No greasier snake pit
Have you ever had to buy a car? It’s a dangerous business. It’s not like buying a washing machine. I bet buying a massive yellow snake would be easier than buying a car. Fortunately cars are now so huge, complicated and expensive that I will never be able to buy one ever again.
This could be some sort of localized British colloquialism I’m unfamiliar with, but I THINK Mrs Clovis is missing the M in the word “something” in that last panel.
Thank you! Fixed.
Brilliant, stylish work
It has been unfixed! The typo has returned!
I’m not sure how that happened
I think Maggie’s already figured out what it is she wants she wants to do lol
You mean “who”!
I hope the new car doesnt explode
Oh, it’s not even like he could afford a Tesla
Maggie’s bum seems fairly incorporeal on this page. Perhaps its lines are a Patreon-only bonus! *Wink wink*
Maggie’s better half is enmeshed in the egalitarian folds of the dread onesie, which “flatters no figure, thereby democratising the body.”
Is this the most lascivious Maggie has been in the Reverend’s presence? Or is my mind blanking something out to protect me?
I don’t think she means anything by it. Lasciviousness is the brand.
I think the time she decided to design a suit of “holy body armor” in which her “entire arse would be on display – but tastefully!” might win out.
I think the fact that she’s had to retrain her carnal impulses somewhat since the events of The Silvery Moon has been wearing on her.
Well, at least Maggie’s a productive member of the parish albeit a bit lacking in piety.
I’ll be interested to see where on the Tredregyn Evil Spectrum its car dealers align. I’m guessing somewhere between Tom Pendennis and the owner of Pixey Garage.
My mom bought a Jaguar back in the 90’s – I was so intimidated by the price, whenever I drove it, I treated it like it was made of glass. These days, that kind of money gets you something significantly less classy than a Jaguar XJ8.
Well, on the cover we have a Volkswagen camper, and the other one might be a 90ies Ford…? Two brands with a sufficiently evil heritage. “Hitler’s car” is out though, the camper was only made after the war.
I have, it occurs to me, never shopped for and bought a car for myself.
My first car was a ’69 Camaro handed down through my family to me, which I then drove for more than 20 years, until it was held together primarily through force of habit alone. After that, I’ve always just wound up with whatever car my wife no longer uses after we buy a new one for her, probably because I fell to pieces shortly after the Camaro itself did and haven’t really had to go anywhere.
That said, we have had some remarkably awful interactions with car dealerships this millennium.
Ray, hopefully you’ll be coming on this year’s Scary Go Round fan picnic in Iceland. We’ll be presenting you with a fully loaded ’69 Camaro as your prize for long service.
No joke, your story made me go “awww” and tear up ever-so-slightly.
A person can really bond with a machine, especially one that gives us so much freedom and protects us from harm. I bawled when I had to say goodbye to my totaled ’96 Jetta. I’m going to keep my ’09 Tiguan going forever and nobody can convince me otherwise.
Still driving an ’08 MINI (albeit with very low mileage) & plan to do so until the wheels drop off.
I once had a Mitsubishi that was held together by force of habit — and still need a little extra help from some Gorilla Tape.
It’s not just the car; it’s also the fuel, insurance, maintenance… Those things are bottomless pits. They’re the Pithos of the Danaïdes that you try to fill with your money.
Can I just thank everyone who has survived the X-Men times and rejoined me here for Steeple. I’m always sad when familiar commenters vanish and grateful that people are still willing to navigate the multiple websites.
PS Sorry that I haven’t been able to fix the comment login issue yet – the new site theme’s creator has not replied to me about it. When I have time I’ll be able to hack a solution together but it’ll be a couple of lost days which I can ill afford.
I could likely help you – long-time reader here and long-time CMS developer! Send me an email if you want a little assistance with it, I’m familiar with WordPress.
Thank you David. Your name is well familiar to me! The theme’s designer has done something odd in order to create this neatly nested comments.php and I just have to undo the correct bits without breaking the layout of the page. I’m sure it’s good for me to have to do this. You may well be hearing from me soon, when I can take no more CSS digging.
I personally could not care less about the commenting thing, it autofills anyway because of my settings. Perhaps you can view it as a little extra “filter” for those comments that maybe could have stayed in-brain.
Oh — did you fix it? It’s saved now, for me anyway.
I managed to find what was stopping people’s login details being retained, and performed a simple fix by defaulting back to the standard WordPress reply box, but it’s a very rough solution. The comments code for this theme tries a number of clever things, some of which don’t work very well, but cutting it out is like digging out daisy roots, so I have given up trying.
I follow your work through my RSS reader (Feedly), and I do appreciate how it automatically switches between comics!
Although “automatically” in this case is John doing it by hand. But still very much appreciated!
I’m very saintly and also I believe in RSS as something that works really well!!!
Yes! It is a thing of beauty, unlike my poorly maintained collection of rss feeds (Netvibes gal here)
Still here, a day late since I am in the US.
Why would that make you a day late? Being in the US always means I get to see Monday’s page on Sunday night, my time. (Make sure you didn’t miss the previous page, or the cover.)
Better a day late than a dollar short
You’re one of my all-time favorite creators John, I’ll gladly follow you to the ends of the Earth.
I enjoyed the X-Men (and the very detailed help provided in the comments to non-experts like me) and I’m very happy to see Steeple back( parts of it resembling a world I’m more familiar with).
Hear, hear!
From panel 1 it seems clear that Mrs. C used some posh spice in the porridge.
I see what you did there.
Oh, the upcoming pages make sense/are more tantalizing now. Yay!
I just noticed that Maggie’s, er, rear is consistently un-lined on this page, and now I need to go back through previous issues to figure out whether it’s always been like that.
Any excuse to review bottoms, amirite?
I also don’t recall her being so vocal about her hots for the Rev. Shades of Shelly Winters!
Dunno why. But thinking about Penrose at the wheel of a car gives me chills. I’m sure he’s a daredevil and he would end up racing with Tom. Maggie is too strong for them. She’s Fantastic!