New storyline! The only one of the published Bad Machinery stories that isn’t “The Case of the ___”.
There was a lengthy gap, both in-comic and real-world, between the end of “Modern Men” and the beginning of “Space is the Place”. We’re picking up here more than a year after the last strip — in the late spring/early summer of the year after “Modern Men”.
The mystery kids weren’t idle in that time; they showed up on the other side of the fence in the Bobbins storyline “Into the Woods”. There’s another short Bad Machinery story called “The Big Hiatus”, which doesn’t appear here, that actually fits chronologically between “The Case of the Missing Piece” (which is the next case) and “The Case of the Severed Alliance” (which is the last one that appears here), but consists of Lottie telling Shelley Winters, in flashback, about events that allegedly occurred during the summer between “Modern Men” and “Space is the Place”. I’m not going to get into the details of “The Big Hiatus”, because they could be considered spoilers for “Missing Piece”.
New storyline! The only one of the published Bad Machinery stories that isn’t “The Case of the ___”.
There was a lengthy gap, both in-comic and real-world, between the end of “Modern Men” and the beginning of “Space is the Place”. We’re picking up here more than a year after the last strip — in the late spring/early summer of the year after “Modern Men”.
The mystery kids weren’t idle in that time; they showed up on the other side of the fence in the Bobbins storyline “Into the Woods”. There’s another short Bad Machinery story called “The Big Hiatus”, which doesn’t appear here, that actually fits chronologically between “The Case of the Missing Piece” (which is the next case) and “The Case of the Severed Alliance” (which is the last one that appears here), but consists of Lottie telling Shelley Winters, in flashback, about events that allegedly occurred during the summer between “Modern Men” and “Space is the Place”. I’m not going to get into the details of “The Big Hiatus”, because they could be considered spoilers for “Missing Piece”.