You’ve had a scare
Drawing Magus Tom as a floating egg entity was the moment I knew I was back in the game.
STEEPLE – A Scary Go Round Comic
by John Allison
Drawing Magus Tom as a floating egg entity was the moment I knew I was back in the game.
Something tells me Brian is speaking from experience.
Research “Nutraloaf” if you’ve got a strong stomach.
Magus Tom looks so CUTE as a sleepy floating egg.
I can almost forget how intensely unpleasant he is when awake and in person. (Or what he does to actual eggs to relieve stress)
I was in fact thinking that he would not like to be portrayed that way, given his feelings toward eggs.
Then again, maybe he secretly realizes that he has many egg-like qualities, and is filled with self-loathing.
I don’t get the impression that Tom has any real animosity towards eggs. He crushes them simply because they are satisfying to crush, and because crushing them has no major consequences.
Yellow self loathing
Yellow self loathing that solidifies when heat is applied.
Does… does this mean Magus Tom is fated to… one day… crush himself?!
It does sometimes seem that Tom is his own worst enemy.
There is symmetry in this strip – something is being patted in each of the first and last panels. Is this communicating a parallel about structural integrity?
Go Billie! Tom has to listen to her and take her words seriously! But that after Brian’s breakfasts. That looks delicious!
Are you going to submit the Tom egg to the clown egg repository?
Brian really is Billie’s large dog.
You have correctly identified exactly how i see their relationship.
Billie’s ideal breakfast sounds wonderful! Damn my low-carb diet!
Recognise that there’s quite the spectrum when it comes to “porridge”. In my childhood it ran the gamut from Ready Brek (adjusted volumetrically appropriately with honey) in my parental home to some bowel-scouring mixture of unmilled oats, with salt instead of sugar, on my holidays with my hibernian paternal grandparents. My guess is that Billie’s asceticism doesn’t lead all the way to the latter, even if seeds are implied to be mildly frivolous.
Also, Billie’s eyes in the first panel will likely visit me in my nightmares…
Most definitely, back in the game.
When I visited England I found two kinds of breakfasts offered: dry (or wet) cereal and fruit vs a plate full of the greasiest sausages and eggs I’d ever seen. My guts can only handle Waffle-House level of greasy so I suffered through with dry cereal and fruit.
I visited England several years ago, and did eat a few Full Englishes, as well as having porridge a couple of times. But I also one morning went to a slightly fancy restaurant and ordered kedgeree, which was delicious. It’s possible that’s what Brian is making, as he grabbed some cream.
Kedgeree doesn’t have cream in it. It’s basically a dry fish curry with added had-boiled eggs for maximum confusion.
What year was this, Scott? And where was it? What the TV still in black and white? Were the streets still in black and white? My breakfast options have been so thoroughly gentrified that I am crying out for wet cereal and grease.
Porridge = Belly Glue
I thought it was an egg timer!