Sans moustache
We’ve now entered a sequence of pages I “drew ill”. This was the worst day. I held it together through the shivering and rivers of snot and quality didn’t suffer too badly. I wore my bathrobe over my clothes and tucked a hot water bottle down the front. You might ask, John, why did you not just go and watch an old film on the sofa? I found myself asking the same thing quite quickly. But sometimes it helps to have a distraction.
If Dean were with them, he could accompany the horn on his horn.
Lottie is (uncharacteristically) continuing to say Glenn’s name correctly. Will this continue if and when he’s actually found and they reunite?
Is the seagull trying to match Lottie’s expression, or is Lottie trying to match the seagull’s?
It’ll turn out that Glenn changed his mind in the last minute. He’s back on shore, chatting with Dean.
Uh oh, Lottie’s other great nemesis has returned in Panel 2.
It turns out wax statues are no good out at sea (see the Wobbly Head part 2 seagull page comments for context)
Does John’s sickness have any bearing on the appearance of the classic polo mint in panel 4? Does the fact that Claire and Lottie have never explicitly discussed how they each feel about Glenn simmer in the background of this mission? What does Claire’s expression in panel 2 mean? Does the timer perform any real function here? Only you can tell.
But Lottie’s sincere expressions of concern for Glenn over the past couple of pages, albeit only in his absence in a crisis, are lovely to see.
The timer adds a vital sense of dramatic tension.
Perhaps the Polo looking like a mini life-saver is inspirational, or foreshadowing things to come!
What if the sofa doesn’t want you to
John’s illustrative skill while ill and chilled is still thrillingly coup de ville – and not just run of the mill!
(something windmill something daffodil… sorry, I ran out)
Fairies. Can’t live with e’m, can’t swat them fast enough.
Čechov seagull. They will attack Lottie making her fall in the Sea, I’m sure!