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Makes It Easier

by Paul Taylor on August 24, 2017 at 11:39 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Castela, Hiroshi
Location: Gilchrist Home

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  1. Treesong
    August 24, 2017, 11:48 pm | # | Reply

    He has much snark for someone who was punched through a wall. Good on ‘im.

    • Akamar
      August 25, 2017, 12:00 am | # | Reply

      Whats more, apparently he can take getting punched through a wall

      • Mark N
        August 25, 2017, 12:42 am | #

        9 kind of a needed skill if he eventually dates an overpowered ‘whatsit’.

      • Kitch
        August 25, 2017, 8:18 am | #

        Not to mention getting scrunched as a butterfly

    • Gin
      August 25, 2017, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

      He IS half fey, after all.

      • Peter
        August 29, 2017, 6:33 pm | #

        I reminded you that she was created especially to kill fey.

      • JuankiMan
        July 20, 2018, 8:22 am | #

        Her stepping on Cricket repeatedly wasn’t enough to off her, so maybe it’s her radioactive lasers the ones that can do the job.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      August 31, 2017, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

      Someone who can take getting punched through a wall *without injury* certainly deserves to have some snark.
      😉

  2. B0mar
    August 24, 2017, 11:53 pm | # | Reply

    Awwwww! Their first Fight [The first shot he got in anyway.]

  3. Greyryder
    August 25, 2017, 12:00 am | # | Reply

    They already sound like they’re married.

  4. G
    August 25, 2017, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I’m liking butterfly man more and more…

    • Random Guy
      August 25, 2017, 11:23 am | # | Reply

      So much better than Housefly Man. “Help meeeeeee.. “

  5. Dave
    August 25, 2017, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Right off the bat he isn’t taking the guff. Good on ‘im. 😀

    • TazManiac
      August 25, 2017, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      “I’m the Rough Tough Cream Puff, I takes no Guff when I struts my Stuff!”

      http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6768521381_f3510c2dc8.jpg <– (reference pic edited to be mostly safe for work…)

    • CptNerd
      August 25, 2017, 10:55 am | # | Reply

      And he’s standing up to her even after having seen her vaporize boulders.

      • Dave
        August 25, 2017, 11:46 am | #

        Probably helps that he seems capable of surviving being crushed in her fist.

      • Fatuncle
        August 30, 2017, 4:23 pm | #

        I most sincerely hope that pun was intentional. I would hate to think that someone used it by accidentally.

      • Fatuncle
        August 30, 2017, 4:27 pm | #

        sigh
        I hate auto-correct. I wish I knew how to turn it off.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 25, 2017, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

      Right in the buff he’s not taking the guff.

  6. Dan
    August 25, 2017, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    I’m more interested as to how she uncursed him.

    • Dr. Otter
      August 25, 2017, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      A “plant-based tonic that has magical healing properties,” of course. Root beer with extra anise seeds and pine needles. (I wonder if there is a difference in performance between A&W, Dad’s, Barq’s, and Virgil’s.)

      • Schroe
        August 25, 2017, 7:13 am | #

        I was under the impression the root beer was home brew, not commercial stuff.

      • Dave
        August 25, 2017, 3:53 pm | #

        Could be. “Root beer” can be made from any number of plants and herbs. It’s be strangely appropriate if she’d used Pipsissewa (spotted wintergreen, “Prince’s Pine”) but that doesn’t grow around Minneapolis as far as I can tell. Eastern teaberry is also a wintergreen (one uses the leaves rather than the roots) and does grown in Minnesota, and birch bark (for “birch beer”) has a similar flavor and is widely available.

        Eastern teaberry has a better/stronger flavor if the leaves are fermented for a few days… and of course a good root or birch “beer” deserves a bit of a ferment. Perhaps isn’t just snarky, but maybe just the weeeeee bit dis-inhibited by having had a slurp of a good home-brew?

      • BarerMender
        August 25, 2017, 5:53 pm | #

        Black birch bark tastes exactly like wintergreen, and at one time was used to flavor wintergreen candy.

      • Iceburgh69
        August 26, 2017, 8:00 am | #

        Or homebrewed, which it sounds like.

    • Dark Kuno
      August 30, 2017, 6:18 am | # | Reply

      She probably uncursed him by accident. Remember the Blackthorn was made to kill Fey. Makes sense that she can nullify Fay enchantments

  7. Dave
    August 25, 2017, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Spineless, he is not.

    At least, not when he’s in humanoid form. Agraulis vanillae doesn’t have normally spines as an adult, so we can’t count that against him.

