New Weekly Voting Incentive: PUCK AND PHOEBE GO TO RIVERDALE!!!
For a long time, people have noted that Puck plays out a little like a demented version of Archie, so I thought, “Why not?” This month, a vote for Puck on TWC gets you a look at my progress on a Puck and Phoebe Double Digest cover!
TWC does seem to be glitching on me right now, so if the pic’s not showing up right now, you may want to try back the next day. I’ve sent them an email in the hope that they can fix this problem.
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK! TONY THE TIGER WANTS YOU TO!
As for this comic…
This is one of those ‘five minutes before I post the comic, I become very unsure as to whether it’s actually funny or not’ comics. My wife said that it wasn’t exactly funny, but that it did qualify as ‘cute’. If it even qualifies as mildly amusing, I guess that’s something. Oh well. Too late to do anything about it now!
All I can say is that this comic most certainly will qualify as one of the top 500 totally free comics you may potentially read this week.
That’s all I’m ever aiming for, I guess.
Tony the Tiger wants me to vote for you? Well, that’s just grrrrrreat.
Unfortunately, Tony the Tiger can’t seem to fix the glitch on TWC that is keeping the voting incentive image from appearing today. Tony sucks.
I’ve noticed for voting, usually the day resets at 2 AM (ET), but, inexplicably, occasionally it will end at 6 PM, which is annoying because I usually vote around 7-8, and I often miss a “day” when that happens.
The day’s end seems to have suddenly moved to 6 PM EST on TWC, which is … weird, to say the least. I dunno. Maybe they decided to go off Greenwich Mean Time? Or something like that? Label me confused.
That’s occasionally happened to me too…Normally, it’ll just come up with a different pic after hitting Refresh.
Darn. Voted five minutes ago for the Phoebe bikini shot. Now have to wait 20 hours to vote again.
Colin’s concerns made me chuckle, so you may have made the strip just a little bit too long. My problem is I saw the Gregory Peck version of Moby Dick, and while I think Colin is as safe as Ishmael was, I can’t see the mizzenmast of the Rachel anywhere in sight… The others I now fear are going to your version of Davy Jones Locker… (Just make that English dude from “the Monkees”….) ;p
Is there any other version of Moby Dick? 😉
There are sadly, a total of 6 film adaptations of Moby Dick, in which a monstrous white whale goes after a one legged captain… how much else comes from the novel is subject to debates with High School Drama Teachers, not English ones….
It is like Ben Hur. You think Hollywood will never touch Ben Hur again, and then you discover Ben Hur is itself, a remake (of a 1925 silent picture)
Beb-Hur the novel is much, much better! 😛
@Susan
But, but, that would require READING !!
(ouchee ouchee)
I recall one in the late 90’s as a TV release, starring Patrick Stewart as Ahab, Henry Thomas (yes, the kid from E.T.) as Ishmael, and with Gregory Peck playing a cameo role as Father Mapple. It actually wasn’t that bad.
I don’t recall that one. But it sounds … intriguing.
Why did she stop him just as he was getting warmed up? I’m sure his teen years rage is even more entertaining.
No, those were the only two things she did to him.
then she wouldn’t have been your standard sister, much less the evil sister I just KNOW she was.
I think the list was very, very long. Though maybe the list was very, very short. Whichever option is funnier.
Fourth panel hit. We ran out of room.
I think the voting incentive is broken, I voted but no image came up.
It’s up NOW, but for some reason, it didn’t want to go live until the 4th. Very irritating.
Frankly, I dunno either what’s wrong with yoga pants.
I asked my girlfriend who just stared at me and said “WHO DOESN’T WEAR THEM?!”
“…You’re wearing a business suit.”
“…Oh yeah. Huh.”
As for the comic, I agree with your wife; ‘funny’ is arguable but it’s cute enough.
I do like the Moby Dick reference in panel 4 (sadly, most of my generation haven’t read it; ever).
Ah, but yoga pants are different from jogging pants. Yoga pants are the new cool standard; every girl I teach seems to live in yoga pants the way my generation lived in jeans. Jogging pants, though, had a different, less cool look, and a certain stereotype about them.
Guys are NEVER allowed to wear yoga pants, though. Ever.
Speaking of TWC, I got the vote incentive image with no problem, but I am logged in to TWC, but your link keeps ignoring that and I have to identify somebody’s character as though I am not logged in. I think your link should look more like this to avoid this issue.
Maybe. The whole system’s a little goofy sometimes, but they’ve recently made some ‘improvements’ that have made stuff get a little weird.
