BTW I’ve been wondering about the geography and transportation in recent (as in th elast 10 or so years 😀 ) Wapsiverse comics . If I get it right, all paras have access to the Library transportation network (ie the Lib can open gates anywhere if you ask nicely?), so geography is sorta the thing that happens to other people, right? (Like Day’s Maid Cafe doesn’t look like it’s on the same continent as Mucho Moca)
(And Cass can also poit in her own way, although I’m not sure if she can do it for other people remotely or just take herself and passengers.)
Is Gryphon a place for only Minneapolis para kids or is it sorta an (inter)national hub?
Another thing: does translation happen through some kinds of charms, like shape-shifting and the pheromone supression?
So many questions to ponder…
(That’s the problem/cool thing with slice-of-life, there’s simply no place in a strip for long expositions, so you’ll have to connect the dots and hunt for details 🙂 )
Definitely the cool thing. I’m so disappointed when an author tries to explain everything. It’s fine if *they* understand everything and have thought it through, but it’s better if it’s just part of the environment. Tolkien was probably the greatest at that, developing ancient languages just so a few words could have interesting roots. Iain Banks was doing a great job with the ineffability of vastly more than human intelligences, and then he wrote a book (Excession – a great book, mind you) where they were the main characters and it sort of ruined their mystique.
Wapsi Square is really good that way. Stheno meets Lilith and starts laughing. Who is Lilith? We never find out. Paul knows – there’s a story there. But it’s great that WE don’t know it. How the heck did Devyn’s parents meet? Her mother is one of Zeus’s sisters, for God’s sake (pun intended). So many good backstories lurking there.
One thing we know for pretty-sure about the Greek gods and goddesses – they had much the same interests, desires, strengths, and weaknesses as moral humans, just moreso. Look at Phix… a thousand of years old apotropaic sphinx, who still enjoys dallying with boy-toy museum directors.
And, I agree with you – the richness of the world Paul has created here is impressive and enjoyable. We never know when a seed Paul has planted will turn out to be crucial.
In Castela’s case, my headcannon is that she is already everywhere as the Blackthorn is the speration between universes. The Castela is an extrusion/avatar into our space.
She can poit everywhere because she is already there.
Meet Daylla, the fearless ghost hunter.
Unless it’s creepy ghost kids.
Then she’s the scared-to-shit ghost hunter. 😂
‘Stela ain’t exactly fearless ghost hunter in the last panel either😁
Nah, Day just has a cold butt (forget cold feet)
That, or she’s thinking how Shawna can never learn of this
BTW I’ve been wondering about the geography and transportation in recent (as in th elast 10 or so years 😀 ) Wapsiverse comics . If I get it right, all paras have access to the Library transportation network (ie the Lib can open gates anywhere if you ask nicely?), so geography is sorta the thing that happens to other people, right? (Like Day’s Maid Cafe doesn’t look like it’s on the same continent as Mucho Moca)
(And Cass can also poit in her own way, although I’m not sure if she can do it for other people remotely or just take herself and passengers.)
Is Gryphon a place for only Minneapolis para kids or is it sorta an (inter)national hub?
Another thing: does translation happen through some kinds of charms, like shape-shifting and the pheromone supression?
So many questions to ponder…
(That’s the problem/cool thing with slice-of-life, there’s simply no place in a strip for long expositions, so you’ll have to connect the dots and hunt for details 🙂 )
Definitely the cool thing. I’m so disappointed when an author tries to explain everything. It’s fine if *they* understand everything and have thought it through, but it’s better if it’s just part of the environment. Tolkien was probably the greatest at that, developing ancient languages just so a few words could have interesting roots. Iain Banks was doing a great job with the ineffability of vastly more than human intelligences, and then he wrote a book (Excession – a great book, mind you) where they were the main characters and it sort of ruined their mystique.
Wapsi Square is really good that way. Stheno meets Lilith and starts laughing. Who is Lilith? We never find out. Paul knows – there’s a story there. But it’s great that WE don’t know it. How the heck did Devyn’s parents meet? Her mother is one of Zeus’s sisters, for God’s sake (pun intended). So many good backstories lurking there.
What… goddesses don’t get to go clubbing? :-}
One thing we know for pretty-sure about the Greek gods and goddesses – they had much the same interests, desires, strengths, and weaknesses as moral humans, just moreso. Look at Phix… a thousand of years old apotropaic sphinx, who still enjoys dallying with boy-toy museum directors.
And, I agree with you – the richness of the world Paul has created here is impressive and enjoyable. We never know when a seed Paul has planted will turn out to be crucial.
In Castela’s case, my headcannon is that she is already everywhere as the Blackthorn is the speration between universes. The Castela is an extrusion/avatar into our space.
She can poit everywhere because she is already there.
“Yeah, it just seemed like a good night for it. Nothing else.” LoL
So are they now at Daylla’s, Castela’s, or did they meet somewhere in between?
Teen girls
ah, and Daylla’s all spooked out!
I do wonder if Castela did that on purpose . . . orif she managed to spook herself too?
That technique never worked for me.