Dine on frog legs
I felt that this was a well-drawn page, for me. Plenty going on. Although sometimes it’s harder to draw not a lot, than a lot. Fortunately, no one’s keeping score.
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
I felt that this was a well-drawn page, for me. Plenty going on. Although sometimes it’s harder to draw not a lot, than a lot. Fortunately, no one’s keeping score.
I’m certainly not keeping score. I’m just taking all the glorious insanity in to admire and appreciate.
Unlike our trio.
I confess I’d eagerly watch this sport if it existed and I had the opportunity. Don’t judge me!
Uh oh, these people are furries!
Wrestling furries!
To paraphrase Shelley, “HOWEVER, from what I can tell from [today’s comic], [ASA] is a FURRY [convention] and that makes me nervous. But perhaps this is about awareness.”
As long as the furries are limited to wearing headgear and (optional) tail, and doing a socially positive activity like wrestling, I think it’s ok.
For the curious, the Shelley quote I paraphrased was from when she was reviewing John A’s top 20 albums of 2006 (Specifically, his #3, The Trials of Van Occupanther – Midlake).
Huh. The RSS feed is misbehaving again. The last page to appear in my feed was “It does thound convoluted” at the composting toilets. Then this one. I don’t know what to do to fix it; perhaps I’ll have to resign myself to either checking badmachinery.com daily, directly, or assume that when a Bad Machinery page appears in my feed, it is the bellwether for a bunch of other unseen pages.
I was wondering if the compost toilets had eaten Joanne alive, but she seems to be clearly visible at the right side of the ring after all. Good for her!
Personally, if I were doing animal wrasslin’, I don’t think I’d incorporate a big tail on my costume. Too easy for the opponent to grab and pull.
That could be a great advantage if the tail is not firmly fastened
Ah, the gecko gambit. Highly effective in defeating predators and wrestlers alike.
I wanted to make a joke about the squirrel’s nuts but it looks like more of a pile driver so I have been robbed of the opportunity
I just realized – Lottie should totally be a puffer fish.
YES!
What twists we’re getting this storyline! Now we’ve got Wind and the Willows meets WWF meets The Wicker Man!!
Nice!
Actually, it’s WWF meets WWF
Not since that legal case was decided in favour of the WWF.
The Animal WWF, that is.
Also something about this feels very reminiscent of Bohemian Grove. For those in the UK who may not know, Bohemian Grove is a annual gathering of GOP bigwigs in the forests of Northern California where participants engage in a weird sort of costumers ritual theater that culminates in throwing effigies of anxieties into the firey belly of a stone owl. Famously journalist Jon Ronson and a still somewhat obscure Alex Jones infiltrated and covered the event. While Jones overplayed evidence of Satanic worship and child sacrifice, Ronson just noted how weird, absurd, buffoonish and nuts the whole thing was.
Fun facts: My grandfather ran a U.S. Federal agency in the late 1980’s. According to family lore, he was invited to Bohemian Grove during this period, and we’re told he tried to bring Sandra Day O’ Connor as his plus one – and those horrible old owl-worshipping M*sons and misogynist weirdos turned them away at the gate because women weren’t allowed in at the time. A Supreme Court Justice! Just think about that. My grandfather was a legend to the United States for many reasons relating to his Federal tenure, but this only cements his place in Valhalla as far as I’m concerned.
That is an amazing story, sir! That’s so ironic that admitting the first female Supreme Court Justice was the most inconceivable thing to those weirdos. Major kudos to your grandfather!
Thank you! He was such a legend. He died lionized by the media, but you all are getting a special treat because even they didn’t know this story.
People have NO IDEA what a weird, mean boys’ cult Bohemian Grove is. Richard Nixon referred to it as the “f*ggiest thing he’d ever seen” – and I don’t mean “foggiest!” – and coming from the Nixon White House, which starred such luminaries in that regard as Roy Cohn, well…
(John, if any of these details or language are too explicit or spicy, you can absolutely censor me here.)
PS – I mean no disrespect to the larger LGBTQ community whatsoever! Closeted old Bohemian Grove Republicans though, not exactly the finest Log Cabin Republican material. (Hilariously, Grindr just referred to the Republican National Convention as “its Disneyland”.)
