Experienced
Feb28
on 2019-02-28
at 17:04
At least he’s working again…
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Carly
Pixie, thanks for coming in.
Pixie
No problem. I need to call the factory anyway. So, where is Ace?
Carly
He and some of the others are, uh, away on some personal urgent business. No telling how long. So you and I are in charge for a while.
Pixie
Are we talking a day or so, or will he miss the wedding?
Carly
No idea.
What’s going on with the factory?
Pixie
They got our payment, but haven’t sent any tracking information on the last shipment. Again. Fortunately we have enough stock on hand for another month or so.
Carly
Well, Mr Won likes to talk to you, so I’ll let you handle it. It’s just us in charge until Ace and Luna get back.
Pixie
Just us two? I hope it’s not for long. Even with Ace and Luna, we’re working odd hours. We sure could use another warm body to be in charge. Don’t you have hiring authority? Or promoting?
Carly
It’s been discussed. But we’d have to find somebody with management or supervisory experience that knows business. Then we’d have to train them in how the company works. And I hate to say it, but there’s nobody here I’d promote just now.
Pixie
Maybe Mr. Gibs would like to work here again.
Carly
It would have to as an Assistant Manager at best.
Wouldn’t that be a step down for him?
Pixie, thanks for coming in.
Pixie
No problem. I need to call the factory anyway. So, where is Ace?
Carly
He and some of the others are, uh, away on some personal urgent business. No telling how long. So you and I are in charge for a while.
Pixie
Are we talking a day or so, or will he miss the wedding?
Carly
No idea.
What’s going on with the factory?
Pixie
They got our payment, but haven’t sent any tracking information on the last shipment. Again. Fortunately we have enough stock on hand for another month or so.
Carly
Well, Mr Won likes to talk to you, so I’ll let you handle it. It’s just us in charge until Ace and Luna get back.
Pixie
Just us two? I hope it’s not for long. Even with Ace and Luna, we’re working odd hours. We sure could use another warm body to be in charge. Don’t you have hiring authority? Or promoting?
Carly
It’s been discussed. But we’d have to find somebody with management or supervisory experience that knows business. Then we’d have to train them in how the company works. And I hate to say it, but there’s nobody here I’d promote just now.
Pixie
Maybe Mr. Gibs would like to work here again.
Carly
It would have to as an Assistant Manager at best.
Wouldn’t that be a step down for him?
Hold it…WTF HAPPENED to him being hired by a CartMart Rival?!?!
That was quite the tale! I’d recommend you go back through the archives sometime to fully enjoy it, rather than me just distilling it down to a few sentences. Be a waste of all the good jokes.
I’ll just say, Rosa is a not-so-evil business genius, and leave it at that. 😛
What happened AFTER he was hired hasn’t been said yet, it’s about to be seen.
Actually Gabe mentioned that his father’s new job fell through, but not many details as to why.
Gabe already said elsewhere that the job didn’t work out. And the rival hired Uncle Gary because Rosa made it look like she wanted to hire him, so it might not have been a great fit….
Where do I sign up for the SAVE GARY GIBS campaign?
… Maybe a bit more of a “lateral” move … ?
… although I MUST wonder whether Gary’s “reduced” circumstances might’ve had any effect on his relationship with his wife … ?
… perhaps improved her grasp of “Humility” … ?
… because HE seems so much less stressed, here, so he MIGHT not have any motivation to move back to “GibsCo”.
(or perhaps that’s just the effect of their counselling sessions)
In the last panel of today’s page, is this the 1st mention of “Rosa Cola” that we’ve seen … ?
(Is Rosa Cartman branching-out into the soft-drink business?)
All major grocery/ discount corporations have ‘store brand’ generic items. These products CAN’T use the original name, therefore there’s a Dr K (Kroger), Mountain Lightning (Walmart), etc. Some have a brand name too, Pride, Choice.
[Mitch]:
I believe you’re referring to Gabe’s 2nd word-balloon in this page here:
[https://www.tmi-comic.com/comic/space-to-grow/]
Wow! With the cap on, can totally see the Ace resemblance, scrolling down thought it was Ace (or an Ace)
[Guesticus]:
I’m also thinking that he MAY have lost a bit of weight … ?
Whether from working at “GibsCo”, or from living with his wife (or both?), perhaps his earlier appearance was due to “stress-eating” … ?
Many have found that weight-loss is far easier if they start by removing “stressors” from their environment.
