Now. Does she slice it horizontally, vertically, or diagonally? Horizontally seems like the normal way, but vertically might open a doorway into the tree.
She’s probably been waiting for this moment for a hundred or thousand or more years, and now Shelly is /doing it wrong/!
It’s like in Shrek when the princess is upset because he didn’t slay the dragon and wake her with a proper princely kiss. Some things are all about the pageantry of the thing!
Once I asked someone (who was choaking) if they wanted a glass of water.
They replied “YES” and my brain translated that as “no” so I didnt.
15 seconds after my inaction someone asked the same question and was able to give the poor girl the water she desired.
There are moments (under duress or cuz it just likes to mess with you) that the brain just refuses to work 😀
See this is my problem here, So, if she slices open the tree, does she receive the fix for the broken golem or the cure to toenail fungus? It would be some much better if the sphinx was to explain the benefit of slicing the tree and how to slice the tree in the least damaging way to receive the benefit that to let her go slicing all willy nilly on the sacred tree.
That would totally give away the plot and Paul never does that. He loves little twists and turns so you never quiet know what to expect. I can be confusing, maddening, irritating (especially on Fridays), and even down right aggravating. But this is the way it is so just sit back and enjoy it.
Between times just sit and comment like we do.
It’s possible the Sphinx doesn’t know what will happen, that nobody’s ever gotten this far before or it’s different for everyone. Then too, given her current level of irritation, I suspect she really doesn’t want to talk to Shelly more right now, she just wants her to cut the tree so they can go on to the next step. She might growl directions if shelly can’t decide exactly how to do it, but rational prolonged discussion may be beyond her at the moment…
“Oh joy! You finally did what no one was able to do!”
“Great? Now what?”
“You get to keep the sword and the piece of the tree bark, while I get to do what I’ve always wanted over the years!”
“What’s that?”
“Go to Bermuda and get a sun tan on this little deserted sand bar beach!”
“Uh, I have news for you on that front…”
haha 🙂
im not sure even a chimera could stop a fully fledges sphynx from rampaging on the planet if she has been waiting for so long to go to that particular island ^^
FRACK!!!! You’re right >.< *hangs head in shame* darnit, I got the DVD-boxes, the comics and even the buffy-doll(oops, sorry "12-inch action-figure")..and i didn't see that…tssss…
wait? really? gotta ask my friend about that one. she’s a straight up buffy fan and has all the dvd’s.
quick: angel vs spike. who would win
the buffy fan friend of mine says spike, but another friend of mine is fan of the spin-off angel and thinks angels would win. and i’m stuck between them T.T
Well, when I write it, they end up needing to team up halfway through the fight and then Spike doesn’t survive, letting Angel win by default while hitting up all the gooy psychobabble and ultimately feeling redefined.
If its Spike and Angel then Spike for sure.
If its Spike and Angelus then Angelus.
Angel is the more evil/dangerous out of the two but having a soul keeps him subdued 🙂
Spike choosing the good side makes him more able to tap into his evil side at will hence beating Angel but he would be creamed against Angelus 🙂
(then again i stopped watcing Buffy just after she and spike started the affair and stopped watching Angel just after Faith turned herself in so the characters could have altered quite abit in the timeline since i last saw them)
Yeah, the explanation is choice. 🙂 Of course, while there weren’t enough panels to illustrate this, I’m imagining a full hand gesture/pantomime of each word or phrase in that sentence…because that level of “I’m talking to Stupid” is awesome.
I just love the the sphinx realizing what she’s do while trying to explain what do as if Shelly is a 6 year old. And then mentally going “Screw it! To hell with tradition…” in the next to last panel.
“If you know the enemy, and know yourself
You need not fear the result of a hundred battles
If you know yourself, but not the enemy
For every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat
If you know neither the enemy, or yourself
You will succumb in every battle”
also zun stu.
a wise man he was. heard the art of war is required reading material for japanese businessmen
But what if you don’t know yourself and the enemy doesn’t know themselves but you know the enemy doesn’t know themselves and the enemy knows you don’t know yourself?
The real story of Odysseus: He saw a sphynx, ran like a scared little kid, slammed into a bush and poked his eyes out with pussywillows. While in a pain-enduced stupor, the sphynx nursed him to relative health, but his mind never quite recovered.
