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| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Desmond, Gibbous, and Ernest outside of Shelley's apartment building. Desmond is carrying a large dark end-handled piece luggage while wearing a sweater of broad tan and turquoise stripes. Gibbous has a light gray case slung over her left shoulder, wearing a dark blue fleece-lined hoodie. Ernest wearing... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070321 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Moon: Well that was sure the weirdest meeting I've ever been to.
/ How long has Ginger been off her medication?
/ Cromerty: Aye, she has a wild cast about her pretty eyes. / Cromerty: But what have we to lose finding this beast, this "kraken"?
/ Desmond: A leg? An eye? Some blood?
/ Moon: If you lost a... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070321 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Morning on Ernest's ship. Gibbous is awakening and wearing a red t-shirt under a slightly ratty oversized turquoise sweater that seems to be doubling as a sleeping gown, Ernest is already up and working on a map with a compass and a jeweler's eye]]
/ Ernest: Rested are ye, lass?
/ Gibbous: Yawn! I suppose!
/ Ernest:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070322 |
| Scary Go Round 20070322 | [[Aboard the Lady Elaine, Moon emerges from her cabin. Ernest is going over a chart with a compass.]]
/ Ernest: Rested are ye, lass?
/ Moon: YAWN! I suppose!
/ Ernest: Good! We make sail for Orkeny at 1030hrs. / [[She pours some coffee.]]
/ Moon: Ernest, what do you think Desmond is? Is he really a mer-man? / Ernest:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070322 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Desmond: This is a nice boat man.
/ Desmond: All the home comforts like a chimney and windows. / Ernest Cromerty: The Lady Elaine is not just a "Nice boat, man".
/ Ernest Cromerty: It's a fully submersible research station and action platform.
/ Ernest Cromerty: It runs on solar energy and renewable biomass,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070323 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Des: This is a nice boat, man. All the home comforts, like a chimney and windows. / Ernest: The Lady Elaine is not just a "nice boat, man". It's a fully submersible research station and action platform. It runs on solar energy and renewable biomass, arr! / [[Des approaches a complicated console]]
/ Des:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070323 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Aseal on the Lady Elaine, Ernest and Gibbous in the wheel-room as Desmond fishes over the side, wearing his two-tone sweater from before]]
/ Ernest: So what exactly be we lookin' for, Miss Moon?
/ Gibbous: Well Ernest, anything! / [[Gibbous looks through a book, "Sea Lore", wearing the dark blue fleece-lined... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070326 |
| Scary Go Round 20070326 | [[The Lady Elaine is landing at Orkney.]]
/ Ernest: So what exactly be we lookin' for, Miss Moon?
/ Moon: Well Ernest, anything! / [[Ernest is at the helm. Moon has a big book titled "Sea Lore."]]
/ Moon: "Kraken" describes almost any unexplained sea creature that wrecks ships. / Moon: The Orkney Kraken... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070326 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Un-named proprietor for the B&B "The Lass o' Gowrie" speaks to Desmond, Ernest, and Gibbous upon their arrival to Orkney Island. The sign for the inn bears a picture of the eponymous lass, looking sullen and carrying a carrot]]
/ Proprietor: So whut brings ye t'Orkney? / [[Proprietor shows the trio... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070327 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ernest and co. arrive at The Lass o' Gowrie hotel. The boarder greets them.]]
/ Neville: So whut brings ye t'Ornkey? / Ernest: 'Tis a mission of science. My crew and I are cataloguin' rare species in Northern waters.
/ Moon: The Shuttling Peregrine. The North Sea Candle. The Idiot Duck.
/ Neville: I'm... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070327 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In the pub of the Lass o' Gowrie. The proprietor is also the innkeeper, two red-haired youths are getting pints, while a stein-bearing Ernest is handing Gibbous a bottle. Ernest is still in his red shirt, Gibbous in a red "Shazam" T-shirt with a dark blue jacket open over it]]
/ Proprietor: Now Tam,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070328 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Neville (barkeep): Now Tam, Sam, none of your trouble, lads.
/ Sam: Aw, there'll be no trouble, Neville.
/ Moon: No Ernest, I won't have a drink, I don't...
/ Ernest: Arr, sailors must bond over GROG! / Ernest: Tis the way of the sea!
/ Ernest: And tis only a babycham.
