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by Paul Taylor on April 3, 2012 at 12:00 am
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  1. FatUncle
    April 3, 2012, 1:50 am | # | Reply

    Why is this even creepier than yesterday?

    • NOTDilbert
      April 3, 2012, 2:05 am | # | Reply

      Just a guess, Uncle, but it may be the tentacle in the eye socket….

      • MerchManDan
        April 3, 2012, 2:28 am | #

        Also, Tina’s fangs are fully bared as she stares eyelessly in our direction (so to speak). Normally, when a person sees something like that, they wake up screaming.

      • Dave
        April 3, 2012, 8:20 am | #

        Have to say, though, that first panel would make one hell of an ad for some popular brand of toothpaste…

        …. in Hell, that is.

      • WMBrant
        April 3, 2012, 4:38 pm | #

        As scary as Tina is in this strip, I shudder at the thought of how Paul might draw a hung over Tina…

    • Yamara
      April 3, 2012, 4:36 am | # | Reply

      It’s scarier because now we’re certain that those marks on her thighs… are . . .

      cellulite

      • Jay-Em
        April 3, 2012, 8:02 am | #

        O_o

        *faints*

      • Bucc-i
        April 3, 2012, 11:19 am | #

        I would rather have a girl that’s fat, then flat!

      • JP Hanson
        April 3, 2012, 2:41 pm | #

        Nah, just lumpy demons.

    • Anjel
      April 3, 2012, 10:23 pm | # | Reply

      What makes this so creepy?

      “We can haz badonka donk?!”

      Such a cute phrase, but from her mouth, it has such a terrifying aspect.

      • Negatron
        May 13, 2012, 1:39 pm | #

        It’s actually coming from her neck =)

    • Hinoron
      October 12, 2015, 9:08 pm | # | Reply

      Because we’re not used to thinking of eyes as an oriface.

    • Centaur71
      January 16, 2024, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

      Gotta remember; Tina is a demon-actuated corpse; a zed puppet that looked exactly that way when she was laying on the coroner’s exam table.

  2. Ari
    April 3, 2012, 1:54 am | # | Reply

    And yet they manage to seem so together in public.

    • Ari
      April 3, 2012, 1:55 am | # | Reply

      I think we don’t appreciate how normal Tina seems. Yes…I said normal. All things considered, Tina acts pretty damn normal.

      • Casey
        April 3, 2012, 3:02 am | #

        I’d go so far as to say that I have known people who are less likely to be pegged as a “normal human” than Tina.

      • FatUncle
        April 3, 2012, 6:47 am | #

        You know, that might be what’s so jarring: all these horrors behaving in such a mundane fashion. It’s like a zombie eating your brains, and then taking a Tums …

      • Jim
        April 3, 2012, 2:38 pm | #

        Not to be a pain in the analogy, but I approve of that statement.

      • Siarles
        April 3, 2012, 5:21 pm | #

        I believe you just defined the Uncanny Valley.

      • Jay-Em
        April 3, 2012, 8:18 am | #

        I guess so.

        When a demon starts worrying about “the muffin-top” I think we can finally say : “Welcome to being human. You lot are now, officially, declared human.”

      • Bucc-i
        April 3, 2012, 11:24 am | #

        You know Jeffery Dahmer seemed normal to most people. He just had a bad habit of killing and eatting his house guest. But other than that, pretty stand up guy.

      • ProfessorZoot
        April 3, 2012, 2:20 pm | #

        NO! Jeffrey Dahmer got away with what he did as long as he did not because people thought he was normal but because everybody (including the cops) dismissed him as an “icky f****t” and did not want to get involved in some sort of “deviant” domestic dispute. Another way in which homophobia kills.

      • Ari
        April 4, 2012, 1:23 am | #

        Welp, since I don’t think homosexuality is abnormal…I will accept the “they thought Dahmer was normal” response. Doesn’t matter that they thought it was “icky”.

