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by Paul Taylor on October 14, 2011 at 12:00 am
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  1. Casey
    October 14, 2011, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    And we change focus right before the reveal. I can’t say I didn’t see this coming.

    • Dave
      October 14, 2011, 12:04 am | # | Reply

      Hmmm… Paul, as the new Dinsdale Piranha? Cruel but fair? 🙂

      • TheDoctor
        October 14, 2011, 8:52 am | #

        Nailed me wifes’ head to a coffee table once.

    • SonicThunder
      October 14, 2011, 12:05 am | # | Reply

      Nah. This is the reveal.

      Brandi made a deal so Jin could feel the cold and static electricity.

      Just step #3,129 in a 6,839 step plan. (>^_^)>

      • txmystic
        October 14, 2011, 12:08 am | #

        Maybe. But the deal she was describing yesterday had more to do with regaining her ability to feel compassion again, right? So how does that fit?

      • Wyvern
        October 14, 2011, 4:36 am | #

        Jin still doesn’t like the cold.

      • Hornet
        October 14, 2011, 8:35 am | #

        Who does?

      • Moose Breath
        October 14, 2011, 12:01 pm | #

        I don’t mind it too much. I can always put on more clothing if I need to, but there is a definite limit on how much I can remove in the heat.

      • illiad
        October 14, 2011, 5:44 am | #

        yep, seen the last torchwood?? jack becomes mortal, and can now feel things..
        hey this is what being drunk feels like! 🙂 🙂
        agh, why is it so cold??? 🙁
        oof, that cooker is too hot!! ooooooh!
        ouch I cut my finger! … 🙁 😛

      • Dantelives
        October 14, 2011, 10:21 am | #

        Spoilers!

      • Justine
        October 14, 2011, 11:44 am | #

        yeah, sheesh. Spoilers! You’re not a very good River Song….

      • illiad
        October 14, 2011, 4:32 pm | #

        Um, no, ‘spoilers’ is dr who, NOT torchwood…

      • Maark30
        October 15, 2011, 12:23 am | #

        Since Torchwood is a direct spinoff of Doctor Who it shares pretty much everything with it. For all we know River and her folks will meet Captain Jack some time.

      • illiad
        October 15, 2011, 3:15 am | #

        Maark30:
        ….but I am staying *within* the confines of that story..
        – sure, you could include the daleks, cybermen, etc, etc, but it would make a really messy storyline, and lose fans by the million..

      • Maark30
        October 14, 2011, 10:22 am | #

        Come now, Jack could always feel, he just healed so fast he didn’t notice the little pains, as far as drunk, well as Wolverine about that one. ;-p

      • Lizzibabe
        October 16, 2011, 7:36 pm | #

        He doesn’t stay mortal, tho.

    • txmystic
      October 14, 2011, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand…queue up a week of guest art!!

    • nerf-dweller
      October 14, 2011, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      Oh you Paul Why I outta…then…and for good measure….

      Is it Monday yet?

    • scantrontb
      October 14, 2011, 7:21 am | # | Reply

      Yep! Paul is getting better at Psyching us out… now we’re getting a THURSDAY Cliff-Hanger… he couldn’t settle for letting us rattle around here with only three days to speculate, he is now allowing us a whole FOUR days!

      Thanks Paul! 🙂

      • bmonk
        October 14, 2011, 9:33 am | #

        Yes, thanks, Paul!

        [starts using the extra day to plot a suitably fiendish fate for formerly favorite authors.]

      • as363
        October 14, 2011, 10:47 am | #

        My my Mr. Monk – was the use of 4 F’s a subliminal call to an earlier childhood fantasy ? Check with Jim – I think he’s by the potted plant to the right of the Comfy Couch .

      • bmonk
        October 14, 2011, 12:09 pm | #

        Nope–just partial to alliteration, I guess.

      • Dave
        October 14, 2011, 2:47 pm | #

        … and thus contributing to the growing problem of alliteracy in America?

      • bmonk
        October 15, 2011, 11:08 am | #

        Dave, I hope you paid for that last one. A pretty penny, or perhaps a pound might pay the penalty for perpetrating such a poetic pun.

      • Dave
        October 15, 2011, 5:05 pm | #

        Prompt pun-payment is a particular pecuniary priority, I promise!

        I prefer to pack my pence away, with my spare supply of alliterative consonants, in the Private Alphabet Bank of Twin Peaks… where the vowels are not as they seem!

