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Who Put The Dogs Out

by Paul Taylor on February 25, 2012 at 12:00 am
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  1. Otter
    February 25, 2012, 3:11 am | # | Reply

    Effective, but still restrained. Nicely played.

    • TheDoctor
      February 25, 2012, 8:10 am | # | Reply

      “Talk to the Hand.”

      • Valkeiper
        February 25, 2012, 3:34 pm | #

        Actually, I think we need to talk to a little blue ‘drinking god’.

        This no longer reads as a test by Phix to me. This reads as an actual trap for somebody and Shelly/Justin sprang it.

        Who could the target be… Phix? …Nudge? …Euryale? …the golem girls? …Monica?

        I think the target would be a certain little blue guy who loves to get people drunk.

        The antagonist(s)? Aren’t there a few people who survived the calender machine’s first activation and, dispute having to go through the ‘loop’ 57 times, are still alive?

      • davids4250
        February 25, 2012, 3:58 pm | #

        I think Phix and the GG, and possibly Nudge, would have no problems with the dogs. Euryale is probably pretty powerful in her own right. That makes Monica the probable target if this is a trap. But why would anyone target her? As for Tepoz, he seems to me to be mostly a messenger/gofer type, though he does pull some strings.
        Interesting thought, though. I agree that this does not feel like Phix to me. It’s too destructive, too uncontrolled.

      • Prester Fred
        February 25, 2012, 4:27 pm | #

        I can’t remember where, but I think Jin once told Monica that the beneficiaries of the Calendar Machine’s activation could still die by misadventure, and that she and her mother were the only ones left by the time the resetting problem started.

      • scantrontb
        February 26, 2012, 12:20 pm | #

        of all the people in the room when the CM started up, only Jin, May and an unknown number of the Immortal Politicians (IP’s) are left, the OTHER CM caretakers /custodians are all dead. some current theories are: we think that the various Caretakers were “taken out” by various factions of the IP’s in their various schemes for world domination in order to hinder their enemy’s actions. either that, or they were killed off by the normal people (us) who rebelled against the IP’s for not dying and they blamed it on the CM custodians in order to give the mobs a scapegoat.

      • tygertyger
        February 27, 2012, 11:42 am | #

        Technically, that would be, “bark at the hand,” doc.

    • Yamara
      February 25, 2012, 11:36 pm | # | Reply

      It’s therapeutic for her to get her hands dirty.

      She likes fixing things.

      • Valkeiper
        February 26, 2012, 4:26 am | #

        ‘phixing’ things in this case may start with a little note saying “Some disassembly may be required.”

        >>>looks at statement quizzedly… pun jar?<<<

  2. Leak
    February 25, 2012, 3:11 am | # | Reply

    Okay – I really should have seen that coming…

    Now all she needs is a big log for them to fetch… 🙂

    • Atomic
      February 25, 2012, 3:21 am | # | Reply

      OK — now the tummy rubs. And a bucket of ice for Justin while he heals.

      Given the pups are six feet at the shoulder or so, Shelly is easily past 15 feet hunched over like that.

      Somewhere I remember 16 feet standard between floors, so you have 2 feet drop ceiling for ducting, wires, etc, so it all fits nicely.

      • FatUncle
        February 25, 2012, 10:11 am | #

        I shouldn’t wonder if Shelly’s morph is variable: large, larger, and still larger yet, as the occasion warrants. She seems larger than when she snatched up Justin to take him to the hospital; the dogs are about the same proportion to her, now, as Justin was to her, then. And I am under the impression that the dogs are much larger than Justin.

      • Vorlonagent
        February 25, 2012, 12:44 pm | #

        If anything I think Shelly’s even bigger than when she was taking Justin to the hospital.

      • bmonk
        February 25, 2012, 1:39 pm | #

        Also, remember that she semi-morphed yesterday, and didn’t change size much at all–just grew wings and other sphinxy characteristics.

      • Simon
        March 1, 2012, 4:35 am | #

        And speaking of low ceilings, you’ll notice that this one now has a hole in it, matching Shelly’s head.

    • illiad
      February 25, 2012, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

      baha men fan???
      youtu.be/He82NBjJqf8

      • Leak
        February 25, 2012, 4:12 pm | #

        *cringes*

        Nah, I’m more of a The Black Dog person…

      • W.
        February 25, 2012, 8:59 pm | #

        ♫

  3. davids4250
    February 25, 2012, 3:11 am | # | Reply

    Silly Library – bringing dogs to a sphinx fight…

    • bmonk
      February 25, 2012, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

      assuming that the Library intended a fight.

