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Helping Me

by Paul Taylor on March 10, 2011 at 12:00 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Becky, Shelly, Tina
Location: Mucho Mocha

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  1. ShadOBabe
    March 10, 2011, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Ding!! Another great Tina line!! XD

    • Atomic
      March 10, 2011, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      It’s good to have a goal in life!

      No.. wait….

      Ah, scratch the life part.

    • illiad
      March 10, 2011, 7:35 am | # | Reply

      😀 looks like the ‘dizzy blonde’ part was not *just* nudge, then… <3 🙂

      • ShadOBabe
        March 10, 2011, 9:12 am | #

        Watch it, I’m a blonde!! XD
        Nah, I don’t care. And I know what you mean. Tina’s personality has (luckily) not changed after Nudge’s expulsion.

      • illiad
        March 12, 2011, 3:39 am | #

        🙂 did I not say I luuuuv them ???? 🙂 none of those ‘serious’ faces, they just love life!! 😀

        spread a smile, it cheers you up after a bad day at work…. 🙂 🙂

  2. Fairportfan
    March 10, 2011, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    There’s an even better use of that line in Tamora Pierce’s Trickster’s Queen…

    • Tessa
      March 10, 2011, 2:14 am | # | Reply

      So you say that but don’t give the line? We have to go buy the book and read it all to find out what the heck you’re talking about? Pluuus for me, I’m not done with the Protector of the Small books, and then I have to read the Alanna series and Immortal series… Only THEN can I read the Trickster books. So you’re giving out too much homework for a random reference.

      • Jackalkat
        March 10, 2011, 6:54 am | #

        You’re reading them backwards!

      • Jabberwonky
        March 10, 2011, 12:26 pm | #

        !then this like read they Wouldn’t

      • sq_rigger
        March 10, 2011, 1:23 pm | #

        .siht ekil daer d’yeht, oN

      • Tessa
        March 10, 2011, 11:06 pm | #

        I know! but I started Protector first on accident. I already have the Alanna books ready to read next.

      • Black Cat Godess
        March 10, 2011, 10:11 am | #

        Fairportfan was referring to the “I want to be her when I grow up” line. And I must also admit, it is a VERY good use of the line, both here and in Trickster’s Queen. It’s also good to know that there are other Tamora Pierce fans out there!

        Tessa, I read the books with Protector first too, then went to Immortals and then Alanna. XD Didn’t realize until later I’d read them backwards! Well, backwards in the order of the quartets, but I started with the first of each quartet. Tamora’s a good enough writer that it didn’t matter, though.

        I’m really starting to like Becky, here. We need to see more of her! Is she really Tina’s only employee?

      • Fairportfan
        March 10, 2011, 4:05 pm | #

        Apparently she’s not strictly speaking an employee.

      • IanCaz
        March 10, 2011, 10:37 am | #

        Gotta love Google Books:
        Trickster’s queen
        By Tamora Pierce (pg 264)

      • Fairportfan
        March 10, 2011, 2:34 pm | #

        It’s the same line – it’s just the context, and to give that would take too much space and be a major spoiler for the first book and also for the second.

        And you’re reading them in pretty much the same order Kate and i read them after i picked up Frst Test more or less on a whim.

        I regularly check out the Teen/YA sections of bookstores for interesting things. One of my favourite explanations as to why is to quote the section card form the bookstore in Will Shetterley’s Elsewhere: “Children’s and Unusually Perceptive Adults’ Fiction”.

        (Another one in the same store is “Gay and Morose Lesbian and Homosexual Books”.)

    • Sean Murphy
      October 1, 2017, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

      A friend of mine says that about the Mountie in the TV series “Due South”…

  3. Biker Matt
    March 10, 2011, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    With a body like that, I wonder how much growing she’s still got!

    • SoWhyMe
      March 10, 2011, 3:17 am | # | Reply

      Oh, I think she’s stopped growing upward. The only ways she has to go now is mentally and/or outward.

      Growing up is a pain. Maturity is highly overrated. Heck, all this new technology was initially created by people with little social grace or maturity. May still be that way.

      • GEEKONCALL
        March 10, 2011, 8:16 pm | #

        ” I don’t care how old I get, I refuse to grow up! ”

        from a bumper sticker, I don’t remember when or where.

