I’m only averagely brilliant
You can never be sure which Brian you’re going to get. His erratic diet of strong drink, pills and powders, and complex carbohydrates, makes him a moveable feast. Courtly uncle… or perverted beast man? Or both simultaneously? Tread carefully. Especially during certain lunar cycles. (I think Coal Board might be the name of his band.)
MOONY!!!!
BECAUSE HE’S A HORRIBLE MONSTER WHO CHANGES UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE MOON
IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S UNRELENTINGLY TERRIBLE
Also, “Greased And Ungreased” should totally be the title of the first Meat Sweats album.
I think “Greased and Ungreased” will be the lead track of the album from Coal Board titled Meat Sweats.
I suspect that it’s only due to Billie’s influence that we ever get the “courtly uncle” version.
Shelley has a history with burly men. Good thing Billie just saved her from herself.
Shelley looks so sad to have lost the possibility to see Brian lift Big Ken.
Relieved, yet also disappointed.
Any chance that Brian will lift Big Ken (greased)? I want to see! For now, I’m happy to see how he follows Billie’s advices and how much she care about him♡. Even if it for not scare Shelley, it’s the sweetest thing ♡♡.
Would it be Brian or Big Ken that gets greased? Or both? And has Big Ken ever agreed to the lifting or the greasing?
Big Ken don’t agree is the best part of the whole thing.
Have we even seen Big Ken? Do we know what Big Ken even is? Are we sure he (or she, or it) is human? Do we have any more hilarious guesses?
Big Ken runs the amusement arcade (Ken’s Arcade). That is the only fact about him that is “out there” right now.
Brian really needs to work on his pickup lines. Also I like the expression on Billie’s face in he last panel. Is it too presumptuous to assume that she actually has…something for Brian or is that just a product of the orgies?
My same question. I kinda hope she really has… something for Brian.
I *really* have a hard time imagining Billie participating in an orgy. I mean, my brain just won’t go there.
For some reason, my brain just wants to imagine her… officiating?
I see… a clipboard and a checklist
A scorecard, perhaps.
Imagining Billie in an orgy isn’t the problem, we’ve already seen far too much of Brian au naturel, but where the mind truly recoils is in picturing Tom.
Sexual awakening or corrupted/lost innocence?
Thanks to the good ol’ Victorian Moralist movement (among others) we often see innocence as something to be preserved and protected; a blank slate that needs to be kept clean and uneroded, rather than a hole to be filled.
Question is, does Billie take part through obligation to society/dogma or because she wants to? And (arguably more importantly) which do we *want* to believe.
I hope she want to attend and don’t just because the dogma. She sure try to find new activities because the older members of the church may be to tired for the orgies. Bud don’t seem she has problems attending them.That time Maggie try to stop her introduction she says to want to do it… now, who knows?
Is Astoroth IPA anything like Camden Hells?
Craft beer? More like Witchcraft beer eh?
Good jokes Ken, and accurate
BA DUM BUM KSSSH
An IPA? Billie really *has* turned to evil!
This is 2021. All beers are IPAs now, with names like “BLOODFACE MAXIMUM PAIN IPA”
Another sign of the end times.
Save me some of that Devil’s Drawers IPA, the kind with extra drawers.
In this establishment, IPA = I Praise Asmodeus.
Too tame. Infernal Pain Ale
There is clearly some kind of deep cosmic irony in the fact that the latest Questionable Content strip includes a snark against IPAs.
Billie is what, 25? And Brian is a badly behaved housepet going on 50, loveable despite occasionally leaving puddles on the floor. If Billie has something for him, it’s most likely to be a marrowbone flavoured pig’s ear.
Ugh. That was meant to be a reply Mr R. Webster’s post up there ^^^^
There is now going to be some fan-ship-fic involving Shelly, Billie, and Brian. I might even draw it myself, if I get the time.
I just realized all three of these characters wear spectacles. Now, ima hafta make this fan-fic spectacular.
Color me skeptical, but I don’t think those two have the same “talent” in mind.
You’re a sharp one, you are!
The phrase “Coal Board” makes me think of some local governmental agency that oversees extractive industry. Although I don’t know that Cornwall has much in the way of coal mining…
Maybe it should say “Tin Board”?
That is exactly what the Coal Board was, Sean (until 1987).
Alaric, there is a new mining wave in Cornwall: lithium!
Does this mean we’ll see Kropotkin and his spoon in Cornwall soon?
I never thought of this possibility, feels like it might have to go “straight to Cattywampus”
It really is remarkable, how much repair work on Brian Billie’s gotten in.
Even better than Maggie.
I feel compelled to post Mr. Allison’s Twitter link to the storyboard he just shared for this one, as a reward for anyone who made it this far in the comments.
If anything, it’s even more whimsical, wonderful, and delightful than the finished product.
https://twitter.com/badmachinery/status/1384078698622509062/photo/1
While drawing posters on a wall in a background once I invented a band called “National Grid” I feel they should support Coal Board. Or indeed vice versa.