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Dish It Out

by Paul Taylor on January 28, 2011 at 12:00 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Conscience, Nudge, Shelly, Tina
Location: Mucho Mocha

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  1. Jim
    January 28, 2011, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Oh yeah! Bonus points for today’s art and dialogue.

    Love the tube socks.

  2. Atomic
    January 28, 2011, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    And now for something completely different!

    Plus perspective!!

    Wonder who the new girl is? Not Brandi, because golems aren’t affected by the cold…

    • Cheesy1
      January 28, 2011, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      I think that would be our lovely Nudge taking her human form out for a test drive . . . wearing a short skirt . . . in a blizzard.

      • geekoncall
        January 28, 2011, 12:23 am | #

        Nudge, may I recommend a ski suit.

    • jwhouk
      January 28, 2011, 6:00 am | # | Reply

      Srsly? You don’t recognize Nudge?

      • Vorlonagent
        January 28, 2011, 11:41 am | #

        In fairness, it took me a second look. The profile view threw me for a sec.

    • sq_rigger
      January 28, 2011, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

      Here come da Nudge!

  3. Greg
    January 28, 2011, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    It’s Nudge, of course! 🙂

    • SoWhyMe
      January 28, 2011, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      Yeaaa! She makes a last second great entrance. So she’s going with the school girl look? Someome needs to introduce her to our artificial fur and long pants. Though one would think, being a part of Tina, she would have learned about coats. Perhaps she expected it to be warmer. I guess it’s hard to keep track of time and seasons in the Library.

      Here’s hoping we get to see more of her next week, and Paul doesn’t just jump to something else again, cause this oughtta be good.

      • Jabberwonky
        January 28, 2011, 8:28 am | #

        Is it Monday yet?
        You know that sadist that writes this strip is going to go to something else next week. (shakes fist in the general direction of Minna-soda)

      • Jabberwonky
        January 30, 2011, 2:58 pm | #

        We haven’t heard from Mayahuel since she went out ‘exploring’. Now would be a most frustrating time to catch up with her…

      • jamesskaar
        January 28, 2011, 3:06 pm | #

        heh, but… you forget that in tina… there probably wasn’t much sensation of cold…

  4. nerf-dweller
    January 28, 2011, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    WTH? Nudge? Things have just gotten a lot more interesting. Nudge and Tina to be formally introduced finally. And what will Nudge talk about?

    Not exactly a bombshell, but it does make want it to be Sunday night already. CURSE YOU PAUL!! Yo’re just a big tease.

  5. SheSkull
    January 28, 2011, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I <3 the look on li'l sister's face in the last panel XD

    • SoWhyMe
      January 28, 2011, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      I think creepy girl just got creeped out.

      • ProleBoi
        January 28, 2011, 2:43 am | #

        Creeped out, or just surprised? That expression seemed more like shock or surprise to me, like “I didn’t know you could do that” sort of thing.

    • Paula
      January 28, 2011, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      Yesterday I thought she was just ‘projecting’ and not actually there but to awknowlege Nudge presence, tell ya creepy is Jiminey Cricket!

  6. Jabberwonky
    January 28, 2011, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Gym socks!

    • Dusty668
      January 28, 2011, 4:55 am | # | Reply

      <3!

  7. Alex C.
    January 28, 2011, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    Shelly’s pointing hand in panel two is really cool looking. Really expressively drawn.

  8. DJ
    January 28, 2011, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    This is the first time that Nudge and Tina have met since the forced separation by Phix. Could be awkward.

  9. kramegame
    January 28, 2011, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    haha, i wonder what Nudge’s Aura will tell Tina to make…
    also, sexy Tina is sexy and cute Creepy is disturbed. XD

  10. NOTDilbert
    January 28, 2011, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    Hmm, Tina was gettin’ a little snappish with Shelly in panel one. I think we were on the way to a full-blown argument, until, well, look what the wind blew in! Someone new to Shelly, although well-known to Tina (but possibly not welcome).

    • SoWhyMe
      January 28, 2011, 1:56 am | # | Reply

      She should welcome Nudge, and thank her. Without her, Tina 2 would never have existed. Then she can give Nudge a bonk on the head for causing so much trouble too.

      • txmystic
        January 28, 2011, 8:43 am | #

        Interesting point…and perhaps Nudge herself, as the organizational force behind Tina 2.0 can lend some insight as to how Tina can duplicate Shelly’s “fusion” of her demons if you will, and thus regain a singular conscience?

    • Fairportfan
      January 28, 2011, 4:08 am | # | Reply

      Nah/ I think Tina and Shelly are just sparring…

  11. Paula
    January 28, 2011, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    Ahh see Nudge knows more than she thinks.
    She answered her question herself 🙂
    Coffee or hot chocolate are very good furless-animal warmer-uppers.

