I don't like this witch hunt Lotte's drumming up, but she's not exactly wrong

I don't like this witch hunt Lotte's drumming up, but she's not exactly wrong.

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something about John Allison has broken my brain
I can't bring myself to catch up on his current writing because I actually feel like I'm not worthy to look upon his genius

I have no idea what this is are but Id show her my boner for chaos

Well, it's Lottie, so she'd probably put her arms akimbo, lean forward, squint, and ask something like what made it so shrunken and distorted.

Bad Machinery, scarygoround.com
good shit

I feel the same way about Giant Days honestly. Despite having every issue, I stopped reading after Esther broke up with The Boy.

still a bit pissed about that, she's the one who fucking seduced him

Neat Ill give it a read

>First comic September 21, 2009

Well it's Friday Morning. I have no work till Monday and a fuck load of instant noodles. Let's do this.

Inventor, former music critic and Mayor of Tackleford Tim Jones returned to Tackleford after his daughter blew up his home when she screwed around with his latest invention. His wife, a notorious shrew named Riley, exiled him from Wales (where she took him, to get him away from Tackleford and it's notable collection of paranormal crazy) when he took the blame for his daughter.

He arrived back in town, only to be seduced by long-time friend and resident cloudcuckoolander sexpot Shelley Winters who chucked her birth control in the bin and got knocked up (unbeknownst to Tim). Tim, distraught over this turn of events, exiled himself further into the woods where he sorta uncovered a demonic portal that chucked monsters into town and turned it into a very efficient and clean source of energy, that unfortunately took out said woods when the town got sick of the devil bears it summoned. After this, Tim relented and moved in with Shelley to raise their forthcoming child.

So Riley moved back to Tackleford, ostensibly to win Tim back or make him suffer (probably both?), and after her father, the King of Tramps, beat his ass in a street brawl, he left Shelley and re-exiled himself to his friend Neil's garage where they run a start-up. Shelley, distraught, tried to lift a heavy box and damn near miscarried. Now she's off touring Italy on a book tour, while he's relapsing into hallucinations of his dead father again. Mind you, that skunk stripe only appeared after Shelley was in the hospital, so he's seriously stressing the fuck out.

The girl in the OP is Lottie, amateur detective and Shelley's former intern. She's out for blood since her friend was hospitalized when Tim left her. Complicating this further are his friends, Amy Chilton-Beckwith (Shelley's best friend) and Ryan Beckwith (his best friend, good friend of Shelley, and older brother to Riley).

>exiled him from Wales

My friend's been to Wales. Said it sucked. Like a shittier Scotland.

Oh you'll want to go even further. This comic started as Bobbins in '98, and reinvented itself at least twice as Allison tried to change focus and cast (Scary-Go-Round, Bad Machinery). It somehow always reverts back to the original cast, but he keeps the best additions. They literally go to Hell several times.

scarygoround.com/bobbins/index-archive.php?date=19980921

He wasn't there for the scenery.

Neither was my friend.

Aye.

Bobbins is good but it's pretty much a gag comic half of the time.
I'd say start with scary go round and then go back to Bobbins for more in a much rougher form.

That's how I started actually, and most of the cast's interactions really don't get in depth until near the end of Bobbins anyway, with half the cast disappearing for almost two decades.

So yeah, SGR is probably better to start.

scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020604

Man this is UK as fuck. They're speaking english but so unlike anything Ive seen.

Odd, the North has a lot in common with American English. The odd tupping liberty notwithstanding.

I was gonna ask why nobody ever talks about John Allison's comics here
but then I remembered
we are absolutely shit at discussing things that are undeniably actually good
so that helps

I've seen one thread last over a day. In ten years, one thread.

that long? I almost envy you

This plot moved in a very strange direction

Welcome to Allison's work.

eh, not all folk tales are obvious upon revelation. it's not like he made up a creature for it.

I think Im going to like it here

"She looks like her body parts are all trying to move away from each other at once" from this chapter has stayed with me for eight years

theres more out there like me
i want to just a take a day or two relax and go start to finish sometime

Allison's work is like if Twin Peaks and The Venture Bros were a webcomic. That's the best way I can put it.

Reminder that The Boy was satisfied living a lonely tubby science life of eventually being seduced by Mildred until Tim Jones came back and set him on the path of Demon Waifuing.

Erin > Mildred

Even this "new and improved" Erin.

Ryan's dad becoming a super-jacked Hobo King was a pretty great reveal

I think he always was like that, like Ned Flanders when he takes off his shirt

I don't know what the context is, but I'm saving this anyway.

Trampin's a hard life. Gotta be strong to live hard.