Your personal space and comfort
Our attention turns to Bilinda Baker, who continues to develop a healthy and respectful relationship with Magus Tom Pendennis. He’s on particularly coquettish form this evening.
Our attention turns to Bilinda Baker, who continues to develop a healthy and respectful relationship with Magus Tom Pendennis. He’s on particularly coquettish form this evening.
Her personal space and comfort are of paramount importance to him in the same way a condemned building is of paramount importance to a demolition expert.
I seriously can’t get enough Magus Tom! I hope he is as much fun to draw as he is for me to see.
This is some of the best art of Tom Pendennis to date.
Tom the snake… Billie just can’t stand him and she’s right! I wonder if the two will never start to have even a tiny bit of respect for each other. The life inside the Church of Satan is really something. Nice to see that Billie has found a Job. Let’s hope it’s something good for her. The colours of this page are amazing ♡.
Tom is filled with the glee of a schoolchild when he can properly menace someone.
Tom doesn’t realize his days are numbered. Yes, he has a shaved head and dresses in black. And he is a horrible little goblin. But being High Priest is all about him, and that destroys institutions.
Billie with her sing-a-longs and bake sales and finger on the pulse of what the congregation deep-down wants (as opposed to what Tom finds fun) is what the Satanic Church actually needs. And that is why some day she is going to step into Tom’s expensive pointy shoes, and neither of them will know exactly what happened except that he’ll be out and she’ll be in.
… if she doesn’t just castrate him with a red hot sledgehammer.
Well, it all depends on how similar to Tom she becomes… organized disorder needs a man like him in all eras. Timeless in a way.
I think, deep down, he does realize this. He had a good thing going and she’s messing it up. Many an egg has perished as a consequence!
I have a feeling Tom’s self indulgent events leave the COS strapped for cash on a regular basis, compared to Billie’s more sensible and profitable measures.
A day, Billie will take Tom’s place at the church. But she will let him stay, well knowing how much he will be pissed of seeing her successes.
Beautiful analysis. Are you experienced in church administration?
Panel 3: could those lips be any more pursed?
It looks like her mouth imploded.
Is that a note on Billie’s pinboard to have a Zoom call with Lottie?
Yes! Keep The Dream Alive!
This is a friendship that must endure. Billie looks like an elongated Little Claire so she definitely fits Lottie’s “pal profile”.
Eagle eyes!
Was just going to say to all of you that your eyes are WAY better than mine.
I was trying to make out what it says, so thank you for this.
I find Tom very- what’s the technical term?- icky.
“Icky-most-poo” is, I believe, the complete description.
I am going with the implication that the fish shoppe needs staffing whilst the Purleys are out to raise Their Dread, Very Wet Lord.
How do you pronounce Belial? Is it like Belly-Al or Buh-lial or Bee-lial or something else?
I’ve always heard it as “Bee-lee-al” or “Bee-lee-uhl” or “bee-lee-el,” with the last vowel kind of schwa’ed out
So, Billie-al. Got it.
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We always pronounced it Be-Lie-All.
It’s a bit of an onomatopoeia.
I’ve always heard Bay-lial. At least I gather that’s how he likes it said.
beli-ya’al if you’re going by the original Hebrew
Beli-y’all if you’re from Alabama
That’s an olympic level Cat’s Bum Mouth on Billie in panel 3.
Now THAT is an Olympic event I would pay to see.
A scandal occurs when some competitors are found to have sucked on lemons just before the event (a banned performance-enhancing substance).
Sadly, many athletes who train from childhood for this event wind up socially shunned in their adult life, due to “sarcastic resting face” syndrome.
Billy doesn’t have a job that starts tomorrow, does she?
Not yet, I suspect.
She has the same job George Thorogood told his landlady he had in “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”.
I posit that she is going to run the Purleys’ fish store whilst they are out raising Unspeakable Horrors (or trying, at any rate…).
We haven’t seen a lot of business establishments in Tredregyn (bookstore, vape shop, pub, aquarium supply store) that might offer Billie employment. Presumably there’s a fish and chip shop, a chemist’s, a Sainsbury’s…Perhaps she’ll hire on as an office assistant for an estate agent or a solicitor?
The longer the comic runs, the bigger Tredregyn seems to get. It also now has a Kwik-Fit style tyre shop, at least three cafés, and there is a second pub that we’ve never been in that was mentioned in the first issue. That pub exists primarily so there can be a darts competition one day.
Magpie fish and chip shop is in Secret Sentai! I would imagine there are at least three fish and chip shops in Tredregyn for the summer “trade”.
Let’s not forget the petrol station (open Christmas Day).
Perhaps the mighty Satan warps and grows it in time and space as the story progresses?
What’s on Billie’s calendar – a cat, or some hideous smiling demon? (Or is that a “tomayto” / “tomahto” situation?)
Looks very much like Philippe Geluck’s Le Chat.
That rear view in panel 2 makes me think I know the owner of the sexy shoulders and back from the beautiful cover!