No, no way to sum up who these boys are and what their take is.
But what’s up with this band they have decided to follow, The Whom? It’s not a good fit as a parody on The Who. And the collection of covers isn’t doing a Wrong Hands number, either. But can you make out more than a collection of singleton jokes?
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The strip is a parody of the The Who. (I’m a longtime Who fan) The dates of the albums in the last panel align with the discography of the Who.
My Generation (65)
A Quick One (66)
The Who Sell Out (67)
Tommy (69)
Who’s Next (71)
Quadrophenia (73)
The Who by Numbers (75)
Who Are You (78)
Face Dances (81)
It’s Hard (82)
One can see parallels in the album artwork (each is a riff on the actual Who album artwork) and the titles are also references.
The ones I noticed first were:
“Taking a Leak” is a parody of the cover of “Who’s Next” (where the band members are shown after urinating on a concrete piling)
“Scooter Up” refers to Quadrophenia, where the protagonist is is a Mod (who rode around on scooters)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who_discography
Given that the strip used Scooter from Go-Bots on one cover, “Lorry” is almost definitely meant to be Optimus Prime.
I honestly thought I would be the only one to recognize Scooter (not my favorite GoBot among the toys, but one of the lead characters in the cartoon).
“So I gave him a haughty look and I said, ‘Whom do you think you are, anyways?'” James Thurber
“Lorry” is a poke at “Magic Bus.”
And the blond kid needs better (or at least smarter) friends.
The members of The Who are clearly identifiable in the album art shown in the first panel.
What IDU is why mitch wrote that The Whom is “not a good fit as a parody on The Who“. Even before Lisah’s comments appeared, I was able to identify at least four connections among the album covers, and Townshend’s hair (and his chest and posture) are unmistakable in the first panel. The only complaint I can see is that the parallels aren’t all that sophisticated or witty: it’s approximately Junior High level humor.
Because I was not familiar enough with the facts and made a mistake.
Who Boy! What a lot of ado over … oh, never mind!
I’d love to know what sent my comment into “awaiting moderation.”
I think maybe because the system didn’t know that other email address?
In an interesting change for
me, I seem unable to enter a carriage return, meaning no paragraphs.
At least it doesn’t appear that way in composition. Hitting Enter appears to put a space.
We’ll see what the result looks like.
Okay, the
CRs are there, just not appearing in the text-entry box. That will make it trickier to not make a hash of the formatting.
@ Brian – What kind of a device (or browser version) are you using?†
On all of the devices I use (well, at least the ones for which the new WP entry form is still compatible),†
a simple click on the Return key produces a visible end-of-line,†
both in the entry field and in the published comment.†
(Meaning that on Mac OS and iOS there’s no need to use the Shift key).†
P.S. After every † there’s a following Return.
Firefox for Windows PC, same as I’ve been using for many years here.
From Chrome,
I see the CRs fine.
It’s possible a close/open of Firefox will be needed.
Trying with a reloaded Firefox.
Ah yes, things appear normal. I’ve not experienced that before.
Looking for big laughs on every page is the wrong approach for this strip. This is basically one page of a graphic novel, part of a bigger story in which these three boys are one half of a team of mystery-solving kids. Being part of the Tackle-verse, some of the mysteries involve the supernatural. (This particular story is about a haunted scooter that’s killing older teens who have adopted the Mod lifestyle.) In any case, while John Allison does try to put something humorous on every page, he’s not necessarily going for a big laugh. The main joke here is Linton’s crack about the good music coming out of the other three speakers.
Kilby @8: That’s Daltry’s hair, chest and posture. Townshend is the large nose and short beard.
“Lorry” is also a poke at “Tommy”, which the group spent years touring.
Thanks, DemetriosX. The remark in the OP post that “No, no way to sum up who these boys are and what their take is.” was meant to acknowledge that this is a complex continuing story, and to beg off providing a summary or contextualization. Which however, you have stepped up and done a grand job of!
@ DemetriosX (19) – Ooops. My turn to make a silly mistake. Townshend’s name probably came to mind faster because he was the one who staged guitar destruction.
P.S. I saw The Who in concert at a stadium in Los Angeles in late 1982, which was supposed to be their “farewell” tour. I remember absolutely nothing about the performance, except that there were idiots engaging in “mosh pit” stupidity on the field (we were sitting far enough up the stands to be safe from that crap), and I had one of the worst colds of my entire life, and wished that I had been smart enough to sell my ticket to someone else.
The ‘Who By Numbers/Doctors Whom’ contains an obvious reference to a 60-years-counting TV show.
Am using Firefox and only problem I had with this particular comic was that I keep the zoom on 80% and to read the album covers I had to raise the zoom quite a bit.