You’re right. Those markings do look like some of Nudges. and those might be misshapen horns. Perhaps she got her head caught in a farm thresher at an early age. Or that’s the result when Nudge gets plastered and mates with a mortal.
Not possible. Any Skeeve/Pippi child would instantly exceed the universe’s tolerance threshold of Weirdness, and implode into a black hole (or possibly a naked singularity, which is even weirder than a black hole)
Sense of style? I think that particular style is lying senseless by the side of the road, having been stunned into immobility by an overwhelming clash of colors and conflicting patterns.
Ayuppah!
I regularly re-read the older issues, so Kitty’s fashion “experiments” are carved in my mind’s eye…in a very painful, visual cortex’ rootcanal kind of way, I might add.
The same thought was hitting me when i saw the first panel. I wonder if it is part of his condition, Is he a living paranormal detector like Caliban in X-Men.
There’s a possibility that Justin’s crazy meter is being set off by Shelly. He just had his clothes and several inches of flesh blow torched off and Shellinix is speaking to the creatures that did it as if they had piddled on the rug.
It may be that Shelly is falling back on behavior she developed in the time forrest. Her inital reaction when the cerberi showed up was that of a human, since she was doing her best to act human with Justin. After a quick reminder that the only thing she really has to fear is an older, more powerful Sphinx, Shelly’s reacting to the Hell hounds the way human Shelly would have dealt with a naughty puppy.
Which to Justin, who is still healing and hurting, is flippin’ nuts!
By the by, I love the resigned expression of the cerberus. It reminds me of Daffy Duck when he was captured by the Abominable Snow Man.
I doubt that’s what it is. Why would his crazy meter go off now and it didn’t before because of Shelly? I think it makes more sense about the new girl there.
The women and a few guys are probably glad his clothes were nowhere near flame resistant. I’m wondering if Shelly will get jealous at someone else seeing her officer’s tight buns.
Meh, Shelly was nekkid for 80k years. I’d be willing to bet she mostly wears clothes for others benifit, or as a way to reconnect with her humanity. She didn’t seem overly concerned the last time she was a gaint nude lion/eagle/person in public.
I’m reminded of the time my guy friend and I were unexpectedly awashed in an element (ocean water though, not fire), and I had to loan him a midriff shirt with balloons printed on it, and a blanket to use as a sarong… we got funny looks in the grocery store.
Nah They just have to request the Annex to bring the lost and found box and find some clothes in it. They will probably be dated, like 1580, but at least they will be clothing.
As if nutty Nudge weren’t enough, we get some weird orc/inca with a ehrm.. “unique” fashion sense.. This is getting interesting. And here I was, thinking that Mucho Mocha attracted weirdo’s… The library ups that quite considerably…
Probably another trans-dimentional entity trying to blend into the local population and chose a college campus as role model. Looks like a Hippie Bunny Girl!
The back-pack, water-bottle and peculiar fashion-sense sorta gives that away.
Makes sense too, that she be in the library, I mean. Good for her. Using dead trees instead of just bing-ing or googling.
Wondering if she’s not another librarian kinda like.. umm…. crap I can’t remember her name, the Southern Bell Gorgon girl. I completely blanked on her name but mayhaps this chicky has something of a similar job (if its a different annex of the library)
Nope, she was just there doing research, can’t really blame you though, it can get hard to keep track of so many people especially when they don’t get mentioned for a while.
Man o man I love this! I don’t know which is funnier:
- Shelly doing baby talk to the formerly flaming hell hound(s),
- Hippie Bunny Girl in 60s/punk regalia dropping her College supplies,
- The view of HBG seeing a full size sphinx and ignoring it,
- The view of HBG seeing a naked, seared man restoring 3d degree burns as she watches,
or,
- HBG apologizing for her fleabag hellhounds!
I’ll second that! As I live across the river from Harrisburg, the last thing even close to this was the Kipona festival a while back when the booze ran a little too freely….
Sometimes we may speak about Counties, but there is nothing beyond those counties.
The mysterious State College is said to lie beyond the Blue Mountains. It is surrounded by darkness and dragons, and only the magic of Mount Nittany holds them at bay.
For the last week, I’ve been playing installments from the: F.E.A.R. series. I have the original F.E.A.R.(First Encounter Assault Recon), F.E.A.R. Extraction Point, F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate, F.E.A.R. 2 and F.E.A.R. 3.
I’m surprised that all of them will play on my Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium machine.
Same system, different game. I’m rather surprised at how well W7 handles games. But I’m not the most hardcore of gamers, and I don’t expect a lot from it.
Yep, their weight is a pain in the back(pack). I tend to use them for potions as quickly as possible rather than carry them out to a shop for cash. (One day I’ll get around to finishing that game, but not before ME3 arrives and consumes my gaming time.)
55 septims??? How bloody high is Your trade-perk??? I can get 25 septims at best.
Though, being quite versed in destruction magic, I just zap a couple of Liches, quite rewarding, though ending-up pretty singed myself more often than not..
For strange, useless stuff, try dragon-bones and dwarven cogs in Skyrim.. still not high-level enough to see what they’re for.
By the by, Skyrim is só utterly, baffling beautiful, especially the woods on the lower regions.. I often stop in total amazement (and then get mangled by wolves..meh.. )
You can get nearly full price for ‘em if you rule the Mages’ Guild; the potion guys in Anvil and Chorral both pay out the wazoo for anything I sell ‘em. Don’t forget to haggle!
oh.. mages guild.. I see,
one of those things I am still “about to do”
There’s just too much to “do” in Tamriel alone. Last time I checked, I spent 175 hours in total, Skyrim is at 30 hrs already, and I am not even close to ending Skyrim’s main “mission”
On topic: Her backpack is quite heavy. All of them books that are too late? Makes sense to send the Hell-hounds after one then.
