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by Paul Taylor on January 6, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. The Old Wolf
    January 6, 2010, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Whatwhatwhat? More questions wrapped in riddles packaged inside enigmas…

    But now “Doubt” is playing the Good Cop?

    Oh, my aching head!

    • jordinyc
      January 6, 2010, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      She was never really the bad guy, just a huge pain in the ass.

      • fairportfan
        January 6, 2010, 1:15 am | #

        WayBackWhen, Doubt told Monica that she was a necessary (albeit externally-manifesting) component of her personality.

      • DeadlyDad
        January 6, 2010, 4:49 am | #

        I doubt ;P that this last demon is who you think it is. Look back over the last few pages. Not only does the other one have a different, consistent pattern, but it is in front of Monica, while this one has different eyes & pattern, no facial markings, and is behind both Monica and Shelly.

      • fairportfan
        January 6, 2010, 5:42 am | #

        No – this is Monica’s Doubt – that other one is Jin’s Doubt.

        The sequence that begins here and runs through here shows both Doubts as spectators to Jin and Monica squaring off at the Cerberus Club.

        And a little demon vigilante action…

      • Pat
        January 6, 2010, 2:37 pm | #

        Nothing says the demons could not move, if I remember correctly? Even if it had been the same, I take that into account.

  2. Atomic
    January 6, 2010, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    And so dear friends, we bid farewell to all the troubles of the world as they journey back to the land of their origins, safe in the knowledge that the doorway they once used to enter this world has been locked behind them.

    Or…. has it?

  3. frankwolftown
    January 6, 2010, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    What are those rules again?

    • Paul Taylor
      January 6, 2010, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      Here’s one that was broken on a global scale
      http://wapsisquare.com/comic/demonlaw/

      • Atomic
        January 6, 2010, 1:07 am | #

        Thank you for pointing that out! I’d completely forgotten that Jin’s and Monica’s demons had been interacting!

      • fairportfan
        January 6, 2010, 1:16 am | #

        Boy, that’s about the spookiest Tina has ever looked without also appearing deformed…

      • T.S.Millar
        January 6, 2010, 9:21 pm | #

        By “Deformed” you must mean “As sexy as a cartoon can be.”

  4. Red
    January 6, 2010, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Not precisely topical to this particular comic, but here’s to Mr. Taylor for having the confidence to run the “fix it” storyline well before 2012. There are far to many authors of various sorts who would have milked the story for longer whether it needed to be or not. Although, I do hope it does not get too boring with demons being locked away and the calendar fixed or banished.

  5. TlalocW
    January 6, 2010, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    At this point, I’m reminded of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode where Joel and the Bots were watching a confusing movie, and one of them quipped, “Geeze, Tolkien couldn’t follow this plot!” However, I have faith that once I sit down and re-read everything, things will piece together nicely. On the other hand, I worry that with the hopefully years of Wapsi to come that this doesn’t turn into another Phoenix saga from the X-Men comics. 🙂

    • TlalocW
      January 6, 2010, 12:55 am | # | Reply

      I just referenced MST3K, Tolkien, and X-Men. Bow before the Uber-Nerd!

      • Atomic
        January 6, 2010, 1:07 am | #

        Ummm.. before or after the Marvel retcon?

      • TlalocW
        January 6, 2010, 1:41 am | #

        I read the comics in the 80s. My brother was a big fan of all the X-Men comics while I tended to favor Spider-Man more. I eventually stopped reading them – or attempting to understand it all – to save my sanity.

      • hewolf
        January 6, 2010, 2:49 am | #

        Which one? They’ve had so many…

      • bmonk
        May 18, 2011, 5:30 pm | #

        I think you missed Captain Jack Sparrow…

    • ziggy78eog
      January 6, 2010, 8:40 am | # | Reply

      Are you telling me that Wapsi Square does not need an evil Monica clone, where upon multiple offspring from alternate time lines all converge at the same place? I beg to differ!

