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You Ordered Anchovies

by Paul Taylor on April 7, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. Fatuncle
    April 7, 2010, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Tina gives entirely new meanings to the term internal dialog.

    • Fauxlosopher
      January 20, 2011, 2:21 am | # | Reply

      Which is funny, because an internal dialogue is by very definition retained with the mind. This is all being spoken aloud.

  2. Jim
    April 7, 2010, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    I can see where that would complicate things , ordering out .

  3. Jim
    April 7, 2010, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Anchovies , no thanks . I’ll take mine with fresh garlic , though . Okay , now I’m hungry . . .

  4. ziggy78eog
    April 7, 2010, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    At least one of Tina’s demons has good taste. I bet that Pizza deliver gal is really confused.

    • Fairportfan
      April 7, 2010, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      After dealing with Dietzel, she’s gotta be used to the unusual…

      • ziggy78eog
        April 7, 2010, 12:39 am | #

        Is that the same Pizza Deliver Girl? That would mean that Tina and Monica leave relatively close to each other.

      • Fairportfan
        April 7, 2010, 1:33 am | #

        Looks the same and has headphones ’round her neck.

      • Fatuncle
        April 7, 2010, 8:13 am | #

        The really hilarious thing about this is that the separate personalities have distinct physical tastes.

      • Fairportfan
        April 7, 2010, 10:57 pm | #

        Not uncommon in RL cases of MPD.

      • jwhouk
        April 7, 2010, 8:21 am | #

        Yes, that is our pizza girl. Pablo revealed that her name is “Dylan” (after years of being called “the Pizza Bimbo” by Monica).

      • ChrisHerself
        April 7, 2010, 2:43 pm | #

        I always loved androgymous names for girls :3

  5. GunnerWalker
    April 7, 2010, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    I think its important to note that Tina does have a dominant personality amoungst the myriad.

    • Fairportfan
      April 7, 2010, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      I don’t know about “dominant” – more like quicker to shoot off her mouth.

  6. NOTDilbert
    April 7, 2010, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    She’s her very own Greek Chorus.

    • NMiller
      April 7, 2010, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

      Hahaha! Love this!

  7. Atomic
    April 7, 2010, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    And, I notice she still has the Tina 1.0 newspaper clippings posted on her — ah — Memories wall?

  8. Namsab
    April 7, 2010, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    What but Shelly and policeguy buhbluhaaahnoodamnit. I wanted to see how that ends!

    At first I thought she was talking to Monica, especially with the Anchovis-pizza (didn’t Monica order one a loong time ago and Dietzel didn’t like it?), but now after reading the comments I can see how she’s talking to ‘herself’.

    • ChrisHerself
      April 7, 2010, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

      TWO WORDS MORE BUNS!

  9. Fairportfan
    April 7, 2010, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    I just looked back – i’ve been assuming the committee are complaining about the unilateralist member’s committing them to help Monica/Jin.

    What if the complaint is about TinaM (for “maverick”) grabbing the mouth when it was time to order pizza…

    • eschmenk
      April 7, 2010, 9:21 am | # | Reply

      I’m thinking that both are examples of the same general pattern. To me, the complaint is about the pattern of behavior, not anything specific.

    • txmystic
      April 7, 2010, 9:55 am | # | Reply

      We still don’t know what help Tina rendered, do we?…last we saw Jin and monica were at the coffee shop making the request. The brooding demon speaking to the collective on the bed in the first frame has the manner and appearence of the demon who has so often chimed in with oblique advice to whomever would ask, before giving way to the perky one we usually see…

      …I hope they don’t try to get physical with each other!

      • Fairportfan
        April 7, 2010, 10:27 am | #

        No, it’s the collective speaking in the first panel of this comic – the dialog is rendered in normal black lettering, rather than the light, screened text when a single demon speaks.

      • eschmenk
        April 7, 2010, 10:28 am | #

        I read the first frame the other way around. The collective is speaking to an individual demon. The gray text here is the individual demon offering the help. We don’t know what came of that yet.

        By the way, I’m imagining that the same individual demon sang “On top of spaghetti” that morning Tina had trouble getting up. I couldn’t find it to link to it, though.

      • txmystic
        April 7, 2010, 11:00 am | #

        I’m way behind you guys…still working my way thru 2007 in the archive and I have always wondered what the gray text signified. This will help! Thanks!

        I like the sunny disposition of the unified collective…just what one wants in a purveyor of caffeinated deliciousness…

      • txmystic
        April 7, 2010, 12:45 pm | #

        June 11, 2007

        🙂

      • Fairportfan
        April 7, 2010, 8:19 pm | #

        Yep – that’s the strip i mentioned in a reply to SoWhyMe further down – not only is it the only one i can recall in which Tina doesn’t wear her choker, the line about “…knowing that other people wake up…” strongly implies that she was asleep, which Pablo says she doesn’t do.

      • txmystic
        April 7, 2010, 11:38 am | #

        The demon I imagined was addressing the collective is the one I think is speaking here

      • txmystic
        April 7, 2010, 12:21 pm | #

        And here, too

      • Fatuncle
        April 7, 2010, 2:38 pm | #

        So that’s where Jin came up with the “Right As Rain” cards!

