Jennie Breeden Guest Comic
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Wapsi Square
Slice of supernatural life YA comic PG-13 to R
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But.. but.. the cake IS a lie! Isn’t it?
But check out the price of the pi! >plink< drops 50 Moroccan Francs in the pun jar.
Saw the cake! did not see the pie.
well done opus:)
Love it when guests (or Paul) sneak in little jokes like this 😀
That is a reward, not a punishment; I love puns!
Jennie should have read the part that Tina is NOT a zombie.
Oh, she isn’t a zombie. She just looks like one in this sketch, because she just finished tearing out all of the old light fixtures in Mucho Mocha and replacing them with energy-saving fluorescents.
Granted, they’re lots cheaper to run, but they make everyone look undead! Awful things…
I’m waiting for the day hundreds of millions file suit against the government and manufacturers due to an “outbreak” of cataracts and skin cancer caused by the forced, long term and constant exposure to flourescent lighting and it’s leakage of ultraviolet radiation. Not much, to be sure, but over the long haul, who knows.
um, its almost a *century* since the start of fluorescent lamps.. (1934) there have been thousands of people working in big offices, education, supermarkets, etc, and havent turned into zombies yet… blame the office managers, and keep taking the pills!! 🙂
The only ‘problem’ is flicker, caused by a bad starter or coil, easily fixed! 🙂
Ah, but only recently have there been moves to ban other forms of bulbs and promote the flourescent, forcing people to be under the F-lights more and more of the time, not just part of it. Plus they all flicker, all the time. Just not perceptable unless they go bad. Who knows what that’s doing to us, mentally. Putting us on edge more?
I’ve switched to candles for my lighting and birdsong for my music.
They’re bleeding-edge trends.
Oh My! Yamara is a hipster!!!
I’ve always hated fluorescents. The only fluorescent light in my apartment is in the kitchen, and I’ll turn on the light in the dining room to give me just enough light in the kitchen to see instead of using the loud and flickery fluorescent.
I’m half tempted to turn the lights off at work (all fluorescents) and just operate on the light that comes in from my window, but I frequently stay until after sundown. 🙁
Boo fluorescents! Give me incandescents any day!
Maybe if she switched over to LEDs and didn’t forget her eyes in the jar in the cabinet, she wouldn’t look so zombieish.
FL’s are the most unpleasant lights, always used in unpleasant places: hospitals,dentists, morgues. So, yeah, the moment LED’s with a decent colour temperature became available, i ditched all FL.
I also replaced the lamps that require bulbs, with those that the swedish invaders provide: halogen in a bulb casing… Muuch better.
Best of both worlds, warm light, low power consumption.
FL, or ” spaarlampen” as they are called overhere, are spawn of the devil, to make our nightly world look like some annex of Hell, the really scary kind of hell, no fire& brimstone, just destitude, loneliness and cold, flickery FL…
Not to mention, I can hear the @#%! things at times. Also, they contain mercury which is bad for the environment and when they break are a major hassle to clean up. The cool thing is when I was younger a friend lived by some electrical towers and we’d get florescent tubes and they’d glow like light sabers.
According to a document put together by NEMA,
If these figures are valid, then you probably get more UV dosage walking to and from your car in the parking lot at lunch-time, then you do from a full day’s exposure to fluorescent lamps.
I have certainly noticed no tendency of my own skin to tan or burn as as a result of exposure to fluorescent lights… while only a few minutes of outdoor mid-day exposure to sunlight does cause reddening or tanning. In fact, as Gomez Addams said to Morticia about his moonbathing habit, “I’ve gotten so pale I don’t even peel any more.”
That’s not to say that somebody won’t file a lawsuit, as you suggest might happen… but unless they have very different (solid) data to work with, I think that a court victory would be unlikely.
e-xactly… and those of you who have FLs you hate, did you buy the **very cheapest** type??? the ones that were pushed *very hard* by the salesmen??? did not wonder why?? because *informed* people did not want them, due to exactly the reason you describe… 🙁 more fool you…
you can easily purchase ‘daylight spectrum’ bulbs with protective silicon coating in caes of accident, that will not only save you money on electric bills, but also save the planet , by not needing replacement every few months!!
do the research!!
http://www.clasohlson.co.uk/Product/Cate
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this may work! 🙁
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My landlord put mine in last year. I’m not allowed to switch them back–but they hurt my eyes something awful (I’m very light-sensitive). I end up just leaving them off whenever I can, or turning on all the lights in the house at night just to get an average level that doesn’t hurt as bad.
