THE PATRONS HAVE TAKEN OVER!!!
That’s right! The voting incentive pics are in the hands of the fans! Patrons on Patreon who pledge $5 or more a month get a personal say in what incentives are coming your way! If YOU want to put your two cents in, then my HEAD ON OVER TO PATREON and join the select club!
Right now there’s a nice little Christmas pic for your vote!
As for this comic…
I am aware that such jokes about Hollywood are low-hanging comedic fruit. But sometimes I just don’t feel like reaching up higher.
Tracee – Wardrobe Malfunction – Wardrobe Malfunction….
( Christmas Miracle ?)
Impossible! I mean, look at that outfit! It’s so … firmly … in place! It’s not going anywhere!
whimper
it’s just not Superbowl XXXVIII anymore
That one looks paintd on. The only malfunction possible there is for Colin to wander with a bucket of paint stripper…exactly the sort of thing he’d randomly be doing, of course, and there’d be a banana peel, because THAT hasn’t happened here yet, and, well, you know what happens next.
All the best clothing is applied with brushes and rollers.
ALERT! ALERT! TRACEE IS MISSING MOST OF HER SLEEVES IN PANEL THREE!!! ALERT! ALERT!
PURRRRRR……
There IS a Santa Claus !
Oh, you detail-oriented people. Always sweating continuity.
I can’t help it – nitpicking is in my blood!
Well, I can’t help the fact that I will fix that error shortly, because nitpicking is in MY blood too. So keep it up!
YAY! 😀 Good for you, Gecko! You’re a brilliant artist, even if you forget details due to exhaustion (I assume)!
IT FIXED! THREE CHEERS FOR GECKO!
Bah, Humbug !
I suppose I must be satisfied with past glories: //www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-245
Why were you so excited about her sleeves, anyway? Do you have an arm fetish? Wouldn’t you rather she be wearing a tube top?
@Buggle
The less the betta is this cat’s desire.
I am going to comment on the Christmas picture: Saint Nicolas provided poor people with money to buy food. “Santa Claus” delivers toys made by large corporations in China to children, mostly wealthy ones. SANTA is an anagram for SATAN.
They both like the color red, that’s for sure!
@JR Beeler
What is wrong with you, man ?
Santa is the nicest guy that ever lived !
I’d scratch both your eyes out RIGHT NOW – if it weren’t nappy-time.
(priorities)
I’m gonna let EG decide if this is too preachy to post, and if he does, I certainly won’t hold it against him.
Ask the Teenager that puts up (and takes down) the christmas lights for a sick neighbor, and shovels the snow off his sideway.
Ask the Wife that knows 3 families that cant afford a Christmas Dinner, so she makes 4 Christmas dinners that year, so everyone can eat.
Ask the guy who volunteers every year to pick up the trash at the local Salvation Army while they are feeding the homeless at Christmas time (Also, ask the people who are serving those dinners).
As the young girl in her 20’s that took her grandmas baking recipes and spent a week in the kitchen so she could share all these wonderful cookies with everyone.
They will all tell you the same thing. Santa Klaus is not an Icon about how much they are going to get for themselves. Santa Klaus is an Icon of about how much they are willing to give of themselves.
And By the way, English is not the only language on the planet, and Santa means Saint in several others.
Bless You DLK.
I gave THANKS at Thanksgiving for people like u.
Now, now, just STOP IT !
(without our cynical sarcasm, felines r DOOMED ! And u r not helping !)
Also, Ask the cat that sees that their human is depressed, so they jump up on the human’s lap and purr till the human feels better!
I agree with both, actually. I get the hostility to Santa. I do. I also get the Santa as symbol of good thing. I feel both joy and irritation when Santa starts popping up everywhere. Which is weird, but he’s a complex icon.
Hey, a holiday figure mangled by the Christians from its possibly Nordic roots and mangled more by consumerism.
If he isn’t complex, I’d eat my shoes.
As long as he drinks Coca-Cola, I’m happy.
While it is certainly true that a Santa dressed in comfy cold-weather dress is our modern visio (and a wonderful one), some of the earliest representations, from the Middle East, show a far more plainly dressed individual: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/St_Nicholas_Icon_Sinai_13th_century.jpg
BO-ring. Where are the carbonated beverages? Santa is not the same without them.
Gosh, look at the guyliner he’s got going on! And the blush!
“Probably” ::(
You guys should look so good at 800 !
