The world isn’t fully cooked (Wobbly Head part 3 concludes)
End of part 3! Prepare for part 4, the final part, which features not the usual 22 but 24 pages of pulse-pounding, senses-shattering action!
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
End of part 3! Prepare for part 4, the final part, which features not the usual 22 but 24 pages of pulse-pounding, senses-shattering action!
Its a cold dark world Lottie…
I had forgotten all about the peril that the Scrabblers were/are in!
The wait is sweet agony
I had to make an effort to keep Claire and Glenn’s state OUT of my mind all during Part 3. Lottie’s straight rendering of Glenn’s name is a sign of her own worry. Had she been “cogitating” during the trip, she’d probably have worked herself into a panic. Good that she slept.
Really happy to be back with 19-year-old Lottie.
Really handy that the window has a clock projector built-in.
And festive wake-up confetti.
Confetti conveniently provided by Claire in the previous panel.
That’s just the tag of prolific Yorkshire graffiti artist MAZZ:Z
I like Lottie’s determination in the last panel. She looks like a samurai striding into battle.
Sorry Lottie, but ending a part of a story with rain and wind will always bee too cool for not doing it. Last panel is amazing!
Rereading this and see all the mistakes makes me think that maybe it’s better stop try writing comments at 1am.
Your comments are always, upbeat, thought-out, and welcome! Write them whenever you want.
The conclusion to a story arc five years in the making is now almost upon us.
It’s finally time for Lottie to take her life back.
Charlotte Grote. Detective, Mystery Girl, Solver. About to face her moment of truth, and pit herself against her greatest enemy, the one foe who may be too much, even for her. Will she win, or will she lose? Will she be in time to save her friends? How can she possibly defeat a foe who has remade herself into Lottie’s own dark side? And yet, with all that is arrayed against her, even the very elements themselves, Lottie continues forward, trudging ahead, through the darkness, never faltering, never hesitating. And our hearts go with her.
Thank you, Alaric.
Couldn’t have said it better, so I won’t.
It truly is her own Super Crisis Quest.
I think Lottie will never be free from Evilottie.
Cogitating is just another word for fretting about things you can’t do anything about. It’s important to be well-rested for the big confrontation!
I shall utilize “The world isn’t fully cooked at 6am!” in my vernacular from now on.
Bah, the world is still underdone at midday, in my opinion.
I’m not sure I’d want to live in a fully cooked world.
I’m not sure we can avoid that, given the way things are going.
An al dente / medium rare world doesn’t sound half bad.
24 whole pages! What possibly can we all have done to deserve such bounties? Wait, I actually know the answer to this question: it’s “pay a small or somewhat larger amount monthly at patreon dot com slash scarygoround (don’t use the iOS app or Tim Apple will take a disproportionally large cut) to support John Allison’s comicmaking”. Wow.
Hear hear!
What song is playing in their minds for the last panel? For me it’s something by Nick Cave. Either “Henry Lee” with P.J. Harvey, or “Push The Sky Away.”
“Henry Lee” is not the Murder Ballad I’d have gone for, but something off that album fo’ sho’.
Just for info: the Cally Sleeper doesn’t go to Sheffield and can’t even if it wanted to (not physically possible and drivers aren’t trained for that route) – but the final panel is exactly what the station looks like
When Tackleford was inserted into the world it required some reordering of the train routes.
It appears that in the Tackleford version of the British railway network London Broad Street didn’t close in ’86, so anything’s possible
It does, however, go to Fort William, in Scotland, the title of the page for the last day of this month – which I am now hotly anticipating. I am happy this comic has taken a Scottish turn in the last year or so!
John’s renderings of Sheffield Station and its environs are so good, you could almost believe he’s been there.
Give my regards to Broad Street.
Will do, Paul.
The recent extra Tuesday page combined with comments about Scrabble tiles spelling out BEATE led to me discover that I had also missed a whole page on February 20! But then I got to read an unexpected Solver page, so it’s not all bad … a bit like getting your own money back from the tax authority
I used to announce the 4/5 page weeks but at some point I got, how can I put this kindly, “lackadaisical”
TBF, you do have a list of upcoming pages, with their dates, on the side of the page.
This site also has an RSS feed, which I subscribe to, so I never miss a page.
Your RSS reader/feeder must be a heck of a lot better than many of ours. I for one am still not being fed several pages at a time, only to discover them later when on badmachinery.
Hmm. FWIW, I use The Old Reader. It’s definitely been getting the updates recently.
I also use The Old Reader, and it’s working now, but I’ve experienced the same bouts of missing pages that others here have.
I have two RSS readers (Inoreader and Thunderbird) looking at three RSS feeds (“manual”, “automatic”, and Mastodon) plus I subscribe to John’s feed in Mastodon. Some reader/feed combinations are wonky but at least a few of them work for any given page!
See, if you obsessively check the page for new comments several times a day, like me, you never have this problem. You have a lot of other problems, but not this one.
You would think this would be the case, but I also check for comments several times a day and still somehow missed a MONDAY update earlier this year. The spacetime logistics of that mystery still baffle me.
I think I might have found the same reference for “photo underground station” that you did.
I don’t want to throw daylight upon magic but East Midlands Railway did the nation’s favourite a big favour by doing a full interactive virtual tour of Sheffield Station, allowing me to really deliver the authentic Sheff experience.
Did Stan Lee write John’s note today?
You should think yourself lucky that he doesn’t write them more often, I can Stan’s Soapbox with the best of them.