In a car seat, rolled up
The return of the giant sloth, living carpet and automated one-man band! I love those guys! Especially when I don’t have to draw the one-man band. I suppose, strictly speaking, he’s a no-man band. But that’s a question for robot personhood experts.
“Automated one-man” band would be a one man band that’s been automated to eliminate the need for manual operation. “No-man band” only specifies what doesn’t operate it, leaving us free to imagine giant hamster wheels or trained pigeons.
No-man band was the Tubeway Army
(I firmly believe that I did not post this at the appropriate time only because I was away at Dragon*Con and my brain was fully occupied)
Team Creosote?
Mister Creosote needs all the support he can get!
Even if that support is just wafer thin
Awesome! Now Dean will be forever grateful! Which is hard to decide if it’s a great thing or the worst thing it could ever happen in Glenn’s life. Once Dean said he considered Ed Gemmell his friend and he was still terrible with him! I wonder if Ed and Dean still see each other or Ed is free now.
Ed might be living in Australia.
And have 3 kids now. We can hope.
With….the rugby playing girlfriend right? I really loved that character.
Wasn’t she a rower?
Nina certainly suffered her injury at the Rowing Club ball (GD40 p14). She did have other talents up her sleeve, of course, such as playing cricket in GD50.
I would love this. But Susan was right, they were really different.
Yes he is a FUNNY CHAP.
My dear boy! This is a family comic! How dare you use such language?
In these tangentially related times, let us all take a moment to ponder the redundancy of the name Chapman.
Is this like Rock Paper Scissors? Because, the Carpet could cover up the Automated Band, the Band could seriously annoy the Sloth, and the Sloth could rip up the Carpet.
That’s where I ended up with it! I decided the carpet is not manoeuverable enough to avoid the sloth, so victory belongs to the Automated Band.
All I want to know is, what are the giant sloth, living carpet, and automated one-man band even fighting about? It seems like their wildly different lifestyles would not lead to many opportunities for conflict.
who gets the car seat.
But didn’t Glenn settle that? The carpet gets the seat.
They’re fighting over 147 versus 210.
Can a living carpet even PLAY snooker?
the one in that Aladdin movie probably could
Well, he is one man-like-automaton, for sure. Most language hangs on appearance.
Ygln is *GOOD*!
The cover trio returns! Now I wonder how much more mileage we’re going to get out of this surreal battle group…
Look at that wide-eyed Dean in panel 4! Could this be the most emotion the man has ever felt? Is this his Scrooge-visited-by-3-ghosts moment?
I think he’s just shocked that anyone would deliberately save him.
He’s probably always thought of himself as one half of the easiest trolley dilemma ever.
Grace redeems us all!
Sloth’s got CLAWS, dammitall! He’s gonna tear up the carpet and the bass drum too.
*grumble grumble* don’t care how SLOW he is.
It’s not the fact that G[3^^ had an intriguing question prepped and loaded that makes me see him in a whole new light. It’s the fact that he instantly came up with exactly how big the carpet would be AND had a handy example of its size ready to deploy. This man will get you through the zombie apocalypse.
This wasn’t really a gambit to save Dean. Gambit’s just been wondering about that since Lottie brought them up, and these seemed like the lads to ask.
“In a car seat, rolled up” Wasn’t that in Nabokov’s first draft for Pale Fire? It might even be in the Blade Runner 2049 outtakes.
A: “In a car seat, rolled up”
B: “Rolled up”
A: “Giant sloth, one-man band”
I guess they just went for the cells interlinked thing instead…
Dean, for all his faults, at least calls Glenn by his actual name in panel 5.
I noticed that, too.
Well done Glym “Riddle-Maker!” Your skills could’ve outsmarted Gollum easily! Also, wow! Actual fear and double wow, genuine personal gratitude from Dean?!! What’s the world coming to?!!
I was surprised by that as well. He has…humility?
Does Dean also look smaller in the last panel, as well? Like he’s been taken down a size?
When I draw characters at a distance I make them a little bit more cartoony – in Solver at least.
Millwall, Millwalll you’re all really dreadful…
And all your girlfriends are unfulfilled and alienated.
What’s written on the wall of panel one?
It was some graffiti art on my photo ref for that corner. On close inspection, it said “Live & Learn”
What chapter/page is the original sloth/living/carpet/automated one man band fight in?
No one’s favourite herbal tea from 8 August.
And, before even that, the cover of this story. https://badmachinery.com/comic/solver-green-door-starts-monday/
Thank you! The automated one-man-band definitely appears to be a machine or at least a very far gone cyborg.
It’s so good to _not_ read these all at once through the Patreon. They should be savored slowly, like a really awesome slice of bread with butter.
Delayed gratification is the best gratification
Banal, possibly, but what’s with the wall? First panel, it’s the wall of the building, half wood, next panels, it’s brick dividing wall and either much higher than people next to it, or barely as high.
This is indicating movement. Glenn is grabbed at left near the corner of the building in panel 1. Using the riddle as distraction, he has managed to navigate to the right. The black vertical line above Dean’s head in panel 3 is where the wall changes material. In panels 4 & 5 they’ve moved on to safety.
(Sympolically, when they’re in danger the backdrop is graffiti–violence adjacent!–when finally safe, it’s a protective domestic garden wall.)
I’m sorry Yury that in drawing and colouring 21 separate figures on this page, I didn’t get the background walls exactly to your liking.
My liking has nothing to do with it.
I was half expecting something symbolic, like @burner posted one entry earlier.
Wall going up and down, must mean something.
Ah, disappointment.
I used photo reference and followed the wall with the line of action, but the logic of managing all the characters probably required me to “fudge” it. It was a few months ago. I remember I had to replace one wall because the perspective didn’t work.
I never ever ever would have noticed the wall difference in a million years. Thank goodness it was brought to all of our attention!
This confirms my theory that most British comedians spring from a background of deflecting bullying. Good job, Glen!