        Betcha those people redefined their idea of “icky” after that. Just sayin.

      • illiad
        April 4, 2012, 3:12 am | #

        trouble is, the definitions of ‘normal’ have almost the same number as there are families in the world…. :/

      • bmonk
        April 4, 2012, 11:16 am | #

        Yes. “Normal” is what you grew up with.

        Just as I read something recently that mentioned a man’s “golden age” is how things were when he was about 7-11.

  3. Maark30
    April 3, 2012, 1:54 am | # | Reply

    An the last panel has found a new meme for the internet. Nice one Paul.

  4. Atomic
    April 3, 2012, 1:55 am | # | Reply

    It seems planning ahead is not their strong suite. Reacting, however….

  5. p phelps
    April 3, 2012, 1:56 am | # | Reply

    silly humans … there are lots of creatures inside of every woman … inside of most guys? … who knows..?

    • Jay-Em
      April 3, 2012, 8:05 am | # | Reply

      True dat! But I’ve yet to hear a couple of them having an inner dialogue that went further than “brrpl..blôrp..blørpa..”

  6. Ditzite
    April 3, 2012, 2:00 am | # | Reply

    Its nice to see the Tina set goes through the same issues all other women have to! They put their ridiculously tight skinny jeans on one leg at a time!

  7. harukohoshiko
    April 3, 2012, 2:00 am | # | Reply

    OMG this scene is too cute for words! I know what you’re thinking and no I am not crazy… trust me.

    • Dr.Tapestry
      April 3, 2012, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

      If you’re in the group, you’re probably a LITTLE crazy. Sorry.

      BTW – I still like her best. And we FINALLY got her age?

      • harukohoshiko
        April 3, 2012, 7:55 pm | #

        Yeah I am kinda surprised I figured her age would be a bit more seperated from mine than that.

    • illiad
      April 4, 2012, 3:23 am | # | Reply

      hey dont worry!! 🙂 life these days is soooo bleep, bleep, bleeeeeep, that you have to be a bit crazy to survive it!!! 🙂

  8. The Old Wolf
    April 3, 2012, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    Paul, whatever you’re smoking over there can I please have some?

    • Gavote
      April 3, 2012, 2:03 am | # | Reply

      Agreed and seconded!

      • Rowan Hawthorn
        April 3, 2012, 8:57 am | #

        Thirded. And I ain’t even toked ‘baccer in 21 years now…

      • Lustwane
        April 3, 2012, 10:26 am | #

        fourthed just… make sure there’s no tentacle goo on it…

    • bigchiroal
      April 3, 2012, 7:52 am | # | Reply

      Old Wolf you surprise me, as I did not think that was your style! So much for judging a book by your cover!!! I miss the Comfy Couch of Confusion forum. Glad to see you again!

      • Bucc-i
        April 3, 2012, 11:35 am | #

        Don’t worry, the Confusion Couch is over in the corner of the cafe collecting dust. Damnit Bigchiroal, now I want some coffee!
        *goes into cafe*

      • The Old Wolf
        April 3, 2012, 1:45 pm | #

        Haha! Tina’s not the only one who looks normal outside! Good to see you, bigXPal!

  9. Chiron
    April 3, 2012, 2:02 am | # | Reply

    You sir have created a new internet meme. “I can haz BadonkaDonk” is not taken. Copyright that puppy! And may I say. STILL “Rule 34”.

  10. NOTDilbert
    April 3, 2012, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    Interesting combo – combat dentition and badonkadonk butt.

    Hint, Tina – sweatpants and a long top over that. And Febreez.

    • Dave
      April 3, 2012, 8:49 am | # | Reply

      It would figure… those #€%*$&@ “fabric freshener” sprays and dryer sheets are quite definitely demonic in origin.

