THE BONUS STORY ARC COMIC CONCLUDES. THE LAST PAGE IS … still here.
It’s the tail end of summer, and that brings to an end the ‘Car Wash Caper’ bonus comic! To see the very last page, head on over to TWC and vote for Puck!
VOTE TO WASH THAT CAR REAL GOOD!
As for this comic…
This is the start of another story arc, FYI. It will be shorter than the last one, hopefully. Still may take a year to play out, but it’ll hopefully be a lot of fun. I haven’t entered the name of the chapter into the site yet because it would be a big spoiler, but … maybe next week. Maybe.
That is most certainly a shirt a Transformers fan would wear!
Does he also have another shirt that says “Ruined forever”?
Probably. Though it’s a shirt only a Transformers fan of a certain age would wear. Because TF fans come in ALL ages (well, fifty and under) and each has its own unique idea of what ruins the IP. There’s a massive group of slightly younger fans that is perpetually saddened by the lack of munky. (Though from what I’ve seen of the upcoming Kingdom line, they’ll be pleasantly surprised. And for my part, I’ve softened on munky. The show still looks like garbage, but it WAS groundbreaking and hugely responsible for keeping the brand alive.)
The vocal performances of Scott McNeil and David Kaye alone are worth the price of entry.
I actually just got the whole shebang on DVD. My son and I are doing a slow, methodical crawl through all the TF shows we can find, and we’re finishing up Victory right now, so BW is next.
I’m one of those odd guys who actually liked Beast Machines.
Well, I ordered the DVD of that too. The show hurts my eyes less to look at, at least. The slightly more upgraded CG helps it out a bit.
Yeah, well, a lot of G1 fans don’t like Beast Machines for two reasons; first, the toyline sucked. Hard to make those half organic, half machine things into good looking toys.
Second is that it changed the lore of Cybertron and Vector Sigma and all that. But even though I was introduced to Transformers with the G1 series, I dove into it with Beast Wars/Beasties, and Beast Machines finishes that story nicely.
Ren Faire?
Close. You will see…
Who’s married to who now?
Well, technically speaking, none of them are yet.
Let’s hope nobody snuck off to Vegas on the sly and comes back with a bad hangover and a marriage certificate…
That’s where the fun begins!
Who is Robin?
Puck is Robin. That’s her real name. Robin Goodfellow. It’s confusing.
They haven’t said her real name for what feels like over a hundred pages or so! I completely forgot that Puck was just a nickname. I’m surprised she hasn’t changed her name to Puck after this.
Honestly, though, with the pace of this comic, you could say that about a lot of stuff. I regularly go two years without getting back to some component of the story. It comes with the sad truth of updating weekly, I guess.
Coffee. It has coffee. Because what event doesn’t?
It’s got to have coffee.
And waitress fashion.
And howlers fashion.
And, and, and, littering and, littering and, littering and, littering and,
True. That’s always an angle!
Whatever happened to that guy from mammagrow?
Uhm… It’s a mystery?
She loves hot-dogs too, doesn’t she ?
Yeah! Add that to the list!
She loves coffee, Cinnibuns, hot dogs, and something to be ticked off about…
oh, and she loves her family
You know her well.
Does she like Shakespeare plays? That wouldn’t be a surprise! :$
I’m going to go out on a limb and say … yes.
She may have seen them when they were first performed, standing perhaps among the groundlings and hooting at the in-jokes?
It might be a happy memory of her relative youth, back before the great vowel shift that makes her so cranky, when she inspired playwrights with her antics. If she applied herself, she might answer some questions about authorship but who would think to ask her? Only Colin knows her age, AFAIK, and I’ve never figured out whether he was just humoring her when he told her.
There is also the possibility that she isn’t actually ancient. And was lying. Or (more close to my actual head canon) that she’s lived so long that the finite amount of memory in her brain means that she really remembers very little of it – just snippets and highlights, but most is lost to the sands of time.
Fruit baskets, too I think. From when she got Satan the sympathy vote.
But really, who doesn’t like a gift basket?
Id Stay away from the beastwars anime electric gecko you dont want to ruin transformers for him
I think we will survive. We’ve been through everything else, so … how bad can it be? (I remember it being pretty bad, actually.)
The first season was better than beast machines.
Yeah, people’s love for it seems to wane with each passing season. The first is the iconic selection, ?I guess.
Never been a Transformers fan period… but the Guitar work on the CGI version was done by Slash, and I approved of the show for that reason alone.
Ooh, that’s awesome. Transformers is forever connected with 80’s guitar metal in my mind, so that fits.
Well, there is Dinobot. Beast Wars Dinobot is made of awesome. So much so, in 2010 he was voted into the Transformers Hall of Fame, with G1 Optimus, G1 Bumblebee, G1 Megatron, and Starscream.
I just can’t get past the fact that they named him Dinobot. Like, that’s not a name. And as a BW outsider, he looks REALLY goofy with his tail blade thing. But maybe I will develop more love for the character after watching the show…
Puck: a daycare to drop you off at
Colin: harsh.
Puck: but true….
