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Ziprecruiter.com… slash beef… slash beef… SLASH BEEF IN A WORLD WHERE MEAT WAS BANNED GLENJAMIN! — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Ziprecruiter.com… slash beef… slash beef… SLASH BEEF IN A WORLD WHERE MEAT WAS BANNED GLENJAMIN! — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
That outfit may be the scariest thing Tom has ever done
At least this one’s not constantly flirting with wardrobe failure.
Don’t give him any ideas!
That’s what I like about Tom; he offends on all fronts at once. In his loathsome plans, disregard for basic social mores and sadistic demeanor, his frequent violations of personal space and his atrocious fashion sense. He’s living sensory bombardment/ hybridized warfare.
And yet, even he draws the line at wearing red trousers.
Tom looks evil in pink.
In fairness, Tom looks evil in WHATEVER he wears.
It’s fascinating how he manages to somehow corrupt whatever color he chooses to wear.
I feel as if Tom’s been reading the comments on the previous page about playing Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror. Or, since this page was presumably completed before that, maybe he used the prophetic abilities he’s been sometimes shown to have to foretell those comments. (Surely, in that first panel, he’s singing “Sweet Transvestite.”)
The explanation that you could shave Occam with is that there’s a reason I cast him as Frank…
Sure. Obviously. But I still found it funny to see this on the very next page.
The man knows cringe, I’ll give him that
I just looked more closely at panel 4. Is Tom actually considering Desmond Fishman as the third Satanic priest? That… actually might work. When we first met Des, wasn’t he one of a group of three people who were supposed to play some role in a Satanic prophesy of some sort? (yeah, I know… It’s just an Easter egg, a mere out-of-contest Des sighting… But still…)
That should have been “out-of-context”.
Out-of-Cornish
Straight Outta Cornwall! Yo-yo-yo!
Desmond for sure. What do you think the “subdermal implant right in the forehead” quip is about? Now I don’t think it’s actually an implant with Desmond, but Bob is right on the money with “poor impulse control” anyway.
Desmond has an extremely malleable personal brand. He’d be perfect for the role, at least for a while. Eventually he’d probably have some sort of moral crisis (based on some weird concern completely unrelated to the sorts of things normal people’s moral crises are based on) and he’d step down from the role. Either that, or he would just eventually lose interest and wander off.
Nah. This is Desmond. Eventually, he’d passively cause some sort of major disaster for everyone involved, then walk away, unscathed. Or at least no more scathed than he can easily heal from.
My headcanon is that Shelley and Lottie told Des all about their Cornwall adventure during their holiday visit, and his takeaway from it was that he has a calling to be a Satanic priestx, despite having only the vaguest of notions what that constitutes.
He probably just appears when you search “real freak”.
We don’t know for certain that Des is the only one of his kind.
Sla bi!?
Hang on… are those cycling shorts? Is Tom fresh from a Peleton session?
I knew he’d embraced evil but I thought even he had his limits.
Holy hell, how had I not heard of the Beef and Dairy Podcast before this?! My ears thank you, John!
“Where does beef not market itself? Space!”
The internet is vast and its waters are deep. I have never heard of this either.
Well, look at that bum. Those are Peloton-toned glutes if ever I saw ’em
As we have learned in recent weeks from the trials of Chris Noth, Peloton is probably definitely evil.
O frabjous day! Calloo! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.
Tom, Tom, Tom. If you want your Church to grow you’ll find an employee who keeps the sheep coming in to get fleeced, repairs the altar, and ScotchGuard’s the orgy room. Someone whose main qualification is fulfilling your sexual fantasies is bad management. Otherwise in a year or so you’ll be begging Maggie’s Da for a job
Tom looks so handsome in this page♡. So athletic. Kinda sad he still wants to get rid of poor Billie. But now, the one that may be his worst enemy has arrived. Poor Tom has no hopes to win.
He’s been caught with his pants down, you might say.
According to that diploma, Tom seems to have an MBA from some polytechnic school.
Also, “priestx”. 🙂 Of course, I’m not surprised that the Church of Satan would be more gender-inclusive than the Church of England.
It’s not so much a matter of tolerance, as it is perpindicular preference. Tom, in particular, is evilsexual. He cares not for gender, so long as they’re steeped in evil.
priestx is what non-priests call a priest of any sex. Priests however never use the word.
Tees- Poly- is presumably Teesside Polytechnic in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire. It became Teesside University in 1992 (or it did in our world, you never quite know what obsolete institutions are still hanging around in the Bobbinsverse).
I have no memory of why I decided that that should be Tom’s alma mater but I stand by the decision.
So… Malcolm McDowell meets Starscream?
In my head anyway, Tom is voiced by Michael Sheen (Aziraphale in Good Omens).
I cannot help but love how delightfully loathsome Tim Pendennis is. Also oh, I’ve been waiting for some background behind Tom and Bob’s feud.
Magus Tom got that cake.
I don’t recall ever seeing Tom quite so… offput as in that last panel.
It is a very egg-crushing mood.
It appears all hardcore Satanists share a love of violating people’s personal spaces, don’t they?
“Do as thou wilt!” is notoriously silent on the notion of consent.
I confess my lack of familiarity with the world of Real Employment but I was under the impression a trial period is when they could let you go, and once it’s over you were in. Not that they’re compelled to, but like… if he wanted rid of her, he didn’t need to wait.
Also they don’t… pay her do they? So what exactly is he withholding? I find the economics of this fictional Satanic church very puzzling.
He’s making it up as he goes along to suit himself.
Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the employment law.
The horror!
“Trial period” means that Billie is his trial, period. It’s as perverted as that.
This depends. If you do poorly enough sometimes they just fire you. But the end of the trial period is when you’re obligated to decide whether to keep the person or not. If you were using it abusively for non-committed labor, you’d obviously keep them until the very end of the trial, and then let them go (since if you kept them longer you’d have hired them.)
I am delighted to find a fellow Beef and Dairy Network listener, though I suppose I should not be surprised.
If it’s not Mitchell’s, get back on the truck.
Snow Crash reference!
I caught that too!
The local tailor must have bought a huge lot of that red fabric. Enough for all the pants PLUS upholstering Tom’s chair.
I cannot handle the joy of seeing my favorite comic reference my favorite podcast, even if it’s not in-panel.
Who knew there was a Ziprecruiter for satanic priests?
And what in the world is that thing in the jar behind Tom?
It’s “Shirley” from the Sea Magus Tours on my Patreon.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/sea-magus-tours-55966961
Damn! Those Gams!
Is there a typo in the first panel? Surely “Hip, hip, horray!” should be “Hip, hip, hooray!”?
Maybe “hooray”, said by someone who’s horrible or horrifying, comes out “horray”.
In any case, Mr. Allison has let it stand, so can only assume it’s meant that way.
Tom is either wearing Spanx or one of his unholy practices involves a kettlebell.
Is that a Le Corbusier chair? In red, no less? Why, I do believe it is. I can definitely see where the Church of Satan has invested it’s money…
I might not like Maggie’s dad — quite the opposite, in fact. But I do kind of appreciate his ability to freak out and mess with Tom. Nice to see Tom on the back foot a bit, you know?