Justin: “Yes. Ma’am, you do know the city codes regarding dangerous animals? I’m afraid I’ll have to call in animal control if you can’t restrain your …fleabags.”
New Girl: “You have no radio.”
Shelly: “He means me. Grrrr. rOwr.. I’m ‘not’ letting you chop down the sacred tree…”
AND NOW… IN THE CENTER RING… MISSY RAINBOW SUNBEAM MOONDUST and her AMAZING NAPALM PUPPIES!!! Yes ladies and Gentlemen Missy Moondust just floated in from the 1960s netherworld where reality is no more than a concept. The illegitimate offspring of Chuck Jones and Pippi Longstockings has entertained the crowned heads of Europe (after execution) for the past four decades and now comes to America, where she will do her renown one… creatue…?… “Reality What Is?” show!!!
I love the disgruntled, tail-tucked pyro-puppy btw…
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I LOVE the expression on the hound’s face! “Babe, you burned my muzzle. I can’t believe you actually BURNED my muzzle! If you were about ten feet smaller, I’d bite you.”
Hob-noblin’, with the goblin’
The Goblin’ Girl from the mystery world
Hob-noblin’ with the goblin’
She’s black and green ’cause it’s Halloween
Raggedy black is the way she dress
Little green shoes and her hair’s a mess
- Frank Zappa
And I have to say that the hell-puppies are so cute.
Either Jack-Ching-Botta Bing (Amercia’s funniest people) had a daughter, or that’s Discords 9MLP: FiM) Estranged sister, Or it’s a female Jabber wocky.
Oh but they are physical beings. They can even physically manifest themselves in our world. They cause the problems associated with their characteristics, not the other way around. They are also beneficial in a necessary evil sort of way.
She would explains some of the characters written about in fantasy stories in the 60′s. Take a hit of acid and she takes off her human facade, instant psychedelic trip.
Yeah, I think I’d go with Nudge’s kid-sister, like Maark30 and Stigmartyr762, or maybe a close Niece Orrrr… Nudge has a daughter she forget to mention…
Face-markings are remarkably like Nudge’s. That cannot be coincidence. There is NO such thing as “coincidence”in the Wapsiverse.
I know everybody is wondering who this escapee from a 1960s hippy insane asylum is; but I just have to laugh at the hell hound’s look.
That is one p***ed off pooch. His own nose got burnt to the point it’s STILL smoking and now the woman who manhandled him is treating him like a helpless puppy.
Well, look at it from the Hell hound’s perspective. Here you are, confident in your power, when suddenly your latest victim up and turns into one of the universe’s apex predators. Your life flashes before your eyes as you await your inevitable and gruesome demise. The mighty Sphinx grabs you in its talons and a small part of you, the part that isn’t overwhelmed by primal terror, feels a small pride that this is how you’re going to go out. Struck down by one of the universe’s mightiest killers.
Then she procedes to tell you that you’re a naughty puppy, yes you are! Yes you are!
Let’s say the water bottle and backpack are standard size.
Little Miss Eyesore stands 5 foot, 2-4, weighs about 105 pounds.
Her figure would make just about any tailor cringe at the thought off dressing her.
Look at that waist… couldn’t be 15 inches around.
Hips… closer to 35 inches than 20.
look how that belt is sitting… sheesh!
Despite appearances, that dress has to be a two-piece (blouse and skirt). A one-piece dress with those measurements would need horizontal fasteners as well as a standard vertical. Otherwise, the… girl?… could not get her legs into the thing to put the dress on.
I’m going to guess that her clothing is actually made from a heat-shrink fiber, like some electrical insulation that’s commonly used. It’d be loose enough to slide unto (or wrap like a sarong) and then a little blast of heat makes it shrink by 50% or so in diameter, and it’s snug. In the evening, just slit it down the side, peel it off, and recycle.
It would explain why she bothers to keep two knucklehead fleabag cerberi around. They’re not just pets… they’re an essential fashion accessory for her chosen lifestyle.
Actually, I was recently wondering what the apos will look like – we’ve heard so much about them.
Also, I really want to see one being scared to death by Creepy Little Girl
Of course we all saw this coming, didn’t we? Congratulations, Paul. Bravo!
I don’t know who she is, but I kinda like her already! Haven’t seen clothes like that for a looooong time. Paul, any chance we can see this in color sometime?
It continues to amaze me how Paul can put the mood of the strip through such amazing high-speed bootlegger turns (serious to funny, or light-and-humorous to starkly horrifying) and pull it off so well.
Well, it’s not so much a pun as an allusion… but I don’t think we have a Cask of Allusions handy, so I suppose a donation to the Pun Jar is the best practical thing to do.
Let’s see… (one dark metal key, several quartz beads found at the foot of the Night’s Bridge, and a sad sigh…)
Haven’t had much to say that others haven’t said first.
Plus, i’ve been Soccer-Grandmike for a household with four adults (one with an 8 to 5 job, two with varying school hours, one of those twenty miles away) and a kindergarten granddaughter and a not-in-school four-year-old granddaughter and just one car until Hlen and Steve manage to replace theirs…
Indeed. He/she has that “put me down and see how long your ankles remain intact, you condescending cat creature” look.
Now would Also be the typical cartoon moment in which the pup snorts dark residue from it’s recent flame-on barrage, blackening Shelinx’s face. That, or launch a flame thrower like pee stream from it’s other end. Or both in rapid sucession.
