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| Tuesday, March 30, 2010 | [[At the library]]
/ Woman: you have to buy the other two books in this series!
/ Dewey: We'd like to but we don't have the money. / Woman: But you got me hooked!
/ Dewey: Let me find another book you'd enjoy. / Woman: If I asked for cake do you think I'd want a muffin?
/ Dewey: No, but I think you'd eat... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100330 |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100331">http://unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100331 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100401">http://unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100401 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100402">http://unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100402 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Monday, April 05, 2010 | [[Dewey and Colleen are conversing.]]
/ Dewey: No complaints about those kids?
/ Colleen: A few silent pleas, but I've ignored them. / Dewey: They're blocking the door!
/ Colleen: You can get past if you try. Takes a bit of maneuvering. / Dewey: You're making this my problem, aren't you?
/ Colleen, walking... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100405 |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100406">http://unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100406 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Wednesday, April 07, 2010 | [[discussing a bunch of kids blocking the entrance to the library]]
/ Colleen: Are they gone yet? / Dewey: They're on their way out. [[on phone]] Hi, I need a squad car at the library. A bunch of teenagers loitering by the front door. They won't let anyone in. Five of them. Yeah, pretty big.
/ Dewey [[looking... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100407 |
| Thursday, April 08, 2010 | [[Dewey is plugging a large boombox into the wall]] / Teenager: Can't afford batteries?
/ [[Dewey is holding up the boombox]] / Teenager: Look out, it's the revenge of 1989!
/ [[music is playing offscreen]] / Mel: Is that... polka? / Colleen: I didn't know teens could run that fast! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100408 |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100409">http://unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100409 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Monday, April 12, 2010 | Dewey: You gave all your personal information to a website. / Bald Man: It was encrypted.
/ Dewey: Meaning no one will see it except the mobsters you sent it to. / Bald Man: Would mobsters give me an iPad, absolutely free?
/ Dewey: No. / Bald Man: I rest my case. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100412 |
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | Dewey: It's a bad idea to give personal information out online. / Bald Man: I wanted to use the website!
/ Dewey: Did you consider the consequences? / Bald Man: I really wanted to use the website.
/ [[Dewey disappears, but the man doesn't notice]] / Bald Man: But now I want to take it back or delete it... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100413 |
| Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | Dewey [[to bald man at computer]]: You already gave away your personal information. What happens next is beyond my control.
/ [[Bald man looks nervously left and right]]
/ Bald Man: Nothing happened yet. That means I'm okay, right? http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100414 |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100415">http://unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100415 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100416">http://unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100416 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Monday, April 19, 2010 | [[At the Reference Desk in the library, a patron has approached Dewey who is at the computer and presented a paper]]
/ Patron: I'm looking for this book.
/ Dewey: Never heard of it and it's not in the catalog. / Patron: It was published today.
/ Dewey: And you thought we might have it already? / Patron:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100419 |
| Tuesday, April 20, 2010 | [[At the Reference Desk in the library, Dewey is talking with a patron.]]
/ Patron: You buy the book. You put it on the shelves.
/ Dewey: It's not that easy. / Dewey: We have to add it to our catalog first, so that you can see that it's not here yet.
/ Dewey: Then we obscure the cover with labels.
/ Dewey:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100420 |
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 | [[A Man is speaking with Dewey at the reference desk.]]
/ Man: Even with all of your processing, it shouldn't take long to get a new book on the shelf!
/ Dewey: True. If it were just one book. But we're talking *thousands* of books. *Tens* of thousands. It creates quite a backlog. / Colleen, approaching:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100421 |
| Thursday, April 22, 2010 | [[Dewey is on the phone at the reference desk.]]
/ Voice on phone: Send out my son!
/ Dewey: Sorry, I'm not a paging service. / Voice on phone: I'm outside in my car. I can see him sitting right there.
/ Dewey: Still not my job. / Voice on phone: I'll have you fired.
