SEPTEMBER VOTING INCENTIVE FOR ALL!
So the deal here is that I’ve been working on background images for that bonus comic I keep working on. I had some backgrounds of scenery from my city drawn and colored but nothing that would make a good voting incentive. So I quickly drew a pic of Puck, smacked something together and the end result actually looks pretty good!
VOTE TO BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE!
As for this comic…
Nothing much to say. Beyond noting that somewhere out there, I’m positive that there are women paying big money to have bananas mashed in their hair as a beauty treatment. I’m not even Googling it. I just already know it’s a thing, instinctively.
All right, I broke down and Googled it. Turns out there are SO MANY BANANA-BASED HAIR PRODUCTS AND TREATMENTS.
I knew it.
I think you took a REAL CHANCE googling that.
I live dangerously. But with safe search on.
Well, at least she will have someone to babysit while she plans for the wedding.
Exactly! An adult who can tolerate the presence of your child is an asset.
They are bonding.
Puck will not be happy.
Or very happy. Hard to tell with Puck.
WELP, I’M completely sold.
*moves to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada*
Hamilton isn’t that ba… actually, yes it is. I’ve never driven over the Skyway past Hamilton without thinking that the Stelcoplant makes it look like the opening scenes of “Blade Runner”. 😉
And for those of you reading this from somewhere other than Southern Ontario, Hamilton is a weird place. It’s right beside one of the greenest and most upscale large towns in Canada – Burlington, just to the west, and separated from it by a highway, and, on the other side, Stoney Creek, which is a green and nice little town.
It must be very jarring for tourists driving to Toronto. Once you leave the border, everything is green and nice, then you’re suddenly in this weird grim industrial city jammed into the corner of Lake Ontario, then you’re suddenly back into clean and green again. Hamilton has a very “Detroit” feel to it. You get an unfortunately good view of it from the huge Skyway Bridge, looking down on the factories from above.
Duhh… Burlington is to the east, not west, before someone calls me a moron. 🙂
Burlington is actually more north of Hamilton. Just saying.
Hey man, don’t fault Hamilton for keeping it real.
Hamilton is actually wonderful in parts. I do honestly love my town. It’s great in a bunch of ways. But the specific angle you see from the Skyway is awful. Come into town the other direction, from the 403, and you’ll get a very different view: beautiful wetlands, a cathedral, the Niagara escarpment. We hide all the nice parts in the back.
Actually, I’ve hiked the Bruce Trail around the back of Hamilton with my kids, and it’s very pretty back there, tons of waterfalls and the like, but my job has also taken me into some of the nastiest areas of Hamilton, and I’ll stick to the view from the Bruce, thanks. 😉
My primary client is opening a new location in Stoney Creek at the end of the month. So, I will have finally have reason to go through Hamilton, other than “Hmm, I should be able drive the entire 403 in one summer evening. Yeah, let’s do it.” That reminds me, as their IT department, I need to get and prepare a couple of computers for the new location.
I just checked Google Maps. I guess I could take the Burlington Skyway to get there, but I don’t want to set off my acrophobia again. (“Stare along the road. Do not look over the sides of the bridge!”) Okay, Red Hill Valley Parkway it is.
Take the 403 and the Linc to the Red Hill Valley Parkway. That takes you through the less disgusting parts of town. It does take longer, but it’s not as high. Alternately, you could take Eastport Drive and go over the lift bridge. It’s the small bridge next to the huge tall bridge. That would be the fastest.
I sell the truth.
What? No mayonnaise?
Banana seems far more pleasant than mayonnaise, honestly. Ugh.
Also avoids the awkward question of “who the hell gives a baby a jar of mayonnaise?”
Not Surprisingly Competent Tracee, that’s who.
Mayo: secretly the best baby food.
And a folk remedy for head lice, too.
Mayo is for head lice. But it doesn’t always work. Don’t ask me how I know.
Indeed. Stick with the shampoo.
Good ol’ Miranda, always knows what somebody needs.
It’s that baby sixth sense!
a spa that may be ruining your hair but a spa none the less.
Actually, banana is very good for your hair. Or that’s what people pretend. I Googled it!
Is there Pumpkin Spice Banana Hair Products? Do we dare Google it?
I dared… there is.
I never doubted it.
You can. I won’t. I hate pumpkin spice.
My mechanic does a nice Pumpkin Spice undercoating for my car’s winterization.
