UM, NO… A BarristER is, from what i understand, the British equivalent to a Lawyer… a BarristA, is the person that makes mocha’s and lattes, etc… and is what Tina’s job is… 😀
Though you all have to admit it, that barista would make a helluvva barrister.
😀
I thought $tarbucks coined the ‘barista’ title as a marketing point not so long ago? Is that incorrect? I’ve heard tales of people working at independent coffee shops getting called a ‘barista’, and promptly serving the offending customer decaf.
According to Wiki, it’s Italian for “bartender” and in Italy it refers to those who serve either cold or hot drinks.
Sounds as if Starbucks did not create the term, although they could well have been the main source of its introduction to the U.S.A. as a term for a coffeehouse dispenser of dark goodness.
One side effect of “Deer in headlights” is “Tunnel Vision”. She is probably aware of her female compatriots only so far as they make her look bad in front of HIM.
As I recall, M’s bullet deflection was an enchantment given by Bud for that mission, or something along those lines. I remember her clothing being torn and Bud commenting on it.
Yep… Made by the same people that made “Star Wreck”, a Finnish movie production company… at least this movie is INTENDED to be a Comedy, not like Plan 9… that was supposed to be a “serious” sci-fi drama.
Oh, So Why Me, you forgot the greats of sci-fi comedy like Mars attacks then. Most Sci-Fi comedy is dark comedy, which usually means massive loss of life and limb.
Ooh! Ooh! Introduce him to Tepoz next! Up til then, it could still be a shared delusion among the girls – disregarding the flight on the Midnight Express to the hospital as a stress hallucination….
Apparently both Bud and Brandi trust Shelly’s judgement in revealing them to someone… Neither seem to even think of holding back or joking down some of the info revealed here. Does Justin really need to know all of it, lest he blabber it on to somebody not so friendly (by accident maybe)?
Let me repeat what Selly just said about Bud: “an immortal, she can breath plasma, indestructible and she can create a shockwave that could destroy the solar system”
Do you think he would blabber? 😀
He’s not going to mention this to anybody. He wants to be defined as normal, not some crazy off the streets. He doesn’t even want to be hearing any of this.
I don’t believe Wapsi’s rendered a verdict on extra terrestrial life yet.
According to our resident exposition-gorgon, there are multiple realms of existence, like the Demon-world (where May was trapped and Jin’s doubt now exists), Sphinx-world (where Shelly’s forest and possibly the Library exist), and Wapsi-world (where Monica, Shelly, and the GGG exist). Before the time reset cycles began, individuals were more freely capable of travelling between those realms and Wapsi-world. Brandi’s V-cell barrier stopped that, and placed a blockade between Wapsi-world and most other realms, blocking out “gods” like Shiva from entering Wapsi-world again.
I checked out the discussion and the term used was “interdimensional travellers” with an explanation that the Gods were among those but no word if it was only them.
That concept goes back at least as far as John Keel’s Mothman Prophecies in the ’60s, which postulates “ultraterrestrials” visiting mankind in forms that poorly match our expectations, like the uncanny valley, across human history. They don’t so much have an agenda as their behaviour is incomprehensible to us. And dangerous.
And Tepoz isn’t quite the same type of golem, given his creation, power set, and even gender, so it makes sense that the GGG wouldn’t consider him one of them yet may consider May.
Sooooo…Dx when is Brandi or Bud going to draw some sort o conclusion about Shelly and Justin? Instead of going all hehhfxfgdbrvmj over shtuff? Lol ahhh…I’m an awkward turtle as well.
Brandi also appears to be in a rather awkward slouching position, given the angle of her thighs and back in relation to her hips and shoulders. Almost mid-squat. Reminds me how superheroines were drawn in 80s/90s comic books.
I read Brandi’s body language in frame one as “damn right we’re classy” and in frame two as “…huh?” Her showing off the goods stance didn’t take into account Bud’s upcoming dignity failure.
ahhhh… somebody else who knows what I’m speaking of.
to explain to others what Fairportfan just said in ‘heraldry terms’ (also known as “french”)…
arm, black, in front, outlined in white.
To explain heraldry is even easier. During the times of armor and shields. The knights/paladins/etc. had restricted vision and could rarely identify each other on sight.
The french cleverly decided to study the vision problem and came up with two basic rules to govern how identifying symbols would be displayed.
Rule 1:
there are two metals, ARGENT (silver, white, grey) and OR (gold, yellow, amber).
