Awww. The beast looks at Brian with true love♡. Again a Beautiful, Powerful page. Billie knows Penrose is the only one able to save Maggie. He looks so worried for her♡. PENROSE, SAVE HER!!!
You never know. She might be good for Brian. After all, it’s not like she’s going around killing people: scaring them, yes, but you can’t help your looks.
Are you sure “she” is the right label? Egg tender does not need to depend on gender (just ask sea horses), and comic creatures (right down to amoebae) invariably feature eyelashes as the principal indicator for preferring female bathrooms.
I wonder what this story would be like if she baited Tom into coming instead lmao. “One of your ex-clergymen is being stolen from you right under your nose!”
Comprehensive list of situations where it would be better to call Tom rather than Reverend Penrose:
1. Surrounded by vicious eggs
2. Menaced by someone with a severe phobia of creepy nudity
Honestly, the Rev is probably better in the egg situation, too, unless he’s promised someone he won’t smash them. Tom may be able to strangle helpless domestic eggs, but I don’t know that he’s got what it takes to confront vicious eggs in the wild.
It’s Maggie who’s in trouble, the Rev seems like the best choice.
ALTHOUGH, if Tom were told about this, he MIGHT rescue Maggie, just to sabotage Bob’s schemes. If anyone in this comic would do good out of pure spite, it’s Tom.
At first I thought the Reverend’s question in Panel 1 was about the beast, until I noticed the italics, and the fact he was holding his phone. Could have been either way though, no?
Brian and the beast do seem to be getting along just fine, judging by how Brian just finished tattooing a cute little heart on the beast’s brow.
Miss Clovis is a bit harder to fit in, but I bet she’d rather be on her sofa watching the Guernseyman with a cup of cocoa than fighting Brian and the Beast, so she’ll probably just be grumpy a lot but not escalate things.
Curse my pedestrian brain for getting bogged down in minutiae, but I’m wondering how the Rev is going to get out leaving the other two with the beast given that there’s only one boat. Maybe he’ll shimmy up the side of the pier? He’s still strong but maybe not that limber anymore.
I just imagine it’s like whenever Willie does something heroic in The Simpsons and the Rev ill just shred all the clothes off his torso and get to work.
I guess this was meant as a reply to my comment? Yes, you’re right, but the Reverend’s dark grey phone doesn’t really stand out against his clothes. It would have been easier had he gone for a phone that was, say, shocking pink.
They’re written in a column bottom left of the page under the comic. Rest assured I choose the titles to be as misleading as possible and create the maximum amount of turmoil.
Reverend Penrose to the rescue! (We hope!)
I think Penrose will be supplying spiritual help rather than swinging the ax.
Why not both?
It’s easier to tend to the spirit if you have released it from the body.
Because it seems… unlikely? that he and his axe could make it to chez Maggie in time to do anything useful
He doesn’t necessarily need the axe. He’s killed plenty of sea-beasts bare handed.
An axe can break down a door.
A little from column A, a little from column B…
Swinging the axe is just how he provides spiritual help.
Why do I think Mrs Clovis and Warlock Brian would make an excellent comedy duo.
I still wonder if Brian is Mrs Clovis’ disowned son.
You can rely on Brian to be Brian. That’s the important thing.
Unless there’s a full moon.
Then he’s just more Brian.
I think we all want a Brian in our life.
The sea horror certainly seems to!
Awww. The beast looks at Brian with true love♡. Again a Beautiful, Powerful page. Billie knows Penrose is the only one able to save Maggie. He looks so worried for her♡. PENROSE, SAVE HER!!!
True love as Brian strikes her as a delicious truffle or …?
Well, some species *do* eat the male after consummating a relationship.
I just hope Brian and the Beast’s newfound affection just veers more in the direction of Free Willy rather than The Shape Of Water.
Phrasing!
If Brian breaks that creature’s heart I will NEVER forgive him.
MEN! You are all heartless bar-stewards!!
I’m sorry, but Brian looks exactly like the kind of man that like to play with the hearts of poor seamonsters.
