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by Paul Taylor on December 2, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. Opus the Poet
    December 2, 2010, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Wow, adrenaline!

    • Stephen
      December 2, 2010, 2:08 am | # | Reply

      That’s what came to my mind, too. To do it with out thinking.

      But the way Tina conveys the thought, Shelly just needs to believe in herself, and she should be able to any time she wants.

      • bmonk
        December 2, 2010, 3:33 pm | #

        Use the Force, Shelly!

  2. Jim
    December 2, 2010, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    HOO-WAH !

    See ? She just needed a little focus .

  3. txmystic
    December 2, 2010, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Is she like Anger Man from Mystery Men? She needs to be pissed to unleash the power (like the guy who couldn’t be invisible unless nobody was looking at him)…

    • TlalocW
      December 2, 2010, 12:08 am | # | Reply

      Anger Man or the Hulk.

      • jwhouk
        December 2, 2010, 12:16 am | #

        Hey, that’s MY gig!

      • jordinyc
        December 2, 2010, 12:58 am | #

        GODDAMNIT!! …

      • RSinAustin
        December 2, 2010, 10:38 pm | #

        SHELLY SMASH! 🙂

        I absolutely adore Tina’s expressions this week!

    • Richard
      December 2, 2010, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      Do you mean Mister Furious (whose power comes from his boundless rage)? 🙂

      • quasarmogul
        December 2, 2010, 3:10 am | #

        Who’s penmanship is atrocious.

      • Prester Fred
        February 14, 2012, 12:56 pm | #

        And who dresses in the manner of a male prostitute.

      • txmystic
        December 2, 2010, 10:04 am | #

        Yes, Mister Furious (I wuz too laaaazy to look it up before posting)… his jump from the balcony to the 6 Million Dollar Man sound effect was classic!

  4. txmystic
    December 2, 2010, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Again, Tina with the awesome look in the last panel…careful, I could really get used to this…

    • Jim
      December 2, 2010, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      Rawr !

    • Atomic
      December 2, 2010, 12:58 am | # | Reply

      What was that again? Confuse people into doing the right thing?

      Well, Tina strikes again!

      Meanwhile, Wonder Woman begins to wonder about….

    • txmystic
      December 2, 2010, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      I just had a disturbing thought…is that bright, happy look on Tina’s face occurring within a second of meeting Shelley’s lightning-fast right hook?

  5. redbeard
    December 2, 2010, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Tina’s look today says “Q.E.effingD. baby.”

  6. jwhouk
    December 2, 2010, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Shelly ANGRY! Shelly SMASH!!!!

    • jwhouk
      December 2, 2010, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      OK, what’s up with my Gravatar? I thought I changed it… 🙁

      • NOTDilbert
        December 2, 2010, 1:20 am | #

        Sometimes it takes a while for the changes to take affect.

      • jwhouk
        December 2, 2010, 6:04 am | #

        So I noticed.

  7. Kyle Stelios
    December 2, 2010, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Dang….who didn’t see that coming?? but the smile on Tina’s face was PRICELESS!!! 😀

  8. Jim
    December 2, 2010, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    It’s good to see Tina is still Tina , even without Nudge .

    • Fairportfan
      December 2, 2010, 1:54 am | # | Reply

      Well, maybe. Tina 2.5 (without Nudge) seems a tad more direct, maybe even aggressive.

      • eschmenk
        December 2, 2010, 12:42 pm | #

        I think she was that way already shortly before she lost Nudge. It may have been due to having her relationship with Monica and Shelly redefined. I’m not sure if Tina redefined it or someone else did. It could be simply because Monica and Shelly invited her to celebrate with them after they took care of the calendar machine. (The previous time, Tina basically invited herself.)

    • J2P2
      December 2, 2010, 6:25 am | # | Reply

      Yep–less of a Nudge and more of a Shove. Do we actually know who’s driving Tina now?

      • Julie
        December 2, 2010, 8:35 am | #

        The Collective of course. 🙂 They are a bit more democratic than Nudge was.

  9. Tessa
    December 2, 2010, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    I wonder what the extent of her strength is! Maybe she can do this too: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/anotherdiamond/

  10. StJason
    December 2, 2010, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Wait… how many Golems were made…?

    (It’s called stirring the pot. It’s fun)

    • Wyvern
      December 2, 2010, 10:30 pm | # | Reply

      It’s never been said (but I don’t think Shelly is one). Not less than four, though; Tepoztecotl was a prototype test unit made before the Chimera WMD.

      • StJason
        December 3, 2010, 7:01 pm | #

        Not quite. Mey did it to herself first. That’s how she ‘impressed’ the Lantian king…

  11. DJ
    December 2, 2010, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Imagine what she will do to officer crotch-rocket when they have a fight and she gets mad.

