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That First Step

by Paul Taylor on July 26, 2018 at 10:54 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Bud, Castela, Daylla, Tina
Location: Monica's Island

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Discussion (41) ¬

  1. jwhouk
    July 26, 2018, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

    Portal, the new water park ride from Raging Daughters!

    • Mark N
      July 26, 2018, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

      I loved that idea. The graphic was something.

    • TheJabberwonky
      July 27, 2018, 3:51 am | # | Reply

      Portal technology to work around climbing the flights of stairs will revolutionize all the water park rides at Raging Daughters!

  2. Dave Van Domelen
    July 26, 2018, 11:22 pm | # | Reply

    Daylla got an enchanted swimsuit so she can stay buoyant?

    • gyrre
      July 27, 2018, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      Must have.

    • Sunny
      July 27, 2018, 4:34 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, that makes sense. My first thought was “how is she floating?”

      • Sheik
        July 27, 2018, 3:32 pm | #

        What’s to keep her from being mostly hollow?

      • Gavote
        July 27, 2018, 5:25 pm | #

        Sheik, even if she is hollow, it does not change her mass! Anyone remember the comic where she reveals that? I’m remembering 320, but I can’t remember if she was talking lbs. or kg?

      • Centaur71
        December 2, 2024, 12:31 pm | #

        Makes sense; metal golem or no, aircraft carriers and combat frigates weigh thousands of tons more than she does but they still float…

    • TazManiac
      July 27, 2018, 11:42 pm | # | Reply

      dudes. They are not bobbing in the deep end, it’s the shallows…

      • Simon
        July 28, 2018, 5:57 am | #

        Diving off a 25 foot platform into the shallows tends to go splat, rather than splash. Obviously these girls are a bit tougher than that, but I’d at least expect them to have ended up half-buried head-first in the sand…

      • correllian
        July 28, 2018, 2:47 pm | #

        I would also expect a fair bit of sand and debris to have been displaced, given Daylila’s mass. I see no sign if it being mixed in with/floating around in the water.

    • TazManiac
      July 28, 2018, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

      You place the splashdown spot in deep enough water & then when you come up for air & you’re on your way to doing it again, your’e nearer to the shoreline and the less-deep water.

      Despite all my cantankerousness; ‘Tina-tina-bobinna’ ftw…

  3. Robert Nowall
    July 26, 2018, 11:22 pm | # | Reply

    Sure. Rat her out. They couldn’t possibly do anything to her.

    • Mark N
      July 26, 2018, 11:27 pm | # | Reply

      Well when you consider that Tina, while a member of a titans lineage still seems to be squishy.

      • correlian
        July 27, 2018, 8:21 am | #

        Mostly because Tina is a coven of demons inhabiting a formerly live human body. They might not be able to do much to the demons that make up Tina, but they could easily destroy the body.

    • Centaur71
      July 27, 2018, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

      Can you say sellout? I knew you could…

  4. Jeff Weiner
    July 26, 2018, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

    Vorlonagent called it!

    • gyrre
      July 27, 2018, 2:07 am | # | Reply

      Called who specifically.
      Look who made the first comment on yesterday’s page.

      • Jeff Weiner
        July 27, 2018, 11:33 am | #

        Castela.

  5. All-Purpose Guru
    July 26, 2018, 11:45 pm | # | Reply

    I somehow KNEW that was gonna happen.

  6. All-Purpose Guru
    July 26, 2018, 11:47 pm | # | Reply

    I love that everyone seems to spew water in a stream after the dive.

    • themadkansan
      July 27, 2018, 1:18 am | # | Reply

      …OF COURSE someone was gonna walk through the divingportal.

      OF COURSE it would be those two.

      ~:)P

  7. Tiger Tomcat
    July 27, 2018, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    The look on Bud’s and Tina’s face in the last panel, when ‘Stela says it is a great idea.

    • CPUGuy1
      July 27, 2018, 8:11 am | # | Reply

      Well, it was still an accident. The portal hadn’t been put back in proper place.
      But how do a lot of good ideas happen … by accident.

  8. Colin McKenzie
    July 27, 2018, 2:21 am | # | Reply

    The last comment. That could be an issue.

  9. TheJabberwonky
    July 27, 2018, 3:41 am | # | Reply

    Paaaneeellll fooooor! 🤣 🤣 🤣

  10. Grondiouse
    July 27, 2018, 5:10 am | # | Reply

    In a general sense, I feel like I know the deal about most of the characters in the strip. Daylla, however, is a complete mystery to me. Can someone point me to strips that give her background exposition? Thanks!

    Great art, Paul! I love the simplified Bud and Tina in the last two panels. And the backgrounds throughout. And the pretty girlshapes that you’ve made for us, for what? Twenty years? Thank you!

    • Xerxes Aragon
      July 27, 2018, 11:23 am | # | Reply

      Just beneath the comic is a list of the characters that appear in that episode. Click on any of those names and it will take you to a list of episodes in which that character appears. I leave it to you to find the specific episodes that give Daylla’s backstory.

    • Guesticus
      July 27, 2018, 11:46 am | # | Reply

      Fairly sure Day is still a mystery to nearly everyone (except the author… maybe)

    • JuankiMan
      July 27, 2018, 3:01 pm | # | Reply

      Other than she’s made of living metal and has been friends with Castela since kindergarten, not much is known about Dayla.

  11. Simple geometry
    July 27, 2018, 6:06 am | # | Reply

    How you’re thinkin with portals.

  12. GrantCMcCormick
    July 27, 2018, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    About the only member of the cast who goes to the sandbar and might be hurt by this is Amanda — and considering that her introduction to paranormality was being dumped into Lake Calhoun from a similar height, I’m not too worried. Kath would just segue into a high dive.

  13. McClaw
    July 27, 2018, 10:37 am | # | Reply

    Okay, set up a second, short-range portal on the island. It goes from somewhere along the cliff to a point over deep water at the same level. Mark it with posts or a frame or something (on the island) so people don’t accidentally wander in.

    • Stephen S.
      July 27, 2018, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

      I’d prefer a portal that creates a vortex in the water sucking you down, then dropping you from a height into the water near the vortex so you get an endless water chute.

  14. Guesticus
    July 27, 2018, 11:55 am | # | Reply

    Not sure if these two are the worst ones to be the first through, or the best ones 😀

    Day reminds me of the Baby from “Disney’s Dinosaurs” after he gets thrown across the room: “Again!”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2nPJJW_jJ0

  15. Vorlonagent
    July 27, 2018, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

    Half a cookie for me. I called Castelea but not who she wuld show up with.

  16. txmystic
    July 27, 2018, 3:00 pm | # | Reply

    This gag is awesome. I’d like to see this become Paul’s version of Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown.

    Bud: Caaaaaastela…I’ll hold the portal open and you come running through…right onto the beach…I promise!

  17. MidnightDStroyer
    July 29, 2018, 2:54 am | # | Reply

    Nice trick though…They totally fell for it.

  18. Hinoron
    March 24, 2021, 10:04 pm | # | Reply

    Castela had been a devote member of the Church of the Holy Canine for many many years now. 😛

  19. Senok13
    April 17, 2025, 5:09 am | # | Reply

    … Well, they wanted to be in the water FAST… 😅

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