Sheesh. If her eye light up any more, I’m gonna need my sunglasses. IF she and Brandy were in the same room, they would probably blind anyone in there with ’em.
Looks like we are getting a new regular character here.
Monica seems to have finally remembered a principle tenet of her chosen profession; When an opportunity to learn about the past presents itself, learn from it.
Huh, I was kind of thinking she was probably kicking herself internally for remembering – and following – Daren’s advice from when she was having trouble relating to people.
well, damn… :p I’m a sure hopin’ y’all git plenty ‘o time on yer hands!! 😀
– an’ I know purlenty of folks In RL, would talk the ass end off that there donkey!!! 🙂 🙂
Yup. A fan, being acknowledged by her hero. That’s a mega-candella smile for sure!
Reminds me a bit of how Spider Robinson described himself, after meeting Robert Heinlein. Spider described his reaction to one of Heinlein’s lesser-known stories (“The Man Who Traveled in Elephants”) saying that he’d literally never read the end when he wasn’t grinning and leaking tears at the same time.
Heinlein stared at him for a moment, said “That was my single express intention in writing it. You’re the first person who ever told me I’d achieved it.” and then autographed Spider’s copy of the story.
Spider floated blissfully away through the air, “occasionally moving my legs so I wouldn’t scare people.”
Euryale is experiencing one of those sorts of happy moments, I think.
I had a similar experience with David Drake a few years ago – though i didn’t get quite so happybuzzed – i told him that i had reacted to Chapter 13 in his novel Rolling Hot with almost blind rage, and he said “Yes! That’s exactly the reaction i was hoping for!”
As i said in my review (linked above):
If you can read it, watch those characters fighting and dying, and not find yourself in some sort of emotional state as you read Chapter 13, which is a slightly-less-formal version of a military arrival report of Task Force Ranson’s arrival in the capital, listing the few remaining vehicles and personnel from those that they rolled with, then you have Not Been Listening.
Yay – I love both Spider Robinson and Heinlein 😉
On a much lesser level I did impress Isaac Asimov when I met him – the book I brought for him to autograph was his Opus 100 – all about him – and also a box of homemade cookies (heh heh heh) We wound up pen pals for several years 😉
Also – notice that the shadow of her hair looks like – well, hair. Probably an actual transformation and not an illusion – unless it comes with illusionary shadows…. Moot point…
I think Monica may have to get some glue. there is no way her ears are making it through this… 😆
But I am curious as to what would happen if Jacqui and Euryale meet… or even Amanda and Euryale…
Jay-Em :
“Pure amount of cheerfullness” – no, I think she likes it… after M had a ‘lovely night with the BF’ , she said she had a lovely bright aura..:)
hey I spelled it right! >:P
Euryale is easy for me to remember because i had to ask myself when she claimed she was a scholar if she went to Harvard EurYale.
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Still room in the pun jar?
By the by, might anyone be under the impression that she’s fully human, her hands will cure that pretty quick..clawy.. Despite her sunny disposition.
She should go shopping with Brandi. I can imagine it to be pure bliss for both. Both booky, ditzy looking. We should keep Jacqui out of the way though. There is only SO much prozac daisy that the world can support without blowing up..
Nah.. The way she was swinging her hips while listening to her MP3 player was (at least to me) already a give-away that Euryale is ever the cheerful and enthousiastic one..
Kind of interesting that Paul draws her with a more realistic nose and eyes even though she’s non human while the humans are more stylized. Definetly claws on the hands though. Of course, if she does start hanging out with the rest of the gang, they won’t stand out among a group that includes four women with teeth a lion woulod be envious of.
That’s actually mythologically correct; people remember the hair of snakes but forget the brass hands or claws – Euryale is just covering up those a little less than her hair. Fangs aren’t worth mentioning; every supernatural woman in Minneapolis has those. *grin*
The specialize in it part must be true. If you’ve ever talked to someone with a doctorate in something you know they will talk for hours and hours about it. We tend to like the familiar, because it is within our comfort zone.
Now I do not have the adorable snakes destracting me ..
i agree with everyone else 😀
I like her 😀 😀
And like Monica, I want to know her job in the ‘real’ world 😀
Someone suggested an ice-cream bar. Seems fitting.. Either that, or a toddler day-care person. She would be the ultimate protection.., and having a happy, cheerful person around is very beneficial for kids.
Oh man! That’s an awesome idea for her! I wish I’d had that sunny of a daycare “teacher”. Some of the ladies I remember had the capacity to scare the crap out of me.
I cross-reference the comment made in Girl Genius: “Klaus always did know the right monster for the right job” wrt Von Pinn. Von Pinn is not cheerful… but *is* very protective.
