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Archive for February, 2021
Down the meat toilet
Nighthawks at the diner. For Tackleford historians, Efe’s Kebab Shop (which previously appeared in Giant Days #49) was once Dorado’s restaurant (see Bobbins Dot Horse, early 2020), above which Ryan Beckwith lived until well into Scary Go Round. It has now been bisected into a shawarma spot and a minicab office. I know because I put the dividing wall in there myself in Sketchup.
Fairground airbrushing is a real art. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been the iron horse of these artisan images for decades, usually in his role as the Terminator, but I feel that Statham may be the up-and-comer best positioned to decorate waltzers, dodgems and other violently shaking machinery into the middle third of the 21st century.
I hope you enjoy the period-accurate flashback in today’s comic, roughly contemporary to The Case of The Good Boy, in which Mildred takes on the fairground-industrial complex. If you read it on GoComics it has a lot of bonus pages.
ITEM! Four comics this week – Monday-Thursday as Circus Windows pt 1 concludes. Part 2 follows next week.
I love the aggressive short centre parting of the trad strongman. This one is combining that with the weird scoopy muscle vest of the modern equivalent. A hybrid look.
Being flung bodily through the air by a beefy fellow is a Scary Go Round tradition. I don’t know which character has been flung the most, perhaps a historian will inform us.
Where did I get the term “we’re the mugs” from? I reckon it was Paul Merton’s 1996 faux-autobiography “My Struggle”. I listened to that audiobook approx 500 times.