So we start a new case, “The Case of the Modern Men”. This one’s one of my favorites.
This was originally just the top row of a three-row page. For publication, it was expanded vertically to be a full page on its own. If you look closely, between the top of the title and the lamp on the streetlight, you can see the discontinuity in the rain where the seam is.
The original posting of “The Case of the Forked Road” ended on December 12th, 2013. “Modern Men” started on February 23rd, 2014. The gap between was filled with New Bobbins strips, following older characters who we mostly haven’t been seeing much of in Bad Machinery, which had been running occasionally on Fridays, and went full-time for the intermission.
Shelley and Erin Winters, both of whom had moved to London, came back to Tackleford for the holidays, Shelley to see her family and friends, Erin because Mike at the Cormorant is the closest thing she has left to family. Due to Erin being sucked into Hell when she was 16, Shelley can no longer remember that she has a sister, nor can their parents, and Erin has not made an attempt to reconnect with her family.
That white Maserati Gran Turismo is almost certainly Shelley’s. Amy and Ryan’s son Walt was almost born in the passenger seat of that car, because Shelley has more money than sense — she made it big as a children’s book author after the end of Scary Go Round — and overestimated its ability to handle snow and ice. Fortunately Mad Terry and his mom were able to give them a ride to the hospital.
Erin reconnected with her high school crush, Eustace “The Boy” Boyce, who was now working with Mildred’s father at the university — and, like everyone else, couldn’t remember Erin. (Mildred has a crush on The Boy, too, and sometimes goes over to the lab to hassle him.) Shelley was actually involved in getting them together, though she didn’t realize that the girl she was setting The Boy up with was her lost and forgotten sister.
So we start a new case, “The Case of the Modern Men”. This one’s one of my favorites.
This was originally just the top row of a three-row page. For publication, it was expanded vertically to be a full page on its own. If you look closely, between the top of the title and the lamp on the streetlight, you can see the discontinuity in the rain where the seam is.
The original posting of “The Case of the Forked Road” ended on December 12th, 2013. “Modern Men” started on February 23rd, 2014. The gap between was filled with New Bobbins strips, following older characters who we mostly haven’t been seeing much of in Bad Machinery, which had been running occasionally on Fridays, and went full-time for the intermission.
Shelley and Erin Winters, both of whom had moved to London, came back to Tackleford for the holidays, Shelley to see her family and friends, Erin because Mike at the Cormorant is the closest thing she has left to family. Due to Erin being sucked into Hell when she was 16, Shelley can no longer remember that she has a sister, nor can their parents, and Erin has not made an attempt to reconnect with her family.
That white Maserati Gran Turismo is almost certainly Shelley’s. Amy and Ryan’s son Walt was almost born in the passenger seat of that car, because Shelley has more money than sense — she made it big as a children’s book author after the end of Scary Go Round — and overestimated its ability to handle snow and ice. Fortunately Mad Terry and his mom were able to give them a ride to the hospital.
Erin reconnected with her high school crush, Eustace “The Boy” Boyce, who was now working with Mildred’s father at the university — and, like everyone else, couldn’t remember Erin. (Mildred has a crush on The Boy, too, and sometimes goes over to the lab to hassle him.) Shelley was actually involved in getting them together, though she didn’t realize that the girl she was setting The Boy up with was her lost and forgotten sister.