We’re relaxed
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Sarah Grote (Wicked Things #2 in 2020, I believe) and something has definitely happened to her but I don’t know what. Lottie is still preoccupied with babies slithering out and having a drink. I don’t think even a trained midwife could disabuse her of this notion.
Yes, I’m not sure what exactly has happened to Sarah, but she’s looking a bit more .. PLURAL, I suppose, than the last time I recall seeing her.
Aww, Pepper’s become an old dog. Still knows which members of the family are susceptible to begging, though.
Awww, indeed!!
I like Bbbbbbb. Pronounced Barbara.
Lottie will be a perfect aunt and Sarah seems happier than how she used to be, and still able to contain her sister. Also, maybe is me, but it’s kinda funny to see a pregnant woman just after the previous page. Looks almost like a…
After the two previous pages, in fact. A thematic procession, I noticed that as well.
Sarah Grote! I can’t remember, did she remain friends with Esther De Groot?
In Giant Days there was a bit of fallout from Sarah getting together with the Boy not… MASSIVELY long after Esther had her ‘first-term hijinks’ and slept with whatever that sleazy hipster bloke was called, confessed, and was dumped over the ‘phone. They talked it out and all was satisfactorily squared away, as best I recall. Plus of course any Sarah/ Boy association of that particular order was at best somewhat short-lived, as he subsequently got together with Erin. Might be forgetting a detail or two but it’s been years!
“sleazy hipster bloke”
Steve Shields and his unnecessary hat!
My recollection is that Esther slept with Steve as a rebound from splitting up with The Boy (but again, it’s been years).
No, Esther definitely cheated, and THEN they broke up when she confessed.
Holy, moly. I don’t know how any of you remember any of this. It’s so hazy. But I have hormones
Yes, even if Esther wasn’t really good in helping her stay her friend.
TELL US WHO THE FATHER IS JOHN
Dr Ethelbert Eschscholzia.
Was Bertie a botanist?
THE Dr. E-Bert Eschscholzia?!?! Wasn’t he formerly the villainous leader of “Eschscho and the Lagomorph Lads?”
I see he’s turned over a new leaf in his quest to right his former wrongs, AND knock up Grotte Gal!!
Handy that the kid can call him poppy.
Oh, him…
That’s easy for you to say.
I don’t trust Lottie with auntie power
Then again, what she can be trusted with is always a game of chance
Well Shelley trusts Lottie enough to be Peggy’s Godmother. I’m sure she can take care of her own flesh and blood fine enough.
Coming soon: Auntie Lottie vs. The Anti-Lottie
Wasn’t that Wobbly Head?
Sounds like the premise for a story about Beate kidnapping Lottie’s niece to me.
Lottie has clearly found an abandoned copy of Elon Musk’s baby name book at a bus stop or propping up the short leg of a table somewhere.
You’re sister’s right, Sarah. Roman numerals aren’t just for royalty. Think about Rocky II, III, and IV!!
I had a Dwarf Fortress once that produced a vulture bone battleaxe named Roastednuts. It menaced with spikes of vulture bone.
Back in the olden days when I was married, I used to torture my ex by insisting we name our spawn “Pugsley.” She was having none of it.
It’s probably for the best that the theoretical spawn never clawed its way out of her womb. She probably would have saddled it with the name “Gerald” or something. Clearly I would have no say in the matter.
I believe you mean, “the theoretical spawn never slithered its way out of her womb for a drink.”?
No, any spawn of mine will claw its way out. We’re more cat-like than snake-like.
Actually, I think the name “IX” would be pretty cool. Pronounced either “icks” or “nine” depending on how mad I was at the kid at the time.
The odds of me being able to name a child these days are pretty slim though. (Even if offered, I don’t think I’d wish my weird ginger genetics on any kid.)
Your comments today have made me feel sad, Tarmaque, perhaps because I’m in a similar boat. That doesn’t mean we SHOULD feel sad, it means, again, that I have hormones
Don’t feel sad. I feel lucky on alternate days and unlucky on the opposite days, and I have nieces I can borrow when I’m feeling childless. It never lasts long.