/ Moon: Well... OK... / [[Moon is... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070328 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In the pub part of the Lass o' Gowrie, Gibbous now seated upright again with Desmond and Ernest, although still quite drunk based on the red boozles floating about her head]]
/ Ernest: [[getting up and walking off]] I got to see a small man about an inexpensive dog. / [[The two red-haired youths talk... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070329 |
| Scary Go Round 20070329 | Ernest: I got to see a small man about an inexpensive dog. / Sam: Talent at two o'clock, Tam.
/ Tam: Ey Sam ah saw'er first. / [[Sam and Tam move to Moon's table. Tam jerks Des up out of his chair, and Sam sits down.]]
/ Tam: 'Op it, froggy.
/ Sam: Tell me, darlin, did ye hurt yersel' when ye fell from... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070329 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Moon brandishes a chair]]
/ Moon: Any more o' you hicks want to ride the lightnin'?
/ I'm just gettin' warmed up!
/ Laird of Stromness: This stops right now, young lady. / Moon: Wait yer turn, Mr "Mustache rides five cents"
/ I'll clean your clock once I'm done whippin' these boys. / [[Sam and Tam turn... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070330 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Still in the pub of the Lass o' Gowrie. Gibbous is swinging a chair about while Tam is holding a hand to his bloody nose, and Sam is missing teeth, bleeding from his own nose as well, and bearing a broken bottle as a weapon.]]
/ Gibbous: [[angrily and drunkilly]] Any more o' you hicks want to ride the... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070330 |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070401">http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070401 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ernest helps Gibbous to bed due to her drunken state, head emitting floating red boozles. Desmond follows behind them, not being much help]]
/ Desmond: Old Moony's in trouble, eh? She's flipping crazy! We should ditch her and restore sanity to the mission. / Ernest: [[annoyed]] Maybe twas the grog,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070402 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ernest lays passed-out Moon down on her bed. Desmond behind.]]
/ Desmond: Old Moony's in trouble, eh?
/ Desmond: She's flipping crazy! We should ditch her and restore sanity to the mission. / Ernest: Maybe twas the grog. But Miss Moon fights with the courage of three men! Yet you left 'er to it. You're... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070402 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Amy: I'm bored. The petrifying well wasn't as terrifying as advertised. / Can't you, you know, teach me some SPELLS. You are a witch! / Mother Shipton: Magic is not for spoiled little girls! You must have the mark! THE SIGN! / Amy: I can give you some beauty tips... maybe we can do something with... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070403 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Amy: I'm bored. The petrifying well wasn't as terrifying as advertised.
/ Amy: Can't you, you know, teach me some spells? You are a witch!
/ Mother Shipton: Magic is not for spoiled little girls! You must have the mark! The sign!
/ Amy: I can give you some beauty tips... maybe we can do something with... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070403 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Amy Chilton, internalized: Stupid witch. "Magic is within". I could do spells!
/ Come on Amy, cheer up. This is like community service. / Amy Chilton, internalized: Except the community is a cave with a mad old woman in it. / [[Store Window: Help The Wretched]]
/ Amy Chilton: The Charity Shop! I can... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070404 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | {{ "Thought bubble" boxes transcribed in parentheses. }}
/ [[Amy walking around town.]]
/ Amy: (Stupid witch. "Magic is within". I could do spells!)
/ Amy: (Come on Amy, this is like community service.) / Amy: (Except the community is a cave with a mad old woman in it.) / [[At a shop window "Help the... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070404 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Amy presents Mother Shipton with a Magic Eye book]]
/ Amy Chilton: Good news, Mother Shipton. I've got magic powers.
/ I enchanted these books. The pictures leap off the page. / Mother Shipton: Lies, Lies! A child's lies!
/ Amy Chilton: Look! / Mother Shipton: AIEE! Tis an indistinct horse shape... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070405 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In Mother Shipton's cave. Amy holds up a Magic Eye book to Mother Shipton.]]
/ Amy: Good news, Mother Shipton. I've got magic powers. I enchanted these books. The pictures leap off the page. / Mother Shipton: Lies, lies! A child's lies!
/ Amy: Look! / [[Mother Shipton holds the book open in front of... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070405 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Laird Stromness and Ernest talk over a pipe and brandy at Stromness Keep. Ernest has added a tie to his outfit, but is still wearing the same red flannel shirt]]
/ Lord Stromness: Apologies for the trouble lat night. M'Sons grew up motherless and a little wild y'might say.
/ Ernest: Arr, tis nothin'. / Gibbous:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070406 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In the Laird of Stromness's parlour]]
/ Laird of Stromness: Apologies for the trouble last night. M'sons grew up motherless and a little wild, y'might say.
