Should be easier
I can prove beyond all doubt that it takes a mess of help to stand alone:
Is that the Captain from Captain and Tennille on piano? Please ask a teenager because this is one for the teenagers.
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Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
We have canonical confirmation of EMOTIONS! Or at least the embryonic pop-of-color heart in the air.
Claire’s little heart…
symbolically the only speck of colour in the whole page
gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling
Indeed, it’s real candy for us Glaire shippers.
Personal Pain Pizza
No Claire don’t take meth for your problems, that will just make them worse!
On further review I may have misread something. I apologize for the error.
Claire doesn’t need meth. A box of matches will suffice.
That’s how meth labs explode!
(not the sniffer dogs, the laboratories…)
How do the sniffer dogs exp… on second thought, don’t answer that.
Porque no loth doth?
Coming this summer, Breaking Bad Machinery!
I’d always assumed that Mildred was the one who was going to have a villain origin.
Well she briefly kind of did when she was turned into a clown before Lottie snapped her out of it.
Cracked Little
Actual LOL at that last panel, I’ve had that worry.
It’s mentioned on the wikipedia page for this album (Carl and the Passions – So Tough) that both Captain (Daryl Dragon) and Tenile toured UK as part of the beach boys in 1972, that included this set. A teenager probably wrote the page.
Wait, you’re telling me that Captain’s real name was Daryl Dragon? And that he chose to launch his musical carreer under the artistic name of Captain??? That’s insanity. Maritime insanity.
That’s like being named “Thurl Ravenscroft” at birth and changing it to “Steven Jones” for professional reasons.
Well, “Daryl Dragon and his Wife” doesn’t have the same snap to it as “Captain and Tennille” now does it?
Dragon and Damsel, maybe?
Claire’s promise is very sweet, but is she including Lottie in that “anyone”?
There may be an implied exception for anthropomorphic forces of nature
We’ve seen Glenn stand up to Lottie, albeit in a running-away kind of way, when he quit rather than manage her boy band. I feel like he has more of a handle on her than she does on him.
I feel as if Glenn tends to bring out Lottie’s more self-centered side, which gets in the way of her getting to genuinely know him. I do think she values and cares about him, though. She just also tends to take him for granted. Also, I think it’s often harder for loud, outgoing people to really get to know quiet, observant people than the otehr way around.
Yes, that does appear to be the Captain at the piano, while Dennis mimes playing the organ. And while Dennis does that, there’s a Rutle on the drums.
Is it The Noisy One?
Barry Wom was the noisy one. This is Stig O’Hara, seven time winner of the Nobel Prize for Air Hostesses.
I thought this was segueing into an after school special about drug use for a second in the fifth panel.
Claire is in love. This will all end in flames.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice?
Sorry. These days, I’m not going to say it.
Glen may just be the siren by which girls with pixie haircuts dash themselves upon the rocks.
Can I just say, I’m so glad he didn’t escape and prolong the search sequence. It was the exact right length, and this is much more interesting and hopeful.
The lone heart over Claire having that expression is cuter than the scientific Italian word for skin.
As a non-native English speaker, I feel the urge to use “Mess of help” in one of today interaction with other human being. Mr. Allison, you’re both a miner and a smith of phrases.
By any chance, does someone remind if and which John’s comic the phrase “you’re a good egg” is being used? I’d bet my auny’s leg that Claire is involved.
[Please, answer only of you remind about it by any chance and not because you’ve a good memory. Serendipity must drive the ball.]
I could not resist looking up scientific Italian words for skin. Well done, HLH!
I, too, had to look it up. I was not sorry!
‘You’re a good egg’ is a fairly common British idiom. I wouldn’t be surprised if John has used it more than once over the years, but my google-fu isn’t good enough to point you to where.
Claire’s expression in 4th panel seems the one she do while taking a mental note for the future. Now she wants to destroy any chance Catheey would return in Glenn’s life even more.
There is so much I want to read into Glenn’s words and Claire’s facial expression in that 4th panel that I’m not sure which way to turn here.
Debtor’s prison! Oh, No they will ship him to Australia to work off the debt!
Just want to point out how amazing that first panel is. Imagine of John had posted just that panel, completely out of context, as a kind of premonition of the future back when these three first officially formed their association, as a hint of dark things to come.
First the debtor prison, then the deportation to Australia, and finally a Kon-Tiki expedition back to New Zealand where Cathey awaits.
That’s a slow and dangerous trip for a balsa raft!