Jaguar Girl 2012-09-14

[zachariah]

They went to the temple of the Jaguar to find the calander machine if I remember right. Why that would make her a jaguar girl escapes me, Wouldn't that make her a calander girl instead?

If she is a jaguar girl just think of the black slinkly nities she'll get to wear for kevin!!!!! 'Grooowllllll or purrrr' will be Kevin's thought.

[Jay-Em]

"Jaguar girl?"

Wot - she drives British sports cars with wonky electrics?

Nah, nah.. My BFF drove a Jag XJ Sovereign for quite some time, without a hitch, in our wet, Dutch weather. Ónly reason she got rid of it was her lead-foot, and it's thirst for premium. It gobbled fuel like mad, and petrol is about $8 to $9 a gallon (US) over here so..yeah.. bít of a problem.

I líked it. silent, fast, comfy.... Parking's a bit of a B*tch though.

[Yamara]

"Jaguar girl?"

Wot - she drives British sports cars with wonky electrics?

Nah, nah.. My BFF drove a Jag XJ Sovereign for quite some time, without a hitch, in our wet, Dutch weather. Ónly reason she got rid of it was her lead-foot, and it's thirst for premium. It gobbled fuel like mad, and petrol is about $8 to $9 a gallon (US) over here so..yeah.. bít of a problem.

I líked it. silent, fast, comfy.... Parking's a bit of a B*tch though.

One of the more dangerous creatures out there.

[Jay-Em]

@Yamara

Heheh.. well.. nót my type (the girl, nót the car) Had Brandi stood there.. ahem.. suffice to say, I would nót be responsible for my consecutive acts of "Dumb*ss looking, drooling, all flustered and only able to utter an unintelligable "hrm ehmm..hmm.. mblmbl nce wmnnn heh.. ehh.. ehrm.. hello... :faint: "

By the by, my BFF áctually lóoks like Brandy, be it with a penchant for cornrows...

[ShadOBabe]

I know I'm a couple hours late to the party, but... Jaguar Girl?
What'chu talkin' 'bout Shelly?

[ShadOBabe]

They went to the temple of the Jaguar to find the calander machine if I remember right. Why that would make her a jaguar girl escapes me, Wouldn't that make her a calander girl instead?

*shakes the pun jar*

[Yarner]

Ehrm... what...?

First I thought it was a slang fro something, but Urban Dictionary was unhelpful.
Now I can see that it's not...
PLEASE, Pablo, do not make Monica a supernatural being... She must stay human, that's the whole point of her.
If she had a supernatural origin, that would have had ample time to surface in the ordeals so far...

I'm eagerly awaiting the next strip...

Maybe we're WATCHING her supernatural origin. Sometimes those things take a while (like 80K years).

THAT I can accept. It would really be bad storytelling to invent a new hidden origin story for M as well.
If she evolves into something more/other than human, that could be interesting...

Also. Vampire girlshttp://wapsisquare.com/news/vampire-gals-giclee-prints/...?
I'm a bit unsure about how to take this piece of news yet. I'm sure it'll be fun, but I hope they won't steal he show. We already have a huge troupe of kinky female characters...

On a different, less bitchy note, I love thge wind in the girls' hair in today's strip

[Stigmartyr762]

Sometimes the things that are the most obvious to others are the hardest to see even when you're looking in a mirror.

Thank you Shelly for pointing that out to Monica. That little chica is a walking powerhouse in her right.

[pcj70]

I was thinking (always dangerous), I think she has shown signs of being a jaguar-girl for a while now, the glowing eyes/seeing in the dark bit. (http://wapsisquare.com/comic/see-in-the-dark/)

[Yamara]

Oh my, Shelly's "blabbermouth" persona has nót evapourated when she became "The Sage"

Like mother, like daughter.

On the other hand, she was taking blame for Monica's fear on Thursday, but never quite explained why. I think our Shelly has begun to learn how to use misdirection to hide how much she really knows. In this case, reminding M of her own powers as a distraction from confessing all she's had to hide of her own existence.

The ónly sense-making thing I can come up with, is that the "Temple of the Jaguar" was the place where the calendar machine did it's devious time-looping thing...
Maybe Mon has become Linked in Legend with jaguars because of that??

Phix seems to be amused at Monica's struggling with puzzle pieces in this sequence:

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/whatsthedeal/
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/pickthisuplater/

Aaaaaand... the Tina Collective is avoiding saying something in this sequence:

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/talkingwiththedead/
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/wealthofknowledge/

Add in the connection that her best friend is the granddaughter of Styx with her own mysterious elemental bounced back from the dead, stir in a couple trashy vampires, and I think we're in for a lively/deadly October.

...

Oh come on PunPal, I can get crystal skulls for way cheaper than that.