    • Sean Murphy
      August 25, 2017, 7:48 am | # | Reply

      (Nor as a caterpillar…)

      • Dave
        August 25, 2017, 11:06 am | #

        Actually, it does have spines as a caterpillar. Soft ones, though.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_fritillary

    • Random Guy
      August 25, 2017, 11:27 am | # | Reply

      He resumed his natural form of Hominis Vanillae

  8. RatatoskRider
    August 25, 2017, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Fae buns, straight from the oven! (Just let him walk in front, Pickle)

  9. gyrre
    August 25, 2017, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    Pretty sure she’s the one who grabbed and pulled him in for a kiss.

    I I wonder if Cricket can help uncurse him.

    • Guesticus
      August 25, 2017, 10:26 am | # | Reply

      Who’s to say Cricket wasn’t the one to curse him in the first place…

      • Correllian
        August 25, 2017, 5:47 pm | #

        I was just thinking the same thing.

        There might be many other reasons Cricket might be unwilling to uncurse him.

  10. Robert Nowall
    August 25, 2017, 6:28 am | # | Reply

    Maybe he’s giving her a salute.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      August 25, 2017, 6:56 am | # | Reply

      …If that’s the case, he could at least wear a hat…

      • Robert Nowall
        August 25, 2017, 7:07 am | #

        Maybe the ribbed kind.

  11. Robert Nowall
    August 25, 2017, 7:14 am | # | Reply

    Alas…Castela’s stutter has come back in the heat of whatever heat-of-the-moment they’re in.

  12. The Old Wolf
    August 25, 2017, 8:36 am | # | Reply

    This is funny. I just imagine the conflict of… well, “impressions” is probably the best word… going on in Pickle’s head. As a 30,000-year-old (or whatever it is) sentient blackthorn bush, there’s probably nothing about anatomy or sexuality that Castela didn’t encounter, but now she has to reconcile that with her 13-year-old parahuman existence. And it’s all happening so _fast_!

    • Expendable
      August 30, 2017, 9:36 pm | # | Reply

      Well, she’s still very much a child. It’s a question of how much she was aware of when she was younger. She certainly didn’t remember the attack on her and Atsali when they were not much younger. And as a blackthorn bush, how much opportunities she might have had for closer observation?

  13. Dorje Sylas
    August 25, 2017, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    I’m waiting for Castela to accuse him of being unseelie. Also can Hiroshi smell her (being only half-fae) blackthorn half? It doesn’t seem like he can, or his response to peril is to be a smart-ass.

  14. joecrouse
    August 25, 2017, 8:42 am | # | Reply

    AWWWW they make a CUTE couple.

  15. Michael
    August 25, 2017, 9:36 am | # | Reply

    Hark! Hark! I hear some Snark. All on a summer’s day. The toast got nude and tossed it down, while the butterfly’ed away!

  16. kingklash
    August 25, 2017, 10:56 am | # | Reply

    Once all the literal and figurative screaming is all over, these two will get along fine.

  17. Killjoy
    August 25, 2017, 11:30 am | # | Reply

    You’ve been… tsundere struck.

    (To the dulcet tones of AC/DC.)

    (Yes I know that relies on a deliberate mispronunciation….)

    • Iceburgh69
      August 26, 2017, 8:03 am | # | Reply

      I liked it.

  18. Sweeper
    August 25, 2017, 2:33 pm | # | Reply

    …and to complete the comedy-bit, Catherine walks in on the argument, carrying something breakable. 🙂

    • Guesticus
      August 26, 2017, 4:27 pm | # | Reply

      Like an anvil

  19. Catboyinamaidoutfit
    August 25, 2017, 8:07 pm | # | Reply

    “Get me pants, woman!”

    • Robert Nowall
      August 26, 2017, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

      “Get them yourself, pervert!”

  20. Gavote
    August 29, 2017, 6:48 pm | # | Reply

    Welcome back Wapsi Square!

  21. Jayessell
    August 29, 2017, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

    Updating issues??

    • scantrontb
      August 29, 2017, 7:24 pm | # | Reply

      if i remember correctly, the last time this happened it was because the site that hosts this comic, had their server farm under a few feet of water due to ?Katrina? i think… i would assume that this is probably something similar.

