NINTENDO + PUCK = OBSCURE NINTENDO COSPLAY!!!
You click? I click! WE ALL CLICK ON AMAZING NEW VOTING INCENTIVE! Seriously, though, April Fool’s is over and the joke incentive has been replaced by a new pic featuring a Puck cast member cosplaying as some obscure(ish) character from the wide world of Nintendo!
Click to join the Nintendo Fun Club today, Mac!
As for the comic…
I conceived of this joke a while back: a crack about Puck’s insanely tight shorts, and in my original version, the punch line featured Puck making some comment about how the tight shorts force all the blood to her heart, making her a better mom. I planned it out and was almost done pencilling it when I suddenly realized that the joke was pretty much verbatim stolen from the movie Music & Lyrics, starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. That joke was even in the trailer, for crying out loud!
I have no idea how I fooled my brain into thinking it was my own original concept, but brains work in weird ways. So I changed it at the last minute. Now it’s just derivative instead of outright stolen. That’s better, right?
Yes ! We have no Poo, we have no Poo, today !
The Mouse-Over needs work, however. (Puck 334) will not do.
Mouse over?
Pat, you are missing out on some wonderful material.
Methinks Satan may have sold you a “Bad Apple” product, that cannot display these witticisms properly.
Awesome Voting Incentive.
Robin, there is room for you at HOWLERS.
She’d never go. NEVER!!!
But, but, … the Wings are DELICIOUS !
And through Phoebe, Half-Price….
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Mouse-Over: Updated and HILARIOUS !
There is no alt text. I don’t know how to respond. Better go for the easy joke.
Puck has so much determination she should consider going through Undertale
And then you update it as I type. Now I feel bad
I hit the ‘post’ button by accident. Sorry. You’re just too quick on the draw, checking the comic the second it’s up!
Cats POUNCE on mice. It’s hard-wired. I couldn’t help myself.
**spritzes with water bottle**
Sorry, I put catnip extract into it for giggles. We’re about to see a cat bounce off the walls.
Puck really cares about Miranda.
I love how the stolen schnorf is just lying on a workbench in the background, dangling wires and all.
Space is at a premium these days.
Glad someone noticed that.
Well, that’s a plot twist I didn’t expect, Colin might live to see tomorrow’s sunrise (I’m not willing to project past that point at this time).
I write Puck like the mythological Thor: quick to anger, quick to cool. If she’s given a moment to simmer, chances of survival are high.
Derivative or not, the punchline is funnier IMO because it shows Puck reverting to acerbic spunkiness, or spunky acerbity. A little heartwarming is good but everything benefits from a little cayenne.
Agreed. Cayenne addition is a good thing in life.
That she looks pretty good in Daisy Dukes after giving birth—that’s an achievement…
Well, the birth was a while ago. Not really sure how long ago. I’ve sort of been vague on that count. But yes, she made a remarkable recovery. Good genetics. Good, er … fairy genetics.
Miranda looks about one year old, so I would assume Puck gave birth about one year ago—however much time has passed out here in the so-called real world.
I would guess that Miranda is somewhere between six and ten months old: that classic ‘baby’ age that everyone thinks of when they think baby, where they make funny sounds and don’t talk and don’t walk and stuff. It’s an iconic point, though it only lasts a limited time.
We’ve not had the obligatory baby’s first birthday cake. Of course that’s more for the parent’s amusement than the kid’s so maybe it’s not really a chance for humor.
I’m a bit frightened at what her first word may be.
“It took determination to get my ass into these”… To be honest, I can’t really blame her. I, personally, fail to see how the hell people can openly wear them. They look extremely… Restricting (in terms of movement, for lack of a better word).
Well, I guess it’s to each their own. But still…
…And now I wonder if the social worker is gonna become a ‘main’ character (as in, be similar to Hot Dog Guy – appear to make sure the family isn’t… Doing stupid things).
I think the fact that these shorts are so small actually makes them less restrictive to movement than, say, those really tight hipster pants.
