I was thinking more in terms of specifics, where Shelly is using much of the same reasoning that Jin used to explain her reluctance to enter a relationship with Alan.
That’s not quite true. My boyfriend definitely worries that he complicates my life unnecessarily, whereas I (girl) have zero issues like this. More a symptom of a complicated life than of gender.
Does Alan (that’s Jin’s boy, right?) actually know what Jin is and all? I recall that he understands she has mental and emotional issues that need working through, but does he know she’s a golem that’s thousands of years old with powers that can destroy large sections of populated areas on a whim?
point is, she is a nice sexy clay puppet.. and she must be ‘soft’ and all those other *nice* human bits… otherwise the relationship would have stalled rather quickly…
Ah, forgot about that one! The minute i read the words though, I remembered the strip. I need a book of this thing so i can reference it while looking at the current strips.
That is what she is trying to do. Shelly’s being stubborn again. I sense an intervention approaching via Creepy Girl aka Conscience aka Connie to knock some sense into her head.
At this point she might literally have to use a baseball bat…
I’m hoping that Shelly gets this all settled in her mind, is ready to break up with Justin, invites him over to tell him in person… and the moment he walks through the door, 80,000 years of unsatisfied lust shuts off her mind and she tackles him like Monica did Kevin, to the same end. And afterwards, she thinks “OK, maybe I need to reconsider this…”
If she does decide to break it off, I suggest she tell him she “got religion.” Something about a retreat to a feminist enclave where she awakened her inner mystic (i.e. was brainwashed). Of course, Justin might not give up and try to dirty her brain again.
Whatever her rationale, she will have to cut her hair again beforehand. A sudden follical growth spurt like that would surely raise uncomfortable questions.
Of course there’s always the method of last resort. Tell the truth.
I was once of the opinion that should a woman ever tell me she loved me, my only response should be that she’s not really in love with me; she’s just trying to justify her bad taste in men.
That would be a stupid thing to say, and so would Shelly dumping Justin.
Its a shame that she thinks this way. Though, I’m not the only one who thinks that I’m sure. The fact that she remembered him and is concerned about it this much must mean she still wants to be with him. Especially considering the fact she is considering breaking up with him more for him than her.
She thinks “she doesn’t need the complication” before she thinks that he doesn’t need it. It’s clear that she doesn’t want the relationship but she’s trying to convince herself that she’s doing it for him.
Clearly the wisdom acquired of 80,000 years does not necessarily include Kevin, who does in fact know what he’s gotten himself into, and is just fine with it, if occasionally startled 🙂 .
@Paul: Check up on your advertisers – both Avast and AVG antivirus programs are claiming that there is some kind of malware being distributed by this site. I read your comic regularly and saw this error pop up just now. It was not giving the error yesterday morning at 11 am. (the last time I visited the site)
Neither. The offending Java applet (yes, an applet, not Javascript, as those don’t load the Java plugin) was something hosted on 5763.in, and adblock+ reported it as being called by the site itself, rather than contextweb or google’s ad service (And I, uh, block both of those, just like any other ad service that boggs down my browser with flash ads)
Norton gives me “Phoenix Toolkit Variant Activity 4” and “Malicious Toolkit Website 9” both from Attacking Computer 5763.in/(94.60.123.58, 80) and Attacker URL 5793.in/1310544945.php
sorry. I too got the message in AVG and I have FF running No Script so I have Google Syndication blocked and Project wonderful as well. I see the PW ads but the flash ones are not supposed to be active. Wapsi did not open until I did a full reload. Forgot to note what was really in the “Threat Blocked” message box
Maybe, maybe not. I think that they use both signature and blacklist, and while the first might be affected by the program update, the second wouldn’t.
And, anyway, others are reporting that McAfee and (i think) Avast also reported it.
May as well comment. Got the same Trojan warning at 8:00 EST. I use Safari for a browser, not Firefox or Opera like the rest of you apparently, so I do not think it is browser-specific.
