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by Paul Taylor on September 22, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. Atomic
    September 22, 2010, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Looks like M’s got some Splan’ing to do!

  2. Alaric
    September 22, 2010, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    (Huge grin on my face) Love Bud’s worried look!

  3. Lily
    September 22, 2010, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Superheroines!

    • Analyst
      September 22, 2010, 11:31 am | # | Reply

      Practice, many years of practice.

  4. Blade
    September 22, 2010, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    I still admire the strength in M’s arms… to be effortlessly heaving such a monumentous bosom… whew!

    • Julie
      September 22, 2010, 7:49 am | # | Reply

      You know, it’s kind of strange… Large breasts, for all that they put strain on the lower back, don’t actually weigh that much (at least the real ones don’t…can’t speak for implants).

      I’m sure you were just being funny, but it used to really confuse the heck out of me how that could be so. Over the years I’ve decided it must be something akin to holding a one pound item with your arm extended for a good length of time…it seems to get heavier as your muscles get tired.

      Hmm…I bet Mon doesn’t stand around with her arms crossed for more than a minute at a time. 🙂

      • Katy
        September 22, 2010, 10:56 am | #

        Mine are real and real heavy. Maybe it depends on the person?

      • Julie
        September 22, 2010, 12:23 pm | #

        Maybe so…and then again, maybe “heavy” is too vague a term. 🙂

        Now I’m going to be wondering how much mine actually weigh, and if there’s a good way to measure that…

      • geekoncall
        September 22, 2010, 4:47 pm | #

        It’s a ratio of actual mammary gland to fat tissue for an individual. Fat being the heavier tissue because it stores energy in the form of oily liquid. (think the weight difference between a quart of corn meal & a quart of water)
        What ever the “load” (Stop that! I’m being technical here!), that must be carried will now be a function of the size of the upper torso. Thus a small or slender woman will have greater stress on her frame that a more average or larger woman with the same or even more mass in her breast.

    • txmystic
      September 22, 2010, 9:18 am | # | Reply

      I’m assuming Mon is wearing one of her highly-customized bras under there, so that’s gotta be bearing some of the load, right?

      • geekoncall
        September 22, 2010, 5:48 pm | #

        The load is still being conducted to her torso by the bra straps. Her frame still has to bear the load.

        Class dismissed !

  5. Francisco
    September 22, 2010, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    I can see why Amanda says that:

    1) They did work together to save the world.
    2) Given their experiences, the fact that they want to save the world (and that they are trying to help people) means that they are kind people at heart.
    3) The fact that they have seemed to have defied the modern expectation that power corrupts.

    • Francisco
      September 22, 2010, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      Sorry, that should be:

      I can see why Amanda said that:

    • Atomic
      September 22, 2010, 8:34 am | # | Reply

      The actual quote is not that “Power corrupts…” but that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Source

      Note the “almost always” in that observation.

      It is possible to be powerful and not corrupt.

      • txmystic
        September 22, 2010, 9:32 am | #

        I wonder if it is like many other things, you get better at it the more you practice…the problem is, few who are handed power have had any practice, so like kids let loose in the candy store, tend to go a bit overboard…

        …and those who grab power by force have already likely done bad things in order to wrest power from others, even if their motives were altruistic…

        …so those who can wield power and be altruistic would assumably be quite rare. And it makes sense to me that if one is truly altruistic while in power, one might also be projecting an air of weakness, inviting those from my previous paragraph to wrest power away…

        It reminds me of the Pardoner’s tale in a sense. The nature of a thing that everyone covets tends to cause the undoing of those who get it.

  6. Brian
    September 22, 2010, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    I know it’s probably just a shadow, but doesn’t it look like Monica has a hint of facial hair under her lip? Time to start waxing, Mon!

    • Biker Matt
      September 22, 2010, 2:50 am | # | Reply

      That’s the divot that people have between nose and lip.

      Personally, I like the added artistic touch.

      • Fairportfan
        September 22, 2010, 3:21 am | #

        “Philtrum”.

        According to Elliott S! Maggin, having one proves that we are somehow related to the Kryptonians…

    • Julie
      September 22, 2010, 7:43 am | # | Reply

      It looked like shadow and nothing more to me until I read your comment. Now all I see when I look at Monica is “SOUL PATCH”!!!

    • Fatuncle
      September 22, 2010, 9:42 am | # | Reply

      I think the word you’re looking for is moue.

  7. geekoncall
    September 22, 2010, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    Wha..? Huh? Did you say something?

  8. Stephen
    September 22, 2010, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, Bud … I’m inclined into agreeing with you.
    What all has ‘M’ said to ‘A’.
    I do know the double poit of Amanda was a biggie.