Frankly, the educational consultants and graphic designers (and IT wonks) are also theater nerds and amateur wrestling fans. Except for the sylvan setting, this 100% tracks.
Graphic designers! Too bad Rich Tweedy is currently serving time as a piece of unraveled cosmic string, amirite?
Man! They’re gonna have to declare their totem animals! They don’t have time for a proper vision quest!
The quest is to keep your vision as a maniac in a frog suit tries to claw your eyeballs out.
Nice to see that Space Owl is keeping well.
Isn’t shouting one of his hobbies?
This role would be a natural fit, then.
So that’s what “ASA” stood for! All-Star Animalleague
Ho Lottie, it’s pretty easy. Both graphic designers and educational consultants have to deal with peoples that know nothing, but still wants to tell them how to do their jobs. Amazing page! Let’s hope Glenn will have the Tiger mask and show his real strength. Claire is good too.
Slammed in the glade. Yikes. 💀
Owl remain skeptical of the ref until given reason not to be. I suspect he doesn’t give a hoot.
Will Lottie dress up as Energy Crow?
Claire can be a firefly. Glom is a kiwi.
Claire is a Phenix. That’s her true nature.
That would make this night a true nightmare for everyone else. Energy Crow is too powerful and newer follow the rules. Even Glenn and Claire would be in danger.
This is a very accurate take on what would happen when and if Energy Crow ever appears. Too powerful, does not follow the rules.
“Too powerful, does not follow the rules” does sound a bit like Lottie, though….
Safe in the knowledge that John’s audience consists almost entirely of builders, lorry drivers, warehouse box chuckers and other good, honest toilers who gain their subsistence by strength of arm and sweat of brow, I am sure nobody here will be offended if I say that education consultants and graphic designers are the very worst kind of people and their shout, pagan worship of lycra goes with their sanctimonious, self propelled two wheeled preferences in transport.
In other news I’ve got the remains of a 25″ frame Raleigh Randonneur sitting in my garage that hasn’t been ridden for about 25 years and needs a good home. If you don’t know where I am I’m sure you can find me.
Our author is kind of a graphic designer, though!
Bugger! That should have been shouty, not shout. It’s difficult typing when you’re trying to build up a good head start…
Lottie is out on a limb here; plenty of people think Lycra and shouting is the ideal combination.
If you’re going to have a human-squirrel wrestler, it’s got to be a girl. She is unbeatable after all.
i love this page. it’s so dynamic and full of action, but still manages to remain clear and coherent.
So, licking amphibians is something that allegedly occurs in Britain as well as something that allegedly occurs in the USA. I *did* not know that. I couldn’t prove it to anyone else either way, of course, but the commonality itself could be considered a significant piece of from one to five puzzles. 🙂
Are you telling us you’ve never licked a good frog, ronald???
Perhaps not, but I bet he’s licked many a bad frog.
I’m just high on life.
Well, I’m sure that Glenn must be relieved that it’s not Olympic wrestling after all.
I’m no expert but I expect this is a bit weirder than anyone was expecting
The Solvers are two-thirds Tacklefordlings. This isn’t even the weirdest party they’ve been to. Both Lottie and Claire once attended a party where they were hypnotized by space aliens and compelled to do repairs on a spaceship. They were also both at the party where the hostess’s daughter’s half-sister from the future showed up and attempted to murder her. Lottie recently inadvertently attended one of Brian’s special black masses. I’m not sure wrestling furries even tick the weirdness meter.
“expecting” being the key term. I sincerely doubt it’s the weirdest thing Charlotte’s ever SEEN — none of the laws of physics seem to be in *immediate* danger — but her expectations for this *particular* moment probably weren’t all THAT high to begin with. 😉
Someone’s keeping score though, right? Do they do scores in wrestling? Isn’t that the Ref’s job?
I was telling my tail of the black Ur-squirrels who ate unwitting hunters in the forest. My niece asked, “Blacker than what?”
Black Ur-Squirrels, the Piranha of the Forest Floor!
Their herald is the cricket that chirps from behind you.
“Let’s prepare to commence reverberation” sounds very much like something out of “Strange Planet.”