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A different Puck character cosplays as a famous cartoon villain … every single week in March! Now I know some of you have given me flack for going all retro on you too often, so this time I’m making it all about prominent cartoons from the post-millennial decade. Just for the young’ns!
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As for this comic…
Puck wasn’t the only one who didn’t know Colin’s last name until now. In preparation for this one, I had to give Colin a last name. Then, about a week ago, I suddenly developed a strong hunch that he already had a last name, and that it was stated only once on the old website or in one of the old comics. I also seemed to remember that it was ‘MacTavish’ (or ‘McTavish’) but I couldn’t prove anything. After carefully poring through all of the available documentation, however, I found that no last name had ever been mentioned for the poor guy.
So one glaring hole in the continuity has now been addressed. Though I don’t think it was a hole that bothered anyone, because I never once had anyone ask what Colin’s last name was. It seemed fitting to me that Puck never bothered to ask that question either.
Upon seeing this comic’s visuals, my wife’s eyebrow raised. “That’s a whole lot of argyle,” she noted.
“Too much argyle?” I asked.
“For me? Yes. For Puck? No.”
I guess that means I’m on the right track.
Does that mean Puck’s full name is Puck MacTavish?
They’re not actually married, so no. But you’d assume the baby would have Colin’s last name, even if only in hyphenated form.
So they aren’t actually married? I sense this needing to be dealt with sometime in the future in a hilarious fashion.
You sense correctly.
Why would it have to be dealt with?
Do you regard it as a problem?
December 2017 says hi.
Indeed. I have stuff planned out YEARS in advance.
@EG
Even the typo’s ?
(snicker)
Favorite. Strip. Ever.
‘k truthers: of yours.
I am fairly sure I have snorted Ovaltine further out my nose in the past.
Well, thanks for being honest.
Calgary is where the 1988 winter olympic games took place.My sister Gloria my brother in law Brent and their dog Teddy live there.
Calgary’s a nice city. It’s known for big oil money and its famous stampede — sort of like a Canadian Texas. I thought I’d hate it, but I found that it was a really pleasant, friendly city with a nice vibe.
It is also the city that good really badly flooded last spring. The little rain we got in June around the Toronto area was nothing by comparison, but it still disrupted things enough for a couple of days. The Calgary area is still cleaning up the mess.
what is up with that weird glow?
Also, a question ive been wondering about for a while, does puck have parent, siblings or any other relatives? Even a fairy must have family and there has never been much mention of pucks fairy heritage.
The weird glow is … just a weird glow. Characters in the comic tend to develop a colored halo when they have strong emotions. Red is usually indicative of rage, yellow is shock, and other colors pop up according to what I feel looks nice. Just provides a bit of visual oomph and variety.
As for Puck’s parents, I really don’t think I’ll go there. It would get complex and weird, and I’ve already got stuff with Phoebe’s family and now Colin’s family to deal with, so I think we’ll assume Puck’s family is long dead or lives on an entirely different astral plane.
Puck is a faerie; her parents are faeries who probably never adapted to the modern world, and so are living either in pristine wilderness or in the Other World, where the Fey dwell. You know, the place where you can spend a day, only to find out a year or a century has passed back home? And if you eat food from home or touch home soil, you immediately wither to dust…
I like your explanation. Let’s say it’s canon and leave it at that.
Go, me! 😀
How do you draw that argyle pattern? I’ve had trouble just making plaid. (Incidentally, it was also in a strip that too place in Canada)
Big secret: I don’t draw it. I generate the pattern in vector, then clip the vector inside the shape and warp it with a envelope to contour to the shape of the body. It doesn’t always work perfectly, but at a glance it’s usually fairly convincing. I do the same for all printed t-shirts in the comic as well.
Thanks, I’ve never tried that before but it looks pretty simple to do.
YAY CALGARY!!
<3
(ok I'm a little goofy for loving the "home town" mention)
I love Calgary. It’s been a while since I’ve been there, though. Got to go back soon.
How……how was this not discussed before now, like, even before graduation?
It all makes sense … through suspension of disbelief.