  12. Danzier
    January 28, 2011, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    Geez, I saw the newcomer and all I could think was, “It’s winter in MN. Who’s the newbie and what idiot dressed her?? (Erm, no offence to the artist intended there. ) And then I read the comments. Oh hey, I should know who that is. Now I feel silly.

    But I bet Nudge feels worse than I do, what with the frostbite on her kneecaps.

  13. Fairportfan
    January 28, 2011, 4:05 am | # | Reply

    Well, by dressing appropriately for the weather, for one thing, dear…

    Creepy’s a touch freaked out…

  14. B_T_E
    January 28, 2011, 4:24 am | # | Reply

    There’s so much win in these last pages. Seems to me, that creepy girl is manifesting herself because this might be the first time she’s actually been talked about – and even in appreciative manner- and it makes her curious. Last panel’s “Wossdat?!” expression is magnificent 😀

    and one more word: NUDGE! \o/

  15. Bucc-i
    January 28, 2011, 4:47 am | # | Reply

    Nudge in the schoolgirl uniform FTW! I’m loving the gym socks.
    Also Tina in pamel# 1 looks hot.

  16. Fauxlosopher
    January 28, 2011, 4:55 am | # | Reply

    I love how Shelly’s conscience is just looking at Nudge like “Who the hell-ass?”

  17. illiad
    January 28, 2011, 5:53 am | # | Reply

    Wha??? But I didnt think demons, whatever felt the cold?? or is nudge, er, less ‘magical’ than the other girls?? or just too busy working the transformation, she forgot about the weather??

    I can see that the clothes are an expression of her personality – quite mischievous and naive young girl.. 🙂

  18. illiad
    January 28, 2011, 6:03 am | # | Reply

    Cant wait to see if she is ‘recognized’, I think the animal and fur references may give them a clue…

    and I think even those less than a year old understand coffee! 😀

    I also know plenty who look at the bright sunshine, no snow or rain, and dont think may be only a few degrees outside!! 😮

  19. Jayessell
    January 28, 2011, 6:16 am | # | Reply

    Will we ever see “mundanes” at Tina’s coffee shop?

    Does it have free WiFi?

    • SoWhyMe
      January 28, 2011, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      Possibly. We know that Tina has built in ifri (prounounced eye-fry).

  20. jordinyc
    January 28, 2011, 6:53 am | # | Reply

    Can someone explain Tina’s expression in the first panel? I’m a moron, I can’t quite grasp how you’d utter that sentence with a big wide-eyed smile and cute stance like that unless you were being really REALLY harshly bitter and sarcastic, and I’m not getting that from the dialogue.

    • Fairportfan
      January 28, 2011, 7:27 am | # | Reply

      Nah – they’re just running the dozens on each other…

    • bramble
      January 29, 2011, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

      Tina sometimes gets kind of manic when she starts losing control of the direction of a conversation. She’s not in full-fledged freakout mode, but she isn’t comfortable with what Shelly is getting at, and she’s trying to cover by turning her usual cheerfulness up to eleven.

  21. Jay-Em
    January 28, 2011, 7:46 am | # | Reply

    I lol-ed at Nudges discontent with Wisconsin(?) weather…(And at her looking like a somewhat pudgy, freckly boarding-school girl)

    • ziggy78eog
      January 28, 2011, 7:53 am | # | Reply

      Minnesota.

      • jwhouk
        January 28, 2011, 8:08 pm | #

        Do not, EVER, get the two states mixed up.

        Please.

      • Danzier
        January 29, 2011, 12:30 am | #

        Ditto that. WI and MN are two of the nicest places in the continental US, but boy do we love to gut each other. Also, “discontent” is what people in the warmer climes feel for winter. Up here, when it gets right down to
        -20, we willingly cuss out the winter together. Common enemy and all that.

      • Jay-Em
        January 29, 2011, 2:11 pm | #

        Not to boast, but overhere in early december, the weather also decided to go from a balmy +10 celcius to minus 8 celcius and 40cm of snow…THE NEXT DAY!!! Snowplows couldn’t keep up.

        Luckily, riding an ATV is streetlegal overhere, so I was one of the very few present at my job that day.

      • Jay-Em
        January 29, 2011, 2:08 pm | #

        Hey now!! I am a Dutchy.. You would be just as confused If I talked about “Drenthe” or “Friesland”….(Two of our northern..COLD!- provinces that are at each other’s throat quite often)
        😆
        Yeah..I knew it was one of those, couldn’t find the exact reference to Minnesota’s brusqly changing weather, although it is a running gag in Wapsi Square.

