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Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison {{This conversation picks up immediately from the previous strip.}} / Fallon: Smacking someone in the face always hurts your hand. Or dents your cricket bat. / [[Fallon's mittened hand emits hypothetical jagged pain lines.]] / [[Shel and Fallon peak around a tree at the culprits. Stars of recognition...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Fallon: Smacking someone in the face always hurts your hand. Or dents your cricket bat. / Shelley: I know who that is! / Shelley: <> JACK FROST! He and the fairy have cut some chilly deal. / Fallon: <> That FACE! I bet he never needs a shoehorn. ZAM! / Shelley: How are we to put...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Fallon: While I tie him up in knots of LUST, you can disable his cold machine device thing. / Shelley: But the fairy is right next to it! He will sound the alarm!!! / Fallon: Shelley, you have a university education. It is not going to be hard to outwit him. / Wish Fairy: <> Ouch! / Shelley: If...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Fallon: O me, how will I, Lillian Icicle, ever find a husband in this cruel, cruel world? / [[Jack Frost is intrigued.]] / Jack: ! / Jack: Dear lady, allow me to introduce myself. I am Jack Frost. The frost man! / Fallon: Well good gracious, sir, are you responsible for all the fine snow hereabout? / Jack:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Fallon: O me, how will I, Lillian Icicle, ever find a husband in this cruel, cruel world? / Jack Frost: ! / Jack Frost: Dear lady, allow me to introduce myself. I am Jack Frost. The frost man! / Fallon: Well good gracious, sir, are you responsible for all the the fine snow hereabout? / Jack Frost: My...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Jack Frost: Lillian, you are a lady, makes my heart sing like a lark <> Won't you be my ice-ice baby... ...in my igloo after dark. / Fallon: <> / Mr Frost, my heart dances like Fred Astaire! / Jack Frost: With cheeks so pink and features elven... Marry me at zero Kelvin......
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Jack frost plays the guitar and sings, while Fallon's head turns]] / Jack Frost: Lillian, you are a lady, makes my heart sing like a lark / Jack Frost: Won't you be my ice-ice baby... / Jack Frost: ...in my igloo after dark / <> / Fallon: Mr Frost, my heart dances like Fred Astaire! / Jack Frost:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Shelley and the Goblin/Wishing Fairy are atop a heap of snow. Shelley is explaining why she happened to walk by the Goblin]] / Shelley: I was um looking for someone to play cat's cradle with me. Do you like cat's cradle? / Goblin [[with a big grin]]: Oh YES! it is a most pleasing diversion! / Shelley:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Shelley: I was um looking for someone to play cat's cradle with me. Do you like cat's cradle? / Fairy: oh YES! It is a most pleasing diversion! / [[Shelley and the Fairy start playing cat's cradle]] / Shelley: All right! Hold out your hands. / Shelley: This is ADVANCED cat's cradle / [[Fairy begins...
 
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Wish Fairy, bound, writhes around]] / Wish Fairy: Don't touch that, red-headed girl, you'll let the wishes out! / There they go. <> / Shelley: Fallon, I did the thing to the thing! Let's go! / Jack Frost: But...but...Lillian... {{Lillian is the name that Fallon gave him}} / Fallon: Give...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Fairy is still struggling against his ties]] / Fairy: Don't Touch that, red-haired girl, you'll let the wishes out! / [[Shelley gets the case off the wish machine, the wishes burst forth]] / <> / Fairy: THERE THEY GO. / [[Shelley beckons to Fallon, who is embracing Jack Frost]] / Shelley: Fallon,...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Fairy is still struggling against his ties]] / Fairy: Don't Touch that, red-haired girl, you'll let the wishes out! / [[Shelley gets the case off the wish machine, the wishes burst forth]] / <> / Fairy: THERE THEY GO. / [[Shelley beckons to Fallon, who is embracing Jack Frost]] / Shelley: Fallon,...