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Crazy Meter

by Paul Taylor on February 27, 2012 at 12:00 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Justin, Shelly, Tsillah

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  1. Dani
    February 27, 2012, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Who is that?

    • zacharaiaha
      February 27, 2012, 1:57 am | # | Reply

      pip long-arm stocking.

      • zacharaiaha
        February 27, 2012, 1:59 am | #

        Sometimes I just HATE my ergonomic keyboard with small keys. That should be:

        Pippi Long-arm-stocking

    • Valkeiper
      February 27, 2012, 3:04 am | # | Reply

      well, not a trap…

      worse.

      • Valkeiper
        February 27, 2012, 3:11 am | #

        this explains the hell hound’s expression. If you had to protect THAT… ?

    • xero
      February 27, 2012, 5:01 am | # | Reply

      based on her face I’d say either a wererat or a member of the people of the tiger (weirdly she has both rodent and feline features)

    • Dusty668
      February 27, 2012, 5:56 am | # | Reply

      My first thought was Princess Washburn. My second thought was “GAAAAAAAH!!”

      • Leak
        February 27, 2012, 9:55 am | #

        For those not (yet) in the loop – Princess Washburn

      • Kramegame
        February 27, 2012, 12:49 pm | #

        I had to scroll over to see her face… I practically jumped out of my chair.

      • Yamara
        February 27, 2012, 3:58 pm | #

        Here’s a specially framed shot of Her Highness’ face, just for you.

        Hm, there is a resemblance. Though Warehouse Girl seems to use much more polite language.

        May explain the discipline problem with the hellhounds.

      • Yamara
        February 27, 2012, 3:59 pm | #

        Aaand… the link coded correctly.

      • Dusty668
        February 28, 2012, 5:35 am | #

        I… I don’t think she forgot…

  2. Joe Minotaur
    February 27, 2012, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    New gal in town?

    • Joe Minotaur
      February 27, 2012, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      Dr. Seuss and Pipi Longstocking had a kid?

      • KaiserFrazer67
        February 27, 2012, 12:21 am | #

        Looks like some relative of Nudge.

      • Francisco
        February 27, 2012, 5:06 am | #

        If the latter theory is true and my theory is true then Nudge could be Justin’s grandmother.

      • Dave
        February 27, 2012, 12:28 am | #

        Pipi came to mind for me, too. 🙂

        Whoever she is, she should definitely consult a stylist and have her horns swoggled.

        Do we even want to know what subjects she is studying, with the heavy contents of that bookbag?

      • shadowinthelight
        February 27, 2012, 12:43 am | #

        Horns? I thought they were feathers.

      • Fairportfan
        February 27, 2012, 4:10 am | #

        They looked like tobacco leaves to me at first glance.

      • Danzier
        February 27, 2012, 1:09 am | #

        I’m seeing something like Tinkerbell on acid.

      • Staying nameless for now
        February 27, 2012, 9:54 pm | #

        Who’s on acid. Tinkerbell? Or you?

      • Atomic
        February 27, 2012, 12:57 pm | #

        Or worse, she just had her horns swoggled, and is stopping off at the Library afterwards!

      • Yamara
        February 27, 2012, 12:52 am | #

        Brundlefly merged with the entire cast of the Fantasticks.

      • Valkeiper
        February 27, 2012, 3:09 am | #

        how about Skeeve and Pippin Longstocking?

      • Cherish Bloom
        February 27, 2012, 3:58 am | #

        *covers Pippi’s ears*

        Dear, you are much to young to be hearing this.

      • Yamara
        February 27, 2012, 5:56 pm | #

        Bizarro Jin and the rest of the Bizarro Chimera?

      • Dave
        February 27, 2012, 10:18 am | #

        Not possible. Any Skeeve/Pippi child would instantly exceed the universe’s tolerance threshold of Weirdness, and implode into a black hole (or possibly a naked singularity, which is even weirder than a black hole)

      • tygertyger
        February 27, 2012, 11:48 am | #

        Well, of course the singularity’s naked. You know how hard it is to shop when you’re a singularity?

      • Dave
        February 27, 2012, 5:26 pm | #

        Dunno why… like Morticia Addams, your color scheme is quite simple… black, black, black, black, and (for a change) off-black.

      • Valkeiper
        February 28, 2012, 12:38 am | #

        Oh, come-on!

        Skeeve’s one of the most sane people in the comic scene. lousy fashion sense; but he knows that.

        Also, Skeeve’s circle of friends (and business associates) by far exceed Monica’s in power.

    • Joe Minotaur
      February 27, 2012, 9:15 am | # | Reply

      This may be why they couldn’t get into the Annex. They hadn’t met the new Receptionist yet!

      That, or this girl wasn’t invited by Phix, Nudge or the Library.

  3. shadowinthelight
    February 27, 2012, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    New girl has a “unique” sense of style.

