NEW VOTING INCENTIVE! IT’S FINALLY HERE!!!
Just in time for Christmas, we wrapped up a little something for you! It’s holly! It’s jolly! So…
VOTE TO FIND YOUR PRESENT UNDER THE TREE!!!
As for this comic…
Hard to do a jump scare in a strip comic. But that doesn’t stop me from trying.
I enjoy opportunities like the one this particular comic affords: opportunities to extend outside my usual style. I know it doesn’t look like it, but I do love highly detailed comic work from the 90’s, and I have a love of classic horror comics too that stems from my childhood. They always used their black so effectively to create lighting effects that seemed impossible with the simple print technologies of the time. Trying to channel just a little bit of that here.
Good thing they went before they left.
Did they? I’m not so sure. They’ve also been stranded all day.
It wouldn’t have been the tiniest of poopies, then.
At any rate, thank you for telling not showing.
It’s a narrative sin. But sometimes it’s a virtue.
Oh, boy is it!
oy vey, they goofed.
Real distress calls for Yiddish.
Why, Miranda, how you’ve grown! And what big teeth you have!
Just add water.
And fur.
I KNEW she was part Mogwai! Also.. nobody ever said what time zone “after midnight” was relative to.
Always midnight somewhere.
Also, when does “after midnight” end? How long do you have to wait until it’s safe to feed them again? These are important details!
That’s what you get for chasing after the ship’s cat- err, your child.
Same diff.
Lol, I take it you didn’t want to draw a fourth panel? Can every punchline be a silent film intertitle now? It’s everything I never knew I wanted from this comic.
Well, I couldn’t come up with a better fourth panel idea. And when the lazy option is also the funniest option I can come up with, you bet I’m going for it!
Where on Earth is Emily’s tail in the votey coming from? I don’t see anything it could be tied to…
Super glue?
It’s funny that you assume it’s part of a costume, and not an actual appendage…
Well, it has not yet been proven otherwise.
That thing scared Puck so bad, her hair spontaneously braided itself.
Well, more a tightening of the natural curls? Perhaps?
I see it as analogous to a portion of our anatomy that “puckers” in such situations… lol
You have to read the final panel. It says that relaxed instead.
Well, sometimes the pucker serves to poip out a tiny cap.
Wise.
“Are you two looking for this? [ Holds up a little girl dressed as Scrappy-do ] She was trying to eat some of my food.”
Either that or the kid wandered back to Phoebe at the van that is gently moving from side to side. When we look inside, we find Daphne and Tyler violently smashing things on their phones while sitting in their seats. They are kind of waving their phones all over the place. It turns out Tyler activated a hot spot on his phone and they are networked together to play the same game.
This is better than what actually will happen.
Depending on the design of their “pants”, one would think that Colin, wearing trousers, may be better equipped to “hide” the output products of fear than Robin, who is wearing a mini-dress. If she’s wearing “butt-floss” for “pants”, it -could- get messy. This is ONE situation where Colin has an advantage… lol
Has Puck EVER been the type of woman to wear “butt-floss”? Nah, we’ve established already that Puck’s garment selections down there are fairly prosaic.
Of course, I just had a thought of Colin wearing old-fashioned boxers, and the fact that they are not exactly…water-tight…
But knowing Colin, he’s a “boxer brief” guy. The kind who can’t make up his mind if he wants boxers or briefs. Or, simply the kind of guy who can’t make up his mind in the first place.
Unsure. He wears boxers to bed. Maybe boxers? Hard to say.
The classic fight or flight response, voiding all unnecessary weight . . . which really doesn’t help matters. Somebody fire the design department, because really, when that response comes into play, matters are bad enough without adding more! Now come on, it would make more sense to transmute waste into adrenaline and muscle! But noooooooooo, SOMEBODY just HAD to be a stinker!
Evolution didn’t factor in underwear or fighting pants that aren’t brown. I suspect the ones that developed this response survived to reproduce because they didn’t want to be caught dead having messed their pants, so they ran really fast.
Plausible. It’s bad enough to be dead, but to be dead knowing what people who find your body will talk about . . .
Well, it’s also gross. So that’s a form of distraction? I think?
Ask a stink bug.
Also, I believe it was in the comments section of this comic that I wondered why there were never any rom-coms in which it’s the male who is the wayward one, and the female the uptight one. No, it’s always David Huxley and Susan Vance . . . only there is at least one. Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli in Arthur. Not that she was uptight, much, but Moore’s character, definitely wayward. There, now you know.
It was. Indeed.
My money’s also on Miranda wandered back to the van.
As for that.. that’s not the Dougie, that’s just Sasquatch. False alarm, people.
Maybe the Dougie IS Sasquatch?
Miranda got bug in a hurty.
The best bugs are in a hurty. 😉
But yeah, big in a hurry. Like those Xenomorphs. I always had that issue with them: like, where did all the mass come from in the first movie? It’d make sense if it ate someone but it never did!
Plus, they had a flerken all the time, but did anybody ask him for help? Sigh. Some people!
I have to say that the monster reminds me of a monster in one of the Bugs Bunny shorts.
Yeah, he goes by many names but the most common one now is ‘Gossamer’. And the resemblance is definitely there.
In my head, Panel 4 was spoken by the narrator of Rocky+Bullwinkle, which is logical because he also did Dudley Do-Right.
It’s a SILENT MOVIE! No narrator! Though if we had to choose one, that would work.
Well, so long as it was tiny. As the old saying goes, first you say it, then you do it.
I’ve been away. Flying to Tennessee. I hope everyone’s O.K.`
“Flying to Tennessee” sounds like a roots rock song. Might already be, I’m sure.
One can hope. It certainly should be.
I’m from New York, so I couldn’t write it.
Honestly, I’d be kicking six pounds worth down my trouser leg in a situation like that.
That’s a healthy quantity. You must eat a lot of fibre.
I always carry some TP with me, just in case this happens! 😉
Smart man.