Meanwhile, Merial.
This is the second-to-last page of the arc! Oh gosh! The timing is actually perfect, because I am going to be at Anime Expo from June 30th-July 2nd, and then my mother is visiting for a week. Since I am going to take my usual break between comic arcs, that means I won’t be missing any updates! Yay!
See y’all next week.
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Aw… They are so perfect for each other!
Ah, yes, I’m talking about Merial and Jim.
It took you this long to realize? ;)
What, have Merial and Jim been practicing their “exasperated busybody” posturing while Greg and Michelle were away or something?
I don’t think they need practice. ;~)
Nah, Cory’s just too lazy to think up more than one possible reaction ;)
Plus: its funny!
For some reason this makes perfect sense!
Is Michelle on Wikipedia :v
Great expressions on this page though, and I really like Michelle’s hair in these panels~!
It’s ok Michelle I don’t know what flirting is either.
Yeah, me neither. Hey, maybe it’s a cat thing?
=^-^=
Just curious, we know that Michelle has Jim’s feather as part of her lucky charms, but does she have a scale from Merial or a tuff of fur or hair or something from Greg?
She got the feather from the raven and the fox store people in the previous arc with Michelle, not from Jim.
She switched one of the feathers out for one of Jim’s during the One-Eyed Bear story in hopes of snagging some of his natural luck.
It’s maddening that Michelle still doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
things changed: 0
things revealed: >1
It’s weird seeing Merial not all Nixie-y.
I think it’s less seeing her human and more seeing her hair up like that. We saw her in human form plenty in Orientations, after all, but always with her hair down. I like it myself, along with Michelle’s longer hair. Back in Orientations, I don’t think Michelle’s hair was quite long enough to pull back in a low ponytail. Things like that make for a nice, subtle passage of time cue.
Yeah, I didn’t even recognize her at first :p
But just as nosy as Jim, albeit in a less rude way.
So far.
Ahaha! Michelle in panel 4 = Jim in Ch 21, panel 3! I’m just surprised her teeth stayed “human”.
*Merial >.<
Geez Merial, biting your lip like that is gonna hurt you some day……you don’t know pain until you see someone trip and bash their mouth while doing that.
I knew a guy in University who habitually bit his lower lip so much that he had effectively given himself a perma-hickey.
When did Michelle switch the feather? I re-read the One Eyed Bear but I didn’t see it. Was in ever revealed in comic?
it WAS in one-eyed bear, look when they’re in the car, at Michelle in the front passenger seat, she’s got one of Jim’s feathers in her charm, bright orange, can’t miss it against Michelle’s green Riddler suit. It wasn’t revealed in the comic, per say, but think Kory mentioned somewhere that it was on the off-chance she could channel some of Jim’s natural luck.
I am so bugging you guys at Anime Expo. Are you just going as a guest or going to have an actual table?
I’ll be tabling with Kel McDonald of Sorcery 101! :)
i completely and utterly ship Merial/Jim
Heh. I think we all saw this coming. Now, the question is whether Merial is holding up the other end of Jim’s bet, and fishing for an absolute, solid denial, or whether she’s just being nosy and dishing out unwanted relationship advice. She might even have forgotten that Jim offered a bet with her – she’s probably become good at tuning him out selectively. However, I suspect that she would also be subtle enough to avoid revealing the existence of a bet while fishing for information. Not that that might matter much in the final analysis…
Greg: …and Jim hasn’t shut up about it since we got back – you know he had a bet on with Merial about whether we were or weren’t dating?
Michelle: (*does final analysis*) … MER-I-AAAAAAL!!!!!!
I love how Merial’s channelling Jim through her face in the fourth panel. XD
This is too funny!
I like the “Submarine Voyage” poster in the background (it’s more visible in the panel below with no dialogue). As with almost everything seen in backgrounds here, this is real too. Check out the Wikipedia article on “Submarine Voyage.”