      (I’m allergic to a lot of perfumes… if someone arrives wearing clothes saturated in that stuff I have to get the hell out of Dodge immediately, or risk getting a headache ranging from mild up to true migrane intensity. A dose of Georgio perfume from a co-worker actually left me aphasic for several hours… gave me an idea what it must be like to have a stroke… very scary!)

      • Fairportfan
        April 3, 2012, 11:15 am | #

        I can’t last more than five minutes in a fabric store because of the sizing in the air. Most people don’t even really notice it.

      • Marchbanks
        April 3, 2012, 5:28 pm | #

        How ANYone can go into a fabric store and not be run outa there by the accumulated formaldehyde is a source of amazement to me.

    • Typeminer
      April 3, 2012, 8:58 pm | # | Reply

      Someplace recently, I read or heard that the active odor-neutralizing compound in Febreeze is odorless (duh), but selling unscented stink killer didn’t work out so well. Turns out that people don’t notice that their own furniture stinks. And so, they had to develop perfumes so strong that the Febreeze couldn’t neutralize them, so they could sell “springtime synthetic nuclear migraine ester fresh.”

      Better things for better living through marketing research.

  11. Fairportfan
    April 3, 2012, 2:06 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm. Apparently some of the Collective want a boyfriend.

    • msyendor
      April 3, 2012, 11:30 am | # | Reply

      Yes, but should he squeeze too hard …

      suddenly I’m flashing to Galaxy Quest when Kwan discovers the girl’s got tentacles, she grins …
      Fleegman: Oh, that’s not right.

      • scantrontb
        April 3, 2012, 6:28 pm | #

        Fleegman?!… But i thought he was just “crewman #6”??

  12. SonicThunder
    April 3, 2012, 2:14 am | # | Reply

    !

    “We can haz…”

    I knew that meme was demonic all along!

  13. xavienne66
    April 3, 2012, 2:15 am | # | Reply

    Yes, TIna, you definitely can haz badonkadonk.

    • Dubael
      April 3, 2012, 2:16 am | # | Reply

      Oh! OH! ME! ME!

    • TheDoctor
      April 3, 2012, 8:17 am | # | Reply

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNVguvNE7qc

      • TheDoctor
        April 3, 2012, 8:19 am | #

        Hoo-ee! Shut my mouth,slap yo’ gra’ma!

      • TheDoctor
        April 3, 2012, 8:21 am | #

        SHOOT! Fallconscat beat me to it.

      • Fallconskat
        April 4, 2012, 1:55 am | #

        You mangled the name, which made me giggle till the service dog looked at me like “go the hell to sleep, mom!” 😉

        Great minds think alike!

      • Fairportfan
        April 3, 2012, 11:17 am | #

        Eee-yuck.

        You want country boyz rappin’?

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhJx1gpl0kM

      • scantrontb
        April 3, 2012, 6:46 pm | #

        OMG!! That was Frickin’ HILARIOUS…

      • Fairportfan
        April 3, 2012, 8:00 pm | #

        Try this one: http://youtu.be/KmsOIjzQ1V8

    • as363
      April 3, 2012, 8:34 am | # | Reply

      Don’t know if I could handle a “badonkadonk” – maybe a “tootulydo” – but only after two cups of Jamaica Blue .

  14. Dubael
    April 3, 2012, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    Honey, seriously, your demons are showing

  15. Kramegame
    April 3, 2012, 2:25 am | # | Reply

    Adorable. So very adorable. Tina’s demon’s act just like a sub-conscience…maybe we all are just a collection of lost souls…

    • Bucc-i
      April 3, 2012, 11:45 am | # | Reply

      Welcome to the Church of Scientology! Hmmm… it says here your Thetan levels are quite low. For $10,000 we can up your Thetan level for you!
      Zenu be praised.

      • Kramegame
        April 3, 2012, 2:41 pm | #

        exactly what I was thought after I typed it.. XD

      • Jay-Em
        April 4, 2012, 1:14 am | #

        Tss.. And here I was, thinking that those New-Agers and their hippie-talk about “Vibrationz”were weird…

        Even weirder.. Scientology was the result of a bet between Asimov, Hubbard and, I believe Niven and Heinlein, that it wás, or wásn’t possible to construct a new religion..

