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Jan 4, 2023 04:32
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That's true Aotearoa culture right there
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John A posted:The owners of Bean There are a mysterious pair, and I’m not sure that we’ll discover their inner lives any time soon. Yes.. ha ha ha... YES! 
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^^^^   John A posted:No one can idle with Claire on their case. She has a hummingbird’s metabolism and sees the world at twice the speed we do.
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Jan 11, 2023 05:04
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I hope Lottie getting Glenn's name right is a turning point. Towards what, I don't know, but it certainly feels like one.
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Some people in the comments are wondering if that's Daisy's hair on the right hand side of the bus.
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Saoshyant posted:There’s a little New Zealand reference in today’s comic that I hope someone will spot. Could be the red socks but if not I'm stumped.
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Jan 13, 2023 03:09
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cptn_dr posted:Could be the red socks but if not I'm stumped. Ah! It's the shop names, they're all a line from a Tim Finn song.
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cptn_dr posted:Ah! It's the shop names, they're all a line from a Tim Finn song. Props for not giving up! 
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Jan 16, 2023 02:55
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Glenn's from Te Awamutu? Hamilton would have been the nearest "big" city. Christ.
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I would go halves on an ice cream van with Little Claire. She has a good head on her shoulders
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And there's a better-than-zero chance all your competitors would be destroyed in a mysterious fire incident.
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https://twitter.com/badmachinery/status/1616129213668392961?s=20&t=Am_YBScsvkobrwIK6y_OYQ
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It's pretty great we are not only getting a new story with Shauna, but a detective one, and with Max Sarin et al!
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Mildred is still my favorite Mystery Teen, but Claire is probably my favorite Mystery Twenty-Something
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The cocoa guy is about to ring the doorbell and show up for dinner, isn't he? Or already be in the next room mixing drinks.
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 ... though there's definitely many a young adult who has discovered that the secret to great home-cooked food is enough melted butter to drown a man, and then tactically deploys this knowledge in stew-like melanges
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Sundae posted:The cocoa guy is about to ring the doorbell and show up for dinner, isn't he? Or already be in the next room mixing drinks. Close, but somewhat less graceful.  John A posted:Cupping World (one for sharp-eyed readers) refers to coffee cuppings, which are… like wine tasting? Not the thing where you get a lot of round bruises after paying someone £70. I don’t believe in the miracle powers of that sort of cupping.
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 John A posted:Both Shelley Winters and Esther de Groot occasionally fell for himbos. I don’t think either of those women walked the length of the counter when making most of their romantic selections. We’ll have to trust that Lottie is a better judge of character.
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The Danger of Himbos
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Behold! Nero's getting rich plan! John A posted:That’s the flag of Norfolk. Norfolk is a county in England. It’s very flat. It doesn’t contain any motorways. Annoying, because you could really burn it up on that good flat track.
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Been lurking in the thread so far, but just wanna say I appreciate being able to catch up here. I adored Bad Machinery and seeing the Mystery Teens grow, had fun with Giant Days even though Susan dragged down the experience for me and this latest series feels like a nice way of checking into old friends. Interesting to see Dean again and find him doing well, not to mention the whole self-awareness of him being not easy to get along with earlier. Weirdly enough, I always thought the later issues of Giant Days were trying to set up a romance between him and Esther. There were multiple hints, too. Like the fact that, unlike Ed, he doesn't put Esther on a pedestal and knows the chaos she's capable of, or that part where they had to look after Dean's pet together, or when Esther went to a nude painting class and thought the model (who was implied to be Dean) was hot. Maybe it was supposed to be a plot development but got dropped because John Allison wanted to be done with the series? Maybe it's just me, but I'm not really a fan of Lottie being romantically involved. Yeah, we've seen her harbor crushes before during Space is The Place, but Lottie not being into relationships was what set her apart from Esther and Shelley.
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amigolupus posted:Been lurking in the thread so far, but just wanna say I appreciate being able to catch up here. Thanks, that's good to know. It's hard to tell sometimes if it's still worth keeping this thread updated every week; glad to hear it's not just me posting to the void. amigolupus posted:Maybe it was supposed to be a plot development but got dropped because John Allison wanted to be done with the series? I never got that feeling myself. Like, something could have happened, but it didn't, and they are better off for it. Just like in real life, you don't get to date everyone you have a tiny bit of chemistry with. amigolupus posted:Maybe it's just me, but I'm not really a fan of Lottie being romantically involved. Oh, I am. Lottie's been under a major slump for years, what with her friends moving away, her detective skills not being good enough to pursue professionally, and she has just hit 20 and left the nest. This sort of thing was bound to happen eventually, and I'm extremely amused to see she (being something of a weeb) picking a tiny K-pop wannabe guy, while not being immediately able to see he's a complete idiot. She will quickly grow out this infatuation based on looks alone, but right now it's entertaining to watch, plus gives ol' Glenn a chance to finally do something considering he's the mutest part of this partnership/dynamic they have going together.
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amigolupus posted:Maybe it was supposed to be a plot development but got dropped because John Allison wanted to be done with the series? I think it was more a running gag. There's no way that Esther would have dated Dean.
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Doomykins posted:I find it weirder that Nero's idiocy is so informed when he fits in perfectly with the expectations and mannerisms of everybody else in the story, let alone the setting. Being dumb in comics is always kind of an informed trait. I've been reading A Girl and Her Fed lately and been nonplussed by the teenage "himbo" who, honestly, strikes me as a perfectly intelligent lad who just doesn't share the priorities of the adults around him, and I'm not really sure whether the author is doing this on purpose or not.
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John Allison realising he has to write a simple dialogue page and keeping himself entertained with composition.
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Aww, Lottie's first stupid boyfriend! Bless, the little late bloomer
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