How is it still open?
How is it still open?

Notes, &c.

A lot going on here, so you might as well take your time. This isn’t the Slag Pit’s first appearance in my comics, as it featured in Giant Days on April 17th, 2013. A mere 11.5 years ago. There are lots of nice venues in Sheffield but I didn’t do any of them the favour of inclusion.

When I worked in Manchester city centre in the early 2000s , a club called “Satan’s Hollow” was constructed in the basement of the building I worked in, 101 Princess Street. The centrepiece of this nightclub was a big old Satan. All good fun, I’m sure you will agree, but at the time of construction we had no idea what business they were building down there, so when they started carting in the Great Deceiver, it was a confusing day.

Satan’s Hollow is still there. The business I worked for is most definitely not.

ADDENDUM: Claire and Glenn are dressed as characters from The Lady Eve. Though Glenn has editorialised with a moustache. I don’t remember where I got Lottie’s costume from as it was designed a bit before.

THE LADY EVE (1941) - Comic Book and Movie Reviews

ADDENDUM 2: I have been reminded who Lottie’s costume is. Rita Hayworth in Gilda!

Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946) | FROM THE BYGONE

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