  2. txmystic
    October 14, 2011, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Alan is going to have to be patient while Jin discovers the joy of daily aches and pains.

    Wait’ll you’re 42, honey!

    • SonicThunder
      October 14, 2011, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      What one has to wonder: Jin clearly felt the cold before, as cold feet could shock her from her sleep.

      Maybe’s she’s just feeling it in her bones now too, the X-thousands years worth of living catching up finally.

      • eschmenk
        October 14, 2011, 11:35 am | #

        But she could magically ignore the cold, too. Now she probably can’t.

    • Jerry Lewis
      October 14, 2011, 3:14 am | # | Reply

      This comic shows how being human affects Jin on a daily basis, but I can’t help thinking how becoming mortal again affects her. After thousands of years being essentially the same age, can she now feel herself aging as swiftly as a hummingbird’s heartbeat?

      And how long does it take for that sensation to go from giddy novelty to existential dread?

      • SoWhyMe
        October 14, 2011, 3:39 am | #

        She just has a lifespan. She may not acually age since she is still a clay golem. She can be killed and one day she will keel over dead (again), but she may still look the same.

    • Fairportfan
      October 14, 2011, 7:09 am | # | Reply

      Not to mention monthly pains…

    • Stigmartyr762
      October 14, 2011, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      After you turn 25 the warranty runs out on the body and then things slowly begin to start breaking down.

      • Maark30
        October 15, 2011, 12:27 am | #

        If only; I know a lot of people (myself included) that did not come with a warranty. We came out of the starting gate damaged goods and no warranty in site. What a ripoff we got.

      • bmonk
        October 15, 2011, 11:19 am | #

        Not only did they forget my warranty application, they even left out the user’s manual on my body.

        Sheesh! Who’s running this show?

        The rest of this corner of the tread reminds me of the fellow who won a multi-million dollar lottery. When asked what he’d do with his winnings, he’d thought for a (brief) moment, and suggested he’d spend most of it on wine, women, and song–and the rest he’d probably just waste.

      • illiad
        October 15, 2011, 3:24 am | #

        .. and there are plenty of vintage cars still running nicely, due to hours of loving care spent on them…

        If you take good care of your body, you will look younger and live longer… 🙂

        Get off that sofa! stay away from junk food!
        Exercise is the key to staying healthy, and I mean mental exercise too..:)

      • SoWhyMe
        October 15, 2011, 6:56 am | #

        Get hit by a bus and lay there dying wishing you had indulged in more junk food and bad things for you.

      • Fairportfan
        October 15, 2011, 9:06 pm | #

        Tamora Pierce’s Alanna the Lioness remarks to her daughter that nobody warns you, when you’re a page or a squire, that, even with magical healing, your body saves up from all those injuries and bruises and bumps and presents the bill when you hit forty or so…

  3. Jay-Em
    October 14, 2011, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Heh.. Jin is re-learning being human.. Wait till she discovers Toe corns… Hehehe..

    And, to be honest, i needed a bit of a break from all the angst poured out over us, the poor readers. 😛

    • Lee M
      October 14, 2011, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, as Benny Hill observed, great aches from little toe corns grow.

  4. TlalocW
    October 14, 2011, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    When does Jin “catch up” enough to start asking Alan why he’s apparently living in the Brady house?

    • NOTDilbert
      October 14, 2011, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      60’s retro is the new ‘black.’ 😉

      • Artemisia
        October 14, 2011, 12:28 am | #

        Explains the gravity defying hair and knee high socks…
        *Is child of 90s* *Wears knee high socks anyways*

      • SoWhyMe
        October 14, 2011, 12:33 am | #

        Not to mention his Sgt. Pepper jacket:
        http://wapsisquare.com/comic/try-it-on

      • Fairportfan
        October 14, 2011, 7:10 am | #

        I’ve always loved Jin’s expression in the final panel of that one.

      • Stigmartyr762
        October 14, 2011, 10:02 am | #

        It certainly looks like he does most of his shopping at a second hand vintage clothing shop. LOL

      • NOTDilbert
        October 14, 2011, 3:02 am | #

        And here I thought hair gel explained the gravity-defying ‘doo.

    • Wyvern
      October 14, 2011, 4:44 am | # | Reply

      I love the decor. But…why?

      • Atomic
        October 14, 2011, 7:40 am | #

        Because it fits so perfectly with his VHS collection of Doris Day movies!