        Thát went out of hand pretty quick…

      • bmonk
        April 4, 2012, 11:19 am | #

        I’ve heard that the “tipping point” was when Hubbard discovered how much money could be made from believers. Before that, his plan was to reveal the bet and what he had done; after that, he was in for the duration.

  16. MerchManDan
    April 3, 2012, 2:34 am | # | Reply

    I kind of feel bad for being so amused by this; it’s happened to me too. Well, minus the heart-patterned underwear, that is.

    • NOTDilbert
      April 3, 2012, 3:20 am | # | Reply

      But, WITH the tentacles in the eye socket? You sir, are talking out your butt (like Tina). 😉

  17. Locuranis
    April 3, 2012, 2:39 am | # | Reply

    Huh, we’re the same age. Hmm, she looks better than me, minus the tentacles. Go with the badonkadonk, Tina, some of us wish we had one.

    It’d be interesting to know which voice belonged to which demon.

    • GreyWolf
      April 3, 2012, 3:29 am | # | Reply

      ::glances at your avatar::

      ::glances at his watch::

      Dayyyyyyyyyum! Set an all-new speed record for turning a comic into a Gravatar, did we? I’m impressed! 😀

      • Locuranis
        April 3, 2012, 1:32 pm | #

        Heh, would have been up yesterday except I forgot to give it a G rating instead of PG.

  18. My2Cents
    April 3, 2012, 2:55 am | # | Reply

    Is she talking out of her butt in the last panel?

    • illiad
      April 3, 2012, 3:28 am | # | Reply

      🙂 what do you mean by ‘she’ ?? 😉
      It would depend on the gender of the ‘butt demon’, surely…. 😀

    • Dusty668
      April 3, 2012, 4:40 am | # | Reply

      This doesn’t make Tina a republican does it?

      • Jay-Em
        April 3, 2012, 8:09 am | #

        Depends on where the brain-farts come from.

        ( not to turn this into a political arena/slaughterhouse, but, do those American Politicians even realize the enormous entertainment value they have for foreigners like me? )

      • Julie
        April 3, 2012, 8:37 am | #

        If they don’t they’re dumber than they sound…and I think “talking out of one’s butt” is not reserved for any particular political party. I’m fairly certain they all have that skill covered.

        <— Hates politics almost as much as the 24 hour news channels that discuss them all the time.

      • Siarles
        April 3, 2012, 8:40 pm | #

        <— Couldn't agree more.

      • Dave
        April 3, 2012, 8:54 am | #

        We’ll try to remain cool and calm
        when Alabama gets The Bomb!

        What always worries me is that for every wingnut politician spouting nonsense (Left, Right, or sideways) there’s clearly a cohort of voters who take him/her seriously, and agree.

      • Wyvern
        April 3, 2012, 2:21 pm | #

        The best brain fart or verbal faux pas I’ve seen today is the one that made the Doonesbury website:
        Baltimore radio interviewer: “One of the things, Ann Romney, that folks talk about with your husband, Mitt Romney…Sometimes he comes off stiff…”
        Ann Romney: “Well, you know, I guess we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out, because he’s not!”

      • Yamara
        April 3, 2012, 6:02 pm | #

        There is now, nor has there ever been, an Etch-A-Sketch powerful enough to erase that image, Wyvern.

      • Yamara
        April 3, 2012, 6:03 pm | #

        now = not now

        Please vote for me this Election Day.

      • TheDoctor
        April 3, 2012, 8:26 am | #

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpU8sX10_4

  19. Stigmartyr762
    April 3, 2012, 3:17 am | # | Reply

    …..Aaand cue Sir Mixalot!

    Oh…my…gawd! Tina’s demons seriously need to work on their time management skills. LMFAO!!!!

