Am currently toying with the idea of the NM deploying autogibbets, i.e. gibbeted felons who have been reanimated and shamble around shopping centres in their cages, while a recorded voice-over recounts their dreadful crimes and their final moments.
Toys "R" Us was still in business as late as 2018, so there could plausibly be a gibbeted junior shoplifter outside the main entrance of a toyshop in one scene (possibly a response to the Lost Boys' repeated raids on Hamleys).
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There's Harry the armourer, and there's a thing that is introduced as "Harry" in (i think) The Labyrinth Index.
A scene where a quick visit to see Brain is almost fatally interrupted by a new undead robot security guard iirc. It's been a couple of years.
Ok, sounds like there IS something in the text I missed. Not uncommon; one of the reasons I do read them again (and again ...) beyond them being quite entertaining.
]]>Harry the armourer in the first few books is emphatically not a Ray Harryhausen animated skeleton (viz. an eater-possessed Residual Human Resource that has been de-fleshed but is held together using electric motors and armatures, and has been miked up/given a PA system so it can shriek dalek-style imprecations at people who don't get out of the way). Used as guards on military bases under the New Management, because it's kind of difficult to kill a guard who's already dead.
Sounds like I missed a HUGE clue somewhere in the text 🙃
And (@ 138) I look forward to an "(eventual) Laundry Files comic/graphic novel". I'm assuming YOU will have final say in the characters appearance. It'll be great fun to see how the way I imagine the characters stacks up against ...
I kind of visualize "Pinky & Brain" looking like the two guys from "Myth Busters", although I haven't figured out in my own mind which is which?
PS:
Toys "R" Us was still in business as late as 2018, so there could plausibly be a gibbeted junior shoplifter outside the main entrance of a toyshop in one scene (possibly a response to the Lost Boys' repeated raids on Hamleys).
I need an item & searching online found a "local" store has it & their "see locations" widget brings up a Google Map of the regional big shopping mall complex.
I noticed there's a Toys "R" Us shown on the map. It's apparently a department inside of a Macy's Department Store ... still serving as a Residual CORPORATE Resource!
So maybe Corporations ARE people too ??? 🙃
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]]>It did! Bless you! It gives me hope the rest of her webcomics still exist too.
]]>What happens if you go via the Gocomics site? https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury
Added to my web comics list. I didn't realize it was back.
]]>As far as I see, the Gocomics site doesn't link to the Flashbacks page at all.
Although I recently did notice they had the Luann Againn reruns.
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