  22. ziggy78eog
    January 28, 2011, 7:53 am | # | Reply

    Here is a hint, Nudge, by NOT dressing like that in the middle of Winter.

    • bmonk
      January 28, 2011, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

      Perhaps she saw a bunch of college students pass in shorts, t-shirts and flip-flops, and took a cue from them…

  23. W.
    January 28, 2011, 8:29 am | # | Reply

    Well it’s not a glamour then, she really transformed herself. The body is therefore subject to the human condition. Poor Nudge, I’ve been to Minnesota; water is a building and paving material there in the winter time.
    Tina and Shelly are harassing each other–they’re having fun. Tina appreciates that Shelly thinks of her as a person. Her body position tells that she isn’t angry. I like this ‘dish-it-out’, it is replete with textures, forms, and anticipation.

    • Fairportfan
      January 28, 2011, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

      Steven Brust says that they have two seasons in Minnesota – Winter and Road Repair.

      • Danzier
        January 29, 2011, 12:32 am | #

        No, there’s all four–Early Winter, Midwinter, Still Winter, and the Season of Orange.

        Orange goes for cones and hunters alike. 😀

      • W.
        January 29, 2011, 7:20 pm | #

        I like Vlad Taltos! 🙂

  24. txmystic
    January 28, 2011, 8:39 am | # | Reply

    NUDGE!!! Put some pants on, girl!

    …never thought I’d hear myself say anything like that…

    • Jay-Em
      January 29, 2011, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

      That ^ Or becoming the first demon with a bladder-infection(cystitis)

      • SoWhyMe
        January 29, 2011, 11:10 pm | #

        Cold weather can give one a bladder infection?

      • illiad
        January 30, 2011, 4:30 am | #

        um, yes, if you insist in pulling your pants down in -20 degrees, and slowly writing your name… seems macho at the time, until it starts freezing up… 😮

      • Leak
        January 30, 2011, 4:54 am | #

        Don’t give Nudge (or Paul, for that matter) any ideas… 😛

      • SoWhyMe
        January 30, 2011, 5:29 am | #

        This is what zippers are for. No need to pull down your pants, unless you’re female. Though females are notoriously bad at writing anything in the snow (other than exclaimation points and the number 1).

  25. Page-Mistress
    January 28, 2011, 8:55 am | # | Reply

    Poor Nudge!

  26. Song
    January 28, 2011, 9:11 am | # | Reply

    Shelley’s pointing hand and arm in panel two look fantastic.

  27. SoWhyMe
    January 28, 2011, 9:13 am | # | Reply

    I suppose we need Monica to show up about now to referee the situation as she did for Phix. Of course this time, everyone there is among the paranormal “in” crowd so fast talking and misdirection may not be needed. Still, I wonder if she told everyone else about the Phix-Tina-Nudge encounter? All this assumes there aren’t any other customers sitting at tables at this particular moment.

    Given her stocky build and prep-school unifrom, I wonder if she will introduce herself by some typical upper-crust pet name such as “Pudgie.” Something that works with her given name. If Nudge is, indeed, her given name. Nudge may be a nick-name in itself. Or it could be simpler and just be Nudgie, though that would not be up to Paul’s usually creative standards. This entrance and her first words certainly are.

    • W.
      January 28, 2011, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

      Morgan or Brittany would be more appropriate. 😉

      • Fairportfan
        January 28, 2011, 5:04 pm | #

        In line with my comment further down – Hermione.

      • W.
        January 29, 2011, 7:12 pm | #

        Aww! Shucks, Fairportfan, you didn’t get the reference. A Morgan is a horse breed,(for her legs) and a Brittany is a type of dog(for her tail) as well as being genuine preppy names. Guess it was too obscure. 🙁

      • Fairportfan
        January 29, 2011, 11:31 pm | #

        Funny – i just had occasion to bring up Morgans in a conversation earlier today (well, yesterday, at this point).

        No, i didn’t make the connection.

  28. The Old Wolf
    January 28, 2011, 9:32 am | # | Reply

    Best laugh I’ve had all week! Poor Nudge… I hope she discovers some of the upsides of being human. 😀

    • Analyst_r_i
      January 28, 2011, 2:12 pm | # | Reply

      And you’re just the person to teach her! You old wolf, you! (wink, wink, ((pardon the pun)), nudge, nudge)

      • bmonk
        January 28, 2011, 5:01 pm | #

        I hope you have enough to pay the pun jar after that last comment!

      • Jabberwonky
        January 29, 2011, 8:20 am | #

        Never apologize for your puns! If you’re strong enough to say ’em, stand up proud of ’em!

      • SoWhyMe
        January 29, 2011, 4:38 pm | #

        I’ve heard that said about farts too.