[Yamara]

Phix seems to be amused at Monica's struggling with puzzle pieces in this sequence:

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/whatsthedeal/
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/pickthisuplater/

Aaaaaand... the Tina Collective is avoiding saying something in this sequence:

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/talkingwiththedead/
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/wealthofknowledge/

Add in the connection that her best friend is the granddaughter of Styx with her own mysterious elemental bounced back from the dead, stir in a couple trashy vampires, and I think we're in for a lively/deadly October.

In fact, Bud's conversation with M, following right after the above one with Tina, is even more interesting in retrospect.

[zachariah]

They went to the temple of the Jaguar to find the calander machine if I remember right. Why that would make her a jaguar girl escapes me, Wouldn't that make her a calander girl instead?

*shakes the pun jar*

Not a pun. Just an observation. Now if I had said 'Just to be catty, wouldn't that make her a clander girl?' That would qualify.
<clink> Some spare claw clippings I found under the couch.

Yes we clip the cats claws. She beats up on our poor toy poodle.

[Jürgen A. Erhard]

I was thinking (always dangerous), I think she has shown signs of being a jaguar-girl for a while now, the glowing eyes/seeing in the dark bit. (http://wapsisquare.com/comic/see-in-the-dark/)

Good call! Seems I'm not the only one who didn't remember that bit. Understandable, since the discovery M makes there shadowed everything else.

So, signs *were* there. That M may be even more than she's aware of.

[Jürgen A. Erhard]

Seriously, I'm enjoying the view. Only my arms are getting a bit cramped. Can't wait for Monday (as often happens around these parts)!

(Not sure if I own the Pun Vault for that, but I expect to reveive a bill if I do. Come on, I'm sure it gained sentience by now, given the full breadth of its contents!)

[Dave]

Your doctor prescribes PCP?!
All I ever get is a dope slap and a 'Get outta here."

Er - that stands for Primary Care Physician.....

I guess that's what happens when you go to the medical offices of Howard, Fine & Howard...

Naah... all they'll prescribe is annacannapanna and cackle fruit.

[Wdot]

"Jaguar girl?"

Wot - she drives British sports cars with wonky electrics?

Hello Fairportfan! Fellow motorhead, welcome. Meet Lucas, Prince of Darkness, he likes to attend meetings sometimes when he can get himself started. I felt ashamed, reading todays comic. Even after a lifetime of reading SF and fantasy, I still thought Red 1969 Jag convertable when I read that line.

[Dave]

I was thinking (always dangerous), I think she has shown signs of being a jaguar-girl for a while now, the glowing eyes/seeing in the dark bit. (http://wapsisquare.com/comic/see-in-the-dark/)

Good call! Seems I'm not the only one who didn't remember that bit. Understandable, since the discovery M makes there shadowed everything else.

So, signs *were* there. That M may be even more than she's aware of.

I thought her eye-lights (and, later, her face lights) were a "golem power by proxy" thing. Bud told Monica that M was in effect channeling Mayahuel's power/role, from out of the demon dimension, and that this had been made possible by M's childhood connection to May (who had managed to project the image of M's dead grandmother, and teach M to read and speak glyph).

It's certainly possible that there was more to it than that, of course. Becoming a glyph reader may have empowered Monica directly in some ways, more than what we've seen so far (golem control, poiting, and a preternatural ability to deedle). It may have been an initiation into a whole range of possible paranormal roles.

(I'm relieved to see I'm not the only one puzzled by the use of the term "jaguar girl". I thought for a while there that I must have missed eomething terribly obvious, and I went on an urgent Google dive. There are certainly modern-slang meanings for "jaguar" but they seem unhelpful - Monica is quite some years away from being in her fifties, she doesn't seem to be on the prowl for a boy-toy, and I can't see how being a "sophisticated, sexy woman" would lead paranormal creatures to consider her to be one of the more dangerous beings around. Insecure men, sure, but not sphinxes and the like!)

[Julie]

*gets comfortable in one of the couches in Confusion Corner* I'll surface from here when the Jaguar Girl comment is better explained.

[Wdot]

Ehrm... what...?

First I thought it was a slang fro something, but Urban Dictionary was unhelpful.
Now I can see that it's not...
PLEASE, Pablo, do not make Monica a supernatural being... She must stay human, that's the whole point of her.
If she had a supernatural origin, that would have had ample time to surface in the ordeals so far...

I'm eagerly awaiting the next strip...

Aw, Yarner, anybody that's been dead and revived, can read and speak Glyph, commands magic indestructable clay golems and can teleport herself and others is definetly homo superior.

[jwhouk]

Oh, great, now here come the X-Men lovers.

What now, Monica and Shelly are the founders of the new Marvel Comic, "X-WOMEN: MINNEAPOLIS"?