Depends on the box – a proper toolbox isn’t just a jumble. Some are fitted with trays and shaped recesses for sharp tools, some have pocketed canvas rolls with chisels and such tucked into the pockets and rolled up inside, and so forth. (I used to own a business that custom-built carpenter toolboxes …)
There’s a line in the film “Rocketeer” that I can’t find a link to, where Peevey is telling Cliff that he has a dumb idea: “Got your eyes painted on, Clifford?” (it might be “get”, referencing the clown act they have to do to pay off a tanker of fuel, but it’s much funnier this way…)
When I first saw this I thought Beverly Hillbillies, and was thinking “I’ve only seen a few of those shows, over the internet, but I don’t recall Jethro ever saying anything that profound.”
“Quit Staring at me like a damn cow”!
With Shelly, that could be a good thing, once she stops being scare shirtless.
If Paul keeps this up, there goes his PG13 rating.
This would seem to address the schizophrenia issue. The Sphinx is running though the threat and riddle thing pro foma. Her personal wishes are not the same as her official ones.
See, if Shelly had just worn her sign, the sphinx would’ve known and been prepared. Unfortunately we all do stupid things now and then. Poor Shelly. Poor Sphinx. I can just see Friday night at the sphinx bar. “How was your week? ” “I don’t want to talk about it!”
I like that 3-D effect in Panel 1. Poor Gaurdian. I’d say “”It SPHINX to be you” or “I’ll bet this job SPHINX.” – But I won’t. But Today “Thats Funny,I tell you what. I don’t care who ya’are, Thats Funny right there. If you don’t think thats funny you can just get the H*** outta here, cause thats funny ri’there.” ‘W’: I like the ‘Blue Collar Boys’ too.
This is how I know that Shelly has only been here at most one other time…the Sphinx surely would have already experienced Shelly’s…er…cognitive reluctance…and she just would have told her “You…tree…slice…NOW!”
On the other hand, Shelly has been there before, thus the sphinx’s surprise she wasn’t following the script this time. Must remember this time is different from all the other times in that the CM is gone sooner than before and her “mission” is to fix Jin. Previously she would not likely have been there on that mission. The fact the CM is gone may have something to do with her “forgetfulness” as well.
Ah yes. Shelly the mighty warrior. Soon as the sphinx lunges at her she drops her only weapon in panic. Perhaps her side of the tribe were the basket weavers.
No worries; was just curious as the cross part seemed to go away in the last one too 😉 and I know the last comic was supposed to be “silly”, just was wondering 🙂
Unless she is there in reality (reality being a term used loosely here), all she did was drop it in the netherworld. Otherwise she is actually standing in Monica’s house still holding it. It could also be, that once you are there, dropping it means nothing and you have to click your heels 3 times to get back. Then again, once she gets inside of the tree, she may emerge in Monica’s kitchen.
Of course, it may also be we will next see her standing in Monica’s house, coming out of her trance. This would be disappointing but par for the course. Tomorrow will tell.
Ok, everyone is looking at this in a very two dimensional way. Frankly, I think Shelly’s hesitance does her credit. She has no idea what the consequences of cutting or not cutting said tree will be. If I were in that kind of position, I would be looking for alternatives. Leave and come back with more information would be high on the list.
I’m not entirely convinced that Shelly has rubbed the braincells together to spark that deep of a thought. She’s been reacting in confusion and fear so far (and now with a smidge of anger). If she’d asked why the tree should or shouldn’t be cut, then I’d agree that she was behaving with caution in case cutting the tree was a bad idea.
She does say that she’s trying to help someone, and implies that she isn’t trying to play some kind of a game. Tree cutting, one way or another, doesn’t fit into the frame of helping anyone at the moment.
puh. Dont know, maybe around 1.75m. I would guess it depends on what kind of sphinx she is and how high her rank is. But as long our Sphinx does not enter sphix territory i would guess they treat each other “friendly but distanced”.
I would be more worried about her reaction to nudge or or the demon inc./Tina
That sphix looks older might be a decision of sphix because humans associate often age with wisdom. To appear wise certainly help if you work in the library.
