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by Paul Taylor on April 26, 2011 at 12:00 am
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  1. Shizuka
    April 26, 2011, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Blah, blah, first, blah… Reminds me of Monster Squad when the little girl tells the other guys not to be chicken shyt…

  2. Danzier
    April 26, 2011, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Somehow…the relic in Shelly’s fist reminds me of a bathtub drain plug. (I’m sorry, Paul…)

    Oh hey look there’s TINA!!!! 😀

    • Dusty668
      April 26, 2011, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      Tiiiiinaaaaaa *siiiiigh*

    • Bucc-i
      April 26, 2011, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      And for some reason I thought Tina was wearing a bandage. I now have the sudden urge to pick flowers.

      • Fatuncle
        April 26, 2011, 2:25 am | #

        Guys, guys, lets keep our eyes … um … our attention on the important things, shall we?

        Yesterday, Tina’s suit had a twist in the top. Today, it doesn’t.

        Artifact? Oh. That thing.

      • Fairportfan
        April 26, 2011, 4:13 am | #

        Yeah. i noticed that too…

      • Knighttrap
        April 26, 2011, 7:10 am | #

        Alright everyone, I think we are all forgoting to ask one very important question………

        Why did Monica and Bud put shirts on over thier swim suits!!!!!!!! 🙂

      • illiad
        April 26, 2011, 8:15 am | #

        Knighttrap: exactly… very bad form, it’s summer init??? 🙂

      • Danzier
        April 26, 2011, 8:56 am | #

        Early spring, I think; a little chilly for prolonged skimpy swimwear wearing yet. (It’s 43 degrees F outside today and RAINING!! 😀 )

      • illiad
        April 26, 2011, 2:35 pm | #

        Danzier: well in UK its 25 C or more! 🙂 (77 F to you 🙂 )

        but then it is early afternoon here…

      • Danzier
        April 27, 2011, 12:25 am | #

        @Illiad…
        :pout: whimper…

      • Fairportfan
        April 26, 2011, 12:09 pm | #

        Actually, it was a half-twist … which converted it into a Moebius surface, which means everything inside it should have been outside it, and vice-versa…

      • bmonk
        April 26, 2011, 2:27 pm | #

        Just one more example of how Topology is not isomorphic to the real world. . . .

      • bmonk
        April 26, 2011, 2:46 pm | #

        . . . Darn it!

      • Geekoncall
        April 26, 2011, 8:00 pm | #

        Womens Wear, first floor! (Why are girl cloths so complicated? Always morphing like that.)

    • Wyvern
      April 26, 2011, 1:45 am | # | Reply

      She is looking very nice today. And her eyes are swirly today; they are so variable, I’m never sure if any particular appearance means anything.

    • StJason
      April 26, 2011, 11:42 am | # | Reply

      Really? I always thought it looked like an old-style vaccum tube.

  3. harukohoshiko
    April 26, 2011, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Lol, poor Bud. And dear lord there are too many damn fine ass ladies in todays page.

    • Geekoncall
      April 26, 2011, 8:03 pm | # | Reply

      You can never, I REPEAT, NEVER! have too many fine women anywhere, at any time.

      • tygertyger
        December 2, 2011, 1:01 pm | #

        I disagree. More than one in the same room, if they all think that you’re dating them exclusively, is too many.

  4. Radio365
    April 26, 2011, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    I’m not to worried. Not even exotic apparitions can penetrate the granite that is Shelly’s head.

    • Radio365
      April 26, 2011, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      Also, It would seem that my “tassles tied to the relic” idea is shot.

    • Atomic
      April 26, 2011, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Or…

      1. The object was drained when M touched it. It will take time to recharge.

      2. The object is attuned to glyph readers.

      3. The object is a manifestation of “The Dancing Frog.”

      4. Your speculation here…

      • SoWhyMe
        April 26, 2011, 12:50 am | #

        Wait a min. It matches what description? I wasn’t aware they had any idea what the relic looked like.

      • SoWhyMe
        April 26, 2011, 12:52 am | #

        Opps. That should have gone in a post of it’s own. Sorry about that Atomic.

      • Danzier
        April 26, 2011, 9:44 am | #

        Ask not for whom the banshee howls–it howls for thee.

