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Wapsi Square Comic #4,000

by Paul Taylor on April 13, 2021 at 8:27 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Amanda, Jacquline, Monica, Shelly
Location: Shelly's Apartment

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Discussion (39) ¬

  1. Brent Steel
    April 13, 2021, 8:32 pm | # | Reply

    Wth Shellys eyes closed i thought she was blind not sick…

  2. Fairportfan
    April 13, 2021, 8:45 pm | # | Reply

    When did Jacqui get read in on The Secret?

    • Paul Taylor
      April 13, 2021, 9:05 pm | # | Reply

      Back here: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/just-once/

      • Fairportfan
        April 14, 2021, 12:05 pm | #

        Yep. Forgot anyone other than Luci got put In The Know then.

  3. Robert Nowall
    April 13, 2021, 9:16 pm | # | Reply

    Try not to overdo blowing your nose, Shelly. It relieves a little pressure but it comes back at you before the cold goes away.

  4. ZybotAus
    April 13, 2021, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

    You wouldn’t call Shelly small if you saw her sphinx size . . ., she can sure fill an apartment . . .

    • ZybotAus
      April 13, 2021, 9:19 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, and congratulations on reaching your 4000th strip. Party time!

    • illiad
      April 14, 2021, 3:18 am | # | Reply

      congratulations!!! 🙂 🙂 It looks so **wonderful** in color!!! 😀 😀 Any chance of more?? 😛 🙂

  5. GaijinGuy47
    April 13, 2021, 9:42 pm | # | Reply

    Aww! Such a cute strip! I’ve always liked Shelly, and it’s nice to see that her friends have her back when she’s under the weather!

  6. jwhouk
    April 13, 2021, 9:55 pm | # | Reply

    Four. Thousand. Comics.

    That’s like, soooooo many comics!

    Congratulations on that, Paul!

  7. Mark N
    April 13, 2021, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

    Wow, four thousand strips and we now know that even an immortal sphinx cannot beat the common cold.

  8. RevCorby
    April 13, 2021, 11:14 pm | # | Reply

    It’s the return of the magic 8 ball shirt!!!!

    • Starwulf
      April 14, 2021, 1:28 am | # | Reply

      Small? Since when is Shelly “small”, especially next to Monica? Lol Congrats Paul!

      • Starwulf
        April 14, 2021, 1:30 am | #

        Whoops! That wasn’t meant to be a reply lol

      • Paul Taylor
        April 14, 2021, 6:59 am | #

        XD Shelly is just shorter than Amanda, but still taller than Monica.

  9. TheDOCTOR
    April 13, 2021, 11:43 pm | # | Reply

    LIKE everybody in Color. Or for those in the UK…COLOUR.

    • Fairportfan
      April 14, 2021, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

      4K resolution…

      • robnot
        April 14, 2021, 11:33 pm | #

        @Fairportfan: now THISTLE .?

  10. arcdar
    April 14, 2021, 3:11 am | # | Reply

    Congrats on 4k!

    Man, can’t believe how long I’m following you and your amazing art/story work. Thanks for making some boring or dark mornings light by brightening my mood :).

  11. Meander
    April 14, 2021, 4:59 am | # | Reply

    4000! CONGRATULATIONS and well done!

  12. Nim
    April 14, 2021, 7:28 am | # | Reply

    4000 K – I was wondering if you would do something a bit special. Very nice to see Jacquline, as she is one of my favs and one of the few characters who doesn’t have and doesn’t need a traumatic backstory and the only one I can think of who gets their power through money (trust fund and family fortune) which I think is great as it is so unlike everyone else in the strip. Her strength of character is that wealth did not change who she is as she is naturally strong of will. In the Wapsiverse I’ve always equated her to the Greek Tantalus and related myths of not being tempted off the path (several versions of this) as it is your strength of character and not events from your life that sometimes shape you the most or can be your best guide. Jacquline is a Positive + Good + Neutral Character who uses her wealth to help yet is not corrupted by the power that wealth can generate. I also like that she is the tallest “human” character, equal too (if not a tad more than) Sphix in human form.
    I like the 8-ball shirt and the toss back to a style slight reminiscent of the earlier years, especially in the eyes. Shelly, my least favorite character, does look cute here, although I expected to see her with a darker skin tone. Oh, and it looks like the “thick eyebrow” thing is alive and strong. Nice all around and cool to see some seldom seen characters again.

  13. Sheik
    April 14, 2021, 8:37 am | # | Reply

    I vote every day I can on TopWebComics for every one of Paul’s strips.
    If he keeps drawing 4/week it’s going to take a looooog time to catch up.

