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by Paul Taylor on March 5, 2012 at 12:00 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Justin, Nudge, Shelly
Location: The Library

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  1. davids4250
    March 5, 2012, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    What a welcome!

    • W00KY
      March 5, 2012, 5:21 am | # | Reply

      Yep, being greeted in near Haiku form by a fluffy nine feet “horny” (Hint hint, nudge nudge) trickster demi-goddes sure leaves other greeting in the dust.

      Wish I ever got greeted like that.!

      • Knighttrap
        March 5, 2012, 7:57 am | #

        *shakes the pun Jar* Pay up. If not for the Horny line, then for the “hint hint, NUDGE NUDGE” part. But I like what you did there. 🙂

      • TheDoctor
        March 5, 2012, 8:30 am | #

        NOooo! NO MORE CRAZY! COMPLETELY TYPICALLY NORMAL!

      • davids4250
        March 5, 2012, 3:29 pm | #

        Greeting by demon
        Unsettling at very least
        Horns and grinning fangs

        Library welcome
        Flaming dogs, shadow person
        Dominant sphinx next?

        While dressed in shadows
        Ultimate knowledge awaits
        Girlfriend needs support

      • NOTDilbert
        March 5, 2012, 6:49 pm | #

        Very impressive
        Doing haiku like that
        without meaning to

  2. Dave
    March 5, 2012, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    A simope hope, simply expressed… and so simply and directly dashed!

    • illiad
      March 5, 2012, 5:40 am | # | Reply

      heh, if his crazy meter doesnt explode now, it never will….. 😀

      • as363
        March 5, 2012, 10:04 pm | #

        But she’s so spunky and sparkly – what’s not to love .

    • Yamara
      March 5, 2012, 10:29 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, the feral horned babes are three times larger and ten times wilder here in the main branch.

      And most of the sphinxes? Wait till you get a load of them.

  3. shadowinthelight
    March 5, 2012, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    “no more crazy”
    She might as well have said “What could go wrong?”.

    • Maark30
      March 5, 2012, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      Well in her defense she dis add “I hope” to the statement.

    • DJ
      March 5, 2012, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      Just a whole new brand of crazy.

      • Bucc-i
        March 5, 2012, 3:40 am | #

        Crazy is as crazy does.
        /forestgump

  4. Joe Minotaur
    March 5, 2012, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    My mistake. Nudge IS the Receptionista!
    Tsillah just lives in her shadow.

    • Maark30
      March 5, 2012, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      The Pun Jar wishes a word with you Joe.

      • Joe Minotaur
        March 5, 2012, 12:25 am | #

        Really? I hear nothing, Nothing!
        Oh, wait…
        *Klunk!*
        That was the sound of a Ten-Year-Old Champ Swiss Army Knife! Complete with tweezers, toothpick, jeweler’s screwdriver and pen.

      • 5hademaker
        March 5, 2012, 1:47 am | #

        you still had the toothpick? wow!

      • Joe Minotaur
        March 5, 2012, 3:11 am | #

        Until last year, the pen still had ink!

      • Wyvern
        March 5, 2012, 6:25 pm | #

        I carry a Swisschamp a little older than that. I have the toothpick, the tweezers, the optional micro-screwdriver, and the pen still has ink. You know these things can be serviced, right? But I recommend the belt pouch; the knife is too big for most pockets.

      • Joe Minotaur
        March 6, 2012, 12:06 am | #

        Wyvern,
        I once lost a SwissChamp aboard the QEII. I was trying to adjust the temperature of the shower(MUCH TOO HOT!!!) and lost it inside the wall. This was just after the refit in 1987. A VERY long story!

      • tygertyger
        March 5, 2012, 12:04 pm | #

        I prefer the Sith Army Knife myself.

        http://datbase.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/sith-army-knife-12-06-2010/

      • bmonk
        March 5, 2012, 12:12 pm | #

        I’m partial to the little known Swiss Navy Knife. Instead of a spoon, it has a smallish paddle, for the Swiss Navy’s canoe. (They only have the one canoe.)

    • Joe Minotaur
      March 5, 2012, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      So…
      Where’s the chessboard? Was there a game in progress?
      You know. Justin case they got board?

      Into the pun jar goes my entire collection of Gilligan’s Island DVDs.

      • Fairportfan
        March 5, 2012, 12:49 am | #

        The pun jar tosses its cookies.

      • Joe Minotaur
        March 5, 2012, 12:54 am | #

        Chocolate chip or rum rasin?

    • nerf-dweller
      March 5, 2012, 12:57 am | # | Reply

      Just me,,,and my…SHAaa

      Wait a minute. That’s totally wrong for Tsillah. OK

      Just me..is a…SHA,,,aAa..dow

      ducks under the incoming barrage of rotten fruit

      • Kramegame
        March 5, 2012, 10:43 am | #

        No rotten fruit will be thrown at any member of the wapsi community. To make up for the lost amusement, you must submit the funniest thing you own to the Pun Jar publicly.

      • Valkeiper
        March 5, 2012, 4:46 pm | #

        Funniest thing I know? The english language, without a doubt.

        where else can your house burn up and down at the same time?

        where your noes can run and your feet smell?

        where stars come out and shine, but a lamp goes out and doesn’t?

        where slim chance, fat chance, and no chance mean the same thing?

        where BLACKberries can be RED when they’re GREEN?

