I’ve never looked worse
Brut aftershave is the manliest 1970s British smell. Made from purest champagne wine and creosote, it can strip paint off a Kevin Keegan at 50 paces. Only boxer Henry Cooper was strong enough to wear it as cologne.
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
This page, like many others before, is so British I want to die.
You know what, we get a lot of hate elsewhere on the internet. Coming here, and basking in our traditional scent of mashed potatoes, gravy, and poorly ventilated carpet, is like coming home.
Uncomfortably so.
Fantastic. Thank you for your patriotic service, then, Mr. Allison.
I like how Brut makes Billies eyes squint and water. That is all that she needs to clean off that eyeliner,..
Billie is not a fan of that kind of Brutalism.
I doubt even Shauna would appreciate THAT Brutalism.
I can’t hear the word “normcore” without visualizing a fashion aesthetic based entirely around a certain character from “Cheers”.
I see you Wendt there.
Better than going off a Cliff.
Frayed sport jacket, pint glass of beer, 100 extra pounds around the midsection. Peak fashion.
By the way, I was today years old when I found out that Wings and Cheers actually exist in the same fictional universe.
I remember that Cliff and Norm appeared in an episode of Wings.
Look far enough and you’ll definitely find little Tommy Westphal shaking them all in his snow globe <b[somewhere
DAMN YOU TABLET KEYBOARD
I learned but today that the word “normcore” originates in a Ryan Estrada webcomic. I wish I had managed to coin a single memorable term in all my thousands of pages but I fear that I am too in love with arcane language to birth a neologism.
Rather than Cheers, the examplar of normcore fashion is the sitcom Seinfeld, which I believe (early on) used to air right after Cheers.
Actually, if it makes you feel any better, these days my mother refers to her laptop as her “magic thinky box”.
TBF, I love your love of arcane language, John. I treasure lines like “Do not attempt to truncate my dolor!” from SGR.
What, no love for Hai Karate? (And those Valerie Leon ads…)
Dang that is exactly what I was going to say
70s aftershave, eh? Perhaps the folks theorizing the ghost to be Mr. Clovis were correct.
I have a theory. I’m not going to say what it is, since, in the unlikely case that I’m right, it will probably be more fun for readers if they don’t see it coming.
My personal theory (and bear in mind, I can’t see anything that’s not yet been published to this site, so it’s not a spoiler) is that Mr Clovis IS the sesh gremlin
Damn it, here I was, trying not to say that.
Wouldn’t they have recognized each other when they met during Christmas With Clovis?
Who says they didn’t? At the end, it turned out that Mrs Clovis had recognized him as a sesh gremlin immediately. Just because they didn’t say anything, doesn’t mean they they didn’t recognize each other.
This might not have been the first sighting, either.
Thanks!
Mr Clovis or one of the many she buried in the basement.
Yeah, this odorous coincidence seems to point very firmly towards Mrs Clovis having a history of violence vis-a-vis the onetime Mr Clovis, now spectral revenant.
I expected the sink (and the toilet and bathtub) to be avocado and slightly surprised it is not.
Maybe they’re all different colors. The toilet is avocado and the tub is harvest gold.
The norm core effect of Billies’ clothes and slap removal is prep the later humble encounter with the Lumsford.
Better than proudly clothed in the backless cleric collar or ecto-coated slinky dress. I think the prodigal curate is returning back to the C of E.
Good to see that Billie seems to be ok now. Thanks to Maggie she has again the energy to have fun and be worried about others. Maybe the green clothes are not so good on Billie, but that runny makeup looks great on her.
It is lifesaving to see Billie not depicted in shapeless clothes as a joke. She rocks anything life hurls towards her, even Mrs. Clovis’ sweatshirt, with a belt artfully worn! Girl will be okay after all. *weep*
Very happy to see Billie back to her usual self in the last panels.
What was the product pitch for that mouthwash? I can’t stop chuckling.
‘You English and your sense uff humour!’ (said with a German accent)
GOB is what Listerene is called in the UK
(it isn’t)
GOB was the only product I wasn’t able to look up on Wikipedia (or Wikipædia, as it’s known in G.B. & the U.K. + other Commonwealth nations).
Does it represent Amstrad’s attempt to enter the personal hygiene market?
A grandfather gave me a bottle of Brut as a gift when I first started shaving. It wasn’t the smell that kept me from ever using it so much as the idea of splashing alcohol on the little nicks that I always managed to get. Ah, memories.
Henry Cooper? I seem to remember that Barry Sheene not only (allegedly) fuelled his bikes with it but also used it to snare Steph… Wicked stuff and sooo much better than L*nx 😁