The final insult of a life gone well wrong
What’s the American equivalent of Persil Non-Bio? Tide? I think Herbal Essences is universal.
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
What’s the American equivalent of Persil Non-Bio? Tide? I think Herbal Essences is universal.
I can definitely sympathize with Lottie here.
She has the moral high ground! Well, other than maybe vandalizing the wall of her rental. Just seeing the Waterman again was enough to send *me* into paroxysms of rage.
Lottie needs a friend like Little Claire.
And Little Claire needs someone like Glimm… maybe?
This can’t be how it all ends for La Grote! Birdpooped into tortoising!
Persil is available in the US. They advertise it a lot on TV, during halftime.
That umbrella… Does Claire work for the same agency as Mary Poppins? Are they handing out bird-themed brollies willy nilly?
The positive spirit looks very similar. Let’s see if Claire will start singing “A Spoonful of Sugar” for Lottie.
My mother read us the Mary Poppins books before we saw the movie, so I always find it odd when people associate her with sacchariny-sweet stuff. The Mary Poppins in the books could be downright SCARY at times.
Mary Poppins is God. Alan Moore said so.
All Claire is saying
Is give geese a chance.
I’m so glad I gave that post a gander.
Don’t egg him on.
I don’t mean to get down on everyone, but Claire seems to be pushing mallards more than geese.
Looks like this story will be completely about Lottie becoming a fatalistic drama queen with her friends having to put up with her and help her recover. I already love it madly.
The nice thing about Lottie (as a character, to write) is that you can turn the fatalistic drama queen ship round in about 30 seconds by getting her excited about something.
I love her constantly up and down mood. But being friends with her must be kinda tiring.
Not unlike a certain Victorian-era detective also prone to moping at times…
Claire’s head and heart sink realizing the gravity of Lottie’s demise.
Claire: I…I sthee…
Tears begin to well from Claire’s eyes Somber but at peace, Lottie smiles weakly and takes Claire’s hand.
Lottie: Oh sweet Little Claire…Don’t cry for me…I’ve been figuratively dead for some time now…Do not misspend another moment on my misfortune. Go and live your life while you still have one. For my sake and yours.
Claire: (sniffle) Yeth…Goodbye then Charlotte Grote. I’ll never forget you.
Claire quietly leaves and closes the door behind her leaving Lottie in her darkest moment.
FIVE MINUTES LATER.
A fully rejuvenated Lottie burst out of her room
Lottie: Right!! Come Claire, the next mystery awaits!!!
Lottie was at a low point when Circus Windows began, IINM.
Although, it was this low…
WASN’T this low, I meant.
NEED AN EDIT BUTTON!!
We DEFINIIITLY need and edirt bsutn.
(Free points to whoever first identifies which one of the errors I made there was unintentional!)
“and” instead of “an”?
While ‘and’ is a strong contender, my (figurative) money is on the missing ‘e’ in DEFINIIIT(e)LY.
Congratulations, Sean! Take as many points as you want! (I’m not sure what the exchange rate with other points which might at times be handed out by others is, though.)
And Nimz- nice try, but you got it backwards. I meant to misspell “definitely” to an even greater degree than I actually did, but my fingers somehow corrected some of it. I figured it was misspelled enough, though, so I let it go.
Wait, are you saying, all this time, those fabulous ebony locks have been a…
…
Oh, peace. Carry on.
I’ve only now realised that Hair Peace was meant to be a horrible pun ala Rubber Soul. Probably a Lennonism, since Yoko was usually funnier than that …
Right!? I’ve been thinking of that photograph as totally sincere for literally my whole life until this point.
John A is educating the masses.
Thank you for not working the word “Ononism” into it.
Lottie needs a mystery and Claire is just the person to provide one as in “The Return of the Pink Panther”.
The Pink Panzer???
Operation Puffercoat
Today I discovered I have the same coping mechanism as Lottie, am well impressed with myself!
Lottie has always loved a good strop
Here I was figuring that link was going to be to this bit.
Mods vs Rockers! These oldies are so goooooood.
John, we are so glad that you are back. <3 You work so hard for us, and I am going to paw unashamedly yet again at the hem of your robe until you realize what an international treasure you are.
It’s lonely on a pedestal
But it’s so stylish… AmIright?
Well ventilated though, I’d imagine?
A rarefied air, but not oxygen-rich
Now that we’ve reached this page, I will repeat the first lines on Arkansas’ first track on their “Right Over There” album:
Carry on my wayward solver
There’ll be peace when you resolve your
Issues of a life gone well wrong
Sorry for doggerelling this song
All we are is doggerel in the wind.
I closed my browser only for a moment, and the moment’s gone. What do I see? Sean K posted a reply to me of doggerel in the wind:
“All we are is doggerel in the wind.”
As they warned me, they said “people always can sass you about your puns”
However long it’s been since “Steeple” ended, it FINALLY occurred to me to Google “John Allison” (instead of just checking the last page of “Steeple” once every six weeks or so for announcements) and learn what’s going on now. Turns out it’s the past. I can roll. 😉
(Hope there wasn’t anything between “Steeple” and here.)
Ronald, you missed what can only be described as the “Conan legal catastrophe” followed by the “complete destruction of my websites by malware”. I did write right under the last page of Steeple where the next comic would be published though. I never leave my readers high and dry.
I must have overlooked it, then. That would be exceptionally unsurprising. 😐 Or possibly, by chance, I forgot to check for a while before you posted the and only resumed checking after the page changed its name to “This site can’t be reached.” Anyway, glad to be here. 😐
When did Claire lothe her fathcinating lithp?
I don’t write in every lisp because it makes the dialogue unreadable.
“I don’t write in every lisp” implies that you write in some. Is there a pattern to when the lisp emerges? Or is that for us to figure out for ourselves? 😉