It does thound convoluted
More and more, it seems to me that Claire is the rock that this series is actually built upon. She may be more of a pebble than a rock, but she’s a solid foundation.
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More and more, it seems to me that Claire is the rock that this series is actually built upon. She may be more of a pebble than a rock, but she’s a solid foundation.
The greatest treasure was the friends we said ‘No’ to along the way.
Particularly those friends who wanted to chuck you one-handed into a camping toilet.
Claire’s certainly the most functional of them.
I mean, obviously Dean is the real hero, but.
I think Claire’s missing Joanne’s meaning, in that third panel. (Hopefully, on the next page, we’ll begin to find out who or what ASA actually is…)
Well, they can’t break the first rule of Fight Club.
Are these open air toilets? That seems rather precarious to me.
I think that’s glazing on the top of the toilet enclosure. It’s a different shade of mauve than the sky as if it’s semi-opaque acrylic or glass.
Claire’s lisp is really flaring up this camping trip. You can tell she’s jazzed tonight.
JOANNE,
So I’m figuring this storyline ends with Claire realizing that Lottie was a figment of her imagination all along.
The real Lottie was murdered in a hotel room the night she was supposed to receive the award for Best Young Detective. The shock to Claire was so big that she recreated her in her mind. Glenn is actually Claire’s therapist.
If it wouldn’t viciously traumatize all us faithful readers to lose Charlotte, I could get behind this storyline.
This needs to be the storyline that kicks off Ultimate Bad Machinery.
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We probably wouldn’t even lose her. I mean, Charlotte would make an EXCELLENT queen of Hell. She’d be a natural for that job. The position has been vacant for a while now (as far as we know, anyway).
Considering how she reacted during Author Unknown when she discovered that Tredregyn was full of Satanists, I’m not sure I agree.
Fair point. She would certainly do well with the outfits and the giving-of-orders, though. She’d just have to convince herself it was all some sort of themed resort, populated by enthusiastic cosplayers.
So Glurm and Lottie have uniwttingly signed up to fight each other? That should be fun!
This could be so cathartic for them, expecially for Glenn. The only question is, with or without weapons?
Re weapons, at least someone has a saw. Claire senses it.
She said they were fighting tonight. She didn’t actually say they were fighting each other.
Right, but when Claire said she thenthed a thaw, Joanne’s reply — “But they’re fighting, yeah?” — seems to imply they’ll be opposing each other
I don’t get that implication from that line, at all. My impression is that Joanne was simply concerned because Claire hadn’t mentioned the fighting, and she wanted to make sure it was actually happening. I could be wrong, of course.
So could I!
For some reason, when looking at the last panel the phrase “oiled and unoiled” comes to my mind. Of course Brian’s benchmark was Big, if I recall correctly, whereas Joanne’s benchmark is Little.
“Greased and Ungreased”, Brian’s upcoming indie hit from his new band The Meat Sweats (only in my vigorous Steeple headcanon, of course).
A vigorous headcanon involving vigorous headbangin’
Is lifting Little Claire one-armed equivalent to a full-body lift of Big Ken, either greased or ungreased? Further testing is required.
I’m guessing no, as I’m also guessing that it is entirely possible that there are pool toys weighing more than Little Claire.
“Thenth a thaw” , is tricky to say for a non-lisper.
I, too, sense a saw.
Are they fighting tonight? Well… this is absolutely not a sentence that would give the impression that this friendly group has any purpose other than dancing the night away. However, Johanna is a lovely character, let’s hope to see more of her. Maybe Claire could join her gym group?
A PEBBLE?? How dare you sir!! SHE IS A MIGHTY MOUNTAIN!
It’s like Yoda said.
Possibly a volcano.
Unlike the fella behind them, Joanne and Claire are woefully unprepared for the festival/camping toilet experience.
Yeah, I thought he was hanging his head in shame but then I realised he was reading his phone.
Also, that Joanne, I bet her surname is Large because, you know, she is large. Then we can have Little and Large back in business.
I like “Joanne Major”, myself.
Perhaps that was the name of a late 20th-century Prime Minister in the Tackleverse.
I think the name’s large because the author is introducing her here, and he wanted to make sure we got her name.
As a one-time scrawny high schooler, I’ll never understand the compulsion of some large strong people to demonstrate said strength *to* smaller people, *on* those same smaller people. It always felt like a weird friendliness/dominance fusion.
Joanne is excellent! More of Joanne please!
A common adversary is what Lottie and Glyn need. That’ll bring them together. So long as it’s not Claire, that would be a bad thing. Joanne might make a good adversary, possibly two adversaries.