Big car crèche
While you may believe I have a natural feel for ferry terminals, actually I had to watch a lot of videos about arrival at Hull docks to capture this authentic patina. Where do the cars queue up? What happens when they do? How do they drive onto the boat? What time to do the ferries run? Can you observe this behaviour from a multi-storey car park? Some people just make this stuff up you know. Fearing the fine tooth comb of my most engaged readers, I dare not.
Have ferry people replaced seagulls as the thing Lottie fears most? We shall see.
Perhaps she fears all things littoral?
Literally littoral?
I take it she’s not a fan of Roxy Music then…
The Wikipedia article “Depot Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen” seems to be about 99% about the building and 1% about its contents and function.
Which, I don’t know, could be an accurate reflection of relative importance?
That’s a real place?!
Everything in John’s comics is real! Even the time travel! Probably!
Especially the time travel! It is well-documented by now that some of the things John includes did not exist before he included them, but afterwards they always existed.
There’s a separate article on the museum itself, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. The Depot was constructed to house the collections during the ongoing renovation of the museum, but it became an attraction in itself after it was decided to open it to visitors.
The design is apparently based on a stainless IKEA bowl. Not only that but a stainless IKEA bowl that will set its contents on fire if left in the sun. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ikea-bowl-blanda-blank-fire
PS when I heard about this a few years back I bought one and yes, it does.
[tonystark] I want one. [/tonystark]
Is his car making the sound “GLENN” as he drives into the ship?
That add-on cost a lot extra, you know.
If he had a modern EV it could be free! EVs are so silent that they are forced to make noises intentionally as they drive along, to stop them from sneaking up on animals and blind people and whatnot. Many EVs have operational menus where you get to select exactly which artificial noise you want your car to make (ours is called “UFO”).
I’m pretty sure “GLENNNNnnnnnn” would be an inexpensive aftermarket option.
Though he misspelled “Ygln”.
Pika Pika!
I have to wonder who it was that decided ‘bronze’ should be a color for cars. It’s just a fancy way of saying ‘brown’.
It sounds fancier, though, so they can charge more for it.
I feel in my bones and possibly my dictionary that bronze has a metallic sheen and brown is matte.
I would also be deeply put off by a car that was, on those terms, brown. It ain’t natural.
A couple of days of road dirt and it’s a distinction without a difference.
In the US, that color is usually called “Champaign.” Which implies that the pigments are harvested from the Champaign region of France, I guess?
“I had to watch a lot of videos about arrival at Hull docks to capture this authentic feel.”
So …. you’re not a ferry person either, are you John?
Clearly closeted
Baby steps, Mads
I live in Hull (Canada) and I am so thrilled about this story I can’t even
I recall having a discussion about Ferry People here before. Which strip was that?
I don’t remember ferry people. I do remember egg people.
The beginning of the previous issue, directly leading to and foreshadowing what’s going on right now, perhaps? https://badmachinery.com/comic/2026-01-09/
Cars on a boat is as unnatural as a car-boat. Or boat car. I had to include that last one because there’s always some smuggo that tries to get around it.
Hey, if the Top Gear lads can drive a pickup truck into the English Channel and keep it from sinking all the way to Calais, then anything is possible
On the other hand, there is TMBG “following the traces of your fingernails that run along the windshield on the boat of car.”
(looking at Claire’s dialogue) And people say a KIWI accent is hard to understand.
As someone who has, of my own free will, taken a ferry from Harwich to Hoek van Holland, I am overjoyed to finally have some representation in popular culture.
Having spent way too much time on ferries, I can assure you that you captured the feeling perfectly, John.
I agreed wholeheartedly – young Allison’s rendering of the terminal is really ferry good indeed!
Nice bit of Rail Alphabet on the Sealink logo. And of course Sealink is still going in the Bobbinsverse.
I’m from the flatlands of the Midwest, so I’m curious of the nature of ferry people.
That’s a Hull lot of cars there
I am pleased to see Sealink lives on in this world
Nice to see that Glenn is so important for them. Maybe this will help Lottie and Claire to change idea about ferries.
As Tackleford girls, Lottie and Claire are in that small segment of the population who have more experience of fairies than ferries.
Yes, practically everyone in Tackleford has experience with fairies… except for Sonny.
Not ferry people? San ferry Ann…
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