Aug15
It’s a DISNEY KIND OF AUGUST!
We’ve done Disney villains before, but we’re doing more heroic characters this time. The patrons threw down some suggestions, and you’ll see the results in the coming weeks!
VOTE TO PUT THE MAGIC BACK IN THE KINGDOM!!!
As for this comic…
In a comic that probably already has too many peripheral characters, here comes a new character! Details to follow, though this one will likely stay on the periphery. The cast just can’t take any more expansion. Though now that I think about it, this is the last new recurring character I’m planning to introduce for at least the next two hundred or three hundred comics, so thank goodness for that.
I’m wondering if this is a person that Daphne grudgingly tolerates.
Likely, yes.
Very grudgingly?
Yay Emily!
People always seem glad she’s around.
Re hospital codes, everyone has heard of Code Blue (medical emergency — adult), but there are about 10 others. Code Red is “fire,” for example. The others may vary going from one province or state to another, but in some places Code Yellow means “bomb threat.”
I know ‘code white’ is a violent patient around here. That’s what I learned during the Puck pregnancy arc.
ABL: Always be learning.
Dr. Allcome.
At Sutter Hospitals in California several decades ago before mergers obliterated differences, a page for Doctor Sutter was an alert for the morgue attendants.
They could have changed the name every few years as the public cached on.
Please, you have nowhere near the cast of reoccurring characters of some webcomics.
Outside the OG cast, you’ve really don’t have that many new characters.
Look at comics like Questionable Content. So many characters, many of which become main characters in their own right.
To be fair to Jeff Jacques, he does Questionable Content for a living, so he can take the time to develop new characters into the cast.
Electric Gecko does Puck as a hobby, and has a full time job and a family. He doesn’t have the time or energy that Jeff does for his comic.
QC is also five days a week, which makes room for more character arcs in a timely fashion.
Yeah, that’s (I feel) a different style of comic. Some writers just get bored with certain characters and want to add more. For me, I like to go deeper on the existing characters because I’m very fond of them. These other characters are just introduced as foils or potential points of interaction.
Gesundheit, Fred.
Heh.
It is a Pokémon world after all. With that outfit on at least she won’t be Team Rocket…I hope.
I’d prefer Team Rocket.
Meowth is my favorite Pokemon. It’s a talking cat that acts like a talking cat!
They had lives (med school drop out, and fleeing an arranged marriage).. sorta. They found each other. Then they’re basically put on a snipe hunt for what I believe is for the purposes of keeping tabs on the boss’s kid. (People would ask questions if there were orders to stalk some kid.. but if you give the assignment to nutsy and clutzy, people presume it’s just busywork to keep them occupied). Ironically, they’d make decent heroes if things went differently for them.
I like them.
The mystery ripens further, um, into, uh, yellow?? …..
Is she about to burst into some other form?
Stay tuned readers…. nuff said.
Let’s hope that evolution isn’t in the picture.
Or that she isn’t, herself, a Pokemon in egg form.
And here I was thinking a code yellow referred to him trashing the mystery machine. However, I don’t think he’s out of the hot water yet….
Hot water is all around us. Or at least warm water. We got a water heater goin’ in this pool.
I just figured after all the weeks of Scooby Doo hijinks (or hi-jinkies, for the initiated Doosters) that you had spawned your own Velma geek who would create a little teenage triangle angst with Daphne and Tyler. Not that I bear Daphne any grudge, but a little gal-pal competition might be fun.
Nah, I hate love triangles.
For an occasional character, Emily gets a lot of voting incentive action. Not that I’m complaining. She is nice for the eyes.
Hey, she’s the only cat girl we have.
The horror, the horror!
True horror comes in forms least expected.
Ruh roh. Pokefan has breached the perimeter!
They can tunnel, I hear.
They can dig, they can cut, they can fly, they can move things.. (they can surf!) and they can… flash. (ok, it lights up caves).
I need a stone-type pokemon masquerading as a plant-type (they’ll need a watering can) or a sleeping bear-like pokemon (Snorlax, they’ll need a flute), those will block their way.
I was once like them.. I know their ways, I know their weaknesses.
If all else fails, book a cruise. They never stay on when it departs.
Or poison gas and a long cutscene-forced walk. (grumble grumble cheap-shot Elite Four).
Ban the Josephson junction!
Don’t look. Don’t engage. She might decide I’m not with this dork and I can get out of this O.K.
I will miss Colin. I knew him briefly.
Peanuts and Pogo had lots of characters and a full-time author. I’m O.K. with Puck as it is.
I could always add an ever-growing cast of poorly explored characters. There’s still time!
Disco Stu has ideas for you!
Ohhh! No, nien, nyet, non, quineg, nope!
It’s the the Demoiselle d’Ys from The King in Yellow.
Run Away, Run Away, Bravely Run Away!
Too late. She already saw you.
As you want. I’m O.K. either way.
Awesome Emily !
I like that Colin is shielding his coffee 😀
And seeing the word colour without the u made me throw up in my mouth a little 😛
My PC wouldn’t even let me type it without it XD
Changes the entire flavor of the word, oops sorry.
As a Canadian, I too like my colour with the ‘u’ intact. But seeing as this comic has a predominantly American readership, I spell that word American-style just to stop them from informing me that I spelled it wrong.
I studied French. I have no problem screwing with my fellow Americans by changing my geographical spelling rules every once in a while. Maybe, perhaps, possibly, mayhaps in the same sentence, eh?
I would never do that.
But that’s because I have problems spelling. The whole things being spelled differently in different places is a nice factoid, but doesn’t help me a lot.
Don’t spell words wrong just to humor them! Don’t convert measurements and temperatures either!
At this point, there are only three countries in the ENTIRE world have still not converted to metric: USA, Liberia, and Myanmar (and I think the reason is the last two might be US protectorate states… I should research that further before I commit.)
They can find a conversion webpage as easily as we can. Make them do it. If you keep coddling them Americans, they’ll never learn!
They’ll never learn anyway.
Then at least let them be less comfortable choosing to remain dumb. >_<
Well, If you’re looking for something a little more portable: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_RoyceGrey.Frank_Harr_s_Conversion_App&hl=en_US&gl=US&pli=1
I brackets it in curlies, a la “colo{u}r” fer Commonwealthians.
Iu thunk thu lettur U is totully underused.
I choose you, new character…
You may regret it…
I’m confused about why a wild pikachu appearing means Colin wants to cover his coffee.
I think it’s all the negative attention of her arrival has generated.
Just best to be on the safe side.
Honestly that confused me to. It looks a bit amusing, but I don’t understand the motivation for the action.
Radioactive fallout.
Cover your cup.
“If Daria (from her self-named cartoon series) were into Pokemon”, I guess.
Pretty much.
Can she be Emily’s embarrassing sister? 😉
I doubt it. They don’t really look anything alike.
A more plausible debate that’s popped up periodically is to do with the speculation that Emily is one of Tracee’s many sisters. Because Emily and Tracee DO look alike. Emily is basically just a stretched-out Tracee. This could have something to do with my limited drawing skills and penchant for just reusing character design elements, but could it also hint at a familial tie?
I dunno. Haven’t decided yet.
Dose Emily have a spray tan?
See, that’s the thing. We initially established that Tracee is NOT naturally that color and uses spray tans. With Emily, though, my intention was that she has a naturally darker complexion. So that makes the familial element a little less plausible.
I guess she could be a sister by another mister.
That could happen. Or cousin. There are all sorts of way for people to be related