The cap’s just spinning loose
Claire has given her all for the cause. She’s very close to irreparably broken, by the looks of things.
“Northern giant hornet” is the new name for the Asian giant hornet. This is a bang-up-to-the-minute edict from the Entomological Society of America (ESA). Whatever the nabobs of insect life want to call it, you wouldn’t want one to join you when you were sitting on a bench, innocently drinking an orangeade.
VERY SCARY:
Dean and Linda’s monologues will merge, and it will be the bee’s knees!
Sean
Claire’s sacrifice will be remembered as she passes through the gates to Valhalla
Two entire stops worth of Dean Thompson’s bee talk. I’m amazed Claire can form a coherent sentence rather than being reduced to communication via dance and syncopated buzzing.
If Dean and Linda actually manage to persist in keeping each other company, I believe the general public will owe these Problem Solvers some gratuity.
Being owed and collecting are two different things. However well this may work, I’m still not seeing the route to sustainable profit.
It’s un-bee-lievable
I’m sure the communication by dance and syncopated buzzing would have happened after two more stops. One more stop and Claire would have asked Lottie to take her to the hive mind hospital instead of just the mind hospital.
I was stung by an Asian hornet when I was a child and we lived in Taiwan. Some of the boys at the school bus stop were throwing rocks at a large round object they had noticed hanging from a power pole. It was a nest. One of them got a lucky shot in, and hundreds of hornets poured out and chased us all away. I ran for my life, but one of them got me. I am actually dead right now. It really hurt, too.
These are the golden anecdotes that keep me going. Glad you survived, Tim.
I’m confused. I thought the point of the story was that he didn’t survive,
Well, I got better…
So you claim.
I will agree to reserve judgement.
I think part of Claire’s shock is coming from the realization that she had never expected to be *grateful* to see Linda!
I am beginning to wonder if we’re seeing Lottie and Claire begin a “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” kind of relationship. Where Lottie is Marlin Perkins, narrating the action in the safety of the studio, while Claire is Jim Fowler, wrestling with the enraged tiger in the jungle.
I’m always slightly worried about Lottie and Claire’s relationship. Claire does seem to get the rougher deal while Lottie blithely barges through situations.
**Thithuathons.
Stop making me feel old with your memories!
Hey! *I’m* old, so you can be old, too! :p
No! I refuse!
(Oh gods… Someone made a Thunderbirds! reference yesterday and I knew what he was talking about.)
“An American bee has no defence,” sounds like a song Julian Casablancas writes whenever he decides to replace the other Strokes with the midmorning occupants of a 1980s-themed video arcade.
All I can think of is Mr. Miyagi.
“No can defense.”
Too scary! Why did you make me look at such a scary bee (definitely not watching that video). I liked learning it’s new name though, that way if it comes up conversationally at the pub I’ll know to leave.
More importantly, if one shows up under your eaves, you will know how to address it when tell it to scram!
The noise is nearly unbee-arable. No really, I had to switch it off
Yes. Definitely nightmares from this video
I could easily imagine DT giving his Japanese Bees vs. Murder Hornet speech to a captured secret agent he is about to dispose of (presumably in a bee-related method). Also, really glad Claire has Lottie for support this time.
Also I’m kind of wondering if the chemistry between DT and Linda Nuisance will work or if only one will be left standing. Hoping Lottie, Claire and Glym have their best funeral attire prepared.
I picture some sort of implosion scenario.
Claire’s reaction to Dean is identical to Glenn’s reaction to Dean two pages ago. Obviously, being Lottie’s best friend, Claire has right to the Hug & Comfort treatment. I don’t know if Linda saw a new target in Dean or not, but he doesn’t seem as eager to tell her all about bees as he was with Claire. Let’s see what will happen next.
Before he got his Australian Giant Girlfriend, Ed suffered a few nervous collapses as a result of a Dean invasion of his hive space.
Oh no! If Dean really falls in love with Linda he could start again his culinary experiments with very smelly food! Poor Lottie, Glenn and everyone in the house!!!
Neither seem too keen on the other. Their facial expressions bring to mind what I imagine it is like for two large electric eels to meet unexpectedly. This will all end in tears.
Or sparks! (The eels, I mean.)
All i can think about now is Northern Giant Hornet Tongs.
I’m thinking that I need to start buying Raid Wasp and Hornet Killer by the case.
I have to admit, I’m curious about Dean’s plan to train the Western bees, and wondering where on the scale of entomology to actual supervillainy it lands.
I’ve always thought the distance is not as wide as you might believe.
Cue Claire reenacting that one Nicolas Cage meme…
I’ve been reading through the archive of Bad Machinery lately, just thought I would put this particularly delightful Claire moment here!
https://www.gocomics.com/bad-machinery/2017/08/10
You don’t tug the Bat-like Man’s cape
You don’t taunt a devil bear
You don’t pull the mask off the Golden Age Bullet
And you don’t mess around with Claire.
Amazing. I love Claire so much. She’s truly the most dangerous one.
This fall on NBC: Chicago Mind Hospital.
Alas, Little Claire, Linda isn’t terribly interested in someone who is terribly interesting. She just wants an audience.
Yep. The same thing Dean truly wants… they could destroy each other with incredible violence!
I love Claire’s eyeball turning into a bee in Panel 3…
Haven’t figured panel 1 out yet. Is Linda (Nuisance) sporting a wedding ring?
There was a very serious danger of simply doubling the Nuisance with this scheme. Calculated risks.