@Paula: She may not have a ‘job’ other than cashing the interest checks on her several-lifetimes-long fortune. Living in a mortal world, she will have learned to re-invent herself to disguise her imortality. Jin has done this for herself and her mom.
Don’t know if Euryale was inside the time loops or outside, but it’s probably harder now in the information age to drop out every forty years or so and pop up with a new identity than it was before….
Seems the accent slips when she gets excited… whick reminds me, can we start guessing where her accent’s from? Is it a whiskey Texas, or a twangy Tennessee, or a syrupy Georgia?
Having grown up in South Carolina (till i left for the Navy at eighteen), and lived in Georgia since 1972, i’d say Tennessee – but it might be a “Foreigner’s” version of a Southern accent, too.
I would not try to write a Southern dialect by phonetic mispronunciations, myself – i’d try to get the word choices and rhythms right, and the “accent” part sor of falls into place.
The first words in Manly Wade Wellman’s collection of “Silver John” stories,Who Fears the Devil (at least in the book as Manly intended it, rather than in the incredibly obtuse Baen edition f a few years ago) are:
“Where I’ve been is places and what I’ve seen is things, and there’ve been times I’ve run off from seeing them, off to other places and things.”
It’s almost impossible (in my opinion) to read that sentence aloud without slipping into at least an approximation of John’s mountain dialect.
The chapters linked as “13” and “14” are, in fact, short pieces that Manly intended to go between the stories in the book – and it was, in fact, originally published that way. But Baen decided that the book had to be in strict order by original magazine publication, and, since Manly had written the entre’act pieces rather late in his career, and they were all published together in The Magazine of Fantast and Science Fiction, Baen put them all together in one lump.
(And do not get me started on the way that Eric Flint “edited James Schmitz’s stories for Baen…)
And, if you go there and read any of the stories, you really need to read the one linked as “10” – “Over the Hills and Everywhere”… I used to dream of doing that as a dramatised reading/radio play…
Oh, well. You didn’t need to save that huge bottle of red pixel-text for your retirement, I hope? We’ll just call you the Duke of URL and leave it at that.
What is it with Baen, anyhow? I’ve looked at their output very sceptically for years now, ever since I caught them publishing various collections of Laumer short stories under new titles, and neglecting to include any mention of the stories’ prior publishing history in the frontspiece. Rather a sleazy tactic, I thought…
They usually tell you somewhere (in small type) that the stories have been previously published in another format.
But Baen Books bears the stamp of Jim’s personality, even now that he’s gone, and he was always a hustler looking to milk the last dime out of everything.
Baen’s done good by my brother, though.
As was said of the banker, Thomasas the Syrian, in L Sprague deCamp’s Lest Darkness Fall: “Sure, he’s honest. You just have to watch him, is all.”
That face, so… adorable. <3
I think she's gonna be a regular for sure, not like she's by a large margin the most scary of the group in any way shape or form, though she may give everyone diabetis.
Oh dear…that just reminded me of something I saw posted on The Chive a while back. Only now, in my head, it reads, “I don’t always read Wapsi, but when I do…Beetus.”
Her expression in panel2 reminds me of my cat when I open a can of tuna (for MY lunch, NOT HERS…OK Sarah, OK, OK! Here, have some, Some…SOME…is there ANY left? )
Now that M is getting her composure back, she’ll eventually realize that she’s friends with two sphinxes, has dealt with a variety of demons for years, knows four golems, and is a welcome guest in a trans-dimensional library. She may as well start Expecting to meet a variety of ancient “mythical” beings along the way!
Coming up — a trip to Darrens for a wheat beer! Oh, hi Katherine! Have you met Euryale?
Oh geez… i forgot about Katherine when i was running the “meetings” in my head. That would be more interesting than Jacqui…XD The “daisiest” character meets the “gloomiest” character…XD
As wise person once told my friend, ‘coincidence’ only means that two things happen at the same time. It’s not in itself proof that they aren’t related.
But I suspect Euryale’s story will cut deeper into the purpose Monica’s quest than the running after vimana cells.
Of Course she’s going to mention something about “Vimana Cells”: she’s part of the Annex’s “info”!!
Monica never specified that the info she received *must* be in book format, she just assumed it. The Library knows that Euryale hes more info in her brain about them AND she happened to be in the annex at the same time, so the Library set them up together. so when she walks back to the study tables, lo and behold: there is Euryale!… who, as some of us believe, will begin her spiel with stuff about her then she’ll segue into other stuff and then out’ll come the Vimana Cell stuff, or at least a rain check for the continuation of this conversation at a later date.
