I’m sure Baphomet is deeply offended by Billie’s ungrateful words. The roofs are safe after all! They just wanted to everyone to know they are coming in person or something like that.
I think that Satanism, particularly FICTIONAL Satanism, allows for alternate prayer recipients. Maybe she could try her luck with Asmodeus, or Belphegor, or the great big S himself.
Despite the supposed prosperity coming to Tredregyn, I really think Billie is better off without Baphomet. I don’t want to know what price tag follows after her prayer is answered.
If you had a child while you were still in your teens and your child subsequently did likewise, you could be a grandparent while you’re still in your late twenties (meaning that you would indeed have grandchildren while you’re young enough to enjoy them). I doubt that John A intends to move things in that direction, though. Besides, IMHO none of the passersby look like they’re in their late twenties.
“We can fix it in the lab.” A phrase supposedly often heard on the set of “Manos: The Hands of Fate.” Which has nothing to do with anything, I suppose, the “post” line just reminded me of it, that’s all.
(I’m trying to decide whether to say “Called it” now, or when it inevitably becomes more apparent what’s going on. Either way, this looks to me like confirmation that my August 11 guess was, in fact, accurate.)
Hurricane Fun Fact: Hurricanes in the North Atlantic are named from a rotating list of 6 sets of 21 names (A-W minus Q and U), with really famous hurricanes having their names retired and replaced. So if you want you can just look up what name they would give a hurricane for what letter. For instance, 2021’s B-lettered Hurricane is going to be “Hurricane Bill” which coincidentally is the name of another super-billionaire.
Other oceanic regions of the world have similar naming conventions. I’m partial to the North Pacific name set which includes Hurricane Zelda.
Here in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, we generally don’t name our storms. The biggest one in recorded memory was “Typhoon Freda,” but nobody calls it that. It happened in 1962, and is usually called “The Columbus Day Storm” or sometimes “The Big Blow.” It caused a lot of damage, but it really was the storm of the century. Such storms are uncommon.
There’s no such thing as “Hurricane Zelda,” since such storms in the pacific are called “Typhoons.” Typhoon Zelda happened in the southwestern pacific, not really the North Pacific, in 1994. It kinda wandered around south and east of Japan without ever making landfall over any important islands.
That said, the name “Zelda” has been reserved for future typhoons in the western and northern Pacific this year, but it’s kinda at the bottom of the list.
From Wikipedia: “Around the world, tropical cyclones are classified in different ways, based on the location, the structure of the system and its intensity. For example, within the Northern Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins, a tropical cyclone with wind speeds of over 65 kn (75 mph; 120 km/h) is called a hurricane, while it is called a typhoon or a severe cyclonic storm within the Western Pacific or North Indian Oceans. Within the Southern Hemisphere, it is either called a hurricane, tropical cyclone or a severe tropical cyclone, depending on if it is located within the South Atlantic, South-West Indian Ocean, Australian region or the South Pacific Ocean.”
In the UK we have a list of storm names agreed by the Met Office jointly with Met Éireann (Ireland) and KNMI (Netherlands), sometimes using names given by other meteorological authorities. However, if a storm originated as a hurricane named by the US National Hurricane Centre, it keeps that name (but is usually an ex-Hurricane by the time it reaches us). https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-storm-centre/index
‘Kirk’ appears in one of these lists. Unfortunately the only Hurricane Kirk I know about mooned about the North Atlantic for about 40 minutes before it was downgraded to “a bit blowy”, and then “nice weather for ducks”, or something. Bah.
Hurricane Billie seems to be up to scratch, though.
I have a feeling that Very Positive Things are in store for the town
Always, in Cornish Mischief Town.
Baphomet doesn’t do “and after that there came a still, small voice.” S/he is more like “Sow the whirlwind, reap the hurricane!”
I’m guessing these folks are scouting locations for a certain religiously themed homicide program.
I’m betting you are correct, sir.
Looks like Baphomet has come through with off-season employment for the locals. Think he/she has anything lined up for Billie?
Baphomet works in mysterious ways.
I’m sure Baphomet is deeply offended by Billie’s ungrateful words. The roofs are safe after all! They just wanted to everyone to know they are coming in person or something like that.
“Baphomet and I are SEEING OTHER PEOPLE.” Uh, Billie, does Baphomet know this?
“Baphomet, is all-seeing, all-knowing. And yet, somehow, Baphomet is always the last to know.”
“Baphomet is just pawn, in game of life.”
Is Baphy really gonna simp? Guy needs to get back on his game
I think that Satanism, particularly FICTIONAL Satanism, allows for alternate prayer recipients. Maybe she could try her luck with Asmodeus, or Belphegor, or the great big S himself.
Baphy is having a bad run, having lost Maggie and now Billie. It’s time to look inward, Winged Goat.
