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As for this comic…
For those of you who were wondering where Phoebe was in the last comic, here’s your answer: she was hiding off-panel just to make this joke work.
A big thanks to everyone who commented last week, letting me know that you don’t think this story arc is driving the comic off a cliff. People were very reassuring, and that was helpful. And as it is, we’re getting closer to the home stretch in this story. We’ve still got a ways to go, but the end is in sight. I think.
Probably for their own good. The second you get romantic you’re target #1 for any monster or killer.. or Jason.
That really is a weird element of the horror genre: the fact that they function on some level as bizarrely regressive morality plays with a positively medieval concept of sin and virtue.
It’s due to the fact that R-rated horror movies have two main draws, sex and gore. To keep things from getting too monotonous, scenes involving one or the other tend to alternate, which drives the plot to be sex, die, sex, die, repeat.
A winning formula.
Makes sense in that weird way. Your top targets for a horror monster are fears of that archaic mindset: horny teens (sex) someone with a working phone (technology) or.. let’s face it, darker skin (the other).
Violence, of course, is perfectly acceptable.
“In a weird way” being the key part.
But another rule is thst virgins always live.
So I’ve been told.
Shaggy’s supposed to be the cowardly one, not Velma.
We’re getting EVERYTHING wrong here!
Phoebe can’t play Shaggy. She’s got a job and Daphne’d be frightfully annoyed.
That’s Satan’s daughter everyone!
… Not that I’m sure this version of Satan would fare any better in the creepy dark…
I do love the moment of sweetness between the teens. Tyler proving he has a silver tongue, and Daphne proving that he his her weakness.
Phoebe is a terrible hell-spawn, for sure. And yeah, Tyler don’t talk much, but he’s shown he knows how to.
I see what you did there… and I approve. please do more.
I’m not sure I saw what I did there!
Double meaning to “terrible hell-spawn”. It could be read that she is not an ordinary hell-spawn, but extra-“terrible” too.
Or that she is a rather poor example of a hell-spawn. I suspect the latter…
Oh. That. Yeah. I’m a genius.
Tyler’s priorities are suspect.
He’s a teenage male. All teen male priorities are suspect.
I remember when Star Trek was very important.
Me too.
Boy, were our priorities suspect.
I should have learned how to dance.
That was either a L-5 C-Block or a L-9 Moment Killer.
Can it be both?
Awww, panel 2 is lovely – worthy of a voting bonus, I reckon.
I like drawing tender moments of affection. It happens infrequently in this comic, but it’s fun to draw them when they do arise.
Yeah, it really is. And its kind of weird to see Daphne in this bit of happy-cuddly sweetness. Didn’t figure her for a romantic sort.
It’s always the ones you least suspect!
You and me both, Tyler.
Readers and characters unite!
There’s a possibility, but I don’t think Phoebe and Daphne would go for it. Much less Scooby and Velma.
Uhm, no. Unlikely.
But it must have crossed Tyler’s mind nevertheless!
Must it have? I don’t think he’s there yet in his scope of perception.
scope of perception?
he’d have to be functionally blind to ignore Phoebe most of the time.
thankfully, Daphne (and a VERY healthy dose of self-preservation instinct) keeps is line of sight directed elsewhere.
Exactly.
I just thought Pheobe was hiding in the van.
Trying her hardest to NOT pee in fright.
Now she’s stuck in Dark Creepy woods, and I highly doubt that she has the same laissez-faire attitude of relieving onesself behind a tree as is Puck.
I believe Satan would fare pretty well here. He would, after all, be concealed in shadows EVEN MOAR, he has successfully single-handedly fought off a horde of vicious monkey-bears, and is the Prince of Darkness after all.
Yeah, Satan would be just fine. His daughter, not so much!
It’s almost as if she didn’t see in dark! … on second though, maybe she DOES see in dark and THATs why she’s scared.
Who would have taken Phoebe for a C-Blocker.
It’s always the ones you least suspect.
Home stretch? It’s just reassuring to see that while some Canadian teens have trouble getting to first base, much less a home run.
INCONCEIVABLE
Well, it’s all relative. At this stage of the game, second base is likely where the run ends. The game is still in early development.
But Daphne’s a very agresive runner.
On the other hand, her costume would likely be hard to slip out off quickly …
Puck is looking her best! Let’s have some birch beer to celebrate! 🙂
Birch beer? What are we, hippies?
Ooh, she likes him, excellent work on the body language 🙂
I do try.
As my mother tells me often…
“Yes, you’re trying… very trying”
It’s good to have various creepinesses ranked and categorized.
Come, now. Other people feel fear.
Do they?
I do.
I’m with Phoebe – dark creepy is the worst form of creepy because you can’t see and deal with what is creepying.
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Our young couple OTOH have reason to regard Dark Creepy as an excuse to move more closely together – so not necessarily bad?
Not necessarily bad. Hence the success of the horror movie genre for date nights.
I’m almost afraid to comment on this one… What does it say about me that I find Shaggy hitting on Scooby FAR less disturbing than Velma getting freaked out because it’s dark…
It means you know your Scooby-Doo.
Well, if this were the ACTUAL scoobies, having Velma freaked out about ANYTHING would be a sign you should vacate the premises FAST,FAST,FAST!!!
With this Velma, not so much.
Not really at all, truthfully.
This is a very alternate Scooby reality.
Well, we know where and who The Dougie will probably go for first . . . . . . . . . shame. Just when he was making a name for himself, he met the Scoobies of Canada.
Tragic, really.
Re: Vote Insentive.
How does Phoebe DO that with clothes? Not complaining, just mistified.
Also, the last one: Great one of Puck. I can tell you put some care into it.
I don’t know how the clothes work. I only draw ‘em.
And the pic of Puck actually reused a bunch of elements I had just lying around from a previous project. The birth trees were old, and the wings were old, so … yeah. I’m lazy.
Phoebe shouldn’t blame herself for bad drivers. Her c0ntribution to environmental beautification is her civic duty.
That’s a way to look at it.
That’s the gentlemanly way to look at it.
Do your characters have last names?
Puck (and Daphne) = Goodfellow
Colin (and Miranda) = MacTavish
Tracee = Topaz (may not be her real surname)
Tyler = Goldberg
Phoebe = ??? (It was listed as ‘Beelzebub’ on my old site but I don’t like that very much now, so I’m going to say it’s a mystery.)
What is the most generic Canadian surname there is? I’m asking because I doubt he ever really had one and when he deeded it wasn’t very creative.
Most Canadian surname? Likely something Scottish. Lots of Scots settled up here. But Canada is very regional. Each province likely has different ones.
O.K., it has to be at least nominally humorous. I don’t know if that rules southern Ontario out or not, but don’t be afraid to look into places that might seem a little goofy but then Phobe could say “It seemed like a nice place to dad at the time”.
If it were the U.S., you could just say “Smith” and everyone would understand the reference even though not that many people are actually NAMED smith.
Same in Canada. Smith holds the same status. And there are a fair number of them too.
They need to tell each other some jokes. That will reduce the creepiness factor.
And the comic just devolves into many weeks of successive knock knock jokes. Back and forth, one joke per week.