The gentleman that runs my server went through and determined that the site itself is not infected but that it’s coming through one of the ads on my page. I blocked the url (5793.in/1310544945.php) in my Google ads, and looked though all my Project Wonderful ads to see if any had that url but couldn’t find any.
Paul, I got a script injection exploit warning from AVG this morning when I tried to visit the site for the first time. I think there is a doctored ad running on one of the ad services you are using.
Since I couldn’t find an email address for you, this looks like the only way to warn you and my fellow readers about this. AVG didn’t give me any more details than the warning, so I can’t tell you which ad is causing this.
Yes.. happened to me too. I dialed into the homepage before the current update and got the AVG warning. Closed and restarted Firefox for the current day and no warning.
{yikes, hackers??} I have an opera(v11.11) session for all my comics… cannot see problem there.. Avast caught it straight away, you do know its free to private users?? (just register every six months or so.. )
heres the report.. :up:
opera is a bit more sensitive than most, It might have been sorted in 11.5, but I’m worried about what stuff they have mangled or removed.. if FF was as easy to use, and customize in depth…
desperate moment, but the home page came up, {phew } 🙂
I was on google chrome this morning with nothing
IE at work now (so REALLY hope no virus is here! this comic sets me up for the day!! neeeeeds it!) and nada.
Paula: be careful!! The ‘bad stuff’ just drops through the *holes* in IE… 😮 if you are lucky, it may be ok, if not it results in your mates getting strange emails, or 6 month later, it triggers another bad thing…
I think the alert has to do with the antivirus rather than the web browser. I also got the alert, and I am using Firefox as well as AVG. AVG as well as McAfee seem to be giving the alert, judging from what I’ve gathered here.
The gentleman that runs my server went through and determined that the site itself is not infected but that it’s coming through one of the ads on my page. I blocked the url (5793.in/1310544945.php) in my Google ads, and looked though all my Project Wonderful ads to see if any had that url but couldn’t find any.
I never really liked Justin nor do I dislike him. His appearance in the comic seemed a little too sudden to be permanent. There never seemed to be any romance between them either.
But the important fact is that Shelly needs to ask him–right now she’s thinking for him, and doesn’t really know if she’s thinking what he would/is thinking. Give him the chance to tell you. “You could have asked. . . .”
Virus warning detected on website when I attempted to enter “Spider Dreams” off of history on AVG free. Just mentioning it because I cannot seem to find a “Contact me” option on the website anywhere, and I felt that you should know about a potential infection. I apologize for doing it in the comments section.
Shelly is still seriously shaken by the whole 80000-year sphinx-affaire. She is reasoning about it in a very complex way, but the bottom-line is, she first has to get herself back ‘in line’ so to speak, before she’s able to be there for someone else.
She knows on an instinctual level that there is -at this moment in her life- not enough room for the emotional turmoil that relationships unavoidably are.
The moment she has worked out her current prblems, will be the moment she’s ready for a relationship.
Aaaaand…in the back of her head, her abandonment issues are also playing a part. She’d rather split-up now, than face the issue of Justin leaving her…..
Got a warning too, just now. I have windows explorer. I choice to ignore it, seems to be the cocenses of the comments? And Shelley is just a girl in the present, now, in spite of her 60K++ years away, so that seems to me to be just normal insecure girl self talk.
The malware which is coming up is linked randomly – likely through a banner ad, possibly from projectwonderful, to the following site: http://5763.in
It is attempting to trigger a in PDF java exploit by calling the browser to open a PDF named:
anjmbnirxwiu.pdf
If you can lock down where the http://5763.in is being loaded, you’ll have your culprit. But since it seems random depending on refresh of the page, you aren’t likely infected directly, rather one of your advertiser banners is occasionally showing an infected ad.
I suspect that whatever is showing up as a Bad Thing is in some rotating content (assuming there is rotating content – i have Opera and Firefox set up to block all ads, etc.), since sometimes it seems to be there, and sometimes not.
