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by Paul Taylor on May 12, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. GunnerWalker
    May 12, 2010, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    A comma might word well between “for you” “and you” . it took me a sec to understand.

    Grammer Nazism aside, I love the strip! It made me laugh!

    • Biker Matt
      May 12, 2010, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      “Word well”? Don’t you mean “work well”?

      • GunnerWalker
        May 13, 2010, 12:05 am | #

        well thats ironic

      • GermanWapsiFan
        October 18, 2010, 8:02 pm | #

        And it’s “grammar”, not “grammer”, AFAIK.

    • Paula
      May 12, 2010, 1:54 am | # | Reply

      even with the comma i thought she was calling shelly or bud ‘miss danger’

    • eschmenk
      May 12, 2010, 7:32 am | # | Reply

      Hmm. I was confused by the comma being there. Probably the best way to say it is, “…for you and that you miss the danger.” Another option would be to replace the comma with a question mark. That would create a sentence fragment, but they are in dialogue often enough. Whatever.

  2. txmystic
    May 12, 2010, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Aso. She was way ahead of Shelly…

    Onward and Upward!

  3. Amethyst Shadow
    May 12, 2010, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    hehe

    love mon.

    and for the love of god put a Top Web Comics link on your page 🙂

    I had to finally break down and make my own link reminder to vote every day 🙂

    • dadman
      May 12, 2010, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve got Wapsi Square “favorited”, but I echo your plea for A TWC vote link. This comic deserves much more traffic than it gets.

  4. Fairportfan
    May 12, 2010, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Yay Monica!

  5. fatuncle
    May 12, 2010, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    Hah! On the same page here, are we? Good! So far, honors are about even…

  6. Atomic
    May 12, 2010, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Ah.. the first step is recognizing the problem…

    Hello! My name is Monica/Bud/Shelly and I’m a Danger Seeker….

    • Tessa
      May 12, 2010, 3:33 am | # | Reply

      Monica and Shelly, sure, but I don’t see Bud ever actually being in any danger.

      • Fairportfan
        May 12, 2010, 7:26 am | #

        Bud’s danger is herself.

      • eschmenk
        May 12, 2010, 8:21 am | #

        I disagree. Jin, who is the danger here, is more powerful than Bud. I think Mayahuel probably is, too, and in some ways Monica is. Although they aren’t a threat, the timekeepers managed to defeat the chimera and keep the GGGs inert, then Tepoz had control over the GGGs for a while. Given that, there could be additional magical beings or artifacts that we don’t know about that could be a threat Bud.

        The other thing is that danger to someone else would worry her, too.

      • Fairportfan
        May 12, 2010, 4:44 pm | #

        No – i meant that Bud sees herself as the danger.

        …and suspects that whatever is wrong with jin is her fault, too.

  7. LW18(LADYWOLF)
    May 12, 2010, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    Phew! I’m glad that, that went well.

  8. MerchManDan
    May 12, 2010, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Shelly’s expression makes me happy. Sort of “I’m in SO much crap!” meets “Wait….what?”

    • Fairportfan
      May 12, 2010, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      (Homer-Simpsonish “D’oh!”)(

    • eschmenk
      May 12, 2010, 7:55 am | # | Reply

      I didn’t interpret it that way. To me, it looks like “Woah! Where did that come from” or perhaps “Oh, oh! What the hell have I done, now?” Instead of being less worried about how Monica was going to react, I think she looks more concerned today than she did yesterday.

      Of course, Monica’s reaction is pretty much what she wanted in the beginning, so she shouldn’t be too worried.

      • MerchManDan
        May 13, 2010, 2:37 am | #

        Uh….yeah.

        “I’m in so much crap” = “Oh-oh, what have I done now?’

        “Wait……what?” = “Whoa! Where did that come from?”

        I don’t want to presume to know what you’re thinking, but I think we’re interpreting it the same way.

      • eschmenk
        May 13, 2010, 12:09 pm | #

        OK, I misunderstood what you meant. Sorry.

    • txmystic
      May 12, 2010, 11:10 am | # | Reply

      I’ll go with: “Uh-oh! What the hell have I done, now?”

