As long as she didn’t see the tentacle, Tina can play it off.
Becky, like everyone else (both in and out of the know), is probably used to Tina acting ‘odd’ at almost all times. Tina talking to herself shouldn’t freak her out too much.
In-comic example: Yummy Tea made the comment regarding his abuela having a give-and-take conversation with her own Aztec/Olmec idol (may or may not have been Tepoz). He saw it as a normal quirk of hers, and thus had no issue mentioning it in polite conversation in public.
Now, if Becky saw the tentacles, or the hollow eyes, that’s going to be a good bit harder to dismay.
Probably NOTHING… unless those two are roommates i’ll bet the doorway they’re standing in is the entry door to Tina’s house/apartment, and that Becky has been waiting there for her to open the door for a while. and Tina wasn’t expecting her to be there, that’s why she’s surprised.
ON the other tentacle, while UNLIKELY, though plausible… Becky could have been going by the windows and just happened to look over at the exact moment the tentacle either opened the shades, or popped out the eye socket…. THAT will be much harder to explain away.
Hmm … I sometimes hear voices in my head too, that discuss things about what to do etc, as if I weren’t there. I guess I should buy a webcam to see, if there also poke tentacles out of my eyes in the morning.
Once I woke up partway through an argument with my mom about why I didn’t need to go to school early that day. And the “me” that was having the argument kept talking for a few sentences until the “me” that was waking up (and that holds all my memories from being awake) was able to get up to speed. Then the sleeping “me” handed over the reins and the waking “me” continued the argument.
I know how to read a time zone map. What I don’t get is if we live in the same time zone why does the comic say it was posted at midnight when I didn’t get it til 2?
The forum software… well, let’s just say that not everything it says, is exactly the truth.
If you look at past strips, you’ll find that almost every single one of them was (apparently) posted at precisely midnight (forum time)… occasionally earlier but almost never later. This is definitely an illusion. I suspect it’s an artifact of the fact that the forum software can be (is?) pre-programmed to release new strips at precisely midnight, if they have been uploaded to the site before then. Often, they are not uploaded until well after midnight… but they still seem to show up as having been “published” at midnight.
To tell the true time of any strip’s actual visibility to the readers, take the time of the first comment, and subtract a minute or two. It doesn’t take us members of the slavering fanatic horde very long to start commenting 🙂
I would guess that Becky overheard Tina talking to herself/ves, and the look is bemused relief that Tina has not gotten into some horrible accident, and is merely late for work.
Which would also explain what she was doing there.
Well, since Becky isn’t hysterical or bug-eyed with terror I would suspect she has seen nothing of the “Tina early morning mode” (Hey- I’d be peeing ma kilt!)
Becky’s a bright girl. She’s been baking pastries for Tina for a long time as far as we know.
She’s bound to have seen or heard something that made her go “Hmmmm” on an occasion or two. So the question stands. Did Becky just witness the slapstick vaudeville routine of Tina’s demon collective trying to get Tina ready and to work on time?
Why does “belly belly belly belly scones!!” suddenly remind me of the vicious Balhog in the Mines of Andrea Doria? (With the cruel runes “Villanova” spread across it’s chest…)
Nope. He’s quoting from (and I was responding to) a bit from the Harvard Lampoon’s “Bored of the Rings”. It’s quite the hoot… packs an amazing parody of the whole LoTR trilogy into about fifty pages.
The scene of Arrowroot, son of Arrowshirt (a.k.a. Stomper) going berserk in the inn in Whee, while attempting to defend the Boggies from the evil Nozdrul, is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
The snap-transition of the “DO THE EYES” panel makes me think of the /Perelandra/ scene …but going the other way, scary to sweet-seeming…. where Ransom happens upon the Satan-analog out alone torture-killing frog-analogs.
Charming and clever in the presence of the Eve-analog, dully malevolent when it thought it was alone. The moral expressed in the book was “Evil is no more smart/charming/charismatic than it has to be…”
Unfair to our little collective barista? Oh, probably, but that’s the “hit” I got.
