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| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Small panel: Shelley is listening to music on headphones.]]
/ Text: Shelley reviews John A's albums of the year (She understands noises) 16-13
/ Shelley Winters [writing]: 16. DELAYS - "Faded Seaside Glamour"
/ Shelley Winters [writing]: The Delays are some wry small men who like the Cocteau Twins but... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041228 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Small panel: Shelley is listening to music on headphones.]]
/ Text: Shelley reviews John A's albums of the year (Shelley is not a musicologist) 12-9
/ Shelley Winters [writing]: 12. CHARLOTTE HATHERLEY - "Grey Will Fade"
/ Shelley Winters [writing]: Charlotte Hatherley looks like a fun lady to know, you... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041229 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Small panel: Shelley is listening to music on headphones.]]
/ Text: Shelley reviews John A's albums of the year (She thinks Steve Albini is an Olympic rower) 8-5
/ Shelley Winters [writing]: 8. THE THRILLS - "Let's Bottle Bohemia"
/ Shelley Winters [writing]: I know the Thrills from the radio, they are... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041230 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[small panel: Shelley Winters, wearing headphones]]
/ Title: Shelley reviews John A's albums of the year (You'll never get the cargo of her blueberry boat) -- 4-1 -- Happy New Album of the Year
/ Shelley Winters (writing): 4 -- A GIRL CALLED EDDY - "A Girl Called Eddy"
/ Shelley Winters (writing): Eddy... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20041231 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[A green fairy named Ed is hanging up a sign that reads "Detective Agency", covering the "Make A Wish" logo that used to be there. Another fairy named Manny watches]]
/ Ed: This is the saddest day of my green life, Manny.
/ Manny: There's no money in the wishing game any more, Ed.
/ People want genuine... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050103 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ed: This is the saddest day of my life, Manny.
/ Manny: There's no money in the wishing game any more, Ed. People want genuine solutions, not airy fairy phoney baloney. / Ed: How are we meant to get customers? We have no reputation in the detective world. / Manny: You crazy cat. I got that cracked.... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050103 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[A rooster holding a red and yellow flag walks in the door]]
/ Rooster: 'Ey mosschops!
/ Is this the detctive agency?
/ Ed: Yes! We can solve any problem.*
/ *(Where arms like pipe cleaners do not encumber success). / Rooster: See, I work at the airport, and I think my wife's cheatin' on me.
/ Ed: Maybe... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050104 |
| Scary Go Round by John Allison | Rooster: 'Ey, Mosschops! Is this the detective agency?
/ Ed: Yes! We can solve any problem (where arms like pipe cleaners do not encumber success).
/ Rooster: See, I work at the airport, and I think my wife's cheatin' on me.
/ Ed: Maybe it's the flags.
/ Rooster [[waves semaphore flags angrily]]: What?
/ Manny:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050104 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[A sign reading "Caskill & Peterson ACCOUNTANTS" is now overtop of the Detective Agency sign. A monkey is approaching]]
/ Manny: Detective Agencies inspire the wrong kind of customer!
/ Accountancy is the gentle art of numbers.
/ Ed: One, two, three, one hundred and twelvety!
/ Monkey: Is this an accountants?
/ I've... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050105 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Manny [[puts up new sign in window]]: Detective agencies inspire the wrong kind of customer! Accountancy is the gentle are of numbers.
/ Ed: One, two, three, one hundred and twelvety!
/ Monkey: Is this an accountants? I've not paid any taxes since 1987 and I need to balance the books.
/ Manny: You have... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050105 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Manny is sitting in a chair with a book, winking at Ed. There is a purple blob with limbs and a tie and collar sitting on a psychiatric couch]]
/ Manny: Mental wellness is the future and phychiatry will see us into our salad days.
/ Ed: Yes, but these people are crackers! I'm afraid!
/ Papa Viscous: Hello,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050106 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Manny: Mental wellness is the future and psychiatry will see us into our salad days.
/ Ed: Yes, but these people are crackers! I'm afraid!
/ Papa Viscous: Hello, my name is Papa Viscous and I have a problem with eating people. I know it's wrong. / Papa Viscous: They are just extremely delicious when they... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050106 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[A devil bear is menacing Manny and Ed]]
/ Devil Bear: Gronnk
/ Skrarrr
/ Graggle!
/ Ed: Sir! It is very difficult for me to help you own your experience if you insist on communicating in a series of guttural moans!
/ Manny: Enunciate clearly towards the ear! / [[The bear has picked up the two and lowered... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050107 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | MONSTER: Gronnk skrarrr graggle!
/ ED: Sir! It is very difficult for me to help you own your experience if you insist on communicating in a series of guttural moans!