      • tygertyger
        March 5, 2012, 12:05 pm | #

        [grabs catapult]

        Bring me… the watermelon!

      • bmonk
        March 5, 2012, 12:13 pm | #

        Not . . . the Comfy Pillow???? :^O

      • bmonk
        March 5, 2012, 3:37 pm | #

        Ouch!

      • Dave
        March 5, 2012, 4:54 pm | #

        That’s an advantage to a trebuchet, vs. a slingshot. You can stand off to the side when you fire it… and unless it’s built by Acme the chances are fairly good that even a misfire will miss you.

        Ouch for sure. That could have been fatal.

    • xero
      March 5, 2012, 4:57 am | # | Reply

      you are lucky Casey and andy ended Pun Police would not be amused

    • Hanineal
      March 5, 2012, 5:50 am | # | Reply

      Actually, I think Tsillah is her shadow. All else is illusion.

  5. jordinyc
    March 5, 2012, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    11 minutes after posting and there’s only 5 comments? I was expecting at lest 50. XD

  6. jordinyc
    March 5, 2012, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    also YEAY NUDGE!! ^__^

    • Jay-Em
      March 5, 2012, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      ^That.

    • harukohoshiko
      March 5, 2012, 1:08 am | # | Reply

      I agree with jordinyc ^__^

  7. Jay-Em
    March 5, 2012, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Uh oh.. Crazy-meter let-out a tiny puff of acrid smoke, it’s elco’s went into melt-down, while a tiny trace of sparks ran over the print, and took care of the remains of the SMD’s.

    In non-techie Ingrès: “Oh, my… G..bzzzt..frtzzz POOF!

    • Maark30
      March 5, 2012, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      I agree. After what he has seen so far his ‘Crazy Alarm’ might be a tad busted.

      • Danzier
        March 5, 2012, 3:01 am | #

        “Ah, but this is normal crazy.”

        You win.

      • FatUncle
        March 5, 2012, 6:26 am | #

        Ah, but Shelly has come to the Library to visit Phix. Monica went to research V-cells. In each case, the Library door opened into the appropriate rooms.

      • Kramegame
        March 5, 2012, 10:45 am | #

        i wonder where it would go if there were multiple requests by the same group of people…

      • NOTDilbert
        March 5, 2012, 6:55 pm | #

        Velma at the card catalog, Freddie and Daphne back in the stacks, and Shaggie and Scoobie in the snack bar….

      • scantrontb
        March 5, 2012, 8:04 pm | #

        to me it looks like a doorway foyer type thing over Shelly’s left shoulder in panel 2, though i would also think that because she’s here to see Phix, that the doorway knew to take them directly there instead of going to the annex that Monica went to first, and then having to go thru that place to the library proper.

    • Dave
      March 5, 2012, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      Just remember, in life as in physics and electronics, the amount of experience gained is directly proportional to the amount of equipment destroyed and smoke released.

      • Danzier
        March 5, 2012, 3:02 am | #

        Oh so that’s why I can’t do engineering yet–not enough explosions!

        *runs to get prima-cord* EEEHEHEHEHEHEHeeee!!!!

      • Fairportfan
        March 5, 2012, 7:39 am | #

        “If it stinks or pops, it’s chemistry. If it bites or scratches, it’s biology.”

        “If it doesn’t work, it’s physics.”

      • Kramegame
        March 5, 2012, 10:45 am | #

        I’m going to frame this.

      • Dave
        March 5, 2012, 10:46 am | #

        or economics

      • tygertyger
        March 5, 2012, 12:08 pm | #

        If it lies to you and takes your money, it’s political science.

      • bmonk
        March 5, 2012, 12:14 pm | #

        You also forgot: if it sparks and gives off smoke, it’s electonics. (or better, it WAS electronics.)

      • Maark30
        March 5, 2012, 2:31 pm | #

        Yes but sometimes you get blurred lines, like when May created her first test golem from a lower animal form. I am guessing in that case Chemistry crossed into biology when (I am imagining here) the newly awakened clay doll tried to bite her.

      • Casey
        March 5, 2012, 2:43 pm | #

        And if it starts talking about it’s mother, you’re probably dealing with psychology.

      • bmonk
        March 5, 2012, 3:38 pm | #

        Casey, as when you say one thing, but mean your mother?

      • NOTDilbert
        March 5, 2012, 6:56 pm | #

        I believe the proper phrase is “BWAHAHAHhahaha!”

      • scantrontb
        March 5, 2012, 8:07 pm | #

        nah, all you need is ANFO, or even Match heads… heck even Powdered Dairy Creamer… as per the MythBusters 😀
        they make such NICE explosions!

    • Bucc-i
      March 5, 2012, 3:51 am | # | Reply

      Since the Crazy-meter is broken, maybe they should consult Toben’s Spirt Guide.

      • msyendor
        March 5, 2012, 5:08 am | #

        The newbie has it, and it also appears to be temporarily experiencing overload. I’m sure the Library has a Wapsi universe patch for it.

      • Bucc-i
        March 5, 2012, 5:20 am | #

        Newbie??? HOW DARE YOU!
        *smacks msyendor in the face with a velvet glove*
        I will have you know sir that I have been reading Waspi Square before it was even written!
        We shall duel at dawn with pistols swords a rusty spork!

