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This is it — the last Bad Machinery strip. We end with the severed alliance being reforged in Claire’s fire.
The mystery kids appeared after this in the Bobbins story “Hard Yards”, where they investigated “disaster man” Tim Jones and his father (actually his daughter — it was complicated). Claire got promoted to full mystery girl. Go-Kart Conspiracy had their debut performance at the baby shower for Shelley and Tim’s new daughter, Peggy. Blossom was their drummer. Lottie attempted to veto that, but Claire’s band runs on the “one woman, one vote” principle. Claire is the one woman; she has the one vote.
After that, there was a three-part story, “Wen-Tack”/“Parents”/“The Great Unboxing”, which was… kind of Bad Machinery, but not quite. All of the mystery kids appeared in it, but only Mildred and Linton had big parts. Mostly it focused on the Wen-Tack Action Group, a group of first-years Mildred assembled to help her open the incomplete Wen-Tack road. John A. decided he didn’t like it and took it down, but has said that the events still happened.
As a result of the terrible chain of events Mildred set in motion, Griswalds lost its sixth form, and the mystery kids got scattered to different schools for the rest of their school career.
The next we saw of them, Lottie was 18 and being framed for murder in “Wicked Things”. That’s continued into the Lottie-and-Claire vehicle Solver, currently running over at badmachinery com, which at the moment seems poised for a flashback to Lottie and Claire’s international mystery-solving in their Wendlefield Girls’ High days.
Lottie and Shelley also crossed over with the Cornwall-set Steeple in “Author Unknown”, which can be found over at scarygoround com, along with the web-published Giant Days issues and some of the new Bobbins strips. Shauna, meanwhile, has her own print comics, “The Great British Bump-Off” and, out soon, “Kill or Be Quilt”.
Thank you, John Allison! Bad Machinery continues to be one of the best comics I have read. Your characters and dialog are fantastic. Hopefully more of your work will end up here so it can get a wider audience. In the meantime, I am really enjoying SOLVER: Wobbly Head and am looking forward to Part 3!
Well, it was wonderful to read all “Bad Machinery” day after day again. Its the only way you have to see details you can’t see alone and it’s funny to write comments.Now let’s return to the new comic John Allison is doing. That cliffhanger will kill us!!!
Well, that was my fourth go round of Bad Machinery (on John Allison’s website, in book form, and now twice through on GoComics. Thank you John for creating this wonderful story and thank you John Campbell for the thorough annotations this time around.
Sad day. I came in part way through this round, and enjoyed every minute of it. I would love to see another restart, but I don’t know that that would happen. Grateful to have other sites to dive deeper into Allison’s work, but it would be wonderful if more of his work found it’s way here.
Thank you to everyone for their kind comments on the end of this second (and I assume final) run of Bad Machinery here. I read the comments almost every day and have always enjoyed your engagement with the stories. Some people have asked if the related post-Bad Machinery stories might run here – the editorial team that brought my comics here left years ago now and I don’t have any contact with the new regime. But a quick Google will reveal plenty of places where you can read my other comics – webcomics for free (archives and a new ongoing series plus sporadic mini-series), books in print, and digital collections at Gumroad. The work is still underway.
Need coffee 1 day ago
Aww.
John Campbell 1 day ago
This is it — the last Bad Machinery strip. We end with the severed alliance being reforged in Claire’s fire.
The mystery kids appeared after this in the Bobbins story “Hard Yards”, where they investigated “disaster man” Tim Jones and his father (actually his daughter — it was complicated). Claire got promoted to full mystery girl. Go-Kart Conspiracy had their debut performance at the baby shower for Shelley and Tim’s new daughter, Peggy. Blossom was their drummer. Lottie attempted to veto that, but Claire’s band runs on the “one woman, one vote” principle. Claire is the one woman; she has the one vote.
After that, there was a three-part story, “Wen-Tack”/“Parents”/“The Great Unboxing”, which was… kind of Bad Machinery, but not quite. All of the mystery kids appeared in it, but only Mildred and Linton had big parts. Mostly it focused on the Wen-Tack Action Group, a group of first-years Mildred assembled to help her open the incomplete Wen-Tack road. John A. decided he didn’t like it and took it down, but has said that the events still happened.
As a result of the terrible chain of events Mildred set in motion, Griswalds lost its sixth form, and the mystery kids got scattered to different schools for the rest of their school career.
The next we saw of them, Lottie was 18 and being framed for murder in “Wicked Things”. That’s continued into the Lottie-and-Claire vehicle Solver, currently running over at badmachinery com, which at the moment seems poised for a flashback to Lottie and Claire’s international mystery-solving in their Wendlefield Girls’ High days.
Lottie and Shelley also crossed over with the Cornwall-set Steeple in “Author Unknown”, which can be found over at scarygoround com, along with the web-published Giant Days issues and some of the new Bobbins strips. Shauna, meanwhile, has her own print comics, “The Great British Bump-Off” and, out soon, “Kill or Be Quilt”.
bob but I spell it backwards 1 day ago
And just like that! It’s over.
Gary Porro Premium Member 1 day ago
Thank you, John Allison! Bad Machinery continues to be one of the best comics I have read. Your characters and dialog are fantastic. Hopefully more of your work will end up here so it can get a wider audience. In the meantime, I am really enjoying SOLVER: Wobbly Head and am looking forward to Part 3!
Aladar30 Premium Member 1 day ago
Well, it was wonderful to read all “Bad Machinery” day after day again. Its the only way you have to see details you can’t see alone and it’s funny to write comments.Now let’s return to the new comic John Allison is doing. That cliffhanger will kill us!!!
scyphi26 1 day ago
Sounds like this’ll be a good time for me to finally getting around to reading Solver. ;)
Rob Brewer 1 day ago
Well, that was my fourth go round of Bad Machinery (on John Allison’s website, in book form, and now twice through on GoComics. Thank you John for creating this wonderful story and thank you John Campbell for the thorough annotations this time around.
Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl 1 day ago
So long, Little Claire. ❤️
Pequod 1 day ago
So much gold. More Allison could nudge me to return to premium.
6turtle9 about 24 hours ago
Sad day. I came in part way through this round, and enjoyed every minute of it. I would love to see another restart, but I don’t know that that would happen. Grateful to have other sites to dive deeper into Allison’s work, but it would be wonderful if more of his work found it’s way here.
scarygoround creator about 12 hours ago
Thank you to everyone for their kind comments on the end of this second (and I assume final) run of Bad Machinery here. I read the comments almost every day and have always enjoyed your engagement with the stories. Some people have asked if the related post-Bad Machinery stories might run here – the editorial team that brought my comics here left years ago now and I don’t have any contact with the new regime. But a quick Google will reveal plenty of places where you can read my other comics – webcomics for free (archives and a new ongoing series plus sporadic mini-series), books in print, and digital collections at Gumroad. The work is still underway.