      • Kramegame
        April 26, 2011, 9:45 am | #

        4. The Banshee has left the artifact/relic, and is now in Monica.

      • Vorlonagent
        April 26, 2011, 10:13 am | #

        5. Shelly has an immunity Monica doesn’t.

      • Lizzibabe
        April 26, 2011, 7:18 pm | #

        O/~”Hello mah baby. Hello mah honey. Hello mah Ragtime gaaaaaaaaal! Honey, you kissed mah wires. Baby mah heart’s on fiiiiiiiire! If you refuse me, honey you’ll lose me, and you’ll be left alone. So, baby come on, and tell me I’m yer ooooooooowwwwnnnnn!” O/~

      • NOTDilbert
        April 27, 2011, 12:51 am | #

        Awesome 🙂 🙂 🙂

      • Lizzibabe
        April 27, 2011, 2:24 pm | #

        [Bows!]

    • Jabberwonky
      April 26, 2011, 2:33 pm | # | Reply

      Does no one remember this? http://wapsisquare.com/comic/a-dream/
      She’s had weird reactions to artifacts before…

      • Jay-Em
        April 26, 2011, 9:10 pm | #

        Oh SNAP!!! You’re right…..totally forgot. Lemme guess..Shelly’s mom wasn’t “just” a linguist….. (Shaman..anyone?)

      • NOTDilbert
        April 27, 2011, 12:52 am | #

        Hmm, good point.

  5. Lone Wolf
    April 26, 2011, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Interesting that Shelly doesn’t seem to be having the same adverse reaction Monica (and the submarine crew) did.

    • deitydrjeff
      April 26, 2011, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      Yet. 😮

    • Tessa
      April 26, 2011, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      Maybe it doesn’t work on Golems.

      • NOTDilbert
        April 26, 2011, 1:40 am | #

        Is there still speculation that Shelly is a construct? I thought Paul had answered that one.

        But, I go with Atomic’s #2. Or maybe #3.

      • Fairportfan
        April 26, 2011, 7:37 am | #

        But she does seem a tad More Than Human.

        Physically.

      • Eee
        April 26, 2011, 8:43 am | #

        Side effect of being a Demon Doorway, even if sealed. Monica can ‘poit’, Shelly’s got superhuman strength.

      • nerf-dweller
        April 26, 2011, 4:17 pm | #

        I just think that Shelly is just too boneheaded/dense to be affected by the relic. What I mean is that Shelly is a magical null when it come to sensing magic.

        And that may be the true nature of Shelly’s gifts. She’s her strength goes beyond the mere physical strength. She basically metaphorically and literally ripped her personal demons out of their normal existence. And she merged them into Conscience.

      • Wyvern
        April 26, 2011, 1:43 am | #

        Shelly isn’t a golem. She is notoriously thick-skulled, though.

      • jwhouk
        April 26, 2011, 8:40 am | #

        No, it doesn’t work on people who have their own scary little mini-banshee.

    • txmystic
      April 26, 2011, 8:49 am | # | Reply

      Isn’t this why Shelly was chosen to accompany Bud to Ireland? Because she has some sort of built-in immunity as a result of her consolidation of demons into her conscience?

  6. YakkoRex
    April 26, 2011, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Yes, Shelly is the perfect choice for the trip to Ireland.

    • SoWhyMe
      April 26, 2011, 2:08 am | # | Reply

      Got that right. It could be disastrous if they sent some thick skulled hothead who went around just grabbing stuff without a second thought.

      • Knighttrap
        April 26, 2011, 7:11 am | #

        You mean like Monica?

      • Kramegame
        April 26, 2011, 7:43 pm | #

        or without the hot head part, Bud. (KA-BOOM)

  7. SoWhyMe
    April 26, 2011, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Thank goodness it’s only Tuesday.

  8. Casey
    April 26, 2011, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    I guess it’s time to begin the insane speculation on why Shelly can touch the artifact safely. We know it did its weird thing when Monica touched it, as well as the Nazi captain (a perfectly mundane human). I suspect that the artifact has something to do with the demons of the person who touches it, and Shelly is safe because she has creepy girl rather than actual demons, but I could just be making crazy talk.

    • SoWhyMe
      April 26, 2011, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      That’s as good a guess as any. I guess they’d have to get Amanda to try it next. Fortunately we don’t have to wait all weekend to find out more so we might as well sit back and wait … Yeah, like that’s gonna happen.

      • Eee
        April 26, 2011, 8:45 am | #

        No, no, get Tina to touch it! Let’s see how the Banshee and the Demon Collective get along! ^_^

    • Paula
      April 26, 2011, 1:52 am | # | Reply

      I 2nd the creepy girl
      I personally wouldnt go up against that brat and i dont think a bainshee would either.

      • Knighttrap
        April 26, 2011, 7:14 am | #

        Personaly I think Creepy Girl just scares the crap out of other demons. The Banshee is probably to afraid to come out.