    • fallconskat
      April 3, 2012, 7:43 am | # | Reply

      i lean more towards this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNVguvNE7qc

      trace atkins. honkytonk badonkadonk. cheesy country, and i cant get enough of that silliness. 😀

    • Julie
      April 3, 2012, 8:38 am | # | Reply

      With the tentacle coming out of Tina, it really alters my impression of “My anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns hun.”

      • Yamara
        April 3, 2012, 12:25 pm | #

        … “Did you mean your butt, or my butt?“

    • IS_Wolf
      April 3, 2012, 2:53 pm | # | Reply

      Try Coulton.
      http://youtu.be/lyJeC99QO8A

      😛

  20. GreyWolf
    April 3, 2012, 3:28 am | # | Reply

    Yes, you can haz one Tina, and how …. demons aside, hard to believe she’s still single, heh.

  21. MihoshiK
    April 3, 2012, 3:43 am | # | Reply

    Well, we already knew from her bikini picture that Tina has Dem Hips, now we know she also has Dat Ass.
    I don’t know about the rest of you, but to me Tina could hardly be more attractive right now, multiple personalities, fangs, tentacles and all included 😀

  22. Robert Nowall
    April 3, 2012, 4:26 am | # | Reply

    I guess some people just have trouble putting it together in the morning.

  23. jae
    April 3, 2012, 5:05 am | # | Reply

    So, now we know how old Tina is… oh, wait, how old her body is. 😉

    • M
      April 3, 2012, 6:30 am | # | Reply

      Isn’t that true for all of us.

      Only bodies have ages, the soul(s) whether angelic or demonic are timeless.

      It is only when we are incarnate that we are bound by time.

      incarnate: from the latin caro, made meat, cf chilli con carne.

    • Wyvern
      April 3, 2012, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

      We’ve known for a while that Tina (that is, Tina’s body) is thirty-something, a bit older than pre-forest Selly; this might be the most exact number yet.

      • Yamara
        April 3, 2012, 6:34 pm | #

        Just occurred to me that (if my calculations are correct) that Tina 2.x has had sole possession of the body for the same amount of time that Tina 1.x was alive inside it.

      • Fairportfan
        April 3, 2012, 7:58 pm | #

        Doubt it. Tina 1.0 was a therapist; you’d have to be mid-twenties or so for that.

      • Wyvern
        April 3, 2012, 10:35 pm | #

        I think not; the traffic accident which killed Tina 1.0 happened only about 10 or 12 years ago, so she would have been in her mid-20s. At the time Monica was 14 (and at the other end of the bus), while Shelly was 13 (and in Minnesota); thanks to Yamara for the chronology page.

      • Jay-Em
        April 4, 2012, 1:20 am | #

        Brrr. I am not going there.

        True Chronology and Comics are -more often than not, incompatible.

  24. Dane
    April 3, 2012, 6:36 am | # | Reply

    Shouldn’t that be, “Eye can has badonkadonk”? 🙂

    • Magasek
      April 3, 2012, 11:22 am | # | Reply

      Who’s got the Pun Jar? Fill it to the top, Dane!

  25. jwhouk
    April 3, 2012, 7:27 am | # | Reply

    You know, if Tina wasn’t already dead, these demons of her would have killed her.

    • Dave
      April 3, 2012, 8:31 am | # | Reply

      It does tend to explain the parallel-parking incident, doesn’t it? A bit of poorly-timed bickering, a bit too much distracted argument, some slight misunderstanding as to who should be watching the curb and who should be running the brake pedal, and then somebody just had to get grabby with that last donut…

      I’ve been in meetings like that… too many of ’em. *sigh*.

  26. bigchiroal
    April 3, 2012, 7:54 am | # | Reply

    Do these pants make my demons make me look fat?

