To be fair, I probably would have said the same thing had Bud shown it to me. Well, after I said “Who are you and why are you showing me this strange object?”
Who’s to say that Mayahuel designed the case? She may have just done the guts, and the case was added later (I’m just thinking old pocketwatches, where the maker of the movement had no control over what case the jeweler or customer would choose to house it in. Part of the reason it’s a consuming hobby for me
“Ooh, Shiny” is about as safe as my buddies saying something like “hold my beer and watch this —-!” Which reminds me, I need to restock my first aid kit.
We may have found the only character that’s not a sphinx that could give a GG discomfort, their creator… whether that’s from strength or the dirt on her…
I thought her hair was like just plain straw or hay. It’s also a little strange in that strawberry sounds like a diminutive nickname, but I think the only time they could have bonded was when Bud rescued Maya. Would you call your hero, “Strawberry?”
Yeah, that’s probably when they bonded. Who knows how long Bud was actually there though? Could have been a long long time bonding with Mayahuel! Thus the diminutive.
I suspect that she made herself forget about the “technology” she created because, given that one of her creations (the calendar machine) sent her to the demon realm (and that it was used as a reason to torture and turn her daughter into a golem), she has too many bad memories associated with that knowledge.
Oh Gob – I laughed SO HARD at your new gravatars that MILK CAME OUT MY NOSE and I wasn’t even drinking any….
Would you share the source URL? I promise to cover your next three Pun Jar donations…
In May’s defence, she might have forgotten a few things while she was locked up in the demon realm. Shelly forgot plenty, yet I don’t think she was gone as long as May was, was she? (Which is also my argument on why May may not yet remember versus Shelly getting her memories back.)
And I totally think the name of this strip should have been “Oooh, shiny”.
“Doesn’t mean you don’t feel it passing…” – Mr. Paradox
and if it truly existed outside of time, everything, and I mean from creation of said realm, to destruction, would happen in an infinitely smaller moment. You would be removing the 4th dimension, and as a result everything below it (3rd, 2nd, 1st), cannot exist for an observable amount of time.
Me thinks you meant to say exists outside of Earth’s time plane. Which yes is true for the Demon Realm, the Library, and the Time Tree forest… Time exists in all of those places, just perceived differently…
My thoughts exactly. Besides, in her shoes, even if I did remember some abstract creation of mine from however many thousands of years ago (which would be amazing since I can hardly remember something I said 20 steps ago), my first reaction would still be a comment like hers. Deep down inside, I’m still a 7 year old girl who likes shiny things.
And before anyone asks so I can just go on to bed, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia (see also Acai berries) and if you have to ask about the straw part, shame on you.
I wouldn’t think that. As Bud herself put it, her hair is the color of hay. I don’t know which comic it is (it was shortly after the Calender Machine was destroyed), but she herself stated it.
May’s choice of referring to others as kinds of food ought to feel maternal, but there’s still that Frankenstein edge to the whole thing. It never gets to normal, which even she seems to acknowledge in the midst of overlooking other cognitive dissonance: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/messed-up/
As Bud is fond of pointing out her hair is textured like “straw” and her actual name is Acacia which happens to be a type of tree, again see “Acai berry” hence “Strawberry”
Who made time loop-de-loop
May!
Came up with claymation goop
May!
Who found the code that hacks
the living soul into silicon
Now in the neighborhood
is Wapsi’s wyrdest mom
HAHA. “Shiny” followed by, “Hm, now what other parts do I need for a photon pack?”
Nah! May is “wastin away in Margaritaville.” Remember that pitcher of margaritas? Like daughter, like mother???May seems a bit more pleasantly pixilated than Jin can be.
Except with Bud or any of the GGG, the only thing that could be crunching or snapping would be clothing, as everything else in invulnerable…
This brings up the question of just how strong is Maya. she’s a golem, too, but she didn’t go through the same ‘treatment’ the girls did, maybe she’s not as ridiculously overpowered as they are. We haven’t seen her exhibit excessive strength, for instance.
I think would more like the eeeeuuuagghhh :p !!! when your large mate gives you an over friendly bear hug… and you thank god your shirt does not have any large buttons, that would leave a mark or bruise!!
I hadn’t realized Maya was quite this affectionate. Maybe Bud’s a special case because of all the time they spent together in the Demon Realm getting out. Or maybe Maya spent untold centuries trying to hug demons, to everyone’s distress. Either way, it’s rather nice…
“Oooh, shiny” as a scientific description joins with poking as a means of investigation. ^_^
Now that is funny to contemplate:
“…and that is how I met my Richard, back during the war.”
“Wars are always the best time to meet men. I once met this young greek boy named Bazil..”
“What war was that?”
“Peloponnesian.”
Hmm. Perhaps the “Ooh shiny” means that it’s shining brightly in some normally invisible wavelength or something like that? It’s not supposed to be externally radioactive, but can she see something that indicates the power inside? I realize that would have to be radiation, but terminology gets used very loosely here.
