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As for this comic…
As the intro text suggests, I don’t think anyone will be very shocked at this development. It’s a predictable plot. So far. From here on in, it might not go exactly as expected, though.
And for those who are curious, no, I don’t know what weird orange food Miranda is eating. It just always seems like babies are eating orange food mush.
WoW !
Panel 3 is Priceless.
THAT expression is a new one for the Comic.
(luvin it !)
Well, it took about five attempts to draw, honestly. It’s hard to walk the line between extreme exaggeration and cartoonishly silly. I wanted to be just on the line.
Puck’s ear droop was a good touch.
It’s been a while since I drew a good ear droop.
So the baby is a Goodfellas fan, then?
I would say more of a “Home Alone” fan, personally!
She watches movies with her Dad, and listens to him talk about his favourite actors.
Well, sure, if you want the canon answer.
Aren’t all babies?
Hannah Van Beek
A comely blonde, favorite daughter of wealthy Merchant <Baltus Van Beek", recently removed from Sleepy Hollow in New Amsterdam.
(word has it he is on the lam from a charge of colloodelling with a pretty Russian woman on the side – and the top – and backwards and forwards …. snicker.)
@Salem: Grow up!
Hey, Daffy, I hear that Taylor said that Hannah was twice the woman you would eve be. Actually it’s more than that *snerk*
I don’t really get that one. Do any women want to be twice the woman? That’s usually a bad thing, isn’t it?
It’s not that we *want* to be more of a woman than Daffy. It’s merely a descriptor. (Credit my boss for that term. She used it this morning for “primip”. Love that word!)
Daffy replies “That’s only because Hannah ate another woman.” I believe the implication is that Hannah is fat.
All women think other women that we hate are fat. It goes with the XX chromosome
Just going to be honest here: there are a lot of Dutch people in my city.
Now here! A series of fanart, “Puck, the Early Days,” before she transitioned to Hamilton!
https://imgur.com/a/boB0vG3
by Susan Anne (“Susie”) Schroeder, heir apparent to the ancient artistic tradition that including spitting ochre all over your hand to sign your work, mainly deer, cows, and one eviscerated rhino!
@Susan
Well, so much goodness here !
Robin appears to be simultaneously drunken, amorous, and is even “assuming the position”.
Who’s the lucky fella’?
Purrrrrrr……………….….
“The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale
Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me.
Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,
And “Tailor!” cries, and falls into a cough,
And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,
And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there.” -Midsummer Night’s Dream, I, ii
No damned ‘fellas’ there at all 😛
Indeed. I must put your pictures into the category of ‘visualizations I never, ever thought I would see’. But I HAVE seen them now, and I am very thankful. I like Puck’s Robin Hood hat.
Thanks! Yeah, I hadn’t a clue waht a 16th century fairy would wear, and Erroll Flynn’s Robin Hood was on HuLu, so…
@Susan
Buzz-Kill
It’s a Shakespearean deep cut. Though I always did imagine the concept of Puck becoming a three-legged stool as him transforming into an ACTUAL three-legged stool, but that was just me. I am possibly the only one who could get this visual joke at a glance. But the fact that I reread Midsummer Night’s Dream with my grade nine classes about twice a year does help. I have the whole dang thing half-memorized by now.
See, “the Gossip” saw an “actual three-legged stool” when she went to sit down, but It was really The Puckster!” having cast a glamour (sounds more British with the ‘u’) like she did when leading the quarreling duellists “up and down.” Same with the “roasted crab.” In my world (and, seemingly, Shakespeare’s), Puck can change size at will. Too bad she didn’t retain the ability. 🙁
Oh,m if that link doesn’t work try these: http://tinypic.com/m/juhd0h/3
http://tinypic.com/m/juhd0i/3
You know, I’m thinking that I did not see this possibility rating its’ ugly head. I did not think that Daphne would be caught so much of guard since she drank the coffee.
Well, I’m glad one person did not see this coming.
Well, I didn’t think that Daphne would be caught so much of guard. However her unbenevolent anger at pick is a similar catch. Could this mean that Daphne is going to the prom in a few months? Plus, it does kind of seem as a stereotypical way to bring all of the femme fatales together for Daphne’s wish for a barbie doll. But she didn’t expect to become the barbie doll herself, Eh?
Well, all the femme fatale aren’t going to have a role here. But I think you have a sense of where we’re going.
