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Tracee adopts the most unexpected and outrageous outfit of all: lazy mom wear. You did NOT see that coming. Of that I’m sure.
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Oh, oh no….The Kid gloves are off, she means business.
I’m not sure what ‘business’ is to Tracee, but she does mean it.
Oddly, I hear the Avengers theme right now.
Good choice of soundtrack.
She is turning into Puck?
Well, all moms (or stand-in moms) end up kinda looking the same.
@JJR
You beat me to it.
HOO-RAY !!!
“Time to get practical”…. and it only took 2 dresses, a spitup and an ash-valanch for her to come to that conclusion!
I KNEW she was a smart girl…
I think it was THREE dresses that got destroyed. But I haven’t really been paying very close attention, so that might be wrong.
I think it was three.
It was: the dress with the eye holes, the dress with the giant jaw hole, and this dress right here.
You know, I think that leg warmers would have been. . . physical.
I see what you did there. Very Olivia Newton-John. Though I think those are chunky athletic socks. And yoga pants.
Yeah, and there aren’t any fat flop sweaters trying to finish that particular work out session here either.
But I’m thinking that Miranda is going to take this as a challenge. May the battle of the alternate sites of energy expenditures begin.
Oh, I don’t expect Salem to win at either site. He’s going to go the way of the cat from “HOUSEGUESTS” and run in circles trying to figure out his choice between Tracee and Phoebe.
@pat
Well, I am kat enuff for BOTH to luv luv luv me.
@EG
And yes, as your ALT-TEXT states, TRACEEE is hotter than evah.
She’d make a HOT mom, too.
No more pregnancies.
@EG
The writers of the upcoming PUCK 3D IMAX may have different ideas.
What about an adoption? She might appreciate a kid that doesn’t poop themselves more than a baby.
I don’t see Tracee ever wanting children of ANY age. Anything that detracts from her getting ALL the attention has to go!
I never said she’d be a good mom – in fact, she’d probably use the child as a pawn more than anything else. The kid would have to be a devious sociopath themselves for Satan to agree to adopting them…
Hey Gecko, what’s your stance on fanfiction?
My stance on fan fiction is that one needs fans to make it occur. And I don’t consider this comic popular enough to really have fans. The people who follow this comic are more like co-conspirators in a creative plot. I talk to them, respond to them, sometimes take ideas from them. So if any of the co-conspirators wanted to do something with the characters, that would be more than cool.
It might get a little dark for your tastes if I’m the one writing it. The character I have in mind for the role of the child in question gets quite…. stabby.
Well, it doesn’t need to BE to my tastes. It would need to be to your tastes. As long as it was to your tastes, and made you happy, that’s the key thing.
Ah, but the key thing is, I like to share. Seeing what other people think of my writing is half the fun of writing!
Well, you can share. That’s fine by me.
I’m worried about disrupting the Puck brand, you see. Child serial killers don’t exactly fit the universe you’re portraying, and the only people I know who read your comic are the folks I see here.
Well, I wouldn’t post the actual story on the site, but I could put a post with a link to it. That’s not disrupting anything. People who want to check it out could check it out. Or not.
Well, I’ll say something if I do end up writing it. :/
I think her last dress was better, however first two dresses were worse AND the hairs are definitely bonus, they look better than her blonde.
“Oh boy!” or rather “Uuh bu!”
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Put me down as agreeing with Mr. Alt Text. Leaving a little to the imagination, stimulates the imagination.
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Awesome font in panel 4!
Sometimes I find a really good font. This was one of those times.
Miranda seems worried.
Wouldn’t you be?!?
Tracee in a tracksuit looks more like Puck than an easy target for shenanigans.
It must be the hair.
Yes and no.
Tracee is obviously out of her element.
Plus babies can smell weakness and fear.
Team Miranda on this battle.
Maybe? Maaaaaaaaaybe not?
Didn’t know she had it in her. Or had the outfit around.