Now that we have the technical explanation…
To be fair, I probably would have said the same thing had Bud shown it to me. Well, after I said “Who are you and why are you showing me this strange object?”
“Ooohh, shiny”? I thought it was her design?
I’m betting it’s not.
Who’s to say that Mayahuel designed the case? She may have just done the guts, and the case was added later (I’m just thinking old pocketwatches, where the maker of the movement had no control over what case the jeweler or customer would choose to house it in. Part of the reason it’s a consuming hobby for me
And Bud looks decidedly uncomfortable in that hug.
She looks pained, as if May were hugging her tight enough to actually make Bud uncomfortable. And Bud’s a flightless Supergirl.
Then again, May (and the other Golems) are probably the only creatures that can directly hurt her.
Remember Bud punching Jin?
Ay… “ooh shiney” doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence as to May’s knowledge of the oopart….
Tell me about it. That is NOT what I was expecting to hear.
no.. but typical geek girl response…
next frame??
“.. oh yes, its that…. ”
I’ll leave the rest to speculation, until paul shows us!!!
An improvement on her Calendar Machine design that she’d never heard of? Happens to engineers all the time. Still…
Worrisome that May and Nudge each seem to be spouting dialogue that we would expect to come from the other.
“Ooh, Shiny” is about as safe as my buddies saying something like “hold my beer and watch this —-!” Which reminds me, I need to restock my first aid kit.
We may have found the only character that’s not a sphinx that could give a GG discomfort, their creator… whether that’s from strength or the dirt on her…
I think you’ve hit on something there…
Technicly May didn’t create them. She may have created the process for making them, but not the actual creation.
… Strawberry?
Maybe Bud is a “strawberry blonde”?
I thought her hair was like just plain straw or hay. It’s also a little strange in that strawberry sounds like a diminutive nickname, but I think the only time they could have bonded was when Bud rescued Maya. Would you call your hero, “Strawberry?”
If she was freckled, yes.
Yeah, that’s probably when they bonded. Who knows how long Bud was actually there though? Could have been a long long time bonding with Mayahuel! Thus the diminutive.
If Jin gets “Muffin Crumb” Bud can get “Strawberry.” What nickname does Brandi get?
yep, besides, it makes every bit as much sense as “pumpkin” which no one has a problem with.
The looney fruit doesn’t fall far from the bush?
I hope she is just messing with us. That time spent in the demon realm could have affected her a tad…
I suspect that she made herself forget about the “technology” she created because, given that one of her creations (the calendar machine) sent her to the demon realm (and that it was used as a reason to torture and turn her daughter into a golem), she has too many bad memories associated with that knowledge.
Not exactly the profound insight we were hoping for, I think.
Covered in dirt so is News Corp!
Irrelevant and immaterial, Your Honor.
Oh Gob – I laughed SO HARD at your new gravatars that MILK CAME OUT MY NOSE and I wasn’t even drinking any….
Would you share the source URL? I promise to cover your next three Pun Jar donations…
7 Famous Movie Cars Redone As Pixar Characters
Also, 9 Classic Album Covers Re-Imagined With ‘Harry Potter’ Characters…
Thanks! Per my roommate: “It’s official – CARS is too popular.”
Nahhh.
Dark side of the Moon redone with the Deathly Hallows is bloody brilliant…
She’s rather spaz-tastic… I like her!
In May’s defence, she might have forgotten a few things while she was locked up in the demon realm. Shelly forgot plenty, yet I don’t think she was gone as long as May was, was she? (Which is also my argument on why May may not yet remember versus Shelly getting her memories back.)
And I totally think the name of this strip should have been “Oooh, shiny”.
Isn’t the demon realm outside of time?
“Doesn’t mean you don’t feel it passing…” – Mr. Paradox
and if it truly existed outside of time, everything, and I mean from creation of said realm, to destruction, would happen in an infinitely smaller moment. You would be removing the 4th dimension, and as a result everything below it (3rd, 2nd, 1st), cannot exist for an observable amount of time.
Me thinks you meant to say exists outside of Earth’s time plane. Which yes is true for the Demon Realm, the Library, and the Time Tree forest… Time exists in all of those places, just perceived differently…
My thoughts exactly.
Besides, in her shoes, even if I did remember some abstract creation of mine from however many thousands of years ago (which would be amazing since I can hardly remember something I said 20 steps ago), my first reaction would still be a comment like hers. Deep down inside, I’m still a 7 year old girl who likes shiny things. 
Strawberry!?
Is this Wapsi Square or a rerun of BTVS???
ooooh, shiny!
Where’s the squirrel??
Squirrel: http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-06-14
Interesting.. the relic seems to have lost the “Key” prongs out of the bottom in the last shot… They were there yesterday!
