A new story starts on Monday, the SOLVER 2022 SPRING SPECIAL. I had a big story worked out called The Great British Bump-Off, but I got cold feet about it. It was too long and complicated to serialise on the web, so it has been kicked into the longest available grass. What takes its place is a 22-page story assembled from the ideas I had at the top of my head the day after I set aside the Bump-Off. Under the circumstances, I think it has come out well.
Spring Special 2022
A new story begins! Fortified by her adventures amongst clowns and the Cornish, Charlotte Grote is back to a level of pep and vitality that we haven’t seen in several years. This surely bodes well for the coming tale.
Comics will run on a Mon-Wed-Fri schedule for the next 7 weeks.
You may remember Mike Savage from his Scary Go Round misadventures or his Bad Machinery misadventures. His relationship with Lottie’s mum (forged in the very final pages of The Case of the Severed Alliance) should not be thought of as a misadventure.
I named Lottie’s friend “Fizz” in tribute to a character from Eldorado, the BBC’s doomed early Nineties soap opera. Today, let’s dedicate a moment (40 seconds) to thinking about Eldorado, Fizz, and her new husband, Bunny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P3FaYWxYB8
I hope you like today’s product placement. Still available at Topatoco!
Lottie’s new way with coffee may be a by product of her incessant enforced police brew-making in Wicked Things. She did her 10000 hours.
These are real drinks, I would not flannel you. Well, I would flannel you, but I am not flanneling you on this occasion. I haven’t drunk cheese coffees but given the proliferation of cafe culture, surely it won’t be long before someone offers me these beverages at a reasonable (unreasonable) price. I could make them for myself at short notice, but where’s the fun in that?
ANY MORE PIE?
Who is this man at the door? Hot new relatable character or flash in the pan?
The SGR style guide says that doorbell sounds should sometimes be rendered as “ding dang” in tribute to the Beach Boys’s most enervated minute (a co-write, lest we forget, with Roger McGuinn of the Byrds).
Poor Glenn Durgan. It’s difficult to imagine that this experience won’t permanently alter him in the same way Peter Parker was messed up by that radioactive spider.