BTW- there was an earlier comment that Paul doesn’t draw female thighs with any amount of mass- I suggest that panel 1 proves differently… as well as a delightful muffin top…
Paul draws all types as a mater of character definition.
For instance, Bud has a pair of gams that can kill, but complains about being stuck with a too small a bust.
I don’t really buy the spec that M is preggers but it is fun to imagine. I would love to see her screaming at her kid “Don’t make me poit you to your room without dinner!”.
Actually they do. Tinas dressing team of demons was making all sorts of remarks about fitting in the clothes. Monica is fed up with herself as well. Doesn’t this sound like a lead in to ‘Lets Exercise Together!’ Mutual support during the agony of getting in shape. Shelly may drop in and offer to coach them. This line would offer all sorts of jokes and other fun strips about the process. Monica jogging would soon look like a parade. Tina pumping iron, or bending it, would keep the guys in line. Connie would referee during the donnybrookes when Kevin objects to all the oattention Monica draws. This could provide a lot of opportunities for this summers strips indeed.
Yup. I have found that when Paul goes to the trouble to point out mundane details, especially if he does it with 2 or more updates, then he is going to make a plot point. And lets face the facts, this is what he has done for our two ladies here. He even made sure to give Tina cellulite in the earlier strips HERE & HERE
Actually they are both talking about the same things. Both lists defy the laws of physics on a regular basis. High heels indicate a state of higher energy levels. Push up bras are involved in dark matter containment. The push-pull effect I’ll let you figure out.
Oh man… I would love to pick Tina’s brain (demons) for her theories (or facts) on dark matter. While I’m never going to be a physicist (too much work), its always fun to speculate. 😀
I can just see that in the near future someone that reads this comic will find proof that Paul is right about Dark Matter and will call it the Taylor Hypothesis in a show of his esteem for the artist. ;-p
Well, women’s fashion always was a bit of a Dark Art to most men, now we have confirmation that Dark Matter is involved as well… no wonder we can’t figure them out…
@Dave: Have you ever seen one of those big comercial espresso multi-beverage brewers taken apart? It requires at least an advanced physics degree to service one….
It only took Agatha three explosions to figure out the perfect coffee machine, so lay off! I do that much for a warm-up… I SOOOO LOVE DETCORD!!! Almost as much fun as C-4 itself…
I think, in all seriousness, that the Companion’s reference to Tina’s push-up bra was to the body that Tina’s demons are animating. Remember, the Companion sees the conglomeration of demons directly. I think that she feels the body is an artificial enhancement to make the demons more attractive to the human eye.
and you hit the problem dead-on. past a certain size, you just dont manage “perky” any longer. gravity SUCKS.
not to mention that no two bra manufacturers agree on a standard as far as what size a size is…even in one STYLE to the next of their own brands! damn women’s non-industry-standard “sizing”.
Tina know about the quantum nature of dark matter, and yet she can run over her arm while trying to parallel park a car? Well I guess that certainly explains things.
Being chaotic and timeless, they find it difficult to be constrained by anything as utterly deterministic as Newton’s three laws. I suspect that’s why they seem to resist taking direct corporeal form… they hate being bound to the rules of brute matter.
Ya know, if M took off those heels, she’d look like my daughter, half a head shorter than the counter and looking up like it’s the only direction there is. Possible exaggeration but hey.
I just finished a trawl of at least the last two years. Paul has actually done that sort of art thing before. I suspect he just gets extra inspired sometimes and gives us something special.
Last Weeks was for Special Occasions. I admit I would like to see how the rest of the cast would look in sephia. Maybe Paul will do a ‘Cast Shot’ with everybody.
Monica isn’t listening… Maybe the dark matter Tina’s talking about can be used on people to give them back some of their youthful bounciness and tautness. 🙂
That may be open to question. Some recent studies suggest that the area of the galaxy in which our solar system resides, doesn’t show the sort of gravitational anomalies which are the primary sign of the presence of dark matter. If true, dark matter may be scarce or absent around here, and thus hard or impossible to actually detect. This would disappoint researchers, who would love to actually catch a few dark matter particles interacting with something and figure out what they actually are.
Nobody has a convincing explanation for why Earth should be unusually free of dark matter. I don’t buy the idea that it’s because humans are exceptionally enlightened 🙂
Actually, i was just reading something online (at National Geographic) about dark matter that said the latest theory is that it’s primarily WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Particles), and that, in fact, the Earth – and your body – are probably being penetrated by WIMPs on a regular basis, to the extent that the average person’s body may experience a collision between a WIMP and an atomic nuclei as often as one every minute.