/ Ernest: Arr, tis nothin'. / Moon: Sorry for fighting... and insulting your cape...
/ Laird of Stromness: All forgotten! So have you children yourself,... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070406 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Now outdoors, Ernest has his utility-vest on over his shirt and tie, Gibbous has her fleece-lined hoodie, and Desmond has put on his hunter's cap. Laird Stromness' walking stick has a decidedly kracken-looking top to it. Neither Gibbous nor Desmond seem that thrilled about the situation]] / Lord Stromness:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070409 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Laird of Stromness walking merrily aside Ernest. Moon and Desmond follow, looking distraught.]]
/ Laird of Stromness: So there uh was on horseback, naked but for m'boots...
/ Laird of Stromness: ... firing my pistol into the air for all I was worth!
/ Ernest: Ha ha ha ha ha! / [[Moon grabs Desmon'd arm.]]
/ Moon:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070409 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Desmond and Gibbous follow the townsfolk of Stromness. They find the idol, a five-foot tall green half rugby-ball with a distinctly Cthulhu-esque appearance. A Maypole tops it and the fish-masked townsfolk dance about to a bagpiper while they shake belled sticks]]
/ Gibbous: Is it me Des, or is that... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070410 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Masked figures dance around a strange effigy. Moon, Desmond, and a small crowd look on.]]
/ Moon: Is it me Des, or is that thing they're dancing around kinda kraken-ish?
/ Desmond: I'd say Krakenly! / woman: Took my daughter, it did. Given to her! Took her away!
/ Moon: Excuse me?
/ Desmond: STOP IT!... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070410 |
| April 11, 2007: Time to go! | [[Moon and Desmond have just walked into Ernest's hotel room. Ernest is packing up his duffel bag.]]
/ Moon: Ernest!
/ You won't believe what we saw, we...
/ Ernest: Arr, where did you two disappear to?
/ I had to suffer that fool, the laird, alone! / Moon: We thought he was your new best friend!
/ Ernest:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070411 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Moon and Desmond walk into bedroom at the inn, where Ernest is standing.]]
/ Moon: Ernest! You won't BELIEVE what we saw, we...
/ Ernest: Arr, where did you two disappear to? I had to suffer that fool, the Laird, alone! / Moon: We thought he was your new best friend!
/ Ernest: The man was a bore. And... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070411 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ernest's boat, at sea. Ernest is happily taking the look out while Gibbous and Desmond are in the cabin.]]
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| Scary Go Round 20070412 | [[On the boat, off of Orkney.]]
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| Scary Go Round 20070413 | [[On the Lady Elaine, Des fiddles with a deck spotlight.]]
/ Des: This is fishy. Let's get a better look.
/ Moon: No Des! You'll startle it! / [[In the light, the "kraken" is revealed to be a fraud, mounted on a boat, with Sam and Tam maneuvering it and making it breathe fire with a fuel-ignition apparatus.]]
/ Des:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070413 |
| Scary Go Round: April 13, 2007 | [[Desmond, Moon and Ernest are standing on the deck of the Lady Elaine. Desmond is aiming a bright spotlight as Moon tries to stop him.]]
/ Desmond: This is fishy.
/ Let's get a better look.
/ Moon: No Des!
/ You'll startle it! / [[The light reveals that the giant monster is actually a giant puppet built... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070413 |
| Scary Go Round 20070416 | [[The Laird has the drop on the Lady Elaine. Des sticks his hands up. Ernest speaks to Moon.]]
/ Des: On behalf of the Lady Elaine I welcome our new Scotch overlords.
/ Ernest: Arr, take that pathetic creature inside, I'll deal with this. / Ernest: Allow us to drop anchor, Laird, that ye might come aboard.
/ [[He... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070416 |
| Scary Go Round: April 16, 2007 | [[Desmond, Moon and Ernest stand on the deck of the Lady Elaine. They are faced by a boat carrying the laird of Stromness and his crew of fish-masked people. Desmond has his arms up, bowing before the laird.]]
/ Desmond: On behalf of the Lady Elaine I welcome our new Scotch overlords.
/ Ernest (to Moon):... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070416 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Cromerty's ship plunges below the sea]]
/ Laird of Stromness: Cromerty is sunk! A murder ship miscarries!
/ Claimed by the waves!
/ Cromerty: Dive! Dive! / Cromerty: Miss Moon, plot a course back to English waters.
