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| Scary Go Round 20080804 | Ryan: Moon, what the hell's been goin' on? If you ain't a ghost, how you been floatin'? / Moon: Magic. And a magnetic harness on top of the Lady Elaine.
/ [[We see the top of the Lady Elaine sticking out of the water and a harness.]] / Ryan: And you're undercover, right, plannin' to break up the smugglin'... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080804 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ryan: Moon, what the hell's goin' on? If you ain't a ghost, how you been floatin'? / Moon: Magic. And a magnetic harness on top of the Lady Elaine. / Ryan: And you're undercover, right, plannin' to break up the smugglin' ring?
/ Moon: Ryan, I am the smuggling ring. / Ryan: Oh, that's good, since contraband... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080804 |
| Scary Go Round 20080805 | [[Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker, and Mr Soap are looking down on the beach from the edge of a cliff.]]
/ Butcher: What madness is this, Soap, what are they doing with all those boxes?
/ Mr Soap: Most ships navigate by moth and can be sunk by a false beacon. But some employ new-fangled "radar" technology...... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080805 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Butcher: What madness is this, Soap, what are they doing with all those boxes?
/ Mr Soap: Most ships navigate by moth and can be sunk by a false beacon. But some employ new-fangled "radar" technology... from Japan! / Mr Soap: ...Bear witness to the work of a criminal mastermind! The only way to lure... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080805 |
| Scary Go Round 20080806 | [[Two Sikhs on the bridge of their ship. A radar device is spitting out readings onto a tape.]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080806 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Uttam: You know Gupter, I did not believe that anything could ever replace the moth.
/ Gupter: I know. Radar is bloody amazing if you don't mind me saying so. / Melanie: That ship's going to hit the rocks! / Sailor: Well done Japan. You bloody miracle workers / [[Melanie waves a cell phone and iPod... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080806 |
| Scary Go Round 20080807 | Moon as Blackbeard: The Empress is listing! Let's make our play! Put this on...
/ [[She hands Ryan a mask.]] / Ryan: It don't feel like a crime until you have a ski mask on / [[They rush a small motorboat down the beach.]]
/ Ryan: Did smugglers of old wear ski masks?
/ Smuggler: Legend has it that the... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080807 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Moon: The Empress is listing! Let's make our play! Put this on. / Ryan: It don't feel like a crime until you have a ski mask on / Ryan: Did smugglers of old wear ski masks? / Smuggler 1: Legend has it that the ever-changing topography of an old time smuggler's face... ...made it unnecessary. / Smuggler... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080807 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ken: So what did Blackbeard say to you?
/ Ryan: Mostly he just howled, and fire came out of his eyes. He oozed a bit. / Ryan: What do we do when we get on the boat?
/ Ken: Well Ryan, I was thinking that we hit anyone we see moving, very hard. / Ken: Any nonsense, we give them a bit of old shooty.
/ Ryan:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080808 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Smuggler 1: Stand extremely still and nobody gets hurt! / Uttam: Oh bloody hell Gupter, insult and injury have arrived at the same times. We are not equipped for a rumble with binge-drinking English thugs! / Radar: Alert! Alert! / Smuggler 1: The radar's gone mental! Get it off me! / Ken: Turn it... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080811 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Smuggler 1: Go go go! I'll hold off the radar! / Ryan: What are we doin'? This is insane!
/ Ken: It's the life we chose the day we first picked up a mail bag. Then, you know, joined a smuggling ring. / Ryan: I got feelin's for a bearded ghost girl, I'm doin' robberies... / Ryan: I haven't slept in... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080812 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Mr Soap: Rob honest cargo would you? Well, no more!
/ Smuggler 1: Geoff!
/ Smuggler 2: Yuk! / Butcher: Sssoap
/ Mr Soap: Butcher, hold on!
/ Ken: Grek! / Melanie: Daddy! My daddy!
/ Mr Soap: Melan-
/ [[A smuggler hits Mr Soap over the head with a hammer]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080813 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Moon: Come on Jenks, open your damn eyes..../...the Sabled Dragonfly? / [[Moon takes the dragonfly and drops the corpse. Melanie stands behind her on a cliff.]]
/ Moon: Oh thank god, it's intact!
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080814 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ryan: Why Moon, why are you a crazy smuggler now? You're a smart scientist! / [[Moon and Ryan enter the car and start the engine]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080815 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ryan: Ernest how comes you ain't dead? Are you behind the smugglin'? What's it like pretendin' to be dead? Do they let you off parkin' tickets? Have you met other ghosts who ain't really dead? / Ryan: Has-
/ Ernest: Quiet, boy! It all started in the '90s when 'Free Willy' made everyone want to be a marine... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080818 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ernest: Soon I had a boatshed of smuggled bounty... but how to move it on? / Ernest: I knew postmen to be a superstitious, cowardly lot... ... so I played on their fears and dressed as teh notorious brigand, Blackbeard. / Ernest: This served me well until the day last year that the men from the revenue... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080819 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ernest Cromerty stands with hands on his hips wearing a T-shirt that says "My Other Boat is a Skiff".]]