And the social worker may return. Not sure whether she’ll be a mainstay, but we may see her come back some time later. (WAY later.)
And let’s face it, keeping this family from doing stupid things would be a full-time job.
No, a 24/7 job.
No, she’d drive herself to exhaustion in days, and be retired or deceased in a month at most.
Exactly. It’s a good thing the Puck gang lives over an hour away. They’re outside her turf, and probably someone else’s problem.
The social worker seems to be a very nice lady.
It’s a trap.
If she get’s used often I would like her as a minor antagonist, always trying to catch Colin doing something abusive because she just knows he’s guilty. Like the liberal guy in King of the Hill.
Determination and a big shoe horn.
The best kind of determination always involves shoe horns.
I thought Daffy’s Daisy Dukes were retro high cut. Now Puck once more shows the way.
My bf once asked me, “How do you wear those (low cut jeans) without them falling down?”
I said, “Because women have hips, darling.”
Okay, I didn’t say “darling”
That’s why men should not wear low cut jeans. Accidents are just too frequent.
Miranda’s thoughts: “Hee hee! Mommy is making funny faces!”
If baby has a bottle, everything else is just so much sound and noise.
Only time will tell if we’ll see the social worker again.
So, you’re telling me that there’s a movie with Drew Barrymore in tight shorts that I haven’t seen, yet?
*queue Netflix*
Hate to break it to you, but it’s Hugh Grant wearing the tight pants.
Aww, man!
Good thing I didn’t get too far into Netflix.
Puck – um – when you are through with those insanely tight clothes can you donate them to Tracee ?
I think that they wouldn’t fit on Tracee. Like, we’re into physical impossibility territory there.
Would they, ummm, burst seams as soon as Tracee bent over ?
(yes yes yes)
If that makes you happy in this weird fantasy scenario that you’ve carefully crafted, then sure. Let’s make that canon.
U R a nice Lizard.
Not at all like the others.
Trust me, if any of Tracee’s seams burst, it was with malice aforethought
I can deal with that.
I’m just looking for luv in all the wrong places.
Awww . . . that is really good of Puck to say that! About Colin, I mean. Not the Daisy Dukes.
Look! She’s not the worst person in the world! Seriously!
I’ll bet that Puck will eventually take Miranda to see Hot-Dog Guy.
Way to cape for you man, Puck! And showing culpability to boot 😉
There is a reason Colin stays with Puck, and vice versa. They do have redeeming qualities; they just often don’t show them.
Ew. I’m not sure I’d *want* to see those from them…
Colin strikes me as the classic “nice guy” who the hot redheads go for *after* they’ve had their fun with the leather-jacket dude or dudes, and possibly ended up with a child that needs a father or at least a co-parent with whom to share the work – Daphne in this case.
In-comic Puck seems to have skipped right to the single-parent stage, but there must have been a reason she was alone in an apartment watching daytime TV.
Colin, as determined in a previous comic, is a classic “nice idiot.” They’re like the sand trap on the fairway of a woman’s life.
There’ve been so many times that I’ve published a comic and then realized after the fact that the joke was real similar to someone else’s work. Usually it’s work I wasn’t previously familiar with, but either way, I think it’s helped me have a more healthy attitude about the idea of “originality”.
Well, it happens. I’m not worried if there’s the same joke out there and I don’t know it. It’s more the ‘inadvertent plagiarism’ that causes a problem for me. I once read how Robert Palmer (of ‘Simply Irresistible’ and ‘Addicted to Love’ fame) almost accidentally plagiarized ‘Some Guys Have All the Luck’. The song sprang into his head; he thought he wrote it, and was recording it in a studio when one of the guys said he’d heard the song before. Turns out that Palmer probably heard the song in the background on Australian radio one day, and it stuck in his head without him actually recalling that he’d heard it. As it is, he rewrote the thing and made a totally different song by the same name.
Daisy. Dukes. I called it.
You did.
“Now it’s just derivative instead of outright stolen. That’s better, right?”
It’s also a better joke.
Well, nice of you to say.