    • NMiller
      April 7, 2010, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

      Ah, but the exclamation in front of the pizza girl (a stranger, I assume) implies the other facets were unaware of the pungent, fishy portion previously.

  10. Dusty668
    April 7, 2010, 4:32 am | # | Reply

    Tina Kitty get fishie!!!!
    Fish!
    Fish!
    Fish!
    Feeeesh!

    • ChrisHerself
      April 7, 2010, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah don’t know why I got so many lulz from that comment but I did.

  11. SoWhyMe
    April 7, 2010, 6:16 am | # | Reply

    Man! The story line is really jumping around. Not that I’m complaining. These little vignettes are quite nice. Just that they never come to any real resolution before moving on.

  12. Graymalkin56
    April 7, 2010, 6:25 am | # | Reply

    Oh, I thought she was talking to the CAT. Forgot about the demons.

    It’s an intriguing pizzeria that makes french bread pizza. Well, that’s what it looks like in the second panel!

    • NMiller
      April 7, 2010, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

      Mmm, fresh delivered french bread pizza would be amazing!

  13. The Old Wolf
    April 7, 2010, 7:19 am | # | Reply

    One of my favorite things to do in an elevator when I’m bored is bang on my forehead and mutter, “Shut up in there! All of you, just shut up!”

    Tina has this gig down pat!

    And what does Ms. Pizza Gal think about all of this?

    And, I’m buying Book IV. Not only do I need it like a heroin fix, I’m pleased to support an awesome graphic storyteller. 😀

    • eschmenk
      April 7, 2010, 10:03 am | # | Reply

      I’m imagining Paul telling his wife, “Hey, Honey, a guy who acts schizophrenic in elevators said he would buy my book!” But I wouldn’t worry about what the Pizza girl thinks — between Monica, Dietzel, the GGGs and Tina, she probably used to weirdness by now. 😉

  14. Neveko
    April 7, 2010, 8:57 am | # | Reply

    Okay, this is pretty entertaining.

  15. Biker Matt
    April 7, 2010, 8:59 am | # | Reply

    I think it was what I would call a “sidestep filler”, though it would be curious if this is also a “new boyfriend” sequence, with her either slipping enough to show (and someone not only noticed, but was interrested) or meeting up with someone at work who ALREADY saw, and has been dropping “interest” hints like calling her “Angel”…

  16. txmystic
    April 7, 2010, 9:24 am | # | Reply

    Who is the rogue who ordered anchovies???

    Seriously, I thought the dominant personality was the pleasant coffee shop persona who remember’s everyone’s order no matter how quirky…

    • Fairportfan
      April 7, 2010, 10:25 am | # | Reply

      The coffee shop Tina is all of the demons acting as a “steering committee”, more or less.

  17. Bucc-i
    April 7, 2010, 10:44 am | # | Reply

    Ordered anchovies! And thats why they call them demons ladies and gentleman.

  18. kingklash
    April 7, 2010, 10:55 am | # | Reply

    Next up on our stage……. Give a big hand for — ROGUE ANCHOVY ORDER!!!

    The cat is used to listening to a crowded room.

  19. txmystic
    April 7, 2010, 11:02 am | # | Reply

    Actually, her white kitty might enjoy some anchovies…or would that be too salty?

    • Graymalkin56
      April 7, 2010, 10:36 pm | # | Reply

      Bought an anchovy pizza once, just to see if I’d like it and if my cats would like it.

      None of us liked it. Way too salty.

      • Fairportfan
        April 7, 2010, 10:55 pm | #

        I like ’em occasionally.

  20. oof
    April 7, 2010, 11:17 am | # | Reply

    1) anchovies- like eating an eyebrow. From an old comedy routine whose provenence I forget.
    2)Shelley vs. Bunns- “well, let me just carry you over to the couch where you may take advantage of me!”
    3)TinaTalk- or is it Town-Hall Tina? Her demons seem to need to queue up to talk, inlike Monica’s free-floatin menagere. Although the ‘you’ vs.’us’ labguage hints that someone/things has at least some control over the mike.

    • eschmenk
      April 7, 2010, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

      Anchovies smell worse than eyebrows! I don’t know what cooked eyebrows smell like, but I do know how the smell of anchovies accumulates in a car when you are trying to deliver a anchovy pizza. I hope Tina have the pizza girl a nice tip.

      • SoWhyMe
        April 7, 2010, 5:10 pm | #

        A salty eyebrow. The problem with anchovies is that, even if you remove them, the pizza still tastes like they never left. If you have them on only a portion of a pizza, the whole thing will be contaminated. Anchovies are the sea’s revenge.

      • Fairportfan
        April 7, 2010, 8:14 pm | #

        My first wife and i decided that anchovies are what Italians use to preserve brine.

      • bmonk
        July 27, 2011, 4:03 pm | #

        The Romans (before the Empire fell) had something called garum, which was pungent. The precise recipe has been lost, but apparently it used fish. Well aged fish.