      • FatUncle
        March 5, 2012, 5:39 am | #

        As the challenged, he has the right to choose place, time, and weapons.

        And if he is serious, it’s “Marbles for two, milk and cookies for one.”

      • Fairportfan
        March 5, 2012, 7:41 am | #

        There was the seven-foot former blacksmith who was challenged by a fellow (five-foot) legislator to a duel.

        As challenged, he chose sledgehammers in six feet of water…

      • Bucc-i
        March 5, 2012, 8:01 am | #

        @Fairportfan
        Ah yes… the good olde days! What ever happened to dueling. Beside killing off over 50% of the male population of New Orleans (which was better off if you ask me) dueling wasn’t a bad thing! We should bring dueling back! I’m going to write my congressman congress-person.
        As always Fairportfan, you are both a gentleman and a scholar!
        HUZZAH!

      • Atomic
        March 5, 2012, 8:46 am | #

        A duel you say! Why, none can compete with Balloons and Blunderbusses!

        (Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines)

      • Danzier
        March 5, 2012, 9:01 am | #

        After watching Hornblower “The Duel”, I suspect that dueling died because all those who believed it the best way to solve problems got shot in the gut and didn’t live to reconsider simple apologies. 😉

      • Dave
        March 5, 2012, 10:57 am | #

        Just remember that in a balloons and blunderbusses duel, both participants are more likely than not to end up in the nearest sewage settling pond.

      • kermit
        March 5, 2012, 11:26 am | #

        Fairportfan – They were senators, IIRC. Senator little guy was from New Orleans, and a master fencer, who had killed several in duels. Sen. Blacksmith was advised by his friends that he had to accept, or forever be branded a coward. But they also informed him that he could choose the weapons and circumstances…

        The little guy laughed it off and indicated that he thought the smithy was a good sport, and withdrew his challenge. Sounds like a jerk to me.

      • Bucc-i
        March 5, 2012, 11:51 am | #

        @kermit
        See! I knew it was New Orleans. Ruining all the fun for everybody!

      • bmonk
        March 5, 2012, 12:16 pm | #

        FarUncle, that lets me off the hook–I lost my marbles long ago.

      • msyendor
        March 5, 2012, 2:04 pm | #

        Touchy, touchy. Beta test Proton packs, and just for you, I’ll have the extra strong slime module and grand slam tethers. However, I reserve the right to break off from battle if Mr. Staypuffed shows up with more mallow minions.

  8. Opus the Poet
    March 5, 2012, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    “This is Nudge, she’s one of the librarians. She can help you look up martial arts moves if you want.”

    • Amarouq
      March 5, 2012, 10:53 am | # | Reply

      “Also, please don’t ask her if she is crazy. You might just get an answer.”

      • Maark30
        March 5, 2012, 2:35 pm | #

        Part of her answer would include an invasive response; “What do you consider crazy???”

      • Maark30
        March 5, 2012, 2:36 pm | #

        Shoot, I meant EVASIVE not invasive. That would have changed the meaning of that statement a bit.

      • Valkeiper
        March 5, 2012, 5:08 pm | #

        maybe, but you must admit it presented a more interesting picture.

      • Maark30
        March 5, 2012, 5:27 pm | #

        Obviously my fingers thought so.

      • NOTDilbert
        March 5, 2012, 7:01 pm | #

        No, you had it right the first time. 🙂

  9. Casey
    March 5, 2012, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Nudge isn’t crazy. She’s beyond crazy. She has transcended crazy. She’s in a special place for those who go even further, right next to Salvador Dali and River Tam.

    • throopw
      March 5, 2012, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      “I can kill you with my brain…”
      — River Tam to Jayne Cobb

      • txmystic
        March 5, 2012, 1:31 pm | #

        “We have done the impossible…which makes us mighty!”

        …not mighty enough to save the series, sadly…

      • bmonk
        March 5, 2012, 3:59 pm | #

        Too many good series perish, while the schlock goes on and on.

      • scantrontb
        March 5, 2012, 7:38 pm | #

        of course, they have to cater to the whims of the lowest-common-denominator mentality in order to get the widest audience, in order to get the most money out of the advertising people, in order to pay for the show to even be filmed in the first place… and also to pay for those golden parachutes the execs get… it’s no wonder programs that actually make people think are being phased out in order to show drek like beavis and butthead, or aqua teen hunger force… blech…

      • Jay-Em
        March 6, 2012, 1:56 am | #

        It has to do with the simple fact that those with a brain& good taste (oddly enough that always seems to be interconnected) are outnumbered 3 to 1 by those that think they have taste, and more money than brains. ( look at a general realtor’s site at the houses above $1,000,000.- ….. I rest my case)

      • ChattaStarhawk
        March 5, 2012, 6:49 pm | #

        When the execs have it in for the show you just know that they will do anything & everything to kill it off (switching airtimes, run episodes out of order, etc.). Never had a chance…

    • Bucc-i
      March 5, 2012, 4:22 am | # | Reply

      ~Summer Glau!
      She is so fine
      blowing up the jasmine with her mind~

      Firefly reference FTW!

      • Atomic
        March 5, 2012, 8:47 am | #

        I really hope you have a mint ’59 Caddy Fleetwood with leather interior to toss into the pun jar….