I love how adopting a baby is rule #86-A, suggesting it is a sub-clause to a rule deemed less critical than 85 others. I wonder where owning a Prius falls on that list.
The Prius rule would be significantly higher, I think, though it’s largely been supplanted by Tesla.
Actual TESLA fans must, MUST watch David Bowie as Tesla in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film)
It is an incredible film – and book.
Have you seen the ‘Drunk History’ episode about Tesla?
He’s played by John C. Reilly. It’s a hoot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOR91oentQ
Oh, yeah. (6:04)
*I always try to leave a video length note.
I’ve been bamboozled too many times by people who’ll link a 2 hour video and you don’t know until you load the page.
I don’t think the numbering always indicated the order of importance, sometimes it can just be the order people thought of things. For example, there’s a reason that the 3rd Amendment in the US gets a lot less controversy (and I believe it’s never been the subject of a Supreme Court case) for a reason …
LOL! There’s a handbook? This is the “Jolie” Rule I’m sure.
Josephine Baker did it several decades before Angelina Jolie. From Wikipedia: “Baker raised two daughters, French-born Marianne and Moroccan-born Stellina, and 10 sons, Korean-born Jeannot (or Janot), Japanese-born Akio, Colombian-born Luis, Finnish-born Jari (now Jarry), French-born Jean-Claude and Noël, Israeli-born Moïse, Algerian-born Brahim, Ivorian-born Koffi, and Venezuelan-born Mara.” She called them her “Rainbow Tribe”. (Then again, Baker didn’t live in Hollywood, and her children mostly weren’t from Third-World countries.)
It is a thing. It does go beyond Ms. Jolie. But she’s the most recent, most famousest example.
Maybe not the most recent but Mia Farrow is still a thing.
Yeah, and look what it did to Brad Pitt: “Umm, there’s a babe with NO KIDS”
The handbook is extensive, and covers everything, including the proper plastic surgery schedule for optimum upkeep.
The fact that Hollywood has a handbook of rules – sub-clauses included – made me chuckle quite a bit.
It’s also not really wrong – I see way too many people that goes ‘OH LOOK THIS IS TOTALLY MY CHILD’ and I just go ‘Have you undergone surgery or did you adopt that kid, because it looks NOTHING like you…’
Not sure if it’s bad that I keep asking that when I see those things, but eh…
I just always think of Troy McClure’s line: “Great! We’ll adopt. I’ll call my agent and he can find some kid who wants in on the deal.”
Do you think you will ever touch on the fact that Puck is a fairy? That seems to play absolutely zero part of any story. I can’t even remember her casually mentioning her age or anything from her distant past (hundreds of years ago)
Anyways keep up the good work.
I likely won’t. It’s kind of a trope by now. Breaking the silence would be weird.
But by definition and set up, your whole premise is already (and unavoidably) a bit weird, so …
True dat.
@Ed Rougle
There is an interesting (allegedly interesting) discussion of Puck’s Fairie Powers here: //www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-346
The downside: Puck leaving her family behind when she goes to Hollywood.
The upside: Puck…well, leaving her family behind seems more like an upside than a downside.
True.
Well, given they’re probably all going to age and she’s not (well, nowhere near as fast), no point avoiding the inevitable as she’s leaving them one way or another.
<>
CEREBUS SYNDROME INITIATED
But WILL they age? Unless I do crazy time jumps, time moves so slowly for them that Miranda will likely be out of diapers no sooner than 2030.
Isn’t Miranda half-fae by definition? She will outlast Colin and could outlast Puck!
Maybe. And Phoebe may possibly be immortal too.
I wasn’t counting Phoebe as family in the legal definition of the word. I’m also well aware of her connection to and the said benefits from the Prince of Darkness aka the Mayor of Hamilton.
Does “immortal” mean they’ll never ever go away?
I think Puck is almost ready to snap out of it…..
Or snap into it. Whichever one…
Well now that there would be consequences for Miranda, will Puck turn Tracee down? Surely now she’s feeling like it might not all be worth it. I mean, having a baby with the same ears as you is better than getting the attention of millions of people and pretending to raise another baby…right?
Maybe?
I think Tracee better lay off the Hooters, er Howlers wings and beer, cause she is developing Thunder Thighs.
@Susan
How, how DARE you !!
Tracee is the epitome of pulchritude !
(cat sputtering in rage – or would be if it did not take so much effort)
Excuse moi? How skinny are you that you have the privilege to call those matchsticks “thunder thighs?” And even if she had real thunder thighs, she could still be pretty – curvy is *in* now, you know.