Yeah. It also needs to be said that this is the first we’ve seen Shelly in sphinx form when she hasn’t been wracked with drama. That’s good to see, too.
It says something about how amazingly funny that dog’s face is that I’m not nearly as enthralled with postulating about the new girl as I am by giggling at the pooch.
Woo. Justin. Woo. And I’m a heterosexual male. No wonder Shelly didn’t want to give that up!
His hair apparently regenerates, too.
As to whatever she is: Yeah. Can’t really top any of the comments made so far… I would suspect she’s a gatekeeper or supernatural security guard who took a few minutes off to go do something else, never expecting anyone would try to enter the Library while she was gone… Unless she IS the Library, or its AI, taking on human (sort of) form and running errands. Which would explain why Shelly and Justin couldn’t find it…
I’m not sure… has anyone commented on her teeth? Thise rabbit teeth with the lower fangs is a weird combination… But then, her whole being seems to be so.
I expect there was some sort of transformation from the confrontation between them and Shelly. Likely, their power or aura was bounced back to them, reducing their size somehow. I could be wrong, but that’s how I was interpreting some of the artwork in the previous comic, and this one seems to follow suit.
Hope theres a Lost and Found box in the Library so Justin can get some pants.
I keep thinking about that old Letterman bit w/ a bullhorn:
“ATTENTION: MY NAME IS DAVE LETTERMEN AND I’M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS!”
Well, some of it can be restored by the library, like anything written, IDs money and so forth.
As for anything else getting a lift by a poiter may be necessary.
Tina 1.0 – human Tina, prior to her death
Tina 2.0 – Tina’s body, revived in the morgue by Nudge, and now inhabited/run by a collective of somewhat amnesiac demons.
The database bears you out on that claim. It was a bit difficult to confirm since it was originally spelled “Shellynx.” Correlating to post time (assuming it’s consistant for one time zone throughout), the earliest post of either Shellynx or Shellinx is: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/where-sphinxes-come-from/#comment-46610
Who is that?
pip long-arm stocking.
Sometimes I just HATE my ergonomic keyboard with small keys. That should be:
Pippi Long-arm-stocking
well, not a trap…
worse.
this explains the hell hound’s expression. If you had to protect THAT… ?
based on her face I’d say either a wererat or a member of the people of the tiger (weirdly she has both rodent and feline features)
My first thought was Princess Washburn. My second thought was “GAAAAAAAH!!”
For those not (yet) in the loop – Princess Washburn
Princess Washburn looks like she’s trying to make her bust look bigger using kleenex tissues, but forgot to take them out of the box first.
I… I don’t think she forgot…
I had to scroll over to see her face… I practically jumped out of my chair.
Here’s a specially framed shot of Her Highness’ face, just for you.
Hm, there is a resemblance. Though Warehouse Girl seems to use much more polite language.
May explain the discipline problem with the hellhounds.
Aaand… the link coded correctly.
New gal in town?
Dr. Seuss and Pipi Longstocking had a kid?
Looks like some relative of Nudge.
You’re right. Those markings do look like some of Nudges. and those might be misshapen horns. Perhaps she got her head caught in a farm thresher at an early age. Or that’s the result when Nudge gets plastered and mates with a mortal.
If the latter theory is true and my theory is true then Nudge could be Justin’s grandmother.
Pipi came to mind for me, too.
Whoever she is, she should definitely consult a stylist and have her horns swoggled.
Do we even want to know what subjects she is studying, with the heavy contents of that bookbag?
Horns? I thought they were feathers.
They looked like tobacco leaves to me at first glance.
I’m seeing something like Tinkerbell on acid.
Who’s on acid. Tinkerbell? Or you?
Or worse, she just had her horns swoggled, and is stopping off at the Library afterwards!
That’s funny.
Brundlefly merged with the entire cast of the Fantasticks.
how about Skeeve and Pippin Longstocking?
*covers Pippi’s ears*
Dear, you are much to young to be hearing this.
Bizarro Jin and the rest of the Bizarro Chimera?
Not possible. Any Skeeve/Pippi child would instantly exceed the universe’s tolerance threshold of Weirdness, and implode into a black hole (or possibly a naked singularity, which is even weirder than a black hole)
Well, of course the singularity’s naked. You know how hard it is to shop when you’re a singularity?
Dunno why… like Morticia Addams, your color scheme is quite simple… black, black, black, black, and (for a change) off-black.
Oh, come-on!
Skeeve’s one of the most sane people in the comic scene. lousy fashion sense; but he knows that.
Also, Skeeve’s circle of friends (and business associates) by far exceed Monica’s in power.
This may be why they couldn’t get into the Annex. They hadn’t met the new Receptionist yet!
That, or this girl wasn’t invited by Phix, Nudge or the Library.
New girl has a “unique” sense of style.
Sense of style? I think that particular style is lying senseless by the side of the road, having been stunned into immobility by an overwhelming clash of colors and conflicting patterns.
And then was run over by an 18-wheeler.
Jeeze!
Maybe Nudge’s niece?
nah, the entire CONCEPT of style was mugged and left groaning in the alley.
Sort of early Aztec, late Halloween fusion.
If it weren’t for the contemporary water bottle and backpack, I’d say she simply had been magically trapped there since 1971.
I was wondering if she was going to turn out to be Justin’s daughter but, given the dating of her fashion sense, she could be one of Justin’s parents.
AAAhhh, c’mon. She doesn’t look any weirder than some of the characters I’ve seen wandering around RISD, here in Providence!
