Page 10: Wait, What?
Monday, March 19th, 2007Yes, a big event just happened, but we’ll find out more about it very soon and see it in its entirety eventually. Also, I might have went too far with Parker’s craziness on this page, but I like it! Oh, and for anyone who’s not sure, Parker is watching Stasia on a big screen, very far away from the stage herself.
March 19th, 2007 at 12:56 am
hahah i dont know what is more fun, the fact that theres i priest on the stage or that Parker forgets that she is peeing and then stands butte naked (letterraly) with pee on her pants
March 19th, 2007 at 1:16 am
omg….
March 19th, 2007 at 1:18 am
aw, poor Parker, she looks so devistated
March 19th, 2007 at 1:19 am
Oh my dear sweet Lord….
March 19th, 2007 at 1:26 am
Awesome! I didn’t think she’d marry him /then/. That just makes it all the better! Poor Parker though… Oh well, that’s what you get when you ignore the potty. (The potty is vengeful!)
March 19th, 2007 at 2:03 am
XDDDDD
Poor Parker! I definitively love her a lot, she’s a crazy fan, just like me
But where does the priest come from ? Stasia isn’t sensed to get married, is she ?
March 19th, 2007 at 2:10 am
Wasn’t planned at all. When 20,000 people are in one place, one of them’s bound to be a priest. More on this in future pages.
March 19th, 2007 at 2:51 am
Ah.. Sooo that’s the craziness
March 19th, 2007 at 3:27 am
Well… That was suprising. Things are getting interesting now.
March 19th, 2007 at 4:07 am
Awww. Parker is the best kind of crazy. I can’t wait to see what happens next (and what she does, of course).
March 19th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Nah, that bit of craziness made for a great comedic moment. “Did I forget to stop peeing?!” “I forgot to stop peeing.” Awesome.
Plus we got a chance to see an awesome tease of Parker’s figure. The fact that it was cut-off right at the curve makes it all the hotter, kind of like when Elvis’ hip gyrations were censored off Ed Sullivan. Eisu, an artist that I already bow to, has done an amazing job with this comic.
Seriously, Eisu doesn’t just own me at art, he freaking intimidates me.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:10 am
Wow I am loving this comic more and more *hugs Guy*
I looove the look on Guy’s face in panel 5
I cannot wait to see what happens!!
Also Parker is a cutie!!! *hugs both Parker and Guy* ^.^
Thanks for writing (and to Eisu for drawing) this wonderful story ^.^ Brightens up my day every time you update
March 19th, 2007 at 6:13 am
WOW. Came like a slap! how come? why Guy’s not relutant? See it in the next episode of “Marry Me”! lol
March 19th, 2007 at 6:16 am
Panel 6! Panel 6 is EXACTLY why I love Eisu’s art. Facial expressions such as that are truely fantastic. Oh, and one last thing:
Parker, you loveable little clinicly insane scamp you. Like hell this will stop her from storming on stage.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:20 am
It’s not that surprising considering the hint on the opening page for this site but it’s still a wonderful case of dramatic irony.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:48 am
Panel seven did it for me. Just that LOOK on her face… Oh, Parker, I adore thee so. (Ish. Kinda. Not really.)
I imagine poor Guy’s all like… ‘What the…’ In his poor little brain. I’d sure as hay be confused. And shocked.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Oh yes, Parker is definitely a Spike. XD Or even more, a mix of Spike and the crazy sister. :3
And why the hell does Guy do NOTHING against whatever is happening on stage? He didn’t evene want to hold the sign, and now he seems to marry Stasia..
If I was Parker I’d be very pissed about the missed chance.. literally XD
March 19th, 2007 at 9:26 am
bahahahaha, something we can all sympathize with, but won’t admit to!
March 19th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Poor Parker. PeePants is a terrible thing to have.
Ditch the pants and run up on stage naked, I say! And demand your chance to marry Stasia!
Oh yeah. I said it. Woman marriage.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:10 am
“And why the hell does Guy do NOTHING against whatever is happening on stage?”