      • Valkeiper
        February 26, 2012, 8:22 pm | #

        assuming the library sent them.

    • Danzier
      February 25, 2012, 9:34 pm | # | Reply

      I can’t remember my joke! It had something to do with this: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhr33v_guns-you-shoot-knives-you-throw_shortfilms

      The line that started the movie quote madness that grew into a secondary home language when I was growing up… “If we live through this, which is doubtful, remember: ________ you shoot, _________ you throw!”

      • Danzier
        February 25, 2012, 9:44 pm | #

        –Oh, wait–I’ve got it!

  4. Tristan
    February 25, 2012, 3:13 am | # | Reply

    2 predators meet even BIGGER predator!

  5. ShadOBabe
    February 25, 2012, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    Oh, man… Poor Justin… 🙁
    I know he’ll heal, but that can’t feel good…

    Then again, we haven’t been told how pain resistant Justin is. He’s talking pretty coherently in the first panel for someone whose skin is being fried off.

    • That Other Guy
      February 25, 2012, 3:54 am | # | Reply

      Those are some incredibly well made glasses. Fires of Mount Doom you say? Well that explains it.

      • Stigmartyr762
        February 25, 2012, 6:13 am | #

        I’m think the fact that Justin’s glasses are still in one piece despite him nearly being cremated is either a special effect of his regenerative powers or a gift from an artisan he’s encountered.

        Who knows? :\

      • Danzier
        February 25, 2012, 8:47 pm | #

        My dad once worked on a truck that dug holes for road barriers. Due to someone’s SNAFU, the truck exploded. His glasses were in his lunchbox on the seat at the time. The lunchbox was metal; it ended up about how you’d expect–melty-twisty. The earpieces on the glasses melted together and the lenses fell out and melted onto the bottom of the lunchbox. (My dad got road rash but was otherwise fine, btw.)

        So yeah, Justin’s glasses may now be a permanent feature of his face. (Unless he’s like Wolverine and his body rejects foreign objects by expelling them out the path of least resistance.)

      • Dave
        February 25, 2012, 11:25 pm | #

        Quartz lenses and titanium frames, perhaps? Not everybody goes in for these newfangled plastics, y’know… I think there are still some all-metal frames on the market.

      • Valkeiper
        February 26, 2012, 4:29 am | #

        titanium eyeglass frames are not exactly ‘old hat’.

      • ShirouZhiwu
        February 27, 2012, 8:39 pm | #

        Tungsten frames would be more useful at this point.

    • Dusty668
      February 25, 2012, 6:11 am | # | Reply

      He may heal, but his pants probably won’t…

      • Opus the Poet
        February 25, 2012, 7:40 pm | #

        As the Pun Jar is now to big to move by human effort [taps Pun Jar with LART] tap tap.

      • Danzier
        February 25, 2012, 8:48 pm | #

        I suppose he’s immune to asbestos poisoning?

    • FWT
      February 25, 2012, 11:38 am | # | Reply

      Well, once the skin is gone, there is no more pain for him to feel. So it would be a ton of pain at first and then none at all.

    • FatUncle
      February 25, 2012, 2:04 pm | # | Reply

      I think you’re right, as I look back on the cuts Shelly put into his chest. Justin’s reaction didn’t really indicate that he was in much pain.

      • Sheik
        February 26, 2012, 3:11 pm | #

        It may be that by now he’s simply learned to think and act while in pain rather than re-act like most of us do.
        The pain is still there (while the nerve endings last) but he’s learned to ignore it as much as possible.

    • Wolf
      February 25, 2012, 4:53 pm | # | Reply

      *shudder*

      Having been burned severely, well – just *shudder* – that looks like exposed bone on his forehead 🙁

      Shelly, at least, seems fireproof; and the way she has muzzled the hell-hounds flame is beautiful – she could have ripped them to shreds, but didn’t. Incredible restraint, particularly since she knows Justin is hurt.

      • Yamara
        February 25, 2012, 11:53 pm | #

        ss. Hope you’re okay, man.

        As for Shelly, that is restraint, but in keeping with instinct. You can only get limited information from someone who’s dead.