Despite being demons in discussion, it is quite human too, all this “inner dialog”
only with us, boring old humans, it isn’t as physical. I always have that kind of thoughts running through my head.
“make coffee”
“don’t forget to put the garbage out”
“Ay, this shirt is wholly age-inappropriate”
“Sheesh, my belly ís a tad flabby”
Yes indeed. “E pluribus unum” is more than a political motto… it’s a pretty accurate model for how our own minds work. “Out of many, we become one”… and the “many” spend a lot of time chattering back and forth to each other, gossiping and nagging and making shopping lists.
It’s sorta amazing that we actually get anything accomplished, what with all of internal dialog and debate and argument that takes place… never mind that weird guy over in the corner talking about the cheese.
Well, we are just a collection of conflicting neural impulses and desires. Tina’s collective is just a lot more vocal about it. It’s as if unless thier in total sync, they can’t quite get her running properly. It’s been speculated on over the last few days that with Nudge leaving the collective Tina is less and less human in her down time than she used to be. She dosn’t seem to bother getting into bed any more (as of the fried spider), but even then, the demon collective was in sync enough to run her once completly once she was awake. The morning of the last three strips seems to show the Demons taking longer to get themselves together and avoid running Tina like a half dead zombie. Maybe the more time they spend together in one body, the more time each of them enjoys a moment of individuality. Early in the story, they were trying to act human to the point of sleeping. Now they don’t bother untill it’s time to go out into the world.
Now the guy in the corner talking ‘TO’ the cheese … Him you have to watch out for (that’s the cheese, not the guy, the guy is just the cheese’s pet). 😛
Yuppers. schizophrenics have to get much more creative nowadays to incite the blind fear someone used to get by being seen having a loud argument with ones self.
Oh, it’s easy to tell who is who these days (albeit not legal here in the U.S.).
Turn on a cellphone jammer. Observe the set of people who do not go immediately go into a hysterical blind panic. They’re the ones who are “not quite right” mentally.
Or, so the consensus these days seems to insist. Me, I’m not so sure.
For fun, read Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Murderer”, and note the year in which it was written. The man was good!
I dunno…but I was thinking that if eyes are the windows to the soul, and the soul of the host body is gone, it explains the void that’s there when they aren’t trying to look normal. 🙂
Well, I think we all put on a public “face” that is different from who we are when we’re alone. Tina’s is just a LOT more human than who she is in her down time.
Is it my imagination or is this the way our society is physically behaving before they complete that first morning intake of additive stimulant caffiene? Jumbled out-of control thoughts leading to zombie-like behaviour? It seems the alarm clock is replaced by auto coffee makers, there are more coffee cup holders in a car than seatbelts and every empty business place is a Starbucks-esque establishment-to-be. If the poor little coffee bush could grow in colder North American climates we wouldn’t be be complaining of fuel ethynol production reducing foodgrain growth, it would be megafarms switching big cash coffee plantations… so much for this rant.
Well… it reminds me a lot of what it takes to get me going in the morning. I’m really not hitting on all cylinders until around 10:00 pm. That’s the trouble with morning – it just comes too damn early in the day…
I’m told that there is a strange breed around, called “morning people”, for whom this does not apply. Some say they actually rule the world, by getting there first every day and making all of fhe day’s critical decisions before the Real People are awake enough to notice.
I don’t know if such morning people truly exist… my brain cannot detect or process “perky” until at least midafternoon.
Indeed, and haven’t people noticed yet that a sufficient number of Tina’s demons are perky early on that she’s a morning person? That’s one of the challenges she’d have in a relationship, not the occasional wandering tentacle; she’d need to find a guy who was able to handle that in the early morning.
I am a “whenever i get up” person. SInce i don’t have a job these days, i tend to sleep when and as i can when i get tired, and when i get up, i’m ready to go.
Kate and Helen tend to get cranky when my schedule coincides with theirs, being that neither of them manage to be actually awake until at least half an hour after they get up.
