The Hilary Mantel incident
Hilary Mantel comes up whenever I explore Shelley’s literary adventures. I picture her as a brawler, very much the Mailer or Hemingway of our times, taking no nonsense from anyone in her pursuit of the life artistic. This is not, I have to say, based on her public persona as experienced through interviews &c. More a twinkle I see in her eye.
Perhaps someone will think to follow the moist trail (before it dries, anyway).
This is Tredregyn. I assume there are moist trails like that all over the place, as well as strange footprints, odd symbols carved into walls, and strange sounds in the night.
You thaid “moist”, Beavith.
“Moitht”?
Do you… need anything dampened or made soggy?
I’m good, Moist. I’m good.
That’s the moist ridiculous thing I ever hoid.
Dr. H!
I believe, as a dutiful citizen of cyberspace, I’m legally obligated to say: Called it. So far. (Also. why am I not surprised that a bookstore in Tredregyn would have a “Magicks” section.)
It’s more surprising it has a non Magicks section.
Well, it’s only Tredregyn, not Glastonbury – the town of 100 bookshops none of which sell anything remotely worth buying.
Seems like the Church of Satan was not involved in the Kidnapping. Brian and Billie will do anything for find her!!! Shelley’s agent… maybe he will not be so sad.
I wouldn’t worry too much about Shelley. She’s been kidnapped before. She has a history of charming her captors. Reverse Stockholm Syndrome.
Indeed. However when Lottie comes to town, I think the Church of Satan will be whom she suspects first (or at insistence of Rev. Penrose).
Shelley makes bank, and her agent recently lost half of his talent to murder after an overly dramatic authorial retreat. One might suspect that he could be the one who reaches out to the brilliant mind responsible for putting the other half of his non-Shelley talent in prison for the said murders.
One might well suspect that, though (without wanting to police the timeline too tightly) Barry has had several years to rebuild his client base. I mean, people might think him cursed after the events of Murder She Wrote, but I think he’s the kind to bounce back from that and maintain a fine reputation for sitting on people for 15% of the money he can extract.
(You’d still suspect he’d be the one to call that brilliant mind in; I’m just saying that the murders are several years ago now.)
“Murder, She Writes” was several years ago, wasn’t it? I think Lottie was, what, 12 or so at the time. So, maybe 7 years ago or so?
That’s about what I reckoned.
TIBKINS IS FUCKING DEAD
Let’s not be hasty
TIBKINS HAS JUST A FLESH WOUND.
Nah, he (she? it?) is just having a brief kip.
No, no, ‘e’s uh,…he’s resting.
Norwegian Blues will do that.
It’s only a model.
Shh!
Shoggoths. It’s all going to end in shoggoths
Someone a few days back commented on the colouring, and the way that Shelly has a brighter pallet than everything else in Tredregyn. Her pink purse here still has that glow even though she’s gone …
That is a lovely touch, it has to be said.
In all seriousness, I’ve read Giving Up the Ghost, and Mantel was quite a bruiser in the schoolyard; do you ever really, really shake that bruising life
I thought the first panel represented someone “clocking out” on an old-fashioned time-clock, then realised she was stubbing out her cigarette butt.
Also, Tibkins looks like a disembodied Wookie-head in panel 4.
Oh… I thought it was a clocking out machine too!
I’d been amused by the factory-floor type workings of this bookshop, compounded by the outfit of the young lady who looks like she’s about to go drive a steam engine
Huh, I thought too it was a timeclock.
I cracked up as soon as I read “The Hilary Mantel Incident”.
Wolf Hall was great!
Are you related to Wolf Hall?
If only.
We all have our own private headcanon for why The Mirror and the Light took so long to come out.
Does this mean that Shelley will miss out on the joys of the Tredregyn fish and chip shop?
At least she won’t have to worry about the gulls stealing her chips.