Poor Bea, she was manipulate so easy and left alone. By this spirit that looks so much like Lottie. Maybe after this big fall Evilottie will possess her body and then try to destroy Lottie.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first xerographic woman. Beate will be that woman.
It’s a tad fortunate that someone just sold us the rights to their face for this surgery tho, otherwise we were going to have to rebuild her as Steve Austin
Here’s the link for the quote if anyone doesn’t want to re-read all of Wobbly Head 2 again tonight. But then again, that’s not the worst use of your time.
Or the apostrophes.
Since I was old enough to know the difference between the two, I’ve thought of full stops (periods to you upstart colonials out there) as pips and apostrophes as bips. Funny old world, innit?
There was this Swedish comedian named Victor Borge who played the piano, but kept interrupting himself with jokes and strange behavior. One of his routines involved punctuation of a letter being dictated to a secretary. It was terribly funny, maybe even more than that recording of the farting contest that had contestants performing at “The Blasting Post.”
So, you’re NOT mental, not even mental “lite.” Just very funny, but do you play the piano?
Just a minor point that bugs me now and then, but if Lottie *hadn’t* licensed out her face, would that really have made that much of a difference to someone wanting to impersonate her? Fictional characters have been utterly flawlessly impersonating each other for centuries with AFAIK licensing not being any sort of barrier. Is it a plot point that whatever the impersonator’s misdeeds, the impersonation is In And Of Itself totally legal? But is it in fact otherwise illegal to impersonate someone in the first place? Maybe it’s a European thing and I just don’t “get it.” š
It’s a mystery thing. While I suppose there may be plastic surgeons willing to work from a photograph, the chain of facial custody makes a plot point into a clue (as well as trading on that deep fake thing that’s all the rage with the kids these days.)
Maybe they just took a mold of her face and only use the full-rendition if the client really wants (and can pay for it?) Otherwise, it might just be a nip and a tuck, a nose or a chin?
‘I’ll be with you all the way’ yup, that one ranks right up there with ‘don’t worry, you’ ll be finished by lunchtime’, to which I was advised to respond with ‘which day?’
-And of course she trusts her co-pilot (more than she trusts herself?) She needs to stop trusting that other personality with unreasonably high expectations.
I thought I remembered that from part 2 too. There’s just a tinge of colour to Claire on that page, a deft touch I’d overlooked on first, second, third and fourth readings.
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Poor Bea, she was manipulate so easy and left alone. By this spirit that looks so much like Lottie. Maybe after this big fall Evilottie will possess her body and then try to destroy Lottie.
I’m still betting on a Tyler Durden/Norman Bates’ mom/Black Swan repressed alternate personality thing.
If she’s so disabled by this accident (or it was a secret death-wish) the Evil Spirit might be the only one left?
Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first xerographic woman. Beate will be that woman.
It’s a tad fortunate that someone just sold us the rights to their face for this surgery tho, otherwise we were going to have to rebuild her as Steve Austin
Imagine having to explain to a young female patient that the only face the medical staff and scientists could license was some US military test pilot.
Wouldn’t it be more likely to be the face of the Bionic Woman, Jaime Sommers?
Hate to see what that will cost… what does six million dollars from the 1970s come out to after adjusting for inflation?
According to the top link I found when searching for “worth of a dollar in 1973”, the adjustment comes out to almost 45 million dollars. (Afaict, 1973 was when the first episode was released.)
And the novel it was based on came out in 1972.
In that case, The Forty-Six Million Dollar Woman.
And she’s worth every penny (although nobody can afford her.)
“And not even the Steve Austin people have heard of these days”.
“Off-piste is where the nihilist thrives… briefly.”
Coincidentally a lot of people seem to relate other sports to skiiing…
When I ask how they feel about Trump and his golfing they often reply “Piste-off”
Lovely art.
“A girl came a cropper on the slopes the last day. But that was an accident.”
Here’s the link for the quote if anyone doesn’t want to re-read all of Wobbly Head 2 again tonight. But then again, that’s not the worst use of your time.
https://badmachinery.com/comic/these-are-some-lovely-memories/
Y’know, that flashback established an expectation of the lads’ burglary skills that were a tad overblown.