Auch! Wonder if the barnyard animal reference was to harsh .. fear might be overruled by a stronger emotion and knowing Shelly i wouldnt want to be around when it happens .. especially with a sharp pointy stick laying around.
they kinda just stand there mooing whilst chewing the cud.
they ‘could’ be contemplating the universe but they just look abit ‘lights-on-noone-is-home’
If the sphinx doesn’t kill Shelly, or at least gives her the copyrighted “Phix slams Nudge from above” to knock her brains back-in I am gonna do it myself.
I have a notorious low treshold for the willfully slow-witted.
I cannot imagine Shelly is that dense..her denseness defies the normal laws of nature.
If she were a smitten denser, the universe would implode on her.
She’s a portal allright. If one believes that “black-holes” are portals to another universe…. 😛
I think being face to face with a Sphinx whose threatened to kill you… and likely would at any given moment, one tends to be a little in shock. Her mind is just full of”Don’t kill me!” and “I pulled a sword from a stone! LIKE A LEGEND!”
“Sooooooo . . . I have to . . . slice a tree . . . or something?”
Yes! It’s pinata tree!
Now. Does she slice it horizontally, vertically, or diagonally? Horizontally seems like the normal way, but vertically might open a doorway into the tree.
wonder what it has inside!
i suspect not candied goodness 🙁
Now, I’ve tried candied ginger…
Does Ginger know?
I’m sure Ginger knows.
What about Fred?
What about the Professor and Mary-Ann? Do they know?
Candied Fred doesn’t sound appealing at all….
Fred’s further down the comment list, showing Songdog some ant-killing moves.
She knows not. Not does she know. Know she not does.
Subtlety is not her strong point.
She’s either not had any coffee that morning or she has had way too much coffee already that day.
Either way
she be awsome 😀
She’s probably been waiting for this moment for a hundred or thousand or more years, and now Shelly is /doing it wrong/!
It’s like in Shrek when the princess is upset because he didn’t slay the dragon and wake her with a proper princely kiss. Some things are all about the pageantry of the thing!
“It’s on my ‘To-Do’ list!”
She tried subtlety. Subtlety is not shelly’s strong point. So she went with overly-elaborate explanation.
She should have tried a diagram.
Yeah…Shelly seems to respond well to diagrams. 🙂
yep… big picture of tree, with HUGE arrow, ‘ pointy bit goes here!!”
Hand puppets.
now i remember what had me googling the UNDEAD series.
Im not sure i get the link though? 😀
Some us need a few hints before springing into action.
Yknow
Once I asked someone (who was choaking) if they wanted a glass of water.
They replied “YES” and my brain translated that as “no” so I didnt.
15 seconds after my inaction someone asked the same question and was able to give the poor girl the water she desired.
There are moments (under duress or cuz it just likes to mess with you) that the brain just refuses to work 😀
Some of us just suck at riddles.
Not so subtle meets not so quick wit… Hilarity ensues…
..much much hilarity!
And if she didn’t understand that, short of a 2×4… 🙂
“See this? This is a clue-by four. For most of your friends, including Bud, this would be sufficient.
“However {grunt} having heard about you … this is an I-beam.”
I snorted Coca-Cola when I read this. Do you know how strange/uncomfortable that is? Thanks.
Seriously, though, *way* funny there 🙂
Love the perspective in panel 1, and the blurring!
A good gag, properly delivered and appropriately timed, can do wonders for clearing the sinuses.
Bubbles/pain/instant-eye-watering
Ive done that 😀
Don’t drink now when I read comics. Or when having a conversation with someone as a spit-take can be inevitable 😀
I haven’t had a good case of soda-nose in a while… but I paid for my computer myself last time and I’m not up for replacements yet.
I think all that will give you is an I-Beam with a head-shaped dent in it…
KAZWOINGNGNG!!!…..CRAP! And now her head ruined a perfectly good I-beam…*grrummbll*
i’m gonna go ahead and pull a shelly here by saying: what do you mean with I-beam?
If I understand you correctly… try here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-beam
With a Shelly’s-head-shaped dent in it.
You named it “Clue-zilla” didn’ t you?
Best. Comment. Ever.
I like a ‘cluebat’ better… there are countermeasures, though… 😀
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030211
and no, I am just a great fan… you do check links???
hah
shelly has that helm naturally though ^^
I’m amazed that the sphinx managed to hold it together as long as she did. I’d have long since reached for the clue-by-four.
Frankly, if I had a sphinx threatening me I’d be a bit slow on the uptake too. More focused on the threat than the hint.