Wow! thanks for all your opinions! I must be a caffeine-free morning person but as with a candle lit at both ends , my energy and lights go out soon after the sun sets…
Well, my philosophy sorta echoes Snoopy and his friend “Woodstock”‘s conversation:
“The early bird gets the worm”
“twitter”
“That’s true – you can get pizza ’til midnight…”
Hmmmmm……maybe Becky just came over to tell Tina she’s gotta quit. THEN we’ll find out that Miz Euryale Sunshinesnakes can jus’ whip up the mos’ monstrusly yummy pastries goin’, darlins!
I couldn’t decide when I first started reading if I should go with Bud or Tina in my name. I ultimately decided on Bud. But dangit if this keeps up I might have to change it back and forth depending on the strips lol
That’s the story where we first learned Becky was a pastry chef, but Paul got sneaky and brought back a one-shot character from the beginning and made her into an official character. http://wapsisquare.com/comic/09282001/
I guess she’s just helping Tina out again.
Or she reached the door just as Tina opened it. That happens occasionally. It’s like picking up your phone to call someone, and finding someone on the other end. Creepy.
Jabberwonky hasn’t posted for a while, but I colored Tina from yesterday if anyone is interested. Do I hear the ‘dun-dun’ suspense music for this strip?! What did or didn’t Becky see?
You know there’s the possibility that Becky is supernatural as well. Tina did say that her pastries were so good they started the Trojan War. http://wapsisquare.com/comic/have-a-nice-day/
So Becky is obviously either extremely long-lived or immortal. 🙂
When I look at panel 3, a little chime goes off in my head… specifically, the chord that the old Macintosh IIfx made when you turned in the power. I think I see the “happy Mac” icon glowing out of Tina’s face, too.
Is it me or has Tina gotten a LOT more sexy/buxom over time, especially when looking at some of the track backs? I know there’s always a drawing style evolution, but eventually I fear all the girls will have triple H’s and Monica will just be replaced by a pair of talking breasts.
I think that might just be an art inconsistency. When you see her breasts from the side in the bottom right panel, they aren’t that big. But they look huge in the bottom left panel. The boobs in the final panel are not big enough to create that cleavage line in the second-to-last panel.
Or maybe Laundry Day entails a push-up bra with heavy padding.
Safe money says it’s artistic license (the Y shape of her cleavage helps give the panel a feeling of upward-motion and, for lack of a better word, perkiness to Tina’s being, which juxtaposes with the drab down-ward posture of pre-shazowie Tina). A quick perusal of the past few recent strips should put to rest any fears that there’s an insidious plot to turn Wapsi into a comic about talking volleyballs.
I’m amused that the demon-dialog bubbles have squiggley lines, but as soon as Tina ia talking to Becky, she goes to very defined, straight-line speech bubbles. 🙂
I think of the squiggly line diolouge as disembodied voices coming from her body while the straight line balloon is the collective using Tina’s vocal chords to speak as “one” entity.
Sure… it’s quite easy, but you do need to be a bit cautious.
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I have been noticing that since Nudge left not only has Tina stopped putting the body to bed, but the kitty is missing as well. Maybe the purr monster was always Nudges decision and is in the Library with her.
I think it’s impossible for there to be a strip with Tina in it that doesn’t make me love her more.
She always has been, and always will be, my favorite. <3
Despite knowing for ages that the Tina we see is just a demon collective inhabiting a dead body, this is the first time I’ve really -seen- it. Something about the blank malleability of the body while the tentacles talk, seeing them actually (to an extent) physically inhabit it and distort it and move it around and talk about it.
And the first question is… how much did Becky see?
That’s where my mind went as well, but if she saw too much she seems rather ok with it. Good god I can’t wait to see where this goes.
As long as she didn’t see the tentacle, Tina can play it off.
Becky, like everyone else (both in and out of the know), is probably used to Tina acting ‘odd’ at almost all times. Tina talking to herself shouldn’t freak her out too much.
