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A rare appearance for Shelley’s dad and Peggy, her daughter. And Paul Scoville. Actually, Paul Scoville appearances haven’t been all that rare, recently, have they?
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Bad Machinery
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A rare appearance for Shelley’s dad and Peggy, her daughter. And Paul Scoville. Actually, Paul Scoville appearances haven’t been all that rare, recently, have they?
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Paul Scoville is burning up the charts at the peak of his fiery career.
When I see Paul Scoville, I can’t help but think of Mr. The Toad from Zippy. And then I am filled with dread…
Are we having fun yet?
Same.
| Say hi to Jack for me?
Yesssssss. I don’t see anything in the coming titles to suggest that this thread gets explored, but even these breadcrumbs are sweet and nourishing.
We’ll get more. It’s only a matter of time.
You see what I did there, right?
Incidentally, the “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment” thing no longer works, for me. I keep having to fill them in again. Just me or is it doing that to everyone?
It’s been doing that to me every time there’s a new page lately. Once I’ve signed in, I don’t need to sign in again for other comments on the same page, but I do on the next page.
I noticed that, too. I’ve been wondering if mentioning it would have to be accompanied by a basket order.
I’m looking into this, I’ve turned off what I think is the offending plug-in that is causing this.
It seems to have worked. You might open a support case with the plugin developer at wordpress.org.
It was a plugin I used to resolve some caching issues, like a good WordPress user I have deleted it until I need it again.
That also seems to have fixed the other (and less important) bug that turned up at the same time, where the main page was only occasionally updating the number of comments.
Same. Although, ironically, it has remembered my details this time!
I honestly thought that whole thing wasn’t cannon. A pruned timeline not to be dwelt on
I’m excited, I love these little threads. I am really looking forward to more Jack content, so intriguing. It’s like they’ve already forgotten he exists.
I read this as Lottie just being confused as to why Shelley would specifically want to say hi to Jack out of all of her friends, rather than her not remembering him.
I believe that the only time prior to (post?) ITNGUTI that Jack and Shelley were even in the same panel together was the big group shot at the end of “Hard Yards”, which had basically the entire surviving main cast of Bad Machinery, new Bobbins, and Scary Go Round. And even there Jack was in the back hidden behind Shauna and Lottie. Lottie is well-justified in being confused about why Shelley’s singling out Jack, of all their mutual acquaintances, to send greetings to.
Actually, I found another panel that they’re both in, earlier in the party. But Shelley’s on one side of the room with the Beckwith-Chiltons, and Jack’s on the other side of the room talking to a brown-haired girl I can’t positively identify. My best guess is Melanie Soap, but I’m not real confident in it.
Just be very careful where you say hi to Jack – avoid public transport and airliners are right out.
Sounds like he’s back, back from the past—good old(er?) Jack!
Shelley has fetched him back from his temporal exile?
Unless he’s now in his forties, having had to return the long way around!
I think we’re going to find out.
Maybe it was Esther who fetched Jack. Far less likely to have leavinged as much collateral damage to the timeline. (She’d need a new Nemulon, though, obvsly)
Maybe he hasn’t gone yet?
No, Linton already indicated that he was missing, back in Wobbly Head part 2. I think the indication here is just that Shelley now remembers having met Jack back in the ’90s.
“You go back, Jack, do it again, wheel turnin’ ’round and ’round”
“Slip out the back, Jack; make a new plan, Stan”
“Hit the road, Jack, and don’t you come back no more”
“Why do you think Jack snuck down the hill; he needed love, love he couldn’t get from Jill”
OH GOD PEGGY IS SO ADORABLE
Lottie is always so good with children. This page is so sweet, colourful, full of happiness. The contrast with the last panel make it even more funny.
God Dewther?
Spirtle?
“Spittle” = spiritual.
“God-dewther” = you got me.
“Spirtle”.
“Dewther” is a word for daughter that I have only heard one person use and he was “a real one off” shall we say. Spirtle, well, you’re on you’re own with that one.
Nonono. A spirtle is a traditional Scottish rod-shaped tool used to stir porridge. She’s going to tell her how the Bee Gees made their oatmeal.
I think you’re thinking of the spurtle, with a “u.”
(Yes I know it’s a joke don’t @ me)
I’m pretty sure that’s a Pokeman.
Isn’t it “goddaughter”?
God dewther = goddaughter- Lottie is Peggy’s godmother, I believe.
That’s how I interpret it too.
Do we know who Peggy’s dad is?
Tim Jones, RIP
Rest in Pieces, if you will
Removed in Perpetuity
Repurposed into Particles
Relaxing in Purgatory
Oh, I just want to give all of these twenty thumbs up.
And since Tim’s already dead, this particular daughter can’t go back in time and ruin his life…
OH GOD.
SHE TOTALLY STILL CAN.
Tim’s OTHER daughter’s still around, anyway.