See this is my problem here, So, if she slices open the tree, does she receive the fix for the broken golem or the cure to toenail fungus? It would be some much better if the sphinx was to explain the benefit of slicing the tree and how to slice the tree in the least damaging way to receive the benefit that to let her go slicing all willy nilly on the sacred tree.
That would totally give away the plot and Paul never does that. He loves little twists and turns so you never quiet know what to expect. I can be confusing, maddening, irritating (especially on Fridays), and even down right aggravating. But this is the way it is so just sit back and enjoy it.
Between times just sit and comment like we do.
Im suprised the sphinx hasnt got the sword from shelly and cut it open herself.
Hmm what is the word for cutting trees?
Topiatry? or is that just hedge trimming?
Like the idea for toenail fungus though.
With 4 feet that would be needed 😀
Lumberjacking?
I thought that was stealing building supplies…
It’s possible the Sphinx doesn’t know what will happen, that nobody’s ever gotten this far before or it’s different for everyone. Then too, given her current level of irritation, I suspect she really doesn’t want to talk to Shelly more right now, she just wants her to cut the tree so they can go on to the next step. She might growl directions if shelly can’t decide exactly how to do it, but rational prolonged discussion may be beyond her at the moment…
Once more, with feeling. I still dont think she has it.
“The rain in Spain…”?
“My god you’re a pain…”
“The Ants in France…?”
Are in my PANTS!
LOL – That was great. I needed that.
Hmmm… I’m beginning to think the Sphinx WANTS Shelly to cut the tree.
No!
Ya think?
It’s kinda hard to tell, but if you do a little reading between the lines…
You’se joshin’ me right???
The sphinx is probably stuck there on guard duty until the sword has been pulled and the tree has been cut (nothing left to guard)
“Oh joy! You finally did what no one was able to do!”
“Great? Now what?”
“You get to keep the sword and the piece of the tree bark, while I get to do what I’ve always wanted over the years!”
“What’s that?”
“Go to Bermuda and get a sun tan on this little deserted sand bar beach!”
“Uh, I have news for you on that front…”
haha 🙂
im not sure even a chimera could stop a fully fledges sphynx from rampaging on the planet if she has been waiting for so long to go to that particular island ^^
Oblivious girl is oblivious. Shelly able to throw a cast-iron big-block V-8 and about as dense as one, too.
I thought that’s what she was getting at by repeating the statement.
Bollocks! The poor girl passed out!
Love how she’s explaining it all calmly and low key “Grrr arrrg from me” with her hands gesturing in mock clawing. Adds so much to the humor.
Im sure that ‘grr arrgh’ is from the ending of each buffy episode.
Even with the hands like that 🙂
Or from the ‘Last Words of Joseph of Aramathia’…
http://youtu.be/XiT_5cr3tYI
FRACK!!!! You’re right >.< *hangs head in shame* darnit, I got the DVD-boxes, the comics and even the buffy-doll(oops, sorry "12-inch action-figure")..and i didn't see that…tssss…
wait? really? gotta ask my friend about that one. she’s a straight up buffy fan and has all the dvd’s.
quick: angel vs spike. who would win
the buffy fan friend of mine says spike, but another friend of mine is fan of the spin-off angel and thinks angels would win. and i’m stuck between them T.T
Well, when I write it, they end up needing to team up halfway through the fight and then Spike doesn’t survive, letting Angel win by default while hitting up all the gooy psychobabble and ultimately feeling redefined.
But that’s just me. 🙂
Look, it’s simple. If they fought at the time the shows were on the air, Angel would win because he has a TV series and Spike doesn’t.
Yeah, but now Spike has a channel named after him…
…wait, that proves he’s dead. /shrug
Depends
If its Spike and Angel then Spike for sure.
If its Spike and Angelus then Angelus.
Angel is the more evil/dangerous out of the two but having a soul keeps him subdued 🙂
Spike choosing the good side makes him more able to tap into his evil side at will hence beating Angel but he would be creamed against Angelus 🙂
(then again i stopped watcing Buffy just after she and spike started the affair and stopped watching Angel just after Faith turned herself in so the characters could have altered quite abit in the timeline since i last saw them)
Yeah, the explanation is choice. 🙂 Of course, while there weren’t enough panels to illustrate this, I’m imagining a full hand gesture/pantomime of each word or phrase in that sentence…because that level of “I’m talking to Stupid” is awesome.