In-comic example: Yummy Tea made the comment regarding his abuela having a give-and-take conversation with her own Aztec/Olmec idol (may or may not have been Tepoz). He saw it as a normal quirk of hers, and thus had no issue mentioning it in polite conversation in public.
Now, if Becky saw the tentacles, or the hollow eyes, that’s going to be a good bit harder to dismay.
hm, could be ‘into’ demons?? could be why she’s the only one that has no problems delivering… :p
Probably NOTHING… unless those two are roommates i’ll bet the doorway they’re standing in is the entry door to Tina’s house/apartment, and that Becky has been waiting there for her to open the door for a while. and Tina wasn’t expecting her to be there, that’s why she’s surprised.
ON the other tentacle, while UNLIKELY, though plausible… Becky could have been going by the windows and just happened to look over at the exact moment the tentacle either opened the shades, or popped out the eye socket…. THAT will be much harder to explain away.
Either way it’ll be fun to see what happens next!
Even if she saw Tina, don’t you need to have powers to see the demons?
Is it me or is one of the demons “special”?
Well, someone has to be the inner child. 😉
Shazowie!
belly belly belly belly
Seconded!
Shazowie!
Belly belly belly belly!
Is that the new, “Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, MUSHROOOOM?”
O no SNAKE
Thirded!
Shazowie!
Belly belly belly belly!
That demon is currently my favorite!
Could be more than one – we don’t know how many are in there, and based on statistics…
Heh. They are Legion, for she is many!
Probably the “Little Brother”, the one who’s intentionally annoying.
In fact, maybe it’s the demon of Annoyance!
Hmm … I sometimes hear voices in my head too, that discuss things about what to do etc, as if I weren’t there. I guess I should buy a webcam to see, if there also poke tentacles out of my eyes in the morning.
Once I woke up partway through an argument with my mom about why I didn’t need to go to school early that day. And the “me” that was having the argument kept talking for a few sentences until the “me” that was waking up (and that holds all my memories from being awake) was able to get up to speed. Then the sleeping “me” handed over the reins and the waking “me” continued the argument.
True story.
Wow. Actually got here early today. Er, tonight. Something. What does 2:30am count as?
Also, did Becky just see all that? O.o
well here is a guide.. 🙂 13:22 BST here.. 🙂
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/#!cities=159
If that was your ‘local time’ it means you are on the same ‘time stripe’ as paul..
I know how to read a time zone map. What I don’t get is if we live in the same time zone why does the comic say it was posted at midnight when I didn’t get it til 2?
The forum software… well, let’s just say that not everything it says, is exactly the truth.
If you look at past strips, you’ll find that almost every single one of them was (apparently) posted at precisely midnight (forum time)… occasionally earlier but almost never later. This is definitely an illusion. I suspect it’s an artifact of the fact that the forum software can be (is?) pre-programmed to release new strips at precisely midnight, if they have been uploaded to the site before then. Often, they are not uploaded until well after midnight… but they still seem to show up as having been “published” at midnight.
To tell the true time of any strip’s actual visibility to the readers, take the time of the first comment, and subtract a minute or two. It doesn’t take us members of the slavering fanatic horde very long to start commenting 🙂
For me, it’s usually the middle of the afternoon (yes, my internal clock is seriously screwed. What gave it away?)
…and that’s gonna be the question for tomorrow.
Did she see what we THINK she saw, or something different?
good point..does ‘shazowie’ switch on the ‘perception filter’ or… ??
Thikngs might be getting interesting…
Also, yay for Betty, she was an intriguing character, I wanted to learn more about her…
Her name is Becky, but I agree with you. I have wanted to know more about her since Tina said she wanted to be like Becky when she grew up.
I’m curious as to which one it is who usually does most of the interaction with the other Wapsi Weirdos.
And am I imagining it, or could there be a ‘perky’ demon in that collective?
There’s clearly a perky collective in there. But at least one really enjoys itself – even to singing in the morning.
i like reading about this girl’s morning, the one with the huge spider was simply fantastic but it took me two read throughs before i finally got it.
