Tommy is still hung up on Doylene.

Meanwhile Wally has a real girlfriend and moved on.

Eh, in both cases they're hung up on people that have tormented them in the past. It's definitely about getting even.

True. Wally had really step up his game since leaving his old pack. Now, he's like the Alpha wolf!

"Little brother" has grown up.

Actually on none-werewolf maters, Crystall is the Alpha. That inludes Fashion.

Well there's an Alpha male and an Alpha female, also known as "Mom and Dad" which is why I brought up the litter

When meeting someone who you remembered grinding under your heel a while ago, but who has been separate from you and in a better situation, beware the potential for them going for your throat.

Tommy, one of the werewolves in Wally's pack, lost a paw in his fight against Sandra. Shortly afterwards, Mike and a friend of his were looking around the site of the that fight. His friend found the paw and, per last weeks comic, somehow got herself possessed by a werewolf ghost, and later was vampirized (or something like that).
I think someone linked a bunch of this stuff last week. Start here ( http://www.zebragirl.thecomicseries.com/comics/264/ ) to reread the whole werewolf arc.

I suppose mostly I have no idea why Wally is so angry all of a sudden. Although judging by Tommy's confused reaction maybe that's the intended effect.

ZB: Well, Wally really wasn't treated well by the rest of the pack, except perhaps Doyenne. Tommy was just expecting Wally to still be the meek Omega he could bully around.

If you're lost, you might review last week's news post. If you already did and it's something else that's confusing you, feel free to ask for clarification.

Somebody replied last week that apparently there is a mythological being out there that occurs when the ghost of a werewolf possesses someone who owns or has picked up a body part of that werewolf. The more you know.

I think it's safe to say that the girl has long ago ceased to be, and her body is just a meat chassis for Berserker Tommy's spirit.
Plus, that meat chassis is a deadly werewolf/vampire assassin now, which needs to be stopped.
So, I wouldn't feel too bad about it.

Perhaps after disarming berzerk (in a similar fashion to what betty did) she will regain control of herself (and just be a dangerous confused vampire instead of a dangerous possessed vampire)

Thank you very much!

Only in a very few.

But it was very common For witches And wizards to Become Vampires after death.

Funny thing, if I look at the speech balloons from this page and the last, it DOES imply that this is Tom speaking and that when the character first approached them it was someone else - but then, the "?!" balloon is ALSO formatted in the way that implies this is Tom. So I can't be right on all counts. :) The formatting started with the "It's just BERSERK" panel.

Ah, no, wait, I think I get the chronology.

Tom loses his paw to Sandra. Tom limps away, the paw is left behind. It is implied Tom will be killed later.

Girl finds paw in the woods.

Tom is killed. His ghost leaves his dead body, which is God knows where, and goes to haunt the part of his body which had been severed some time (years?) ago.

The girl gets haunted/possessed by Tom, in the processes absorbing the paw into her own body, and later gets vampirised.

That it?

Pretty much.

Except weres are also contagious. So....?

Well, come to think of it there are hints Crystal could be a werewolf. She brought uo smelling monsters earlier and she has an oversized (though not as big as Wally's) collar on. Seeing Wally change makes it clear these collars' size are not just as fashion choice alone.

Heh. "Tool." I'm glad someone remembered that little plot point.... Actually, now that you mention it, I might have to use that line.

So Tool WAS Berserk in this dimension? Am I reading that right?

Yes. If you look back on the Tool arc and the Werewolf arc, it's the same character, but from different dimensions.

Hang on. Are you saying that "Tom was Tool" in the same way that "Sam was Sandra" and "Crystal was Tawny"?

Because Sam recognised Berzerk as "Tom", and then said "small universe" or something. It seemed as though he had recognised Berzerk's counterpart in his dimension, therefore if there was already a Tom in that dimension it wouldn't be Tool.

Unless we take into account that Tool was *not* from that dimension. And that Tool and Tom lived (un)happily and oblivious of their connection in the Sam Sprinkles universe.

Huh. Nevermind.

http://www.zebragirl.thecomicseries.com/comics/165

"To embrace the boy named Tom".

Amazing the sort of little things you don't even notice at the time but which have a profound meaning years later. Happens a lot with this comic. I like it. :)

Mind you...

...Tool was definitely not from Sam's dimension.

...Tool was always known as "Tool" over there, where did Sam even hear the name Tom?

...Tool had been in hell once before and lost his soul (may or mayn't be related).

Following the current theories, Tool is either Tom or Tom's counterpart (possibly at different times and chronologies - heck, Tool could even be Tom in our future). But if Tool is Tom's counterpart, he comes from a third dimension - not ours and not Sam's.

You are assuming Doyenne's expressed view was the truth about the Werewolf condition.

Personally, I thought she was suffering from several insane delusions that were aged & compounded by her strange inability to communicate & mentor her chosen "children."

Doyenne was a monster not because she was a werewolf. She was a monster for what she does to her pack. She is a madwoman who turned people into werewolves, let them run rampant, while quietly judging them and growing to loath them, then murder them for failing to meet standards she never communicates with them. I doubt she ever explained her standards she needed sated to allow a pack-mate to survive.

Crystal seemed to luck out, possibly because the cleaver/quirky way Crystal probes the Alpha's thoughts & goals. Read the dreamy way she explains it to Crystal. She is always dully confused but Crystal's horror at her revealed thought process. Doyenne seems deeply comfortable with her old logic, and does not understand (nor terribly care to understand) that others would not be able to figure out this twisted ideology if it's not spelled out.

She is the monstrous mother that consumes her children.

As to her belief werewolves are wolves, and should not act human, well, that is a confusing mess in itself. Were does that begin & end? Should werewolves talk? Wear clothes? Drink tea? Hang lanterns in the trees? Turn into a human shape? A werewolf can do these things while a wolf obviously can not.

Why not just abandon a pack that fails her standards? I'm not familiar with Alpha wolves killing their packs. She scolded Berserk for being petty, then notes she will tell other supernaturals about Sandra & her family, obviously hopping said supernaturals would mess with them. So she's a deluded hypocrite too boot.

I personally suspect that her "self destructive phase" was brought on by a belief that she was a monster, or at least a human of thought first. Perhaps at some point she tried to embrace what she was, but went too far left field.

All the while she victimizes her chosen packs twice over. First she turns them, then sets them up to fail her strange standards before executing them. Standards I suspect are born out of her aged madness, with little consistency.

It's all these factors that make her a creepy & fascinating antagonist to me. (Assuming my reading is correct, of course.)

Yeah, I saw her as the worst of the pack. I suppose it's easy to forget, since she was more dignified in her cruelty.

or maybe there are multiple hells.

He probably doesn't get to wolf out on a whim in everyday, non magic-spooky-town-commando-mission situations all that often.

I'd expect him to make some good ol' shirtless time for himself when he needs to.

Yeah, know the feeling.