Bad Machinery by John Allison for July 07, 2023

Remember who now?

“Thus we are taught that all die, both clerk and lay; and short would be the fame of any after death, if their history did not endure by being written in the book of the clerk.”

Dispatched from quantum containment, they are now superpositioned until they arrive at another point of containment.

This comic can be pretty spooky at times!

Are we sure that the three time-boys still exist in this re-reset present-day timeline? The three disjointed forms have now stayed past midnight, which Grumpaw warned is a no-no.

See, this is what having trouble-inducing troll doll hair GETS YOU!

Sad, but fitting

Ahh, the “womanly curves.”

They deserves that. Nice to see Lottie being so proud of her curves.

In the third panel, can anyone make out the sign? A triangle, a skull, “Danger,” and it looks like it says “Pat Say(s?.)”

Oh yeah, so, when this page was originally posted, it was a Thursday strip. The next page was a Monday strip. On the Friday between, there was a New Bobbins strip posted as filler, one of my favorite of the stand-alone strips. It featured Erin’s sister Shelley, who in the years since Scary Go Round has made it big as a children’s book author, being interviewed on a radio show.

STEVE: “I’m talking to Shelley Winters, author of the ‘Tibkins’ series.”

SHELLEY: “Hi Steve, love the show.”

STEVE: “So Shelley, where do you get your ideas?”

SHELLEY: “Oh, you know, same as most writers… …I light a candle in the window and a wolf comes in the night. He swaps me hot ideas for a cup of my sweet blood. If I’m close to a deadline, I just let him gnaw on my thigh. Standard industry practice.”

I thought we were being set up for Lotte’s stocking being left behind from the clutches of the time ghosts, with Calvin keeping it as a memento into his old age.