      • bmonk
        March 5, 2012, 12:21 pm | #

        Or else a model (preferably a working model, with remote control) of the Firefly?

      • Typeminer
        March 5, 2012, 8:44 pm | #

        Just don’t call it an upstart. The man doesn’t live who can call a Firefly an upstart.

  10. MrMike
    March 5, 2012, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    *Snrrk* – So much for “no more crazy”…

    Justin looks like he’s headed for a heart attack.

  11. Jay-Em
    March 5, 2012, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Poor Justin. Fate really has it in for him..

    “no more crazy” yeah, rrríght.. Sphinx girlfriend, hellhounds, a shadow critter with..ehrm..”original” fashion-sense, and nów a 9-feet tall half-deity with puppy-dog like enthousiasm, and a habit of playing pranks…

    Me thinks he’ll needs a good, strong cuppa’Java in a nice, balanced and normal coffee-shop and a smile from a friendly, chatty Barista,…ehh..wait….scratch that.

    • NOTDilbert
      March 5, 2012, 2:31 am | # | Reply

      Pranks aren’t just Nudge’s habit – they’re her NATURE. She may not be able to resist, literally, and THAT may lead to all kinds of what I’m charitably gonna call ‘plot points’.

      Poor Justin. And afterward, poor Nudge…. 🙂

    • Simon
      March 5, 2012, 4:53 am | # | Reply

      You missed one – he got introduced to Bud today as well… and she was hardly doing her best impression of “sane and well balanced”.

    • Valkeiper
      March 5, 2012, 5:10 pm | # | Reply

      Shelly and Justin are not aware Tsilla is COMPOSED of shadow…

      all they know is she manipulates shadow.

  12. Sgt. Howard
    March 5, 2012, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    (tune- “starry starry night”
    Starry starry suit- wearing shadows ‘stead of clothes
    To a bookplace no-one knows courtesy of Tsillah who just melt- how should I have felt? perhaps someone has pulled my leg? My crazy meter’s stuck on ‘peg’ as now I face new scary face and hands
    I don’t understand- this new creature’s quite a load
    she’d scare the warts right off a toad- she’s frightening to me
    that I wear shadows is a lucky chance- ’cause I just wet my pants…

    • Dave
      March 5, 2012, 12:44 am | # | Reply

      Sarge, I really hope you’re collecting these (and your other non-Wapsi compositions).

  13. throopw
    March 5, 2012, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Welcome to the library, we got teeth and horns
    And even guns and roses, with very prickly thorns
    We’re the staff librarians who’ll find you what you need
    And if you’ve got an invite, your access is decreed

    The library, welcome to the library
    Watch it bring you to your knees…

    • Atomic
      March 5, 2012, 8:48 am | # | Reply

      Applause!

    • txmystic
      March 5, 2012, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

      Shouldn’t the last line be “n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-knees, knees”?

    • stjen
      March 6, 2012, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      a couple verses lower:

      …
      Phix is a very sexy sphinx,
      and Nudge has her fans too.
      …

      (can anyone write the pieces around that?)

  14. Fairportfan
    March 5, 2012, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Paul really conveys Nudge’s cheerful mania nicely…

    • Fairportfan
      March 5, 2012, 12:53 am | # | Reply

      Has anyone ever considered the strength of Nudge’s neck muscles, to support those horns on that slender neck?

      • Danzier
        March 5, 2012, 3:04 am | #

        Jay-em did the model, right? He probably had to…

        I did too, but quit for lack of reliable data that I was too lazy to look up.

      • Jay-Em
        March 5, 2012, 6:42 am | #

        I did make the neck a tad thicker, but the epoxy I used is really strong and not as heavy as f.i. clay.

        The horns are epoxy all through.

        I went for a “realistic”look, (afa possible with a semi-deity, apparently thought-out after a bit of expensive whiskey..) and thusly muscles, bonestructure et al had to be re-thought for a bit.

        Nudge’s horns could be porous, filled with a lighter-than-air, inert gas… Strong, yet light. Or just made of comic licence: When it looks weird, normal laws do not apply.. 😛

      • FatUncle
        March 5, 2012, 5:43 am | #

        I assumed that from the beginning. Cattle, goats, etc., have hollow horns, and that appears to be the analog to Nudge’s horns.

      • Lee M
        March 5, 2012, 1:53 pm | #

        They’re probably like Tim Curry’s horns in Legend. Look like they weight a tonne but were actually made of hollow lightweight plastic.

    • shadowinthelight
      March 5, 2012, 1:58 am | # | Reply

      Now imagine a Wapsi/MLP crossover where Nudge meets Pinkie Pie…

      • Erik
        March 5, 2012, 8:07 am | #

        Aaah! The fourth wall would be blown to dust!

        And Twilight would never leave the library…

  15. ShadOBabe
    March 5, 2012, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    LOL!! “Is this he?”
    What’s with Nudge’s grammar? XD

    Bah, who cares? I’m just happy to see her. Gotta smile back at a smile that sincere.

    • ShadOBabe
      March 5, 2012, 12:57 am | # | Reply

      In other news, I LOVE Justin’s suit…
      I want to touch it!! DX

      • ShadOBabe
        March 5, 2012, 12:58 am | #

        Of course… that might erase it.
        I’ll bet shadows are soft though!!

      • Atomic
        March 5, 2012, 1:51 am | #

        Probably feels like next to nothing at all!

