Chapter 1 – Page 95
In today’s update, Nancy’s constant rugby-tackling of Si comes full circle, and Inspector Wording smells Nancy’s handiwork in the miracle that saves the city at the last moment.
If the girl Wording shrugs off like a disused backpack looks familiar, my legal people wish to inform you that similarities with any Beryls the Perils, living or dead, are purely coincidental.
↓ Transcript
Panel 1:
Wording is fireman-carrying the spitting image of Beryl the Peril out of a block of flats. Rockets still fill the sky.
BERYL: Shouldn’t ya be used ta this from the first time round?
WORDING: Don’t you start.
Panel 2:
All the rockets disappear but one. Wording drops the child and stares at the last rocket.
BERYL: Whup!
WORDING: …
WORDING: Nancy.
Panel 3:
Nancy leaps off Perfect Bayeaux and guns it for Si.
BAYEAUX: Put them back!
BAYEAUX: Put them back right now!
Panel 4:
Si sits and watches Nancy lunge at her.
SI: You’re gonna rugby tackle me again, aren’tcha?
Panel 5:
Si shrugs as she’s forcibly dragged away by Nancy.
SI: Y’know what, I ain’t got no problem with this.
Panel 6:
Nancy hops onto ground level and the two flee down the tunnel while Bayeaux flails.
BAYEAUX: I was so close!
BAYEAUX: So close!
Wording is fireman-carrying the spitting image of Beryl the Peril out of a block of flats. Rockets still fill the sky.
BERYL: Shouldn’t ya be used ta this from the first time round?
WORDING: Don’t you start.
Panel 2:
All the rockets disappear but one. Wording drops the child and stares at the last rocket.
BERYL: Whup!
WORDING: …
WORDING: Nancy.
Panel 3:
Nancy leaps off Perfect Bayeaux and guns it for Si.
BAYEAUX: Put them back!
BAYEAUX: Put them back right now!
Panel 4:
Si sits and watches Nancy lunge at her.
SI: You’re gonna rugby tackle me again, aren’tcha?
Panel 5:
Si shrugs as she’s forcibly dragged away by Nancy.
SI: Y’know what, I ain’t got no problem with this.
Panel 6:
Nancy hops onto ground level and the two flee down the tunnel while Bayeaux flails.
BAYEAUX: I was so close!
BAYEAUX: So close!
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