So lonely
Fizz! Old minor characters never die, except when they do die. No one likes Lottie more than Fizz.
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
Fizz! Old minor characters never die, except when they do die. No one likes Lottie more than Fizz.
I’m curious where they’re taking those bags that are definitely not dead bodies
Might be old babies
Having worked in the retail end of the specialty coffee industry in the 80s and 90s, I can assure you the only bodies in those bags are full-bodied coffee “beans.”*
*Actually half of a seed, not a bean or legume.
Lottie trying to reinvigorate the Solver company treasury through seasonal work!
As we saw in the second to last strip in the last story, Lottie was already putting her barista skills to good use.
Maybe she wants to recruit Fizz as a member of the team… that would be amazing.
They need someone to strong-arm recalcitrant witnesses!
Sounds like roller derby has made Fizz like a coconut; tough on the outside, but still retains her inner sweetness.
Fizz seems to have taken a level in Grote in Lottie’s absence.
Well, you gotta level up those rare skills whenever you get the chance!
Is Fizz nicknamed The Constrictor in The Banked Oval? Or was that her wrasslin’ name?
My neighbor got kicked out of two different roller derby leagues for “unnecessary roughness.” That takes talent. So she took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu, but that didn’t last either.
I hope she’s your friend. Because have her as an enemy seems kinda dangerous.
Definitely friend, but a precarious one. She owes me because I watch her cat when she’s out of town, and she’s out of town a lot. She makes me food on occasion. She could kick my ass I’m sure, but that’s mostly because I’m a broken old man. In my day I could have taken her. I think. Maybe.
Fizz! I’m irrationally attached to Fizz, and incidentally Fizz is a better Gladiator name than it has any right to be.
Fizz’s Ukrainian nails are a nice touch
Well spotted!
Thanks for pointing that out! I hadn’t noticed.
“seemed” is doing more heavy lifting than these two carting beans.
I’m happy to see Fizz again and discover how strong, athletic and ruthless she is. But trying to understand Lottie’s movements: she said hi to her mother, then went to the roaster asking to get her job back, for the few days she’ll be here, and then she’ll go to dinner with Shelley. Or is this already the next day and we skipped their dinner?
Next day. This page might need a caption.
Sighing about the skipped dinner… Can’t wait to see Shelley and Penrose, if they are still together.
Not to rain on parades etc, but if Shelley is in Tackleford, surely that doesn’t mean great things for she and the Rev, who is Tredregyn-based.
The last we saw, Penrose had left Cornwall to live with Shelley in Tackleford.
Which, unfortunately, left Tredregyn open to a major assault by sea monsters and the like.
Based on how Steeple ended, I think the Rev is now based in Tackleford, having made a lateral career move from “out-of-work Reverend” to “Shelley’s kept man”, and Tredregyn itself may possibly have been reclaimed by the sea.
I admit I’d forgotten that ending.
Tredregyn is in real danger without Rev. Penrose so I really don’t see his fling with Shelley lasting long.
Also because last time.we saw them, Shelley was hiding to him what were happening in Tredregyn. A thing that probably will made him angry. But Penrose like her a lot and her daughter adore him. Also, as a priest he should be able to forgive.
Does Fizz do banked track derby or flat track? I used to go watch Flat Tracked when I lived in Minneapolis, the priciest seats were on the floor coming out of the turns where you might get clobbered by a player who lost their edge/got muscled out of the lane and sent flying right to where you were sitting.
Wonder what Medusa, the star player of that league, is doing these 15 years later. The league is still going, but she’s retired.
Recruiting Fizz onto the solver team wouldn’t be a bad idea. The could use some physical prowess for sticky situations. Lottie and Claire are of Hobbit stature, Glam is more slender than stout, and the power of Charlotte’s “J’accuse!” can only go so far.
They can always rope Dean in, when needed.
Probably not, given their recent history.
Keep Lottie’s performance in the squared circle in mind! She’s surprisingly effective in a scrap against non-seagull opponents.
Same outfit. Nice throwback. 😀
There’s something delightfully Kirbyesque about that second panel.
More Kirby to come in this pulse-pounding tale! I love to lean on The King
But what does King Dedede have to do with all this
Mid Century Madam sounds like a very interesting “antique” furniture shop.
There once was such a shop known as Krypton, near the Amtrak station in Fullerton.
Watch out for Kryptonite in the stuff they sell.
There once was such a shop known as Krypton
Who served customers nice cups of Lipton
At a convenient location
Near the Amtrak station
They’d have whatever you want shipped in
(yes, I understand the US railroad Amtrak and Lipton tea are not exactly congruous but it’s late and I’m tired…)
Don’t listen to her Fizz! The deep state is real and you’re a brave girl to be exposing it. ^_^
(…just ask Bob Warren.)