I was at Disneyland recently, and the submarine ride is still there! I had thought they were closing it permanently years ago. It’s been “rebooted” to a “Finding Nemo” theme though. No mermaids (sigh).
Merial, stop medd…
Actually, keep meddling. It’s adorable when you meddle.
oh good god I just cackled SO LOUD… My dog got up and walked away ’cause she’s old and cranky and doesn’t like loud noises xD Merial and Jim are one and the same, other than the species thing and… everything.
Loving it!
Meriel, Remember that the basis of a sphinx is a lion, and lions don’t take hassling too terribly well.
I wonder how well Michelle can fish.
I wonder what sphinx eat…. Is it all meat, or is there some eagle/bird food in there?
Sphinxes were known in myth to eat anyone who couldn’t answer their riddles, and since the majority of their body is lion, chances are Michelle could eat a steak, without grilling, just fine.
That’s about what I was thinking too. We’ve seen in past yawns that Michelle has some rather impressive teeth and a good bite radius. Michelle may be somewhat civilized by mom’s influence, but she is still an eagle/lion.
Back in part 4 of Orientations, Michelle does mention that, after her Turning, she started to prefer rare steak. You may have something there. At some point, digging through character stuff Kory’s posted over the years, I’ve seen a note that Jim’s favorite food is something he’s hunted down himself and eaten right then, so it’s not unprecedented in the world of Skin Deep.
that, right there, is probably as much an innate preference as it also how he grew up, since his family strikes me as “old fashioned.” Though, does make me wonder just how many old scottish sheep herders have had a day of standing around watching their flock take a turn for the odd when they see a great orange an green blur swoop down and snag a ram. Followed by his fellows wondering where he got the good whiskey, and how he’s hiding it from his wife after hearing that tale.
You win the internet.
*takes a bow, and graciously accepts the award* Its very……odd, is there supposed to be so many tentacles? And flames?
This is why I love the comments here. Only we could go from the topic of Michelle eating Merial, to Jimothy eating a sheep and making a farmer wonder where the good whiskey came from.
And if thats not good enough, try telling someone this out of context.
my favorite part of rereading the comic is rereading all the comments just for the extra funny everyone makes.
Eagles are predators. So odds are very good that Michelle’s appetite for meat has greatly increased. :)
Eagle/bird food? Eagles are raptors, hence meat-eaters…you thought they ate bird seed?
Is it just me, or does it look like in panel four, Merial is busy planning out Greg and Michelle’s future wedding and babies?
Michelle does have a good point, I mean really it’s sort of a “world turned upside down” kind of deal.
Aww crap. That sorta makes it official.
I really love this comic. Is there currently some problem with the webserver, though? I have been enjoying the heck out of reading the archives, except for one thing. Whenever i go to the next page, there is about a 75% chance i will get an error page, instead of the next comic. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes for the next page to load. Is it a bandwidth problem, or some other hosting error? Do you have a mirror site? Is there an Archive page somewhere i just haven’t found from which one can go directly to a page, more specific than the “Story Arc” broad chapter links? That would be really helpful, especially with the site probems…
Aside from that, you are the awesomeness. Thanks for sharing your comic!
PS: this is the error page that constantly comes up:
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I love that scowl Michelle gets in panel 3.
Re-reading this story and the comments, and I saw that folks had ID’d which building and floor Greg and Jim were in. So I thought I’d see if I could find which building Michelle and Merial have their room in.
They have a top floor apartment in Hammons House. Not so sure where on the floor, as kory has Michelle and her mother’s speech bubbles coming out of a window approximately mid way along the Southern side of the level. But in this strip, Michelle and Merial’s speech bubbles are coming from a South-East corner apartment.
those must be the most sound proof walls in the history of US college dorms
I’ve just now noticed that Michelle is barefoot.
Also, angry Meesh face on panel 6 X3
And also also, Merial and Jim are annoying and loud when it comes to love, while Greg and Meesh are quiet and calm.