Dammit, ninja’d. Well played Robert.
I think that Tracee has all outfits around. At all times. Always.
Thought if she was really displeased by all the baby vomit, she could put on one of Satan’s suits.
Like I’ve said before, you don’t get a body like that without working for it. And those are the kind of clothes you work for it in.
True.
i´d always pictured tracee´s workout-clothes to be ridiculously colourful skin-tight spandex.
I bet they are when she’s not dodging ash and hackup.
I did too. Hmm.
I honestly didn’t think Tracee had it in her. And “UUHBUU” made me snort Mt Dew out my nose. You may owe me a new keyboard.
BTW Happy Belated Mother’s Day to your wife.
Keyboards are not covered under the webcomic insurance plan.
Much hotter as a mom.
Right?
Tell me something Salem. You warn us whenever there seems to be a pagan festival or something rolls around, because you go all Mr. Hyde-Park or something right?
So what about Mayor Satan’s Bday?
Do you know what day it is? I don’t.
@pat
Mel is a bit sensitive about his age.
Still, you’d think he would welcome any opportunity to be gifted FREE STUFF.
I’ve often wondered if he was THIS GUY.
You’d think she’d be allergic to anything with the slightest bit of synthetic fabric, Princess and the Pea style.
Are you kidding? I bet she grew up on polyester. :p
Really? Tracee IS synthetic by nature. And a lot of that high-end stuff is made from rayon and the like. They loves the rayon, they do.
Of them all, rayon is the “less” synthetic. You get it from cellulose instead of petrol.
That’s what makes it all fancy.
I swear I saw that last panel and suddenly “going back to my roots” sounded in the back of my head. :p
Trailer park Tracee has returned to the uniform of her ancestors.
Well, everyone has to go back to their past eventually. And that is the path that Tracee must walk.
Is it strange that the song “Push It To The Limit” is playing in my head?
That is oddly the fourth or fifth song suggestion for this comic. And even weirder, each song suggestion is equally fitting.
[Commander Clash]:
For me, it was “Take It to the Limit”, by the Eagles:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LLyUc57l6Q]
… I guess my ‘limit’ is a bit more mellow … ?
That’s WAY too mellow.
How about the song “Immortal” from Big Hero 6? lol
And for the fourth panel, IMHO, Miranda’s reaction should’ve been her first words. “Jopeshi.”
I thought about it. But the jopeshi gag is best when used sparingly, and I already brought it out a few times, so I thought I’d give it a rest. The temptation was certainly there, though.
Good point, don’t want to grow stale from overuse.
Pragmatic! Utilitarian! Down-to-earth! Poor Traces is obviously out of her element.
Or finally back in it.
Oh sweet Lucifer, the first thing I thought of when I read this was that Tracee already had a kid that she abandoned with a relative! Now that would make for an interesting story arc…
Tracee as Daphne’s real mom? Almost works…
Which begs the question: did Tracee get laser hair removal and a muzzlelift, or was her conception questionable?
Well, if it WERE true, and it’s not, the canine features wouldobviously be from Dad.
Which would hypothetically make Tracee a furry.
Not to be too PC, but I think the term today is “birth mother”. Of course, the idea of Tracee giving birth to _anything_ causes my mental circuit breakers to trip.
@ MSG Bob: I could easily see her laying a clutch of eggs, burying it in sand where they’d get some solar exposure, then leaving and never looking back…
I was thinking more of a mom who had a lot of kids or a sister who had a lot of kids.
You are perhaps thinking correctly. That’s all I’ll say.
Tracee and practical have always seemed mutually exclusive, to me anyway.
Therein lies the twist.
Didn’t she run Howlers in some capacity?
Fantasy-selling may be lucrative, but it’s not an industry that rewards fools.
I never said she was a fool, but not terribly practical. Theyare not quite the same thing.
You see, if she’d just done that in the beginning, she wouldn’t be so mad now.
And it would have been a lot less fun for the rest of us, granted.
