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?
Seagulls seems more like a serius phobia for her
At least a ferry won’t poop on you. AFAIK.
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.
When can I install my Zambian OS
You need to have gone back in time to when Zambian was being developed and then be back in this time having never left
Although that also voids the warranty…
Such paradoxes are common in time travel, I hear.
Or will have been.
Grammar for time travelers requires learning a few more verb tenses not known to those who experience time only linearly.
*wioll haven be
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]
I do won one of those, but I never thought of using it as an incendiary device. Shame on me.
it needs to be the largest size to collect enough sunlight, experiments* have shown
*in my back garden
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.
Sure, but can an EV emit a cloud of smoke that spells your name? Without a pricey after-market kit, I think not!
my dads hybrid makes a noise like somebody is getting raptured when it runs on the electric motor and I honestly hate it
I wonder about the “so silent” brewha. Reducing engine noise is a good thing, and folk should just pay attention to their surroundings. Regardless of power train, I can hear the tire noise of vehicles when I am out for a walk to know they are nearby :}
It depends on the road surface and other traffic
I once had an EV pull up into the park beside where I was walking and I nearly had a heart attack because there was absolutely no discernable noise to warn me
At highway speeds, sure. If cars are regularly interacting with pedestrians at highway speeds something has already gone wrong.
At slow speeds, tyre noise isn’t enough to alert people there’s a Tesla sneaking up on them, waiting to pounce.
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.
I think the relationship between “bronze” and “brown” is the same as the relationship between “golden” and “yellow”, or “silver” and “white”.
Well, of course. Bronze and golden are the colors of medals. Brown and yellow are…I won’t finish that sentence.
Bronze is closer to copper than brown.
In the early ’60s my parents owned a 1960 Chevy Parkwood Estate that was bronze inside and out. Sitting inside it in sunlight was like being fried in a big copper pot. Such an experience could never be replicated with brown.
In the US, that color is usually called “Champaign.” Which implies that the pigments are harvested from the Champaign region of France, I guess?
Nobody does region-of-origin lawsuits like the French!
Fun fact from someone who makes his own male fragrance: If you even THINK about trying to call your boy-stinkum “cologne” if it wasn’t made in Cologne itself, a flock of ravening lawsuits will descend across the Atlantic so hard that you will CEASE TO EXIST.
If it’s called ‘Champaign’ then it’s probably pigments harvested from the Champaign region of Illinois, USA
Otherwise it’s just “sparkling brown”.
It would be officially “brown” if registered in New York State. Car registration seems to have been based on the original Crayola 8.
“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
First sculls, then narrowboats, then ferries. It’s a natural progression.
Do not take the offramp to jet skis.
But can we take the jet ski ramp???
Only during the monsoons.
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.
Yeah nah, Kiwi accents are sweet as, bro
Just check out the character Victoria on ‘Animal Control’ for an authentic one amongst all the US accents
That first line reminds me of an old youtube (flash?) animation where Australians were attempting a Kiwi accent. I personally cannot vouch for how well they pulled it off though, with my limited experience hearing the real deal.
It’s not great
Probably about as good as Kiwis attempting Aussie accents
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.
One of them became a successful singer and songwriter, even.
That’s a Hull lot of cars there
I am pleased to see Sealink lives on in this world
I had narrowed it down to either SEALINK or SEAJUNK
Sealink: http://www.doublearrow.co.uk/manual/7_26.1974-01.gif
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.
I miss Sonny, I wonder what he’s up to.
You’ll find out
I’m Craven his reappearance
Not ferry people? San ferry Ann…
More of those, silver plate!
FEAR THE COMB!
0/10 ferry port, no Desmond Fishman in the water, would not recommend
It’s because Dean is not yet worthy
Don’t do it, girls! Everyone knows Fe(RR)y Folk aren’t to be trusted! With their Ferry wings and Ferry dust, it’s like entering a whole other world!
The difference between fairy dust and ferry dust is that one gives you the power of flight, and the other gives you lung cancer.
By today’s title, I’d thought to see the Baby Jesus in a Rolls Royce.
We may yet.
Is that a dead-person loading zone she can see through her binoculars in panel 1?
Taking diversity to new levels…
I hope not, since that’s Glenn she’s looking at.
Ferry’s are car creches and bars (in Kill or be Quilt) are man chreches. So many new kinds of creche!
I always knew that ferries are boats that carry cars and trucks. But if it’s any encouragement to you, Mr Allison, I’d like you to know that your story-telling has made me aware of the difference between UK ferries and the Balboa Island Ferry.
https://www.balboaislandferry.com/
For one thing, UK ferries are much larger. More like cruise ships with garages.
And your comment has made me aware of Balboa Island, named after Rocky Balboa because the island is also rocky (made of stallone with rich sylvester deposits)
The Balboa Island Ferry looks to be about the same size as the one that runs across the river in Turku, Finland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B6ri
I just had a flashback of being bored out of my mind, waiting in line to get on the Denmark ferry as a child, (before Öresundsbron was built) looking forward to when we finally could get out of the car and run around.
Oh to be away with the ferries
I am about to board a ferry