This was another single-row strip that was expanded to fill out the page for publication, but unlike most of them, it wasn’t the top row or the bottom row that was added. The first panel and the last three are new. The first panel of the second row used to be the last panel of the first (and only) row.
Colm’s a year older than the other boys, because he got held back a year as a result of changing schools (and countries) mid-term. He’s 16 now.
This strip originally ran August 25th, 2015, which is plenty late enough. (Philosopher’s Stone was released in 1997, Deathly Hallows in 2007.) However, their overwhelming popularity seems like it would make them the kind of “fake geek girl” stuff Blossom loathes. And she’s not old enough to have liked them before they were cool. (The kids were born around 2000 — it drifts a bit because of comic time — so they were toddlers, at best, when the first movie came out.)
Death Note is an anime that revolves around a magic notebook that slays anyone whose name is written in it, and various characters’ attempts to use/figure out who’s using it. Blossom is likening Lottie to a female version of one of the characters, I’m assuming “world’s greatest detective” L.
Back in “The Case of the Lonely One”, the strip that last ran on January 21st, 2022, Corky was rambling on to Shauna (who was not paying attention because she was worried about the apparent death of Lem) about the plot of Death Note, so apparently both he and Blossom have watched it, possibly together.
When I was previewing the upcoming strips, I came up with a really good name for the Marvel Girl/Cyclops hybrid X-Person, but I’ve completely forgotten what it was.
The guys flanking her I’m assuming are Chewbacca and Snowman.
This is the second time someone’s brought up Death Note to Shauna. The first time was back in “Lonely One” when Corky was explaining the plot at her while she was freaking out over killing Lem.
Shauna is tricksy, evasive, and stronger than she looks.
People won’t be able to admire Claire’s stylish new haircut if she keeps it under her hat.
Sonny just staring at Linton in incomprehension.