It does make sense when you think about it. How long has Jin known these people and how many versions has she known? She knows them better than they know themselves. She might be crazy, but that doesn’t mean she’s not sharp as a razor mentally.
Jin’s knowlege of this group in particular, having spent time with them on most of her 56 reruns, would border on precsience.
Which brings to mind, how unnerving would the first reset have been?
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More like a division of Creepy Boiler Room Girl Laxatives. Why take slow ordinary laxitives when you can experience “ass shock and awe” with quick acting CBRG Laxitives.
I love the transition from full-color, rich-background inner dialogue to black and white, back-to-the-”real”-world exclamation. Begs the question of which is more real.
Reminds me of The Wizard of Oz…where Oz is potentially a dreamworld experienced while unconscious, but by golly it’s prettier than the black and white of reality!
It’s hard to tell if Jin’s smile is a triumphant smirk, or a “My brains are off line right now” expression.
RE the glowing squares – around here in the old days they’d set banks of blocks of fogged glass about 6 inches square in basement window niches at ground level. The glass let light in but couldn’t be broken easily. This looks like a blowup of one of those glass block ‘windows’…
Yeah, that was pretty cool stuff. Here in Portland, it was violet squares of glass let into the sidewalks downtown to give a dim illumination to buildings’ cellars… I haven’t actually looked for ‘em in years, though, they’re probably all gone now. When artificial light became cheap and clean (1910′s), that sort of thing went out of vogue here.
Odd. I thought she might be asleep in a beach chair during this in a dream state. So she can just go into her mind and converse with Creepy at will now?
I’m not sure what happened. If you look back at the Jan 10 strip, it looks as if Jin might be helping things along. She used to be highly manipulative. Perhaps she still is.
Shelly unintentionally called Conscience to her the first time. It may be something Shelly is doing subconsciously. To at least some extent, Conscience is part of Shelly, so I’m not sure that it’s meaningful to distinguish between what Conscience does and what Shelly does.
I agree that Shelly saw Conscience as if she was in the real word, not the boiler room the first time.
How they react will probably depend on whether or not they conclude that Jin manipulated Shelly into reaching that decision. I’m repeating myself, but this and today’s strip makes it look to me as if Jin was up to something.
I aggree, eschmenk… that smile on Jin seems more self-satisfied than vacant, as if she’s thinking “That pep talk was easy, like shooting fish in a barrel when you know what you’re doing.” I am BROADLY paraphrasing here, but I remember long ago Phix telling Monica something along the lines of, “Not everyone who seems to help you is actually your friend.” I believe this to be the case with Jin.
Well, I have a generally positive opinion of Jin, but the other characters have been known to resent her manipulations. The page after that one shows that Jin avoided being friends in the final time loop because she thought that she needed to. The same sort of thing was said on Oct. 13, 2008 (wapsisquare.com/comic/becomingfriends/) (hopefully that won’t become a link) and a few other places.
Which could lead to the conclusion that Creep Girl is a product of Jin probing Shelly’s mind and does not actually exist at all. It’s another one of her manipulation tools, about which the others are unaware. Either that, or Jin has contact with Creepy Girl and can cause her/it to “talk” to Shelly as needed.
She was real to Tina. (Tina first mentioned her here: wapsisquare.com/comic/dontfreak/)
If Jin was able to bring Shelly and Monica back from death, she might be able to do anything. IIRC, Brandi said that she thought that Jin could manipulate the sun into glowing green. In the wapsisquare.com/comic/expectmehappy/ strip, Jin suddenly showed up already knowing what Shelly and Bud had talked about. So, yes, I’m assuming that Jin probably could talk to Creepy Little Girl if she wants to.
Of course, I could be wrong. It could be that Jin had already figured out everything that was going to happen and was enjoying watching it play out or she’s just lost in her own world ATM.
Jin wanted to save Bud and Brandi in the beginning. So I think Jin is basically a good person caught up in a mind-altering life changing set of circumstances beyond her initial control. All the manipulations that she did were to get the galaxy back on track and stop the reset and stop her from repeating eternally. It was like that one Stargate episode. It doesn’t matter what you do it always resets anyway until you fix it. She was told by a past Brandi not to befriend them this time around and I think it saddened her because she does like like them all.
