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Poor old Tom and the hell of his own making. Though, I suppose, a hell of your own making is the whole point of Satanism. When will WE get to meet the Extreme Freaks?
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
Poor old Tom and the hell of his own making. Though, I suppose, a hell of your own making is the whole point of Satanism. When will WE get to meet the Extreme Freaks?
The Satanists need a good Christian like Billie
Sometimes you just don’t know what you had until it’s gone.
Hey, paradise was nice, but at least we’ve got plenty of parking.
I think Tom’s actually… LONELY.
Yeah, normally hard for him to admit but if even Bob realizes he went too far, Tom could too.
Tom seems to find the freaks a bit too extreme as well. He must be going through a gross of eggs every couple of days.
The side-view really brings home how Andreessian Tom’s head is. An absolute egg on his shoulders
Maybe the egg-crushing is a subconscious symbol of his unconscious resentment of his own head?
So, the two disgraceful witches may have nothing to do with Brian’s decision to leave? Missing Billie and being unhappy with the changes should be enough. Tom seems so tired and sad. Yep, he needs Billie’s guidance in his life, ASAP!
Well, we’ve seen how Billie rationalised (if that’s the word for having a vision of a giant demon) the effects of the witches’ hex. Maybe Brian is doing something similar.
I’m not sure that’s exactly what happened in Billie’s case. I think the spell put on the vacuum cleaner simply created an illusion designed to amplify the user’s doubts about the user’s direction in life, or something similar, and Billie’s reaction to that illusion was her own. I don’t think she was actually directly under a spell. After all, the witches didn’t remove any kind of spell from her before she left the Church of Satan- they simply let her know the actual origin of her “vision”.
The spell was meant to make one “reject their calling”.
I’m honestly glad to have that cleared up. I’ve never believed that Billy’s rejection of the CoE and acceptance of the CoS was true to her nature. At all.
She tried to *work* in the CoS in a manner that was true to her nature, but that’s not the same thing as wholeheartedly desiring to be a part of that organization.
Ah dammit, I hate feeling empathy for Tom, but this is such a good strip.
Poor old Thomas
Fingers crossed the reveal is Ralph and Des.
A sea monster and the cast of Clotted Crime
Remind us who Ralph is?
I’m looking forward to finding this out too
The guy who zombified Shelley? Last we saw him, he was getting thrashed by a leprechaun.
June 25, 2004: [[Amy and Ryan are sitting next to Shelley’s hospital bed. The window is open, and a pair of long arms are sticking through the window.]] Amy: What are THOSE? Ryan: I think Ralph’s trying to lay on hands from the car park.
Damn. This means I’ve reading this stuff for almost twenty years now.
Perhaps Billie, Maggie and Brian could start their own offshoot sect. They could be New Reformed Zoroastrians or something.
You can’t spell “Zoroastrian” without “Satan”!
(You have to rearrange the letters a bit.)
Nah. Zoroastrianism isn’t Satanism. Quite the contrary, they’re a monotheistic religion that has had quite a bit of influence on Christianity and Islam. Maybe go with Reformed Luciferians instead? Or maybe mix in some Marxism and make it the Church of the Eternal Revolution? Depends how Billie’s feeling.
Why IS Tom dressed as a referee?
He is into keep-fit (e.g. we saw his exercise room in Brian’s Insides), perhaps he was out jogging when espied Maggie meeting with Robert and decided to tail them.
It’s just an awful lot of … commotion
Oh please be Shauna 😂😂
My guess is that one of these Extreme Freaks is Jason. We saw Tom tell Jason that he was important to Tom’s plans. It now seems that Tom’s plan all along may have simply been to fill the leadership of the Church of Satan with “extreme freaks”. Jason, in his transformed form, would seem to qualify. https://steeple.church/comic/patience-patience-dear-boy-clotted-crime-concludes/
Somehow Tom doesn’t strike me as someone whose plans went exactly as planned just now.
My impression is that his plans went fine- he just didn’t give enough thought to what would happen AFTER his plans succeeded, which turns out to be not so great for him. But I guess we’ll find out.
The mermen are actually seen to get their freak on – during the various fights in the churchyard in Vol.1 some of them can be seen grinding on each other in the background.
We should never meet the Extreme Freaks. Anything drawn will pale in comparison to their nebulous state of being.
Part of me hopes we never get to meet the extreme freaks. Just leave them as an eternal mystery.
I think they’ll look like Rick James.
Is nobody but me bothered by the SCREAMING AND CRACKING OF BONES behind Tom???
I think that’s the Extreme Freaks. They appear to be Extremely Noisy Freaks.
Technically it’s in front of Tom, as we see his back in the last panel, where the screaming &c. are depicted. I’m sure they will be fine (the screamings &c., that is).
Can it be a coincidence that Brian said the extreme freaks: “It’s an awful lot of effort”, the exact same phrase on the cover of the self-help book Mag’s dad was trying to give her?