Yup!
She has had style-advise by, either Jubilee, or Kitty Pride…
I was thinking more she had traveled with Delirium, Morpheus’ sister.
No. not Delirium. No fish.
But she could be Delirium’s close friend.
You must mean when Kitty VERY early in her association with the school (like when she interrupted Xavier’s investigation of Belasco).
Ayuppah!
I regularly re-read the older issues, so Kitty’s fashion “experiments” are carved in my mind’s eye…in a very painful, visual cortex’ rootcanal kind of way, I might add.
THAT is what set of OTB’s crazy meter!
Fashion non-sense?
Is Justin’s crazy meter really that sensitive to go off when someone looks or dresses like that as well?
I’m wondering if Justin’s crazy meter is a physical object, like his appendix or something.
The same thought was hitting me when i saw the first panel. I wonder if it is part of his condition, Is he a living paranormal detector like Caliban in X-Men.
from what i see, his ‘crazy meter’ could have been very numbed by his recent experience of being par-broiled and STILL rang hard enough to hurt when…
THAT…
showed up.
Nah, his crazy-meter is confused. It’s actually his “eclectic-meter” that went off-the-scale.
That young-lady has re-defined eclecticism…..
Perhaps she was sentenced to the eclectic chair?
[clink]
For crimes against fashion, presumably.
There’s a possibility that Justin’s crazy meter is being set off by Shelly. He just had his clothes and several inches of flesh blow torched off and Shellinix is speaking to the creatures that did it as if they had piddled on the rug.
It may be that Shelly is falling back on behavior she developed in the time forrest. Her inital reaction when the cerberi showed up was that of a human, since she was doing her best to act human with Justin. After a quick reminder that the only thing she really has to fear is an older, more powerful Sphinx, Shelly’s reacting to the Hell hounds the way human Shelly would have dealt with a naughty puppy.
Which to Justin, who is still healing and hurting, is flippin’ nuts!
By the by, I love the resigned expression of the cerberus. It reminds me of Daffy Duck when he was captured by the Abominable Snow Man.
I doubt that’s what it is. Why would his crazy meter go off now and it didn’t before because of Shelly? I think it makes more sense about the new girl there.
Feeling a bit like Foghorn Leghorn and Duck Dodgers combined, let me just say “Who? What?? How?! Hunh?! What, I say what is goin’ on here?”
Poor Justin. Getting flambe’d like that by mistake??
And, it looks as if his glasses weren’t as flame-resistant as they may have seemed at first.
The women and a few guys are probably glad his clothes were nowhere near flame resistant. I’m wondering if Shelly will get jealous at someone else seeing her officer’s tight buns.
I think a more pressing concern for Shelly would be the fact that she’s giving her own show for the amusement of most guys and a few women as well.
Meh, Shelly was nekkid for 80k years. I’d be willing to bet she mostly wears clothes for others benifit, or as a way to reconnect with her humanity. She didn’t seem overly concerned the last time she was a gaint nude lion/eagle/person in public.
Besides, the whole concept of such a show is different when the person in question is a non-human. Or, as a sphinx, a partially-human.
poor Justin, more pain coming, when he sees what awful fashion he will havta use to cover up….:O
Ooogh. That amount of sartorial inelegance could be dangerous to the sanity of any innocent person on the street who happened to see him.
I’m reminded of the hemi-human, dressed up in drag as an attempt at a disguise, from Spider Robinson’s “Half An Oaf”.
I’m reminded of the time my guy friend and I were unexpectedly awashed in an element (ocean water though, not fire), and I had to loan him a midriff shirt with balloons printed on it, and a blanket to use as a sarong… we got funny looks in the grocery store.
Nah They just have to request the Annex to bring the lost and found box and find some clothes in it. They will probably be dated, like 1580, but at least they will be clothing.
You’ve got a point; the Annex should have an awesome lost & found box.
O_o whozzat??
As if nutty Nudge weren’t enough, we get some weird orc/inca with a ehrm.. “unique” fashion sense.. This is getting interesting. And here I was, thinking that Mucho Mocha attracted weirdo’s… The library ups that quite considerably…
Hey, maybe this is Becky’s true identity. Almost everyone else seems to be something other than what they seem, why not Tina’s pastry chef as well?
Pointy ears. Lower jaw, fangs. Upper jaw, rabbit teeth. Hands, claws. Backpack, water bottle, dress code out of the sixties –
Yeah Justin, my crazy meter pegged too – who the bleep IS that, and what’s she doing there?
At least the hell hound has the sense to look a bit disgusted
Perhaps she is another of Maya’s early experiments in golem making.
“Early experiment”? Well, yeah, with a rat or a mouse, seeing the upper teeth..
Only one way to find out *whips-out a piece of Edam 40+ *
Probably another trans-dimentional entity trying to blend into the local population and chose a college campus as role model. Looks like a Hippie Bunny Girl!
Good, I’m not the only one getting a college student vibe from her.
The back-pack, water-bottle and peculiar fashion-sense sorta gives that away.
Makes sense too, that she be in the library, I mean. Good for her. Using dead trees instead of just bing-ing or googling.
Warms the cockles of my -old fashioned- heart.
Remember. This is the library with the Matrix (“Guns. Lots of guns”) style search function.
Not THAT much removed from Google.
Oh! Oh! Oh! I know! I know!
It’s a Wolpertinger!
Shelly, meet your new “control training coach.” Phix hires only the best.
Crazy meter seems to be triggered by the tearing/removing of clothes. Or maybe it’s triggered by pain. Or both.
