It’s not unusual to be greeted by an older male associate asking not how you are, but which roads you took to arrive at their home. Do not ask me to explain this. It is not in my make-up. Well, genetically it is 50% of my makeup based on all data I have to hand.
:C
The mystery boys are hard cases, Glenn. They’re turbocharged nutters. Sonny once made a daisy chain and Linton has been known to watch three or four unboxing videos in a row. As for Jack…
When I was trying to think what the tourism video would be like, I had to think what Shelley Winters would commission (back in her days in the mayor’s office), and I was certain that it would be almost exactly like one of Telly Savalas’ 5-minute films on British cities. The best one is, for my money, Birmingham. The degree to which it unexpectedly kicks off in this video is magnificent.
A new story begins, and we’re heading back to a familiar location. Who can say what will happen over the next eight weeks?
The final part of Solver volume 2 starts on Monday. Subscribers to my Patreon (in the Early Reader tier and above) will be able to read it as a PDF on Sunday morning. This chapter completes a little trilogy and has plenty for long time readers as well as newcomers to the franchise.
Another chapter comes to an end, and I am declaring it possibly my best Solver to date. Next up: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, of course beginning in April, I know how to time these things just right. When you see the parade of pals returning for this glorious celebration of all things Saturnalian I am sure you will forgive my appalling time-keeping.
We are barrelling towards the next story, CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. Lottie’s representation of pumpkin spice is Ginger Spice at the Brit Awards in 1997 with a gourd on her head. I don’t think there is any better way to depict it. My favourite disgusting Christmas coffee drinks were the Costa (or possibly Caffe Nero) range where the cups depicted seasonal bodies eg snowman, Santa, elf but there was no head and the cream and sugary syrup slurry on top made it look like the Xmas Friends had been brutally decapitated.
I believe the following year, they had half-heads, so they’d effectively had the Lucy Liu Kill Bill treatment. The murder sludge was toned down but that made it look like brains.
Perhaps someone will get the subtle references in today’s page and illuminate the less hip members of the audience.
MAN MEN:
Lottie and Claire definitely perform a queue-jumping faux pas today. The mission ends as it begins, with a fog horn.
The captain’s hat. I suspect they may have got this not from the ferry’s captain but from the Captain from Captain and Tennille. The moral of the story being that love… love will keep us together.
These lads needed more keyboards. Plainly five was not enough. Please refer any teenagers who might be interested in this video to today’s comic because this, too, is one for the teenagers.