/ MANNY: Enunciate clearly towards the ear! / MONSTER: Snartgle argghhhh!!!
/ ED: What ho!
/ MANNY: This jazz is cracked! / < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050107 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Manny and Ed are standing on the deck of a ferry]]
/ Ed: Manny! Please explain again why we are borne over the Irish Sea on a passenger ferry?
/ Manny: Ed, for the fifth time, we're fugitives!
/ With a 1:1 client to lawsuit ratio, we must flee! / Ed: Oh cruel fate, that a persistaent desire to help... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050110 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ed: Manny! Please explain again why we are borne over the Irish sea on a passenger ferry.
/ Manny: Ed, for the fifth time, we're fugitives!
/ Manny: With a 1:1 client to lawsuit ratio, we must flee! / Ed: Oh cruel fate, that a persistent desire to help resulted only in heartache. / [[Driving a car]]
/ Manny:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050110 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Manny and Ed are standing at a house with a red door, in front of which is standing an older-looking green fellow, with a pipe and a gnarled cane]]
/ Ed: Cousin Seamus!
/ Seamus: Ehhhh, good to know you, boys.
/ Manny: Cousin Seamus, you look like a man who's just found his bunny partially digested by... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050111 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Manny and Ed are in front of a house with a red door, talking to a goblin, Seamus, wearing a green beard, a brown tunic and hat. Seamus holds a walking stick and a pipe. Manny is facing away from us, and Ed is clearly happy, and is holding his hat.]]
/ Ed: Cousin Seamus!
/ Seamus: Ehhh, good to know... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050111 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Manny is looking in the trunk of the car, while Ed and Seamus look on]]
/ Manny: Fortunately, Seamus, you are talking to two men with a profound understanding of problems and how to solve them!
/ Ed: Bring forth the forensic puppy!
/ Seamus: Now what's all this then? / [[Manny has produced a blue box... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050112 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Manny, legs protruding from the opened trunk of the car, is looking for something as Ed and Seamus, holding his walking stick, look on.]]
/ Manny: Fortunately, Seamus, you are talking to two men with a profound understanding of problems and how to solve them!
/ Ed: Bring forth the forensic puppy!
/ Seamus:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050112 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ed and Manny are examining the wallet and its contents]]
/ Ed: What's the name inside the wallet, who is the theif?
/ Manny: A platinum card! Name of Mr T. Wogun! / [[Seamus has an angry yellow and orange starburst behind him]]
/ Seamus: The Wogun!
/ Ed: Ouch! Shouting!
/ Seamus: I worked with that rascal... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050113 |
| Scary Go Round, Crock o' Gold: January 13th | [[Ed and Manny rifle through a black wallet.]]
/ Ed: What's the name inside the wallet, who is the thief?
/ Manny: A platinum card! Name of Mr T. Wogun! / [[Seamus starts hollerin'.]]
/ Seamus: THE WOGUN!
/ Ed: Ouch! Shouting!
/ Seamus: I worked with that rascal at Radio Cork in the 1980s, spinning the hits... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050113 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ed, Manny and Seamus are driving along]]
/ Seamus: Now boys, I'm nervous about going to Dublin to confront The Wogun.
/ Ed: Justice must be done.
/ Seamus: He's a big shot now, got his own television show.
/ Plus he was pretty crazy jealous about me crock of gold. / Ed: Is he dangerous?
/ Seamus: Well,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050114 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In the car, driving past a lamb, are the three goblins. Ed is driving, Seamus has shotgun, and Manny is in the back seat.]]
/ Seamus: Now boys, I'm nervous about going to Dublin to confront the Wogun.
/ Ed: Justice must be done.
/ Seamus: He's a big shot now. Got his own television show.
/ Seamus: Plus... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050114 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Manny and Ed are dressed as Starsky and Hutch, standing at the reception desk of the tv station]]
/ Ed: Hello! We are to be guests on The Wogun Show!
/ Manny: You may recognize us as the big screen's Starsky and Hutch. / Manny: I am Ben Miller, and this is my associate Owen Pilchards.
/ Ed: My heart... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050117 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ed and Manny are at a receptionist's desk, in costume. Ed has a blond, shaggy wig, and is wearing a white shirt with wide collars under an opened red jacket. Manny has a black, curly wig, and has his arms folded. He wears a blue trenchcoat, closed.]]
/ Ed: Hello! We are to be guests on The Wogun Show!
/ Manny:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050117 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Wogun is getting his hair done by a black beetle creature. Natalie Pixie stands to the side with a clipboard]]
/ Wogun: Ah, Natalie, isn't it? SO how are ye likin' work on The Wogun Show?