All decisions are made for entertainment purposes only.
Thank goodness for that!
Can I just put it out there that I much prefer dark wavy hair over blonde straight hair on Tracy? I think it’s much prettier and more interesting.
I mean like in panel 1 and 2.
Well, it’s dark because it’s got soot in it. And wavy because she’s been through the wringer. But I do suspect that Tracee’s natural hair colour is … not blonde, and her natural hair style is not straight.
D’hoy
I realize that. it’s just my opinion that her hair in panel 1 and 2 is much more attractive than her usual style.
OH MY LORD!- Satan, I mean. Give it up for Miranda, mind you; driving Tracee to wear practical clothing, this must be the first time since she was a tween!
It’s certainly been a while.
Her hair actually looks great dark like that! Makes me wonder what she looked like before she transformed into the Blond Monster.
Maybe human? Once upon a time?
Human! That’s the right word! She looks lovely as a human, even with that b*tchy scowl on her face!
At least Miranda seems to be having fun.
If Miranda had a nickname, would it be Andy? Mandy? Mira?
Her nickname is Random, as in Random Factor (that may or may not operate in your favor).
Wild Card Baby?
No nickname. Nicknames are out now. You just gotta commit to all three syllables.
Pooh! I object. It’s too high-flown for so young a child.
I am so glad, you clarified that what I was seeing is soot.
Yeah, I guess it’s a little confusing given the fact that the previous comic which established the whole soot thing was many weeks ago.
Baby Puck is quite the little Imp.
She’s just doing her thing! Not bad baby, bad supervision.
Huh. This look suits her much better than the various dresses have.
Agreed!
Agreed!
I wonder if Tracee will end up getting a sweatshirt or jean dress, claiming it’s in vogue.
Cat sweater?
@EG
Not actually made from Cats, tho.
Right ?
No promises.
oooh oh oh! Sweaterdress! With a keyhole neckline! You could do the whole cast in that if you wanted, for the holidays!
Keyhole neckline? Is that what you call it? It always looked like an undersized, too-high boob window to me.
That depends on how generous the wearer’s chest is, and the keyhole’s size can vary as well. Make it big and low enough, and it can even look good on men.
She’d probably go all the way and combine the keyhole with the virgin killer.
whatever happened to the contract that Puck signed to give her first born to Mr Satan.
She never signed a contract with Satan; she signed a contract to give away her firstborn to a shady salesman of Mamagrow. And the product was pretty dodgy, so I’d say such a contract could easily be declared null and void.
And even if she had, Miranda is such a handful I bet anyone Puck sold her to would regret it instantly.
She’s only a handful if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Welp. Miranda broke Tracee. Didn’t think she’d end up wearing casuals, but here here we are. Kids really do bring the worst out of even the coldest of people.
Or the best. Sometimes it happens.
I realize I am a pig, but it just occurred to me, that given Miranda’s state of undress, Tracee might be better off naked. Of course that would have generated a whole different series of threads. Among other things.
Yeah, that path would take us down a very different avenue.
A path of demonitization. 🙂
Exactly.
“Let’s get practical, practical…I wanna get practical…let’s get into practical…”
Said no celebrity ever.
HOLY CRAP!!!! SHE HAD NORMAL CLOTHES!!!!
THE. WHOLE. TIME.
I must say, Miranda is a brave little semi-fairy. It’s fortunate that by now, she isn’t curled in a fetal position, whimpering. (Which I am sure I would be doing there, if I were in those circumstances.) :p
Weird. she didn’t bathe the soot off before changing clothes?
Well, changing clothes can take a single minute. Bathing takes longer. Talking from experience, bathing is actually a luxury that those taking care of small children seldom can enjoy without having someone else to cover you. It is interesting to note that Tracee seems to grasp this.
In short, most babies have enough inertia to allow you to run to the next room and change, but no babies will remain motionless long enough to let you take a shower without putting said baby in great peril.
Also, this is SO much funnier.