WHOA… definitely NOT what i was expecting… is this her memory’s from when she was vaporized, and is coming out as a second personality in Jin? and the reason she’s still “alive” after the first “wall of fire” wasn’t because she hid behind that rock, but because she’s now a “program” running on Jin’s CPU, and is just now resuming from “sleep mode”?
You’ll have to get the Wapsi resident historian (looks in @SoWhyMe’s direction) to look it up but there is an arc that explains that people in the path of the Chimera died so fast their souls were literally torn from their bodies.
This seems to be the end result for at least one of their victims.
IIRC there was one girl who saw it coming. Everyone else was gone before they could realise what was happening, which meant they could not haunt or be ghosts.
This seems to be that girl. Bud somehow had memories of hers or something.
By “saw it coming” I mean “literally saw the wall of flame rushing towards her,” not “predicted it.”
I may have had my calculations off over the weekend. This isn’t a cliffhanger lasting 12,512 to 90,000-odd years. The fabric of reality was left bleeding.
I actually liked Lady in the Water as well…but mainly because the “twist” that everyone now knows to expect from his movies wasn’t an annoying or silly one. It made for an interesting fairy tale.
I liked Signs, since it scared the everliving bejeezus out of me. And as horrible as the ‘twist’ in The Village was (saw it coming way too early), there were some absolutely exquisite shots in there. 🙂 Sixth Sense stands above them though.
Any chance the chimera was somehow unstable and absorbed a 4th spirit … hers? Then when the chimera was disassembled, whoever did the disassembling pulled an old mechanic trick and assumed the extra “parts” belonged to Jin?
I didn’t say the girl was Jin, was referring to when Jin saw Plasma Girl during her bout of hallucinations. Was wondering if the girl’s spirit was knocked loose and absorbed by the chimera, whether this could have been a trigger for some of Jin’s hallucinations.
This is NOT Jin. She was already part of the chimera that created the blast. The dead figure is probably someone instantly turned to charcol by the first wave while she survived behind the wall. This is the second wave and it blew apart the the crispy critter.
As to who it is, maybe a previous incarnation of Shelly? Shelly is native americian or it could be a remote ancestor. Maybe we’ll find out tomorrow.
That’s an idea…since we’ve already seen Jin have visions/delusions of this girl…one has to wonder how the girl attached herself so specifically to one of the Chimera’s parts.
both Bud and Jin have seen her.. Bud in her nightmare with the picture of the chimaera and the close-up of this girls eyes, and Jin when she was with Alan at the frozen over lake with the snowsuit arc, she was the creepy zombie hallucination. I’m not positive, but i think even Brandi has seen her as well, not too sure about that though…
One of the ideas in my head, was I could have sworn I read a story somewhere, now I don’t even know if it was real or fictional …
Something about a guy is checked for migraines, they find a tumor in his brain, they are able to remove it … and tests in the lab reveal the “tumor” is actually the remnants of what should have been an identical twin but for some reason the two embryos got fused and one absorbed the other.
Is this something from a long forgotten book, or did that actually happen? I have a vague memory but can’t seem to pin it down …
So, if I’m reading this right: Wherever Lost Girl is, THIS is what’s been happening to her for thousands of years? Re-living the last few moments of her life (with some changes in detail)? Horrifying.
I’ve been a loyal reader for years, but I have to admit, I’m starting to get really lost trying to keep up with some of the plot details. This comic needs a wiki. 🙂
That’s what the Confusion Couch is for. This is the start of a new plot, most likely around the “lost girl” that Jin saw while vacationing with Alan. She survived the first plasma blast by hiding behind the wall, and is now hoping to survive the second one.
She is affectionately known as Plasma Girl in the forums. See the Note from Paul under the title from Fridays art for her first appearance. Other comments in the Friday forum list her other appearances.
Or Crispy. Mainly because, when she appears to Jin, she looks thoroughly burned…
But up until now she’s been a cipher. A zero. We knew little about her except for her death and that she was apparently still hanging on, haunting Jin. If we’re now going to find out about her, and she turns out to be both a sympathetic and appealing character, AND a terrible danger… 🙁
All I noticed, for now, is she doesn’t appear to be Vaporing in the flame/blast. There seems to be no indication she is -or will become Sizzlean. Great artwork. The covering of face and ears in protective mode and the “shockwave” blowing her hair ’round her. The disintegration of the rock and tattering of her skirt, but no Obvious Injury to the Girl.