      • illiad
        August 30, 2017, 3:34 am | #

        did they move it to Houston for safety???? :O

      • illiad
        August 30, 2017, 3:35 am | #

        ooooops, didnt see jwhouk… ;P

  22. jwhouk
    August 29, 2017, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

    We’re back! Hopefully everything’s okay with Bookworm.

    Yes, WS is hosted on servers based in Houston, and thus was knocked out due to Harvey.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 29, 2017, 8:13 pm | # | Reply

      That didn’t occur to me till earlier today. I’ve got two other online comics that appear regularly and aren’t—but they put up some sort of “account suspended” notice.

      • scantrontb
        August 30, 2017, 6:06 am | #

        if one of those is Selkie, as i follow that one as well, that one is a snafu with the site “using too much bandwidth” so they shut it down… even though he’s completely paid up… probably to bump him up to the next tier of payment level.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 30, 2017, 8:38 am | #

        “Selkie” has run into some kind of problem—explained on “The Adventures of Sue and Kathryn,” Dave’s other comic. “Olympic Dames” stopped sometime before the storm.

        Just this morning, “The Devil’s Panties” disappeared in the same way this did.

    • John Vogel
      August 29, 2017, 8:22 pm | # | Reply

      DAmn! How long was the server down?

      • JayessellI
        August 29, 2017, 8:33 pm | #

        Look at the comment dates.
        August 26 jumps to 29.

    • txmystic
      August 29, 2017, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

      I totally live in Texas and couldn’t figure it out…

      • jwhouk
        August 30, 2017, 1:57 pm | #

        (facepalm)

      • txmystic
        August 31, 2017, 10:12 am | #

        ^^^^^^^^^
        Yes. That.

    • txmystic
      August 29, 2017, 11:08 pm | # | Reply
  23. Cortanis
    August 30, 2017, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Hope everyone in and surrounding Texas is all right. I’d suggest heading west if at all possible at this point. I’m in NM and we’re dry and have lots of room.

    • SeanR
      August 30, 2017, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      Texas is not small.

      • Cortanis
        August 30, 2017, 11:18 pm | #

        Oh I know. That’s exactly why I say this. Literally millions of people are being displaced by this disaster. Going East isn’t a great idea at this time due to more flooding and North isn’t in the greatest state ether. That leaves West at this point and West Texas can really only be expected to hold so many people.

  24. C Carter
    August 30, 2017, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    In Facebook he said no new comic thirst week (didn’t know how long sever would be down), but may do splash art when he finds it up again.

  25. Hawk
    August 30, 2017, 4:44 am | # | Reply

    Hope everyone’s okay. Server’s can be replaced, people can’t. Take care and be safe if you’re out in this hell.

    • Jayessell
      August 30, 2017, 11:44 am | # | Reply

      Well, technically….
      But we know what you mean.
      Stay safe Texas!!!

  26. Robert Nowall
    August 30, 2017, 8:35 am | # | Reply

    Darn that ol’ hurricane! It’s delaying new postings of “Wapsi Square!”

    • Septuagenarian
      August 30, 2017, 9:23 pm | # | Reply

      A few other comics are down because of the mess down South. It the storm acted like they normally do and just kept moving north instead of hovering over the coast we could have used a little bit of that water in North Texas. This sharp turn to the East seems to be the new thing for hurricanes. The weather here has been screwy for at least the last three years. Whether it’s Global Warming, El Niño or a combination the predictions are even further off than usual if that’s possible.

  27. joecrouse
    August 30, 2017, 9:05 am | # | Reply

    Okay NOW the wapsi empire needs to be multiplely redundantly backed up across the globe…

    • FreeFlier
      August 30, 2017, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t have a server . . .

    • starkruzr
      August 31, 2017, 6:33 pm | # | Reply

      I do. 😀

  28. BarerMender
    August 30, 2017, 11:27 pm | # | Reply

    The problem wasn’t with the server, it was with the gateway, or whatever they use for internet access. Paul said on Facebook he’ll be taking a break until Sep 4, and might post a few pinups.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 31, 2017, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

      I sure hope for pinups, ’cause looking at Hiroshi’s naked backside is starting to depress me…

  29. Michael
    December 26, 2017, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

    “What are you doing!?” “Pointing the direction”

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