      • MerchManDan
        March 5, 2012, 2:49 am | #

        Nothing at all!
        Nothing At ALL!!
        NOTHING AT ALL!!!

        “Gyaaah!! Stupid sexy Justin!!”

      • Simon
        March 5, 2012, 4:50 am | #

        And if it did, *Shelly’s* hand will probably go right through you. Claws first.

      • Danzier
        March 5, 2012, 9:07 am | #

        Suddenly, I wonder if Nudge’s eyballs-popping-stare is because she can see right through the shadows.

        o.0

      • Sheik
        March 5, 2012, 6:24 pm | #

        Well, there’s no guarantee that any random paranormal won’t see right through normal clothing either.
        They’re just diplomatic enough to not point and laugh.

    • Fairportfan
      March 5, 2012, 7:46 am | # | Reply

      “He” is correct; an intransitive verb takes a nominative case in the predicate.

      • The Old Wolf
        March 5, 2012, 9:43 am | #

        Nominative? Intransitive? Predicate?

        Fairportfan, this is the 21st Century. Most of these kids ain’t never been taught no grammer.

        Present, past and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

        They were followed by indicative, subjunctive and conditional, who were moody.

        Last of all came a noun who asked for a beer. He was declined.

      • bmonk
        March 5, 2012, 12:23 pm | #

        Did those verbs have a conjugal visit?

        [drops a well used copy of a Latin Grammar into the voracious pun jar]

      • Dave
        March 5, 2012, 12:30 pm | #

        Aah, bmonk… a good person to have around in declench.

      • ShadOBabe
        March 5, 2012, 10:33 am | #

        Ah, I see.
        So is “Is this him?” incorrect? Or do they both work?

        (Look at me getting a grammar less on a webcomic. I love the internet. XD)

      • Fairportfan
        March 5, 2012, 10:55 am | #

        Yup It is incorrect

      • ShadOBabe
        March 5, 2012, 1:58 pm | #

        Is this he, is this he, is this he…
        I keep saying it and it still sounds weird. Then again, “Is this him” is starting to sound weird too. I wonder what made people stop saying it the right way?

        I think I’ll just go for the extra syllable and say, “It this the guy?”

    • 5hademaker
      March 5, 2012, 8:26 am | # | Reply

      sorry, but “is this he” IS correct grammer. we just aren’t used to hearing it.

      • ShadOBabe
        March 5, 2012, 10:19 am | #

        That’s what I figured.

      • The Old Wolf
        March 5, 2012, 3:45 pm | #

        ShadOBabe, don’t forget that language, over historical time, is as rigid as mercury. It changes. The proscriptive grammarians say that “This is he” is correct and “this is him” is wrong, but usage drives the bus, not the rules. In 50 years, “this is he” may have died out completely, and the grammar books will need to be re-written.

      • bmonk
        March 5, 2012, 4:12 pm | #

        50 years may be about right. When all the fuddy-duddy Classically trained speakers (like me) have died and gone to the great Oratory in the sky.

      • eggishorn
        March 5, 2012, 7:40 pm | #

        Only “correct” form the point of view of Victorian proscriptivist grammarians who were trying to make English conform to Classical Latin grammar. An exercise that was both fundamentally flawed and doomed to failure. This is where the split infinitive “rule” comes from, for example. In Latin, you literally can’t split an infinitive because the infinitive is a verb conjugation, i.e., one word. Germanic languages have been splitting infinitives for forever.

      • Boxilar
        March 5, 2012, 11:59 pm | #

        I love it when folks get persnickity about “proper english” considering that

        “English dosen’t so much borrow from other languages as it follows them down dark alleys and clouts them on the head, then rifles through thier pockets for any spare words they might be carrying.”

      • Dave
        March 6, 2012, 12:58 am | #

        Yup. Even at its most persnickety and formal, English is in many ways a lot simpler and less consistent than many other languages, including many of English’s primary roots.

        As I understand it, this is at least in part due to the fact that for centuries, English was primarily the language of peasants, commoners, merchants, etc. and not of royalty or academe. The courts, churches, and schools used Latin, French, or German… English was largely ignored by formal rule-makers, and became simpler over time because nobody was enforcing the older rules. Absorbing words, grammer variations, etc. from other local languages and dialects made things even more interesting.

      • ShadOBabe
        March 6, 2012, 10:30 am | #

        Best quote ever, Boxilar.

      • GreyWolf
        March 10, 2012, 1:29 am | #

        Actually, in an advanced English Comp class I took waaaaay back when it was pointed out that English’s dalliances with other languages is due to England being conquered over and over by just about every other nation in Europe.

        As an example, they took a verse from the Bible talking about the construction of the Tower of Babel, showing the same version in about a dozen different versions, as the language changed after each new conqueror took over and put their native tongue’s spin on the local language.

        Kinda cool, when you think about it … your language SPEAKS your history, heh.

      • 5hademaker
        March 6, 2012, 1:09 am | #

        We had an American Bulldog named “Him”. The possibilities for mutilated grammer were endless.

      • 5hademaker
        March 6, 2012, 1:12 am | #

        guess it would have been even better if we had named him “Her”.

  16. QuasarMogul
    March 5, 2012, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know why, but that view of Justin’s suit from the back in the first panel is awesome looking. Like the form, the shadowing, the glinting of the stars. Superb!

