Recent Comments

1. about 5 hours ago on Bad Machinery

   It seems Shauna has another half-brother.

   Sorry, Shauna, the family does not include your genus. (As we’ll see next week, there is no order in the class, either.)

2. about 16 hours ago on Bad Machinery

   Yeah, you should definitely try actually reading the comic.

3. about 18 hours ago on Bad Machinery

   So yeah, Shauna figured out from Amy’s story, and the known fact that her brother is an idiot, who must have been the one to identify the actual valuables and how. Teen detective powers for the win!

4. about 19 hours ago on Bad Machinery

   Maybe you should try reading the actual comic, in which Romesh is the one who got caught robbing Amy’s shop, rather than the one you’re making up in your head where Amy is somehow the villain because you’re irrationally prejudiced against people with skin art.

5. 2 days ago on Bad Machinery

   So Shauna’s solved x+y=2, given the known value of Daz as a zero.

   Shauna’s well familiar with the Senguptas. She babysat Romesh’s little sister Sunita, who we unfortunately won’t get to know. She’ll have a single-panel appearance later, but didn’t actually get introduced until “Wen-Tack”, which isn’t part of the GoComics run.

   Romesh’s terrible car is a riced-out VW Polo.

6. 3 days ago on Bad Machinery

   As of the last time we saw him, the “Holiday Surprise 2022”, he still looked exactly the same.

   He lives (per “End of the Road”, possibly the weirdest thing John Allison has written, which is saying quite a bit) with his mum in a limbo space behind the supermarket where she collects all the forgotten characters — including Hugo and Fallon, who, as we saw the other day, are still kicking around in the regular world. The residents also included Natalie Durand, Ryan’s late girlfriend, who last we had seen her previously, had been killed (by the same batch of evil old ladies who got Amy’s shop burned down, in fact) and had gotten a post-life job as a Grim Reaper.

   At the end of “End of the Road”, Mad Terry was accidentally disemboweled by his mum, but when he turned up in the “Holiday Surprise”, he seemed none the worse for wear. So, yeah, I think it’s entirely possible that he doesn’t age normally and is maybe immortal.

   I should probably talk about “End of the Road” at some point, because events on that track are going to intersect with Bad Machinery down the line a bit. I was going to save it until we get to where it actually fell in the real-world chronology, though, although for the sequence of events to make sense (insofar as that’s possible when Mordawwa is involved), it must have already happened.

7. 3 days ago on Bad Machinery

   Tim has already forbidden Amy from space-time shenanigans, after she and Shelley didn’t travel back to the 19th century and gain fame and fortune by preinventing the Beatles.

8. 3 days ago on Bad Machinery

   Doesn’t seem like something that you’d see so often that it would need a special name.

   Amy’s magic powers were a plot point in “Chilton Takes Charge”, the Scary Go Round storyline where she first opened Bric-a-Brac, and it was then burned down by an angry mob incited by the old ladies who were running the place in the dark timeline. Walt was born in the winter after “Forked Road”, so Amy’s been running sans powers for about a year and a half now.

   That last panel features “Chilton Takes Charge”-era Amy, down to the electric-blue tights. The guy behind her is colleague, rival, and one-time baffling crush Lovelace, who is amoral and opportunistic enough to have looted the valuables from the original Bric-a-Brac while it was burning down, using the excuse that he was rescuing Melanie (whom we most recently saw as the waitress at Bank of Burgers when Shauna met her biodad there), who was trapped inside. (Ryan actually rescued Melanie.) We’ll see Lovelace again.

   The toy table features, along with what appears to be Jar-Jar Binks and Shrek dolls, a toy of Nemulon, the time-traveling robot from Destroy History (I’d refer you to that, but it’s currently down because John Allison’s sites got hit with a malware attack a few weeks ago, and while it’s on the list of things he’s promised to restore to the scarygoround site, it’s not on the schedule for a couple more weeks), and one of the horrifying Eggo dolls that featured in “Christmas with the Fishman”, which was the holiday-break vignette that ran between the July 30th strip (which was the last of 2015) and the July 31st strip (the first of 2016). Mildred had a cameo. Krampus had a much larger part.

   Also, of course, cameos by Mad Terry and Bumblebee.

9. 3 days ago on Bad Machinery

   Shauna has doubts.

10. 4 days ago on Bad Machinery

    Also, from Scary Go Round, after the first Bric-a-Brac got burned down:

    RYAN: “But you had insurance, right?”

    AMY: “In the sense that repeatedly thinking about something… makes it real.”