IT’S PUCK MADLIBS!
I asked for nouns, adjectives and verbs from my trusty top patrons which I could then assemble in unique and entertaining ways, and though I didn’t get many suggestions back, what I DID get went into the new incentive pic!
VOTE FOR SUCCESS ON THE MINOR LEAGUE CIRCUIT!!!
As for this comic…
Every once in a while (like once every 150 comics or so), one of the characters in this series actually acknowledges that Daphne is, in fact, a dog girl. This is one of those comics.
People have asked many times about whether the general population in this universe can see that Daphne is a dog girl, or Phoebe is a devil girl, or what have you. People question this because no one ever really reacts oddly to her presence and treats her like everyone else. But my answer to that question has always been, “OF COURSE they can see that Daphne is a dog girl! She’s a freakin’ dog girl! How could you NOT see that?”
More specifically, my explanation (borrowing heavily from Douglas Adams here) is that Daphne, Phoebe and Puck are largely protected by a S.E.B. field – a ‘somebody else’s problem’ field. People see that Daphne is a dog girl. they know she’s a dog girl. They just don’t react in any noticeable way because they all assume that she has a good reason for being a dog girl and they really don’t want to get involved.
Ok, plan B: We go as the Harlem Globetrotters. Make a bad situation even worse. Or.. go down the long list of guest stars in general.
Who’s going to be Batman?
Get the mayor.
They could go as four of the Three Stooges. Daphne could be Moe.
O.K., Puck.
Definitely Puck as Moe. She is the Moe of the group: the dominant fool in a cast of fools. Colin would be Curly. Phoebe would be Larry. Daphne would be Shemp. Tyler, if he was coming along, could be Curly Joe DeRita. Miranda could be Joe Besser.
Can you tell I’m a Stoogeophile?
Naw! You totally hid that. 😉
And yeah, given Curly and Shemp were Moe Moe’s brothers, having her daughter and fiancee play them is appropriate.
Did you know that Shemp is how Sam comes out in their mom’s native accent?
Yes. I knew that. At one point anyway. I forgot it until you mentioned it.
Cointanly
wow
“Cospay” is a Freudian slip?
His subconscious knows what comes next.
Better than get spayed.
No, just a stupid a typo.
Bad cosplay leads to medical co-pay.
I like how Puck and Phoebe turned tail and ran.
I thought it was a fun detail, and it also saved me from drawing them again.
Well, no one notices or cares that the Mayor is literally Satan.
I’m mostly curious as to if there are any others like Puck and Daphne in the world. I assume there is, but as much as I would like to see more in the comic, it would probably ruin the uniqueness of the characters.
I assume there are more. And I’m not entirely ruling out the possibility of run-ins. But I’d have to have a really good reason as to why I’d introduce such a thing. I feel like I’ve got my hands full as it is!
To be fair, we don’t see as many ordinary people as should be around either.
Not sure of the punchline. Do they know anybody *else* that looks like Daphne?
It’s a comical overuse of the term. Of course it doesn’t apply.
Does Daphne belong to a race? Are there many whatevers-she is out there, or is she an individual with distinct appearance traits?
I’m actually shocked you went there, not because of the hot-button topic of race, but because if you point out the incongruity of the incongruous thing, then you or others will be tempted to try to explain it, and that’s how you get midichlorians.
I’m not getting into midichlorians. Promise. It’s just Colin overreaching with the term, for comedic effect. But now I’m explaining the joke again.
actually, midichlorians are somewhat explained by science if you realize there are literally hundreds of mitochondrias are in every cell of your body AND they provide all the energy that cell needs.
That is somewhat like what the midichlorians supposedly do.
Mitochondria don’t have magic. Though they ARE pretty critical for the function of all eukaryotic life.
They don’t have magic, maybe.
they do provide energy, and HOW that energy is used by the host cell determines what the cell does.
So… mitochondria COULD provide psionic abilities if the brain cells (and other special cells) use the available energy for that.
I made that connection the very first time the midichlorians were mentioned and i have yet to see any reason to doubt the conclusion.
It wasn’t racist. It was stereotypical. Colin’s just an unsubtle idiot.
Precisely.
Stereotyping can be racist if it’s making the subject of the stereotype “lesser” than others. As with most social things thou, what it is is dependant on the person reacting to it. Only Daphne gets to decide if shes offended or not.
In addition to S.E.P., or maybe it is merely a variation thereof, it may also be fear of being politically incorrect. https://www.samandfuzzy.com/1086
Yeah, that’s a version of the same thing, I think. Or a cousin of it.
I have no fear of being politically incorrect.
I can even say I WANT to be.
I don’t call it P.I., though.
I call it “MORALLY RIGHT”.
That said, it still peeves me (greatly) when someone makes assumptions based on something like race.
I always get p***ed when there is an article/caption/whatever that makes some achievement important ONLY because the person who did it had a different skin color or gender from those who achieved it before.
If it is NOT important without the change, it should not be WITH it.
“Also, nobody else can play Scooby because that would be ‘furface’, and we don’t really want to get cancelled on Twitter.
Exactly. One can get cancelled so easily nowadays…
why would “furface” be of such impact?