I can picture myself having the same reaction if I ever meet any one of a handful of print or webcomic authors. I know that “epic fanboy mode” exists in my psyche somewhere – I have to beat him with a stick every so often to avoid becoming an example of G.I.F.T.
Also – it’s very tempting to turn that second panel (without text boxes) into a “demotivational” poster:
Large Text: EPIC GORGON FANGIRL
Small Text: If you’ve seen this, it’s already too late…
It stands for the Greater Internet F***wad Theory. It states that ordinary people with anonymity and an audience are much more likely to be total jerks. It was originally a satirical theory that originated somewhere on the internet, but scientific research has backed it up.
I figured that out from news-forums. Have you ever read the comments sections from a news article? People just prove that so many people just love to make themselves feel superior to others by putting down the victims of crimes and disasters. It sometimes makes me wonder if there is a chance for the human race.
Sometimes you just have to stop and realize that those halfwits posting hateful comments on news articles aren’t a representative sample of the human race. Those kinds of things tend to attract the timid jackasses among us; those who feel the need to put others down, but are too cowardly to speak their mind to someones face. Such people have always existed, they’re just more visible now.
If you want to restore your faith in humanity, simply look at those who don’t abuse the privilege of anonymity. They probably outnumber those who do. Look at us here. We are more than capable of being civil despite not having to look each other in the eye as we post. In other words, don’t let a few idiots color your view of humanity.
I guess I’m done being all serious and wordy now. I’ll go back to the bad jokes next post, okay.
*sigh* I’ve been meeting various SF pros at conventions over the last forty-five years – where, likely as not, they’re they’re at least partly as fans themselves – that i’ve mostly lost that reaction.
having been a program director for a con, most writers are fans and the actors are just people. Some are fans, some are new (or old) enough at it to bask on the attention, some small few are just full of themselves, but most just want to do a really good job and want people to recognize that they did a good job.
I can’t wait to see Euryale out with Monica and the girls, Danceing, Drinking – although her “Daddy” probably made his own so anything bars mix up is too ‘tame’, and shes probably a ‘Guy Magnet’…….I’d LOVE to see her on a Poster w/ M and the girls.
Maybe now we will get a glimpse of the immortal sub culture in Wapsiverse. The bars and clubs they meet at. The places they frequent. The inobvious signs of the group.
I can just imagine the first words out of Euryale’s lips when she finds out who Tina is; “Your that Tina, the first conglomeration of demons to become a single person??”
I thought I might point out a little something- we haven’t seen Euryale’s bottom half yet. Do you think she might just possibly be somewhat…serpentine? 😎
Jump back to the site home page, and take a look at the drawing of Euryale that Pablo has up for bidding on eBay. It portrays Euryale with quite normal-looking human legs, so she’s at least capable of that form.
Whether she can also assume a snake-like form, is something we do not yet know.
A melusine’s transformation into snakelike form, is similar to Euryale’s gorgon/transformation effect. It’s primarily a defensive reaction, evolved to protect them against attacks by unprincipled, hairy, horny barbarian men.
Wow. Ain’t she cuter than a box of baby snakes. (bay-bee snaaaAAAaakes/look around there’s a couple right near me….)
I’d guess her accent is ancient Greek filtered through prolonged sojourns across the southern U.S. Depending on what climates are comfortable for her breed(s) of snakes.
Euryale lives in Minnesota, I doubt she is adversely affected by climate changes and I would also guess that unlike ordinary snakes she is warm blooded. But as faer as her accent, it is likely that you are very corrrect, seeing that she may have been around for millenia (and all the time reboots).
Gotta say I love the new character’s design!!
Especially the hair!
I was just at a Halloween event last Friday and saw a pair of girls dressed up as those Troll dolls that used to be popular and Euryale’s hair TOTALLY gave me a blast to the past in the last panel!
Just a few community things I feel obligated to warn you about….
1. Try to keep it PG. no obscene gravatars, and keep cursing to a minimum.
2. There is a Pun Jar. If you have a pun, and you would like to share, you must somehow make a donation to the Pun Jar. (Note: no real monetary value necessary, but I’m sure Paul would appreciate it.)
3. If you are completely lost, you are welcome to sit in the Confusion Corner. Its a corner in Mucho Mocha that has a table based on Hammer-Space technology. If your confused, chances are someone else is already there, with one of Becky’s fine pastries…
4. We have people from all walks of life, all with different stories and all with unique opinions (not to mention from all over the globe). Try to be polite. You never know who you are talking to…and finally…
5. Welcome to the strange world of Wapsi. To quote jwhouk “…Please keep your hands, arms and feet inside the ride at all times. Wapsi Square is not responsible for any items that are lost, tossed, broken or damaged….”
