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Hold That Thought

by Paul Taylor on November 28, 2018 at 12:46 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Castela, Luci, Shelly
Location: Mucho Mocha

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  1. RoyD
    November 28, 2018, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    I’m not sure what’s funnier in that last panel: Castela’s shocked face, or Luci’s bag of popcorn. XD

    • DR.REVENGE
      November 28, 2018, 2:05 am | # | Reply

      Luci’s popcorn

      • Fairportfan
        November 28, 2018, 2:36 am | #

        bump

      • Hawk
        November 28, 2018, 6:20 am | #

        Deffo the popcorn 🙂

      • Centaur71
        November 28, 2018, 8:54 am | #

        Before the movie starts, I’ll have cheese nachos and a Coke, please

    • Simon
      November 28, 2018, 4:29 am | # | Reply

      Or Shelly’s complete lack of embarrassment about telling these stories…

      • RoyD
        November 28, 2018, 2:43 pm | #

        Shelly’s lack of embarrassment is definitely chuckle-worthy, but not in the same magnitude as the other two. Certainly adds to the humor, though, and likely helps boost the rest of the hilarity!

      • Mark N
        November 28, 2018, 2:54 pm | #

        She has had 80,000 years to ruminate over it all

    • jwhouk
      November 28, 2018, 7:01 am | # | Reply

      Definitely the popcorn.

    • Typeminer
      November 28, 2018, 9:22 am | # | Reply

      Popcorn. But the bag should be bigger. 🙂

      • McClaw
        November 28, 2018, 11:19 am | #

        The bag should be a big bowl so she can share.

    • W.
      November 28, 2018, 9:31 am | # | Reply

      The popcorn. The face is good, but the popcorn takes it over the top.

    • K
      November 28, 2018, 9:41 am | # | Reply

      The popcorn. Todays comic is comic gold.

    • txmystic
      November 28, 2018, 11:54 am | # | Reply

      Gotta have popcorn

    • Xerxes Aragon
      November 28, 2018, 2:19 pm | # | Reply

      Although popcorn seems like the most likely candidate for what’s in the bag we don’t actually see what’s in there. It could be something else. A bag of Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies for example. Or a bag of beef jerky. Luci seems like a beef jerky kind of gal.

      • RoyD
        November 28, 2018, 2:35 pm | #

        True, but “bag of popcorn” is a reliable trope-ic shorthand for “sit back and watch this unfold”. So, while it might not be a bag of actual popcorn, it’s definitely a bag of figurative popcorn.

    • Badgerguy
      September 15, 2021, 8:15 pm | # | Reply

      Pass the popcorn, please.

    • Senok13
      April 19, 2025, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      Story Time demands popcorn.

  2. Dave
    November 28, 2018, 1:28 am | # | Reply

    “Ok, granted, that was 80,000 years ago, but Holy Crom On A Biscuit!“

    • Centaur71
      November 28, 2018, 8:55 am | # | Reply

      Your God…

      • W.
        November 28, 2018, 9:32 am | #

        Crom laughs at your four winds. Laughs on his mountain.

      • txmystic
        November 28, 2018, 11:55 am | #

        But the four winds are above Crom…heh heh…

      • txmystic
        November 28, 2018, 11:55 am | #

        Oh, and, contemplate this on the tree of woe…

      • TazManiac
        November 28, 2018, 3:08 pm | #

        whoa… ,😎

  3. Varkas
    November 28, 2018, 6:59 am | # | Reply

    First mention of Owen in a good while, hope he and his Lakshmi are doing well 🙂

    • Jeff Weiner
      November 28, 2018, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

      We may find out…

    • Reisboy
      November 28, 2018, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

      well, they surely were doing “it” well last time we heard of them…

  4. jwhouk
    November 28, 2018, 7:01 am | # | Reply

    Ah, a word we’ve not heard since what, 2004? 2005?

    “Owen.”

    • Dave
      November 28, 2018, 9:05 am | # | Reply

      http://wapsisquare.com/comic/echoes/

  5. Fogel
    November 28, 2018, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    Luci pulled the bag from the popcorn equivalent of hammer-space!

  6. SeanR
    November 28, 2018, 9:22 am | # | Reply

    I am glad that Luci called Shelly to tell these stories, because they were not her stories to tell.
    I do suspect there may be a little residual resentment there, considering her distrust when she was tapped to mentor Castella, so I have to wonder what she’ll do when she finds out about Shelly’s heritage and alternate form.

    • Dorje Sylas
      November 28, 2018, 10:05 am | # | Reply

      You spent 80,000 years essentially alone, with only an Elemental that appeared like your 10 year old-self, and had to watch 56 other yous die to lethal radiation? And your mom faked her own death just to “toughen you up” at that age of 10 , that resulted in over a decade of trama? And your mom-god was also psychologically busted by being in the proximity to a functional apocalypse? Who’s three parts you are friends with? …. If you were a book, your cover art does not at all match your contents.

      • SeanR
        November 28, 2018, 3:42 pm | #

        I think we’re talking about different things. I meant Luci, when approached to mentor Castella, had an instant distrust of the assignment on learning it was Shelly who recommended her.
        http://wapsisquare.com/comic/just-once/
        (Although there was a fair amount of skepticism all around.)
        So, with that, I would not have put it past her to tell Shelly’s stories, but I’m glad she refrained and got Shelly to tell them instead.