All other colors are tints
Rule 2:
a metal is to be displayed ONLY atop a tint
a tint is to be displayed only atop a metal
These rules were to enhance the identifying symbols on the knights’ shields so another knight would know whom he saw.
basically, (for example) yellow letters are NOT to be displayed on a white background and red letters are not to be displayed on a blue background.
You will STILL see many examples of adherence to heraldry’s rules every day.
Just look at road signs. You would be hard pressed to find an official road sign that violates these two basic rules of heraldry.
Out of curiosity – were different heraldic signs sometimes distinguished only by which specific tint or metal was used, and were allowed to be otherwise identical?
I’m thinking of the colorblindness problem – some degree of reduced color perception is not uncommon among males. It’d be embarrassing if you hacked off the head of someone whose shield bore the sign of a red griffin on argent, when you were supposed to hack off the head of someone whose shield was a green griffin on argent… especially if the latter was a King’s Agent.
Yes–but often the were related, brothers or cousins in the same family. After all, there were only so many designs to go around, unless you wanted some really complicated ones, which would defeat the purpose anyway.
1, What’s the SCA?
2. I always liked the chevron rompu.
3. As I understand it, as heraldry became more common, they added rules that allowed women to have heraldic devices, but which then were displayed a certain way, and on an oval shield rather than the traditional “highway marker” shape.
4. It’s been too long since I looked into this; at one point I made individual, correct devices for all the main characters in my book. Hopefully this will link the only one I’ve been brave enough to put online: Tiny Shield
Hmmm… seems Bud is getting desperate to prove she is NOT a loony idiot. Unfortunately, her efforts to prove otherwise are actually digging her deeper.
It’s beginning to look like Bud still has no idea Justin is Shelly’s boyfriend.
let’s look at the situation by character…
Shelly is well aware Justin’s past with ‘paras’; but not with Bud. She is now being informed (indirectly) that Bud and Justin’s relationship has not been… truthful.
Her own relationship with Justin has just survived (hopefully) a major shakeup which may or may not have improved it.
Brandi knows well how nutty Bud has made herself look in Justin’s eyes and is well aware Bud has dug herself a very deep hole.
She may not yet be aware Shelly and Justin are an item, per say; but now knows Justin’s introduction to ‘paras’ was not in the best of lights and has already made some effort to make him more comfortable with the thought there are ‘paras’ different than those he had… experienced.
Bud is also very much aware of the hole she has dug in Justin’s eyes. Since Shelly has not yet had a chance to state she and Justin are ‘an item’; Bud is thinking Justin is here in an official capacity (due to his uniform).
She’s not aware of 90% of what’s going on because she is so focused on ‘proving’ to Justin (as a cop) she is not crazy.
Justin (poor guy) has just had a very trying time with Shelly, his relationship with her is quite shaky, she has just told him his past experiences were not the entirety of ‘para’ society, and Shelly is trying to introduce to a ‘better experience’.
unfortunately. she took him to meet Bud, whom Justin was very certain is looney and Bud seems to proving he was correct.
Brandi (in the last panel) seems to have just realized there’s something going on she was not aware of.
Shelly (though partially obscured in the last panel) seems to be wondering “WTF is up with Bud?”
Poor Justin seems to be in mortal fear of his life.
He only ‘knows’ Bud as a crazy loon, he has just been informed she has power far beyond what he would normally consider possible, and Bud seems to be focusing an inordinate amount of attention his way.
I’m half expecting Bud to be tempted by May’s mortal instruction when the confusion is cleared. If that happens Shelly and Brandi are going to have to sit Bud down and remind her that, although it feels like the end of the world when your crush doesn’t feel the same way, it isn’t.
Nor would the phrase ‘feels like the end of the world’ if anyone told Justin that the girls in front of him had, in fact, ended the world. It’s bad enough he’s just been told that the neighborhood’s Crazy Aliens Girl has the power to end the world; he doesn’t need to know she once did it.
Just loving the ride, as usual. My wife is busy enjoying Book VI – maybe this time I can convince her to get caught up with the story and follow on a daily basis.
Logical handwave explanation: when the girls moved to their own place, M let them have some of her old clothes. You know, so they wouldn’t go and run around DT Minneapolis naked or something…
Clearly the same robe – and well spotted! – but not Justin TightBuns or his partner. That’s okay; we knew Minneapolis had at least a few other police officers.
My predictions for how this is going to end (it might take a week or two):
1) Bud is going to going to get embarrassed enough to want to harm herself in some way.
2) Shelly is going to find out about Bud’s self image problems (e.g. “noodle arms” and her hair).
