The dragooning of moi
Yesterday was my birthday but today I have a gift… for you. A whole new story! And as you can see, it continues straight on from the last page of “100% Cuddles”.
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
Yesterday was my birthday but today I have a gift… for you. A whole new story! And as you can see, it continues straight on from the last page of “100% Cuddles”.
Shouldn’t that be a “Little J’accuse”?
Also, I spy with my little eye something beginning with “What The Hell” crawling up the wheel arch.
I believe that creature is a gremlin, most famously known for damaging aircraft wings and getting blended…
I believe that creature is known as a “Chibi-Lottie-Vamp”, or some such. Though this one appears to be part sphinx. Or possibly part squirrel.
I recall people pointing them out before but what’s their dealio? My flawed memory draws a blank on their origins.
MiniChibiLottie first appeared during the Solver Autumn Special as a kind of alter-ego of Lottie’s manifesting in her psyche. Since then, we’ve seen these occasional glimpses here and there. The most likely explanation is that she represents some part of Lottie’s psyche and is not actually physically present, but given the nature of the world these stories take place in, who knows? Or maybe John just enjoys drawing her. (Link to her first appearance- https://badmachinery.com/comic/2022-07-15/ )
I am re-reading Wicked Things and I have spotted what looks like half a dozen MiniChibiLotties on the first page of issue 3 – a pale little presence at the edge of DI Dennison’s vision, haunting him and disturbing his sleep. Possibly entirely unrelated to the current spate of MiniLotties.
It’s unfortunately all been lost now, but my recollection is that John’s original comment on the page I linked to specifically introduced ChibbiLottie as a new character at that time, complete with some sort of “Will we see her again? Time will tell!”
Chibi Lottie is actually a Harry Du Bois-like manifestation pointing out random items of the area to Lottie’s fine detective mind.
It’s a Little-Lotte.
None’ll come and then a lot’ll.
Nice spying with your little eye, there. I missed it completely. Then again, I perversely keep improving ANYthing but my Perception Bonus whenever I level.
Or…”Un petit J’accuse!”
I hope you had a wonderful birthday!
chibi lotti
Cat chibi Lotti! Or is she half squirrel?
Thank you, sir, for this generous gift! It’s just what I always wanted!
Claire proves once again that she’s a genius. Let’s hope she never becomes an evil genius, specializing in arson and intimidations.
I don’t think we need to worry about that. Lottie could tell it was Claire the second new broke…I could actually see someone trying to frame Claire, but Lottie knows her well enough to know that Claire’s pyromania seems mostly limited to cookouts and other apropo settings.
My impression is that Lottie has something of a blind spot when it comes to Claire’s more dangerous side. To this day, I don’t think she has any idea that Claire used to burn down old barns when she was younger, for example. I think at most she occasionally gets an inkling that she was be slightly underestimating Claire in some ways.
Yeah, as far as I’ve been able to tell, Colm and Sonny are the only ones who ever figured out that Claire was the firebug. Sonny suggested it to the other boys, but they didn’t believe him. Colm let it slip at the wedding in “Missing Piece”, but don’t think anyone actually caught it, what with all the other drama going on.
Good point. It’s been a long time since I’ve read the old Bad Machinery stories.
I love that we’re picking up right where we left our heroes. I especially love that
Lottie still has residue from her Mind-Panda makeup around her eyes.
I’ve been watching this thing with Maisie Williams, and my brain keeps wanting to call her “Lottie”. She just got stuffed in a burlap sack; it gave me “Blood Egg” flashbacks.
Mini Chibi Lottie does a dance with Tiny Jack Hughes.
For a moment, in the second panel it looked as if Claire had lost a tooth, but then I remembered she didn’t actually wrestle. Squinting at my Zambian-mini screen it looks as if she’s just poking out her tongue. Phew!
Is this the strip where we’ll get to see Glenn go ham with concrete?
So um, what mystery did they solve exactly? Embezzlement? I feel like I’m missing something
The page that definitively answers this question appears on November 8th, by which time you will no longer care or even remember you asked it.
So the secret is that you must Remember, remember, the 8th of November
Remember, remember
on 8th of November
Evil embezzlement vice
I know of no reason
why that wrestling season
shouldn’t be thought of twice
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Having just downloaded the full comic, devoured it, re-read it more closely and then re-read it one more time just to savour it, I recommend the Patreon SO VERY MUCH.
And a very happy belated birthday, John!
The leaves on the car are a very nice detail!
Also, drawing a car from that angle? Superb.
This actually made my day. Thank you.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy Belated Birthday, John!
Yes, Happy Cake Day
Although I guess any day could be cake day, but this one is special because you can eat cake guilt-free!
Off in the margin of my daily planner it does say “Here Be Dragoons”