Get yourself situated
I wonder how many appearances in my comics Bobby Problems will rack up. He’s immediately compelling. I think history (and bitter experience) tells us that it will either be one, or one thousand.
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Well, he’s at two already, three if you count the cover, so looks like smart money is on one thousand…
Just a couple more and he’ll already be at hrar.
The three Boby Problem
Loocks like love at first sign for Lottie and Bobbie seems sweet and very interessed in her. Nice! Let’s hope this time Lottie will be happy without the influence of music and dark magic.
I suspect Lottie’s fallen for him as a potential Solver client, and interesting specimen to observe, rather than anything else, but we’ll see.
Given the sparkles and the big HIIIIIII I think it’s both.
I think Lottie is capable of experiencing the “sparkle and big Hiiii” effect based on “perfect Solver client” alone.
True, but I’m going off body language too. The last time we saw her face do this she tried to make a white boy k pop band a smash and somehow did. She can see a project and a crush at once
Solving Bobby Problems may well be Claire’s greatest achievement.
Lottie’s greatest achievement, I mean.
How do you solve a problem like Maria… oops, Bobby?
“How Do You Solve A Bobby,” by Carlotta
With foreword by E. Crow and afterword by C. Vampirellum.
What else does a Solver need besides Problems?
It’s still less of a disruption than Bobby Tables causes to classes
Well, flip Bobby Tables!
You mean this kid?
Feels like Lottie’s parents never bought her that Gerbil she really, really wanted when she was nine.
And now we have our first breakout star among the suitors! I think Bobby Problems would be a great name for a YouTube DIY tech solutions channel.
This reminds me of a truly splendid DIY video I saw last year. The guy uses a nail gun to attach a small battery to a fence post and then tries to dislodge it by shooting more nails. The battery starts to smoke so he beats it with the nail gun. It falls into a pile of dry leaves. He picks it up barehanded and is surprised when it feels very hot. He makes a few more attempts to pick the still smoking battery up, succeeds, and holds it while telling us how it’s all the battery’s fault. Then he throws it away into, yes, dry leaves.
And this video was supposed to be about DIY safety.
Your DIY safety video story reminds me of an old Berenstain Bears book that repeated the phrase, “This, small bear, is what not to do.”
The Staplerfahrer Klaus school of safety films
Or a sitcom about an incompetent division of the London police department.
Lottie is taking on a Project that is a real fixer-upper. Is there a way to turn a profit on this? Will the entire Solvers team get on board? Will Dean sabotage the endeavor? I have so many questions and eagerly await to find out how many are answered!
You forgot “Will Shelly ex machina wander in from stage left at a critical moment to cause more chaos, which inevitably but inexplicably puts paid to some relevant plot point.” Then she disappears.
Speaking of Shelley, how did Peggy Winters-Jones ultimately turn out? Anyone?
Peggy should be celebrating her fourth birthday round about now. Probably a little early for “ultimately”.
Maybe she’s ageing like the twins in 9 Chickweed Lane did. She’s now roughly the same age as her own mother.
While we’re in the general vicinity of the past, did Sonny end up with Jack, with Linton, or with some other guy? 🙂
It’s David Willis’s fault that I understand that reference.
I suppose that family does have a history of that sort of thing, what with her mother having apparently decided that aging is for suckers, her aunt having possibly achieved immortality through “Heaven doesn’t want her, and Hell is afraid she’ll take over, again,” and her half-sister being their grandfather and having attended her baby shower at two different ages.
Why does Robert P need lectures on anomie when he epitomises it?
And is Lottie saying (to herself) that her infatuation with this troubled sasquatch is the same feeling as the clarem have for Ms Little because she can see the potential for positive change?
It’s not like Claire hides her inner charms; more the opposite in that she hides her arsonist tendencies and outwardly displays a very pleasant personality
I am LOVING the term ‘Clairem’. Just so perfect!
“Troubled Sasquatch”. Great band name!
“is Lottie saying (to herself) that her infatuation with this troubled sasquatch is the same feeling as the clarem have for Ms Little because she can see the potential for positive change?”
Do the Clairem WANT Claire to change? That is not the impression I’ve received.
And Lottie’s saying it not to herself but to Claire: “Suddenly I understand how YOUR fan club feel about YOU.”
😉
Yet another page where I don’t need to wonder what’s funny. Perhaps Lottie and Robert will BOTH be banned from this lecture hall, like in those swimming pools where there’s no running or diving allowed?
Or titting about on ladders?
Just Twitting About.
I like the specter(?) energy Lottie has going on in the last panel
Just the way she looks like a large wavy bundle of hair
Is Lottie more interested in Robert or Problems?
… it’s Problems. Of course it’s Problems.
Not to be That Guy, but there’s only one I in ‘hirsute’.
Lottie often mangles the language, sometimes on purpose. See “Britane” et al.
See also her interaction with Glen. Personally, I’d spend as little time as possible with someone who continuously purposely got my name wrong but, hey, that’s me.
I always say it as “hair-sweet” and sadly Lottie does too. But it’s a marginal comedy spelling because it looks like a typo so I might have to fix it.
Don’t let prigs ruin the whimsy, Mr. Allison.
No prigs here, just a misunderstanding, I think.
Or lean into it and go with the full “hair-sweet” spelling.
Madness.
What does a Solver do? They solve PROBLEMS!
How do you solve a Problems like Bobby?
Ah yes, that famous movie line: “You had me at Perpetual Chaos…”
Lottie? Drawn to chaos? You don’t say…
Hoo boy. Looks like Lottie has finally found a yang to compliment her yin. This could be powerful or destructive. It could be a match made in heaven, or a match set to a trail of gunpowder. Anybody see Wile E. Coyote run through here?
Ah, young love, when anomie meets ano-you
Really enjoyed the visual echo of Bobby/Claire’s heads/poses in panels 4-5!
I’d just like to say that Mr Allison has once again raised the comics bar, by invoking Zygmunt Bauman. I met Bauman once and he was a legend. You just don’t get this depth of immersion from other graphic authors, you know? Bravo sir.
Oh no, I love him.
Go to him Lottie, dance your pretty dance
Now Claire can humiliate Lottie. Except that Claire’s got way too much class for that and it’s impossible to humiliate someone who has no shame.
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There he is! The boy! He returns! 😀
Eustace is back? Where?
99 problems but La Grote ain’t one.
A situationist comedy, perhap