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It is fair to say that you shouldn’t leave Reverend Penrose alone with witches, and you definitely shouldn’t leave him alone with the UK’s premier podcasting witches because this is what will always happen. He just doesn’t know what to do and ends up in an awful quandary.
Brian has arrived! I am sure he will be very helpful in this situation, just as he was with Lorraine!
Maybe he knows where the oil is.
Brian to the rescue?
Or maybe Brian will insist on being the one to give the massage.
“Brian somehow to the rescue” is what first leaped to my mind.
Yes, Brian Saves the Day.
I doubt it. Remember, he has a history with these two as well.
Yes, he does, but I don’t really see how that history has any impact on whether he’s going to rescue the Reverend or not. He paid them, and they sort of partly cured his lycanthropy. He was a one-time customer, a couple of years ago. https://steeple.church/comic/hipster-witches/
Maybe.
Or maybe la Lumsford will bust in taking pictures of David dead drunk, shirtless, and in flagrante with two hipster witches as they revoke Brian’s cure and send him howling into the Tredregyn streets with an uncontrollable lupine stiffy once more.
I’m incurably pessimistic, I’m so sorry.
I can see that they might be able to reverse their “cure”, but the moon obviously isn’t full, since Brian’s not under its influence, so I don’t think that would have any immediate effect. Anyway, I think it’s a lot more pessimistic to think Brian rescues David, starts to bond with him, and then David discovers what Brian did earlier…
True, but Brian is resentful about the witches’ slipshod work. He actively warned off Mrs. Clovis from taking her Dyson to the witches in Vol. 1: “Bunch o’ bloody timewasters in there, save your money. Went in there last year, they only did half a job.”
This scene could develop in two ways:
1)Brian doesn’t like the witches, so he rescues the Rev from their ministrations just to spite them. Penrose is happy at first but the thawing of relations freezes again when he learns of Mrs. Lumsford’s visit.
2)Brian sees the Rev, believes that he’s lightening up and is amenable to being Brian’s sort of friend after all, and thinks this is a great opportunity to show off his greased lifting and happily joins in with the slippery fun. Mrs. Lumsford, calling on Clovis to try and find out just what was going on at the Rectory earlier, enters at precisely the most comically compromising moment.
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David’s about to have his pants stolen. Again.
Pants AND shirt!
Gasp! Maggie was right, they wanted to use Mrs Clovis’ cooking oil! What a waste… but now that Brian is here, probably the witches don’t want to became a show for him. Time to take Penrose somewhere else.
Witches meet unassuming warlock. Who will come out on top?
Historically, the witches are *very* desirous of being on top.
No reason to call Brian a warlock without the chops. Lets see what he’s got.
i feel good, this will be brian’s time to finally befriend the rev
I offer myself as tribute!
Hoo boy.
At last! The Cardinal is here!
Heh. Brings to mind the old Monty Python “The Bishop!” sketch.
“‘Ow did you know?”
“‘E had it tattooed on the back of ‘is neck!”
Brian in the last panel feels very reminiscent of Rorschach braking into Dan’s apartment and helping himself to some beans. Though of course, Brian is much more adorable (in a stray shaggy dog way) and apparently has better taste in food.
Admittedly, it’s not difficult to be more adorable than Rorschach.
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Steeple is cemented as my favorite… tackleverse… Allison joint… whatever… I’m going to miss this comic
Bobbinsverse is the unofficial yet widely accepted term, and it rolls off the tongue better.
While Bobbinsverse is more common, Tackleverse does get used sometimes, too. i think a few years ago it was actually the more common term.
Tackleverse has become obsolete though seeing as we’ve not had a comic set in Tackleford for years now. “Bobbinsverse” is a more neutral term.
Much of the time, there hasn’t been an active comic called “Bobbins” either. “Tackleverse” could mean “the universe where Tackleford exists”.
>“Tackleverse” could mean “the universe where Tackleford exists”.
Well yes, but as well as being the acorn from which the mighty oak grew, “Bobbins” isn’t a name that’s tied down to a specific place in the way that Tackleford is. Otherwise, you could just as well call JA’s comics part of the “Sheffieldverse” because that’s where Charlotte lives during Solver.
Sheffield exists in many universes. It’s even alleged to exist in ours.
We were in Tackleford, briefly, as recently as the Holiday Surprise, less than a year ago, and there have been Tacklefudlians in Tredregyn and Sheffield. We haven’t had Bobbins since .horse ended almost four years ago.
Maybe it should be the Shelleyverse She seems to get in everywhere. She even managed to sneak into Bad Machinery for a couple of cameos, and I think she was specifically told not to.
Or, gods help us, the Desverse.
The Fishmanverse!
The Witches Upon Penrose: (Barry White music playing on the quadrophonic hifi); Brian appears (the needle scratches)
Now we have Brian for some doses of “devil music”, so what will be over-microwaved next? *checking the pamphlet*
Reverend Penrose is about to go from a Warm Willy to a Blue Yeti.
I think I’ve seen this movie before
It’s all going to kick off now Brian’s here.
I wonder what phase the moon is?
There was a moment in “That’s the spirit” where Bob Warren picked up David’s dropped crucifix and suggested that they could use it to really “Shit him up”. Perhaps this is part of it.
I’m hoping we’ll get to see that loose thread tied up (along with Jason’s storyline) before Mr. Allison retires this series.
So it looks like “Out the window and around to the door” would have wor3ked for Maggie and Billie. Might still!
What wonderfully wonky gutters to enhance that woozy affect.
And the thump back to earth with the tiles is almost audible.
Sheer genius. Ta Mr A.
Oh, and bravo too for weaving Brian back in as the 4th path of the quandarius.
Oh, ho, ho, finally a chance to prove my best-friendery.
Dang, Reverend. I’m a little disappointed, honestly.