Oh! Oh my! Reverend Penrose!
I wrote a great post about string back driving gloves and their history and heritage but my new comics plugin has started deleting the text I write when the comics are published. Woe… is me. Let history record that this is the day I manually re-did 317 comic posts to roll back to Comicpress.
I’m sure Maggie would like to know about the reverend’s leather gloves, and their grip.
She said she’s ridden in the car with him, didn’t she? I suspect she already knows.
I hope she does, we always need more flirty Maggie teasing the Rev moments.
When I saw “Oh! Oh my! Reverend Penrose!” listed under Still to come, I had envisioned a different event. Tsk.
John loves to mislead us with those page titles.
Indeed! This was the title that caught my eye right from the start. I *knew* it was not really going to be anything under-the-counter Victorian, but still… Oh well. Not complaining, mind!
So, Billie sits in the seat … exclaims “Oh! Oh my!” … I think the car is in fact a ****y magnet.
Is Billie’s optical prescription getting stronger as the strip goes on? Cause that’s a whole lotta blue going on there.
I believe you can blame the gloves rather than the glasses.
Billie looks so high in these last two pages.
I think that the Good Reverend did not need to say “I think” about the auto-motive automobile. Unless he has reason to suspect that he was sleep-driving….
There are, as far as he knows, other possibilities. Someone else might have “borrowed” the car. Billie and Maggie may have seen a different identical car. Etc.
Oh no! Reverend Penrose’s most hidden secret was easily discovered by Billie the diabolical! By the way, love her enthusiasm.
Billie’s sunny outlook on life is always infectious, and much needed in the face of the many dark goings on in Tredregyn.
I have owned multiple motorcycles made in Great Britain, and at least one car. It is true you must sacrifice a chicken regularly to keep them running, and build small cairns by the side of the road occasionally to appease the gravel gods. If you miss one dark of the moon you take your own life in your hands.
Trick is to take it in regularly to a good mechromancer.
Oh, I did all my own mechromancy. I wouldn’t tempt another into the dark arts.
So is Billy scanning for demons?
I think, as she indicates in panel 3, just before she finds the gloves, she’s just looking for anything obviously out of the ordinary.
Well demons would qualify as ‘out of the ordinary’.
John Allison misses drawing bellbottoms.
(It’s very early and I haven’t had my coffee. I almost wrote “misses wearing bellbottoms.” Tee hee.)
Bell bottoms are back, I see them on the younger generation, the “now” people, frequently. These are fashion flares, riding a little higher, not trailing in the dirt as the last wave did.
I knew bell bottoms would come back, but I didn’t think it would be 50 years.
I’m pretty sure I could never fit in the trousers I was wearing in 1973.
They came back from about 2003 to 2008, then had a hangover in the provinces for a few more years. They also had fits of action in the UK in 1989-90 (Madchester) and 1996-7 (a concurrent retro styling to Britpop). I am sure one could also plot this against various social trends.
My observation has been that a trend will typically go from “outdated” to “retro” after 20 years or so. I had always assumed that interval was based on the time it takes for one generation to reach adulthood. In other words, people tend to avoid anything that went out of fashion during their lifetime. (or maybe they just avoid anything they’ve observed their parents doing?) But my experience is based entirely on life in the US. Does this work differently in the UK?
Why would it take that long? This is something like the fourth time they’ve been in fashion in half a century or so. And they’ve been consistently in fashion among sailors/naval types for a couple of centuries now.
That’s why all the nice girls love a sailor.
Bell bottom trousers
Coats of navy blue
Let him climb the rigging
Like his daddy used to do
Suddenly “String-back gloves in my automolove” makes a little more sense…
Long live Comicpress!
I was about to ask why there is a big, red, ominous beam of light shining upon Billie’s bum in panel 3, but then I realised it’s the seat belt unlocking button…..
“oh, this car is a JAPANESE demon. That’s a complex etymological snarl.”
Re-doing 300+ posts by hand… good god. I salute you.
Seriously! Also I’m delighted to be able to reply to comments again on my ancient iPhone!
Thanks friends, it has been a two day labour of love but hopefully the site now works a lot better.
It does. Thank you so much.
nth-level replies are back! Oh joy! (Maybe even, “Ooh la la!”)
John’s commitment is awe-inspiring. We are not worthy…
Thank you John for all your work with the site. Comicpress looks way, WAY better than the previous format.
Apologies, if that’s a well-known item of the lore, but how is Billi a better expert on supernatural that the Reverend?
She’s a priestess in the Church of Satan, which (in the Bobbinsverse) in theory MAY make her more of an expert on demons, in particular.
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