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Shelley and Fallon are walking back home. A roadsign indicates that they are roughly 10 miles from Tackleford.]] / Shelley: The snow's already starting to melt. / Fallon: I don't think super-natural juggery-pokery has much of a shelf life. / Shelley: Look! A happy farmer! / Happy Farmer: Arr. / Fallon:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Shelley and Fallon are walking along, towards the left of the panel. They're dressed for winter, and there is snow in the background.]] / Shelley: The snow's already starting to melt. / Fallon: I don't think super-natural jiggery-pokery has much of a shelf life. / [[Shelley and Fallon stop to watch...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Shelley and Fallon are walking along, towards the left of the panel. They're dressed for winter, and there is snow in the background.]] / Shelley: The snow's already starting to melt. / Fallon: I don't think super-natural jiggery-pokery has much of a shelf life. / [[Shelley and Fallon stop to watch...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Ha! What do you make of that yarn, you dusty old trouts? / Number 497 saved Britain without breaking a nail! / Goblins? Wishing? Cake? A tale full of sound and fury, told by an idiot. / It's almost as if you made the whole thing up on the spot! / I hate all of you Pongo Pongo loving swine! / I AM...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Fallon finishes her tale to a group of other people. All of them wear a lapel button with a picture of a big-wheel bicycle.]] / Fallon: Ha! What do you make of that yarn, you dusty old trouts? Number 497 saved Britain without breaking a nail! / Man in boater hat: Goblins? Wishing? Cake? A tale full of...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Whatcha doin', Shelley? / Writig our list of adventures to have this autumn. / Just tell me where you want to start. / Learn crocheting, end white slavery, find slash save Ryan (from deth(. / Hmmm... / SCRAAAAAAM / Fallon, your attitude to road safety is faulty. / Sorry. / Girls, crocheting is not an...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Amy: whatcha doin', Shelley? / Shelley: Writing our list of adventures to have this autumn. Just tell me where you want to start. / [[Amy reads aloud from Shelley's list]] / Amy: Learn crocheting, end white slavery, find slash save Ryan (from deth). / Amy: Hmmm... / [[Fallon crashes through the door on...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Fallon: Everything on your "to-do" adventures list is impossible or lame-o tame-o. / Fallon: You can't end white slavery because we're all slaves to the man, man. / Amy: Fallon, you've changed. You came back mean. / Fallon: Well hark! Is that the local pot remarking on the blackness of kettles? / Shelley:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Fallon: Everything on your "to-do" adventures list is impossible or lame-o tame-o. You can't end white slavery because we're all slaves to the man, man. / Amy: Fallon, you've changed. You came back mean. / Fallon: Well, hark! Is that the local pot remarking on the blackness of kettles? / [[Shelley restrains...
 
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Fallon Shelley and Amy are unpacking Fallon's car, Shelley is holding a box with "Fallons Fun Items" written on it]] / Fallon: Ryan is missing again? / Shelley: He got mixed up with the occult and we never saw him again! Amy and I don't have the know-how for a man-hunt. / Fallon: You need a Fallan...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Fallon: Ryan is missing? Again? / Shelley: He got mixed up with the occult and we never saw him again! / Amy and I don't have the know-how for a man-hunt. / Fallon: You need a Fallon plan. An F-Plan. / Amy: A ----' stupid plan. / Amy: What do you care about Ryan? You dumped him! / Fallon: He grew a dense,...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[The exterior of a church-like building. A speech balloon emerges from a window:]] / Nun: Oh! You're up and about! / [[Inside, this appears to be a hospital of some sort. Ryan is sitting by the window looking out at the autumn leaves.]] / Nun: So how goes your recovery, Mr. Tumnus? / Ryan: Aw, not...