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October 5, 2004 [[A man, Bob Crowley, is sitting up in a large bed. Sleeping women are on either side of him. Next to the bed is a balding crone.]] / Crone: Today is the day! / Today is the day! / They are coming! / Crowley: Get out, you hellbound old crone! / Can't you see I am busy with my whores? / And my goat? / [[Crowley...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Hag: Today is the day! Today is the day! They are coming! / Bob Crowley: Get out, you hellbound old crone! Can't you see I am busy with my whores? And my goat? / Hag: Come! Come! / Bob Crowley: Damn you, woman! I'm Bob Crowley, not a dog! Help me find my britches. / Bob Crowley: I didn't become the wickedest...
October 6, 2004 [[Crowley and the hag are standing in front of a club. A sign next to the front door says "Naughty Hellfire Club." There is a group of hooded figures huddled by the door.]] / Crowley: Now, be a good hag and wait outside with the others. / Hag: Merr. / Crowley: And for God's sake, try not to gouge anyone's...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Bob Crowley: Now, be a good hag and wait outside with the others. / Hag: Merr. / Bob Crowley: And for God's sake, try not to gouge anyone's eye out today. / Bob Crowley: Blackie, the place is a-buzz! / Blackie: Yes sir. Every self-proclaimed magus speaks of a prophecy coming to pass. / Bob Crowley: Curses!...
October 7, 2004 [[Amy and Shelley are getting off of a train.]] / Shelley: I don't think it was very nice to tell the people on the train that I'd had seven children. / And it was very irresponsible to say that I got my figure back "with tuberculosis". / Amy: Harmless japes! / [[Amy and Shelley are walking down an urban...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Shelley Winters: I don't think it was very nice to tell the people on the train that I'd had seven children. / Amy Chilton: Harmless japes! / Shelley Winters: And it was very irresponsible to say that I got my figure back "with tuberculosis". / Shelley Winters: You see how harmless it is when you set...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[What looks like biblical text with an illustration of Shelly and Amy, Shelly has angel wings]] / Text: The Painted nephilim will come from a distant country. burne by an Orbe though Fierce Baters and an incontemplatable vastinss. / One will give cry of skeletons and dirt, and Cannot be Smote. the other...
October 8, 2004 [[This is a page out of a Medieval text. In the center is a picture of Amy and Shelley. It reads: / The Painted nephilim will come from a distant country, borne by an Orbe throgh Fierce Waters and an incontemplatable vastness. / One will give a cry of skeletons and dirt, and Cannot be Smote, the other...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Bob Crowley: What news, The Orphan? Did you hunt the Fairy Folk as I asked? / The Orphan: 'Appen as I did sir, Mr. Crowley sir. And never did I clap eyes on such a pair of ladies. I followed 'em good and proper for a whole day like you said. / The Orphan: They're staying in lodgings near Temple Bar,...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Crowley: What news, The Orphan? Did you hunt the fairy folk as I asked? / The Orphan: 'Appen as I did sir. / The Orphan: And never did I clap eyes on such a pair of ladies. / The Orphan: I followed em good and proper for a whole day like you said. / The Orphan: They're staying in lodgings near the...
 
