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Scary Go Round (November 29-December 1, 2004)
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# ? Dec 31, 2023 04:14 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 21:34 |
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Scary Go Round (December 2-6, 2004)
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# ? Jan 1, 2024 02:23 |
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Just got the last issue of Steeple. This one is going to be quite a banger as people read through it, dang.
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# ? Jan 1, 2024 06:18 |
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I got the PDF, but not sure if I'm ready for no more Steeple, so I'll read it at the public release rate.
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# ? Jan 1, 2024 15:34 |
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So, here we go, final Steeple issue starting now and it's called Extreme Freaks. Omega cover:
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# ? Jan 1, 2024 18:55 |
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John A posted:It’s 2024! Welcome back to Steeple, let’s visit Tredregyn one last time! Much has changed in the last three months, as you will discover… but clearly, not Bob Warren’s taste in trousers.
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# ? Jan 2, 2024 00:22 |
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Scary Go Round (December 7-9, 2004)
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# ? Jan 2, 2024 02:24 |
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John A posted:Dame Elaine Stevens has been mentioned occasionally in Scary Go Round, Bad Machinery and Steeple. I think she has only ever been depicted, once, on a television screen, and do not ask me which strip contains this appearance. She’s a bit like Elaine Page, but with a bit of Montserrat Caballé, and a bit of Marje Proops. An all round entertainer, warm, witty and wise (of course).
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# ? Jan 3, 2024 01:03 |
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Scary Go Round (December 10-14, 2004) First appearance: Pa Beckwith, king of the tramps.
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# ? Jan 3, 2024 01:35 |
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I will never be able to figure out what anybody's accent in Scary Go Round is supposed to sound like.
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# ? Jan 3, 2024 01:43 |
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Probably wise not to trust Bob. Also Jesus Maggie, Vehicle Reversing
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# ? Jan 3, 2024 07:17 |
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Scary Go Round (December 15-17, 2004)
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# ? Jan 3, 2024 21:33 |
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"That's not the baby Jesus way" is a phrase I often use in real life. I'm also a big fan of "That is the ultimate insult to my existence."
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# ? Jan 4, 2024 06:15 |
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Well, it's a new year and we've just ticked over to a new story in the Bad Machinery Gocomics repost, so I'm going to start posting here as well. Let's begin.
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# ? Jan 4, 2024 18:55 |
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Scary Go Round (December 20-22, 2004) First appearance: Ma Beckwith, not queen of the tramps.
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# ? Jan 4, 2024 21:38 |
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Yvonmukluk posted:Well, it's a new year and we've just ticked over to a new story in the Bad Machinery Gocomics repost, so I'm going to start posting here as well. Appreciated! There's this user on GoComics by the name of John Campbell who seems to effort post context for some of the stories, and this time there's a huge summary of everything Tackleford that happened between the last Bad Machinery story "Modern Men" and this one "Space is the Place" that's just kind of wasted there, a place no one will ever see it, so I'm copying it here so there will be two places where no one will ever see it John Campbell posted:New storyline! The only one of the published Bad Machinery stories that isn’t “The Case of the ___”. I honestly had forgotten half of those events.
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# ? Jan 5, 2024 00:15 |
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# ? Jan 5, 2024 00:23 |
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I wonder if John Campbell is also the Jim Campbell who was the letterer for the first 5 issues of Steeple?
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# ? Jan 5, 2024 00:38 |
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# ? Jan 5, 2024 13:50 |
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The_Other posted:I wonder if John Campbell is also the Jim Campbell who was the letterer for the first 5 issues of Steeple? "Jim" is short for "James", right? But that fellow may be John James Campbell. Or it may all just be a coincidence. Oh, and I'm not posting the cover for what Allison just put up on the Patreon, but there will be another out of nowhere crossover with a different comic book property coming out soon, one about joining in around a fire and asking about the best things in life.
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# ? Jan 5, 2024 21:21 |
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A friend of mine has just binged on every volume of Giant Days, and now wants to read Bad Machinery. Our local library doesn't have all the printed Bad Machinery and also she's confined to her apartment thanks to COVID for the next week, so what's the best way to read it digitally these days? Bonus points if it includes the New Bobbins stories mentioned just upthread, but it probably won't ruin her experience if she misses them.
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# ? Jan 5, 2024 21:41 |
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cptn_dr posted:A friend of mine has just binged on every volume of Giant Days, and now wants to read Bad Machinery. Our local library doesn't have all the printed Bad Machinery and also she's confined to her apartment thanks to COVID for the next week, so what's the best way to read it digitally these days? Bonus points if it includes the New Bobbins stories mentioned just upthread, but it probably won't ruin her experience if she misses them. If your friend has access to Hoopla I know the Bad Machinery series is available there in it's collected edition form. If she wants to buy the series it's also available digitally via amazon. As for New Bobbins, Allison took down the site that was hosting them, but they are available for purchase on his Gumroad store in four volumes, each costing 1 GBP ($1.27). Of course both comics can be accessed via the Wayback Machine / Internet Archive, but that can be slow to do.