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[At the Convent]] / Nun: Oh! You're up and about! / Nun: So how goes your recovery, Mr. Tumnus? / [["Mr Tumnus" is Ryan.]] / Ryan: Aw, not so bad, you know. My legs ain't so shaky now. / Ryan: I just wish I could remember something. It ain't easy not knowin' who you are or where you came from. / Ryan:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Des: Ah, convalescing in Satan's fiery embrace. / Des: These devil nuns sure have got it backwards. / Ryan: They should be doin' bad deeds. / Ryan: Like tellin' you to pick your scabs or makin' you exercise without warming up. / Des: Maybe being Satanic is about living *too* well. / Ryan: Like how we get...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[In the Convent garden]] / Desmond: Ah, convalescing in Satan's fiery embrace. These devil nuns sure have got it backwards. / Ryan: They should be doing bad deeds. Like tellin' you to pick your scabs, or makin' you exercise without warming up. / Desmond: Maybe being satanic is about living too well. / Ryan:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Fallon: So. Project Ryan. Where is he... and why? / Shelley: He likes a drink! / Shelley: Alcohol is a gateway drug to more alcohol! / Shelley: One day you're sipping gingerly from a small glass of port... / Shelley: ...the next you have to chug from a warm can of Stella when you wake up... / Shelley: ...to...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Shelley and Amy's house]] / Fallon: So. Project Ryan. Where is he...and why? / Shelley: He likes a drink! Alcohol is a gateway drug to more alcohol! One day you're sipping gingerly from a small glass of port... / Shelley: ...the next you have to chug from a warm can of Stella when you wake up... to...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Shelley: LISTEN UP BROTHERS! / Jesus wants you to drink more fruit smoothies and less special brew! / I have proof! / It's called the Bible and it frowns on bingein'! / Bum #1: Eh, why don't you leave us alone, Sister Christian. / Shelley: Hard as you may find it to believe, I was once like you! / Shelley:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Skid Row. Shelley has a sign saying "why not abstain?" sticking out of her backpack.]] / Shelley: Listen up brothers! Jesus wants you to drink more fruit smoothies and less Special Brew! I have proof! It's called the Bible and it frowns on bingein'! / First drunk: Eh, why don't you leave us alone,...
 
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[At Eisegesis]] / Ian (Necromantical Advisor): I'm afraid we don't give out patient records, madam. / Fallon: Oh go on, just for little old me. / Ian: Well... all I can tell you is that we have no record of a Ryan Beckwith being treated in our clinic. / Fallon: Oh. Is that right? / [[Ashcroft is creeping...
Scary Go Round 20061026 Ian (Independent Necromantical Advisor, Eisegesis): I'm afraid we don't give out patient records, madam. / Fallon: Oh go on, just for little old me. / [[Ian turns to his computer, while another man behind Fallon's back quietly moves to put a rope around her neck.]] / Ian: Well... all I can tell you is...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[At the Little Sisters of Belial]] / Des/Kraken: Are you sure about this, Tumnus? / Ryan: Yeah! No one's gonna miss us if we run out to the shop for ten minutes. / Monty: Glerr! Merr! / Des/Kraken: You come too, Monty. Power in numbers. / Ryan: Come on! / [[At the market]] / Amy: Fallon thinks she's so...
Scary Go Round 20061027 [[In the convent, Des and Ryan ("Tumnus") are preparing to sneak out a window.]] / Des: Are you sure about this, Tumnus? / Ryan: Yeah! No one's gonna miss us if we run out to the shop for ten minutes. / Monty: Glerr! Merr! / Des: You come too, Monty. Power in numbers. / Ryan: Come on! / Amy: Fallon thinks...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Mother Superior in a red robe clutching a large red book, with other Sisters of Belial]] / Mother Superior: Gather near, trusted sisters, and hear the diabolical plans and ideas of Mother Superior. / Mother Superior: Sir Bentine Sellers founded the Sisters of Belial to midwife the apocalypse... / Mother...