Won’t it show up on camera?
As regards today’s the art in today’s comic, let’s just say that I am as surprised as you that I managed to make that particular layout work. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
As regards today’s the art in today’s comic, let’s just say that I am as surprised as you that I managed to make that particular layout work. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Whoa! That’s one way to introduce a monster.
But is it really the first time we’ve seen it?
Keen are the eyes of Deanatay!
The rest of us were a bit distracted by the panel above it
I have spent waaaay too much time tonight studying this layout and all that I’m seeing.
The weirdest part of this strip isn’t the baby Cthulhu on the rooftops, or the current and former Satanic priestesses turned murder show extras chatting, or the trash can whispering its name in the secret iconographic language of waste disposal containers, it’s that someone’s using Microsoft Bing.
Also weird is that she feels a need to specify that it’s *Microsoft* Bing, and not, say, Amstrad Bing.
I believe Amstrad Bing is a kind of dish detergent.
Yes, it has a cherry scent.
Wasn’t Linton in Bad Machinery the trend-setter in making Bing the leading search engine in John’s stories?
Maybe that’s Billie’s coffee cup going to Heaven?
I don’t think Billie’s coffee cups are Heaven-bound these days.
Is this what broke into the Clotted Crime set?
That would be thre assumption.
Only one assumption, not three.
The assumption so nice you assumed it thrice!
And what’s he holding in panel 3? ?
Nothing – that’s the seawater oozing off of every pore of Lil’Thulhu. You caan see similar leakage twixt its fingers in panel5.
Looking like webbed hands to me.
Bing is the search engine of choice in benightedly backwards Tredregyn.
IIRC, it’s the case in Tackleford as well. I assume it’s because of something Shelly did.
Jack was “best at Google” in the Case of the Unwelcome Visitor, though.
It’s Jack. He’s probably using it in Opera on BeOS on an Amiga.
Well, he was borrowing Erin’s phone. Could she afford Zambian on what the Cormorant paid her? It could well have been something *very* off-brand.
Wasn’t that before the time-travel shenanigans in The Case of the Forked Road, though? I got the sense that that was where these little differences started.
I generally assume that any inconsistencies, internal or with what laughably passes for “reality”, are a result of letting everyone’s favorite Ginger Ninja loose in the timestream with a license to Destroy History.
I’m almost positive the ersatz Beatles (and other) lyrics we’ve seen are Shelley’s fault, and have nothing to do with how incredibly harsh “fair use” restrictions on song lyrics are.
Seems our giant, web-footed friend has taken a keen interest in our intrepid heroines.
Watch behind for our web-footed friends
For that -FLUMP- may be some kind of monster…
I thought for a second there you were saying that the monster was a flumph.
Heh. A little heavy on its feet for a flumph!
When you consider that a flumph has no feet… 🙂
“Oh Billie.”
It’s like watching a train wreck. You don’t really want to see anyone get hurt, and yet you can’t look away.
This is probably the best page layout in all of history! Incredible!
It seems like this beast is specifically after our heroines. Or maybe just after one of them. Perhaps the eldritch creature is the aforementioned Bob Warren??
I retain this vague hope that it is not actually planning to attack anyone at all, and merely destroyed the Satanist information table out of sheer theological revulsion. Then again, I write stories about Unitarian Deep One clerics, so I may be a touch biased.
Perhaps Belial, come to thank Billie for the splendid offering
Come to think of it, Billie is almost an anagram of Belial… coincidence?!
Well done layout and Deep One introduction! It reminds me of some of the stellar creature intros in Minna Sundberg’s “Stand Still, Stay Silent.”
I’m really afraid for Maggie and Billie right now! This page is incredible, the way that creature is watching them… so good! Billie is so in love♡♡♡!
Is that which is belching smoke a generator? If so – are they using coal?
If not, perhaps the safety personnel should be informed?
I’m thinking it’s a grill, but I could very well be wrong.
I’m working so far ahead that I forget the reasoning for little visual things like that but I think it’s meant to reflect the extractor fan from the catering truck and a small workplace grease fire.
Ah, and here I thought it was a fog machine – that the producers of the show found that Cornwall was not already foggy enough to look convincingly like Cornwall.
o/ The Flumps, the Flumps, the Flumps are here o/
“Oh, Billie” indeed. Bingggg?
Maggie: Oh, Billie. Nobody using Microsoft Bing.
Billie: Can’t be true! It’s the default homepage of every copy of Microsoft Edge!
Maggie: ….
Billie: What?
Unless I’m misremembering, one of the running jokes of the Bobbinsverse is that Microsoft Bing is actually a thing people use.
It’s one of the indicators that the Bobbinsverse is, in fact, completely fantastical.
The monster could be baby Cthulhu, but what I’m getting is more of a bear vibe. Menacing but also confusingly cute.
I’m thinking more of a Giant Star-Nosed Sea Mole.
Rumour has it that our author JA got double product-placement $ for this one: Bing paid to be mentioned in “Steeple,” and Google paid so they wouldn’t be mentioned. *Ba Dum Tss* Personally, I always use Ask Jeeves for my Internet searches and if that fails, AltaVista is a good backup.
I’m ride or die for HotBot.
Those are some seriously Chonky Bois
I always thought ladies were more into Yahoo
Detective Constable Dusten! Rupert’s character name revealed at last.
CthulHu-billed platypus…? I, too, find it oddly cute1
And now we know that it isn’t the detective in drag on the rooftops because white men can’t jump. And I am proud for figuring out the sequencing implications of the layout.
But was the monster responsible for the vanishing zig-zags on Billie’s top in panel 5? Or is there just some sort of deep shadow near the bin, making them invisible?