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Eyes In A Fishbowl

by Paul Taylor on August 23, 2011 at 12:00 am
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  1. Casey
    August 23, 2011, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Simultaneously hilarious and disturbing.

    • Casey
      August 23, 2011, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      Good, fixed now.

  2. Opus the Poet
    August 23, 2011, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    What the heck is a vanillekipferl? And what in the world is Jin wearing under her T-shirt? I see the stockings and garters (suspenders to those people driving on the wrong side of the road), but her buns look like they are encased in a bun bra rather than normal underwear. Que pasa?

    • Opus the Poet
      August 23, 2011, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Aaand, Second!

    • DJ
      August 23, 2011, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      According to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (or Wikipedia as some people call it) Vanillekipferl are “an Austrian, German and Hungarian small, crescent shaped biscuits”.

      • Leak
        August 23, 2011, 12:30 am | #

        Actually, they are (for unknown reasons) an uncontrolled substance that’s the leading cause for people upsetting their stomach around Christmas around here…

        (I prefer Linzer Kipferl, personally…)

      • TlalocW
        August 23, 2011, 1:12 am | #

        And there’s something else I can put into my file of stuff I would love to try to cook but would ruin if I actually tried it. 🙂

      • Paula
        August 23, 2011, 1:36 am | #

        Even for Bud, saying you hope she won’t turn the world into a small crescent shaped buscuit is random…

      • The Old Wolf
        August 23, 2011, 7:54 am | #

        Tja, und die sind verdammt gut, obwohl ich lieber Faschingskrapfen oder Mohnstrudel verschlingen würde…

      • Jay-Em
        August 23, 2011, 10:59 am | #

        Mannn..hort auf, ich hab’ schon zu viel Gewicht im Mittelgebiet….

        German pastry is just too dangerous….

      • The Old Wolf
        August 23, 2011, 4:05 pm | #

        Hast ja recht… 😛 *urp*

      • Jabberwonky
        August 23, 2011, 12:52 pm | #

        I’d take a bite out of anything named ‘Monstrudel’.

        Creature from the Black Lagoon flavor, please…

      • Leak
        August 23, 2011, 4:30 pm | #

        Sind halt alles echte Masseerhöhungswaffen und von daher brandgefährlich… 😀

    • GrimmThistle
      August 23, 2011, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      It looks like those aren’t stockings at all, you can see her toes. Which leads me to believe that those are shorts and the pockets of the shorts are what makes her bum look strange.

    • Atomic
      August 23, 2011, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      Looks like she’s wearing jeans shorts rolled up at the thigh. Those would be the patch pockets on her rump.

    • Skruddgemire
      August 23, 2011, 2:07 am | # | Reply

      My impression is that she is wearing denim shorts. The hems are rolled up a little bit (as is a popular style and one we’ve seen M wear on several occasions). The things on her cheeks would therefore be the pockets.

      It looks a bit odd since she is wearing a longish blouse.

      • ChrisHerself
        August 23, 2011, 10:17 am | #

        Thanks for clearing that up–I was confused too. Jin’s more the type to wear garters than shorts though, isn’t she? XD

    • Rachel
      August 23, 2011, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

      She’s wearing jean shorts that are cuffed at the bottom, the “butt bra” are the jean pockets. the “garters” are the seams up the side, her legs are bare.

      • Ie Yamof Ool
        September 13, 2022, 11:24 pm | #

        Those are not suspenders they rolled up cut-off jeans. Those are pockets on the back, seams down the sides, and rolls mid thigh where they were cut-off.

  3. DJ
    August 23, 2011, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    When they jam that battery thingy in her, is she going to snap out of her trance like state and go all super Energizer Bunny on us?

    • Paula
      August 23, 2011, 1:35 am | # | Reply

      I hope so 🙁

    • Dave
      August 23, 2011, 2:47 pm | # | Reply

      Think “Roger Rabbit, after one stiff shot of bourbon.”