I did a while back… it caused me to speculate if Mon’s ancestors were elves… I concluded that while elves are still possible, its much more likely she is leprechaun….
May the gods bless us by not putting her & Catherine together for any amount of time. Then again, that could make a great time with the two playing off each other.
If she and…errr…crap, can’t remember her name, was described as a daisy on prozac, ever hung out, the room would explode with sheer unbridled cheerfulness.
Lemme, guess… Euryale hails from the south part of Greece, y’all!
Way down south. LOL
Greek equivalent of Texas if I had to guess. (Definitely not Mississippi; that’s where I’m from and our accents are different.)
Libya, according to the mythology. And that’s definitely not Texas. More like Georgia or eastern Tennessee.
Her enthusiasm is rather scary. I’m concerned that if she ended up in the same room as Jacqui, it would explode due to sheer cheerfulness.
+1
I doubt there’s a local Gorgon support group so she probably does not have a whole lot of friends that she can tell more about herself to.
Somehow, I suspect she attends Punk Yoga ’cause it’s such a cheery place! Y’all ought’a come along sometime!
but that last panel is so adorable, I wish it was real, I’d hug her all she wanted (and not be sexual about it, I just love “cute” and “adorable”)
Sheesh. If her eye light up any more, I’m gonna need my sunglasses. IF she and Brandy were in the same room, they would probably blind anyone in there with ’em.
Looks like we are getting a new regular character here.
Monica seems to have finally remembered a principle tenet of her chosen profession; When an opportunity to learn about the past presents itself, learn from it.
Huh, I was kind of thinking she was probably kicking herself internally for remembering – and following – Daren’s advice from when she was having trouble relating to people.
Probably, but Monica always knew that Daren was right.
You mean that stuff about being a good listener?
You do know that most of the Greek myths have blessings come with a catch, right?
Sometimes a catch is a good thing. Ask anyone with a happy family. ;-p
Pandora had a happy family?
Actually, that would be comforting to know.
well, damn… :p I’m a sure hopin’ y’all git plenty ‘o time on yer hands!! 😀
– an’ I know purlenty of folks In RL, would talk the ass end off that there donkey!!! 🙂 🙂
“AHMAHGAWD~”
Yup. A fan, being acknowledged by her hero. That’s a mega-candella smile for sure!
Reminds me a bit of how Spider Robinson described himself, after meeting Robert Heinlein. Spider described his reaction to one of Heinlein’s lesser-known stories (“The Man Who Traveled in Elephants”) saying that he’d literally never read the end when he wasn’t grinning and leaking tears at the same time.
Heinlein stared at him for a moment, said “That was my single express intention in writing it. You’re the first person who ever told me I’d achieved it.” and then autographed Spider’s copy of the story.
Spider floated blissfully away through the air, “occasionally moving my legs so I wouldn’t scare people.”
Euryale is experiencing one of those sorts of happy moments, I think.
Yup
Fangirling 😀
I had a similar experience with David Drake a few years ago – though i didn’t get quite so happybuzzed – i told him that i had reacted to Chapter 13 in his novel Rolling Hot with almost blind rage, and he said “Yes! That’s exactly the reaction i was hoping for!”
As i said in my review (linked above):
Yay – I love both Spider Robinson and Heinlein 😉
On a much lesser level I did impress Isaac Asimov when I met him – the book I brought for him to autograph was his Opus 100 – all about him – and also a box of homemade cookies (heh heh heh) We wound up pen pals for several years 😉
I hope they have comfy chairs in the Annex, ’cause she just asked a chatterbox to talk about herself.
Also – notice that the shadow of her hair looks like – well, hair. Probably an actual transformation and not an illusion – unless it comes with illusionary shadows…. Moot point…
I think Monica may have to get some glue. there is no way her ears are making it through this… 😆
But I am curious as to what would happen if Jacqui and Euryale meet… or even Amanda and Euryale…
What about Tina and Euryale?
What will Tina see if Bud, Shelly and Eurayle all walk into the shop at once?
The beginings of a new “X, Y, and Z walk into a bar…” Joke?
terror terror and daisy 😀
or even…
“shheeesh! where did I put those sunglasses???” 🙂
LIKE!
Hisss
BTW – new joke i cam across on line the other day:
Q: An Italian, a Greek and a Portuguese walk into a bar. WHo pays for the drinks?
A: The German.
..Tina prolly’ends up in some soprt of catatonic state. The Pure amount of cheerfullness must be agony to demons…
Grr.. meant to say “the amount of cheerfullnes from Euriyale…”
Bud and Shelly’s tempers are no match for that.
hmmmm, but surely there is a ‘happyness’ demon??
