MAY VOTING INCENTIVE! MAY FLOWERS!
This month’s voting incentive is special! It’s tasteful and bucolic! Vote! QUEEN VICTORIA WANTS YOU TO VOTE!!!
ALSO…
And as for the comic…
Halfway through this comic, it struck me that this is a straight-up role reversal for the characters. This exact sort of conversation could happen (and has happened) with Puck and Phoebe in opposite roles. Phoebe has historically occupied the place of ‘fun seeker’ and Puck has been the stick-in-the-mud. And now?
I don’t really know what this means. Either the characters are getting a little more complex, or my writing is getting a little sloppier.
And if you don’t get the Thelma and Louise ref, I really can’t help you much. Here: watch this. And if my cultural refs are too dated, just be glad it ain’t another ode to Star Wars.
Poor Poor Phoebe, I’m not sure who I feel sorrier for… her or Tyler..
Wait, I know… Colin is the REAL loser here!
I think it’s safe to say that everyone is going to be the loser in this story arc.
I think the worst loser here is ANY child of Puck’s. “Dump the baby on Collin”?!? For the first 5 years of my children’s lives I couldn’t separate them from their mother with a crowbar!
I guess fairies don’t have the strongest of maternal bonding instincts….
Well, baby is attached to mom so often. Sometimes mom just wants to run for the hills. Depending on the mom, I guess. A little baby vacation never hurt anyone, though.
Doesn’t hurt anyone who has a choice, you should say. Notice Miranda seems to even understand that she was just remarked on (if not the gest of what Puck was saying). Sorry, but ‘daddy’ rarely has the instincts to handle many of the… needs… of their first-born. ‘Daddy’ will have to learn a lot of what ‘mommy’ automatically ‘knows’ and there are other things that only ‘mommy’ is properly equipped to handle… no matter how experienced ‘daddy’ is.
In my honest opinion (and a lot of mothers I have known), this borders on abandonment of the baby.
more than likely, Colin is expecting it.
More on abandonment of baby in coming comics!
It isn’t exactly rocket-science.
I’d go so far as to say that leaving it to instinct is basically a guarantee that it will be done poorly.
I thought they just laid their eggs in the gills of a mushroom, then devoured the father?
Sounds like a workable method of parenting to me.
Did you take that from the faeries in a specific setting? If so, which one, and if not, do you mind if I use that idea? It sounds like an interesting concept for fae reproduction.
Love how Phoebe, daughter of the devil is so shockable…
I imagine her making a sign of the cross at Puck about now.
She is a strange mix of the naive and the worldly, it’s true.
Thelma and Louise is not something that a PTSD needs. Sure, shooting trucks, blowing up tankers. Watching Lieutenant Worf mix a beat.
Sorry, tv is on.
That sounds like good tv.
How about Romeo and Juliet? No? Not better?
Not better. More annoying, though.
Wrong Shakespearean play. As Colin and Puck have been around the block a few times, try Antony and Cleopatra, or since the wife is making the husband do terribly evil things (like look after a baby he is too inept to handle almost child abandonment) maybe MacBeth?
It’s funny how the role dynamic between Puck and Phoebe is reversed in this one. One might think if Phoebe of all people, that bubbling, bottomless fountain of enthusiasm, is scared of this trip, no good will come of it. But she has made up her mind, hasn’t she?
Yes, it doesn’t bode well. Nor should it.
Chekhov’s Phobia?
If you introduce a phobia in act one, you better sure as hell have some form of explosive reaction in act three. Chekhov was a smart dude.
Phoebe’s Phobia?
Say it five times fast!
I got it three times.
Finally got a chance to read this week’s comic (been busy all day; blergh). I have to admit, I was surprised at the Thelma & Louise reference (mainly as no one seems to know of them these days; go figure).
As for Puck being ‘a stick in the mud’… I kinda disagree, mainly as she has some of the funniest line in the comic in my opinion. In terms of actually DOING something, yes, she can be considered a stick in the mud, bot otherwise? No.
Yeah, I meant not that she’s a boring character, just that she’s a ‘no’ when it comes to most of Phoebe’s ideas. And yeah, some movies hold onto their cultural weight. Others don’t. I guess poor Thelma and Louise are in the latter category. They don’t carry light sabers, so that’s a point against them.