It seems to me that the look on Becky’s face is very positive, almost like she just had something confirmed for her.
I would guess that Becky overheard Tina talking to herself/ves, and the look is bemused relief that Tina has not gotten into some horrible accident, and is merely late for work.
Which would also explain what she was doing there.
An early bird overnight cliffhanger?! Belly belly belly scones…..
Well, since Becky isn’t hysterical or bug-eyed with terror I would suspect she has seen nothing of the “Tina early morning mode” (Hey- I’d be peeing ma kilt!)
or she’s seen it before (demon fan?), and used to it.. meh, thats just tina wakin’ up.. :/
Can’t deny, in the third panel “Shazowie!” was definitely the first word to come to mind. It is a cute outfit, after all.
It is. And I wondered about “Do the eyes” – what are they doing to the eyes, anyway?
why, makin’ sure the ‘pilot light’ is lit, surely??? 😀
Tina’s eyes, up until now, have been black pits. The demons used their powers to make them look normal. Well, as normal as Tina’s eyes ever look…
Turning them on, of course! 😛
I like the pilot light quip.
Belly belly belly belly
Yeah. That demon’s putting a bit “too” much focus on the belly.
Look at Tina’s pose across all 3 panels. Demon’s making Tina look like she’s doing the Thriller walk.
giving a hint it’s %$&# hungry??
Maybe the demons are doing a preggy girl image, and hence the focus on the bulging baby-bump belly.
That would explain why Tina wears those midriff-baring outfits so often…
Becky’s a bright girl. She’s been baking pastries for Tina for a long time as far as we know.
She’s bound to have seen or heard something that made her go “Hmmmm” on an occasion or two. So the question stands. Did Becky just witness the slapstick vaudeville routine of Tina’s demon collective trying to get Tina ready and to work on time?
The change between panels two and three? I didn’t see a coffee cup involved, but there HAD to be. 🙂
belly belly belly belly scones!!
Why does “belly belly belly belly scones!!” suddenly remind me of the vicious Balhog in the Mines of Andrea Doria? (With the cruel runes “Villanova” spread across it’s chest…)
Makes me think of Flanders & Swann’s “pee po belly bum drawers” song.
dribble dribble fake shoot… 🙂
Um?… Don’t you mean the vicious BALROG… in the Mines of MORIA?
Nope. He’s quoting from (and I was responding to) a bit from the Harvard Lampoon’s “Bored of the Rings”. It’s quite the hoot… packs an amazing parody of the whole LoTR trilogy into about fifty pages.
The scene of Arrowroot, son of Arrowshirt (a.k.a. Stomper) going berserk in the inn in Whee, while attempting to defend the Boggies from the evil Nozdrul, is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
nope just the ‘lights’ being switched on! – like when you get an energy spurt, knowing you will get coffee in less than a minute!! 😀
The snap-transition of the “DO THE EYES” panel makes me think of the /Perelandra/ scene …but going the other way, scary to sweet-seeming…. where Ransom happens upon the Satan-analog out alone torture-killing frog-analogs.
Charming and clever in the presence of the Eve-analog, dully malevolent when it thought it was alone. The moral expressed in the book was “Evil is no more smart/charming/charismatic than it has to be…”
Unfair to our little collective barista? Oh, probably, but that’s the “hit” I got.
Stand by for Adventure!
Thundercats are GO!!
We are launching Stingray!
(I believe the tag for the Thunderbirds was: “Stand by for action!”)
“Stand by for Adventure” was the opening bit from a space adventure show used in a set of skits on ‘Ren & Stimpy’ many years ago.
Stingray???
Do you know how far back that was (Unless there a ‘new’ version of that show now on)?
oops, I guess I kinda dated myself as well… lol.
Several of us haVe shown our ages in this forum. Lucky for the other Forumies education in history and art is appreciated.
