Pout now
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.
Is that AMSTRAD on Charlotte’s waistband?
Indeed it is – John mentioned in a previous installment that that’s what the ‘A’ on her leg stands for.
Is there steam coming off the strongman’s back?
Yep. Maybe is because he was in the middle of his training routine.
You can see the sweat dripping from his shoulders in panel 1.
Steam-Powered Gentleman
Bad Strongman! BAD! You don’t throw trough the air two girls like this. You’re a shame for all us mustaches lovers! But I have to admit, the action is athletically perfect and powerful. The impact with the ground will be particularly painful.
Lottie and Mildred can only hope for a conveniently-placed bouncy castle.
I got my hair cut today, after three months. If only this comic had appeared a few hours earlier, I could have taken panel 1 to show the girl how I wanted it.
So, hairline that matches your moustache?
I do believe that Ryan is the most tossed character in SGR history. This is not based on any scientific research or “counting.” I am just trusting my gut on this one.
Gotta be. My immediate thought after John posed the question was Ryan getting shoved around and thrown out the back of a mail truck on the page he joined the Postal Service.
Sure, Ryan got tossed around a lot.
But my personal all time favorite person hurling in SGR (even though it was just an ALMOST hurling) was when Tackleford’s new mayor tried to defenestrate Shelley, because she was a “problem girl”. (Luckily she got rescued from that fate by…Ryan.)
Hey now, Shelley was a problem LADY.
Was, is, and ever more shall be
Oh man, what a suspenseful last panel! I hope Lottie has enough webbing cartridges to…Oh wait, that’s Spider-Man so…Oh no…
I don’t think he gave them time to pout after all. That’s not very fair
Maybe pout… aerodynamically?
Top hefting, strongman dude!!
And the tents have nothing to say?
They *had* nothing to say. They’re passed tents.
That is in tents.
????
The tents are exactly what they seem.
They may have something to say again The Next Day.
Guessing his name is ‘Petard’, for obvs reasons.
Given the heave-ho by the Pringles man, what a humiliation.
(You may substitute the following for “Pringles man” — John L. Sullivan, Buff Wilford Brimley, Barbershop Quartet Minus Three, C. Aubrey Smith III …)
No, it’s definitely the Pringles man.
I love puns.
Best carnie character in the Bobbinsverse since Pa Sproat.
Maybe they’ll meet one day for an epic battle.
“Get orf moy land” – a Farmer Palmer reference?