Is there something to that word I am unaware of?
I admit I am not up on the latest slang (especially derogatory terms), so I would not be surprised if this is something I missed.
It’s playing on another term from real life. Replace ‘fur’ with another word and it comes together.
ahhh…
Got it.
I think.
So the controller isn’t perfectly good now, is it?
IS IT!?
But back to the story, I’d always assumed that people are used to things like that in this world. I mean, Puck is a 600+ year old chick with pointy ears, Phoebe has horns and a tail, the Hot Dog guy has really creepy eyes and the literal prince of darkness is running around being part of civic life. It’s not like reacting to Daphne would be top of anyone’s list of things to do.
That would be getting their money back after Daph had taken it for some dubious purpose.
Has anyone actually acknowledged Daph’s unique apperence yet? I can’t remember it coming up, but I did a really fast archive dive. I likely missed a lot.
Poor Collin. It’s like he’s just asking to be a human lightning rod for his family. Brave man. We will miss him.
Daphne’s appearance has been acknowledged many times.
Like here: //www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-128
And here: //www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-456
And this strip you’re looking at right now. But it’s always been from a member of the Puck household, and never from the outside world.
I cannot stress enough how fast a dive that was. I really wanted to catch up.
The pointy ears can be hidden. Her age however … there are things characters this old can do to hide that fact, like falsifying documents and switching places they live in, but Puck quite obviously isn’t doing them.
something else, too.
this is easy explained by Puck NOT being human.
Human females are born with all the eggs they will ever have.
By the time they reach adolescence, all but about 20% of the eggs are unusable/invalid.
When all the available eggs are used/expelled through menstruation, the woman goes into menopause and is then sterile/infertile.
Puck is not human.
She proved it by getting pregnant CENTURIES after a human female would have gone infertile.
Your biology is kinda off, my friend. A human woman menstruates for 40-45ish years, maybe 13 times a year. Even if you routinely double-ovulate, you’re still talking about less than 1000 eggs, out of millions. Happens even if every single egg is infertile, too. ‘Taint the ’cause’ of menopause.
You’re not wrong about Puck’s astonishing feat of fertility, though.
let’s see…
Entering adolescence at age 12 (at the earliest)
Entering menopause at age 50 (at the latest)
50-12= 38 years
Ok, that’s close to your minimum.
At 13 menstrual cycles per year (the absolute maximum), that’s only 494 cycles. Double-ovulation each and every cycle (very rare) makes only 988 eggs available.
So far, that fits your statement above.
The only problem with your statement seems to be the idea that a human female has ‘millions of eggs’.
According to OB-GYN studies (don’t ask me which ones, it’s been a while since I read them), up to 80% of a girl’ eggs degrade and are absorbed by her body before she reaches age 12 and enters puberty/ absolesence.
The OB-GYN defines menopause as the human woman running out of eggs and thus becoming infertile/sterile (NOT losing the instinct for reproduction, just losing the ability to conceive).
I’m just going to note that this is a weird thing to argue about. Just … noting.
And I was stupid for starting it.
Sorry about that.
Must have been my addiction to trivia/information.
A lot of people have said they don’t want to play trivial pursuit with me (because I habitually read all the cards and remember them)
Colin’s mind: Captain the ship is crashing and burning as we speak
Crashing and burning with style!
If your not failing with style your not learning
Learning is essentially failing with style, unless you count the less useful kind of learning
Phoebs, that’s now how Mad Libs work. You are now obligated by the ancient magic of whatever goofy person came up with them in 1958.
It was Leonard Stern and Roger Price in 1953, nameless until 1955. See the wikipedia page at Mad Libs
Quit being racist and get that suit fitted for you!
Daphne will just have to impersonate Shaggy, and get Tyler to play the other one.
That’s just too terrifying to imagine. Colin in a Scooby suit. Terrifying.
Noone gonna mention you said s.e.b?
Anyway I do love that explanation in hitchhikers lol
All hail krikket.
I guess it’s SEP. Not SEB. I post these at night on Monday after a long day at work. I tend to not be firing on all cylinders.
I’m impressed but not surprised by Daph’s ability to wreak just revenge with a single sentence.
Teenage Sarcasm Maximum Level, with a buff for knowing Colin super well!
The younger generation is well-versed in the ‘sick burn’, as they might say.
I bet Tyler has a bone he’d love Daphne to bury.
I knew someone would go there. That someone was YOU!
Just to obvious…
I regret nothing, and everything!
???
Don’t you mean bone*?
I just couldn’t bring myself to add the “R”.
sheesh
What is Miranda gnawing on?
A game controller. Like her big sis.
Wouldn’t Daphne dressing as Scooby basically involve her walking around naked wearing nothing but a blue collar?
Tyler would love that
Well, I you wanted to be purist about it, perhaps. Though I think she might go for a less exposing option.
Don’t eat that ice cream, Phoebe! It will give you the worst headache ever! 😉
You don’t have to tell her twice.
Oh noes, Colin has no sales skills at all. He should have told Daphne she has an opportunity to portray a famous, well-beloved, clever canine. 😉
All in how you sell it, right?