Is Desmond in any of these things though? That's the real important question that needs to be answered. @JBear knows how important this is.
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John Allison's Scary Go Round et al.
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There are Desmond comics on JA's Patreon...
That is how you sell me a Patreon sub!
conchobhar
What's Shenmue?
I admit that Esther is my least favourite of the main characters (except for maybe Ed, but Ed is kind of boring by design).
Bless your heart sir, this is what I've needed. Well, that and time, and the will to sit at a computer to read comics. Maybe I should get a tablet.
This...this makes me sad...!
So I've dabbled on and off reading Allison's works and only recent sat down and read through all of Bad Machinery, then I started reading Solver before realizing 'oh wait there was a published work that took place between these two wasn't there' so I picked up Wicked Things and read that too.
Yeah there really needs to be something sorting the various projects together.
But anyway, Wicked Things. Is there only 6 issues? It looks like it ended in 2020 and there hasn't been anything since but it REALLY feels like there's more story to tell there, right? Like, we get no closure on who the murderer is, no answers on why the detective's translator was so damn sus, we just see Lottie faff about working with an unlikeable police force solving frustratingly non-supernatural crimes and then the victim wakes from his coma just long enough to clear her name before dying, the end.
Was there any discussion about this when it came out that I might have missed? I know I absorbed a large quantity of Allison's work in a short period of time so maybe Wicked Things hit different after a few years since seeing these characters but to me coming right off finishing Bad Machinery it just felt kind of ennnnhh?? If Allison had another set of issues planned and they just haven't materialized yet then it would all make more sense but I don't know if that's been confirmed anywhere?
Solver, at least, has been delightful and feels more of a fit with Bad Machinery. And hey, in the most recent pages Shauna's back! We get a sense that despite Lottie and Shauna mending their friendship in the final pages of Bad Machinery that it never fully recovered to where it was prior to the big Blossom schism, Shauna didn't even realize Lottie was framed for murder.
Is it weird that despite only just reading all of Bad Machinery the past couple pages of Solver feels weirdly nostalgic?
Yeah there really needs to be something sorting the various projects together.
But anyway, Wicked Things. Is there only 6 issues? It looks like it ended in 2020 and there hasn't been anything since but it REALLY feels like there's more story to tell there, right? Like, we get no closure on who the murderer is, no answers on why the detective's translator was so damn sus, we just see Lottie faff about working with an unlikeable police force solving frustratingly non-supernatural crimes and then the victim wakes from his coma just long enough to clear her name before dying, the end.
Was there any discussion about this when it came out that I might have missed? I know I absorbed a large quantity of Allison's work in a short period of time so maybe Wicked Things hit different after a few years since seeing these characters but to me coming right off finishing Bad Machinery it just felt kind of ennnnhh?? If Allison had another set of issues planned and they just haven't materialized yet then it would all make more sense but I don't know if that's been confirmed anywhere?
Solver, at least, has been delightful and feels more of a fit with Bad Machinery. And hey, in the most recent pages Shauna's back! We get a sense that despite Lottie and Shauna mending their friendship in the final pages of Bad Machinery that it never fully recovered to where it was prior to the big Blossom schism, Shauna didn't even realize Lottie was framed for murder.
Is it weird that despite only just reading all of Bad Machinery the past couple pages of Solver feels weirdly nostalgic?
conchobhar
What's Shenmue?
He's talked about it in passing in the news blurbs, at least: it was cancelled by the publisher and isn't likely to return. Which certainly gives another meaning to some pages!
Ah so it felt unfinished because it WAS unfinished. That's unfortunate the publisher cancelled it, but it makes more sense than the story just ending where it did.
Yeah, Allison hoped that Wicked Things would be a long-running series where Charlotte would help the police as a civilian consultant. He even name-checked The Mentalist in one of his Patreon posts where he talks about it, which made me pretty happy. But the fact is that the premature death of Wicked Things eventually gave us the Solver/Steeple crossover, which is my favourite thing he has done in recent memory, so I can be too sad about it.
Sometimes I feel like the John Allison Comic Universe (JACU) is too big.
I've fallen behind and I dont know how to catch up except try and read it all from the beginning but that seems like an impossibility!
I've fallen behind and I dont know how to catch up except try and read it all from the beginning but that seems like an impossibility!
Who wants more Shauna?
I want it! I want it very much!
Oh. Oh Lottie.
Well supposedly that's the end of Solver. Kind of a bummer way to end things, honestly, hopefully it won't be too long before we see Lottie et al again?
I have to admit, I wanted to love Solver a bit more than I ended up actually loving it. Lottie's post-high-school adventures started out incredibly strong, between Circus Windows and her stint over in Steeple, but Solver proper hasn't hit quite as hard for me. Things took a pretty long time to get going, and then as soon as the team was up and running, we get an arc about Lottie getting distracted by other things. Give us a couple of cases before shaking up the status quo! There hasn't been time for an actual status quo to even develop!
Ah well, at the very least I always enjoy spending time with Allison's characters. His next project is apparently going to be X-Men themed (???) and after that it will be back to Steeple, which I'm pretty chuffed about. I'm not sure how much of that will end up on the website, but as a Patreon subscriber, it's not a problem for me either way. Consider signing up if you like Allison's work, you get pdfs of pretty much all his books from the last few years and every new issue in full on the day their first pages get published online. It's neat!
Ah well, at the very least I always enjoy spending time with Allison's characters. His next project is apparently going to be X-Men themed (???) and after that it will be back to Steeple, which I'm pretty chuffed about. I'm not sure how much of that will end up on the website, but as a Patreon subscriber, it's not a problem for me either way. Consider signing up if you like Allison's work, you get pdfs of pretty much all his books from the last few years and every new issue in full on the day their first pages get published online. It's neat!
I didn't think I wanted this, but I read the first issue and it turns out I do!
He ended Steeple last week, and I'm still a bit torn on the ending. I knew it was the last issue going in, but he kept piling on twist after twist I didn't know how he was going to resolve it all and it turns out his intent was NOT to. Intentionally stuffing a story with a series of unresolved cliffhangers as an ending is a choice I suppose but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit disappointed. Who knows, he may go back to it someday, we'll see.
In the mean time, hell yeah I'll read a Conan story by John Allison.
In the mean time, hell yeah I'll read a Conan story by John Allison.
Missed a real opportunity to have the baddie be a Fishman and use Desmond in this story...
That's why we love him.
In future years the 'thief toss' would be one of the most beloved events in the Hyperborean Olympics...
Allison did my boy wrong! Of course you're happy about this you Philistine!
I had to look at Desmond's bare ass-- I'm happy about nothing. Nothing!
Not for nothing, but that Fishman has a shapely* buttocks.
*By which I mean it is a shape.
*By which I mean it is a shape.
I dont see how we're seeing any thing more than we'd see when he is in his speedo....
Finally some blood and swords in this Swords and Sorcery story.