Can’t wait for Tuesday. 😉
Lost Girl/Plasma Girl did get vaporized 10,000 years ago when the Chimera rampaged across the Earth. But somehow her essence survived as a part of the GGs.
Bud sees Lost Girl in her dreams (see the URL in the notes section from Friday’s comic). And I that Jin’s trademark phrase “Oh poor baby. Are you lost?” derives from her seeing Lost/Plasma girl in her, um, vulnerable times before she was fixed.
And on a separate note, I wonder if Brandy see’s Lost/Plasma girl as well?
So it looks like Paul will tie up an old loose end and we may just end up with a new character and a companion for the companion (Well they look about the same age).
If friday’s edition is picking up the state of Crispy’s consciousness immediately after the chimera vaporized her, this seem to me to be an immediate second death, that of her astral body? Or perhaps the coming of the “wrathful deities”? If so it is happening WAY quicker than the Tibetan book of the Dead suggests…
WHOA… definitely NOT what i was expecting… is this her memory’s from when she was vaporized, and is coming out as a second personality in Jin? and the reason she’s still “alive” after the first “wall of fire” wasn’t because she hid behind that rock, but because she’s now a “program” running on Jin’s CPU, and is just now resuming from “sleep mode”?
Hookaay… this is why he had the low-calorie stuff the last week… he was finishing plotting this story-line. Really looking forward to it.
Criminy, even Death seems to be having a bad day….
Do ya get the feeling that *anywhere* Plasma Girl goes, people have a bad day?
NOTDilbert: meh, he’s used to it.. nothing like a good plasma to clean out the vermin!!
Hmm.. seems to be a case of “not knowing one’s body has died”. It would explain her haunting the GG.
You’ll have to get the Wapsi resident historian (looks in @SoWhyMe’s direction) to look it up but there is an arc that explains that people in the path of the Chimera died so fast their souls were literally torn from their bodies.
This seems to be the end result for at least one of their victims.
speed? if you can see it coming, its not fast enough.. :p
IIRC there was one girl who saw it coming. Everyone else was gone before they could realise what was happening, which meant they could not haunt or be ghosts.
This seems to be that girl. Bud somehow had memories of hers or something.
By “saw it coming” I mean “literally saw the wall of flame rushing towards her,” not “predicted it.”
I wonder if that’s anything like seeing the darkness of a full solar eclipse rushing toward you?
And looking at her would be like seeing the transit of Venus.
I may have had my calculations off over the weekend. This isn’t a cliffhanger lasting 12,512 to 90,000-odd years. The fabric of reality was left bleeding.
This is eternity.
c’mon.. everybody must have seen ‘sixth sense’ by now…. 🙂
Believe it or not … never got around to it. Plan to, one of these days.
Nope. One of these days, maybe.
Along with “Unbreakable”, it may well represent the only worthwhile parts of M Night Shanana’s career as a director.
(They’re the only films of his i have seen, i must admit, but the progressively more dire reviews have kept me away.)
yes, its one that is worth it even the 4th time… go an see it!!!
I actually liked Lady in the Water as well…but mainly because the “twist” that everyone now knows to expect from his movies wasn’t an annoying or silly one. It made for an interesting fairy tale.
I liked Signs, since it scared the everliving bejeezus out of me. And as horrible as the ‘twist’ in The Village was (saw it coming way too early), there were some absolutely exquisite shots in there. 🙂 Sixth Sense stands above them though.
Any chance the chimera was somehow unstable and absorbed a 4th spirit … hers? Then when the chimera was disassembled, whoever did the disassembling pulled an old mechanic trick and assumed the extra “parts” belonged to Jin?
Who says that’s Jin?
I didn’t say the girl was Jin, was referring to when Jin saw Plasma Girl during her bout of hallucinations. Was wondering if the girl’s spirit was knocked loose and absorbed by the chimera, whether this could have been a trigger for some of Jin’s hallucinations.
This is NOT Jin. She was already part of the chimera that created the blast. The dead figure is probably someone instantly turned to charcol by the first wave while she survived behind the wall. This is the second wave and it blew apart the the crispy critter.
As to who it is, maybe a previous incarnation of Shelly? Shelly is native americian or it could be a remote ancestor. Maybe we’ll find out tomorrow.
