To seal the deal
Clip and save Claire’s latest shredding! Collect ten and you can send off for an exclusive Palitoy Bobby Problems figure. Warning: features several choking hazards.
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
Clip and save Claire’s latest shredding! Collect ten and you can send off for an exclusive Palitoy Bobby Problems figure. Warning: features several choking hazards.
Perhaps Claire has substituted shredding for arson as a tension reliever in her life.
Nah. She’s just making kindling.
I hope they don’t need to look up any ferry times on those timetables that just got shredded.
Presumably even ferries are not so antediluvian as to avoid the internet entirely with their vital info?
The irony of letting their hand-made confetti fall to the floor as they set off to prevent the real thing – genius!
(And the blur of hands is excellent)
The J’Accuse is so strong, it enters the comic reality from the borders of the page
I am deeply curious about the type of car that Dean chooses to drive.
Maybe Lottie was being literal: Dean drives an Amstrad Jalopy ZL.
I thought Claire might pull an Esther and subconsciously tear the paper into the word “DOOM”
“And I ran, I ran so far away…” — A Flock of Seagulls
(hope he didn’t go to Iran; it’s a war zone now.)
I know he’s flustered and all, but Glym really should know better than to take Dean’s advice seriously.
You should read Bethany’s comment on the page I’m linking to here. I suspect it may be relevant here. https://badmachinery.com/comic/2026-02-20/
I’m starting to think Clippy makes for a better therapist than Dean.
Lottie telling Dean he’s going to do penance is so satisfying.
The Pirates of Penance
I was just thinking how great it is that John commits to the bit with the logo on Zambian phones but then flicked back and on the back of Glurm’s phone there’s….an A? https://badmachinery.com/comic/2026-01-26/
What could the tackleford Android be? Astroboy? Angenrheidrwydd[1]?
It can’t be a burner – that’d be Claire’s.
[1] ‘necessity’ in welsh, apparently, and pleasingly close in pronunciation to our thing.
A for Amstrad, obviously.
Gods I adore this writing ❤️