    • Dave
      February 27, 2012, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      Sense of style? I think that particular style is lying senseless by the side of the road, having been stunned into immobility by an overwhelming clash of colors and conflicting patterns.

      • FatUncle
        February 27, 2012, 7:28 am | #

        And then was run over by an 18-wheeler.

        Jeeze!

        Maybe Nudge’s niece?

      • Valkeiper
        February 27, 2012, 1:43 pm | #

        nah, the entire CONCEPT of style was mugged and left groaning in the alley.

    • Yamara
      February 27, 2012, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      If it weren’t for the contemporary water bottle and backpack, I’d say she simply had been magically trapped there since 1971.

      • Francisco
        February 27, 2012, 4:43 am | #

        I was wondering if she was going to turn out to be Justin’s daughter but, given the dating of her fashion sense, she could be one of Justin’s parents.

      • kaibyo
        February 27, 2012, 7:24 am | #

        AAAhhh, c’mon. She doesn’t look any weirder than some of the characters I’ve seen wandering around RISD, here in Providence!

    • Jay-Em
      February 27, 2012, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      Yup!
      She has had style-advise by, either Jubilee, or Kitty Pride…

      • smilr
        February 27, 2012, 3:50 am | #

        I was thinking more she had traveled with Delirium, Morpheus’ sister.

      • Cherish Bloom
        February 27, 2012, 3:59 am | #

        No. not Delirium. No fish.

      • davids4250
        February 27, 2012, 4:17 am | #

        But she could be Delirium’s close friend.

      • Valkeiper
        February 27, 2012, 1:45 pm | #

        You must mean when Kitty VERY early in her association with the school (like when she interrupted Xavier’s investigation of Belasco).

      • Jay-Em
        February 28, 2012, 1:42 am | #

        Ayuppah!
        I regularly re-read the older issues, so Kitty’s fashion “experiments” are carved in my mind’s eye…in a very painful, visual cortex’ rootcanal kind of way, I might add.

  4. CmdrPowers
    February 27, 2012, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    THAT is what set of OTB’s crazy meter!

    • Leak
      February 27, 2012, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

      Fashion non-sense?

  5. Daniel
    February 27, 2012, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Is Justin’s crazy meter really that sensitive to go off when someone looks or dresses like that as well?

    • Danzier
      February 27, 2012, 1:08 am | # | Reply

      I’m wondering if Justin’s crazy meter is a physical object, like his appendix or something.

      • Maark30
        February 27, 2012, 1:49 am | #

        The same thought was hitting me when i saw the first panel. I wonder if it is part of his condition, Is he a living paranormal detector like Caliban in X-Men.

    • Valkeiper
      February 27, 2012, 2:20 am | # | Reply

      from what i see, his ‘crazy meter’ could have been very numbed by his recent experience of being par-broiled and STILL rang hard enough to hurt when…

      THAT…

      showed up.

      • Jay-Em
        February 27, 2012, 2:38 am | #

        Nah, his crazy-meter is confused. It’s actually his “eclectic-meter” that went off-the-scale.

        That young-lady has re-defined eclecticism…..

      • tygertyger
        February 27, 2012, 11:50 am | #

        Perhaps she was sentenced to the eclectic chair?

        [clink]

      • Kermit
        February 27, 2012, 1:27 pm | #

        For crimes against fashion, presumably.

      • Boxilar
        February 27, 2012, 9:27 am | #

        There’s a possibility that Justin’s crazy meter is being set off by Shelly. He just had his clothes and several inches of flesh blow torched off and Shellinix is speaking to the creatures that did it as if they had piddled on the rug.

        It may be that Shelly is falling back on behavior she developed in the time forrest. Her inital reaction when the cerberi showed up was that of a human, since she was doing her best to act human with Justin. After a quick reminder that the only thing she really has to fear is an older, more powerful Sphinx, Shelly’s reacting to the Hell hounds the way human Shelly would have dealt with a naughty puppy.

        Which to Justin, who is still healing and hurting, is flippin’ nuts!

        By the by, I love the resigned expression of the cerberus. It reminds me of Daffy Duck when he was captured by the Abominable Snow Man.

      • Daniel
        February 27, 2012, 5:20 pm | #

        I doubt that’s what it is. Why would his crazy meter go off now and it didn’t before because of Shelly? I think it makes more sense about the new girl there.

  6. Dave
    February 27, 2012, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Feeling a bit like Foghorn Leghorn and Duck Dodgers combined, let me just say “Who? What?? How?! Hunh?! What, I say what is goin’ on here?”

    Poor Justin. Getting flambe’d like that by mistake??

    • Dave
      February 27, 2012, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      And, it looks as if his glasses weren’t as flame-resistant as they may have seemed at first.

      • shadowinthelight
        February 27, 2012, 12:29 am | #

        The women and a few guys are probably glad his clothes were nowhere near flame resistant. I’m wondering if Shelly will get jealous at someone else seeing her officer’s tight buns.

