Total clarity of thought
Rupert looks like a man with a lot to think about. At least his colleagues are sensitive to his pain. They’ll be there to lean on. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Rupert looks like a man with a lot to think about. At least his colleagues are sensitive to his pain. They’ll be there to lean on. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Sammy Borras is doing a lovely job.
Rupert’s nickname is Roop.
Or Rupe, pronounced Rube?
Hang on Roopie,
Roopie hang on.
Would it be overly cynical to assume that a Pizza shop with that many exclamation marks in the name demands its staff be ‘passionate about pizza’?
Not overly cynical at all. I’d say you’d be safe betting 10 quid on it, in fact.
Same could probably be said of their main local competition; Burger!! Burger!! Burger!!
Trying to parse ‘a pre-exit “by the way” on his STDs’ is giving me a headache.
It sounds like he’ll text her a break-up followed by the bad news.
No, the STD stuff was supposed to be pre-exit, so it’s the bad news followed by the break-up. With likely the implied hope being that he doesn’t even have to bother doing the break-up himself.
It did take me a moment and a couple of reads too, but it makes sense – he’s psyching himself for the moment when, before he leaves, he has to awkwardly broach the subject of his STD record (“By the way…”).
Here in the States, the chain Little Caesar’s has “Pizza! Pizza!” Apparently the pizza in Tredregyn is half again as superlative.
Three times as superlative, if we go by the number of exclamation marks.
As Terry Pratchett stated, multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a disturbed mind.
I believe that’s Little Hadrian’s slogan.
Is that the creature that was riding Maggie’s Harley in the background in the fifth panel?
Good spotting!
Well spotted, indeed! I had dismissed that as reflections on a window.
I thought it was one of the plants!
I thought it was some kind of stylization of Rupert and dismissed it. Whoops!
Wow, I had to Ctrl-+ the hell out of that!
*Noice* catch!
Oh dear, Rupert’s STDs may not need to worry about his STDs for much longer…
Take away one of the ‘STDs’ and see if that makes more sense.
It probably won’t but I will not just give up on this clearly lost cause.
Are we still rolling? I’ll do it again.
*ahem* Oh dear, Rupert may not need to worry about his STDs for much longer…
There is no thing annoying me more about open races than reaching the finishing line only to find it removed already and passersby hardly remembering where it may have been in its time.
Ooh and it looks like it’s wearing the Rev’s cross. Must be some mischief raised by Maggie’s dear family.
Some of us think it’s the late Curate Jason (of the detailed monster logs). And I’m not so sure he was sent by Mr. Warren.
It’s just the pizza delivery person – er, thing. That’s why it has Maggie’s motorbike.
“Why is this pizza soaked with seawater?”
Must have ordered them with anchovies!
Is that a BUDGET phone he’s using in panel #1? It looks like it only has a mere FOUR cameras on it. Did he lose his Zambian Elite?
It’s a fashion statement to get a low number of cameras, and yet pay a lot for it. It’s not a Zambian, it’s an iRonic.
I would like to believe that the guy in panel 5 is right and Rupert is totally in love with Billie, really. But the way the mysterious “man” who came out of the sea is looking at him… it looks like he’s watching someone who just said something Really Stupid!.
It doesn’t really matter since Billie’s interest in Rupert is not of the “till death do us part” kind unless it can be arranged for fairly soon. The parting, not the vowing.
But Rupe doesn’t know that.
Does STDs mean “STDs”? If so, ewww….
“Save-the-Date”
Per Google:
“Save-the-date [card]s essentially alert guests that they are going to be invited to your wedding in the coming months.”
oh, you sweet summer child
I don’t think Pep knows that — just an educated guess.
I’d be unsurprised if Tom’s denomination of Satanism forbids or at least strongly discourages marriage. Marriage might make for a real kink (no pun intended) in the orgies.
Sure, we saw all those children in the audience of Tom’s Mother Goose performance about a year ago, but parenthood doesn’t necessarily equal marriage any more than vice versa.
Yes, but how can you reliably commit adultery if nobody’s married?
…I understand that defining adultery becomes more complicated vis-a-vis polyamory and/or the swinging lifestyle, sure. But it’s TOM we’re talking about. He probably has a cross-stitch* he made himself of the Ten Commandments that he most enjoys breaking.
*Inverted. It took *forever*.
And then there’s the definition of adolescence as that period between childhood and adultery.
Look, without marriage you don’t get adultery, sure, but it doesn’t prevent jealousy-fueled double murders
So I guess… a double win for Tom?
I suspect Rupert actually HAS completely fallen for Billie, and is contemplating a marriage proposal. Which will absolutely horrifying Billie. This will not end well.
It’ll be Shelley and Bruno all over again… Where’s a sexy ghost when you need one?
Agreed. Bur I kinda want to see how fast Billie can run screaming. Or how loud she can laugh, finally proving to heartbreaked Rupert she’s truly a satanic vicar.
Perfect rendition of the Generic Pizza Box™ there.
I’ve always kinda wanted try how you guys do your pizza on the other side of the pond. Broaden my horizons.
It is very different from US pizza, apart from the golden rule — Papa Johns is the worst — applies here also.
The satanic lady vicar sounds like a great band name or a excelent title for a fiction work :p
The satanic lady vicar won’t get married could be an isekai…