NEW MARCH VOTING INCENTIVE!
This month brings us Puck in a decidedly different style. Vote to see the cast as they would appear in OTHER comic strips!
As for this comic…
No talking! Except in the comments. You can talk in the comments.
On other fronts, I really do hope people are doing okay in this crazy time with the whole macaroni virus thing going on. I’m at home now because it’s technically my vacation, but I’ll be off for another few weeks at least because schools are closed. I had a trip to France that we cancelled. The local grocery store is almost empty. Rough times, I gotta say. Everyone is healthy, though (touch wood) and on the positive end, I now have lots of extra time to work on the comic! So you get another new voting incentive pic!
Seriously, though, the comic continues unabated, and if I can offer even a moment of respite from the nuttiness of the world right now, I’ll consider my efforts worth it.
Keep well, keep safe and share the toilet paper.
Uhm… stalker surprise?
Uh oh, the crown fell down.
As someone smarter than me noted on Patreon, Tyler fell down and broke his crown and Daphne came tumbling after. Neat, huh?
+1
‘tumbling’? is that what the kids are calling it these days? 😉
It’s what the kids called it in the early 1600s. There’s a song in Hamlet where the girl says, “Before you tumbled me, you promised me to wed.”
@EG
Hey, we’re going back to Puck’s roots of using archaic language.
Huzzah !
Not to mention Culture Club’s “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya” song from 1983.
Ooh yeah! Right!
I knew he’d been sleeping with her!
I thought she was part dog, not cat.
Dogs can pounce. They’re just not as graceful.
Hence the lost shoe mid pounce XD
Love the Voting Incentive.
TRACEEE is wonderful, as always.
I think she is the very nicest character in Puck – and Miranda, of course.
Neither have an ounce of dishonesty and are full of charity.
Tracee is not nice. But she is honest. That alone is a rarity.
@EG
Not nice ?
TRACEEE has even employed both Phoebe and Robin.
And employing Robin was certainly charity.
I think you are confusing nice and nice-looking. 🙂
@Robert Loughrey
Harrumph
TRACEEE can be both !
In the words of Billy Joel: “Honesty is such a lonely word”
Billy Joel is the second best Billy, right behind Billy from Double Dragon, and well ahead of Billy Corgan.
rustle, rustle
“Who’s there?”
“It’s me. Russell.”
(I keep finding opportunities to use that joke…)
As long as it’s not Russel Brand, we’re good.
Russel Peters?
I’ll accept that.
will you accept Russle Crowe?
Only if it’s Gladiator Russel Crowe. Not Les Miserables Russel Crowe. And not Dark Universe Russel Crowe.
But he came back!
A WILD DAPHNE APPEARS!
Tyler, this is what you get for walking near the tall grass.
Daphne used pounce! It was super effective.
Tyler isn’t sure why he is being jumped. I expect he’ll be pleasantly suprised / relieved.
Probably.
Possibly.
A pleasantly peculiar pouncing, perhaps?
@EG
FOUR P’s
Very Good.
😛
(I miss Susan so much. She’s a Health Care Professional. I hope she is safe.)
Unless Hannah primed the pump for this, I cannot foresee this ending well.
This pump doesn’t need priming, man. It’s been primed for a long time. Someone just needed to use the dang pump.
Let’s not kid ourselves. They’ve known each other for years. Daphne was eventually going to do something, but I doubt Tyler expected it to be so soon. Right now is her best opportunity. The only likely witnesses would be Tyler’s parents and neighbors, assuming anyone’s awake.
The perfect time!
That’s certainly ONE way to get his attention!
It is one way to get his attention. It is also the best.
I think this is the first time in the new run that it’s been more than 4 panels (I know that #80, a.k.a last one of the old run, was way longer than 4 panels). If so… that’s one way to use that.
I am somewhat worried for the guy. Somewhat. Knowing Daphne, well…
Thankfully, no one I know of has the virus but the stores are getting pretty empty all over Sweden. I’m just hoping this will blow over at some point.
