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by Paul Taylor on June 8, 2011 at 12:00 am
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  1. Casey
    June 8, 2011, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Now taking bets on who she just called

    • Bob!
      June 8, 2011, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      Officer TB 8)

      • jwhouk
        June 8, 2011, 12:27 am | #

        I’m thinking you’re right… but wouldn’t it be funny if it was Heather?

      • Fairportfan
        June 8, 2011, 1:02 am | #

        Okay. Might be interesting.

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 1:36 am | #

        heather makes sence
        or owen (as zzleigh guessed below)
        or amanda…
        jaqueline would be good to bring her out of the dumps – even if she doesnt appear to be in them

        confuzzled

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 1:39 am | #

        jin or alan maybe.

        (yknow if i name the whole cast i might get this one right :P)

      • DJ
        June 8, 2011, 1:47 am | #

        Better include Brandy in your list then. She has been an obvious omission from this storyline so far.

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 2:48 am | #

        Yes, it could be Jin. Either to get advice on how to cope with super long time periods, or to tell her something she found out about her condition. Something that has been weighing on Shelly’s mind ever since she got back.

        Whatever the case, she clearly isn’t into clothes anymore.

      • Sonicthunder
        June 8, 2011, 3:51 am | #

        @Paula: You forgot Tina. Maybe Shelly’s just hankering to feed her Sphinx urges and kill herself a demon abomination. (>^_^)>

      • Vorlonagent
        June 8, 2011, 11:38 am | #

        Jaqueline always seemed a security blanket when Shelly was freaking out. She seems restless, not freaked. If the comic title is not a misspelling or omission, it’s Officer TB or optionally Owen.

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 3:57 pm | #

        lakshmi (owens girl) tho its a low % chance but they do have strength/owen in common..perhaps she is another latent sphinx 🙂

        it could be someone we have never met before.
        possibly someone who helped her after her mum died…

      • eschmenk
        June 8, 2011, 9:59 pm | #

        @Paula: I just now thought of Lakshmi. I think Shelly could because of what you said, but also with the idea of not physically fitting in, too, in a weird way. It’s different because Shelly only was large as a sphinx, but there might be enough overlap there. I agree that it’s a low chance, though, with her.

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 2:19 am | #

        Maybe she’s gone gay. It seems as if she’s been among only females, of one sort or another for 80,000 years.

      • Julie
        June 8, 2011, 8:46 am | #

        I’m voting Heather…with a secondary vote of Owen. 🙂

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 2:46 am | #

        After some thinking..I doubt it’s Officer TB. Her demeanor is wrong for that. It sounds more like she’s calling someone she once was close to, but sort of got lost out of sight (not talking the 80000years of banishment)..

        Soo, my bets are on Owen or Heather.

        Unless Phix’ library-annex has a phone… 😛

        :ponder:

      • Danzier
        June 8, 2011, 1:09 pm | #

        Fax machine?

      • fernblatt
        June 8, 2011, 4:54 pm | #

        Win!

    • DJ
      June 8, 2011, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      Bud.

      • Fairportfan
        June 8, 2011, 2:12 am | #

        I doubt it’s Bud – the wording is more what you say to someone you haven’t seen in a while and need to catch up with.

        Justin, Owen and Heather are all strong possibilities.

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 4:51 am | #

        Orrr.. want a “break-up” in a neutral place.. O_o

      • nattyB
        June 8, 2011, 10:34 am | #

        after 80,000 years there is a long list of people she hasnt seen in a while

      • Fairportfan
        June 8, 2011, 11:25 am | #

        Yes – but Bud wouldn’t be on it, which is what i was talking about.

    • stjen
      June 8, 2011, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      Although it might be interesting — it’s probably *not* Phix, at the library annex.

      • Cyrus McDugan
        June 8, 2011, 1:39 am | #

        No, it can’t be Phix. (a) I doubt, that any of the phone companies could rout you to the library, (b) and if they could, the costs would be enormous.

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 2:42 am | #

        Yeah, Probably not dad either since she would go over to his place and not meet him somewhere.

    • Fatuncle
      June 8, 2011, 2:00 am | # | Reply

      Mayahuel, perhaps.

    • Lis
      June 8, 2011, 2:07 am | # | Reply

      I’m going with Officer TB, Owen, or Heather. I would think 80000 years would give you time to think about some issues you had before.

    • SoWhyMe
      June 8, 2011, 2:15 am | # | Reply

      Katherine, so they can be nudists together?

      • HarukoHoshiko
        June 8, 2011, 2:26 am | #

        That would be AWEESOME O///O

    • SoWhyMe
      June 8, 2011, 3:21 am | # | Reply

      Heck, for all we know, it could just be Monica.

    • txmystic
      June 8, 2011, 7:47 am | # | Reply

      Whoever it is, his/her phone number is “5”.

      • bmonk
        June 8, 2011, 2:38 pm | #

        Speed dial?

      • nerf-dweller
        June 8, 2011, 4:44 pm | #

        More than likely it’s a 555-xxxx number.

