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Save A Little Girl

by Paul Taylor on January 14, 2011 at 12:00 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Amanda, Brandi, Bud, Conscience, Jin, Monica, Shelly
Location: Boiler Room, Monica's Island

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  1. Fairportfan
    January 14, 2011, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Everybody but Jin: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Interrogative

    Jin: I knew she would.

    • Jabberwonky
      January 14, 2011, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      Or, “Fajitas, that’s what I want for lunch…”

      But, again, Jin steals the scene.

      • Julie
        January 14, 2011, 8:13 am | #

        LMAO!! That’s exactly what she looks like she’s thinking. Brilliant!!

    • txmystic
      January 14, 2011, 1:05 am | # | Reply

      Everyone else but Jin is also like “Where you been??”

    • W.
      January 14, 2011, 8:13 am | # | Reply

      It does make sense when you think about it. How long has Jin known these people and how many versions has she known? She knows them better than they know themselves. She might be crazy, but that doesn’t mean she’s not sharp as a razor mentally.

      • Jabberwonky
        January 14, 2011, 8:27 am | #

        Jin’s knowlege of this group in particular, having spent time with them on most of her 56 reruns, would border on precsience.
        Which brings to mind, how unnerving would the first reset have been?

    • eschmenk
      January 14, 2011, 9:23 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think it’s “I knew she would.” I think it’s “Yes, that worked.” I think you can see Jin helping Shelly toward that decision.

    • Rootwalla
      September 1, 2011, 7:02 am | # | Reply

      urm… Fajitas still make more sense.

  2. Atomic
    January 14, 2011, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Annnd… we’re back!

    • SoWhyMe
      January 14, 2011, 7:01 am | # | Reply

      This introspective interlude has been broughyt to you by “Creepy Boiler Room Girl,” Inc. When it absolutely, positively has to scare the crap out of you right away, turn to Creepy Boiler Room Girl. Comes in various shades of aquamarine and gray to set just the right feces ejecting mood. Adult diapers sold separately.

      • W.
        January 14, 2011, 8:21 am | #

        Nice!

      • kingklash
        January 14, 2011, 11:18 am | #

        A division of Confuse-A-Cat?

      • SoWhyMe
        January 14, 2011, 11:47 am | #

        More like a division of Creepy Boiler Room Girl Laxatives. Why take slow ordinary laxitives when you can experience “ass shock and awe” with quick acting CBRG Laxitives.

  3. NOTDilbert
    January 14, 2011, 1:15 am | # | Reply

    Jin’s expression is beginning to worry me – there’s way too much ‘nobody’s home’ in that bland smile.

    Also – blocks of ice? in a sub-basement? ‘S a wonder she didn’t come back covered with ravenous vampiric goosebumps

    Uh, or something….

    • ProleBoi
      January 14, 2011, 1:46 am | # | Reply

      I thoght it was a fogged-up casement window. Jin’s smile seems more anticipatory than vapid to me, though…

    • Jabberwonky
      January 14, 2011, 4:20 am | # | Reply

      I got windows out of it. Letting in the light of knowlage…

      • Jabberwonky
        January 14, 2011, 4:22 am | #

        Knowledge.
        Here, let me open a window…

      • slywlf
        January 14, 2011, 7:01 pm | #

        I rather thought the sudden brightness was more an indicator of Shelly’s new sense of positivity and purpose, but I could be wrong 😉

      • Jabberwonky
        January 15, 2011, 2:27 am | #

        I think I like the way you say it better…

    • J2P2
      January 14, 2011, 6:45 am | # | Reply

      I love the transition from full-color, rich-background inner dialogue to black and white, back-to-the-“real”-world exclamation. Begs the question of which is more real.

      • Julie
        January 14, 2011, 8:16 am | #

        Reminds me of The Wizard of Oz…where Oz is potentially a dreamworld experienced while unconscious, but by golly it’s prettier than the black and white of reality! 🙂

      • W.
        January 14, 2011, 8:23 am | #

        But there’s still “no place like home.” 😉

      • Fairportfan
        January 14, 2011, 12:43 pm | #

        Reminds me of A Matter of Life and Death (US title Stairway to Heaven) – except that there Heaven was in cold tinted monochrome, and the Real World was in rich Technicolor…

      • bmonk
        January 14, 2011, 5:07 pm | #

        For an introvert, the inner world can often be more real. But it still relies on the outer world.

