Working out her rhythms
I don’t want you to take the astral projection in this comic literally. We’d all like to astral project, come on, but Claire only pretends that she can.
Speaking of imaginary things, I’m not sure I believe the fantasy of the Lindt Chocolatier Universe. Too glossy.
I was thinking that’s Daisy’s hair on the right side of the bus, but she graduated several years ago, and who knows if she’s still in Sheffield.
Also, if the LCU is too glossy, maybe they need to integrate Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman into it.
The Lindt Chocolatier Universe is absolutely that glossy, but the actual chocolatier does not look like that, as he is a 78 year old Belgian man named Louis not noticeably possessed of a square jaw or cleft chin
Apparently one of Lindt’s founders, the OG Lindt Chocolatier, died in a chocolate fondant explosion or something of that sort. Maybe that would take the gloss of the Lindt Chocolatier Advertisement Universe.
This sounds almost too good to be true. But then, the Segway man did fall off a cliff on a Segway, so it’s not without precedent.
Much as I love the delight of this comments section, I really would love to know whether this were true.
One of the original Lindt Chocolatiers was surnamed Spruengli-Schwarz, which, if you take a few liberties with your accent, may be pronounced as Sprinkly-Shorts.
This is the superhero origin story we never knew we needed.
In the end of GD Daisy said she was hired from the Council of Historic Sites. This means that she’s (very probably) still living in the town. I wondered about Susan, but if that handyman is in town…
…she would surely then be there still.
I think that panel’s in Claire’s imagination, so that’s not necessarily an actual person.
I is her! I think that’s her!
*It* is her – I got excited.
Come on, Lottie, how can you resist that face?
Don’t tell me Lottie’s misnaming of Gryphon this entire time has been just to set up that last line.
Then let me tell you: Of course it was.
Fantastic Claire, she seems to be the only one capable of reminding Lottie of the commitments and what responsibilities she has. Nice to see that poor Glenn has support and that Lottie respects him, in her own way.
Indeed. It is nice. 🙂 What a well-balanced trio they form.
I’m trying to figure out what in the last adventure would have been so traumatic as to make Lottie curl up like this.
I’m trying to figure that out too. I mean she got primo quality venison in the last adventure.
I’ve been thinking that she’s spending a lot of time with Nero, and so has less for solving.
That’s my theory, as well.
I hope you’re right, and it’s Wordle-adjacent. Lottie was on the receiving end of some harsh rebukes during the Christmas miracle, so I had thought it could be a manifestation of depression, like when Mildew had to peel la Grote off the floor, but expressed in hyperactivity this time.
My theory is that she’s plastered her name all over the work rota in the hope of seeing Nero. She doesn’t know when he might drop in to make a sales pitch, so she has to be there all the time, just in case.
This was my thought as well. He shows up at the coffee shop, so she wants to be there.
Oooh! That may very well have answered my question!
Could it have something to do with connecting with a dead father?
That last panel made me burst out laughing.
Payoff joke well worth waiting for.
Woah, since when did Claire gain the ability to project herself on the astral plane?
Maybe she learned it from a strange doctor?
Her last name is Voyant.
Well done sir.
I dream to be a magnificent mosquito someday.
FLOAT or FLORT…
With Claire in the Air, anything is possible!
I thought it said “flort”, too!
Flort is sort of how someone with a very heavy Yorkshire accent might say “float” so I think it stands
So you’re going to curse Claire with not only a lisp, but a Yorkshire accent? That’s just rude.
I think Claire is quite well spoken. You can tell she’s northern but it’s not a strong accent at all. When she and Glerb are in conversation, it’s a pleasant sound.
I hear her as a sort of Jane Horrocks Geordie accent.
Shauna and especially Mildred have pretty well mastered RP English.
Lottie? Yeah Alan Bennett sounds about right.
Weird when one considers Lottie’s far more “middle-class” background compared to Shauna, who if I recall was made out to be very much “working-class”… maybe Lottie doesn’t bother to try and impress anyone, and Shauna, being clearly the aspirational type, does (or did at the formative age)?
Lottie on the other hand, I hear in my head with something of the Alan Bennett monologue about her
Kind of the “sweet and sour girls” thing. Or maybe sweet and salty? Anyway, this is just saying I use objects and their comparisons to model characters for contrast.
Other Chocolate Companies have glossy chocolate.
Ethyl M Chocolates are noteworthy for their glossiness and their alcohol.
This is what happens when the Mars candy founder retires, moves to Las Vegas, and gets bored.
I still can’t get enough of Clair’s lisp coming back whenever she gets upset. I just think it’s a cool detail.
Don’t dis the Glums, they’re good people
Or robots.
I’ve never been entirely convinced by the concept of a chocolatier. I realise it’s probably a perfectly good French word or something, but pronounced as an Anglicised ‘chocolateer,’ it just sounds like you should be throwing fondant fancies at Cardinal Richlieu.
Lottie calling him by his proper name is somehow the unkindest cut of all
Gawd I’d never be a Chief Taster but even an Intern Taster of Lindt Balls would be a dream goal