Shauna Wickle! The most reliable friend of all!!
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That’s the end of part one. Part two doesn’t start until January 1st, because I didn’t want to split it with my traditional Christmas break, which falls awkwardly this year. If comics were running as usual, there would be five more before I took a week off. I’m writing this at the end of October, and I don’t know what will fill the gap. I’m sure there will be something, but as I type, it is as much of a mystery to me as it is to you. See you… on Wednesday?
These are very accurate drawings of Sheffield station, so you can reënact this scene any time you like. All you’ll need is a friend who has no idea what someone from Louisiana looks or sounds like.
WOW! Who is this unrecognisable southern belle? All I know is that I like her a LOT.
The Miyamoto file! Unseen since the very start of Circus Windows and for good reason. That lever arch file is full to busting. And it takes a lot of filing to fill a lever arch file. I don’t know if they even still make them. Another one for the teenagers.
Although like all right-thinking people I fear and despise Lottie’s doppelganger, I also really like the spooky academic version of her in panel 4. SMERT!
Nothing stings more than a false accusation. Except perhaps one of those invasive Asian hornets that we’re all so worried about. Or one of those Chinese scorpions in Shein orders we’re all so worried about. So perhaps lots of things sting more than a false accusation, but without improved import/export bio-controls, we may not live to find out what those things are.
This is a very very very very worrying situation because we know our Lottie would never go “double Danish”. And now you’re going to have to wait until Wednesday to get to the bottom (!) of this.
Halloween queen, now we’re sharing the same dream! I’m sure no one needs me to explain the origins of cornflakes, but perhaps in the comments someone who has undertaken a foot peel (eg “Milky Feet”) can take you through the body horror involved in the process.
This page reiterates key scenes from WICKED THINGS so you don’t have to go and look them up. But you can if you want to. Claire’s Fleabag jumpsuit was a real feature of that first issue.
I did a variant cover for the first issue of Wicked Things but I lost my way a bit on it (a lot). My roughs were better. [In common with a lot of direct market series, you often have to draw a cover for the first few issues before there is a logo, with no idea how big it will be, hence the By Night indicia.]
ADDENDUM: reader “Grant” was kind enough to summarise the whole of Wicked Things in the style of self-styled “Piano Man” Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire.
Charlotte Grote, Detective teen
Award show, peers are mean
Idol stabbed! Grote framed!
TINY HEROINE DETAINED
Pen found, offer made
Ward of state, trial delayed
Police station! Making tea!
THERE GOES RICK’S SANITY
Curfew sucks, tiny room
Mind map, no space to fume
Ankle tag! Doors slam!
CRUMBS IN BULLDOG’S JAM
Grote predicts phone ring theft
Back to tea, Grote bereft
Vindicated! Inside job!
WORTH A CHOCOLATE HOBNOB
Back in curfew, Bulldog chess
Casino raid, Grote obsess
Badger Face! Claire snoops!
I AM THE SMARTEST POOP POOP
Casino sting, staff police
Bulldog with a hidden piece
Trapped by a Grote plan!
BUT WHO STABBED MIYAMOTO-SAN?
You can find out everything you need to know about the time Lottie was framed for murder in my series Wicked Things (2020), collected in one handy volume by Boom!Box. Or you can wait until the next page is published, when Ms Charlotte Grote will summarise the story for Glenn (and you) in one page flat.
