OH NO! SHELLEY IS THE ORACLE!!! Now the ancien horror will be free! Lottie will be so surprised by her mentor. Or she will just see her and think “Here we go again”… I kinda hope Shelley will be able to write the scary story of his return.
OH NO! SHELLEY IS THE ORACLE!!! Now the ancien horror will be free! Lottie will be so surprised by her mentor. Or she will just see her and think “Here we go again”… I kinda hope Shelley will be able to write the scary story of his return.
I’m going to go with “ruse.” This is far from the first time Shelley’s feigned supernatural possession. Also, “fetch paper” is a very odd request from an ancient malevolent benthic Eldrich god.
It’s an impressive amount of dribble to be able to summon on request if it is a ruse. I’ve just done a test and I couldn’t get that much out while leaning slightly back and talking at the same time.
Which is the more classic Shelley expression: devious(?) snorkel request from the final inset on previous page, or zombie Shelley of panel 3? Hard to decide, both so classic!
It was still a going concern c.2009, as the very next page of Recklessly Yours reveals. Sarah Grote described its updated form as “unremittingly horrible”.
I would imagine that The Badger, like The Beano (and the late Dandy) cycled through traditionalist and modernist revisions. It has probably coughed its last by now, with the IP rolled up by some canny rights exploitation vehicle. Perhaps one day we will find out.
Even now they are churning out tins of Jeremy Ruse shortcake for the 1950s generation and JEZ’R t-shirts for members of Lottie’s generation who have already reached the stage of being ironic about their childhood favourites.
Is there any chance, any chance at all, that you could be persuaded to end this arc with a bonus strip where Billie, Maggie and the Rev are dressed up as the other three members of the Scooby gang, along with Lottie-as-Fred?
Although can we agree that there were only ever the 25 original episodes and all the other series and movies were absolute crap, unworthy of the Scooby-do name? (A Pup Named Scooby-do was okay.)
I can imagine Shelley taking Charlotte shoe shopping as thanks for this rescue. But it would be up to Nemulon to get them back to Lottie in time for her to wear them here.
If she got them from Shelley, then they still have some of Shelley’s energy in them, which should make them useful in an attempt to find her. Sound detective practice!
What an injustice! So close, but it seems the entrance has escaped execution yet again. One of these days the door will get what’s coming to it. But for now its frame remains woefully undestructed.
Thanks for the bonus Jeremy Ruse cartoon, it took me back to my time as a “young ‘un”, when reading Jeremy’s adventures in The Badger every week was an escape from the drab reality of post-war Britain. Jeremy was something of a role model for me: what larks I had as I faithfully recreated his japes and dodges!
This eventually resulted in a lengthy spell of incarceration from which I have only recently been released. I am finding this new over-pixelated millennium quite trying in comparison with those uncomplicated days.
I knew there had to be a twist coming, they found her too easily. But I couldn’t figure out where or how. I’m sorry John Allison, I never should have doubted you.
It kinda looks like playing golf badly in the wrong venue with the wrong equipment for the amusement of Gothy-McGothgirl.
So yeah. Absolutely not what it looks like.
OH NO! SHELLEY IS THE ORACLE!!! Now the ancien horror will be free! Lottie will be so surprised by her mentor. Or she will just see her and think “Here we go again”… I kinda hope Shelley will be able to write the scary story of his return.
Ancien horror? Will the Bourbons return in full pomp from the deep? “It wasn’t just God and My Right anymore.”
I’m more a tequila man, myself.
La mer, c’est moi.
OH NO! SHELLEY IS THE ORACLE!!! Now the ancien horror will be free! Lottie will be so surprised by her mentor. Or she will just see her and think “Here we go again”… I kinda hope Shelley will be able to write the scary story of his return.
Hmm. Could this be… a ruse?
Thing is, with Shelley’s history, the odds are 50/50 on ruse/possessed-by-abomination.
Possessed by an abomination which wants to prank the Purleys with a ruse
I thought the odds were even, too, until I read John’s description/post/whatever. Now, it’s more like 75%/25%.
I’m going to go with “ruse.” This is far from the first time Shelley’s feigned supernatural possession. Also, “fetch paper” is a very odd request from an ancient malevolent benthic Eldrich god.
It’s an impressive amount of dribble to be able to summon on request if it is a ruse. I’ve just done a test and I couldn’t get that much out while leaning slightly back and talking at the same time.