    • as363
      March 5, 2012, 2:42 am | # | Reply

      Is it just me – or does he have his hands in his pockets . Didn’t think you could do that with Shadow material .

    • Amarouq
      March 5, 2012, 11:04 am | # | Reply

      After reading this comment I thought to myself, “how do you shadow a shadow?” Then I checked that panel again. Genius.

    • bmonk
      March 5, 2012, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

      Which brings up a point I’ve been pondering for several days now.

      What happens to shadow clothing if the wearers venture into brightly lit areas? Like, say, outside on a sunny day??

      And, will we get to see it in the near future???

      • Valkeiper
        March 5, 2012, 5:17 pm | #

        I think Tsilla used their shadows to form their clothing, so walking into brightly lit areas would strengthen the shadows.

        Unlit alleys, tho…

  17. Tristan
    March 5, 2012, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    I wonder how Justin’s eyesight is without the glasses? Maybe everything’s a little blurry right now which could be a good thing coming face to face with Nudge.

    • Bucc-i
      March 5, 2012, 4:30 am | # | Reply

      OTB has a mutant healing factor. I think those glasses were just for show. I mean, can you imagine Wolverine wearing bifocals? Seriously.

      • ChattaStarhawk
        March 5, 2012, 9:56 am | #

        Healing factor doesn’t mean a thing if your eyes are off focus originally. Your eyes would heal to that original condition, and no corrective measures would ‘stick’. Therefore, OTB’s glasses/contact lenses.

  18. Stigmartyr762
    March 5, 2012, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    With a greeting like that it’ll be a wonder if Justin doesn’t throw himself out the nearest window trying to get away from that grinning rictus.

    It appears that Justin is the Wapsiverse’s version of Stretch Armstrong.

    • Atomic
      March 5, 2012, 1:53 am | # | Reply

      Given that all the denizens with a library card already know, in detail, about Monica and Shelly, I wouldn’t doubt that Justin is famous as well!

      For what, however, remains to be seen! By us, the readers, anyway….

      • Stigmartyr762
        March 5, 2012, 7:57 am | #

        With a little assistance and some cross referencing. I’ve little doubt that Shelly could learn just exactly or at least a close guess as to what sort of immortal critter her beau is.

      • Valkeiper
        March 5, 2012, 5:21 pm | #

        If the next words Nudge says to Justin are “YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS”, I’ll ROFLMAO.

        I said a few strips ago Justin could be long-lost royalty of of a royal line.

        Judging from Nudge’s reaction, it is starting to look like a decent possibility.

    • TheSkulker
      March 5, 2012, 3:38 am | # | Reply

      I am impressed with your extensive vocabulary, good sir. The perfect, but rarely seen, descriptive word.

      • Atomic
        March 5, 2012, 1:41 pm | #

        Bows deeply, with satisfied grin.

  19. Dave
    March 5, 2012, 2:15 am | # | Reply

    I have to wonder… had Shelly described Nudge to Justin at all, when talking about the Library? or had she only said they were going to meet Phix, another sphinx?

    Did Shelly even know that Nudge is working in the Library? or was only Monica aware of that? I can’t recall whether Shelly was ever in that particular loop…

    • Francisco
      March 5, 2012, 2:54 am | # | Reply

      Given that Shelly and Nudge coordinated being lost in the woods (on her vision quest) I would be surprised if she hadn’t been told. However, given the mistake with which entrance to use, I have a sneaky feeling it may have slipped her mind.

  20. Dafydd
    March 5, 2012, 2:40 am | # | Reply

    Which is more frightening, the riddle of the Sphinx or the excited face of Nudge?

    • Danzier
      March 5, 2012, 3:06 am | # | Reply

      Nudge face, hands down. There’s this whole time-delay bit with the riddle; you get a Nudge face to the eyeballs in a split second.

      • Dafydd
        March 5, 2012, 12:01 pm | #

        True, though given Nudge’s height, if she comes up to you, it won’t be her face that’s at your eyeballs.

  21. MerchManDan
    March 5, 2012, 2:51 am | # | Reply

    WHOA!!! Dammit Nudge, you are NOT HELPING!!!

  22. Danzier
    March 5, 2012, 3:08 am | # | Reply

    How to tell I’m tired #459:

    I get mad because Nudge is obscuring my view of the lovely lovely bookshelves full of all the lovely knowledge ever written that’s just out of reach oh I’m coming my lovely boooooooooooooookkkkkssssssssss………

    *clears throat* Sorry.

    • Bucc-i
      March 5, 2012, 4:37 am | # | Reply

      WOW! I thought I was the only one who thought that! Great minds DO think alike, I see.

      • W00KY
        March 5, 2012, 5:24 am | #

        Every damn time I think about a library that contains any book ever written, being writting or going to be written one thing enters my mind: Heaven.

        Some nice corners to sit, music for the background and tea and you have all that is needed for it to be my paradies. I would never leave!

      • Jay-Em
        March 5, 2012, 6:51 am | #

        And here we have the -twice mentioned- reason that kindle’s and the like are nice for quick referencing, but that nothing beats a good book, smelling of (preferably old) paper, the sensation of physically turning over pages with a soft rustle, a nice seat and a warm beverage of choice.