    • Maark30
      June 8, 2011, 10:40 am | # | Reply

      I think it was Brandy. After all, they started out on the wrong foot, worked it out and they both have a lot of feline in them.

    • Danzier
      June 8, 2011, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

      Five cents on Darren. Or is it Darryl? You know, the awesome bartender.

    • DJ
      June 8, 2011, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

      This is speculation of course but I don’t believe it will be anyone from before the GG first appearance. That seems to have been some sort of epoch and certain characters like Owen and Lakshmi have never appeared since.

    • Kessog
      June 8, 2011, 5:29 pm | # | Reply

      I’m going for the 1:100 odds bet (there’s about that many different characters so far). I’ll place my dime on the receptionist at the dance/yoga studio who’s name escapes me. The one that had issues with tattoos and commitment.

      • Maark30
        June 8, 2011, 8:51 pm | #

        I didn’t even think of her but she would make sense.

      • Fairportfan
        June 8, 2011, 11:45 pm | #

        Huh. Luci, i think.

        Might be interesting.

    • Yamara
      June 8, 2011, 5:29 pm | # | Reply

      Selenium.

  2. nerf-dweller
    June 8, 2011, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Hopefully with some clothes on.

    Wait! What am I saying?!??! No I mean, go out just as you are.

    • Paula
      June 8, 2011, 1:36 am | # | Reply

      you people are obsessed now…

      • Fatuncle
        June 8, 2011, 2:07 am | #

        I believe the technical term is male.

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 2:31 am | #

        ^^that..

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 2:36 am | #

        UGH!! GRD#$%^&*DNMIT& (Unabridged stream of invectives) that was meant to go under Paula’s comment. 😡

        Although it’s truth that most males (of ANY age) are quite obsessed with nude females…

        Did You know that looking at boobies makes male IQ drop? It’s officially tested by a bunch of psychologists. (waist of money..any reasonable looking female could have told the researchers that) 😆

      • TGOBG
        June 8, 2011, 5:41 am | #

        That is not true, I doubt a gay male looking at a womens “boobies” would suffer any significant redirection of blood flow as to cause a loss of IQ points. And Psychologists? Please it those pseudo scientists had ever seen naked female breasts in person without spending money on ” Research” they would know that while naked female breasts can be a distraction, consistant exposure over a sustained period of time will do no permanent damage. UNLESS research money runs out and the research assistants have not been paid the previously agreed fees. The all bets are off

      • Julie
        June 8, 2011, 8:55 am | #

        You know, those scientists have also discovered that looking at breasts improves health for men…so it’s be a smart sick guy or a healthy dumb guy…your choice. 🙂

        @TGOBG – Well, I suppose gay men wouldn’t lose blood flow from looking at breasts, but almost every gay man I know is still oddly fascinated with them. 🙂

      • Kessog
        June 8, 2011, 5:32 pm | #

        Ah used to be all strung out on drugs…now I’m all strung out on bewbies…

      • W.
        June 8, 2011, 7:02 pm | #

        Only enough blood to run one thing at a time…

      • Ratcatcher
        June 10, 2011, 8:16 am | #

        Sometimes the internet makes us all 13 years old. We just show it in different ways.

    • Danzier
      June 8, 2011, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

      What, and get arrested? No!

      Perhaps find that blanket again.

    • Leak
      June 8, 2011, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

      Hmmm… Bibio’s “Take Off Your Shirt” just came on in my audio player – coincidence? 😉

  3. Biker Matt
    June 8, 2011, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    So it’s being ALONE that got to her!

    • The Old Wolf
      June 8, 2011, 7:54 am | # | Reply

      Mogg yes. Relationships and contact is what make life worth living.

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 3:41 pm | #

        true

        those things can be what makes life hell as well

        as i’ve said this week before elsewhere – we are a mysterious and complex species 🙂

  4. Fairportfan
    June 8, 2011, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Yay Shelly!

    What happened to the sticker on the phine?

    • DJ
      June 8, 2011, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      It’s “phine” 😉 I’m sure it’s still there but out of focus or something like that.

      • Fairportfan
        June 8, 2011, 1:03 am | #

        See this?

        This my highly polished and exquisitely detailed disdainful ignore.

        Se me pointing it at you…

      • Fatuncle
        June 8, 2011, 2:02 am | #

        “See”

        Kiss your what? I didn’t quite hear …

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 2:37 am | #

        See “what”? You’re to phar away to be seen opherhere… 😈

    • illiad
      June 8, 2011, 3:44 am | # | Reply

      sticker on the phone? could be a different phone in her bedroom…

      as for the rest, call it ‘artistic out of focus’…

      • Fatuncle
        June 8, 2011, 4:30 am | #

        So far out of focus that there is no cord between the handset and the wall unit.

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 4:52 am | #

        And no “other things”

      • Fairportfan
        June 8, 2011, 8:00 am | #

        It’s behind her forearm.