  27. JamieEgg
    April 3, 2012, 8:02 am | # | Reply

    And here I was thinking that demons INVENTED skinny jeans…guess I was wrong. 🙂

  28. Jay-Em
    April 3, 2012, 8:14 am | # | Reply

    Ahhh.. Gotta love The Collective. They’ve become Só good at human mannerisms, that they even start worrying about their expanding a$$

    How human can you get?

    • Opus the Poet
      April 4, 2012, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      They’re just being frugal. Why buy new clothes when the old ones still fit? Only now they don’t any more.

  29. Cherish Bloom
    April 3, 2012, 8:15 am | # | Reply

    the beautiful thing about being a host to demons is that you have so many mouths to feed and only one stomach.

    Let’s go shopping!!!

  30. Dave
    April 3, 2012, 8:18 am | # | Reply

    They’re about as “together” as most of the committees I’ve worked with over the past few decades. Heinlein was right… any group of more than three, has trouble even agreeing in when to have lunch.

  31. TheDoctor
    April 3, 2012, 8:30 am | # | Reply

    Gotta love Tinas’ Lovely…..Assets.

  32. Hornet
    April 3, 2012, 8:37 am | # | Reply

    Hmm.. Say she throws on some sweats and stop at Kmart on the way to work.
    As for Badonkadonk, it wasn’t that bad til I saw the video.
    Seriously messed up to watch a “country” video full of wantabe rappers.

    • Fairportfan
      April 3, 2012, 11:37 am | # | Reply

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhJx1gpl0kM

      • The Old Wolf
        April 3, 2012, 1:47 pm | #

        That is seriously wrong.

      • Fairportfan
        April 3, 2012, 7:56 pm | #

        Heh.

        http://youtu.be/KmsOIjzQ1V8

  33. Julie
    April 3, 2012, 8:41 am | # | Reply

    Skinny jeans are a crime against humanity (in most cases). They are almost always a crime against self-esteems everywhere, too. Poor Tina…she needs to do her laundry more frequently. 😛

    • Sheik
      April 3, 2012, 10:41 am | # | Reply

      And her toothbrush is in dire need of replacement.

    • Fairportfan
      April 3, 2012, 11:09 am | # | Reply

      Sure, deck your lower limbs in pants.
      Yours are the legs, my sweeting.
      You look just great as you advance –
      Have you seen yourself retreating?

      – Ogden Nash.

  34. kingklash
    April 3, 2012, 9:07 am | # | Reply

    On the Grand Cosmic Scale of Morning Routines, this seems pretty average for any human. Tina gets extra points for being manned by a crew. And this is before anyone has gotten any coffee.

  35. CPUGuy1
    April 3, 2012, 10:25 am | # | Reply

    I hate to say it … but, this ruins my cuteness ideas about Tina.

    • Atomic
      April 3, 2012, 10:42 am | # | Reply

      A bit like the comments about viewing Politics and Sausage Making.

    • Wyvern
      April 3, 2012, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

      None of us look good trying to squeeze into too-tight clothes. There doesn’t seem to be any easy fix for body issues, either.

    • Siarles
      April 3, 2012, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

      I still find her quite cute. Except now it’s more on an emotional level than a physical one. The humanness of the demons is rather endearing.

      • Dave
        April 3, 2012, 9:12 pm | #

        I have the same reaction. The way she tried to hold it together, and then broke down into tears, after she’d (apparently) come so close to death in the great Phix/Nudge punch-out… her musings on her own mortality… her touching respect for Tina 1.0 as shown in the death-doll she made and sometimes speaks to…

        Somehow, between them, this gang of demons makes up a pretty nice person (albeit still a “wild animal” who/which cannot entirely be trusted). I’ve met quite a few bona fide humans that I like and trust less than I would Tina.

      • Jay-Em
        April 4, 2012, 1:36 am | #

        The biggest redeeming factor of Tina’s “Daemon” (because they are closer to the greek variation of “” inspiration”and such) is that they actually try to do good.