        And if there’s one thing sphinxes are incredibly good at, and take a special pleasure in, it’s in posing questions.

    • Maark30
      February 25, 2012, 10:53 pm | # | Reply

      The Cerberi might be breathing hellfire or some such that may not effect inorganic materials so his glasses may not be affected .

      • Julie
        February 27, 2012, 9:37 am | #

        Looks to me like it affected his clothes… 😛

  6. as363
    February 25, 2012, 3:23 am | # | Reply

    I Love a Saturday cliff-hanger .. now we only have to suffer through Sunday – before we get the new strip on Monday . Much less PAINFUL ON MY POOR MIND .

    • Geek_on_call
      February 25, 2012, 6:04 pm | # | Reply

      You know what they say, “Of all the thing you loose, You miss your mind the most”

  7. Bails
    February 25, 2012, 3:27 am | # | Reply

    Poor pyro puppies,sphinx paw to the face >_<

    • Jay-Em
      February 25, 2012, 5:11 am | # | Reply

      Poor pyro pooches perplexed per pissed powerful prime predator protecting partner.

      *leans back with smug smile, savouring superior savvy*

      • TheSkulker
        February 25, 2012, 7:02 am | #

        Someone shouldn’t say such seemingly sage, surely screed, simple, self-serving, self-satisfying soliloquies, since someone shall suffer sudden shame soon, shattering said silly, supercilious, sanguine, smug smile.

        See?

      • Jay-Em
        February 25, 2012, 8:29 am | #

        *jerks-out of smug flow, jumps up, falls on knees*

        “oh evil master, i’ll do thy bidding”

      • Jay-Em
        February 25, 2012, 8:30 am | #

        (still a bit smug, because i am not a native speaker..) 😛

      • Dave
        February 25, 2012, 10:07 am | #

        “Silly Jay-Em, bringing Ps to an S fight” 🙂

        Thanks, folks, that’s the most grin-making word exchange I’ve woken up to in quite a while.

      • TheSkulker
        February 25, 2012, 3:50 pm | #

        Thank you Jay-Em, kind sir, that was fun.

        I commend your competent command of conversation in a collateral language. (happily handicapping his honorable hyperbolist cohort…)

      • Sgt. Howard
        February 25, 2012, 11:53 am | #

        Filthy feral fleabags french-fried a feline’s flatfoot, fall facedown from fabulouse fingers and feel foolish, forgetting ‘friend-or-foe’ flagging of female flighted fancy… BAD DOGGIES!!! BAD!!! NO SCOOBY SNACKS!!! WHERE”S MY ROLLED UP AREA RUG?!??(you REALLY think a newspaper is adequate here?)

      • Danzier
        February 25, 2012, 8:54 pm | #

        Frankly, I feel flammables may fail.

        My internal alliteration alarm is going off too loudly to continue. Sorry.

      • joel6113
        February 25, 2012, 2:33 pm | #

        Do you read the webcomic “Dominic Deegan”? Because you seem to be channeling Spark. Although I guess it’s better than everyone else here. They all seem to share the Deegan’s love of puns.

  8. shadowinthelight
    February 25, 2012, 3:41 am | # | Reply

    Silly puppies. This should teach them you can’t barbacue sphinx wings like chicken wings.

    • FatUncle
      February 25, 2012, 10:20 am | # | Reply

      Sphinxes are fireproof! Who knew?

      And as a Carolina boy, born and bred, Ah can tell ya’ll: it’s spelled Bar-B-Q.

    • bmonk
      February 25, 2012, 1:41 pm | # | Reply

      Are sphinx wings more like buffalo wings, then?

      • bmonk
        February 25, 2012, 5:02 pm | #

        Slips $2.45 in bar gift coupons in the Pun Vault.

      • Danzier
        February 25, 2012, 8:56 pm | #

        I feel a strange need to make a joke about whether the sphynx wings are from Poughkeepsie and I don’t know why…

      • bmonk
        February 26, 2012, 6:28 pm | #

        Luxor wings??

  9. Ari
    February 25, 2012, 3:42 am | # | Reply

    Wow, viciously adorable.

    • Ari
      February 25, 2012, 3:43 am | # | Reply

      You know, I do the same thing to calm down my cat…although…she doesn’t breathe fire….still she’s pretty vicious.

      • Heph
        February 25, 2012, 4:37 am | #

        Wait your cat does not breath fire? Is she defective somehow?

