More and more, it seems to me that Claire is the rock that this series is actually built upon. She may be more of a pebble than a rock, but she’s a solid foundation.
SOLVER
Do you remember “vibe shifts”? After the pandemic, everyone was experiencing a vibe shift. I wish I could remember what a vibe shift feels like. I think this article explains it. But I’m not sure.
I vacillated over the running order of this page and the next one. On Patreon, I flipped them around. It’s all about “page turns”, but on the web, everything’s a page turn. It’s not important. But someone will notice.
I felt that this was a well-drawn page, for me. Plenty going on. Although sometimes it’s harder to draw not a lot, than a lot. Fortunately, no one’s keeping score.
I may have been close to madness when I wrote this sequence, but I certainly enjoyed making it. Bit worried about the request to strip though, stripping is the gateway to danger…
“Ultimate Bully” is of course completely unrelated to any characters you may have seen in endless Jim Bowen-related repeats on Challenge TV. I need to make that absolutely clear. I hope you like Lottie and Glenn’s wrestling guises. Each reflects[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not a huge wrestling fan, but I am constantly confronted by how many people who love comics also love wrestling. Fortunately I have read Simon Garfield’s “The Wrestling”, an incredible oral history of the UK scene, more than once[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The lyrical reference in this comic is deeply obscure but for some reason, for years, it has come to me often. A tribute and a salute.
Solver volume one concludes here. I’ve put together a print collection of all the Lottie, Glenn and Claire stories from 2022/23/24 – just a short run – that should become available from Topatoco and a few UK retail stockists in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…