Tina looks like Herman Munsters’ Sister. *shudder*
Damn Florescent bulbs. “Things that make ya go…Mbaaaa.” *shudders again*
Did anyone (else) notice the jar of eyes on the back wall? I think Tina forgot to put hers in this morning…
>plink, plink<
Putting 2 Durhams in the pun jar. What? I haven't lived there in 40 years, I might as well use the Pun Jar Foreign Currency Exchange to burn up all my Moroccan money.
Paying with dirhams? What bull… if you keep this up you’ll find yourself the subject of an eye-jar sanction!
(drops a Charon’s obol into the Jar)
Heeheehee…Bull Durham….:D
Oh, and I noticed the eye-jar, too. Made me smile, it did. 🙂
Hey, I didn’t order eyes tea! I drink earl grey.
I think I’ll keep my francs, but the pun jar can have this->Three tokens from an arcade that closed but the tokens are the exact size as quarters–and spend the same in local stores. o.O (That’s almost as wierd as Tina’s floresent skin tones today…shudder.)
I’m more concerned about the free Trade coffee from CENTRAL Central America. IT doesn’t treat ITS workers very well, I’ve heard.
Finally. An artist with whom I’m actually familiar.
After noting the eyes jar, one hopes the danish refers to the pastry and not the nationality. And, does camazotz refer to tea made from death-bat gods or by death-bat gods?
Neither, it’s coffee. So by definition since coffee is only made from the seeds of the coffee “cherry”, it must be made either by death-bat gods or on their lands…
Or it could just be a wacky brand name, like Maxwell House (which is an actual hotel in Nashville TN and where the blend was originally made).
Well, I’ve occasionally run into coffee which tasted as if it contained bat-tree acid…
Which poses the question; how is it you are aquainted with the taste of battery acid?
Smell is strongly related to taste. Anybody who has ever filled a “bat tree” with electrolyte knows what it’d taste like and it’d taste horrible rotten egg horrible.
Oh, I said “bat-tree acid”.
I had this (well, something that qualified) when my wife and I visited Bali some years ago, and toured several of the island villages and the big volcano. There are lots of fruit bats on Bali – some of “flying fox” size – and as their name implies, they live on fruit and the juices thereof. At one road-side cafe, there were a couple of fruit bats hanging from a nearby tree, resting… and our guide offered us samples of some of the tree fruits that the bats were fond of. Tasty, but somewhat sour.
Hence, “bat-tree acid”.
As to “battery acid”… you can make a simple battery by sticking a couple of metal spikes or pins of various sorts into a lemon, and everybody knows what lemon juice tastes like 🙂 Batteries are not restricted to using sulphuric acid (and I’m not certain I’ve ever tasted that in any dilution).
I’ve come across a brand of coffee that touts its unusual flavor from the fact that the beans are harvested AFTER being excreted by animals.
Yeah, it’s that shitty.
Oh, right. Coffee not tea.
it could be the parody of camelot?
http://www.songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/Camazotz.html
that mentions coffee.
“By eight, the morning coffee must be brewed.”
Camazotz was the name of the land the kids visited in Madeline L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time” book. It was a truly nightmarish world. Oh, and it’s also a Mayan bat god…
I’m glad someone else pointed that out. Nice.
Yes! I hate it when I miss an earlier post. But yes a place of evil, a clockwork world that follows it’s own steady beat.
Note the bat on top of the espresso.
Oh ye dear gods!!! Have all your geek meters dropped 500 points!!! Camazotz is the planet of evil in a “Wrinkle in Time” Go Meg!!!
I recognize that coffee maker from somewhere, and unfortunately, it’s not my kitchen. I love the detail in this.
it reminds me of Girl Genious. Didn’t she make a coffee maker at somepoint?
Yes. And, it was PERFECT! So much so, that they had to tone it down, or everyone would have been in coffee nirvana.