/ Ernest, narrating: SOON I HAD A BOATSHED OF SMUGGLED BOUNTY...BUT HOW TO MOVE IT ON? / [[Ernest Cromerty, diguised as a pirate, looks down at a fearful postman.]]
/ Ernest, narrating: I KNEW POSTMEN... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080819 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Hartley: Come in all of you. I was very exthited to get your call. Let me assure you of a dithcrete service. The most dithcrete! / Ryan: Do you got a water closet? I need to make a toilet. < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080820 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Hartley: So... how doeth a million poundth thound?
/ Moon: Hot dog!
/ Ernest: Arr... we be amenable to that. / [[Hartley unlocks a door]]
/ Hartley: Let me get the money then. Do you mind if I pay you in... / [[A group of officers enter through the door. Hartley removes his disguise, revealing himself... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080821 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ernest bursts through the door]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080822 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ryan: I'll come quietly!
/ Amy: Here he is! The man responsible fo rsetting up the sting! Officers, you're looking at a genuine hero of law and order! / Officer 1: Good fellow
/ Ryan: Aw I dunno...
/ Officer 2: What a chap / Moon: Ryan I'll wait for you! Prison can't keep us apart! We're meant to be! / Amy:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080825 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ryan: So the "sabled dragon" is just made from wine gums and cellophane? How did you do it, Ame? / Amy: Once I knew you were in with the smugglers I used my antiques know-how to set up a honey trap. / Amy: I went on smuggling message boards talking about an artefact on its way from India to hull... / Amy:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080826 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Amy and Des: For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow.
/ Ryan: The sentiment's real pleasant but I'm goin' home to bed. / Ryan: Oh hi Melanie, I'm just goin' home.
/ Melanie: Well I hope you're pleased with yourself, Ryan. / Ryan: I think there's a misunderstandin'...
/ Melanie: Don't... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080827 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ryan: Praise Jesus, it's over. I can go to sleep at last. / Ryan: And I done a good thing, I made the coast safe again for honest sailors. / Shelley: AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE / Shelley: Oh Ryan! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! You wouldn't ravish me! You're my lovely friend who I love.
/ Ryan: Shelley, sometimes... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080828 |
| Scary Go Round 20080828 | Ryan: Praise Jesus, it's over. I can go to sleep at last. / [[He gets under the covers.]]
/ Ryan: And I done a good thing, I made the coast safe again for honest sailors. / [[Someone already under the covers makes a flying leap at him.]]
/ Someone: AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe / [[Shelley has him pinned.]]
/ Shelley:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080828 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Amy wakes up Shelley when she finds him in bed with Ryan]]
/ Amy: Oh my god, I knew it. You two were doing it behind my back the whole time.
/ Shelley: Amy, shhh. He needs his beauty rest. He was delirious with exhaustion! / Amy: How come you're back? I thought you had a new life in America.
/ Shelley:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080829 |
| Scary Go Round 20080829 | [[Shelley and Ryan have spent the night in the same bed. Amy comes in and opens the curtains.]]
/ Amy: Oh my god, I knew it. You two were doing it behind my back the whole time.
/ Shelley: Amy, shhh. He needs his beauty rest. He was delirious with exhaustion! / Amy: How come you're back? I thought you... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080829 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[TV Screen reading: Haim Saban Presents Giffen + Bonxie in Maplevision]] / Giffen: Shh! Bonxie's on the hunt
/ Bonxie: Bok bok I smell dinner / [[Shelley turns off the telly]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080901 |
| Scary Go Round 20080901 | [[TV: "Haim Saban presents - Giffen + Bonxie - in Maplevision"]] / Giffen: Shh! Bonxie's on the hunt
/ Bonxie: Bok bok I smell dinner / [[Shelley turns off the TV.]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080901 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Shelley tries to teach Des the alphabet, using a diagram reading "P is for Portly"]]
/ Des: [[singing]] ABEDBFG, something something XYZ. HJQ, PPP, RFI, DDT. Now I know my JCB's, ladies want to sleep with me!
/ Shelley: Des, no! You have corrupted the most magical song of all! / Shelley: And you said... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080902 |
| Scary Go Round 20080902 | [[Shelley is trying to teach Des to read. It is raining outside.]]
/ Des: ABEDBFG, something something XYZ. HJQ, PPP, RFI, DDT. Now I know my JCB's, ladies want to sleep with me!
/ Shelley: Des no! You have corrupted the most magical spot of all! / Shelley: And you said "Spot did a pooh" on every page... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080902 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Shelley: I'm going to fail. Des will live an unfulfilled and childish existence forever. / Shelley: Imagine... Unable to claim his old-age pension. / Shelley: Burning his Social Security cheques for warmth. Burning other old people's cheques for warmth. / Shelley: Oh no! Burning their keepsakes and... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080903 |
| Scary Go Round 20080903 | Shelley: I'm going to fail. Des will live an unfulfilled and childish existence forever. / Shelley (voiceover): Imagine... unable to claim his old-age pension.