This report is only about a week old. The problem with the “dark matter as WIMPs” hypothesis, it seems, is that in the immediate neighborhood of our solar system there doesn’t seem to be any significant amount of “missing mass”. The motions of stars within about 10k lightyears of us, is well accounted for by the “visible” mass… there doesn’t seem to be evidence of “hidden mass” from dark matter in our area.
That’s not true of the galaxy as a whole, though… there’s quite a lot of “dark” or “missing” mass.
Was that a paper NatGeo article, or on-line? Dead-tree versions have a much longer lead time between editorial completion and publication.
In any case… this is an exciting field, with a lot of new data coming in, and differing hypotheses and interpretations about what’s being seen and What It All Means. Definitely worth keeping an eye on!
with Monica nearly in tears
her bustline just then dissappears
while Tina’s cupcake
doth make it’s escape
(thank God they both still have their rears!)
Who you trying to kid, FPF? For her we need to invent the gravity lens and install one under each cup, only way to prevent the stress on the shoulders from eventually warping her spine!
It was a treat to see the colored strips from Paul, but he has done it before and I was pretty sure it was for a special occasion and was suprised everyone thought it was permanent. However, believe it or not, I actually like the black and white strips the best. I grew up reading The Savage Sword Of Conan, because I liked the black and white art better than the colored comics. Yeah, I color once in a while, but even Savage Sword had covers in color.
hehehehe.. Tina, Tina.. as always a bit removed from “the mundane”.
Aw, she read that on a donut. 😉
Shazowie!
Belly belly belly belly!
Oh belly demon…you’re my favorite. 🙂
Jay-Em, are you commenting on Tina’s comment in panel 3? I’ve got to mail order one of those babelfishies to figure out what she’s saying…
Sorry… Babelfish doesn’t translate Physics geek into English… they’re trying though…
Bah! Tina is equally daft! She can see all manner of things but can’t see a zygote implanted in the endometrial wall! I love it!
Sarge, I do believe you have baby on the brain.
We shall see…
BTW- there was an earlier comment that Paul doesn’t draw female thighs with any amount of mass- I suggest that panel 1 proves differently… as well as a delightful muffin top…
Paul draws all types as a mater of character definition.
For instance, Bud has a pair of gams that can kill, but complains about being stuck with a too small a bust.
I don’t really buy the spec that M is preggers but it is fun to imagine. I would love to see her screaming at her kid “Don’t make me poit you to your room without dinner!”.
I agree with SITL. Unless, of course, the idea is to get M preggers so Tina has a soul she can “steal”.
😀 😀 and the chance to get M even bigger!!! 😀 😀
Just think of the comedy potential!!
“shaddup bud! Its me that’s feeling as big as a planet!!!”
@jwhouk – If it’s zygotes what have the souls, couldn’t Tina just use her healthcare-Jedi powers at an in vitro clinic?
Oh, how i could say that to my four-year-old granddaughter and actually mean it.
Who needs an epidural? >POIT<
To mangle a quote from Look Who’s Talking: “Poit me back in!”
*cashing in on an advance pun jar payment made a while back*
Imagine this in the Babybook. Before babys first “step”, we have Babys first ‘POIT’.
ho, ho!! 😀 yes, picture the scene, anguished moans of 9 month gone M, trying to sleep..
{poit}
M thinks, hey, that wasnt me!!!..
M hears {baby sounds in her brain} – yeah, it was gettin waaay to cramped in there!! Now open up shop, I’m very hungry!! 🙂
@Illiad the ability to poit is dependent on being able to read glyph, not something genetic, so not a likely scenario.
Now we can get to Tina and Monica having similar problems to work through. (I am just glad that it means more Tina)
Actually they do. Tinas dressing team of demons was making all sorts of remarks about fitting in the clothes. Monica is fed up with herself as well. Doesn’t this sound like a lead in to ‘Lets Exercise Together!’ Mutual support during the agony of getting in shape. Shelly may drop in and offer to coach them. This line would offer all sorts of jokes and other fun strips about the process. Monica jogging would soon look like a parade. Tina pumping iron, or bending it, would keep the guys in line. Connie would referee during the donnybrookes when Kevin objects to all the oattention Monica draws. This could provide a lot of opportunities for this summers strips indeed.
I think you’re right. Hence, the rather clear if understated attention given to Tina’s developing muffin top. Today’s strip brings them both together.
Yup. I have found that when Paul goes to the trouble to point out mundane details, especially if he does it with 2 or more updates, then he is going to make a plot point. And lets face the facts, this is what he has done for our two ladies here. He even made sure to give Tina cellulite in the earlier strips HERE & HERE
Shoot, I think I messed up the links. here they are again http://wapsisquare.com/comic/let-this-happen/ & http://wapsisquare.com/comic/in-layers/
“Push up Bras, Tummy Containing Skirts, and High Heels!”?