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# ? Jan 5, 2024 21:50 |
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Thanks! Also looking more closely at GoComics, I think the whole run of Bad Machinery is actually up there. I was confused and thought they took them all down and started from scratch each time they finished the run, but I guess they do actually keep them posted the whole time.
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# ? Jan 5, 2024 22:22 |
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Here's the rest of the poem, from New Bobbins: cptn_dr posted:Thanks! forgot about GoComics, even though it should have been obvious. Allison actually as a series of links to the start of the various Bad Machinery cases on his Scary Go Round index site. Saoshyant posted:"Jim" is short for "James", right? But that fellow may be John James Campbell. Or it may all just be a coincidence. Here's a picture from his instagram, spoiler'd just in case.
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# ? Jan 6, 2024 01:58 |
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Scary Go Round (December 22-23, 2004) Merry belated Christmas, thread.
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# ? Jan 6, 2024 01:59 |
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John Allison posted:This story is what we in the "comics game" call "filler". Scary Go Round (January 3-5, 2004) This is one of those ones I don't reeeeeally remember. Probably because it's, as Allison says in his post-commentary, filler. It might set something up for later though, since it involves goblins.
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# ? Jan 7, 2024 02:04 |
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Amazing how this guest appearance in Scary Go Round propelled Tony Blair to become Prime Minister. Absolutely Amazing
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# ? Jan 7, 2024 05:02 |
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The_Other posted:Here's the rest of the poem, from New Bobbins: hell yeah it's cloak time
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# ? Jan 7, 2024 11:06 |
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John A posted:Who ARE these extreme freaks? Tom’s little shorts are inspired by Glenn Hoddle’s ’80s attire. Glenn and Tom have both put far too much faith in niche spiritual figures.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 00:58 |
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Scary Go Round (January 6-10, 2004)
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 02:05 |
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Since the Steeple website is down, Allison posted a public Patreon entry with today's page (which you could see above already) and also a few sketches, of which I'll highlight this one 'cause it's lovely and I miss those characters so much:
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 14:50 |
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Did the church get closed down offscreen because that old bat tattled on them to the Cardinal? Because I still say that Billie being hexed into joining the Church of Satan, getting out of it, feeling remorse for her actions and trying to atone for it would totally appeal to the Cardinal's Christian values.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 17:06 |
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Saoshyant posted:Since the Steeple website is down, Allison posted a public Patreon entry with today's page (which you could see above already) and also a few sketches, of which I'll highlight this one 'cause it's lovely and I miss those characters so much:
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 17:19 |
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amigolupus posted:Because I still say that Billie being hexed into joining the Church of Satan, getting out of it, feeling remorse for her actions and trying to atone for it would totally appeal to the Cardinal's Christian values. Oh, I guess you aren't familiar with organized religion, bureaucracy, and hypocrisy -- the three tenets of Christianity. Numero6 posted:I thought Mildred was the tallest one. Her growth phase came later. She was about the size of Lottie on the early years of Bad Machinery, IIRC.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 17:26 |
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amigolupus posted:Did the church get closed down offscreen because that old bat tattled on them to the Cardinal? Because I still say that Billie being hexed into joining the Church of Satan, getting out of it, feeling remorse for her actions and trying to atone for it would totally appeal to the Cardinal's Christian values. We don't know what exactly happened with Billie in-between the end of Maggie's Party and the beginning of this story. It will probably be revealed in this story. I guessing that even if the Cardinal did approve of Billie's actions, the membership of the church in Tredregyn might decreased to the point that it no longer makes sense to keep it open. Thus Billie is trying to gain converts in order to open it again.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 18:29 |
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One of my gripes with Steeple was that it's kind of unclear to what degree people accept that any of this stuff is actually going on. The biggest example of this, was, of course, the hipster witches, who have committed quite a few no-poo poo crimes using their magical powers, but nobody really seems to consider the possibility of them seeing justice either under normal-person law or supernatural-vigilante law.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 19:06 |
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Bad MachineryRand Brittain posted:One of my gripes with Steeple was that it's kind of unclear to what degree people accept that any of this stuff is actually going on. The biggest example of this, was, of course, the hipster witches, who have committed quite a few no-poo poo crimes using their magical powers, but nobody really seems to consider the possibility of them seeing justice either under normal-person law or supernatural-vigilante law.
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# ? Jan 8, 2024 21:42 |
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Scary Go Round (January 11-13, 2004)
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# ? Jan 9, 2024 02:08 |
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Rand Brittain posted:One of my gripes with Steeple was that it's kind of unclear to what degree people accept that any of this stuff is actually going on. The biggest example of this, was, of course, the hipster witches, who have committed quite a few no-poo poo crimes using their magical powers, but nobody really seems to consider the possibility of them seeing justice either under normal-person law or supernatural-vigilante law. This isn't uncommon at all even among people whose only eldritch powers are being moderately bougie-presenting and having a sense for who's likely to meaningfully retaliate when hosed with
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# ? Jan 9, 2024 07:16 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 21:34 |
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I do want them to get some kind of comeuppance. Also: Brian's a real werewolf again, that has to have consequences.
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# ? Jan 9, 2024 07:39 |