      • Jabberwonky
        January 30, 2011, 3:46 am | #

        I think they are both equally welcome at most social gatherings…

      • Fatuncle
        January 30, 2011, 9:45 am | #

        I thought of that instantly, but was too civilized to come right out and say it …

  29. Eee
    January 28, 2011, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

    Oh wow, from art to expressions to the situation to the narrative, this is such a GREAT page! Everything clicks, especially Conscious’ “WHA…?” face at the end. It’s such a JOY to read something like this!

    Although I’ve got to say, my first reaction to the last panel was “What is Nudge WEARING?!? In Minnesota! In WINTER!!!”. I wonder where she got that outfit.

    Maybe Phix was having a little joke…

    • SoWhyMe
      January 28, 2011, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

      That’s a good point. It would be just like Phix to mislead her as to appropriate dress. Prank the trickster and get a bit of revenge at the same time.

  30. kingklash
    January 28, 2011, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

    Shelly and Tina acting like my older sisters back in their teenage years, funn-ee! Then Nudge and her sturdy legs come in, with Lil’ Sis giving a “What’s her problem?” look. Of course this all happens on a Friday, it’s the only way to fly!

  31. Kermit
    January 28, 2011, 1:53 pm | # | Reply

    Your fine art just keeps getting better, Paul.

    True, Nudge must have learned something by infesting Tina, such as cold weather and heat-retaining clothing, but remember she’s spent thousands of years as a big, furry critter when in her material body. Those create very established habits and expectations. In fact, this is possibly her first shape-shifting trick, yes? She’s not yet used to expecting the unexpected in this regard.

  32. Opus the Poet
    January 28, 2011, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

    Cold Nudge is cold. And Creepy Little Girl is Shelly’s Conscience, not her Conscious. And the whole group is C-U-U-U-T-E! Kawaii!!

  33. Fairportfan
    January 28, 2011, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

    Nudge looks like something out of a Saint Trinian’s film. All she needs is the flat-brimmed straw hat with the ribbon…

    • Fairportfan
      January 29, 2011, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

      …and the field-hockey stick, come to think…

  34. Meander
    January 28, 2011, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

    NUDGE! Dat a**!

    Dang, girl.

  35. Alechsa
    January 28, 2011, 9:23 pm | # | Reply

    Nudge feels the cold? But the other demons/golems/supernatural non-humans do not feel cold…

    Either she’s overdoing the ‘normal’ reaction to attempt to blend in… or something is VERY wrong here.

    Also:Creepy Girl: “Mommy, there’s a weirdo behind me….” So CUTE! <3

    • SoWhyMe
      January 28, 2011, 9:56 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, only the golem girls have been shown to be impervious to the cold. The rest have never been shown one way or the other.

      • Fairportfan
        January 28, 2011, 10:08 pm | #

        And it’s not that they don’t feel it – consider Jin, and Alan’s toes – but it doesn’t affect them unless they let it.

  36. Danzier
    January 29, 2011, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    I have to wonder how far outside the shop Nudgie showed up. More than a block and she would be poiting back to the library to thaw…

    • Timotheus
      January 29, 2011, 11:57 am | # | Reply

      Unless she didn’t poit and just walked from the annex exit.

      • Fatuncle
        January 30, 2011, 9:43 am | #

        And we still haven’t seen the annex.

        If I remember correctly, Amanda still hasn’t met Phix; that’s something I want to see!

      • elmertiberiusfudd
        January 30, 2011, 6:43 pm | #

        Hope the link works…

        Amanda has met Phix on June 14, 2010.

  37. Fairportfan
    January 29, 2011, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

    Ya know, it strikes me that Shelly could provide Creepy with a less-tattered dress; she looks like an orphan out of Dickens…

    • Jabberwonky
      January 29, 2011, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

      I got the impression, from where, I don’t know, that Connie chose her own looks…

      • Jabberwonky
        January 29, 2011, 10:56 pm | #

        Uh, obviously it is associated to the time of Shelly’s near death experience on her vision quest. (Shouldn’t post so late without caffine.)

      • Fairportfan
        January 29, 2011, 11:30 pm | #

        Her dress was a lot less tattered the first time she popped up in Shelly’s bedroom.

    • SoWhyMe
      January 29, 2011, 4:35 pm | # | Reply

      What?! And lose her schtick? Ya don’t go ’round changin’ da Creepmister.

  38. Opus the Poet
    January 30, 2011, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    And now Nudge looks even more like my Aunt Chicky circa 1959. Actually her skirts were longer but that was the style of the rest of her clothes, and she had those chunky Italian thighs.

  39. GaijinGuy
    May 29, 2012, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

    And even little creepy-girl Shelly is like, ‘WTF, mate?’ I love it!

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    December 31, 2017, 4:50 am | # | Reply

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