IT’S THE JLA AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE!
I thought it was time to pay tribute to the Justice League of America before Zack Synder takes a steaming dump on the franchise. So every week in July will bring you a new, cool JLA-related cosplay experience, courtesy of the Puck crowd! The fourth one’s up now, so vote for Puck on TWC and take a look!
VOTE BEFORE GORILLA GRODD ESCAPES! (Again!)
As for the comic…
This comic really didn’t need to happen. In fact, I have this story arc pretty much mapped out for the next many weeks, and this strip wasn’t part of the plan. It was more a spur-of the-moment sort of thing. A funny visual popped into my head, and I went with it. Not sure it’s funny enough to warrant a whole strip devoted to it, but whatevs.
NB: I purposefully gave Puck a large orange soda because a large orange soda is (IMHO) one of the trailer-trashiest of non-alcoholic beverages one can possibly drink. Oh, and I also wanted to work in a reference to Velveeta cheese in panel two but I ran out of room.
At least Puck’s not covered in vomit anymore.
True enough.
There’s plenty of time for that in the future.
“OranJrink” … the perfect name for all manner of orange-like beverages.
I’m glad you caught that. I was proud of that name.
The hair, the short shorts and shirt several sizes too small making the full donut squeeze muffin top, yeah Monster Truck Ralley.
To be honest, I’ve been trying to talk my wife into letting me take the kids to a monster truck rally for years. Then, ironically, she was recently forced to go to a monster truck rally for her work, and discovered that it was actually sort of fun. Maybe next year.
Now she can legally change her name to Puckilynn!
Mentally Southern Culture on the Skids’ “White Trash” is playing in the background.
I feel kind of bad for Puck, that T-shirt is squeezing her midsection something fierce.
Yeah, I actually purposefully avoided the term ‘redneck’ because I didn’t want to single out the South. ‘Trailer trash’ is a more universal term. You’ll find trailer trash everywhere. As the Canadian-made ‘Trailer Park Boys’ TV show clearly demonstrated.
There are rednecks here in Ontario too. Just take a look at some of my brother’s neighbours. Do you think Red Green as well as Bob and Doug Mackenzie were created without models in reality? Then there is the aforementioned Trailer Park Boys for yet another example.
I think of ‘redneck’ as more a southern US cultural phenom, but I guess you could extend it to Canadian ‘hoser’ culture if you want.
“Redneck” came about from those who worked out in the fields and got sunburn on the back of their necks. It has not come to denote, as Jeff Foxworthy once said, people with a complete and utter lack of sophistication. And you can see people who fit that definition all over the world. I’ve known people from the deep south that are well spoken and well educated, and I’ve seen people from the northern US that are dumb, inbred hicks that Jeff Foxworthy’s “You might be a redneck” makes jokes about.
Let’s adopt the term ‘uncultured rural folk’ and go with that.
As Bob Newhart once said…
“I don’t like country music, but I won’t denigrate those who do. And for those of you who DO like country music, Denigrate means to put down.”
That’s still not inclusive enough, as I’ve seen people from large cities who fit Foxworthy’s definition of Redneck. 😛
Bubbles and his samswanch manager. Classic.
Manster. NOT manager. Auto-correct strikes again.
Auto-correct knows better, man. Always.
Finally, pure 100% proof that Puck is a weeb. I approve.
I thought you only qualified as a weeb if you attend anime conventions dressed in enormous hand-carved pieces of styrofoam shaped like Final Fantasy armor.
and if they’re cosplaying from RWBY, they’d have huge, nasty-looking weapons.
Huge FOAM nasty-looking weapons. I love foam weapons.
well, from the videos I’ve seen, foam is not a major component of RWBY weapons, but gunpowder is.
Just because you have something planned out doesn’t mean that you can do spur-of-the-moment strips (like with this one) as long as it’s related to the rest of the arc.
I’ll admit, I quite enjoy ‘spur of the moment’ strips.
I’m almost curious how Colin and Daphne would react upon seeing Puck like this…
I just like piling on the stupid sometimes, and I felt that changing Puck’s look to straight-up ridiculous added something. Then there’s the potential for reactions later.
Phoebe is definitely enjoying this.
Who wouldn’t?
Now she looks like Pippi Longstocking.
The pigtails are too short. Long braids say ‘I’m Nordic or Alpine.’ Short braids say ‘I eat Velveeta on hotdog buns.’
Mmm, Velveeta®… It’s only an approximation of food, but it has a certain je ne sais quoi.
For extra trailer trash goodness, pour a can of Ro*Tel diced tomatoes and green chilies over a block of Velveeta, microwave, and stir. It’s actually a tastier chile con queso than you’ll find in a lot of Mexican restaurants.
I would totally be down with that. I’m getting hungry just thinking about that pseudo-cheesy goodness.
WENDY
Actually, this hairstyle is even closer to Wendy’s hairstyle than that gag about Wendy in an earlier comic.
Are we just playing into some sick fantasy of Colin’s again ?
Gawd, I hope so.
No such luck.
Nothing says Im trailer trash better than a tramp stamp. Especially if its badly done
I think Puck would rather die a thousand deaths than get one of those. Which does give it comedic potential.
I can’t help but wonder what Colin can say, when they eventually meet up, that won’t make this worse. “Honey you look awful” is never right, but “Honey you look great” is even worse.
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OTOH when the park police take Daphne to her mother for a shaming, they will see Puck, nod knowingly, and conclude that poor adolescent girl never had a chance to be raised right.