        Pajama Game anyone? I’ll make the popcorn…

      • eschmenk
        October 14, 2011, 1:01 pm | #

        He’s a bachelor. It was cheap. He doesn’t know any better. it contrasts with what Jin would do in an opposites attract sort of way.

  5. SoWhyMe
    October 14, 2011, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    She was kinda the chilly type even as a gull fledged golem:
    http://wapsisquare.com/comic/stay-positive

    Only now she can’t sit in a fire to get warm.

    • Dave
      October 14, 2011, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      “Gull fledged”? You’re referring to her as a young chick just ready to leave the nest? 😉

    • illiad
      October 14, 2011, 8:48 am | # | Reply

      hmm, I think she has too many ‘ouchys’ to try that yet..

      though I think she just has to pick up a hot pan, to find it not just hot, but very painful! been there, done that..

      “never mind the dinner honey, let me take care of that burn…” 🙂 🙂

  6. Michael Michael Motorcycle
    October 14, 2011, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    GODDAMMIT PAUL

    Although switching to Jin is worth my while 🙂

    • Knighttrap
      October 14, 2011, 7:18 am | # | Reply

      NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m going to go over in the corner and cry all weekend now. >.<

  7. SonicThunder
    October 14, 2011, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Art Comment:

    Does the lining on Allan seem uncharacteristically thick in this update? The shorts’ lines are one thing (VERY thick) but it just seems the rest of the lining is thicker than usual.

    Or maybe that’s an optical illusion caused by the pants, and it’s what the artist wanted us to think!!!

    • DJ
      October 14, 2011, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      I think his hair looks like goat horns if that’s what you mean.

    • Dave
      October 14, 2011, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      Comparing the lining on his head with (e.g.) Jin’s head, face, and coat… it looks a little bit darker but not all that much. Maybe, same pen, but moving a bit more slowly and/or with more pressure so it made a slightly denser line?

      I think your eyes (and mine too) may be reacting to the darkness of the edges of his shorts, and the very dense parts of his shirt. They really “pop” out in contrast from the page, and may be leading our eyes to “see” all of Alan as being more than usually separated from the background.

    • Smoke
      October 17, 2011, 11:50 am | # | Reply

      The rough, scratchy, over-inked shorts are pretty weird, but … Well, was Alan always a foot shorter than Jin? He’s got really little dwarfy legs here.

  8. DJ
    October 14, 2011, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    *sigh* shoulda known Paul would do this.

  9. Dave
    October 14, 2011, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    So, I guess we won’t know until Monday (or later) whether Monica found it necessary to speak a Word of Command to calm Brandi down and keep her from melting Terre Haute, Indiana down into a puddle of cheese-mold.

    Paul really does like to hit us with glyph-hangers, doesn’t he?

    • Opus the Poet
      October 14, 2011, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      Rattles pun jar menacingly.:rattle:

      • Fairportfan
        October 14, 2011, 7:13 am | #

        Over at Chris Hazelton’s Misfile, they/we refer to them as “Chrishangers”.

    • NOTDilbert
      October 14, 2011, 3:06 am | # | Reply

      You can’t kill me, I’m wearing plaid!

      (Okay, that was kinda lame, sorry)

      • NOTDilbert
        October 14, 2011, 3:09 am | #

        And they just got a new public library….

      • bmonk
        October 14, 2011, 9:43 am | #

        If you’re wearing plaid, we can kilt you.

        (drops a Scottish silver penny of K. David I into the jar.)

      • Dave
        October 14, 2011, 10:25 am | #

        So you’re saying you like your dates tartan sassy?

        Tosses a handful of British coins into the jar… in for a penny, in for a punned.

      • Fairportfan
        October 14, 2011, 1:09 pm | #

        Irish punt.

      • Dave
        October 14, 2011, 6:39 pm | #

        Irish I had thought to say that 🙁

    • Yamara
      October 14, 2011, 5:39 am | # | Reply

      Spaghetti!

  10. RSinAustin
    October 14, 2011, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    I got whiplash from that sudden turn!

    Also that is a goofy haircut 🙂 It is funny seeing Jin adapting to non-invulnerabliity

    • DinkyInky
      October 14, 2011, 6:57 am | # | Reply

      Kinda reminds me of the New Swing movement, with Alan being a nerdy sort of Brian Setzer.