    • My2Cents
      April 26, 2011, 2:29 am | # | Reply

      From past references, any demon that tries to get into Shelly ends up in the ‘boiler room’.

      • jamesskaar
        April 26, 2011, 5:20 pm | #

        the cloth on the other side… it goes there, which means that there might also be people that end up there. it’s good there’s someone that can warn shelly they’re in there, so they can be poited somewhere safe. if there’s a part of jin in the thing, it may be that the others are also missing something that’s been put in artifacts, just that their reaction isn’t as extreme. the part of jin… it’d be psychotherapied till it was ‘ok’ before getting out, possibly, then into jin, and all’s good.

      • Kramegame
        April 26, 2011, 7:45 pm | #

        except the other part of the cloth is 1. in the demon realm
        2. doesn’t work since Shelly’s “Tattoo” was ripped off her body.

    • Fatuncle
      April 26, 2011, 5:06 am | # | Reply

      I would wait until tomorrow to see if Shelly can touch the aritfact safely. The last frame might be just the instant before the vision kicks in. Tomorrow she might be standing there with her eyes bulging out and drool running off her chin.

      • Francisco
        April 26, 2011, 2:12 pm | #

        True enough.

    • Francisco
      April 26, 2011, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

      It looks like the submarine captain had the good sense to hold the artifact by the chain: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/down-with-the-ship/

      We have no information on whether he was immune or not. I suspect he wasn’t.

  9. Kyle Stelios
    April 26, 2011, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    Is it just me or does the Hotness Factor in this comic just keep going UP? LOL 😀

    • choronzonseyes
      April 26, 2011, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

      It seems that Paul was visited by the three ghosts of Fan Service: Happiness past, Present Giddyness and Future Ebay.

      And may he keep it in his heart everyday of the year!

      • Paula
        April 27, 2011, 1:48 am | #

        hehe

        future ebay

        i like that 😀

  10. vince
    April 26, 2011, 1:15 am | # | Reply

    Shell bell’s probably immune to the Relic’s effects because her ‘inner demon’ matches well with whatever the heck is inside that thing…

    • Kramegame
      April 26, 2011, 2:55 am | # | Reply

      Either that, or the banshee just found the boiler room, and CG gave her a swift kick into the incinerator…you know, for the lulz.

  11. ori_b
    April 26, 2011, 2:21 am | # | Reply

    so it’s a some sort of key but for what for?

  12. Alex
    April 26, 2011, 2:42 am | # | Reply

    Love Shels expression while saying “you did what to the what!?”

    • Jabberwonky
      April 26, 2011, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

      The first panel is so full of win…

  13. Kramegame
    April 26, 2011, 2:52 am | # | Reply

    The man in me reads this comic for the ladies….
    but the geek in me reads it for the speculation of historical lore!

    • Knighttrap
      April 26, 2011, 7:18 am | # | Reply

      The geek in me has enough room for both. The roll player in me reads this for ideas.

      • Kramegame
        April 26, 2011, 9:38 am | #

        Haha, tousche, but i was trying to reference Family Guy. 😛

  14. Fairportfan
    April 26, 2011, 4:16 am | # | Reply

    “We’re looking for”? Was Tina originally one of the “find the thingie” group?

    • madboyblue
      April 26, 2011, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      What is your gravatar icon of? Reminds me of Von Pinn from Girl Genius, but it isn’t colored in the same style as that comic, so I’m thinking I could be wrong.

      • Fairportfan
        April 26, 2011, 9:12 am | #

        It’s from last Sunday’s 9 Chickweed Lane.

        The young lady is Edda Burber, a twenty-something ballet dancer and general all-round handful. The strip linked above features Edda dropping in to visit Sister Steven (“Sister Godzilla” to the inmates) the headmistress at St Camilla’s (“Saint Godzilla’s”) Catholic high school, where she was Rather More Than A Handful. (But is remembered with, and remembers those days) with great fondness.

        I’m currently using four avatars, all from 9CL, tied to different e-mail addresses. Three are Edda in her Very Scary phase; one is her grandmother, taken from her adventures as a USO singer and spy in World War Two…

      • madboyblue
        April 26, 2011, 11:48 pm | #

        Ah… informative, but also curses for linking me to a new webcomic. I already read too many as is, and have a habit of getting sucked into new ones all too easily.

        Kinda my own fault for asking, though, but the resemblance seemed too uncanny not to. 😛

  15. kaibyo
    April 26, 2011, 5:55 am | # | Reply

    Heh! I kinda like Tina’s slightly bug-eyed “gulp!” look coming from the side. And Shelly’s completely gormless expression to balance it off.

