I have posted an important article about the Book of Woo in the news section of the website!
- Cloud: Mom, may I ask you a personal question?
- Ye Thuza: If need be…
- Cloud: Are you a strong woman?
- Ye Thuza: You can bet your life on it, buster!
- Cloud: Strong enough to strangle my man-hating biology teacher with bare hands?
- Ye Thuza: I’ll try to squeeze it in between church choir and taekwondo.
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And if you don’t have time then, you can always do it at the parent-teacher conference next week.
And here comes the ass-kicking!
Modern day wonder woman have busy schedules.
Yes that would be amazing to see
“Squeeze”.
I see what Ye did there.
This will be a treat to witness…
(rubs hands together)
It is scheduled. Very good. 🙂
Hahaha I can wait to see what Ye is going to do. can’t wait till Thursday.
Alternate last line:
Ye Thuza: That would leave marks. One should try to make these things look like accidents. Best of all, make it look like natural causes…
Alternate line after the last line:
Larisa: Or make it an accident involving fire!!!
>:=)>
Schedule:
Wake up in the morning, preparing breakfast and tea, breakfast, murder, murder, murder, morning shower, murder, murder, murder, lunch at Tiffany’s, murder, murder, laundry, murder, murder, murder, afternoon tea, Parent Teacher Meeting, murder, murder, murder……..
YAY! 😀
Considering she wears a scarf, she may not even need her bare hands.
Oh, dear. This will not go well for the teacher. Dang does she have it coming.
Woah! She’s so badass she don’t even have the time to deal with mofos!
Also, that diarrhea drinking buffoon is a BIOLOGY TEACHER? Holy ciggaretts! What’s the world comming to?
What’s the book of Woo? Woos backstory before he met Sandra or something?
How sad that Sandra cannot go to her father as well. Because of course, being a mere male, he’d have no credibility, and if he tried to stand up or push back in any way, he’d be arrested.
No, this is women’s work.
Not to even mention Cloud’s parents.
Oh great, we’ve got the man-hater stereotype AND the strong independent woman who ends up being written as if she was a guy (though, not given the same screentime, of course) <.<
Nah, that's sarcasm, I actually like this arc, though it's 'good, not great'.
And 'Cloud Mom's one of the better background characters in general (I think she'd be a bit boring as a main character, since I get the impression her day mostly consists of ordinary tasks rather than grand adventure with a sprinkling of calvin-esque philosophy, but that's not so much a flaw as just evidence she's an NPC and/or a 'Retired Adventurer')
I like how Novil brought up Ye Thuza in here. She’s a VERY strong and independent woman, but she doesn’t hate men or anything like that. She’s married with 2 kids and still kicks more ass than most men any day!
@ AckAckAck:
Nice Izzard paraphrase…
I have a feeling Um.. Cambridge is going to react just like Yuna’s teacher, once she meets Ye Thuza.
I look forward to her face being drawn with an appropriate look of shock and fear.
Greenwood Goat wrote:
Doesn’t seem to me to fit her MO. Ye Thuza is a soldier, not an assassin.
Notice she’s playing a game console when he brings up the subject.
Not many parents even think about such. Having children and the consequences surrounding them keeps the parents too busy. Of course, Cloud is not your normal child. Most other Jr High or high school boys would be figuring a way to ‘settle’ the problem themselves (and getting in trouble for it).
Truthfully, I think Sandra, Larisa, Michelle, and a few other females have a better chance of ‘finishing’ the problem… ever hear of ‘sexual scandal’? It wouldn’t be too hard to convince authorities this particular teacher has “gone too far”.
Authors, just so you know, at least where I live, Church Choir isn’t a common phrase. The same meaning could’ve been gotten by just saying “I’ll see if I can squeeze it in between Choir and Taekwondo.”
At least where I live, a choir is always affiliated with a church unless otherwise specified.
@ Michael:
Aw! I wanna do some kicking!
Cue Patrick Star getting his excuse of a head being shoved into a trombone.
Now we are getting to the heart of it. Just as most of us has predicted Cloud’s mom will sort it out.
@ Ian Albert:
Eight words.
Pragmatic warfare. Guerrilla warfare. They are the same.
@ preadatordetector:
And very messy either way. And I would not really call her an assassin, more like an afterlife assistance counselor.
@ Van:
Inhumation expert?
@ Switch Master:
See comic number 500. It is an ongoing challenge to translate it.
