No harm done
Lottie is confident. Confident enough to wear an orange plaid suit. The world will be queuing up to provide needles for this balloon, but let her have her moment in the sun.
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Ooohh, Lottie. You just sealed your fate. Will the judges choose someone else? Will Nero dump her?
One way or another, Lottie will be meeting that dowager on Monday.
Or not and this all goes swimmingly for now.
My hypothesis is that The Waterman will take the D-Sldes from her using some evil trick. Like giving them a lot of money and opportunities.
“We’ll never give you control of D-Slide!” –Lottie
“Give me control? I took your precious D-Sides from you last week, dear – and you didn’t even notice!” –The Waterman
In panel 3, Lottie’s pose looks like she’s doing a ‘Flop’ in the name of love.
She’s not exactly handling this “moment in the sun” with grace and humility, is she?
Oh nooo, she’s turned evil!
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”
― paraphrasing Hunter S. Thompson
(The original quote is actually about the TV industry, but speaking as someone who interned for 3 years in the music industry, this misattribution is 100% spot on.)
I usually reference Steve Albini’s “The Problem with Music”, in which he describes the industry as “a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit.” You can read the whole delightful screed here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music
Insightful and biting. I shall work my way through this.
That was pretty hardcore, even for me.
But I was only an intern, and I can see how if I’d actually worked fulltime in the industry I could come out writing something just exactly like this.
For all that this arc has been a bit of a (Cuban) heel turn for our lord and saviour Lottie Grote, I feel like panel two and three here make it all worth it. Hubris has never looked this good.
She brings the heat! She brings the heat! But there are always bigger heels in the world…
Stepping in once again to suspect that JYP will scoop them up and take them off of Lottie’s hands. Or maybe Phil Oakey will.
Have you cheated and read the last three installment captions?
Erm, no? I always forget to do that
I suspec’… a return to status quo
What “status quo” would that be? The entire Solver series so far has involved a constantly changing and evolving status quo. The first several Solver stories, everything through The green Door, seemed to be about setting up a new status quo. That status quo was in effect for exactly one story (The Urn) before the current story started to challenge (or even dismantle) it. A single story does not a status quo make.
Maybe the status quo is that there is no status quo! Perhaps Solver is about FLUX
That would be Solder, surely?
…and stop calling him “Shirley”!
Watch your language, good sir!
Acid or rosin?
I’m finding myself wondering where I can find a decent orange windowpane jacket.
Please link if you find some good options!
Outside of my usual price range (by an order of magnitude), but… https://www.saksfifthavenue.com/product/saks-fifth-avenue-collection-virgin-wool-windowpane-sportcoat-0400014995241.html
I feel a deep stirring I’ve not felt since the pandemic began… a yearning to… *dress up nice.*
That’s Claire pushing Glenn forward. “Go on,” she’s saying “Ask her, ask her.”
So cute how Claire gently push Glenn to invite Lottie once again to join them on the case. It’s kinda sad to see how Lottie seems to have no problem abandoning mysteries and justice. But if that makes her happy, go ahead.
once a “problem-solver” becomes a manager they never run out of problems to solve. It’s an endless high.
Yes, when you’re not solving problems you are causing them. This is not ALWAYS on purpose… (problems you create are sometimes just called ‘business’, though.)
A gentle push? Looks like Glim had to brace himself against the impact.
I interpret that more as a manifestation of his fear of Lottie.
Her moment in the sun won’t go well when the orange plaid turns out to be made of wax!
It’s that sign which says “Talent Only” that bothers me. Will I ever pass such a sign? Sadly, probably not.
How do you know it says ‘Talent Only”? It could say “Equivalent Only” or “Ambivalent Only”.
Work backstage and you will live behind that sign. It’s a thing.
Work backstage and you will live behind that sign. It’s a thing.
Well that didn’t work.
It never does…
“Covalent Only”
If you can’t share, you’re not welcome here.
Why is she phrasing the duration of D-Slide’s career in the form of a prison sentence? That’s the real question. Has she never stopped solving and one of the boys is a badun? (We can hope.)
One thing occurs to me: CHARLOTTE WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG. We were all snickering at her aspirations for Nero and the boys, but however this turns out for her, they really do have what she saw in them.