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison GATHER NEAR, TRUSTED SISTERS, AND HEAR THE DIABOLICAL PLANS AND IDEAS OF MOTHER SUPERIOR. / SIR BENTINE SELLERS FOUNDED THE SISTERS OF BELIAL TO MIDWIFE THE APOCALYPSE... / ...AND AT LAST I BELIEVE THE PIECES ARE ALMOST IN PLACE. / WE HAVE SIFTED EVERY REFUSENIK, WASTREL AND SOAK, AND FOUND THE PIPERS THREE! / THE...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[In the devil nuns' nunnery]] / Mother Superior Devil Nun: Belial looks upon my works and knows that they are good. / Devil Nun #1: Is Belial still rethinking his position on corrupting the minds of men? / Devil Nun #2: Sister Suppuration here isn't the only one here who's noticed a lack of bathing in...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison BELIAL LOOKS UPON MY WORKS AND KNOWS THAT THEY ARE GOOD. / IS BELIAL STILL RETHINKING HIS POSITION ON CORRUPTING THE MINDS OF MEN? / SISTER SUPPURATION HERE ISN'T THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO'S NOTICED THE LACK OF BATHING IN BLOOD AND ORGIES BY BONFIRE'S LIGHT SINCE YOU ARRIVED. / BELIAL SAYS... WE'LL ALL...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Monty: Merrrrr! / Mer-man[?]: Keep running until you can't, Monty! / Ryan: Holy crow, this is some crazy behaviour! / Cashier: Keith, we've got a grab-and-run. / Amy: That was Ryan! / Cashier: Two tins of catfood and several pre-packed kippers were compromised / Mer-man[?]: Head for the park! We'll lose...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison MERRRRR! / KEEP RUNNING UNTIL YOU CAN'T, MONTY! / HOLY CROW THIS IS SOME CRAZY BEHAVIOUR! / KEITH, WE'VE GOT A GRAB AND RUN. / THAT WAS RYAN! / TWO TINS OF CATFOOD AND SEVERAL PRE-PACKED KIPPERS WERE COMPROMISED / HEAD FOR THE PARK! WE'LL LOSE THEM IN THE SCRUB! / WAIT, RYAN! WAIT! / HOLD IT RIGHT THERE,...
 
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Amy, Fallon, and Shelley are outside of a convenience store]] / Shelley: Are you sure you saw Ryan, Ames? / Amy: Yes! / Fallon: It wasn't just the hallucinations of a habitual kipper thief? / Shelley: Let's go home, Amy. We can talk about the difference between real things and pretend things! / Shelley:...
Scary Go Round 20061102 Shelley: Are you sure you saw Ryan, Ames? / Amy: Yes! / Fallon: It wasn't just the hallucinations of a habitual kipper thief? / [[Shelley pastes a grin on.]] / Shelley: Let's go home, Amy, we can talk about the difference between real things and pretend things! Later Fallon? / [[They enter a chip shop.]] / Amy:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[In the devil nuns' library]] / Rachel: . . . And it's pretty obvious that evil will win the final battle, because pretty much everyone you meet is an ass in some way and- / Tessa: Jesus, Rachel, do you ever stop scheming out loud? / Tessa: "Black rain will fall on all things blah insects blah armageddon". / Rachel:...
Scary Go Round 20061103 Rachel: And it's pretty obvious that Evil will win the final battle, because pretty much everyone you meet is an ass in some way and-- / Tessa: Jesus, Rachel, do you ever stop scheming out loud? "Black rain will fall on all things blah insects blah Armageddon." / Rachel: Tessa, if you weren't my best...
Scary Go Round :: November 6, 2006 [[Outside in a park at night]] / Mer-Man: Are those store cops still out there? / Ryan: Shhh! Yeah! Cagney and Lacey! / Ryan: They're tougher than men because of sexism! / Mer-Man: Are they sexy, tumnus? I'm tired of nuns! / Ryan: Shhh! / Mer-Man: Worrrrr! / Ryan: Get down! / Shelley: Gasp! / Amy: Come...
Scary Go Round 20061106 [[Shelley and Amy are looking around a playground. Ryan, Des, and Monty are hiding in a treehouse.]] / Des: Are those store cops still out there? / Ryan: Shhh! Yeah! Cagney and Lacey! They're tougher than men because of sexism! / Des: Are they sexy, Tumnus? I'm tired of nuns! / Ryan: Shhh! / [[Des sticks...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Shelley is sitting at a desk drawing and talking to Amy, who is in a different room]] / Shelley: I'm telling you Amy, Ryan has fallen into the hands of gnomes. Perhaps this dynamic reconstruction will jog your memory. / [[Shows the drawing to Amy]] / Amy: Shelley, I'm willing to entertain you fantasies,...