      • Jay-Em
        February 25, 2012, 5:14 am | #

        Our cat doesn’t too. She farts fire though. We just count our blessings that she doesn’t go around moaning “dooooooomm”

      • Joe Minotaur
        February 25, 2012, 5:50 am | #

        Yes, and Shelly is without her slingshot.

      • illiad
        February 25, 2012, 3:30 pm | #

        its called sprinkles then??? 🙂

  10. kingklash
    February 25, 2012, 4:47 am | # | Reply

    yipe yipe yipe yipe!

    • Michael Birks
      February 25, 2012, 7:18 am | # | Reply

      Nicely Played. I was going to go with the original, but your version fitts better.

  11. Jay-Em
    February 25, 2012, 5:00 am | # | Reply

    Ayayay..poor Justin. He looks a tad….crispy….

    😆 on the “yipe yipe yipe” these cerberi aren’t exactly the smartest ey? A smart dog would have skulked away, the moment he smelled a sphinx..

    • Jay-Em
      February 25, 2012, 5:17 am | # | Reply

      By the by. What a nice start of a Saturday morning, a latte, a comfy chair, no work to be done, an iPad and Wapsisquare.

      Life’s good.

  12. Joe Minotaur
    February 25, 2012, 5:49 am | # | Reply

    Don’t make Shellinx angry. You wouldn’t like her when she’s ANGRY!!!

  13. Tessa
    February 25, 2012, 5:52 am | # | Reply

    The dogs might be in less pain if they’d just STOP breathing fire.

    And yep, I was rights. Dogs to a sphinx fight.

    • Dave
      February 26, 2012, 1:33 am | # | Reply

      That really does seem like it would be a problem for any beast capable of exhaling a flammable (self-igniting?) gas or vapor. What do you do, when you have to stop exhaling half-way through a flaming snort? Where does the unused half-dose of volatile nastiness go?

      If there are muscular-contraction reflexes involved in fire-snorting, it might not be any easier for them to just stop, than it is for us to stop a sneeze or hiccough half-way through.

      • Tessa
        February 26, 2012, 4:00 am | #

        if they have a set time they MUST breathe fire, that is a huge disadvantage and (assuming you dodge their blast) would make them easily defeatable. And considering the dogs would most likely only appear as guards for supernatural intruders since it was stated that uninvited humans wouldn’t be affected, they would kinda suck as guard dogs.

        Also, the dogs themselves aren’t immune to fire, so event hat can be used against them.

      • NOTDilbert
        February 26, 2012, 9:50 pm | #

        To what event does one wear an event hat? 😉

      • bmonk
        February 26, 2012, 9:09 pm | #

        It would hurt–as the Rodents Of Unusual Size (Princess Bride) discovered. Not that THEY could breathe fire.

  14. The Old Wolf
    February 25, 2012, 6:11 am | # | Reply

    Do not mess with a guardian sphinx!

  15. Jaedreth
    February 25, 2012, 7:18 am | # | Reply

    Who put the dogs out? Yipe! Yipe! Yipe! Very Catchy.

    • Valkeiper
      February 25, 2012, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

      Somehow, this does not quite match with putting them ‘out cold’.

      somehow…

    • illiad
      February 25, 2012, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

      well almost… 😛
      youtu.be/He82NBjJqf8

    • Wyvern
      February 25, 2012, 4:41 pm | # | Reply

      Putting the dogs out with a fire extinguisher…

  16. davids4250
    February 25, 2012, 8:08 am | # | Reply

    If they were both invited, as she says, then I do not understand this “welcome” at all.

    • Jay-Em
      February 25, 2012, 8:33 am | # | Reply

      Well, it’s either a test, or an “oopsie”

      • stjen
        February 25, 2012, 8:48 am | #

        I’m thinking it’s more her first lesson in controlling her sphinx morphing powers — she did just (almost) under control only bring out the fireproof feathers, and then later switch to full sphinx mode for pooch control. Remember in the bar she seemed more in control of her powers when she didn’t think, she just did — this “lesson” was trying to force her into situations where she “just did” what was needed, without having to think about it, and worry things like “what can I do here?”. “should I do something?”, “what if I don’t do anything?”, “what if I do the wrong thing?” — she’s better off not thinking those things.

      • Prester Fred
        February 25, 2012, 4:45 pm | #

        If you read that strip again…Shelly didn’t plan what she did at the bar. She wasn’t in control of herself at all; it was her sphinxy instincts (insphinx?) calling all the shots — that’s why she was so freaked out by it.

