What garb-arge
Fairground airbrushing is a real art. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been the iron horse of these artisan images for decades, usually in his role as the Terminator, but I feel that Statham may be the up-and-comer best positioned to decorate waltzers, dodgems and other violently shaking machinery into the middle third of the 21st century.
The nonchalance they have in walking into the place talking about her life… They are amazing! 5th panel is very adorable ♡. But to be honest. The airbrushing in the bedroom sounds the most terrible idea!
You’ve not lived until you woken up with Jason Statham’s huge, airbrushed face staring down at you. It makes you feel very alive!!!
Yep. I can image you feel that for the first second, then the terror begins.
It probably won’t be hard to airbrush Jason out and Prince William in. https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/14459999/prince-william-mike-tyson-jason-statham-sexiest-bald-man/
Finally, a panel with unmistakable, genuine clowns.
Just you wait.
Feel a bit sorry for those two disappointed lads left alone with their voltmeter.
Let’s hope they take the right lessons from their run-in with Mildred.
Electrical equipment can love you in a way that a pair of mooncalves never will. Just ask Oggy!
“What garb-arge.” One of those Allison-isms that can be put to immediate practical use. I said it as I was taking the trash out to the curb this evening. Kudos, Mr. A!
I tried it out and it emerges as Gar-Bage from my mouth, but that might be a regionalism.
Kurt Russel is going to make a comeback, as unlikely as it sounds.
I may have had slightly more Kraken rum than is appropriate but I feel in my gut that it is true.
Moreso than Kevin Costner, at any rate, who is a favorite.
Admittedly, Keanu Reeves is going on my van, for a multitude of reasons. As is Alec Winter, and George Carlin (As John Wick, Lost boys, and Dogma, respectively).
Quite the boast!
Don’t underestimate the near-supernatural charisma of Mr Dwayne Johnson!
Alec Winter?
Everyone knows the only two van paintings from The Lost Boys that are allowed are The Frog Brothers, and Epic Sax Guy.
Although Keifer Sutherland is under consideration as an option.
I always love these small nuggets of poignancy and warmth in all of John’s work.
I find myself wondering how much of John’s walls are graced with airbrushed art and who/what is featured in those images.
You ask this question in jest but more than 50% of the wall of our downstairs toilet is covered in a picture of Paul McCartney and his infant child.
The real question is: how much of your home is decorated with pictures of Our Lord and Saviour Desmond Fishman?
Smart phone clown! 😀
(Is it “smart-phone clown” or smart phone-clown”…?)
Smart-phone-clown???
Nice to see you back, Fabian!
“Your body has achieved a number of feats mine never will.”
I can’t even start to guess what this refers to.
Should be pretty obvious. Look in front … and behind.
For some reason it didn’t occur to me that those would qualify as “achievements” or “feats.” It’s not what one has, it’s what one does with what one has, so what has Lottie done with what she has? Again, not a clue here.
Mildred didn’t say that Lottie had achieved feats. She said that Lottie’s BODY had achieved feats. As in, her body had developed in certain ways since they were kids.
Okay, that didn’t at all occur to me as a definition of “achieving feats.” My bad. Thanks. 🙂
Lottie is /vay/ curvier than Mildew. Admittedly, not the best reassurance. Lottie is concerned about her attitude and personality, not her shapeliness.
Lottie, you’re petite, so just don’t try looking down your nose at someone taller than you.
Panel 2 Lottie is DIRECTLY referencing Panel 5 in the last comic. At least she’s self-aware.
I’m sure we’ve all seen, in some film/episode or another, an example in which two men, having given each other what might be interpreted as an unduly “un-masculine” hug, are quick to make sure that everyone in the vicinity knows that the hug notwithstanding they are by God HERETOSEXUALS. I mean, sure, it’s a cliche but that’s precisely why I’m sure we’ve all seen examples of it.
Notice that immediately after their own hug, both Lottie and Mildred are quick to openly express fascination with the male figure of Jason Statham, as to remind themselves and each other “Oh! That’s right, we like BOYS! YES, of COURSE we do! Boys! In our BEDROOMS!”
Please don’t misunderstand me, I doubt that was the intent but nevertheless it’s just kind of…THERE. 😉
Ronald. The horny commenter.
“Horny”? /Moi/? On the contrary, I’ve been blessed with an unusually low sex drive. That doesn’t prevent me from perceiving subtexts, accidental or otherwise. 🙂
Sex fascinates me. I can think about it for minutes at a time.
I really like panel 4. Not only is it a great line and image, but it’s the sort of observation that hits all the harder because we’ve actually seen the change in Lottie. It’s been so great seeing the mystery kids grow up, it’s really made their development fascinating.
Thanks!!
Exactly as Colm wossname predicted in “The Case Of The Simple Soul.” Thanks a thousand times for these kids, John.
I just want to appreciate Lottie’s pronunciation of ‘Nuclear’.
She did look like she was going to sneeze in the last page.