      • ShneekeyTheLost
        February 27, 2012, 6:29 am | #

        I think a more pressing concern for Shelly would be the fact that she’s giving her own show for the amusement of most guys and a few women as well.

      • Boxilar
        February 27, 2012, 9:33 am | #

        Meh, Shelly was nekkid for 80k years. I’d be willing to bet she mostly wears clothes for others benifit, or as a way to reconnect with her humanity. She didn’t seem overly concerned the last time she was a gaint nude lion/eagle/person in public.

      • bmonk
        February 28, 2012, 11:03 am | #

        Besides, the whole concept of such a show is different when the person in question is a non-human. Or, as a sphinx, a partially-human.

    • illiad
      February 27, 2012, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      poor Justin, more pain coming, when he sees what awful fashion he will havta use to cover up….:O

      • Dave
        February 27, 2012, 1:32 am | #

        Ooogh. That amount of sartorial inelegance could be dangerous to the sanity of any innocent person on the street who happened to see him.

        I’m reminded of the hemi-human, dressed up in drag as an attempt at a disguise, from Spider Robinson’s “Half An Oaf”.

      • ChrisHerself
        February 27, 2012, 11:18 am | #

        I’m reminded of the time my guy friend and I were unexpectedly awashed in an element (ocean water though, not fire), and I had to loan him a midriff shirt with balloons printed on it, and a blanket to use as a sarong… we got funny looks in the grocery store.

      • Maark30
        February 27, 2012, 4:42 pm | #

        Nah They just have to request the Annex to bring the lost and found box and find some clothes in it. They will probably be dated, like 1580, but at least they will be clothing.

      • Wyvern
        February 27, 2012, 6:25 pm | #

        You’ve got a point; the Annex should have an awesome lost & found box.

  7. Jay-Em
    February 27, 2012, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    O_o whozzat??

    As if nutty Nudge weren’t enough, we get some weird orc/inca with a ehrm.. “unique” fashion sense.. This is getting interesting. And here I was, thinking that Mucho Mocha attracted weirdo’s… The library ups that quite considerably…

  8. Wolf
    February 27, 2012, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Pointy ears. Lower jaw, fangs. Upper jaw, rabbit teeth. Hands, claws. Backpack, water bottle, dress code out of the sixties –

    Yeah Justin, my crazy meter pegged too – who the bleep IS that, and what’s she doing there?

    At least the hell hound has the sense to look a bit disgusted 😉

    • Atomic
      February 27, 2012, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      Probably another trans-dimentional entity trying to blend into the local population and chose a college campus as role model. Looks like a Hippie Bunny Girl!

      • Casey
        February 27, 2012, 1:46 am | #

        Good, I’m not the only one getting a college student vibe from her.

      • Jay-Em
        February 27, 2012, 2:04 am | #

        The back-pack, water-bottle and peculiar fashion-sense sorta gives that away.
        Makes sense too, that she be in the library, I mean. Good for her. Using dead trees instead of just bing-ing or googling.

        Warms the cockles of my -old fashioned- heart.

      • Staying nameless for now
        February 27, 2012, 10:01 pm | #

        Remember. This is the library with the Matrix (“Guns. Lots of guns”) style search function.

        Not THAT much removed from Google.

    • Jay-Em
      February 27, 2012, 2:01 am | # | Reply

      “Early experiment”? Well, yeah, with a rat or a mouse, seeing the upper teeth..

      Only one way to find out *whips-out a piece of Edam 40+ *

    • Cyrus McDugan
      February 27, 2012, 3:47 am | # | Reply

      Oh! Oh! Oh! I know! I know!

      It’s a Wolpertinger!

  9. War
    February 27, 2012, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Crazy meter seems to be triggered by the tearing/removing of clothes. Or maybe it’s triggered by pain. Or both.

  10. QuasarMogul
    February 27, 2012, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Wondering if she’s not another librarian kinda like.. umm…. crap I can’t remember her name, the Southern Bell Gorgon girl. I completely blanked on her name but mayhaps this chicky has something of a similar job (if its a different annex of the library)

    • harukohoshiko
      February 27, 2012, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      Euryale? Not sure about that, atleast new character drop started on Monday! XD

    • QuasarMogul
      February 27, 2012, 12:53 am | # | Reply

      Op, my bad. It’s been a bit since reading it and I’ve blanked out on that. I thought she was helping out or something as well.

      • harukohoshiko
        February 27, 2012, 1:09 am | #

        Nope, she was just there doing research, can’t really blame you though, it can get hard to keep track of so many people especially when they don’t get mentioned for a while.

  11. Atomic
    February 27, 2012, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    Man o man I love this! I don’t know which is funnier:

    – Shelly doing baby talk to the formerly flaming hell hound(s),
    – Hippie Bunny Girl in 60s/punk regalia dropping her College supplies,
    – The view of HBG seeing a full size sphinx and ignoring it,
    – The view of HBG seeing a naked, seared man restoring 3d degree burns as she watches,
    or,
    – HBG apologizing for her fleabag hellhounds!