/ Natalie Pixie: It is exciting! I get to meet puffed up celebrities and see how ugly zey are in real life!
/ And... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050118 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In the makeup room, Wogun is having his hair done by a Krakkagar and consulting with Natalie the pixie, who holds a red clipboard.]]
/ Wogun: Ah, Natalie isn't it? So how are ye likin' work on The Wogun Show?
/ Natalie Pixie: It is exciting! I get to meet puffed up celebrities and see how ugly zey are... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050118 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Her from Ze Cranberries is singing a song]]
/ Her from Ze Cranberries: When the ghost gun babies shoot their dolls
/ Then they shoot their moms
/ Then they let off the bombs. / [[Wogun, sitting in a chair]]
/ Wogun: Her from The Cranberries there, still ploughing that same rich furrow. / [[Wogun introducing... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050119 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Her from The Cranberries is singing. A furry brown thing is backing her on a blue electric guitar.]]
/ Her from The Cranberries: When the ghost gun babies shoot their dolls
/ Her from The Cranberries: Then they shoot their moms
/ Her from The Cranberries: Then they let off bombs / [[Wogun is sitting... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050119 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Seamus continues interrogating the Wogun while Natalie Pixie summons help from backstage]]
/ Seamus: Where's me crock? I know you got it! Tell me!
/ Natalie Pixie: Oh my God! Ze Wogun's been cudgelled!
/ Security! Set about those men immediately! / [[Ed, Manny and Seamus, no longer wearing their costumes,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050120 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[On stage, the disguised Seamus continues his attack on the dazed Wogun, as disguised Ed looks on. Backstage, Natalie Pixie urges arrivals to assist the Wogun.]]
/ Seamus: Where's me crock? I know you got it! Tell me!
/ Natalie Pixie: Oh my god! Ze Wogun's been cudgelled!
/ Natalie Pixie: Security! Set... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050120 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ed is flying through the night, while Manny holds on to him and Seamus holds on to Manny]]
/ Ed: Manny, my arms are tried. Our night flight is losing altitude.
/ Manny: I hear the sounds of gaeity! Let's set down and lift our spirits. / [[They make their way past a banner reading "Beer Festival"]] / [[It... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050121 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Manny, my arms are tired. Our night flight is losing attitude.
/ I hear the sounds of gaiety! Let's set down and lift our spirits.
/ I will have a pint of Old Knobbly, and my friends will have a mug each of Ploughman's Wink. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050121 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[The number 20 with "Coke" to the left, above a picture of a child with blue eyes]]
/ [[Chapter title: "The Child"]] http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050123 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Blurry close-up of the face of a small child]]
/ [[Top left: 20]]
/ [[Top right: Coke]]
/ [[Bottom: THE CHILD]] http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050123 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[The Lady stands behind The Child with her hands on his shoulders]]
/ The Lady: Go, child, tell the people in the town the news. Our news. / [[The Lady watches through a window as The Child walks off]] / [[The Child walks toward a sign reading "Tackleford 3"]] / [[The Child approaches Sarah and tugs... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050124 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[The outskirts of Tackleford]]
/ Mysterious Woman: Go, child, go, tell the people in the town the news. Our news. /
/ The Child: Things are going to change. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050124 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[The front page of the newspaper the "Tackleford Cormorant - Strictly Local since 1972" No 1,067, Tuesday, 25th January 2005, 11,098 (Jan-June 2004). The other header reads "Your 7 Day TV Guide, Pages 34, 4 & 12"]]
/ [[The front headline reads: "CHILD: THINGS ARE GOING TO CHANGE" Underneath is a picture... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050125 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[newspaper frontpage]]
/ Title: TACKLEFORD Cormorant Strictly Local since 1972
/ Edition info: No 1,067 Tuesday, 25th January, 2005 11,098(Jan-June 2004)
/ Corner: Your 7 DAY TV Guide Pages 34, 4 & 12
/ Headline: CHILD: THINGS ARE GOING TO CHANGE by Declan Campion
/ Body: The arrival of a sexless, inscrutable... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050125 |
| Scary Go Round | Fallon: Shelley, are you all right?
/ Shelley: [[taking off coat]] No! I've been sacked for gross misconduct. / Shelley: [[against swirly background with dolphins and rainbows]] And right at the dawning of the age of Aquarius! / [[At a table]]
/ Fallon: Does it have something to do with the interview... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050126 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Shelley is taking off her coat while talking to Fallon.]]
/ Fallon: Shelley, are you all right?