  4. NOTDilbert
    August 23, 2011, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Er, Paul –
    First panel, Bud’s word balloon: “they’re”, not “they”

    I had no idea I was a closet grammar nazi, til now….

    • Paul Taylor
      August 23, 2011, 12:48 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, hit refresh on your browser. I noticed two mistakes about a minute after the page loaded and fixed them. Unfortunately, some folks were still seeing the old page even after I fixed it.

      • NOTDilbert
        August 23, 2011, 1:05 am | #

        🙂

      • Amishrakefight
        August 23, 2011, 1:20 am | #

        Tell us “we have no life” if we can pick up errors before boss man can. Oh wait, my computer loaded 10 pico second faster than his. 

  5. TlalocW
    August 23, 2011, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    Lay her out flat, face down with her arms at her sides… It’s Jin-Planking!

    • Julie
      August 23, 2011, 8:08 am | # | Reply

      Yeah…never understood why that was funny/cool. 🙁 I feel very out of touch with net society.

      • Jay-Em
        August 23, 2011, 11:04 am | #

        Sme here too many people witj far too little to do, I guess..
        Now, fiddling about with someone catatonic can be fun…until it os no longer and the subject sticks out a fist quite forcefully, straight into your muncher.. Or so I am told.

        ( read purnell& niven’s ” inferno for that obscure reference.. :D. )

      • Paula
        August 23, 2011, 1:05 pm | #

        the planking thing was just silly
        especially when people took it to the extreme and hurt themselves/died from it!

        the new headless thing on the other hand..that amuses me 😛

      • kermit
        August 23, 2011, 1:27 pm | #

        Some folks will still find a way to kill themselves with it. Not the same ones, presumably.

      • GreyWolf
        February 25, 2012, 6:22 am | #

        I agree with you Julie, and it also made me immediately think of this. Think I originally saw it on FailBlog, but this is the quickest link I could find on Google.

    • Yamara
      August 23, 2011, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

      Now everybody whisper in unison…

      Light as a galaxy
      Stiff as a board
      Light as a galaxy
      Stiff as a board
      Light as a galaxy
      Stiff as a board
      Light as a galaxy
      Stiff as a board

  6. Paula
    August 23, 2011, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    🙁

    i hope they fix her soon 🙁
    I dont like seeing Jin so .. physically vounerable.

    Where is Brandi!
    She was giving her Mom hugs for way longer than her real Mom (i think)

    • Paula
      August 23, 2011, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      And what’s that on the back wall 🙂

      • Eee
        August 23, 2011, 9:31 am | #

        Jin’s apartment is very impressively decorated. Goes to show what you can do when you’re rich. 🙂 We’ve seen that panel, the giant head in her bedroom, and a few other things, several times before…

      • Jabberwonky
        August 23, 2011, 12:57 pm | #

        It’s an Aztec periodic table…

        And, in Thailand, you can get painting of the Budha’s face like she has for twenty or thirty dollars, American…

        Next time I go to Thailand, I’m going to get a painting of the ‘Face of Bo’ done like that. (tip of the hat to The Doctor for that idea, IIRR)

      • Maark30
        August 23, 2011, 2:05 pm | #

        Maybe Captain Jack would like it as well.

      • Fairportfan
        August 24, 2011, 12:06 am | #

        Shhh!

        Jack doesn’t know…

  7. Fairportfan
    August 23, 2011, 1:40 am | # | Reply

    “Thousand Yard Stare“

    • Fairportfan
      August 23, 2011, 1:44 am | # | Reply

      “A review i wrote of a book by David Drake – scroll down to where i talk about the cover art for my thoughts on the Thousand Yard Stare”… (And a few other things – that review was written in about fifteen minutes in a fit of passion.)

      • Fairportfan
        August 23, 2011, 1:46 am | #

        Dammit. I shouldn’t have re-read that…

    • Nina
      August 23, 2011, 3:09 am | # | Reply

      Is that a bullet hole in his helmet?

