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Simplify Things

by Paul Taylor on January 24, 2011 at 12:00 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Shelly, Tina
Location: Mucho Mocha

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  1. Jabberwonky
    January 24, 2011, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Ooh, new background. I’d buy a book of Paul’s backgrounds. I’ve found myself studying those, at times, wishing the characters weren’t in the way…

  2. CrashFu
    January 24, 2011, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I can make out the vague form of delicious things under glass! Mmmmm, I wonder just what sort of goodies Tina carries in her shop..

    • SoWhyMe
      January 24, 2011, 9:57 am | # | Reply

      I guess whatever her part-time helper/pastry chef, Becky, whips up. Now there’s another freckled cutie.

      • CrashFu
        January 24, 2011, 9:13 pm | #

        Oh, man, I’d totally forgotten about her. We haven’t gotten a whole lot of time to get to know that girl, have we? Ah, maybe some day.

  3. Sweetman
    January 24, 2011, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    This looks like a very nice and well thought out environment. Considering how many webcomics ignore backgrounds completely, this is quite refreshing.

    • StJason
      January 24, 2011, 1:09 am | # | Reply

      I look at that and think “Poor Paul. Poor wrist!”

      • SoWhyMe
        January 24, 2011, 1:49 am | #

        Paul said he was going to push himself this week.

  4. Fairportfan
    January 24, 2011, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    What – now that she’s had her Nudgectomy, Tina’s going babushka?

    • Jabberwonky
      January 24, 2011, 1:53 am | # | Reply

      To hide her Nudgectomy scar?

  5. Jim
    January 24, 2011, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Eek! My Tina looks uber cute! Nice filled out scene,too.

    • Jabberwonky
      January 24, 2011, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      I agree with the Tina cuteness.
      But, I will take you to task over “My”.

      • Fairportfan
        January 24, 2011, 2:51 am | #

        Right. Everyone jniws she’s mine.

        Rowwrrr! Fttz!

      • SR
        January 24, 2011, 5:45 am | #

        She is everyone’s.

      • jwhouk
        January 24, 2011, 7:58 am | #

        And there’s enough (demons inside) of her to go around!

      • Jabberwonky
        January 24, 2011, 8:14 am | #

        So…everyone pick a different demon and night of the week?

      • SoWhyMe
        January 24, 2011, 9:24 am | #

        Just remember to bring a book along, ’cause when she sleeps/shuts down, it’s sudden and death-like. There is no “wake-up for round 2” until morning.

        Oh, and if you just can’t wait, be sure not to have anything in any orifice when she first comes to. You might not get it back.

      • W.
        January 24, 2011, 11:17 am | #

        Relax, he’s been saying that at least since Phix punctured Tina under her chin.

    • Jim
      January 26, 2011, 6:48 am | # | Reply
      • Jim
        January 26, 2011, 6:56 am | #

        D’oh! Never mind

  6. Bucc-i
    January 24, 2011, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    WOW. Looks like Shelly sure can fill out a pair of jeans. YOWZA!

    • Jim
      January 24, 2011, 1:30 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, I was gonna say something about that . . .

    • txmystic
      January 24, 2011, 9:58 am | # | Reply

      +1 on Shelley’s posterior shot in frame one…

    • Alex C.
      January 24, 2011, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

      Those are the largest muscles on the body, so naturally Shelly’s would be notable!

  7. SoWhyMe
    January 24, 2011, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    And here I had pictured Tina’s shop just a little place.

    I do hope Nudge’s new persona will stroll in this week. I am eagerly awaiting the first meeting of Tina and out-of-body Nudge.

    Few things are simple. Even prioritizing can get complicated.

  8. Paula
    January 24, 2011, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    I do like the circly thing she has going on behind her (tina that is)
    And i like whats in the display cases.
    Cake (looks like walnut but i suspect its coffee. the menu seems to have something with expresso, syrup and whipped cream though that could be a drink ) and cherry ontop of white icing cake.
    Yea think i would like to visit tina’s shop irl 🙂

    • sq_rigger
      January 25, 2011, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

      The “espresso, syrup, (something), whipped cream” item is a listing of extra-charge items–50 cents each.

