What confuses me is that, starting here, http://wapsisquare.com/comic/talkingaboutwork/, Brandi and Bud start becoming "productive " people, looking for jobs, etc. But presumably they had started MIB long before then and really did not need to look for jobs. I see this as one of the very few inconsistancies in the story.
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:17 am
by Dr. Otter
Bathorys Daughter wrote:Our little Brandy all mature and professional. *sniff* they grow up so fast..
In my mind, I heard this in Eddie Murphy's voice from the end of Mulan. ("...all grown up and saving China.")
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:42 am
by chibichibi01
davids4250 wrote:What confuses me is that, starting here, http://wapsisquare.com/comic/talkingaboutwork/, Brandi and Bud start becoming "productive " people, looking for jobs, etc. But presumably they had started MIB long before then and really did not need to look for jobs. I see this as one of the very few inconsistancies in the story.
Feeling the same way. I'm inching my way towards confusion here and I don't like it D:
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:56 am
by Opus the Poet
OK easy way to resolve this without retconning. Jin was unaware of Bud and Brandi's activities with MIB, because she was too busy trying to fix the Calendar Machine. Monica of course knew nothing about the GGG at that point, except what we also found out. While Jin was out and about manipulating things to fix the CM, Brandy and Bud were making the administrative interface between the supernatural races and the mundanes.
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:06 am
by Jay-Em
The only non-retcon solution I see, is that Brandi&Bud weren't as drunk as they made tepoz think.
Whith them apparently inebriated, Tepoz let them go free for a bit. Who knows what they came up with, and when, and how. Poiting being, indeed, rather handy in that case, If these MIB are anything like Torchwood, i.e. dating from Victorian times, and maybe before that, Brandi & Bud would have had ample time to set-up an organisation like this, setting things in motion.
But then again, If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck... I can Imagine Pablo wanting a bit of a re-boot after 10 years. Heck, X-Men have to suffer re-boots about every 2 years, if not more frequent. Retconning be damned. i do not mind too much. I am not thát much of a purist.
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:07 am
by jwhouk
And Bud was the one in charge of dealing with the demon world - and May.
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:22 am
by Jabberwonky
No retcons needed.
Tepoz was as surprized at them materializing as drunken college students as Monica was.
Start here...
They could have been up to all sorts of things in the intervening years...
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:23 am
by Fairportfan
Time travel.
This is a "different" Brandy.
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:43 am
by jwhouk
Fairportfan wrote:Time travel.
This is a "different" Brandy.
You know, that IS an interesting concept.
But the nearest time machine is currently down in Texas, sitting in the Harris County drunk tank with her friend Maggie Ostermayer.
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:57 am
by Fairportfan
I notice that it's "latte" now, in the dialog and the title...
(But not the URL.)
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:03 am
by Jabberwonky
It's Brandi from a different dimension. If anyone would know how to get around the Vimana Net, it'd be Brandi.
(Just doing my part to throw as many wild-ass speculations out there as possible...)
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:48 am
by jwhouk
This strikes me as the version of Brandi who doesn't "check her mind out at the door" before she goes home. A little bit like either Zaphod Beeblebrox From HHG2G, or maybe more appropriately Douglas Quaid from Total Recall. Brandi had her mind "wiped", but she has ways of getting those memories back at times.
Of course, I like the possible time travel thing too, but I believe that's a bit too over the top, even for Pablo.
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:08 am
by TheDOCTOR
BRANDY?!? Well, if I may quote Shelly and Acacia: "DAY-YUMMM!!!"
The Girl does clean up Good, Don't She? Long way from DayCare - though not by much.
And they replaced Her with Rip Torn in the M.I.B. Movies?
Oh wait, Associate Director! So that means she can come and go as She pleases. Sort of like The DOCTOR with U.N.I.T. ?
And why is everyone so surprised by this? I thought we all knew that Brandi was heavily involved in the MiB. And does my lack of surprise mean I have to vacate my cozy little flat in Confusion Couch Corner? I don't wanna move just yet.
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:48 am
by Fnord
I thought Brandi was "just" an office manager somewhere, and that she only had "connections" with the MiB circus. Now I find out that not only is she running the shooting gallery, she damn near owns the entire midway and most of the rides, too!
Gawd, she's haut!
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:57 am
by Boxilar
This was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the strip this morning.
My apologies for the ear worm.
Fnord wrote:I thought Brandi was "just" an office manager somewhere, and that she only had "connections" with the MiB circus. Now I find out that not only is she running the shooting gallery, she damn near owns the entire midway and most of the rides, too!
Gawd, she's haut!
Considering Brandi's Chessmaster status , I should not have been suprized by this. "Office Manager" indeed!
And I do love a woman in a suit.
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:02 am
by Fairportfan
Boxilar wrote:This was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the strip this morning.
My apologies for the ear worm.
Fnord wrote:I thought Brandi was "just" an office manager somewhere, and that she only had "connections" with the MiB circus. Now I find out that not only is she running the shooting gallery, she damn near owns the entire midway and most of the rides, too!
Gawd, she's haut!
Considering Brandi's Chessmaster status , I should not have been suprized by this. "Office Manager" indeed!
And I do love a woman in a suit.
Never said what kind of office, now, did she?
Parsing the lines between the lines between the lines is sometimes a useful skill.
And why is everyone so surprised by this? I thought we all knew that Brandi was heavily involved in the MiB. And does my lack of surprise mean I have to vacate my cozy little flat in Confusion Couch Corner? I don't wanna move just yet.
*PA System* "All personel maintain Confusion Couch Positions untill the current story arc has come to a complete stop. Occasional moments of clarity DO NOT override overall befudlement. That is all." *PA System*
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:10 am
by PrettyPrincess
Any significance to her last name? Seems kind of Glyph-y to me, have we known her last name before, and I just forgot?
Re: Late Popcicle 2012-12-17
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:13 am
by Boxilar
PrettyPrincess wrote:Any significance to her last name? Seems kind of Glyph-y to me, have we known her last name before, and I just forgot?
It was mentioned several years ago, back around '06 or '07, I think.