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison The Orphan: Pardon me ladies but 'appen my grandfather 'as fallen in an alley and is unable to get up. / Shelley Winters: Do you know first aid, Amy? / Amy Chilton: I think you just keep wrapping bandages round until it soaks up the blood. Is that right? / Amy Chilton: Where's your grandfather, small,...
October 12, 2004: Mugged in Old London [[Shelley and Amy are sitting on benches. A small, dirty, and pathetic-looking boy has just come up to them and is standing in front of them while Amy eats an apple.]] / Boy: Pardon me ladies but 'appen my grandfather 'as fallen in an alley and is unable to get up. / Shelley: Do you know first aid, Amy? / Amy:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Landlord: Ladies, if you can't pay your bill, I'm keeping your items. This teapot clock must be worth a shilling or two at least. / Amy Chilton: N-no! We need it! For... um, it's an heirloom! / Shelley Winters: A worthless heirloom! / Shelley Winters: This is a catastrophe, Amy, a catastrophe! / Amy...
October 13, 2004: Thrown out of the inn [[Amy and Shelley are standing in front of the innkeeper of the hotel they're staying at. The innkeeper is holding their time machine (which is a blue teapot with a clock on the side).]] / Inkeeper: Ladies, if you can't pay your bill, I'm keeping your items. / This teapot clock must be worth a shilling...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Shelley Winters: Amy, this situation is giving me extreme stresses. I detect a change in my body chemistry, soon I'll turn green and get massive. Then there'll be some extreme smashing of things and... inappropriate snarling. / [[A picture of Shelley, with green skin and almost-insufficient clothing,...
October 14, 2004 [[Amy and Shelley are sitting inside on a bench, next to a window.]] / Shelley: Amy, this situation is giving me extreme stresses. / I detect a change in my body chemistry, soon I'll turn green and get massive. / [[Shelly imagines herself as a girl version of the Incredible Hulk, with green skin and holding...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Shelley Winters: Look at us Amy, working at the Naughty Hellfire Club is going to end badly. I can tell. / Amy Chilton: Nonsense. We'll make the money we need to buy the time teapot back in a day or so and we'll be off. With -ow!-cheeky tales to tell and a new, worldly air. / Blackthorne Templeton: I'll...
Scary Go Round 20041015 Shelley Winters: Look at us Amy, working at the Naughty Hellfire Club is going to end badly. I can tell. / Amy Chilton: Nonsense. We'll make the money we need to buy the time teapot back in a day or so and we'll be off. With -ow!- cheeky tales to tell and a new, worldly air. / Blackthorne Templeton:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Amy Chilton: I wandered lonely as an oak/that marches free on roots and loam/and eats a sheep with teeth of bark/and presents shep-herds with their doom. / Lord Pitt: An apocalypse of half rhyme! Bravo! / Shelley Winters: Oh, I see how this is going to be. You wow the gentlemen with your scary tree poetry,...
 
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Shelley Winters [[singing]]: ...they had to count them all. Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall. I'd love to turn you...on. / Out-of-Panel Voices: Bravo! There goes a lady. Hot jiggedy! / Amy Chilton: Wow Shelley I was wrong, you truly are the greatest songwriter of our age. / Elton...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison The Orphan: Miss Blackthorne, why do you look so sad? And why is Mr. Crowley marchin' out like a man who's made soil in his britches? 'Appen is that why 'e looks so angry? / Blackthorne Templeton: Hold your lip, you dirty little boy. / Blackthorne Templeton: Crowley is furious that I let the red haired...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[A sepiatone poster on the wall reads: PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Promoter and agent of note, Mr. Elton Dimbleby esq. Beneath that, it says: First appearance playing her "northern songs" MISS SHELLEY WINTERS For the Benefit of Mr. Kite! Underneath that is a picture of Shelley posed at a piano. Below that,...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Tim Jones: So anyway, at this point Uncle Eric had the rhinocerous trapped in the upper branches of the tree... / Trouble-O-Tron: DANG DANG DANG / The Boy: Is that Trouble-O-Tron going off? / Tim Jones: It started last night, I was... working on a hard equation, so I didn't check it out. / Trouble-O-Tron:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison {{This is the first of a short run of Natalie comics. This entire strip is in black and white.}} / [[Natalie leans on a tree in the rain, staring up at the sky.]] / [[Natalie waits by the tree, looking out into the rain.]] / [[Still waiting, her hand brushes against her forehead.]] / [[A car pulls...
 