  9. B_T_E
    January 24, 2011, 3:09 am | # | Reply

    Oh. I . Want. That. Door sign.

    BASEMENT
    NOT AN
    EXIT

    Love it!!
    (The rest is brilliant, too.)

    • Graymalkin56
      January 24, 2011, 6:24 am | # | Reply

      My veterinarian has that sign on his basement door, too!

      But wait. Isn’t that basement of Tina’s actually an exit? Just not the kind most mortals think it is? Heh.

  10. J2P2
    January 24, 2011, 6:52 am | # | Reply

    Love the art, as usual! The countertop, in particular, is really cool today!

    Do we really know who’s driving Tina, now that Nudge is at the Library? She feels vaguely menacing…

    • Julie
      January 24, 2011, 8:15 am | # | Reply

      Menacing? I don’t see it. Besides, without Nudge, the Collective is driviing in their oh-so-democratic, everybody-votes-before-anything-is-said-or-done kind of way. 😀

    • txmystic
      January 24, 2011, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      Actually, I’d say the opposite. She seems less nebulous and more with-it now…

  11. The Old Wolf
    January 24, 2011, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    Shelly’s jeans. Paul’s backgrounds. Tina’s cuteness. All comments have already been made.

  12. W.
    January 24, 2011, 11:47 am | # | Reply

    Boy, Paul. You’ve set the bar pretty high and it’s only Monday! I’m going to comment on the hands and arm positions because everybody else has been commenting on all the other good stuff. Oh, and does Shelly have and i-Phone or a Droid? Apparently it’s a big deal ’cause I know a few people who are teasing each other about which one is better. I don’t know why anyone would want to surf the ‘net with a phone, but apparently it is common. No, I’m not a Luddite, I just like bigger screens.

    • Biker Matt
      January 24, 2011, 2:44 pm | # | Reply

      So a sub-compact with VoiP is more your style of “phone”?

      • W.
        January 24, 2011, 4:48 pm | #

        Have to have a laptop, might as well be able to use it as a phone.

    • illiad
      January 25, 2011, 6:19 am | # | Reply

      W:
      you’re thinking too RL.. think about it, if you had the ability to poit , you wouldn’t text or phone, you would just poit there! 🙂
      why look it up in the web, when you just poit to the library, and find it right away…

    • illiad
      January 25, 2011, 6:24 am | # | Reply

      “don’t know why anyone would want to surf the ‘net with a phone”
      – so what do you do, whe you have to wait 10 mins for a train/bus?? play tetris? read some shabby book you managed to shove in a pocket?? or catch up on the current news on the web???

  13. SoWhyMe
    January 24, 2011, 12:45 pm | # | Reply

    I don’t really understand Tina’s response in the second panel. It doesn’t seem to follow from the dialog in the first.

    • slywlf
      January 24, 2011, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

      I suspect it’s a riff on the currently popular commercial that implies that no matter what you want or need to do “There’s an app for that”. She needs to learn to prioritize, for sanity’s sake, but isn’t sure how to do it, hence the joke 😉

      • slywlf
        January 24, 2011, 1:34 pm | #

        Oh, yeah – as in phone application 😉

      • SoWhyMe
        January 24, 2011, 2:37 pm | #

        I understand the app thing, I just don’t get why Tina up and said Shelly needs to prioritize. I don’t get how the talk about the situation in Ireland led to that remark.

      • Biker Matt
        January 24, 2011, 2:47 pm | #

        She made the “stone marker” bit complex when she didn’t have to, making it not a priority to make complex.

  14. The Old Wolf
    January 24, 2011, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

    While I’m at it, I can’t help thinking it really is time for another book…

  15. jordinyc
    January 24, 2011, 6:40 pm | # | Reply

    WOAH! Background much? XD

  16. Centaur1971
    January 31, 2011, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    That bottom scene looks like a Starbucks or Gloria Jeans counter. Nice half splash, Pablo; you da man!

  17. DrDarkheart
    July 18, 2011, 2:47 am | # | Reply

    Wow the girls both look amazing in this one! Good job!

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