Wondering if she’s not another librarian kinda like.. umm…. crap I can’t remember her name, the Southern Bell Gorgon girl. I completely blanked on her name but mayhaps this chicky has something of a similar job (if its a different annex of the library)
Euryale? Not sure about that, atleast new character drop started on Monday! XD
Euryale wasn’t a member of the Library staff, just another user doing some research.
Op, my bad. It’s been a bit since reading it and I’ve blanked out on that. I thought she was helping out or something as well.
Nope, she was just there doing research, can’t really blame you though, it can get hard to keep track of so many people especially when they don’t get mentioned for a while.
Is Shelly still super sized? Just how small/large were those dogs to begin with? Did they shrink whe subdued?
Ah! I see it now. That large black area behind Justin is one of her wings. She IS still in Shelinx form.
Man o man I love this! I don’t know which is funnier:
- Shelly doing baby talk to the formerly flaming hell hound(s),
- Hippie Bunny Girl in 60s/punk regalia dropping her College supplies,
- The view of HBG seeing a full size sphinx and ignoring it,
- The view of HBG seeing a naked, seared man restoring 3d degree burns as she watches,
or,
- HBG apologizing for her fleabag hellhounds!
Folks, we’re in for a ride here! Yaaaaaaaay!!!!!
So that’s what happened to Bongo’s other ear.
Also I read “HBG” as “Harrisburg”, and trust me, Harrisburg never had this much crazy fun allowed out in public in the 1970s.
I’ll second that! As I live across the river from Harrisburg, the last thing even close to this was the Kipona festival a while back when the booze ran a little too freely….
Central PA. Where we give directions in relation to the Susquehanna River, or The River.
Sometimes we may speak about Counties, but there is nothing beyond those counties.
The mysterious State College is said to lie beyond the Blue Mountains. It is surrounded by darkness and dragons, and only the magic of Mount Nittany holds them at bay.
The Blue Mountains are the tallest in the world.
Is that anything like the New Yorker, who asked a tourist, “And where are you from?”
“I’m from Iowa.”
“Well! Here in the City, we pronounce it ‘Ohio’!”
That bad???
Oh my god, the dog’s expression is priceless.
I think the hellhound must know Dietzel. They’ve both got the expression of disgruntled longsuffering down pat.
Nat, its just the usual “beaten by something larger” one…:-)
Pouty parboiled puppy is pouty…
Can we (ass)(u)(me) that the scanner issues are resolved?
I don’t think those are feathers, but they may be a part of her headband and not horns. Then again… what do I know about horns?
mm, minotaur horn, weighs five pounds, worth 55 septims, friggin’ useless for alchemy compaired to its weight….
Ok so I’ve been playing Oblivion all day…
For the last week, I’ve been playing installments from the: F.E.A.R. series. I have the original F.E.A.R.(First Encounter Assault Recon), F.E.A.R. Extraction Point, F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate, F.E.A.R. 2 and F.E.A.R. 3.
I’m surprised that all of them will play on my Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium machine.
Same system, different game. I’m rather surprised at how well W7 handles games. But I’m not the most hardcore of gamers, and I don’t expect a lot from it.
Yep, their weight is a pain in the back(pack). I tend to use them for potions as quickly as possible rather than carry them out to a shop for cash. (One day I’ll get around to finishing that game, but not before ME3 arrives and consumes my gaming time.)
55 septims??? How bloody high is Your trade-perk??? I can get 25 septims at best.
Though, being quite versed in destruction magic, I just zap a couple of Liches, quite rewarding, though ending-up pretty singed myself more often than not..
For strange, useless stuff, try dragon-bones and dwarven cogs in Skyrim.. still not high-level enough to see what they’re for.
By the by, Skyrim is só utterly, baffling beautiful, especially the woods on the lower regions.. I often stop in total amazement (and then get mangled by wolves..meh.. )
Thank you for reminding me to nudge my husband back into playing Skyrim.
He hasn’t beaten the game yet, and I like watching the pretty. 
You can get nearly full price for ‘em if you rule the Mages’ Guild; the potion guys in Anvil and Chorral both pay out the wazoo for anything I sell ‘em. Don’t forget to haggle!
oh.. mages guild.. I see,
one of those things I am still “about to do”
There’s just too much to “do” in Tamriel alone. Last time I checked, I spent 175 hours in total, Skyrim is at 30 hrs already, and I am not even close to ending Skyrim’s main “mission”
On topic: Her backpack is quite heavy. All of them books that are too late? Makes sense to send the Hell-hounds after one then.
Oh boy, and /how/. Except for me it’s Skyrim. Anyone else thinking HBG looks sort of like a jackrabbit?
Ummm.. that’s the B part of Hippie Bunny Girl!
Justin: “Yes. Ma’am, you do know the city codes regarding dangerous animals? I’m afraid I’ll have to call in animal control if you can’t restrain your …fleabags.”
New Girl: “You have no radio.”
Shelly: “He means me. Grrrr. rOwr.. I’m ‘not’ letting you chop down the sacred tree…”
(SPIT-TAKE) Good shot there lady friend
Cerberi: *whine whine* (we diddin pee on da tree. we diddint)
AND NOW… IN THE CENTER RING… MISSY RAINBOW SUNBEAM MOONDUST and her AMAZING NAPALM PUPPIES!!! Yes ladies and Gentlemen Missy Moondust just floated in from the 1960s netherworld where reality is no more than a concept. The illegitimate offspring of Chuck Jones and Pippi Longstockings has entertained the crowned heads of Europe (after execution) for the past four decades and now comes to America, where she will do her renown one… creatue…?… “Reality What Is?” show!!!
