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Just A Shadow

by Paul Taylor on November 8, 2019 at 12:30 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Mindy
Location: The Black Forest

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Discussion (37) ¬

  1. kingklash
    November 8, 2019, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Over/under on who runs the furthest away when Mindy screams?

    • Hinoron
      January 12, 2024, 11:30 pm | # | Reply

      She already saw the ghost, and has been running TOWARDS it. I think a scream is unlikely, at least at this point.

  2. Robert Nowall
    November 8, 2019, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    Talk to her, Mindy.

  3. cyberspooked
    November 8, 2019, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    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

    • Prozacboi
      November 8, 2019, 3:03 am | # | Reply

      You evil sonofa…and it worked

      • Bratty Roger
        November 8, 2019, 10:42 am | #

        (+1) Seconded !

        (ಥ﹏ಥ)

    • Guesticus
      November 12, 2019, 9:05 am | # | Reply

      You mean this great classic?
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY

  4. jeffepp
    November 8, 2019, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    Oh, it’s a BOY ghost. Well, now you have him trapped.

    • Great Scott
      November 8, 2019, 4:04 am | # | Reply

      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)

      • robnot
        November 8, 2019, 9:39 am | #

        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.??

      • joe Crouse
        November 8, 2019, 11:44 am | #

        actually I’m betting its some relative to Barbara.

      • Word Etymology Is Fun
        November 8, 2019, 2:47 pm | #

        @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.

      • Great Scott
        November 10, 2019, 3:43 am | #

        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.

      • Guesticus
        November 11, 2019, 10:04 am | #

        Scott Bieser, the author of “Quantum Vibe”

  5. TheDOCTOR
    November 8, 2019, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Ed Brault
      November 8, 2019, 9:10 am | # | Reply

      I thought Helen Gurley Brown knew what evil lurks in the hearts of men (And thanks to Stan Freberg!)

  6. Matt Grayson
    November 8, 2019, 5:23 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Barbara.

    • jwhouk
      November 8, 2019, 6:54 am | # | Reply

      You saw that too? Family resemblance, I’d think.

      • Matt Grayson
        November 8, 2019, 7:55 am | #

        Or part of her that split off at the berry tart event.

      • FreeFlier
        November 8, 2019, 9:07 am | #

        My first thought . . .

      • Glomoro
        June 8, 2020, 4:30 pm | #

        I think it is her. Remember, Mindy specifically brought tarts to this event. This is some timey wimey stuff I’d wager.

    • RBZ
      November 8, 2019, 9:42 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • Jeff Weiner
        November 8, 2019, 10:19 am | #

        Mindy mentioned that she had brought tart slices to eat whilst swapping ghost stories.

        I think we’re due for another theory: intersecting timelines.

      • Dave
        November 8, 2019, 10:55 am | #

        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?

      • Matt Grayson
        November 8, 2019, 11:18 am | #

        Oh, excellent analysis!

      • Matt Grayson
        November 8, 2019, 11:21 am | #

        Mindy mentions snacks when she’s setting up cameras with Hitoshi. Berry Tart!

      • Bratty Roger
        November 8, 2019, 12:15 pm | #

        @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!

      • Matt Grayson
        November 8, 2019, 12:29 pm | #

        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?

      • Jeff Weiner
        November 8, 2019, 9:21 pm | #

        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.

      • Dave
        November 9, 2019, 7:16 am | #

        @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.

      • RBZ
        November 9, 2019, 11:43 am | #

        @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’.

  7. Crotalus
    November 8, 2019, 6:40 am | # | Reply

    Polite little spectre, isn’t she?

  8. drealm2459
    November 8, 2019, 3:15 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  9. Centaur71
    November 8, 2019, 3:51 pm | # | Reply

    There, but for the grace of God GHOST she…

    • Jeff Weiner
      November 8, 2019, 9:22 pm | # | Reply

      Pun jar is thataway! ++>

  10. DJTsurugi
    November 8, 2019, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

    why are people assuming the ghost is a boy? ~<3

  11. Himax
    November 8, 2019, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

    Give her a tart, and let’s get this bootstrap paradox over with, shall we?

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