The ole bottom line
Lottie and Claire definitely perform a queue-jumping faux pas today. The mission ends as it begins, with a fog horn.
Comments are closed.
Lottie and Claire definitely perform a queue-jumping faux pas today. The mission ends as it begins, with a fog horn.
Comments are closed.
I must assume that the bearded gent with the interesting hair becomes a villain due to Solvers’ failure to observe queue protocol.
A very villainesque character design, to be sure.
I just feel a bit bad for him. He’s a ferry person though so only a little.
That would be a justified motivation!
Wait wait wait. This is an Important Moment that deserves to be acknowledged.
Charlotte called him “Glenn”.
In this issue (HULL OR HIGH WATER) alone, this is, by my count, the fifth time Lottie’s called Glenn “Glenn” (admittedly, one of the other four times had some extra “n”s at the end, but I think it counts). She also used his correct last name at least once.
Lottie wants to show Glenn that she care for him, expecially after his breakdown. But after he will fully recover, I’m sure she will call him with others names because it’s fun.
There isn’t going to be any music. The automated one-man band has been soundly defeated by the living carpet.
The giant sloth will avenge its fallen friend/foe.
They did play some music to wake the passengers up as the ship approached port.
Finally we have the answer!
I think my original take on it got lost in the site crash, but I figure it’s a rock/scissors/paper sort of match: The automated one-man band can bludgeon the sloth with its steely fists and deafen it with sonic attacks, but neither blunt trauma nor dissonance are effective against the tough, flexible, earless fabric of the carpet. The living carpet can constrict and muffle the band, but the sloth’s claws would tear it up. The giant sloth can rip the carpet apart with its long claws, but they’d be ineffective against the hard metal frame of the band.
So band breaks sloth, sloth cuts carpet, carpet wraps band. And the overall winner is whichever isn’t in the first matchup.
You lying get!
The ferry tickets aren’t inclusive of meals? Poor show, Sealink.
When i used to get the ferry over to Dublin I was given a voucher for a meal in the exclusive Driver’s Lounge where we were all kept safely segregated from the riff raff. I’d have never eaten there otherwise though, not at those prices!
Clearly this was filled with subliminal pro-ferry messaging, because I find myself dying to head to the nearest BC Ferries terminal and head over to Swartz Bay. Or Departure Bay. Or Langdale. Or…
I grew up in NYC, and I’ve been feeling an odd craving o return there just to ride the Staten Island Ferry back and forth a few times, myself.
You can arrive at Departure Bay? That can’t be right…
They change all the signs to Arrival Bay when you’re coming the other way.
Those are my local (ish) ferries too. But they only take about 90 minutes…I haven’t been on an overnight ferry for about 50 years.
Glenn is feeling positive that whatever he does will turn out to be a huge mistake.
(Hey! How did I get logged out?)
John felt peckish and ate the cookies.
The disgruntled bearded gentleman with the peculiar haircut must have the same stylist as Will Ferrell’s character in Zoolander.
Glenn’s so hot right now!
How can anyone the size of Little Claire find a jumper short enough to do that? Or is that just a scarf with sleeves?
I am aware of this garment: https://youtu.be/90YpWl6uQKw?si=3j8jjTjfAR0JZn38&t=70
At the risk of blowing minds, try typing the words “cropped polo neck jumper” into Google. It’s not going to be a long road to enlightenment.
https://www.shopcider.com/product/detail?pid=113939983&style_id=2066168&sku_id=10306374¤cy=GBP&local=en&country=GB
No one has mentioned the Mackesons Stout hoodie. The very epitome of fashion. Perhaps the oldies saw it and marked Lottie down as one of their own!
I see what you did there.
Larry David’s in the line to witness the girls’ top level “chat and cut” skills
It ends as all adventures end, with a foghorn
or possibly a leghorn
“Ah say, Ah say….”
“Nice kid, but a little slow…”
I’m surprised Claire follows Lottie without showing the slightest discomfort, or that none of the people in line didn’t start yelling at them. Or am I just speaking from an Italian’s point of view and English elders don’t make a fuss with those who skip the line?
That look in panel 2 is the English equivalent of a full on screaming fit. They will be glowered at, and they will stay glowered at.
Joining someone you know in a queue is the very limit of British tolerance. If Claire or Lottie subsequently got the last fresh slice of bacon then it’s very likely that the man behind them would tut. Which is defcon 2 in the UK.
Would that they were on a Scottish ferry and they would be able to partake of a proper restorative breakfast bap. Square sausage. tattie scone and fried egg on a morning roll. This will either perk you up a treat or the cholestral will kill you were you stand. Eiher way problem solved
Does it include deep-fried Mars bars?
Doesn’t the “chocolate” melt off when you fry them? Or do you bread them first?
They come from fish & chip shops, so I assume that they’re coated in batter first. But I try not to think about them.
I’m taking this comic as tacit approval for getting a balding samurai topknot in my 50s.
Man Bun will return in 7-10 years for his justified revenge!
OH MY GOD IT’S A TIME-TRAVELING DEAN, DESPERATE TO KNOW AT LAST WHAT THE FERRY LIFE HOLDS
If they’re out of coin now, how will they make it back again?
Perhaps the tickets they bought were round-trip?
Alternately, once ashore they would have fresh access to their banks which they are somehow missing while afloat
Eh, I don’t think it’s the latter… their banking access and scant funds coincided when they became ticket holders.
Maybe they can’t make it back, so while Glenn is ready to go home and face the music, there isn’t going to be any music because there isn’t going to be any going home!
I think what Claire means is that she thinks most likely Cathey won’t actually fly to the UK at all, and even if she does Claire and Lottie will protect Glenn, so he doesn’t have to “face the music”.
Given the title of the next page, I’m half-expecting “Shelley, Esther, and Nemulon appear and shanghai them into Solving the cliffhanger we left Destroy History on.” It’d be a lot more than half, but I know John likes to mislead us with those titles.
Alternately, maybe they can do some Solving on the Continent to re-inflate their bank account. Or turn their hands to international jewel thievery.
“Nut Tea” apparel goes hard.
I think someone’s mentioned everything else, so I’ve just got to put in a word for the reappearance of Lottie’s Amstrad leggings, from back in “Circus Windows”. I like when the characters don’t just wear the same outfit every day, like a lot of comics where the clothes are just part of the character design (as distinct from early Ryan, who just… wore the same clothes every day, until Shelley and Amy burned them), but still have a definite wardrobe with articles of clothing that reappear from time to time.