Thank you. I usually do this without a map.
yeah okay I totally called this one on Facebook.
You have good narrative Spidey sense.
and i called it like 2 comics ago right here lol i think alot of people called it btw EG is that squash mirandas eating because yuck
Yes, many people predicted this. Hence the intro script. And I have no idea what Miranda is eating. Maybe squash? That’s one of those gross foods we feed to babies but don’t usually eat ourselves.
The problem with squash is that people puree it. The best thing to do with it then is to make compost.
Gently steamed squash with retains its structural integrity is tasty. Use it as a substitute for pasta!
I am personally of the opinion that the only appropriate substitute for pasta is more pasta. But that’s just the Italian in me talking.
Piffle. You should slice yellow squash and zucchini into coins about a quarter inch thick, mix with chopped onions and saute them in olive oil with red pepper flakes (to taste, which in my case is a lot). That’s how my bf makes it and I eat mine all up, every time.
Does Daphne think she can take Puck? Does Puck think Daphne can take her? And is that little something stuck in Puck’s throat actually Joe Pesci?
All this and more on the next episode of. . .
SOAP.
It won’t get TOO soapy. I promise. Only a little.
I don’t know if I can trust you there Gecko. We’ve seen what you did wroth the bathtub scene.
I don’t even know what scene you’re talking about, but I can assume that whatever it was, it didn’t meet your expectations.
Gecko? Has your wife been utilizing Mr. Smacky? You were there, supposedly. You drew it, dintcha?
//www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-25
Oh. Puck’s been in the tub a few times, so I wasn’t sure exactly what you were talking about.
I think that both Puck and Daphne probably adhere to the same strength limitations of the Incredible Hulk, in that the angrier they are, the stronger they get. In this instance, Daphne is very angry, Puck not so much. So in this exchange, my bets would be on Daphne.
And the lump of abject fear that catches in your throat is ALWAYS Joe Pesci.
Nothing makes people madder than getting caught in pious hypocrisy. Well, except catching your bf kissing another girl or hearing that the school cafeteria is sold out of Tater Tots. 😛
You ate the food from your school cafeteria? You’re a braver man than I Susan.
I would think that there are a few things that are edible in a school cafeteria. Sloppy Joe’s, tater tots, whatever comes out of the snack machine, twinkees, home ec brownies and the food off of the floor that the class bully has forced the class wimp to eat.
That I am braver than you is not an issue. A ‘Man,” forsooth?
My favorite of many things about this is the asymmetrical ears – that analog of drawing eyes different sizes to show extreme rage, but even better since it’s more consistent with this comic’s visual style of “realistic, for what we’re seeing” rather than cartoony PLUS it’s a gesture that I haven’t seen before but, once it is seen, seems inevitable – always a good thing in a joke!
It’s funny you mention that, because in one of the four failed drafts of Daphne’s rage face in panel three, I did try to draw the one eye more open than the other. It just didn’t look right. The one raised ear was added at the very last moment.
I love the third panel! first thought that came to mind was “Like Mother like Daughter”! (second one was “Kharma’s a b**ch, ain’t she!)
Tyler himself was the first to note back in the ‘Funderland’ story arc that Daphne was getting more like her mother every day. Here is further proof.
The expression “dog in the manger” comes to mind…
Also, Hannah Vanbeek totally sounds like the name of a Ducktales character.
Wouldn’t that be “Vanbeak”? 😉
Hannah Vanbeek will NOT turn out to be an anthropomorphic duck. I promise. Though that would be kind of fun.
how about a furry version of tracy ?lol i was thinking golden retriver
NO. Anything but that!
You know, looking back, I should have expected this (well, I expected Daffy’s reaction, but still..). Taylor’s smug look in the first panel of #440 should have been a tell. I mean, he is so obviously trying not to grin in relief.
@aaron Smith
I’ll bet Hannah Van Beek is so gorgeous she makes Emily look like….
Wait a minute (checking out our fave Cat-Girl again).
Nah, Hannah may come close, but unless she has a TAIL ….
Puck should have just ended at the second sentence, and then stared down Daphne with a knowing look until Daphne broke.
Times like that you need to give the person a quick jab of reality, and let them collapse in on themselves, rather than to keep talking and redirect their anger at you.
Puck often doesn’t know whenn to quit. 😀
All my favorite people don’t know when to quit. It’s a most endearing (and infuriating) trait.
