Jan22
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As for this comic…
This is a dumb joke, but I liked it. I suppose that the humor is lost if you’ve never really had any exposure to any version of Mortal Kombat, but really, how many of my readers would that be? Like, three?
I only ever played a little Mortal Kombat II when I was a kid. So like, 20ish years ago now.
I’m surprised at how early the comic came (as it’s only a little past midnight in my timezone) but at the same time, I don’t complain. More Puck comic!
I’m sick, so I posted the comic early because I wasn’t sure I’d have the energy to post it later.
Sorry to hear that you’re sick. Hope you’ll recover soon.
Thanks. It’s a long game when you’ve got two kids, because everyone in the house gets sick, and not all at once. So it’ll take a while to get in the clear here, but I’m hopeful.
@EG
Sorry you’re sick, but I do like earlier posts.
That’s nuts… You must be nutty to put up with that Colin. Colin, why are the squirrels not as interested in you anymore?
That’s the problem with squirrels: they’re always focused on the quantity of the nuts rather than the quality.
Yet somehow I’m sure they will show up at the wedding. As squirrels say, chitter chitter chit-chit chitter-chitter chit chitter. (Translation provided by Kronk or Doreen Green.)
Wouldn’t that be delightful?
Four. But now I’m know something about MK.
Ratzafratzin “typo” suggestions!
It’s a learning experience! But yeah, you’re missing out on a real cultural treasure trove.
*Raises hand* Five. I was in college when Pong was released, and never made the jump from pinball machines to video games. 🙂
I would raise my hand and say six, but I think he counted me as part of the original 3
Ugh, wiffle bat. That, or a head butt from a child of just the wrong height.
Really, it makes you wonder what fool of a designer put those dang things in such a prominent and easily smacked location.
well it could be on your back but then theyre vulnerable and who wants to lay on their balls really retractable balls like dolphins would be much better
True. Terrible design work, I say.
@EG
Obviously far more attention was paid to the Design of TRACEEE.
And that was time well-spent, I’d say !!
From “Men in Black 2” — “He’s a Ballchinnion!”
It’s attention forefront syndrome; where everything reminds you of the thing you are trying to forget. Look! Baader-Meinhof squirrels!!
Are we going to have shot glasses filled with mixed nuts at the reception?
P.s. feel better gecko. We need you for those GEICO commercials.
That’s not me in those commercials. What, you think all geckos look alike? You know what? You’re as crazy as the people on Twitter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y1o8910Xs4
Wait’ll they get a load of me
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PMgGNxyCHsY
And so Daphne and Colin switch to Mortal Kombat II where Johnny Cage has a Nut Shot Fatality as well as the normal banana-split nut shot…
And Daphne kept her promise by playing as the shape-shifting Shang Tsung ! I am certain that Daphne got a few “Flawless Victories” over Colin !
When you’re in your thirties, I’ve found it’s never a good idea to ever play fighting games against teens. You underestimate how much of their life has been devoted to mastering it, and you always get your butt handed to you. Or your nuts.
@EG
But you’d win a SPELLING BEE !
Unless playing video games is your job, that is. There ARE people who do that, and I envy them. 🙂
You might wanna’ rethink that….
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam
Bleah. I have never played “Mortal Kombat” (or any other Nintendo game) or wanted to. I prefer games like Baldur’s Gate” or “Knights of the Old Republic” or “Neverwinter Nights. “But whatever the game, I wouldn’t sit on the same couch as Daffy unless I had my (attack-trained) GSD between me and her. “Neeshka! Kill!!” 😛
PS, EG, get well, soon! 🙂
I feel like all those games are too cerebral for Daphne. She’d only ever play games that involve humiliating, trolling or tormenting other players. (But for the record, I was guessing that you would be one of the three readers who’d never seen Mortal Kombat.)
You win! And the prize is a panacea. 😛 *goes back to playing “Mass Effect”*
I believe that there is an opportunity for that in Mortal Kombat (and other H to H games). Blase-Condescension mode, where one appears to exert no effort and emits an air of boredom in the face of one’s opponent’s guttural noises and frantic controller gymnastics.
Exactly.
1.) Civilization, playing online, seems right up her alley.
2.) Daphne would play as Dan in Street Fighter, wouldn’t she? (I have a troll friend that does that. It’s more insulting that he’s not trying, just running away and doing a bunch of FADCs, while using Dan that it is that he uses Dan.)
I’d agree with all your observations. Because everyone loves Dan.
QUE? Who’s Dan?
A troll character from the Streetfighter series. He’s purposefully designed to be underpowered and pro players will choose him as a sort of handicap, or as a statement of how little they think of their opponent. As in, “You suck so bad, I’ll beat you with Dan.” Dan also has a man ponytail. That makes it worse.
Mortal Kombat? A “Nintendo game”? I bet NetherRealm would be utterly insulted by that. As should every MK player out there.
