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Like My Mother

by Paul Taylor on March 23, 2017 at 10:00 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Calista, Dietzel, Digit, Monica
Location: Monica's Place

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Discussion (45) ¬

  1. Akamar
    March 23, 2017, 10:01 pm | # | Reply

    Yes!!

  2. Akamar
    March 23, 2017, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

    Just noticed bandaide on Ms leg… Knicked shaving?

    • fairportfan
      March 23, 2017, 10:28 pm | # | Reply

      The band-aid on Monica is kinda like the bunny on the Playboy cover or the cat on Norm Balent’s Catwoman covers.

      • Mark N
        March 23, 2017, 10:55 pm | #

        And how quickly the Mother coding activates. Even a sociopath is not above the call.

      • Mark N
        March 23, 2017, 10:56 pm | #

        OOPS Wrong place.

      • Michael
        March 23, 2017, 11:03 pm | #

        Or the band-aid on Les Nessman for us old folk.

      • sjmcc13
        March 24, 2017, 12:27 pm | #

        Is Monica really a sociopath? She has the potential to be one, and probably thinks she is one, but she seems to be missing some key features that separate a sociopath from the average person.

      • Akamar
        March 24, 2017, 6:56 pm | #

        @sjmcc13. No more than most people I honestly don’t think. Selfish, greedy..? Yeah sure, deffinately, though not as bad as some, perhaps. She’s powerful, and could probably kill someone without thinking… But I don’t think that makes her a sociopath. Just dangerous. She has a temper, and it can flare easily… Which can get dangerous… And yes, she has things she’s got a very low tolerance for. All in all, she just seems very human too me… Which makes dealing with the the results of the power she possesses trickier, and more vital. Ultimately, I get the impression she really doesn’t want to hurt anyone, in any way.

    • FreeFlier
      March 23, 2017, 10:30 pm | # | Reply

      Who knows . . . she almost always has a bandaid somewhere.

      • Akamar
        March 24, 2017, 6:51 pm | #

        I’ve honestly never caught on to that..

    • Brenton Miller
      March 23, 2017, 11:48 pm | # | Reply

      to be fair Monica has had alot of accidents over the years.

      • Centaur71
        March 24, 2017, 11:54 pm | #

        Whatever, but DON’T blame her hypertrophic gazongas! Not every woman with hyper boobs is a klutz…

  3. Jeff Weiner
    March 23, 2017, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

    Motherhood: it’s not just a job, it’s an adventure!

  4. Dave
    March 23, 2017, 10:40 pm | # | Reply

    And a new stage in life begins… for both of them.

  5. TazManiac
    March 23, 2017, 10:53 pm | # | Reply

    And there’s Dietzel, smack-dab in the middle of taking care of business.. You know what?, Pound fer Pound… just say’n.

    • Jeff Weiner
      March 23, 2017, 11:20 pm | # | Reply

      He’s concentrated!

      • Jeff Weiner
        March 24, 2017, 9:30 pm | #

        Oh, I just had a thought: suppose this means Dietzel can’t use another talisman to return to his full size. What about that?

      • Guesticus
        March 24, 2017, 11:51 pm | #

        Why not? Cricket never said it was a ‘one off’, just that it was attuned specifically for him

  6. Brenton Miller
    March 23, 2017, 11:50 pm | # | Reply

    Dietzel hugging Digit is too adorable.

  7. fairportfan
    March 24, 2017, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Is it just me, or is Digit trying to look less-devastated in Panel One for Cricket’s sake?

    Because she sure goes from calm-if-not-actually-cheerful to devastated weeping pretty quickly after Calista leaves…

    • Jabberwonky
      March 24, 2017, 1:44 am | # | Reply

      She has just changed from a spider to an authentic person. A sixteen year old female girl type person at that. Bound to be a lot of unresolved hormones running rampant there.

    • DJTsurugi
      March 24, 2017, 3:44 am | # | Reply

      she’s been crying a lot, but I suspect, physical and psychological changes have a bit to do with that, perhaps someone should tell her about her new and improved life span. ~<3

    • Akamar
      March 24, 2017, 4:26 am | # | Reply

      Eh, she’s understandably terrified. She’s suddenly in a strange, odd feeling body. She’s lost an old home and a rather simple, carefree life. Now she has an uncertain, human one. She’s been show. To be quite intelligent, and overall I think she’s been holding together pretty well. I don’t think it’s so much she put on a show for Cricket so much as she’s just really starting to process and deal with everything.

