Proud
Well, that comic has answered every question you ever had about Magus Tom Pendennis. There’s nothing left to ask, nowhere left to go.
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STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
The Magus is priapic no more!? How exactly did she…? Probably best not to ask…
By accident.
She mostly proffered the unholy unguents and averted her eyes during the orgies (so she claimed to Rev. Penrose, at least – https://steeple.church/comic/youre-fairly-straightforward/), but maybe she wasn’t fully able to 100% avoid overhearing things. I think that would count as “by accident”.
I get the impression this happened during the 3 month break, rather than being something that was in effect during Bilinda’s tenure at the Church of Satan.
That’s my impression, as well. I’m wondering if maybe this is just a rumor started accidentally by the Extreme Freaks because it’s the only way they can make sense of Tom’s reaction to them. We don’t actually KNOW that Billie’s right about this. I mean, she might be, but we don’t know that.
The Extreme Freaks probably know lots of ways to get off that don’t involve erections, but Tom, despite his wide sexual experiences, probably is a bit too egotistical and phallus-focused to enjoy those.
As the girls on Archive of Our Own say, that would probably change his whole personality. For the better.
I’d definitely agree with Tom that such ‘other’ ways are probably fake! That was the whole reason for the deal, no doubt.
I confess that this wasn’t anything like any of my vague thoughts on how the word “proud” would be used on today’s page.
I have more than a few reservations about tomorrow’s ‘Relief’, and all.
Tom refuses on principle to work with potentates of piety who have any less than three faces.
Potentially pious potentates periodically proffer pusillanimous peer pressure.
Unlike Little Tom, Billie’s cross-bar seems to have gotten itself back up.
It was up again by the next page. https://steeple.church/comic/trauma/
It’s sort of like a Mood Ring, except it’s supposed to show the wearer’s current level of piety.
“I found out by accident”
WHAT KIND OF ACCIDENT WAS THAT BILINDA
Are you sure you really want an answer to this question?
Yes. Yes, I do.
Wasn’t she handling a lot of Church of Satan paperwork for a while?
Are you a potato of pottery?
No, but I’m a potash of papacy.
I myself am a panoply of prudery.
Than pity in Billie’s eyes would hurt Tom more than anything else. I wonder how Tom’s deal with Satan changed and if now he has a hew deal with him or not.
John, this has been my favorite series of yours. Are there plans to print a Steeple Volume 4 to put the latest strips in?
Dark Horse passed on a fourth volume last year but hopefully they will be collected eventually.
I hope it does come out in book form. I’ve got practically everything else from John and I still prefer the printed page when it comes to comics – old fashioned is me.
Me too!
I would definitely purchase a compendium of all the Steeples!
Foolish tan nag, first they lose aliens and predator now they risk losing you! They will rue the day
I don’t know the ins and outs of your contract with Dark Horse, but I for one would definitely back a crowdfunding campaign for Steeple vol 4.
If such a thing were possible.
And Maggie is talking about *little* Tom…
Perhaps I should have said “*wee* Tom…
Or just “Willy”
Tom thumb
Whelp, didn’t see that one coming…
Apparently, no one does anymore.
Maybe he’ll decide to work with them but I can’t think of a reason he should TRUST either of them, any more than I can think of a reason either of them should trust HIM.
Perhaps Tom’s tumescence troubles result from interference by Billie’s aura of holiness?
But Billie left the Church of Satan 3 months ago.
Maybe her leaving is the problem? As though somehow she was his annoying muse?
I can see this be the problem. For Tom point of view he helped Billie, she even blackmailed him to stay in his CoS and then, the ungrateful leaved him!? Poor, poor betrayed Tom. His trust in other human beings is probably gone.
Ultimately, friends are just people who can hurt and betray you more effectively tha most.
Sorry but I keep seeing the white ties on Tom’s hoody as a pair of Johnnies. For a while I was trying to work out the connection between the Johnnies and his erectile dysfunction.
Well, he had to find *some* use for them.
How can there be only two more of these
🙁
Tom was constantly erect? Gosh, that must have been awkward whenever he was trying to aim at a urinal.
I don’t think it’s necessary to overthink this
Not NECESSARY, but you know we will, anyway, don’t you? 😉
You’re at least adjacent to both Marvel AND Transformers fandom (and the intersection thereof), you must know how this works.
What kind of world would it be if we only did what was necessary?
Maybe he had a special custom-designed urinal to accommodate his “condition”?
Come for the comic, stay for the comments…. 🙂
oh thank god, it’s finally a page 2 XD
MAGGIE: “What if it works?”
TOM [potentially]: “What if it doesn’t?”
Well, he’s got her THERE, all right.
I used to work at a site where Cialis was made (in Basingstoke).
I don’t remember that possible side effect ever being mentioned, but I suppose they wouldn’t be anxious to publicise it.