And I shall look very carefully though my conscience to find a crumb of guilt for insulting “NetherRealm and every MK player out there.” * Searches, Long and hard. Uses microscope* Nope can’t find a single crumb of sorry for people who play that game. Or a single reason why anybody should.
@Susan
Wasting the precious time God gave them when they could be reading PUCK.
Idiots.
The early 2d games were on Nintendo consoles. As was MK Armageddon; it had a Wii exclusive character, in fact. It was only with MK vs DC that the games stopped appearing on Nintendo consoles, and that was in 2008. So, from 1993 to 2006, Mortal Kombat was on Nintendo Consoles, making it technically a “Nintendo Game” when it was on those platforms. 🙂
But the original SNES release was bloodless, which meant ‘Nintendo’ and ‘Mortal Kombat’ were dirty words when combined together ever since.
*still looking, now moved up to electron microscope* Not yet
The reminder will always be in front of you, Colin.
Daphne should avoid Kung Lao in MK9, too. And Noob Saibot. They both have fatalities that hit that region first. 🙁
I was thinking that. I almost put that in the alt-text but I thought that few people would get it.
And you were right, as usual
Considering that most of your audience are not gamers like I am? Yeah, good call.
Truly, the love between father and daughter is like no other (0_o)
It is a tender and lovely thing.
I might not have played Mortal Kombat. It’s hard to remember for sure (I’ve definitely never owned it) but fighting games aren’t really my thing. I have seen enough video to know just how brutal MK makes nut shots though.
As for the hidden text, “Little kids with wiffle ball bats” sounds like there’s a real life story to it. Or is that just one of those experiences every father has? And for the record, dogs are the true nut shot masters. A dog tall enough to reach will always aim for the groin when jumping up on someone. ALWAYS! Or sit next to you on the couch and just smack you in the groin for no reason.
One of my post-college housemates had a happy young hound that loved to leap up to lick your face. Maybe not sanitary, but endearing.
He broke his front leg somehow, and the treatment at the time was a plaster cast covering the foreleg (from the “elbow” to the paw). Next time he lept up for a lick, his armored leg lagged a little and slammed hard where I didn’t need it. I learned that day that I could yelp just like him.
Well, the wiffle ball bat is just iconic. No, that’s never happened to me, but I’ve seen so many wiffle bats hit so many guys in various videos, I feel like it HAS happened to me.
I guess I bring the number of readers that never played Mortal Kombat up to six. I’d seen the game in arcades, and it just never appealed to me.
It’s a decidedly goofy game. I never really played in the arcades. My history of playing dates back to the many lunch hours I’d spend playing the game on my buddy’s Sega Genesis. I was never any good. It was painful.
Up to FIFTEEN.
I’m adding in ALL NINE LIVES.
SON OF A BISCUIT
I’m boned.
Baldie (my human pet), just drained his last MOLSON, and tossed it in the corner.
Tomorrow he’ll be tying a fiver to my tail, pat me on my butt, and send me off to the corner store for yet ANOTHER six-pack.
Then I have to drag the frikkin’ thing back home with the plastic rings in my teeth, up the stairs, and then vault it into the ‘fridge.
I can’t DIE soon enuff.
He only drinks a six of beer a day? Weenie. I go through a fifth of Scotch in two days.
@Susan
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😛
Has it ever been brought up about Colin wanting to marry an immortal? puck is ageless, right? She won’t age whereas he will get old and pass away.
Great comic
See the myth of Tithonus: “The mytheme of the goddess’ mortal lover is an archaic one; when a role for Zeus was inserted, a bitter twist appeared: according to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, she forgot to ask that he be granted eternal youth.[iv][v][4] Tithonus indeed lived forever,
but when loathsome old age pressed full upon him, and he could not move nor lift his limbs, this seemed to her in her heart the best counsel: she laid him in a room and put to the shining doors. There he babbles endlessly, and no more has strength at all, such as once he had in his supple limbs.[3]
In later tellings, he eventually became a cricket, eternally living, but begging for death to overcome him.”
Yep
Given the fact that time moves very, VERY slowly in this comic, I don’t think this matter will ever actually come up. Even if I keep doing the comic for another forty years, we’ll probably only advance another ten years or so.
Little kids with wiffle bats? An… oddly specific memory, methinks. One that comes up to haunt you at inopportune moments, perhaps?
Only from the collective unconscious that haunts us all.
Hospital loudspeaker: “Dr, Jung, Dr. C.G. Jung”
I had to read Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious for Psy101 in college.
Lol I’d think Daphne would prefer to play as Scorpion considering the situation and all…
Agreed. Though really annoying friends like Daphne always do seem to choose Scorpion.
Jonny’s been punching nuts since alpha version, but here’s a fancy modern 3d version… in slow-mo. 😛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLMHKCckV7c
Man should be banned.
Careful there; down that path lies Cancel Culture!
I feel if anyone should ever rightly fall victim to cancel culture, it’s the dude who almost exclusively relies on nut shots in a fight.