Also lost the chain.
Didn’t have the chain yesterday.
ha! Strawberry, I get it.
And before anyone asks so I can just go on to bed, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia (see also Acai berries) and if you have to ask about the straw part, shame on you.
Oh and here I was thinking it was because she has strawberry blonde hair…
I wouldn’t think that. As Bud herself put it, her hair is the color of hay. I don’t know which comic it is (it was shortly after the Calender Machine was destroyed), but she herself stated it.
Actually, i think it was rather before the calendar machine – “noodle arms and haystack hair”.
Not the colour, but the structure is like hay. Bud lamented the fact that her hair is hard to style, and cannot be cut.
One of the desktop images Paul has made is a fully-colored picture of Bud. Her hair seems to be a dirty blonde.
Also, Bud is the pink one.
May’s choice of referring to others as kinds of food ought to feel maternal, but there’s still that Frankenstein edge to the whole thing. It never gets to normal, which even she seems to acknowledge in the midst of overlooking other cognitive dissonance: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/messed-up/
Casey: well there seems to be very divided ‘net opinions about what strawb blonde is… this is the closest…
http://www.taaz.com/beauty/beauty-tips/hair-styles/strawberry-blond-hair.html
but then the ‘hairstyle’ option looks more ‘grey’ to me… {{shrugs shoulders}}
Apparently I’m clueless, because I still don’t see the connection.
As Bud is fond of pointing out her hair is textured like “straw” and her actual name is Acacia which happens to be a type of tree, again see “Acai berry” hence “Strawberry”
She makes me think of Aunie Mame.
Oh. That’s it. That’s who May reminds me of. I’m glad someone got it. I would habe bugged me all night.
Who made time loop-de-loop
May!
Came up with claymation goop
May!
Who found the code that hacks
the living soul into silicon
Now in the neighborhood
is Wapsi’s wyrdest mom
HAHA. “Shiny” followed by, “Hm, now what other parts do I need for a photon pack?”
© © COPYRIGHT © ©
Yes! And the meaning of the word “ebullient“!
Careful — she may break out into song any moment now…
Haha!! I love this lady!!
Especially because I THINK she’s just given me new material for another Bud gravatar.
why do i get the feeling that tomorrow’s panel is gonna start with Bud screaming “WAIT!” >.>
LIKE!
A button i used to have.
Nah! May is “wastin away in Margaritaville.” Remember that pitcher of margaritas? Like daughter, like mother???May seems a bit more pleasantly pixilated than Jin can be.
Maybe it is just Bud’s expression, but why do I feel that there should be crunching and snapping sounds in panel 2?
Except with Bud or any of the GGG, the only thing that could be crunching or snapping would be clothing, as everything else in invulnerable…
This brings up the question of just how strong is Maya. she’s a golem, too, but she didn’t go through the same ‘treatment’ the girls did, maybe she’s not as ridiculously overpowered as they are. We haven’t seen her exhibit excessive strength, for instance.
I think would more like the eeeeuuuagghhh :p !!! when your large mate gives you an over friendly bear hug… and you thank god your shirt does not have any large buttons, that would leave a mark or bruise!!
That IS a big hat…
I hadn’t realized Maya was quite this affectionate. Maybe Bud’s a special case because of all the time they spent together in the Demon Realm getting out. Or maybe Maya spent untold centuries trying to hug demons, to everyone’s distress. Either way, it’s rather nice…
“Oooh, shiny” as a scientific description joins with poking as a means of investigation. ^_^
Always poke the unknown, particularly when there’s mischievous supernatural beings around.
Oooooooh! Shiny!
you mean this??
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030623
no i am not jd… :/
Am I the only one who noticed the fiddley bits along the bottom of the artifact aren’t present?
Maybe it’s shy.
…or it’s cold outside
First, we found out it was a Cursed Relic, then a Sword Hilt, then a Battery Casing, and next? Probably has a built-in corkscrew.
It’s a Lanthian frozen margarita machine!
We’ve got one of those. His name is Tepoz.
It’s a Magic Lanthian Leatherman!
It’s a very talented leatherman…
A quickie with May, it was too fun to ignore.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/33/mayinthegreenhouse.png/
Okay, I didn’t realize how bad that looked until after I read it in the post…
It was a quick colourizing job of the picture…
Quick or not. Double entendre or not. I like it.
Wow. And here I was thinking she’d just joined the Red Hat society.
Now that is funny to contemplate:
“…and that is how I met my Richard, back during the war.”
“Wars are always the best time to meet men. I once met this young greek boy named Bazil..”
“What war was that?”
“Peloponnesian.”
Hmm. Perhaps the “Ooh shiny” means that it’s shining brightly in some normally invisible wavelength or something like that? It’s not supposed to be externally radioactive, but can she see something that indicates the power inside? I realize that would have to be radiation, but terminology gets used very loosely here.
Probably not.