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Although like all right-thinking people I fear and despise Lottie’s doppelganger, I also really like the spooky academic version of her in panel 4. SMERT!
Bad Machinery
New comics by John Allison
Although like all right-thinking people I fear and despise Lottie’s doppelganger, I also really like the spooky academic version of her in panel 4. SMERT!
I want to see MiniChibiLottie fight MiniChibiEvilLottieDouble now.
Glad to see the Solver gears are working.
Based on their sweatshirts I now wonder what it would be like to put Yarg in an air fryer.
Is Are Fryer a band I don’t know of or a song I don’t know of?
There’s a song called Air Fryer by AliceGabb…
On Amsta(gram), Chongus and Duderanch are wicked funny, G!
(That’s how my son used to talk so I assume it’s hip and in with the young ‘uns)
At first glance I read it as a partially obscured “HAIR FRYER”, which would, if anything, raise even more questions.
In my head, the Solvers have worked out a way to get cheap or free promotional sweatshirts, maybe from Claire’s uncle (I can’t remember exactly the details of Claire’s uncle but I know for sure he owns/has owned a toilet factory). So we’ve seen, for example, Air Fryer, Yarg (cheese), Glenn’s Nut Tea of course. I could write band names on tops like it was 2006 but you so seldom see them nowadays.
That embarrassed thumb in panel 3! So relatable.
Oh no, Prime Lottie has turned into Grand Admiral Thrawn!
Yup, the academic evillottie is spectacular. Love to see how Lottie looks happy. Like she finally has found a worthy opponent. Let’s see who will win, Go Lottie!
She am very smert!
Yeesh! It seems like there’s little end to EvilLottie’s depravity! Still though I’m glad to see Lottie back in tactical mode.
It’s as though Lottie’s last line is meant to indicate that this page is going meta; that John is the genius whose brain has gone sideways, leaving us a breadcrumb trail throughout his art!
Though his art is a delicate web of madness, we can always thank him for panel 5
What messages from 412 are that finger hiding? “I’m dead” “Stealing life and your… [something that looks like parsnips]” I predate her generation so much that I can’t tell if that’s a clue or simply routine neo-nadsat parlance.
“…and your blimps”
It all makes sense now!
Look, she’s got a smertificate!
Does ‘smert’ mean ‘the ironic form of smart; dumb’ as Urbandictionary tells us?
If transcribed from Russian, ‘smert’ would mean ‘death’. Some breadcrumbs.
Poor old Sexy Luigi – missed out on the pashing.
Doppellottie got strong bones, must’ve drunk her milk
Claire gets flustered by Nintendo characters, relisps
Lottie Prime is in the game again
Fakelottie’s costume reminds me of a Spanish cover band that likes to get up in Halloween costumes. This year they’re wearing body suits and make-up much like we see here. Look for Broken Peach on YouTube if you’re curious.
I think someone linked to one of their music vids on an earlier Bad Machinery page (this story though). I watched it. Fun stuff.
I love Broken Peach and was literally looking at some of their stuff this morning, yes the costume looks very similar.
Yes, she’s definitely there at The Slag Pit. On the right, below the balcony and sipping a drink as our heros enter!
What’s DGAF university? My google results were inconclusive. Don’t give a f***?
That’s what I assumed, yes. I didn’t know they were an actual degree-granting institution though.
Degree-Granting Actual Foundation.
They don’t ACTUALLY have the authority to grant degrees, but they don’t bother to tell new students that.
You have to devise your own curriculum. The grading process is arcane and prone to sudden changes in scale, parameters and format. Graduation might come up abruptly or, alternatively, you might end up feeling you will never graduate. Tuition is variable but no consideration is given for the student’s ability to pay.
Devise grading in arcane formats.
Date of graduation arbitrarily fixed.
Delayed graduation–alternative feels.
Donate generously from available funds.
Sounds right to me
somewhere I’ve a remarkably similarly posed bathroom selfie of me in a halloween costume
How does it feel to be name-dropped into the Tackleverse?
lottie from an alternate timeline where she gave up mystery forever after the shed burned down?
Alternate timelines are not at play here