      • bmonk
        February 25, 2012, 5:03 pm | #

        Prester Fred: [Ahem!]

      • Geek_on_call
        February 25, 2012, 6:39 pm | #

        Sounds like some one is throwing her into the deep end.
        For a sink or swim result.

      • Prester Fred
        February 26, 2012, 8:02 am | #

        bmonk: Oh, right. Excuse me. (drops 214 Gil and a Phoenix Down in the pun jar).

      • scantrontb
        February 26, 2012, 1:38 am | #

        I still think they went in the wrong doorway, and this is the real reason the building is “still” abandoned.

      • Atomic
        February 26, 2012, 10:52 am | #

        Oh dear! Now that would be interesting, that Phix “just happened” to connect the library to a building where the Other Entrance was a portal to…. what????

        Wait and see………….

  17. TheDoctor
    February 25, 2012, 9:46 am | # | Reply

    Poor Justin looks like one of those Nazis @ the end of Raiders OTLA. (The ‘Melting faces’) He should be back in shape by Tuesday. ~~~ And suppose the two are “PUPPIES” and they’re getting burn’t faces? “Mommy and Daddy” can’t be far away so be on gaurd Shell!

  18. Dave
    February 25, 2012, 10:20 am | # | Reply

    If this was a deliberate lesson situation for Shelly, and if both Shelly and Justin had in fact been invited, it does seem to suggest that Phix must have been fully informed somehow about Justin’s healing powers. If all Phix knew was that Shelly was bringing a friend, would she really have set the firedogs on the two of them, knowing that Shelly’s friend could quite easily be killed as a result?

    I wonder if Shelly had told Phix about Justin… or whether Phix already knew who/what he is? Or, did Phix actually screw up, or callously risk the life of a civilian?

    If a training/test, I’d say Shelly passed with flying colors. Appropriate use of sphinx form change, with minimum necessary application of force. She didn’t even swat the cerberi away… just used the ancient Vulcan “stifle” grip.

    • Francisco
      February 25, 2012, 6:39 pm | # | Reply

      I think you’re right. Not only that but I have a suspicion of what Phix would say in the feedback. I think it will be something to the effect of:

      The way to control your powers is not to be afraid of it. It’s to embrace it but keep your mind clear and your principles in mind when you use them.

  19. Dane
    February 25, 2012, 10:55 am | # | Reply

    “Who put the dogs out”? I think Paul just set a new bar for strip titles.

    But unless he gets a Creator’s Exemption from the pun jar, we’re gonna’ need a bigger one…. 🙂

    • Dave
      February 25, 2012, 11:14 am | # | Reply

      *chuckle*. Hadn’t noticed that… yeah, that’s a real winner.

      Fortunately the Pun Jar has a built-in spacefold capability, which keeps it from busting its sides open when somebody makes a large payment. Otherwise it would have gone boom by now.

      As to a Creator’s Exemption… I don’t know whether that’s part of the current legislative basis or not. Like so many things (e.g. the Drazi issue of whether a non-Drazi can be the leader of the Green or Purple faction) the rule change may be stuck in a committee somewhere… political deadlock is a terrible problem these days.

      Perhaps it would be best if we take up a reader’s donation to pay the huge fee for a strip-title pun with such epic levels of awesomeness. I’ll contribute a large solid gold candle schtick. Anybody care to match it?

      • Analyst
        February 25, 2012, 2:27 pm | #

        Ok, I’ve got a “clue” Here’s a lead pipe cinch.

      • Danzier
        February 25, 2012, 9:00 pm | #

        I seem to recall giving Paul a Creator’s Exemption sometime around… maybe Christmas? SoWhyMe, you have the master archive, could you check?

      • Danzier
        February 26, 2012, 2:32 pm | #

        Artist?

      • Danzier
        February 27, 2012, 1:15 am | #

        Yep, that was the one I was thinking of. Thanks!

    • illiad
      February 25, 2012, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

      I think the creator just put a massive carrot on a stick….. 🙂

      or he’s just been waiting to do that pun!

      • bmonk
        February 25, 2012, 5:04 pm | #

        Revenge for our multitudinous efforts?