    • Correllian
      March 24, 2017, 10:05 am | # | Reply

      She’s feeling the love and acceptance that Monica is directing toward her, and she’s relieved she will have a place to live that won’t require her to be separated from her best friend Dietzel. Those tears in the third panel could easily be tears of joy and relief, or a stress release, or both.

      • Akamar
        March 24, 2017, 6:49 pm | #

        That did cross my mind too, but I was running short on time to go much further into detail this morning. 🙂

    • TazManiac
      March 25, 2017, 5:50 pm | # | Reply

      I think Dietzel was doing the Tennis Crowd Head thing, wiping from one to the other during the conversation…

    • FreeFlier
      March 25, 2017, 10:40 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, I think Digit was holding it together for Calista, then either lost or dropped control once Calista left.

  8. Robert Nowall
    March 24, 2017, 7:15 am | # | Reply

    That’s it. Let it all out.

  9. Fallconsmate
    March 24, 2017, 9:08 am | # | Reply

    There’s a very old strip of Monica hugging Shelly just this way, with Monica saying “busty mom hugs to the rescue” or some such. Monica has ALWAYS had the instinct, she just needed to have the need to pull up that particular programming. And despite my own raging arachnophobia, Digit is a sweetie, and I’d do the same thing.

  10. Correllian
    March 24, 2017, 9:27 am | # | Reply

    “And guess what? You’re gonna need a new wardrobe! And stuff!” (Whips out credit card) “Online shopping here we come!”

    Retail therapy.

    I know there’s a para friendly mall and other para friendly retailers they can use, but they, Digit at least, told Calista they’d stick around Monica’s place so she could find them easily.

    • Dorje Sylas
      March 24, 2017, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

      A great case for 3D Time of Flight home scanners, and a “practical” application of video game physics and cloth simulation. Get measured for all your sizes, and then try it (in summation) before you buy it.

  11. Weertangel
    March 24, 2017, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

    and now she has a step daugther, that one big step for Monica, wonder if she can handle it.

    • Correllian
      March 24, 2017, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

      I think Monica’s being declared Digit’s legal guardian, so that’d make Digit her ward.

      Not that that makes it any less of a lifechanger for Monica.

      • Fairportfan
        March 26, 2017, 12:05 am | #

        Oh, wow.

        Monica.

        Rich. Secret identity.

        Digit.

        Teen. Ward.

        The Crimson Mantis has a new sidekick – The Scarlet Spider!

      • Michael Birks
        March 27, 2017, 3:37 am | #

        Thankyou, Fairportfan. I’d been studiously avoiding an archive dive to recall what M’s alter ego was.

  12. Varkas
    March 24, 2017, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

    Oh dear. I just want to hug Digit till she feels better

  13. Vorlonagent
    March 24, 2017, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

    Busty mom hug for the win.

  14. Dan Farris
    March 24, 2017, 3:43 pm | # | Reply

    Great expressive touch with Bandaid addition and li’l Dietzel in bottom panel.

  15. Centaur71
    March 24, 2017, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

    This is a case of ULTIMATE feels *sniff* Digit was the ONLY spider I wasn’t afraid of…and now I know why.

  16. Zalrein
    March 24, 2017, 6:39 pm | # | Reply

    Well busty mom hugs to the rescue… again.

  17. Hawk
    March 24, 2017, 7:10 pm | # | Reply

    Sweet and touching and no giant spider thing!

  18. Correllian
    March 26, 2017, 11:53 am | # | Reply

    I’m still dying to know what, if any, spiderlike abilities Digit still has in this body.

    Can she spin silk? Jump long distances? Climb walls?

    • Jeff Weiner
      March 26, 2017, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

      Patience. We”l find out soon enough.

      • Correllian
        March 27, 2017, 8:58 am | #

        Patience?!?! How long will that take?!?!? 😛

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VD4JXUozM

  19. J-Earl
    December 23, 2022, 8:22 pm | # | Reply

    Sometimes, life goes upside down, all in 1 second. And sometimes it can never go back. Ever.

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