    Who next in a bikini?? Phix? Cats DO like to sprawl out in the sun.

    • Jabberwonky
      April 26, 2011, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

      None of my cats ever put on a suit to lay in the sun…

  16. Jay-Em
    April 26, 2011, 6:04 am | # | Reply

    The shocked looks of M ,Bud and Tina are priceless. They just cannot fathom what they are seeing I guess..

    Sooo..there is more to Shelly than we are led to believe, hmm?

  17. Althestane
    April 26, 2011, 6:49 am | # | Reply

    Tina, dear, you’re um, falling out. Here, let me help you with that….

    • kaibyo
      April 26, 2011, 7:07 am | # | Reply

      Uh……her cup runneth over? Sort of?

      • Fairportfan
        April 26, 2011, 7:35 am | #

        lso, she seems to have a buffer underrun…”

      • Fairportfan
        April 26, 2011, 7:36 am | #

        Agh.

        “Also she seems…

    • Knighttrap
      April 26, 2011, 7:20 am | # | Reply

      Shush, don’t say anything, just sit back and enjoy.

      • choronzonseyes
        April 26, 2011, 2:08 pm | #

        Exactly!!!

  18. ziggy78eog
    April 26, 2011, 8:00 am | # | Reply

    Well, what do you know, Shelly is immune, apparently.

  19. W.
    April 26, 2011, 8:03 am | # | Reply

    I think Shelly is going to be immune to the artifact. Monica was affected immediately when she touched it and the effect was dramatic. Maybe, like it was mentioned ‘creepy girl’ slammed the door shut on the spooky lady in the lantern like object. Maybe Shelly’s Comanche heritage does not play well with Irish magic. We’ll find out tomorrow, unless a certain dog orders pizza.
    I love the expression on Acacia “Island Destroyer” Budur raging against the unfairness of it all. She’s never going to live this down even if they fix the darn island.

    • txmystic
      April 26, 2011, 8:51 am | # | Reply

      Either way, it’ll be good to send Shelly along to Ireland to retrieve whatever it is to which this thing attaches…

      • Jay-Em
        April 26, 2011, 2:43 pm | #

        Well..yes. Despite her rather eh “tempestuous” nature she’s gonna ba a true asset if she is, as it appears here, inmmune to a high degree to scary banshees, beasties and long-legged….ehhh…wait.. “long-legged beasties” would be a problem…. Let’s just hope the rest of the artifacts aren’t cooped-up in spider-ridden caves, or underground dwellings…

    • kingklash
      April 26, 2011, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

      Of course my webcomic cousin grabbed it! As my Ka-Koo would tell us, “Only bad people have anything to fear from ghosts.” Not to mention Comanche hardheadedness as mentioned above. They do have a little talked-about reputation for putting the jinx on other tribes’ spiritual ways. Can’t rightfully speak about if it works on the Irish, not only am I four tribes, but on the Choctaw side, I’ve got a bit of that as well. All I got from there was a bit of weird luck, and the urge to pick up a big stick and wallop somebody whenever bagpipes play. Go figure.

  20. Jim
    April 26, 2011, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    I think we found our Thing Bearer.

    • txmystic
      April 26, 2011, 8:50 am | # | Reply

      Nooooo, preciousssss….we wants the thing for ourselvesssssss…….

    • Eee
      April 26, 2011, 9:02 am | # | Reply

      One does not just WALK into Mor- I mean, Ireland!

      • Danzier
        April 26, 2011, 9:50 am | #

        http://www.spreadshirt.com/one-does-not-simply-rock-into-mordor-C3376A4807414

        And that’s all I have to say about that.

  21. TheDoctor
    April 26, 2011, 8:58 am | # | Reply

    I. Like. Buds. SHATNER sticato Its…….Verygood.

    • Kramegame
      April 26, 2011, 9:41 am | # | Reply

      Hmm. Strange. I always thought. It was. A bit more spread out.

      • txmystic
        April 26, 2011, 1:37 pm | #

        NOROBIN? I. prefer, the old, Adam West, syncopation, old chum.

      • illiad
        April 26, 2011, 4:22 pm | #

        and more hand waving and poses.. 🙂

    • Danzier
      April 27, 2011, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      I always thought the Shatner Staccatto was due to a pissed-off teleprompter controller… /shrug

  22. Guairdean
    April 26, 2011, 9:41 am | # | Reply

    Does this mean that Shelly’s immune, or that Monica’s susceptible?