      • dadman
        August 23, 2011, 7:26 am | #

        Just a dent. I used that image back in high school—I think it’s combat art from Iwo Jima, but high school was a loong time ago for me.

        Fairportfan, the link isn’t working for me. 🙁

      • Fairportfan
        August 23, 2011, 9:25 am | #

        I believe it’s from Pelelieu – but the Pacific, yeah.

        Sorry about the link – try this one.

        Must have mistyped the HTML.

      • Sheik
        August 23, 2011, 2:18 pm | #

        Saipan, the place where the U.S. Army coined the joke about how the Marines take a hill:
        “They soften it up with infantry and then call in an airstrike.”

      • Xiutecuhtli
        August 23, 2011, 4:46 pm | #

        Yer right, it was Peleliu–comes from a VERY obscure and VERY expensive Tom Lea book, Peleliu Landing. Expect to spend upwards of $750 for a copy . . . IF you can find one.

      • Wyvern
        August 23, 2011, 5:04 pm | #

        I’ve got an ‘Art of WWII’ book that includes that painting, but that’s in another room; I’ll leave it there unless someone’s curious. No, wait, here it’s tagged as the Battle of Peleliu all right.

      • Fairportfan
        August 24, 2011, 12:05 am | #

        Also to be found in James Jones’s WWII, a Chronicle of Soldiering, available on Amazon for quite reasonable prices – if you act fast. Jones’s memoir of his experiences, based around the Combat Art Collection.

        (Haven’t read the book in years, but i’m pretty sure i recall that James Jones was the first American ashore in Tokyo Bay – he was the sergeant in charge of the security arrangements for the surrender…)

  8. Maark30
    August 23, 2011, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    I am getting a feeling that Jin’s bellybutton doubles as a access port for the “Universal Alternator” that Shelly spent 83,000 years to get. The suspense of this sequence is excruciating. Great job as always Paul.

    • My2Cents
      August 23, 2011, 3:24 am | # | Reply

      Hope so, most of the other alternatives can’t be shown in a public comic.

      • Opus the Poet
        August 23, 2011, 1:23 pm | #

        Well, not in a comic rated “YA” at any rate. “MA18” sure, anything goes short of detailed interior views.

      • Wyvern
        August 23, 2011, 5:05 pm | #

        Possibly those too, if the interior is the boiler room. I’d be interested to see May pop open Jin’s access panels, if only because Bud shouldn’t be the only one.

  9. BudFanboi
    August 23, 2011, 6:20 am | # | Reply

    Thank you for shopping at Jinkea, Sweden’s most popular store for inwardly retreated golems. Some assembly required. Place Model flat on floor. Remove flange one from dimension two (add on sphinx may be required)

    Insert Flange one into socket adaptor Beta, making sure to twist clockwise at 3.14 millimeters per half second. Failure to do so at the proper speed or in a counter clockwise manner may, or may not, release an Eldritch Abomination.

    Depending on reaction of your inwardly retreated golem, everything may suddenly taste purple, or the universe could blink out of existence.

    We hope you enjoy your purchase and please remember to call Jinkea tech support should your assembly not go according to plan and the universe doesn’t turn into a small crescent shaped almond biscuit.

    • Julie
      August 23, 2011, 8:11 am | # | Reply

      Really really Like. 🙂

    • Maark30
      August 23, 2011, 9:40 am | # | Reply

      ROFL. That was almost as good as your ‘Dead Winter’ strip. (Or at least I hope that that is yours or I will be so embarrassed)

      • BudFanboi
        August 24, 2011, 6:20 am | #

        Nah not my comic, I’m just a moderator on the forums and overall supporter of the artist. I throw the link into most of what I do in other places on the net to try to expand the readerbase.

    • Jay-Em
      August 23, 2011, 11:07 am | # | Reply

      WIN! Pure, undiluted win!

