On a par with cardboard
Halloween queen, now we’re sharing the same dream! I’m sure no one needs me to explain the origins of cornflakes, but perhaps in the comments someone who has undertaken a foot peel (eg “Milky Feet”) can take you through the body horror involved in the process.
Doppelganger parallax
So it would seem. Evilottie was here.
Oh, no! Will Gremm be able to tell the difference?
OH NO! That will ruin Lottie and Claire friendship.
It beats Bran and Bran.
Whatever happened, I fear it will ruin Lottie’s beautiful evening. The trouble is that with all the weird things that have happened to her over the years, the mysterious double could be either a magical creature or one created in a laboratory, or someone who had surgery to become identical to her.
Or maybe just a realistic rubber mask that will be pulled off dramatically in the final scene. A time-honored classic!
If it wasn’t for those meddling kids…
Or a literal evil twin she didn’t know she had.
Dunno, I can’t see Lottie’s mom hid her in the attic and feed it with fish heads as tradition requires.
The page title for January 10th is “Never a detail-oriented parent”. I can see all sorts of ways that could tie into an evil twin situation.
Or maybe MiniChibiLottie is real. And evil. And can grow to look like normal-sized Lottie at will.
The creature made of only evil that slowly grows and then replaces the MC, like in “Possession”… Awesome!
It will turn out to be a shapeshifter that spends most of its time being one of Lady Sweddle’s dogs. (“Sweddle” is the only expectable vernacular pronunciation of “Swaledale”.)
I have attempted to do a foot peel. I followed the instructions, sat there for quite some time with little packets on my feet, and then… nothing happened. I’m not sure what went wrong, but I didn’t feel like spending money on another one (or two).
Were you supposed to open the packets?
Common misconception! Nothing happens immediately, the actual peeling starts a week or two after doing the foot peel. However if this was more than two weeks ago that you did this then I have no answers for you.
At least a year ago! So I think it should have happened by now 😀
I”m glad I re-read solver (And read the Urn as i’d never realized I missed a whole story. For shame), because I forgot about Lottie’s coffee side hustle over the hiatus.. which is now over as her twin has now struck… and I .. had not thought through the implications. While she seems to be in sheffield for now, there’s no telling what damage Lottie 2: This Time It’s Personal has already done. Lottie has plenty of friends and while friendship is grand and while her deepest inner circle (Clarie, Glenn, Shaun and Mildred) wouldn’t probably fall for it, Lottie 2: The Search for Curly’s Gold could go after ANYONE in Lottie’s orbit: Shelley, her mum, Sarah, Esther, Linton, Shelly Junior… anyone Lottie loves is now in danger of at the very least someone wrecking their relationship and at worst deestroying their lives to destroy lotties. I don’t think anyone will die this time, but I can’t be certain the Solver Squad will get out of this in one piece mentally.
It’s surprising that Lottie 2: Electric Boogaloo took this long to strike again.
Not to mention Lottie 2: The Wrath of Glahn.
Lottie 2: Attack of the Clone?
Lottie 2: Lot Harder
For a few Lotties more?
Into the Lottieverse
Lottie 2, the revenge.
I’m more excited about the 3rd installment: Army of Lotties
Lottie 4: A Whole Lotta Lotties
Good on Lottie (this version anyway) in suppressing the vile sin of self-pollution with corn flakes! I’m very wary to read her doppelgänger’s trail of destruction though.
Crisis Of Inhinite Lotties?
Er, INFINITE.
Lottie of Two Worlds
John told us in the caption a few days ago that Glenn’s caterpillar cake was from a “Low Prix convenience shop” and now we have their cornflakes, too. I wonder whether the store itself has appeared in a background but absolutely do not have the time to trawl through and look.
It appears in detail in Steeple so we must assume it is a national chain
The gates of Albion have been barred to the business offspring of the perfidious Albrecht Brothers thanks to the long-running dominance of the Low Prix conglomerate. “We All Love Low Prix” as their ads state, occasionally with menace.
Thanks, John, I shall look there.
If they can’t tell the difference, I can only assume Lottie2 does not wear the goatee of evil.
Lot of moments here referring to a doppelgnger or evil twin… did I miss something important???
I meant comments obviously
just stuff we’ve put together from various bits of evidence. In the Wicked Things series, Lottie was framed for attempted murder (the victim eventually died, clearing her with his dying breath, but his last words were “There are two of them” (in Japanese). Earlier in this story, Claire received an Amtragram friend request from someone called lottieGrote412. Lottie told her in wasn’t her, so Calire blocked the person. On the page where Lottie, Claire, and Glenn first arrive at the Halloween event, there’s someone on the left side wearing a skeleton costume who looks suspiciously like Lottie. This same person, wearing the same costume, is on the cover for this story (I’ve linked below to both the page and the cover), so she’s likely important. And now, on this page, when Lottie has just arrived at her job, the people there are acting as if she’d been there earlier that day and done… something. All of this seems to indicate an evil Lottieganger.
https://badmachinery.com/comic/how-is-it-still-open/
https://badmachinery.com/comic/solver-wobbly-head-pt1-starts-monday/
Wow. I did see the lottie lookalike in the party but really didn’t think anything of it!
I can’t reply to my previous comment, because it’s apparently awaiting moderation, so I’ll just say here that Skeleton Lottie’s on the RIGHT side of the page, not the left side (if my earlier reply never gets approved, this may come across as especially cryptic, I suppose).
FYI: if you put two links in a comment it automatically gets queued for approval.
I figured that was probably it.
It’s kind of Lottie’s fault for mentioning the whole “two of them” deal in the first place. She went all that time without telling anyone, and no problem. She tells someone and The Very Next Day…BAM.
Of course Lottie would know about the origins of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes and their salubrious effect on calming the modern person’s libido.
Seventh Day Adventist mass experimentation, go!
Damn it John, here I was all ready to do a Billy Ocean gag in the comments and you went and did it already
I missed it!
It occurs to me that, given the emphasis on “enough of your cheek“, that maybe EvilLottie produced a, shall we say, lunar vision in the shop.
They would just think it was performance art, and clap politely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBW8Vnp8BzU
Orgonon Gurlz, we’re unforgettable
Daisy dukes, bikinis on top
Sun-kissed skin so hot, we’ll melt your popsicle
Oh, ohohoooh oh, oh ohohooooh oh
Are we really all convinced that ‘doppelganger’ is more likely than ‘drunken misbehaviour’? I mean, probably, but we’re not in Tackleford anymore.
We’re following Lottie around. Same thing.
I guess Lottie isn’t into Tori Amos, who has never been a cornflake girl.
John – I have never done a foot peel, though a Fish Foot Peel has been on my bucket list for ages.
Anyhoo, the way this works is that you stick your feet into an aquarium full of Garra Rufa fish and they swarm over your feet and nibble on them. It is all the thing in Thailand. I tried to sign up for the experience when last I was in Bangkok, but there wasn’t time to book it. I’m sure you can think up something really disturbing about that if you ever write about Tredregyn again.
When I researched this out of curiosity, it turns out there is a foot fish spa only 8 km away from me. So, I will definitely check this as my special birthday treat next year. They are even offering franchises! https://www.garraspas.com/