So I’m betting not-ruse
But, then, you’re not Shelley Winters.
a distaction
“Jeremy Ruse” reminds me of the National Lampoon’s parody of “Boy’s Life,” which was very, very naughty.
Given that the doors appear to have large glass panes in them, it’s probably a good thing that Penrose didn’t get to cleave them.
Which is the more classic Shelley expression: devious(?) snorkel request from the final inset on previous page, or zombie Shelley of panel 3? Hard to decide, both so classic!
“Do ruses come from Russia?”
I might be in a strange mood, but that bonus comic doubled me over.
Considering that Charlotte Russe is a thing, the question is far from idle.
https://www.latimes.com/recipe/charlotte-russe
It’s from the tail end of the original Scary Go Round run. A glorious era in the Bobbinsverse indeed.
Going to try “Sorry, but our Internet ran out of pixels” tonight when my son’s screen time is up. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Update: POORLY.
I was going to ask…
Question; so how come Little Claire ended up becoming a pyro and not Lottie?
Lottie was able to contain herself.
Another bad boy arson about.
Does The Badger still come out? Does Jeremy Ruse still have a strip? I’m so curious as to what issue #5197 would be like.
It was still a going concern c.2009, as the very next page of Recklessly Yours reveals. Sarah Grote described its updated form as “unremittingly horrible”.
I would imagine that The Badger, like The Beano (and the late Dandy) cycled through traditionalist and modernist revisions. It has probably coughed its last by now, with the IP rolled up by some canny rights exploitation vehicle. Perhaps one day we will find out.
Even now they are churning out tins of Jeremy Ruse shortcake for the 1950s generation and JEZ’R t-shirts for members of Lottie’s generation who have already reached the stage of being ironic about their childhood favourites.
Is there any chance, any chance at all, that you could be persuaded to end this arc with a bonus strip where Billie, Maggie and the Rev are dressed up as the other three members of the Scooby gang, along with Lottie-as-Fred?
Karl, I have expressed my dislike of Mr Scoob Doo in the past, I will not prop up the Shaggy-Industrial Complex.
Then we can no longer be friends.
Although can we agree that there were only ever the 25 original episodes and all the other series and movies were absolute crap, unworthy of the Scooby-do name? (A Pup Named Scooby-do was okay.)
I’m not a Scooby Doo fan by any means, but “Mystery Incorporated” is actually pretty good. Udo Kier voices “Doctor Parrot-cles” an evil parrot genius!
I may have to look into that. I had given up on the franchise.
For some reason I was trying to remember the name of the SGR old comic probably printed in Dundee parody, The Badger! Of course!
I like Lottie’s backwards pillar hug in the final panel.
I kind of love that Lottie is wearing £700 shoes and has been traipsing all over in them.
I seem to recall someone mentioning that Lottie’s Louboutins are almost certainly knockoffs.
When they first appeared, John called them “probably knockoffs” but more recently he suggested they might be hand-me-downs from Shelley.
I can imagine Shelley taking Charlotte shoe shopping as thanks for this rescue. But it would be up to Nemulon to get them back to Lottie in time for her to wear them here.
If she got them from Shelley, then they still have some of Shelley’s energy in them, which should make them useful in an attempt to find her. Sound detective practice!
What an injustice! So close, but it seems the entrance has escaped execution yet again. One of these days the door will get what’s coming to it. But for now its frame remains woefully undestructed.
Thanks for the bonus Jeremy Ruse cartoon, it took me back to my time as a “young ‘un”, when reading Jeremy’s adventures in The Badger every week was an escape from the drab reality of post-war Britain. Jeremy was something of a role model for me: what larks I had as I faithfully recreated his japes and dodges!
This eventually resulted in a lengthy spell of incarceration from which I have only recently been released. I am finding this new over-pixelated millennium quite trying in comparison with those uncomplicated days.
I knew there had to be a twist coming, they found her too easily. But I couldn’t figure out where or how. I’m sorry John Allison, I never should have doubted you.
I think soon Shelley will be very glad that Lottie DIDN’T in fact forget she ever met her! 🙂
Wait, I have just noticed the Fluval poster in the background. The One Pump indeed.
Shelley’s transformation must be real. Why, it distorted an entire cartoon panel!
MarJeane?? Didn’t see that one coming. Figured the two were just papa’s ugly boys.
You haven’t been paying attention, then, The younger one called her “Mam” when we first encountered them. https://steeple.church/comic/weve-waited-long/
Rereading my comment, it comes across more… mean-spirited, maybe?… than I intended it to. I apologize.