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| Monday, July 14, 2008 | Dewey: You read fifteen books!
/ Girl: Actually this is my fifth reading log. / Dewey: You read 75 books in 3 weeks!
/ Girl: More, but that's all I could be bothered to report. / Dewey: I suppose you're here for your prize!
/ Girl: I'm not here for the conversation. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080714 |
| Tuesday, July 15, 2008 | Dewey: Having trouble choosing your summer reading prize?
/ Woman: Yes. Yes I am. / Dewey: There are a lot of great choices!
/ Woman: I've read most of them, and the rest are garbage. / Dewey: I'm sure we can find you something to read.
/ Woman: I'm sure you could be a little more condescending. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080715 |
| Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | Tamara: Dewey said you had a problem!
/ Girl: Yes, I'm allergic to drivel. / Tamara: You've got a great vocabulary!
/ Girl: Thanks, I found it in a cereal box. / Tamara [[to Dewey]]: I thought YOU got the ironic ones.
/ Dewey: It's YOUR reading program.
/ Girl: You shouldn't play hot potato in front of... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080716 |
| Thursday, July 17, 2008 | Mel: I heard there was a issue with a summer reading prize?
/ Dewey: Problem solved. / Mel: Tamara?
/ Tamara: Taken care of! / Mel: You know I get suspicious when you team up.
/ Dewey: I wouldn't count the petty cash too carefully if I were you. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080717 |
| Friday, July 18, 2008 | [[Dewey and a patron are looking at a computer screen.]] / Male patron: All my desktop icons are gone!
/ Dewey: This isn't your home computer. / Male patron: It isn't?
/ Dewey: This is a public P.C. You're in the library. / [[Patron is in bathrobe and holds dripping toilet plunger]]
/ Male patron: That... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080718 |
| Saturday, July 19, 2008 | [[Two old women]]
/ Woman: You know you're getting old when the librarians start looking young!
/ Dewey: There are other clues. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080719 |
| Sunday, July 20, 2008 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "The Art of racing in the rain" by Garth Stein / Tamara: Denny started leaving the TV on when he left for the day.That's where Enzo learned about Mongolia, where, when dogs die, they return as men.If they are ready. He hopes he will be ready. Denny races cars. It's his... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080720 |
| Monday, July 21, 2008 | "What are you listening to?" / Tamara: The Randy Newman Songbook / Ned: Amour with the incomparable Malcolm Gets. / Dewey: THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE audiobook by Audrey Niffenegger. / [[Mel is neither replying nor listening to anything, but writing on her desk with a little smile]] http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080721 |
| Tuesday, July 22, 2008 | {{Repeat of a strip originally published on 8/20/2004}} http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080722 |
| Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | {{Repeat of a strip originally published on 9/2/2004}} http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080723 |
| Thursday, July 24, 2008 | {{Repeat of a strip originally published on 10/12/2004}} http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080724 |
| Friday, July 25, 2008 | {{Repeat of a strip originally published on 4/23/2005}} http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080725 |
| Saturday, July 26, 2008 | {{Repeat of strip originally published on 9/10/2005}} http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080726 |
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "The Gargoyle" by Andrew Davidson / Colleen: A car plunges off a cliff, leaving a man horrifically injured, near death.
/ The burn unit works miracles, but they can't do anything to save his soul, which was rotting long before the accident.
/ Then a strange and beautiful... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080727 |
| Unshelved comic strip archive | [[An angry father approaches Dewey at the Service Desk with his daughter. The daughter has a sticker on her back]]
/ Angry Father: Who put this sticker on my daughter?
/ Dewey: What does it say? / [[Angry Father reads the sticker from the girl's back]]
/ Angry Father: "I put this on your kid when you... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080728 |
| Sticker | Dewey: I put that sticker on your daughter. I want parents to know that public places aren't always safe places. / Dewey: I want you to see past the indictment of your parenting. I want you to take the opportunity to improve it. / Angry Man: I want to talk to your mananger.
/ Dewey: Of course... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080729 |
| More Supervision Needed | Dewey: He needs to pay attention to his daughter.
/ Mel: You should have alerted him that she needed more supervision. / Dewey: We tapped on his shoulder. Yelled in his ear. When we blocked the screen he grunted and shoved us out of the way. / Mel: Did you turn off his computer?
/ Angry Father:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080730 |
| More Supervision Needed | Girl: Sorry I got you in trouble.
