Oh just jump, lad
I drew panel three from five different angles before settling on the one you got. I don’t ever want to go back to that murky room. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
I drew panel three from five different angles before settling on the one you got. I don’t ever want to go back to that murky room. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Outstanding work, John.
Also Sammy. The colours have been amazing recently.
It has been so good to have Sammy colouring my work. From Monday you will have to put up with the slap-happy stylings of J. Allison at the (colour) wheel once more.
As long as it is only for one day I’ll allow it. 😉
Well this was not really the twist I had anticipated
If you had anticipated, it wouldn’t have been much of a twist.
Ooh just clocked the fedora
What fedora?
Aw mannnnnnnn
Grace unexpected and irresistible. Who says the Big Guy doesn’t intervene?
Wow. Just… wow.
He came back just for said that to his old best friend? Jason is amazing ♡! He’s also become quite strong.
Yeah, this is sweet on Jason’s part. The reverend ought to invite him to stay for tea or something, but he’s probably too stunned to speak.
And Maggie completes the bodily stuff on carbohydrates trilogy.
Dammit, John. This is really moving!
If this WAS a result of Bob Warren’s retribution, then Bobby needs some remedial hexcrafting.
I guess that’s what you get when you water down the Satan in Satanism…
This could go back to my theory that at some point in the past Jason and David switched crosses, so the cross David left at Bob’s place was actually Jason’s cross, and Bob accidentally brought Jason back when he was trying to hex David. On the other hand, Bob seemed to know that what he had done would bring Maggie’s bike back, so maybe it was deliberate, and Jason just has enough of his personality left to do this, anyway.
The simplest explanation is that Bob Warren did everything correctly, but his plan relies on the assumption that Jason hates David for what happened and wants revenge. Because of Bob’s extremely selfish outlook on life, he never thought to ask whether this is in fact the case.
I’ll suggest that perhaps it wasn’t Bob Warren’s hexcraft that brought Jason back from the dead. What if it was Billie’s?
I don’t know. Rereading Billie’s petition to Baphomet, it’s hard to see how it could result in something like this. She specifically asked for jobs, prosperity, and no mandatory snoopy-showing, and nothing else. Something else just occurred to me, though. Maggie said she wanted her bike back, most of all- and she got it. The Reverend wanted to be forgiven by Jason, most of all, and he got that. Bob could be playing a much deeper game here, trying to gain influence over people by giving them what they want.
Ehhhhh, John set up that Jason is the reason David fights so hard. Maybe now that he’s forgiven he’ll go lax on the forces of darkness and the sea. A happy, contented David could play into Bob’s plans nicely.
We appreciate your diligence, John! It’s worth the effort.
Sooo, theories on Jason? Is he undead? Altered by the sea peoples so he can live underwater to the point it’s cost him some of his mind and humanity?
I think smart readers will draw a line back to Author Unknown…
Hmm… The creatures that took Jason were referred to in Jason’s notes as “flovoids”… And the family of Flovorr worshipers seemed very similar to whatever Jason’s become…
One of the more consistent themes of Steeple has been the idea that there is more to the dark merfolk than we know, and that there may be some sort of genuine society under the waves we know very little about.
The first time we saw Flovoid Orb Hominid, all the way back in Steeple Vol. 1 #1, it was crying at one of the graves in the graveyard of the Old Rectory.
Billie tried to comfort it, but was stopped by the Reverend as he engaged it in hand-to-hand combat – and lost, nearly sharing Jason’s fate before Billie herself knocked it off the cliff and saved him.
Other clues in Vol. 1 hint at the notion that a merfolk-human reconciliation may be possible, but that Penrose’s current position as the Great Destroyer makes things difficult.
Are the merfolk resurrected spirits of those who perish beneath the waves? Or are they some sort of terrible biological hybrid of humans and the krakenspawn seen in this story? Both? Neither?
I do not know the answers, but I look forward to the day we return to Tredregyn and we begin to find out!
Wow, wow wow, and finally wow. Panel 3 is a tour de force. Those grappling poses along, from that angle? My right hand is cramping up just from me thinking about it.
WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH *snif* WAAAAAAAHHHHHH
From Urban Dictionary: “It is not as deadly and destructive as the dread cheese, egg or dog farts. However, the drop biscuit fart lingers a lot longer than the aforementioned farts. It’s as if this fart is baking in the over just flicking you in the nose with its’ annoying odor.”
I absolutely love “Get the bluntest object you can find!” This is the kind of writing that’s kept me coming back for the last twenty-mumble years.
I know, how has it become so long? I started with SGR in around 2005 looks like. Thanks for everything John!
Not you, him 😉
Ok but that little wave in the last panel!
And is that a tattoo on the back of the Rev’s right arm, or just his elbow..
Aaannndd “farts on a biscuit” completes our swearing snacks trilogy!