IS THE BELL BROKEN?
Oh no, Lorraine Lumsford, the scourge of Tredregyn Parish. She’s the Bishop’s fixer and she really has it in for Billie and Reverend Penrose. Last appearance: The Silvery Moon.
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
Oh no, Lorraine Lumsford, the scourge of Tredregyn Parish. She’s the Bishop’s fixer and she really has it in for Billie and Reverend Penrose. Last appearance: The Silvery Moon.
Well, I suppose there are many possible options for the former Reverend Penrose to start an entirely new career, under an assumed alias, at least 700 miles away. So it’s not all bad.
Ahhh, but you see this WAS his entirely new career under an assumed alias 700 miles away!
Maybe God is actually watching and a lighting bolt will eradicate la Lumsford upon leaving the rectory?
I can dream, I guess.
All right, fine. Nobody liked the idea of divinely smiting the narc. I stand chastened.
I’d just have to see evidence of her actually doing a murder or something before approving the death penalty.
LenSessions called it in the comments for the last page.
…and I’m shocked, I don’t mind telling you!
It saddened me that the more I thought about your prediction after reading it, the more I thought it was probably going to happen. It bore the doom-heavy air of true prophecy.
Oh no! Lorraine has return for continue her mission to destroy Penrose’s career as a priest. The pure joy she has understanding the potentiality of the situation is 100% evil. Let’s hope Brian’s charms will be able to change her idea and point of view about life. GO BRIAN!
Yes, I am hoping that somehow Brian bumbles his way into saving the day.
Rev Penrose “ah, yeah, that guy. Nothing to do with us. Lies for fun”
Lorraine: “But why was he in your lodgings”
Rev: “… because we’re Christians and he needed help?”
The question is: Is Brian a good horse manure salesman?
If ANYONE knows his way around horse manure…
Good horse manure sells itself!
The tension ratchets higher as Rev Penrose is temptyd by the Satanyc Systyrs and Brian tangles with the wily Lumsford.
They’re not Satanists, they’re witches.
Satanists not, satanic yes.
servants of the goat, as the spirit said
this one here is also a servant of the goat… in the bureaucracy? All too common.
Let’s hope that Brian manages to convince her to join COS (I’m sure she and Tom would get along nicely) and Billie and Rev. Penrose are off the hook again.
Is that romance I smell in the air?
*Sniff* *sniff* I’m… not sure that’s what that smell is…
One can argue that the odor emitted by the corpse plant is a form of pitching woo.
In this case I wonder if we’re not dealing with a form of witching poo.
I’d make an H. R. Puffinstuff joke, but I’m not sure anyone else here would get it.
I would.
…And Marty Krofft just died. Here’s a piece from Mark Evanier, who worked with the Kroffts. https://www.newsfromme.com/2023/11/25/marty-krofft-r-i-p/
I’m calling it, Rev Penrose will come home after a hard evening of seance-related foolishness only to find Brian and Lumsford in flagrante on his coffee table.
At which point the rev will marry them on the spot and Bryan will get to reprise his hopeful throuple proposition.
I adore Brian’s notions of how a cardinal acts and speaks.
I feel like the most helpful thing he could do at this moment is convince Lorraine that he’s a burglar who broke in to steal the silver.
Yes. I fear that he will provide the most opposite thing to “help” that it is possible to provide.
It’s an excellent job, slightly flawed by the Anglican Church not having Cardinals (due to the job of a Cardinal being to elect a Pope). The King appoints Anglican Archbishops (on the advice of the Prime Minister, who in turn is offered a shortlist of two by a committee whose make up this comment box is too small to contain. It’s all very simple).
oh no
What a combination, this is just great, pity that Brian´s cover was blown sky-high almost instantly.
In predict a desaster of apocalyptic dimensions after which Penrose will join Satan and Tom will find himself (overnight) in charge of the local parish.
I’m not sure which of the two would be more horrified by that turn of events.
I’m just ecstatic that Stroud got a mention! (my uncle (a Mopman of Ranwick Wap) knew Laurie Lee).
Brian slips into the part without a moment’s hesitation. A real pro. He could be the next Rowan Williams.
This got a big laugh from me
This page does kind of tangentially bring up something I’ve been wondering about for a long time now. If the Church thinks that Billie’s still working as a curate, what’s happening to the salary they’re presumably sending her?
I expect ‘remedial status’ might not involve ‘currently’ paying the curate until ‘issues with conduct are resolved’, or something of this sort. Sort of like a furlough without the ‘stopping work’ part.
I expect that the CoE Home Office is figuring that if Curate Billie can survive without recompense given these economic conditions, it is a Sign From Above that she should be returned to her priestly-in-training “Paid” status. You know – sort of a modern equivalent to the medieval mind set of tossing the witch into the river.