Ah, FYI. I received a ‘HIPS/RegMod-009’ ‘suspicious software’ warning when viewing this page. You may want to ensure someone hasn’t injected a Trojan or something here. Perhaps in an ad or something.
Hey now, he’s in a relationship with a Comanche girl. I don’t think finding out she’s part Mythic isn’t going to surprise him too much more than ‘sploding BBQ grills.
I asked something several comics back and I cannot remember which strip and comments grow to well into the hundreds, so I’ll ask again and book mark this page. 🙂 LOL
Shelly looks different. Not just the long hair, but something about her eyes. Is it just me and it IS just the lack of hair all over her face or is Paul just so awesome as to represent her changed “aura” in his drawing?
Her eyes are a bit different, I wanted them to have a calmness about them but also a sadness too. It’s just the state that I put myself in while drawing her, it seems to carry to the paper somehow. 🙂
Ah.. I was wondering indeed what exactly was different about Shell. The hair was a given, but the eyes.. *looking closer for a bit* yeah ,they are different. More.. demure? Introspective?
Okay…just kind of putting it out there but I never got the feeling Justin was here to stay anyway. He just seemed to be around for sex (even more so than some of the other guys in this comic lol). Tina pointed out less than a year ago that Shelly was “About as close to her guy as newspaper comics are to being interesting” and not much has progressed since then.
I mean…Justin was a good guy but…that doesn’t mean he’s Mr. Right. Just Mr. Right now. He brought her out of her weird solitary and celibate lifestyle that she was inflicting on herself, which was a weird change from boy crazy Shelly.
Just my take on all of this. I don’t know. Maybe I’m really far off base.
I always got the impression he was in it deeply. He indulges her walls, but I think he’s just being patient and waiting for her to let him in. I always saw them like a man sitting patiently waiting for the wolf (Shelly) to trust him enough to take the meat from his hand.
My assumption (or hope) is that either she’ll change her mind after realizing that she doesn’t HAVE to give up on that (especially if it IS shallow as she keeps it… not complicated if you don’t let him in) or that he’ll convince her that whatever is going on, he’s still wanting to be with her. Or even the whole butterfly thing, he’ll let her go, but remain her friend and they get back together once she realizes what she’s lost. 🙂
Aleister crow, your gravatar has the effect of a re dead from zelda…horrificly paralyzing….. ◎-◎ (if you dont know what it is, google images:Legend of Zelda – Re dead)
Now she’s starting to sound a bit like Jin.
hm, sounds like some girls I know, overthink it, complicate it, and worry.. Men just dont do that!!
note that compared to girls that worry about many things that may not be right, etc..
The men usually will not see *anything*, and simply think “hey that girl smiled!!” they are simply happy you looked…
I was thinking more in terms of specifics, where Shelly is using much of the same reasoning that Jin used to explain her reluctance to enter a relationship with Alan.
Men do think like that. Most just won’t admit it.
That’s not quite true. My boyfriend definitely worries that he complicates my life unnecessarily, whereas I (girl) have zero issues like this. More a symptom of a complicated life than of gender.
Does Alan (that’s Jin’s boy, right?) actually know what Jin is and all? I recall that he understands she has mental and emotional issues that need working through, but does he know she’s a golem that’s thousands of years old with powers that can destroy large sections of populated areas on a whim?
He knows. Jin, in a moment of distress, even asked him if it felt weird, making love to a clay puppet…. Severely killing the mood for a bit.. 😀
There’s also the time she stabbed herself in front of him. She was unscratched, of course, but the knife wasn’t so lucky.
point is, she is a nice sexy clay puppet.. and she must be ‘soft’ and all those other *nice* human bits… otherwise the relationship would have stalled rather quickly…
not just puppet, but a clay doll…. making it even weirder…
Ah, forgot about that one! The minute i read the words though, I remembered the strip. I need a book of this thing so i can reference it while looking at the current strips.
