Prance prance
on 15/09/2021
at 12:01 am
Trouble starts right here. And it doesn’t even involve the Sesh Gremlin. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Trouble starts right here. And it doesn’t even involve the Sesh Gremlin. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
What a perfectly authentic gentleman! I’m sure this will be fine.
Well you know what they say, you shouldn’t believe everything you see on TV.
Trouble looks really handsome out of his character. Maggie looks like she’s on the verge of an explosion. Time to see how much she likes the show for nanas!
But the Gremlin is indeed in the house.
Then again, he kinda always is.
I was wondering if the Sesh Gremlin and that person were two different folks and the Gremlin just took that shape or if they were infected by someone else like in The Ring
I think he respawns.
He looks kind of badass here. Like Biker Sunglasses Sesh Gremlin. It’s a good look.
I could be wrong, but I believe all that prancing is a sign of something…
Probably “YESS!! Free booze and a cute guy! With extrodinarily cheezy pickup lines, but the booze will help with that.”
A stranger comes to town, gets mixed up with a local girl… then falls afoul of the locals.
A story that’s been around since the Romans started building roads.
You’d think lads would learn.
And this is a town that has some locals you do not want to fall afoul of.
A town with a few foul locals
????Get a haircut, and get a real job????
That rakish flop over one eye has always been so obvious.
Hey now, I’m from Hollywood!
Acting is totally a real job there, for variant definitions of “real job.”
Panel 3, panel 6, more solid gold Maggie facial expressions.
Took that guy a whole two sentences to blow his starting advantage.
He’s a charmer!!
Such a charmer that he could straight charm his pants off.
The book “Hollywood Hellraisers” described Warren Beatty’s pickup technique and this sounds remarkably similar, except was even more direct. The lad would take “no” for an answer and move on to the next lady.
Of course, being brutally handsome, his odds were much better than mine.
Since when are Uma Thurmond’s feet not brutally handsome? In fact, I read on Wikipedia that in May 2020, scientists named a new species of fringe-toed lizards from southwest Arizona after Thurman (Uma thurmanae).
Both Billie and Maggie have some absolutely brilliant facial expressions in this one. Considering John has a relatively cartoony style, it’s such a skill. Charles Schultz in his Peanuts cartoons had a similar ability to capture emotions with just a couple of well placed lines. I love the work of detail-orientated “realistic” artists like Neal Adams or John Cassaday etc, but this is just as skilful and enjoyable to read, in its own way.
Meanwhile, it looks as if Maggie has found Mr Right, and I confidently await a happy ending for this chapter.
I dunno. I’m reading Maggie’s expression in the last panel as a bit doubtful. Of course, now that Maggie’s in the loo, there’s still Billie available for some woo to be pitched.
Ah, they were happy to take a drink from him, but didn’t realize it would be served with cheese.
We haven’t seen Billie’s expression yet, we only know that Maggie is immune to these poisoned darts…
The cloud of stars around her head in panel 3 plus the hearts-for-eyes on the chapter cover illustration make me guess Billie is utterly smitten with him, or soon will be.
Had he brought them wine, maybe. But beer? Never!
A pinball table in a pub! Ah, them were the days. Before the rise of JPM and their accursed “Poker” machines.
There’s more than one in Beerwolf in Falmouth…
And ping pong too!
Who held that table for him? How the hell does that work?
Reserved table for the “talent”, arrangements have been made.
I can confirm that this is a thing in show business.
Ugh
I regret that I have forgotten who/what the Sesh Gremlin is. 😐
Gremlins aren’t particularly satanic (it’s all in the presentation, of course). Wouldn’t the town be more likely to have Goblins or outright Demons? Tackleford had those. 😉
Ronald, I dedicated 22 pages to the Sesh Gremlin, you will have to go back and read every single one of them.
Panel 1, second from left, bushy moustache, blacked-out eyes – that’s Seshie. Spend 24 hours drunk with him and you become a Sesh Gremlin yourself, supposedly. He’s a regular at the pub, Brian even tossed him onto a rafter during Silvery Moon.
In panel 2, that’s his back fourth from the left; black hair, Wehrmacht Field Gray suit. A vile demon!
He’s basically an Alcoholism Elemental with a really cool mustache, terrible taste in Christmas music, the ability to manifest drinks out of thin air, and the worst skin in the entire human race.
His one job in life is to drink with you until you turn into just as bad of an obnoxious lush as he is.
Honestly, one of the finer characters ever to come out of the Bobbinsverse. Role-playing geeks could write entire stat tables in his honor.
If being a Sesh Gremlin is so contagious, shouldn’t there be more of ’em?
Or, are they territorial, driving away newly spawned Gremlins to find their own stomping grounds?
I’ll have my no-prize now, thanks.
There may *be* more of ’em! A Sesh Army storyline would be unbelievably hype.
I wouldn’t assume that everything supernatural in Tredregyn is Satanic in nature, personally. I suspect the Church of Satan is generally more welcoming of the supernatural, whatever its nature, than the church of England. And I also suspect that there may be things about this general location that open it up to supernatural occurrences more than most places- that may well be, at least in part, why the Church of Satan was interested in the area. Finally, this takes place in a world where bizarre, supernatural, and just plain weird things happen from time to time in general.
I really should get rid of that annoying “+” in my name, shouldn’t I… Have to remember it next time…
The Sesh Gremlin is one of those troublemaking fey… reminiscent of the Pooka
Prediction: while Maggie is desperately trying to stifle her laughter in the bathroom, poor Billie will fall for this ridiculous pickup attempt.
Billie’s no shy young maiden. She turned to religion after her former wild life style became unsustainable. Doesn’t bat an eye at the CofS’s regularly scheduled orgies.
As I recall, it took her a bit to get used to the orgies.
Sure, but this is from a *star*. A star from a nana show, but still.
Lot of glowering going on in that first panel. Everyone grumpy about the crowd?