Wapsi Square Forum

Dave wrote:

stjen wrote:You're all missing the most important thing.

Due to Pablo's style of skipping over (in?)significant parts of their lives, We've Totally Missed seeing any scenes where Tina and Monica are in the gym exercising, and getting those "toned" bodies....

Sigh.

Not quite Totally Missed.

bmonk wrote:[Jennifer Fallon addressed it with one character in her "Tide Lords" series. She also mentioned another unfortunate character--the eternal virgin. . . .

Nimrod wrote:3) Yet some beneficial physical changes, acquired mussel tone in this case, are retained.

lake_wrangler wrote:Wow! I did not see that coming... Monica is a mollusk?

analyst wrote:A mollusk in a band!

Atomic wrote:Her friend is Shelly, remember?

Dave wrote:And now that she's immortal, the world is her oyster!

Goth Wolf wrote:Look at the bigger picture and suck it up

Fairportfan wrote:

bmonk wrote:[Jennifer Fallon addressed it with one character in her "Tide Lords" series. She also mentioned another unfortunate character--the eternal virgin. . . .

In MaryJanice Davidson's "Betsy, Queen of Vampires" series, vampire feeding is pretty well intertwined with sex, as is often the case.

There's one vampire who was made when she was twelve or so (or thereabouts), and so, despite being like a hndred years old, she is still physically twelve.

Some of the connotations are sort of creepy.

bmonk wrote:

Bathorys Daughter wrote:

eee wrote:Over in Gunnerkrigg Court there's currently a vivid - and distressing - look at what immortality would be like. ... Today we're back to the 14th (approximately) century, she's been accused by villagers of being a devil and taken a spear to the gut from a knight, she broke the spear with her hands and walked off, her clothing torn but unhurt to start a new life somewhere else where she's not known.

People who use this plot device almost never deal with the issue of decapitation. What would have happened if the Knight then took out his sword and took her head off? If she started coming for it, hacked her up further and/or smashed the head beyond any hope of reuse? That's what I want to know about. At least Paul seems to have covered this issue with the soul leaving the body during regeneration, That allows for head and brain regeneration as well, with all memories up to date and the "self" returning to the body so it's not just a copy of the person in the end.

Jennifer Fallon addressed it with one character in her "Tide Lords" series. She also mentioned another unfortunate character--the eternal virgin. . . .

Mark N wrote:

Fairportfan wrote:

bmonk wrote:[Jennifer Fallon addressed it with one character in her "Tide Lords" series. She also mentioned another unfortunate character--the eternal virgin. . . .

In MaryJanice Davidson's "Betsy, Queen of Vampires" series, vampire feeding is pretty well intertwined with sex, as is often the case.

There's one vampire who was made when she was twelve or so (or thereabouts), and so, despite being like a hndred years old, she is still physically twelve.

Some of the connotations are sort of creepy.

True. That would be a case of "When is a pedophile not a pedophile?" The very thought creeps me out (yes I have some serious problems with that kind of person.)

illiad wrote:

stjen wrote:You're all missing the most important thing.

Due to Pablo's style of skipping over (in?)significant parts of their lives, We've Totally Missed seeing any scenes where Tina and Monica are in the gym exercising, and getting those "toned" bodies....

Sigh.

well, what would you prefer? NO dialog, just M & Tina walking to the gym on the Monday strip, doing warm up on the Tues strip, bicycle on the Weds strip, upper body on the Thurs strip, legwork on the Fri strip... and then next Mon - Fri doing bicycle, rowing, biceps, abdominal, and maybe hit the showers in the last frame...

or would you rather have two weeks of actual story????

Dave: that was a wonderful sequence, BUT not *that* much tennis was actually done.. but who cares??? us guys just luv watching....

eee wrote: Over in Gunnerkrigg Court there's currently a vivid - and distressing - look at what immortality would be like. Jones is a preternaturally calm and mysterious woman who's been a mentor and authority figure to the main character; now we're getting a series of flashbacks showing her past. Her LONG past. The changes. The people she's known and had relationships with who've grown old and died before her eyes. The constant risk of being find out. Today we're back to the 14th (approximately) century, she's been accused by villagers of being a devil and taken a spear to the gut from a knight, she broke the spear with her hands and walked off, her clothing torn but unhurt to start a new life somewhere else where she's not known.

If this were anybody but Jones, who's abnormally balanced and may not have emotions, you imagine she'd have become a basket case long before the present...

Forklifter wrote:
Ah, another Gunnerkrigg Court fan! I find that strip has much in common with Wapsi Square: the authors are both talented in puzzling the hell out of you about where the story is going, but keeping your interest in seeing how the story arrives at it's destination.

Mark N wrote:

Forklifter wrote:
Ah, another Gunnerkrigg Court fan! I find that strip has much in common with Wapsi Square: the authors are both talented in puzzling the hell out of you about where the story is going, but keeping your interest in seeing how the story arrives at it's destination.

You got it.

lake_wrangler wrote:Yeah... so Monica has mussel tone, whereas Shelly is a ton of muscle...

TlalocW wrote:In all our talk about immortal beings, we left out Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged from, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." He has another perspective on immortality.

In contrast to most other immortals, Bowerick Wowbagger was not born one, but became immortal due to an accident with "an irrational particle accelerator, a liquid lunch, and a pair of rubber bands". Unlike other immortals whom he calls "a load of serene bastards", he doesn't cope very well with his infinite life. Eventually he comes up with a plan to keep himself busy: he will insult every living being in the universe - in alphabetical order.

Various posters wrote:mussel tone, mollusk, etc.

stjen wrote:well, what would you prefer? NO dialog, just M & Tina walking to the gym on the Monday strip, doing warm up on the Tues strip, bicycle on the Weds strip, upper body on the Thurs strip, legwork on the Fri strip... and then next Mon - Fri doing bicycle, rowing, biceps, abdominal, and maybe hit the showers in the last frame...

or would you rather have two weeks of actual story????

chibichibi01 wrote:

bmonk wrote:Jennifer Fallon addressed it with one character in her "Tide Lords" series. She also mentioned another unfortunate character--the eternal virgin. . . .

Good lord! I feel like I need to read those now.

illiad wrote:

stjen wrote:well, what would you prefer? NO dialog, just M & Tina walking to the gym on the Monday strip, doing warm up on the Tues strip, bicycle on the Weds strip, upper body on the Thurs strip, legwork on the Fri strip... and then next Mon - Fri doing bicycle, rowing, biceps, abdominal, and maybe hit the showers in the last frame...

or would you rather have two weeks of actual story????

any answers for this then???

lake_wrangler wrote:Drops a first edition vinyl record of Marcel Marceau's greatest hits into the pun jar.