RELATIONS WITH THE SEA HORROR COUNT AS PART OF YOUR COMPENSATION WARLOCK FITZPATRICK
You never know. She might be good for Brian. After all, it’s not like she’s going around killing people: scaring them, yes, but you can’t help your looks.
Are you sure “she” is the right label? Egg tender does not need to depend on gender (just ask sea horses), and comic creatures (right down to amoebae) invariably feature eyelashes as the principal indicator for preferring female bathrooms.
Oh, definitely female. See the graceful taper of her face tentacles, the luminous scarlet of her eyes?
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Brian’s down with being paid in exposure, so to speak.
Everyone needs a friend like Brian.
…and I want a girl that looks at me the way the beast looks at Brian.
He has charmed the monster! Now… er… what next
*”Unchained Melody” starts playing from up on the jetty*
Oh no, someone’s gonna die! Wait, wrong movie?
‘Under the Boardwalk’, maybe?
We need a bigger boat.
Something Mrs Clovis will prefer not to see.
Note Billie called Rev. Penrose rather than the head of her own church — Tom.
And yet, we are not surprised.
I wonder what this story would be like if she baited Tom into coming instead lmao. “One of your ex-clergymen is being stolen from you right under your nose!”
Even more interesting would be Tom’s reaction if she told him that the villain was Bob Warren.
Well she has met Tom
Well, she IS calling for an intervention in support of Maggie, rather than herself.
Comprehensive list of situations where it would be better to call Tom rather than Reverend Penrose:
1. Surrounded by vicious eggs
2. Menaced by someone with a severe phobia of creepy nudity
Honestly, the Rev is probably better in the egg situation, too, unless he’s promised someone he won’t smash them. Tom may be able to strangle helpless domestic eggs, but I don’t know that he’s got what it takes to confront vicious eggs in the wild.
It’s Maggie who’s in trouble, the Rev seems like the best choice.
ALTHOUGH, if Tom were told about this, he MIGHT rescue Maggie, just to sabotage Bob’s schemes. If anyone in this comic would do good out of pure spite, it’s Tom.
He might jump on the opportunity, even!
I don’t see where you get “rather”. We don’t have her complete call logs.
At first I thought the Reverend’s question in Panel 1 was about the beast, until I noticed the italics, and the fact he was holding his phone. Could have been either way though, no?
Same here. I reread the whole page right after reading it the first time, and that’s when I realized he was talking about Billie.
Brian and the beast do seem to be getting along just fine, judging by how Brian just finished tattooing a cute little heart on the beast’s brow.
Miss Clovis is a bit harder to fit in, but I bet she’d rather be on her sofa watching the Guernseyman with a cup of cocoa than fighting Brian and the Beast, so she’ll probably just be grumpy a lot but not escalate things.
Judging from the title of the next page, I don’t think she’s ‘appy.
I believe her role can best be described in the felicitous if somewhat vulgar phrase “ovipositor blocker.”
Curse my pedestrian brain for getting bogged down in minutiae, but I’m wondering how the Rev is going to get out leaving the other two with the beast given that there’s only one boat. Maybe he’ll shimmy up the side of the pier? He’s still strong but maybe not that limber anymore.
Rev and Clovis row back to shore, Clovis rows back to Jetty
(They made us do uncountable versions of this logic puzzle as kids)
It makes sense that the Reverend would be the cabbage and Clovis the wolf.
He’ll swim.
I just imagine it’s like whenever Willie does something heroic in The Simpsons and the Rev ill just shred all the clothes off his torso and get to work.
Mr. A. helpfully rendered the emitted light from the Reverend’s phone screen onto his face so you’d know he was looking at it.
I guess this was meant as a reply to my comment? Yes, you’re right, but the Reverend’s dark grey phone doesn’t really stand out against his clothes. It would have been easier had he gone for a phone that was, say, shocking pink.
Of course, the Rev has an old-school flip phone.
Let’s hope that the Beast makes Brian forget his hopeless crush on Shelley Winters…
And end the cutest crush that ever was?? Never!!!
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They’re written in a column bottom left of the page under the comic. Rest assured I choose the titles to be as misleading as possible and create the maximum amount of turmoil.