I love the disgruntled, tail-tucked pyro-puppy btw…
… or was her Daddy Lurch?
BTW- THAT’s what happens when you apply blush with a potato peeler
I gotta ‘member that!
Oooo, oooo, good one!
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Morticia: Learch, what is this about a paternity test?
Learch: mmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!
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Too bad a “Cavenam” couldn’t have written my last post! He might have spelled it right.
Meh.. middn’t even dotice…
I vote 7 days a week. Open the site, read the cartoon, hit the vote button, vote, go to comments.
I really should do it in that order. I just keep missing the vote button…which means I forget it’s there at all.
I voted today though!
I LOVE the expression on the hound’s face! “Babe, you burned my muzzle. I can’t believe you actually BURNED my muzzle! If you were about ten feet smaller, I’d bite you.”
Actually she looks more like a cross between Waldo and a female Beetlejuice…
That can’t be. She’s far too easy to find for that.
I rather wish it was more difficult to find her.
What an outfit!!!
“Where’s Dildo?”
(The sound of crickets is loud)
We actually found Waldo on the way to the kid’s bowling tournament. It’s a small town on route 23, 10 klicks south of Marion Ohio.
Meanwhile in France, they’re still hunting “Charlie”… /shrug
“Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?”
I worked on a contemporary version of ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in college once. She looks like Mustardseed.
Great I now have a mental image of her voice as high pitched whine from a friend that played Mustard-seed in my H.S. production in the mid 80′s.
Goblin Girl.
OMG.
We really DID come in the wrong building….
Hob-noblin’, with the goblin’
The Goblin’ Girl from the mystery world
Hob-noblin’ with the goblin’
She’s black and green ’cause it’s Halloween
Raggedy black is the way she dress
Little green shoes and her hair’s a mess
- Frank Zappa
And I have to say that the hell-puppies are so cute.
Yeah, NOW they’re cute. When they’re turning your flesh into human rind snacks, not to much
Somewhere there is a song about everything. Corolary: And a U-tube video.
Either Jack-Ching-Botta Bing (Amercia’s funniest people) had a daughter, or that’s Discords 9MLP: FiM) Estranged sister, Or it’s a female Jabber wocky.
I gots me a little theory.
We’ve all seen M’s demons way back when, right? (too lazy to do an archive troll to go back to them all).
What if all of them are “based upon” some existing mythological beast(s)?
Hmm.no, I think not. M’s demons are very clearly based on her negative character-traits, vanity, insecurity, self-loathing, fear, etc etc
Mythical creatures have quite consistantly, always been physical, external entities in WapsiSquare.
Oh but they are physical beings. They can even physically manifest themselves in our world. They cause the problems associated with their characteristics, not the other way around. They are also beneficial in a necessary evil sort of way.
So, you’re figuring that this young lady may be the mythological “beast” who inspires the form and behavior of a whole cohort of demons?
Could be, I suppose. Late 60′s to early 70′s hippie garb… college student age… she’s protesting something (what her dogs did, in this case)…
Get it. Her name must by Stration.
She would explains some of the characters written about in fantasy stories in the 60′s. Take a hit of acid and she takes off her human facade, instant psychedelic trip.
I would think she is a trickster, sort of like nudge. Maybe a little sister.
Does Nudge have a little sister?
I can only imagine just how obnoxious she would look if this strip were in color.
The look on the hell hounds face is hilarious. LMAO!!!
Yeah, I think I’d go with Nudge’s kid-sister, like Maark30 and Stigmartyr762, or maybe a close Niece Orrrr… Nudge has a daughter she forget to mention…
Face-markings are remarkably like Nudge’s. That cannot be coincidence. There is NO such thing as “coincidence”in the Wapsiverse.
I know everybody is wondering who this escapee from a 1960s hippy insane asylum is; but I just have to laugh at the hell hound’s look.
That is one p***ed off pooch. His own nose got burnt to the point it’s STILL smoking and now the woman who manhandled him is treating him like a helpless puppy.
Anyone she chosse to handle while she is in “Sphinx” mode would look like a helpless puppy .. Just saying .
hmmm… weren’t there TWO hell hounds?
Maybe one of them is licking Justin’s toes and is what is setting off his crazy meter…
The other one is sulking in a corner, where this one would be, too, if the big cat-lady hadn’t grabbed him…
Make that “…big scary cat lady…”
Well, look at it from the Hell hound’s perspective. Here you are, confident in your power, when suddenly your latest victim up and turns into one of the universe’s apex predators. Your life flashes before your eyes as you await your inevitable and gruesome demise. The mighty Sphinx grabs you in its talons and a small part of you, the part that isn’t overwhelmed by primal terror, feels a small pride that this is how you’re going to go out. Struck down by one of the universe’s mightiest killers.
Then she procedes to tell you that you’re a naughty puppy, yes you are! Yes you are!
Might bruise the old ego a bit.
Guess that fleabag is gonna have a “doggie identity” crisis after all this.
Someone’s got a very bad case of the late sixties, methinks…
Let’s say the water bottle and backpack are standard size.
Little Miss Eyesore stands 5 foot, 2-4, weighs about 105 pounds.
Her figure would make just about any tailor cringe at the thought off dressing her.
Look at that waist… couldn’t be 15 inches around.
Hips… closer to 35 inches than 20.
look how that belt is sitting… sheesh!
Despite appearances, that dress has to be a two-piece (blouse and skirt). A one-piece dress with those measurements would need horizontal fasteners as well as a standard vertical. Otherwise, the… girl?… could not get her legs into the thing to put the dress on.
on second thought, if the zipper went well south of the hip-line… maybe.
