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As for this comic…
I sometimes write jokes that maybe only five people on the planet will find funny. This is one of those. For those who don’t know, Richard Burton was an actor who famously married Elizabeth Taylor … twice.
For those of you who are wondering about the nature of the ‘ruse’ mentioned in panel one, I don’t really have any answers. Makeup? Magic? Who knows? It’s Hollywood, man. They’re creative.
Initially my concept was that Taylor would have sold her soul to the devil for eternal youth, but that didn’t sit right with me. What I know of Elizabeth Taylor tells me that she would not sell her soul to the devil for anything. She would, however, marry him and give it an honest try before divorcing him a few years later. She’d totally do that.
I’ll just be the
first
to ask, is Richard Burton related to Tim Burton?
Richard Burton is to Elizabeth Taylor as Selena Gomez to Justin Bieber.
A horrible, horrible yo-yo relationship for the ages.
And no they are bot related.
That comparison is apt, and yet… it saddens me, somehow. Comparing anyone to Justin Bieber saddens me, I guess.
Hey man Justin Beiber is Canadian just like Celine Dione and Bryan Adams. You guys have a lot to be saying sorree for :p
I can’t argue, man. I’m just grateful that you didn’t mention Nickelback.
Justin Bieber is just the fourth member of Hansen in my mind.
Unlikely. But Zombie Richard Burton would have at least some sort of spiritual tie to Tim.
Liz Taylor had multiple marriages just like Ivan The Terrible and Henry the 8th.
Less killing was involved with Taylor, thankfully.
That we know of…..
The fact she married (zombie) Richard Burton is funnier than it should have been.
…And oddly the first thought that struck me after I read the strip last week.
The more you know.
Whew. Glad someone found it funny.
Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky was married several times. Which one was Satan?
I get the feeling that their marriage was just too controversial and kept a secret from public eyes. But I’m guessing that, in this fiction, the list would read “Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Beelzebub Warner Fortensky Burton Jackson Burton Beelzebub Perot Burton Burton Depp Burton Cruise Burton.” I think.
Aw. I was kinda hoping it was Nicky Hilton.
As if ANY of her marriages was clear of controversy.
Geez, do you think we’re down to five people remembering the Taylor-Burton hijinks? Now I do feel old.
I was hoping I wasn’t the only greybeard in the fanbase here. I mean, the comic is based on Shakespeare, right?
I think so. Honestly, when I make reference to stuff far more recent (like most everything from the 80’s that hasn’t been made into a Michael Bay movie) no one on the internet knows what I’m talking about.
It’s worth two in the undead tush. Wait…
Undead tush is the best type of tush.
Not if it’s the gross type.. like Really undead and zombieish. :p
Well, still better than sparkly.
True.
Thanks for leaving Daphne in her swimmers for four weeks. I take back everything I said about the hospital/birth arc going on too long. Have a good week.
Well, it’s one conversation! That’s the snag with these weeklies. It works wonderfully when you read them in sequence, but stretched over my glacial update schedule, it seems like Daphne is perpetually in a bathing suit. Which is weird, because it’s rather out of character. But over the past few weeks, my wife has asked (every week) “Why is Daphne in a bathing suit?” and I have to remind her that they were poolside five minutes ago in strip time. Easy to forget over the course of a month.
Of course, I could have had her change into her civvies before going into the house, but that seemed unsportsmanlike.
You may have noticed that I’ve been slowing down on the binging around here.
I’m afraid of hitting the ceiling – and then having to wait for updates; like a serf.
Makes sense. Here’s the terrible truth: I update this comic weekly, but it’s not really designed to be read once a week. It’s designed to be read the way you’ve been doing it: in sustained sittings where you can better understand and comprehend the narrative. Following it on a weekly basis really isn’t the best, but it’s all I can do.
When I reach the end, I’ll have to set my calendar up to remind me to catch up once a month or so.
That should have been an undead “Burton” in the hand, or, that might be too rude for the strip? And there are more “old farts” that read your strip, and other comics, than you might think! Who do you think has the time, and sometimes the money to do so?
Well, the internet is a weird place that often makes me feel very, very old. At times, it seems like there’s a ‘must be under twenty to ride this ride’ sign on the door. But we old codger types are out there. Somewhere.
This all rather makes a bit of sense. If I remember right, Elizabeth Taylor was heading towards marrying Richard Burton for a third time when he suddenly died. (She referred to him afterwards as “the True Love of her life” iirc.) So the Romance is carrying on beyond the grave. 🙂
I felt that it fit … poetically, in any case.
I’m crossing my fingers hoping that there’s a Virginia Woolf sequence coming up…
Zombie style of course. 😀
Nah, I think I’m going to have to end this joke here. I can’t start spoofing movies that 99% of my readership has not seen. The should see the movies, certainly, but they haven’t.
LoL I just watched “the taming of the shrew” starring E.L. and R.B. as part of a class.
Liz makes a wonderful shrew. Probably because she already was (is?)
A classic. Haven’t seen it in a long, long time, but still the best version of that play ever put to film.
Then you haven’t seen “Kiss Me Kate” (which I also had to watch as part of the same class. It is truly hilarious and more faithful to the bard’s play.
I think I have, but it’s been a while.
Will we be seeing Daphne’s birth parents?
How would we even know them? Daphne was left on Puck’s doorstep as an infant.
Somebody obviously mistook Puck as a nun or something along that line. Would you want to meet anyone who COULD make a mistake like that?
The concept of meeting Daphne’s birth parents (or birth mother, at any rate) is an idea that I’ve seriously had running in my mind since I started this comic fifteen years ago. But at the moment, I feel like there’s more than enough stuff going on in the Puck universe, so we don’t need any new, crazy story arc about that. As for recognizing Daphne’s birth parents, I think they stand out in a crowd.
Daphne was a child not a infant when she was left in Puck’s care.
I do like the idea of zombie Richard Burton walkiing around without at least an attempted rescue from Clint Eastwood and Ingrid Pitt. Is “the world (is) grown so bad, that wrens make prey, WHERE EAGLES DARE not perch”?
You know you just might have something there for a sequel to that WWII movie…
Zombie Clint Eastwood to save the day. He’s not a zombie, you say? Look closely at those recent pictures, man.
Richard Burton’s best work was a voiceover, as the “Journalist” in Jeff Wayne’s “War of the Worlds”.
http://www.thewaroftheworlds.com/
Fantastically popular Album in the UK, and still being performed on Stage there.
Never made it big in the USA, and probably not in Canada, either.
But I like it.
I personally think Richard Burton’s best work was marrying Liz Taylor. Twice.
For a second, I thought you were going to say that Tracee was Elizabeth Taylor. LOL.
Oh no. No no no no. No.
Your characers have to be true to themselves.
They always are.