Chapter: SOLVER

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.

Lottie and Claire are in their own way just as (if not more so) intimidating as Cathey, but it’s important to emphasise: at heart they’re extremely nice people. You’d like them if you knew them.

I don’t know what a “serverless edge platform” is, I had to ask for help.

Earlier in the story Claire was wearing a blazer, but in the club scene she has a leather jacket. There’s a fun game you can play in the prior pages where it is possible to work out who she got it from. I say fun, it’s barely fun. As for Lottie’s outfit, I just think she keeps it in her “go bag” for any time she might have to go full vamp. That dress was £4 on Vinted.

Interpol Lottie and Claire are dangerous characters, aren’t they? We’d better hope that door never swings open again.

As the UK’s #1 bowlderiser of lyrics, this comic represents a career high point. Everything I learned making NEMS led up to this super slow and gloomy, legally bulletproof version of “Sea Cruise”. If you are not familiar with it, allow me to “sealink” it below. There’s a lot of gum chewing in the audience during the brief preamble, OO-WEE BABY.

Another one for the teenagers.

S I L E N C I O

I decided that spectral Cathey would just be her Memoji-type entity from the phone screen in the previous chapter. This is what the Metaverse will be like, see you there, what a delight.

Still ill. I think it helped with the following sequence. I was a sick man, in a sick land. Same old quicksand taking me under!

I was still ill when I drew this. And when I turned my Cintiq on that morning, well, it didn’t turn on, for after being on hand for about 900 pages. It had died, a loyal soldier. I had to dig out a small and ancient back-up to make this page and despite the headwinds, as is so often the case, I raised my game and brought you the GRABBO machine. No charge, friends. No charge.

A Scoville brand smart watch! Very niche. Some of you may be aware of Paul Scoville, the CTO of Fishman Industries. Those that aren’t, well, you’re not really missing out.

NO YOU ARE MISSING OUT I LIED