  5. Jayessell
    June 8, 2011, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Booty call!

    • DJ
      June 8, 2011, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      I will pity Officer TB if it is a booty call. Combine Monica’s reaction with the hunting instinct’s of a cat and he’s in a whole lot of trouble.

  6. Atomic
    June 8, 2011, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    No matter what, somebody is going to get a hug!

  7. redbeard
    June 8, 2011, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Since Shelly!Sphinx “came back” the artwork has seemed to more and more redefine both Shelly’s character and her character design. I’m liking her look a lot – and not just because she now feels less is more (clothing wise) — and her character is finally past that aggravating as hell lack of thought, curiosity, and introspection (even if it did take 80,000 years to do it). Go Shelly!

    • Ozymandous
      June 8, 2011, 11:25 am | # | Reply

      Seconded. It looks like Shelley “grew up” during her stint as ‘Park Ranger’.

      Now she looks like a woman and a lot less like a kid. I really like her new look and hair, the last two panels make her seem like a completely different person. Which she probably is now anyway compared to what she was.

  8. DJ
    June 8, 2011, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    Dear Paul,

    If you switch story lines before we find out who she called I’m going to be very upset with you!

    • Paula
      June 8, 2011, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

      to be honest
      even if he swaps to jin and alan it would still be the storyline 😛
      just not a shelly-segment 😀

  9. TGOBG
    June 8, 2011, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    that would explain Shellys scatterbrainedness(?) if the bigger portion of her mind was locked away for 86000 years she was pretty much running on instinct. Now that she is all in one piece again she will be much more of a force to be reconned with than just muscle.

    • Paula
      June 8, 2011, 4:04 pm | # | Reply

      from what i gather
      the 80k years lasted for 5seconds our time.
      she is just dumb sometimes..cuz that’s how she is 🙂
      i don’t think she was missing her brain for 80k years

      but it does raise some interesting speculation if one were to assume that’s what occured 🙂

  10. ShadOBabe
    June 8, 2011, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Heh, Shelly is starting to act like Katherine. XD

    • ShadOBabe
      June 8, 2011, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      And on a separate note, that pose on the bed looks VERY uncomfortable. Like she’s crossing her legs whilst laying on her side.

      I tired it to make sure. Yes, very uncomfortable.

      • DJ
        June 8, 2011, 2:57 am | #

        Maybe it’s easier if your an 80,000 year old sphinx or something.

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 3:24 am | #

        No doubt an individual’s degree of flexibility has a lot to do with how comfortable it may be.

      • Biker Matt
        June 8, 2011, 10:17 am | #

        Agreed. That’s actually one of the positions I fall asleep in, with the lower leg keeping the upper one from tensing up.

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 4:37 am | #

        Maybe uncomfortable. It also signals that she doesn’t find peace of mind laying about in bed.

        As a frame, it’s artistically very classic and elegant. Look at the sway of the hair, the curvature of her back, and the general composition… I like it , I really do.

      • ShadOBabe
        June 8, 2011, 9:36 am | #

        No, I like it too. But it’s not the most natural pose for someone to be in. And even if you were very flexible, why would you attempt (while trying to relax) to place the leg you are LAYING ON over the leg on top?

        And if it’s supposed to be tossing and turning, how many of readers here naturally find themselves in that position when rolling over? I doubt many.

        Again this is another one of those things that doesn’t matter too much, but it’s still odd.

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 10:44 am | #

        I fall asleep on my back and wake up on my back. I suppose I toss and turn while asleep, but I can’t remember ever waking up on my side.

      • Sheik
        June 8, 2011, 2:05 pm | #

        Not all that odd; she could simply be a bit restless.

      • Dane
        June 8, 2011, 9:38 pm | #

        I vote for Jin or Maya–they’re the only people anywhere near her age….

      • Jayessell
        June 8, 2011, 7:04 am | #

        I saw it as a single instant of her tossing and turning in bed.

      • Julie
        June 8, 2011, 10:00 am | #

        If her knee wasn’t tucked under the other leg in panel 2 I’d say it’s exceptionally comfortable and exactly how I sleep…but that tuck looks VERY uncomfortable.

      • ShadOBabe
        June 8, 2011, 9:10 pm | #

        No, I’m talking about the legs. I sleep like that for the most part too. But I don’t place the leg I’m sleeping on on TOP of the other like that.
        Seriously, any of you guys go try that pose she’s in, and tell me it feels natural. Unless you’re EXTREMELY flexible, you probably won’t (but jeez I don’t even think flexible people would like that position).

        Hahaha!! But hey!! Maybe DJ was right. She is a Sphinx. Maybe the part cat thing makes this easier.

      • Ozymandous
        June 8, 2011, 11:27 am | #

        The second panel pose? It’s a bit like a modified fetal, only not as tightly drawn up to the body.

        If you mean the long “back shot” pose in the 3rd panel, that’s just one leg over the other.