      Also, it’s clear that Shelly totally didn’t see that one coming from Monica, so she’s a bit deflated.

  9. hotpocket
    May 12, 2010, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    Panel to panel flow has much improved recently. Scene transitions are no longer quite abrupt; plot is more cohesive as a result.

    Good work!

  10. Jim
    May 12, 2010, 5:14 am | # | Reply

    Heheheh . Go Monica !

  11. Dusty668
    May 12, 2010, 5:41 am | # | Reply

    Woo Hoo! More perferated clothing! Although we may have to add to the budget for Bud Boots®.

  12. Marshall
    May 12, 2010, 6:25 am | # | Reply

    I thought everything makes Monica mad.

    • The Old Wolf
      May 12, 2010, 6:27 am | # | Reply

      Well, she’s a fiery Latina! 😀

    • eschmenk
      May 12, 2010, 7:45 am | # | Reply

      Well, she is pretty contrary and not very consistent. She said that she didn’t want any adventure to Tepoz a little while ago.

      I really can’t blame her, though.

      • Julie
        May 12, 2010, 8:09 am | #

        Maybe she can admit she misses it and wants a little danger back in her life now that she knows she’s not the only one. 🙂 It’s much easier being certifiably insane if your friends are , too.

        On a side note, I’d say that the white chocolate mocha didn’t make Monica the happy person she usually is post-coffee. Maybe she needs to stick with her usual. 🙂

        http://wapsisquare.com/comic/change-things-up/

        btw…which of those lovely code options I see makes it possible for me to hide my link in text like everyone else? 🙂 Thanks!

      • eschmenk
        May 12, 2010, 8:29 am | #

        I had just checked and noticed that she must have finished the white chocolate mocha, but forgot to say anything. By the way, it’s job was to make Monica more ready to do something about Jin. In that sense, it seemed to work.

        The links are normal HTML links. So something like this: >a href=”http://wapsisquare.com/comic/a-case-of-beer/”<Monica isn’t holding her coffee anymore.>/a<

      • eschmenk
        May 12, 2010, 8:34 am | #

        Erg! I forgot the difference between “greater than” and “less than”. I need to go back to grade school, I guess. Let’s try that again:

        The links are normal HTML links. So something like this: <a href=”http://wapsisquare.com/comic/a-case-of-beer/”>Monica isn’t holding her coffee anymore.</a>

        Monica isn’t holding her coffee anymore.

      • Julie
        May 12, 2010, 8:36 am | #

        Thanks!

      • BMonk
        December 25, 2024, 3:36 pm | #

        “I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!”
        ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

        And yet, he went, and was changed, and (ultimately) decided they were not so bad after all.

  13. omi
    May 12, 2010, 6:54 am | # | Reply

    so typical. so, just out of curiosity, what ever happened to the boyfriend? haven’t seen hide nor hair of him.

    • Paul Taylor
      May 12, 2010, 9:52 am | # | Reply

      He’s a videographer. In Wapsi time he’s only been out of the comic for a couple weeks. Any stuff with him or M aside from that was not pertinent to moving the story forward at this time.

      • txmystic
        May 12, 2010, 11:13 am | #

        Which would imply more supernatural adventure! w00t!

  14. kingklash
    May 12, 2010, 11:18 am | # | Reply

    “Now that that’s out of the way, let’s go buy our tickets for the next crazy train.”

  15. Opus the Poet
    May 12, 2010, 5:09 pm | # | Reply

    Monica is just now making it to work, but this morning started back in mid-April for us April 14th “Bright Idea” as Dietzel uses the air horn to wake M, so 28 days to get M from bed to work.

  16. Jim
    May 12, 2010, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

    I just voted for Wapsi Square , BTW .

  17. CrashFu
    May 12, 2010, 7:57 pm | # | Reply

    Oh man. You had me worried with the top half of the page there. Is Monica becoming all up-tight and losing her sense for adventure!?

    *scrolls down*

    Oh, I guess not. WHEW! Also, love the way that she’s messing with poor Shelly here. Like an angry mom talking to her misbehaving kid. And then it turns out mom wants to get a tattoo or something..

  18. Ursus
    May 13, 2010, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

    I *so* wanna be the strap on her handbag…..

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