not sure about that — the hair looks long to me, not boy-like; also the straps of the top they’re wearing doesn’t look male (but it is hard to see). (especially if it’s from distant past times, when boys were boys and girls were girls)
great really confuse em,,, in the “distant” past pink was a boys color, an green (evolved to blue) was girls… an till a certain age both wore similar to what they are now… an yes they had ‘street’ clothes or dress up.. but the “shift” was for round the house an play…
.. to make green they used arsenic for the dye.. it wasn’t till the late 1800’s they figured it was killing them..
@robnot
To even further expand on this: from our language’s Proto-Indo-European roots up until fairly recently (historically speaking), the word “man” was the name of our species and was gender-neutral, with male men called “wermen” and female men called “wifmen”. All children before adulthood were “girls”; male children were “knave girls” and females were “gay girls”. The word “boy” referred to servants and laborers, again regardless of gender, up until the very early 1900s.
I wasn’t thinking back that far, like 1950’s/1960’s. (And I’m not sure what/who this Bieser is — google shows some sort of coach.) No matter, irrelevant. We’ll find out more on Monday.
Or, maybe it actually is the berry tart event, and 3yo Barbara was brought to the future for a short period, before returning to her present.
Mindy is obviously the “nice lady with the lantern”.
The reason Barbara is, in her own words, “stuck in the body of a 3yo” could be that her physical form stopped ageing when this happened to her, but now it’s happening for the environment, she might wake up to find he body has begun to catch up.
The only problem I can see is, a lack of tart slices to give her.
Somehow, the idea of using a berry tart as a horcrux seems… well, a bit shortsighted. Even if the tart isn’t eaten by a hungry passerby, or scarfed down by an unsupervised family pet, it’s going to get stale pretty quickly. Who wants a stale soul?
Yeah, I missed Jeff’s post above. Sorry, Jeff.
This comic is getting difficult. I want to show my wife the clever development of characters, and she sees me looking at drawings of young women with large breasts. The “I read Playboy for the articles” defense never worked. Can we have a Bud, Cass, and Amanda plotline?
@RBZ… I think you’re onto something here… a third mechanism for “ghosts”… a fold or loop within a single timeline. Maybe connected to the intersection of ley lines at the location, which Bud’s research had uncovered? and not requiring the presence of a World Grid anchor (Bud said there is none in the area).
If Mindy offers the child a berry tart from the supply she brought to the event (I’d guess these are downstairs at the sleepover site) it will strongly confirm your basic hypothesis.
@Dave: Wish I could say it was an original thought, but I just followed the clues and a half-remembered a story from a mid-90s issue of 2000AD, about a man who investigates stories about a supernatural monk, but winds up becoming the ‘monk’.
I had a thought when I saw the first panel. Mindy is totally alone. So if her glasses are only worn for a glamor to make her less drop dead melt melt male’s brains gorgeous. Then why is she wearing them now? follow me here for a second. She wakes from a sound rem sleep dream. Assuming she is far sighted and not totally blind as a bat. she see the shadow / ghost. she puts on her glasses (as anyone who needs them to see would.) She then freaks a little and tries to wake her best friend. When that fails she goes a little Xena and goes after the ghost solo. she goes into research nerd mode and has a flashback. bringing us to now. my point is in moment of near panic she put on her glasses. Why if they are only for a glamor spell why put them on? Answer: she has worn glasses her whole life and really needs them to see. now for the glamor. ALTHOUGH.. that doesn’t mean a glamor spell wasn’t added to her glasses once she started to develop into the drop dead girl she is. so again till we know for 100% sure about the glamor. I am going with the point of view she needs them to see only. And they are just really ugly glasses that people can’t see her face when she wears them.
Over/under on who runs the furthest away when Mindy screams?
She already saw the ghost, and has been running TOWARDS it. I think a scream is unlikely, at least at this point.
Talk to her, Mindy.
first song to pop in my head… I always feel like someone is watching me…. you can thank me for the ear worm later. lol
You evil sonofa…and it worked
(+1) Seconded !
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You mean this great classic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
Oh, it’s a BOY ghost. Well, now you have him trapped.
not sure about that — the hair looks long to me, not boy-like; also the straps of the top they’re wearing doesn’t look male (but it is hard to see). (especially if it’s from distant past times, when boys were boys and girls were girls)
great really confuse em,,, in the “distant” past pink was a boys color, an green (evolved to blue) was girls… an till a certain age both wore similar to what they are now… an yes they had ‘street’ clothes or dress up.. but the “shift” was for round the house an play…
.. to make green they used arsenic for the dye.. it wasn’t till the late 1800’s they figured it was killing them..