Before you convince him, you better convince yourself.
That is what she is trying to do. Shelly’s being stubborn again. I sense an intervention approaching via Creepy Girl aka Conscience aka Connie to knock some sense into her head.
seems more like she’s trying to excuse her own thoughts by carrying her own thought proces/thinking over to him.
she’s trying to get out of the relationship and now tries to excuse that by the latest pannel thought
At this point she might literally have to use a baseball bat…
I’m hoping that Shelly gets this all settled in her mind, is ready to break up with Justin, invites him over to tell him in person… and the moment he walks through the door, 80,000 years of unsatisfied lust shuts off her mind and she tackles him like Monica did Kevin, to the same end. And afterwards, she thinks “OK, maybe I need to reconsider this…”
If she does decide to break it off, I suggest she tell him she “got religion.” Something about a retreat to a feminist enclave where she awakened her inner mystic (i.e. was brainwashed). Of course, Justin might not give up and try to dirty her brain again.
Whatever her rationale, she will have to cut her hair again beforehand. A sudden follical growth spurt like that would surely raise uncomfortable questions.
Of course there’s always the method of last resort. Tell the truth.
Yes” tell the truth–especially since he already knows something is up.
It’s sooo easy to sell your self short.
Lack of confidence, or just self pity? Come on Shelly! You are making me a liar when I said you were bullet-proof.
nope, 80 yrs with a sphinx does not equal 80 years of human experience…
I was once of the opinion that should a woman ever tell me she loved me, my only response should be that she’s not really in love with me; she’s just trying to justify her bad taste in men.
That would be a stupid thing to say, and so would Shelly dumping Justin.
Its a shame that she thinks this way. Though, I’m not the only one who thinks that I’m sure. The fact that she remembered him and is concerned about it this much must mean she still wants to be with him. Especially considering the fact she is considering breaking up with him more for him than her.
She thinks “she doesn’t need the complication” before she thinks that he doesn’t need it. It’s clear that she doesn’t want the relationship but she’s trying to convince herself that she’s doing it for him.
Agree!
Clearly the wisdom acquired of 80,000 years does not necessarily include Kevin, who does in fact know what he’s gotten himself into, and is just fine with it, if occasionally startled 🙂 .
@Paul: Check up on your advertisers – both Avast and AVG antivirus programs are claiming that there is some kind of malware being distributed by this site. I read your comic regularly and saw this error pop up just now. It was not giving the error yesterday morning at 11 am. (the last time I visited the site)
MacAfee reported a “risky connection” attempted.
Do you know if it came from a Google ad or ContextWeb?
Neither. The offending Java applet (yes, an applet, not Javascript, as those don’t load the Java plugin) was something hosted on 5763.in, and adblock+ reported it as being called by the site itself, rather than contextweb or google’s ad service (And I, uh, block both of those, just like any other ad service that boggs down my browser with flash ads)
AVG reported that “this site distributes malware”when i came here in Opera, but Adblock Plus in Firefox didn’t seem to see anything.
@Fairport
I read this on my wii, which uses an opera developed browser. No problems here.
McAfee gave me an IP address. Sorry, I didn’t note it.
Norton gives me “Phoenix Toolkit Variant Activity 4” and “Malicious Toolkit Website 9” both from Attacking Computer 5763.in/(94.60.123.58, 80) and Attacker URL 5793.in/1310544945.php
sorry. I too got the message in AVG and I have FF running No Script so I have Google Syndication blocked and Project wonderful as well. I see the PW ads but the flash ones are not supposed to be active. Wapsi did not open until I did a full reload. Forgot to note what was really in the “Threat Blocked” message box
I linked the avast report elsewhere – if the whole site were affected, I would not be able to post!!
I think they are just being cautious, there are very ugly things and hackers about, so make sure *all parts* of your AV is updated daily…
I got the same warning from AVG, but when I asked for details, it just named the site as a whole.
