SOLVER
Terribly sorry that I wasn’t able to reveal exactly how clowns get the posters behind windows but I hope to come back to it when the legal issues are resolved. In the meantime, it looks like Lottie and “Mildy”(!) now have bigger problems.
Lottie’s last spell in the old hoosgow was, of course, in Wicked Things. Perhaps she is fated to return there over and over again. If she survives her meeting with “Boozoo”, that is.
If ever there was a Chekhov’s gun waiting to go off, it’s that sweet clown car, but sadly (according to my notes) it doesn’t seem to appear again. Maybe I could give it its own series.
Those who DO learn the lessons of history may be lucky enough to use them to escape a very dangerous environment.
You may ask, what has happened in panel 1? Well, I will tell you but once.
Lottie, hurled by the strongman, has travelled a few hundred yards through the air, landed on a back-yard trampoline, then bounced over a fence onto a pile of rubbish bags and cardboard recycling. Ideally I would have spent a page realising this beautiful parabolic arc but sadly, I had 1/9th of a page available so I “did my best”. I think it is, if not crystal clear, at least a plausible line of action.
You want some Telex facts? At last: the truth about Telex.
Mildred makes a pretty easy-going clown. Lottie, on the other hand, may be the scariest Punchinello of all.
This was always going to end at the car wash. Talking about the car wash, yeah. You might not ever get rich. But let me tell you that it’s better than digging a ditch.