Nice shot of Shelly’s right bicep in the second panel. She’s sportin’ some big guns there. Also, nice transition from the color of her inner mind’s eye to the everyday mundane ‘reality.’ Wonderful way to end this week!
A friend of mine pointed out how lucky we are that Shelly’s conscience looks like Shelly as a little girl – and not her Anima, as a talking rabbit – or – shudder – a cricket in a top hat….
Everybody but Jin: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Interrogative
Jin: I knew she would.
Or, “Fajitas, that’s what I want for lunch…”
But, again, Jin steals the scene.
LMAO!! That’s exactly what she looks like she’s thinking. Brilliant!!
Everyone else but Jin is also like “Where you been??”
It does make sense when you think about it. How long has Jin known these people and how many versions has she known? She knows them better than they know themselves. She might be crazy, but that doesn’t mean she’s not sharp as a razor mentally.
Jin’s knowlege of this group in particular, having spent time with them on most of her 56 reruns, would border on precsience.
Which brings to mind, how unnerving would the first reset have been?
I don’t think it’s “I knew she would.” I think it’s “Yes, that worked.” I think you can see Jin helping Shelly toward that decision.
urm… Fajitas still make more sense.
Annnd… we’re back!
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Nice!
A division of Confuse-A-Cat?
More like a division of Creepy Boiler Room Girl Laxatives. Why take slow ordinary laxitives when you can experience “ass shock and awe” with quick acting CBRG Laxitives.
Jin’s expression is beginning to worry me – there’s way too much ‘nobody’s home’ in that bland smile.
Also – blocks of ice? in a sub-basement? ‘S a wonder she didn’t come back covered with ravenous vampiric goosebumps
Uh, or something….
I thoght it was a fogged-up casement window. Jin’s smile seems more anticipatory than vapid to me, though…
I got windows out of it. Letting in the light of knowlage…
Knowledge.
Here, let me open a window…
I rather thought the sudden brightness was more an indicator of Shelly’s new sense of positivity and purpose, but I could be wrong
I think I like the way you say it better…
I love the transition from full-color, rich-background inner dialogue to black and white, back-to-the-”real”-world exclamation. Begs the question of which is more real.
Reminds me of The Wizard of Oz…where Oz is potentially a dreamworld experienced while unconscious, but by golly it’s prettier than the black and white of reality!
But there’s still “no place like home.”
Reminds me of A Matter of Life and Death (US title Stairway to Heaven) – except that there Heaven was in cold tinted monochrome, and the Real World was in rich Technicolor…
For an introvert, the inner world can often be more real. But it still relies on the outer world.
It’s hard to tell if Jin’s smile is a triumphant smirk, or a “My brains are off line right now” expression.
RE the glowing squares – around here in the old days they’d set banks of blocks of fogged glass about 6 inches square in basement window niches at ground level. The glass let light in but couldn’t be broken easily. This looks like a blowup of one of those glass block ‘windows’…
Yeah, that was pretty cool stuff. Here in Portland, it was violet squares of glass let into the sidewalks downtown to give a dim illumination to buildings’ cellars… I haven’t actually looked for ‘em in years, though, they’re probably all gone now. When artificial light became cheap and clean (1910′s), that sort of thing went out of vogue here.
I get the impression of a bank of windows in an abandoned factory/industrial space. Dirty and neglected, a few painted or boarded over…
Positively fantastic artwork today! I’m really diggin’ the color choices lately
oddly enough I can relate to this comic LOL
I’ve had those moments
Odd. I thought she might be asleep in a beach chair during this in a dream state. So she can just go into her mind and converse with Creepy at will now?
In the previous conversation with Conscience, . Shelly was awake, asleep and dreaming, and then awake again when started the talk with her.
True, but Creepy came to her, she didn’t go to Creepy. Apparently, now she can.
I got the feeling Conscience showed up when Shelly needed to face her fears. Not that Shelly went to see her…
I think you’re right about that.
I’m not sure what happened. If you look back at the Jan 10 strip, it looks as if Jin might be helping things along. She used to be highly manipulative. Perhaps she still is.
