Comments on: Helen’s Head

By: tdcjames

tdcjames — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:27:03 +0000

I’m wondering if the wig is some sort of bonus gag. The company Helen is applying to (where Nancy works) caters to the sexual fetishes of the videogame/roleplaying/sci-fi geek crowd. Is the wig a tool of the trade?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:10:03 +0000

Heh, without the context provided by others (and I didn’t notice the color change of the hair at first, either), I thought she was making some Arlo-esque gestures about what would happen more frequently if he moved closer

By: chemgal

chemgal — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:37:06 +0000

Nicole, I think Bill is Jewish, not Catholic; he probably doens’t know the Hail Mary.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:00:13 +0000

Bill .. go say five hail Marys and three Our Fathers for peneace … and don’t let it happen again. Go in Peace

By: mkilby

mkilby — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:15:53 +0000

You mean your best friend chewed up your favorite shoes? That would explain it.

By: Kevin A

Kevin A — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:38:03 +0000

I apologize, having one of those days. The dog ran off with my best friend and my wife chewed up my favorite shoes. Or is it the other way around?

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:51:54 +0000

Also, her hair STYLE changes significantly, which I’d be much more surprised if Randy did it accidentally than simply messing up when he was colouring.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:47:44 +0000

That Helen went from brunet with a dark red fringe in the first 3 panels to bright fire engine redhead makes the ‘putting on a wig’ interpretation pretty obvious to me…that’s beyond ‘colouring error’ right into ‘major league screwup’…

By: Comicfan

Comicfan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:04:43 +0000

Hey Cidu Bill - I thought everyone was being a bit harsh so had to write. I looked back at the original, and a few further back and I can’t say it was at all obvious that the girl was adjusting (or getting) a wig. After all we have all seen random fluctuations in coloring in comix these days (and you can see a sample in this comic a few days back) and nothing in the ongoing story would suggest that wigs would be involved let alone randomly available.

By: tee_eff_em

tee_eff_em — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:57:37 +0000

She is reaching out-of-frame in the panel above. Had that been the isolated frame, I would not have guessed “She’s reaching for a wig!”
(Of course, I hadn’t noticed the hair change at all when I’d read this All the words distracted me from following background action)