    Folks, we’re in for a ride here! Yaaaaaaaay!!!!!

    • Yamara
      February 27, 2012, 12:58 am | # | Reply

      So that’s what happened to Bongo’s other ear.

      Also I read “HBG” as “Harrisburg”, and trust me, Harrisburg never had this much crazy fun allowed out in public in the 1970s.

      • Atomic
        February 27, 2012, 1:10 am | #

        I’ll second that! As I live across the river from Harrisburg, the last thing even close to this was the Kipona festival a while back when the booze ran a little too freely….

      • W.
        February 27, 2012, 10:17 am | #

        Central PA. Where we give directions in relation to the Susquehanna River, or The River.

      • Yamara
        February 27, 2012, 6:04 pm | #

        Sometimes we may speak about Counties, but there is nothing beyond those counties.

        The mysterious State College is said to lie beyond the Blue Mountains. It is surrounded by darkness and dragons, and only the magic of Mount Nittany holds them at bay.

        The Blue Mountains are the tallest in the world.

      • bmonk
        February 28, 2012, 11:06 am | #

        Is that anything like the New Yorker, who asked a tourist, “And where are you from?”

        “I’m from Iowa.”

        “Well! Here in the City, we pronounce it ‘Ohio’!”

      • Jay-Em
        February 27, 2012, 2:06 am | #

        That bad???

  12. Dafydd
    February 27, 2012, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Oh my god, the dog’s expression is priceless. 😀

    • Dave
      February 27, 2012, 12:55 am | # | Reply

      I think the hellhound must know Dietzel. They’ve both got the expression of disgruntled longsuffering down pat.

      • illiad
        February 27, 2012, 1:02 am | #

        Nat, its just the usual “beaten by something larger” one…:-)

    • CptNerd
      February 27, 2012, 1:39 am | # | Reply

      Pouty parboiled puppy is pouty…

  13. Joe Minotaur
    February 27, 2012, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    Can we (ass)(u)(me) that the scanner issues are resolved?

    I don’t think those are feathers, but they may be a part of her headband and not horns. Then again… what do I know about horns?

    • Danzier
      February 27, 2012, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      mm, minotaur horn, weighs five pounds, worth 55 septims, friggin’ useless for alchemy compaired to its weight….

      Ok so I’ve been playing Oblivion all day… 😉

      • Joe Minotaur
        February 27, 2012, 1:22 am | #

        For the last week, I’ve been playing installments from the: F.E.A.R. series. I have the original F.E.A.R.(First Encounter Assault Recon), F.E.A.R. Extraction Point, F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate, F.E.A.R. 2 and F.E.A.R. 3.
        I’m surprised that all of them will play on my Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium machine.

      • Danzier
        February 27, 2012, 1:31 am | #

        Same system, different game. I’m rather surprised at how well W7 handles games. But I’m not the most hardcore of gamers, and I don’t expect a lot from it.

      • ChattaStarhawk
        February 27, 2012, 1:42 am | #

        Yep, their weight is a pain in the back(pack). I tend to use them for potions as quickly as possible rather than carry them out to a shop for cash. (One day I’ll get around to finishing that game, but not before ME3 arrives and consumes my gaming time.)

      • Jay-Em
        February 27, 2012, 2:13 am | #

        55 septims??? How bloody high is Your trade-perk??? I can get 25 septims at best.

        Though, being quite versed in destruction magic, I just zap a couple of Liches, quite rewarding, though ending-up pretty singed myself more often than not..
        For strange, useless stuff, try dragon-bones and dwarven cogs in Skyrim.. still not high-level enough to see what they’re for.

        By the by, Skyrim is só utterly, baffling beautiful, especially the woods on the lower regions.. I often stop in total amazement (and then get mangled by wolves..meh.. )

      • Julie
        February 27, 2012, 9:49 am | #

        Thank you for reminding me to nudge my husband back into playing Skyrim. 🙂 He hasn’t beaten the game yet, and I like watching the pretty. 🙂 🙂

      • Danzier
        February 28, 2012, 1:37 am | #

        You can get nearly full price for ’em if you rule the Mages’ Guild; the potion guys in Anvil and Chorral both pay out the wazoo for anything I sell ’em. Don’t forget to haggle!

      • Jay-Em
        February 28, 2012, 1:54 am | #

        oh.. mages guild.. I see,
        one of those things I am still “about to do”
        There’s just too much to “do” in Tamriel alone. Last time I checked, I spent 175 hours in total, Skyrim is at 30 hrs already, and I am not even close to ending Skyrim’s main “mission”

        On topic: Her backpack is quite heavy. All of them books that are too late? Makes sense to send the Hell-hounds after one then.

      • Fossegrim
        February 27, 2012, 11:49 am | #

        Oh boy, and /how/. Except for me it’s Skyrim. Anyone else thinking HBG looks sort of like a jackrabbit?