I <3'ed Stingray, Fireball XL-5, Supercar (what I could catch), and Captain Scarlett. Trivia: what out-of-work mega-actor voiced Captain Scarlet?
{points}
Engage…
Despite being demons in discussion, it is quite human too, all this “inner dialog”
only with us, boring old humans, it isn’t as physical. I always have that kind of thoughts running through my head.
“make coffee”
“don’t forget to put the garbage out”
“Ay, this shirt is wholly age-inappropriate”
“Sheesh, my belly ís a tad flabby”
etc. etc.
Yes indeed. “E pluribus unum” is more than a political motto… it’s a pretty accurate model for how our own minds work. “Out of many, we become one”… and the “many” spend a lot of time chattering back and forth to each other, gossiping and nagging and making shopping lists.
It’s sorta amazing that we actually get anything accomplished, what with all of internal dialog and debate and argument that takes place… never mind that weird guy over in the corner talking about the cheese.
Well, we are just a collection of conflicting neural impulses and desires. Tina’s collective is just a lot more vocal about it. It’s as if unless thier in total sync, they can’t quite get her running properly. It’s been speculated on over the last few days that with Nudge leaving the collective Tina is less and less human in her down time than she used to be. She dosn’t seem to bother getting into bed any more (as of the fried spider), but even then, the demon collective was in sync enough to run her once completly once she was awake. The morning of the last three strips seems to show the Demons taking longer to get themselves together and avoid running Tina like a half dead zombie. Maybe the more time they spend together in one body, the more time each of them enjoys a moment of individuality. Early in the story, they were trying to act human to the point of sleeping. Now they don’t bother untill it’s time to go out into the world.
And after work at home, while waiting for pizza to be delivered.
Now the guy in the corner talking ‘TO’ the cheese … Him you have to watch out for (that’s the cheese, not the guy, the guy is just the cheese’s pet). 😛
Shoot, that was supposed to be attached to the end of Dave’s comment.
No no… he made a point of saying “I wear the cheese… the cheese does not wear me!”
heck, there’s an old joke that says it’s ok to talk to yourself… until you get an answer.
Why doesn’t that worry me? Well, for several years now, I has tended to get into arguments with me and myself… and I usually loses.
I’ve noticed it is rather difficult to see who is talking to themselves anymore, because there are so many ‘hide-away’ phones and such now.
Yuppers. schizophrenics have to get much more creative nowadays to incite the blind fear someone used to get by being seen having a loud argument with ones self.
Oh, it’s easy to tell who is who these days (albeit not legal here in the U.S.).
Turn on a cellphone jammer. Observe the set of people who do not go immediately go into a hysterical blind panic. They’re the ones who are “not quite right” mentally.
Or, so the consensus these days seems to insist. Me, I’m not so sure.
For fun, read Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Murderer”, and note the year in which it was written. The man was good!
But if you don’t get answers, it would be pretty pointless to talk to ones self!
I find I lose fewer arguments as long as my voices are evenly divided. . . .
“Yeah, we’re dangerous, but we’ve made us so pretty…”
So wait, does that mean theres a demon with eyes that is literally looking out of the bodies hollow eyes?
I dunno…but I was thinking that if eyes are the windows to the soul, and the soul of the host body is gone, it explains the void that’s there when they aren’t trying to look normal. 🙂
That’s been brought up before. “The eyes are the window to the soul”…and Tina’s are very strange, inconsistent, and inhuman.
She’s good at pretending to be a human being, though, just like many humans.
Well, I think we all put on a public “face” that is different from who we are when we’re alone. Tina’s is just a LOT more human than who she is in her down time.
Is it my imagination or is this the way our society is physically behaving before they complete that first morning intake of additive stimulant caffiene? Jumbled out-of control thoughts leading to zombie-like behaviour? It seems the alarm clock is replaced by auto coffee makers, there are more coffee cup holders in a car than seatbelts and every empty business place is a Starbucks-esque establishment-to-be. If the poor little coffee bush could grow in colder North American climates we wouldn’t be be complaining of fuel ethynol production reducing foodgrain growth, it would be megafarms switching big cash coffee plantations… so much for this rant.
