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Any Better

by Paul Taylor on April 30, 2018 at 10:22 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Castela, Luci, Phix
Location: The Library

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Discussion (72) ¬

  1. Dennis
    April 30, 2018, 10:37 pm | # | Reply

    Looks like someone is holding back a laugh. Good idea.

    • Cortanis
      May 1, 2018, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      Not a good idea… at this rate she might explode with the force. 😛 I don’t think that response could have backfired more on Phix.

    • CPUGuy1
      May 1, 2018, 5:21 am | # | Reply

      The inward curled lower lip gave me the same thought … Castela was holding back a laugh.
      COOL!
      Great drawing, Paul! I see the intended emotion (or burst out with a laugh).

    • B0mar
      May 1, 2018, 8:05 pm | # | Reply

      There IS no counter to Luci’s approach:
      Castela: “It’s official, Tanta Phix – Your huggable!” [sternly suppresses a giggle]
      Phix: *LOW Growl*
      Luci: [gushing] “Is she PURRING! … SQWEEEEEEEE!!”
      Phix: *takes a shot- fully in the left ear – shakes her head, squirms, and attempts to pull away*
      ” …. HUMPH … [gently] Young Lady! ‘She’ is right here!

      • MidnightDStroyer
        May 5, 2018, 3:41 pm | #

        Luci activates her Multi-Attack Ability.
        Luci uses Shield-Shattering Hug.
        Luci uses Bypass Active Defense.
        Luci uses Armor-Piercing Squee: It’s Super-Effective!
        Phix has been broken!

  2. Mark N
    April 30, 2018, 10:40 pm | # | Reply

    She just broke Phix.

  3. Robert Nowall
    April 30, 2018, 10:41 pm | # | Reply

    She already knows one sphinx—Shelly!

    • Iceburgh69
      April 30, 2018, 11:07 pm | # | Reply

      But I don’t think she knows that Shelly IS a sphinx.

      • jwhouk
        May 1, 2018, 7:17 am | #

        Or that the Sphinx she’s hugging is Shelly’s *grandmother.*

  4. Robert Nowall
    April 30, 2018, 10:42 pm | # | Reply

    And her tattoos are back, too!

  5. Jeff Weiner
    April 30, 2018, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

    Oh, Luci, you’ve made a powerful friend!

  6. BarerMender
    April 30, 2018, 11:07 pm | # | Reply

    Phix’s mean look falls before Luci’s open heart. Will Phix regroup, or will she pick Luci up by the scruff of the neck? Will anyone warn Luci there are paras out there who will hurt her?

    • BarerMender
      April 30, 2018, 11:31 pm | # | Reply

      I guess Luci trusted Castela not to bring her into danger.

  7. gyrre
    April 30, 2018, 11:16 pm | # | Reply

    What happened to Lucci being a grumpy pants?

    • BarerMender
      April 30, 2018, 11:31 pm | # | Reply

      Luci was only ever grumpy with Shelly.

      • Fairportfan
        May 1, 2018, 2:31 am | #

        Wait till she finds out that Ms. Wahnee is also a sphinx…

      • gyrre
        May 2, 2018, 1:37 am | #

        I hadn’t considered that, fairportfan.

        Just imagine her face when she discovers what name Justin used to go by.

  8. BarerMender
    April 30, 2018, 11:43 pm | # | Reply

    Is Nudge over in the corner laughing her ass off?

    • C.Barlog
      May 1, 2018, 8:29 am | # | Reply

      Not if she knows what is good for her.

    • drealm2459
      May 1, 2018, 8:53 am | # | Reply

      yes doing her best not to make any noise and get noticed.

  9. Adama
    April 30, 2018, 11:47 pm | # | Reply

    How many centuries is it since someone hugged Phix… well, okay, Monica’s former boss probably has. 🙂

  10. T'Renn
    May 1, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    “Accusations I can handle. I know what to do when threatened with violence. But a hug? How am I supposed to counter a hug?”
    –Sam Starfall
    http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff500/fv00483.htm

  11. themadkansan
    May 1, 2018, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Bwaha. Out-Phix-ed. ~XD

  12. BarerMender
    May 1, 2018, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    How’s Luci going to react when she sees Castela vent and she realizes what she’s taken on her own shoulders?

