The sunk costs
Broadwoodwidger is not a city by anyone’s reckoning but I do enjoy its name.
Given how long that last panel took me to draw, perhaps it should have been bigger.
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Broadwoodwidger is not a city by anyone’s reckoning but I do enjoy its name.
Given how long that last panel took me to draw, perhaps it should have been bigger.
This is why you’re everyone’s favorite mangaka
No, Claire, don’t roll up the pizzas! Those are worth keeping!
I’m not sure they are. I’ve had pizza in London…
So much to process on this page!
– Claire should know from her studies that it’s a fallacy to throw more money after sunk costs.
– The fellow on the bench in the background looks a bit familiar, but the beard would be new. Perhaps the beard is to Cloake his identity.
– In the katamari, I recognize Claire’s dad, and Colm on the bottom, but not sure who the bearded fellow on top is. I also note 2 foxes (references to the case of the Simple Soul?)
I think the bearded fellow in the katamari is the Lecturer in Statistical Theory.
I note that Lottie’s Luggage is in there, too.
And I don’t think that’s Colm, who had black hair and heavy eyebrows. I think it’s the hoodie-wearing classmate that was behind the girls when they left Claire’s class.
Ah, yes, those are the lecturer and hoodie-wearing student. I stand corrected.
There’s Jobby! on the top right side.
“A clever man upon so delicate an errand has no use for a beard save to conceal his features.” — Sherlock Holmes, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”
First thing that occurred to me, is all. 😉
Can anyone tell what the brown not-a-fox creature directly over Claire’s head is?
I’m guessing it’s a beaver, which is LSE’s mascot. But my first wild hypothesis, due to “Fire Inside” currently re-running on GoComics, was that it was a seal skin.
Claire hasn’t shown any aptitude for swimming, has she? Lottie didn’t pick up a “size: little” hide on an earlier trip to the beach, did she?
Lottie is such a good friend ♡.So funny and resourceful .
I’m honestly a little disappointed that Broadwoodwidger just means “broad wood of the Wyger family” and not, say, “imminent bloody return of the Prophesied One” or “dwelling of ecstatic hedgehogs.”
Perhaps the Wyger family are in fact ecstatic hedgehogs and/or Prophesied Ones?
Broadwoodwidger, wonderful name though it is, is a bit of a mouthful. I wonder if the locals have a shorter version.
Bwidger?
Brudger?
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
They usually just call it Llanfair PG, though.
Budgerigar?
I’m more afraid of Kaiju Lottie than just about anything else.
I think she’s more like Ultraman.
One person’s kaiju is another person’s ultra. And vice versa.
Have Lottie and company ever dealt with a kaiju before? I think their Wendlefield counterparts did that one time.
I wonder if Mrs. Timberlake employed Jobby (note the upper right of the Katamari) to entice Claire down the Very Expensive Road to the LSE.
With today’s addition I’m feeling more convinced that they’re sat in Red Lion Square Gardens. So will it be Conway Hall or Sir John Soane’s Museum that provides wee Claire’s salvation? Or am I totally off the page?
I think that’s what it was!
Absolutely adore Claire’s right hand in Panel5, that anxiety curl is so well observed.
And la Grote’s care is so empathetic.
Very generous of Claire to spare Costa Coffee from her wrathful Katamari ball. Also, the last panel feels like a nice shoutout to the classic Bobbinsverse art style.
Very agree on the style but there is a Costa cup right in the middle of the ball
I get the sense that the one outside of the ball just fell out as Claire was rolling it.
I thought the same thing about the last panel art. Feels very much like early Scary-Go-Round!
The first lesson you learn in the LSE is that you should probably not have enrolled in the LSE.
It’s like the IQ test that my mate and I came up with, that had just one question: “Have you really just paid good money to test your IQ?”.
If you answer “Yes”, you’ve failed and if you answer “No”, you’re a liar and a cheat and also still fail.
Is being a first year LSE student more liable to make you engage in the sunk cost fallacy, or less.
Wait, hold everything, why is Claire at university when Lottie isn’t? Aren’t they the same age?
“This isn’t an apocalypse.”
Which in a way is too bad because Lottie’s been handling those since grade school.
(and, yes, it did indeed take a very long time for that first point to finally register on me…)
Ronald have you not read Wicked Things where Lottie is derailed from her university career, and Circus Windows where she laments her fate? These stories will clear things up at the cost of a trip to your local library and a trip to the beginning of this archive.