  10. starkruzr
    August 23, 2011, 7:38 am | # | Reply

    When did this (by “this” I mean “this level of crazy”) happen to Jin? Did we have warning?

    • Julie
      August 23, 2011, 8:12 am | # | Reply

      Good question. At this point, I honestly can’t recall when we last saw Jin.

    • Eee
      August 23, 2011, 9:51 am | # | Reply

      Jin has been going downhill since the Calender Machine, experiencing hallucinations aural and visual so real she could only tell they weren’t there by poking them. I don’t think we’ve seen her since either she and Alan went snowmobiling, or that time on the sandbar when she pointed out she couldn’t be the one to go with Bud to Ireland because she was nuts. That’s a LONG time in which to fall apart… Although I would suspect this full retreat from reality is fairly new, or Alan, Maya, or Bud would have found her before this.

    • Maark30
      August 23, 2011, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

      As I see from what May has said, the active key being brought into her dimension caused her to rapidly collapse. So I would guess that she started to slip away rapidly when Shelly got back from the other verse.

      • scantron
        August 23, 2011, 7:07 pm | #

        Hey!, now we may get to see what happens when you put a Portable Hole (wormholes inside the relic) inside a Bag Of Holding! (Jin’s access panels like Bud, bigger inside than outside)…

  11. The Old Wolf
    August 23, 2011, 7:57 am | # | Reply

    It doesn’t escape me that M still has a shard of metal in her skull…

    Looking at this arc, I wonder if connecting Jin to the power source may not quite be the easy fix they’re hoping for. Only time will tell.

    • Julie
      August 23, 2011, 8:11 am | # | Reply

      Maybe it will be like jump-starting a car. The jolt will get her running, but her parts will still need work/replacing.

  12. TheDoctor
    August 23, 2011, 8:33 am | # | Reply

    Well, if worse comes to worse they can always ‘P**s on the Sparkplug’ like Jin said she would do.

  13. CptNerd
    August 23, 2011, 8:53 am | # | Reply

    What’s really creepy is, she’s staring at… us.

    • Paula
      August 23, 2011, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

      ahh
      4th wall breaking without breaking

      love it 😀

      (similar to the ‘who shot mr burns’ episode when the doctor turns to the screen and seems to say to the viewers “well I don’t know who shot him … do you?” and the camera pans back to reveal he was talking to police cheif wiggam 🙂 )

  14. Eee
    August 23, 2011, 10:00 am | # | Reply

    Oooo, well drawn TOES!!

  15. kingklash
    August 23, 2011, 11:16 am | # | Reply

    “You work her mouth, and I’ll do the voice…..”

  16. Computer Matthew
    August 23, 2011, 12:58 pm | # | Reply

    Hand me that magic marker. I’ll draw the design on her face.

  17. Yamara
    August 23, 2011, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

    And they said the Weekend at Bernie’s franchise had nowhere left to go.

  18. Centaur71
    August 23, 2011, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

    Vanillakipferl! I can see it all now; the earth all blown up, crumbly and moon shaped; with Dietzel, who’s hanging on Monica, who’s hanging on Bud, who’s hanging on Brandy, who’s hanging on Jin and Jin sing-songing ‘where is my moon?’ while staring off dreamily into space 😛

  19. Opus the Poet
    August 23, 2011, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

    Totally random sighting on the web, one of Shelly’s relatives, from a Dutch cycling web site. http://www.fastfwd.nl/index.php?id=32 The bike was developed with the doctor with the same last name as Shelly.

    • Wyvern
      August 24, 2011, 1:36 am | # | Reply

      Very cool! Shelly’s never mentioned any Dutch relatives, but being a mechanic seems to run in the family.

  20. SoWhyMe
    August 24, 2011, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    Lay her out flat could mean flat on her stomach. It would be a tad em bare assing were the hatch area to be behind her butt.

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