Comic Folk React To… The Queue

Currently, lots of of hundreds are individuals are in a queue – or line – to see the Queen’s coffin mendacity in state in Westminster Hall in London. The queue – or The Queue because it should now be identified – is presently on pause in Southwark, 5 miles and ten hours lengthy. Right now, Southwark Park is now closed to anybody. So there’s a group caught within the Park, not allowed within the queue. And individuals exterior the park queueing for the park. Which implies that individuals are queuing to affix people who find themselves queuing to affix The Queue that’s presently closed.

I cycled previous The Queue yesterday and should achieve this once more tonight. Here’s the way it was trying then, and you may sustain with the standing of The Queue proper right here. This is the way it appeared final night time, and I quite loved how the What3Words location mirrored what individuals standing in The Queue would possibly hear from the Thames river throughout the night time.

Anyway, we beforehand heard comedian ebook creators react to the dying of Queen Elizabeth II. Here’s what comedian ebook creators have been saying about The Queue. Mostly Brits.

Hannah Berry: I’m not bothered about seeing the Queen, however I do LOVE me a queue. Tempting.

Lew Stringer: Britain loves queueing.

Moose Allain: Ok, what the officers are going to try has by no means been executed earlier than, however tonight, underneath the quilt of darkness, they’ll surreptitiously be a part of the tip of the queue to the entrance of the queue to type a steady circle of mourners that can survive now for generations.

Joel Morris: I’ve a visceral response to queues (NO!) even when there’s something ostensibly sensible on the finish (NO!) and that is as if a piece of the nation had determined to spend per week holding spiders of their mouths. I’m kind of… scared that it is taking place. How? How are they doing this?

Kieron Gillen: That tweet about “this is the boss level of queues – you have been training for this all your life” has acquired caught in my head. Maybe I’ll be a part of the queue, then simply nope out once I get to the entrance to say I’ve accomplished it.

John Reppion: I’ve to say, I do love that it is a queue. The most British factor it might probably be is a queue. A 5 mile queue. It’s a really @Aiannucci ‘s Time Trumpet form of model of what it is like when the Queen dies. I really feel like “The Queue” is strictly one thing he’d have written. Baby born in The Queue, and {couples} who met in The Queue tales incoming, certainly.

Comic Printing UK: JG Ballard’s “Concrete Queue”

Nick Gonzo: Recording my Onlyfans content material within the Queue

Tom Galloway: London has apparently changed into San Diego Hall H on steroids with the queue to cross by the Queen mendacity in state.

Pete Woods: Am I heartless once I actually do not give a crap about somebody’s “suffering” after they voluntarily stand in an insane queue to allow them to ghoulishly have a look at a useless physique? I’m prepared to have my thoughts modified, however IMO if you happen to’re “suffering” doing this you might have the facility to only not.

Jamie Delano: How many deaths will there be in that queue, I heartlessly marvel…?

Andy Oliver: Does anybody really do their grocery procuring based mostly on whether or not merchandise have a Royal Warrant on them or not? (Apart from anybody in that 5-mile queue after all…)

Joel Morris: Pitch: Doctor Queue. Sci fi collection through which a mysterious alien stranger can transfer effortlessly to totally different factors within the queue, now so long as the universe, to go to British individuals in bother, and assist out if any of them are attacked by rubber monsters or Woolworths-grade robots.

Abigail Jill Harding: We are born of the queue, made males by the queue, undone by the queue