Jun19
NEW WEEKLY VOTING INCENTIVE!!! PUCKWATCH!!!
All throughout June, we’ll be paying tribute to Baywatch, that awful show from the 90’s! Because hey, if Hollywood is doing it… Get your beach on and vote for Puck on TWC! And remember, this idea came from THE PATRONS! 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!
VOTE FOR NO HASSLE, ONLY THE HOFF!!!
As for this comic…
I think this is the first time we’ve ever actually seen the inside of the bathroom at the Puck household. It looks hideous.
lol Daphne’s shirt
Glad someone liked it.
Phoebe is totally ready to play the role of an Officer on the new Star Trek series.
The only question is what Species she’ll be flying with !
I’d make a snarky comment, but I have no idea what “the new Star Trek series” is. Or any of the previous ones. Is Mr. Spock still on it?
@Susan
Despite what Mr. Shatner and his ego believes, since day one every Star Trek series lives or dies according to the pulchritude of the female crew members.
Phoebe would ensure success for all !
And yes, she could be a descendant of Mr Spock. The ears do fit. The TAIL, well…..
Perhaps Leonard simply lost his in an unfortunate industrial accident at the Light Sabre factory on Tatooey.
Blasphemy! In the Galaxy Far, Far Away, all the Star Trekkies would work for the Empire.
I still remember the story of someone (not me) making their first visit to a Star Trek chat room, expecting discussion of the weighty intellectual issues raised, and finding the main discussion was over whether Troi or Crusher had bigger knockers.
[So who has the biggest knockers in “Puck?”]
Largest to smallest (and I know because I draw them): Tracee, Phoebe, Puck, Daphne. Though Puck has been all over the spectrum from before pregnancy, during, and after. As of right now (and for the foreseeable future), she’s solidly third on the list.
It must be noted, though, that individual drawings sometimes vary on this front, as I’m bad at keeping size consistency with that particular body part.
@Robert Nowall
That was a really good question.
@EG
That was a really good answer.
TRACEEEEE – PURRRRRR….
@Susan
THE EMPIRE ?
Good Point !
Despite the numerous REBEL Star Wars female heroes, we have yet to see an EMPIRE Femme Fatale.
She’d have to sport skim-tight Black Leather & Chrome, while making the patented Vader sound ( or just purr – yeah – purr would be betta’ )
Time for AN EMPRESS !
( and Phoebe would be just the gal to pull it off )
The expanded universe had one. Mara Jade. She was the Emperor’s assassin.
@Morgorath
If it ain’t in the movies it never happened.
😛
STAR TREK – DISCOVERY
Coming to America!
Did Phoebe just crawl out of the Drain in the Sink ?
Maybe. It’s the end result of me trying to get a lot into a single panel. Sometimes characters actually have to stoop down or lean into the frame just to be seen.
@EG
I think Phoebe needs to be on the left, leaning down over Daphne, with Daphne twisted slightly to her right and looking back. Phoebe heard retching, and being concerned, simply barged into the Bathroom.
Or it could be that the Bathroom has no rear wall, and is open to the Kitchen, where Phoebe is.
Like Mixing up where Clothes Washers and Dryers should go, it could simply be common Canadian practice. It saves on Drywall. I approve.
To make room you could ditch the Vanity and the Bathtub Spout.
(It’s always those of us with the absolute least artistic talent who chime up as critics 😛 )
The door is where the fourth wall is. The rules of framing, though, dictate that putting Phoebe to the left of Daphne would be a mistake, though, because framing continuity has already established Daphne on the left side of the panel. Swapping to the right is best avoided.
@EG
Upon much thought (ouch), I’m thinking now the Vanity (is that what they call them up north?), is simply very small, and ends directly at the right side of the panel.
That would give Phoebe the ability to bend over it at her waist, and with some twisting, and with her butt facing us ( 🙂 ), to achieve the position.
Then the scene would work.
@EG
Is there any chance the 4th panel could be re-drawn, with the right side expanded, illustrating my theory ?
( Maybe for we Patreons ?)
It would be purely for scientific purposes, not for the rare (perhaps first) opportunity to see Phoebe’s derriere.
😛
No chance. Which means some chance.
Daphne: “Phoebe… did you just lean out of our bathroom mirror?”
Phoebe: “I have sort of this distant cousin by marriage named Belldandy. She’s a real sweetie, and taught me a fun trick or two.”
When someone makes the face Daphne is making in panel 3, that’s when I’d probably say “No wait, I mean…. butt stuff. It IS butt stuff.”
Well, if someone asks, and insists on finding out the truth, I am a firm believer that they should find out. Even if they can’t handle it. I’m obviously not of the Jack Nicholson school on that one.