The comic where Daphne tried on a bunch of dresses was also seven panels like this. And the montage of Tracee washing Miranda was a bunch of smaller panels too. I don’t use it often but I use it when I need to.
Excellent votey 🙂 The comic is a lot of fun too. I bet Tyler is into Daphne taking charge a bit. 😉
Men say they like being in charge. But they only say that when other guys are watching.
… well, lot of men who were in charge were arrested for that …
Love this. The look on Daphne’s face alone is awesome. Also, the perspective is great. Can’t wait to see how this one develops.
Thanks. The faces were the critical component. The Daphne one was hardest. I needed an expression that communicated both feral abandon and affection. Hard to do, let me tell you.
GAH!
Now, Daphne, was this really what Hannah meant? It was? O.K.
Wonderful expressions and, well, the whole thing is done very competently. And it’s funny. 🙂
This is exactly what Hannah meant. You think Daphne could hatch a complex scheme like this herself?!?
Pulling a Kasi? Yes. I think that’s exactly the sort of scheem she could come up with.
Wait, she does tend to more complicated things, doesn’t she? She’s a thinker. She’d never just leap at a guy, even with the detail of loosing a shoe.
I buy it!
Simple and direct would never be Daphne. She’s a con game type. This is new territory for her.
I’m convinced!
So Daphne, a girl who has animal-like features, pounces on the unsuspecting boy, from the bushes?
It sounds like something I’d see on curiosity stream.
Your Curiosity Stream is more curious than mine. 😉
I would have said “the discovery channel”, but they’re all reality tv shows now.
The foot flying out of its shoe is a nice touch. This and the fringe of the dress flying out of the edge of the panel (like one of those birds in a Japanese panel painting) convey that she may be playful, but she ain’t playing.
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Young adult desire seems hard to convey without being creepy but I think you’ve done it. I’m not sure what age they are (from this end of the seniority telescope teenagers tend to blend together) but let’s hope they have a good sense of their limits (as Colin hinted in his lecture to Daphne after the Flaming Schnorfland disaster) and if necessary, protection.
I’m glad you think I did it. And with these two, I think that things will develop rather slowly. They’re both fairly innocent on this front. Which is good because they work well together in their inexperience.
Uh Oh
If I’ve learned one thing from TV, it’s that SEX IS A BFK !
(Best Friend Killer)
After that, these two will never be able to sit side-by-side, naked, playing Video Games ever again.
sad
Well, that’s the risk you run. Nothing is without risk.
This is excellent! But men don’t like being pounced I speak from experience 😀
You just weren’t pounced right.
Speak for your self some of us quite like it if it’s done by the right person.
The person doing the pouncing is always key. Always.
Pounced by the wrong person: bad!!!
Pounced by the right person: best!!!
Been there. Both ways.
(Now I’ve got to go look up some old friends. Ya never know …)
Yeah, okay.
But um, honestly, the one where she was confessing to Tyler as though he was there kinda had more . . . style? Um, more . . . honesty?
I mean, all right, this way, it’s making clear how she feels, but um, maybe a little too ‘in your face’?
I mean, this approach can work, but er, um, is Tyler that clueless, he never seemed so to me.
I um, am now awaiting next week. Looking forward . . . I ah, guess I am?
We did style. We did class. NOW WE DO WHAT WORKS.
There’s a section of an organization I’m not going to mention that feels the same way.
Cute voting incentive. However, I believe you missed the opportunity to draw Miranda toddling all over the house/neighbourhood on a very convoluted path marked by dotted lines… lol
I did. I missed the labor-intensive process of drawing a complex interior, inking it, coloring it, doing the footsteps. I don’t know why Keanu did that joke over and over again because that kind of comic is WORK.
Keanu?
“Bill, strange things are afoot at the Family Circus…”
Keane. Stupid autocorrect.
Billy and P.J.s Excellent Adventure?
I never said that it wasn’t WORK just that it would have been cute…
I will not deny it would have been cute.
I never thought of the F.C. as particularly Christian. I mean, yes, that did come out from time to time, but I’ve never thought their overall outlook was uniquely rooted in that particular faith. It’s just extremely sappy.