Well… it reminds me a lot of what it takes to get me going in the morning. I’m really not hitting on all cylinders until around 10:00 pm. That’s the trouble with morning – it just comes too damn early in the day…
Aye.
I’m told that there is a strange breed around, called “morning people”, for whom this does not apply. Some say they actually rule the world, by getting there first every day and making all of fhe day’s critical decisions before the Real People are awake enough to notice.
I don’t know if such morning people truly exist… my brain cannot detect or process “perky” until at least midafternoon.
Oh they exist. My brain can detect (and detest) perky long before I am capable of achieving that state myself…and my husband is a morning person. 🙁
Abd you actually let him live? Amazing!
Indeed, and haven’t people noticed yet that a sufficient number of Tina’s demons are perky early on that she’s a morning person? That’s one of the challenges she’d have in a relationship, not the occasional wandering tentacle; she’d need to find a guy who was able to handle that in the early morning.
I am a “whenever i get up” person. SInce i don’t have a job these days, i tend to sleep when and as i can when i get tired, and when i get up, i’m ready to go.
Kate and Helen tend to get cranky when my schedule coincides with theirs, being that neither of them manage to be actually awake until at least half an hour after they get up.
Wow! thanks for all your opinions! I must be a caffeine-free morning person but as with a candle lit at both ends , my energy and lights go out soon after the sun sets…
Well, my philosophy sorta echoes Snoopy and his friend “Woodstock”‘s conversation:
“The early bird gets the worm”
“twitter”
“That’s true – you can get pizza ’til midnight…”
Like!
I’ve stopped burning the candle at both ends but other than that I know what you mean.
Hmmmmm……maybe Becky just came over to tell Tina she’s gotta quit. THEN we’ll find out that Miz Euryale Sunshinesnakes can jus’ whip up the mos’ monstrusly yummy pastries goin’, darlins!
Scary thing is that your idea is a good one. But oh so scary.
I guess it’s time to sit Becky down, and have “the talk”.
Becky… when a mommy demon and a daddy demon love each other very much….
The more I see of Tina, the more I love her.
I couldn’t decide when I first started reading if I should go with Bud or Tina in my name. I ultimately decided on Bud. But dangit if this keeps up I might have to change it back and forth depending on the strips lol
maybe call yourself Budina Fanboi as a mixture of both names
At times the only character I know for sure is Dietzel… and then I wonder if he may be channelled by Grommitt…
Okay, anyone have a link that’ll take us to Becky and who she is?
Was it this?
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/hard-to-believe/
That’s the story where we first learned Becky was a pastry chef, but Paul got sneaky and brought back a one-shot character from the beginning and made her into an official character.
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/09282001/
I guess she’s just helping Tina out again.
So either Tina left her door wide open, or Becky doesn’t know how to knock.
Or she reached the door just as Tina opened it. That happens occasionally. It’s like picking up your phone to call someone, and finding someone on the other end. Creepy.
Jabberwonky hasn’t posted for a while, but I colored Tina from yesterday if anyone is interested. Do I hear the ‘dun-dun’ suspense music for this strip?! What did or didn’t Becky see?
You have scary talent, W!
Dave, thank you for the feedback. It is appreciated. I hesitated a long while before submitting the link.
Yup, thank you for posting it.
You know there’s the possibility that Becky is supernatural as well. Tina did say that her pastries were so good they started the Trojan War.
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/have-a-nice-day/
So Becky is obviously either extremely long-lived or immortal. 🙂
Hestia maybe?
Or otherwise maybe Fornax?
Seeing how both female deities were involved with baking bread and such.
Maybe Becky is Helen, and it wasn’t her face that launched a thousand ships but her glaze-ed donuts? 🙂
I read that as demonic influence on the hired help.
It’s much cheaper than a raise.
Also Tina in panel 3 is just super-adorable and just so… Tina. You ought to consider making that one into a print, Paul.