Look at the hands! That has to be an ultrastretch top to get them through those tight sleeves.
And how does she get her head through the shirt’s collar? Or her feet past the ankles on those boots?
THAT’S IT I’M DONE READING THIS COMIC FOREVER IT’S TOO UNREALISTIC
you never heard of zips or stretch fabric????
I’m going to guess that her clothing is actually made from a heat-shrink fiber, like some electrical insulation that’s commonly used. It’d be loose enough to slide unto (or wrap like a sarong) and then a little blast of heat makes it shrink by 50% or so in diameter, and it’s snug. In the evening, just slit it down the side, peel it off, and recycle.
It would explain why she bothers to keep two knucklehead fleabag cerberi around. They’re not just pets… they’re an essential fashion accessory for her chosen lifestyle.
maybe she has been reading some of Reed Richard’s articles (creator of the Marvel universe’s “unstable molecule” costumes).
She got the formula right except the part of ‘stable fashion’.
What do you want–yellow spandex?
Ok, now it’s official. Entering the annex is dangerous – it’s full of absent-mindedly lethal nutjobs – and those are only the readers!
The readers don’t know what they’ll find by definition.
The apos, I’d imagine, are sharp-focused lethal nutjobs.
Actually, I was recently wondering what the apos will look like – we’ve heard so much about them.
Also, I really want to see one being scared to death by Creepy Little Girl
Shelly and Phix are female apos-sphinxes. Shouldn’t take much to imagine a male.
Attach a lion’s head (with mane) and other appropriate equipment.
Can’t remember, is Phix an apotropic Sphinx? I’m pretty sure Shelly isn’t;she defines herself as a “Gardian Sphinx” while the Apos are Demon hunters.
Hey, I resemble that comment! *shakes fist*
Att: Joan, Kelly, we have a winner for Worst Dressed
hurray for tasteful nuddity!
Considering the fashion sense of the only dressed character in the strip, I’ll happily choose nudity.
Of course we all saw this coming, didn’t we? Congratulations, Paul. Bravo!
I don’t know who she is, but I kinda like her already! Haven’t seen clothes like that for a looooong time. Paul, any chance we can see this in color sometime?
It continues to amaze me how Paul can put the mood of the strip through such amazing high-speed bootlegger turns (serious to funny, or light-and-humorous to starkly horrifying) and pull it off so well.
Now, that Shelly is so huge, her giant biceps are more frightening. But it also looks good.
(I wouldn’t discuss it with her.)
Now MY crazy meter just went off.
Did someone from the sixties loose their acid trip? Its baaaaaaack and cuter than ever. I’m thinking a rat demon of the Neverwhere Kind.
So, this might be Anesthesia’s cousin, Synesthesia?
+1 interwebs for you!
Pun Jar clogging donation required…
Well, it’s not so much a pun as an allusion… but I don’t think we have a Cask of Allusions handy, so I suppose a donation to the Pun Jar is the best practical thing to do.
Let’s see… (one dark metal key, several quartz beads found at the foot of the Night’s Bridge, and a sad sigh…)
…okay, know what? I’m just gonna kick back & watch this happen. No guesses, no assumptions. Just let the story unfold; this has GOT to be good.
I expect Phix to turn up and say to our newcomer something to the effect of:
“How many times do I have to say: No dogs in the library!”
I now Shelly was denied access to the library to deal with dog problem.
Sorry that should read:
“I now suspect that Shelly…”
Never under estimate the power of belly rubs!
Also, this is why pets are not allowed inside the library!
Ooo -la-la! That is some serious Beefcake!
How much is it to buy the art for this page?….
(want want want!)
Kerin
I thought it was Nudge in another attempt to blend in in human society…
I was getting a little worried about you … hadn’t seen any comments from you, lately.
Haven’t had much to say that others haven’t said first.
Plus, i’ve been Soccer-Grandmike for a household with four adults (one with an 8 to 5 job, two with varying school hours, one of those twenty miles away) and a kindergarten granddaughter and a not-in-school four-year-old granddaughter and just one car until Hlen and Steve manage to replace theirs…
Tends to cut down on the energy,
Fairportfan- Low energy? You need one of those V cells to help with that big a problem.
Nope, Nudge has ram horns, and isn’t quite so unaware of current fashion.
Scary hippie looks scary.
That pup’s dirty look would do credit to Dietzel at his most disgusted…
Indeed. He/she has that “put me down and see how long your ankles remain intact, you condescending cat creature” look.
Now would Also be the typical cartoon moment in which the pup snorts dark residue from it’s recent flame-on barrage, blackening Shelinx’s face. That, or launch a flame thrower like pee stream from it’s other end. Or both in rapid sucession.
Somewhat reminds me of this look:
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/stinky/
Nah – f she had my luck with puppies, it’d pee on her.
And, if their breath causes fires, what might their pee do???
Great laugh to start the week! New character, frustrated guard-puppy, and Justin’s crazymeter redlining. Love it…
Yeah. It also needs to be said that this is the first we’ve seen Shelly in sphinx form when she hasn’t been wracked with drama. That’s good to see, too.
Mmmmmmmm, *hot dogs*…..
It says something about how amazingly funny that dog’s face is that I’m not nearly as enthralled with postulating about the new girl as I am by giggling at the pooch.
Then again…maybe it’s just because it’s Monday and I have faith that I’ll get an answer before Friday.
Look how many strips it took to get a handle on Euryale… and Little Miss Eyesore is much worse.
