Subnormality/Characters
The Sphynx (sic)
The strip's mascot. She's over 3000 years old (with the face of a woman a hundredth her age) but still doesn't completely understand humanity. She's friends with Pink Haired Girl.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Taken surprisingly frequently in stride by witnesses.
- My Nayme Is: Probably unintentional, but "Sphinx" is properly spelled with an i.
Pink Haired Girl
A slightly depressed ordinary Jane who drifts from job to job. Friends with The Sphynx. She spends a lot of time observing and commenting on life around her and has a notably unsuccessful dating life.
- Canada, Eh?: Not common, but it appears from time to time.
- No Name Given: And that's the way Rowntree is keeping it.
- Rose-Haired Girl: Except when she has a job that won't let her, at which point she has demonstrated a thoroughly inexplicable talent for quick-changing to brunette. Even she doesn't understand it.
The Woman Who Talks Like A Man
A super-curvy, smoking hot brunette with a thing for skimpy clothing and an interest in museums, bookstores, and a good number of stereotypical guy traits. She tends to be oblivious to her effect on men and evidently has a wildly overactive imagination.
- All Women Are Lustful: Well, she's certainly a porn lover.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Though it's hard to imagine how given her thing for short dresses, tight jeans, and very low-cut tops.
- No Name Given: Generally referred to as Justine from the title of this strip; the title is a Smashing Pumpkins reference, but Rowntree has not discouraged the use of the name by fans.
- Tomboy
- What Could Have Been: The Museum of the Theoretical strip, where she meets herself as a bookish, professorial type in a drab pantsuit.
- Wrench Wench