  13. J
    May 1, 2018, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    Hugs. She’s here for hugs.

  14. khyrin
    May 1, 2018, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    I feel like… Something has happened to Luci?

    Like, It’s VERY difficult for me to reconcile the stiff, no-nonsense woman who constantly butted heads with Shelly with someone who would use the phrase “Amaze-balls”.

    • bargamer
      May 1, 2018, 1:56 am | # | Reply

      We all wear masks. Different people get different ones.

      • Dave
        May 1, 2018, 9:28 am | #

        And Luci, being short and slight, may have had to develop a rather hard shell and a brusque “no nonsense” manner fairly early in life, to keep people from pushing her around.

        Up until very recently we’ve seen her only at Punk Yoga, at work, wearing her “game face”. It’s only since she’s been introduced to Castela that we’ve seen her “off the job”.

    • syncline
      May 1, 2018, 6:30 am | # | Reply

      Luci learned to cope with our crappy mundane world with a lot of sarcasm and anger.
      She has a good heart; she’s helping Cas, for example- yet clearly she grew a thick skin.
      Like a lot of people, she always hoped for some magic in her life, and suddenly there’s a crapton of magical events happening all around her.
      So yeah, we’re seeing a side of her that never showed before, but it’s a good side.

      • Fogel
        May 1, 2018, 6:40 am | #

        This. Context/environment matters.

    • drealm2459
      May 1, 2018, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      cass has disarmed her. and shown he things she has only dreamed of. it’s very hard to be a hard ass. When someone has given a chance to see and touch the things you inner child has always wanted to see and touch.

    • ayshela
      May 1, 2018, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

      This reminds me very much of M and Amanda – well, after the twenty foot drop into the lake. When everything around you is all hard with sharp edges, you develop the shell to match. Once something cracks that, though, well… *motions at Luci*

  15. TazManiac
    May 1, 2018, 2:11 am | # | Reply

    I understand Luci. I really do…

  16. Fairportfan
    May 1, 2018, 2:31 am | # | Reply

    FANGIRLING!

  17. Fairportfan
    May 1, 2018, 2:32 am | # | Reply

    FANGIRLING!

    • B0mar
      May 1, 2018, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

      Agreed! That was no “hug” that was a GLOMP.

  18. All-Purpose Guru
    May 1, 2018, 2:32 am | # | Reply

    I love how Cas is just quietly standing there, biting her lip…

  19. Fatuncle
    May 1, 2018, 5:05 am | # | Reply

    That was the word I was searching for!

  20. christopher chung
    May 1, 2018, 5:32 am | # | Reply

    BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  21. GrantCMcCormick
    May 1, 2018, 6:18 am | # | Reply

    Cass should say, “Phix, this is Luci, a co-worker of your granddaughter.”

    • ayshela
      May 1, 2018, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

      Honestly, I’m kinda waiting for Shel to fly in with “Hey Grandma – oh!”

  22. Techno Gray
    May 1, 2018, 6:24 am | # | Reply

    I’m here quietly waiting for Luci to see Shelly in sphinx-mode for the first tme.

  23. Fogel
    May 1, 2018, 6:38 am | # | Reply

    😀

  24. Bird of Prey
    May 1, 2018, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    Life goals:

    – fame

    – fortune

    – hugging a sphinx

    • C.Barlog
      May 1, 2018, 8:33 am | # | Reply

      Seriously, did you see the sphinx statues in The Neverending Story? Stacked.

  25. xdrfiredogx
    May 1, 2018, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    Lotta years Phix has been minding the library. Lotta visits from creatures from all sorts of places. So why do I get the feeling no one has reacted to her in quite this way before?

  26. Joecrouse
    May 1, 2018, 8:41 am | # | Reply

    Humans are the ONLY alpha predators in the Galaxy with this reaction to other alpha predators. We instinctively hug and pet them. Humans are also the only species known that pack bond with any other species and woe betide the Xeno that messes with a humans pack..