“Do I have to get out the hand puppets?” – Betsy, Queen of the Vampires.
You can really tell when someone is emotionally charged in this web comic by their Mach 1 yelling.
I just love the the sphinx realizing what she’s do while trying to explain what do as if Shelly is a 6 year old. And then mentally going “Screw it! To hell with tradition…” in the next to last panel.
I just hope that her slicing the tree doesn’t mean that Shelly swaps places with the sphinx or something.
To defeat the sphinx you must become the sphynx?
(and i may have stolen that from the matrix somehow)
Isn’t that from the Mystery Men movie?
not seen that 🙂
or maybe this guy
“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy” by Sun Tzu.
“If you know the enemy, and know yourself
You need not fear the result of a hundred battles
If you know yourself, but not the enemy
For every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat
If you know neither the enemy, or yourself
You will succumb in every battle”
also zun stu.
a wise man he was. heard the art of war is required reading material for japanese businessmen
Also The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
But what if you don’t know yourself and the enemy doesn’t know themselves but you know the enemy doesn’t know themselves and the enemy knows you don’t know yourself?
Then you get the ending of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, with dejected warriors wandering around in a funk.
I worked it out.
Wasnt the Matrix
Was a play on something said in Startship Troopers
“to defeat the bug we must understand the bug”
So yea…
Ya know, I hear something similar happened to Odysseus, but the publisher took it out in editing.
BTW, don’t drop the sword off the edge of the….
Oh, dear….
And I understand from Phix that Oedipus padded his story for public consumption …
You just can’t trust ancient mythological figures anymore. *shakes head*
The real story of Odysseus: He saw a sphynx, ran like a scared little kid, slammed into a bush and poked his eyes out with pussywillows. While in a pain-enduced stupor, the sphynx nursed him to relative health, but his mind never quite recovered.
How about while Oddy was suffering from pain enduced madness… I have to proofread better.
“Grr. Arrgh”
Slightly adorable. And we all know Shelly isn’t the sharpest tool in the box. XD Still love her.
Hmm
What tool in a box is sharp?
Maybe a saw/chisel but.
(and yes i know its just a saying but well..there arn’t many sharp tools kept in tool boxes really. OR is that the point?)
I see what you did there.
Depends on the box – a proper toolbox isn’t just a jumble. Some are fitted with trays and shaped recesses for sharp tools, some have pocketed canvas rolls with chisels and such tucked into the pockets and rolled up inside, and so forth. (I used to own a business that custom-built carpenter toolboxes …)
Hey, that’s on my birthday list! 😀
Well, I’ve got a box-cutter in both of my toolboxes…and it’s pretty sharp. I had a pair of scissors in an older toolbox.
Anyhow, my favorite phrase to illustrate a lack of intelligence is “Dumber than a box of hair.”
There’s a line in the film “Rocketeer” that I can’t find a link to, where Peevey is telling Cliff that he has a dumb idea: “Got your eyes painted on, Clifford?” (it might be “get”, referencing the clown act they have to do to pay off a tanker of fuel, but it’s much funnier this way…)
Oh gods I love this sphinx so much! xD
Totally cute, and to the point! (luckily for out clueless shelly…poor lass.)
Uh… Where did the Tree go?
I haven’t seen it for a week.
I think it decided to leaf while the leafing was good.
I….think we have to leaf it at that.. *plink! one dime in the jar*
No doubt it took the trunk road, or maybe the branch line on the railroad.
clink two bits in the pun jar.
You mean it’s gone! I thought it had decided to put down roots a long time ago.
Last panel: Woooo, carnivore breath. Tic Tac?
grrr…. arrrg….
What, no cookie for figuring it out?
Jabberwonky, let me introduce you…
…this is the cookie aisle….
…and it’s all yours.
Aisle of cookies…Yes I do, very much…
Wow. Should’ve said that in the first place and saved yourself some grief.
Nah. Sphinxes are notorious sticklers for tradition…unless confronted with somebody with the mental denseness of a WWII coastal bunker.
That’s our Shelley… Thick as a brick.
She may make her feel, but she can’t make her think…
Jethro Tull quotes FTW!!!
Agreed!