Colin:…maybe
I endorse this exchange.
Eh, the guy is the father of your child, has been with you since college, so . . . . . . appreciate what you have?
And yet in all those years, he learns nothing. Oh well.
wait your supposed to learn about people in marriage? and here i though it was just a tax dodge and way to continue to practice biology and health classes in your adult years….
Well, your approach may have its merits…
you are both wrong marriage is a place to maintain, and perpetuate conflict. the long sermon/ceremony immediately prior is supposed to suggest what the actual life will be like.
I love the rosy depiction of marriage I get from my readers. A cynical comic cultivates a readship of cynics. I love it.
I know they aren’t married at all, but the fact that Colin didn’t even know one of the things Puck likes means they either have bad communication or he’s just an idiot.
Little bit of column A, little bit of column B.
Only a little from column B?
Just a pinch.
But only marginally.
This’ll be FUN! Like it, um, usually is.
Period pieces, huh? I would not have guessed that.
It WILL be fun. I hope it will be fun. I hope.
Puck has, more specifically, Anglophile leanings. She likes the BBC, tea, crumpets, and all that stuff. You can see this vaguely echoed in her fashion choices.
Dr. Who?
god damn Gecks you should work for a designer line
Thanks. I try. It’s fun.
It’s all fun until some store has actual clothing based off of an artistic design that was stolen by some third party.
Intellectual property theft is the sincerest form of flattery.
Oh no it’s the beginning of a convention arc isn’t it
Maaaaaaaaaybe? Maybe not? Whatever it is, I’ll say that it will have a twist.
I recall Puck watching a soap opera at home and drinking beer at a pub in her college days. She seemed to voluntarily do both.
So many things to add to the list!
How long have they been together? They could be considered a common law marriage by now couldn’t they?
Yes. Yes they could.
Does that have any actual legal status in the US? It’s a common expression in UK, although less so than it used to be (now that “my partner” is commonly used) but it doesn’t have any legal validity.
A cohabiting couple CAN sue each other for the various assets if they break up, but it’s not easy. There are no automatic pension entitlements in the event of one predecessor get the other. Both are taxed separately.
Wouldn’t Ontario be the relative jurisdiction? So long as they stay together and alive, it might not make a practical difference except possibly in filing taxes (in the USA there’s federal tax effects in marriage, I don’t know about Canada – maybe Daph should run the numbers to figure out whether the difference would pay off).
IRL planning for death or divorce would make marriage an important consideration, but since this is a work of fiction they may prefer to live dangerously. When we consider how long the Prom arc took (… and it was all delightful…) I assume that the Marriage Arc would take about 20 years?
OTOH Phoebe designing Bridesmaid dresses would be worth it!
Common law marriage, I am gathering, is a HUGE thing in the States, because every American always is quick to point out the legal ramifications of common law status. In Ontario, common-law status is a thing, but I’m guessing it’s less of a thing. From what I can gather, it has only a fraction of the legal weight that actual marriage does here.
As for the marriage arc, the plan is as follows:
1) current story arc just starting (50 strips, maybe?)
2) following story arc that includes some wedding planning (50-80 strips? Less sure about this one’s length.)
3) Actual wedding arc. Length unknown.
So there is a chance they’ll be tying the knot in 2023. Presuming civilization hasn’t collapsed IRL by that point.
Foot firmly in mouth; he should just leave it there.
And never talk again.
What about the punching? Does she actually enjoy the punching, or is that just a thing that happens sometimes?
I think the punching needs to be added to the list, certainly.
Hahahaha 🙂
In his defense, even we don’t really know what Puck likes outside of her therapist’s hotdogs.
We know she likes to disapprove of things.
So few people will know what his shirt means… but damn that’s fun times right there. Love it.
if not from the comments here, I would not have even suspected.
I gather it has something to do with the transformer robot series.
I like the transformers, but I have no idea what that shirt refers to… other than what these comments say.
And it is still “clear as mud” to me.
It’s an early meme-ish phrase based on the frequent cries of fans of the original TF show (geewunners, as we are called) that Optimus transforms into a truck, not a monkey, as ‘Optimus’ did during the Beast Wars era. Well, technically he transformed into an ape, but calling him a monkey was funnier.
We see each other. Knowing nod.
Did Phoebe move further away from Collin in that last frame or was that just a change in the point of view?
As for the commom law or informal marriage thing it varies by state. Here in Texas for example, we are a communal property state and once you file the decoration with the county clerk all those laws about shared assets and debts come into effect. Sadly you do not get any breaks on the federal texas because the IRS requires a formal marriage license.
Characters move all over the place in my comic in order to work with framing. It’s just something I kinda need to do in order to fit people into the awkwardly shaped vertical rectangle. This is why, coincidentally, most media don’t use a vertical orientation. It’s very limiting to work with. Even fitting two characters in can be a chore.
And as for Texas, good to know. Well, not for me, being already married and not in Texas, but…
Puck: “Sneering scornfully at the dumb stuff YOU like.”
Colin: “Awesome! Everyone will have something to do!
Gotta keep the peeps busy.