Young sir?
Claire and Glenn do quite a good impression of the classic parental inquisition. Claire’s “vibe” took a little picture research from the 1990s.
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Claire and Glenn do quite a good impression of the classic parental inquisition. Claire’s “vibe” took a little picture research from the 1990s.
Nero is a cutie.
Wow, one wrong movie and Claire is gonna rip Nero apart.
Claire will burn while Nero fiddles.
More like Claire will burn Nero while…. nope, that’s all.
Lottie is vibrating
Her joy is a shield, impervious to Claire’s judgement.
I gut-laughed when I saw her expression in that final panel.
“vibe ” indeed.
So… when’s the unrated version gonna be posted? Though I believe your source material was merely an “R” here state-side.
Patreon-locked no doubt. 🙂
Yes, definitely getting a Sharon Stone feel.
He’s even borrowing Lottie’s robe. I can tell because it is uncomfortably short on him.
Maybe it’s a fashion thing
It’s short on him, but he might be comfortable with that.
It’s the closest thing he could find to a toga. Given his name.
Claire can be terrifying. But we already knew that.
It’s always good to remember that.
Oh my… Nero is so sweet♡! I totally approve Lottie’s choice, but I fear Mom Claire is about to destroy her reckless daughter. By the way, I’m sure Glenn and Claire will be great parents.
these four run the gamut of eye color!
Will love prevail? Or will it all devolve into shouting in the streets?
Tune in next week, on Dawson’s Machinery.
I don’t want to wait!
I want to know right now!
Must have been hard to choose the title for this page. So many great options. No pun intended.
The last panel here is great, especially Lottie’s giddy sporadic vibrations contrasted with Claire’s serious direct stares like bolts of lightning.
I can’t help but think Claire is in need of something similar to whatever Lottie’s giddy from to mellow her out. Someone should make a “Booty Colm” on her behalf
Or… maybe a “Booty Ygln”?
1990s maybe, but I’m picking up definite whiffs of 1960s Bond villain. “What you have seen is but a shard of a fragment of the tip of the iceberg of my scheme, Mister Bond.”
Claire’s one Angora cat away from owning her own personal shark tank.
She seems like more of a “dangle them over the magma pit” kind of girl to me.
Perhaps, but it’s the lovely succinctness of the phrasing that makes that metaphor sing!
Gimlet taking him to see the furnace is definitely better than, say, Claire taking him to see the cask of amontillado.
Or, Claire being Claire, the furnace.
“You’ve got to really climb in there to get a proper look, Nero.”
So now it seems that “The Case” is the whole Lottie/Nero/Claire thing which Glenn is going to have to solve.
You’ve not seen the half of it yet, Steve. Keep watching.
Wouldn’t miss it. As Fred Astaire sang “There may be trouble ahead”.
So you’re saying they have to face the music and dance?
Or as Bette Davis said, “Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEEh0GF_C8&t=14s
I actually first read it “We’re all nerds here”
“… Fierro?”
That sounds like a name for a superhero, so why not.
I just attempted to ‘Like’ this comic out of sheer muscle-memory, because apparently my brain forgot what site I was on now and I did like it! 🙂
“but how can I appreciate the comic without a like button? What kind of madness is this!?!?”
A yankee in king arthur’s court, 2020’s edition
I bet it’s a pursuit that Lottie is fronting money for, which is why she’s taking all those hours at the café
It threw me for a brief second seeing the Italian speaking with a British accent (apparently)… Then I remembered that he doubtless learned English from a teacher from the UK. (I know, I know: I’m very American.)
I had the same reaction when having an audio chat with an Italian online acquaintance for the first time and finding that he sounded Irish. Ditto for my online Slavic friend who sounds Scottish. 😀
Or, of course, he may be a native English speaker, a Brit of Italian ancestry. I get my hair cut by a man with a very Italian name and a distinctively Bristolian accent. I mean, they may have been flirting in Italian but, well, you would, wouldn’t you?
If this is the truth, it means that: he went to a very good school, or that he was lucky enough to have at least a good teacher, or maybe he just loves Doctor Who very much. My experience as an Italian student was to have English teachers who usually spoke Italian with some strong regional dialect difficult to understand for those not from that region, I let you imagine their ability to teach English.
I am impressed by your ability to discern Nero’s accent from the text in his speech balloons. I have a hard enough time just reading different characters in different voices.
Nero is younger than I expected! He’s adorable.
I would like to see Nero presented to Ma & Pa Grote – if he survives Claire
Would have to be Ma Grote and Mike, of course. Lottie lost her Dad a long time ago.
I seem to be in the minority of those who do not like Nero. Maybe I’ve spent too much time around west coast stoners, but he sets off my dreamer/schemer radar. “So it’s not exactly free energy; that’s impossible. It’s power as plentiful as air and it’s going to democratize energy and that’s why corporations and governments keep trying to sabotage my work. Now if the right investor were to step in, one with imagination and hope, make the world a better place and maybe make a lot of money too…”
I haven’t decided whether I like him or not yet. I mean, we’ve really just met him on this page (we’ve heard about him and glimpsed him before, but this page is his first full appearance as a character), so I’m going to wait until we get to know him better before making any sort of judgment about him.
I don’t think that kind of scheme matches Nero’s shy and insecure desire to not talk about it. He has more of a “Come-2-U Cat Fashions out of my van” vibe going on.
If mega-brains think it is daft, might that be a clue? Or do not give them the 20 second elevator pitch (which likely does sound daft), but some detail and background so they have substance to analyze?
Many decades ago, a distant cousin of mine was having dinner with his girlfriend’s parents, and her father asked “Are your intentions towards my daughter honourable?”
His answer, “You mean to say I’ve got a choice?”, became a family catchphrase.
I’m sorry, I can’t hold out any longer.
Someone’s gotta talkabout Planet Claire!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eOjAzI5zALo
Lottie’s headbonk!
In my head cannon that “BONK” is pronounced a la pTerry Pratchett.
*Be-yonk*
Good to see that Lottie is finally exploring the “great mystery of lurve,” as Shelley urged her to back in ‘The Big Hiatus’