        Funny on a deeper level, is that Paul uses Tina to illustrate an old philosophical conundrum: Are we “good”because we want to? And do we want to be “good”because it gives us a “nice feeling”which is egoístic, a negative, non-good emotion.
        The Utilitarian view, so to speak.

  36. Bucc-i
    April 3, 2012, 11:15 am | # | Reply

    I finally get what I want, Tina fan service. Thank you Paul.
    My only regret is that I am comment #70… I wanted the comments to stay at 69!
    🙁

    • Yamara
      April 3, 2012, 12:51 pm | # | Reply

      You honestly don’t think 69 works the same for Tina 2.0 as it does for everyone else, do you?

      • The Old Wolf
        April 3, 2012, 1:49 pm | #

        Think “Galaxy Quest.” Oh, that’s not right…

      • CPUGuy1
        April 3, 2012, 10:30 pm | #

        The Imortal Words of ‘GUY’

      • Wyvern
        April 3, 2012, 2:57 pm | #

        We’re up to Tina 2.1 now that Nudge has found another place to live.

      • Atomic
        April 4, 2012, 12:31 am | #

        Good point! I shall remember that for future discussion.

  37. Avenger_Reloaded
    April 3, 2012, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

    Okay…interesting though. Given her pizza habit and the lack of ability to fit, is it Tina Gaining weight, or the demons inside?

    • Yamara
      April 3, 2012, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      I would guess that whatever allows demons to enjoy pizza involves the otherwise normal functions of the host body.

      Thus, morning sticky buns and nightly pizzas are making the host gain weight.

      Though in keeping with the “You are what you eat” theme, the demons may be affected by their own appetites. They have no one to torment but themselves.

  38. Dark Kuno
    April 3, 2012, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

    Too many demons for that body.

    Methinks they have grown unchecked and unfettered by a mortal soul to keep them under control.

    Might not be a bad idea to “vote some off the island” so to speak.

  39. bmonk
    April 3, 2012, 3:49 pm | # | Reply

    The worst part of this whole rigamarole?

    She still needs to find a top and get dressed above the waist!

    • Kessog
      April 3, 2012, 6:06 pm | # | Reply

      Not to mention finishing tucking her bodacious tushie into that shrink-wrap. Hmm…heat-shrink pants…naw, there is always someone out there who will use it for evil rather than good.

      • Dave
        April 3, 2012, 8:30 pm | #

        “Heat shrink” was how I thought Tsillah might have gotten into that outfit of hers. I was wrong (almost certainly) but it certainly seems as if it might be an idea which has some application?

  40. Dave
    April 3, 2012, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

    This week’s strips raise an interesting question: just how corporeal are the demons, under what conditions?

    Up until now, I don’t recall our seeing much about demons interacting physically with external objects. We’ve seen demons interacting with each other to some extent (Tina head-conking the two Doubts together) and we’ve seen Monica’s Doubt give her a nose-flick.

    Is this (yesterday’s get-the-blinds bit) the first time we’ve ever seen a demon-form directly manipulate an external object, without acting through or on a human body?

    The fact that Mr. Tentacle was squooshed out of Tina’s mouth by pressure from below, does suggest that the demons are corporeal to each other, at least part of the time…

    • Yamara
      April 3, 2012, 6:41 pm | # | Reply

      I have a pet theory that Blackwing is the main proprietor of the eyes. She may not be up yet. But they obviously are simply not there without demonic corporality.

    • Siarles
      April 3, 2012, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

      I believe I recall Doubt picking up the phone and offering to dial for pizza. And the Golem Girls have directly interacted with some of Monica’s demons before.

      • Fairportfan
        April 3, 2012, 9:59 pm | #

        Tina banged the two Doubts’ heads together.

      • Wyvern
        April 3, 2012, 11:33 pm | #

        True, but Tina and the Golem Girls grabbing demons is a supernatural-on-supernatural interaction. It’s not proof demons can handle mundane unliving matter.