      • 6wingedserif
        June 8, 2011, 1:20 pm | #

        nah, not really, I do the same thing if I lay on my left side that way- if my weight is more on my shoulder than my hip, my right knee tends to wind up sort of tucked into and slightly under my left knee cuz it’s higher off the mattress and has to angle down anyway. I swear it’s comfortable, lol. Paul is just that thorough with his drawing style, her anatomy is properly and naturally depicted there.

      • ShadOBabe
        June 8, 2011, 9:14 pm | #

        … If I understood you correctly, I think I do that too. But that’s not what that pic shows. Her right knee is on TOP of her left (the third panel shows another position.

      • ShadOBabe
        June 8, 2011, 9:16 pm | #

        CORRECTION.
        Her right calf is on top of her left knee. Wrote that wrong.

      • Kessog
        June 8, 2011, 5:41 pm | #

        Oh noes! Restless leg syndrome strikes again! Please give all you can so we can find a cure!

      • Boxilar
        June 8, 2011, 9:22 pm | #

        Well, she is part cat now. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen my cat draped in an impossible position dead asleep for hours.

      • Fairportfan
        June 8, 2011, 11:49 pm | #

        I remember the time i glanced in a pet store window; they had just gotten in a bunch of ferrets and they had them in the window display, with the sorts of things weasels like to play on/in/with.

        One of the things was a PVC pipe t-fitting – at least four, more likely six inches ID.

        It took me a second to realise that what i had thought were parts of two snoozing ferrets hanging out of two ends at right-angles were a single ferret; part of the delay in realisation was that, in order to be in the position it was, the critter (sleeping on its side) had to be bent backward at close to ninety degrees…

  11. Opus the Poet
    June 8, 2011, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Even with visits from Phix and other sphinxes, and Connie, after 80K years she still needs some human comfort. Personally I don’t care who she gets it from as long as their life and health insurance premiums are up to date. I get cranky after a week, but not any more so after months so I don’t think the 80K years will be any worse than say, two months without. Either way I still wouldn’t want to be first, except that first will not need to display a great deal of technique other than endurance.

    • Danzier
      June 8, 2011, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      When you go without human contact for a long time, and then come back (or are suddenly thrust back) into society, people can be quite overwhelming.

  12. ZzLeigh
    June 8, 2011, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    Owen, perhaps?

    • Paula
      June 8, 2011, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      good guess

      its possible 🙂

      • txmystic
        June 8, 2011, 7:49 am | #

        It’d be nice to see him!

        And you’d have to wonder if he didn’t weigh heavily on her mind for those thousands of years, i.e. what could’ve been, etc.

  13. Bastiaan
    June 8, 2011, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    So strong and yet.. so vulnerable.

    • Paula
      June 8, 2011, 1:38 am | # | Reply

      like andrex

      • ProleBoi
        June 8, 2011, 7:49 pm | #

        Paula… thought that was a typo for ‘anthrax’ at first, and I was saying, “huh”? …glad i googled it before typing; makes so much more sense now! 🙂

      • Paula
        June 9, 2011, 12:07 am | #

        andrex isn’t worldwide hmm? good to know 😀

        andrex toilet tissue

        soft, strong and very very long.
        normally shown with an adorable labrador puppy.

  14. Lis
    June 8, 2011, 2:10 am | # | Reply

    long hair… long hair…long hair

  15. Volstaag
    June 8, 2011, 2:14 am | # | Reply

    Behold!!!
    Enter and give witness to the mystery of THE DISAPPEARING PHONE CORD.
    yer mind will be so freakin’ blown….you won’t even care about the cost of entry

    • Jay-Em
      June 8, 2011, 3:00 am | # | Reply

      Blegh! I wish You hadn’t mentioned it.. something is impossible to be “unseen” now… :X

    • Sonicthunder
      June 8, 2011, 3:47 am | # | Reply

      Clearly, when she tugged it in Panel 5, she ripped the cord out of the phone.

      … which means in Panel 6 she’s talking to no one…

      • Yamara
        June 8, 2011, 6:49 am | #

        It’s running up the far side of the phone, and then stretched carefully behind her thumb and wrist.

        Phone cords one of those issues of verisimilitude that are only going to increase in silliness the longer mobiles and cordlesses are the norm. Panel 4 here is hardly the worst example so far.

        There was an episode of Mad Men set in 1964 where one of Don Draper’s women comes running in from the kitchen and across a large room to bring him a period desktop rotary, with a live call. It had the cord to the handset, but the wall cord was invisible. You know, the hard-wired cord that Ma Bell would own and have nailed to the wall? Within a foot of where the phone would sit, forever?

        Eh, you kids get off my party line.

    • illiad
      June 8, 2011, 3:51 am | # | Reply

      ‘artistic out of focus’… 🙂

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 4:47 am | #

        Possibly, since “parts” of her anatomy suddenly seem to have gone missing too.. odd..

      • Danzier
        June 8, 2011, 12:13 pm | #

        But it’s so hard to blend into midwestern society when you have wings! 😀

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 12:30 pm | #

        i *think* jay-em means her boobs
        they vanished in the last panel.