      • Bratty Roger
        February 26, 2023, 9:29 pm | #

        @ Julie

        🤬
        I will NEVER forgive M•G•M for their musicalized bastardization of L. Frank Baum‘s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”‼️

    • Eee
      January 14, 2011, 10:16 am | # | Reply

      It’s hard to tell if Jin’s smile is a triumphant smirk, or a “My brains are off line right now” expression.

      RE the glowing squares – around here in the old days they’d set banks of blocks of fogged glass about 6 inches square in basement window niches at ground level. The glass let light in but couldn’t be broken easily. This looks like a blowup of one of those glass block ‘windows’…

      • ProleBoi
        January 14, 2011, 10:36 pm | #

        Yeah, that was pretty cool stuff. Here in Portland, it was violet squares of glass let into the sidewalks downtown to give a dim illumination to buildings’ cellars… I haven’t actually looked for ’em in years, though, they’re probably all gone now. When artificial light became cheap and clean (1910’s), that sort of thing went out of vogue here.

      • Jabberwonky
        January 15, 2011, 3:02 am | #

        I get the impression of a bank of windows in an abandoned factory/industrial space. Dirty and neglected, a few painted or boarded over…

  4. ProleBoi
    January 14, 2011, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    Positively fantastic artwork today! I’m really diggin’ the color choices lately 🙂

  5. Kyle Stelios
    January 14, 2011, 2:06 am | # | Reply

    oddly enough I can relate to this comic LOL 😉

    I’ve had those moments 😛

  6. SoWhyMe
    January 14, 2011, 4:05 am | # | Reply

    Odd. I thought she might be asleep in a beach chair during this in a dream state. So she can just go into her mind and converse with Creepy at will now?

    • Jabberwonky
      January 14, 2011, 4:18 am | # | Reply

      In the previous conversation with Conscience, . Shelly was awake, asleep and dreaming, and then awake again when started the talk with her.

      • SoWhyMe
        January 14, 2011, 6:37 am | #

        True, but Creepy came to her, she didn’t go to Creepy. Apparently, now she can.

      • Jabberwonky
        January 14, 2011, 7:15 am | #

        I got the feeling Conscience showed up when Shelly needed to face her fears. Not that Shelly went to see her…

      • W.
        January 14, 2011, 8:25 am | #

        I think you’re right about that.

      • eschmenk
        January 14, 2011, 9:18 am | #

        I’m not sure what happened. If you look back at the Jan 10 strip, it looks as if Jin might be helping things along. She used to be highly manipulative. Perhaps she still is.

        Shelly unintentionally called Conscience to her the first time. It may be something Shelly is doing subconsciously. To at least some extent, Conscience is part of Shelly, so I’m not sure that it’s meaningful to distinguish between what Conscience does and what Shelly does.

        I agree that Shelly saw Conscience as if she was in the real word, not the boiler room the first time.

  7. Rowan Hawthorn
    January 14, 2011, 7:29 am | # | Reply

    Dang, Shelly. You even startled the crap out of Bud. Not a safe thing to do to someone who’s her own deadly weapon…

  8. ziggy78eog
    January 14, 2011, 8:00 am | # | Reply

    That has to be awkward for the others; Shelly went from scared and reluctant, to gung-ho, in a blink of an eye.

    • Julie
      January 14, 2011, 8:17 am | # | Reply

      I dunno…she could have interrupted a conversation that was going on while she was clocked out in the basement. 🙂

    • Jabberwonky
      January 14, 2011, 8:31 am | # | Reply

      Mercurial mood swings bother this bunch? Prolly not…

    • eschmenk
      January 14, 2011, 9:28 am | # | Reply

      How they react will probably depend on whether or not they conclude that Jin manipulated Shelly into reaching that decision. I’m repeating myself, but this and today’s strip makes it look to me as if Jin was up to something.

      • Laurel Rhaen
        January 14, 2011, 10:09 am | #

        I aggree, eschmenk… that smile on Jin seems more self-satisfied than vacant, as if she’s thinking “That pep talk was easy, like shooting fish in a barrel when you know what you’re doing.” I am BROADLY paraphrasing here, but I remember long ago Phix telling Monica something along the lines of, “Not everyone who seems to help you is actually your friend.” I believe this to be the case with Jin.