  9. StJason
    September 22, 2010, 1:06 am | # | Reply

    Geezus… I’m emphasizing with Amanda so much right now…

    • akm
      September 22, 2010, 7:07 am | # | Reply

      EMPATHIZING

  10. Paula
    September 22, 2010, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    Well
    The fact M said that Bud was a clay golem and not ‘was turned into a clay golem which then assisted with the distruction of half the planet’ means she might be missing out some important facts. Remembering how shelly reacted to Bud, I doubt I would tell the whole truth also.

    • Biker Matt
      September 22, 2010, 2:51 am | # | Reply

      I’d say it was the corrupt half.

    • Fatuncle
      September 22, 2010, 1:36 pm | # | Reply

      “destruction”

      Bad Fatuncle! Bad!

  11. gus3
    September 22, 2010, 2:02 am | # | Reply

    Like the Oracle from “The Matrix”:

    Only what she needed to know.

    • kingklash
      September 22, 2010, 10:41 am | # | Reply

      That’s kinda endemic of all oracles, more or less. If you give them the answers right off, they don’t actually learn, do they? If you can get them to give some think, then what gets worked out will stick in the long run. What Monica said isn’t “need to know” as much as it’s “able to currently absorb.”

  12. Jim
    September 22, 2010, 3:19 am | # | Reply

    Wait till she learns about Jin’s situation .

    • Eee
      September 22, 2010, 8:12 am | # | Reply

      Actually, I think she’s already been told (http://wapsisquare.com/comic/sounds-crazy/), although how Monica explained about Jin without also telling her about Bud is unclear.

      And I can understand Amanda’s opinion. With the GGG at her side, Monica could have made herself queen of the Earth by now. Instead, she and the others are quietly trying to fix things. Admittedly they didn’t have much choice with the Calendar Machine, it was change things or be stuck in the same cycle for eternity with an increasingly demented Jin, but it STILL took courage. And pulling Maya out of the Demon Realm was pretty altruistic…

      • eschmenk
        September 22, 2010, 10:49 am | #

        I’m not sure that she identified Jin either, and I doubt that she mentioned Brandi. The key issues that she needed to tell Amanda about was that there was a powerful, immortal and schizophrenic being. Monica wouldn’t have needed to fill in the other details. I think Monica was trying to protect the GGGs’ privacy as much as possible. Once Amanda saw Bud poit, there was no point in hiding Bud’s nature.

        I think that Amanda thinks that it wasn’t just Monica and Bud who were behaving altruistically. There was also Tina and Phix. If both of them decided to include Amanda because Amanda had some knowledge needed to fix Jin, then it seems that they were behaving altruistically, too.

  13. Graymalkin56
    September 22, 2010, 6:21 am | # | Reply

    That pixie cut, that scarf, those arms crossed under those lovely lovely… tell me again why Monica hasn’t been getting any lately? What guy could resist?

    • Fatuncle
      September 22, 2010, 9:45 am | # | Reply

      Because the only guy she wants is out of town at the moment.

    • geekoncall
      September 22, 2010, 5:02 pm | # | Reply

      Um.. Gay Guys?! There the only one’s that come to mind.

    • Meander
      September 22, 2010, 7:04 pm | # | Reply

      Really – I was having a LOT of trouble thinking of anything else.

    • UncleRice
      September 22, 2010, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

      Cause pixie cuts are fugly?

  14. jwhouk
    September 22, 2010, 8:00 am | # | Reply

    Love it. “What the #### you been telling this girl?” 🙂

  15. kingklash
    September 22, 2010, 10:44 am | # | Reply

    So, what’s M’s explanation of Phix?

    • redbeard
      September 22, 2010, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

      From Amanda’s earlier summary of what M has told her, I get the impression that M kinda went really skimpy on a lot of the gory details. Can’t really blame M on that point — Phix might not want to be fully outed quite yet. I think M is avoiding the less than reassuring history of the creatures and individuals involved — tossing in “oh yeah, I’ve been hanging out with three girls that together were responsible for wiping the civilization of Atlantis off the maps – plus most of the other surrounding civilizations that knew anything about them in the bargain” would be TMI for the moment.

    • Fatuncle
      September 22, 2010, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

      And frankly, I could do with some explanation from Phix about the incident in Tina’s coffee shop. Either Monica heard something Phix did not say, or Phix lied to her. I would really like to see Monica follow up on that.

      Besides, we haven’t seen the Library annex.

  16. KaiserFrazer67
    September 22, 2010, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

    Hmmm… seems like Bud maybe needs to address her OWN cynical shell…

    • txmystic
      September 22, 2010, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

      Or, monica glossed over the chimera part and the destruction of lanthis, only referring to their roles in the calendar machine’s destruction…

  17. sco3tt
    September 23, 2010, 11:40 am | # | Reply

    I still like Monica’s hair short, but I’m not sure the soul patch is a good look in the last panel.

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