    • Kramegame
      April 26, 2011, 9:44 am | # | Reply

      Probably the former, then again, Bud hasn’t touched it yet, and neither has Tina. Any of the Golem girls, or Tina’s collective, would be a good indicator, as well as Amanda, who will probably “accidentally” touch it later.

      • choronzonseyes
        April 26, 2011, 2:16 pm | #

        And if the later is in a corner and the former walks under it will they get hit by the black cat?

      • Kramegame
        April 26, 2011, 10:20 pm | #

        if i read that correctly….
        maybe?
        sorry you lost me.. XP

  23. Cholo
    April 26, 2011, 11:16 am | # | Reply

    The reason why Shelly isnt affected by the artifact is obvious. The artifact being somewhat aware (showing Monica what she needed to see) of its wielder, the artifacts survival instinct kicked in while being grabbed by Shelly’s vice-like hand. Knowing instantly that Shelly’s lag of restraint usually dont end well for small inanimated metallic items like itself. Showing Shelly something scary (like a spider) and the artifact might end up flat like a stainless steel frothing cup or being thrown into orbit 😀

  24. The Old Wolf
    April 26, 2011, 11:20 am | # | Reply

    Shelly : artifact :: Bombadil : Ring

    • bmonk
      April 26, 2011, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

      Which means you can’t give it to the one person who’s immune to keep it safe…

      • Jay-Em
        April 26, 2011, 3:09 pm | #

        Yes ,exactly the same observation that made my fantasy and D&D -addled friends hate me with a vigour unheard of. (plus the fact that I dared stating bluntly that I had actually enjoyed “The Phantom Menace” (apparently a sin more despicable than genocide..)

        Even when I, as a peace-offering, read that inedible bit of fake-history and gobbledygook from a College professor that apparently knew about people taking him far too seriously, and seemingly wrote those complex and meandering papers “The Silmarillion” just to to frustrate the hell out of those fan-people… Gotta love the guy.. (Later I discovered I was one of the very few in that circle that actually took the time to work his way through it in the original english….tsss)

        Logic can be quite deadly to a good story…

        “A Ring” A story in a couple of words: Ring is evil, carried by evil-immune forest-dweller to volcano. Ring tossed into volcano. FIN”

        But noooo.. he had to involve weak-brained, whiney and pathetic dwarf-dudes.. 😆

        Just kidding 🙂

        As Tolkien, as Paul : it’s the journey that’s the most imporatant, not the result.

    • Danzier
      April 27, 2011, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think I would ever compare Shelly to a old guy with poor choice in fashion who talks to trees and writes his own music.

      Still a good analogy, though.

  25. Page-Mistress
    April 26, 2011, 2:48 pm | # | Reply

    When Shelly holds it, it looks like a hammer.

    • SoWhyMe
      April 26, 2011, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

      Looks more like she’s holding up a cross to a trio of vampires. Is that a lens on the end of the right arm of the thing? Maybe when plugged in all 3 extensions project something?

      • Jay-Em
        April 26, 2011, 9:21 pm | #

        It also somehow reminds me of a, what’s it called? One of those humongous projectors used for projecting starcharts on domed ceilings..looks like dumbells with eyes allover..damn! cannot remember for the ife of it..planetarium??..

        So, the “projection-bit” doesn’t sound far-fetched. Remember that light also played a major role in fixing the calendar-machine.

      • Danzier
        April 27, 2011, 12:45 am | #

        The planetarium is the whole building. They call the projector a projector. So, right on both counts. 😀

    • Guairdean
      April 26, 2011, 10:18 pm | # | Reply

      It looks more like a key of some kind. I’m guessing those descending pins fit into something.

      • SoWhyMe
        April 27, 2011, 1:51 am | #

        It can be both.

  26. Forgotten
    April 26, 2011, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

    why is it that shelly seems to be either the one who isnt affected by something or she is some lost piece of a puzzle?

  27. Centaur71
    April 26, 2011, 3:22 pm | # | Reply

    *SIGH* Shelly, Shelly, Shelly… (hangs and shakes head)

  28. SoWhyMe
    April 26, 2011, 4:53 pm | # | Reply

    To break up the tension, we need Jin and Alan poiting in dripping with fuel oil and seawater, with Jin saying, “WTF Bud! Stinky said you blew up the damn island!?”

    • Kramegame
      April 26, 2011, 7:52 pm | # | Reply

      HA! THAT WOULD BE PERFECT! 😀 😀 😀

  29. Jim
    April 26, 2011, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

    BTW, I’m really lovin’ the facial expressions today.

  30. ChaoticBlues
    April 26, 2011, 6:10 pm | # | Reply

    Well that’s not good.

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