Your last guess is highly, highly likely.
The correct answer is “Uh – what happened”. If asked for clarification, you simply say “That’s not what you were wearing when we left home.” You acknowledge that she looks different while totally avoiding any comments – good or bad – stating your opinion on the change.
… Diplomacy – a survival skill learned by those who stay married long enough.
You are wise, my friend. You are wise. I’ve been married fifteen years and I still haven’t learned enough to keep me out of hot water.
“Hey, how about some chocolate? Dark, dark chocolate!” is all that saved my life, several times.
Which means that this, the Smart Thing To Say, is the one thing we can be sure that Colin will NOT say.
Hey, you figured out the system!
You have to admit, it’s not a terribly complicated system. 😉
I expect Colin to start laughing upon seeing puck.
That or “What the &@$# happened to you?”
Is “Valley of the Bears” anything like “Valley of the Dolls?”
Not nearly as crazy as the “Beyond the Valley of the Bears” place right across the way.
OMG if that isn’t spot on!
That being said, I could grow to like “fleshy” Puck. 😉
There’s a certain appeal to the look, I’ll admit.
OranJrink, or not, that cup is a Whataburger cup. I the southern USA was the only place that had Whataburgers? Texas, specifically.
I thought of Whataburger too, but yeah, it’s definitely a regional place. (Incidentally, you can also find it in Oklahoma and some parts of Louisiana. For anyone who has never been and finds themselves near one, GO.)
And I have to agree with Dennis; OranJrink is a phenomenal name.
I looked up Whataburger, and yeah, the cup is rather amazing. It’s like the 1950’s in cup form.
Ugh. Keyboard acting up, skipped a whole word. “thought” should be between “I” and “the” in my previous post. Yeah, Whataburger is kind of amazing. Despite being a regionality, they still attracted, in the 80’s, a somewhat big name celebrity spokesperson, Country and Western Legend Mel Tillis. Kind of ironic that you didn’t want to single out Southerners, but get a cup that looks nearly identical to a Southern Icon’s (and Whataburger *is* iconic, at least in Texas) cup, lol.
Maybe I sort of wanted to single out Southerners without knowing it.
Ha! I knew it! Canadians, the ultimate Yankees! Only people further north than y’all are Alaskans! (this is good natured and said tongue in cheek, for those who don’t pick up on that kind of stuff, btw)
I actually vaguely modeled the cup off two places on Lake Erie (one in Port Dover and the other in Port Stanley) that both sell their own ‘unique’ and awesome orange soft drink (‘Arbor Golden Glow’ in Port Dover and ‘Mackie’s Orangeade’ in Port Stanley). They taste the same, despite the fact that the stores are entirely separate entities. And they’re served in similar cups. I’m glad to hear that these restaurants have a spiritual cup brother in Texas.
I guess Colin doesn’t have the physique or awesome hook hand to pull off DCAU Aquaman, but it always hurts a little to see Super Friends Aquaman.
I strongly feel that pre-90’s Aquaman is the only real Aquaman. Any other renditions are strained attempts to overcompensate in the tough manliness department. The only newer Aquaman I’m down with is the ‘Batman: Brave and the Bold’ one. That one I can handle, if only because he’s hilarious.
At least Aquaman has one up on his Marvel counterpart, Namor the Submariner, in the clothing department. In his 70+ years of comic book appearances, he’s never dropped the “green underpants and yellow belt, and nothing else” thing.
But he ROCKED those green underpants in true manly fashion. In a way that Aquaman never could.
That is a surprisingly good ‘do for Puck.
It makes her look fiercer, more focused. More predatory.
Don’t get me wrong, I like her usual ‘do, but this one gives her appearance a bit of an edge it usually lacks. She’d be much more effective when trying to intimidate people with this hairdo.
But then she loses the element of surprise! Where’s the fun in punching people when they’re ready for it?
Ah, but wouldn’t Puck feel the need to beat people up a lot less if she could get stress-relief by intimidating them into compliance with just a steely-eyed glare? 😉
How about having Puck and company go to McDonald’s on their way home.
Everyone can get a CBO!
OMG!! Classic Wonder Woman!! She was one of my first crushes!!
“You’re a wonder, Wonder Womaaan!!
Fighting for our right,
In your satin tights!
And the old Red White and Blue!!”
*fan flails*
It’s a special kind of special indeed. I miss the invisible plane.
I won’t lie, that just sounds like an accident waiting to happen, given there are other airplanes out there. ^^
Maybe it has amazing maneuverability.
Wonder Woman is the best named superhero there is. After hearing all the stories of pilots walking into the high wing of a Cessna 172 for the nth time during the pre-flight inspection (The damn thing is always at forehead level) you WONDER how a WOMAN can not seriously hurt herself around an invisible airplane…
Which is why (I guess) they just said “F$%k it, she can fly now. Without the plane,” a few decades ago.
Phoebe does have a point in the incentive, but considering Wonder Woman’s costume was designed by the polyamorous bondage-fetishist who invented the lie detector, it’s actually amazing that it turned out as well as it did.
Yeah, which explained why Wonder Woman was always getting tied up by her own lasso in early days.
I’m looking forward to Miranda’s birthday.
I think tattoos of hamburgers and hotdogs would look perfect on Puck right now. (Heck, they don’t have to be the permanent kind.) :))
I have never seen a woman with a tattoo of a hot dog. But now I want to.