  14. txmystic
    April 14, 2021, 11:18 am | # | Reply

    Yeezus, when was the last time we saw Amanda??

    • Phil
      April 14, 2021, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

      February 2016, according to the archive. Very glad to see her back, along with all the others. At the risk of disappointing other Wapsi fans, I am heartily sick of the Gryphon High stuff and could happily do without the teen angst for quite a long time. I’d much rather read about the people this comic was originally about — Monica, Shelley, Amanda, Jacqui, Owen and Lakshmi — even Katherine when she’s not in Mom mode. It’d make a nice change (hint, hint…)

      • Paul Taylor
        April 14, 2021, 2:07 pm | #

        Then why are you still here? Folks punctuating thinly vailed demands with “hint, hint” can find the exit.

      • Phil
        April 15, 2021, 4:29 pm | #

        Paul, I’m not making a demand, thinly-veiled or otherwise. I’m simply expressing an opinion as a long-time reader. The fact that I am still here should tell you that I still enjoy the strip even though I’m not as fond of its current storylines as I was of the original characters. I was just hoping that you might focus on the older characters for a while, however short. The “hint, hint” was just that : a light -hearted hint . You’ve done it before, and I was encouraging you to do it again.

      • Paul Taylor
        April 15, 2021, 11:02 pm | #

        You still enjoy the comic? This you? “I am heartily sick of the Gryphon High stuff and could happily do without the teen angst for quite a long time”. Oh, you mean what’s been going on in the comic since 2013? You’re “enjoying” that while being “heartily sick of” it. I think you could have found a much less backhanded way of saying anything, but I’m not buying your backpeddling. The way you phrased your whole comment was as a demand. If you “enjoyed” the way I included older characters in the comic previously, why don’t you just let me write my comic the way I want to without prompting from the balcony box.

  15. TazManiac
    April 14, 2021, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

    apsi Square Comic #4,000

    • TazManiac
      April 14, 2021, 5:42 pm | # | Reply

      *W*, Argh!

      Still, quite an accomplishment; and I’ve read ebby wun… 🙂

  16. Critical Thanking
    April 14, 2021, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

    Phil, to state the obvious, most comics change. Artists change and grow. Yes, I grew to love the original characters. I have also found moments to love in the current arc. There are other artists who do no change and I gave up on them. YMMV. Enjoy what you can and say thanks to Paul, and find other comics to fill the holes.

  17. Correllian
    April 14, 2021, 2:47 pm | # | Reply

    Even “mainstream” comics like you see in the newspaper need to change to find and keep an audience. I lost interest in Garfield years ago when it became obvious that every joke was going to be about Garfield being fat and grumpy, Odie being an idiot, or Jon being a loser.

    Instead of 8!+(#!n& about your favorite characters not being seen much anymore, revel in these strips where they occasionally pop up.

    I like Monica, and miss Dietzel, but there some characters in the “new generation” of Wapsi that I enjoy, too, like Digit (though we haven’t seen her for a bit either), Timmy, and the pair of geek/nerds that recently joined the cast.

    At the end of it all, it’s Paul’s strip, set in Paul’s universe, and if someone doesn’t like it…..find another comic to read.

    • Guesticules
      April 20, 2021, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

      Kinda said a similar thing in another webic today

  18. kingklash
    April 14, 2021, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

    Someone send her some dried corn soup and hot fry bread. Maybe a fresh pot of coffee.

  19. TazManiac
    April 14, 2021, 5:44 pm | # | Reply

    Hey, I had a thought- Maybe red-headed Monica is related to red-headed Zoey of recent TV fame.

    (A paranormal influence would answer a lot of the mystery there), just say’n…

  20. Brandon
    April 14, 2021, 6:13 pm | # | Reply

    Shelly!!! >_< She will always be my favorite!

  21. robnot
    April 14, 2021, 11:36 pm | # | Reply

    Congratulations. on 4,000.! 🙂

  22. Guesticules
    April 20, 2021, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

    Has it really been 4000 (technically, more than 4000, if you don’t count ‘filler’) pages?
    How many years is that? Definitely more than ten (took a couple years to reach the Mayan Calendar conclusion)

  23. Bratty Roger
    April 10, 2022, 3:13 am | # | Reply

    What happened to Shelly’s ^huge^ arms❓

  24. J-Earl
    January 23, 2023, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    A big Congratulations on #4000. This is no small thing. It is a very real accomplishment. Again, Congratulations!!

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