Sounds more like 11th, 12th and 19th dimensions.
Clothing has a calculus all its own.
I’d have said a gravity…
*plonk* Oh, I didn’t know I still had that… Lead weights for a pine derby car, whoda thunk?
Like that famous pin-up photo of the bikini-clad beauty on a beach, with the calculations superimposed over her swimsuit top?
Heh. “A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown“
That too–but not the one I was remembering. That one had a beauty laying head toward the camera, with calculations superimposed over her bra.
🙄 Especially women’s clothing 😖
Actually they are both talking about the same things. Both lists defy the laws of physics on a regular basis. High heels indicate a state of higher energy levels. Push up bras are involved in dark matter containment. The push-pull effect I’ll let you figure out.
giggle!
Oh man… I would love to pick Tina’s brain (demons) for her theories (or facts) on dark matter. While I’m never going to be a physicist (too much work), its always fun to speculate. 😀
I can just see that in the near future someone that reads this comic will find proof that Paul is right about Dark Matter and will call it the Taylor Hypothesis in a show of his esteem for the artist. ;-p
Hmmm. I guess all that talk about Monica needing to exercise more, was pretty much on target.
Compared to last week, she’s definitely looking pale and anemic. Definitely needs toning up.
And Tina’s a paradimensional astrophysicist as well as a fine barista. Who knew?
Well, women’s fashion always was a bit of a Dark Art to most men, now we have confirmation that Dark Matter is involved as well… no wonder we can’t figure them out…
@Dave: Have you ever seen one of those big comercial espresso multi-beverage brewers taken apart? It requires at least an advanced physics degree to service one….
Paging Agatha Heterodyne!
We’ve already had proof that mixing said machine with her is dangerous!
It only took Agatha three explosions to figure out the perfect coffee machine, so lay off! I do that much for a warm-up… I SOOOO LOVE DETCORD!!! Almost as much fun as C-4 itself…
Who knew Tina was a TimeLord, and her place is a TARDIS.
Careful what you joke about Doctor. We do deal with lots of Timey Wimey other dimensional things in the comic after all.
Tomorrow: Enter Shelly and Connie.
Connie will have something to say about push-up bras.
Like how Monica doesn’t need them?
I think, in all seriousness, that the Companion’s reference to Tina’s push-up bra was to the body that Tina’s demons are animating. Remember, the Companion sees the conglomeration of demons directly. I think that she feels the body is an artificial enhancement to make the demons more attractive to the human eye.
erm, she does, for her safety.. see ‘braless-pirouettes’ comic.. 🙂
also without them you look just fat, as they slip to the waist..
and you hit the problem dead-on. past a certain size, you just dont manage “perky” any longer. gravity SUCKS.
not to mention that no two bra manufacturers agree on a standard as far as what size a size is…even in one STYLE to the next of their own brands! damn women’s non-industry-standard “sizing”.
Tina know about the quantum nature of dark matter, and yet she can run over her arm while trying to parallel park a car? Well I guess that certainly explains things.
Higher dimensions and string theory? It’s where demons live. Total comfort zone.
Newtonian physics!? Spooky, spooky sh*t.
Newtonian physics ain’t that spooky… his third law (that governs recoil) kinda sucks…
Newtonian physics is spooky to demons.
Being chaotic and timeless, they find it difficult to be constrained by anything as utterly deterministic as Newton’s three laws. I suspect that’s why they seem to resist taking direct corporeal form… they hate being bound to the rules of brute matter.
…until chaos kicks in. As a practical matter, most events are not completely predictable, even in theory.
Actually, it kind of pushes….
<< pours some milk into the pun jar
Just so long as Monica doesn’t >poit< into vacuum – that would really suck.
*plink*
Tina’s a special kind of intelligent.
(Yes that’s a Skin Horse ref).
Tina is a sentient colony of bees???????
Yes. Tina is comfortable talking about the quantum physics effects, while Monica is simply interested in the physical engineering results.
Oooh, go on Tina, talk dirty to us!
Panel 3 thoughts…
Ya know, if M took off those heels, she’d look like my daughter, half a head shorter than the counter and looking up like it’s the only direction there is. Possible exaggeration but hey.
Tina has a muffin top. Ha ha
Tina got a haircut.
Sounds like Monica’s got the Monday Blahs real bad.
Okay…. curious, what happened to the new style?
Better lighting?
I just finished a trawl of at least the last two years. Paul has actually done that sort of art thing before. I suspect he just gets extra inspired sometimes and gives us something special.
Those are fun to do, I need to find a weekend afternoon and do that again.
I like the current style.
I do as well.
