Just keep headin’ on up
Shelley Winters is an adventuress and author nonpareil. I don’t think I need to explain her at this point. She makes friends everywhere she goes. “Barry” is her agent. He’d probably regret the day he met Shelley (see Giant Days volume 13/issue 52) but for all the money she makes for him.
So reversed crosses and pentagrams are standard decoration in British pubs then? The things you learn.
And personal defense equipment under the bar definitely is.
Reversed crosses, pentagrams, pictures of goat heads = “folk art”
Those things are trumped by the friendly ginger cat.
Unquestionably evil, but otherwise quite friendly.
See previous Steeple episodes for background on the Victorian.
It’s where werewolf Brian went berserk and left the Sesh Gremlin quaking in the rafters!
Those two fellas looking at Shelley’s Maserati, car enthusiasts, car thieves, or just easily impressed by fancy things?
(it was a Maserati wasn’t it? Or was it some other sports car?)
Yes!
The last town was full of weirdos?
Oooh, just you wait, my dear. Just you wait.
She has NO idea….
Shelley just see the bright side in everything ♡. Charming room, charming little pictures on the walls, friendly bartender♡♡. She’s the Best♡♡♡. Or the “last place” was really the weirdest town in the world and she’s still under shock.
Listen, if a longtime resident of Tackleford thinks a place is weird, uh…
Now I’m scared AND really interested
We can see which of the two churches the Victoria is allied with.
I just noticed the defense tools kept behind the bar in panel two — looks like brass knuckles and … a 2×4 with nails sticking out? They probably come in handy when the Victoria has less savory customers than Shelly (which would be most customers).
“Do as thou willst”, but know that the barman will sort you out if you get too rowdy.
Or when Brian has one of his many and varied kinds of “episodes”.
They take licensing hours SERIOUSLY.
Nitpick: that’s a 1×4
Might be a cricket bat. Here in the US it’s traditionally a baseball bat.
The bottom edge of a cricket bat is usually slightly rounded. I think this is the more prosaic board with nails in.
Yes!!! The return of Barry, Shelley’s long-suffering publisher!!!
Do what thou willst, the motto of the fictional Abbey of Thelema (Rabelais), that inspired Aleister Crowley to make a short-lived real world version, and has since been associated with wicca and satanism.
Unbeknownst to most people, “Thou” here should be capitalized, as it is not specifically referring to the listener
I though “thou” was only capitalised when speaking to God. The more you know!
worr! is this post preggy shelly?
… and has Tim been left in charge of Peggy? Who must be two or three by now?
It is post birth Shelley. I would say that if Tim and Shelley are still together, it is a miracle beyond my understanding. Young Peggy will probably have been left with NEMULON.
Ah, indeed, who needs the father to take responsibility for his child when you have NEMULON?
(oops, that was meant to be a reply to John A, above)
Let’s just hope Tim doesn’t suffer a fit of jealousy and challenge Nemulon to a fight.
That whole Red Robot boxing match, that didn’t go so well.
So Tredregyn is full of Satanists who are also Tibkins fans? Makes sense, I always thought that fuzzy thing was eeevvvvillll. Also, Shelley might have some clout with the Satanists, being the sister of the former queen of Hell.
Shelley also once had a major part in thwarting the Devil’s plans, though. Which actually led into how her sister became Queen of Hell. Though you never know which bits of continuity are in use in a given story.
Like stops on an organ, selected for tone appropriate to the given moment
Due to Shelley being from Tackleford, I suppose her bar regarding who constitutes as a weirdo may be relatively high…
Yeah, she’s great but she’s no Shelby Winner.
I wonder what happened to Shelby Winner. Is she now the author of a series of books called “Tubskins” or something?
Shelby has continued her long and gilded parallel career to Shelley’s, writing books including “FIRE: My Year Hiding From Bernie Madoff”, which was nominated for the Art Vandelay Medal. On three occasions I have thought I might need to bring her out of comics retirement to solve a plot hole (one was last night), but it’s probably best she stays at her keyboard for now.
Glad to hear you’re at least keeping her in mind!
My desire to read Winner vs. Madoff: The Revenge Of Conde Nast just went up exponentially.
At this point I think it’s probably best if I just start drawing my headcanon myself!
Very happy to see the barman’s friend under the bar there! Always wondered if it was a real thing or just something from Prachett 🙂
I read so much Terry Pratchett as a teenager that I couldn’t remove his influence without being reincarnated first, I think.
A man doesn’t truly die as long as his influence is still felt in the world.
By this point Shelley should just acept everywhere is full of weirdoes, she just have standards of weirdness she does well into and ones where not as much.