Jay-Em :
“Pure amount of cheerfullness” – no, I think she likes it… after M had a ‘lovely night with the BF’ , she said she had a lovely bright aura..:)
Kramegame: or even wax or cheese?? (have you seen ‘allo, allo’ ? 😀
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/’Allo_’Allo!
So. How many times are we gonna mispel her name in this thread alone?
😉
I give up, how many? Oh, and it’s “misspell.” Ironic, huh?
hey I spelled it right! >:P
Euryale is easy for me to remember because i had to ask myself when she claimed she was a scholar if she went to Harvard EurYale.
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Still room in the pun jar?
Yay! Her eyes don’t follow me around the room anymore!
I GET TO SLEEP TONIGHT!!!!
This cannot possibly end well.
“Well”? Maybe.
“Soon”? No.
By the by, might anyone be under the impression that she’s fully human, her hands will cure that pretty quick..clawy.. Despite her sunny disposition.
She should go shopping with Brandi. I can imagine it to be pure bliss for both. Both booky, ditzy looking. We should keep Jacqui out of the way though. There is only SO much prozac daisy that the world can support without blowing up..
😛
Maybe she is just that cheerful because she has met one of her apparent idols 🙂
Kinda like the gorgon equivallent of fangirling?
Nah.. The way she was swinging her hips while listening to her MP3 player was (at least to me) already a give-away that Euryale is ever the cheerful and enthousiastic one..
Och vicka era höfter. O-la-la-la.
(Who will do the animation loop?)
Would that make Brandi, Jacqui, and Euryale “The Happiness Trio of Doom”? 🙂 Maybe add an “Unholy” in there, too? 😛
Shelly’s hands have been rather talon like since she got back from the Forest…
Kind of interesting that Paul draws her with a more realistic nose and eyes even though she’s non human while the humans are more stylized. Definetly claws on the hands though. Of course, if she does start hanging out with the rest of the gang, they won’t stand out among a group that includes four women with teeth a lion woulod be envious of.
That’s actually mythologically correct; people remember the hair of snakes but forget the brass hands or claws – Euryale is just covering up those a little less than her hair. Fangs aren’t worth mentioning; every supernatural woman in Minneapolis has those. *grin*
Brass claws? Naw, Hun, just a new fancy nail polish from the Naille Shoppe at Le Malle…. 😉
She’s like a perfect hybrid of Flo the waitress from “Alice” and Tinkerbelle…
Doesn’t that cancel itself out?
Looks like Monica has made a new friend. LOL
Her teeth….that gap….is the secret to her cutie powers.
Doggone, she’s got a narrow waist.
They all do.
Clearly Monica has hit upon Euryale’s favorite topic, herself.
Thats everyones favourite topic 😛
maybe because its the one we all specialize in 😀
Ding ding ding ding ding! On the nosey! 🙂
The specialize in it part must be true. If you’ve ever talked to someone with a doctorate in something you know they will talk for hours and hours about it. We tend to like the familiar, because it is within our comfort zone.
Then that must be very telling of a person who loves to call other people Assholes then.
Maybe they are Proctologists?! 😉
Well, proctogists do have a rather narrow point of view. Nonetheless, they have very good hindsight.
All right you two, bun jar needs filling, yesterday!
And somehow that “p” turned into a “b”, making my “pun” a “bun”. Weird.
@SoWhyMe – and proctologists are notorious buttinskis as well.
@Opus – good puns (and even bad and mediocre ones) have a life of their own 🙂
@Dave, is that why they seem so good at multiplying around here? The puns get together and reproduce at a prodigious rate. . . .
Now I do not have the adorable snakes destracting me ..
i agree with everyone else 😀
I like her 😀 😀
And like Monica, I want to know her job in the ‘real’ world 😀
Someone suggested an ice-cream bar. Seems fitting.. Either that, or a toddler day-care person. She would be the ultimate protection.., and having a happy, cheerful person around is very beneficial for kids.
Oh man! That’s an awesome idea for her! I wish I’d had that sunny of a daycare “teacher”. Some of the ladies I remember had the capacity to scare the crap out of me.
I cross-reference the comment made in Girl Genius: “Klaus always did know the right monster for the right job” wrt Von Pinn. Von Pinn is not cheerful… but *is* very protective.
Not that Von Pinn’s first appearance gives one much confidence that Klaus chose his nanny correctly… http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030718
Well, none of my daycare ladies were as frightening as Von Pinn…though I think that she would have amused me as a child. 🙂
Come on now, admit it. You were a little hellion werentcha? You needed a scary one to keep you in line I’ll bet.
