He’s clean
Good to see that Dean still has his rainbow door. And good to see that Essen Verboten are still making those iconic white hoodies.
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
Good to see that Dean still has his rainbow door. And good to see that Essen Verboten are still making those iconic white hoodies.
“Dean is the perfect patsy – er, bait – or rather, uninformed helper.”
What’s so bad about Essen? I understand that their annual board game convention is quite well thought-of.
But remember, don’t eat the board games.
Now I wonder what kind of weird things Dean post on Amstragram. Probably only strong mind, like Claire’s (and maybe Esther’s too), are able to follow him staying sane. Maybe he’s too much even for Skelelottie.
I expect it’s little more than a collection of his favorite chess stale-mate endgames. You know, interesting in an off-brand mathematical way, but not something normal people would spend an afternoon contemplating.
(Unless you’re my Dad, who was a chess nut and spent his afternoons reading chess books and working out chess problems. He was a bit obsessive about it.)
A fantastic callback. Though even Dean Thompson doesn’t deserve this. Maybe. I mean he’s trying. Glenn his first real friend. It’s new to him.
I had completely forgotten about Dean’s rainbow door! I wonder whatever became of the Complaining Lady on the bus.
She was in the audience at the talent show at the end of “Boys Like Fun”, which I think was just a few days ago in-comic.
Claire’s nuisance was involved in the bus explosion that the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive covered up. Dean escaped without harm because the universe simply forgot about him: it didn’t expect him to survive riling up the thugs that Gallon calmed down with a violence-adjacent question.
It’s a perfectly good plan! Except for the part where Claire forgot to do the last step. And the part where Lottie ran away and left Claire as bait in a trap that doesn’t actually have any jaws to it.
Claire should go with the Claire plan instead: Burn everything she loves.
Claire needs to find out *who* Skelottie is. But once she does, THEN she can burn everything he/she/it loves!
That world seems more palatable when taken in in bite-sized chunks instead of by immersion. Then again, Claire has had the chance to get acclimated to Dean after that first close encounter.
Now I’m imagining a BBC Earth special about Dean going about his day with Claire as the Sir David Attenborough-esque narrator.
Our “popular little bug” needs to make use of her new expanded circle of admirers to reel in her prey. I’m sure they won’t mind being used.