      • Atomic
        February 27, 2012, 12:29 pm | #

        Ummm.. that’s the B part of Hippie Bunny Girl!

  14. Danzier
    February 27, 2012, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    Justin: “Yes. Ma’am, you do know the city codes regarding dangerous animals? I’m afraid I’ll have to call in animal control if you can’t restrain your …fleabags.”
    New Girl: “You have no radio.”
    Shelly: “He means me. Grrrr. rOwr.. I’m ‘not’ letting you chop down the sacred tree…”

    • Maark30
      February 27, 2012, 1:08 am | # | Reply

      (SPIT-TAKE) Good shot there lady friend

    • Yamara
      February 27, 2012, 10:45 am | # | Reply

      Cerberi: *whine whine* (we diddin pee on da tree. we diddint)

  15. Sgt. Howard
    February 27, 2012, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    AND NOW… IN THE CENTER RING… MISSY RAINBOW SUNBEAM MOONDUST and her AMAZING NAPALM PUPPIES!!! Yes ladies and Gentlemen Missy Moondust just floated in from the 1960s netherworld where reality is no more than a concept. The illegitimate offspring of Chuck Jones and Pippi Longstockings has entertained the crowned heads of Europe (after execution) for the past four decades and now comes to America, where she will do her renown one… creatue…?… “Reality What Is?” show!!!
    I love the disgruntled, tail-tucked pyro-puppy btw…

    • Sgt. Howard
      February 27, 2012, 1:11 am | # | Reply

      … or was her Daddy Lurch?

  16. Sgt. Howard
    February 27, 2012, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    BTW- THAT’s what happens when you apply blush with a potato peeler

    • davids4250
      February 27, 2012, 4:02 am | # | Reply

      I gotta ‘member that!

    • FatUncle
      February 27, 2012, 7:31 am | # | Reply

      Oooo, oooo, good one!

      • Maark30
        February 28, 2012, 12:31 am | #

        Learch: Youu Ranggg?
        Morticia: Learch, what is this about a paternity test?
        Learch: mmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!

  17. Joe Minotaur
    February 27, 2012, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    VOTE!! VOTE!! VOTE!!
    It’s time that Wapsi Square broke through and into the TOP WEBCOMIC Rankings at 35 or better!
    Click on the blue/white button just below the comic on the right! Follow the directions! So simple, a cavenam could do it!
    VOTE!! VOTE!! VOTE!!

    • Joe Minotaur
      February 27, 2012, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      Too bad a “Cavenam” couldn’t have written my last post! He might have spelled it right.

      • Jay-Em
        February 27, 2012, 2:17 am | #

        Meh.. middn’t even dotice…

    • FatUncle
      February 27, 2012, 7:33 am | # | Reply

      I vote 7 days a week. Open the site, read the cartoon, hit the vote button, vote, go to comments.

      • Julie
        February 27, 2012, 9:52 am | #

        I really should do it in that order. I just keep missing the vote button…which means I forget it’s there at all. 🙁

        I voted today though! 🙂

  18. Gypsy
    February 27, 2012, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    I LOVE the expression on the hound’s face! “Babe, you burned my muzzle. I can’t believe you actually BURNED my muzzle! If you were about ten feet smaller, I’d bite you.”

  19. Opus the Poet
    February 27, 2012, 1:16 am | # | Reply

    Actually she looks more like a cross between Waldo and a female Beetlejuice…

    • Casey
      February 27, 2012, 1:47 am | # | Reply

      That can’t be. She’s far too easy to find for that.

      • Valkeiper
        February 27, 2012, 2:07 am | #

        I rather wish it was more difficult to find her.

        What an outfit!!!

    • Maark30
      February 27, 2012, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

      (The sound of crickets is loud)

    • Kessog
      February 27, 2012, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

      We actually found Waldo on the way to the kid’s bowling tournament. It’s a small town on route 23, 10 klicks south of Marion Ohio.

      • Danzier
        February 28, 2012, 1:42 am | #

        Meanwhile in France, they’re still hunting “Charlie”… /shrug

    • bmonk
      February 28, 2012, 11:10 am | # | Reply

      “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?”

  20. BKWhite
    February 27, 2012, 1:25 am | # | Reply

    I worked on a contemporary version of ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in college once. She looks like Mustardseed.

    • Maark30
      February 27, 2012, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

      Great I now have a mental image of her voice as high pitched whine from a friend that played Mustard-seed in my H.S. production in the mid 80’s.

  21. NOTDilbert
    February 27, 2012, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    Goblin Girl.
    OMG.
    We really DID come in the wrong building….

    • TlalocW
      February 27, 2012, 1:46 am | # | Reply

      Hob-noblin’, with the goblin’
      The Goblin’ Girl from the mystery world
      Hob-noblin’ with the goblin’
      She’s black and green ’cause it’s Halloween
      Raggedy black is the way she dress
      Little green shoes and her hair’s a mess
      – Frank Zappa

      And I have to say that the hell-puppies are so cute.