SoWhyMe- In my case – – Guilty as hell. Just ask the Nuns, and I was the ‘Good’ little brother.
@Paula: She may not have a ‘job’ other than cashing the interest checks on her several-lifetimes-long fortune. Living in a mortal world, she will have learned to re-invent herself to disguise her imortality. Jin has done this for herself and her mom.
Don’t know if Euryale was inside the time loops or outside, but it’s probably harder now in the information age to drop out every forty years or so and pop up with a new identity than it was before….
I get the feeling that she’s about to learn more about someone than she’d ever want to know in a shorter time than she ever thought possible.
I hope so. That way we get to find out a lot about her as well. This, as opposed to, getting it in tiny doses over weeks/months of strips.
Good point! 🙂
The social equivalent of a “blipvert”?
It would be unfortunate if Monica’s head were to explode, due to an overload of Too Much Information.
no, nooooo.. its girl talk, only harmful to men, if they listen too hard… have you not seen ‘scrubs’ 🙂 🙂
That another plus about not knowing the language of your GF, its easy to avoid it!! 🙂
Seems the accent slips when she gets excited… whick reminds me, can we start guessing where her accent’s from? Is it a whiskey Texas, or a twangy Tennessee, or a syrupy Georgia?
Georgia, of course 😉
I hear her loud and clear as a cute Savannah Belle.
I’ll take Tennessee Hills for $100, Alex.
I was thinking Georgia, but someone (I think it was Fairportfan) told me that I might be off. 🙂 Don’t forget the Carolinas, too!
I’m still going with somewhere in the Carolinas. Possibly eastern Tennessee.
Having grown up in South Carolina (till i left for the Navy at eighteen), and lived in Georgia since 1972, i’d say Tennessee – but it might be a “Foreigner’s” version of a Southern accent, too.
I would not try to write a Southern dialect by phonetic mispronunciations, myself – i’d try to get the word choices and rhythms right, and the “accent” part sor of falls into place.
The first words in Manly Wade Wellman’s collection of “Silver John” stories,Who Fears the Devil (at least in the book as Manly intended it, rather than in the incredibly obtuse Baen edition f a few years ago) are:
“Where I’ve been is places and what I’ve seen is things, and there’ve been times I’ve run off from seeing them, off to other places and things.”
It’s almost impossible (in my opinion) to read that sentence aloud without slipping into at least an approximation of John’s mountain dialect.
You can read Who Fears the Devil in its entirety online here, at Baen Books {they decided to call it John the Balladeer, for whatever silly reasons Jim had}.
The chapters linked as “13” and “14” are, in fact, short pieces that Manly intended to go between the stories in the book – and it was, in fact, originally published that way. But Baen decided that the book had to be in strict order by original magazine publication, and, since Manly had written the entre’act pieces rather late in his career, and they were all published together in The Magazine of Fantast and Science Fiction, Baen put them all together in one lump.
(And do not get me started on the way that Eric Flint “edited James Schmitz’s stories for Baen…)
And, if you go there and read any of the stories, you really need to read the one linked as “10” – “Over the Hills and Everywhere”… I used to dream of doing that as a dramatised reading/radio play…
Oops.
Oh, well. You didn’t need to save that huge bottle of red pixel-text for your retirement, I hope? We’ll just call you the Duke of URL and leave it at that.
What is it with Baen, anyhow? I’ve looked at their output very sceptically for years now, ever since I caught them publishing various collections of Laumer short stories under new titles, and neglecting to include any mention of the stories’ prior publishing history in the frontspiece. Rather a sleazy tactic, I thought…
They usually tell you somewhere (in small type) that the stories have been previously published in another format.
But Baen Books bears the stamp of Jim’s personality, even now that he’s gone, and he was always a hustler looking to milk the last dime out of everything.
Baen’s done good by my brother, though.
As was said of the banker, Thomasas the Syrian, in L Sprague deCamp’s Lest Darkness Fall: “Sure, he’s honest. You just have to watch him, is all.”
That face, so… adorable. <3
I think she's gonna be a regular for sure, not like she's by a large margin the most scary of the group in any way shape or form, though she may give everyone diabetis.
Oh dear…that just reminded me of something I saw posted on The Chive a while back. Only now, in my head, it reads, “I don’t always read Wapsi, but when I do…Beetus.”
Her expression in panel2 reminds me of my cat when I open a can of tuna (for MY lunch, NOT HERS…OK Sarah, OK, OK! Here, have some, Some…SOME…is there ANY left? )
She’s so adorable I just want to marry her.