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison {{This strip is in black and white.}} / Natalie Durand: Number 27! Number 27! If you think zat I have all day, you labour under a misapprehension! / Mr. Briggs: I think I might be number 27, dear. / Natalie Durand: Think? Did you eat your ticket? / Mr. Briggs: I know I have it here somewhere... ehhh......
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison {{This strip is in black and white.}} / Mr. Briggs: Now listen here, I helped liberate your country... / Natalie Durand: Yawn... yes yes from ze "jackboot of German oppression." And 'ow would you 'ave done zat if you 'ad lost your rifle? / Mr. Briggs: I'm 83! Give me my sandwich! / Natalie Durand: I will...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Elaine: You shouldn't talk to him like that. He's not a very nice man. / Natalie Durand: It is good zat I wore my stoutest boots today, Elaine. / Natalie Durand: Because zey are all zat will withstand ze shaking I am doing right now. / Natalie Durand: Maybe one day I get old rust-bucket mad and he tells...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Natalie is smoking outside the cafe. Hamilton Percy drives by with stiches on his head]] / Natalie: Hello cat, let me ask you a question. / Cat: Meow / Natalie: Will we ever again know ze innocence of ze postwar years? / Natalie: Or is ze human race doomed to cynicism forever? / Cat: Meow / Natalie:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Tim, Riley, and The Boy are in Tim's living room]] / Tim: ... / Riley: What's the matter with Tim? / The Boy: He went in the cellar and found one of his inventions had been stolen. / First he was angry, then sad, then angry. Now he's sitting very still. / Riley: Are you OK? / Tim: Have to stay until...
 
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[The Boy and Riley are in Tim's House]] / Riley: He's "lost his time machine"? Listen, The Boy, let's get out of here. I misjudged Tim. He's a total mentalist. / The Boy: No, that thing's real. It works on the principle of the watched pot that never boils. / Riley: What? / The Boy: It's a teapot...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Riley Beckwith: If you made a time machine, can't you make another and go back to when it was stolen? Maybe punch the thief in the jaw in a manly, admirable way? / Tim Jones: I suppose so. It just doesn't seem a very elegant solution / Riley Beckwith: Wait, you have a whole cupboard full of time machines? / Tim...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Amy Chilton: I left something important down here and Tim is entertaining a lady friend tonight. We wouldn't want to interrupt. / Tim Jones: So you were the one who stole my time-travel teapot. Or will be. Or now won't. / Amy Chilton: No! NO I willn't... won'tn't... um. Please don't fire me, Tim, science...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Shelley Winters: Don't be sad Amy! / Amy Chilton: That's easy to say from a position of not being sad. / Shelley Winters: Yes, you lost your job, you lost a friend, and you didn't get to have an adventure. But you still have... a couple of tins of baked beans! / Amy Chilton: That's it! Suicide! I'm...
Scary Go Round [[Shelley hugs Fallon.]] / Shelley: Fallon! I'm so glad you're back! / Somehow Amy has transformed herself into the belle of the art school. / [[Fallon opens her bag.]] / My house has been invaded by a succession of hollow cheeked man-boys. / Usually wearing my best towels as a sarong. / [[Fallon puts...
 
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Shelley and Fallon are sitting at a table]] / Shelley: Fallon, You've not touched your muffin. / Fallon: I'm reading the story of Aron Ralston, the man who got stuck in a crevice and cut off his arm. With a penknife. / [[Shelley is standing up behind Fallon who is sitting at a table. Shelley is...
2004-11-10 [[Shelley Winters and Fallon Young are in the park by the swings.]] / Fallon Young: Do you ever yearn for a poetical life? Casting out onto the high seas? Wrassling a seaserpent? / Shelley Winters: NO. / [[Fallon pushes Shelley on the swings while Shelley raves.]] / Shelley Winters: You're plainly unaware...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Shelly and Fallon are standing at the sea, the beach and the city in the background. Fallon is looking at her ringing cell phone; she appears to have something hanging over her shoulder.]] / <> / Shelly: Fallon, staring at the sea isn't going to cure me of Manowar fear. He's...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[A Portuguese Man-o-war floats near the shore]] / Man-o-war: I found a book, eh, "learn 'ow to drive". Gonna get me a Fiat Cinque-Cento Knock postmen off their bikes for fun / [[Shelley yells at the Man-o-war from the beach]] / Shelley: I know your tricks, Portuguese Manowar! I'll inform the authorities. / [[The...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Shelly and Fallon are in an apartment with Fallon laying down on a couch and Shelly spread out on the floor; Shelly is holding a marker.]] / Fallon: What are you working on, Shelly? Is it Man-o-war related? / Shelly: I can't let him complete his schemes, so I'm working on counter measures. I'm designing...
 

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