I closed the browser (Firefox), then restarted it and re-entered the site. This time there was no warning.
AVG did a program update yesterday evening. Might have something to do with it.
Maybe, maybe not. I think that they use both signature and blacklist, and while the first might be affected by the program update, the second wouldn’t.
And, anyway, others are reporting that McAfee and (i think) Avast also reported it.
Seems to be gone now, though.
May as well comment. Got the same Trojan warning at 8:00 EST. I use Safari for a browser, not Firefox or Opera like the rest of you apparently, so I do not think it is browser-specific.
The gentleman that runs my server went through and determined that the site itself is not infected but that it’s coming through one of the ads on my page. I blocked the url (5793.in/1310544945.php) in my Google ads, and looked though all my Project Wonderful ads to see if any had that url but couldn’t find any.
could it be the flash player advert on your site?
its the only add which doesn’t have a hover-link when you hover on it but it is acting like its a link? 🙂
Sorry
Not exactly true
Sometimes it has an ADchoices link in the top right
sometimes it doesn’t
*shrugs*
I came in through Firefox w/AVG and no problems.
Paul, I got a script injection exploit warning from AVG this morning when I tried to visit the site for the first time. I think there is a doctored ad running on one of the ad services you are using.
Since I couldn’t find an email address for you, this looks like the only way to warn you and my fellow readers about this. AVG didn’t give me any more details than the warning, so I can’t tell you which ad is causing this.
Ditto.
Same here.
Yes.. happened to me too. I dialed into the homepage before the current update and got the AVG warning. Closed and restarted Firefox for the current day and no warning.
{yikes, hackers??} I have an opera(v11.11) session for all my comics… cannot see problem there.. Avast caught it straight away, you do know its free to private users?? (just register every six months or so.. )
heres the report.. :up:
Infection Details
URL: http://wapsisquare.com/|%3E{gzip}
Process: file://C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera1111\opera.exe
Infection: js:IFrame-BQ [Trj]
I had gotten a threat blocked message yesterday as well, but didn’t mention it since I didn’t log the details.
Today,July 13th about 10:55AM ET, however I got another one when I tried to update the RSS feed, as follows:
wapsisquare.com/comic/a-complication/feed
Exploit Script Injection (type 1702)
This also caused the update to fail. When I tried updating again, all was well. I’m using AVG and Internet Explorer 8 under Win 7.
I’m using Firefox and I haven’t seen anything. *puzzled*
opera is a bit more sensitive than most, It might have been sorted in 11.5, but I’m worried about what stuff they have mangled or removed.. if FF was as easy to use, and customize in depth…
desperate moment, but the home page came up, {phew } 🙂
It’s not Opera as such – it’s your anti-virus.
like I said, opera being sensitive, it blacklisted it.. dumb bots.. switched it off.. and avast only reported once, no more problems… 🙂
— full restart OS and clear, still no report… unlike ***quest, that has been heavily done, until they got bored, I guess…
I was on google chrome this morning with nothing
IE at work now (so REALLY hope no virus is here! this comic sets me up for the day!! neeeeeds it!) and nada.
Paula: be careful!! The ‘bad stuff’ just drops through the *holes* in IE… 😮 if you are lucky, it may be ok, if not it results in your mates getting strange emails, or 6 month later, it triggers another bad thing…
Not up to me which browser i use unfortunately. its the browser which it supplies.
Won’t look at comics at work from now on I suppose 🙁
I think the alert has to do with the antivirus rather than the web browser. I also got the alert, and I am using Firefox as well as AVG. AVG as well as McAfee seem to be giving the alert, judging from what I’ve gathered here.
Firefox here and no messages yet
btw I’m using fanboys list that may have helped..
The gentleman that runs my server went through and determined that the site itself is not infected but that it’s coming through one of the ads on my page. I blocked the url (5793.in/1310544945.php) in my Google ads, and looked though all my Project Wonderful ads to see if any had that url but couldn’t find any.
