Insects 2013-01-14

jwhouk · Post by **jwhouk** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:02 am

meisdadoo wrote: By the way, she did not "poit" the phix, she "poited" herself in between the dingbats and phix, and either consciously or unconsciously activated her jaguar powers, as evidenced by the dark circles around her eyes. Monica not only has super powers, she has grown rather brave.

And that suddenly makes the whole strip make sense.

Mark N · Post by **Mark N** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:03 am

meisdadoo wrote: By the way, she did not "poit" the phix, she "poited" herself in between the dingbats and phix, and either consciously or unconsciously activated her jaguar powers, as evidenced by the dark circles around her eyes. Monica not only has super powers, she has grown rather brave.

Looking the strip over I tend to agree with you on all points. She is not just being brave, she is being a leader (something she would not have wanted to become in the past and partially why she would have sucked at field work before).

Ohnhai · Post by **Ohnhai** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 5:02 am

Yamara wrote:Thtop!

...in the name of love!

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:45 am

Ohnhai wrote:
Yamara wrote:Thtop!
...in the name of love!

Before you eat their hearts!

Aleister Crow · Post by **Aleister Crow** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:49 am

Anyone else getting the nasty thought that this is the assignment? Dangling bait to force M to snap out of her stubbornness before they get ripped to shreds by a rampaging predator?

Atomic · Post by **Atomic** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 8:14 am

Wyvern wrote:
Ohnhai wrote:
Yamara wrote:Thtop!
...in the name of love!
Before you eat their hearts!

Think it Ohhh, ohhh, verrrrr...

And, while they think it over, enter Brandi, stage right, announcing how all this was, sadly, her plan, but it was the only way to force M to face/discover herself -- her new self -- by putting her powers (for good?) to use!

Why? Because she's quicker than a cobra, decisive, has the mind of a sociopath, the heart of a lion, and stands on common ground with them all.

Jabberwonky · Post by **Jabberwonky** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 8:47 am

Is anyone else trying to picture what a vampire 'bug-zapper' would look like?

Julie · Post by **Julie** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:34 am

davids4250 wrote:Since Phix cannot be harmed in thew Library, almost anything Monica does will be ineffective. Therefore a higher power than Phix will have to step in, and the only one I know of that could stop Phix is the Library itself, either by stopping her directly or removing her invulnerability.
Gonna be an interesting week.

However, since Phix does not harm humans, M poiting herself between the angry sphinx and the vampires is a good way to slow her down...if not stop her completely. Yes, you could make the argument that M isn't human anymore (at least if she is, she's human but immortal and powerful)...but Phix has made it clear in the past that she endeavors not to harm those who haven't done wrong...hence not killing Tina even though she's a conglomeration of demons hosting an empty human shell. She won't just plow through M to get to the "insects" M is protecting.

Graybeard · Post by **Graybeard** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:50 am

Aleister Crow wrote:Anyone else getting the nasty thought that this is the assignment? Dangling bait to force M to snap out of her stubbornness before they get ripped to shreds by a rampaging predator?

Exactly.

Incidentally, do we know just why Phix is so down on vampires? It's obvious that she is (if it wasn't before, it sure is now...), but if there is a reason that's deeply buried in the archives, I've missed it.

eee · Post by **eee** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:03 am

Most people seem to be expecting Monica to poit Phix.

It might be easier, if Phix doesn't stop, to just point herself and Pratt and McBride out of the Library. I doubt Phix will chase them...

TheDOCTOR · Post by **TheDOCTOR** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:12 am

Next Phix stops her charge and says to Monica, "Calm down Pumpkin. I wasn't going to hurt them ...MUCH. I just wanted to see what you would do. Oh and By the way your lisp is gone." Lets hope Phix doesn't get poited naked into a Mall.

jwhouk · Post by **jwhouk** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:13 am

Phix has only made reference to vamps as "$#!++y mosquitoes" in the past - that's it.

I suspect that Vampires release the inner-demons of their prey, which makes them the equivalent of the maggots that form on the cleanup in aisle 3.

Of course, the question would be what kind of blood-sucking they do. If they try to go after Apo blood...

MerchManDan · Post by **MerchManDan** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:50 am

Yamara wrote:Thtop!

Take thome time to think!

Jabberwonky wrote:Is anyone else trying to picture what a vampire 'bug-zapper' would look like?

No, but I did suddenly think of a tagline for a vampire trap: "Vampires check in...they don't check out!"

kingklash · Post by **kingklash** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:33 pm

Wyvern wrote:
Ohnhai wrote:
Yamara wrote:Thtop!
...in the name of love!
Before you eat their hearts!

Not quite related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NuDWx2IMI

Mark N · Post by **Mark N** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:40 pm

MerchManDan wrote:
Jabberwonky wrote:Is anyone else trying to picture what a vampire 'bug-zapper' would look like?
No, but I did suddenly think of a tagline for a vampire trap: "Vampires check in...they don't check out!"

A vampire 'bug-zapper' sounds like something that Gary Larson would have done (and most likely did) for his Far Side strips.

Geezer · Post by **Geezer** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:13 pm

Interesting...

M *poits* herself between the vamps and Phix, inserting herself into what could be a very nasty confrontation. The vamp ladies have self-esteem issues - they see themselves as bottom feeders, and Phix verbally confirms this to be her view as well. Monica is not in danger from the vampires - they already see her as an apex predator. In fact, they're in awe of her.

So - here we have Monica the hero, a new role for her. We have Phix doing what Phix does so well - being a bad-ass mother and gate-keeper. And we have a new datum on the vampires - they are just as easily shocked and intimidated as Monica once was.

Self-realization is a beautiful thing...

shadowinthelight · Post by **shadowinthelight** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:19 pm

Mark N wrote:
MerchManDan wrote:
Jabberwonky wrote:Is anyone else trying to picture what a vampire 'bug-zapper' would look like?
No, but I did suddenly think of a tagline for a vampire trap: "Vampires check in...they don't check out!"
A vampire 'bug-zapper' sounds like something that Gary Larson would have done (and most likely did) for his Far Side strips.

I think the effect would be something like this.

sheik · Post by **sheik** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:37 pm

It's just my impression, but couldn't this be Phix's lead up to her riddles?
Rattling the vampire's cages would show her contempt and yet still give them a chance to conduct the business they were sent to the Library to perform.

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:47 pm

So Monica moved in between Phix and the vampires. What could go wrong? It's not like playing in traffic or anything.

dex drako · Post by **dex drako** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 5:46 pm

I think you guys are missing the point Monica could poit herself and friends in and out of the library even before the all access she just got so she could just poit phix out of the library if she wanted to.

I also think some of you guys are over playing the "string pulling" enddings, that's kind of the thing monica is upset about or do you not remember how she treated bud and shelly after their last little game. do you honestly think monica will react nicely if this is all just another game they're playing on her more so after already doing that with nude not a day before this? I for one don't and honestly I would respect her a little less as a character if she did so for me a better ending would be Phix stoping because she doesn't know whats happening to monica. I mean what better way is there to snap someone out of a rage than to show them something has happen to someone they care about.

And the set up is there for it with nudge reaction to the library speaking, tsllah's reaction to monica's speech impediment and now monica showing up in all her new jaguar girl additions right in front of Phix.

in all it would be a much more heart warming trun of events to have Phix forget about the vamps (who are just lowly inscets in her veiw) because she's surprised and concerned over monica. that would also be a better use of these two new characters then just having them just be bate to push monica into controling her power.

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