PHOEBRUARY VOTING INCENTIVE! A “NEW” VOTING INCENTIVE EVERY FEW DAYS!
Back in February of 2015, I declared the month ‘Phoebruary’ and ran a retrospective of a bunch of voting incentive images featuring our beloved Phoebe. Well, years have passed, and I’ve got many more images to explore, so get ready! Every few days I’ll pop another Phoebruary image up – now with post-it note commentary! Try not to miss a one! This week it’ll be all Valentine’s Day stuff, so we’re even in season!
A VOTE FOR PUCK IS A VOTE FOR PHOEBE!
As for this comic…
Evidence mounts that the villain of the story is dressed in black. What a shocker.
Keep staring Phoebe. It’ll come into focus.
Well, unless she forgot her contact lenses.
It’s really a shame this is a non-violent comic (well, it is Canadian).
I, for one, would love to see Phoebe backhand Daffy just enough to leave a red bloom of shame on her cheek.
Nah, this seems more like time for Phoebe to shake Daphne like she’s a British nanny.
@Lokitsu
Told ya.
Canadian Comic.
Well, it CAN be violent sometimes. But in the interest of not creating false expectations, I think I should divulge that this story arc is not going to end in fisticuffs. It might take a few unexpected turns, but none of those turns head in the direction of violence.
It can still be violent. This school has a hockey rink, doesn’t it?
Canadian comic – so yes. (Sorry for the stereotype, but what are the odds that this place isn’t decked out with one? Even the States have w few here and there).
Schools don’t have hockey rinks in Canada. Sorry to disappoint you. Ice rinks are incredibly expensive to maintain, and school systems up in Canada are almost all publicly funded, so that would never, EVER fly. Rather, most rinks are municipally owned. So a largish town might have one or two rinks that serve the whole town. I guess it’s possible that someone could build it next to a high school, but I’ve never seen that happen.
Sad honest truth: relatively few Canadians skate. Sure, hockey’s a big thing culturally, but I think I once saw the stats and they reported that only 4% of the population actively plays hockey or gets their kids to play hockey. It’s an expensive sport that basically requires training from a very young age for a player to be even passable on the ice. It’s expensive and requires a ton of really pricey equipment to play. Although it has vaguely thuggish connotations due to the on-ice brawls, it’s probably really more analogous to a northern version of golf: it’s a rich people’s sport that few regular people take part in anymore.
I don’t skate. My wife doesn’t skate. My kids don’t skate. I haven’t been in an ice rink for decades. And I’m not alone on that front up here.
Really? Interesting. I’m just a northerner in the States and we got some skating up here. Granted I haven’t been out a rink in a few years (work, gaming, and more work). My school was.. less publicly funded. Adjacent towns had pools and I think two towns over had a hockey team, but I think the rink was owned by the city.
I just figured the likelihood increased as you went north. Food for thought, I guess.
Contrast this with the States, where a school isn’t technically a school unless it also has a football field attached to it.
Granted, a football field is cheaper to maintain than a hockey rink, but still.
Every high school has a football field up here too. So I get that. But yeah, MUCH cheaper. A lot of the schools up here are even getting astroturf fields. Still a fraction of the cost of a functioning ice rink.
I reserve judgement on Hannah until I see a list of offences.
Though I still think this is mostly about Daphne blaming everyone but herself over losing Tyler.
@Thisguy
Tyler asked Daffy first, did he not ?
Yep, he did.
Tyler asked Daphne out, she told him “not happening,” he went to Hannah (who accepted).
If Daffy is this horrid as a Girlfriend, I can only imagine what she’d be like as a Mate.
I see no upside with Daffy – none.
I’m not ready to put Daphne in the sociopathic camp. She’s still a kid, a kid who showed up on a doorstep. She’s coping with the idea of caring which means she’s coping with being hurt. Hopefully, she’ll come out of this with a better insight to herself. She’s so unreasonable and in pain here the only one she can really hurt (excluding physical assault, of course) is herself. To the others, she’s going to come across as a bit pathetic.
Unless . . . unless she’s right about vanBeek! That would change the complexion in great comedic ways, particularly if she’s fiendishly clever!
You show a deep understanding of the dynamic at play here.
I think you think correctly.
Non-violent? Did you see what Puck did to Phoebe’s dad?
@jeffepp
THERE IS HOPE !
Well, sometimes violence is a means to an end. But not this time.
Or the battle between Colin’s sister and Satan’s squeeze. That, while not seen on screen, could have been rather violent.
RE Alt text: I thought Lies smelled like a fresh Lime!
Fresh lime? That’s what soured hopes smell like.
well, she WAS raised by puck, so what did you expect phoebe? that red-headed temper had to rubb off on daph!
