It could really bring his flock together
There’s really nothing wholesome at all about this comic. The “brown note” is known to every schoolboy but I’m pretty sure it’s imaginary.
There’s really nothing wholesome at all about this comic. The “brown note” is known to every schoolboy but I’m pretty sure it’s imaginary.
mythbusters did a brown note episode
Even South Park. It was glorious.
I’m sure, if Billie had just said “I had the premonitions of three witches about my evilness and a vision of Belial calling me to help him to take over the world,” Lottie’s impression about her would have been totally different. Although, “Streak of sexy White-Wash” is awesome!
Gotta tell ya, I’m a little disappointed by the title of this episode. I mean, it’s OK, but how could it NOT be “Streak of sexy whitewash”?
Also, is Oat Maid a real thing? Google showed me nothing.
I might just have to grab me an Aquila cerveza.
Given the mascot appears to be Desmond Fishman, probably not a real thing.
Or maybe it’s a female version of Desmond, as John Allison’s sneaky little contribution to Mermay: a mermaid swimming in oats and milk.
Dunno. But I can already feel the origilal seaweed flavor of the brand.
Des is spruiking oat milk now, I see. I hope the sponsorship money is good! I can’t imagine he’s in it for a love of the product…
Hard to say — as a fish-man, do we even know that he can digest mammal milk?
Would it stop him if he couldn’t?
I can easily imagine Desmond agreeing to have his face printed on oat milk cartons, but I have trouble imagining him basing the decision on whether he actually uses or likes the product. I doubt it would be for money either. I don’t recall him ever basing any of the decisions he has ever made on any of the sorts of things normal people base decisions on. It’s why I find him so entertaining.
I don’t think Des “makes decisions” so much as he “randomly does stuff”.
Maybe it’s like in the US where they print pictures of missing people on the milk cartons? Has anyone seen Des recently?
It’s been 21 years since the last missing youth’s face appeared on a milk carton (outside of fictional portrayals).
Des was an extra in Christmas with Clovis.
While we know she’s got nothing to fear from Billie, kudos to Lottie for remaining on her guard. Not even chocolate cake can lull her into trust and complacency.
Of course Billie drinks oat milk ????
WOM WOM WOM WOM WOM WOM WOM
I like the way the WOM sound effects establish themselves in the top two panels, breaking the panel borders and not so much bleeding off the page as forcing themselves in from outside, emphasising their external origins. After that they sink into the background and let the focus come back to the conversation and Lottie’s thoughts. Nice detail, John.
Devil’s food cake, one assumes.
Everyone knows it’s better than its angelic counterpart.
Loving Lottie’s Philip Marlowe vibe in Panel 5.
Who did kill Sean Regan, anyway?
Presumably the Church of England is opposed to “non-judgmental humanist community outreach,” hence Billie’s defection to the Church of Satan. Who knew? Over here, the Episcopal Church (our version of C of E) is pretty liberal.
The parish of Tredregyn may not be entirely typical.
We’ve seen that Reverend Penrose’s idea of community outreach is suplexing a seabeast.
…And?
I think in the long term, Reverend Penrose’s idea will turn out to be correct in terms of community outreach. I’ve seen Dragon Ball Z
Well, with a prominent CofE member such as Mrs. Clovis, “judgmental” hardly begins to describe!
I feel that Mrs Clovis is in many ways a Catholic at heart, but didn’t hold with all the Latin and incense. Your legit CofE is very much into ‘non-judgemental humanist community outreach andmaybedidyouwanttotalkaboutJesusatallifnotthat’sfinebutifyoudidI’mhere.’
I think this gets to the heart of why Billie didn’t quite fit in, even though it took a misplaced hex to get her out of there.
Ah, yes. Because Penrose is busy fighting off the supernatural (as presumably have generations of vicars of Tredregyn) with only the dogged and dogmatic Clovis at his side, the Satanists have been able to usurp the CofE’s normal position in the community in organising village fairs, youth groups, routine religious observance for the vaguely agnostic and so on?
(…which is Billie’s true calling.)
Yes exactly. Penrose and Clovis have not been community-minded, shall we say.
Is it just me, or is Billie getting paler the longer she’s in the church of Satan?
WHOA.
Billie’s into the REALLY kinky stuff.
“Away with the fairies”? Can a American get a hint?
Disconnected from reality.
Panel 3: Billie has shoulder freckles!? Nice detail!
Will Brian’s mass also involve lifting people? Grease up Big Ken!
Am I the *only* one to find the cake in the first panel…suggestive?
For someone with “none wiles”, Lottie appears to be the tuning into of a lot of femininely energetic wiles since arriving in Tredregyn.
Mistaken wife-ery?
Backless backless clerical jumpsuits?
Georgia O’Keeffe inspired baked goods?
Lottie may be in for more than an existential crisis at this rate.
I was thinking of the cover of “Sailing Shoes” by Little Feat.
Ah, so The Happy Accidents of the Swing via Neon Park. Glad I’m not imagining things.
Really enjoying the palpable subtext to all this John!
If there IS a brown note, it’s the pitch you make when you’re in the bathroom and it makes all of the stalls resonate.
Brian’s pretty close
I was about to say…looking for the brown note in the water closet seems like a good start.
And now everyone know of this cultural use of brown note!