It’s green no more
Let’s come together, right now, in sweet harmony. Dean Thompson has never been happier, he’s smiling so much in panel six that he appears to be in pain. But that’s not pain, it’s ecstasy. Is it right or wrong? Try to find a place that we all belong. Be as one!
Are the bottom left panels supposed to be Lottie and Glem’s lines, or Dean’s?
More importantly, where did the extra “the” come from in panel 8?
And, even more importantly, what will we do with ourselves until Solver 8? (And what counts as #1-7?) So many questions.
There’s one more page to this story, according to the “Scheduled Comics” section on the left.
In the Patreon preview those balloons come from off-panel right, indicating that it is Dean speaking.
I see it’s been fixed.
Who is talking in the third and second last panels? The bubbles point to Charlotte and the guy, but the words seem to be DT’s…
They are in a euphoric place where they all belong as one, so it is the Gestalt who speaks.
Sorry, for some reason there was an old, wrong version of the page uploaded. Fixed now!
John I applaud you for being probably the only webcomics creator to have made multiple references to PTEs
I’ve only met one author who’s done more. At least, I think I have. One night down the pub in glasgow I got chatting to a bloke who said he was writing a novel.
“It’s about a glasgow bus driver, and his travels in south america…” (in retrospect, this sounds suspiciously like the film ‘Carla’s Song’ but the conversation was a few years earlier).
“… but I’m also writing a non-fiction book.”
“What’s that about then?”
“A history of the glasgow corporation buses”.
“So… you’re writing both of these books, but they’re not finished? What are you doing to support yourself?”
“I drive a bus”
(at this point I think I spat out most of my pint laughing)
Something of a new twist on the busman’s holiday.
Writing what he knows, I guess.
Could it have been Magnus Mills? He drives a bus!
It was a scottish guy, so not Mills, but it could easily have been Paul Laverty (the writer of Carla’s Song) taking the mickey, and making up a couple of bits – he wrote it about 5 years before the film so about the right time; and we were very very drunk.
Sounds like James Kelman!
Write what you know, know what you write.
Huzzah!
Dean probably IS in pain, because I suspect that those muscles have not been used in such a manner for a very long time!
He probably did some stretches beforehand.
He did special exercises of his smile muscles for 10 minutes each morning, because he was terrified they might atrophy completely otherwise.
Still can’t understand what happened, but seeing Glen so happy is such a delight ♡. He’s a new person now! I wonder if Linda has the same transformation and if Claire would like to be friend with her now.
Did the events of the last two pages really occur exactly as we saw them, or was that Lottie’s take on what happened, as described to Glenn? We may never know.
If Lottie wanted to make Gllm see rainbows, it could be done rather more simply.
If.
I think the whole explosion was caused by the collision between the Nuisance’s Sheffield pa-twa and Dean’s severe RP. He’s still a little stunned and possibly straddling two realities. If the transformation were in any way permanent, he’d be speaking Yorkie, at least a little bit, the way Claire’s lithp still crops out in unguarded moments.
I feel as though we’re supposed to infer, magical rainbows notwithstanding, that Dean got some and it completely changed his outlook.
I love that in this transcendent moment of profound spiritual joy and awakening to the world, Lottie’s thinking of the sales funnel.
Lottie has, after all, grown up to be a self-help goblin. A personal trainer for the down and downtrodden. A life coach. The sales funnel is very important.
I still don’t quite grasp how this enterprise is to be monetized… unlike the ghostbusters, there’s no one to threaten to “put him back”
The John Allison comic-o-tron factory method:
Row 1 – snarky exposition
Row 2 – ultra twee/absurd joke
Row 3 – super cool girl makes devious/quirky to lame 20-30 something manboy
Repeat for 20+ years