Maybe so but “Thelma & Louise” does have a young Brad Pitt wearing a cowboy hat and no shirt. That’s enough to get me to watch it when it comes on TV, despite my Susan Sarandon dislike.
Speaking of PTSD, I think I am developing a phobia of that plump cheerleader with the amorphous eyebrows on the voting page. That is one reason I don’t vote daily for Puck like I used to.
Sorry. I can do nothing about the cheerleader. Just imagine it’s Brad Pitt.
You never saw Cannonball Run? All that means is that you didn’t kill off your brain cells in such a horrid fashion that is should be a crime against the Geneva Convention.
Those of us who have seen it? we look back and long for meaningful intellectual comedy-adventures like Bill and Ted’s Excellent adventure.
It never seemed to be a ‘must watch’ movie. There are about 1000 movies on my ‘I should probably see it’ list above Cannonball Run.
Though I do love me some Bill and Ted.
Hmm, Given Phoebe’s outfits, and the basic speeds you have to travel to be on the left side lanes of a major highway here I wonder if a scene from the the movie “Cannonball Run” is about to be repeated…
I really wouldn’t be able to say, because (I hate to say it) I never saw Cannonball Run.
Above post was meant as a reply to this one… my only excuse is that I have lost too many brain cells to Cannon-ball Run…
The scene in question is when two Cannonballers get there just comeuppance from the State Troopers, and well, requires a basic understanding of human behaviour, to get the joke.
If I wanted intellectual comedy-adventures, I would pick English fare such the Monty Python movies and not moronic “teenagers” acting like fish out of water. I had too many of them as classmates at the time to fork out money to see them at the theatre…
Science Nerd Hat On:
Okay, if we compare this month’s voting incentive and the last time you drew Puck that scantily clad, which was WAY back in the black and white college comics during the whole “Puck flips out from stress, strips naked and encourages Phoebe and Collin to do the same”, I must say that you’re art has improved drastically over the last decade. Better line work, better shading, and Puck’s not as obviously skinny as she was back then.
Now, with Phoebe, you explain that she’s grown into her body better over the last decade, but with Puck, who is centuries old, I doubt her body would shift that much in a decade. So Puck shows the improvement in the skill of the artist.
Science Nerd Hat Off.
As for this week’s comic, I’ve never seen Thelma and Louise, even back when it was culturally relevant, but I’ve seen enough parodies from TV and Wayne’s World to get the basics of it. And yes, younger folks, I realize that Wayne’s World is a product of its time as well. 😛
Yeah, despite my utter lack of a concerted effort to improve my art, my art seems to have improved all on its own. The difference is pretty drastic from the old comics to now, but even when compared to the color comics from three years ago, the new stuff is far more polished. Puck’s figure has changed a lot from how I used to draw her, certainly. If I want to provide a feasible explanation, I could say pregnancy had something to do with it, but really that’s just me reaching for something. I draw her with a figure that seems reasonable to me right now. It’s also probably colored by the fact that I’ve been with my wife for the past fifteen years and you just sort of get imprinted on a person over the decades. So now both Phoebe and Puck mirror her build slightly. I still try to differentiate the two characters from each other in terms of build, but the differences are subtler than they used to be.
As for Thelma and Louise, it was inescapable back then. The end of T&L was, along with that slo-mo bullet shot from the Matrix, one of the most parodied movie scenes of all time.
And Wayne’s World is one of my favorite movies, period. I even love Wayne’s World 2. Seriously, if you go back and watch it, it just gets funnier.
Wayne’s World 1 and 2 are movies where I get jokes now that I didn’t get back then.
As for your art style, no artist stays the same as they were before. People always try new things, and if they like the way they look, they incorporate it into their style. Also, doing something long enough develops skill as well.
It seems to. Thank goodness for that.
The build up for what’s to come….
the possibilities for hilarity to ensue…
Gotta feeling I’m not going to be disappointed. 😀
p.s. Any chance that Satan has his own ride there? Please, I’m begging you. lol
… Am I going crazy, or are Phoebe’s glasses a different design here?
Ok, you are crazy. I’m pretty good at crazy.
But it IS time for a fashion update Phoebe darlin’
(There’s a Spring Sale at Sherwin-Williams – time to PAINT on a new outfit.)
Hubba-Hubba – AROOOO !!!
Phoebe’s glasses change with every outfit, usually to echo the colors and lines of said outfit.
I knew the colors changed, but the different shape threw me off a bit.