      • Jabberwonky
        March 10, 2011, 8:48 pm | #

        “You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.” Has been my favorite of that sort.

    • bmonk
      March 10, 2011, 10:17 am | # | Reply

      I’ve used lines like that about people with nice singing voices, or great educations I envy, or the like. So I’m with Tina…

  4. SoWhyMe
    March 10, 2011, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Well, geeze. I thought maybe she was just a college kid helping out to earn extra money.

    • Fatuncle
      March 10, 2011, 2:10 am | # | Reply

      Head pastry chef — wow! She’s good, then — that’s not a position you get without serious skills.

  5. NOTDilbert
    March 10, 2011, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    Is Feuillet’s a real place, I wonder?

    • Fairportfan
      March 10, 2011, 1:16 am | # | Reply

      Quite possibly, but Googling “Feuillet’s” and “Minneapolis” didn’t find anything…

      • Opus the Poet
        March 10, 2011, 2:09 am | #

        You know it is possible that they don’t have/want an internet presence I know restaurants that have survived for years with nothing but word-of-mouth. Granted the owners never got rich, but they made a living and they were happy, so they had what they wanted from life. AFAIK their employees made a living, too.

      • Fairportfan
        March 10, 2011, 7:38 am | #

        True. There was the No Name Cafe…

        However, a Google run would also pick up articles about the place or mentions by anyone, not just its own website.

      • Jabberwonky
        March 10, 2011, 3:02 am | #

        When I Googled it, I got a Pablo M Fueillets, MD…

      • zebarsuk
        March 10, 2011, 7:42 am | #

        It may be based on Turtle Bread; they DO have an award-winning female chief pastry chef.

      • Paul Taylor
        March 10, 2011, 11:23 am | #

        That’s the one! 🙂

    • illiad
      March 10, 2011, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      … lot of frechguys with that name (it means ‘leaf, as in page), no sign of any bakers, though..

      “Zut! zere ees no time for play, ven zere is *baking* to be done..” 🙂

  6. Jay-Em
    March 10, 2011, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    That last line from Tina is ,somehow, extremely funny. Made me LOL seriously…

    Tina: Naivite masked in dry wit…

  7. Paula
    March 10, 2011, 1:46 am | # | Reply

    Glad Tina is like that too 😀
    Im 36 and still not decided what i want to be when i grow up 😛

    OFF TOPIC
    Can we get the small 4 cell NEXT/PREVIOUS bar at the bottom of the page please ^^
    I read all the comments then have to bounce all the way back up to the top of the page to get to the next/previous days comic
    I tend to finish reading the previous days comments before i read todays comic. (read the comics in the morning so heck of alot of comments added after I have last viewed it and the comments do help keep up with the plot line and give me other things to think about which i have not previously thought)

    • Opus the Poet
      March 10, 2011, 2:05 am | # | Reply

      There’s this key on the right side of the keyboard that says “Home”. When pressed it takes me to the top of the page in both FF3 and Chrome. If you’re dealing with that bastard browser out of Washington state, you’re on your own. I’m not getting paid to support Windows any more.

      • Draconis Noir
        March 10, 2011, 2:30 am | #

        It works for IE too

      • Paula
        March 11, 2011, 1:38 am | #

        that was so obvious i didnt even think of it 😀

        Thank you for that 😀

    • Hanineal
      March 10, 2011, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

      I’m 58 and I still haven’t decided. It hasn’t hurt me, though.

  8. Opus the Poet
    March 10, 2011, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    Tina uses real English words for the size cup of coffee she sells, I just noticed that in the background (I don’t normally read the backgrounds, just glance at them to place the comic in spacetime). I notice she sells sandwiches and PitaPizza, as well as whole bean and ground coffee in the bag, plus specialty bread by the loaf. For a small, local coffee shop she has a very large inventory…

    • Jabberwonky
      March 10, 2011, 3:07 am | # | Reply

      You’re kidding?
      After I read it about 3 times, and the comments to date, I look at the backgrounds. I love the backgrounds Paul does.
      And will the soapbox to pitch, yet again, the idea of a book featuring the backgrounds…

      • SoWhyMe
        March 10, 2011, 3:26 am | #

        What we need is Wapsi paper dolls. Not real paper dolls but a program with somewhat posable figures in various poses and backgrounds so we can make fan comics. It would be a hoot to see what everyone comes up with.