      • eschmenk
        January 14, 2011, 10:51 am | #

        Well, I have a generally positive opinion of Jin, but the other characters have been known to resent her manipulations. The page after that one shows that Jin avoided being friends in the final time loop because she thought that she needed to. The same sort of thing was said on Oct. 13, 2008 (wapsisquare.com/comic/becomingfriends/) (hopefully that won’t become a link) and a few other places.

      • SoWhyMe
        January 14, 2011, 12:09 pm | #

        Which could lead to the conclusion that Creep Girl is a product of Jin probing Shelly’s mind and does not actually exist at all. It’s another one of her manipulation tools, about which the others are unaware. Either that, or Jin has contact with Creepy Girl and can cause her/it to “talk” to Shelly as needed.

      • eschmenk
        January 14, 2011, 9:29 pm | #

        She was real to Tina. (Tina first mentioned her here: wapsisquare.com/comic/dontfreak/)

        If Jin was able to bring Shelly and Monica back from death, she might be able to do anything. IIRC, Brandi said that she thought that Jin could manipulate the sun into glowing green. In the wapsisquare.com/comic/expectmehappy/ strip, Jin suddenly showed up already knowing what Shelly and Bud had talked about. So, yes, I’m assuming that Jin probably could talk to Creepy Little Girl if she wants to.

        Of course, I could be wrong. It could be that Jin had already figured out everything that was going to happen and was enjoying watching it play out or she’s just lost in her own world ATM.

      • Jabberwonky
        January 15, 2011, 2:59 am | #

        I got the feeling that Jin was being genuinely concerned. But with Jin, how could you tell?
        I waffle in liking her and not liking her. She’s a bit of a pill to deal with, sarcastic and condecending. But the revelation of her trying to save Brandi and Bud gives her a different spin. Sequence starts
        But the link you gave to where Bud pastes her a good one, she’s not getting any love.
        And the sequence at the Cerberus club where she reminds herself that she can’t be friends with Shelly ‘this time’, broke my heart a little.

      • W.
        January 15, 2011, 9:54 am | #

        Jin wanted to save Bud and Brandi in the beginning. So I think Jin is basically a good person caught up in a mind-altering life changing set of circumstances beyond her initial control. All the manipulations that she did were to get the galaxy back on track and stop the reset and stop her from repeating eternally. It was like that one Stargate episode. It doesn’t matter what you do it always resets anyway until you fix it. She was told by a past Brandi not to befriend them this time around and I think it saddened her because she does like like them all.

  9. W.
    January 14, 2011, 8:19 am | # | Reply

    Nice shot of Shelly’s right bicep in the second panel. She’s sportin’ some big guns there. Also, nice transition from the color of her inner mind’s eye to the everyday mundane ‘reality.’ Wonderful way to end this week!

  10. Ross
    January 14, 2011, 8:48 am | # | Reply

    “Creepy”? I thought her nickname was Blinky. Although I suppose her real name is probably Shelly.

  11. txmystic
    January 14, 2011, 9:44 am | # | Reply

    Love the raised fist of triumph. Go Shelly!

    • Jim
      January 15, 2011, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      “Like”

  12. kingklash
    January 14, 2011, 11:25 am | # | Reply

    I like when “Connie’s” eyes are the orange-gold colors. Not quite as creepy, but certainly a more positive mood.

    • NOTDilbert
      January 15, 2011, 7:59 pm | # | Reply

      A friend of mine pointed out how lucky we are that Shelly’s conscience looks like Shelly as a little girl – and not her Anima, as a talking rabbit – or – shudder – a cricket in a top hat….

      • Jabberwonky
        January 15, 2011, 10:56 pm | #

        Well, you could at least step on a cricket…

  13. The Old Wolf
    January 14, 2011, 11:51 am | # | Reply

    Rock on, Shelly!

  14. Jim
    January 14, 2011, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

    Hah!

  15. Alechsa
    January 14, 2011, 9:27 pm | # | Reply

    Aaannnnd, we’re back to line art T-T Oh how I’ll miss little Shelly-Conscience.

  16. Mirenheart
    January 15, 2011, 2:17 pm | # | Reply

    I love how Jin’s just like

    :3

  17. jwhouk
    May 25, 2011, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

    This little segment now makes a LOT more sense after today’s episode, post-Shelly/Sphinx.

  18. rich
    June 28, 2012, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    reminds me of green hornet with seth rogen. “i can tell by the stupid look you’ve had on your face for the last five minutes that you’re trying to work things out.”

    i think that’s the correct quote; btw, i’m not saying shelly had a stupid look on her face…sorry for the confusion

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