3) They realise that, as they’ve all been busy trying to keep everyone safe, that the main reason that Bud’s acting that way is because she hasn’t dated in millennia. Part of the reason she’s acting that way is because she’s a teenager who is adjusting to the a sudden lightening of her timetable and old feelings are now being permitted (setting up the MiBs, looking after Jin, etc was taking up so much of her time she didn’t let herself feel).
Justin, being a cop, probably has long experience with people wanting to prove they aren’t crazy. He’ll just do what he do, and it should turn out okay. Depending, of course, on what Bud finds out when she stops panicking.
At this point, the amount of Awkward which has accumulated in that room is tinting the air puce and beginning to warp the space-time continuum. The very structure of reality is crying out urgently for a distraction to occur.
I’m half expecting Mr. Moose to poit in, and dump a large quantity of ping-pong balls on everybody, just to relieve the tension. That way, everyone in the room would at least be saying “Hunh? What the hell??” about the same thing, rather than being in four completely different states of confoosion.
come to think of it, tennis balls, golf balls, baseballs, even bowling balls wouldn’t have much of an effect on this group (though the surroundings may be adversely effected).
I’ll defer to your memory on that point… I do remember Mr. Moose being involved, but it’s been enough decades since I saw the show that my recollection of it is no doubt flawed. Nice to see I’m not the only one who remembers it!
Yeah, I agree. Although being showered with ping-pong balls is somewhat undignified, I imagine that being showered with rabbit “pellets” is even more so.
Nickelodeon (sp?) had that event. My daughter was a fan. I grew up with the Captain, I hadn’t thought about that show in a long time. Used to live for train day. I wonder if the character puppets are stored or on display anywhere… sounds like time for an internet search!
“You can’t do that on television” would drop green slime (cold watery oatmeal with food coloring) if someone used the phrase “I don’t know” or a phonetic variation of it. That was a Nick show.
Brandi seems to be having no problem being ‘outted’ to Justin. I would assume she trusts Shelly and has figured out there’s a relationship between her and Justin and that he’s being brought into the fold as a result. Shelly by now should be getting some idea how Justin and Bud seem to know each other, and maybe – if 80,000 years have made her REALLY wise – why Bud is so flustered. And Bud… probably wants to go soak her head in a bucket of pickle brine. I would hope she gets the chance to get dressed before the sash on her robe fails and she winds up TOTALLY mortified…
Distraction… pick up a musical instrument, start playing “Tenser, said the Tensor”, and everyone will run screaming from the room and flee the ravenous earworms.
Bud really wants to have aspects her human life back even if she is not up for mortality just yet. Maybe more so than the others even though Jin was “fixed” for human life span. Bud is still very teenage girl. Even though she can work a plan as well as anyone she is still the girl who got kidnapped. Very likeable and human character.
With all those new moons/sattelites Nasa keeps discovering (like 3753 Cruithne, 2002AA and J002E3) you wonder how long it will be untill they discover 1337-Bud & Brandi-0-Bogey.
Oh Bud. That is not a good way to convince him of your sanity.
sigh
Remove foot. Close mouth.
snerk snerk snerk
Indeed.
Repeat as needed.
it’s more like “remove foot, insert other foot, find steak sause…”
One of those days when you only open your mouth to change feet?
Aha! We finally learn what happened to Shelly’s steak sauce after it came out of the wilderness!
People around me say I should be committed…
…so I’m working on my sanity defense.
Or to calm his nerves. You’ve just advertised a new way to mutilate him, assuming he hasn’t already experienced it before.
I’ve got to be honest.
This made me laugh so freaking hard!
XD
Poor Bud 🙁
Yes, poor Bud indeed. If she was real I would feel sorry for her.
I feel sorry for her anyway. Lot of emberssment for one week.
Aaand..digging herself in deeper and deeper.. Becoming even cuter in the process.
As Justin says reassuring things while slowly moving toward Shelly in an attempt to get behind her.
It’s okay Bud, it’s okay.
Just go get some coffee ice cream and relax. *hugs*
Yep, they should all just sit down for a nice coffee to sooth their nerves…
There’s a wonderful place just round the corner…
:-DD
like meeting a certain barrister is going to settle his nerves around Bud.
He now has new knowledge of Bud’s abilities (not exactly confidence building, that); but still has doubts about her sanity.
Meeting a collection of demons (Tina) is really going to settle his nerves. LOL
What this situation needs is something Tina IS an expert at though… convincing people to settle down and DISCUSS IT!!!!
UM, NO… A BarristER is, from what i understand, the British equivalent to a Lawyer… a BarristA, is the person that makes mocha’s and lattes, etc… and is what Tina’s job is… 😀
A barrister is special kind of lawyer — the only kind that can represent people at the High Court.
