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Now that we know for certain Tsillah is part of the MIB, Euryale was right when she told Monica that some of them think M is the, "cat's p'jamas."

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It just occured to me* how fortunate it is, that Pratt & McBride - even in a state of panic - decided against attacking the darkness.

*yes, I'm that slow sometimes

Interesting - promoted up out of harm's way.

Tsillah was wrong in one thing - in the MIB it is never too late to make a good first impression {flash!}

Al

I find myself wondering just how big Tsillah is?

New characters. New plot lines. More twists. There are just too many plots, characters and things going on that they (and we), are being short changed. I think we need to go to two, maybe three, strips per day for fair coverage.

All Pablo has to do is clone himself two or three times over and then install a quantum entangled, intercranial network to keep everything in synch.

[MerchManDan: Thanks for the heads up. I swear I looked for an earlier thread but shadowinthelight's wasn't there.]

MerchManDan wrote:It just occured to me* how fortunate it is, that Pratt & McBride - even in a state of panic - decided against attacking the darkness.

*yes, I'm that slow sometimes

Please, no magic missiles.

Dave11 wrote:

MerchManDan wrote:It just occured to me* how fortunate it is, that Pratt & McBride - even in a state of panic - decided against attacking the darkness.

*yes, I'm that slow sometimes

Please, no magic missiles.

ah a lightning bolt fan?

davids4250 wrote:I find myself wondering just how big Tsillah is?

A shadow is as big as it needs to be.

So it took me a while to actually read today's page. There was a banner ad that, in its garishly colorful way, was very distracting...
What?? I'm just as much a fan of nice posteriors as anyone else...

well you would have to be stoopid to hit a shadow! your fist just goes straight through and hits the wall!!! { ouch! } :O
any info on who CAN??

of course you could just hit tsilly's 'projected' body, only for it to disappear!!!!

Julie wrote:So it took me a while to actually read today's page. There was a banner ad that, in its garishly colorful way, was very distracting...

Distracting.jpg

What?? I'm just as much a fan of nice posteriors as anyone else...

Man! All I'm getting is ads for fantasy fiction e-books with gay leads...
(Seriously, I want to mail 'em and ask what I'm browsing that brings that up)

davids4250 wrote:I find myself wondering just how big Tsillah is?

As big or little as she wants to be. Shadow does not have size or dimension. Kinda sounds like Outer Limits huh? All wer need is the bulrred vision to crystal slarity. Now we just hope Dick Van Dyke doesn't start singing chim-chim-cheree in the back ground. Though her daddy could arrange it.

I love the mottled ground shadows in this strip's artwork. It reminds me of the way the sun's light fades out, and develops a strange set of distorted shadows during a solar eclipse (never saw a true total eclipse but have been through a couple which came quite close to totality).

So, we still don't know Tsillah's true age or maturity... but she claims a high rank in the MIB, and that's probably not the sort of position that would be given to a youngster. Despite her somewhat wonky preference in clothing for her "little goblin girl" persona, she does seem to have quite a sense of style in her shadow-weaving (today's strip, the flickering tree-branch shadows she "left behind" to conceal the vampires, Shelly and Justin's elegant shadow pseudoclothing). Those don't seem like the sort of esthetic touches that a being just barely out of childhood would have picked up yet. Will be interesting learn more about her backstory, and figure out how much of her tweenish manner is genuine and how much is an affectation. She does seem to have (or to embody) some serious mojo!

As to being short-changed by the daily pacing of the strip, what with all of the new characters, details, and plot twists... I think the phrase "embarrassment of riches" is closer to the mark. Pablo is observing an important performer's rule here... "always leave your audience wanting more!"

I think the ride is going to be a very interesting one!

Jabberwonky wrote:

Julie wrote:So it took me a while to actually read today's page. There was a banner ad that, in its garishly colorful way, was very distracting...

Distracting.jpg

What?? I'm just as much a fan of nice posteriors as anyone else...

Man! All I'm getting is ads for fantasy fiction e-books with gay leads...
(Seriously, I want to mail 'em and ask what I'm browsing that brings that up)

It's Project Wonderful. I've seen very few relevant ads.

How soon before they drop by Tina's, and how will they appear to her in TinaVision (tm)?

Jabberwonky wrote:

Julie wrote:So it took me a while to actually read today's page. There was a banner ad that, in its garishly colorful way, was very distracting...

Distracting.jpg

What?? I'm just as much a fan of nice posteriors as anyone else...

Man! All I'm getting is ads for fantasy fiction e-books with gay leads...
(Seriously, I want to mail 'em and ask what I'm browsing that brings that up)

Eh, I use Firefox and AdBlockPlus, so I never see 'em at all.

So, one final prank from their now ex-boss by setting them up to be freaked out by their new boss? Cute.

Julie wrote:So it took me a while to actually read today's page. There was a banner ad that, in its garishly colorful way, was very distracting...

Dazzle camouflage for your lower body? Novel, to say the least. Is it helpful that people can't tell which way your legs are moving?

Something about this arc makes me wonder: could Pablo be setting up for a "spinoff" strip here, featuring the two intrepid vampire cops in a generally comedic series of misadventures? It would make sense from several points of view. For one, it's a bit hard to see how Pratt and McBride fit into the mythologies whose collision with reality is what the Wapsi-verse is all about. For another, Wapsi Square itself has been a near-textbook example of Cerebus Syndrome -- which is by no means necessarily a bad thing (quite the contrary, many of my favorite webcomics have gone that way, not just this one), but it may feel a bit -- grim for someone who wants to write funny stuff.

One way or the other, I'm certainly enjoying the arc and the characters, and if there is indeed a spinoff, I'll follow it faithfully.

I don't know, Pratt and McBride are all about the collision of the supernatural and the mundane.
Consider, two vampires were working homicide/missing persons for the plain old FBI. Not "section six" or the super secret BPRD. Plain old homicide. What's more, their immediate supervisor knew what they were. Right before this reassignment they were working a serial killer case. Meatsnak was monster in his actions, but as far as we can tell, was just a normal human.

All this seems to imply that while the general populace is blissfully unaware of the truth, even lower levels of government knows about the supernatural.

I think what we may see is the gradual introduction of Monica and crew to the lower level supernaturals. M and Co are used to rubbing elbows with the heavy hitters in the Wapsiverse. Hell, they are heavy hitters in the Wapsiverse. Lily and Suzie, along with Tsilla, could be Monica's introduction to the lower end of the supernaturals.