Crewing on a lugger
At last, the opportunity to use the word “rubric” in a comic. There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do.
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At last, the opportunity to use the word “rubric” in a comic. There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do.
Those first two panels are amazing. Not that there’s anything wrong with the other five- amazing facial expressions, as always- but those first two take my breath away.
Bull?!?!?!?
Obvious solution – take custody of the ashes and have the two compete in three rounds of rock paper scissors. The winner is warded rights to the ashes, but the loser is approached with the confidential information that for a small financial consideration the ashes will be swapped out for a duplicate and the real ashes handed over t them. Once they pay up, the winner is reassured that they have the real ashes and the loser has been fobbed off with a fake.
With that done both sides are given fake ashes and our team walks away richer in both matters of finances and human remains!
I was kicking myself for not immediately noticing the Africa reference, and then my brain read your name as “Purple Wayne” by way of overcompensation.
Lottie – beware of mission creep!
Beware? Lottie LIVES for mission creep! (Especially since, in her experience, it all usually ties together in the end.)
That is an interesting action pose that Hetty is striking in the last panel. Is she going to perform some unusual power move?
Looks to me like she’s preparing to wrestle a bull to the ground with her bare hands.
Delight
I’m guessing that the bull’s name turns out to be “Toto.”
Dealing with a loose bull, ain’t nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do – but one woman? JOB DONE.
Is Stephen going to tell them something in confidence while Hetty’s dealing with the bull? Something about that penultimate panel makes me think he may be.
It will give them time for some quiet conversation.
From Monday’s recollection, it doesn’t sound like he really had any druthers about location, as long as his ashes got scattered. In “sorting it out,” the siblings will have to come to a final agreement with each other and cooperate on something, which may be at the heart of his dying wish.
yyyyeah, that’s not happening. :p
Catchy song, with the most tortured lyrical rhythms.
Given Pater Mapplethorpe’s current condition, any discussion regarding the relative positions of body parts should be considered moot.
It looks like Hetty inherited most Papa Mapplethrope’s brawn.
I can’t believe you had to make the Africa reference SO OBVIOUS for me to get it!
You are not alone, Katherine W. Except it took you to finally make it obvious enough for me to get it. For anyone else as dense as I am, it’s the song Africa by Toto.
Coming back here a second time and reading your comment I thought, “Well, yeah, Kilimanjaro is in Africa…. wa-a-a-ait a second.” Quick internet search confirmed my suspicion. (Doesn’t help that the lyrics I hear on that song come out as “la la la la in Africa. La la la la…”)
I recognized it immediately and even started to hum it. I’m frightened of this thing that I’ve become (that is, old enough to get the reference just like that).
“Africa” has lyrics other than “… bless the rains down in Africa / something something a hundred men or more could ever do…”? Who knew?
(Well, Lottie did, clearly.)
They look so sad. But what kind of solution could have this problem?
There’s more than one way to compromise. Scatter the ashes on Snowdon, have fish and chips for lunch afterwards.
Just read a novel in which someone’s ashes were cast on the sea and it was pointed out that an advantage of this is that you can pay your respects whenever one is near the sea. Just thought I’d mention.
Hah! I just read that recently too.
I feel a strange urge to fire up my Yamaha CS-80 emulation. Those lyrics do not bear close examination, do they? And what’s “longing for some solitary company” about, anyway?
Like wild dogs, crying in the night T.T
Find out if there is somewhere he always wanted to go but never managed to get there. That should work, especially if they both had to go there with no extra help…
I do like your name. 🙂 (wheezy snickers)
I used to mutter a lot. Don’t any more 🙂
“Wheezy snickers” sounds uncomfortably like an infectious disease. Or a very unwisely named chocolate bar…
Heheh. So – the old cartoons featuring Dick Dastardly ne’er crossed your eyes?
The implication seems to be that Toto’s “Africa” exists in this universe in more-or-less its real-world form, since Lottie recognized the lyrics and continued them. Which raises the question : Was Hetty quoting the song intentionally, or was it just a coincidence?
Presumably intentional, since Kilimanjaro is 200 miles away from the Serengeti so it isn’t a correlation that would be easily made by anyone who’d visited the places or heard about them.
..Which also leads me to suspect that the Ocean is the right place over the tortured geographical metaphor.
And now for something probably irrelevant:
Dunno if it’s the gray hair or her general build, but Hetty reminds me of Blossom Cooper, 50 years on.
I aspire to growing cloud eyebrows.
He was a character design I did for another project, where the artist went in another direction, so I had a little something special for Stephen Mapplethorpe. Cloud eyebrows.
In an odd bit of synchronicity, Lottie is also quoting ’80s lyrics in today’s Bad Machinery rerun.
I presume you did that on purpose… synchronicity…