Thank you for your sacrifice, John. They may have been painful to draw, but the cars look lovely. They look like real, specific car models, and each one is different from all of the others. They are just detailed enough for me to start having opinions about whether any of them might be a car I personally would want to buy.
Have I already called to your attention that there’s a fictional character named John Allison in a sketch in a sketch comedy show called The Birthday Boys? Is that of any interest? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqheN271Duk
I might have mentioned this before and then forgotten.
Once, I saw a man of about the Reverend’s age driving down the road in what I can only describe as a “mid-life crisis convertible:” tiny, impractically sporty-looking, and very red.
In the seat next to him? A full-sized roll of carpet pad. Clearly he was not letting his mid-life crisis get in the way of his remodeling.
I believe, although I’m happy to be corrected, that carpet pad is but one type of underlayment — what goes between the subfloor and the flooring. We have a paper one under our wood flooring — I wanted the antisqueaking underlayment, but my spouse thought squeaky floors added character…
It is far from self-evident that he has, in fact, dealt with worse. This is the very question that the crucifix is being asked in the last panel. Can you hear its tiny answer?
That panel mostly reminds me that the Reverend accidentally left a crucifix with Bob Warren. Maybe this ordeal is the result of the curse Bob used it to put on David. A shockingly horrible curse.
A friend of mine actually bought one of those loss-leader cars at a new car dealership. He wrote down the VIN and had them show him more cars until he found it, tucked away on a back lot.
John may complain about drawing cars, but he’s a master at it!
would be a shorter story, but the best response is something like: “You do not have what I want? Then I will continue my search elsewhere.” Willing to walk away is an excellent bargaining tactic :}
It’s been said–I don’t recall by whom, but I know I wasn’t the first to say it–that there is no greater example of optimism in this world than a British person buying a convertible.
Welcome to Honest John’s!
The Blue Honda was the bait. Now time for the switch.
The shark has already smelled blood. I can already see Penrose chasing sea monsters in a convertible. I wonder how Maggie’s Harley is doing.
This guy looks like he just walked off the set of The Italian Job (the original with Michael Caine, not the one with Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch).
The Funky Bunch was not in that movie.
I like to think that any group of people performing alongside Mark Wahlberg automatically takes on the mantle of the Funky Bunch.
A bit off topic – but thank you so much for your beautiful body of work, John.
It’s been just a terrible week.
Your work never fails to help bring me out of any anger and despair that find their way into my life.
“Wasson, si”?
It’s a greeting!
Later morphed into WAZZUP
Furman’s. Si. Simon Furman!
“WASSON, SI” looks like a fictional city in a fictional US state.
You did it to yourself, man. If you didn’t want to have to draw like a million cars, you shouldn’t have set the story on a used car lot.
You could’ve had the Reverend go bicycle shopping instead.
As a person who has recently had to draw a car because I decided it would best fit the narrative, I feel your pain.
Thank you for your sacrifice, John. They may have been painful to draw, but the cars look lovely. They look like real, specific car models, and each one is different from all of the others. They are just detailed enough for me to start having opinions about whether any of them might be a car I personally would want to buy.
Agreed! I feel like I could reach in and grab one like it was a Matchbox car.
Yes, they are well rendered, indeed.
I am 100% here for the Rec’d despairing glance at his cross. Lord, why hast thou forsaken him?!
Give me the strength of forgiveness so I don’t bash this bloke’s head in
And by Rec’d I meant Rev’s.
Was that Jack Black in there?
Have I already called to your attention that there’s a fictional character named John Allison in a sketch in a sketch comedy show called The Birthday Boys? Is that of any interest? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqheN271Duk
I might have mentioned this before and then forgotten.
I haven’t seen this before and i loved it!
Yay!
FURMAN, and a yellow VW Beetle on sale for “4000”. I get it. I’m picking up what you’re putting down.
Reverend Penrose is a tall man, he needs a lot of headroom. A convertible might be just what he needs!
A lot of cars. You might say…. a car lot.
Or, you might say, a Carlotta! https://badmachinery.com/comic/for-the-love-of-michael/
Once, I saw a man of about the Reverend’s age driving down the road in what I can only describe as a “mid-life crisis convertible:” tiny, impractically sporty-looking, and very red.
In the seat next to him? A full-sized roll of carpet pad. Clearly he was not letting his mid-life crisis get in the way of his remodeling.
Is “carpet pad” the N. American word for the stuff that goes under carpet? Here we call it “underlay” which I think is quite an enjoyable word.
It is an enjoyable word! That’s what we call it in Canada – we do use the Queen’s English after all. Underlay….what a waste of a wonderful word.
“Underlay” sounds like disappointing intimacy.
I believe, although I’m happy to be corrected, that carpet pad is but one type of underlayment — what goes between the subfloor and the flooring. We have a paper one under our wood flooring — I wanted the antisqueaking underlayment, but my spouse thought squeaky floors added character…
It is far from self-evident that he has, in fact, dealt with worse. This is the very question that the crucifix is being asked in the last panel. Can you hear its tiny answer?
That panel mostly reminds me that the Reverend accidentally left a crucifix with Bob Warren. Maybe this ordeal is the result of the curse Bob used it to put on David. A shockingly horrible curse.
The details!! Love how the N has fallen off the sign but you can still see the halo, last panel.
Quietly contemplating his faith….less than one minute in. This is not going well.
A friend of mine actually bought one of those loss-leader cars at a new car dealership. He wrote down the VIN and had them show him more cars until he found it, tucked away on a back lot.
John may complain about drawing cars, but he’s a master at it!
“You’ve dealt with worse.”
[citation needed]
would be a shorter story, but the best response is something like: “You do not have what I want? Then I will continue my search elsewhere.” Willing to walk away is an excellent bargaining tactic :}
Yup. I’ve used that one.
It’s been said–I don’t recall by whom, but I know I wasn’t the first to say it–that there is no greater example of optimism in this world than a British person buying a convertible.
No offence, but I’m not sure I’d be comfortable buying a car from “Furman”, lest it start speaking on the way home.
Furman eh? Could there be…more than meets the eye here?
Chk-chk-chk-chk-chk.