I never really liked Justin nor do I dislike him. His appearance in the comic seemed a little too sudden to be permanent. There never seemed to be any romance between them either.
But he loves Shelley as a complication in his life. Complete with exploding cookers and excessive wear in the handcuff department.
Shelly, I don’t think he cares feather you sphinx or not.
-tinkle tinkle-shakes pun jar
Shelly “Justin hey. We need to talk”
Justin “Good idea. I was thinking we should move in together”
Shelly “….”
I dout that would happen.
Chances are Justin will see what Shelly is about to say and beat her to the punchline by breaking up with her.
And agreed. This is reminiscent of the Alan/Jin story line.
I suspect ALL the ladies will feel like this at some stage. Even Monica did.
But the important fact is that Shelly needs to ask him–right now she’s thinking for him, and doesn’t really know if she’s thinking what he would/is thinking. Give him the chance to tell you. “You could have asked. . . .”
Virus warning detected on website when I attempted to enter “Spider Dreams” off of history on AVG free. Just mentioning it because I cannot seem to find a “Contact me” option on the website anywhere, and I felt that you should know about a potential infection. I apologize for doing it in the comments section.
Men are from Mars.
Women are from Venus.
Shelley is freshly returned from the Sphinx twilite zone.
Drama ever after…
I have a lapel pin somewhere that says:
Men are from Earth.
Women are from Earth.
Deal with it.
Malware warning seems to be cleared.
Whoops. Back again.
…and it is coming from Opera itself, but Opera’s “Fraud and Malware” protection function is provided by AVG, apparently.
I just got the malware warning a moment ago too, 8:00 am EST.
And I use Safari for a browser, not Opera.
Off topic…
My anti-virus just told me this side is infected by a trojan, This is a cut out from the message. I just thought you should know.
Infection Details
URL: http://wapsisquare.com/|%3E{gzip}
Process: file://C:\Program\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
Infection: js:IFrame-BQ [Trj]
Thank you
/D
Shelly is still seriously shaken by the whole 80000-year sphinx-affaire. She is reasoning about it in a very complex way, but the bottom-line is, she first has to get herself back ‘in line’ so to speak, before she’s able to be there for someone else.
She knows on an instinctual level that there is -at this moment in her life- not enough room for the emotional turmoil that relationships unavoidably are.
The moment she has worked out her current prblems, will be the moment she’s ready for a relationship.
Aaaaand…in the back of her head, her abandonment issues are also playing a part. She’d rather split-up now, than face the issue of Justin leaving her…..
If that makes any sense… 😐
Got a warning too, just now. I have windows explorer. I choice to ignore it, seems to be the cocenses of the comments? And Shelley is just a girl in the present, now, in spite of her 60K++ years away, so that seems to me to be just normal insecure girl self talk.
Oh, sorry, popping in like this, I have been following for years but find it difficult to join teh comments
*Gives Nina a cushion from confusion corner*
It’s nice here 🙂
Welcome to our family!!
Nina- Hi! Can I get you something to drink or nibble on, The Barista is real good.
Relationships are all about complications, Shelley. Give Justin a chance to show that he’s made of something besides the obvious.
The malware which is coming up is linked randomly – likely through a banner ad, possibly from projectwonderful, to the following site: http://5763.in
It is attempting to trigger a in PDF java exploit by calling the browser to open a PDF named:
anjmbnirxwiu.pdf
If you can lock down where the http://5763.in is being loaded, you’ll have your culprit. But since it seems random depending on refresh of the page, you aren’t likely infected directly, rather one of your advertiser banners is occasionally showing an infected ad.
Hope that helps.
I suspect that whatever is showing up as a Bad Thing is in some rotating content (assuming there is rotating content – i have Opera and Firefox set up to block all ads, etc.), since sometimes it seems to be there, and sometimes not.
Maybe Justin has a secret he’s keeping from Shelly.
PS: Can spinx fly?