/ Dewey: I doubt it. You'd need to... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100422 |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100423">http://unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100423 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Monday, April 26, 2010 | [[Dewey is helping a Strange Man at the desk.]]
/ Strange Man: There are no leaves on the trees!
/ Dewey: It's called winter. / Strange Man: The kids aren't in schools!
/ Dewey: It's called a weekend. / Strange Man: The little beige men won't leave me alone.
/ Dewey, picking up phone: I'm calling for ... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100426 |
| Tuesday, April 27, 2010 | Narrator: REF DESK
/ [[Two people are necking in front of a library bookcase. A female librarian in a striped shirt sees them]]
/ [[The librarian performs a series of umpire gestures]]
/ Librarian: PENALTY.
/ HOLDING!
/ STEP BACK FIVE YARDS! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100427 |
| Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | Man: Why isn't there a sign that says "Information"?
/ Dewey: I'm behind a BIG DESK in a LIBRARY. If you're not smart enough to ask me your questions, you don't DESERVE an answer. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100428 |
| Thursday, April 29, 2010 | Angry Woman: That's it, I'm UNFRIENDING you!
/ Dewey: I don't have an account. / Angry Woman: I meant the LIBRARY.
/ Dewey: It's a BUILDING. It doesn't have FRIENDS. / Angry Woman: Then how should I express my DISPLEASURE?
/ Dewey: Stop sending it birthday cards. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100429 |
| Friday, April 30, 2010 | Unshelved Book Club Presents "Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else" by Geoff Colvin
/ {{Guest Strip (c)Chris Eliopoulos @ MiseryLovesSherman.com}} / Benny: I wish I could be a great MUSICIAN. / Benny: I just don't have any talent, Zort. / Zort: Benny,... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100430 |
| Monday, May 03, 2010 | [[Dewey is on the phone and holding a piece of paper.]]
/ Dewey: This is Dewey at the library.
/ I've got your complaint letter right here. / Dewey: I'm calling to clarify what you're upset about.
/ Because your scrawl is indecipherable. / [[Silhouette of Dewey holding the phone in front of him.]]
/ Dewey:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100503 |
| Tuesday, May 04, 2010 | Mel: Look at this complaint letter!
/ Dewey: Already handled. / Mel: No, this is NEW! It's a complaint about the way the FIRST complaint was handled.
/ Dewey: How can you TELL? / Mel: Look here, where her pen DUG through the paper.
/ Dewey: Oh yeah, that would be a reference to me. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100504 |
| Wednesday, May 05, 2010 | [[Dewey is retrieving a paper from the fax machine while Mel reads from a complaint letter.]]
/ Mel: She says you mistreated her.
/ Dewey: In my defense, I initially thought her VOICE was a FAX MACHINE.
/ Fax machine: < http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100505 |
| Thursday, May 06, 2010 | [[Mel is on the phone. Dewey looks on.]]
/ Mel: I'm going to show you how this is done. Hello, this is the manager of the library. / Mel: Yes I -- No I -- You don't -- / [[The phone is in the trash.]]
/ Dewey: (off-panel) Is that how it's done?
/ Mel: (off-panel) With people like her, yes. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100506 |
| Friday, May 07, 2010 | SECRET ORIGINS: DEWEY
/ {{Dewey narrates nearly the entire comic}} / [[Dewey's mother is changing Baby Dewey's diaper, using a comic as reference]]
/ One of my first memories is of comics.
/ Dewey's Mother: Hold still of I'm getting the staple gun! / [[Young Dewey is diagramming the sentence "It's a bird,... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100507 |
| Monday, May 10, 2010 | Concerned Mother: For what AGE RANGE is this book appropriate?
/ Dewey: It depends. / Concerned Mother: I'm looking for something for my kids.
/ Dewey: That's a big job! / Concerned Mother: Don't you have an opinion?
/ Dewey: Several. All likely different from yours. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20100510 |
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