When I look at panel 3, a little chime goes off in my head… specifically, the chord that the old Macintosh IIfx made when you turned in the power. I think I see the “happy Mac” icon glowing out of Tina’s face, too.
More Tina… not only infected by demons but MacOS as well. 🙂
BURNSAUCE!
Is it me or has Tina gotten a LOT more sexy/buxom over time, especially when looking at some of the track backs? I know there’s always a drawing style evolution, but eventually I fear all the girls will have triple H’s and Monica will just be replaced by a pair of talking breasts.
Tina had a bust way back in her first appearance – but you’re right, most women look flat when Monica is around.
I think that might just be an art inconsistency. When you see her breasts from the side in the bottom right panel, they aren’t that big. But they look huge in the bottom left panel. The boobs in the final panel are not big enough to create that cleavage line in the second-to-last panel.
Or maybe Laundry Day entails a push-up bra with heavy padding.
Safe money says it’s artistic license (the Y shape of her cleavage helps give the panel a feeling of upward-motion and, for lack of a better word, perkiness to Tina’s being, which juxtaposes with the drab down-ward posture of pre-shazowie Tina). A quick perusal of the past few recent strips should put to rest any fears that there’s an insidious plot to turn Wapsi into a comic about talking volleyballs.
OK that was the first comment I LOLed at today.
I’m amused that the demon-dialog bubbles have squiggley lines, but as soon as Tina ia talking to Becky, she goes to very defined, straight-line speech bubbles. 🙂
Oh…and the “Something About Mary” look in panel 3 is funny, too. 😛
I think of the squiggly line diolouge as disembodied voices coming from her body while the straight line balloon is the collective using Tina’s vocal chords to speak as “one” entity.
Isn’t “*disembodied* voices coming from her *body*” a bit redundant?
And can someone please teach me how to use HTML tags so I can bold stuff?
Sure… it’s quite easy, but you do need to be a bit cautious.
The following text [b]would be in bold[/b], and what I’m writing here [i]would be in italic[/i], if I had actually used HTML tag characters (less-than sign and greater-than sign) rather than square brackets.
So – less-than b greater-than to start a block of bold text, and less-than slash b greater-than to end it. Similarly for italic text (use “i”) or text with a
line through it(use “strike” as the tag).Ending tags must have the slash before the tag identifier (e.g. “/i”) and not after (e.g. “i/”) – the latter will not work.
If you use these tags, it’s a good idea to proof-read your posting carefully and make sure that you’ve properly ended all of the tag areas that you started. If you don’t end a format tag of this type, it will sometimes bleed down into the next person’s comment (and even to subsequent ones) until Paul goes in and corrects it by hand.
Erp… see, I managed to goof that one up, and failed to catch it in the proofreading, even though I was warning you to be careful about just that! 🙂
Let’s see if i got the “&” codes right:
“<B>{text}</B>” gives {text}.
“<I>{text}</I>” gives {text}.
Why is it that I’m getting the impression that Tina’s technique for simulating a soul is for the demons to be demons to and for each other?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a belly that’s deeper than it is wide before, at least in RL.
I’ve seen it — generally on pregnant women or guys with beer bellies.
Or people with “pooches” that haven’t yet fully turned into beer guts. 🙂
I have been noticing that since Nudge left not only has Tina stopped putting the body to bed, but the kitty is missing as well. Maybe the purr monster was always Nudges decision and is in the Library with her.
“Shazowie!” = new favourite word 🙂
I think it’s impossible for there to be a strip with Tina in it that doesn’t make me love her more.
She always has been, and always will be, my favorite. <3
Tina in Panel 3: *Sigh* <3 <3 <3
Despite knowing for ages that the Tina we see is just a demon collective inhabiting a dead body, this is the first time I’ve really -seen- it. Something about the blank malleability of the body while the tentacles talk, seeing them actually (to an extent) physically inhabit it and distort it and move it around and talk about it.
What eyes???? 😯