Compare with Puck’s thighs in Panel 1. Oh, and I wear XS underwear, You do the math :p
And why should Tracee be compared with anyone else? That’s where all the worst forms of depreciation come from. If a person is beautiful enough for themselves and the people they care about (and their body isn’t threatening their life) then that should be called good. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion – but it’s not right for them to call other people ugly.
Plus, Tracee’s still a skinny little b*tch, so I wouldn’t call her thighs fat.
OK, that was awesome, Buggle!
I try. 😉
I don’t draw girls with skinny legs. Just a quirk of mine which stems from the fact I (a) don’t find super-skinny legs attractive, (b) see very, very few real women with super-skinny legs, and (c) think that there’s enough super skinny legs in the manga/anime world to go around. I purposefully choose to draw women with full, believable thighs. And not everyone will think that’s cool, and that’s okay.
Trace is, though, the curviest character in this series, so if anyone’s going to push the limit of curve, it’s her. With Tracee I try to err on the side of more rather than less.
Looks like you’re setting yourself up for a bit of a thigh gap gap, there.
I strongly, STRONGLY dislike thigh gap. If a woman has thigh gap, it means one of two things: (1) she’s twelve, or (2) she’s malnourished. The fact that thigh gap was, for a while, a ‘beauty trend’, is one of the reasons I hate humanity.
1) I run 2) I weigh 104 lb. (this morning) and 3) I have had thigh gap all my life, as best as I can remember :p
There are exceptions, of course. I was guessing you’d be one of them.
Oh, and I am 31.
Shots fired?
Well then, that’s your natural weight. You have a right to be proud of that.
You don’t have the right to judge fictional characters for their natural body types.
(Did I really just say that?)
Man, all these shots being fired, someone’s gonna get hurt! (It’ll probably be me.)
And I think that fictional characters and their natural body types are a little less … consistent than real people. At least when they’re in my comic. And I think, honestly, that Susan was initially commenting on that level – observing that my drawing might be a little off-model. Because God knows that I wander off-model rather often.
Besides, if anyone can shrug off judgement on ANY count, it’s Tracee. I have a strong suspicion that she doesn’t really care what most people think.
@Buggle Just sayin’ :p
Take is easy, my feline friend… As Tracee would tell you, that’s what Liposuction is for!
Gurrrrrrr…..
(that’s me – growling in a menacing way)
*Scratches Salemcat behind left ear behind ear*.
On a side note, how are the feline medical issues going? are you out of the cone yet?
@DLK
It’s been 77 Days, 16 Hours, 1 Minute and 53 Seconds since that awful thing was removed. But’s who counting.
(purrrr, that feels good. wat were we talkin about?)
http://i.imgur.com/Kit5h9K.jpg
Glad to know the cone is off. Any long term complications from the incident?
@DLKmusic
Thankfully I’ve had a full recovery. (thanks for asking)
No long term ill effects, except to my Human Pet Baldie’s wallet.
http://i.imgur.com/7Rv8gLe.jpg
I was going to opine that since Tracee can still put one knee atop the other, and her thigh doesn’t appear to be much bigger than her head and her hips don’t appear to be wider than her shoulders, then, she’s got celestial but not thundering thighs … or that Rule 86-A might appear in the book entitled “Being Blonde For The Complete Idiot” … but that piece of duct tape on the chair entrances me … it’s so loyal and so symbolic … Tracee appears to be so shallow that she thinks she can uproot a mother from her paper and from her duct taped chair… stand not between the Nazgul and his prey, nor between a mother and her baby…
I’m not takin bets either way….
(but u mentioned the Nazgul – OMG – they were a group of Pizza Delivery Guys that my “buddy” Sauron was known to prank. On his side ? They wanted to KILL him !! Dam good pies, tho)
It looks like you’ve opted to opine both opinions…
@Buggle
I’ve seen you on Absinthe, and a pic of Susan wid her Shotgun.
I don’t wanna be CONED again!
And I AM pretty good on perching directly on the fence, while not leaning to either side. It’s my liddle claus.
You might want to take a page from Colin’s leaf and hide, if you’re so scared. But frankly, I think we’ve agreed to disagree, so I don’t think you have anything to be afraid of…
Now, now, now…
Can’t we all calm down and agree that Tracee has superior taste in HATS ?
I don’t know. There’s some competition.
http://blog.bohanart.com/wp-content/uploads//2015/10/IMG_0039.jpg
Tracee’s is better.