If you’re a regular guy who is so uncool that your best/only friend is Parker, and let’s say Jessica Simpson said she’d marry you and was serious about it, would you turn it down? Also, it happens so fast that there’s really nothing he could do about it other than just running away, I think. Comes out of nowhere. 20,000 people cheering the whole thing on. He probably was barely able to get a word out. He’ll explain his thought process on that shortly in the comic, and, spoiler: The main reason he’ll give for agreeing to it is that he felt sorry for her and didn’t want to embarrass her even more by actually turning her down.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Yeah… If some world-famous pop singer (or whatever) suddenly grabbed me out of the audience and asked me to marry her, I wouldn’t have enough brain power left to do anything other than mumble ‘Uh…. Yes?’ And it would be fairly embarrassing to said singer if the person they chose said no in front of an entire audience. That’s like, a slap in the face, no matter how popular or well-loved. (Although there’d always be a replacement waiting.)
March 19th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Yeah, your argumentation is right.. I guess I didn’t think about the scene itself enough. I just thought I’d definitely say no if some stranger asks to marry me.. I didn’t take in thought how famous etc. Stasia is. (and how cute/hot.)
March 19th, 2007 at 11:56 am
bwahahahaha now this is a good one
I forgot to stop peeing… lol
March 19th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
*laughs hysterically* Brilliant. Can’t wait for the next update!
March 19th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Oh poor Guy. And Parker. Oh, Parker makes ME pee a little.
Oh man, I’m anxious for the next few pages. AHH COME, WEDNESDAY!
March 19th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
HAHAHA.
Here’s a list
1)Bobby’s a funny writer
2) Remy STILL rocks my socks like no tomorrow with his art.
3)Parker is HOT
4)If I got asked to marry ANY pop star, I would say Pink. She’s just freaking awesome and then she’s abuse me once we’re married for calling her a Pop star when she’s actually a rocker.
5)If Britney Spears asked me, I’d laugh until I pooped.
6)Parker is HOT. (yeah I know)
March 19th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Love that bit: “I forgot to stop peeing.”
Ah! Fan-girl moment right there! xD
Yes, while it’s true that I’m also a fangirl…and that I haven’t been writing at all…
I’ve read the whole comic through at least three times! In one day! Whoo hoo!
I heart you people…
Go! Wednesday! Yaaaaay! *can’t wait to see Parker and her pee-pants reacting to what Guy is going to say* =3
March 19th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Omg.
Poor, crazy Parker.
This is just insane. xD
I can’t wait to see what happened in more detail than “hey they’re a freakin PREIST!”
March 19th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Bobby, you talk too much!
Why answer questions about “why”? Give us the chance to satisfy our noisiness, suspend the answer and keep us curious! Until now your story is told with amazing speed. Your storytelling is excellent. To use the perspective of some missing the crucial moment when telling us about the climax of the setting so far, brilliant! Shakespeare! Ingenious! You really don’t have to explain yourself here. I am sure the story itself will answer everything in an exciting and amusing manner. Just relax, lay back and let us twist on your hook.
Well, having said that, let me join the praise of Eisus artwork. Two masters of their art seem to have found each other. The style is very different, but in every other sense you might have the potential to become the new Goscinny/Uderzo dream team.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
“I’ve never been so happy to see a bush” - that got me off-guard, I really wasn’t expecting political jokes at this moment… ^__^;
So she just called Guy up and had him marry her? More importantly, why did he just say yes? He isn’t even that a great fan of hers… well, she IS hot, but nonetheless… I can’t wait to see the scene in detail!
March 19th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Well, this is - first of all - my first comment on this webcomic though I’ve been reading it since NPP announced it being open. I aboslutely love it and really, this page is hilarious. Parker is a riot and really, I love Stasias wedding gown
March 19th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
That would really, really REALLY suck >.>
March 19th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Where did the priest come from? Is he just a fan, or a weird part of Stasia’s entourage….?
March 20th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Honestly now… Guy can’t say no for quite a few reasons.
