One of my secondary objectives for this chapter is to explore the fictitious city of Calumet City, WI a little bit more beyond the orphanage and Todd’s apartment. We’ve seen one of the local dining establishments, and now we get to see some of Calumet City’s shopping opportunities. 😀
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I made a new addition to the website over the weekend. If you will direct your gaze to the menu bar above the comic, there is now a link to a discussion forum. I’ve had a couple people request a discussion forum be added to the site, so this will be a fun experiment I think. Drop on in!
Also! Fan Art update! This one is courtesy of Rebecca:
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Thank you Rebecca!
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
Discussion (47) ¬
If I had to guess, I’d say the parts of the strip not based on real life experiences are limited to the complete lack of chili dog on Selkie’s dress. 😀
Oh he will learn the values of carrying napkins and such. And i would say the webbing on her hands are whats keeping her dress clean.
I like sheep. c:
I…used to work at an eerily similarly named store. Oh God…the people…
“You don’t have the color I want, so I want a discount!’
“I don’t like the way this fertilizer smells, I want a discount!”
“You looked at me funny! You’re racist! I want a discount!”
Unfortunately…all true stories.
Oh em gee. My brother worked at one of those places. Scary scary places.. Apparently making bullets isn’t as stressful.. ((Seriously, he says that.))
Building nuclear weapons wouldn’t be as stressful as working at Wallyworld … or Wool-Mart
Wool-Mart! 😀 That little sheep on the sign is so cute!
I hate customers like that. I swear I get idiots coming up to me if I simply wear a blue shirt at Walmart and they do nothing but complain.
I was in a Wal-mart earlier today, for an interview…Wrong clothes, thats all i’ill say
Is it just me or do the non main character people in this comic not know how to park? At the Chili dog place there was someone who couldn’t park and now this one!
Considering the number of people I’ve seen parking exactly like the person at the chilli dog place and this person with the purple P.O.C. car … yeah, I’d say it’s just like real life. Sad but true. A couple of weeks ago I was at a local burger joint. Their parking lot has about 25 parking spaces – one pick up truck was managing to take up 5 of them. :-/
Gotta say Teen Selkie looks damn cool. 🙂
WOO! WI! Best place ever! Hehe I <3 Woolmart (Sounds oddly like Wal-Mart…Which just so happens to be my place of work!) I wonder if this Fictional city turns out to be mine haha it seems so similar..
Ha, I love the car parked sideways. And the sixteen year old Todd! Is he bald?
Naw, he just has (had?) one of those floppy Mohawks.
Oh, haha. I thought that was ball cap XD I see it now.
Unless you’ve never had a blank stare on your face, I’d guess panel 3 is a real-life occurrence.
Scooter for the win!
the abyss indeed…….sadly try working at a mortuary when you have people try to over use the services….or working a gypsy funeral……..sure you see lot’s of money but its just a cluster “cuss” trying to clean that up.
I am curious about the gypsy funeral. What did that involve?
well……the ones I had to service of alot of people that were well they brought so much stuff and money into that casket that I thought I was crazy to see so many 50’s and 100’s in one place and not a bank. Apparently doing steeling can cures you so no no on taking the money or stuff……..then again I was talking to some real old lady that look like she was going to kick it so she probably lied to me cause of how young I look…….I hate that. But its loud and like a party after the praying so its….fun if you like loud places with alto of people bringing in drinks and …..”stuff”
You know what’s bad? My brother (just got out of basic for the Army, go him!) used to work at McDonald’s. Our Wal-mart had a McDonald’s. So if he went to Wal-mart after his job, he’d have people come up to him, asking where certain things could be found in a store.
His shirt was red, not blue. And it had a yellow M on it. Why would you people assume he knows were crap is?
Sadly, he did know where most of the stuff is. More than the people who actually worked there.
where*. Darn typo.
I had the same issue when I used to work at Walgreens. If I went to a Wal-Mart after or before work, people would ask me where to find things. Which is understandable since I had a shirt that said Wal-Something, at least.
oh dear god. the horror. o_o
Also, the fanart reminds me of Toph from Avatar:The Last Airbender for some reason. .
Rebecca! Excellent!
Oh, and I note that Selkie is much happier now that she’s gotten something to eat. I can relate … I can get pretty darned grumpy when I get hungry (or worse, when I haven’t had my coffee yet!).
Wait! This takes place in WI? I must of missed that somewhere. For some reason, I always had it in my head that it was on the East Coast; like North Carolina, or something. Funny thing: My dad used to have a restaurant on Calumet Drive in Sheboygan, WI. Love the comic, btw!
Oh how I wish there was a third update a week. I’m hooked.
First snow of the year in east central WI is going to be either today or tomorrow, then melt off on Thurs. and then snow again on Friday night. Or so says the weather channel. 🙂
If he worked there and hated it so much why did he get a smiley face tattoo?
He got it when he left, I bet…
This rminds me of my last job at Micro Center except it was black friday and more people where grabing me “Shudder” that was the last time i worked a black friiday….also someone stole my wallet during the tug of war the rope being my arms
Speaking as a wally world survivor, I unfortunately know what Todd went through. At one point, I literally had 6 different customers fighting with each other over who I got to serve. Didn’t matter that I was wearing a Tire and Lube Express uniform, they were just that desperate for help. Thing is some of their requests were just funny. One example is where a guy was asking where the Cheez Whiz was even though he literally had his back to it. I played it off at first, saying “Jeez, I can picture it in my head, where is it?” and then pointing and saying “OH there IT is!” His wife laugh her butt off.
I assumed it was in Illinois, being Calumet but not quite.
Wool mart! Baaahhhh. I felt like Todd did, working at Wally Wal-mart. 🙂
My brother worked at the blue sign place as the guy who runs the floor polisher. One night a customer had a diabetic seizure and my bro was the only person who recognized what it was (including the customer, scary…). He was able to get the guy to drink some sugar-packed energy drinks which saved the guy’s life. And my brother quit the next day.
And this probably makes me REALLY slow, but Congrats on the TVtropes page! 😀
hahaha, the abyss stares back into you! best description of “wool mart” ever!!!
I came back looking for the one where Todd used to work in Wool Mart.
ba’al the destroyer? diablo 2, lord of destruction refrance?
first of all: LOL HORRIBLY PARKED CARS.
secondly: catatonic Todd ftw.
thirdly: baaaaaaaa sheeple going to shop at the same place, and all of them being self-centered idiots.
fourthly: of COURSE, the requisite “do you get free stuff” query once you know where someone works. XD
finally: Selkie looks sooooo happy to have food. X3
post-finally: expect me to make the “X3” face at Selkie’s expressions. A LOT. 😀
That’s no exaggeration. I used to be a cart pusher.
I lost count of how many times I nearly got ran over in the first 3 weeks.
WOW, that fanart is amazing!!! I LOVE it!!
I used to work at Wal Mart. Still the worst job I’ve ever had.
And I’m currently on-call 24/7.
I hope there is a flash forward soon.
I don’t think I can handle anymore hot teenage selkie. She still a child! It feels wrong.
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Also, Wool Mart? You’re being copyrighted?