  27. Joecrouse
    May 1, 2018, 8:43 am | # | Reply

    That look on Phix. Is I’m ancient and I’m not sure how to handle this help… shes supposed to be terrified of me… why isn’t she terrified. What is she that she isn’t terrified of me….

    • drealm2459
      May 1, 2018, 9:09 am | # | Reply

      answer Phix. you walked out of her hopes and dreams and into her arms. For Luci I think always wanted being like you to exist. and there you are. she couldn’t help herself.

  28. Dave
    May 1, 2018, 9:03 am | # | Reply

    I’m not sure Phix has ever before been treated like a fuzzy plush unicorn.

    • Thorulfr
      May 1, 2018, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

      For one horrible moment, I thought you meant Deadpool (“Oops, you weren’t supposed to see that…”)

  29. drealm2459
    May 1, 2018, 9:04 am | # | Reply

    I am sorry but I have to do this.

    Sphinx: ” Luci! You got some splanin to do!!”

    • Dave
      May 1, 2018, 9:19 am | # | Reply

      I think you win today’s Internet Quip award!

  30. trey river
    May 1, 2018, 9:26 am | # | Reply

    Nice very similar to Sydney Scoville, Jr. meeting the shadow council. (grrlpower)

  31. Branwynne
    May 1, 2018, 9:28 am | # | Reply

    D’awwwww! I don’t know which is cuter, the look on Cas’s face, the look on Phix’s face, or Luci’s sheer unicorn-hugging glee. I can’t deciiiiiide!

  32. txmystic
    May 1, 2018, 9:40 am | # | Reply

    Disarming Hug(TM)!!!!!!

  33. Guesticus
    May 1, 2018, 9:54 am | # | Reply

    Loving Stela’s look in the last panel 😀

  34. Sunny
    May 1, 2018, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    I’d say this is the cutest strip so far.

  35. Dan Farris
    May 1, 2018, 10:22 am | # | Reply

    This ‘Toon and the comments are priceless… I wouldn’t have considerred any less.

  36. Skywatcher
    May 1, 2018, 10:55 am | # | Reply

    Now I want Luci to meet Euryale. When’s the last time Euryale was beaten to the hug?

    • Dave
      May 1, 2018, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

      Shelly managed it once.

  37. Vorlonagent
    May 1, 2018, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

    Does that mean Luci passes the test?

  38. Sheik
    May 1, 2018, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

    I hope Phix is not into saving face.
    The riddle she gives might not be quite so easy as we’ve seen in the past.

    • themadkansan
      May 1, 2018, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

      The hilarious thing would be if she =does= opt for a fiend-level riddle, and Luci one-hits it…

      “…I had a feeling you’d know that one.”

      🙂

  39. Correllian
    May 1, 2018, 6:30 pm | # | Reply

    Funniest Wapsi moment in…..well awhile. Watching Phix go from “WHO IS THE HUMAN WHO DARES ENTER MY LIBRARY?” to “……..did the human just _hug_ me?!”, as well as Castela visibly suppressing the urge to laugh.

  40. Crotalus
    May 1, 2018, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

    Thanks; now I have to clean off the tea I sprayed all over my screen.

    …made my day, though…thank you.

  41. Centaur71
    May 1, 2018, 6:49 pm | # | Reply

    Phix thinks to herself; ‘Oh, if ONLY there were more Humans like her in the old days…’

  42. W.
    May 1, 2018, 9:53 pm | # | Reply

    I simply can’t like this any better!

  43. Hinoron
    May 5, 2018, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    Phix rolls an Intimidation check…. Critical fail!

    • Centaur71
      April 19, 2022, 5:23 pm | # | Reply

      😆😂🤣🤪

  44. Greywolf1963
    May 17, 2019, 6:33 pm | # | Reply

    Well, I would say Phix has a clear answer to her question. She has no clue what to do with it, but it is a very clear answer.

  45. Badgerguy
    September 13, 2021, 3:30 am | # | Reply

    And THAT is how you disarm a sphinx! 🤗

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