      • NOTDilbert
        February 28, 2012, 3:33 am | #

        Somewhere there is a song about everything. Corolary: And a U-tube video.

  22. Caldi-Chan
    February 27, 2012, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    Either Jack-Ching-Botta Bing (Amercia’s funniest people) had a daughter, or that’s Discords 9MLP: FiM) Estranged sister, Or it’s a female Jabber wocky.

  23. jwhouk
    February 27, 2012, 1:50 am | # | Reply

    I gots me a little theory.

    We’ve all seen M’s demons way back when, right? (too lazy to do an archive troll to go back to them all).

    What if all of them are “based upon” some existing mythological beast(s)?

    • Jay-Em
      February 27, 2012, 2:46 am | # | Reply

      Hmm.no, I think not. M’s demons are very clearly based on her negative character-traits, vanity, insecurity, self-loathing, fear, etc etc

      Mythical creatures have quite consistantly, always been physical, external entities in WapsiSquare.

    • Dave
      February 27, 2012, 10:29 am | # | Reply

      So, you’re figuring that this young lady may be the mythological “beast” who inspires the form and behavior of a whole cohort of demons?

      Could be, I suppose. Late 60’s to early 70’s hippie garb… college student age… she’s protesting something (what her dogs did, in this case)…

      Get it. Her name must by Stration.

      • Maark30
        February 27, 2012, 4:54 pm | #

        She would explains some of the characters written about in fantasy stories in the 60’s. Take a hit of acid and she takes off her human facade, instant psychedelic trip.

  24. Maark30
    February 27, 2012, 2:12 am | # | Reply

    I would think she is a trickster, sort of like nudge. Maybe a little sister.

  25. Stigmartyr762
    February 27, 2012, 2:17 am | # | Reply

    Does Nudge have a little sister?

    I can only imagine just how obnoxious she would look if this strip were in color.

    The look on the hell hounds face is hilarious. LMAO!!!

  26. Jay-Em
    February 27, 2012, 2:24 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, I think I’d go with Nudge’s kid-sister, like Maark30 and Stigmartyr762, or maybe a close Niece Orrrr… Nudge has a daughter she forget to mention…

    Face-markings are remarkably like Nudge’s. That cannot be coincidence. There is NO such thing as “coincidence”in the Wapsiverse.

  27. Valkeiper
    February 27, 2012, 2:30 am | # | Reply

    I know everybody is wondering who this escapee from a 1960s hippy insane asylum is; but I just have to laugh at the hell hound’s look.

    That is one p***ed off pooch. His own nose got burnt to the point it’s STILL smoking and now the woman who manhandled him is treating him like a helpless puppy.

    • as363
      February 27, 2012, 2:54 am | # | Reply

      Anyone she chosse to handle while she is in “Sphinx” mode would look like a helpless puppy .. Just saying .

  28. Valkeiper
    February 27, 2012, 2:43 am | # | Reply

    hmmm… weren’t there TWO hell hounds?

    • Leak
      February 27, 2012, 2:47 am | # | Reply

      Maybe one of them is licking Justin’s toes and is what is setting off his crazy meter… 😀

    • Fairportfan
      February 27, 2012, 4:20 am | # | Reply

      The other one is sulking in a corner, where this one would be, too, if the big cat-lady hadn’t grabbed him…

      • Fairportfan
        February 27, 2012, 8:18 am | #

        Make that “…big scary cat lady…”

      • Boxilar
        February 27, 2012, 9:48 am | #

        Well, look at it from the Hell hound’s perspective. Here you are, confident in your power, when suddenly your latest victim up and turns into one of the universe’s apex predators. Your life flashes before your eyes as you await your inevitable and gruesome demise. The mighty Sphinx grabs you in its talons and a small part of you, the part that isn’t overwhelmed by primal terror, feels a small pride that this is how you’re going to go out. Struck down by one of the universe’s mightiest killers.

        Then she procedes to tell you that you’re a naughty puppy, yes you are! Yes you are!

        Might bruise the old ego a bit.

      • Maark30
        February 27, 2012, 4:56 pm | #

        Guess that fleabag is gonna have a “doggie identity” crisis after all this.

  29. Leak
    February 27, 2012, 2:44 am | # | Reply

    Someone’s got a very bad case of the late sixties, methinks…

  30. Valkeiper
    February 27, 2012, 2:59 am | # | Reply

    Let’s say the water bottle and backpack are standard size.

    Little Miss Eyesore stands 5 foot, 2-4, weighs about 105 pounds.

    Her figure would make just about any tailor cringe at the thought off dressing her.

    Look at that waist… couldn’t be 15 inches around.

    Hips… closer to 35 inches than 20.

    look how that belt is sitting… sheesh!

    Despite appearances, that dress has to be a two-piece (blouse and skirt). A one-piece dress with those measurements would need horizontal fasteners as well as a standard vertical. Otherwise, the… girl?… could not get her legs into the thing to put the dress on.