Phoebe is regularly shocked by life. It’s just a burden she has to bear.
Would’a thought a vague shape of green.
Well, Daphne is seeing green. Phoebe is seeing red.
Ad some yellow in between them (Colin? Satan?) and they can play at stoplight.
I have to admit, it WOULD be amusing to find out that Hannah concealed a dark little soul under that peach prom dress.
Well, we’ll see. She might not be totally as expected.
Who said that lies smells like burnt toast? My ex kept lying to me and she kept smelling like cinnamon.
…I can actually not smell cinnamon without thinking someone is lying to me. She KIIIIINDA ruined that smell for me. Kinda.
I can’t help but think that even if she had been totally blind, she’d STILL have been whining about SOMETHING because Daphne.
Your ex smelled like cinnamon? That’s a weird perfume. Like, what woman goes around saying, “I want to smell like cinnamon ALL THE TIME”?
(In case this is sent twice, sorry – seems like the original comment wasn’t posted for some reason. If it was, remove this one!).
The thing is, she’d have any other smell when she told me the truth. If she was planning on lying to me, she’d smell like cinnamon.
I remember she telling me she was going to meet her brother (she didn’t have one) and smelled STRONGLY of cinnamon. I didn’t think much about it (until two weeks later, when I found out she had cheated on me).
Every time she told me the truth, she’d wear some other perfume. To this day, I am not sure if she did it intentionally or not…
That’s weird. Or you have some Bruce Willis in “Unbreakable” sixth sense for wrongdoing that manifests as the scent of cinnamon.
Hmmm…. In the USA Blind Canes have Red Tips. Where’s the Red Tip ! I want a RED TIP !!
What would really be amusing, tho, is if some horrid person pranked Hannah and substituted a CANDY CANE for her real cane.
( Yes, I’m channelling Daffy this morning. It’s just too early )
“Date Thief”
Would it really be considered theft if you never wanted it in the first place?
Well, she seems to consider Tyler hers to accept or reject, and if she rejects, he needs to stay on the shelf like Woody from Toy Story.
I am a latecomer so I have not read every strip in Puck. Odds are good I may have missed a key series on Phoebe, but for the daughter of the devil or demon, she seems to display a rather unseemly streak of morality and propriety…
It’s never really been explained. Phoebe is just everything her dad is not. Genetics are weird.
“Her cane has a poisoned tip, which she sticks in the small of your back when no one’s looking!”
🙂 :)) :))
Um . . . Daphne . . . your argument is tone-deaf . . .
And just a little dumb.
I’m still on Daphne’s side.
The Little Blind Girl is going to get what deserves. Also, “vague shapes and colours”? LBG’s just asking get some well-deserved vengeance. From Daphne. Go Team Daphne.
You’re a madman.
I am beginning to think that Daphne did not think this plan fully through.
You and I both.
Date thief is a weird name for someone who didn’t steal something she neither had nor wanted until someone else had it.
Listen: if you place a cookie down and say loudly, “I do not want my cookie,” and then some other person comes up and eats the cookie, is that person not a thief? I mean, it’s your cookie. That you didn’t want. It’s the principle of the thing.
@EG
You can’t be serious.
The statement “I do not want my cookie” an then placing it down is a proactive rejection of ownership.
It’s like putting your trash on the curb.
Once you do that, nothing in the barrel belongs to you anyone. Its up for grabs.
I am not serious.
@EG
You can’t be serious.
The statement “I do not want my cookie” and then placing it down is a proactive rejection of ownership.
It’s like putting your trash on the curb. Once you do that, nothing in the barrel belongs to you anymore. If someone comes by and likes my old Scratching Post in that barrel, they can take it.
It’s not “stealing”.
Anyways, “Owning” people is illegal in the USA. I don’t know about Canada.
BTW, is the Toronto Zoo Jackal Adventure offering a REWARD for the return of it’s Star Attraction ?
The Devils daughter has a heart of gold. Cujo the dog face girl has a heart of scorpion poison. Dude should cut way and open his emergency chute because his life will be hell if he hangs with the dog face girl.
Mmmmm. Scorpion poison.
Or maybe HV really is a villain?!
Cue overlay and music:
https://youtu.be/U9FzgsF2T-s?t=80
Will EMILY THE CAT GIRL be attending ?
It IS an Enchanted Forest Theme !
Red? I’m seeing a green-eyed monster emerge…
I don’t like to encourage people to give in to the Dark Side… but I wouldn’t mind seeing Phoebe smack Daphne like a bad puppy.
You are not alone.
Red? Really? I’ve been seeing green for quite a number of strips.
Well, both. Depends on the vantage.