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In Christmas With Clovis we established that Pixy Garage is somewhere you should never visit. The arcade game that the proprietor (probably called “Les”) is leaning against is called Space Junk (1986) and its attract mode features a garbled digitised voice saying “WATCH WHO YOU’RE CALLING SPACE JUNK, METEOR MOUTH” every 90 seconds.
The arcade game probably isn’t fancy enough to feature the DEVO song of the same name.
Also, “hold you up with a gun”? Does that happen in the UK, where there are far fewer firearms than in the US?
Almost certainly a sealant gun, you can be held up quite badly in a queue if that drips on the floor, could quite ruin your best brogues. Sealant and mastic guns are commonly used in british movies, eg the famous quote from classic british plumbing film, “The Good Fitter”
Sonny: “I don’t want my brother to come out of that toilet with just his caulk in his hand”
(The Good Fitter 2 was also worth a watch but Part 3 was a bit of a disappointment)
There’s this documentary series about the English countryside called Midsomer Murders and if that’s to be trusted, it’s a very dangerous place to live and you’re as likely to be shot as you are to be decapitated with an excavator or impaled on an antique Indian sword.
It does happen, yes.
All of those intensely unpleasant interactions with Tom had a purpose after all! It was all training to prepare her for this job.
“Our insurance deductible is worth more than your life.”
Nice to tell her where she stands.
I choose to believe that SPACE JUNK (1986) stole most of its assets from GRUDS IN SPACE (1983) in order to make a shooting gallery game that is inexplicably controlled with an unreliable joystick.
Good lord! The Purleys would be several levels above this guy!
When your only options for employment are a batch of elder-god-worshipping merfolk or a genuine Hitler enthusiast, I’m inclined to say Tredregyn needs a development grant or a little attention from the Queen or summat, you know?
Given that most of the development grant funding in Cornwall came from the EU, and that Alan voted Leave (see his mug in Christmas with Clovis), I suspect that that he’d be opposed to such assistance on the grounds of “sovereignty”.
Billie, no! Seriously, NOOO!!!! Is him really well the only person in town that wants to assume helpers?
This ‘gentleman’ reminds me distinctly of Edgar from Men In Black. Hopefully his backstory is less horrifying
Insofar as we know anything about his backstory, it is not:
https://steeple.church/comic/its-not-a-good-option/
So far, it looks like Pixy Garage is where everyone in Tredregyn goes at their lowest most desperate moment.
This early in the morning and I’ve already had my “feel like an idiot” moment because I don’t perceive how either the its-not-a-good-option strip or today’s strip convey any significant horrificness about this guy. I’m obviously lacking additional context that could be provided by additional strips. 😐
https://steeple.church/comic/christmas-cans/
Yeah, not really seeing anything alarming there either, sorry. I forget what the creepy guy carrying the cans’ deal was but he seems to be an outside force, not inherently part of the Pixy environment.
Maybe it’s one of those things that you need to be British to understand? 😐
I overlooked the TV set in the not-a-good-option strip before, though, so I understand a bit better now.
That was the Sesh Gremlin, one of Tredregyn’s many supernatural forces of darkness.
He’s kind of like an Alcoholism Elemental. His thing is drinking with you for an entire 24-hour period, which turns you into a Sesh Gremlin too.
Check what’s on TV in the not-a-good-option strip ????
Not to mention the “Vote Leave” tea mug.
“Vote leave” certainly beats “Eradicate voting, invade!”
“Vote leave.” Well, I just plain had to look that up.
So, a mug and the History Channel. No intention of “challenging the author’s work” but “radical right”-types in the USA get WAY scarier than that. Oh well. 🙂
There is the old adage that history gets written by the victors. The right in the U.S. has discovered that losing does not preclude them from disseminating their own history.
While fighting wars with the pen rather than the sword is viewed as a mark of civilised behavior, decent penmanship is something else.
I never say he’s far right, it’s just exactly the setup of a garage I had to stop at for petrol a few years ago. The guy was watching Hitler documentaries (the kind Channel 5 here show all the time) on a portable and the area round the cash register was a little shrine to Vote Leave and UKIP. There was one lightbulb on and the shelves were all empty but for a few dusty cans. I’ve toned the nastiness down, not up! That’s it.
He uses an apostrophe for a plural in ‘Newspapers’. This is secret Nobsign for ‘sexist spoken here’. Oh, and the mug, and the program on the video, too.
If anything he’s worse than Bugsuit Edgar.
Another lost soul for Billy to save.
…for a given value of “save.”
Not sure if this is the kind of guy to whom I’d want to present a “Do what thou wilt.” philosophy.
I dunno he seems polite enough. I do wonder though what kind of special room for her for women it is that he made.
I predict; something pink, a washing up brush, and a tea cosy. I reckon that is his understanding of ‘females’ needs 🙂
A rogue with a heart of gold XD
We all hope it’s this, and not an Eva Braum-inspired sex dungeon.
Same as the men’s room apart from the camera.
Ooohhh nooooo, Lol. The only denizen of Tredregyn who’s possibly worse than Tom.
Simply put your finger in the barrel, Billie. Don’t be a wuss.
Is there a staff discount on pickled onion Space Raiders?
On the bright side, Billie can get an employee discount on her Christmas presents this year.
Assuming she gets her presents early or actually survives until Christmas.
Billie, don’t be a hero, don’t be a fool with your life
Billie, don’t be a hero, avoid garage based strife
And as she started her shift we said, Billie don’t browse for a gift
Billie, don’t be a hero, your break is at three.
The fact that he bothered to come up with that “fighting back” rule kinda worryingly implies that this is not an all too hypothetical scenario…
He probably, in his heart of hearts, hopes it will happen, so he can establish his establishment’s virtus unambiguously.
When did we start getting the thumbs-up option on comments? I’m loving it! Click-click-click-clickety-click!
This seems to be John’s response to a comment left on yesterday’s comic.
Thanks, John!
You’re welcome! 😉
Cheer up, Billie! I’m sure that with hard work and a sunny disposition, you can bring a spark of light to even this dark murderhole…
*looks inside ‘Females’ room*
…yeah, no. Run.
Can this job pay for the posh Satan mansion pad that Billie has now?
Here in the USA every 7th renter is in court to be evicted Aug 1 as Covid is all “cured” now. Homeless population to swell by 10s of millions. Thank God for all the calming cheap freely available opioids for the masses.
At minimum wage there are no affordable Satan mansions to rent here in the USA and we are privatizing all the public owned housing with funding from the NGOs with boards of bankers and developers.
Maybe Billie can crash at the PIXY room for Women.
Ooof! Crashing at the PIXY would certainly put a lot of stress on Billie’s rosy disposition!
The pupil-less eyes aren’t encouraging, I’ll admit that much. Maybe he’s a zombie. In the struggle for a town’s soul, a zombie would be the ultimate non-combatant. OSLT.
Y’know – the crows on the top of the pumps shelter do nothing to lessen the ominous mood…
Worse yet, they kind of do, a little.
Ah – in a kind of “Other living things associate themselves with the place” sort of thing?
If this overall story doesn’t end with Billie starting her own Church of Satan and taking away all of Tom’s support I am going to be disappointed! (But not actually)