      • Danzier
        June 8, 2011, 12:50 pm | #

        @Paula
        …Yeah, I know. I’m just being silly. That’s why I added the ” 😀 ” at the end.

  16. Jay-Em
    June 8, 2011, 2:28 am | # | Reply

    Wow..stylish, minimalit and artsy..me like.

    I guess that Officer tightbuns is about to become part of the clowncar. I don’t know if Justin should be glad about that.

    Orr..we’re getting a new hat out of the rabbit’s hiney, and it’s the re-entry in the story-line of Heather. They were pretty close, after all.

    Although, I would love to see Owen back. I always call my childhood BFF if I’m in the dumps. (Last year we celebrated 25 years of friendship..beats many a marriage..)

    • Jay-Em
      June 8, 2011, 2:29 am | # | Reply

      *minimaliSt*

      grr..damn crappy motorskills of mine…

      • Danzier
        June 8, 2011, 1:03 pm | #

        My reply boxes always seem to hang for a second and miss letters if I type too quickly. I almost always have to go back and fix it. I consider the placement of typos a testament to your typing speed. 🙂

    • DJ
      June 8, 2011, 2:40 am | # | Reply

      Actually minamalit may be correct. I get the feel from the muted tones that Shelly has been having this mood in the dark.

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 2:52 am | #

        Yeah..yeah that’s what I meant..ahem… 😛

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 3:04 am | #

        Which causes me to ask, is this at night or the next morning?

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 12:29 pm | #

        i get the feeling it’s the same night
        she just been tossing and turning a few hours, given up and decided to phone someone 🙂

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 1:54 pm | #

        Or went to bed very early, not knowing what to do with herself, tossing, turning, not finding a good and restful position, and then decided to call someone, when there was still a chance of meeting them in Darren’s, or something.

        So, it’s possibly later on te evening.

  17. Kyle_Stelios
    June 8, 2011, 2:43 am | # | Reply

    something tells me shelly isn’t used to clothes anymore, hmmmm….yay nudism? 😛

    • Jay-Em
      June 8, 2011, 2:58 am | # | Reply

      Maybe, but Shelly had a woolly butt(and a tail) for aeons..A completely bare bum would feel somewhat odd , me thinks.

      On nudism: Would be fun, and in the warmer climates ,it would save tonnes on washing powder , let alone the unpleasantness of sweaty clothing. On the other hand: no pockets..kind of a hassle.

      I wonder what people would think off to set themselves apart when there’s no clothing.. hairdo’s? tattoo’s?

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 3:06 am | #

        Fanny packs.

      • NOTDilbert
        June 8, 2011, 3:16 am | #

        “…but I’m not wearing a fanny pack….”

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 4:41 am | #

        If so…. what made You decide to tattoo it neon-green, stick strass-stones to it, and have a zipper surgically attached??? :LOL:

      • Danzier
        June 8, 2011, 12:17 pm | #

        Oh Mogg… you just pulled the ONE foreign phrase mix-up I know about…

        In the US, it’s a belt with a big pocket. Other places, it’s slang for…uh… something done in bed with company.

        Pass the brain bleach please…

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 12:24 pm | #

        belt with a long pocket
        *thinks*

        bum bag?

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 12:25 pm | #

        ah yes

        from here

        n the USA a bum bag is called a “fanny pack” referring to the fact that over the pond a “fanny” is a “bum”! Obviously that is different in the UK and thus here we mainly refer to them as bum bags.

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 12:26 pm | #

        O.o

        link is http://www.bumbag.org.uk/

        where did it go????

      • Ratcatcher
        June 10, 2011, 8:27 am | #

        Danzier quart or gallon (liter to 4 liter) jug?

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 12:23 pm | #

        speaking of the nudity
        where has her scars gone?
        or did they vanish a while ago

        she did have scars from when bud ripped the calender machine tattoo from her or were they not-lasting scars
        i cannot seem to recall them in any of this storyline. before or after sphinx.

      • eschmenk
        June 8, 2011, 1:09 pm | #

        They weren’t really scars. That was was just a joke that was used once.

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 3:45 pm | #

        they wern’t??
        from what i remember the ink was removed from her body quite violently.
        yes the joke was the day after with the iron content but bud clawing the ink off her has imprinted on my brain.

      • eschmenk
        June 8, 2011, 4:46 pm | #

        I thought I remembered Paul confirming that those were burn marks, but not scars, but I can’t find it. Anyway, she didn’t have any marks by the following springtime.

      • Fairportfan
        June 8, 2011, 7:03 pm | #

        Laser tattoo removal (which vapourises the ink under the skin by using a light wavelength to which the epidermis is essentially transparent) leaves visible marks that fade fairly quickly because it damages the epidermis (because it’s only essentially transparent and because the vapourised ink has to go somewhere). The damaged skin – like all skin – wears away pretty quickly and is replaced.

        That’s essentially what happened to Shelly.

      • bmonk
        June 8, 2011, 2:44 pm | #

        Seems to me that at least one Science fiction author addressed something like this–can’t recall who or where–Heinlein?–I believe they opted for body paint: not as permanent as tattoos, not as confining as clothes.