      • TlalocW
        January 6, 2010, 10:16 am | #

        Well, first Monica has to die but not really die but actually, as it turns out, be dead but not (but maybe is), and her clone has to be a queen of hell…

  6. Charmaine
    January 6, 2010, 1:06 am | # | Reply

    I had thought for a while now that the demon with the ring of dots in her eyes was Jin’s mother, not Doubt. Doubt showed up a few pages ago looking slimy as ever; I was under the impression that this “cleaner” demon who has shown up a few times was Mayahuel….

  7. fairportfan
    January 6, 2010, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    Okay. So we know what Brandi’s plan was.

    It’s Wednesday.

    What Great Evullness is brewing in Pablo’s tricksy mind for Friday?

    • fairportfan
      January 6, 2010, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      For instance, we still have no revelations as to the Final Purpose of Shelly’s portal tattoo.

      And i still suspect that Tina’s choker has some Deeper Significance.

      • Twilakam
        January 6, 2010, 6:31 am | #

        Agreed, but perhaps they’re not directly related to the calendar machine..?

      • fairportfan
        January 6, 2010, 6:56 pm | #

        Oh, i figure you’re likely right – Pablo has to have something to tie future storylines to – and there’s just too much story time invested in Tina (and her choker, which we have only seen her without once) and the portal tattoo to just let them slide.

      • SoWhyMe
        January 6, 2010, 8:24 am | #

        Probably holds her head on .

  8. Sofia
    January 6, 2010, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    Just had to write my thoughts after seeing the page: Awesome. As in awe inspiring.

  9. Bucky Katt
    January 6, 2010, 7:08 am | # | Reply

    So Jin’s demon is the Queen of sorts who was to be broken? Didn’t see that coming.

  10. Valis_kr3
    January 6, 2010, 7:12 am | # | Reply

    Can we have one comic that recaps this mess.

    • SoWhyMe
      January 6, 2010, 8:33 am | # | Reply

      How dare you call a difficult to follow, no one is who they seemed, made up as you go along, Mayan-centric twisting series of past-present interrelated cataclismic events a mess. The proper term is WTF?

  11. Ganthan
    January 6, 2010, 7:18 am | # | Reply

    So, that’s Monica’s Doubt talking now? Is she telling Shelly to stay behind Monica? Who’s the ‘queen’ she’s referring to? Jin’s Doubt? Why isn’t there more blood flowing out of the top of Monica’s head? I thought Shelly was supposed to be the doorway here, not Monica. She has the portal tattoo and everything.

  12. Bean
    January 6, 2010, 7:22 am | # | Reply

    What about Tina? hummm will there be a demonic barista anymore?

  13. Bucky Katt
    January 6, 2010, 7:29 am | # | Reply

    Ok, M was stabbed in the head, but now seems to be bleeding from the gut – and no sign of head injury.

  14. Bucky Katt
    January 6, 2010, 7:31 am | # | Reply

    I think she’s talking to Monica’s other demons – glad they’ll be sticking around, esp. Doubt. The strip wouldn’t be the same without them.

  15. ziggy78eog
    January 6, 2010, 8:34 am | # | Reply

    First, a shiv is jammed into her brain, and then a hole opens up in her stomach. If she lives through all of this, I hope her HMO will cover all of this.

    • jwhouk
      January 6, 2010, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      It went in through the region of her brain, but it didn’t hit “her”… look at Monica’s skin from last week, and just before Shel plunged the shiv into her.

      She hit the demon – Jin’s Doubt, who was trying to “possess” her. And yes, that’s Monica’s Doubt behind her (look back at the “Keeping yourself together” storyline from April of 2007 – it’s the same eyes).

      That was the whole thing all along – to get the doubt demon to go back into the machine, while the “person” she was assigned to comes back to life…

      …Mayahuel.

