I hope you enjoy the period-accurate flashback in today’s comic, roughly contemporary to The Case of The Good Boy, in which Mildred takes on the fairground-industrial complex. If you read it on GoComics it has a lot of bonus pages.
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ITEM! Four comics this week – Monday-Thursday as Circus Windows pt 1 concludes. Part 2 follows next week.
I love the aggressive short centre parting of the trad strongman. This one is combining that with the weird scoopy muscle vest of the modern equivalent. A hybrid look.
Being flung bodily through the air by a beefy fellow is a Scary Go Round tradition. I don’t know which character has been flung the most, perhaps a historian will inform us.
Where did I get the term “we’re the mugs” from? I reckon it was Paul Merton’s 1996 faux-autobiography “My Struggle”. I listened to that audiobook approx 500 times.
This spectacular cover image is brought to you by the incredible Max Sarin, artist on GIANT DAYS and WICKED THINGS!
If you can’t wait to find out what happens over the course of the next couple of months, Circus Windows pt 2 will be available in full to $3 and up subscribers to my Patreon on Monday morning. Thank you so much to the Scary Go Round Patreon army, whose contributions have kept these webcomics coming, ad-free, over the last year.
Part 2 of Circus Windows begins! Has it really been a whole three days since part 1 ended? What a time. What a time.
I actually did a bit of research while writing this comic, as I have never been in a car wash. I was told from a young age that automatic car washes just “scratch your car” and “are haunted” and other, similar folk tales. I still believe them all. So I watched videos of car washes instead.
My favourite was from Finland. There’s something about the final emergence onto the snowy streets that really brought back the great feelings I got in that cold, cold country. If all carwashes ended that way, I’d be flaying the paint off my car in one on a weekly basis, ghosts or no ghosts.
The case of the abandoned precinct would have suited the Bad Machinery kids down to the ground… I hope someone is investigating these mundane mysteries now.
A gnomic communique from Cloake. Did I search Google for “texts from grandparents?” Well I didn’t not if you know what I mean.
John Cloake looks a little more relaxed in his nice green neckerchief. I’m not sure how relaxed you should be around Lottie and Mildred. They’re a pair of live-wires. But given how he sticks away beer, I think relaxation is inevitable.