      • Fairportfan
        June 8, 2011, 6:58 pm | #

        More than one author – but i’m pretty sure that RAH was one of them. Friday, mybe?

      • Boxilar
        June 8, 2011, 9:29 pm | #

        I remember body paint in a Gil the Arm story by Larry Nivin. It takes place in the same universe as the Man Kizin Wars, but several centuries before.

      • Fairportfan
        June 8, 2011, 11:51 pm | #

        Also cover art on The Patchwork Girl, now that you’ve mentioned Niven – that may be the story; it’s been a LONG time since i read it.

      • bmonk
        June 9, 2011, 4:29 pm | #

        No–it was Niven. I think I remember some body paint at Louie Wu’s 200th birthday party–in Ringworld. And that seems to be the scene I was remembering.

  18. SoWhyMe
    June 8, 2011, 3:33 am | # | Reply

    She seems to be uncomfortable. No sheets, no pillow, no nothing. She may even be maladjusted to a matress by now. Perhaps she slept in a cave, curled up into a sleeping cat position for a very long time. Decompressing may not be going well. For that matter, did she even sleep at all?

    • Danzier
      June 8, 2011, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

      Somehow your comment reminded me of divers coming up from the ocean floor and decompressing. I doubt that it’s what you were referring to, but if Shelly tries do decompress too quickly, could she get a metaphysical version of the bends?

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 8:24 pm | #

        Over here (besides the divers connotation) decompressing is also used as a term to mean transitioning from one situation to another. As in, “he needed time to decompress after being in such a dangerous place for so long.”

    • Paula
      June 8, 2011, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

      no sleep??

      i can now pinpoint the exact reason why she would have thought she was in hell…y’know…other than the killing oneself multiple times…

      i miss out on one nights sleep and wonder that 😛
      80k years without sleep would make me .. cranky.

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 8:28 pm | #

        Yep. I think if everyone always got a good nights sleep, 80% of the worlds problems would be resolved or, at least, not seem so bad.

  19. Sonicthunder
    June 8, 2011, 3:44 am | # | Reply

    You’re all focusing on the wrong thing.

    It is not who she is meeting, but where. Somewhere comforting and friendly for both parties.

    *crosses fingers for Darin cameo*

    • Paula
      June 8, 2011, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

      ooh hopefully 😀

    • Danzier
      June 8, 2011, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

      I wonder if she’s gotten past the whole riddle/confusing talk phase yet. Grr, argh, let’s-go-have-a-beer-or-coffee.

    • Jabberwonky
      June 8, 2011, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

      She wouldn’t call Darren and ask to meet him somewhere, she’d go to his bar.
      I don’t think she’d call Justin to meet either, she’d just go to his place, or invite him over.
      I think it’s Owen or Heather, leaning towards Heather.

      • Sonicthunder
        June 8, 2011, 1:38 pm | #

        Of course she wouldn’t call Darin.

        My comment/point was that “meet somewhere” may be at Darin’s, regardless of who she’s meeting, since EVERYONE seems to like Darin’s bar (even though they all stopped going there for some reason).

      • Jabberwonky
        June 8, 2011, 2:51 pm | #

        I think they still go to Darren’s, it’s just between the frames.

      • Kessog
        June 8, 2011, 5:49 pm | #

        That’s when I go, it’s less crowded.

  20. JeffEpp
    June 8, 2011, 4:19 am | # | Reply

    I have had the feeling after reading yesterdays, that this is, perhaps about what she may have (unknowingly) taken with her to that other place. And couldn’t bring back. Not something, but some one.

    • Jay-Em
      June 8, 2011, 4:44 am | # | Reply

      Huh??? *completely lost*
      Elaborate, please?

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 3:50 pm | #

        *passes plans over for the confuson corner annex..confusion given via comments*

        recon we will need this?

      • Fatuncle
        June 8, 2011, 6:41 pm | #

        “reckon?”

      • Paula
        June 9, 2011, 12:10 am | #

        y’know..
        i’ve been spelling that wrong for years!!!

        thanks 😀

      • bmonk
        June 9, 2011, 4:32 pm | #

        Unless, of course, you are on a mission of finding out what’s there.

      • Ratcatcher
        June 10, 2011, 8:34 am | #

        Fold this string this way and we get 3 times the room, but we do have to put up with that tree limb. word is not to climb down though. Yeah some creepy little girl lives there. The Apos’ve got warning signs all over that area.

    • txmystic
      June 8, 2011, 7:54 am | # | Reply

      who?

  21. txmystic
    June 8, 2011, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    Gotta be Phix or Nudge. She needs the perspective of another supe who has spent a long time both trapped (in Nudge’s case, on the lam) and then interacting with humans, so she can learn how to adapt again…

    • SoWhyMe
      June 8, 2011, 8:51 am | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure neither of them has a phone where they live.

