Puck 344
on June 27, 2016 at 10:15 pm
NEW VOTING INCENTIVES THROUGHOUT JUNE READER’S CHOICE 2016!!!
There’s a new voting incentive up on TWC! It’s READER’S CHOICE 2016! Where I take the suggestions from YOU, the reader (or some other weirdo) and turn them into sketches or finished pics! A new one’s up this week, so check it out!
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As for this comic…
The Hotdog Guy makes his requisite periodic appearance. Honestly, the Hotdog Guy is such an infrequent character that I always end up getting confused questions from people wondering why Puck is holding a hotdog inside a psychiatrist’s office. For those who are confused, just know that the Hotdog Guy is a hotdog vendor AND a licensed psychotherapist. Just go with it.
Oh, and for those who are wondering, the Hotdog Guy is playing My Singing Monsters on his tablet. It’s the thinking man’s waste of time. His friend code is 33596138HI for those who need to know.
Looking Good, Puckster !
That Park Garb did you no justice.
I never ceased to be amazed by the many people who said they actually liked the trailer park Puck look. To each his own, I suppose. But like you, I prefer this sort of ensemble on her.
hmmm…. Slap on the ass –> Mugged by a naked clown… Making Hotdog guy uncomfortable?
At first I didn’t want to believe it, but Hotdog guy Papa Schnorf is starting to make a lot of sense suddenly… Father/Son maybe?
No connection. At all. Beyond the fact that their both bit characters from my imagination, and so I can’t deny there may be a certain unavoidable … resonance.
Maybe Hotdog Guy moonlights as a naked clown, and resents the implication.
VERY possible in this universe.
Nothing affirms one’s psychiatric credentials more than the timeless combination of elbow patches, rich mahogany wainscotting and pork products.
I’m glad SOMEONE is on the same page with me on that.
This is Puck’s 1st session with Hot Dog Guy since Miranda’s birth.
Not exactly.
Is it good or bad that I immediately thought “wrong kind of white people” before I clicked the link?
It is a testament to your devotion as a reader. Whether that’s good or bad is really a matter of personal opinion.
completely forgot about hotdog guy was looking at the comic thinking this scene looks familiar hmm lets look in the comments section someone probably noticed and referenced a earlier comic If this has happened before, if not its just my imagination.
It’s happened … MANY times before. But in this comic, where fifty strips back is almost a whole year, things get distant sometimes. I forgot to put the ‘characters’ reference on this comic, but I’ve added it just now, so if you’re interested, just click ‘Hotdog Guy’ and it’ll bring up every comic he’s ever appeared in.
Where’s the next book, Gecko?
Next book will be produced after strip 400. Or that’s the plan, anyway. Not that I anticipate many sales, but whatevs. It’s the thought that counts.
And could this be the next item for hot dog -> sausage upgrade?
He’s actually had that for a long time: //www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-61
Not what I meant was an addendum to those three already on his list.
Yeah, for the entirety of the ‘Amusement Park’ story line, all I was thinking was “Puck doesn’t deserve this.”
I’ll be the first to admit, she’s not the best person, but she’s good enough for me, and this whole story line sucked for her. She’s like Bugs Bunny, yeah he can be a jack ass, but he’s who you’re rooting for.
Well, she might deserve it in the universal sense of poetic justice, but I get what you’re saying. We’re done with the amusement park nightmare now, anyway. On to new nightmares!
Are we going to Freddy’s pizza palace?
Ummmnnnn
Heavy on the Anchovies !
I laughed way too hard at the voting incentive. I’m imagining that it’s Puck or Daphne that’s commenting on it? (To be honest, I’d sooner believe it to be Puck).
Awesome, Hot Dog Guy is back! Not like he’s my favorite background character (yes, he is).
The fact that he feels awkward talking to Puck says something.
But then again, being mugged like that would probably scar anyone for life.
I imagine it’s Puck commenting in the voting incentive, but really, it could be anyone. Because it’s a statement that has universal truth to it.
I find it jarring that Colin can have a face full of fur, but nary a hair on the rest of his body.
But, then again, it could be genetics.
I’ve heard people say, “You’ve got your mother’s eyes.”
I’ve never heard, “You got your father’s head”, though.
Well, maybe he exfoliates. I dunno. (Real reason? Drawing male body hair is really hard to do, especially if the guy’s blond.)
Puck has had some… unique experiences over the centuries, hasn’t she?
If by ‘unique’ you mean stupid, then yes. Yes, she has.
Will there ever be a flashback short?
Like, Puck in 1716? [or, insert matching year story happens in, minus several hundred years]
Probably not…
Shame…
Darn, because that would be hilarious.
Maybe a voting incentive of her as a 1700s bar wench?
Shoine ya’ shoos, gahv’nah?