The characters in this comic never, ever take the wise approach. Ever.
Well… Colin never doubles down when Puck is angry at him.
It’s better to slink away. Always.
I can hear my Gramma’s voice, somewhere out there, saying, “You are master of your unspoken word, but your spoken word is master of you!”
But Puck, aren’t you thrilled to see that Daphne is as truly your daughter as though you had given birth to her yourself? Truly, you have molded her in your own image…
I love baby Miranda’s serious face in the last panel. 😀
Annnd now I worry for the safety of Taylor and this Hannah Yanbeek.
It really is nurture over nature sometimes.
I figure Puck probably tells everybody Daphne is adopted. But I’d figure that Daphne probably tells everybody the same thing. No issues about *that*…
“This is my adopted daughter Margot.”
“This is Daffy. I found her out by the dumpster, sniffing old KFC buckets, and she followed me home. I was drunk at the time, so I let her stay.”
@Susan
“I even trained her to walk on her hind legs. Isn’t that cute ?”
Isn’t that kinda the plot of “Modest Medusa?”
“Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.” -Dr. Samuel Johnson
@Robert Nowall
Happy you mentioned MODEST MEDUSA.
For me, it’s the first Comic since PUCK that is cute and amusing.
(And mebe an example that artwork does not have to be elaborate to maintain a good story)
“Jopeshi” indeed, Miranda!
It’s a good catch-all response. I might try it myself when I don’t know what else to say.
What the hell ever happened to imitating Doug Mckenzie when he says, “I didn’t do it. It was the chair, Eh?”
While voting earlier, I for some reason was told I should read Puck. It’s not like I was *voting* for Puck or anything…
In regards to the comic: I am not too surprised at her being mad at Tyler for asking another girl out, but at the same time, she also had it coming because she didn’t want to go with him because um…
Now I’m curious if we’ll actually see the prom-thing or if it’ll end with them just staying at home.
We will actually get to see the prom thing. That much I promise.
really ? i was kind of expecting a sudden “unexplained” fire
We already had one of those in a previous story arc. Though that one was REALLY unexpected and not “unexplained”.
wasn’t really unexpected either, if you think about it…
Of course, the real Joe Pesci doesn’t have to eat strained cantaloupe.
😉
But he might choose to.
On ya, Tyler, you’ll be a man any day now … if Daphne doesn’t kill you first, of course.
It seems like poor Tyler is heartbroken over Daphne’s rejection. Good news though! By her expression, Daphne’s looking to have him fixed.
I think what we saw going down in the earlier comics was what they refer to in business as “the right of first refusal”. Tyler’s plan all along was to go to prom with this Hannah girl, but he knew he couldn’t ask her without first being refused by Daphne (the likelihood of which he was fairly confident). And that’s how we get here.
Oh, Daphne, you should really clean yourself up a bit. You didn’t wipe off all that RETURN FIRE you got on you.
Life Lesson #17: A woman can ask you a question, tell you what the answer is, and when you give that answer, you’re STILL wrong. (And if that comes off as offensive to you ladies who don’t do that, I’m only basing this lesson off every woman I’ve ever met.)
I’ve known women like that. But to be honest, I’ve known men like that too. I consider that more a generic flaw of our species.
“If a man says something in a forest, and there is no woman around to hear him, would he still bel wrong?”
Of course he’ll still bel wrong. The woman isn’t there too show him how to bel. He’ll never get the rhythm or the bel steps just right without that eyeball powered by estrogen.
” We’ve seen what you did wroth the bathtub scene.” -pat
Would you like some Tabasco wroth that crow, smarty? 😛
First of all, you can just eat your own creation along with the hot sauce Susan. puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-25
Secondly, accidents because of a phone’s auto correct are funny now.
Thirdly, it was, “with”, “with the bathtub scene.” Are you sure about that crow know?
Maybe someone should get Salem hopped up on nepeta cataria and release him into your workplace with one of those automatic laser cat toys. After greasing him up in oil.
@pat
Your suggestions DO sound like fun !
@pat: mmm hmmmm Making fun of typos is pretty low hanging fruit, even if you blame them on nasty ol’ Auto-correct.:P
Y’know i’m surprised Daphne didn’t sucker Phoebe to ‘help’ with the car wash….
Well, what do you think is going to happen on page three?
Ah! i’m sorry…. ^^;
Never apologize for being a genius and knowing exactly where something’s going. I salute you, sir.