This strip had me actually laughing out loud. I think this is what the kids call “meta.”
Oh, and that argyle is awesome.
I love argyle. I would wear it more, but I used to have an argyle shirt and every time I wore it, people would make fun of me and say I was a seventy year-old golfer. So now Puck carries on the argyle torch.
I think this is what the kids call meta too, though I can’t be sure. Them crazy kids!
This one literally had me laugh out loud.
And honestly, it’s the truth; his last name has not been mentioned EVEN ONCE. I was starting to wonder if he even HAD a last name at times!
…And now I demand to see his parents. THIS SHALL BE HILARIOUS.
If you were wondering at all about his last name, I think you were way ahead of most of us. It’s a good illustration of how little people care about Colin that no one ever really bothered to ask. Including Puck.
Ought to make an interesting round of introductory conversation.
I guarantee awkwardness!
Be fair now, clansman MacTavish…! She hit her head and suffered memory loss, after all. ^^ And it’s not like you shared your last name with her by marrying her or anything, so there’s no reason for it to pop up on her mail…
There you go. There’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for why none of us know Colin’s last name: we don’t care.
Very well done. On an unrelated note, I dig the Phoebe – Lobster thing
Phoebe Lobster. Way better than Red Lobster.
I, too, love Puck’s outfit. And I think Colin’s Dad should be Angus MacFergus MacTavish Dundee! Or his uncle or something. After all, he is kinda squirrely. :p
Maybe if she wore the MacTavish tartan…
Makes sense.
Makes me think of Molly Ringwald, the way Puck looks. Although, that’s really not Judd Nelson holding the baby, right?
I guess there’s a certain similarity there. The irony is that she’s wearing a rather shockingly Scottish outfit while finding out that the father of her child is Scottish. Though to be honest, that irony wasn’t entirely intended.
And like I said about your wife, Puck must be a superwoman in order to drop that weight that quickly.
Well, like I mentioned before, my wife did drop the weight that fast, so I’m going from experience. Mind you, I’m also sort of tired of drawing Puck with extra weight on her. It’s harder to make it look right, and then I have to try and maintain consistency between strips, and it gets really difficult. It’s just easier for me to draw her on model and leave it at that. And if anyone says it’s unrealistic, I can hold up my wife as proof. (Like the time I posted the character list with height and weight, and listed Puck at 5’8″, 125 pounds. Tons of female readers wigged out on me, saying that was insanely unrealistic. Even though my wife is 5’8″, 120 pounds. Go fig.)
Psht, I have a friend who dropped her weight that fast. She did breast feed, though. The woaman was eating double cheeseburgers and still slender
It does happen. My wife was back in pre-pregnancy clothes on her trip out of the hospital. It wasn’t witchcraft. (I’m pretty sure anyway.)
I wonder if the kid had to have bypass at three years of age.
I was going to make a joke about the scottish last name and Highlander, and then I remembered 2 things;
Highlander has sucked since since the tv series ended in 1998. I mean, don’t even get me started on Endgame or the Source.
Crossovers suck on principle. Although the father looking like Connor or Duncan would be a nice homage. But only if it was in your plans from the start; I will never tell another creator how to make his creations.
Heeeeere we are,
born to be kings,
we’re the PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE!!!
LOL I kept reading that line thinking it sounded familiar but couldn’t place it…
So getting up at 3 in the morning for a glass f water the lightbulb went off… Queen! And of course… Highlander. 😀
I love that song. Queen is the best thing about Highlander.
And in Highlander: The Source? They get rid of even that. They use a cover. See what I mean about Highlander sucking since 1998?
In fact, Highlander has had the most missteps out of any franchise; only the first movie with Connor and the TV series with Duncan are any good. All other movies, the TV series “The Raven”, the cartoon from 1994 and the video game based on that cartoon all suck harder than a hoover vacuum.
Though now that I think of it, you’d better off having Colin’s dad look more like Duncan; Duncan has been in less crap. Although the crap he was in was more offensive to the franchise…Yeah.