Though you all have to admit it, that barista would make a helluvva barrister.
😀
I thought $tarbucks coined the ‘barista’ title as a marketing point not so long ago? Is that incorrect? I’ve heard tales of people working at independent coffee shops getting called a ‘barista’, and promptly serving the offending customer decaf.
According to Wiki, it’s Italian for “bartender” and in Italy it refers to those who serve either cold or hot drinks.
Sounds as if Starbucks did not create the term, although they could well have been the main source of its introduction to the U.S.A. as a term for a coffeehouse dispenser of dark goodness.
Oh no, don’t go there.
I mean, literally DO NOT GO THERE. You might see the rest of the Wapsi Square Weird Supernaturals there.
It looks like Bud still doesn’t know about Shelly & Justin relationship.
Waiting for the other shoe to drop…tomorrow.
One side effect of “Deer in headlights” is “Tunnel Vision”. She is probably aware of her female compatriots only so far as they make her look bad in front of HIM.
I must have read that wrong. Did brandy just say there are four golems?
Four female golems: Brandi, Bud, Jin, and Mayahuel. Plus Tepoz.
Pick a number between three and five; we can make coherent arguments for there being that number of golems.
Hmmm.. Let’s see:
4 Golems – Bud, Brandi, Jin, Mayahuel
1 Ex-Badger – Tepoz (Golem test model via May)
2 Sphinx – Phix, Shelly
1 Gorgon – Euryale
1 Sentient Dog – Dietzel
4 Demon/Clusters – Creepy Girl, Tina 2.0, Monica’s escorts, Nudge
1 Kraken (?) – Stinky
2 (or aspects of One) Sentient Library – Bibliothiki and Annex
and of course:
1 Rapidly Healing Guy – Justin
Did I miss anybody?
Don’t forget that M is bullet proof. How does that fit in?
M is effectively bullet proof… though no one has convinced her of it.
the mechanism for how she survived has not been adequately explained either (to my knowledge).
Now, I must ask. Does anybody know of anytime Monica cut herself or otherwise has ended up bleeding?
If she hasn’t, could she literally have skin too hard for penetration by high-velocity objects?
As I recall, M’s bullet deflection was an enchantment given by Bud for that mission, or something along those lines. I remember her clothing being torn and Bud commenting on it.
Thank you SoWhyMe — That’s the one I remembered – poorly!
YES, her skin has been penetrated – by the dagger that is still currently, but cross-dimensionaly, stuck in her head.
Tepoz was originally a ferret or weasel, not a badger.
Don’t forget Darren the SuperBartender!
That’s it bud. Let all the crazy out. There, there.
WELL … she hasn’t had her coffee yet.
At this rate, she’ll need something way stronger than coffee…
IRISH coffee!!!
And Tepoz can supply that in copious amounts.
I wonder if Irish Coffee is as good as Irish tea?
Oh my! Her expression in panel 1 is so pathetic! I just want to hug her and tell her she will be ok!
I’ve been wanting to hug Bud and keep her safe from the pain and embarrassment pretty much since this started.
Can’t do it. 🙁
So apparently believing in aliens makes you seem crazy even if you’re an indestructible golem who has personally spoken to several mythical figures.
Well that’s because aliens aren’t real. Or well, not anymore at least. What with all the golf balls destroying their planets.
Just their advance base on the Moon.
Nah, the aliens are actually moon Nazis, and Bud’s golf balls really made them angry… 😀
My God… that has got to be the most idiotic waste of film I have seen in a long time!
That looks like one of those movies that are so bad they are good! The unintentional comedy.
Yep… Made by the same people that made “Star Wreck”, a Finnish movie production company… at least this movie is INTENDED to be a Comedy, not like Plan 9… that was supposed to be a “serious” sci-fi drama.
It’s the Plan 9 From Outer Space for the 21st century!
The CG looks too good for a medium-budget film. I’m gonna vote big budget, spoof type film. Absurdist, perhaps.
Oh, So Why Me, you forgot the greats of sci-fi comedy like Mars attacks then. Most Sci-Fi comedy is dark comedy, which usually means massive loss of life and limb.
Amenhotep IV isn’t mythical! And he reacted in much the same way!
I’m not crazy! I’m an indestructable clay golem!
…wait.
Brandi’s face at the end is priceless!
Agreed! 😀
Ooh! Ooh! Introduce him to Tepoz next! Up til then, it could still be a shared delusion among the girls – disregarding the flight on the Midnight Express to the hospital as a stress hallucination….
As for me, I really expect him to do the same blunder as Amanda, and go all “this must be the queen of pixies, then?” when she meets M…
But Tepoz would be nice, I miss the lil blue guy.
