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1. about 22 hours ago on Bad Machinery

   I’m not 100% certain, but I think Shauna is hiding “3. TAKE CHARGE”.

2. 1 day ago on Bad Machinery

   It’s Erin Winters, former Cormorant reporter, aka Mordawwa, Queen of Hell (retired), who, back in “The Case of the Simple Soul”, made Sonny and Linton sign an agreement in blood, and whose photo on the wall Lottie is glaring at.

   She’s “long gone”, because at the end of “Unwelcome Visitor”, she got a better job with The New Scientist in London. Then she came back to Tackleford for the Bobbins story “Into the Woods”, at the end of which she was forced to resume her Mordawwa form and was exiled back to Hell.

   Erin has since escaped Hell again, and is back in Tackleford. Lottie doesn’t know that yet, but Erin’s appeared before this in the parallel Bobbins story “Hard Yards”. Lottie went over to Erin’s sister Shelley’s house for a day in the story “The Big Hiatus”, which doesn’t appear here, but which was set the day before the start of this case, and she just missed Erin leaving.

3. 1 day ago on Bad Machinery

   Obviously the blood tank is so you can top up your fountain pen when you’re writing notes in blood.

4. 3 days ago on Bad Machinery

   So, remember way back in the October 16th page when Ken there told Lottie that the Chamber of Commerce wasn’t a Magic Eye?

   It is literally a magic eye.

   And here is a brick to go with the Brick Joke.

5. 5 days ago on Bad Machinery

   The plot of “Into the Woods” was kicked off by Mildred and Neal finding devil bear stool in the woods.

6. 7 days ago on Bad Machinery

   Those appear to be Alvar Aalto Model 60 stacking stools, which are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia page.

7. 7 days ago on Bad Machinery

   Ryan did eventually find his independent woman covered in childish scribble who would stay the course.

   Actually, he’d already found her, but she didn’t have the scribble yet. Those were originally a Shelley idea that Shelley herself backed out of. Possibly she was, even then, plotting to fulfill her own prophecy. Shelley was also the one who pushed Amy and Ryan together at the end of SGR…

8. 8 days ago on Bad Machinery

   She’s a class act, and also she has a top mystery girl on staff.

9. 10 days ago on Bad Machinery

   We’ve seen both Billy and Charlie before, at the storage auction when they were testing Romesh’s powers, and in the pub when Amy was chasing leads. I don’t think we’ve seen Billy’s partner-in-crime before, and I don’t believe she ever gets a name.

10. 11 days ago on Bad Machinery

    Before this flashback, Lottie had received four notes from Shauna. We never actually saw the fourth one, because Lottie caught Shauna delivering it, and so we got this story she’s currently telling instead of the text of the note.

    We only see two of the notes from this end. I think this was the second one Lottie got, which she received in the October 28th strip, which read, “Follow the money — a friend”. It did not refer to her as an alabaster idiot, pallid dingbat, deranged black metal girl scout, gender-swap Death Note, or chibi Vampirella.

    But it might be the third one, received November 1st, which advised her to “Look at Wendlefield”. We didn’t see the literal text of that one, so it might have used any number of epithets. Though that might have tipped her off as to who was sending them.