      • Jabberwonky
        March 10, 2011, 4:45 am | #

        Colorforms! I want Wapsi Square colorforms!

      • Fairportfan
        March 10, 2011, 2:46 pm | #

        KiSS dolls.

      • Eee
        March 10, 2011, 7:54 am | #

        Hear hear! And if the wall in the background in panel 1 is the wall Tina DIDN’T want Shelly killing Nudge by for fear of blood splatter, I fully agree with her!

        Tina’s coffee shop is very heavily decorated. I wonder which of the Collective opted for that…

      • Jabberwonky
        March 10, 2011, 12:41 pm | #

        Having laid tile professionally in my widely varied career, that indeed is quite a job done on that wall.

    • SoWhyMe
      March 10, 2011, 5:37 am | # | Reply

      Sells soup too. She may be working up to making the place a café. Restaurante del Demonio Colectiva. Their motto … “We know what you want before you do.” No problem with overstocks or leftovers. Too much of something made? She simply sends out a demon to whisper into the customer’s ear. “The enchiladas are excellent. The enchiladas are excellent.”
      “I think I have a taste for enchiladas dear.”
      “Me too. I heard they’re excellent.”
      “Yes, so did I … somewhere …”

      • Jabberwonky
        March 10, 2011, 10:28 am | #

        Hey, they’re already using subliminal advertising anywhere you hear Muzak….got to be the only explanation for that crap.

      • Moose Breath
        March 10, 2011, 7:26 pm | #

        Not necessarily a cafe. The best coffee in Indianapolis (IMHO) comes from B-Java on the northwest side, and that’s pretty much their menu, too, but they don’t do pastries, just fabulous home-made muffins, cookies, etc., depending on BJ’s mood. They even roast their own coffee beans.

      • Paula
        March 11, 2011, 1:40 am | #

        least you ‘think’ its the best
        its not tina’s shop is it 😀

  9. Jim
    March 10, 2011, 4:27 am | # | Reply

    Ooh, I like Becky.

  10. ziggy78eog
    March 10, 2011, 8:04 am | # | Reply

    I thought Becky worked for Tina.

  11. Jabberwonky
    March 10, 2011, 10:34 am | # | Reply

    I’m still deciding if she’s being silly or snotty. The dialog could go either way, but her expressions and body language seems like she’s not happy to be there.

    • Paul Taylor
      March 10, 2011, 11:25 am | # | Reply

      Nah, she just doesn’t like having the attention piled on her. 🙂

    • Jabberwonky
      March 10, 2011, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

      Our Becky is shy….
      It would be counter intuitive for Tina to have someone that was uncomfortable working there…

      • Jabberwonky
        March 10, 2011, 12:14 pm | #

        It would be counter intuitive for Tina to have someone working there that was uncomfortable there…
        Is how someone with a lick of sense would have said it.

  12. kingklash
    March 10, 2011, 11:06 am | # | Reply

    Yep, she’s cool!

  13. The Old Wolf
    March 10, 2011, 4:15 pm | # | Reply

    I’m thinkin’ we really need a PatchTogether statue of Tina. Yeah, that. 😀

    • Jim
      March 10, 2011, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

      Seconded.

      • Lizzibabe
        March 10, 2011, 6:33 pm | #

        Thirded!

  14. Kessog
    March 10, 2011, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

    And Tina continues to maintain a high level of Awsome in her Little Black Dress and doo rag. Who needs accessories when you’re rockin’ the basics?

    • Heph
      March 10, 2011, 11:45 pm | # | Reply

      I dont know but her chocker/collar seems sexy to me. Not to mention that its a nice statement to her own selfs.

  15. The Old Wolf
    March 10, 2011, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

    Ping jwhouk: Please send me email at ccdesan [at] gmail [dot] com.

  16. Kramegame
    March 10, 2011, 7:57 pm | # | Reply

    All I can say is I want to be Alan when I grow up. ^-^
    or Charlie Sheen.

    • Paula
      March 11, 2011, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      the way that boy is acting recently i would say a 2yr old is more grown up than charlie sheen

  17. ProleBoi
    March 11, 2011, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Art show, huh? Wonder if M’s going to be there, driving up the catering bill? 🙂

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