‘Even the way the liquid adheres to the inside of the cup, indicative of the way it flows along the taste buds, is aesthetically perfect. It reveals the mathematical perfection of the cup itself!’
also,
scones pie,
cake no lie.
it rhymes says i,
says i, says i!
That’s one of my favorite moments in that comic…so far… 🙂
My younger son is finally reading GirlGenius (I’ve been telling him to for a couple years!) and he just read that part! I’d forgotten how fun that was!
…..I seem to be completely on the wrong track: I discovered this awesome web-comic some two weeks ago and try to catch-up with the backlog (started from the beginning …didn’t want to take a peek at the current issues not to spoil the story for myself).
I just love it. I’m in the middle of 2010 somewhere…
Yesterday I decide to click the “latest” button and was a little bit surprised not to find any comment or hint on “21st December” business….one year to go… you know.
Maybe the story is just taking a different course than I expected … I will be patient and continue reading until I’m up to date….
And…of course… the guest appearances are great…made me find a lot of new good stuff…
Welcome aboard, Micha! Yes, there are some twists in store for you in what you’re reading now… let’s just say that life in the Wapsiverse is/has-continued-to-be interesting!
….and the cake is not a lie….
So I guess that GLaDOS wont be visiting and there will be no signs from Aperture Science to be found.
Great work Jennie, A very unique take on things just like what you do on your strips.
Jennie is awesome too 😀
A little ooked out by the green and purple skin tones (it’s hard to find Tina as attractive when she looks like undead meat), but otherwise very amused by the little details in this one!
Sometimes it’s truly better not to be too sensitive to certain things.
Probably a more accurate view of what some people see when they look at Tina… this is delightfully uncanny.
I’ll have a glass of eyes-tea please! you can have your “earl gray, hot”
and thank you Danzier for the “token” payment in the pun jar!
Ear Grey???
You mean: Earl, gray, hot.
I would think that the gag is that her ear is grey since she is a walking corpse.
Erm, I was serious. I like tea; Earl Gray is my favorite… and I first tried it when I was eight after seeing Captain Picard order it over and over. That’s also why I know French. :blush:
Sorry, EYE can’t fathom this picture; There’s no VISION to it. I’m sorry to SOCKET to you all but… (pun jar buzzes angrily around my head in a Tasmainian devil-style whirwind)
If you keep antagonizing it like this, it may call in reinforcements!
@Woodgracie: You’re welcome. 🙂
I just noticed this: the teacup is a smiling skull. The danish is a smiling face that needs a skull. I’m officially creeped out… but it’s such a good picture I can’t stop looking at it…
Now that you mention it, you are right. And the place seems rather batty as well. [drops a Thai Baht into the jar]
I’m diggin’ on that coffee cup.
My son found out that if you write your number 4 like it is printed here and then write 3.14 backwards it will spell PIE. He thought that was sooo cool he just had to show me! quite frankly I hadn’t noticed before either! aah the universe works in mysterious ways!
@Lustwane- I noticed the rhyme as well until I hit “danish” now I wonder if I missed something!
Read the price: “Danish, a dollar-forty-five”. It still rhymes. 😀
I love this because its so multi layered… like an Ogre!
I liked that so much Choronzoneyes.
Pablo, you and Jennie are two of my three favorite webcomic artists.
Naturally, that means I love this! Thank you, and I’ll go over and comment on devil’s panties right now to thank her for guest posting here. 🙂
I’m a big fan of The Devil’s Panties, and this is what got me started reading Wapsi Square. Thank you, Jennie Breeden!
Same here, big fan of DP. Matter of fact, I had already put Wapsi on my (too darned long) list of “comics to read” a while back, forget where I originally saw it mentioned (probably on an older DP entry).
But then Jennie posted on DP about having done this guest strip so I went to add Wapsi to my list, saw it was already there, bumped it up to the top to check out after I finished the one I was archive-fishing at the time and voila … almost done.
It was some years ago that I discovered Wapsi Square through a link to this guest-comic by Jennie Breeden through a link from her “the Devil’s Panties” webcomic.
At that time, I could recall that she had shared pics of herself in her LARP-gaming costume (orc) .