Such a hard line
Porter Bookshop is a real (and very eclectic) bookshop in Sheffield, in the same spirit as the much-missed Rare & Racy.
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
Porter Bookshop is a real (and very eclectic) bookshop in Sheffield, in the same spirit as the much-missed Rare & Racy.
I’m not saying Lottie has never admit her mistakes before, but it’s nice to see her so moved to do so with her dear, old friends. Who have bo problem at forgive her.
Seeing these three together again makes me so happy. I’m grinning ear-to-ear. I love how well these two know Lottie.
Not only that, but lazy eye or not Shauna is a perfect hostess.
Ooh wow, Charlotte was really dropping bombs there at the end
I’m pretty sure her friends all understood that that was just Lottie’s fervent and zealous nature.
Even knowing that, it still must’ve stung in the moment. But since they do understand that, it was easy for them to forgive her once she apologised. And to be there for her in this tight spot, even before her apology.
Exactly.
Ending the team wasn’t an easy decision, but look at them brush aside past quarrels and fall back into the old groove.
Like the last time they did it was just the day before.
It was literally the day before for me, I just reread the series.
I’m really liking this point in Lottie’s character journey. She’s starting to realize as brilliant as she is, her major weakness is that she’s pushed too many people she loves and relies on to the side. I think it’s great that Shauna and Linton unceremoniously accept her apology and get right to work.
Shauna’s harsh honesty (on account of 2.5 beers) in this little arc from two years ago (our time) may have helped to trigger this revelation of her major weakness.
I think panel 4 is missing a ‘be’ between ‘wouldn’t’ and ‘sitting’. Now I’ll go see if I have some British coins amongst my collected travel specie to chip in on the next hamper.
Rest assured that this clearly worded typo spot does not qualify for hamper dudgeon.
Weird Social Injustices – new genre of literature? But is it fiction or nonfiction?
Creative nonfiction. Like true crime. It’ll be all over the TikTok by Easter.
“Waterborne Traitor” is the title of my upcoming concept hip-hop album.
I appreciated explaining the gap and the drift apart makes even more sense
I very much miss Rare & Racy. What a loss. x
As part of a firefighter family, I can confirm the police nepo-baby thing is true.
Did we see the break up of the old mystery team on screen? I’m sure I’d remember such cutting insults.
No. This is the first you’re hearing about it.
Is this perhaps a more “historically accurate” version of the events in and around the Garyverse (i.e. the story Lottie told Shelley in The Big Hiatus)? Or is my initial guess for when these off-screen happenings happened off?
That story took place earlier. That was Lottie’s justification for the falling out she and Shauna had over Blossom. They made up by the end of The Case of the Severed Alliance, I think. The six Mystery Kids were still working together after the end of Bad Machinery during the story with Future Scout- that’s when they officially made Claire the seventh Mystery Kid. So it would have been sometime after that.
Ah, that makes sense – Lottie was telling Shelley about the falling out around the middle of the Future Scout arc, while Claire became official towards the end of that arc. So the timeline in my brain was as hopelessly ruined at the get-go as Future Scout’s attempts on Shelley’s life.
The framing story for “Big Hiatus” was set the day before the beginning of “Severed Alliance”, a few days after the end of “Missing Piece”. The tale Lottie tells Shelley was set in the summer before that, between “the case of the MOPED INSANITY” (“Modern Men”) and “the case that didn’t seem to feature a mystery” (“Missing Piece”, which overlapped “Space is the Place”).
Lottie and Shauna split up in “Missing Piece”, and Claire declared them “best friendth again” at the end of “Severed Alliance”. They worked together (and were in Claire’s band) in “Hard Yards” and “Wen-Tack” after that. I think the final break-up of the mystery team came after “Wen-Tack”, as a result of the terrible chain of events Mildred set in motion causing the loss of Griswald’s sixth form and the mystery kids scattering to different schools.
And people say the X-men have a convoluted continuity.
I wish someone had snapped my Wacom pen before I could make that story
What’s this?! Personal growth, forgiveness, progression?!
(Sniff, wipes tears away) Right then! Stiff upper lip! There’s a mystery to be solved!!
That casual “forgiven” is everything. True friendship right there
And distracted, even. Those slights from the past aren’t nearly as important as helping Lottie in the here and now.
We’re losing so many of these great third spaces in Canada. When our home-grown indie-crushing book chain Chapters opened here in Vancouver, they at least had a coffee shop (albeit Starbucks) and a generous scattering of conversation areas with comfortable places to sit.
That seems like a lifetime ago. Chapters merged with a rival chain, and most of the chairs have been supplanted by racks of scented candles and Live-Laugh-Lurv cushions. (“Make anywhere you want a nurturing, welcoming place,” they seem to say, “so long as it isn’t here.”)
Our local Chapters/Indigo is closing, having accomplished its mission of smothering all of the little independent bookstores in town.
That’s IT!! Send in the Black Helicopters!!!
That’s how I felt about our downtown Vancouver Chapters when the Granville Book Company closed its doors. But the latter’s owners denied that was the issue; I can’t recall whether they cited something else.
I wonder if Shauna ever apologized for “pallid dingbat” and “alabaster idiot”.
So, so, so happy to see reconciliation amongst friends and filling in the gaps of our favorite Mystery Kids.
Two weeks into the New Year here in America. And so far, we’ve seen Jimmy Carter’s funeral, Pacific Palisades wiped off the map, the Gaiman Scandal explode and verification that The Village People will perform at Trump’s coronation. Thank you for this, the one true bright spot in what has otherwise been the fallout from Agent Cooper destroying the timeline.
That’s why I’m here.