Hip hip hooray!
I know, I know, walk don’t run to the patent office with the plans for the “nihilist vomit beard”.
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I know, I know, walk don’t run to the patent office with the plans for the “nihilist vomit beard”.
Any security guy who’d apparently fall for that act must undoubtedly be in on the heist.
Especially as he explained the tricks of the illicit trade to Lottie back on the slopes and this matches his scenario to perfection.
I see you’ve never made a mistake!
Yeah, based on this little scenario, I’m confused about how these jewel thieves escaped detection for so long.
People are expecting a master thief in a black turtleneck, not three drunken teens in Groucho Marx disguises.
….and that’s how they grabbed the jewels all thanks to “bad shrimps?” 🤭
That might not even be the real jewels she’s wearing.
Nihilist fringe above, nihilist vomit beard below.
I can’t help but admire someone who capable of vomit on command. Great actors.
Maybe it was unscripted, and they just took advantage?
It’s not on command, it’s fake. He’s pulling a little string attached to the fake beard.
I have a lot of questions about the mechanisms of the nihilist vomit beard and its apparent nihilist vomit reservoir, and I really don’t want answers to any of them.
Not to mention the source of the contents of the reservoir.
Inspector Gadget he ain’t.
“Go-go-gadget HURL!”
I’m going to assume that it’s some kind of soup, most likely sourced from the lodge’s dining room.
Yeah, take pretty much any soup with chunks, add some Stroh Rum 80% that nobody is going to miss, and you have the most perfect, vile attention-distractor. Tricks of the trade…
That might look okay, but lack of the proper smell is a big giveaway.
To be convincing, it would need a lot of Parmeggiano or something similar to recreate the, uh, perfume of the real thing.
Split-pea soup is an excellent stand-in for chunder.
Proper smell? I did say Stroh Rum, didn’t I?
That is one of the questions I don’t want answered, yes.
It’s Japanese. They like to keep their secrets.
(Especially the vile ones!)
“Nihilist vomit reservoir” – I see you also harbour deeply buried memories of the Latin mass, these things just come out sometimes
“Et cum spirit tu tuooooo!”
I totally missed it. Great idea, disgusting but great.
Disguises that Inspector Clouseau would be proud of
I suspect the fake vomit was produced from the fake beard – little faker!
“I’m sorry for my friend, but he had something he needed to bring up.”
Is that Nathanial Hörnblowér?
A disguise isn’t a disguise when it looks like a disguise. That beard wouldn’t fool a toddler on a fake Father Christmas.
But in this case it is effective precisely because it is a very obvious desguise, so people are going to be looking to the desguise instead of noticing anything about the person behind it.
I don’t think the disguises need to be all that good, since at this very moment there are plenty of witnesses who can see the three people wearing them watching karaoke elsewhere. Alibis are better than disguise!
The secret is to be quick and trust the poor lighting.
A Brock Sampson bodyguard would have stuffed vomit beard down Groucho’s throat and slit the little nazi from sternum to crotch before they got to the jewels…
Nihilists! Fuck me. Say what you want about National Socialists, &c. &c…
Sometimes, you never expect the classic routines!
I want to know what the groom’s hand gesture means. Very suspicious indeed!
Who is he telling to cut it out?
The security guard, probably.
Considering that they might ALL be in on it, “the necklace is ready to be taken.”
Signaling to security to get the nihilists out of there.
Ocean’s Spew-leven, eh? Amirite? Eh? Hello?
I did a google search on “Nihilist vomit reservoir” and “Nihilist vomit beard” – you know, for patents or band names – and the first thing that came up was this comic. Nothing else matched. As we already knew, John is a trailblazer in so many ways!
Not the first Bobbinsverse character to wear disguise glasses
Not even the first in this four-part story!
Right now would be a good time to check whether the client still wears the juwelry.
And if not… Right now the number of suspects is very limited.
Unless of course they obtained a fake one that looks the part but is mostly plastic? Panel 4 is doing the heavy lifting here but we can’t see the sleight of hand…
First impressions are important
nihilist-vomit-beard is my 1Password passphrase.
Correction: nihilist-vomit-beard *was* my 1Password passphrase.