You never used to do this in heels
Terribly sorry that I wasn’t able to reveal exactly how clowns get the posters behind windows but I hope to come back to it when the legal issues are resolved. In the meantime, it looks like Lottie and “Mildy”(!) now have bigger problems.
So THAT’S what happened to the Riddler.
You have no idea how betrayed I feel by this cowardly cheat. 😉
I actually like it. It feels feels very Pythoneesque
More Goon Show-ish, if I may betray my immense age-
“While Max Geldray was playing, Ned Seagoon, brilliantly disguised as Major Bloodnok, took his place in jail…
Eccles:
Ooh?
Greenslade:
It was a masterpiece of escapology.
Grytpype:
We would like to show you how it was done but – well – we may want to use the method again.
Milligan:
In any case, it wasn’t a pretty sight.”
http://thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e11_the_spanish_suitcase
I had a comic with a conveniently self-censored panel like that in it when I was a kid! It was G.I. Joe Special Missions #13, and the panel they didn’t show was how to make an improvised bomb.
You really busted out the Comic Sans for that one and I’m here for it
Felt GOOD!
Even in official correspondence, the clowns are monsters!
I love UKCF’s slogan. Not sure if it’s supposed to mean clowns are people, too, or that clowns come before people.
Could go either way.
Or maybe it means “Hey! We’re CLOWNS, people.”
I like UKCF’s clever initials . . .
Looks like we’re getting to that scene at the beginning of Part 2.
Poor Mildred. First the heels in her shoulders, then the inevitably of a terrible end.
I guess in the context of the story it is some kind of real crime, which is both sinister and mysterious. Breaking and entering!
The “human ladder slash conveyor belt” was depicted by William Blake. To see the missing panel 7, image search “ladder william blake”
Lottie live life backwards and in heels.
Oh for fart’s sake. I can’t believe I let a typo get past me. I plead the phone.
To err is human, to forgive divine
My fear for what awaits Lottie and Mildred is tempered by the very well designed logo for the UK Clowning Federation.
Sure, until I mention the red dots make it look like two breasts.
Like he said, well designed
The red dots used to be bigger until the Red Nose Day people threatened to take it to court.
RND: “We own the rights to red noses.”
UKCF: “Alright, we’ll make them smaller and if anyone asks, they’re nipples.”
It needs kerning after the K, but otherwise yes.
Clowns don’t ke rn
Nonsense. The UK and the Clown Federation are 2 entities, visually separated. A set and a subset.
This reminded me of an old Silver age issue of WORLD’S FINEST, an imaginary story where Superman dies and his eyes and organs are cut out fir transplants. We never got to see the panel where they were displayed, however, because of a big black block that stated CENSORED BY THE COMICS CODE AUTHORITY. I think it was the first & only time I ever saw that in any comic.
An imaginary Superman story, as opposed to all of the completely factual ones.
“This is an IMAGINARY STORY…
aren’t they all?”
— Alan Moore, “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?”
Panel 5: Is Lottie holding her phone in *landscape* orientation to take the video? It’s the only correct way but seems to be vanishingly rare among today’s youth.
I think you’ll find that the latest model Zambian phone enforces landscape photos.
Of the possible excuses for shooting a video in portrait orientation, “It’s a ladder,” seems like a pretty acceptable one.
*giggle* That is all!
Clearly, the UKCF is not clowning around!
It’s so serious about clowns that it even have clown noses in the logo!
Ah! Caught! What happens when one is captured by clowns?
. . . didn’t John Cloake say something about “conscription” and “press gangs”?
That last panel – puts the ‘dread’ back in Mildred’s expression.
And confirmed, Lottie wears heels to try and appear taller. Not to peer over fences – she has friends for that.
“Hey, here’s a story about Lottie and Mildred investigating how circuses get fliers into empty store windows. And the answer is… I’M NOT TELLING! HAHAHAHA!!!”
John Allison: epic-level trolling at its finest. (Now just work Desmond into the story, and your mastery will be complete.)
Yeah. Despite my faux-angry post above, I’m actually incredibly impressed by the sheer audacity.
The “removed” panel reminds me of Al Capp’s Li’l Abner. In 1946, Abner met Lena the Hyena, world’s ugliest woman. Every panel in which she appeared had the word CENSORED where her head should be. After all that buildup we weren’t allowed to see her.
True. But do you think that Capp could have made anything more hideous than whatever your imagination was coming up with?
No. But Basil Wolverton could…
You know, I was beginning to question the third iteration of pronouns given by John to his duos over the years.
Shelly and Amy
Billy and Maggie
Lottie and… Mild(ew/red)?
Yet we are blessed with panel three.
Lottie and Mildy.
And so all is right with the world.
Also, a fine appearance of the ubiquitous, noble and honoured Biffa Bin.
Mildew’s clenched nostrils in panel 1 simply allude to a minor, necessary defect in such a storied pillar of British culture; each of which has seen scores of glorious post-merriment back alley activities such as fighting, coitus, drug use, urination, drug dealing, and post-coitus fighting.
I see the UKCF shares anagrammed initials with Football Club UK, the Union of Concerned Knife Fighters, and the Firefighter’s University of Central Kentucky.
Panel 2 with it’s orange and yellow BONK is amazing. Is there a comics term for a gag like this that’s not actually part of the narrative? My memory is that Calvin and Hobbes does this occasionally to good effect.