And besides, they could all relax with their favorite drinks! Win-win!
And Bud flies to pieces trying to convince Justin she’s really normal and only goofing around.
Hopefully Monica doesn’t walk through the door and accidentally get trample should Justin try and make a break for it.
Apparently both Bud and Brandi trust Shelly’s judgement in revealing them to someone… Neither seem to even think of holding back or joking down some of the info revealed here. Does Justin really need to know all of it, lest he blabber it on to somebody not so friendly (by accident maybe)?
Let me repeat what Selly just said about Bud: “an immortal, she can breath plasma, indestructible and she can create a shockwave that could destroy the solar system”
Do you think he would blabber? 😀
He’s not going to mention this to anybody. He wants to be defined as normal, not some crazy off the streets. He doesn’t even want to be hearing any of this.
Aaand to demonstrate Justins abilities apparently someone has ripped off at least one arm of his, or am I imagining things? o_O;
No your not, I’ve been noticing the same thing ever since they got to Bud’s apartment. Let’s just say he has both hands in his jacket pocket.
I was wondering the same thing actually…
Perhaps Paul is building up to a certain Monty Python sketch between the girls and OfficerTB.
nope, its not easy to see an arm in a black sleeve, against a black top… :/
you could easily say Brandi has ‘lost’ something 😉 , due to lack of shading…. :p
My post was more tongue-in-cheek, but I really think making Justin’s uniform(?) a very dark shade of gray would have looked better…
Bud in Panel #1 is so cute! I want to glomp her!
Now Bud, just calm down and make the officer some popcorn while Shelly explains everything.
That’s a good girl.
Aliens do exist in the Wapsiverse. Otherwise, why did Brandi spend so much time strategically placing V-Cells to block their approach to Earth?
I don’t believe Wapsi’s rendered a verdict on extra terrestrial life yet.
According to our resident exposition-gorgon, there are multiple realms of existence, like the Demon-world (where May was trapped and Jin’s doubt now exists), Sphinx-world (where Shelly’s forest and possibly the Library exist), and Wapsi-world (where Monica, Shelly, and the GGG exist). Before the time reset cycles began, individuals were more freely capable of travelling between those realms and Wapsi-world. Brandi’s V-cell barrier stopped that, and placed a blockade between Wapsi-world and most other realms, blocking out “gods” like Shiva from entering Wapsi-world again.
You might be right.
I checked out the discussion and the term used was “interdimensional travellers” with an explanation that the Gods were among those but no word if it was only them.
I’ve seen the fourth Indiana Jones. The line between “alien” and “dimensional traveler” is a fine one indeed.
That’s the reason why I was cautious.
That concept goes back at least as far as John Keel’s Mothman Prophecies in the ’60s, which postulates “ultraterrestrials” visiting mankind in forms that poorly match our expectations, like the uncanny valley, across human history. They don’t so much have an agenda as their behaviour is incomprehensible to us. And dangerous.
Brandi’s phrasing hints that there’s another one. She said:
(my emphasis)
If Tepoz is seperate from the 4, who is the other person?
Jin’s mom, May.
How could I forget May?
Right after April and before June, right?
And nobody tagged you for the pun jar on that one? ::nudge::
Yeah, May’s the 4th golem, like Davids said.
And Tepoz isn’t quite the same type of golem, given his creation, power set, and even gender, so it makes sense that the GGG wouldn’t consider him one of them yet may consider May.
Except that Jin is not a Golem Girl anymore.
One of those “Golf balls” was the Calendar Machine.
Jin is still a golem. she’s just been ‘altered’ to function much more ‘like humans’ then the others.
Sooooo…Dx when is Brandi or Bud going to draw some sort o conclusion about Shelly and Justin? Instead of going all hehhfxfgdbrvmj over shtuff? Lol ahhh…I’m an awkward turtle as well.
Where the heck did he lose his right arm? Did Shelly grab him that fast?
Don’t worry. It’ll grow back, remember.
Shelly just had to “test” his claims. (>^_^)>
It’s the “keep all body parts inside the vehicle” response. You never what might get bit off if you go flailing about.
Brandi also appears to be in a rather awkward slouching position, given the angle of her thighs and back in relation to her hips and shoulders. Almost mid-squat. Reminds me how superheroines were drawn in 80s/90s comic books.
I read Brandi’s body language in frame one as “damn right we’re classy” and in frame two as “…huh?” Her showing off the goods stance didn’t take into account Bud’s upcoming dignity failure.
Bud, CALM DOWN!
