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by Paul Taylor on May 5, 2019 at 11:06 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Barbara, Castela, Shawna
Location: The Black Forest

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Discussion (33) ¬

  1. jwhouk
    May 5, 2019, 11:16 pm | # | Reply

    Is that supposed to read, “Run like hell, something is chasing you.” at the end of the comic?

    • Dave
      May 5, 2019, 11:23 pm | # | Reply

      I think it’s “run as if all of Hell itself is chasing you.”

    • Masterof7s
      May 6, 2019, 2:42 am | # | Reply

      That’s the problem when all your lettering is in caps, any nuance gets lost. She saying, “run like Hell is chasing you,” proper noun form.

      • BarerMender
        May 6, 2019, 5:25 am | #

        Yeah, but hell is not generally treated like a proper noun. Someone, either William Buckley or Fulton Sheen, possibly both, thought heaven and hell should be capitalized, “Because they’re places. Like Scarsdale.” Most people don’t, though.

      • Shawn Bilodeau
        May 6, 2019, 8:31 am | #

        Yes, used in the same sense as New York in “New York is considering legalizing recreational use of marijuana.” It’s a place name used as a collective noun for the people that live there.

      • GearBoxer
        May 7, 2019, 11:43 pm | #

        Glad I’m not the only one to conclude that.
        Maybe the ‘h’ in ‘Hell’ should be underlined.

      • J-Earl
        April 11, 2025, 11:16 pm | #

        BarerMender, I’ve never been to Scarsdale, which one is it like, Heaven or Hell? and When was it you were there?

    • Dennis
      May 6, 2019, 9:05 am | # | Reply

      If it had been HEL, as in Norse Mythology, you’d want to run. Unlike the movie version, the version in stories is a horror show.

      • Guesticus
        May 6, 2019, 9:46 am | #

        Because She’s the Norse Goddess of Death and the Undead, and if She’s chasing after you, good odds She wants to add you to Her collection

    • HeySo
      May 10, 2019, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

      “As though Hell itself” is a common simile form, so common phrasing would have made it “run as though Hell itself is chasing you”. it’s the deviation from that expected structure that makes the phrase difficult to parse; However, it would still process naturally from the perspective of the speaker, so it’s still likely intentional that the character phrased it that way [especially if it was Mindy who made the statement, given her rather firm speaking style], rather than being a misarrangement on Paul’s part.

  2. Robert Nowall
    May 5, 2019, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

    Should’a made reservations, then.

    • Dave
      May 5, 2019, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

      I think Castela has reservations. Rather serious ones, in fact.

      • FreeFlier
        May 6, 2019, 1:35 am | #

        Better late than never . . .

        And sinkholes imply fully developed karst, complete with caves.

      • MidnightDStroyer
        May 7, 2019, 10:11 am | #

        Just knowing that there’s sinkholes in the area is more frightening than that mansion would be to me. They make a whole new level of the phrase, “Watch out for that last step. It’s a doozy.” Seriously, all it takes is ONE step anywhere, even if it looks safe & you’re…just…gone.

  3. Golnor
    May 6, 2019, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    I would be more worried about what is behind the house if something answers the door.

    Cas can be energetic.

    • robnot
      May 6, 2019, 11:11 am | # | Reply

      you have my like… an snerk..
      cuz yeah, she usually has a canyon wall as a backstop…

  4. Robert Nowall
    May 6, 2019, 7:10 am | # | Reply

    “Tonight, down here in the valley,
    I’m lonesome, and, oh, how I feel,
    As I sit here alone in my cabin,
    I can see your mansion on a hill.”

    —Hank Williams and Fred Rose.

  5. John Chambers
    May 6, 2019, 7:33 am | # | Reply

    Someone seems to have turned on some lights in the last panel. But it might just be from a decades-old motion sensor, right?

    • Sunny
      May 6, 2019, 8:52 am | # | Reply

      Could be reflections of outside light.

      • Guesticus
        May 6, 2019, 9:48 am | #

        … Yes, reflections of outside light, let’s go with that, shall we? Good

  6. Centaur71
    May 6, 2019, 11:05 am | # | Reply

    Knock three times on the ceiling if you haunt me; twice on the pipe, if the answer is BOO

  7. Dave
    May 6, 2019, 11:56 am | # | Reply

    So, what does Barbara know, about who or what might answer the door? She hasn’t been very specific so far, but what she says here implies she knows that the place could be inhabited by a Big Bad.

    • BarerMender
      May 6, 2019, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

      Aw, crap. I bet it’s a Balrog.

  8. RBZ
    May 6, 2019, 12:51 pm | # | Reply

    When you’re visiting the house on the borderland, watch out for the pigman creatures.

  9. Expendable
    May 6, 2019, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

    I love the sharpness of the house – is this a real house, or cgi?

    • Paul Taylor
      May 6, 2019, 5:11 pm | # | Reply

      CGI. =)

      • Dave
        May 6, 2019, 7:00 pm | #

        The columns look Greek to me (or plantation pseudo-Greek) while the wings look sort of like a brick-facade Brutalist style. Maybe too old for Brutalist, though.

        Muchly good atmosphere for an adventure! 😀

      • FreeFlier
        May 6, 2019, 8:24 pm | #

        Too many decorative elements for true brutalist . . . it looks more like one of the ancestral forms to brutalist, several generations removed.

        The entry looks more federalist, but that’s a US fashion.

        I think there’s actually a name for this one, and it’s maybe 1750-1900.

      • Gavote
        May 6, 2019, 11:51 pm | #

        I actually looked into this a bit a out 4 strips ago. It’s called the Biedermeier style in Germany. It came into popularity about 1840.

      • RBZ
        May 7, 2019, 6:58 am | #

        Neoclassical. As FreeFlier said, mid-18th century onwards.

      • Guesticus
        May 7, 2019, 10:08 am | #

        Looks like the central part was built first, then the wings were added much later, like a lot of the really old houses and mansions

  10. Matt Grayson
    May 7, 2019, 5:47 pm | # | Reply

    The comic where Shawna first takes to Cass by the lake is missing!

    • Matt Grayson
      May 7, 2019, 5:48 pm | # | Reply

      Sorry… “talks” to Cass…

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