(￣^￣)ゞ
??? That particular emoticon is a mystery to me.
It was a salute ^^ thank you for calling me a genius but that’s not exactly my… category…. lucky moron maybe 😀
Oh how dare he, the guy you turned down had the nerve to ask someone else, maybe even move on with his life and find someone who appreciates him and won’t just take advantage of him being there. Sorry on a scale of 1-10 I have about -15 sympathy for Daphne right now. Maybe she’ll actually learn something from this, probably not, but miracles do happen.
I’m surprised Dap isn’t HOWLING in Anger.
(Like any good Jackal)
Do Jackals eat their Male Counterpart after “the act” – like an Arachnid ?
Even if not, Tyler just made a very wise choice.
Another wise choice would be a RESTRAINING ORDER.
Okay, EG will appreciate this: we were eating dinner with my boss and her husband and a girl walked by with Puck’s coloring. Hubby watched her go by. My boss raised an eyebrow and asked, “Pretty?”
He just shook his head and said, “She looks like she ate a quarter and broke out in new pennies.”
I disgraced myself by laughing out loud.
@Susan
Clever !
Being Canadian, I am not sure I understand the joke. What is this “penny” you speak of?
Phooey, When I was a kid, we would find Canadian cents in the change from our lunch money. We were indignant that the school wouldn’t take them back. Consider them ‘pennies’. 😛
They were eliminated a few years ago, so they no longer exist. Because, you know, pennies are functionally worthless and cost more to make than they’re actually worth. We Canadians are a futuristic bunch.
Okay, but you are robbing yourselves of some great metaphors. “Penny-wise, pound foolish,” “In for a penny, in for a pound,” “Penny-pinching,” “Penny-ante,” etc.
The penny is dead. And let’s face it: the penny’s been spiritually dead in America too for a few decades. No one wants them. You THINK you want them because Americans hate change, but really, you don’t want them. Round to the nearest five. It’s fine.
We like them for the same reason we like horses and buffalo. It reminds us of an older, better time.
Which in itself is an inherently American construct: the idea that the older time was better. Golden Age thinking is not exclusive to Americans, but it is very prevalent down there.
Don’t you Canucks ever long for the good old days? General Wolfe at Quebec? Nelson Eddy? Sgt. Preston of the Yukon? The McKenzie brothers? Never mind, sorry I asked.
Yeah, see? The ‘good old days’ of Canada were generally not very good. Neither were America’s, but Americans have been good at romanticizing and mythologizing their figures all the way along, so it’s easier to buy into the greatness of America’s past. Take George Washington: remembered as a godlike figure of honesty, military brilliance and wooden teeth. Then take Sir John A. MacDonald, first prime minister of Canada: remembered as an ornery drunken Scot who exploited and subjugated many various ethnic groups in order to cobble together a country.
@EG
That is so sad.
PENNE is delicious.
These days a lot of Americans think of Washington as a white slave-owning sexist with an ugly wig that stole ideas from the natives to build his country. We’re a pendulous people, loving something one generation and despising it the next.
Although I do agree that the penny is dead. Americans hate change almost as much as we hate change. Hence the move to electronic payments for pretty much everything.
Well, Americans eventually embrace change. I’ve noticed. Going to the US is like travelling back in time to Canada about 15 years ago. Hey, you’re just getting a dollar coin! That brings me back! Lots of people still pay in cash! That brings me back! People are just getting used to this newfangled ‘chip card’ debit system … that’s been in Canada and Europe forever. That brings me back!
Of course, there are some nice parts to rewinding the clock. Going to the US, I look around and think, “WHOA! They have STORES! Like, LOTS of stores where you can BUY THINGS!!! That brings me back!” Because we used to have stores, but they all closed down. I know stores are closing stateside too, but I feel that the Canadian retail market is a real, REAL wasteland. We’re getting to the point where we’ll soon be in a situation where certain things simply won’t be available for purchase in Canada from a store anymore. You’ll just have to turn to Amazon. It sucks. BEWARE, AMERICA: THIS IS YOUR FUTURE!
At least Washington respected the various cultures that were found here. It want until later Presidents appeared in office that his view was cast aside in regards to indigenous individuals. Shame. I wonder what we would have been like if the emphasis wasn’t so self centered, so to speak.
