OCTOBER VOTING INCENTIVE IS HERE!
I put the vote to my top tier patrons on Patreon to find out what Halloween costume they’d like to see, and you can see their top choice by voting for Puck TWC! Actually it was a tie between this and one other choice, so I might need to draw another pic later in the month.
VOTE TO HAND OUT THE CANDY WITH STYLE!
As for this comic…
People were wondering when the sugar high was going to reach its crescendo. I’d say … probably here.
The least likely way that anyone would have thought that sugar would have influenced a dentist’s appointment.
I hope she won’t be needing a [dental] crown after this!!!
oh wait – the alt-text already MADE that joke.
My bad!
We like to keep things unexpected here.
OUCH!!! This is a warning to sugar eaters everywhere! :))
Well, the problems only emerge with sugar abuse.
This makes biting down on tinfoil seem like fun. My teeth are suffering sympathy pains.
I don’t think this would be that bad. Those crowns are always plastic.
Well, I guess it’s obvious which of us readers never went to Prom.
MY teeth hurt
I apologize.
I won a bet like this, once. Someone bet I couldn’t bite through a tin can. My teeth ached for a couple of days, but I got free drinks for the rest of the night. If that crown is real gold, she should be fine, discounting heavy metal poisoning. Probably aluminum, though, with a gold tone painted on, so still fine.
It’s not real gold. It’s not even metal. These crowns are usually dollar store items and they’re almost always vacuum-metallized plastic. Look at that thing shatter in panel three. That’s garbage plastic if ever I saw it.
I think gold is less toxic than aluminum …
@HKMaly
Is LEAD good for you ?
I mean, it’s a delicious natural mineral, isn’t it ?
( worry worry worry )
Lead has no confirmed biological role, and there is no confirmed safe level of lead exposure. The primary cause of its toxicity is its predilection for interfering with the proper functioning of enzymes. It does so by binding to the sulfhydryl groups found on many enzymes, or mimicking and displacing other metals which act as cofactors in many enzymatic reactions.
Pure metallic (elemental) gold is non-toxic and non-irritating when ingested and is sometimes used as a food decoration in the form of gold leaf. Metallic gold is also a component of the alcoholic drinks Goldschläger, Gold Strike, and Goldwasser. Metallic gold is approved as a food additive in the EU (E175 in the Codex Alimentarius). Although the gold ion is toxic, the acceptance of metallic gold as a food additive is due to its relative chemical inertness, and resistance to being corroded or transformed into soluble salts (gold compounds) by any known chemical process which would be encountered in the human body.
This just makes me hungry.
All that dental work that Satan paid for, gone in an instant. Phoebe could have taken up hockey and saved a lot of trouble.
Well, her teeth seem intact. It’s the crown that gave way. It’s a low quality plastic crown, so really, Phoebe’s lucky they went cheap.
If Phoebe is the Baroness, does that mean Puck would be Scarlett? ..and maybe Daphne as Lady Jaye?
…
I was really into GI Joe when younger, and that probably led me to joining the USAF when I was able…
That’s taking your fandom to a whole new level, man. And that makes for a good story. I don’t have good stories like that. My fandom stories aren’t very cool. They’re like, “I was really into Transformers when younger, and that led me to purchasing an incredibly expensive Unicron toy last weekend.”
As for Puck as Scarlett, that WOULD be cool, but if I do another one, it’ll be from another 80’s cartoon series, because there were two options that tied in a vote on Patreon.
Puck as Teela from He-Man, maybe? I guess I could just go be a Patron to find out more.
I mean, I mainly joined Airforce ’cause I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up more, but that was a thing that, alas, didn’t happen.
Got it in one.
And I applaud the actual pursuit of the dream of being an astronaut. That’s gotta be the most frequently stated dream career of children that is the least frequently pursued. The fact that you went after it, even if it didn’t happen, I find incredibly impressive.
That deserves a most enthusiastic BOOYAH!
You’re not the only one for whom GI Joe was an influence for a future Air Force career. 🙂
Now I know.
And knowing is half the battle!
When I wondered if Phoebe would regret flying so high, I was thinking of the next morning.
Oh Icarus, thou are unwrought.
Well, we shall see. Sometimes you regret this sort of stuff. Sometimes you don’t.
Will Phoebe look worse than she did during the night of the wailing baby?