1. There’s an audience. People conform in front of audiences.
2. Stasia is hot/rich. Hot people and rich people can both make us do crazy things.
3. He will never get a girl anyways if he says no, people will just assume he’s gay.
4. He might not even realize that it’s real. I’d just assume it was part of the act and go along with it.
5. His dad would beat the hell out of him for turning her down!
March 20th, 2007 at 4:43 am
I think he suddenly found every camera and a few thousand eyes on him, and Guy just didn’t know what to do.
As for the priest, don’t ALL concerts have clergy?
March 20th, 2007 at 5:04 am
Well I was kind of let down with the crude nature of this. I found Remy’s work brilliant, and picked up on Nopinkponies about eight months back. Since then I’ve noticed less and less effort and more and more homosexual slapstick than witicism. Now I find it slowly but steadily drifting into oblivion in favour of jokes about urine…. sorry guys, great artists, but this is too low brow for me.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Ewwww… She forgot to stop…. EWWW… XD
Aw, poor Parker. That could’ve been her up there about to marry (at least that’s what it looks like) Stasia…
March 20th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
ya where did the priest come from? Even if he was one of her fans why wud he show up to her concert with the book and outfit and everythin?
March 20th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
he’s not carrying a book, but I was under the belief that a man of the cloth will always be wearing their outfit.
March 20th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Yea I believe priests alway wear their collar (at least all the priests I have ever met) But I still find it very funnie that a priest of all people would be a pop concert hehehe
March 20th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
“I really wasn’t expecting political jokes at this moment…”
It had nothing to do with politics actually, or at least that wasn’t intended. She’s really just never been so happy to see a bush. I could see several meanings for that, though, but none of them are intended. I hate metaphorical writing in general and basically never do anything like that.
“Where did the priest come from? Is he just a fan, or a weird part of Stasia’s entourage….?”
Just a fan. Stasia gives a high percentage of her money to various charities and she probably donates a lot to churches as well. I kind of see her as a Harriet Hayes figure (Google it!), even though I hate that character and every other character in “Studio 60.” Maybe she gives money and tickets to some local churches for all the cities that hold her concerts.
And sorry about taking so long to approve the comments from new people — I was out of town for about 36 hours. Thanks for the positive remarks!
March 21st, 2007 at 2:52 am
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March 21st, 2007 at 3:18 am
I think Tova was another victim of the heart symbol thing. Apparently your posts get cut off if you use this character: <
Repost it without using that character!
March 21st, 2007 at 7:26 pm
*GASP* Bobby sir, how come you can type the less-than signal and we can’t? ;_;
March 21st, 2007 at 7:27 pm
…*less-than symbol
I’m tired, okay? XD
March 21st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Yeah, that is weird. I don’t know why. I’m magical! >>>>
I’m so awesome.
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Wow, I didn’t even know parker was a girl until this strip XD.
March 30th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Nudity is funny.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:47 pm
“Well I was kind of let down with the crude nature of this. I found Remy’s work brilliant, and picked up on Nopinkponies about eight months back. Since then I’ve noticed less and less effort and more and more homosexual slapstick than witicism. Now I find it slowly but steadily drifting into oblivion in favour of jokes about urine…. sorry guys, great artists, but this is too low brow for me.” - SomethingBlue4You
Personally I think it’s a little premature to judge a comic as low-brow when there have only been 10 pages.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Some people just think that anything involving pee or poop is automatically horrible and automatically a “pee joke” or “poop joke,” even if there’s other context involved. I’m certainly not saying this was “high brow,” but I don’t think it’s necessarily low brow either. It illustrates in a humorous way how shocked Parker was by what was going on — so stunned that she totally forgot that she was in the act of peeing. It helps to show the magnitude of what just happened and also get a laugh.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:04 am
Agreed. Besides, a little slapstick or bathroom humor *every now and then* doesn’t hurt.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Hi. I found this comic throughj acksreviews.blogspot.com, and he’s right, it’s great fun, and a quick read from start to the current installment.
