So the group has adjourned back to Hugo’s Fine Canton-Style Eatin’s. I’m not sure what makes it “Canton-Style”, other than Hugo has declared it so, and there is nothing his many enemies can do about it.
I’m pretty sure any of the mystery kids could take Hugh in a street fight. Shauna’s definitely on point with 1 and 2, though.
As others hinted above, over at John Allison’s own site at badmachinery com, there’s a Lottie-and-Claire comic, Solver, currently running. Mildred was central to the first story, “Circus Windows”. The most recent storyline, “Wobbly Head”, which follows up on the Lottie print comic, “Wicked Things”, has brought us some other familiar faces.
There’s also a Shauna print miniseries, “The Great British Bump-Off”, with a sequel, “Kill or be Quilt” coming up. Jack is currently lost in time in It’s the Nineties, Get Used To It, which can also be found over at badmachinery com.
Lottie crossed over with Steeple in “Author Unknown”, too. “Author Unknown” is in the Solver archives; the rest of Steeple is in the deep archives over on scarygoround com now.
It is of course a reference to The Whom’s 1969 rock opera Lorry, about a deaf, dumb, and blind kid who develops a cult following through driving a lorry “by sense of smell”.
(From the album cover, seen in the October 4th, 2023 strip, it seems possible that the lorry in question may in fact have been a heroic Valleyman robot in fancy dress, and thus self-driving.)
So the group has adjourned back to Hugo’s Fine Canton-Style Eatin’s. I’m not sure what makes it “Canton-Style”, other than Hugo has declared it so, and there is nothing his many enemies can do about it.
I’m pretty sure any of the mystery kids could take Hugh in a street fight. Shauna’s definitely on point with 1 and 2, though.