Scary Go Round 20061107 Shelley: I'm telling you Amy, Ryan has fallen into the hands of gnomes. Perhaps this dynamic reconstruction will jog your memory. / [[Shelley shows Amy the picture she draw.]] / Amy: Shelley, I'm willing to entertain your fantasies, but... / Shelley: It's what I saw! / [[Shelley's drawing.]] / Gnomes...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Amy: Man, I'm so baked right now. / Shelley: Amy, you will go to hell for baking Cedric the Emo Potato. / Shelley: His ghost is very angry at you... / Shelley: ...but too sad to do anything about it. / Shelley: I tell you, the play house will be full of gnome clues. / Shelley: We'll foil their plans! / Amy:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Amy: Man, I'm so baked right now. / Shelley: Amy, you will go to hell for baking Cedric the Emo Potato. / Shelley: His ghost is very angry at you... ...but too sad to do anything about it. / Shelley: i tell you, the play house will be full of gnome clues. We'll foil their plans! / Amy: Do be careful,...
 
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Amy: Hands off my idiot friend, you filthy hobos! / Monty: Glerr! / <> / Des: Oof! / Amy: Ryan? / Ryan: Dang it all you crazy hellcat, quit strikin' the infirm! / Amy: Ryan! / Ryan: Man, whoever this Ryan guy is, sure is lucky to get this much affection I mean / Shelly: Ryan! / Shelly: Liberated from...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Amy jumps into the play house and whacks Des on the head with a stick]] / <> / Amy: HANDS OFF MY IDIOT FRIEND, YOU FILTHY HOBOS! / Des: Oof! / Mony: Glerr! / Ryan: Dang it all you crazy hellcat, quit strikin' the infirm! / Amy: Ryan? / [[Amy hugs Ryan]] / Amy: RYAN! / Ryan: Man, whoever this Ryan...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Ryan: Gal, as much as I like bein' smothered in affection, I don't really know who you are. / Amy: Ryan, it's us, Amy and Shelley, your best friends forever! / Ryan: I don't know this "Ryan". The nuns told me my name was Mr Tumnus. / Shelley: He's lost his memory, maybe due to traumas! / Amy: We'll take...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Ryan: Gals, as much as I like bein' smothered in affection, I don't really know who you are. / Amy: Ryan, it's us, Amy and Shelley, your best friends forever! / Ryan: I don't know this "Ryan". The nuns told me my name was Mr Tumnus. / Shelley: He's lost his memory, maybe due to truamas! / Amy: We'll...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Rachel: Tessa, I've done some terrible things. / Tessa: Well, all the gin in the world isn't going to make this one go away. / [[Shelly contemplating her bloody fingers after being shot]] / Rachel: Shelley Winters was shot because I lied to that biker gang... / [[Rachel being thrown off bridge]] / Rachel:...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Two years earlier... / Rachel: Tessa, I've done some terrible things. / Tessa: Well, all the gin in the world isn't going to make this one go away. / Rachel: Shelley Winters was shot because I lied to that biker gang... / Rachel: Then the police came after me and the bikers chucked me off the railway...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Tessa Davies / Rachel Dukakis-Monteforte / The Devil / Tessa Davies: "Are you hungry?" / Rachel Dukakis-Monteforte: "No." / Tessa Davies: "I'm going to the buffet car. Just sit tight and don't draw attention to yourself." / Rachel Dukakis-Monteforte: "I'll try not to tapdance too provocatively, Tessa." / Devil:...
Scary Go Round Tessa: Are you hungry? / Rachel: No. / Tessa: I'm going to the buffet car. Just sit tight and don't draw attention to yourself. / Rachel: I'll try not to tapdance too provocatively, Tessa. / The Devil: Is this seat taken? / Rachel: Sorry, yes, someone's ... / Rachel: ... sitting there. / The Devil: Well,...
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[The Devil and Rachel are on a train. The Devil has his arm around Rachel]] / Rachel: So what do you want? Help with a crossword puzzle? / Devil: Rachel Rachel! This contract says you signed up for my team! The good news, is you're in the squad for the sup final! / Rachel: Oh. / Devil: I haven't seen...
Scary Go Round 20061115 Rachel (in burqa): So what do ou want? Help with a crossword puzzle? / Devil: Rachel Rachel! This contract says you signed up for my team! The good news is, you're in the squad for the cup final! / Rachel: Oh. / Devil: I haven't seen potential like yours since L'il Pol Pot! You're a keeper! / [[She flips...
 

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