Un-nun-ji-vie
Poor Derek. Whatever he thought was going to happen today is, almost certainly, not going to happen now.
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
Poor Derek. Whatever he thought was going to happen today is, almost certainly, not going to happen now.
Isn’t that sort of the satanist motto, Tom?
Tom: “Do what? I wilt”
Aaww. Poor Tom. What Thou Willst is often (maybe usually?) not what everybody else Willst.
The real problem is that Crowley misheard the words of Aiwass; the actual command was “Do what Thou whist,” and everybody in that church really ought to be playing a lot more card games.
From Steeple Vol.1 #3:
“By refusing to do what you tell them, aren’t they doing exactly what you told them to do?”
-Brian
“My head hurrrrrrrts”
-Tom
Am I the only one who’s shocked to hear Billie refer to Tom’s hands as “more than capable”? Regardless of the context.
She surely knows more that all of us about Tom’s capable hands and what they can do.
Tom may be disgusting and far less intelligent than Billie, but he can’t be wholly incompetent. After all, he managed to run a cult far more successfully than the Reverend and his Christian church. And Mick talks to him.
I know Tom does have some genuine talents. I’m just surprised Billie would acknowledge them.
Tom’s cult is more successful than Penrose’s church because Tom defines his objective as “running a cult”, while Penrose defines his objective as “smiting evil”. Both are reasonably effective at attaining their objectives, but the comparison is asymmetric.
Baphomet doesn’t exactly look pleased by this turn of events either
Does he ever?
Tom seems to be lubing up his hand in panel 2, but is not wearing a glove or anything. Seems to be mixed in terms of safety, but then I’m only guessing at what he was going to do.
I kinda feel bad for Tom. No one was really interested in the ritual he was performing, even Mick has disappeared in the end (betrayal!!). I also care more about what Brian’s friend has in that barn than in what’s Tom doing!
Well, Brian’s bringing his tools, so…
Is Brian bringing his tools, or is he bringing his “tools”?
… I kinda hope we will have an answer on this during the story.
It’s quite the curious set of tools. It says “Proton Great Cars” and “Snap-On” on the front. I wonder if we’re about to meet Gareth’s evil counterpart?
I took those as being basically like the stickers people put on guitar cases, and similar things, rather than an indication of what’s inside the box.
Hm. Never in a John Allison masterpiece are these things by accident, Alaric – especially with November 8’s comic referring to “limited points of articulation”.
The titles of upcoming pages are often deliberately misleading, though.
I’m torn between curiosity about exactly what Brian’s up to, and fear of finding out.
That is what it says on the tin, Tom.
Probably not poor in the grand scheme of things, but short-term disappointed.
Today I think is a landmark strip! Judging from panel one this is the first ever appearance of pubic hair in Steeple and for that matter the Bobbinsverse!
A Pube debut?
If Billie were smart she’d have a dozen fresh eggs stashed somewhere for just such and occasion.
Tom is getting *yoked.* There might be a surprise upset at the next interfaith wrestling tournament.
(Michael Palin voice) “Now today, we’re going to do marching up and down the altar! That is, unless any of you got anything better to do.”
Apparently whatever was about to happen involved jive. They were chanting about jive, right?
They were chanting about a jive nun, I think.
Hm. Billie bails, and the whole thing unravels. They have somehow come to depend upon her.
It was established back in The Silvery Moon that Billie’s very popular with the Satanic parishioners.
Who is the skinny naked man with a long beard? Is he dancing or is he chained up?
Maybe both?
The Town Freak – he appears in both Clotted Crime and Author Unknown but only ever in the background.
Billie dashes out so fast she pulls the plume of suspicious smoke along her wake, and when Tom turns on the light, the exhaust fan also comes on and sucks that green gas out of the room in a little cyclone. This is why John is the best.