Apathetic face downward graph skull poop poop poop
Of course Charlotte has gone to the aid of her erstwhile sidekick Claire. I leave it to you to decipher the wave of emoji that made up the missive which has drawn Lottie up to the capital.
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CLAIRE KNOWS JOBBY
*That’s* unfortunate!
Don’t we all, in a sense, know Jobby?
I’ve done my share of business with Jobby.
Claire must be feeling really down. Nothing is on fire.
Wayne construction poster, yay!
I suppose Bruce wants to contribute to schools like this, so that they’ll teach Waynian Economics?
Trying to imagine Keynes as a superhero now.
He isn’t already?
Heck, there must be some reason they named that town in Buckinghamshire after him
“In the near future you are all dead, evildoers!”
Awwww. Lottie to the rescue ♡. Study economics don’t seem to be something that makes Claire happy. Maybe she needs the help of a career advisor. So or Glenn will return or Lottie will try if that’s really her career.
Claire must have listened to the career advisor, and taken the job she has most aptitude for, rather than the job she will feel most satisfaction tearing to pieces like a wild jaguar
Yeah, from many of the LSE event podcasts I’ve listened to, they can be pretty good at generating everything from mild frustration to utter despair for the state of the world and the human condition.
At first I thought maybe the series of emoji was Claire’s reaction to Lottie’s message about the managerial opportunity. Based on the last panel it seems that Claire was expressing something unrelated.
Not a great name for that building. I’m thinking if you tell someone in London to the go to the Old Building, they’ll tell you you’re going to have to be more specific.
It looks like one of those lovely art deco style affairs, so it’s not really an old building in London
1920.
I was just looking at pictures of that entryway online, and found one that’s a wider shot than panel 2, but from basically the same angle. It’s kind of surreal looking at a real-world photograph of the place where Lottie is standing.
It’s here, for those who are wondering.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5136489,-0.1166728,3a,75y,341.22h,89.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqrnugTE2KRPLnkFd5CDzZQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Construction going on at the time of google mappage.
Though it’s MACE, not Wayne Ent.
Despite its relative youth, the building looks to be a mashup of Georgian and Beaux-Arts, not so much Art Deco.
Looks like she’s saying her Zambian EV stock holdings crashed because Ben Bishop decided to buy Twatter
Since those are mirror images on Claire’s glasses, that chart is really pointing upwards. I’m reminded of what Finns call the vitutuskäyrä, basically charting the level of your annoyment or irritation.
Or perhaps the emoji are being shot out like a projector from Clair’s eyes and magnified by the glasses.
Maybe Claire is wearing a pair of Zambian Spex(TM).
No because then the crying emoji’s tear is in the wrong eye
True. The answer must be that Claire’s glasses with the reflected emojis are being reflected back again from the phone screen. Rather far-fetched, yes, but I’ll settle for it. 🙂
Ooh a poster sale. I remember going to one of those at uni, didn’t like any of the posters on sale, nicked the one advertising the sale instead.
Shout-out to front rucksack guy.
Well, if students need anything, it’s posters to personalise the generic box of a room in a 1960s hall of residence or the crumbling walls of a neglected rented house. I had (among other things) the [mumbles]half-naked flamenco dancer from the cover of Surfer Rosa.
The poster sales at the University of Birmingham in the 90s always seemed to prominently feature copies of Frank Dicksee’s La Belle Dame Sans Merci. I never bought one, but I later discovered the original hanging in a rather awkward position on the stairs in the Museum and Art Gallery my home town of Bristol. It was later moved to a more prominent position directly opposite the door in the 19th century British art room.
Mine was heavily weighted towards Kate Bush
Babooshka, Yi! Yi!
I am a mature student at a big uni in Canada and these poster sales always make me feel *vair*….mature. And very, very thankful to not be the age of buying awful posters. I have *real art* now. (By real art I mean…art by friends and garage sale oddities, all of which are CHEAPER than those posters. Who’s laughing now???)
thank you for informing us of what borough london is in. it is very annoying to fill this out on forms.
poster sale.
you are very good at lampshading the most unedifying details it is a good humour.
wait where is this taking place?