Hmm… noticing the eyes in Panel#1.
Officer TB = staring at Brandi’s eyes.
Brandi = starting at Officer TB’s eyes.
“Officer Friendly” indeed.
It’s just a case of graphics like the ‘perfect pattern’ of Bud’s robe.
Paul has forgotten a foundation of the science of heraldry. Thus, Justin’s arm simply is not visible due to poor drawing.
Sable, an arm of the first, filumbrated argent?
ahhhh… somebody else who knows what I’m speaking of.
to explain to others what Fairportfan just said in ‘heraldry terms’ (also known as “french”)…
arm, black, in front, outlined in white.
To explain heraldry is even easier. During the times of armor and shields. The knights/paladins/etc. had restricted vision and could rarely identify each other on sight.
The french cleverly decided to study the vision problem and came up with two basic rules to govern how identifying symbols would be displayed.
Rule 1:
there are two metals, ARGENT (silver, white, grey) and OR (gold, yellow, amber).
All other colors are tints
Rule 2:
a metal is to be displayed ONLY atop a tint
a tint is to be displayed only atop a metal
These rules were to enhance the identifying symbols on the knights’ shields so another knight would know whom he saw.
basically, (for example) yellow letters are NOT to be displayed on a white background and red letters are not to be displayed on a blue background.
You will STILL see many examples of adherence to heraldry’s rules every day.
Just look at road signs. You would be hard pressed to find an official road sign that violates these two basic rules of heraldry.
You did simplify by leaving out the furs. . . . The Duchy of Brittany was Ermine, IIRC.
Hey, I just laid out the absolute most basic, there. Without understanding those two concepts, one could never understand heraldry.
Out of curiosity – were different heraldic signs sometimes distinguished only by which specific tint or metal was used, and were allowed to be otherwise identical?
I’m thinking of the colorblindness problem – some degree of reduced color perception is not uncommon among males. It’d be embarrassing if you hacked off the head of someone whose shield bore the sign of a red griffin on argent, when you were supposed to hack off the head of someone whose shield was a green griffin on argent… especially if the latter was a King’s Agent.
Yes–but often the were related, brothers or cousins in the same family. After all, there were only so many designs to go around, unless you wanted some really complicated ones, which would defeat the purpose anyway.
There were also occasions when very similar arms were used by people far apart from one another, simply through poor communications.
For more on this than any mundane person needs to know, get in touch with your local branch of the SCA.
1, What’s the SCA?
2. I always liked the chevron rompu.
3. As I understand it, as heraldry became more common, they added rules that allowed women to have heraldic devices, but which then were displayed a certain way, and on an oval shield rather than the traditional “highway marker” shape.
4. It’s been too long since I looked into this; at one point I made individual, correct devices for all the main characters in my book. Hopefully this will link the only one I’ve been brave enough to put online: Tiny Shield
The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is a global club recreated medevil society as we wish it truly was.
You want to find it? Go to your town’s park on sunday afternoons (maybe 1:00 to 3:00).
If your town has an active ‘shire’; they’ll be there ‘fighting’.
Not poor drawing…stylistic drawing. 😛
Final panel Brandi: “My roommate has finally lost it entirely. Don’t hold it against her that she’s crazy.”
Hmmm… seems Bud is getting desperate to prove she is NOT a loony idiot. Unfortunately, her efforts to prove otherwise are actually digging her deeper.
It’s beginning to look like Bud still has no idea Justin is Shelly’s boyfriend.
let’s look at the situation by character…
Shelly is well aware Justin’s past with ‘paras’; but not with Bud. She is now being informed (indirectly) that Bud and Justin’s relationship has not been… truthful.
Her own relationship with Justin has just survived (hopefully) a major shakeup which may or may not have improved it.
Brandi knows well how nutty Bud has made herself look in Justin’s eyes and is well aware Bud has dug herself a very deep hole.
She may not yet be aware Shelly and Justin are an item, per say; but now knows Justin’s introduction to ‘paras’ was not in the best of lights and has already made some effort to make him more comfortable with the thought there are ‘paras’ different than those he had… experienced.
Bud is also very much aware of the hole she has dug in Justin’s eyes. Since Shelly has not yet had a chance to state she and Justin are ‘an item’; Bud is thinking Justin is here in an official capacity (due to his uniform).
She’s not aware of 90% of what’s going on because she is so focused on ‘proving’ to Justin (as a cop) she is not crazy.
Justin (poor guy) has just had a very trying time with Shelly, his relationship with her is quite shaky, she has just told him his past experiences were not the entirety of ‘para’ society, and Shelly is trying to introduce to a ‘better experience’.
unfortunately. she took him to meet Bud, whom Justin was very certain is looney and Bud seems to proving he was correct.