/ Moon: What about the Kraken? / Cromerty: We've wasted enough time on a fool's errand.
/ This... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070417 |
| Scary Go Round: April 17, 2007 | [[The Lady Elaine, now a round submarine, dives into the sea and escapes the laird and his fish-masked crew.]]
/ Laird: Cromerty is sunk!
/ A murder ship miscarries!
/ Claimed by the waves!
/ Someone on the Lady Elaine: Dive!
/ Dive! / [[Moon, Ernest and Desmond are standing in the control room of the Lady... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070417 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Des: Moon, you're crazy! That thing'll eat you like a jelly baby! / Moon: Don't you get it? If we catch this thing, we'll be famous!
/ Des: Time Magazine won't put headless corpses on the cover! It doesn't play well with their target demographic of people with heads. / Moon: Des, you're a freakin' merman.... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070418 |
| Scary Go Round 20070419 | [[Moon in a scuba suit and Des in naught but swimming trunks, they swim through the sea.]]
/ Des: Just so you know, Moon, I am drowning. It's just taking longer than expected for the death to kick in. / [[They come up behind the kraken.]]
/ Des: Didn't Shelley say this was some ancient god? It's more... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070419 |
| Scary Go Round 20070420 | [[Moon and Des frantically flee the kraken. When it's almost upon them, Moon turns around and fires what seems to be a large tranquilizer gun into it. It turns dark and looks very ill as they escape.]] / [[Ernest looks through the periscope.]]
/ Ernest: Man alive, those youngsters subdued the beast!... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070420 |
| April 23, 2007: The Kraken Captured | [[In the sea, far beneath the surface, a wooden submarine is towing a large green sea monster caught in a net.]]
/ A voice from inside the submarine: Mission Accomplished!
/ Well who knew, eh? / [[Inside the submarine, Desmond (a green half-man, half-fish creature) is standing with one arm around Moon... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070423 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Raffles: Behold our target... PANINATU, the volcano god!' / Raffles: This will be the biggest steal of my... or any man's career!
/ Bonzo: Tuppin' 'ell Raffles, I 'ope this "genius plan" of yours works. / Raffles: Bonzo sir, this is man versus diety, the ultimate caper!
/ Raffles: Every detail, every... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070424 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ryan Beckwith sitting in an airport]]
/ Ryan: Dang, the airport is like a luxury destination all of its own. You don't gots to worry about washin' up or vacuumin' they got dudes for that. / Ryan: It's just a shame Roy Air's baggage allowance is an envelope with 5 Tic Tacs in it. "Or Equivalent". / [[Ryan... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070425 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ryan Beckwith and Margo Plodz have gotten off the Roy Air plane to Ireland]]
/ Ryan: Hi there margo. I didn't see you in pig class.
/ Margo: No. I paid E15 for the upgrade to wooden packing crate class. You have to live a little. / Ryan: What was in the crates?
/ Margo[[emanating unhappiness]]:... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070426 |
| Scary Go Round 20070427 | [[In merrie Ireland, Ryan sits on a rock reading from the folder Shelley prepared for him.]]
/ Ryan: Dang it all Shelley, these leprechaun catchin' instructions are powerful thin. / Ryan: The little people ain't like us. They got their own ways, simple ways. They crave sticks... or bottletops... or grease?... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070427 |
| Scary Go Round: April 27, 2007 | [[Ryan is sitting on a rock at the foot of a tree. He is reading a green folder with his name on it, and his pet bat is in his pocket.]]
/ Ryan: Dang it all Shelley, these leprechaun catchin' instructions are powerful thin. / Ryan: The little people ain't like us.
/ They got their own ways, simple ways.
/ They... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070427 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ryan: Come on leprechaun guy, grab the coin! It's a big one! / Leprechaun: Saints alive, Percival! Pennies from Heaven!
/ Percival: Chip chip! / Hugo: Ryan! What antics be you perpetratin' amongst the branches?
/ Ryan: Wha-? / Ryan: Oh just fallin' you know / Ryan: Hugo, I was ten seconds away from... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070430 |
| Scary Go Round: April 30, 2007 | [[Ryan is perched on a tree branch, dangling a coin tied to a string over a large pot of gold, which a leprechaun and a bird are looking at.]]
/ Ryan (to himself): Come on leprechaun guy, grab the coin!
/ It's a big one! / Leprechaun: Saints alive Percival!
/ Pennies from heaven!
/ Bird: Chip chip! / [[Ryan... http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070430 |
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