      I wonder if he shops at Daddy-o’s, and if so, will we see Jin in a “Stop Staring” dress, cause that’d just fit.

  11. Opus the Poet
    October 14, 2011, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    And that conversation reminds me of many conversations I have with the other people that live in my house. I keep the thermostat set at 78F in the summer and 64F in the winter. If you dress appropriately for the season (or run around in a pair of soccer shorts and barefoot like I do) then there is no problem with those settings. If you dress like it’s summer in the winter and winter in the summer then you will be uncomfortable in my house. I am comfortable in a wide range of temperatures in mainly my skin, like Bud (not as extreme as Bud though, I have to wear gloves when the wind chill gets down to freezing). I do have to add layers when riding my bike in the winter, mainly because if I don’t people can tell I’m not a Ken doll when my tights start riding up…

    • stjen
      October 14, 2011, 1:33 am | # | Reply

      Hmm. I tend to like 78 in the winter and 64 in the summer, myself…

    • FatUncle
      October 14, 2011, 2:55 am | # | Reply

      As a rule, man’s a fool
      When it’s hot he wants it cool
      When it’s cool he wants it hot
      Always wanting what is not.

      • W.
        October 14, 2011, 9:21 am | #

        It’s dark I want it bright
        thus we have electric light

        Damn, I’m sweating, it’s hot in here
        now we have central air

        Oh it’s so cold I can’t feel my feet
        that’s why we have a furnace to heat

        It’s really good that man’s a fool
        ’cause it inspires inventions cool

      • bmonk
        October 14, 2011, 9:45 am | #

        I’m with Opus. Getting acclimated to mid-high 78s in the summer makes it feel cooler when you do have to be outdoors, and similarly getting used to mid-60s in the winter makes it feel warmer–well, a teensy bit warmer–when you have to go out into the -20s.

  12. The Old Wolf
    October 14, 2011, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    I think It’s so cute watching her learn about mortality all over again. 😀

    • bmonk
      October 14, 2011, 9:48 am | # | Reply

      And, if the rest of us are any indication, she’ll have to learn about being mortal several times before it really “sticks”–and even then there will be refresher and supplementary classes every so often throughout her life.

  13. Paula
    October 14, 2011, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    Heh so the price for Jins mortality is that she is now a complete wuss 🙂

    I love how her and allan are so cute together 😀

    • Francisco
      October 14, 2011, 5:40 am | # | Reply

      I get the impression that, when it comes to the cold, Jin has always been a wuss.

      I recall her complaining about Alan’s feet, almost setting his curtains on fire because it was winter, poiting to Egypt to get away from the cold, etc.

      The only difference now is that she has to cope with it the same way the rest of us do.

      • Fairportfan
        October 14, 2011, 7:20 am | #

        …heating her hand red-hot in the fire to warm her butt…

      • eee
        October 14, 2011, 8:30 am | #

        I hope she doesn’t try to do that now! O_O

      • Paula
        October 14, 2011, 2:30 pm | #

        I wonder if she can still poit 🙂

      • Kramegame
        October 14, 2011, 2:37 pm | #

        probably.. though she may wait a while before trying it…

  14. Jim
    October 14, 2011, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    Yeah. What Allen said.

  15. Maark30
    October 14, 2011, 1:40 am | # | Reply

    Ah the human condition; It looks like Jin is in for one HELL of a learning curve. Lucky she has such a great support mechanism looking out for her.

  16. Cyrus McDugan
    October 14, 2011, 2:25 am | # | Reply

    Welcome to the real world, Jin!

  17. Francisco
    October 14, 2011, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    I predict that Alan’s heating bill is going to be higher this (and subsequent) winters.

    • SoWhyMe
      October 14, 2011, 3:49 am | # | Reply

      He’ll probably just spend most time at her place. She can afford the heating bills. OTOH, it will probably be the most uncomfortable for him there. Tradeoffs, they are a bitch.

  18. Brianna
    October 14, 2011, 3:48 am | # | Reply

    Gonna be honest, not loving this new comic here. Jin is a renewed human, not a moron. She knows what all this stuff is; she simply hasn’t experienced it in eons. I feel like her blurting out “it bites my fingers” is a bit too dumb for her….
    Something more intelligent like: I can’t even remember a time when I could feel the difference between summer and winter”. Would have been better for me. But, this is just my feeling.