@Great Scott: are you Bieser, or just a fan.??
actually I’m betting its some relative to Barbara.
@robnot
To even further expand on this: from our language’s Proto-Indo-European roots up until fairly recently (historically speaking), the word “man” was the name of our species and was gender-neutral, with male men called “wermen” and female men called “wifmen”. All children before adulthood were “girls”; male children were “knave girls” and females were “gay girls”. The word “boy” referred to servants and laborers, again regardless of gender, up until the very early 1900s.
I wasn’t thinking back that far, like 1950’s/1960’s. (And I’m not sure what/who this Bieser is — google shows some sort of coach.) No matter, irrelevant. We’ll find out more on Monday.
Scott Bieser, the author of “Quantum Vibe”
Perhaps to HIM, MIN is The Shadow. But……..
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men…..The Shadow Knows! not Sorry. Apology to Reeses.
I thought Helen Gurley Brown knew what evil lurks in the hearts of men (And thanks to Stan Freberg!)
Looks like Barbara.
You saw that too? Family resemblance, I’d think.
Or part of her that split off at the berry tart event.
My first thought . . .
I think it is her. Remember, Mindy specifically brought tarts to this event. This is some timey wimey stuff I’d wager.
Or, maybe it actually is the berry tart event, and 3yo Barbara was brought to the future for a short period, before returning to her present.
Mindy is obviously the “nice lady with the lantern”.
The reason Barbara is, in her own words, “stuck in the body of a 3yo” could be that her physical form stopped ageing when this happened to her, but now it’s happening for the environment, she might wake up to find he body has begun to catch up.
The only problem I can see is, a lack of tart slices to give her.
Mindy mentioned that she had brought tart slices to eat whilst swapping ghost stories.
I think we’re due for another theory: intersecting timelines.
Somehow, the idea of using a berry tart as a horcrux seems… well, a bit shortsighted. Even if the tart isn’t eaten by a hungry passerby, or scarfed down by an unsupervised family pet, it’s going to get stale pretty quickly. Who wants a stale soul?
Oh, excellent analysis!
Mindy mentions snacks when she’s setting up cameras with Hitoshi. Berry Tart!
@Jeff Weiner↑
Good point, but I think it could also have something to do with a different ^aspect of^ such an “intersecting ^timelines^” theory.
In any case; this is definitly something that should be looked into, or otherwise explained!
Yeah, I missed Jeff’s post above. Sorry, Jeff.
This comic is getting difficult. I want to show my wife the clever development of characters, and she sees me looking at drawings of young women with large breasts. The “I read Playboy for the articles” defense never worked. Can we have a Bud, Cass, and Amanda plotline?
Has Amanda met post-transformation Digit? I recall she and Shelley were both arachnophobes.
Amanda would have been a good choice as an adult memeber of the crew, being both a photographer and a ghost-hunting aficionado.
@RBZ… I think you’re onto something here… a third mechanism for “ghosts”… a fold or loop within a single timeline. Maybe connected to the intersection of ley lines at the location, which Bud’s research had uncovered? and not requiring the presence of a World Grid anchor (Bud said there is none in the area).
If Mindy offers the child a berry tart from the supply she brought to the event (I’d guess these are downstairs at the sleepover site) it will strongly confirm your basic hypothesis.
@Dave: Wish I could say it was an original thought, but I just followed the clues and a half-remembered a story from a mid-90s issue of 2000AD, about a man who investigates stories about a supernatural monk, but winds up becoming the ‘monk’.
Polite little spectre, isn’t she?
I had a thought when I saw the first panel. Mindy is totally alone. So if her glasses are only worn for a glamor to make her less drop dead melt melt male’s brains gorgeous. Then why is she wearing them now? follow me here for a second. She wakes from a sound rem sleep dream. Assuming she is far sighted and not totally blind as a bat. she see the shadow / ghost. she puts on her glasses (as anyone who needs them to see would.) She then freaks a little and tries to wake her best friend. When that fails she goes a little Xena and goes after the ghost solo. she goes into research nerd mode and has a flashback. bringing us to now. my point is in moment of near panic she put on her glasses. Why if they are only for a glamor spell why put them on? Answer: she has worn glasses her whole life and really needs them to see. now for the glamor. ALTHOUGH.. that doesn’t mean a glamor spell wasn’t added to her glasses once she started to develop into the drop dead girl she is. so again till we know for 100% sure about the glamor. I am going with the point of view she needs them to see only. And they are just really ugly glasses that people can’t see her face when she wears them.
There, but for the grace of God GHOST she…
Pun jar is thataway! ++>
why are people assuming the ghost is a boy? ~<3
Give her a tart, and let’s get this bootstrap paradox over with, shall we?