        Despite utopists constantly jabbering about the “paperless society” I see only more of the stuff…
        It has no batteries to run down, doesn’t mind falling, is light..well.. suffice to say, I am a paper&book-person that thinks the “act”of reading from a stack of dead trees is as much part of the experience, as absorbing the content, stories, wisdom etc.

      • Julie
        March 5, 2012, 9:48 am | #

        *sigh* It’s nice to know that this community is not only awesome in general, but has a bibliophile population as well. *feels right at home*

      • Bucc-i
        March 5, 2012, 11:56 am | #

        Bibliophile!?
        A, I don’t care what you heard but I ain’t no bibliophile!
        Now for the last time, that girl told me she was 18!
        Honest!

      • davids4250
        March 5, 2012, 9:55 am | #

        Me too also!!!

      • bmonk
        March 5, 2012, 12:19 pm | #

        And, mathematicians have proven, as long as books are added countably, given infinite time, you will eventually read every book there, if you wish!

      • Jay-Em
        March 6, 2012, 2:09 am | #

        That so?

        Ask a monk, or a philosopher.

        Me? I am a solipsist at heart, and do not care what is to be gained, or not gained by the world at a grander scale, for it is not there, but only in here.

        😛

      • bmonk
        March 6, 2012, 1:09 pm | #

        But, given infinite time, you can spend an infinite amount of it reading (and pondering until you understand) and still have an infinite amount to do other things.

  23. GrumbleBear
    March 5, 2012, 3:15 am | # | Reply

    Jeez, Nudge, tone down the greeting! A perky 8 or 9 foot monster tends to unnerve most normals.

    But if Justin used to paranormal craziness, why does he look so astonished?

    • Jay-Em
      March 5, 2012, 6:53 am | # | Reply

      He sees Nudge……..’Nuff said…

    • Julie
      March 5, 2012, 9:49 am | # | Reply

      I think that was his reaction to the Library. If it wasn’t…well, there’s paranormal craziness…and then there’s very-definitely-not-passing-as-human.

    • Dafydd
      March 5, 2012, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

      It’s cause of what part of Nudge is at his eye level.

  24. Joe Minotaur
    March 5, 2012, 3:52 am | # | Reply

    Paul is killing me slowly with the great art that he posts here and then offers up on ebay! Hey Paul! I need SOME money to live on!

    • Bucc-i
      March 5, 2012, 5:02 am | # | Reply

      The problem is, Paul needs some money to live on too!

  25. My2Cents
    March 5, 2012, 4:23 am | # | Reply

    I was wondering at Justin’s expression in the 2nd frame — Is he marveling at the library, or is Nudge one of his weird ex-girlfriends?

    • FatUncle
      March 5, 2012, 5:33 am | # | Reply

      The Library, else Shelly would have said, ” And this is Nudge — “

  26. GreyWolf
    March 5, 2012, 4:42 am | # | Reply

    Aaaaaand … Justin’s craz-o-meter just turned into a dancing frog. Hiya Nudge! What’s shakin, mamacita mas loca? (too lazy to pull up the right accents, sue me :P)

    BTW, wife’s home for a 5-week layoff and I took a couple extra days off this week, so if you don’t hear from me, it just means we managed to find some time to catch a movie or something, so I ain’t here. 😀

    • Dave
      March 5, 2012, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

      Oof… that almost cost you a new keyboard… I very nearly coughed some coffee down into my prized Unicomp buckling-spring noisemaker. 🙂

    • Valkeiper
      March 5, 2012, 5:27 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, I think Justin’s crazy-detector just crawled over to a corner to cry piteously about the abuse it’s been receiving.

      • Jay-Em
        March 6, 2012, 2:12 am | #

        Ah!

        So thát’s the soft lamenting I am hearing.

      • Ratcatcher
        March 8, 2012, 5:39 am | #

        Valkeiper- I think it is just in a coma.

  27. Cherish Bloom
    March 5, 2012, 7:53 am | # | Reply

    Thank you, Paul.
    Now we can get down to the nitty-gritty details about our intrepid hero.

    uh, right?

    • jwhouk
      March 5, 2012, 8:50 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, right. If you believe that, I got a bridge to sell you in Downtown Minneapolis.

      • Opus the Poet
        March 5, 2012, 7:01 pm | #

        How about this bridge? Twin Cities Cycling News From Around the Web It still works for its intended mode of travel, you just can’t take multi-ton WMD over it any more. So they closed it to everybody.

      • Opus the Poet
        March 5, 2012, 7:04 pm | #

        Or are you talking about this bridge? Who is willing to own an old bridge?

  28. jwhouk
    March 5, 2012, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    “You want some crazy? I gotcha crazy…”

    • GreyWolf
      March 10, 2012, 1:38 am | # | Reply

      For the ultimate crazy, I always go with Michael Keaton, he does it so well.

      (The Dream Team)
      bad guy: “I’m a cop …”
      Keaton: “I’m insane, you don’t impress me”
      bad guy: “I’m going to count to three …”
      Keaton: “I’m not even going to count ::cocks hammer::”

      Or his freakout with a fire poker in Batman (“You want NUTS? I’ll show you NUTS! C’mon … let’s get nuts.”), or his whole portrayal in Pacific Heights.