I agree with you! They shouldn’t have asked. 😛
Barfwatch: first Phoebe, now Daphne. Can we assume Puck had her turn during the pregancy?
P.S. kudos on the non-creepy Daphne Baywatch. The Skinny Guy Flex really worked without any dialogue.
Yeah, I’ve covered all barf bases. Maybe not Colin.
And the Baywatch pic was fun. I’m glad it gets your approval. There’s still a few more to come!
I laughed so hard, I threw up.
True story.
I do not believe you, but thank you nonetheless for the sentiment.
Points for trying, Daphne.
You didn’t just blow Colin off or laugh at him, so …. personal progress!
She IS sort of developing as a character. Sort of.
And it is wonderful to see, I assure you. 🙂
yeah, a bad character, based on Bugsy Siegal 😛
🙁
Re: vote incentive …. Daphne may act bored, but I notice she is not looking away. 😉
If you are given the chance to shoot someone a withering glare, you cannot pass that opportunity up.
That looked more pensive than withering to me. 😉
“Thoughful”
😉
“Curious”
“Feigned disinterest”
Ahhh! The Coming To America tshirt! Nice. 😀
It took a long time for me to figure out what the actual color of the shirt should be. I studied a bunch of screen shots, but unlike McDonald’s, McDowell’s does’t have a consistent color scheme. They’ve got plaid vests, blue aprons, some light green signage. Finally, though, I realized that ALL McDowell’s signs (well, most of them) have a black background, so I went with that. And I thought it looked good.
You could have used pink for the arches since, in the past, McDonald’s used to allow, or award, a franchisee the privilege of having their arches be a light pink instead of yellow. Only if they owned more than a certain amount of restaurants though.
Well, I don’t think McDowell’s has the same policy, as there was ever only one (fictional) location.
I would think that with Colin living in a house full of women and having to use a washroom with pink toilet seat and bath mat his shnesticles would be shrinking not swelling.
You’d think so, wouldn’t you?
Have to say, I did love Daphne’s shirt.
Phoebe looks a bit weird in the last panel, though I personally just assumed that she was leaning towards her (e.g fixing her make up or similar beforehand).
Can’t say I blame her for it being easy to think you have more empathy or maturity than you really have…
I just assumed the same thing you did about Phoebe.
WARNING: don´t read the following comment if you´ve got a weak stomach or are just eating – you´ll end up puking!
just yesterday i accidentially saw something on tv where a dude was stung by a beetle ‘down there’ while on vacation in the jungle – HIS swollen skrotum turned out to contain a couple of larva(!) happily munching their way through the shnesticles. so yeah, i´m right with daph, puking my guts out at the possibilities….
Oh man. I shuddered so bad reading that I think my whole house shook. I’m not sure I would ever be the same if a trauma like that happened to me.
Well, no, you wouldn’t be the same. You would be missing that part of you that the larvae ate.
Meh, you think that’s bad? I could tell you stories…but being the merciful sort, I won’t
Please don’t!
That’s the most logical thing I’ve read on the nets this week!
Course, it’s only Tuesday. 🙂
First of all, beetles cannot “sting”. Some possess strong enough mandibles to bite humans and cause pain, redness, and swelling (e.g., the Blister Beetle) However, ALL insects when they lay eggs do it with their ovipositors at the end of their abdomens, and this presents a logical implausibility.
This does sound a little far-fetched, to my mind.
Once again PUCK re-affirms it’s place as the #1 Scientific Web Comic.
*eyeroll* i wasn´t planning to go into all the scientific details, especially since i´m not english native speaker, but since you´ve asked…..the actual bite/sting was from a mosquito, who had been previously ‘contaminated’ by another insect, using the stinger of the mosquito to get its eggs as deep as possible into a host….and the larva were almost an inch big/long already when they wer removed, dude thought it was merely an infected bite and was as skittish as collin to go to a doctor about ‘his boys’…until he was scratching himself down there and felt movement(!!) inside his sack. now THAT had him rushing to the doc asap.
for more infos check out the tv-show, it is called ‘monsters inside me’ but be warned, its REALLY gross and likely to give you nightmares.
See, SEE !
Like Peya Luna says, it’s a CENTIPEDE CONDO down there.
1. Mosquitoes do not have “stingers.” They have mandibles to penetrate skin and inject an anticoagulant to keep blood flowing. This is how sleeping sickness and West Nile virus, among others, are contracted by humans.
2. Mosquitoes are not contaminated by other insects. They bite contaminated mammalian hosts and suck up viruses into their bodies which gets into their anti-coagulating substance.