  21. Shell
    April 7, 2010, 11:46 am | # | Reply

    Will someone please explain to me what happened to Kevin and Monica? I switched computers ages ago and completely lost track of all that in the storyline!

    • Tristan
      April 13, 2010, 10:14 am | # | Reply

      You are not the only one who is wondering what happened to Kevin. He seems to have simply vanished from the storyline. Monica seems have not noticed.

      • Etak
        May 14, 2012, 9:49 am | #

        He’s probably off on a business trip. His job does that to him. 🙁

  22. The Old Wolf
    April 7, 2010, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

    Back in the early 70’s I managed kitchens for a few different pizza shops. The last one I worked at named their pizzas after silent movie stars (The “Laurel and Hardy”, the “Charlie Chaplin”, etc.). All except #15, the anchovy-only pizza. That one was called “The Idiot’s Delight”.

    For what it’s worth, I love anchovies – but then, anyone who knows my taste in food should not find that surprising… 😛

    • txmystic
      April 7, 2010, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

      I think a link to the “banquet from hell” might serve here, Old Wolf!

      XD

      • The Old Wolf
        April 7, 2010, 11:31 pm | #

        OK. The Old Wolf’s Banquet from Hell :3

      • Phixed
        April 8, 2010, 9:44 am | #

        that was a wonderful trip thru the worlds stomach.

        your images of lutefisk are nothing like what i have eaten (fish meat jelly).

  23. Heather D
    April 7, 2010, 1:59 pm | # | Reply

    So much for my ‘Tina was a monster when she was alive’ theory. She really seems to have been a knee-jerk do-gooder. The traits that apparently got her those headlines are still evident.

  24. Fnord
    April 7, 2010, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

    Woo-HOO! Tina likes cats! But does she have a boyfriend? Just asking…

  25. SoWhyMe
    April 7, 2010, 5:18 pm | # | Reply

    Geeze! She even wears a choker while lounging about. I think there is something about that ornament we have yet to discover.

    • Fairportfan
      April 7, 2010, 8:16 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve been saying that for some time. So far as i can see, there’s only one strip in which she isn’t wearing it, but (if i recall correctly) that’s also the one that implies that she’s been sleeping, which Pablo assures us she does not do.

      • SoWhyMe
        April 7, 2010, 11:11 pm | #

        Seems like she would have to sleep since her body is still human-mammal, and it needs the deep rest of sleep to stay properly functioning. The demons don’t need it, but the body they occupy does. Just as it needs food and air. So not sleeping may just mean they don’t actually sleep, as such, but the body does and has to “wake up” like any body. However, it would seem they do enjoy the peaceful and comfortable feelings supplied by the body at sleep and can be reluctant to resume normal activities, preferring to lie there a while longer and soak it all in.

        Overall, I guess it’s not that different from the rest of us since our brain never really shuts down when sleeping. It’s still essentially awake, processing the day’s activities in the form of dreams and monitoring the body’s well being.

      • Fairportfan
        April 7, 2010, 11:17 pm | #

        Pablo says she lies there and rests.

        Actually, from what i’ve read, actual sleep is needed for the brain – simple quiet resting should do it for the body, but the brain needs down time to do final processing on the day’s experiences – this is where dreams come from.

      • BMonk
        December 18, 2024, 2:33 pm | #

        She may not need sleep to update or whatever the brain gets – her demons can switch off as needed for time of resting. Isn’t that how dolphins do it? half the brain sleeps while the other half keeps them swimming along and going up to breathe etc.

    • Fairportfan
      April 7, 2010, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

      I didn’t notice – txmystic gave a link to the strip i just mentioned.

      No choker, and talking about “waking up”.

  26. jordinyc
    April 7, 2010, 7:03 pm | # | Reply

    Spooky’s gettin’ a belleh!

  27. Centaur1971
    April 7, 2010, 8:05 pm | # | Reply

    Ah yes. I’m reminded of the old addage; ‘believe in yourself…but only if you both agree!’

    • NOTDilbert
      April 8, 2010, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      Wouldn’t that be ‘all agree’? We still don’t know how many are in there……..

  28. Centaur1971
    April 8, 2010, 9:35 pm | # | Reply

    You have a point there; do psychiatrists charge group rates for multiple personality disorders, huh?

  29. Tristan
    April 13, 2010, 10:19 am | # | Reply

    Tina is a very neat character, but I must admit I found this a little disjointed. Given the concurrent story threads it would have helped me if one of the other voices has just been a bit clearer about what started the conversation. Perhaps a “Help with spooky girl, what were you thinking?” or something. Or maybe that is not the conversation, which just proves my point 🙂

  30. bmonk
    July 27, 2011, 4:05 pm | # | Reply

    Pizza with anchovies made me wonder whether poiting pizza would save one from the flavor.

    OTOH, one might end up burping anchovies. . . .

  31. donutguy640
    July 13, 2019, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

    My favorite character has a cat! YES!

  32. Fredcritter
    May 13, 2021, 6:42 pm | # | Reply

    “No anchovies!? I spell my name ‘Danger’!”

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