Yes, please tell me all about yourself (and how you turned me to stone with a glance, and turned me back with a kiss)!…
Now that M is getting her composure back, she’ll eventually realize that she’s friends with two sphinxes, has dealt with a variety of demons for years, knows four golems, and is a welcome guest in a trans-dimensional library. She may as well start Expecting to meet a variety of ancient “mythical” beings along the way!
Coming up — a trip to Darrens for a wheat beer! Oh, hi Katherine! Have you met Euryale?
Oh geez… i forgot about Katherine when i was running the “meetings” in my head. That would be more interesting than Jacqui…XD The “daisiest” character meets the “gloomiest” character…XD
A meeting of 2 forces so opposite of each other might just rip the fabric of reality … again.
There’s no such thing as coincidence in the Wapsiverse.
Euryale is gonna casually drop a reference to the vimana cells.
As wise person once told my friend, ‘coincidence’ only means that two things happen at the same time. It’s not in itself proof that they aren’t related.
But I suspect Euryale’s story will cut deeper into the purpose Monica’s quest than the running after vimana cells.
My favorite quote on coincidence is; “Coincidence is common. It may be the rule.”
“…and three times is enemy action.”
Of Course she’s going to mention something about “Vimana Cells”: she’s part of the Annex’s “info”!!
Monica never specified that the info she received *must* be in book format, she just assumed it. The Library knows that Euryale hes more info in her brain about them AND she happened to be in the annex at the same time, so the Library set them up together. so when she walks back to the study tables, lo and behold: there is Euryale!… who, as some of us believe, will begin her spiel with stuff about her then she’ll segue into other stuff and then out’ll come the Vimana Cell stuff, or at least a rain check for the continuation of this conversation at a later date.
To quote Chuq von Rospach (some years age, when I managed to twist one of his pranks back on him):
“That’s twisted and evil. I like it. I wish I’d thought if it.”
I can picture myself having the same reaction if I ever meet any one of a handful of print or webcomic authors. I know that “epic fanboy mode” exists in my psyche somewhere – I have to beat him with a stick every so often to avoid becoming an example of G.I.F.T.
Also – it’s very tempting to turn that second panel (without text boxes) into a “demotivational” poster:
Large Text: EPIC GORGON FANGIRL
Small Text: If you’ve seen this, it’s already too late…
Like! 🙂
What is this G.I.F.T. You speak of?
It stands for the Greater Internet F***wad Theory. It states that ordinary people with anonymity and an audience are much more likely to be total jerks. It was originally a satirical theory that originated somewhere on the internet, but scientific research has backed it up.
I figured that out from news-forums. Have you ever read the comments sections from a news article? People just prove that so many people just love to make themselves feel superior to others by putting down the victims of crimes and disasters. It sometimes makes me wonder if there is a chance for the human race.
Sometimes you just have to stop and realize that those halfwits posting hateful comments on news articles aren’t a representative sample of the human race. Those kinds of things tend to attract the timid jackasses among us; those who feel the need to put others down, but are too cowardly to speak their mind to someones face. Such people have always existed, they’re just more visible now.
If you want to restore your faith in humanity, simply look at those who don’t abuse the privilege of anonymity. They probably outnumber those who do. Look at us here. We are more than capable of being civil despite not having to look each other in the eye as we post. In other words, don’t let a few idiots color your view of humanity.
I guess I’m done being all serious and wordy now. I’ll go back to the bad jokes next post, okay.
*sigh* I’ve been meeting various SF pros at conventions over the last forty-five years – where, likely as not, they’re they’re at least partly as fans themselves – that i’ve mostly lost that reaction.
I agree.
having been a program director for a con, most writers are fans and the actors are just people. Some are fans, some are new (or old) enough at it to bask on the attention, some small few are just full of themselves, but most just want to do a really good job and want people to recognize that they did a good job.
What con, if you don’t mind my asking?
I can’t wait to see Euryale out with Monica and the girls, Danceing, Drinking – although her “Daddy” probably made his own so anything bars mix up is too ‘tame’, and shes probably a ‘Guy Magnet’…….I’d LOVE to see her on a Poster w/ M and the girls.
Run, Monica, you have awaken the Gorgon! And she’s going to TALK you to death!!
Exactly how tall is Euryale? I know Monica is a petite thing, but even so, and even without her top-knot, Euryale towers…
I swear – i’d guess something like seven feet – certainly well over six feet. She’s at least a head-and-a-half taller than Monica.
She might even be taller than Phix’s human form. (The sexy-librarian-meeting-museum-directors one, not the eight-foot-two-catching-tricksters one.)
If Monica is 4’5″. then I would guess Euryale might be about 6′-6’5″. Only the creator can tell us the answer to all of our Gorgon questions though.
Monica”s profile says “4’10” tall extroverted introvert”
Euryale is a long, tall lassie.