    • Valkeiper
      February 27, 2012, 3:01 am | # | Reply

      on second thought, if the zipper went well south of the hip-line… maybe.

    • My2Cents
      February 27, 2012, 3:31 am | # | Reply

      Look at the hands! That has to be an ultrastretch top to get them through those tight sleeves.

    • ChrisHerself
      February 27, 2012, 11:21 am | # | Reply

      And how does she get her head through the shirt’s collar? Or her feet past the ankles on those boots?

      THAT’S IT I’M DONE READING THIS COMIC FOREVER IT’S TOO UNREALISTIC

      • illiad
        February 27, 2012, 1:36 pm | #

        you never heard of zips or stretch fabric????

    • Dave
      February 27, 2012, 11:41 am | # | Reply

      I’m going to guess that her clothing is actually made from a heat-shrink fiber, like some electrical insulation that’s commonly used. It’d be loose enough to slide unto (or wrap like a sarong) and then a little blast of heat makes it shrink by 50% or so in diameter, and it’s snug. In the evening, just slit it down the side, peel it off, and recycle.

      It would explain why she bothers to keep two knucklehead fleabag cerberi around. They’re not just pets… they’re an essential fashion accessory for her chosen lifestyle.

      • Valkeiper
        February 27, 2012, 5:57 pm | #

        maybe she has been reading some of Reed Richard’s articles (creator of the Marvel universe’s “unstable molecule” costumes).

        She got the formula right except the part of ‘stable fashion’.

      • Danzier
        February 28, 2012, 1:47 am | #

        What do you want–yellow spandex?

  31. Yarner42
    February 27, 2012, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    Ok, now it’s official. Entering the annex is dangerous – it’s full of absent-mindedly lethal nutjobs – and those are only the readers!

    • Yamara
      February 27, 2012, 10:38 am | # | Reply

      The readers don’t know what they’ll find by definition.

      The apos, I’d imagine, are sharp-focused lethal nutjobs.

      • Yarner42
        February 27, 2012, 10:53 am | #

        Actually, I was recently wondering what the apos will look like – we’ve heard so much about them.
        Also, I really want to see one being scared to death by Creepy Little Girl 🙂

      • Valkeiper
        February 27, 2012, 6:00 pm | #

        Shelly and Phix are female apos-sphinxes. Shouldn’t take much to imagine a male.

        Attach a lion’s head (with mane) and other appropriate equipment.

      • Boxilar
        February 28, 2012, 1:20 am | #

        Can’t remember, is Phix an apotropic Sphinx? I’m pretty sure Shelly isn’t;she defines herself as a “Gardian Sphinx” while the Apos are Demon hunters.

    • Leak
      February 27, 2012, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

      Hey, I resemble that comment! *shakes fist*

  32. Bob!
    February 27, 2012, 3:23 am | # | Reply

    Att: Joan, Kelly, we have a winner for Worst Dressed

  33. waldosan
    February 27, 2012, 3:24 am | # | Reply

    hurray for tasteful nuddity!

    • Wyvern
      February 27, 2012, 6:34 pm | # | Reply

      Considering the fashion sense of the only dressed character in the strip, I’ll happily choose nudity.

  34. davids4250
    February 27, 2012, 3:49 am | # | Reply

    Of course we all saw this coming, didn’t we? Congratulations, Paul. Bravo!
    I don’t know who she is, but I kinda like her already! Haven’t seen clothes like that for a looooong time. Paul, any chance we can see this in color sometime?

    • Dave
      February 27, 2012, 10:47 am | # | Reply

      It continues to amaze me how Paul can put the mood of the strip through such amazing high-speed bootlegger turns (serious to funny, or light-and-humorous to starkly horrifying) and pull it off so well.

  35. Cyrus McDugan
    February 27, 2012, 3:52 am | # | Reply

    Now, that Shelly is so huge, her giant biceps are more frightening. But it also looks good.

    (I wouldn’t discuss it with her.)

  36. Cherish Bloom
    February 27, 2012, 3:55 am | # | Reply

    Now MY crazy meter just went off.

  37. Becky
    February 27, 2012, 4:31 am | # | Reply

    Did someone from the sixties loose their acid trip? Its baaaaaaack and cuter than ever. I’m thinking a rat demon of the Neverwhere Kind.

    • Dave
      February 27, 2012, 11:54 am | # | Reply

      So, this might be Anesthesia’s cousin, Synesthesia?

      • Atomic
        February 27, 2012, 12:25 pm | #

        +1 interwebs for you!

        Pun Jar clogging donation required…

      • Dave
        February 27, 2012, 4:17 pm | #

        Well, it’s not so much a pun as an allusion… but I don’t think we have a Cask of Allusions handy, so I suppose a donation to the Pun Jar is the best practical thing to do.

