Night and fog
Still ill. I think it helped with the following sequence. I was a sick man, in a sick land. Same old quicksand taking me under!
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Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
Still ill. I think it helped with the following sequence. I was a sick man, in a sick land. Same old quicksand taking me under!
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The eye is watching Glenn from the darkness like a crazy German philosopher. Cathy seems more and more nice and scary at the maximum level. Our poor heroe will probably fall in the Sea, maybe with a push from a very angry Cathy who only pretended to be fine with him running.
I think Ylgn is going to back himself over the rail trying to fend off an etheric Cathey approaching him with smiling inevitability.
Furk! I misspelled “Ygln”!
Is it even possible to misspell what is already a deliberate misspelling?
Funny you should mention German philosophers, I read all of this in a Werner Herzog voice.
“Timmofy Twedwell wuved tha bears”
Between Glurm and what I expect Lottie’s experience will be, this isn’t the most ringing endorsement of Stugeron.
I keep wanting to type that as “sturgeon”. The anti-nausea medication with the great taste of fish.
Never having heard of Stugeron, I wondered if it might be a play on something. Backwards, it’s No re-guts. Hmmm.
Without it, Lottie would probably have been re-gutsing all over the place…
“It’s me, I’m Cathey, I’ve come home.”
🎵 “Let me into your window…”
*porthole
Exactly! But like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR2GWC9H1pc
Take all the internets today. This is brilliant.
I feel obligated to reply with this version – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=212yQoHqCYQ
I’ll raise you…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv25cZUr-ww
Today I learned the Kiwi pronunciation of Glenn is “Heathcliff”.
Scritti Politti ding ding ding
I have been listening to Provision quite a lot lately, but I did not pick up the reference. Or is it an allusion to the actual writings of Gramsci, not the work of Green Gartside? Either way, please enlighten me!
From this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yim9GuwlmA4
Thank you!
Rap by the Lee Majors who doesn’t run at sixty mph.
Still my favourite album of Green’s.
Mine too I think!
While Timaru is ruled directly by a Tractor King, Dunedin has abolished the agricultural vehicle monarchy and has instituted a harvester republic.
Thank you. I’m sure I’m not the only one here who finds the politics of New Zealand confusing.
I haven’t even got the hang of Old Zealand yet!
Meanwhile Oamaru has steampunked all its heavy equipment into terrifying and powerful forms.
This whole strip feels like a Magnus Archives podcast episode and I’m loving it.
I can’t believe no one’s commented on the sinister band of black-clad, one-eyed thugs on deck.
They came for take Glenn in the abyss!
Lottie accidentally released them on the previous page.
Stugeron. Side effects include:
• Drowsiness
• Indigestion
• Excessive sweating
• Dry mouth
• Uniocular ninja haunts
All of which are meant to distract the user from seasickness?
Ugh, the threat of someone buying you a house… I know that one
Someone slip Gorm some sedatives before he vanishes into the Night World!
Haha! I just came here to say that! It may be too late for John though. Damn that Eastern-European Pro-Plus!
Voices in the waves? I don’t suppose Rev. Penrose and his axe are on board; Lottie would surely have spotted him towering over the crowds. It’s probably just Glib’s fear and insomnia talking, but let’s hope Lottie has some tips she picked up in Tredregyn in her back pocket.
I think it’s the side effects of the Sturgeron he took, combined with his fear and insomnia. Or else Cathey is actually some sort of terrifying sea witch who commands hordes of one-eyed minions. Either one is possible.
But there’s a chance that Rev Penrose is still out of the circle, living his best life with Shelley Winters and being a father for her daughter Peggy.
As we wish for all of our reverends.
Fuckin’. NINJAS!
But there’s a chance that Rev Penrose is still out of the circle, living his best life with Shelley Winters and being a father for her daughter Peggy.
Out of curiosity I went and looked up Timaru on the maps end the first thing I saw was the two disctricts/neighborhoods called Gleniti and Glenwood.
From a quick look at Wikipedia, Timaru appears to be pretty rural and the site of a bunch of animal husbandry – didn’t realize that Gurm was a farmboy. Worse things in the world than ending up the kept man of the Tractor King’s Daughter.
Actually Glenn is from Te Awamutu (North Island) and presumably Cathey is from Timaru (South Island) so I wonder how and where they met…
In New Zealand it is fairly traditional to leave your hometown and go to university elsewhere. A higher level of institutional specialisation used to encourage this too.
New Zealand is quite small in terms of population.
I’m a kiwi and while this is a possible scenario I am still curious what backstory we’ll learn from John
I just thought they met at university
Glenn and his fellow Solvers come from much, much further away from each other than that, at yet, they met. People don’t only meet people from the area they’re born in.
Still sick while drawing this page?
Is that called “method drawing”?
I find myself unable to coherently establish the parameters of the ire induced in me by the superfluous ‘e’ in ‘Cathey’. Somehow I hate her without even knowing the character very well…
Was mainly a UK (Scots?) variant more popular in the 2nd half of the 20th century
Her parents might be 2nd or 3rd generation NZers with a desire to feel a connection to their ancestors?
Hmmmm… well, just in the interest of ‘for the record’:
I mean, I’ll take your word for it since presumably you looked into it(?) but to be honest with you: i) I’m a fair percentage Scottish myself and so are many of my relations (none of whom called ‘Cathey’, for what that’s worth); ii) live in the U.K. and always have done; iii) I’ve never- like I don’t think EVER, not even once, encountered someone called ‘CathEy’. Not in real life, nor in any of the considerable genealogical research I’ve conducted over the past 15 years+ (which isn’t to say NO woman officially ‘Catherine’ WENT by ‘CathEy’, but I’ve seen no evidence supporting it). Also iv) a quick ‘Google’ seems to indicate it’s, if anything, a surname. The only Wikipedia article featuring a woman with it as a first name is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathey_Palyo, which is usually somewhat indicative (there are two other mentions in OTHER people’s articles of women with that spelling of the name, however). All this to say- I get it’s ‘just’ a character name in a top-quality comic, it doesn’t ACTUALLY make me rubicundly furious, it was a bit of (intended to be humorous) hyperbole, and this is a lot of words. But pedantry is something better ventured into wholeheartedly, after all. Have a good one!
Oh, dear. For all the worry about Glyrm becoming one of the Ferry Folk, it seems no thought was given to the siren’s call of the Night People. Paging Dr. Ptolemy—we need 100cc’s of sleepytime tea and a tight tether at the misen!