But there were calls
Noir… very noir. There’s something a little David Mamet about this exchange… not the first time Lottie’s entered a Glengarry Glen Ross frame of mind. GLENN Ross! Everything is connected.
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This art is exquisite! I love the borderless regions of white!
I love this. It’s like woodcut.
Might I suggest *more* ads?
In different places.
I’m shocked that no one needs their services for locating a missing prize marrow. Or does Sheffield fall in Antipesto’s catchment area?
Put that Bovril down. Bovril’s for solvers only.
I checked the comments specifically to see if anyone had made the “coffee is for solvers” joke, and you exceeded my expectations.
The leads are weak? You’re weak!!
I freaking love black and white comics! The extreme seriously between Glenn and Lottie, the way she’s drawing on the weat window using her finger… this is so awesome!
And it’s an unhappy face. 🙁
ABC shall be my new motto in life.
Has wasting Lottie’s time been made an Olympic sport yet?
Is that a flumph Lottie drew on the window?!
It appears to be a 🙁 that’s crying and drooling.
Sure looks like one.
I don’t know what a flumph is :C….
Here you go, John: https://blackcitadelrpg.com/flumph-5e/
This is my kind of entity.
A forty-year-old byword for pure D&D stupidity. Apparently now formally classified as a “small lawful good aberration”.
Oh, hey Phil! Didn’t see you there.
Bit of trivia: Flumphs were the only Lawful Good monsters in the 1981 Fiend Folio in which they were introduced. I’ve wondered occasionally if they were an actual White Dwarf “Fiend Factory” submission, or just another little inside joke, like the later art credit to Tim Beach & Doug Stewart for the Invisible Stalker.
I remember the pack of miniatures that featured the Invisible Stalker and the half-elf.
ABC also stands for Always Beware Charlotte.
If you back Charlotte, you won’t need to beware her, see?
Or it could be when you need to beware her most.
I must say I am looking forward to learning about the Lithuanian diesel crisis of 1973.
This a beauty of a noir sequence! I’m almost getting Frank Miller Sin City vibes except without so many misshapen characters.
I did have to get a copy of Sin City out to help me work out which lines to drop and how to work around them to give shapes “volume”. A challenging but fun day’s work.
I’m getting David Lloyd ‘V for Vendetta’ vibes – once again, loving your change in art style!
John is the most underrated artist in John’s head, IMO.
Excellent work, as usual.
Given the art style-which I enjoyed, by the by, I was expecting to see the expiring woman Edward Gorey drew for ABC’s Mystery.
Is that a frisson of ruemance there? If Charlotte and Gloom get together I will be so very disappointed. Don’t break my heart John.
It’s 8 or 9 seasons of the X-Files too soon for that, Blue.
Lottie does go rogue in a very Mulder sort of way. It had never occurred to me before but now I can’t stop seeing it.
I also saw that little hint, the massaged shoulders….but it’s only professional I’m sure of it. ….Or is it????
I’m too amused that Lottie has to reach up above her head for that reassuring shoulder touch.
The only effect this sequence is missing is the overhead shot with the rain falling toward a central point.
Brilliant change of style with a Frank Miller / David Mamet / Bad Machinery mashup.
Love all of this, the noiricity and ABC, but I’m just a touch confused. I thought the solving ad was for Charlotte & Claire only. When/how did they loop Glymph into the project, and what can they think he will contribute? Or are we to just guess at these points?
Glenn has always been factored in as part of the plan.
If you go back to the final page of the Solver Autumn Special (two pages ago) and scan the QR code on the ad, you’ll see that Lottie, Claire, and Glenn are all listed in the full ad text.
Here’s where I out myself as An Old Person. I’ve never scanned a QR code in my life and have no idea what would happen if I tried.
Psst- Just follow this link. No one has to know you didn’t use the QR code to get there. https://badmachinery.com/steel-city-solvers/
I didn’t even consider that the QR could be real. I’ve been reading John A. for 20 years and apparently have learned NOTHING!
What will Glenn contribute, you ask? If nothing else, Glenn has a car!
Glenn is actually able to organize things!
Ygln also has admirable salvage skills!
Groan was, as established in the last issue, recruited to be the “back office robot with a computer for a mind”. I don’t know what that amounts to in practical terms, but I suppose Charlotte does, and that’s the important thing I guess.
You have admirable faith in Lottie’s ability to understand her own metaphors.
ABC! You underestimate Lottie at your peril.
Actually, knowing what things like that amount to and translating them to terms mere mortals can understand and implement may in fact be Guillam’s job.
Very cool.
John, the art is exquisite. And the depiction of the relationship between our leads is likewise exquisite
Usually, lightning striking like that at the end of a scene is ominous.
Like now.
She really took that play to heart.
She altered the course of history to be in it.
Wonderful.
So did Glenn quit his job for this, or is this his so-called “side hustle”?
He did say he was changing jobs. https://badmachinery.com/comic/all-set/
Wow, that’s a leap of faith!