    • Paula
      October 14, 2011, 2:27 pm | # | Reply

      The first documented invention of the door handle appears in U.S. Patent entries for the year 1878

      Jin was last human 28,000-10,500 BC.
      No way would she know how static on a doorknob feels.

      • SoWhyMe
        October 14, 2011, 3:03 pm | #

        Yeah, but that would be assuming they had no metallic doorknobs or handles in Lanthis. Not to mention wool socks or insulated slippers. Pretty sure they would have had carpet even.

      • Brianna
        October 14, 2011, 11:32 pm | #

        Thanks for the dates but my meaning is that static electricity itself existed before the doorknob, so she knows what it feels like. It seems unrealistic to me that someone can’t understand that “all” metals do the same thing regardless of form.

      • Yamara
        October 15, 2011, 3:20 am | #

        Lanthis seemed pretty big on wood and ceramics; metals might have been reserved for mad science. Glass
        and ceramic knobs are pretty popular even today.

        So certainly static electricity existed, but how often would it manifest, even to the human staning mext to the clay golem? Rubber is a relatively recent innovation, outside of Olmec sports equipment. But of course, even the Olmecs are much younger than Jin.

        Ah, but what about the common house cat? They’ve always been noted for “carrying fire” in their fur.

        Not domesticated until 8000 BC.

        I think Paul may have us on this one.

      • Yamara
        October 15, 2011, 3:24 am | #

        “standing next” not “staning mext”

        Mexting

        And where’s Stan been tonight?

      • illiad
        October 15, 2011, 3:43 am | #

        It is found that many things have been invented/ discovered in the past, to be forgotten when that civilization collapsed…
        and do note that things you did 80,000 years ago maybe a bit difficult to remember!! especially simple things like ‘how to open a door’ !!

    • SoWhyMe
      October 14, 2011, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

      I’m sure your right, but this appears to be played just for laughs and cuteness. Gotta relax the rules of intelligent behavior sometimes to get in a bit of silliness.

      • bmonk
        October 14, 2011, 3:45 pm | #

        Especially since he wants to cheer her up as well as warm her up.

    • Dave
      October 16, 2011, 3:46 pm | # | Reply

      Natural static electricity at ground level tends to be apparent only when the air is quite dry… otherwise the charge bleeds away by itself before it can develop a high enough voltage to create a spark.

      If Jin had spent her mortal years only in a subtropical climate, she might never have noticed enough any static strong enough to feel. Minneapolis winter cold, plus artificial heat and the resulting low indoor relative humidity, would produce much greater shock-potential.

  19. Jay-Em
    October 14, 2011, 4:32 am | # | Reply

    *snicker* just notice Jin is even wearing fingerless gloves… Such a drama-queen..gotta luv’r

  20. Yamara
    October 14, 2011, 7:56 am | # | Reply

    I know these two always reminded me of somebody…

    Alan: Look. You got a letter from your sister, Brandi.

    Jin: Oh! Brandi!

    Alan: What did she say? Did she say anything?

    Jin: Well, she’s just wonderful herself. But her Glyph reader, Monica…

    Alan: Monica. Monica? That’s the one with the high blood pressure. The one who sleeps on the floor to keep her blood pressure down?

    Jin: Yes, that’s the one.

    Alan: Smart kid.

    Jin: Yes.

    Alan: Yes. What about Monica?

    Jin: Well, she broke her back.

    Alan: I’m glad to hear that.

    Jin: Huh?

    Alan: Broke her back? How did she do that?

    Jin: Well, on account that she’s left-handed.

    Alan: She broke her back because she’s left-handed.

    Jin: Yes. Well, you see, what happened was she had a doughnut in her right-hand pocket and when she went to take it out with her left hand…

    Alan: She broke her back?

    Jin: Yah!

    Alan: Well you tell Brandi, the next time to tell Monica that if she’s got a doughnut in her right-hand pocket to try to take it out with her right-hand.

    Jin: Yah. But that’s hard to do when you have your pants on backwards.

    Alan: She had her pants on backwards?

    Jin: Yes. Well, you see, what happened was she had a suit of clothes with two pairs of pants and she put one pair on frontwards and she put one pair on backwards.

    Alan: Are you sure that she could GO either way?

    Jin: That’s when the bus hit her.

    Alan: The bus. What bus?

    Jin: The bus that didn’t have its lights lit.

    Alan: Why didn’t the bus have its lights lit?