When I first saw this I thought Beverly Hillbillies, and was thinking “I’ve only seen a few of those shows, over the internet, but I don’t recall Jethro ever saying anything that profound.”
“. . . as a yard of lard” also comes to mind.
Motor oil in January?
“Quit Staring at me like a damn cow”!
With Shelly, that could be a good thing, once she stops being scare shirtless.
If Paul keeps this up, there goes his PG13 rating.
PBH
I wish I could scare the shirt off Shelly…
It’s apparently not too difficult if you have tight buns.
But you need to show up promptly when the grill explodes.
This would seem to address the schizophrenia issue. The Sphinx is running though the threat and riddle thing pro foma. Her personal wishes are not the same as her official ones.
* pro foRma * tss, and that from You tssk tssk tssk
As she may be foaming at the mouth right now, I’m not so sure pro foma isn’t appropriate.
Thank you for the save!
“Grrrr. Arrrg.”
Now where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah. Mutant Enemy!
I wonder if Paul did that on purpose.
@Graymalkin56 Yeah, this was the first ting I thought of when I saw panel 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOlKRMXvTiA&NR=1
This made me LOL soooo hard…bwahahahaha… 😆 😆
The power of the Stupid Side of the Force claims another victim…
So “The Force” is more of a triangle than just two sides. Light, Dark, Stupid. Apparently earth is forever bathed in the dull glow of the stupid side.
Four sides, if you read Timothy Zahn. Light, Dark, Stupid, and Missing. 8)
Wrong Smiley. 😯
Four! There are 4 sides to The Force. Light, Dark, Stupid, Missing, and Apathy … FIVE! … Among! Among the many sides of The Force are Light …
Wait, we’ll come in again…
Yes, let’s get straight to the point, shall we?
Well that would be better, that sphinx was anyway on the edge.
I think between panels three and four, and four and five, there should be panels of Shelly just returning a blank stare.
Something like this?
http://tinyurl.com/5vkglys
Pure awesome!!! XD
WIN!!
I don’t care who you are, that there was funnier than a fat guy chasing down a donut truck with his Rascal®.
See, if Shelly had just worn her sign, the sphinx would’ve known and been prepared. Unfortunately we all do stupid things now and then. Poor Shelly. Poor Sphinx. I can just see Friday night at the sphinx bar. “How was your week? ” “I don’t want to talk about it!”
Her “sign’ as in “The wind”, as in “Air-head”??
(I checked the link and am still giggling)
Now there’s a sphynx with “Mother of a six-year-old” syndrome.
Also: wild conjecture–the sphynx is a mermaid. 😛 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfiQAvvmXvc&feature=related
I like that 3-D effect in Panel 1. Poor Gaurdian. I’d say “”It SPHINX to be you” or “I’ll bet this job SPHINX.” – But I won’t. But Today “Thats Funny,I tell you what. I don’t care who ya’are, Thats Funny right there. If you don’t think thats funny you can just get the H*** outta here, cause thats funny ri’there.” ‘W’: I like the ‘Blue Collar Boys’ too.
It’s strange. You keep mentioning ‘funny’ in the same context as puns. I do not think that word means what you think it does.
(Also, won’t mention Blue Collar Boys, which is also mentioned in reference to funny)
nice ‘princess bride’ quote 😀
This is how I know that Shelly has only been here at most one other time…the Sphinx surely would have already experienced Shelly’s…er…cognitive reluctance…and she just would have told her “You…tree…slice…NOW!”
On the other hand, Shelly has been there before, thus the sphinx’s surprise she wasn’t following the script this time. Must remember this time is different from all the other times in that the CM is gone sooner than before and her “mission” is to fix Jin. Previously she would not likely have been there on that mission. The fact the CM is gone may have something to do with her “forgetfulness” as well.
I meant to say “been there several times before …”
Subtlety is clearly over rated.
Just don’t drink the sap, Shelly!
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/tree-of-life/0d4e2d24ec4ac97ddd0e0d4e2d24ec4ac97ddd0e-561573593641?q=the+fountain+tree+of+life&FORM=VIRE8
trippy….XD
That movie is truly one of the weirdest I’ve watched.
Given the comments and the utter vitriol it got on IMDB, it must be quite something…
*blink blink
What the sam hill was that??
Looked like a Skittles commercial as done by Quentin Tarantino.
Yeah, but with a sudden end appearance by Hugh Jackman?? Now I have to find out what the story of that is.