  20. rollguy
    February 25, 2012, 10:57 am | # | Reply

    A Saturday comic? One could get used to this.
    🙂

    • scantrontb
      February 26, 2012, 1:32 am | # | Reply

      it’s only because he had scanner issues to work out on Thursday… the comic we saw yesterday (Friday) was actually Thursdays comic, and this one (Saturday) is actually Fridays comic… so we only have one day of hanging off of that cliff, until Monday, when we can see what’s up next…

  21. Threadman
    February 25, 2012, 10:59 am | # | Reply

    Having actually burnt the left side of my face off once upon a time I feel I’m qualified to respond on Justin’s behalf: OW!

  22. Sgt. Howard
    February 25, 2012, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

    Soooo…. did you want origional recipie or extra crispy? Justin is ready for turning if you are trying to get it even… dogs that breath fire, some of them with multiple heads… I can just imagen the altercations at an AKC meeting… “… Sir your… ‘entry’… just ATE half the competition and cleared the building with a single belch!!! Get that stupid, filthy-”
    “NO!! DON’T INSULT BUSTER!! HE’S VERY SENSITIVE ABOUT THAT SORT OF….”
    “GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAOOOOOWWWWLLL….” er, too late…

  23. TlalocW
    February 25, 2012, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder how Monica and Shelly feel now that Shelly has the bigger breasts (sometimes) in the Wapsi universe.

    • Leak
      February 25, 2012, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

      She may have the bigger breasts in absolute terms, but when you put them in relation to her overall increased size they’re not much bigger…

      • Valkeiper
        February 25, 2012, 2:53 pm | #

        I suspect Monica would LOVE if her breasts had the same proportion to her body Shelly’s seem to in this form.

        The same proportion on Monica would probably rate a “A” or even a “AA”.

        Last I read, Monica had “J-cups” and she complained later about her bra getting small… again.

      • Geek_on_call
        February 25, 2012, 6:54 pm | #

        http://acidcow.com/pics/8038-epic-boobs-girl-found-18-pics.html

        The IRL Monica ???

      • Danzier
        February 25, 2012, 9:02 pm | #

        From someone not quite there yet… my condolences.

      • Leak
        February 26, 2012, 5:10 pm | #

        Well, there was this one strip where Monica hulked out – if said hulking-out didn’t include her boobs it’d probably work out…

        Then again this is Wapsi Square, not She-Hulk.

  24. Valkeiper
    February 25, 2012, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

    This does not read as a test by Phix to me. I suspect Shelly (and possibly the entire Wapsi crew) has enemies we (the readers) have not yet been exposed to.

    One group DOES come to mind…

    Weren’t there supposed to be some others (besides May) who have survived the ages? You know, those who were in the room when May tried to destroy the calender machine 80+ thousand years ago.

    • eee
      February 25, 2012, 6:26 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, the ‘gods’ Jin has been scamming into funding her by pretending she’s a time traveler with future knowledge. We even saw one once, talking to Tepoz.

      The thing is, THEY would know better than to mess with the components of the Chimera, or any of their friends. If this is a trap, it’s by someone ignorant of what the GGG can do, or who thinks they’ve got a way to stop them…

    • scantrontb
      February 26, 2012, 1:50 am | # | Reply

      I’m not sure that they are the real danger, I’m under the impression that the bad guys here are the descendants(?) of the PRIESTS… the ones that Tepoz and the immortal politicians (the ones you’re talking about) were HIDING the GG’s from with those two entire Witness-Protection-like societies of the Olmec’s and the other one that i can’t remember the name of, both of which, they just appeared on the scene and disappeared just as fast for no good reasons. i think they finally tracked the GG’s to Minneapolis, found out that Monica was their Guardian/ Controller now, and knew that she had access to The Library… so they set a trap for Monica in order to release the hold she has on the GG’s, though it just back-fired on them because the next person to walk thru the trapped doorway was Shelly and Justin, NOT Monica!

      • Valkeiper
        February 26, 2012, 4:18 am | #

        maybe it wouldn’t be a very effective trap because the ‘trappers’ think Monica is a ‘standard’ human; but it could still have been set for her.

    • scantrontb
      February 26, 2012, 1:52 am | # | Reply

      ooh! i just noticed… the Immortal Politician’s were in the room when the Calendar Machine was STARTED, not when she tried to destroy it, only Jin was in there at that time.

