She’s dotty
Cupping World (one for sharp-eyed readers) refers to coffee cuppings, which are… like wine tasting? Not the thing where you get a lot of round bruises after paying someone £70. I don’t believe in the miracle powers of that sort of cupping.
Steamy!
Seems like Lottie might be in the context of a loving relationship.
GASP!
I want to believe there’s an explanation for this scene that isn’t obvious. Wait – no I don’t.
Oh a mystery man!
I believe that you don’t need NERO Wolfe to solve that mystery…
Goodwin! Ahem, I mean: Good one!
“We must consult in your room. You look warm. Take of that thwet-thert. Oh, you’ve thpilled thumpthing on your panth! Take them off, thow we can… clean…”
Um no.
Trying not to think about what Lottie did to him that requires institutional grade filth blasting. (Or made them both ~think~ that he needed it.)
Will he need a 7-day detox diet and an emergency confession with a specially trained priest too?
What happened is clear… Nero offered to cook Lottie some family recipe and doing that, unfortunately, he spilled gravy on himself (obviously by mistake). so Lottie kindly suggested he to take a shower. This is totally a normal thing to happen… Maybe.
Am I the only one who can’t take his eyes off the title of the forthcoming strip “Boyhole”? Should I be hoping it’s just a boy-band? Or perhaps an odd retail establishment of some kind?
The Boyhole, leader of all males. It is a vortex in the ground filled up with various organs and other such boy parts. It is where we toss the bodies of our dead. Oh, and it’s also voiced by Orson Welles.
The Boyhole is full of snips and snails and puppy-dog tails
I also noticed the Boyhole strip title. Should we be worried that that strip appears on Valentine’s Day? Will the boyhole be a dent left in the ground after Nero has been launched (Rome man’s in the air?) and landed?
Well struck, Nimz. Well struck.
“boyhole” suggests to me the same thing that “mancave” does, which is not the actual definition of mancave.
Ah, the wealthy dowager finally makes her appearance! I wonder when the ghastly mutant will rear up…
The artistic evolution between that page and this is fascinating. Lottie looks the same and yet quite different.
Her hair in particular looks different than it did even earlier in this storyline. I’m wondering if it’s just-out-of-shower wet, too.
That page was before Lottie got her Japanese Digital Perm, and only just after Mildew drew her out of her state of torpor. Not sure how long the JDP lasts, and I know she’s always been big into hair, but I would wager Charlotte is giving her hair more care now than she was at that low ebb.
I’m comparing these pages, which were just this morning, to this one and the last. Lottie’s hair seems to be less poofy in the last couple pages, and has developed those splits in her bangs, which is leading me to believe that it might be weighed down and sticking together because it’s damp.
It’s not just the hair. Look at her facial expressions and body language. There’s something different about Lottie on the past couple of pages. Which makes sense, under the circumstances, I suppose.
Circus Windows is my most carefully drawn comic; I felt I was getting too “realistic” and detailed working on that story and Steeple vol 3, so I pushed back a little bit to cartooniness for Giant Days x Batman and that fed into Solver. I looked at the original Giant Days self-published comics and wanted that energy back. Circus Windows is a lockdown-era comic and I got… very focussed.
So that’s what happened to Lottie’s lips!
I have to lengthen the head a little to fit in lips. That, weirdly, seems to lengthen everything as one seeks to proportionally compensate. This sounds like a joke but it isn’t; I am not a natural artist.
OK, now you, Danielle, and Jeph have posted about lips in the last month or so. All we need now is Randall and we’ll have the full set.
Randall never has to deal with lips, though.
In my mind, Lottie’s lips only appear when she is trying to look her most fresh
And Mildew with long hair!
YEAH LOTTIE GO GETTEM!
It’s nice to see Lottie so happy, relaxed and visibly in love♡. But Claire is risking a heart attack, and Glenn is risking Claire accidentally breaking his spine in panic.
Sounds as if Lottie might be at risk of getting stabbed by Claire with the cutlery.
Now I want a Solver-themed Clue set.
The only version where you can have Lottie in the hotel room with a pen in her hand and Miyamoto’s bleeding body on the floor.
I love that Claire is actually being rational, she knows how strange this is, and yet she looks insane here.
I know I would get mental whiplash going from “she’s lying about liking the guy” to “of course her boyfriend takes showers at her place!”
It should be an interesting story, to see how this situation was finessed.
If there’s anyone who can make that transition without a second thought, it’s our Lottie
Perhaps now that Lottie has hooked her beau, she will be able to spare some brainpower on Solving again?
Never trust anyone who can step out of the shower with perfectly styled hair.
I can do that! It’s a magic trick. Basically I just keep my hair too short to hide a cricket.
Is there some backstory we should know about your hair and crickets?
My other rule is “Never trust anyone who hides crickets in their hair.”
That’s just their conscience though
I WANT TO BELIEVE!!!
Might this mystery man possibly be the Italian Lottie was flirting flirting with two storyline ago?
“Show me where it… be.” seems… a bit awkward. Is Claire pausing and then subthtituting to avoid risking lisping in front of Nero?
(Tangentially, I tried reading my comment aloud and had to practice a few times to intentionally pronounce “subthtituting,” whereas “thubstituting” and “thubthtituting” just roll off the tongue.)
Or at this particular moment, the portion of her brain devoted to Verb Conjugation is on secondment to Not Freaking Out In Front Of The Towel-And-Nothing-Else-Clad Man.
From the back he looks like Glenn’s twin brother.
I was certain that the title for this one would be “I do like a mad old bird”
She’s gone from secrecy to full on full frontal surprise intro. Classic Lottie.
There will be an explanation which will neither involve romance nor anything remotely erotic
Hmm, Nero, erotic, neurotic, Neu Zealand…
There was a comment on the previous comic about how Claire and Gort must be distracted because they grabbed the wrong number of bowls and some knives. Apparently, they were also distracted enough to have not heard the Filth Blaster 9000 shower running in the bathroom the whole time.
There may be plumbing noises coming from parts of the building at all times. Just part of the background noise.
I’ve been trying to determine if Claire is wearing a skirt, or a skort. Or possibly just short pants.
I just can’t see Charlotte as “babe”. It’ll all end in tears, I know it.
Colm saw it several years ago.
I have been to many cuppings. They are delightful and involve specially designed slurping spoons. I also learned the difference between natural process and pulp process coffee… it’s a whole world!
Lottie’s bedroom has an ensuite bathroom?? That is one fancy guardianship.
It’s an old clinic and I think, from looking at the plans, her room was some kind of therapy zone with attached shower room
Huh. Given the continual disinterest that Lottie always seemed to express toward the Malefolk back when Shauna and Mildred were taking their own first romantic steps, I’m rather surprised by this.
Every step on this path has been carefully mapped.
She was dying for a romance in Circus Windows.