    • jwhouk
      December 2, 2010, 6:05 am | # | Reply

      Well, at least she wouldn’t end up time-traveling to, say, 10 years in the future…

  12. ejcapulet
    December 2, 2010, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    Well, THAT wasn’t cryptic!

  13. Paula
    December 2, 2010, 1:54 am | # | Reply

    I always thought anger lead to the dark side not super-human strenth.

    If Shelly has powers and M has powers…wonder what powers Amanda has.
    Vision maybe?

    • Fairportfan
      December 2, 2010, 1:55 am | # | Reply

      Photographic memory?

      • FelineFriend
        December 2, 2010, 3:02 am | #

        BWAHHAHAHAHAHA!

      • Christi
        December 2, 2010, 8:32 am | #

        …Okay, I’m going to be laughing at that one all day. Well done.

      • Julie
        December 2, 2010, 8:35 am | #

        HEEHEE!! Nice!!

    • jae
      December 2, 2010, 3:05 am | # | Reply

      Or Amanda may, in fact, be entirely normal (if there’s something like that in the Wapsiverse… or anywhere, really)

      • Fairportfan
        December 2, 2010, 3:23 am | #

        …and that would be the weirdest thing of all.

  14. Heph
    December 2, 2010, 3:06 am | # | Reply

    Well she has seen her “anima” as Jin did put it. Some Shamanic mojo is going on here i would think. That she got super-strength out of it is thought interesting given that her “anima” was a Rabbit/bunny. i see Another “vision quest” coming up.

    Anyway i theorize to much.

    • Fairportfan
      December 2, 2010, 3:25 am | # | Reply

      Bunnies are scary – just ask Anya…

      • Jaedreth
        December 2, 2010, 4:34 am | #

        o/~ There is nothing we can’t face… Except for bunnies… o/~

        Yeah, I got that.

      • Heph
        December 2, 2010, 5:28 am | #

        heh and i thought someone digs up Overgrowth XD

      • Danzier
        December 2, 2010, 10:14 pm | #

        Tha’s nae an ardinary rabbit! … It’s got huge teeth…

        Run away! Run away!

    • Pol
      December 3, 2010, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      Tepoz totally foreshadowed it though. heh, took me an hour to find the refrence but I found
      it finally

  15. Fairportfan
    December 2, 2010, 3:28 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm. Maybe there is something to the idea that she’s only really strong when she’s uoset/angry – she was pissed off when she tossed the V8 block, and she was stressing over Heather coming over when the bowling ball clocked her…

    (But that doesn’t explain the “lifting-heavy-weight-by-string-on-big-toe” bit…)

    • Akamar
      December 2, 2010, 5:19 am | # | Reply

      That latter may indicate it’s not simply tied to anger, but may merely require some manner of focus. She didn’t think it was strange she could lift the weights.

      However, in this situation, she was put to a challenge she probably didn’t want to best. She thought she shouldn’t be able to, and so she couldn’t. :3

      • W.
        December 2, 2010, 12:57 pm | #

        Sometimes it’s a pyschological barrier. So belief that you can do it is important. When begining a weight training program you start out with lighter weights and work your way up. Sometimes your spotter tricks you through the barrier… making you do one more rep or not telling you how much weight he put on. You do it and then you wonder why you had so much trouble with it. Until the next barrier say now 300lbs instead of 200lbs. That 200lbs is now nothing and you don’t give it a thought. It was all mental.

    • Patrick
      December 2, 2010, 2:20 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah. First thing I thought of when I saw yesterday’s was her tossing that engine block a while back.

  16. kusaragi
    December 2, 2010, 4:24 am | # | Reply

    Well that certainly explains the SPARKS from her smashed alarm clock a while back. I’m beginning to wonder if there are ANY “normal” people in the Waspi realm. :3

    • Faceless Minion
      December 2, 2010, 4:50 am | # | Reply

      Personally, I’m just happy about having noted the unnatural strength at that point, and wondering why Shelley didn’t hurt herself… And having had the explanation from everyone else be “no, no, it’s just a comic sometimes.”

      I think any explanations that involve “just comic hijinks” need to be accepted as bunk at this point.

    • SoWhyMe
      December 2, 2010, 8:52 am | # | Reply

      Ya know, this is starting to mimic the “Heros” series. It begins to look like Jin manipulated things to get all the heros together in the same place. Even the ones who didn’t know they had super powers.

      • bmonk
        December 2, 2010, 3:41 pm | #

        Maybe she’s hoping that, this time, all that superpower can fix the clock?

  17. eschmenk
    December 2, 2010, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know if it was Shelly’s anger or if it was being distracted from her doubts. When Tina dug at her, Shelly might have stopped wondering if she could crush the cup. That might explain why she can lift ridiculous weights without being angry. She could have gradually worked her way up, always assuming she could do the next increment once she could do a bunch of reps at the lower one, like everyone else who does weight training.