The Dimensional-Scopealizer records infinite instances of either Scout or Tim Jones, or Shelley Winters, time-traveling from the early 21st century to stop each other from blowing themselves or the other up, or ruining the others’ lives. The Ministry is working on this problem. Nemulon remains very hopeful.
I have a theory that Jack’s time kafuffle means that everyone in the here and now remembers having just seen Jack the other day, but nobody actually sees him or knows where he is!
Of course none of my theories have been correct so far, so don’t hold me to that… I reserve the right to call “Nailed it!” no matter how far away my guesses were
Has Lottie actually mentioned Jack lately? Perhaps she actually does not remember who he is, thanks to Time Hijinks, until she sees him and it all comes back suddenly
Linton mentioned him in Wobbley Head part 2- https://badmachinery.com/comic/roddys-flophouse/
That reminds me, we still haven’t seen the tattoo, and turns out it wasn’t actually needed. Yet.
Chekhov’s tattoo.
Or a tattoo of Chekhov.
I’m glad the true story of the first Christmas is stayin’ alive, thanks to Lottie.
‘Twas under a gibbous moon …
“Well, you can tell by the way I give my gifts // I’m a Santa Clause! No time for thrift!”
Come to think of it, that story might scare the BeeGeesus out of her.
Goodness, how old is Peggy? I’m guessing she’s a precocious 5 year old by now (she definitely has her mother’s smarts and intuition). Also happy to hear that Jack is back in proper space-time! I’m sure 1990s Shelley got him back in an elaborate scheme involving a time machine converted from a BMW and a cable timed to a historic ray of sunshine striking the Tacklford clock tower.
She’d be around three by now
It’s only been a few years since the end of Bad Machinery, Peggy being born not long after
Peggy turned 4 a month or so ago.
The epilogue of “Into the Woods”, in which Mordawwa uses her demonic powers to inform her sister that she’s pregnant, was set in February, which would put Peggy’s birthday in November, or maybe October.
Peggy was a babe in arms at her baby shower at the end of “Hard Yards”, which was on December 18th, a week before Sonny’s 16th birthday. It’s currently Christmas Eve, the day before Sonny’s 20th birthday. So it’s four years and six days since the end of “Hard Yards”, and Peggy was born maybe a month before that.
I am in awe at your chronological awareness.
Probably it’s for the best Rev. Penrose left. I don’t know how much he could take of Lottie’s mangling of the First Christmas story. Since he’s an Anglican I’m sure it would be mildly irritating at the least.
I think Reverend Penrose regards Lottie as a fellow soldier against the forces of darkness, so he would probably try his best to be tolerant of her idiosyncrasies, regardless of their nature.
Maggie’s proximity has probably built up his tolerance for mildly blasphemous nonsense to near-immunity
It all gets shoved into the seething inferno of his warrior soul anyway. POresumably he lets it out punchin’ monsters.
So you’re saying that having blasphemous or near-blasphemous friends makes him stronger?
The CofE is the broadest of churches, you don’t even really need to believe in God, let alone the secondary details of one of the more internally contradictory bits of the book.
Alas, what could have been had the throes of love gestated betwixt Shelley and another…
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10156382555584885&set=pb.100063737979000.-2207520000
I wonder if Shelley’s been telling her daughter about the time she went to Christmas Island and befriended the off-model American knockoff Shelley that had been sent to destroy her, and then they took a helicopter to Christmas Mountain and played darts with Santa Claus,
Peggy and Papa Winters! 😀
Anyone else’s cockles just thoroughly warmed by this page? Christmas in May is the best
I always assumed that Cucumber Castle was in roughly the same geographical vicinity of Clopper Castle.
I was pleasantly amazed, many years ago, to stumble across Cucumber Castle (the movie, not the album) on a torrent site. One of those glorious artifacts, like Carrott Gets Rowdie, that makes the invention of the internet somehow have been worth it
I just watched it and I have to vehemently disagree
Not even Lulu could rescue that breath of halitosis
It makes Hard Day’s Night and The Monkees look like Shakespeare
Thank God they went back to singing and songwriting
Warm for his form
Why isn’t everyone excited to see a cameo appearance of Froggy the Gremlin? He’s looking quite dapper. Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!!
I’m still trying to figure out who Paul Scoville is.
He’s Des Fishman’s CTO
Jack’s back? I guess it’s not the nineties anymore. And I was just getting used to it…
I think Shelley’s remembering meeting Jack back in the ’90s, at any rate.
I look forward to 12 years from now when you start writing the story of a teenage Peggy and her compatriots.
Among them I’m sure will be Walt Beckwith, Ryan and Amy’s son.
And introducing- Li’l Des!
That’s horrifying on several different levels.
That’s “Chappie”
Walt’s 5, btw, will be 6 in a month or two, sometime after the new year.
Who is Paul Scoville? Is that the frog?
Yes, the frog in the suit.
I completely forgot that Shelley had a daughter. That was a confusing couple of minutes. RIP Tim, indeed! That was so long ago!!