  29. Jade
    March 5, 2012, 8:46 am | # | Reply

    Of all the people they could have run into in the library xD

  30. Julie
    March 5, 2012, 9:46 am | # | Reply

    YES!!!!! I said I was looking forward to him meeting Nudge, and here? Wish come true!!! 😀 Thank you Paul!!

  31. Becky
    March 5, 2012, 9:46 am | # | Reply

    Um. I just realized, Shelly signed her name on a possible demon’s book. She could have accidentally signed a contract without meaning to. Bad enough a demon would have her name penned by Shelly.

    • W.
      March 5, 2012, 10:32 am | # | Reply

      Don’t worry, said contract would be invalid because it wasn’t signed in blood. 😉

      • The O.K. TV Set
        March 5, 2012, 12:13 pm | #

        Not to mention she’s a shadow. Shelly could just cast magic missile at the darkness.

      • W.
        March 5, 2012, 3:47 pm | #

        OH NO! You didn’t!!! I’m not mentioning the soda.

      • The O.K. TV Set
        March 5, 2012, 11:32 pm | #

        What? You want a Mountain Dew? Does ANYONE ELSE want one?

      • scantrontb
        March 5, 2012, 7:57 pm | #

        yeah, and they weren’t in or near a Gazebo either…

  32. CPUGuy1
    March 5, 2012, 10:35 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, Right … No More Crazy (but she did add the “I Hope” part.)

    Oh, Wait … Nudge isn’t Crazy. She might be Wierd.

  33. W.
    March 5, 2012, 10:48 am | # | Reply

    Nudge is just so enthusiastic! I’m sure her words will reassure Justin that all is well even if she does look formidable.

    • Amarouq
      March 5, 2012, 11:59 am | # | Reply

      I just had a scary thought. Imaging Nudge after having too much sugar and/or caffeine. (Shudders).

      • Dave
        March 5, 2012, 2:20 pm | #

        Ever see the Halloween episode of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, where Mac was fed a tiny granule of sugar?

        Kinda like that, plus horns and long tongue.

      • W.
        March 5, 2012, 4:05 pm | #

        I don’t usually do this, but I’m going to use Fairportfan’s words, because they burned themselves into my brain and I think about it every time somebody mentions hyperactivity. Three words: “Ferret on crack.”

  34. Cholo
    March 5, 2012, 10:56 am | # | Reply

    Bah-a-buuh? Gasp! Wheezee! Personal space has been violated, must step back from drawing 😀

  35. tygertyger
    March 5, 2012, 11:58 am | # | Reply

    Ooo, sexy! Lookit all those books!

    • Casey
      March 5, 2012, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

      You really need to shelf your pun habit, or you’ll end up broke.

      • ChattaStarhawk
        March 5, 2012, 7:42 pm | #

        I guess that about covers it…

      • davids4250
        March 5, 2012, 11:27 pm | #

        That’s what my bookie says when I page him.

    • Kessog
      March 5, 2012, 9:19 pm | # | Reply

      It was bound to happen…

      • Casey
        March 6, 2012, 12:18 am | #

        This is the pun police. I’m arresting this thread. Book ’em Danno.

      • bmonk
        March 6, 2012, 1:12 pm | #

        I promise to turn over a new leaf.

  36. Dafydd
    March 5, 2012, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

    Yep, no crazy here. Just your everyday Library experience.

    Now, if Nudge had greeted them upside down, that would have been…still your everyday Library experience. Probably.

    • Valkeiper
      March 5, 2012, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

      In the Wapsi universe… for this crew…

      SoP.

  37. Dave
    March 5, 2012, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

    … after indulging her love for double-garlic pizzas with extra natto.

    I can imagine a crossover scene… Wapsi x “Rose is Rose”… Nudge, with the space around her head and horns decorated with the cloud of floating skulls which denotes an effluvium of really bad garlic breath 🙂

    Even Justin’s regenerative powers might be overwhelmed by demigod halitosis.

    • Maark30
      March 5, 2012, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

      Can’t be any worse than my dog’s dragon breath. Sometimes I just wish she could tell me where she has been finding dragons to hunt.

    • Casey
      March 5, 2012, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

      It’s worse than that. She likes anchovies on her pizzas.

      • Maark30
        March 5, 2012, 5:29 pm | #

        Good point.

  38. Kessog
    March 5, 2012, 9:21 pm | # | Reply

    Not your typical WalMart greeter…

    • TheDoctor
      March 5, 2012, 10:04 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe at the WALMART at 3 a.m. ……on a Weekend……..
      ..Near a College campus……after a Frat party.

      • Casey
        March 6, 2012, 12:43 am | #

        If I saw something like that around here, I would say, “Wait… Where did that WalMart come from?”

  39. Yamara
    March 5, 2012, 9:36 pm | # | Reply

    sh.

  40. Atomic
    March 6, 2012, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    Ack — another 2AM or later update. Sleep beckons, her gentle voice soothing the day’s tribulations away… far away… where they’re no bother at all…… zzzzzzzzzzzz

  41. kingklash
    March 6, 2012, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

    And there’s the other happy puppy-dog of the Library.

  42. Centaur12
    March 27, 2012, 8:24 pm | # | Reply

    CRAZY…METER…GOING…APESHIT…AGAIN!!! D-8

  43. Senok13
    March 8, 2025, 5:32 pm | # | Reply

    “No more crazy, she said… Then brought me before *THE* crazy!”

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