Humour us, John
John Cloake looks a little more relaxed in his nice green neckerchief. I’m not sure how relaxed you should be around Lottie and Mildred. They’re a pair of live-wires. But given how he sticks away beer, I think relaxation is inevitable.
Good to see that Mildred is going for a more sensible beverage after previous mishap…
And Lottie is balancing out that sensible beverage choice by ordering a pitcher of grapefruit beer.
Lottie knows her limits and stays well within them.
But…
Grapefruit?
MORE CITRIC NOT LESS
THIS IS A PRO-CITRIC COMIC
GET USED TO IT!!!!!!!!!
Some here have never had Ruby Redbird and it shows
She’s the designated driver and the kids today tend to take that seriously.
C’mon, clowns are the best ♡! Why destroy them? Better for Mildred and Lottie to try to become the new queens of the Clowns.
But then they’d have to fight each other to establish who was the ultimate queen, and the other would have to leave and start another clown colony somewhere else.
Oh no. Their friendship would be ruined forever!
Lottie’s right. You can make humans hate pranks, you can make humans hate japes, you can make humans hate jackanapes, but there’s absolutely no way you can do all three at once. It violates the Law of Conservation of Buffoonery.
I only hate jackalopes, does that count?
I love these segments with John in the pub. They feel almost like a LeCarre novel with clowns instead of spies.
Grapefruit beer, probably made with Cascade hops
I can’t stand IPA’s and most local beer and I live in Denver, an alleged beer capital. It all tastes like Grapefruit. If it weren’t for Belgian style beer and stouts, I would be drinking nothing but imports.
Free Shauna!!!
Urgh, Belgian beer, tasteless and strong! Worst of all worlds! IPAs forever, Belgium NEVER! Grapefruits for all in my citric comic kingdom of beer.
DISCLAIMER: I can now only drink one pint of beer before retiring, my “constitution” gave up long ago.
Belgium… never?
You have offended Poirot.
And Tintin!
et Natacha!
Hah! My constitution is doing fine, it’s my beltline that was giving out. Only drink beer now when at a bar, so you can guess what happened to my belt size courtesy of Covid lockdowns. Damn, there is a little silver lining in this mess. Anyhoo, 1st Amendment makes a Orange IPA that is 8% and smooth drinking. May pop one and drink along with Lottie and Mr. Cloake just this time.
Pass me that pitcher, Lottie, it’s grapefruit beer…
I’m a fellow Denverite, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree with you there. As much as I like a good Belgian I’m all for IPA and home brews. That being said I’ve been making more of a transition from beer to wine.
There’s a few breweries in Denver that make excellent German/Czech-style beer, and the state’s biggest export, Fat Tire, is a solid amber ale. Most Colorado breweries do a pretty good job of balancing their hoppy beers with some malty options–much better than the West Coast, where the most successful macro-micros all seem to be built around IPAs.
Most IPAs I’ve tried are way over hopped. My Favorite Beer is 90 Shilling Ale from Odell in Colorado. Unfortunately, we no longer live in Loveland. No 90 Shilling in Maine that I’ve found.
Tasting like beer is the primary problem I have with beer!
I’ve only had Bud Lite, so I don’t know what beer tastes like.
Will we eventually see the Clown Queen!?
That could be the subject of the episode titled “Back off, Boozoo.”
*ahem* SXauna *ahem*
The difference between me and John Cloake is that apparently he will still drink it.
Don’t look a gift beer in the foam. Even if it reeks of grapefruit.
I used to be a newspaper sportswriter in a past life. One of our running jokes was:
Q: What are a sportswriter’s two favorite beers?
A: Free and free light.
Reminds me of the old Questionable Content punchline:
Bartender: “What kind of beer would you like?”
Jimbo: “A yellow one.”
You are a man of taste and breeding.
And you, sir. And you.
No fair making me laugh so hard in panel 5 that I could hardly read the rest of the strip.
I think all of you who think the Clown Queen will turn out to be Shauna are missing the far more obvious candidate- Mrs Terry! (And I know John said he wasn’t going to do things like that anymore, but John is well established to be a liar.)
It’s a hybrid of Mrs Terry and Shauna, an awful chimera. Also grafted onto this chimera are Fallon Young, Sailing Inventor Ernest, and Mordawwa.
And here I was hoping for an amalgamation of Gentleman Thief Raffles, Morag, and that Portuguese hotelier who called Fallon an idiot that one time.
Speaking of Ernest, whatever happened to Gibbous Moon?
Gibbous Moon would have been my guess, too, were I to assay such a thing, which I certainly would not
She’s already been a pirate king after all.
Sounds reasonable. I’m sure this is a completely reliable description of what will happen.
will vvvvvvvvvvv (sp?) make an appearance? In classical latin, that’s woowoowoowoo (etc)
Now I will live for the possibility of Mordawwa calling Archduke Horns “Woo-woo-woo-woo”!
Now, now, I also think it might be Claire. I’m keeping my options open.
Nah. If it were Claire, the car would have been on fire instead of just covered with stuff.
I see Erin’s boot in panel 1!
Damn good eye!
You’re right!