/ [[She imagines Des with a bushy beard in a futuristic world, looking, puzzled, at a letter.]] / [[Des building a fire in a trash can as pensioners... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080903 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Shelley sprays carbon dioxide into Des' room]] / [[Shelley approaches Des, who is asleep in bed]]
/ Shelley: Oh Des-mond
/ Des: 'Nother five minutes / [[Shelley appears in a cowl, cape and leotard covered with letters]]
/ Shelley: I am Alpha-Betsy, Demon Queen of Letters (Roman and Cyrillic)
/ Des: Ahhh! / [[Shelley... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080904 |
| Scary Go Round 20080904 | [[A cowled figure walks into Desmond's room, disguising her entrance with a fire extinguisher. Desmond is sleeping]]
/ Figure: Oh Des-mond
/ Des: 'nother five minutes / [[The figure is a woman in a red outfit with cape and mask, with random blue letters.]]
/ Alpha-Betsy: I AM ALPHA-BETSY - DEMON QUEEN... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080904 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Shelley: Oh very good, Des very good. / Shelley: Yes yes, you are learning now.
/ Des: I'm a good boy. I'm gonna read. / Shelley: See Amy! All Des needed was a little encouragement.
/ Amy: You used his infantile idiocy against him. Well done.
/ Amy: [using the puppet to reach for her bum] Ey Shelley,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080905 |
| Scary Go Round 20080905 | [[Amy and Ryan peer through a door. Amy is wide-eyed; Ryan is shedding a tear of joy.]]
/ Shelley: Oh very good, Des, very good. / [[Des is clumsily but earnestly drawing letters at the table.]]
/ Des: I'm a good boy. I'm gonna read.
/ Shelley: Yes yes, you are learning now. / [[Shelley bursts happily... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080905 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Shelley: Pleaaase... please please please pleeease can I have my job back, Paula?
/ Paula: No, Shelley! / Paula: You took an unannounced leave of absence 9 months ago...
/ Shelley: Unpaid! As is only right! / [[Shelley wears a leotard and a sash reading "so long suckers"; music plays from a boombox]]
/ Paula:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080908 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Carrot: I'll be back, you'll see! I'll take your job, you see if I don't! I'm the North's most regional enwswoman!
/ Paula: God give me strength / Carrot: Who were that, mum?
/ Paula: Somebody else's problem from now on, Carrot love. For goodness' sake, stop staring at her. / Carrot: I'm not! Mum!
/ Paula:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080909 |
| Scary Go Round 20080909 | Shelley: I'll be back, you'll see! I'll take your job, see if I don't! I'm the North's most regional newswoman!
/ Paula: God give me strength / Carrot: Who were that, Mum?
/ Paula: Somebody else's problem from now on, Carrot love. For goodness' sake, stop staring at her. / Carrot: I'm not! Mum!
/ Paula:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080909 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[The Boy and Milford are watching a rap video]]
/ The Boy: It's all hype! There's no way a butcher's lad from Cleckheaton can "accidentally go on holiday to South Central LA."
/ Milford: He bloody did. / The Boy: And returned three weeks later as the new king of hip hop?
/ Milford: No, right, he can.... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080910 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Close up of a television set displaying a large white man wearing a t-shirt saying "Bernard Matthews", a green work shirt done up at the neck, green hat, green goggles, and gold chains/rings. He's pointing at himself and rapping. The dance club he's in is mostly green. Figures in the background... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080910 |
| Scary Go Round 20080911 | [[In front of an "Office Supply Surplus" store. Sarah is lugging a typewriter, Esther a ream of A3 paper.]]
/ Esther: Sarah, I don't understand. We live in the future now. And that's a typewriter.
/ Sara: Come on Esther, get excited! This is our ticket to London town. / Esther: Tickets are smaller. They're... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080911 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Sarah carries an Olivetti typewriter]]
/ Esther: Sarah, I don't understand. We live in the future now. And that's a typewriter.
/ Sarah: Come on Esther, get excited! This is our ticket to London Town. / Esther: Tickets are smaller. They're oblong. You buy them at the train station. "Computers" are oblong... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080911 |
| Scary Go Round 20080912 | Esther: How many pages is this going to be?
/ Sarah: Let's do an odd number of pages, with one page missing, freak people the flip out. / [[Esther on the typewriter loading paper.]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080912 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Esther: How many pages is this going to be?
/ Sarah: Let's do an odd number of pages, with one page missing, freak people the flip out. / Esther: Yeah, genius. One page is in a nother dimension. We'll print it in the large hard-on collider. / Sarah: Ha, science! She knows science!
/ Esther: It's The... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080912 |
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