  25. WilliamCA
    February 25, 2012, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

    I saw boobs. But seriously this was great. How does the author of this comic keep pumping out the hits like this. He’s at GPF caliber now and that’s nearly impossible to do. Well maybe Elfwood caliber.

    • Wolf
      February 25, 2012, 5:07 pm | # | Reply

      I like Wapsi Square far better than GPF and Elfwood; imNsho, there are much more character development – and intricate at that, plot twists, subplots, seemingly innocent remarks or incidences from years back that suddenly become extremely important later – Paul is an Artist!

  26. WilliamCA
    February 25, 2012, 2:44 pm | # | Reply

    On another note: Will Paul ever grace us with some pinups of Shelly in her full Sphinx form? She’s quickly becoming my favorite character.

  27. Valkeiper
    February 25, 2012, 3:00 pm | # | Reply

    I would LOVE a pinup of the full Wapsi crew in their ‘full-power’ forms.

    Shelly and Phix as full-sized Sphinxes, The GGG girls in full Chimera form… Tina at ‘full demon’… geeze.

    • Wolf
      February 25, 2012, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

      AGREED!

  28. Valkeiper
    February 25, 2012, 3:01 pm | # | Reply

    with Monica in front GLARING at them (and they all shrinking from her gaze)

    • Wolf
      February 25, 2012, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

      Dang, you’re absolutely right!

      Paul, what would it take from all of us’ns to get that?

      (beg, plead, grovel, while, huge soft Puss-in-Boots eyes)

      • Wolf
        February 25, 2012, 5:09 pm | #

        Dadgummed un-caffeinated brain! *whine”, not “while” 😛

      • Danzier
        February 25, 2012, 9:04 pm | #

        That’s ok, my un-caffinated brain read “while” as “whine” and was then confused about why you corrected yourself. 😉

    • MrMike
      February 26, 2012, 10:26 am | # | Reply

      No no – not shrinking from her gaze. All of them looking embarrassed, with “Who, me? I wasn’t doing anything….” looks.

    • Valkeiper
      February 26, 2012, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

      Why not two posters…

      #1> The crew (minus Monica) obviously posing in their full glory and quite proud of themselves.

      #2> Monica walks into view… hands angrily on hips… and glaring at them. Suddenly, the confidence and pride of the first poster has been replaced by a more… humble… emotion.

      • Paul Taylor
        February 26, 2012, 3:12 pm | #

        That sounds cool!! =D

      • davids4250
        February 26, 2012, 3:35 pm | #

        I like the first poster, not the second. All of them are supporters of Monica, and more powerful than her. I doubt that any of them, let alone all of them, would do a whole lot to anger her. And I cannot imagine Phix ever looking humbled or abashed in front of anyone!

      • Leak
        February 26, 2012, 5:12 pm | #

        While your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter – why not go all the way and do a Wapsi Square calendar for next year? 🙂

      • bmonk
        February 26, 2012, 9:12 pm | #

        With the Calendar Machine as the December pin-up?

  29. Valkeiper
    February 25, 2012, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

    I think it would be VERY interesting if this were a trap… to kill Euryale.

    • Valkeiper
      February 25, 2012, 3:11 pm | # | Reply

      or maybe Phix (with the discovery she and the ‘apos’ are NOT fireproof)

  30. Valkeiper
    February 25, 2012, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

    you know, I would have liked this more if we got only the first two panels today… just slightly larger…

    and the last panel as a full, colorized page tomorrow.

  31. Fairportfan
    February 25, 2012, 3:40 pm | # | Reply

    Just hit me – Shelly’s bigger than Brandi now…

    • Valkeiper
      February 25, 2012, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

      Hmmm…

      True, but is she more powerful?

      Why don’t we ask this pair of cuddly puppies here. I’m told they just met Shelly.

  32. Prester Fred
    February 25, 2012, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

    Say, about that last panel…does anyone else notice that Shelly’s putting the emphasis on “we” in that sentence?

    • FatUncle
      February 25, 2012, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, I did.

  33. eee
    February 25, 2012, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

    Wow, that’s even better than whacking them in the nose with a newspaper!

    I hope Justin heals without scars.

  34. Geek_on_call
    February 25, 2012, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYITD8TMvcM&feature=related

    • Danzier
      February 25, 2012, 9:06 pm | # | Reply

      Party in the burn ward? o.0

  35. Danzier
    February 25, 2012, 9:08 pm | # | Reply

    I’ve just realized…
    …the creepy face in my nightmares? It’s Justin. I thought it was the guy at the end of Indiana Jones ROTLA and/or LC, but I was wrong. It’s totally Justin.