      • eschmenk
        June 8, 2011, 9:10 am | #

        The phone could be at the annex and there could be a connection through the portal somehow. It could be something set up for sphinx emergencies or who knows what. It doesn’t seem particularly likely, but it seems like the sort of thing that would exist if the plot really needed it.

        My guess would be Amanda or Monica, though.

      • Danzier
        June 8, 2011, 12:53 pm | #

        There’s a switchboard in the Library; the message is being delivered by special courier. 😛

      • eschmenk
        June 8, 2011, 1:04 pm | #

        Maybe the library uses Skype and they’ve implemented IP over Avian Carriers for the portal part.

      • Ratcatcher
        June 10, 2011, 8:35 am | #

        Danzier- And just how many feet does this messenger have and what shape are they?

      • eschmenk
        June 8, 2011, 1:11 pm | #

        Gah! I meant Jacqui, not Amanda.

  22. The Old Wolf
    June 8, 2011, 7:56 am | # | Reply

    As ever, I’d be interested in more flashbacks about Shelly’s captivity in N-space. The transition from human to Sphinx. Her visit(s) with Phix. 7rl.

    • Paula
      June 8, 2011, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

      maybe friday 🙂

  23. TlalocW
    June 8, 2011, 8:26 am | # | Reply

    I like the bed pose. If you rotate her 180 degrees, she’s kind of in the same pose that a lot of Aztec gods are depicted in. Maybe it’s just me.

    • SoWhyMe
      June 8, 2011, 10:32 am | # | Reply

      You may be on to something there.

  24. jjs56thiteration
    June 8, 2011, 9:16 am | # | Reply

    I am thinking this isn’t about a booty call at all but is probably just a desire to connect with the one person that she has known longer than anyone. I believe that she is talking to her Dad.

    • SoWhyMe
      June 8, 2011, 10:36 am | # | Reply

      Could be, but why meet somewhere? Seems like she would just go to his house, him being her closest family and all.

  25. Dark Kuno
    June 8, 2011, 9:19 am | # | Reply

    I’m hoping it’s Alan

    I miss the guy

    • Dark Kuno
      June 8, 2011, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      Err typo, I meant to say Owen

      • Paula
        June 8, 2011, 3:59 pm | #

        i miss alan 🙂
        he is awsome. a good partner for jin 🙂
        owen is okay too 🙂

      • nerf-dweller
        June 8, 2011, 5:13 pm | #

        It may just be Ownen. I think Shelly is trying to fix back into her old life. But he’s been out of touch for so long. She probably needs to touch base with something from her youth like her best from Own.

  26. eschmenk
    June 8, 2011, 9:24 am | # | Reply

    I’m not sure that the missing phone cord is a mistake. It looks like she might be detaching it from the receiver in the 5th panel. She might have been touching the keypad, rather than pressing the buttons. I doubt that it’s a magic phone that works differently when the cord is removed. Could it be that she is just rehearsing using a telephone because it’s been 80,000 years since she’s used one and because she used to be reluctant to call people before?

    • SoWhyMe
      June 8, 2011, 10:56 am | # | Reply

      Hmm, there is no cord attached to the wall part either. And it does look like she’s unplugging the cord from the handset as well. Is she using the handset in some mystical way to contact Phix after all? It’s all very strange. After all she doesn’t need to totally remove the cord from both the wall unit and the handset to practice using the phone.

      Or maybe our tour guide to the Wapsiverse has simply forgotten to draw it in. Not to mention at least hints of covered boobage.

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 11:24 am | #

        ^^yiup, my thoughts exactly.. Maybe Paul was in a bit of a hurry because he was busy drawing the most elaborate splash-pages ever….(one can always hope…)

      • Danzier
        June 8, 2011, 12:20 pm | #

        I vote for one of those phones that look like older phones but work like new ones. The cord is decorative and may be removed at will with no adverse effects on the phone call. 😀

        Never against the artist…

      • eschmenk
        June 8, 2011, 12:55 pm | #

        😕 I never heard of such things, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. 🙄

        Other thoughts would be that she developed a ritual while she was alone in the Forest Realm to pretend to talk to people or to actually talk to people who weren’t there. She might have used a hunk of wood as a pretend phone while still there. Another idea is that she fell asleep and is dreaming and the missing cord is merely an unrealistic aspect of her dream.

      • Jay-Em
        June 8, 2011, 2:04 pm | #

        Our saturn-market has those. They are a bit kitschy, to be honest..

        Dreaming huh?…looking the last three frames over..it is pretty obvious that all sorts of stuff is missing: Stickers, cord, boobies(last frame) PLUS the odd light in the last frame….

        Dreaming… Interesting thought…

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 8:52 pm | #

        And she named the wood Wilson. No wait … Alexander.

      • TheSkulker
        June 8, 2011, 7:03 pm | #

        @SoWhyMe

        Wall phones almost always have the cord inside the wall and are terminated onto a wall plate connector. The wall phone then plugs into that connector.

        It is fairly common to play with the phone cord while waiting or talking as 5 Shelly is doing in frame 5. It is also an artistic excuse to cover her breasts.