    Jin: Because… they had…

    Alan: Hold it. Hold It! HOLD IT! Did the guy driving the bus have his pants on backwards or did Monica have her pants on backwards?

    Jin: Oh, Alan, you’re trying to confuse me.

    Alan: I’M confusing YOU!?

    Jin: Monica had her pants on backwards.

    Alan: Oh. But the fellow in the bus; why didn’t he have his lights lit?

    Jin: He didn’t have to. It was daytime.

    Alan: Uh-huh!

    Jin: Are you getting this now?

    Alan: Oh, no, oh, no. Well, how’s the fella… but if he didn’t have his lights lit didn’t he see Monica coming?

    Jin: He didn’t know it was Monica. He saw two pairs of pants coming toward him and he drove between them.

    Alan: Say good night, Jin.

    Jin: Good night, Jin!

    • eee
      October 14, 2011, 8:32 am | # | Reply

      Ah. I always loved their comedy routines… 🙂

      • Fairportfan
        October 14, 2011, 1:15 pm | #

        Burns said in his autobiography that working vaudeville with Gracie was wonderful – they’d come on stage, he’d puff on his crgar,

        …and I’d ask “By the way, Gracie – how’s your uncle?”

        And she’d tell me.

        And then I’d puff on my cigar, say “Say Good night, Gracie,” and she’d say good night amd they’d play us off.

        I never really had to do anything.

        (Not the precise words, but definitely close enough for jazz.)

      • Maark30
        October 15, 2011, 12:37 am | #

        The world has been a lot less funny since George passed on.

  21. TheDoctor
    October 14, 2011, 9:13 am | # | Reply

    Why is Alan dressed like Charlie Harper (Sheen – 2 1/2 Men)
    …..I can think of ONE WAY to warm Jin up. Dickens’ Apple Cider w/ a touch of Cinnamon, and served Hot. Yes folks, theres nothing better than a Hot D- Oh,I’m sorry I can’t go through with this. Have a nice weekend everybody sse ya Monday.

  22. buckykatt
    October 14, 2011, 10:11 am | # | Reply

    The 60s retro look of Alan’s place is very cool – I definitely remember seeing that clock when I was a kid.

    • Fairportfan
      October 14, 2011, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure Paul and Mary Bland had one.

  23. Dave
    October 14, 2011, 10:14 am | # | Reply

    On the subject on the extended cliffhanger…

    Paul may be setting things up so that the Big Reveal isn’t just to Monica, but to Jin and/or Bud and/or others at the same time?

    Brandi made a deal somehow… but have we seen any evidence that any of the other golems knew about it at all? Even Bud, who is clearly Brandi’s closest bud?

    • Fairportfan
      October 14, 2011, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

      Of course she’d Brandi’s closest Bud – she lives with her.

      The next-closest Bud would be next door at the least.

      • Dave
        October 16, 2011, 3:39 pm | #

        That would depend on where Brandi keeps her stash…

    • Yamara
      October 15, 2011, 3:39 am | # | Reply

      It’s hard sometimes to remember that a page-a-day comic and its comments on the intertubes are not like an episodic tv show you can just yell at in the privacy of your living room. In a final compilation, the comic story reads much more quickly and smoothly, and any cutaways would merely build tension in the reader for a few page-turning minutes.

      But here in realtime, our last views of Bud and Brandi’s faces were of their experiencing trust-shattering friendship-breaking agony. And that can make for a pretty long hard ride.

  24. Vex Godglove
    October 14, 2011, 11:06 am | # | Reply

    Personally, I like it in the 60s all year. I don’t use the heater at all in winter except in extreme cases. The thermostat is usually set on its lowest setting (50, i think) so it rarely kicks on. Summer is another story all together, anything above 75 starts getting uncomfortable for me.

  25. eschmenk
    October 14, 2011, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    He actually has the thermostat set warmer that Jin’s or did he mean “slightly cooler”?

    • eschmenk
      October 14, 2011, 11:39 am | # | Reply

      BTW, I’ve been waiting for Jin to regret being turned back humanish. I expect her lack of magic to stay warm will cause problems.

      • eschmenk
        October 14, 2011, 1:57 pm | #

        And will she remain compatible with Alan?