  36. Swedish Chef
    February 26, 2012, 6:18 am | # | Reply

    Justin’s last coherents thoughts.

    “… Hey Boobies!”

  37. M
    February 26, 2012, 9:37 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if Justin has magic hair-regenerating powers. He’d look a little funny without eyebrows.

  38. Voice of Damnation
    February 26, 2012, 9:46 am | # | Reply

    I wonder why she was calling them Cerberi in the last comic. I only saw one head on each of them in the clearest picture of the hounds. Cerberus was a three-headed hellhound, after all, and his brother Orthus had 2 heads. I would understand it better if they had multiple heads each, but as it is, I think the name “Hellhound” would be more appropriate… Descendants of Cerberus himself, perhaps? Hrm.

    • Valkeiper
      February 26, 2012, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

      Check the unabridged greek dictionary and you would find ‘cerberus’ was also a title often given to guard dogs of the more mundane of us… just as we of the english-speaking persuasion call them simply ‘guard dogs’.

      Thus, Shelly may have recognized that these WERE hell hounds (not sure there’s much left of them now); but mentioned their posting as guards.

      Also remember, Paul has already taken rather loose guidance from standard mythology and twisted those myths into almost unrecognizable knots.

      • harukohoshiko
        February 26, 2012, 6:02 pm | #

        Actually from everything I’ve seen Paul tends to stick to the more “litteral” versions, or rather what’s in the books, and not glamorized all over television.

  39. Cherish Bloom
    February 26, 2012, 11:37 am | # | Reply

    oooh. Nice one, Paul!

  40. Valkeiper
    February 26, 2012, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

    Something just occurred to me.

    Now, I know the library can replace any of the books in its inventory, no matter how that book was damaged; but…

    The library of Alexandria (and several others through history) was destroyed by fire. Fire is by far the most destructive force to any library and we’re talking the most comprehensive, most epic library of all.

    Would a library truly select any creature which using white-hot magical fire as an area-effect weapon for guardians?

    this library has already selected Apo-sphinxes as guardians and I have gotten the impression the apos are very capable and enthusiastic in their duties.

    The apos would not be pleased to be replaced in this instance if the library or Phix were behind it.

  41. Valkeiper
    February 26, 2012, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

    Oh gawd. another terrible thought which supports the ‘trap’ theory.

    What if Phix and the other ‘Apos’ are NOT ‘totally immune’ to magical attacks (particularly fire-based) because they no longer believe in ‘total immunity’ (which is another reason why Shelly’s little companion frightens them).

    Shelly was fully immune to these hell hounds because she believed she would be.

    So… the possible target(s) for this trap could include…?

    • Danzier
      February 26, 2012, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

      Anyone who can’t believe their eyes.

    • Valkeiper
      February 26, 2012, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

      What I’m trying to say is (and this matches the Egyptian mythology to a degree) Phix and the Apos have seen enough (and been injured often enough) to have lost some belief in their immunity to magic (and fire in particular).

      You can probably thank adventurers for that doubt.

      Shelly has not yet met such defeat or injury (she was ALONE for 80+ thousand years in the forest with only the Apos for company).

      Her belief in her status as an ‘Apex predator’ has not been shaken. Thus, her belief in her immunity to the hell hounds’ fire was unshakable and proven true.

      and yes, anybody who thought the hell hounds’ fire would burn them WOULD be burned (no matter who protected them).

      wouldn’t that be a kicker… magic is only as effective as the victim believes?

  42. Valkeiper
    February 26, 2012, 8:27 pm | # | Reply

    Paul, I have to thank you and those who work along with you.

    You see, I am presently writing four books. some friends have read what I have written and many also read web comics.

    They keep insisting I should ‘publish’ my writings (called Nuhome Chronicles) as a web comic.

    All i have to do is show them this webcomic (and two others… OOTS and LFG) to convince them my plot lines would not work as a web comic.

  43. Centaur12
    March 3, 2012, 10:40 pm | # | Reply

    Is it me, or is Justin doing a ‘Toht’ impression with the face melting?

  44. Hinoron
    October 12, 2015, 8:51 pm | # | Reply

    Yikes! Poor Justin is loosing some face there!

    …and I don’t mean in the sense of losing respect.

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