But I was hugely disappointed that such a key scene happens off screen. It would have been so much more interesting, exciting, and fun, to see the moment where he holds up the sign and Stasia points at him–it could have been intercut with Parker’s view from the bushes. At this point, I as a reader am just as involved in Guy’s point of view as I am in Parker’s–neither of them is more important as a point of view character to me yet–and I’m just as involved with Stasia and her sister. But instead of seeing the big moment–eh, we don’t get to see it, we only get told about it, and the momentum flies out the window. To be absolutely honest? I lost interest in the comic right here. It might not seem like a big thing to some readers, but to others, that sort of “telling not showing” just kills the fun, especially so close to the start of the story.
And… hmm… it could have been a really young priest who might actually have been a fan of Stasia’s music. Or even an older groovy hippie priest. I found it kinda weird that an older, staid-looking priest was there. Maybe he was bringing his kids or some poor waifs from the congregation….
Gosh, that would have been a funny moment to see, too–Stasia asking if there’s a priest in the house, and, like, five or six people saying “I’m a priest!”
I wish I could give the comic unmitigated gushing kudos, because it is a light, fun idea, and, heck, I even love the banner to pieces (I’m a fan of guys with floofy hair). But I was completely disappointed with this page, and also disappointed that the next thing we get is a “sitting around on the couch yakking while Stasia shows she’s out of touch like typical pop stars” scene. So… it’s nice work up to now, kinda eh now, but maybe there will be great things going forward.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:25 am
Oh, and lest you think I am all about the negitivity: I like that Stasia’s sister is pregnant–good shorthand for some of Stasia’s motivation. I love that Parker was holding up a “Marry Me” sign (I guess that’s what it says, since we don’t get to see Guy holding it). Anyway, I hope I have all the names right, and I do think there’s quite a bit to like in this comic.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:40 am
Klio, we will see all the important parts of the marriage, don’t worry, from several different angles as well. There were many reasons not to show it in real time, the main ones being that it would seem too fake and awkward and would take too many boring pages to show, pages which couldn’t be wasted on that at this stage. Believe me, it’s something I would have liked to have shown in real time as well, but it was basically just impossible when you really look at what the scene would be like at that moment and how it fits in with the flow of the movie. If it was actually seen in real time, THAT would have killed the story, a lot more than not seeing it. There’s basically no way of showing the whole thing and making it seem like it could really happen, or no good way at least, and people would just say, “Ugh, this is so fake.” It’s also one of the most uncomfortable, awkward things of all time. It’s not dramatic or funny, but just makes you feel like throwing up basically. It also hurts the characters of both Stasia and Guy, making Stasia seem like an insane, pathetic loser, and making Guy seem like this brainless fool who just stands up there and waits for things to get into place and says “I do” basically. The marriage scene will seem a lot less bad, though, after we get to know the characters a little better, especially in the way we’ll see the marriage, which will mostly be over other dialogue by main characters and/or news anchors, talking about what happened. I considered many different options, including having them get married somewhere other than right there that night on the stage, and I came close to putting the concert in Vegas as well, which makes it a lot more believable, but in the end I decided this was the best way, for dozens of reasons. It was the lesser of two evils.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:55 am
If I may leap in for when the movie gets made - I think the Priest thing would have gone a lot further, and with a lot less complaint if there was a panel or two at the beginning of the strip (or a scene at the start of the movie) where something is explained about maybe a youth group or church organization being in attendance at the concert for whatever reason. Maybe Stacia offers a shout out to a group she donated tickets to. It would give us all the knowledge that the priest is there (or has the possibility of being there) so when he does turn up, people just accept it.
I’ve read all the way to the end (as it stands right now, page 57) and I really enjoy the story. I think it’s a tremendously funny concept, and has the chance to be a really cute romantic comedy. It’ll most likely see a thousand changes before it ever gets close to being a movie, but this being the medium it’s working in right now, I want to do my best to help.
Happy writing Bobby, and great art Eisu!
PS: I don’t think the peeing thing was low brow… In my head, the scene in the movie will be audio more then visual, with Parker screeching. Once the sound is all gone, the audience will realize that there’s still the sound of a person taking a whiz in a bush in the background. Followed by Parker giving the line of “I forgot to stop peeing”. I just think it’s a joke that will be conveyed beautifully in the video medium, and is much, MUCH harder to convey comically in print only.