    • eschmenk
      December 2, 2010, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      I see Akamar said basically the same thing in his reply to Fairportfan.

      • Fatuncle
        December 2, 2010, 6:00 pm | #

        Yeah, it really can be helpful, actually reading the previous posts before you make one…. snerk

      • Prester Fred
        February 14, 2012, 1:02 pm | #

        Sometimes a post on a previous thread will appear while you’re writing your own. It’s happened to me a couple of times.

  18. Julie
    December 2, 2010, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    Wow…remind me not to piss off Shelly…

  19. aunticrist
    December 2, 2010, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    Also explains the engine throwing fiasco.

  20. W.
    December 2, 2010, 8:49 am | # | Reply

    “Do, or do not. There is no ‘try.'” When she was trying, ‘reason’ got in the way. When she was angry, she wasn’t thinking and since her mind did not get in the way, she could smash it. Love Tina’s expression!

  21. ShadOBabe
    December 2, 2010, 8:57 am | # | Reply

    SHE’S LIKE THE HULK!!

    • ShadOBabe
      December 2, 2010, 9:01 am | # | Reply

      “Rrr… don’t make me angry… you would like me when I’m ANGRY…”

  22. Fnord
    December 2, 2010, 9:00 am | # | Reply

    So “Nudge” has been replaced by “Gepetta” — a female puppet-master — one who pulls strings…

    BTW, Pablo, Tina has the most adorable expression that this old man has seen on a ‘toon in decades! Reminds me of the look on me missus’ face when she’s trying to put one over on me…

  23. kingklash
    December 2, 2010, 9:31 am | # | Reply

    I get like that when I’m holding a big bowl of stew, and I hear the words, “Sorry, but we’re out of frybread!”

    • Julie
      December 2, 2010, 3:50 pm | # | Reply

      Mmmm…frybread…

      • txmystic
        December 2, 2010, 4:35 pm | #

        How dare you tease us with thoughts of savory stew and frybread for dipping…

        …now I need a Barleywine…

      • Julie
        December 2, 2010, 8:28 pm | #

        That was a bit cruel of him, wasn’t it?

      • Danzier
        December 2, 2010, 9:58 pm | #

        *whimper* I missed my frybread this year… the lovely people selling it won’t be back till July 4th…

    • kingklash
      December 3, 2010, 1:44 am | # | Reply

      Ah, c’mon! There are many frybread recipies out and about on the internet. Just the basic one uses A.P. flour, water, and in my family, some evaporated milk. Takes a bit of practice, but if you get some advice from your local Native American cook, it’s a handy skill to pick up. You get that down, and you have a tasty companion for stews, soups, cooked meat, taco fixin’s, chili beans, by itself or drizzled with honey, jams, preserves, very versatile. Your tummy will erect a statue in your honor.

  24. allen
    December 2, 2010, 10:54 am | # | Reply

    ok Shelly……now UN-squish it!

    blow into it like a balloon!

  25. txmystic
    December 2, 2010, 11:16 am | # | Reply

    Khool…I just noticed, in the panel where the mangled cup hits the floor, that she has a Saltillo-type tile floor in the coffee shop…very Southwestern…

  26. PCachu
    December 2, 2010, 11:37 am | # | Reply

    BROOKLY– er, MINNESOTA RAGE!!

    • Danzier
      December 2, 2010, 9:59 pm | # | Reply

      Never underestimate the fury of a midwesterner at the beginning of winter.

      http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BewareTheNiceOnes

      • jae
        December 3, 2010, 4:41 am | #

        You are a cruel bastard, trying to lure unsuspecting readers to tvtropes! (hehe)

      • Danzier
        December 4, 2010, 11:58 pm | #

        I am not! I left the link normal, so everyone could see that was where it went. 😀

  27. PeterCJ
    December 2, 2010, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

    gosh Tina is cute in that last panel!

  28. Centaur1971
    December 2, 2010, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

    DAYAM!!! Tina, yer asking for it, girl! Don’t tease Shell like that!

    • Fairportfan
      December 2, 2010, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah – remember – Shelly’s fist won’t just go through you…

      • NOTDilbert
        December 3, 2010, 12:30 am | #

        Won’t go through….cleanly………..(ew)

    • eschmenk
      December 2, 2010, 6:45 pm | # | Reply

      Hey, since Tina can read auras, she’ll start seeing flashing lights even before the fist connects!

  29. MerchManDan
    December 3, 2010, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

    Ta-daaaaa!!!

  30. rich
    June 27, 2012, 11:36 pm | # | Reply

    you should get bud to teach you how to make diamonds, shelly

  31. Dave
    January 5, 2019, 4:26 am | # | Reply

    Tina’s face in that last panel is perfect.

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