The condition of a dowry
I think I wrote at length about Shelley’s relationship with Bruno a few weeks ago. But it’s a long road from here to there.
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
I think I wrote at length about Shelley’s relationship with Bruno a few weeks ago. But it’s a long road from here to there.
Is that… is that a Discman® ?
I mean I’ve worn out a Walkman® before, but that is next level!
It’s a Discboy®, duh.
Ah, the Alan-1. From the period when Lord Sugar temporarily lost design control and the resulting products became more minimalist (the name was the barest sop to his ego). His preferred design, the DX4000, looked like a spaceship and had knobs all over it, which made it really awkward to carry around.
It is funny that there are in fact a number of different products from different manufacturers with the model number DX4000. None of which af the Amstrad GX4000 though.
Hah! They wish!
Perhaps Shelley’s parents are both big Inspector Morse fans?
When did we learn that, though? Closest thing I recall to a first name from the John Thaw era was “Pagan,” as a college joke, because he did not appear to have any Christian name
It’s in a later book, I think, Death Is Now My Neighbour? A nineties one.
“I picked it up on a train once”
DOCTOR LADYSOUNDS IN THE HOUSEEEEEE
(Well, in the health center)
Well, a health centre surely is a sound place for a doctor to be in.
It seems that everything is going well. Now that they will talk about music, their friendship will have another common passion. It will be a problem if among the musicians there is someone that Jack knows, but he can’t tell because it’s future.
“it’s a real shame how this artist ARF WURF BORGLE”
Does Endeavour come from Captain Cook’s voyages?
Might also just be John A’s nod to Inspector Morse
Writing comics at high speed in the mid-00s, I got it from a vague memory of Inspector Morse’s first name and learned that Endeavour was Captain Cook’s ship about a month ago.
Canonically Morse is named after the ship. There were some Quakers involved too, if I’m remembering it right.
You make me laaaugh
I needed that
I’ll bet I’m not the first person to wonder what happens if Shelly falls in love with Jack…
The ladies looove Jack.
Ladies Love Cool Jack
Jack’s a Man of Mystery who Bears a Curse. How will Shelley resist him?
A Midland Bank card! I feel so nostalgic…
I’m guessing that the poster that Shelly is passing on the way in with “HIV + AI” has been truncated in some way, or otherwise the timelines have really been messed up a la Jeremy Bearimy. The lower part of the poster also suggests truncation, unless “BE SAD” is sound health advice.
The sign is probably “HIV + AIDS” and “BE SAFE” – very 90s.
It’s amazing that there’s a generation which did not automatically fill in AIDS there. No shade, just – we live in amazing times to be past that.
I agree, it seems like a miracle based on where medicine was when I was a teenager.
As the child of Midland Bank employees, that gave me a bit of a flashback – the logo is the one after they’d been taken over by HSBC (and dropped the comforting griffin for the bowtie) but before they expunged the Midland name.
Sic transit, etc.
sed -i -e ‘s/Shelly/Shelley/g’ $PREVIOUSPOST
# Darnit!
Did Ryan get her the Percy Peas key fob, or did she just collect enough tokens?
I assume that Tacklefordians in the wider world recognise each other by their Percy Peas merch, whether it be hat, key fob, or phone case (post-2007).
Wow, there’s a callback.
I just re-read like half of SGR trying to remember exactly where it was that Shelley Endeavour Winters’ middle name was established. (“Man O’ War”!)
It is maybe poignant that in Shelly’s selfie (so advanced for the time!) with Bruno she is apparently in some state of undress
photo booth curtain, strappy vest, come on
This will be on the test Mads!!!
So no bra
Such is life
I had a portable CD-player (an AIWA, I think). It skipped horribly if it wasn’t completely stable – ideally stationary. It could play reliably without skipping on the flattest parts of a train journey through one of the flattest countries on Earth.
My first one did this. When it packed in, the replacement contained “anti-bumping granules” or similar and had a little memory to offset errors.
(I think anti-bumping granules might be something from chemistry but let’s not dig too deep.)
I am in awe of a discman with a water-cooling system that regularly achieved boiling state and thus required anti-bumping granules for stability. It’s the kind of tech that Aasimov imagined alongside atomoic carvining knives.
For some reason, the development in your drawing style is striking today, John. That’s neither a good nor a bad thing, it just hits me for whatever reason. Possibly too much coffee for this early in the morning?
Yeah, that struck me too. There has been a noticeable style evolution since just before the camping-wrestling story, I think.
I still have an original square Discman, which worked great back in the day as long as you didn’t move it around too much. Which I didn’t. Most of the time it sat on a shelf next to a big generic boom box. It was a sop to finances, as the Discman was cheaper than a full size component and was portable.
Later I bought a white and orange Discman that played MP3s and it really did play through bumps and jolts quite well.
Both of them are in a box of cables and peripherals I don’t use anymore. Should get them out, see if they work, and contribute to eBay.
I employed this same sop to finances
Aw, there’s something so comforting about reading more about Shelley. Maybe it’s from the nostalgia of seeing her music book, but I just felt really warm and fuzzy. Also: ENDEAVOR?! Ace naming.
TLDR; not enough Des.
Shelley hasn’t met Des yet, at this point in time. Although, Des is presumably around somewhere, so maybe we’ll get a cameo at some point?
So, while I generally prefer an all-caps typeface for comic speech balloons, in this case, it tripped me up — causing me to parse UTIs as UTIS.
The former makes perfect sense. The latter had me scratching my head (figuratively).
Could be a case where a small-caps variant might be called for.