Looks a lot like Connie…
That’s an idea…since we’ve already seen Jin have visions/delusions of this girl…one has to wonder how the girl attached herself so specifically to one of the Chimera’s parts.
both Bud and Jin have seen her.. Bud in her nightmare with the picture of the chimaera and the close-up of this girls eyes, and Jin when she was with Alan at the frozen over lake with the snowsuit arc, she was the creepy zombie hallucination. I’m not positive, but i think even Brandi has seen her as well, not too sure about that though…
One of the ideas in my head, was I could have sworn I read a story somewhere, now I don’t even know if it was real or fictional …
Something about a guy is checked for migraines, they find a tumor in his brain, they are able to remove it … and tests in the lab reveal the “tumor” is actually the remnants of what should have been an identical twin but for some reason the two embryos got fused and one absorbed the other.
Is this something from a long forgotten book, or did that actually happen? I have a vague memory but can’t seem to pin it down …
It was real G.F. There have been several cases of tumors actually being absorbed twins.
Was also used as the basis for a creepy thriller called ‘The Other” (I think) – was a movie some years back.
*in best Mortal Kombat voice*
“Toasty!”
Sorry, I’ll hang my head in shame now.
There, there Shadowinthelight, just hang out here, and I’ll go get the smores fixins.
So, if I’m reading this right: Wherever Lost Girl is, THIS is what’s been happening to her for thousands of years? Re-living the last few moments of her life (with some changes in detail)? Horrifying.
She looks more like Shelley to me. That “fire demon/elemental”(!!!!!) – eeecccchhh!! That’d give me some serious nightmares for a few millenia.
I’ve been a loyal reader for years, but I have to admit, I’m starting to get really lost trying to keep up with some of the plot details. This comic needs a wiki. 🙂
That’s what the Confusion Couch is for. This is the start of a new plot, most likely around the “lost girl” that Jin saw while vacationing with Alan. She survived the first plasma blast by hiding behind the wall, and is now hoping to survive the second one.
Ahem:
http://wapsisquare.wikia.com/wiki/Wapsi_Square_Wiki
Why, yes, it DOES need a wiki. It would be nice if people wrote things for the wiki, too. Now go read the wiki.
take some care. A quick browse discovered the “information” that Jin moved the tapestry from Bud’s builtin storage to a market in the middle east.
Whoa. All I can think is that crispy girl is not Jin, because Jin is part of the Chimera. So who be this? Whoa.
Definitely not Pippi Langstrump?
She is affectionately known as Plasma Girl in the forums. See the Note from Paul under the title from Fridays art for her first appearance. Other comments in the Friday forum list her other appearances.
I keep wanting to fit her in with Shelly’s “Conscience” even though I have no story continuity by which to do so.
Or Crispy. Mainly because, when she appears to Jin, she looks thoroughly burned…
But up until now she’s been a cipher. A zero. We knew little about her except for her death and that she was apparently still hanging on, haunting Jin. If we’re now going to find out about her, and she turns out to be both a sympathetic and appealing character, AND a terrible danger… 🙁
TOASTY!!!
All I noticed, for now, is she doesn’t appear to be Vaporing in the flame/blast. There seems to be no indication she is -or will become Sizzlean. Great artwork. The covering of face and ears in protective mode and the “shockwave” blowing her hair ’round her. The disintegration of the rock and tattering of her skirt, but no Obvious Injury to the Girl.
Can’t wait for Tuesday. 😉
Lost Girl/Plasma Girl did get vaporized 10,000 years ago when the Chimera rampaged across the Earth. But somehow her essence survived as a part of the GGs.
Bud sees Lost Girl in her dreams (see the URL in the notes section from Friday’s comic). And I that Jin’s trademark phrase “Oh poor baby. Are you lost?” derives from her seeing Lost/Plasma girl in her, um, vulnerable times before she was fixed.
And on a separate note, I wonder if Brandy see’s Lost/Plasma girl as well?
Did she even see Mr Boney-bod before everything went BLAMMO! a second time?
that was most likely the body she saw get incinerated in the first strip we saw her, so yes.
Man, is there anything that ancient clay walls can’t do?
So it looks like Paul will tie up an old loose end and we may just end up with a new character and a companion for the companion (Well they look about the same age).
If friday’s edition is picking up the state of Crispy’s consciousness immediately after the chimera vaporized her, this seem to me to be an immediate second death, that of her astral body? Or perhaps the coming of the “wrathful deities”? If so it is happening WAY quicker than the Tibetan book of the Dead suggests…
Holy Moley! 0_o
… Just klick your heels three times and keep saying, “There’s no place like home…”
Or, “If I stay awake, the clowns can’t eat me….”
Now THIS one I’m not sure about – that’s NOT Charon in the background “exploding”, is it?