        In frame 6 the cord is just behind her arm and her right breast had to shrink for the strip to stay family safe.

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 8:40 pm | #

        Yes, but I was only referring to the cord which goes from the wall unit to the handset. These days it can be disconnected both from the wall unit and the handset. While it could be hidden by her arm, it just seems unlikely to me it would be so completely out of the picture. It would take quite a manuver to get it to run down the inside of her arm and out of sight. She would have to delibertly hold it against her body. But who knows. I’d consider it a minor point were it not so obvious.

  27. AvengerReloaded
    June 8, 2011, 10:50 am | # | Reply

    My money is on Jin. There’s no, ‘hey how have you been.’ No apology for ‘sorry to call you so late.’ She sounds like she’s looking for information.
    Some answer to finding the life she lost and is trying to recapture.
    I wouldn’t be disappointed in her calling someone else either, just saying.

  28. kingklash
    June 8, 2011, 10:59 am | # | Reply

    Poor baby. She’s as jumpy as a cat.

  29. Hornet
    June 8, 2011, 11:06 am | # | Reply

    I’m going with officer boy-toy.

  30. jwhouk
    June 8, 2011, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    Five most likely people: Justin (Officer TB), Dad, Jacqui, Owen, Heather.

  31. Jabberwonky
    June 8, 2011, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

    Just a what if, but what if it wasn’t recessive sphinx genes…
    http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9619/20110525mycompanionwhat.png

    • eschmenk
      June 8, 2011, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

      ^^ Funny! I really liked alt GC’s monolog.

    • Paula
      June 8, 2011, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

      nice colourage 🙂

      does that mean nudge is her mother?

      • bmonk
        June 8, 2011, 4:31 pm | #

        I’d go with that–as long as Darth Vader is not her father.

      • Jabberwonky
        June 8, 2011, 10:51 pm | #

        If anyone has a high midichloiran count, it would be Monica…
        http://wapsisquare.com/comic/come-to-the-light-side/

    • Opus the Poet
      June 8, 2011, 5:07 pm | # | Reply

      I loved the copyright notice: “Used without permission or common sense”. You got that right… 😉

      • SoWhyMe
        June 8, 2011, 8:43 pm | #

        Ditto, that was quite humorous.

  32. Analyst
    June 8, 2011, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

    Dietzel! We know he can use the phone, because he has called for Pizza before.

    On a less lighter note, this all seems incredibly sad to me. Not the comments, the artist’s depiction fills me with sadness. I can see breaking up with OTB. I can see 80,000 year old appologies. Maybe regrets is what I’m seeing.

    Paul, if that’s not the mood you wanted to evoke, let me know because I’ll need to adjust my eyes a quarter turn to the left (c8.

    • Paula
      June 8, 2011, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

      heh i was literally just about to add that to the list above after finishing the comment-catch up 🙂
      glad i didn’t

      dietzel is also a good choice 😀

  33. geordie79
    June 8, 2011, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

    Well, it’s obviously somebody we haven’t seen in a long while otherwise I doubt Paul would have made the suspense strip of “who’s she calling?” So my guess is either Owen, most likely Heather or maybe even Phix. To talk about sphinx stuff.

    • SoWhyMe
      June 8, 2011, 9:10 pm | # | Reply

      It would be nice if it’s Phix. We could get more revelations, and Shelly could thrash out her conflicting feelings. Like being torn between using the toilet and the neighbor’s sandbox. The urge to lay down in sunbeams. And this whole thing about shredding her drapes and furniture. Trying to crawl into paper bags is kinda cute though.

  34. KingMonkey
    June 8, 2011, 5:54 pm | # | Reply

    Muscle-butt fan service!

  35. LazyWookie
    June 8, 2011, 6:58 pm | # | Reply

    OWEN! Pleeeease be Owen. I keep missing that fool…

  36. eschmenk
    June 8, 2011, 9:50 pm | # | Reply

    @Paul: The comic title is missing the last couple of characters due to length.

  37. Leeskra
    June 8, 2011, 10:37 pm | # | Reply

    …. *waiting for midnight*… >D
    I WANNA SEE CUDDLES! SHELLY NEEDS MOAR! (Sorry just being a lil obnoxious today Paul. I loves how you do it all, keep up the good work, and ignore us fanboys/girls when we get all eccentric like me. You always give us what we need in the end. ^.^)
    … I feel like he’s a comic/story dealer. @_@

  38. scantron
    June 8, 2011, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

    you know, i was just thinking about the whole “i was always a sphinx but i didn’t know it” thing… with the various discussions about it, and with a whole bunch of posts about the mom… but what about the DAD? there may be a REASON why he keeps treating Shelly like she’s still a child! (I’ll bet her dad has a ‘mysterious’ past as well.)

    because until she finally transformed into her ADULT FORM, aka: sphinx, she was just the little girl form of a sphinx.. ala: Shelly as a 20-something HUMAN would be, and compared to 80K+ years as a Spinx, don’t you agree that being only 20-ish is STILL being just a kid?

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