Little Miss Eyesore, LMG, that’s another good name for her. I like it.
Woo. Justin. Woo. And I’m a heterosexual male. No wonder Shelly didn’t want to give that up!
His hair apparently regenerates, too.
As to whatever she is: Yeah. Can’t really top any of the comments made so far… I would suspect she’s a gatekeeper or supernatural security guard who took a few minutes off to go do something else, never expecting anyone would try to enter the Library while she was gone… Unless she IS the Library, or its AI, taking on human (sort of) form and running errands. Which would explain why Shelly and Justin couldn’t find it…
You know, that’s an interesting problem.
If he regenerates every damage in a matter of minutes, just HOW the HECK does he keep his hair short?
Perhaps he wasn’t born that way, instead, like vampires, maintains whatever look he had at transformation.
Heh nice fanservice for the female readers
. Will be that piece available in a auction too?
Go oooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnn…….
Is this one another fangirl of the group?
Oh, that’s all we need…
Euryale turning up and we find out this is the fan club’s vice president of ‘public relations’.
I’m not sure… has anyone commented on her teeth? Thise rabbit teeth with the lower fangs is a weird combination… But then, her whole being seems to be so.
See “Hippie Bunny Girl” comments above.
HBG is a fashionista’s delight, fer shure! Don’t ‘cha know?
Yet another victim of Tina’s dentist, mayhaps?
One more round of trolling – I thought the cerberi were bigger – compared to Justin it looks like it’s simply the size of a St Bernard’s.
Love the expression on it’s face, by the way…
I expect there was some sort of transformation from the confrontation between them and Shelly. Likely, their power or aura was bounced back to them, reducing their size somehow. I could be wrong, but that’s how I was interpreting some of the artwork in the previous comic, and this one seems to follow suit.
One has to consider that Shelly is still in full blown sphinx form right now. Thus the dogs look small by comparison. So does Justin for that matter.
You would think HBG would be more aprehensive walking in on a top predator in her large form. Especially if she was just attacked by her mutts.
Hope theres a Lost and Found box in the Library so Justin can get some pants.
I keep thinking about that old Letterman bit w/ a bullhorn:
“ATTENTION: MY NAME IS DAVE LETTERMEN AND I’M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS!”
Awwww,Shelly does look sweet with those ‘widdle’ puppies.
His crazy meter must be broken. She looks perfectly normal to me.
Ziggy78eog- And just Where do You live??
Very cool comic today! Plus a brand new character. I hope we learn her name soon, I’m just going to call her “newbie” for now.
Oh, Boy… Now neither Shelly or Justin have any clothes, IDs, wallets, and so on, and so forth…
Unless there is a magical restoration function, Justin, at the very least, is going to have some problems at the cop shop.
Well, some of it can be restored by the library, like anything written, IDs money and so forth.
As for anything else getting a lift by a poiter may be necessary.
not sure the library would print money, but renewed IDs is a definite possibility.
I wish it would renew my license plates.
Can’t believe nobody’s said this, but…
CHEESECAKE!
Yum!
oh, I think HBG is far beyond cheesy.
Maybe I missed this the first time it was explained, but HBG?
Atomic seems to have coined it @February 27, 2012 at 12:46 am.
HBG = “Hippy Bunny Girl”
It is also a long-standing abbreviation for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the state capital.
I think War played City Island in the early seventies. Maybe she just poited from there. Wormholes are funny like that.
Apparently, they’re still there…
I started a meme! I started a meme!
( dances quietly by self )
After so long, is there a glossary of fan-originated terms for Wapsi?
@Kingklash: Maybe Wapsisms?
Put!…
Me!…
Down!…
please?
For Kingklash – the Wapsi jargon glossary:
Badger/Weasel – Tepoz, from his origins
CG – Creepy Girl — Shelly’s demon companion
GG – Golem Girls
GGG – Giggling Golem Girls (GGs original moniker)
Gorgon – Euryale (one of the 3 Gorgon sisters)
HBG – Hippy Bunny Girl (as of today!)
M – Monica
Muffin Crumb – Jin, via her mother Mayheul
OTB – Officer Tight Buns, aka Justin
Shellnix – Shelly in Sphinx form
ah, what else….
Anybody?
May or Maya = Jin’s Mom
The Under Construction Highway Of Time As Seen By Shellinx In The Time Forest
Shelly[number]= a version of Shelly that’s not Shellinx, whom Shellinx had to kill while on the Highway of Time
A is Amanda, sometimes…
I can’t think of any others right now.
Tina 1.0 – human Tina, prior to her death
Tina 2.0 – Tina’s body, revived in the morgue by Nudge, and now inhabited/run by a collective of somewhat amnesiac demons.
It’s “Shellinx”, and I claim origin on thát one.
Thank you! I stand corrected.
The database bears you out on that claim. It was a bit difficult to confirm since it was originally spelled “Shellynx.” Correlating to post time (assuming it’s consistant for one time zone throughout), the earliest post of either Shellynx or Shellinx is:
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/where-sphinxes-come-from/#comment-46610
The earliest post of the “Shellinx” form is:
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/where-sphinxes-come-from/#comment-46623
A transfer student from Miskatonic U or Mesoamerica U? Can’t help but wonder what her major is.
Don’t know if Diesel would be a good influence, I mean, teaching them to use the phone to order pizza on someone’s credit card.
Anyway, the dogs in the quartz (?) temple got me curious and in looking up Mayan legends, yup, fire dogs.
she’s the new intern
working at the library gives her college credit
I’m not even in this comic, and MY crazy meter’s going apeshit!