    • Faitportfan
      November 29, 2018, 8:09 pm | # | Reply

      Well, i figured she was gonna tell stories about her own encounters with Shelly.

      I particularly recall the tire pump.

  7. Robert Nowall
    November 28, 2018, 10:07 am | # | Reply

    Bring in Monica and they can play a game of “can you top this?”

    (And I think it’s the first we’ve heard of Owen since he and Lakshmi eloped.)

    • joecrouse
      November 28, 2018, 2:04 pm | # | Reply

      Yep. Aunt M needs to be brought into this… Hell PHIX needs to be brought in on this one.

      I’m sure MOST of the ladies in this comic need to be brought in.

      At Which Point the stink weed points out.. Well damn.. I come from a long line of whack jobs.

      • Mark N
        November 28, 2018, 2:59 pm | #

        Bingo.

      • Robert Nowall
        November 28, 2018, 4:51 pm | #

        She can finally take some consolation in knowing she was adopted.

      • Gavote
        November 28, 2018, 8:21 pm | #

        You may be adopted Stinkweed, but you fit right in!

  8. Guesticus
    November 28, 2018, 11:10 am | # | Reply

    Why is it shocking that Owen has not been mentioned since he and Lakshmi left?
    Until now, there would have been no reason to bring him up, and even now it is only in passing (like bad gas)

    • Varkas
      November 29, 2018, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

      Cause Mr. and Mrs. “no longer appearing in this comic” still have fans and we wonder how they’re doing. We still get glimpses of pretty much every other recurring character(I think even Heather had an appearance not all that long ago). The new generation has grown on me(pun not intended), but I love seeing the original cast from before the time skip that brought the story to center more on Castela

  9. JuankiMan
    November 28, 2018, 11:11 am | # | Reply

    If you cannot be a good example at least be a dire warning.

  10. Guesticus
    November 28, 2018, 11:14 am | # | Reply

    Yup, every little weed believes their mistakes were worse, or the first

  11. txmystic
    November 28, 2018, 11:56 am | # | Reply

    Shellllllllyyyyyyy!!!!

  12. The Old Wolf
    November 28, 2018, 12:29 pm | # | Reply

    Love the popcorn, Luci knew what was coming. Castela needs the “blue screen of death” in her eyes or something. 💝

    • Gavote
      November 28, 2018, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

      The good, old fashioned, double TILT.

  13. Dave
    November 28, 2018, 7:08 pm | # | Reply

    So, we really need somebody (perhaps Phix) to do a three-way ranking as to whose screwups were worse: Castela, Shelly, or Timmy with his slide-whistle flatulence during a math test.

  14. Lance
    November 28, 2018, 8:37 pm | # | Reply

    Best use of popcorn meme ever!

    • Graybeard
      November 28, 2018, 9:32 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, I’d claim it’s only tied for best use in an episode involving Shelly: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/the-last-time/

      (Of course, that’s a pretty high bar.)

      • Fogel
        November 29, 2018, 5:49 am | #

        You are quite right! Id forgotten that : Thanks!

  15. Bratty Roger
    November 28, 2018, 9:15 pm | # | Reply

    🤔I take it that Luci ^still^ doesn’t know that Shelly is a sphinx😞! (And what her relationship is with “stately and refined” Phix😁

    • Simon
      November 29, 2018, 5:02 am | # | Reply

      Pretty sure she’s clued in on all this stuff now… I don’t know if sphinxes have been specifically mentioned, but she’s certainly aware of stuff like what Castela is…

      • Sean
        December 12, 2018, 9:12 am | #

        Luci met Phix, and fan-gushed all over the poor befuddled Librarian – so I kinda think Luci knows about Sphinxes…

  16. FreeFlier
    November 28, 2018, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

    Close your mouth, stinkweed . . . or are you related to the venus flytrap?

  17. Robert Nowall
    November 29, 2018, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Y’know, it could be a bag of jawbreakers, or some other appropriate movie candy. (We usually favored Jujubees, but they don’t sell them over the counter ’round here anymore.)

    • txmystic
      November 29, 2018, 11:32 am | # | Reply

      Junior mints can be quite refreshing (especially when observing abdominal surgery in the operating theater).

      A neighbor and I went to see the “Sabrina” remake (looong time ago now) and she introduced me to the delightful practice of pouring a large box of whoppers into the vat-o-popcirn. Delish!

  18. Brandon
    November 29, 2018, 7:51 am | # | Reply

    Shelly will always be my favorite character.

  19. B0mar
    November 30, 2018, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    Is it just me? or is Shelly rocking her own Gray[at thhe TEMPLES!]
    A> Isn’t that a MALE graying pattern? and
    B> If thhat is hair-shine, wouldn’t it follow the shape of her head, and change as she moved?

  20. AlexKorobeiniki
    March 4, 2020, 2:54 pm | # | Reply

    Ah… youth. Definitely a sure sign of it is the certainty that no one else has gone through what you have or that nothing will ever be as serious as it is right now. Don’t miss those parts!
    …I do miss the high metabolist, though

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