3. No known insect introduces its larvae into a host. Eggs which hatch and develop into larvae, yes, such as lice
4. If an insect bite got infected, assuming that insect eggs/larvae were present it would probably kill said larvae as they depend on live mammalian blood to live and grow. unless a very quick acting infection produced such overwhelming tissue death that the larvae could survive by phagocytosis. This is not what you are describing. It would be a massive debilitating lesion, not to be relieved by scratching.
5. No known insect preying on humans for larval survival produces larvae an inch long. A few millimeters, at best.
6. The schkrotum is highly vascular and resistant to infection. The layers are self-contained and resistant to damage of overlying layers.
@Susan
What about Bot Flys and Guinea Worms ?
Bot fly larva are only 16-17mm, not even an inch. As above, they hatch after the fly lays the egg in the skin. Drancuosis or Guinea-worm fever is caused by drinking infected water.
1. Yes, layman often confuse “sting” and “bite”, and technically a penetration by an ovipositor is neither. They’re a lot more concerned that an insect pierced their skin than with which organ at which end of the insect did it – and most of the successful penetrations occur where the victim isn’t looking.
2. It’s in Wikipedia, with footnotes: “The smaller fly is firmly held by the botfly female and rotated to a position where the botfly attaches some 30 eggs to the body under the wings. Larvae from these eggs, stimulated by the warmth and proximity of a large mammal host, drop onto its skin and burrow underneath.[6] Intermediate vectors are often used since a number of animal hosts recognise the approach of a botfly and flee.”
So the mosquito or other biting insect doesn’t inject eggs or larva, but it makes a hole. If the botfly picked a female mosquito at just the right part of her lifecycle, newborn larva drop to the skin and wriggle down that hole once the mosquito leaves.
3. Yes, if the botfly directly injects something, it’s eggs, not larva, but the strategy of using biting insects as an intermediate vector requires the eggs to hatch so the offspring are mobile.
5,6. “Only” 16-17mm? That’s 5/8 inch. To find something that big eating it’s way through my biceps would be very bad, but shnesticles are only about an inch in diameter. So they exaggerated a little, but the larvae grow big enough to destroy a shnesticle, and a construction of tough layers isn’t going to stop them.
Wkipedia describes the use of a mosquito or other biting insect: “The smaller fly is firmly held by the botfly female and rotated to a position where the botfly attaches some 30 eggs to the body under the wings. Larvae from these eggs, stimulated by the warmth and proximity of a large mammal host, drop onto its skin and burrow underneath.[6] Intermediate vectors are often used since a number of animal hosts recognise the approach of a botfly and flee.”
So the mosquito doesn’t “inject” eggs or larva, but it makes a hole. Newly hatched larva wait for the mosquito to leave, then crawl down the hole.
5/8 inch doesn’t translate to “inches”. And who said mosquitoes injected eggs into anything? Amd who said larvae or any other wormlike thing couldn’t crawl in a hoe or otherwise invade damaged tissue? The whole point is that the idea of a shnetis becoming larger due to an invading parasite accompanied by infection and manifesting itself by “itching” rather than severe pain is risible. Most people cannot tolerate an abscess bigger than a marble.
Too much medical debate! There shall be no more medical debate on this site from this point forward!
@EG
Too much medical debate! There shall be no more medical debate on this site from this point forward!
Pleeze Reconsider !
It’s very interesting, and gives Susan an opportunity to share her professional knowledge and experience.
We’d pay $$$ to have her explain these things to us in person, as a patient !
@EG
What’s more, how in the world could you begin an Arc like this without anticipating the responses ?
Hey, if the boss says so, no more from me!
@EG
Hey You, You Lizard !
Apologize to Susan RIGHT NOW !!
She’s one of our very best Pucksters, and now she feels bad.
I agree with the Gecko, kitty – I enjoy reading about these things when I’m doing research and want to learn, but this is getting a touch heated. (and pedantic)
WAIT
IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE GENDER-SWAP ARC?!?!?!?!
@Buggle
Well, we can agree to disagree.
You don’t start an Arc that deals with a Medical Issue without expecting (and tolerating) Medical Discussions.
I do regret my initial lack of sympathy for Colin, now that EG has revealed this was a personal issue for him.
But Pandora’s Box is now fully opened, and until there is a new arc, with a new topic, I feel it’s fair game.
Hey, I’m cool, I don’t feel bad. Though those long telephone conversations with my bf about parasites were kind of amatorily exciting. I did ask my boss some questions and she just said that she forgot everything she learned about parasitology the day she got her residency in OB-GYN.