What happened to the “cross” part of the hilt? and then the sword totally disappears in the last panel?
It’s behind Shelly’s wrist. She dropped it.
Ah yes. Shelly the mighty warrior. Soon as the sphinx lunges at her she drops her only weapon in panic. Perhaps her side of the tribe were the basket weavers.
ooh nice catch 🙂
didnt see that it had gone missing 😀
No worries; was just curious as the cross part seemed to go away in the last one too 😉 and I know the last comic was supposed to be “silly”, just was wondering 🙂
Just gotta add that I love the perspective on the sword in panel one: a really sharp tool in the hands of a not-so-sharp character.
If she dropped the sword in the last panel, how is she still in the nether world?
Unless she is there in reality (reality being a term used loosely here), all she did was drop it in the netherworld. Otherwise she is actually standing in Monica’s house still holding it. It could also be, that once you are there, dropping it means nothing and you have to click your heels 3 times to get back. Then again, once she gets inside of the tree, she may emerge in Monica’s kitchen.
Of course, it may also be we will next see her standing in Monica’s house, coming out of her trance. This would be disappointing but par for the course. Tomorrow will tell.
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Ok, everyone is looking at this in a very two dimensional way. Frankly, I think Shelly’s hesitance does her credit. She has no idea what the consequences of cutting or not cutting said tree will be. If I were in that kind of position, I would be looking for alternatives. Leave and come back with more information would be high on the list.
I’m not entirely convinced that Shelly has rubbed the braincells together to spark that deep of a thought. She’s been reacting in confusion and fear so far (and now with a smidge of anger). If she’d asked why the tree should or shouldn’t be cut, then I’d agree that she was behaving with caution in case cutting the tree was a bad idea.
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She does say that she’s trying to help someone, and implies that she isn’t trying to play some kind of a game. Tree cutting, one way or another, doesn’t fit into the frame of helping anyone at the moment.
I love the way she is miming her own ferocity in panel 4, grr, arrgh….
Ever watch Buffy</i or Angel or Dollhouse? She looks as if she’s doing the “Mutant Enemy Production” end tag.
Well i actually like this slender sphinx. The slim waist gives here a a nice predator vibe. Paul can i get her number? XD
She does have a cute smile in panel three. How tall do you suppose her human form is? And does she get along with Phix?
she looks younger than phix
which is odd considering phix was on the lowest sphynx-social-circle when she got sent to the library
hmm
would like to know the name of this one.
How about we call her Mensurella … bitch queen of the netherworld?
Laurie.
scrounges up some crinkly dollars for the pun jar
puh. Dont know, maybe around 1.75m. I would guess it depends on what kind of sphinx she is and how high her rank is. But as long our Sphinx does not enter sphix territory i would guess they treat each other “friendly but distanced”.
I would be more worried about her reaction to nudge or or the demon inc./Tina
That sphix looks older might be a decision of sphix because humans associate often age with wisdom. To appear wise certainly help if you work in the library.
Auch! Wonder if the barnyard animal reference was to harsh .. fear might be overruled by a stronger emotion and knowing Shelly i wouldnt want to be around when it happens .. especially with a sharp pointy stick laying around.
cows do look pretty dumb
they kinda just stand there mooing whilst chewing the cud.
they ‘could’ be contemplating the universe but they just look abit ‘lights-on-noone-is-home’
ooh just had a thought
maybe this will actually backfire and make shelly LESS inclined to cut the tree
after all it IS a test. 🙂
I think she would be killed shortly after however 🙂
If the sphinx doesn’t kill Shelly, or at least gives her the copyrighted “Phix slams Nudge from above” to knock her brains back-in I am gonna do it myself.
I have a notorious low treshold for the willfully slow-witted.
I cannot imagine Shelly is that dense..her denseness defies the normal laws of nature.
If she were a smitten denser, the universe would implode on her.
She’s a portal allright. If one believes that “black-holes” are portals to another universe…. 😛
I think being face to face with a Sphinx whose threatened to kill you… and likely would at any given moment, one tends to be a little in shock. Her mind is just full of”Don’t kill me!” and “I pulled a sword from a stone! LIKE A LEGEND!”
I like that line in the final page. Thanks, that the best laugh I’ve had all day.
“grrr argh from me” classic!