Our largesse
I think there have been more cheques depicted in Solver than I have had to write in the last ten years. I do own a chequebook, but don’t ask me where it is.
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
I think there have been more cheques depicted in Solver than I have had to write in the last ten years. I do own a chequebook, but don’t ask me where it is.
£1250.00 could buy a decent birthday bash for Glirmn and still leave a few bob for food, etc
I look forward to the shambles I fully expect it to become
For the briefest moment I thought Claire was doing Aquaman cosplay and I was Very Confused.
Also, Lottie’s wink, sublime, full marks.
Orange top and green bottom makes me think of another lady of infinite mystery.
I mean, Aquaman can control sea life, and Claire used to be able to control Desmond Fishman. So, despite the elemental inconsistency involved, there is some similarity.
Ah, Bitsy! I think she has an eye for our Ygln! At least in a candy-sort of way.
Five or six years ago, I noticed that my checkbook was almost out of checks. There were maybe 5 left. In all these years, I never got around to ordering more, and today I’m STILL almost out of checks. I expect to remain almost out of checks for the foreseeable future, and I am OK with that.
Years ago I needed my checkbook and I couldn’t find it, so I went into the box containing the next set of checks and used the top one. And then I later needed to write another check, and couldn’t find either, so went and found the box and started yet another set of checks.
My banking software almost resigned in confusion at the wildly non-consecutive check numbers I forced upon it
I find panel 1 interesting, as I realize that I have never seen a British cheque. They are laid out differently from U.S. ones, and are apparently larger.
Also, excellent villainous vibes given off by the nephew in panel 2.
Coises! Furled again!
In reality the size and content of the cheque is nearly irrelevant. In a previous life I used to generate cheques for dividend payments and apart from the MICR line at the bottom and the box holding the payment amount on the right hand side, basically everything else could be arbitrary.
I once even had to create cheques where the signature was literally a clip-art of the word “Signature” written in cursive. I had to confirm that was precisely what the client wanted three times over.
Glenn Durgan Ltd? That’s a boring name for a solving company.
Coutts! The classiest bank!
Lottie’s waited all her life to be able to say “Tell them DISCRETION is our watchword” to a dowager while sitting in that exact pose with that exact expression.
I may need to re read the wrestling story, as I hadn’t realized it was the dowager case. But it is a neat reveal and I like the idea of Lottie having this rich old benefactor who uses her wealth for good means while still lounging around with corgies. Though i’m also waiting this whole arc for the tense shoe to drop: when is this going to connect back to Wicked Things?
I am glad that bit of continuity is being cleared up, but i’m also glad this.. ended up being the book instead. Wicked things was a fine cozy mystery and max sarin, as always, was fantastic on art. I do miss having a john allison ongoing to follow every month and i’m dismayed boom and dark horse both failed to see what they had.. but Solver is just better, combining the tried and trued formula from the old scary go round days of “A sad man in a rut in his life, an energetic busybody and their slightly more worldly friend friend (about the only thing Amy and Clarie seem to share in common but hey) solve stuff” with the polish John’s gained as he’s went and the great characters Lottie and Claire were already. It just hits in the same way the best of scary go round, bad machinery, and especially giant days hit, while still being something fresh and exciting about “what do you do when the future you assumed you’d have is gone and your left twisting in the wind”.
Lottie is still in an unstable state having a new buisness venture but no real plans beyond “Do what I do best in a way that gets me not framed for murder this time” but in her aimlessness is helping others find their way as John’s pointed out: Getting Glem out of careers, Claire out of a major she neve rwanted and Dean back on the dating scene and into her weird team as their guy in the chair. The Oracle to their Birds of Prey but sweatier and more condescending.
Solver feels like it reinergized john and his love of his own shared unvierse: While he wasn’t shy about adding steeple to it, it’s clear he needed that slight distance it provided to figure out , ironically enough what he wanted to do next with Lottie and the result.. just makes me happy.
Continues on page 7.
Bitsy in panel 4, everyone. There’s a ton more to this woman than bonbons and fluffy dogs.
Also, that nephew’s venture was doomed to failure, as anyone who’s ever tried to wrestle a forest can attest.
who wood do a thing like that anyway?
So apparently Lottie beat the Bully so hard that he quit wrestling entirely. I guess for some guys having your butt kicked by a girl a quarter your size can do that.
I just had to go back and re-read that now that we have the reveal of the Bully without his mask.
I’m sad that we didn’t get to see the Kitty Hawk in action.
Fantastic body language for the Dowager in these panels!