/ Shelley: No! I've been sacked for gross misconduct. / [[The background becomes dolphins, rainbows and greek temples.]]
/ Shelley: And right at the dawning of the age of Aquarius! / [[The two are sitting,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050126 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Milford and Sarah are walking into class]]
/ Milford: So Sarah, you were the first to see this creepy kid? Was he oozing slime/pus?
/ Me and The Boy have a bet. / [[Milford is giving the thumbs up behind Sarah's back, with a +20 in front]]
/ Sarah: Shut your face, Milford. I wish I'd never told anyone.... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050127 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Milford: So Sarah, you were the first to see this creepy kid? Was he oozing slime/pus? Me and The Boy have a bet. / Sarah: Shut your face, Milford, I wish I'd never told anyone. No. He was just a bald thing.
/ Milford: She says he oozed like the outlet pipe on a bad factory! / Milford: Hey, are you... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050127 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Milford and The Boy are eating lunch outside]]
/ Milford: What happened to that girl you liked, The Boy?
/ I haven't seen you staring out of the window recently.
/ And it's been at least a month since I've seen you pinching yourself in the arm to keep the tears in.
/ The Boy: I hate you, Milford. / The... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050128 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Milford: What happened to that girl you liked, The Boy? I haven't seen you staring out of the window recently. And it's been at least a month since I've seen you punching yourself in the arm to keep the tears in.
/ The Boy: I hate you, Milford. / The Boy: The heart's a tyrant, but it tires. Not that... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050128 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Erin is talking to some girl]]
/ Some Girl: Someone's waving at you, Erin.
/ Erin: It's my sister, I'd better go. See you tomorrow. / [[Shelley is standing next to a red car]]
/ Shelley: I'm here to pick you up in style! I hope you like the classy life. / Shelley: Do you want to go and do sister things?... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050131 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Girl: Someone's waving at you, Erin.
/ Erin: It's my sister, I'd better go. See you tomorrow. / Shelley: I'm here to pick you up in style! I hope you like the classy life. / Shelley: Do you want to go and do sister things? We can have an afternoon of beauty.
/ Shelley: Things that are fun.
/ Erin: I think... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050131 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Voiceover: In a world where ice cap retreat leaves puffins stranded on rocky outcrops... / Voiceover: Where dangerous internet predators wait for your children on street cornders with WAP phones / Voiceover: Where foreign wars keep the media from pressing domestic issues... / Voiceover: It's good... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050201 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Commercial: In a world where ice cap retreat leaves puffins stranded on rocky outcrops... / Commercial: Where dangerous internet predators wait for you children on street corners with wap phones / [[Background of TV commercial is now a map, with such countries as Gwen and Distractistan (capital Kaput)]]
/ Commercial:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050201 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | The Boy: Life is a brute, Milford. It giveth, it taketh away.
/ For a minute you can hold something beautiful in your hand...
/ Milford: The next, store security is marching you to the manager's office and calling the police. / The Boy: You know that's not what I meant, Milford.
/ Milford: You spend too... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050202 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Life is a brute, Milford. It giveth, it taketh away.
/ For a minute you can hold something beautiful in your hand...
/ The next, store security is marching you to the manager's office and calling the police. / You know that's not what I meant, Milford.
/ You spend too much time thinking, the boy. / You'd... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050202 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Milford: I reckon Dark Esther like you, The Boy. Did you see? She smiled.
/ The Boy: I know. that was weird. / The Boy: It looked like the sort of the Nostradamus would have predicted.
/ A big black rip opening up in the blackness of space. / The Boy: Poor Dark Esther. With her little lace gloves, she's... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050203 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Milford: I reckon dark Esther likes you, The Boy. Did you see? She smiled.
/ The Boy: I know. That was weird. / The Boy: It looked like the sort of thing Nostradamus would have predicted. A big rip opening up in the blackness of space. / The Boy: Poor dark Esther. With her little lace gloves, she's... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050203 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Esther: My Marilyn Manson fanclub letter!
/ Oooh. A badge that says "[[blacked out]] [[blacked out]] Jesus [[blacked out]] [[blacked out]]"
/ That's like, 20% ruder than anything, ever. / Esther: What dark edicts do you have for me in 2005, Mr Manson? / Marilyn Manson's Letter: Dear Friends,
/ what a... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050204 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Esther De Groot rips open an envelope to reveal a white sheet and a smaller red piece of paper. In her hand is a badge.]]
/ Esther De Groot: My Marilyn Manson fanclub letter!
/ Esther De Groot: Oooh. A badge that says "[[blacked out]] [[blacked out]]" Jesus [[blacked out]] [[blacked out]]"
/ Esther De... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20050204 |
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