Why would a
mythologicallegendary creature have wings if it couldn’t fly?We’ve seen Phix fly.
well if genetics applies.. (sphinx come from humans, they say..)
why do men have nipples? 🙂
Because women do–it’s easier to install them on both models, and just turn on the parts you need.
Why do penguins and ostriches and other flightless birds have wings?
Davecom3, penguins do use their wings to fly–underwater.
Loving Shell’s hair!! It’s been a while since it’s been so long =D
Ah, FYI. I received a ‘HIPS/RegMod-009’ ‘suspicious software’ warning when viewing this page. You may want to ensure someone hasn’t injected a Trojan or something here. Perhaps in an ad or something.
get fanboys adblock, that’ll stop ’em
Hey now, he’s in a relationship with a Comanche girl. I don’t think finding out she’s part Mythic isn’t going to surprise him too much more than ‘sploding BBQ grills.
Kinglash- Yeah, and he knows she isn’t superwomanish either. After all HE got to kill the infamous giant spider.
Just a wallpaper I did.
(I change wallpaper a lot.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/820/ggpink1024.png/
Beautiful 🙂
For some reason never noticed Buds eyes were blue until that picture.
The background brings them out I think 🙂
I have several hundred wallpapers in Webshots Desktop – changing every fifteen minutes.
one drink’a wine
two drinks’a gin…
Well I have to say that your wallpapers are getting better all the time. Thank you for sharing them with us
George Thorogood for the win!
Very nice! I may use that on my laptop soon…
I asked something several comics back and I cannot remember which strip and comments grow to well into the hundreds, so I’ll ask again and book mark this page. 🙂 LOL
Shelly looks different. Not just the long hair, but something about her eyes. Is it just me and it IS just the lack of hair all over her face or is Paul just so awesome as to represent her changed “aura” in his drawing?
Her eyes are a bit different, I wanted them to have a calmness about them but also a sadness too. It’s just the state that I put myself in while drawing her, it seems to carry to the paper somehow. 🙂
Yep. You’re that awesome. 🙂 Thought so. 🙂
Ah.. I was wondering indeed what exactly was different about Shell. The hair was a given, but the eyes.. *looking closer for a bit* yeah ,they are different. More.. demure? Introspective?
Weird. I meant to say her whole face, but it is her eyes that are the focal point. 🙂
So, if one is complicated, and a complication is forthcoming, how complicating is it it if the complications are not as forthcoming as we expect?
Complicated, isn’t it? 😉
Centaur71- I’ll just stay here in the corner ‘o’ confusion, cause that one made my brain hurt.
Okay…just kind of putting it out there but I never got the feeling Justin was here to stay anyway. He just seemed to be around for sex (even more so than some of the other guys in this comic lol). Tina pointed out less than a year ago that Shelly was “About as close to her guy as newspaper comics are to being interesting” and not much has progressed since then.
I mean…Justin was a good guy but…that doesn’t mean he’s Mr. Right. Just Mr. Right now. He brought her out of her weird solitary and celibate lifestyle that she was inflicting on herself, which was a weird change from boy crazy Shelly.
Just my take on all of this. I don’t know. Maybe I’m really far off base.
I always got the impression he was in it deeply. He indulges her walls, but I think he’s just being patient and waiting for her to let him in. I always saw them like a man sitting patiently waiting for the wolf (Shelly) to trust him enough to take the meat from his hand.
My assumption (or hope) is that either she’ll change her mind after realizing that she doesn’t HAVE to give up on that (especially if it IS shallow as she keeps it… not complicated if you don’t let him in) or that he’ll convince her that whatever is going on, he’s still wanting to be with her. Or even the whole butterfly thing, he’ll let her go, but remain her friend and they get back together once she realizes what she’s lost. 🙂
Aleister crow, your gravatar has the effect of a re dead from zelda…horrificly paralyzing….. ◎-◎ (if you dont know what it is, google images:Legend of Zelda – Re dead)