/ Dewey: You didn't do anything wrong. / [[They walk together]]
/ Girl: My dad was pretty angry at you.
/ Dewey: That he was. In fact, I'm surprised he's letting you talk to me. / [[They approach the public computer where the girl's father is busy at the workstation.]]
/ Girl:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080731 |
| Friday, August 01, 2008 | [[Mel, Tamara, and Merv are standing around Dewey who is in the thinker pose.]] / Mel: Channeling Rodin?
/ Tamara: Formulating a new youth outreach strategy?
/ Merv: Working off an iced latte headache. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080801 |
| Saturday, August 02, 2008 | [[Dewey stands with Marge, a patron holding a cell phone to her ear]]
/ Dewey: You'll have to take your call outside.
/ Marge: I'm just listening to my messages. / Blanche [[from Phone]]: Marge, it's me, Blanche! I wanted to tell you all about my date! / Dewey: Can you at least turn your speakerphone... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080802 |
| Sunday, August 03, 2008 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "Adventures in Oz" by Eric Shanower / Tamara: Dorothy's adventures in the Land of OZ continue in this colorful graphic novel, featuring five new stories!
/ In the Forgotten Forest of Oz, Nelanthe, a wood nymph, is made mortal and banished from the Forest of Burzee for... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080803 |
| Monday, August 04, 2008 | Mel [[Off-panel]]: Exciting News!
/ Dewey: "Brace yourself." / Mel: The event you've been waiting for is here!
/ Dewey: "All your pent-up dread and anxiety has come to fruition." / Mel: It's our annual performance review!
/ Dewey: "Let a week of pointless navel-gazing commence." http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080804 |
| Tuesday, August 05, 2008 | Mel: For this year's review I've been instructed by HR to follow up on certain customer complaints. / Mel: I trust it won't come as a complete surprise that these center around *you.* [[pointing]] / Tamara: [[to Dewey]] You don't look worried.
/ Dewey: [[At computer]] The library's committment to employee... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080805 |
| Wednesday, August 06, 2008 | [[Mel is gathering feedback for Dewey's performance review]] / Tamara: Dewey's got his own attitude, but he's bright and shiny! / Colleen: He has a good time at work. I can't fault him for that. / Buddy: I remember one time...No, no I don't. / Randy: You want a stool pigeon? You bring the stool,... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080806 |
| Thursday, August 07, 2008 | [[Mel is gathering feedback for Dewey's performance review]] / Old Man: Dewey says what's on his mind, but he always helps me in the end. / Angry Woman: He's no worse than the rest of you. Not that that's saying much. / Merv: I couldn't ask for a better unindicted co-conspirator. / Confused Man:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080807 |
| Friday, August 08, 2008 | Mel: I've conducted extensive interviews with staff and patrons regarding your contacts.
/ Dewey: Lay it on me. / Mel: No one has anything bad to say about you.
/ Dewey: That's because I have an unparalleled commitment to peer support and/or customer satisfaction. / Mel: You tell people you don't like... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080808 |
| Saturday, August 09, 2008 | [[Door to Manager's Office with sign saying "review in progress"]]
/ Mel: ... in summary, you can't just say what you think!
/ Dewey: It works for me. / Mel: Why can't you embrace a bland professionalism?
/ Dewey: I prefer to call attention to my competence. / Mel: If you weren't the only one who understood... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080809 |
| Sunday, August 10, 2008 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "The Somnambulist" by Jonathan Barnes / Dewey: Edward Moon has seen better days, both as a magician and an amateur detective.
/ In the past he helped the authorities solve many a case, but then his former assistant went bad.
/ He now performs his well-worn routine to small... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080810 |
| Monday, August 11, 2008 | [[A library patron approaches Dewey at the desk]] / Patron: [[holding a book up, its pages wide open]] I can't believe I found this filth in the library! I shouldn't have to look at this! / [[Dewey grabs the book and snaps it closed.]] / Dewey: Now you don't have to look at it.
/ Patron: [[looking... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080811 |
| Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | Salesman: Troubled by intellectual freedom challenges? We've got the answer!
/ Dewey: Vanilla books. "No One Minds Vanilla" / Salesman: We've got books on all topics!
/ Dewey: This is kind of light for a book on American history. / Salesman: It's carefully crated to be acceptable to every school district... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080812 |
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