Eek. Even without the hair, she’s pushing seven feet.
Just how i like em… though 7 feet maybe pushing it. I’m only 6 myself…
UH, OH … did Monica just say the wrong thing???
I hope she contributes to the cheering up of Brandi ^_^
Maybe now we will get a glimpse of the immortal sub culture in Wapsiverse. The bars and clubs they meet at. The places they frequent. The inobvious signs of the group.
The secret recognition signs, special handshakes, and funny hats worn during member-initiation rituals?
I’m seeing fezes and minibikes. Anyone else? 🙂
I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
Krr..Click.. KABLAMMO!!!
*blows smoke from peacemaker*
Casey- then is your mind fezzey?
I’d love to see Euryale and Tina get together. You’d probably have to seat them in a cadmium room to prevent a critical mass of sunshine…
I can just imagine the first words out of Euryale’s lips when she finds out who Tina is; “Your that Tina, the first conglomeration of demons to become a single person??”
Don’t you mean Jacqui? Pretty sure while Tina is the distributor of daily sunshine, she generally doesn’t radiate it…
I thought I might point out a little something- we haven’t seen Euryale’s bottom half yet. Do you think she might just possibly be somewhat…serpentine? 😎
Jump back to the site home page, and take a look at the drawing of Euryale that Pablo has up for bidding on eBay. It portrays Euryale with quite normal-looking human legs, so she’s at least capable of that form.
Whether she can also assume a snake-like form, is something we do not yet know.
Except in a Harryhausen film, the Gorgons are general portrayed as humanoid, with legs.
It’s Melusine that has the snake hips (and tail…)
But only on Saturdays.
There’s a fascinating novel, <a href="“>The Wandering Unicorn, by Manuel Mujica Láinez, that tells Melusine’s story.
That’s actually a mistranslation.
A melusine’s transformation into snakelike form, is similar to Euryale’s gorgon/transformation effect. It’s primarily a defensive reaction, evolved to protect them against attacks by unprincipled, hairy, horny barbarian men.
It puts the attacker into a satyr daze.
oh gosh.. she sure is shiny…
Are you ready for the opening of these floodgates, Monica?
Wow. Ain’t she cuter than a box of baby snakes. (bay-bee snaaaAAAaakes/look around there’s a couple right near me….)
I’d guess her accent is ancient Greek filtered through prolonged sojourns across the southern U.S. Depending on what climates are comfortable for her breed(s) of snakes.
Euryale lives in Minnesota, I doubt she is adversely affected by climate changes and I would also guess that unlike ordinary snakes she is warm blooded. But as faer as her accent, it is likely that you are very corrrect, seeing that she may have been around for millenia (and all the time reboots).
Long time reading, first time posting =)
Gotta say I love the new character’s design!!
Especially the hair!
I was just at a Halloween event last Friday and saw a pair of girls dressed up as those Troll dolls that used to be popular and Euryale’s hair TOTALLY gave me a blast to the past in the last panel!
I can tell i’m going to like her xD
First time poster? In that case, welcome. I hope you stick around and don’t find us too weird.
Or do find us weird and decide that you ARE one of us. ;-p
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I can just hear the Gorgon-Tzola cheese jokes already.
double pun. Nice.
Oldwolf- I’l support that pun for a dollar, paper, confederate. Really my grandfather collected them.
Man either Monica is in for a long listen or Euryale is going to need a difribulator.
Shes a hugger AND a talker!
It appears that nobody has mentioned that she has pointy ears in her human form…
No more than Monica, to my eye… am I missing something you’re seeing?
Huh. I never noticed Monica’s ears were pointed…
I did a while back… it caused me to speculate if Mon’s ancestors were elves… I concluded that while elves are still possible, its much more likely she is leprechaun….
Possibly a widely-distributed, recessive Vulcan gene?
Ladies and gents meet momma Vilareal.
Cutest…gorgon… ever.
May the gods bless us by not putting her & Catherine together for any amount of time. Then again, that could make a great time with the two playing off each other.
Eurayle is awesome!
She’s so cheerful, I expect she’ll be dead or worse by the end of this story arc.
-JRS
Well, aren’t You the cheery one.. 😛
Why do I feel her favorite Character would be Mater from CARS? :-/
If she and…errr…crap, can’t remember her name, was described as a daisy on prozac, ever hung out, the room would explode with sheer unbridled cheerfulness.
Aw shucks she all be raight up mah lane o’ cutie pies!
*snerk* Reminds me of the gag from Little Nicky.
“I’m from the South. Uh, the deep South.”
I couldn’t help noticing the gap in Euryale’s upper incisors 🥴