In some small way
Dean has caused major disruption to the whole door frame with his powerful kick. This seems to me to be the exact opposite of what a property guardianship is all about. And how quickly the pendulum of power has swung; while Glenn and Claire were no match for Dean’s machinations, Lottie has no truck with his nonsense.
ooh, another “J’accuse” – and in multiple colours!
Nice to see it hasn’t lost its power, Dean looks terrified
As any child learns, letters in yellow (crayon) has insufficient contrast on a white (paper) background
All the faces on this page are amazing. They tell the whole story of the page, even if you don’t read the words.
And just like that, I have learned the word “architrave”
Although Claire and Glorm’s decision not to inform Lottie about Dean’s lawsuit was understandable, they probably should have as Lottie takes no guff and doesn’t suffer fools gladly…Well, then again she did spend an entire afternoon fixing up poor Robert Doom’s life.
As I recall, Lottie was busy with Problems of her own while all of that was happening.
Not her own, to Lottie’s great regret. Her white whale slipped right through her fingers.
I suspect she still thinks of him as hers, though. She wouldn’t let go of such a magnificent catastrophe so easily.
Classic Freudian repetition compulsion… being sued for keeping a friend out of the loop? Maybe keeping the knowledge of the lawsuit from one of the friends named in the suit is the answer! It’s got to work sometime!
P.S. I’m sad Bobby Problems wasn’t around long enough for him and Lottie to earn a couple’s nickname. Groblems! Blobby! Char-prob-lemmy-bottoms!
I suspect he will be back
You would put an eye out with that, Lottie! Holster it for gods’ sake!
#could
Quite impressive, honestly, a man of Dean’s… physique managing such a high kick.
Still limber from his time is a chorus line.
As we saw from his modeling stint in ‘Giant Days,’ Dean is a beefy man, not a flabby one.
Lottie’s gone up against far worse than Dean, and he can see that in her eyes.
A benefit of doing tai chi everyday.
Dean is in good shape, don’t let his cardigans mislead you.
I’ve been made quite the lovefool
Dean has the physique of an organized and self-centred man.
Who’s going to pay to fix the door?
That’s an open question.
They’re in a jamb as it all hinges on who is able to handle fixing the damage done by that knob shown in this panel
You’d think it’s an open-shut case, but Dean was framed! Okay, so he was also the one doing the framing. But still, lintel that fact stoppered it, it was a good excuse.
Dean booted that door so hard he almost tore through the panel border. He might have let Lottie and Claire loose in our world. Come to think of it, we could use them right now. Kick harder next time, Dean! You can do it!
Reminds me of the time Garfield kicked Odie into next week. Then the following Monday Odie landed on him.
The other Jim. What a genius!
You know, Jim Allison.
Lottie’s sudden lips in panel five are perfect
Five, count em, five different Lottie faces graced that panel before I arrived at the glamour lips.
Your sacrifices are not in vain.
Probably.
We don’t deserve you, John.
So is the one stray strand of hair.
Dean gets his first J’accuse! He should pray that it is also the last.
Not to be confused with a certain Jack Hughes who was in the news recently.
Both gold.
Glenn + ferry + ocean explorer = J’accuse d’Eau .
I admire the lengths you went to for that.
This puts the “torture” in “tortured pun.”
That pun is only going to work for people born well into last century
But we do appreciate it…
I had to say that aloud before I got it.
Credit for that construct actually belongs to The Chicken Little Comedy Show circa 1972, the Rancho Atlantis skit. Search YouTube with all those words.
There’s also a web article about the history of the show.
Yes, I did watch that skit, live, back then.
Seeing the way Lottie says “son” gives me the sensation that she would be a very cool, jet kinda scary, mother. The very best kind!
I genuinely started to like Dean and to regard him as completely redeemed of all of his flaws simply because he actually cares about Glenn.
Dean’s lucky he didn’t have to face a fully armed J’accuse. It’s been a while since Lottie’s been able unleash one at full force. Still, the one-two punch of a Steely Gaze followed by the tiniest J’accuse she’s capable is quite formidable. The fact that he’s merely begging for mercy shows that Dean is made of stern stuff.
Evidence continues to roll in that Lottie is getting back up to full strength…
You already showed that she is now stout-hearted.
Panel 4: [suspicious look] 🔎
Well spotted. One of the reasons I follow the stories here instead of the Patreon PDFs is the commentators catching stuff I’ve missed.
It’s quite possible to enjoy both! If you don’t mind spending half your life on badmachinery.com, that is
The first casualty of war is architrave.
EFF HIM UP, LOTTIE
As someone who often wears a non-mandatory tie and jacket to work, I have been somewhat defensive of Dean’s fashion choices. But apparently he wears neither a belt nor suspenders? This is a decision not to be borne.
“Neither a belter nor suspender be”, as the Bard told us
Those may be sansabelt pants. What kind of MONSTER would wear a belt with sansabelt slacks?
What on earth are sansa– oh it’s right there in the name isn’t it.