That’s part of the appeal
Today we note: a box of Terry’s All Gold in panel 3. Today’s comic is brought to you by Terry’s All Gold. See the face you love light up… with Terry’s All Gold.
— COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Today we note: a box of Terry’s All Gold in panel 3. Today’s comic is brought to you by Terry’s All Gold. See the face you love light up… with Terry’s All Gold.
— COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Atta girl, Billie ♡. She knows what she wants and that she deserves it! Maggie understands and fully supports her, so sweet. I’ve written it before, but whoever decides the casting is a genius. Penrose couldn’t have a better role!!
It’s good that she’s clear on what she wants and how to get it. And OF COURSE that’s how it will work out.
Young people be like, “Haha, sentiment doesn’t exist, I’m just gonna have some FUN”
I’m more scared he will reveal to be really crazy and become a stalker.
Who is the caveman in panel 1, though? And who is after him?
Apparently one of Billie’s parishioners has confused the Clotted Crime set with Brian’s special black mass on alternate Saturdays. (https://steeple.church/comic/knock-off-the-noise-beardo/)
At least he’s wearing a loincloth this time.
(I love how familiar faces crop up in the backgrounds of John’s comics. Even when it’s people we’ve never actually met and know next to nothing about. It gives a real sense of continuity to the world.)
He looks like one of the would-be prophets in The Life Of Brian.
“There shall, in that time, be rumours of things going astray”
I particularly like the guy in the pink sweater who’s ignoring him.
His name in the scripts is “the town freak”, maybe one day we’ll get in a bit deeper with him.
Is he waving a giant hotdog, or is that part of the shop sign?
Why not both?
I thought Brian was the town freak!
Man, how freaky do you have to be to be “the town freak” in Tredregyn?
(And is it more or less freaky than the bar for being “the town freak” in Tackleford?)
Maybe this is just a Transatlantic thing but Rev. Penrose to me looks more like Inspector Clouseau than a fishmonger.
He looks like Inspector Clouseau in disguise as a fishmonger!
I want to call Maggie “Peggy” so much it hurts.
My Mom’s name is Peggy. Her name is not Margaret. She’s much more like Billie than Maggie. Today is her birthday.
My granma’s name was Margaret, I know she sometimes went by ‘Peggy’, but to us, she was always ‘Mahgaret’. (She was a New Englander.)
I love the way that, even when he’s undercover, Rev. Penrose still has an axe on his person – just a smaller one.
That chop isn’t a prop.
(Watch Wednesday’s page title be actually referring to a mix-up that put real pork cuts instead of mock-ups at the butcher’s stall.)
Presumably Rev. Penrose’s character is in some kind of feud with the local blacksmith.
In that costume, the Reverend’s tall frame actually reminds me of some figures in Tove Jansson’s Moomin comic strips (the original ones published in the Evening News, that is).
Director: “CUT! Rev. Penrose, could you please chop up those fishes with a little bit less.. zealotry?”
Clever positioning of the word “Action” in Panel 4!
A little less conversation…
Thankyaverramuch!
Presumably covering either the word ‘fuzz’ or ‘fun’.
John could have left the first two letters uncovered but bless him for not trolling us *that* hard after all
I guess Chibi-thulu just went about its day and shall never be heard from again. That’s good news. I hope it enjoyed its rooftop romp.
I think this page takes place right after the previous one.
I really dread that “But the work won’t involve anyone’s snoopy unless that’s 100% what they want” will wind up killing their relationship before Billie can get some. That’s the way Belial gets you in the end.
I suppose it would be just as well that Belial doesn’t get you in the end.
If’n ya knows what I means…
The back seat of a Volkswagen?