Bad Machinery by John Allison for July 06, 2023

Good dads are good.

So yeah, the newsagent is Calvin’s dad. The girls met him when they first came back in time. He was wearing his glasses then:

https://www.gocomics.com/bad-machinery/2023/04/12

He caught the evil time boys nicking here:

https://www.gocomics.com/bad-machinery/2023/06/02

“Nicking” here is British slang for “stealing”, as in, “Actually, Mildred did nick a car once.”

He is okay! ツ

“The girls convinced me that science was cool!” “Not so good.”

The sixties sure were very weird. The fathers were delighted to find that their ten-year-old sons were out at night meeting up some mysterious girls.

Yeah, go on, get on out of here you anthropomorphized sushi rolls. :P

and he’s been in love with one of them ever since – - but unfortunately she was just a bit young for him when they next met