      • Paula
        October 14, 2011, 2:31 pm | #

        *passes decaf to eschmenk*

        relax 🙂
        Jin has been waiting for a millenia for this to occur. no way would anything happen in this lifetime to make her regret the choice 🙂
        And Alan and Jin = mfeo :p

      • SoWhyMe
        October 14, 2011, 2:43 pm | #

        Besides, from what I understand, this sort of tug-o-war on the thermostat setting is normal for completely human couples/family members/roommates as well.

      • eschmenk
        October 14, 2011, 8:26 pm | #

        And will Maya and Alan have an affair and face a heartbroken Jin on daytime TV? 😉

    • SoWhyMe
      October 14, 2011, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

      I believe he meant what he said. If her summer thermostat setting (on the AC) was okay for her in the summer, i.e. not too cold for her liking, then setting his heat a bit above that should also be satisfactory to her now. Problem is people aren’t machines and their perception of what is too hot or cold often changes from one time to the next. In a bit it may seem okay to her. Especially after some hot tea.

      • Fairportfan
        October 15, 2011, 9:01 pm | #

        Perception can do amazing things:

        My first wife was a demon typist – 100w.p.m.

        Our first computer had a daisy wheel printer – 100w.p.m

        Her typing sounded like staccato machine gun fire – rat-a-tat-tat! The printer sounded much slower.

        (Of course, she used to watch me knocking off twenty-five or thirty w.p.m and say “Nobody can actually type that fast with two fingers and a thumb!”)

      • Dave
        October 16, 2011, 3:49 pm | #

        Naturally, you perceived your wife’s typing as being faster than a printer, even at exactly the same measured speed. The same would have been true if it had been one of your cousins.

        It’s all relative, you see.

      • bmonk
        October 18, 2011, 10:00 am | #

        Pbtpbtpbtpbtpbtpbtpbt! :þ

  26. kingklash
    October 14, 2011, 11:57 am | # | Reply

    This is like British drama right here.

    • bmonk
      October 14, 2011, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

      Are you, by chance, referring to the settings on the thermostat?

      • Paula
        October 14, 2011, 2:38 pm | #

        nah the tea

        oh and i think i’ve worked out why us brits seem to say ‘i shall make a tea’ in crisis.

        most drinks you don’t have to think when you making them but for a tea you have to consider how long you are keeping the bag in the cup for the correct strength. It certainly calms the person who is making it down as their whole thought process get dominated by the bag 🙂
        I have considered other drinks (coffee/hot chocolate etc) but they have a one shot plonk of ingrediants…over too quick.

        For the upset person, if it has sugar in it then that might work. Tried on myself once (by accident!). I don’t usually have sugar in my coffee but someone added sugar to it when i was stressed and it seemed to calm me down a lot…

      • Dave
        October 14, 2011, 2:43 pm | #

        Well, there’s sitting Zen meditation, and walking Zen meditation.

        I think you’ve just defined steeping Zen (“cha-zen”) meditation.

        Unless, of course, Basho or Eisai got there first.

      • bmonk
        October 14, 2011, 2:46 pm | #

        Kind of like most hiccough remedies? The primary purpose is to get the breathing controlled long enough and with enough focus to break the cycle of hiccoughs.

      • SoWhyMe
        October 14, 2011, 2:57 pm | #

        That’s probably true. Also, I think it’s the act of doing something “civilized” and normal when things seem to be falling apart that helps. It’s soothing to fall back into a familiar routine. If one can take time to make tea, how bad could it really be? Reminds me of the cartoon wherein this Brirish couple are slowly dying of radiation poisoning. Long as they can have their tea and biscuits, there were fine. Right up to the end. Of course, in their particular case, being borderline retarded helped.

      • Maark30
        October 15, 2011, 12:43 am | #

        Ah, I always thought it was because Chocolate and Coffee were only discovered when the Americas were found.

        Sorry just felt like a smart ass for a moment. (Hides in the corner)

      • Paula
        October 17, 2011, 1:29 pm | #

        *pokes* :p

        they were all introduced in the 16th century
        tea slightly earlier.

        Thinking on it however it would have been leaves and not PG Tips *coughs*

      • bmonk
        October 15, 2011, 11:15 am | #

        Ritual will do that: focus you, reassure you that you are not helpless, get the mind (subconscious) working on possible plans of action, and begin to act.

        Can I join Maark30 in the corner–if he has a good beverage?

      • Maark30
        October 16, 2011, 11:10 pm | #

        I have hot cocoa so sit a spell.

  27. Jayessell
    October 14, 2011, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

    Is that hot tea?

    Not helping!

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