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Do I need a reason for posting another appalling Sherlock-related pun? Because I’m afraid I haven’t got one.

Do I need a reason for posting another appalling Sherlock-related pun? Because I’m afraid I haven’t got one.

Sherl-Ices! Treats to keep you cool on London’s baking streets, even when it’s too hot for Sher-Chocs…

Sherl-Ices! Treats to keep you cool on London’s baking streets, even when it’s too hot for Sher-Chocs…

Here’s another piece of older art by me that you may already have seen, and which was first posted here. It’s Mycroft versus Sherlock in Bitchslap On Baker Street!

Here’s another piece of older art by me that you may already have seen, and which was first posted here. It’s Mycroft versus Sherlock in Bitchslap On Baker Street!

I’ve had requests to post some of my older art on here, and since I have some new followers (hello there!) who are still discovering my non-otter-related stuff, it seems like a good time to do so. These are things that have already been widely Tumblr’d, but in the days before I had a Tumblr myself, so this is their first “legit” posting by yours truly. First up, the cocktail menu from Bar Sherlock, first drawn in September 2010! View high resolution

I’ve had requests to post some of my older art on here, and since I have some new followers (hello there!) who are still discovering my non-otter-related stuff, it seems like a good time to do so. These are things that have already been widely Tumblr’d, but in the days before I had a Tumblr myself, so this is their first “legit” posting by yours truly.

First up, the cocktail menu from Bar Sherlock, first drawn in September 2010!

Sherlock road signs: because not everything else is transport…

Sherlock road signs: because not everything else is transport…

A dog in a death frisbee, from The Weekly World News, January 1985.

A dog in a death frisbee, from The Weekly World News, January 1985.

Above, a genuine street sign near Baker Street. Below, the image that pops into my head whenever I see it.

A corny old Holmesian joke from the September 1949 issue of Boys’ Life magazine. Ah, John Watson: more than six glorious decades of blatantly wandering around without his trousers, hoping that Sherlock will notice.

A corny old Holmesian joke from the September 1949 issue of Boys’ Life magazine.

Ah, John Watson: more than six glorious decades of blatantly wandering around without his trousers, hoping that Sherlock will notice.

A 1951 ad for Clue, calling it “a detective game that would delight Sherlock Holmes!” Certainly, if by “delight” you mean “provoke into an attack of frustration-fuelled stabbing from which the living-room wall may never recover.” It’s only a shame that the “many enjoyable features, entirely new in this age of smart games” do not include the possibility of the victim having done it…

A 1951 ad for Clue, calling it “a detective game that would delight Sherlock Holmes!” Certainly, if by “delight” you mean “provoke into an attack of frustration-fuelled stabbing from which the living-room wall may never recover.”

It’s only a shame that the “many enjoyable features, entirely new in this age of smart games” do not include the possibility of the victim having done it…

The SherLympics! At last, an international sporting event that will really bring London to a standstill…

The SherLympics! At last, an international sporting event that will really bring London to a standstill…

I’ve made a new set of my Sherlock cartoon icons, featuring spoilers for the whole of Series 2 and a large helping of extra silliness. Help yourself if you want any!

Ten Ideas For A US TV Adaptation Of Sherlock Holmes That Are Worse Than “Elementary”

(You’ve all heard about Elementary, right?)

1. Elementa-Glee
A modern-day Sherlock Holmes series set in an all-American high school, with musical numbers. Don’t stop deducin’!

2. My Deer Watson
The heartwarming adventures of lil’ Locky Holmes and his pet deer, who regularly saves his young master’s life with his perky antlers and hardcore military training.

3. The Deer-Talker
Edgy urban remake of the above idea. A hardbitten detective uses his uncanny understanding of the language of woodland creatures to beat the crap out of drug-dealers and serial killers.

4. That’s So Sherly!
A teenage girl cunningly leads a secret double life as a thirtysomething male detective. Her dad’s going to be SO mad when he finds out!

5. Desperate Holmeswives
Sherlocqueline and Mycroffette are feuding sisters who investigate suburban mysteries and pull each other’s hair a lot, while their muscular gardener Watson Johns slowly mows the lawn with his shirt off.

6. New Sherl
Mismatched flatmate hijinks with a quirky crime-solving chick who is totally a loveable elfin genius and not in any way irritating.

7. ’Tecs and the City
A sexy style-fest starring Sherlock Jessica Parker. Guest-starring Manolo Blahník as Moriarty: cross him and he’ll turn you into some really fabulous shoes!

8. Little Holmes on the Prairie
A plucky pioneer-girl detective sets out to investigate maple syrup, missing chickens and Native American genocide.

9. Amoeba in Bohemia
Sherlock Holmozoa is the world’s only single-celled detective but is he destined to be single forever? The first romcom that can only be watched through a magnifying glass!

10. An Angsty Paranormal Virginal Vampire Romance That Somehow Also Involves Solving Mysteries In A Funny Hat
Yeah, this pitch needs a little more work but if we can somehow come up with a snappier title, I’m pretty sure we’ve got a surefire hit on our hands…

Watch out, riverbank wrongdoers: it’s the second season of Sherlotter! If you missed them, his earlier adventures can be found here and here.

Watch out, riverbank wrongdoers: it’s the second season of Sherlotter!

If you missed them, his earlier adventures can be found here and here.

Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) is not a great film by any means, but it does feature this hilariously memorable sequence in which the young John Watson gets shot with a poisoned dart and hallucinates that he’s being attacked by cakes. Yes, really.

If this scene were recreated in modern-day Sherlock, it would probably be Mycroft’s nightmare instead. Bang goes that diet…

Sher-Chocs! Something to nibble on while we all wait for New Year’s Day to arrive…

Sher-Chocs! Something to nibble on while we all wait for New Year’s Day to arrive…