Chapter: Wobbly Head (part 3)

That’s a lot of lighters, Claire.

Claire is a kind soul who has space in her heart for anyone even slightly deserving. This is a rare misfire for her charm school.

The videos I had to watch about t-bar ski lifts while drawing this page. I could feel my life ebbing away. But boy, I came away “informed”.

I became very fond of Bea while writing and drawing this chapter. She’s a perfect mystery friend. Well, almost perfect.

We saw these stylish ski outfits briefly in the last chapter. I’m still very pleased with them. The bodyguard’s ski attire is one of Roger Moore’s outfits from For Your Eyes Only. There were many more brilliant ski outfits in that film, including a superb cowboy ensemble (a kind of ski Nudie suit, below left) that I couldn’t find a place for.

I always enjoyed the foreign travel stories in Scary Go Round, though the smaller scale remit of the series I’ve made since made those little excursions harder to fit in. Lottie likes to think of herself as a sophisticate, Claire has caught the disease from her, and I enjoy seeing them pretend to be adults.

Drawing this page was a torment unequal to the final result, but I tried to render what I had roughed out a month before.

“The Case of the Jade Cartel” was referenced briefly in Wicked Things, the series that Wobbly Head is meant to finally close the door on (copies are still available from your bookseller). I’m not 100% sure what happened during this undocumented mystery but we can tell from this page, for certain, that it involved a lot of jade. And Sonny.

Lottie doesn’t often flex her German these days, but as you can see, it was just as good as her French.

I recognise those two aspirational musical stars. The haircuts are different, but the song remains the same.