Family Circus was Christian AF. Grandpa was always in heaven, and the comic would name drop Jesus at least once a week. Though newspaper comics of the era were generally wholesome in tone, none wore the Christian element on their sleeve more overtly.
Maybe, I jut never payed attention. I could argue that heaven is not uniquely Christian per se, but I think I would be off the mark on that. O.K. I withdraw my observation. I guess I just wasn’t looking hard enough.
They rarely had any bite anyway. It doesn’t really hold the attention unless you’re just using it as a resting place.
@Frank Harr
Most religions have a “Heaven”.
Valhalla, Happy Hunting Grounds, Nirvana – they are all the same place.
Nearly all religions are describing the same concepts with different names and slightly different expectations.
They agree far more than they disagree – whether they will admit that or not.
Nirvana is not a place, though. That’s the odd one out. Nirvana is the state of obliterating the self – when your soul ceases to be a separate entity and rejoins the cosmos. See, Buddhists and the like view selfhood as a curse, unlike most western religions that are entirely predicated on the preservation of the self and…
Sorry. I used to teach a world religions class.
“Sorry. I used to teach a world religions class.”
Good man. But don’t be sorry. There’s a lot of misinformation out there and people need to push against it.
@EG
Good for you !
A great deal of wisdom can gleaned by studying the attempts made by different cultures to explain the meaning of life and the universe.
She totally Calvin and Hobbesed him…
What does it say about me that my concept of love is informed by Calvin and Hobbes? I think … it says something good.
“Romantic Progress goes *pounce*?”
Better than going ‘boink.’
Well, you’re observant, I’ll give you that.
Delightful voter incentive reminded me of “Dysfunctional Family Circus” – worth looking up if things are slow.
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And as EG commented, webcomics can help us keep our spirits up while we navigate a crisis. Stay safe my friends! Tomorrow is always a day away.
Uhh …. this is NOT going to end well.
It will end. At least we can count on that.
Daphne is self-actualizing her true feral nature. No wonder she looks so happy! 🙂
@ChrisH
Are we 100% certain Daffy is out for sex ?
She could be simply hungry.
@SalemCat, I’m guessing it’s sex, not hunger, because if she ate Tyler, it would be the loss of a major character. ;}}
I do not think she is hungry for either. Though she may be hungry for attention.
@EG
Do jackals kill for sport ?
(Daffy is no hyena. I’ve never seen her laugh.)
Attention is necessary.
@ChrisH
True.
Tyler cannot be replaced.
Daffy, however …..
EG, that’s understandable, she’s been isolating herself for so long.
Hopefully Tyler will take the hint and follow through accordingly.
Tyler might not appreciate this approach…
(Hi! I’m not dead. Yet.)
You never know.
And I, for one, am very glad to hear about your continued living.
@SalemCat, but if Daphne goes away, I won’t be able to make any more bad puns on dogs. I would only make catty remarks. 😉
@ChrisH
Hmmmmmm…..
You know, Les Nessman would be a shining example at social distancing.
Otherwise, how’s everyone doing?
@Pat, I’m OK, thanks for asking. It’s that time of the week when I am anticipating the next page here. 🙂
@ChrisH
NEW PAGE – NEW PAGE – NEW PAGE – NEW PAGE –
Well, tonight’s episode is almost here.
I, for one, want NO SOCIAL DISTANCING between these two !!
You naughty kitty. To quote a Batman cartoon, “Papa spank.”
@Pat
If only I were so lucky !
Oh, well, she did not wait as long as I thought she was going to. For some reason, I expected her to ambush him in his room.
Expect the unexpected!
I’m just imagining this comic narrated by David Attenborough.
“The young adult dog woman hides among the brush, eagerly awaiting the passage of a potential mate.”
“Completely unaware of this, a young man passes nearby.”
POUNCE!
“The poor fool, he never had a chance.”
If only. If only.
Daphne has been possessed by the spirit of Calvin’s stuffed tiger Hobbes!
That panel is a rare delight! 😀
It was a fun one to draw.
I’ll bet! 😀
Would probably make a good T-shirt design.
Probably.