You’re suggesting there is a system whereby one doesn’t have to identify someone’s character?
… But that is one of the best ways to find new webcomics.
Seems a shame she wasn’t around when he and Puck met…
So many missed opportunities.
“Top 500?” O, you succeed, weedhopper. You succeed…rather better than that!
I’m trying to play it safe here. Top 500 I can almost certainly guarantee. Top 100 is a bit of a stretch.
Actually, I liked it. it’s a good setup for the ARC, let’s us know exactly where Colin stands (Firmly in the cheering section with a coke and a bucket of popcorn).
Also, it’s the first time in a long time that you’ve shown that Puck actually has an education! (I think the last one was strip 80, lol).
I felt it was a comic that needed to be in the arc for the reasons you stated. As for an education, I’m of the belief that it has little to no lasting effect whatsoever on most English speakers, but the odd Smart Joke creeps in now and then.
oh, and regarding the incentive pic…. Who’s Betty, and Who’s Veronica? I can’t tell.
God, everything can be found on the internet if you do a decent enough search…
http://archiecomics.com/characters/
Who knew Archie had their own green-eyed redhead ?
I think they just made up a few of those characters on the spot to add a dash of variety. We all know what Archie comics are about: they’re about Betty and Veronica in swimsuits. Always.
Well, that, and Archie not being able to make up his mind between “sweet and hot” and “easy and hot”… In Bathing suits. Ah the dilemma that has faced men since the beginning of time…
Back in the day, they always did elicit an inappropriate heart on.
That’s where it gets interesting, because there’s no clear breakdown. Phoebe and Veronica are the obvious analogues (long black hair, rich dads, love of flashy clothes), but personality-wise, Phoebe’s more a Betty type. Puck (let’s be honest) most resembles Archie, but some would say her personality is more Veronica-like. And yet in terms of style, she’s more practical like Betty. I guess there’s no clear point of comparison, but there’s certainly a resonance.
With no clear guidelines, I’m going to draw parallels entirely on the basis of hair color: Phoebe is Veronica, Puck is a female Archie, Colin is a male Betty, and Daphne is (based on the ears alone) one of the Pussycats.
From hells breath I throw nunchucks at thee!
Cowabunga.
Where outside of a gym has adorning jogging pants ever been socially acceptable? I think even Seinfeld touched on that in an episode once.
That dry dig, at her own brother no less, is making me love Colin’s sis even more. So cruel yet funny as hell.
She is rather joyously hostile, I suppose.
Flushing Michelangelo’s leg down the toilet is a FAR greater crime than crotch-blocking. Women/men (depending on your orientation) may come and go, but Ninja Turtle Toys are forever! Burn the heretic for destroying the party dude! BURN HER!!!
I lost the arm of my classic He-Man action figure to a toilet accident many, many years ago. I’m still recovering from the trauma, as this strip clearly shows.
I just realized that Gecko could have done the world a favour by ruining that far too oft-quoted Star Wars line reference by having Colin in panel two cluelessly and shockingly and questioningly ask:
“IT’S A TRAP” with a whole bunch of question marks….
Nah, I ruin Star Wars jokes too often. I can’t go too far.
Colin wearing Homestar Runner’s shirt? Could it be that you are as happy as the rest of us that Homestar and the gang are back?
Dude, words cannot describe how happy I am that Homestar is back. I waited and prayed for this day for, well, half a decade. And though I enjoyed their output on Yo Gabba Gabba and such, it’s not the same. But they’re back. And damnit, I’m thrilled!
Holy crap, they ARE back! With two halloween cartoons!
Yeah, I really should replace this comic with a big banner that says “HOMESTAR RUNNER IS BACK!” And they’re really back – as in, they’re on record saying that they’re concentrating their creative juices on Homestar now starting October 2014. It’s started. Anew.
It certainly gave me a chuckle. 🙂 Keep up the good work, Gecko.
A chuckle is as good as a nod to a blind bat!
Say no more! Say no more!
Although I never actually have read Moby Dick, I know the idea (and a few quotes), and I indeed got a little laugh out of this. That’s better than several of the preceding strips in fact 🙂
Well, good to know.
How is this going to make the sister suffer?
… Unless somehow they expect the two blondes to rile each other so much that it ends in a literal physical fight with the spilling of blood.
That, I suppose, could induce suffering.
Puck and Colin would make a wonderful power couple.
@Buggle
AC or DC ?
(snicker snacker) 😛
Thank goodness they have no real power.
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