I said shoulder
Lottie may be waterlogged but the dopamine rush of total victory is a wave all of us can ride with pleasure.
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
Lottie may be waterlogged but the dopamine rush of total victory is a wave all of us can ride with pleasure.
Dean is still suitably miffed
He might have gone off in a huff if the Police hadn’t arrived, so instead he’ll have to go off in a minute and a huff
I thought you were dead, Groucho.
“Say the magic woid and win 500 dollas!”
Dean is just completely DONE with this bullshit. The man just wanted to play Scrabble.
“Hey, you didn’t ask for my help, so I’ll just sit this one out”
Sandra’s face in the last panel might imply previous run-ins with the law. AS IT IS PROPER FOR MY NEW FAVOURITE HEROINE
Well she is the only one holding an offensive weapon… unless you count Lottie’s scissors
(or her mouth)
Better search Claire for matches.
Or Lottie’s j’accuse ability!
“That’s the reservoir that drowned my doppelgänger.” (pointing)
“What reservoir? All I see is a J’accuse-ee. (Could use some heated jets, tho)”
She’s already annoyed at having to satisfy the tedious procedural requirements of the local constabulary even before they begin. With her experience it would normally take her about a minute to get them to stand down. Unfortunately she hasn’t the same experience with getting Lottie to stand down. This may take a bit longer than she’s used to.
Sandra is a Professional while those Bobbies might have received a few months training, so they’re not so high in her regard.
Lottie says to the police “I know, I know – vous m’accusez. But let me tell you what really happened.”
Strong Glaire shipping vibes in Panel 2
Was that an armed response? My TV watching tells me most UK po-po interactions are sans-gunnery, unless they ask “to bring the heat”.
Oh, and is that Claire choosing? Maybe it’s just friendly.
I get the impression that our protagonists’ raised hands are merely a reflexive sign of “We’re not here to cause trouble”, not a response to the presence of actual shooters.
(Though why the plod showed up so quickly is yet to be established. Lottie wasn’t going to call them, so who did? Someone may have told them that stuff was occurring involving lethal weapons. I imagine that a suspect with a bow might be serious enough to invoke Armed Response.)
A victory five years in the making
Yep, Lottie and Bitsy did the classic Spider-Man strategy; joke around and ridicule the pompous self-import foe, crack their ego and psyche so they can’t think, and then go in for the hit.
*self-important
Well, she’s from Germany, and now she’s in Britain, so one assumes she also self-imported.
Imagination and contingency; that’s how Beate lost. Her plan was insidiously brilliant, but it was her only one.
Also for someone who studied her mortal nemesis, Beate sure didn’t learn much about Lottie and her techniques or allies
Definitely not. Her thinking is just too narrowly focused. Beate definitely seems to have a bit of a Dunning Kruger Effect thing going on. She just copied Lottie’s looks and some mannerisms and thought that’s all three work she had to do.
*the work
I disagree. Lottie only met Bitsy and Sandra for the first time in Wobbly Head Part 1, so she’s only known them for a few days, not long enough for Beate to have learned much about them. And it was Bitsy who had the insight that led to this plan, not Lottie, as shown on the last panel of the page linked to below. I think Bitsy was the wold card here who led to Lottie’s victory. https://badmachinery.com/comic/the-genuine-article/
This is a “WEEE OOO WEEE in red and blue” appreciation comment.
Complete with distinctive BMW grill, as is appropriate
Lottie *is* experienced in being arrested. She can help the others along.
Except Sandra. Sandra knows how to deal with the gendarmerie!
NO BODY NO CLOSURE, PEOPLE
YOU KNOW THE RULES
I.e. Boba Fett, Doctor Doom, etc.
Everyone ever lost in a jungle plane crash on a soap opera, Alternate Timeline Tasha Yar, etc., etc
We’ll get Reichenbach to you on that.
Yeah, I imagine that we may see Beate pulling herself ashore somewhere downstream in a subsequent strip. Though we may then see her suffer something ironically terminal.
It’s a dam, so downstream is either through the turbines or via the overspill. a rough ride either way.
Beate is washed onto the beach, barely alive. Her vision, blurred.
A decrepit and scarred old man in a wheelchair ominously rolls up towards her.
RALPH: “I can offer you great power, young one.”
The dramatic music crescendos here.
Beate will return in “Bobbins: Des Day”.
This case isnt closed until a certain back tattoo is shown.
At this point, I think no tatoo is needed. There’s no way Beate could have perfected Lottie’s voice and accent (without it sounding off as it had previously) in the course of five minutes.
The warning was No Police, so they’re off the hook for taking the law into their own hands.
-They had no choice but to deal with the situation on their own. If the police were involved this story would be at least 10 to 20 pages longer and much more boring.
Not if P.I. Renwick and the Clotted Crime crew were in the case!
ROBERT COP! ROBERT COP! ROBERT! COP!
Renwick would be out of his jurisdiction, as no clergyman was involved in the case.
As far as we know.
Sandra was going to shoot her in the head with a shoulder? I kinda wish I had seen that.
Definitely would have knocked her into the water!
So that’s Beate drowned then??
They must ASSUME that she has drowned, but THAT would involve more Police and searching with dogs and helicopters, etc. (You know what they say about assumptions!) She might just be hiding because even if she’s crazy she’s NOT stupid!
Sorry Sandra, but I believe Lottie. No doubts the plan B was shooting Skelottie in the head. Also, no news of her, I hope they were able to survive and will become a constant menace. Seeing Claire hug Glen is so sweet.
Lottie in the police car as they approach the station: “…and then she just went in the water too, so weird…”
The police: “What! Another person fell in and you’re only telling us now?!?”
Who called the police? There was a whole “as if I would” when Lottie was reacting that idea.
Was it Bitsy? Did Skelottie already post something on social media about her plans? Are they all trespassing?
Bitsy might have called the Police when they arrived to inform them of the crime (visual confirmation of the wheel-chaired hostages at the edge of the water.)
If Skelottie had recruited doubles for Claire and Glen they would have had to call them the Doppelgang thank you and good night.
Well, a Doppelgang was involved in creating this situation in the first place!
I might suggest those Harley St fellows are the true doppelgangsters
Best thing about the Internet tonight. Bravo.
They’ve been freed from their restraints, yet Dean, Glenn and Claire seem to be in no hurry to shed their “fine foil ponchos”…
The filth’s arrival may have them prioritizing putting up their hands more than using them to remove the ponchos.
Also I don’t believe they’d be overheating underneath their free gifts, although the constant rustling will probably soon drive them bonkers