Your voluminous lady suit
What a rogue’s gallery! Maggie’s motorbike took a dive in Steeple volume 1 (Dark Horse issue 5). Colours by Sammy Borras
What a rogue’s gallery! Maggie’s motorbike took a dive in Steeple volume 1 (Dark Horse issue 5). Colours by Sammy Borras
Is that a Folgier’s coffee reference in p6? Deep cut if so.
A Folgers coffee reference that has been kept arguably fresh, like a can of Folgers in a refrigerator, by a similar reference from the movie Airplane!.
Yes, I was going to say this could be an Airplane!/Flying High! reference to the Folgers reference in that movie. A bit complicated, but possible.
I don’t think you could ever buy Folgers in the UK. I only learned later on that the line in Airplane! (that I am referencing) was from a commercial.
Having got the Airplane! reference, I learned _today_ that it was from a commercial.
Goes to show how old I am, because I remember the ad first and forgot that it appeared in “Airplane!”
I had no idea about any of this, but a quick YouTube turns up:
The (terrible?) Airplane! scene: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oRi6POTSbW4
The (decent) Yuban commercial that it’s based on (is the ‘that night he discovered Yuban’ supposed to have sexy implications?): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4kCF22O2w
And some (unrelated) truly awful Folgers commercials: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnjjkgIO3Ck
Thank you for that important research.
I knew both the gag and the ads, but I never realized that it was the same actress!
Variations of it were used on MST3K a few times, too.
Very barely related, I remember now-vanished webcomic where readers were invited to submit a strip’s punchline. One strip was of the Star Trek: Voyager scene where Janeway says something to the effect of “Set course for the Coffee Nebula!” (because the replicators needed the energy OSLT)
Paris turns to Kim and says (in my entry):
“The Taster’s Choice Saga has gotten really weird, hasn’t it?”
😉
So, I had forgotten both the original ad and the Airplane! reference and had to look them up. Turns out it was Yuban coffee that used this schtick, not Folger’s.
Ah, yes yes, the simple joys of an upperclass home. The callback to a mid-20th Century advertising trope is the icing on the brandy. Bravo, sir.
I think that liquor cabinet *alone* might be taxable as “an upperclass home” in some jurisdictions.
Depends on how many windows the liquor cabinet has.
I burst out laughing at this. Well played.
Looks like the mortal descendant of the sesh goblin in the Hissing Crowd.
Is that a pet pig under Bob’s chair? Not that it would be outlandish or anything, just… odd.
A pet? Or… potential dinner in hiding?
A goat, a pig, probably some chickens. That house is a farm!
Only during the orgies! They all get sacrificed later.
I thought it looked like a Gloucester Old Spot.
That “Sssssss” is probably the most menacing sound in this story so far.
Dunno if Maggie’s dad is just totally high and drunk or just naturally repulsive. Surprises me that he haven’t also mentioned to everyone her fantasy of fell into the Reverend’s arms too. Billie is so worried for her♡.
One of those rogues has rather non-human looking eyes. 🙁
You mean the one that looks like Rees-Mogg?
You know I love to draw MOGG
I’m sure Nandor, Lazlo, Nadja and Collin Robinson could out-hiss them. Also, Bob’s massive prick status confirmed. Also, easy on the brandy there, Maggie.
The brandy is necessary fuel for the explosion that must come, I think. I hope.
This is a job for DOOK DOOK DOOK DOOK
Told ya they’d need brain bleach.
Well, I guess daddy definitely knows about Maggie’s change in station, then
I wondered how he knew about the fate of the Harley, since he wasn’t there. But it would be relatively easy to keep an eye on a person so flamboyant as Maggie.
Wow, even when the pockets are filled with bottles of fancy liquor the line of Billie’s suit is still completely unbroken. Did she pray to the demon of fashion off-panel at some point?
It’s voluminous, don’t you see?
TARDIS pockets.
Actually there was a long-ago British comic in The Beano or The Topper or somewhere, called ‘Pete’s Pockets,’ about a kid who had half of everything in the world in one pocket (the other half was in the other pocket).
She’s hiding the pockets with the bottles behind her back.
She just has access to liquor space, like Hazel Tellington.
She asked for a suit facilitating a hump on her back, and the tailor didn’t get what she was talking about.
Okay, Maggie’s playing the “Drink Every Time Your Father Acts Like An Asshole” game.
Humiliates you in front of his friends? Down the bottle.
Wasn’t “Precious Little Angel” a song by Annie Lennox?
Not a top-shelf joke but not too bad. I wonder how long he was up writing it?
Oh man, they even hiss at the name of Jesus. Good LUCK fam
If Maggie had been riding a classic Vincent or BSA, she would have gotten nothing but sympathy from that crowd.
Finally I get what the Top Gear inspiration for the Bob Warren character was. We are going to witness the glorious reintroduction of the Wanker engine.
That final panel is sublime. The facial expressions!!! Top drawer.
I’m hoping she does an updated version of Greek mythology starring her as Kronos with a dull flint sickle