Brandi (in the last panel) seems to have just realized there’s something going on she was not aware of.
Shelly (though partially obscured in the last panel) seems to be wondering “WTF is up with Bud?”
Poor Justin seems to be in mortal fear of his life.
He only ‘knows’ Bud as a crazy loon, he has just been informed she has power far beyond what he would normally consider possible, and Bud seems to be focusing an inordinate amount of attention his way.
I’m half expecting Bud to be tempted by May’s mortal instruction when the confusion is cleared. If that happens Shelly and Brandi are going to have to sit Bud down and remind her that, although it feels like the end of the world when your crush doesn’t feel the same way, it isn’t.
Sorry, I forgot the bit about that feeling “end of the world” when the crush of a teenager.
And someone has to explain to Justin that they were teenagers when killed/made. However, I don’t think that bit of news would reassure him.
Nor would the phrase ‘feels like the end of the world’ if anyone told Justin that the girls in front of him had, in fact, ended the world. It’s bad enough he’s just been told that the neighborhood’s Crazy Aliens Girl has the power to end the world; he doesn’t need to know she once did it.
Poor Bud. The facial expression is perfect in the last panel. The desperation and panic building up…
We’ve all been there bud, back up, calm down, and turn it around. Start laughing it off instead of being embarrassed by it.
Although tomorrow, when Shelly let’s slip that Officer McNicepants is her Boyfriend… I foresee more golf ball demonstrations.
Just loving the ride, as usual. My wife is busy enjoying Book VI – maybe this time I can convince her to get caught up with the story and follow on a daily basis.
Just waiting for the next stress fracture in Justin’s brain…
I just realized that Bud is wearing Monica’s bathrobe from
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/12202004/ .
Logical handwave explanation: when the girls moved to their own place, M let them have some of her old clothes. You know, so they wouldn’t go and run around DT Minneapolis naked or something…
Or Monica showed Bud where she bought her favorite robe. 🙂
Someone must have been stretching that robe, considering Monica doesn’t even break the 5-foot barrier.
I don’t recall how long it was on Monica, but it’s not all that long on Bud.
On Monica, it was about mid-thigh… before she grew more ‘cups’ topside.
Clearly the same robe – and well spotted! – but not Justin TightBuns or his partner. That’s okay; we knew Minneapolis had at least a few other police officers.
I was wondering if anyone would notice that Bud has Monica’s robe. Bud is a nostalgic. 🙂
My predictions for how this is going to end (it might take a week or two):
1) Bud is going to going to get embarrassed enough to want to harm herself in some way.
2) Shelly is going to find out about Bud’s self image problems (e.g. “noodle arms” and her hair).
3) They realise that, as they’ve all been busy trying to keep everyone safe, that the main reason that Bud’s acting that way is because she hasn’t dated in millennia. Part of the reason she’s acting that way is because she’s a teenager who is adjusting to the a sudden lightening of her timetable and old feelings are now being permitted (setting up the MiBs, looking after Jin, etc was taking up so much of her time she didn’t let herself feel).
4) Justin says something to save the day.
Found the hair one.
Justin, being a cop, probably has long experience with people wanting to prove they aren’t crazy. He’ll just do what he do, and it should turn out okay. Depending, of course, on what Bud finds out when she stops panicking.
At this point, the amount of Awkward which has accumulated in that room is tinting the air puce and beginning to warp the space-time continuum. The very structure of reality is crying out urgently for a distraction to occur.
I’m half expecting Mr. Moose to poit in, and dump a large quantity of ping-pong balls on everybody, just to relieve the tension. That way, everyone in the room would at least be saying “Hunh? What the hell??” about the same thing, rather than being in four completely different states of confoosion.
ah, it wasn’t Mr Moose who did that (though I do remember he helped set up the captain several times). Itw as Mr Rabbit.
All I can say is the captain was lucky it was ping-pong balls and not more… substantial… spheres.
come to think of it, tennis balls, golf balls, baseballs, even bowling balls wouldn’t have much of an effect on this group (though the surroundings may be adversely effected).
Shelly’s already taken a bowling ball to the head. She didn’t enjoy it.
I’ll defer to your memory on that point… I do remember Mr. Moose being involved, but it’s been enough decades since I saw the show that my recollection of it is no doubt flawed. Nice to see I’m not the only one who remembers it!
Yeah, I agree. Although being showered with ping-pong balls is somewhat undignified, I imagine that being showered with rabbit “pellets” is even more so.