Very true, but it also sets up their use of doppelgƤngers without any of us noticing.
Holy crud, I did not notice that! Six, not three!
That’s what everyone thinks, but she did it to herself. Less an accident than a plan for self-destruction?
Apparently it’s a bad idea to go skiing when it isn’t pink out.
It’s the bip’s that’ll get you.
bips, sans apostrophe, even.
If it isn’t the bip, it’ll be the swuff or the aaaaaaaaaa
Or the apostrophes.
Since I was old enough to know the difference between the two, I’ve thought of full stops (periods to you upstart colonials out there) as pips and apostrophes as bips. Funny old world, innit?
There was this Swedish comedian named Victor Borge who played the piano, but kept interrupting himself with jokes and strange behavior. One of his routines involved punctuation of a letter being dictated to a secretary. It was terribly funny, maybe even more than that recording of the farting contest that had contestants performing at “The Blasting Post.”
So, you’re NOT mental, not even mental “lite.” Just very funny, but do you play the piano?
I have a mind like a dustbin full of junk, poor VĆctor is probably in there somewhere along with all the empty cans and potato peelings.
That’s a BIG place if he still has his piano!
Yeah. She was with Beate alllll the way.
Riiiiiight!
If it weren’t for the lack of appropriate sound effect, I would believe that Evillottie *pushed* her.
She did, verbally…
Just a minor point that bugs me now and then, but if Lottie *hadn’t* licensed out her face, would that really have made that much of a difference to someone wanting to impersonate her? Fictional characters have been utterly flawlessly impersonating each other for centuries with AFAIK licensing not being any sort of barrier. Is it a plot point that whatever the impersonator’s misdeeds, the impersonation is In And Of Itself totally legal? But is it in fact otherwise illegal to impersonate someone in the first place? Maybe it’s a European thing and I just don’t “get it.” š
It’s a mystery thing. While I suppose there may be plastic surgeons willing to work from a photograph, the chain of facial custody makes a plot point into a clue (as well as trading on that deep fake thing that’s all the rage with the kids these days.)
Maybe they just took a mold of her face and only use the full-rendition if the client really wants (and can pay for it?) Otherwise, it might just be a nip and a tuck, a nose or a chin?
This is the dark version of the final Calvin and Hobbes strip.
We all know what happened after that final strip.
https://it.pinterest.com/pin/838936236832700649/
What’s really disturbing here is Skelelottie says “show them your skill” there’s no one in sight. And of course “I’ll be with you all the way.”
‘I’ll be with you all the way’ yup, that one ranks right up there with ‘don’t worry, you’ ll be finished by lunchtime’, to which I was advised to respond with ‘which day?’
-And of course she trusts her co-pilot (more than she trusts herself?) She needs to stop trusting that other personality with unreasonably high expectations.
IĀ“ll be with you all the way – to hell
Oooh I got the chills reading that
When somebody is standing behind you saying “I’ll be with you all the way” it really means “I’ll be with you until this exact point”.
Small detail in panel 2: Skelottie’s finger is drawn solid where it touches Beate’s arm.
“Go that way, real fast. If anything gets in your way; turn.”
Evillottie plans to collect her two dollars.
Not a very bright way to FACE your inner demons
“Swuff! Bip! Ah-ah-ah!” by Sandra Boynton, on bookshelves this May.
Forgive my aging memory, but… Is this the first all-black-and-white (okay, -and-grey) Bad Machinery page?
I want to say that one of the SGR strips with Natalie Durand in the afterlife was grayscale, maybe?
Thereās been quite a few of them over the years.
Recently, Wobbly Head part 2 featured Bad Charlotte in an all black-and-white page before.
One example of an entirely black-and-white story would be the āGhostsā storyline from the SGR era.
I thought I remembered that from part 2 too. There’s just a tinge of colour to Claire on that page, a deft touch I’d overlooked on first, second, third and fourth readings.
(also, thanks, Luke!)
Forgive your memory? I have no idea at all and i drew them!
Oh my god Beate is Frank Grimes
I made that very connection on an earlier page, though I couldn’t remember his name at that moment.
Bad idea to go off-piste when you are feeling piste off