Shelly unintentionally called Conscience to her the first time. It may be something Shelly is doing subconsciously. To at least some extent, Conscience is part of Shelly, so I’m not sure that it’s meaningful to distinguish between what Conscience does and what Shelly does.
I agree that Shelly saw Conscience as if she was in the real word, not the boiler room the first time.
Dang, Shelly. You even startled the crap out of Bud. Not a safe thing to do to someone who’s her own deadly weapon…
That has to be awkward for the others; Shelly went from scared and reluctant, to gung-ho, in a blink of an eye.
I dunno…she could have interrupted a conversation that was going on while she was clocked out in the basement.
Mercurial mood swings bother this bunch? Prolly not…
How they react will probably depend on whether or not they conclude that Jin manipulated Shelly into reaching that decision. I’m repeating myself, but this and today’s strip makes it look to me as if Jin was up to something.
I aggree, eschmenk… that smile on Jin seems more self-satisfied than vacant, as if she’s thinking “That pep talk was easy, like shooting fish in a barrel when you know what you’re doing.” I am BROADLY paraphrasing here, but I remember long ago Phix telling Monica something along the lines of, “Not everyone who seems to help you is actually your friend.” I believe this to be the case with Jin.
Well, I have a generally positive opinion of Jin, but the other characters have been known to resent her manipulations. The page after that one shows that Jin avoided being friends in the final time loop because she thought that she needed to. The same sort of thing was said on Oct. 13, 2008 (wapsisquare.com/comic/becomingfriends/) (hopefully that won’t become a link) and a few other places.
Which could lead to the conclusion that Creep Girl is a product of Jin probing Shelly’s mind and does not actually exist at all. It’s another one of her manipulation tools, about which the others are unaware. Either that, or Jin has contact with Creepy Girl and can cause her/it to “talk” to Shelly as needed.
She was real to Tina. (Tina first mentioned her here: wapsisquare.com/comic/dontfreak/)
If Jin was able to bring Shelly and Monica back from death, she might be able to do anything. IIRC, Brandi said that she thought that Jin could manipulate the sun into glowing green. In the wapsisquare.com/comic/expectmehappy/ strip, Jin suddenly showed up already knowing what Shelly and Bud had talked about. So, yes, I’m assuming that Jin probably could talk to Creepy Little Girl if she wants to.
Of course, I could be wrong. It could be that Jin had already figured out everything that was going to happen and was enjoying watching it play out or she’s just lost in her own world ATM.
I got the feeling that Jin was being genuinely concerned. But with Jin, how could you tell?
I waffle in liking her and not liking her. She’s a bit of a pill to deal with, sarcastic and condecending. But the revelation of her trying to save Brandi and Bud gives her a different spin. Sequence starts
But the link you gave to where Bud pastes her a good one, she’s not getting any love.
And the sequence at the Cerberus club where she reminds herself that she can’t be friends with Shelly ‘this time’, broke my heart a little.
Jin wanted to save Bud and Brandi in the beginning. So I think Jin is basically a good person caught up in a mind-altering life changing set of circumstances beyond her initial control. All the manipulations that she did were to get the galaxy back on track and stop the reset and stop her from repeating eternally. It was like that one Stargate episode. It doesn’t matter what you do it always resets anyway until you fix it. She was told by a past Brandi not to befriend them this time around and I think it saddened her because she does like like them all.
Nice shot of Shelly’s right bicep in the second panel. She’s sportin’ some big guns there. Also, nice transition from the color of her inner mind’s eye to the everyday mundane ‘reality.’ Wonderful way to end this week!
“Creepy”? I thought her nickname was Blinky. Although I suppose her real name is probably Shelly.
Love the raised fist of triumph. Go Shelly!
“Like”
I like when “Connie’s” eyes are the orange-gold colors. Not quite as creepy, but certainly a more positive mood.
A friend of mine pointed out how lucky we are that Shelly’s conscience looks like Shelly as a little girl – and not her Anima, as a talking rabbit – or – shudder – a cricket in a top hat….
Well, you could at least step on a cricket…
Rock on, Shelly!
Hah!
Aaannnnd, we’re back to line art T-T Oh how I’ll miss little Shelly-Conscience.
I love how Jin’s just like
:3
This little segment now makes a LOT more sense after today’s episode, post-Shelly/Sphinx.