      • SoWhyMe
        January 6, 2010, 9:36 am | #

        Oh yeah. very good. That seems right. That would also explain the demon’s comment about not being able to kill Monica even if someone wanted to. Bud’s (I think that’s Bud) response saying that’s just what she wanted to hear meant she just got confirmation that stabbing Monica would not kill her while she is in her present trance-like state of … whatever it is … syncronicity?

      • Tessa
        January 6, 2010, 11:02 am | #

        I looked at the part you said to, but circle eyes and a circle of pupils are very different, also I’d never seen Doubt’s pattern anything like that. But then I found http://wapsisquare.com/comic/room-full-of-fem/

        Better example to show that the demon in today’s comic is Mon’s Doubt. (unless we just assumed that was Doubt, and it was actually somebody else, but I don’t think so.)

  16. jwhouk
    January 6, 2010, 8:46 am | # | Reply

    Boy, those demons really suck.

    There, I said it. 😉

    • SoWhyMe
      January 6, 2010, 9:02 am | # | Reply

      Well, Monica’s doing the sucking, therefore she would be the sucker and the demons would be the suckees. Overall I would say it’s better to be the sucker than the suckee. Unless we’re talking about sex. Which we were’nt … were we?

  17. SoWhyMe
    January 6, 2010, 8:53 am | # | Reply

    What good is being a demon if you have to follow rules? And who makes the rules? For that matter, who gives other demons the power to enforce those rules? Who’s the head demon anyway? I’m guessing Oprah.

  18. John K
    January 6, 2010, 9:21 am | # | Reply

    Well that will show them!

  19. Nightingale
    January 6, 2010, 9:35 am | # | Reply

    Oprah- SNORT

  20. kingklash
    January 6, 2010, 11:24 am | # | Reply

    Sometimes, Doubt can be a good thing, causing one to step back a mite and consider approaching a situation from another angle. But if one’s Doubt runs unchecked, unabated, unedited, then one is operating in a personal cloud of chaos, which can affect people and events in the surrounding area. Paisley Doubt has been a busy little manifestation, you think?

    “I looked at the trap, Egon!”

    I think Paul should do a Demon Swimsuit Calendar. But that might screw the world up worse, forget I said it.

  21. UncleRice
    January 6, 2010, 11:46 am | # | Reply

    The last picture, that’s Shelly’s conscience isn’t it?

    • Paul Taylor
      January 6, 2010, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

      That’s Monica’s doubt. =)

    • SoWhyMe
      January 6, 2010, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

      Wait … consciences are demons? That would explain a lot.

      • Paul Taylor
        January 6, 2010, 3:57 pm | #

        Nope, Shelly’s demons became something more like a conscience after her vision quest.

  22. hewolf
    January 6, 2010, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

    I so hope tomorrows has Jin’s Deamon shrieking as she’s sucked back to where she belongs. ^_^

    • fairportfan
      January 6, 2010, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

      …and for Friday?

      • jwhouk
        January 6, 2010, 4:46 pm | #

        Drinks at the Cerberus Club on Bud!

      • fairportfan
        January 6, 2010, 4:53 pm | #

        …and what about Marcia?

        (Cue cheezy organ music.)

  23. jwhouk
    January 6, 2010, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

    A thought: wouldn’t it have just been easier to coax the demon into the machine by using… pizza?

    • RKSAustin
      January 6, 2010, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

      LOL, Dietzel’s pizza girl shows up to save the day! That would have been a twist!

      But pizza clearly only works on Monica’s Doubt. Jin’s Doubt would require something else to lure it. Say, a Bo Peep outfit?

  24. Dusty668
    January 6, 2010, 8:31 pm | # | Reply

    Wooooo!!! Loving it!

  25. Marshall
    January 6, 2010, 9:19 pm | # | Reply

    Damn, until Paul said something, I was still thinking that was Tina and that Doubt was shared by Jin and Monica, not that there were two of them (shared since Bud ‘misplaced’ Monicas doubt into Jin).

  26. Paula
    May 1, 2011, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

    a year later and i actually get what was going on in this comic 🙂

  27. J-Earl
    November 27, 2022, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Hooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

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