See, I’m honestly not even aware of the low quality Highlander stuff you speak of. I know of the first movie, know the second movie was garbage, know of the TV show but never watched it, and … yeah. I’m blissfully ignorant.
Here we belong!
Fighting to survive!
In a world with the darkest powers!
That’s what I feel about crossovers. 🙂
Saber Rider is Scottish.He even made a human connection with a Outrider spy who was a member of the fair sex.
I’ve always wanted to visit Calgary & Vancouver; especially during the fall. Maybe do a con or two when the time is right in the near future.
Always in awe of the articulate patterns you implement within your clothes and backgrounds.
BTW, Puck’s reactions amped the funny in this strip. She’s acting as if Colin has this total other life that she has no idea about. lol
I’m not sure Calgary OR Vancouver are great in the fall. Calgary has no trees, so there’s not a great seasonal showing, and Vancouver basically has no winter, so it’s just really wet. But Calgary’s a nice place. Vancouver’s really cool, especially Stanley Park, which looks EXACTLY like Endor from Return of the Jedi.
I find generating tartans and argyles to be very relaxing, for some reason. I should have been a textile designer.
I’m kind of a weird guy, EG. Dreary, grey days seem to lift my spirits a lot more than sunny, clear ones. Anything I see from the Vee makes me yearn to be there. Been that way since childhood.
Perhaps I’m getting Calgary mixed up with Montreal. I still want to go.
Montreal puts on a good color show in the fall.
I understand that if a Faerie knows your real name they have power over you and can make you perform tasks for them against your will… I read that in several different sources(urban fantasy fictions and such).
Well, I think Colin hasn’t kept his name a secret on purpose. Believe me, Puck has had power over Colin (terrible, frightening power) for a long, long, LONG time.
Montreal hosted the 1976 summer olympic games Calgary hosted the 1988 winter olympic games and Vancouver hosted the 2010 winter olympic games all three also have a Chinatown.
I hope that Miranda will keep it small if and when she becomes a wife and mother as a adult.
To be fair, she has amnesia…
Also they are both famously irresponsible
That’s why they’re so perfect for each other.
In what part of Hamilton do Puck and company live?
The bad part.
I didn’t know that Canadian cities had a bad part. I mean, aren’t the crackhouse proprietors nice and polite, even?
Select Canadian cities have a bad part. Most of the time, though, the bad parts aren’t actually dangerous. They’re just sort of run down and sad.
For the record, the worst neighborhood in Canada is the rough end of Vancouver. It’s the lowest socioeconomic zone in the country. The second roughest neighborhood in the country is in (SURPRISE!) my town.
A logical question arises here: Does Puck herself have a last name? Formally, she’s ‘Robin Goodfellow’, but as Puck, who knows? And do faeries even use last names? Neither Oberon nor Titania seem to have last names, and they were (and presumably still are) the king and queen. And is there any more trouble I can stir up with such questions?…
Puck is a nickname. In the comic, ‘Robin Goodfellow’ is her legal name, so yeah. Her last name (and Daphne’s last name) is Goodfellow.
And here I was under the impression that it was the other way around… o_0;
How did Robin Goodfellow get the nickname Puck in the first place?
Traditional different names for the figure from folklore. They’re all very, very old, so the origin of these names is conjecture at best.
Wait Colin has an actual last name? You’d think with them being together for so long and having a kid together that Puck would’ve known that already.
You’d think, wouldn’t you? You really would think. In fact, you might say that her not knowing his last name stretches the bounds of believability. Stretches. The. BOUNDS.
Ever seen Gremlins and Gremlins 2 the New Batch? Water makes them mutiply and new Mogwai and Gremlins always come from the back no matter what part of their bodies gets wet.
Why am I not surprised that Colin’s family name is MacTavish?
How is it that Puck is turning very slowly into a MILF?
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Is Colin kin to Angus Macfergus Mactavish Dundee? His family is kinda squirrely. 😛
I had to Google that. Not sure I’m happy I did.
I guess if he married her, he won’t take the Goodfellow name now.
Well, it’d at least ensure that she remembered it.