Surely Ix means ‘A boy who is unable to satisfactorily explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven’?
Indeed! I wondered if anyone would pick up on that.
kVIIIerine is available!
What’s wrong with good old fashioned names like Euphrosnia, Sophronia, Graton or Quimby?
We don’t need any more spellings, thank you very much.
Almost certain that’s a Mogwai song
I wonder if Sarah’s hair style was inspired by Lottie’s pics of Maggie Warren?
I might just have woken up, but for me to read the comic twice, due to said just having woken up, and then once again, after checking the slither out reference comic, and not until at third glance realising that Sarah is not saying that it sounds like “Someone describing a scream” is quite impressive, even for me. I am honestly somewhat disappointed now, it sounded ominous and badass, and made me really curious as to what Charlotte had said.
“Someone describing a scream” could be one of Lottie’s name suggestions.
Or just save some words and name the child “AAARGHH!“. (Note that shouting it loudly is a vital part of the pronunciation.)
Pepper! He is the best!
Not only do names have power, but naming itself is a sort of horrible power. One I’m not sure Lottie is ready for.
Aw, just noticed it looks like we can’t “like” comments anymore.
The Comments Like Dislike plugin was suspect #1 for cookie issues that were stopping some people viewing the site.
Speaking of issues, the website is no longer loading in Firefox fork Waterfox, ever since its latest update tweaked the way it reports its user-agent field to websites. I seriously doubt it is worth looking into it from your end at this time, as no other browsers seem affected.
Have you tried deleting cookies? Yesterday, i couldn’t load the page on a couple of different browsers, while it loaded fine on others. I deleted the site cookies on the two browsers it wasn’t loading on and that fixed the problem.
I’ll try that on Brave, which currently tells me “The server refused this request because the request header fields are too large.”
Right now I’m using Firefox; seems to work ok.
It was the other way around for me- I couldn’t get in on Firefox (until I cleared the cookies), but had no trouble getting in with Brave.
Hello, IT…
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Where am I going to get validation now?
Maybe we can still get parking validation.
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We’ll just have to reply to each other with ‘+1’ or ‘-1’.
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To be fair, Lottie, Mike wasn’t talking about you just then. He’s busy with whatever giant thing he’s roasting (possibly the largest goose from the shop around the corner).
Looks like a big chunk of concrete to me!
I assume there is aluminum foil over the top of whatever meat is in there.
Mike has been aware of where he ranks in the hierarchy around here since Lottie was 15 and took over his newspaper through sheer force of personality.
Vivi, a perfectly cromulent name. Or Micl.
Teach me, sis-tor…
I have always been partial to the name “Tawdry”
Excellent. I also rather like “Absinthia” or “Polyamora.”
Another good one is “Callipygia.” Of course that one could backfire.
In a Pathfinder game once, I played a witch named “Pellagra”.
Thanks to reasearching the mystery packet of Lottie’s snack I now know that there’s a Kentish Cobnut Association. Tell your friends!
Sarah Grote! So much fun to get a glimpse of how life is going currently for her. But like others, I’m very happy to see Pepper living his best life 🙂
Wait wait all this about the baby name and none about the fella’ tending the oven? Could it be Mr. Lord Captain Chief Supervisory Sewerman General Johnson?
No, it’s Mike Savage, newspaperman and one-time giant soul-sucking walnut. Karen had her fill of sewer workers after “Unwelcome Visitor”, so she’s dating that case’s monster instead.
He’s been around the Grote household at least since “Wen-Tack” (Karen may have just barricaded him in after that penultimate “Severed Alliance” strip), and appeared in the “Spring Special” and “Autumn Special”. Lottie referenced the Walnut Incident and referred to him as her stepdad in “Wobbly Head”, but I’m not sure if that’s actually official, or just a convenient shorthand for “the guy who lives in our house and does things with my mum that I really don’t want to think about, who, unlike the last one, I don’t hate with the fire of a thousand suns or one Little Claire”.