Despite the supposed prosperity coming to Tredregyn, I really think Billie is better off without Baphomet. I don’t want to know what price tag follows after her prayer is answered.
It’s possible that the price has already mostly been paid (to roofers, by every other town in Devon and Cornwall)
“Were going to need to do something about all the vape shops.” At that moment, without knowing why, Reverend Penrose suddenly perked up his ears.
Not sure if I saw a grandpa, but I’m pretty sure that’s Brian in the background of panel one. Does he count?
Just down the street from Brian to the left is a bloke with a small child. Perhaps he is the “Nice Grandpa” of which the Creator speaks.
We don’t know for sure that Brian ISN’T a grandpa. Given what we know about him, he might even be one without knowing it.
True, but Brian isn’t a new character (relatable or not).
I thought the smiley gentleman in panel 2, with the tattoo “BossHole” (or is it “Boss Hogg”?), might be the candidate. He’s very smiley.
If you had a child while you were still in your teens and your child subsequently did likewise, you could be a grandparent while you’re still in your late twenties (meaning that you would indeed have grandchildren while you’re young enough to enjoy them). I doubt that John A intends to move things in that direction, though. Besides, IMHO none of the passersby look like they’re in their late twenties.
This… was not a trick question
Hurricane Bezos!
I loved that. Huge swaths of the Cornwall countryside covered in sodden cardboard.
The hurricane’s track was the exact shape of the swoosh on the Amazon logo.
Free overnight delivery!
We can remove the vape shops in post.
Forget about Baphomet, modern post production editing is the true black magic.
“We can fix it in the lab.” A phrase supposedly often heard on the set of “Manos: The Hands of Fate.” Which has nothing to do with anything, I suppose, the “post” line just reminded me of it, that’s all.
So “Prosperity To Tredregyn” will come in the form of “hipster Londoners moving in and jacking up all the real estate prices”.
Absolutely. And as we would expect, material prosperity will come with moral destitution (i.e., hipster Londoners).
Weren’t hipster Londoners already a plague there? Thinking back to the introductory tour of the town Maggie gave to Billie…
Not hipsters, but certainly Londoners.
(I’m trying to decide whether to say “Called it” now, or when it inevitably becomes more apparent what’s going on. Either way, this looks to me like confirmation that my August 11 guess was, in fact, accurate.)
Baphomet brought demons straight from the darkest corner of the abyss: tech bros. This town will soon have a Starbucks.
Hurricane Fun Fact: Hurricanes in the North Atlantic are named from a rotating list of 6 sets of 21 names (A-W minus Q and U), with really famous hurricanes having their names retired and replaced. So if you want you can just look up what name they would give a hurricane for what letter. For instance, 2021’s B-lettered Hurricane is going to be “Hurricane Bill” which coincidentally is the name of another super-billionaire.
Other oceanic regions of the world have similar naming conventions. I’m partial to the North Pacific name set which includes Hurricane Zelda.
Here in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, we generally don’t name our storms. The biggest one in recorded memory was “Typhoon Freda,” but nobody calls it that. It happened in 1962, and is usually called “The Columbus Day Storm” or sometimes “The Big Blow.” It caused a lot of damage, but it really was the storm of the century. Such storms are uncommon.
There’s no such thing as “Hurricane Zelda,” since such storms in the pacific are called “Typhoons.” Typhoon Zelda happened in the southwestern pacific, not really the North Pacific, in 1994. It kinda wandered around south and east of Japan without ever making landfall over any important islands.
That said, the name “Zelda” has been reserved for future typhoons in the western and northern Pacific this year, but it’s kinda at the bottom of the list.
From Wikipedia: “Around the world, tropical cyclones are classified in different ways, based on the location, the structure of the system and its intensity. For example, within the Northern Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins, a tropical cyclone with wind speeds of over 65 kn (75 mph; 120 km/h) is called a hurricane, while it is called a typhoon or a severe cyclonic storm within the Western Pacific or North Indian Oceans. Within the Southern Hemisphere, it is either called a hurricane, tropical cyclone or a severe tropical cyclone, depending on if it is located within the South Atlantic, South-West Indian Ocean, Australian region or the South Pacific Ocean.”
In the UK we have a list of storm names agreed by the Met Office jointly with Met Éireann (Ireland) and KNMI (Netherlands), sometimes using names given by other meteorological authorities. However, if a storm originated as a hurricane named by the US National Hurricane Centre, it keeps that name (but is usually an ex-Hurricane by the time it reaches us). https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-storm-centre/index
‘Kirk’ appears in one of these lists. Unfortunately the only Hurricane Kirk I know about mooned about the North Atlantic for about 40 minutes before it was downgraded to “a bit blowy”, and then “nice weather for ducks”, or something. Bah.
Hurricane Billie seems to be up to scratch, though.