That’s the curate’s job
We’ve seldom got to see what the locals think of Reverend Penrose. I think, on this evidence, that they think of him is “not much”. The feeling seems to be mutual. We last saw Vape Escape back in ‘The Silvery Moon’.
We’ve seldom got to see what the locals think of Reverend Penrose. I think, on this evidence, that they think of him is “not much”. The feeling seems to be mutual. We last saw Vape Escape back in ‘The Silvery Moon’.
Good to see they’re “still open 4 business” after the loss of merchandise they suffered in The Silvery Moon. I have seen disclaimers of insurance companies saying they don’t cover acts of God, but perhaps the insurance company for Vape Escape still covers acts of werewolf? Or is vape juice already marked up enough that they can absorb the loss?
I wonder if Tredregyn insurance policies have the ‘God’ in Acts of God crossed out with a Satan penciled in.
I need to drop 20 pounds and get me a holy harpoon. Then I could cosplay Reverend Penrose.
…might take a bit of Henna too. A lot of that old flame top has turned to ash.
In fairness, I’ve never walked past any vape shop where the occupants weren’t looking at passers-by funny.
There’s also the small matter that the Rev has a massive axe on his back. I think I’d be wary of letting anyone into the shop too if they were known to get a bit tasty with an axe, and also happened to be carrying said axe.
Don’t blame the vape shop lads one bit, considering the last time the Reverend Penrose paid them a visit.
And I think it should be Regardez le skeleton key.
Maybe she’s being polite by not making it an imperative?
If you go there, you’d also need to replace skeleton key with passepartout (literally: goeseverywhere).
For Americans, Passepartout is associated with Phileas Fogg … which makes me think that perhaps Charlotte and Reverend Penrose are going around Tredregyn in 80 minutes.
French/English juxtaposition is intentional here.
Eh, you can Franglais in any direction.
“Regard” isn’t italicised, so that’s the regular English word.
Also, not sure Lottie did French past GCSE.
She’s already got the most important bit of French down pat: j’accuse! Anything beyond that is really just icing on the cake, as far as I can tell.
“I try not to talk to the locals too much.”
Now I’m realizing that I need a curate too.
Word of advice if you get one, don’t look to closely at their eggs.
Lottie is wound tight.This story is getting tense.
“I try not to talk to the locals too much.”
It’s *finally* registered on me:
One of the reasons the Church of Satan is so popular in town is that Reverend Penrose is a really CRAPPY vicar.
Tom didn’t “steal” Penrose’s parishioners, Penrose lost them for himself and Tom was there to catch them when they fell. OSLT. 😐
BTW, does anyone else “hear” Tom’s voice as Bryant Haliday as the Great Vorelli from 1964’s “Devil Doll”?
Could be that his parishioners were in Satan’s orbit long before Reverend Penrose arrived. The Church of Satan certainly SEEMS like the long-established traditional center of civic life in Tredregyn.
I mean, can you IMAGINE Tom attracting any kind of flock WITHOUT the weight of local tradition behind him? Even with a surly Penrose as the other option?
I think he got assigned the known devilry spot, and may have responded in kind. I don’t know if we’re supposed to know why he got assigned Tredregyn.
None of this has been covered yet. I don’t like to front load with origin stories – Friday’s comic was the first of any sort for the Rev.
I suspected as much. One can only ab initio in degrees. I know someone who, when asked for “the whole story” would start with “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth…”
I appreciate your rigorous respect for pacing.
Feeling very called out right now
Haha! Your letters better be more concise.
“The story so far. In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
He’s a crappy *preacher*.
He’s *great* at dismembering merfolk.
Remember Clovis’ line – “There are worse things than the devil in Tredregyn.”
The Satanists are self-centered and sociopathic – but they’re also fundamentally hedonistic, and only dubiously a threat to the town.
The townspeople are jaded and selfish – but the town is still their home and they don’t want to see it destroyed either.
The merfolk of Tredregyn *actually overrun the town regularly* when Penrose and other agents of the Lord are not there to beat them back.
I imagine a lot of the readers who haven’t read the Dark Horse Steeple comics might not be aware of this, since the merfolk haven’t appeared in the latest issues.
But Penrose’s main job is to defend the town against the forces of darkness, particularly the merfolk – or so he sees it – and given the nature of the M̶u̶r̶l̶e̶y̶s̶ Purleys, I’d say we’re heading for a confrontation with these issues before the end of the story.
This city looks more and more degraded than ever. I don’t understand if Lottie’s bewildered reaction is due to the discovery that Billie was a curate before went to the devil or is the suspicious people of the suspicious vape shop.
I keep forgetting this town isn’t in Wales (it’s the name that gets me)
Similar languages, Welsh and Cornish. Two old Celtic nations
Tre- is, of course, a Celtic place name element, common to both Wales and Cornwall. I suppose “-dregyn” makes you think of the dragon that is the emblem of Wales?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre-_(place_name_element)
It’d be ironic if a shop called ‘Vape Escape’ had no rear exit.
They sold the rear exit to cover the cost of the high end novelty vaping products.
Lottie should work on her impulse control. If she didn’t invariably work with (or as a) sidekick, she’d have probably gotten herself killed a long time ago.
Also, she’s a cartoon character
Touché!
HOW COME THIS SITE DOESN’T HAVE A “LIKE” BUTTON?
Like
I hear that like with like, a liverpudlian accent, like.
Are we not allowed to offer character analyses of…characters? My bad. 😐
Only if I can offer analyses of the analyses, one hand washes the other, nothing is real
That’s the problem with people these days. Too many think that the right to criticize goes only as far as their criticism.
I bet they give a mean digital perm over at Hair Elan. Lottie take note! Where better to gather local gossip?