        Let’s see… (one dark metal key, several quartz beads found at the foot of the Night’s Bridge, and a sad sigh…)

  38. MerchManDan
    February 27, 2012, 4:46 am | # | Reply

    …okay, know what? I’m just gonna kick back & watch this happen. No guesses, no assumptions. Just let the story unfold; this has GOT to be good.

  39. Francisco
    February 27, 2012, 4:53 am | # | Reply

    I expect Phix to turn up and say to our newcomer something to the effect of:

    “How many times do I have to say: No dogs in the library!”

    I now Shelly was denied access to the library to deal with dog problem.

    • Francisco
      February 27, 2012, 4:54 am | # | Reply

      Sorry that should read:

      “I now suspect that Shelly…”

  40. Bucc-i
    February 27, 2012, 5:10 am | # | Reply

    Never under estimate the power of belly rubs!
    Also, this is why pets are not allowed inside the library!

  41. Kerinbot
    February 27, 2012, 5:23 am | # | Reply

    Ooo -la-la! That is some serious Beefcake!

    How much is it to buy the art for this page?….
    (want want want!)

    Kerin 🙂

  42. Fairportfan
    February 27, 2012, 5:29 am | # | Reply

    I thought it was Nudge in another attempt to blend in in human society…

    • FatUncle
      February 27, 2012, 7:36 am | # | Reply

      I was getting a little worried about you … hadn’t seen any comments from you, lately.

      • Fairportfan
        February 27, 2012, 8:25 am | #

        Haven’t had much to say that others haven’t said first.

        Plus, i’ve been Soccer-Grandmike for a household with four adults (one with an 8 to 5 job, two with varying school hours, one of those twenty miles away) and a kindergarten granddaughter and a not-in-school four-year-old granddaughter and just one car until Hlen and Steve manage to replace theirs…

        Tends to cut down on the energy,

      • Ratcatcher
        March 1, 2012, 5:38 am | #

        Fairportfan- Low energy? You need one of those V cells to help with that big a problem.

    • ChattaStarhawk
      February 27, 2012, 7:46 am | # | Reply

      Nope, Nudge has ram horns, and isn’t quite so unaware of current fashion.

  43. Swede
    February 27, 2012, 6:23 am | # | Reply

    Scary hippie looks scary.

  44. Fairportfan
    February 27, 2012, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    That pup’s dirty look would do credit to Dietzel at his most disgusted…

    • Fairportfan
      February 27, 2012, 6:53 pm | # | Reply

      Nah – f she had my luck with puppies, it’d pee on her.

      • bmonk
        February 28, 2012, 11:13 am | #

        And, if their breath causes fires, what might their pee do???

  45. The Old Wolf
    February 27, 2012, 9:05 am | # | Reply

    Great laugh to start the week! New character, frustrated guard-puppy, and Justin’s crazymeter redlining. Love it… 😀

    • Yamara
      February 27, 2012, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah. It also needs to be said that this is the first we’ve seen Shelly in sphinx form when she hasn’t been wracked with drama. That’s good to see, too.

  46. Rowan Hawthorn
    February 27, 2012, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    Mmmmmmmm, *hot dogs*….. 😀

  47. Julie
    February 27, 2012, 9:53 am | # | Reply

    It says something about how amazingly funny that dog’s face is that I’m not nearly as enthralled with postulating about the new girl as I am by giggling at the pooch. 🙂

    • Julie
      February 27, 2012, 9:53 am | # | Reply

      Then again…maybe it’s just because it’s Monday and I have faith that I’ll get an answer before Friday. 😛

      • Valkeiper
        February 28, 2012, 12:23 am | #

        Look how many strips it took to get a handle on Euryale… and Little Miss Eyesore is much worse.

  48. eee
    February 27, 2012, 9:56 am | # | Reply

    Woo. Justin. Woo. And I’m a heterosexual male. No wonder Shelly didn’t want to give that up!

    His hair apparently regenerates, too.

    As to whatever she is: Yeah. Can’t really top any of the comments made so far… I would suspect she’s a gatekeeper or supernatural security guard who took a few minutes off to go do something else, never expecting anyone would try to enter the Library while she was gone… Unless she IS the Library, or its AI, taking on human (sort of) form and running errands. Which would explain why Shelly and Justin couldn’t find it…

    • Yarner42
      February 27, 2012, 10:56 am | # | Reply

      You know, that’s an interesting problem.
      If he regenerates every damage in a matter of minutes, just HOW the HECK does he keep his hair short?

      🙂

  49. Heph
    February 27, 2012, 9:57 am | # | Reply

    Heh nice fanservice for the female readers 😀 . Will be that piece available in a auction too?

    • ChrisHerself
      February 27, 2012, 11:23 am | # | Reply

      Go oooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnn…….

  50. kingklash
    February 27, 2012, 10:35 am | # | Reply

    Is this one another fangirl of the group?

    • Valkeiper
      February 27, 2012, 6:08 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, that’s all we need…

      Euryale turning up and we find out this is the fan club’s vice president of ‘public relations’.

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