Present in the strip are demons and matter-containing unmentionables. It follows by virtue of proximity that said underthings are demonic…
Ohhh. Tina might be wearing DOOMPANTIES!!!
The Current Erie Cuties story line.
Glad we’re back to the regular art style. The other is interesting, but this is much cleaner and bolder.
aw, I was loving the watercolor like art style. I’m sad to see we’re back to this.
Last Weeks was for Special Occasions. I admit I would like to see how the rest of the cast would look in sephia. Maybe Paul will do a ‘Cast Shot’ with everybody.
Moni is talking about a very dark matter, indeed.
Tina is using Subliminal Advertising to sell muffins.
Monica isn’t listening… Maybe the dark matter Tina’s talking about can be used on people to give them back some of their youthful bounciness and tautness. 🙂
And as it just so happens, Dark Matter is contained in all of those things.
That may be open to question. Some recent studies suggest that the area of the galaxy in which our solar system resides, doesn’t show the sort of gravitational anomalies which are the primary sign of the presence of dark matter. If true, dark matter may be scarce or absent around here, and thus hard or impossible to actually detect. This would disappoint researchers, who would love to actually catch a few dark matter particles interacting with something and figure out what they actually are.
Nobody has a convincing explanation for why Earth should be unusually free of dark matter. I don’t buy the idea that it’s because humans are exceptionally enlightened 🙂
erm dark matter is just ‘unknown matter’ that is why earth has none..
Actually, i was just reading something online (at National Geographic) about dark matter that said the latest theory is that it’s primarily WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Particles), and that, in fact, the Earth – and your body – are probably being penetrated by WIMPs on a regular basis, to the extent that the average person’s body may experience a collision between a WIMP and an atomic nuclei as often as one every minute.
Maybe someone got rid of the local WIMPs by kicking sand in their face?
[drops a Charles Atlas ad in the pun jar]
Nope – it’s just that the dark matter particles are WIMPS (see below) and we don’t see them.
The news I was referring to is at
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120418111923.htm
This report is only about a week old. The problem with the “dark matter as WIMPs” hypothesis, it seems, is that in the immediate neighborhood of our solar system there doesn’t seem to be any significant amount of “missing mass”. The motions of stars within about 10k lightyears of us, is well accounted for by the “visible” mass… there doesn’t seem to be evidence of “hidden mass” from dark matter in our area.
That’s not true of the galaxy as a whole, though… there’s quite a lot of “dark” or “missing” mass.
Why the discrepancy? Nobody knows, it seems.
… and here I thought dark matter was my mother’s remnant tapioka pudding that was hidden in the back of the fridge for two weeks…
The NatGeo article is only two weeks old. Sounds like we have two competing interpretations of data.
Was that a paper NatGeo article, or on-line? Dead-tree versions have a much longer lead time between editorial completion and publication.
In any case… this is an exciting field, with a lot of new data coming in, and differing hypotheses and interpretations about what’s being seen and What It All Means. Definitely worth keeping an eye on!
Has anyone noticed that in panel 3, Monica’s chest has suddenly disappeared? Did something go *POIT* and I missed it?
Virtual-particle fluctuations? I’m sure her normal form will spontaneously reappear in the next panel…
The gravity exerted by the mass of her breasts are bending spacetime so that the wall behind her appears as if it is visible in a straight line.
Hopefully they’re not too massive, as a double singularity means John Titor is about to appear. And I hear his number is up.
I think Tina’s muffin top followed to look for it.
with Monica nearly in tears
her bustline just then dissappears
while Tina’s cupcake
doth make it’s escape
(thank God they both still have their rears!)
“You’re really going out on a limb, Rick!” 🙂
In Tina’s case, a push-up bra would work.
In Monica’s case, it better be a “haul-up” bra.
Who you trying to kid, FPF? For her we need to invent the gravity lens and install one under each cup, only way to prevent the stress on the shoulders from eventually warping her spine!
It was a treat to see the colored strips from Paul, but he has done it before and I was pretty sure it was for a special occasion and was suprised everyone thought it was permanent. However, believe it or not, I actually like the black and white strips the best. I grew up reading The Savage Sword Of Conan, because I liked the black and white art better than the colored comics. Yeah, I color once in a while, but even Savage Sword had covers in color.
The bra part, I DEFINITLY feel her pain (especially a P/U bra; my tits are almost as big as hers)
My own comment on the art: I like both styles. Whatever style Paul chooses to use on any given day is utterly James Dandy with me.
Argh! I’m now caught up with Wapsi Square, which means I must now wait for the next strip like everyone else.
This comic is amazing.
Thank you much!!! =D
You could always read it again. To see new insights.
“You know, IMPORTANT stuff!”