at a drive-in theater.
It’s the magical drive-in theater inside our heads, that’s called
I M A G I N A T I O N !
Gareth did the smartest thing he could have done. Get away from the others and be happy.
Except he doesn’t seem happy.
Well, if you’re going to be miserable, you probably shouldn’t be around others either
That’s because we have no idea what he looked like on a battlefield.
Kirby Krackle is always welcome.
Or are they Ditko Dots?…
Best breakfast cereal ever.
Ok now that I’m fully aware of the Welsh references, I now here Gareth in my head voiced by David Mitchell (the comedian, not the Cloud Atlas author) who is of Welsh descent.
Eddie Izzard used to do a thing about Gareth Pavlov the famous Welsh Psychologist.
So now we have several options for the transformation sound,
1. TSCHE TSCHE TSCHE.
2. CHET CHET CHET.
3. This according to Tubi on subtitles: ROBOTIC PULSING.
“CHET CHUT CHOT chu chu” is the sound effect for generic cyber changing.
No, I think that’s the sound its car engine makes as it’s chugging down the road.
Also Jet Screamer’s latest hit song.
More like Michael Sheen or Rhod Gilbert, dai bach
David Mitchell is about as English as an englishman can be. Try Michael Sheen instead
Is that a 1969 Dodge Charger on the left in the last panel?
Or a Challenger.
and possibly a 1985 Ford Crown Victoria on the right?
If memory serves, those (or rather, their trademark-friendly counterparts) were the hero cars in the classic INTERSTATE ’76.
(the not-Dodge, at least. the not-Crown Vic was, of course, an earlier model year.)
and now I’ve remembered that the other was actually a not-Barracuda. It’s been far too long. 🙁
I believe it’s a Chevy Caprice, not a Crown Vic. You can tell by the bumper with the crook in it and the four-way flashers. The Crown Vic’s bumper just went straight across, and the flashers were mounted right under the headlights instead of down in the bumper. Also it had these two vertical bumper… bumpers just outside the grille.
Crown vics were cop cars around here for decades, the car on the right is too boxy to be a crown vic, caprice seems a better guess.
Also, I like these drawings or more classic vehicles, I hope our author has a Hergé-esque turn…
Ironically, after Crown Vics got too expensive, some police forces around here switched to Caprices
Note that the modern caprice is a LOT smaller than the classic one.
All the cop cars I remember from my youth were Caprices. I’d see Crown Vic cruisers on TV or whatever, and they were like the Shelby Winner of cop cars — almost right, but not quite.
That looks like a charger to me, not a challenger.
I drove a metallic copper-finished ’66 in high school (KS 4 & 5 for you Brits).
Any Fford Ffiestas?
Nice to see some sort of Scorponok-expy used as the Daffodil Haters’ leader.
Most would probably default to a Megatron-knock-off, so this is a nice change.
Seemed like good inspiration for the Generic Cyber Changer most likely to agree to peace on the evil side
An Audi Quattro is such an iconically eighties car for Gareth to have been.
Well, it does have to be said that Jack Kirby is dead, so it might not be completely harmless.
CHET CHUT CHOT (chu-chu)
Previously: https://steeple.church/comic/i-think-you-got-a-bargain-part-1-concludes/
I’d say you have a soft spot for classic American cars.
I would like to respectfully dispute the notion that there is such a thing as “too much” of a soft spot for a Jack Kirby-esque science fiction notion.
Could it be that being able to transform into a Hyundai confers some kind advantage on the battlefield? Because I’m just not seeing it.
That’s *precisely* the advantage that it gives! What self-respecting Autonomous Automotive Polymorph would look at a Hyundai approaching them and treat it as a threat?
I enjoy Gareth’s cold inhuman machine-like speech pattern.