That is a cool hat, tho.
Modern women love their shoes – they should wear more hats as well – IMHO.
Even better:http://www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-brave/2016/11/24
I vote for Wallace
eeeeehhh… I’m not sure, Susan. Is that a Stetson?
No, that is a Cat in the Hat Haberdashery Production. I don’t think Wallace (or his parents) could afford a real Stetsonhttp://www.villagehatshop.com/brands/364/1/stetson.html . And they don’t show up at garage sales up east very often.
Thanks for showing me that page! There’s a hat there that I really like and can’t afford!!! (sigh)
Although I can always dream of lookin’ sharp in that Tangiers Safari Hat
http://www.villagehatshop.com/brands/364/1/stetson.html
OMG
Xmas is coming.
I want: Fruitcake and, and Pecan Sandies.
Wat do you want ?
(sorry, whirled peas iz NOT an acceptable answer. it must be sumthing money can buy for $20 or less.)
Oh, I also want REAL Maple Sugar Candy.
I will settle for 2016, the annus horriblis, being over. Oh, and a gold necklace with an opal pendant that I know my bf got me cause I looked at his credit card statement and got into his locked desk drawer while he was at work 🙂
@Susan
Ooooo – sounds nice !
While the $20 Rule works for Cats, for the Lady in a Human’s Life the $20 Rule would be a DEATH WISH. Especially when the Lady owns a Benelli.
I do think you’re being a bit harsh on 2016, tho. Despite that incident when I was attacked by a Dragon, and wore a Cone for a month, I’ve had worse.
BTW, do Opals repel Huge, Foul, Winged Beasts ?
There are no cats in this lady’s life unless you count. And you don’t even have a tail :p
And opals only repel angry girlfriends when they didn’t get what they wanted for Christmas. And I even told him that I didn’t want gems, just gold. How did he know I wa lying? This is disturbing *broods*
Actually, Salem, I kinda agree with with Susan here… I’ve lost several friends, and the ones that I didn’t lose lost family members. 2016 has been a pretty good year for the undertaker
Although, come to think of it, Last year kinda sucked on that level too… I lost my “master”, his Lordship the count Maximillian Del Gato Del Blanco Del Pain in Del Butt (Max for short) after 18 years…
So my conclusion I guess is that Years suck….
Well, 2016 was the year I met all you fine people on PUCK.
Ya had to be positive, huh? Couldn’t let me drown in my own misery, could you? you’re such a… such a… SUCH A CAT!!!!!
Well done, btw!
Aww, Sentimental Salem! We love you too!
Darn it Salem, now I want candy…
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6Ork8YxURMU/TQlFc_vUcGI/AAAAAAAAEbQ/SvQXG0gLWqc/s1600/Fruit+Cake3.jpg
http://hayliepomroy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pecan_Sandies.jpg
http://www.maple-sugar-candy.com/candystore/maple_candy_medium.jpg
Say what? I haven’t had candy since Halloween (munches ham sandwich)
Made cookies the other day – came out burnt on one side and undercooked on the other. :/ I blame my oven.
@Buggle
Mebe you used the Broil Setting instead of Bake ?
If you did that all the heat would be from above; not even at all.
Or mebe you need a thicker Baking Sheet that holds more heat – or even preheat the sheet ?
Or just do what I do – have my pets pick them all boxed up at the market.
Another factor is that the cookies were gluten-free, and possibly too dry… There’s too many factors to consider! Feh D:
For me, it would be difficult for a Cooky to be too dry.
I adore dry – and don’t mind a little loose cooky-dust exploding into the air as I chomp into them.
Walkers Shortbread, Pecan Sandies, Befanini (Xmas Witch Cookies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befana) – Yum Yum Yum.
I despite the saggy, greasy things so often passed off these days as edible.
If I can fold a cooky, I don’t wanna eat it.
Or you could do like I do and let my bf do all the cooking and forbid him to bake anything fattening
If I had a girlfriend, I wouldn’t be able to do that because I’d feel guilty putting it all on her. And even so, I wouldn’t pose a restriction like that, ’cause I love sweets.
I don’t feel guilty because it is for his own good. Besides, he says it doesn’t bother him because “baking is a science, cooking is an art.” He is bringing home a top round roast for tonight, Yummy!
@Susan
Top Round Roast Beast ?
Purrrrrr……
No more Turkey !!
NO MORE !!!!