Well, we shall see.
We’re gonna see a well?
Oh, RIGHT she needs glasses. And is on a sugar high.
Heh!
I hope her teeth are O.K. It would be sad if she needed a crown right in front. Someone might mistake her for one of the musicians she likes. It would be worse than when she got freckles in Puck’s dream.
She’s got contacts in. I think her eyesight is fine. It’s the processing unit behind the eyes that is currently an issue.
Hence: Sugar high.
Contacts? Awww! No fun! Oh, all right!
By the way, talking about sugar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83062QfLmmM
That just makes sugar highs more interesting.
“We see with the brain, not with the eyes.”- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Yeah, it’s time to take Phoebe home . . . and I have just had a mind’s eye view of Tracee administering hangover cures to Phoebe . . . really, in this whole arc Tracee is the one coming off the best!
You get the sense that Tracee would know her hangover cures inside and out.
TRACEEE ?
NEXT WEEK ?
HUZZAH !!
Yeah, I think so. You understand the rhythm by now.
I sense the foundation is being poured for a DENTAL ARC in the near future.
We’ve already had a Pregnancy arc and a Cancer arc, so why not ?
Oh Alt-text terrible dad joke, very good 🙂
It’s really hard for me to avoid making the entire comic full of awful, awful dad jokes. In general, I try to limit them to the comment section or the alt-text.
So when’s Phoebe gonna get diabetes? They better watch out she doesn’t eat their wedding cake…
Let’s hope her demon pancreas has a greater strength than a normal human one.
If they’re sensible, there will be five or so sheet cakes just for Phoebe, in addition to some for the guests. (The actual wedding cake often is too fanciful to be suitable for feeding all the guests.)
Even if the wedding is a small, family thing… still get the extra sheet cakes, Puck.
You sound like you speak from experience on this.
@Buggle(?)
As my Human Pet “Baldie” ages, he is amazed to discover that God is constantly at work inventing ailments that Baldie never even HEARD OF in his long and totally unproductive life.
Mebe DAFFY could discover one of them ? Vertigo is a kewl one.
Do it for for me (and for susan – who we still miss).
Makes me think of the Simpsons in the Mr. Plow episode
Mayor Quimby: Why are there teeth marks in the key to the city?
Homer: I was trying to get at the chocolate.
Mayor Quimby: There is no chocolate.
Homer: Then why do you have it wrapped in gold foil?
You know what I’m channeling. 94% of everything I do is vaguely inspired by early era Simpsons episodes.
@EG
Can’t beat Seinfeld.
Yep breaking all your teeth normally kill’s the mood…Ouch
The crown broke. I think the teeth are safe. It’s a crummy plastic crown. No real harm done.
Ouch! Phoebe’s Sugar Rush may lead to necessary dental work. Do they make dentures with fangs?
Well, in this world, everyone seems to have fangs, so my guess would be … yes. Though she won’t need them. She has strong teeth.
@EG
You call those Human “THINGS” fangs ?
Really ?
Honestly, I’m jealous of SNAKES.
They sink their fangs in, then inject poison right thru them.
How kewl is that ?
@EG
Does Satan (Mel to his buds) or TRACEEE have fangs ?
It’s been so long since we’ve seen them I just can’t be sure anymore.
( hint-hint- hint )
That bite reminded me of the time I chipped a tooth on a popcorn kernel. I ended up swallowing the tooth bit, so it wasn’t like it could be fixed.
Ow.
@Sean Atkins
Relax – a little.
My Human Pet “Baldie” has had his share of Dental “Adventures” ( some initiated by Hard Candy Mints, others by Flossing, one by a McDonald’s 99 cent Cheeseburger – go figure).
I no case did the Dentist ask for the broken bit; they don’t just GLUE them back on !!!
Fortunately most felines neither drink Soda (the worst thing ever for teeth), nor do we usually live long enuff to require Dental work.
I was eating a SOFT taco in a Mexican restaurant once, and I lost a filling. I guess it was an old one.
An old taco? You know, if you leave a soft taco out for long enough, it’ll get hard.
Would it be safe to call this your.. “crowning” achievement? Yes, that hurt to type, but nobody else said it so I felt obligated.
Now I think it’s yours.
If it has my scent, the mother won’t take it back.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown…
@EG, no the taco was really soft. I guess it’s time had come. 😉