In the City of Westminster, of course.
John, for once your age is showing – those emoji are readily understandable to those of us in our over-40 twilight years and not the proper cryptic mess peppered with vegetables for some unknowable reason.
I hereby retire
Over-40 is not twilight years. At sixty-one I’m more in the early afternoon. Mid-afternoon tops.
Didn’t we have someone else writing shorthand entirely in emoji?
Yeah. That was Lottie.
(I got sucked into another Bad Machinery reread, and just hit that strip last night.)
Ah, Wen-Tack, the red-headed stepchild of Bad Machinery, which I nevertheless adore
Nah, that’s “The Case of the Severed Alliance”, which may be my favorite Bad Machinery storyline. “The Great Unboxing” isn’t on GoComics.
Look at Panel 3. Little does Lottie realize that she’s walking right past what will be one of the greatest mysteries of her career.
I’m glad you said “UK”, for a minute I thought this was the *other* London School of Economics, London, Greater London
Ah, yes. The dreaded “overalls” phase all college girls seem to go through.
Why dreaded? It’s a practical garment
I was just being funny.
I am reminded of Doonesbury back in the day, when Joanie’s daughter J.J. was in college and was usually portrayed wearing overalls.
Oh gods, I just realized how old that makes me.
I’m on the British Dungarees Council, we do important work – maybe this was the wrong message for Bib Week
I realized the other day that Billie’s Backless Clerical Jumpsuit, which elicited such a reaction in Lottie, is technically overalls.
Claire has attempted to compensate for her emotional flailing in the same way millions of other youths have — binge streaming Hee Haw.
There’s always that one front backpack guy.
Considering how the others saw her just as “that annoying kid” when Claire first appeared, I always find the friendship that developed between her and Lottie quite heartwarming!
Claire has grown taller than I remember and lost her lisp.
She thometimeth thlipth back into the lithp when she getth exthited.
She’s just a slow developer. And you know what they say: Slow and steady wins the race!
Today she’s taller than Lottie. In ten years she’ll be taller than Mildred. In twenty she’ll be taller than Reverend Penrose. In fifty, she’ll be wrestling the Tully Monster. And then she’ll evolve into her final form…
Her lisp has been largely controlled for a while.
Is Claire taller than Lottie, though? Looking at the last panel, it looks like Lottie’s bending a bit to be the same height as Claire. At first glance, Claire looks taller in panel 3, but due to the angle, it’s hard to be sure.
Hard to say from this page. They look about the same height in the last panel, but Lottie’s leaning forward in concern. But Claire may be weighed down by her cares. I’m just going by a comment John A. made a while back.
I think the relative heights of Claire and Lottie (which have clearly been reversed somewhat over the years) need to be addressed on-panel rather than in comments. This is an exchange that was part of the notes for “WOBBLY HEAD”, a story that remains on the to-do pile but is near the top.
Oh, yeah, I also note that Lottie’s Louboutin knock-offs have a serious heel on them, while Claire appears to be in flat shoes.
Also, I’m not really sure what Claire’s final form is, but I’m pretty sure it breathes fire.
I felt a bit, once. Just once.
Put that dog straight in the ground, tell you what.
The art on this one is mindblowing. The Englishman outdoes himself on the weekly these days.
When deciphering the emojis, remember that it’s being mirrored on Claire’s glasses.
I dunno, I’m partial to John L’s “shot out of Claire’s eyes like a film projector” theory.
Displayed on the surface of her Zambian Spex, required for LSE’s AR lecture series! (per Sean K)
Does Claire know that Charlotte’s not HER sidekick? 😉
I’m pretty sure Claire knows she’s the sidekick, given that at the end of “Circus Windows” she was worried that Mildew had stolen her job.
Claire’s long, hard fight for main character status continues.
Side note: loving Claire’s new style.