Cigarettes are vile! Pipe and cigars, on the other hand… It’s nice to see that Billie and Penrose are still great friends♡. Also, nice set of axes on the wall.
It’ll be holding the usual things you find in them – bits of wood, rusty screwdriver tips, broken sawblades, that thing you inherited from your grandpa but you don’t know what it is, dust.
That’s a box that used to hold Jaffa Oranges. It’s a strong sturdy cardboard box, still sometimes available from the piles of boxes you get in supermarkets, that is ideal for the storage of medium-sized useful things. The paint might easily be on top of something else that is in the box.
Jason is Billie’s mysteriously disappeared predecessor as Penrose’s curate. And a particular favourite of Mrs Clovis. He appears in flashback in Steeple #3/vol 1.
Show this strip to one of the uninitiated and point out Billie’s 5 (count ’em) amazing facial expressions, and there’ll be another convert to Allison’s Acolytes ™.
And did you also just take up LYING, Reverend Penrose? Is that ALSO as vile as you suspected?
Revs are human too, they screw up occasionally too. Well, Rev. Penrose more than most maybe.
Cigarettes are vile! Pipe and cigars, on the other hand… It’s nice to see that Billie and Penrose are still great friends♡. Also, nice set of axes on the wall.
Guessing that’s a merman skull under those axes? With a heart-shaped nose?
Why’s there a box of jaffa cakes in the shed?
It’ll be holding the usual things you find in them – bits of wood, rusty screwdriver tips, broken sawblades, that thing you inherited from your grandpa but you don’t know what it is, dust.
And what’s with that can of paint? Is it on top of the box, or is it somehow suspended in Jaffa?
Garages are the natural habitat of old paint tins.
I don’t know why I’m crying…
I see what your did there.
I see what you did there. It all goes slow.
That’s a box that used to hold Jaffa Oranges. It’s a strong sturdy cardboard box, still sometimes available from the piles of boxes you get in supermarkets, that is ideal for the storage of medium-sized useful things. The paint might easily be on top of something else that is in the box.
This is Britane.
The noble Jaffa Cake is welcome everywhere.
Jason (this end up).
Jason is Billie’s mysteriously disappeared predecessor as Penrose’s curate. And a particular favourite of Mrs Clovis. He appears in flashback in Steeple #3/vol 1.
Oh so that’s where he ended up.
…or maybe it’s just a box of his stuff…
I was thinking it might be a guy with a goalie mask.
That’s it. Reverend Penrose is no longer my roll model.
Reverend’s holding the ciggy Russian-style. Watching too many movies?
I’ve waited a long time to draw someone smoking in this convoluted style, the time was right and I was primed.
I wondered about that.
Apropos of not-this-strip, I got my copy of “Romeo and/or Juliet” yesterday and was surprised to find an illustration inside by a Mr John Allison.
Which was nice.
Show this strip to one of the uninitiated and point out Billie’s 5 (count ’em) amazing facial expressions, and there’ll be another convert to Allison’s Acolytes ™.
No one who smokes the dog end of a little rolly and holds it like that just took up smoking.
I recently ate my first Jaffa Cakes. I’m now hooked. Lovely.
Only upon re-viewing did I see the little circle-slash “no” emblem metaphorically appearing in Billie’s hands. Interesting. 🙂