The British are on the move
We saw these stylish ski outfits briefly in the last chapter. I’m still very pleased with them. The bodyguard’s ski attire is one of Roger Moore’s outfits from For Your Eyes Only. There were many more brilliant ski outfits in that film, including a superb cowboy ensemble (a kind of ski Nudie suit, below left) that I couldn’t find a place for.
Puffer snowsuit!
That is all.
Like a 1960s version of a spacesuit
I mean, there were actual spacesuits being used in the ’60s.
It’s not unlike the spacesuits in Hergé’s ,Explorers On The Moon.
Great. Now I’m hearing that to the tune of “Camptown Races”.
“Puffer snowsuit! That is all! Doo-dah, doo-dah!”
You’d think wearing a full-body puffer would magnify Lottie’s power to that of a god?
She has the proportional snowboarding skills of the Michelin Man.
And just the proportions of the Michelin Man?
Not quite, when the Michelin Man would just roll down those slopes if somehow dismounted from his Snowboard.
I love the rose-tinted palette, as if viewed through ski goggles. He DOES have the stance of a high-end knitwear model.
I’m not sure whether the “FFS” is the sound of a teen detective sliding on her face through the snow, or Lottie’s commentary on the situation.
Technically it’s the sound of her face either way
It could also be the sound of air escaping from the puffer suit
Not to nit pick, but snowboards don’t have breakaway bindings….:)
They aren’t equipped, but Lottie is just that skilled at falling.
“Not to nit pick , but I’m going to pick at nits” ?!
Cop on kid.
Come on, man, we’re not made of hampers.
Yeah, skis pop off when things go sideways to prevent… your leg from going sideways, but snowboards are strapped onto your feet pretty solidly, which is just as well since it’s good for your legs to be locked into the position of “approximately next to each other”.
Many a time I (a skiier) have stood around waiting for my snowboarding brother-in-law to painstakingly disconnect his feet from his snowboard so we can both walk.
I know John did a lot of research to make this chapter (and it shows! The skiing and snowboarding looks good! As does the lodge environment), but I don’t know if that means he particularly doesn’t or particularly does want to hear about something like this (which hitches the eye of someone familiar with the subject but obviously don’t with most people). Apologies if it’s unwelcome!
As somebody who used to ski and also used to skateboard but has never snowboarded, it’s never occurred to me that snowboards would differ dramatically from both skis and skateboards in this very important way.
But now that I think about clips I’ve seen with weird tricks that people do on snowboards, it does seem a little obvious : that’s how the board remains on the person’s feet! It’s not magic!
Another failure
“Nobody’s perfect”, as the most perfect line in Some Like It Hot goes.
Pobody’s nerfect, as the most memorable line in The Good Place goes.
“Nobody’s perfect”
– Milania Trump
Maybe Lottie just did not know how to use the binding.
I nominate this as the canonical explanation.
Now I’ve got the Alan Partridge breakdown of the opening scenes/title sequence for “The Spy Who Loved Me” stuck in my head.
Perhaps there’s an embryo ski lesson that Lottie could sign up for.
(Snowboarding lesson) which she was watching on her phone until she fell off?
I was just waiting for him to say, “…and now I’m a knitwear model.” Thank you for the background on the outfit – I love all the details, in-jokes and callbacks you put in, and I would have completely missed that one.
Even before I scrolled down, I thought he looked very Bond in that first panel.
Great work as always, John.
The British are moving!!
My sympathies for Lottie, I did not last long on the slopes either.
How do you maintain a balance for the amount of lisp in Claire’s dialogue
I know its severity can depend on her mood
And just try saying “ex-thpecial.” It’s like a battle of the sibilants.
This had been covered in previous comment threads, but unfortunately, those were lost in the Great Reset. They might persist in the Internet Wayback Machine.
If she took up programming, would Lisp be her preferred language?
Oooh! Same outfits as the cover-page.
I’m all awash in antici . . .
(wait for it)
. . . pation!
This is Bavaria, not Transylvania.
Transssssexual Transyvania!
Bisexual Bavaria?
Beautiful colours. It’s pretty funny to see Claire and Lottie’s athletic gap so obvious in the snow. One is having fun and the other can’t keep her balance. Poor Lottie.
Claire has probably had lessons (that she paid attention to.)
Now I want to watch that film just for these outfits .I love a good ski adventure.
I did think everyone looked very stylish and colour-coordinated
That scene was from “For Your Eyes Only”, not “The Spy Who Loved Me”. I know they all blend together in memory, I couldn’t have told you which 007’s had which ski scenes. But I went looking, and Bond was wearing yellow in the “The Spy Who Loved Me” ski scene. The picture above was definitely “Eyes Only”.
Either John amended his note after reading your comment, or he had it right in the first place; it says For Your Eyes Only. You might want to start a hamper fund.
I’m having trouble just keeping the Bond ski scenes separate from the Pink Panther ski scenes in my mind.
My husband learned to ski on skiing trips to the alps when he was in school (he’s from the UK) and when he decided to pick skiing back up here in the states after decades of not doing it he remarked that everyone seems to wear helmets now (except for the 60+) and that was not the case for him on those ski trips back in the late 80s/early 90s. I just chalked it up to times change. But these comics make me think that maybe things in the alps never changed.
I mean Roger Moore was a knitwear model so why not Mr ex-SEAL here?
I’m genuinely confuse as to how anyone can see your six-pack when you’re wearing a sweater.
Given her aptitude for the sport, it’s obvious that Lottie must ride goofy footed.
Knitwear model is a wonderfully deep cut, the pink sky is giving me joy and the composition in panel 1 is smashing.
Also, faceplanting the moment I call any attention to myself at all is MY snowboarding move, Lottie. Stay in your piste.
Is Claire’s visor prescription? There doesn’t appear to be room for her glasses beneath it.
Contacts while on the slopes
Great save, Mr. Allison!
Cue the John Barrie score.
Whoops! Nothing to see here.
Cue the John Barry score.
I also wish there was an edit feature in this.
Glorious! We’ve had Batman, we’ve had “the Barbarian”, we’ve had that Bloke From Canada. Could we see an official Bond crossover?
You know, just to keep the B theme going.