Washington freed his slaves at his death because that was the only time it was legal to do so. That’s more than Jefferson ever did.He did not ear a wig, but he powdered his hair. Also, he never wore dentures made of wood, but made of materials including human, and probably cow and horse teeth, ivory (possibly elephant), lead-tin alloy, copper alloy (possibly brass), and silver alloy. That he was white is beyond doubt.
Didn’t he hunt vampires too? No, wait. That was Lincoln.
If GW had hunted vampires, you can be assured they got staked good and proper. 😛
At first I thought Daphne dotted the i in Charity with a skull. Then I looked closer and saw it was just a sloppy Q. Not sure why anyone would dot an i with a Q though.
What you see there is a close approximation to my actual handwriting. And a clear indicator as to why I don’t do my own lettering for the comic.
By the by, what’s that graphic on Daphne’s shirt? Something-or-other fan club? What obscure reference is it that I’m not getting?
It looks like it says “Mumen Rider Fan Club”. I don’t get it, either…
But Auntie Google knows ALL about it.
It does say “Mumen Rider Fan Club”. So you can follow Auntie Google’s breadcrumb trails from there.
It’s more obscure than most of her shirts: not only a reference to an anime, but a reference to a very minor character from an anime. In other words, don’t feel bad if you don’t get it.
How can you call Mumen Rider a minor character? He was in almost half the series.
Well, okay. Minor as in ‘not the main character’ and somewhat ancillary. But still memorable, surely.
Don’t worry! Anime, echhh. 😛
He’s a character from a superhero parody series called One Punch Man. Although given her sudden rage this strip, Mob Psycho 100 would have been a more apt reference.
I was hoping someone would ask. This is one of the few times I haven’t gotten her T-shirt graphic.
To be fair, the reason Injustice sells so well is because it’s a good DC video game, and before now, outside Batman, those were few and far between. And even then, Batman was always hit or miss. 🙂
Oh come on. What about that Gamecube Aquaman game? Everyone loved that one!
there was a aquaman game ? i bow to thee master nerd
One of the worst games ever made, unfortunately. Right up there with ‘Superman’ for the N64. A little bit better than that, but not much.
I don’t play the game and I like the Injustice e-comic. It’s a fun book.
aaaah the nintendo 64 so much fun how badly i wanted the 64dd to come out /sigh waverace what happend to you /cry i want mario and gta to have a baby lol grand theft mushroom kingdom no guns but otherwise plays like gta fire flowers instead of guns
I feel scared for Hannah and Tyler and everyone going to the Prom.
And well you should. Well you should.
@EG
Well, in that case, I pray that my dear angel TRACEEE does not attend.
Her precious soul is fragile, and is soiled by conflict.
It would be an awful event should she be forced to present Ye Holy Hand Grenade
Daphne . . . Daphne . . . come back, Daphne. Where you’re going is not a good place, Daphne. We’re talking Emperor Palpatine place here, Daphne. Walk away, Daphne. Walk away.
@demarion
Dap, do not listen to the voice of Demarion.
INSTEAD
Why is the theme music for “Carrie” playing in my head?
Carrie put some people who richly deserved it through pain for a few minutes until death. I don’t see Daphne being that merciful . . . yet strangely, I see Colin talking her down . . . I know I know, Colin? But . . . the guy does have a history of surviving whatever comes his way.
No Carrie-type scenario. But the concept does invite visualization.
Salem should know that it’s ‘auto corkboard’ now.
Good for Tyler…and Mellow-er Puck is so cool.
Maybe motherhood has actually resulted in some mellowing with Puck. Hard to say.
Or is this one of those instances where the child has somewhat come into their ability to at their physical prowess in an near attempt to obtain the alpha role? Or to be able to physically beat the parent in physical skills. Like basketball, baseball and backhanding.
No one ever tops Puck at intimidation and wanton acts of violence. No one. No matter how much they come into their own.
Nobody? C’mon, EG! Genghis Khan’s Mongols? Attila’s Huns? Certain WWII formations I don’t even want to think about? Or, horribile dictu, the Inedible Bulk?
ARUGULA !!
Do we get to see Hannah Van Beek tonite ?
The anticipation is KILLING me.
(please make her HOT – and not a scrawny, bald emo chick)
Daphne is one tough cookie! If their plans go wrong, Phoebe better watch her tail! 😉
@ChrisH
I wonder how “tuff” Daphne really is.
The only instance I can find at all, is at FUNDERLAND, where the instant she is challenged, she folds like a cheap suit.