I remember seeing his ‘wife’ at that stripper bar/place back when the group went there for Jaz’ celebration(?), and when the gang was dared to go on stage.
Ikr? I thought he was hired by Henry (Was that his name?), basically Rosa’s assistant, and had dated Maddy and turned out to be gay. Wonder what happened there.
That looks like the place where Kimi works. Gary’s job may be more than it seems…
Isn’t that the same place Kimi works – as a cover for her government work? Did Gina pull some strings for her brother?
Uncle Gary is looking a lot healthier, and happier, good for him. I expect he’d be happy to help them out.
Between him and Pixie this looks like old friends week. Wonder who’s next, Peggy Walker? I always did like her character, even though she’s a little tame for TMI. ^_~
I just did an Archive binge over the last few days. It was good to catch up with some of the storylines, but there’s one or two I definitely remember that seem to be missing. One is the first appearance of Luna, the other is when Bruno started going out with Peggy.
LazerWulf:- Luna’s first appearance was after her parents died in the car crash (or was it that awkward meeting in the office, before her relationship to Ace was revealed?)
When did Bruno start going out with Peggy? o_O
[Guesticus]:
Actually, I’m fairly certain that Luna’s debut was long before that, when Larry & Ace discovered that someone had put her face on a porn-image, & then posted it to a fake Myspace-account. I’m pretty-sure it was also the story-line wherein we were first introduced to the “classic” Ace-response:
“It’s taken care of.”
I found the pages in an archive! It starts here, with 2 pages:
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717200901/https://www.tmi-comic.com/2007/10/04/mystalker/]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717200857/https://www.tmi-comic.com/2007/10/05/nsfw/]
… then all the rest of the arc is combined onto this one link, covering 2007/12/06_to_2008/07/15:
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717200614/https://www.tmi-comic.com/2007/12/06/luna/]
As for Bruno-&-Peggy:
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717204053/https://www.tmi-comic.com/2006/03/01/pegged/] = Peggy’s debut
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717203720/https://www.tmi-comic.com/2006/04/22/funbags/] = Bruno’s debut
… & they first got together “off-screen”, but THIS page was their first on-screen sighting as a ‘couple’:
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717202524/https://www.tmi-comic.com/2006/11/19/no-liar/]
Shortly after Ace met Peggy. She went stalker on him and he moved out of the country for a while. When he thought it was safe he came back but she had hired detectives to to tell her if that happened. I would say she’s the most messed up character, until you consider some 0f the others. Then again, she came to the rescue a few times and had a long conversation with Ace that made her very sympathetic.
DMC_Run:- thank you, wasn’t counting the Myspace bit as we never actually saw her (can’t check the links as machine is acting up)
Knew Bruno had left the country, butt had forgotten the specifics, thank you both for reminding me
What I wanna know is, was Carly always that much bigger than Pixie? I could have sworn they were almost equal height.
At first I though Carly here was that transvestite from the party so long ago (forget his name), the one who needed another hug from Gina after getting sad about his own mom, but I couldn’t fathom why he’d suddenly be in the story again.
Bruno. And he’s working Carly’s old job at the front desk now.
Ack, not Bruno, total brain fart. TONY is his name.
@DMC_Run: Thanks. I had forgotten about TMI – Bonus! strips. The first time I read through the archives they were already in-line, while Maddie’s Monster was on a separate site. Now Maddie’s Monster is in-line, and all the Bonus! strips are missing (except in Web Archive).
That was his daughter. Apparently Gibsco can’t pay her enough that the tips from dancing aren’t still appreciated.
Guesticus, she shows up to work there at Gibsco so Larry can keep a closer watch on her. He places her to help Ace with the computers. Her being told about the MySpace page gets the information that she never signed up for on. Ace takes care of the idiot whom faked the page. Both Luna’s first appearance and Bruno’s early appearances occured in Bonus Comics as vote incentives. Andy later placed them into the timeline, but when recovering from the website’s catastrophic crash it appears some have still not made it back.
Remember seeing them, just forgot the order in which they appeared 🙁
@[Greywolf]:
I always wondered, is it possible that the idiot who put Luna’s face on a fake “MySpace”-account might be the SAME idiot who got a bit “grabby” with her & got a face-full of her foot for his troubles? My theory is, the “MySpace”-incident might’ve been his misguided attempt at revenge, & just went too far.
My impression was that the groper was still in high school while the idiot using photoshop was an adult. I would hazard a guess that the porn was done by an older brother thinking that a cheerleader would have no defense against a computer attack on a platform she wasn’t on.