Sex stuff
A mere page away from the end of part 2 of Clotted Crime, I feel maybe you can see which way part 3 is going to go. It won’t involve the contents of Billie’s sexy bag. It’s more of a Pandora’s Box. It’s my birthday today! I’ll be celebrating, as I always do, by having a glass of water. If you want to give me a present, please tell a friend about Steeple. Tell them it’s a reasonable read at a price that’s right. That ought to do it. — Colours by Sammy Borras
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Misread that as Goth Birthday Party and that’d work too, tho too much cake makes wearing leather trousers difficult.
If it were a goth birthday party, I would expect an appearance by one Ms. DeGroot. Maybe she would plan it, in fact.
Goth hugs are surprisingly soothing.
…I hear…
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!!! You deserve at LEAST two glasses of water. And something nice for yourself.
Many happy returns!
Happy birthday! I hope Des and Proteus have made you something nice.
Would you trust Des to make a glass of water?
Happy birthday! The speech bubbles might be reversed in that second panel, or their skin colors.
Well spotted, I’ve fixed it!
Unfortunately their positions are backwards if you consider the background is showing the road, not the wall…
I take it back, Maggie is walking all over the place, she’s in a different position in every panel!
Happy birthday!♡!!
Happy Birthday, John! Not that anyone listens to me, but I always tell everyone what a great artist and writer you are.
Happy birthday! (And to Desmond as well.) (How did October 20 get John Allison AND Ryan North? It’s like Webcomic Royalty Day.)
You inform us of your birthday
It is Bob Warren’s also, yeah
They inform us of your birthday
A gleeful time will be had
Your birthday makes me glad
Unto you a felicitous birthday
We will attend a celebration-bration
We will attend a celebration-bration
We will attend a celebration-bration
(Birthday)
You should get down
(Birthday)
And make a ga-ga-ga-mble
(Birthday)
You should get down
Get down
You inform us of your birthday
It is Bob Warren’s also, yeah
They inform us of your birthday
A gleeful time will be had
Your birthday makes me glad
Unto you a felicitous birthday
(… Somehow those lyrics don’t seem quite right. It’s probably somehow Shelley’s fault.)
I can’t think why, but I feel that song should be followed by one called ‘Your pinks,’ or something like that. ‘My oranges,’ maybe. That kind of title.
Shelley will fix it. One day.
What, you mean “Here Are Some Blues for Ya”? Then, of course, it’s “Natural Boy”, the awkwardly named, “My Ape and I Have No Secrets, Unlike Everyone Else”, and, this is the really suspicious one, “Sexy Shelley”. You can see why I think the Ginger Ninja might be involved.
There really are some weird cuts on the Beige Album, aren’t there?
I mean, we haven’t even gotten to “Uprising IX” yet…
How about “Plexiglass Garlic”? Or “Stoney Skunk”?
Ellen Ripley
Wearing a face-hugger that jumped out of an egg
And crawled up her leg
Happy, happy birthday! You should splurge and have a glass of club soda!
Happy Birthday! Mine’s tomorrow, thanks for the gift of many years of entertainment.
Happy Birthday!
Festive Nativity, John!
That is one ominous trident.
Magus Tom suspected Trident of being linked to Bob Warren, and now we have Trident looming over Maggie’s question about her father… maybe part 3 will reveal all.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday John! I hope yours is well spent and in good company! Also Happy Birthday also to Mr. Bob Warren whom I am assuming is as outstanding a fellow as yourself!
As things start to sink in, Maggy’s hair seems to lose its bouffant spirit.
I believe this in the immediate aftermath of the egg tussle. She’s not had time to repair it after wrestling with the Reverend.
Happy birthday, John!
And, lest I forget, Happy Birthday, John. And to celebrate the occasion properly, have a Pine Float instead of a glass of plain water.
Happy Birthday, John!
I’ve got to ask – was there a draft of this page where you drew something other than stars coming out of the sex bag?
There was nothing coming out of it on the rough draft. I think the stars might be dropping INTO the bag.
Happy birthday, John! Rest assured, anybody in my vicinity for longer than an hour gets the “okay but have you heard of John Allison?” speech.
British birthday meal: glass of tepid water and a digestive biscuit. Knock yourself out!
Happy Birthday! Enjoy the water!
Happy birthday! I’m guessing your glass of water is a break from the standard diet of fine british wines and stouts you consume to avoid dysentery. Good luck with your brush with the dangers of plain water!
Many happy returns to the Windsor McCay of our generation!
So at this point we have definitive proof that Maggie is John’s daughter in another timeline?
Since she just got the invitation, I’m assuming her father’s birthday is some time in the future, not today.
Welcome to the fraternity of October babies! Well, I mean, not ‘welcome’ – you’ve been part of our fraternity for a while, I suspect. Just, happy to acknowledge the fact.
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday to my favorite artist.
Well John, I wish you a happy birthday then! 😀
Happy Natal Day John!
Happy birthday, John!
Billy reads the letter without opening it; spooky Satanic powers or . . . holding it up to the light?
Well, Maggie didn’t ask her to open it, she asked her to read it.
The wax seal disappears from panel 2 to panel 3. So, Billie does pull the invitation from the envelope and discard the envelope. In panels 3, 4, and 6, we establish that the back of the card is blank with no red seal and the front has writing with no red stamp.
Happy Birthday! Paint the town Magnolia!
I can’t top John Campbell’s birthday wishes, but I wish you a happy birthday and happy all-other-days as well. You should be a world heritage something-or-other.
Happy birthday! I keep pestering my wife to read Steeple and I managed to get some randos in a cafe to buy an “I ☭ CCCP” t-shirt a few years ago.
Things are going to change.
years ago u made a throw-away joke and since then every project you write is just babs mcchinnery to me.
Happy b-day, John A! I read >100 webcomics daily (what is WRONG with me) and you are at the top of the list.
Wow! You read even more webcomics than I do! The last time I counted, which was a while ago, I was reading about 40. Which I thought was a lot, but now doesn’t seem like so many.
Do you really? I lifetime maxed out at six and currently it’s at two. How do you find so many high quality stories to read.
The colour of the sky in these panels is giving me life. Also happy belated birthday.
We’ve got an answer to Billie’s question now – he likes Goats.