I think that’s more Victorian Cockney than 1700s. Try more “thy’s” and “ye’s”
Nope. 1700’s shoe shiners would never, ever say ‘thy’. ‘Thy’ implies familiarity and personal connection or, more frequently by the 1700’s, it implies that you, the speaker, are of higher social standing than the person you’re talking to. That’s why it went out of common usage: saying ‘thee’ or ‘thy’ was frequently heard as an insult. So no ‘thy’ from the shoe shiners.
I am an AP-qualified senior high school English teacher for something, and that something is the ability to throw esoteric knowledge like that around.
Did the 1700s commoners ever call someone “guv’nor” though? I would’ve thought of that as a latter-century thing for them, as they got into the 1800s.
The “guv’nah” thing I have no idea about. In fact, I’m not even sure that’s a real thing.
At a certain point, events become so grotesque that ‘stupid’ no longer covers them. Naked clown mugging is beyond that point… ^^;
Scary Clowns … or scary scaramouches (ie scaramuccias)?!?!
Or is this just an excuse to use the word “scaramouche” in casual conversation?
It’s an excuse that needs to be taken advantage of.
I see a little silhouetto of a man.
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright’ning me!
Galileo.
“Like being mugged by a naked clown.” But she’d be naked, right?
Let’s not add another layer of disturbing to this.
How would you know it’s a Clown if it were nekkid ? And where would it carry the stolen Booty ?
Color me confoozzed….
Face paint, sharpened teeth, cotton candy colored hair, little kids thrusting fists against posts and seeing ghosts. All that and oversized heads with Tim Curry in the background eating candy.
Pat scared me – again.
Now I hate clowns, too.
Admittedly, I can easily see the discomfort in being mugged by a naked clown.
But would it be at least somewhat hilarious? Somewhat?
Next up in Puck’s fears: being slapped on the butt by a naked clown -> being slapped on the butt by a naked Papa Snorf -> being slapped on the butt by a naked Daphne? Hot Dog Psy is right, this is getting disturbing.
I originally had it develop from slap on butt to slap on butt from a naked clown, but then I felt like there was WAY too much synergy with the Papa Shnorf incident.
Read the alt text. Thought to myself, “That’s not how he really died… waitaminute…” Reread the third panel. Very clever…
I was thinkin’ the same thing – then you figured it out.
Congrats !
Well, I shouldn’t feel so bad. My brain is roughly the size of a Canadian walnut.
Alt. Text?
Yep. Every single comic.
Enjoy. 🙂
See what I did there? I’m inordinately proud of myself.
First time I’ve ever seen “naked clown” in a comic’s tags…
Google has over fifty thousand results for “naked clown”….
And probably the last.
Dear God… that voting incentive… bleach… I need bleach!
Worst – Voting – Incentive – Evah !!
Come on! Vote to see it EVERY DAY!
I will …. master …. (cat with dazed expression – eyes unfocused)
So … a hot dog in both the comic and the voting incentive?
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(P.S. love My Singing Monsters!)
Eek.
(P.S. I do too.)
IS Hot Dog Therapist on Plant Island working on getting the eggs for the newest Wublin?
Well, it’s WATER island that’s critical for the new Wublin. You gotta crank out Shellbeats like no tomorrow for that one. Better have a rare!
Hmmm, Puck is holding a Weiner in a Coney Island Bun – Yuk.
Don’t Canadians have New England Style Top Loaders ? They are so much better. Especially buttered, toasted, and in those little cardboard carriers !
http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/12/0912/0903art/product/hojo5.jpg
so hungry right now…..
http://www.yankeemagazine.com/article/food/new-england-style-hot-dog-rolls
I’ve seen them before in food articles, but never in real life.
This gal likes Coney Island Style:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/463096774161643816/
Sigh. I knew that game looked familiar. Fail on me.
No fail. Only win.
Or a naked Schnorf . . . he says, becoming the 1000,28th person to think that.
I could have gone there. I didn’t. Maybe it was a missed opportunity.
I think Puck needs to get a job.
VOTING INCENTIVE:
No, no, it can’t be…
Tracee as a Shnorf….
PURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !
Poppa Schnorf Wants You.
Oh yes. He does!
You know what? That poster actually just happened to be there in the background from the comic’s panel. It just happened to take on a whole new meaning in the voting incentive.
Dang, that makes it even funnier – the universe you wrote is now making its own jokes!
I thought you’d like this one.
PURRRRRR – BANG – OUCH !
PURRRRRR – BANG – OUCH !
PURRRRRR – BANG – OUCH !
(I’m shaking so hard I keep falling off the sofa)
I think in a vote comic Puck should be made bionic and called the Six Million Dollar Fairy.Puck a fairy barely alive gentlemen we can rebuild her we can make the world’s 1st bionic fairy Puck will be that fairy better faster stronger.
While the jokes always hit home, I find myself caught up in your smart use of contrasting colors on this particular strip. Makes your panels so welcoming to the eye as I sit and stare.
Well, if it weren’t for my liberal use of color gradients, my colors would probably not jive very well. I color things (I’ve been told) the wrong way, in that I don’t work with a set primary palette, but if you think it works, I’m very pleased.