I just read a news story where this guy went in to have his right –sticle removed and the doctor took off his leftsicle—and the judge awarded the guy some eight hundred thousand dollars.
Can Colin get that doctor?
Let’s avoid that doctor.
Did I really write “leftsicle?”
Nope. I altered it creatively because the original word was on the ‘no fly’ list for ad networks.
Darn. Jiminy Cricket. And yet it’s in your strip now.
I hate to be that guy who judges the artwork, since I can’t draw worth a damn myself, but the final panel looks like Phoebe is climbing of the mirror, instead of leaning into frame.
And Daphne, you should know by now that, if a man doesn’t want to talk about a problem and it isn’t butt stuff, it’s the other side. I man, you’re between 14 and 16 at this point! 🙂
You can be that guy. Everyone else is being that guy today too.
Well, if I’m allowed to critique your art in this instance, then here’s a tip for the future; it would have made more sense for the scene to show Phoebe’s legs and butt leaning against the counter, rather than having her lean into frame. Yeah, some might consider it a gratuitous butt shot, but it would made more anatomical sense based on the blocking of the scene.
And I doubt it would have been difficult to give her pants and shoes that are distinctly Phoebe. The fact that she has a tail coming out of her backside would also have been a good indication that it was Phoebe that Daphne is talking to as well.
This situation would not work well with Puck, though, since she tends to wear skirts, which could result in an upskirt shot.
At least, that’s how my mind sees it. But I’ve helped with a friend’s home movies as a kid, so I’ve learned a thing or two about blocking.
@HA
You’re onto something.
Phoebe may actually be in the sink.
She crawled up into it so as to avoid the forthcoming VOMIT EXPLOSION.
Hitokiri, please. Shortening it to initials makes it look like you’re laughing. 🙂
@Hitokiri Akins
I aim to please.
Why would Daphne throw up because Colin told her about his shnesticles?
@GW
Hopefully, at her age, Daphne would be repulsed by them things in general, let alone ones that have been colonized by Centipedes.
The best way to fix it is to suggest that Phoebe was already in the bathroom and Daphne didn’t make it just in time and that there is now barf on the floor as well as on one of Phoebe’s now empty shoes.
Possible.
There’s a W missing from “awkward”.
‘Course, that could just be Daphne overestimating her ability to spell words correctly.
Uh oh. Can’t believe I missed that.
You misspelled okerd?
Aukword
Aukworld is the Happiest Place In Greenland (yum, kiviak on a stick!!!)
@rewinn
It’s the Land of The Great Auk !
@Wyvern
Very, very good !
LOL !
EG snuck back and corrected it !
Character growth points for Daphne! Of course she lost half of them in the last frame, but….
Well, baby steps.
Is Phoebe coming out of the mirror?
@Buggle
No, Phoebe is squatting in the sink to avoid the upcoming Projectile Vomiting.
Sure.
What if they’ve been getting it wrong? What if it’s not that Colin’s boy is swollen – what if the other one’s shrunk?
@Buggle
That’s looking on the bright side !
(and given his typical behavior far more likely)
No, let’s assume the parties involved know the boys well enough to eliminate that possibility.
I just started re-reading after a month, and I really hope you aren’t going to make this an actual thing you researched, because this can be applied to my nuts as well.
Not researched, experienced. Most of this is now autobiographical. And if it DOES apply to you, I would suggest seeking medical assistance ASAP.
“The Web Comic with Satan’s Hot Daughter”
Very
CoolHOT !I didn’t see Phloebles anywhere. Just some ugly girl in a trench coat 😛
@Susan
Yeah, it is a gorgeous Side-Bar Ad, with Phoebe, entitled as I have said.
But as Side-Bar Ads are prone to do, it was promptly replaced with drek.
EG should post the Ads in Patreon !
Seconded!
That I could DEFINITELY do.
Next time I’ll see it, I’ll capture and post a link to it.
If that’s ok with EG.
Well, if EG is going to post the GOLD in Patreon, no need for me to link anything.
My Good Deed for the Day is done
thid wait for results always happpens on a weeekend thus not gettting results till at least monday
Yeah, the waiting game sucks, as Homer Simpson once said.
Nice incentive (no Daffy). Much wittier and less titillating than I was expecting, yay, you!
You know me. I never go full creepo. (Well, maybe ‘never’ is a stretch, but seldom.)
@EG
If Robin evah sees this Incentive, Colin’s Hanging Fruit are really going to be in trubble.
Which is just part of the reason I totally approve – and am pleasantly surprised.
TRACEE !!!!
FULL CREEPO, full creepo, FULL CREEPO, full creepo, FULL CREEPO, full creepo, FULL CREEPO, full creepo, yeah babee ……