Unfortunately, I can’t remember everything. Thanks, though. 🙂
If I remember Claire’s introduction correctly, she’s a year younger than Charlotte.
I believe Claire’s actually older. She just looks young because she’s Little.
They were in the same class at Griswalds, but Lottie has a July birthday, so she’s younger than most of her classmates. Mildred (September 1st) is ten months older than Lottie, and Shauna (October 11th, best I can figure) is nine months older. I don’t think Claire’s birthday is ever actually established, but odds are it’s before Lottie’s.
ronald: “I can’t remember everything. Sheeesh.”
John Campbell: “Please hold my beverage.”
To be fair, the strip that establishes the girls’ birthdays just re-ran on GoComics.
Could someone define “katamari” for this non-video-game playing fogey? I looked it up and discovered that it was a video games company. Which doesn’t really help me.
I had to google it my self, this should help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy
“rolling a magical, highly adhesive ball called a katamari around various locations, collecting increasingly larger objects, ranging from thumbtacks to human beings to mountains, until the ball has grown large enough to become a star”
Are the human beings lining up to voluntarily become part of a star? Because that seems like the sort of life move than one really shouldn’t force on others against their will. But it’s just a video game and I should really just relax. 😉
No, they run around screaming with their little polygon arms, which makes it even more fun to roll them up! 😀
The fans want to be rolled up but the second it’s about to happen, they seem to change their minds
“Katamari” means “clump” in Japanese.
Katamari Damacy is the title of a nearly two-decade-old game series in which the objective is to roll everything in the world up into a clump, so the King Of All Cosmos – who got drunk one night and knocked the stars out of alignment – can make a star out of it.
Would not at least some of her credits transfer to a different learning institution? Or does it not work like that in Britane?
It seems that Economics at the LSE has separate courses in the early and later parts of the year (“Michaelmas term” and “Lent term”) so she may have credits in the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications gained in mid-year exams. These might be accepted towards a degree at another institution, depending on what that degree is. British degrees tend to be highly specialised from day one with relatively few options and no school-wide English or other general requirements, so if she changes subjects she might end up with relatively little credit towards her new degree.
True, though there is some overlap. While at Brunel doing Mechanical Engineering, we shared most, if not all classes with the Civil, Aero, Automotive and Electrical Engineering students. You could then swap from one to the other pretty easily, or to another Uni for the same thing.
My first year of said ‘MechEng’ gave me a ‘Certificate of Higher Education’ that was enough to get me into Physics at Loughborough without having to redo some of my A-Levels.
*shared the first year. No edit function these days?
There never has been, AFAIK.
Someone edited it out of the timestream
Shelley!
Wait, is the guy on the bench a disguised time-traveling Scout Jones, at it again?
That last panel is fantabulous. Shades of “Dimensionality” from the original SGR run. This is indeed why The Englishman is my favorite cartoonist.
Technically, an apocalypse is a divine revelation, not a world ending event, so it almost is. Common (incorrect) use has given apocalypse the meaning that should belong to eschaton.
Yeah, I think people confuse them because John’s Apocalypse is ABOUT Armageddon/the Eschaton, and over time it is the most famous “Revelation”– and so they have become coeval.
The word revelation is spared, I think because the Latin re-velo still lives on in the word ‘reveal’, and people do things mostly by appearances/sound
It took me a minute to realize that the John you’re referencing isn’t JA
Same here. Of course, we don’t know for sure that Mr. Allison isn’t over 2 millenia old, do we?
I think the Revelation would have much better dialog if it had been written by M. Allison
scout: “Technically, an apocalypse is a divine revelation”
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, among others, says that word’s meaning has changed/expanded. 😉
m: “It took me a minute to realize that the John you’re referencing isn’t JA”
No, he’s a contemporary prophet.
Technically, the word “Apocalypse” has long since expanded its meaning, though (and had already done so long before Buffy). Language isn’t static. (And, yeah, I frequently “correct” people about the “actual” meaning of words, too, but there’s a sense where I’m more wrong when I do that than the people I’m “correcting” are for their use. Which doesn’t bother me, since I do it more as an attempt to get people to look at things differently than to prove my superior knowledge. Not that people always take it that way.)
na… na na na na na na na na na na na….
Just what are you trying to say?
😉
He’s trying to say…”KATAMARI DAMA-SHEE-EEE-EEE-EEE-EEE!!!!!” 😀
With the sudden style change in the last panel I expected to see Rich and Shelley in the montage.
Rich rolled up in the katamari would have been a grace note par excellence!