      • Siarles
        April 4, 2012, 1:26 am | #

        I just said Monica’s Doubt picked up the phone. Pay attention when people type.

  41. Centaur12
    April 3, 2012, 5:29 pm | # | Reply

    FREAKY MUCH? TOTALLY WEIRD ME OUT THE DOOR TO THE MAX!!! D-8

  42. Siarles
    April 3, 2012, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

    Well… Guess that answers my question about Tina’s age. Among others.

    • Siarles
      April 3, 2012, 8:18 pm | # | Reply

      Upon further reflection, I find this whole sequence to be more amusing than disturbing. I love how the demons are treated like people just as much as the actual humans.

  43. Kessog
    April 3, 2012, 6:10 pm | # | Reply

    Quick question…how many things in that laundry basket have been worn more than once? Oh wait, that’s guy thinking.

    • Siarles
      April 3, 2012, 8:24 pm | # | Reply

      I suspect saying only guys re-wear dirty clothes is a lot like saying women don’t fart. The only difference here is that since it isn’t a necessary bodily function a lot of them actually probably don’t, but the ones who do will still never admit it.

    • Fairportfan
      April 3, 2012, 10:45 pm | # | Reply

      A bit of Chris’s extra art from “Misfile” (for those who don’t know the strip, Ash is a by transformed by a misfile in Heaven into a girl, having to learn to be a girl):
      http://www.misfile.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=4&pos=28

  44. Lizzibabe
    April 3, 2012, 9:14 pm | # | Reply

    Paul, I <3 you for using Can Haz with Badonkadonk.

  45. Michelle
    April 3, 2012, 9:23 pm | # | Reply

    Dead girl cheesecake. Ew.

    • Fairportfan
      April 3, 2012, 9:57 pm | # | Reply

      THANK you for that image.

    • Jay-Em
      April 4, 2012, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      Semi-dead inside, but reasonably fresh & squeezable exterior.. I don’t see the problem of me being charmed by a well.. preserved…. corpse..ehh..wait… >.<

      *tries desperately to find an excuse that does NOT sound too perverse, to explain attraction to the 30-something demon-barista*

  46. Siarles
    April 4, 2012, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    What time zone does Paul live in? The time stamps say the pages post at midnight, but I usually don’t get it til at least 2 (usually asleep by then, but I know it’s after 1).

    • Jay-Em
      April 4, 2012, 1:26 am | # | Reply

      Minnesota with current time zone offset: UTC/GMT -5 hours

    • NOTDilbert
      April 4, 2012, 2:08 am | # | Reply

      He lives in Minneapolis, which should put him in Central Time (like me in Fort Smith, Ark), but, yeah, 2am appearance times for ‘midnight’ postings. I don’t worry much, it’ll be up tomorrow; I do wonder sometimes if he’s okay (or power fail, internet fail, etc.)

  47. Dave
    April 4, 2012, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    Ummph. Just realized that when one of a collection of body-possessing demons says “Dress in layers”…

    … the innermost layer in question is, perhaps, the body itself.

    Why, oh why, do I think of these things just before trying to go to sleep?

  48. GreyWolf
    April 6, 2012, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    BTW, Paul, in panel 5 she says “it’s those damn …” then there’s blank space as if you meant to put another word in there?

    • Ball-Bearing Mousetrap
      April 6, 2012, 7:38 am | # | Reply

      I suspect she just interrupted herselves in midthought. We’ve all done that, right?

  49. Ball-Bearing Mousetrap
    April 6, 2012, 7:40 am | # | Reply

    Nicely played out. We all have this kind of internal dialogue between various subselves, even if they aren’t quite this concrete and independent…

  50. GreyWolf
    April 7, 2012, 3:25 am | # | Reply

    Crap! I forgot to check the bid on this one before getting ready for work and someone sniped my bid!

    ::mutters::

    Guess I’ll be going for the print on this one … 😀

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