Now if Novil wanted to be really evil, he could squeeze a new storyline in between this and when Ye Thuza goes after Cambridge. Luckily, our Novil is a benevolent Novil who treats his fans well.
The life of a mother is always such a busy one lol.
@ AckAckAck:
How many people do you really think she has time to murder!? Saber-tooth squirrels can barely fit in one murder a week, nevermind fourteen or more in one day!
@ Switch Master:
It was a book Woo wrote that confused Sandra. It was posted as part of the comic quite a long time ago now. It is not about his past adventures from my knowledge, but it hasn’t been deciphered yet and the idea came from an actual book that hasn’t been able to be deciphered.
@ Techno Gray:
@ Sam:
Thank you both.
Start selling tickets. Proceeds to go to getting a better principal with proper hiring practices and background checks in the school.
Not sure if someone mentioned this in one of the previous comments, but this person looks VERY FAMILIAR… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Koch
My nomination for Mom of the Year.
Well, I guess Cloud wasn’t dreaming all that.
Let’s see, justice in these comics has included putting an animal abuser in a cage and “humanely” relocating a person setting illegal lethal traps to a dangerous neighborhood. I have a bad feeling about the teacher’s fate.
Maybe the caption should have been punctuated thusly …church, choir, and taekwondo. @ McDouggal:
Switch Master wrote:
Do you have any idea how many science teachers in American public schools insist that the Earth was created in its modern day form roughly 6000 years ago? When I was in high school, my chemistry teacher tried to convince the class that the ancient Egyptians had some sort of super-advanced technology that included lasers, GPS, and anti-gravity devices that they used to construct the pyramids (and this was a couple of decades before Ancient Aliens). Cloud’s teacher is unique only in her brand of crazy, but there are plenty of teachers in the real world who are just as far off the deep end.
Reads better in German, imo.
I, unfortunately, went to parochial high school. However, during a religion class, one student questioned genesis with reference to paleontology and Darwinian evolution (which was taught in science class). The teacher, who was a priest stated that the bible’s version of creation was allegorical; however, that didn’t preclude god intervening in “man’s” evolution in his terms “blessing mankind with reason and the knowledge of good and evil”. I seem to recall he was a Jesuit priest and they have always had a rational view to science and religion. I think you’ll find that creationists are pretty much relegated to Bible Belt fundamentalists. As for me, to quote the Bard,
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” (Hamlet by William Shakespeare)
@ mechwarrior:
As therapeutic as Ye Thuza physically breaking that horrible woman’s every bone, I get the feeling her solution will have a bit more..finesse. Too bad I’m too busy imagining an epic ass kicking to think of what Ye Thuza will ‘really’ do.
Why is Cloud’s mom doing Taekwondo? It should be Lethwei, since she’s Burmese.
There may not be any violence. I think Ye Thuza is capable of cutting Ms Cambridge off at the knees with words, not blows.
But whichever way it happens, I’m sure it will be instructive.
@ Carl Tomacruz:
THAT’S RACIIIIIST!
But honestly, why not? Maybe she just likes Taekwondo more.
But honestly, Ye is a good example of a truly strong female character. She can kick ten times ass than anyone else, has dark and troubled past, but she still got married, settled into life of a housemon and it didn’t make her any less “free” or “weaker”.
Women should not be said to be “strong” by how “non-stereotypical” they are, but how well they achieve their own dreams.
Ahhahaha… ^^; *nervous*
I see Mrs. Cambridge finally reached Cloud’s breaking point and pushed him beyond it.
Not that many of us didn’t see some kind of confrontation coming…
“Mom, are you a strong woman?”
“I made you, didn’t I?”
…while I’m a bit satisfied that Ye Thuza is going to face off against that bitch, I can’t say that I’m pleased with the approach.
So Cloud just walks up to her and asks her to strangle her teacher, and Ye Thuza is just…..”Okay”?
That’s a bit disturbing, and makes both characters seem a little psychotic.
Here’s an idea: Make Ye Thuza find out about Dorothy’s blatant sexism, not approve of it, and THEN kick her ass when Dorothy gets on her high horse and tries to put down Cloud. This reinforces that Ye Thuza is a good mother who watches over her children like a hawk, and a badass who doesn’t take crap from anyone.
Still, it’s a bit early, let’s see how this goes.
I’d be horribly disappointed if this ends without a good old “Hannibal Lecture”. Ye Thuza is way too cool to resolve such petty bullshit with violence.