Isn’t there a show where they use green slime if you do something?
Nickelodeon (sp?) had that event. My daughter was a fan. I grew up with the Captain, I hadn’t thought about that show in a long time. Used to live for train day. I wonder if the character puppets are stored or on display anywhere… sounds like time for an internet search!
Mr. Moose and the Captains jacket are on display at the Smithsonian according to Wikipedia. No word on Bunn…
Bunn… possibly reincarnated as a mini-lop with a switchblade?
“You can’t do that on television” would drop green slime (cold watery oatmeal with food coloring) if someone used the phrase “I don’t know” or a phonetic variation of it. That was a Nick show.
Yes, tricky old Bunny Rabbit, forever snatching away the carrots! But sometimes, it was Mr. Moose!
Brandi seems to be having no problem being ‘outted’ to Justin. I would assume she trusts Shelly and has figured out there’s a relationship between her and Justin and that he’s being brought into the fold as a result. Shelly by now should be getting some idea how Justin and Bud seem to know each other, and maybe – if 80,000 years have made her REALLY wise – why Bud is so flustered. And Bud… probably wants to go soak her head in a bucket of pickle brine. I would hope she gets the chance to get dressed before the sash on her robe fails and she winds up TOTALLY mortified…
worst case…
the robe opens and Bud is unaware of it until somebody points it out.
Then she would be fully “outed” 🙁
I hadn’t thought of that but I should have. Yes, that would be a fine way to finish up Bud’s explanation of her complete sanity. 🙂
I think that Brandi’s put 2 and 2 together already and solved for the complex conjugate of the integrated tensor function.
Solving for how to stop Bud digging herself in deeper is a more difficult problem.
Distraction… pick up a musical instrument, start playing “Tenser, said the Tensor”, and everyone will run screaming from the room and flee the ravenous earworms.
Way to dig yourself in deeper Bud xD
“And you’re starting with Bud?”
best line ever, nothing beats a double edged cheapshot
Bud really wants to have aspects her human life back even if she is not up for mortality just yet. Maybe more so than the others even though Jin was “fixed” for human life span. Bud is still very teenage girl. Even though she can work a plan as well as anyone she is still the girl who got kidnapped. Very likeable and human character.
Hmmm…
I wonder…
Has Justin noticed Bud’s… mouth equipment?
Justin lost his arms 🙁
Just a case of insufficient contrast. I cranked the brightness up 300% in GIMP and there is a line there where an arm should be.
Which verions is that, Psychic GIMP or CSI GIMP? 😀
The threshold tool of regular GIMP only shows one single shade of black where his shoulders and upper arm oughta be…
Black on black side view. Oops!
With all those new moons/sattelites Nasa keeps discovering (like 3753 Cruithne, 2002AA and J002E3) you wonder how long it will be untill they discover 1337-Bud & Brandi-0-Bogey.
Okay, one thing I seem to be missing – what exactly is Justin?
Once again it appears that Friday comes late in the week.
TRIVIA TIME!
What was Jim Carrey’s first TV movie?
I dunno about TV movies, but his first series was “The Duck Factory”
Keep guessing!
He was a guest on “In Living Color” where he played, among other things, suburban Timmy with a pit bul Lassie. He was credited as “James Carey”.
Joe said “movie” I would have to guess either Once Bitten, or Rubberface, can’t remember which came out first though.
I said: “TV movie”
Answer: Introducing… Janet(1983)
aka: Rubber Face.
Harukohoshiko gets credit for this one.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085733/
how long before they notice the remains of a WW2 nazi sub on an american sand bar?
Is the sand bar still there?
You don’t think Stinky cleaned up after himself?
Nuthin’ but a smoking crater.
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/tone-you-down/
If Justin can handle Bud, he can handle anything.
There is a phrase I tend to use a lot…”When you’re up to your neck in a hole, stop digging”.
At this point, she’s dug deep enough that she’s seriously at risk of coming out the other side.
Well, she could always just throw another golf ball with a message on it or maybe with a different color to send a coded message…
I like Justin’s face in panel two. Reminds me of panel three in this one. . http://wapsisquare.com/comic/oopsie-doodle/
Like he’s thinking “Oh, no, not again”
The variation I’ve heard is, “When you’re going through hell, keep going!” I can’t recall who said it, though.
Meanwhile, the cops are towing cars out of the parking lot and keeping me awake right now. Le sigh.
It looks like we’re going to have a Thursday cliffhanger for the weekend instead of a Friday one.
Yeah, the kill is suspending me – errr, swap that…
I think somebody needs to lay off the drink or get some sleep. LOL