Why would you RUIN a good car like that?
I want that in a smoothie, not my hair.
At this rate Tracee is likely to go from so “self-centered that it’s obnoxious” to “so well adjusted that it’s obnoxious”.
Well, I don’t think the well adjusted thing will be a permanent change. Maybe it will linger in small, miniscule ways, but we’re only talking a temporary thing.
Is Miranda going to inherit the full set of puck ears?
I think she’ll inherit a slightly less dramatic version of the Puck ears. You know, because genetics. I think that’s how pretend genetics works. Right?
Puck is hundreds of years old fairy. If Miranda gets wings, you can totally explain it.
I guess I could. But she is not a gelfling.
In a few years:
Miranda: [ Getting picked up after her first day of Junior Kindergarten ] Mommy, who is Mister Spock?
Puck: Why do you ask?
Miranda: One of the kids said that my ears look like his. Mrs. Harper told him that he should not say things like that.
Is that Zen, or just abject defeat?
But is there really a difference? 😀
Potato, Tomato.
Hot tip: as a parent, it’s always best to label abject defeat as ‘zen’ and chalk it up to character development.
i´m already sooo looking forward to satan coming home and finding his smoking hot girlfriend turned into *this* – a plain normal mom in sweats, with crusty baby food in her hair
Many a man has come home to that realization.
Now I’m picturing [Peya Luna]’s scenario, with Tracee using her “Pureed Scalp Treatment” to nuzzle her “Snookie Wookums”, & see just how long it takes HIM to reach his “zen state”, when he realizes that it WON’T dry-clean out of his suit.
#Some_Sneaky_Pouncing_May_Be_Involved
#I’m_Just_Sayin’
Good hashtags.
#You_Are_Entirely_Too_Kind_Good_Sir
😉
🙂
I’m glad Tracee’s getting to grow a little. Although it dose seem to have exhausted her into submission.
She just does that to clothes, doesn’t she? That’s a good way to show she’s still Tarcee. Tracee. Someone.
I just noticed something in the voting insentive. Is that a Fairy Queen? Is that where Puck was working during her low ebb? I bet they’re delicious.
That IS a Fairy Queen in the background. Good eye.
Does what to clothes? Wear them? She does indeed wear clothes.
It’s pretty subtle. I don’t know how to explain it.
Well Well Well
TRACEEE has made another Stellar Appearance, uplifting my spirits to yet another Zenith !
This cannot be surpassed – except by another week with TRACEEE !
Tho a close second would be Daffy collapsing into tear-sodden heap-o-woe beneath her chair. Strip 206 did little to satiate my Daffy-Schadenfreude.
Well, we will see. No promises for next week. On any of the fronts.
Heh Heh Heh
That means more BOO THE BOO HOO from YOU ‘N” I KNOW WHO.
(or sumthin else entirely)
Puck . . . your baby girl now has a cool aunt. You have been warned. (Phoebe’s cool too, but in a different way.)
A superfluity of cool aunts, in fact.
One more and you’ll have a plethora.
Aha! So Miranda will be a hairdresser one day!
Not saying no.
The big question in my mind is now whether Tracee will reveal her heel-face turn to the adults, or will they assume out of habit and experience that she has someone acted only in her best interest.
Not that those are mutually exclusive …
That is a question. Not sure I yet have an answer.
Uh-oh, when Tracy’s illustrious, infamous lover returns, I don’t think he will like Tracer’s change of heart toward babies. Peace, love and understanding just ain’t his bag, dig? 😉
Well, like his daughter, this version of Satan sometimes is unusually non-evil.
[ElectricGecko]:
That’s just what He Wants You To Think!
He’s just LULLING you into a false sense of security!
#He’s_A_Lull-er!!!
#I’m_Just_Sayin’
Tracee’s personality stock is rising,
Well, that’s not hard given that her stock was worth mere pennies before.
This may have already been addressed, but hausa Miranda mastered her foreign language skills so well?
Foreign language skills?
I ran some of her baby talk through atranslater and it came up as a central African language: Hausa
Purest coincidence. Though an interesting coincidence, certainly.
At least it’s bananas. My 2 year old niece found a marker and drew all over her father’s back while he was asleep.
A tattoo artist in the making, obviously.
She has a colorful future: she’ll make her mark!
😉
One can make a mark with many things. Including banana.