So this is it: the final farewell of the original run. For this occasion, I managed to pull some strings with the head editor (Chris Watson, the guy who was the basis for Phoebe’s date), and he got me a full colour page – pretty nice, considering the fact that if you wanted to purchase a full-colour page in the newspaper, it cost you many thousands of dollars.
Those who’ve been reading since the beginning of the series will note that I’ve brought it right back to where it started: Puck watching soaps. I thought it was a nice little coda. And in a Shakespearean turn of events, Phoebe (the proverbial and lovable fool) ends up offering the greatest tidbit of wisdom. It’s an “awww” moment – kind of cheesy, but sincere on my end. You’ll note that I also finished off on a high note by giving the public what it asked for: Phoebe in a bikini.
If this were the final word from Puck, it would have been a fine final word. Of course, it wasn’t…
LOL IT TOOK ME LIKE FOVE MINUTES OF STARING TO NOTICE SATAN, HIS SERVANT, AND HOTDOG GUY! O.O
I love them xD they’re so cool
They’re in there. Just … in the background.
Gee… I WONDER what dominated your attention in the foreground? LOL
Took this strip as an opportunity to look over your old page and between the appearance of Satan and the Hotdog guy being next to each other here and on that one page makes me think the Hotdog guy might be god incognito.
You might be onto something there…
Aw man. I wish I had done like you did back then. You built yourself a solid base on which to make a cool webcomic. 🙂
Well, I’m not sure it’s a solid base. More like a shaky, poorly drawn base.
Bull! I read up to this point all in the same day. You have good characters who interact well. If, occasionally, the art is somewhat flawed, that is only a minor blemish. Please recognise that you have also done a lot right.
Aw shucks. Thanks for the vote of confidence! I’m glad that the characters work, and honestly, that’s why I decided to continue this comic. Even though the art was shaky, people (and I) seemed to like the characters. I’m glad the reading experience was solid for you on these early comics.
Seconded! I read these 80 strips with one night of sleep interrupting me. It is indeed a solid base for a comic and @Gene is spot on that the goodness lies in the characters and how they interact with each other. I’ve seen great comics start from way shakier beginnings.
And this is a very, very good ending page. Phoebe is spot on about the value of university studies and that she is the one to recognise it also rings very true. Puck might find later the usefulness of a large amount of separately useless pieces of knowledge. Well done!
Hey, Phloebles has “Morton’s Toe.”
@Susan: Phoebe has ‘badly drawn toe’ here. We can’t determine anything from these hastily drawn and shakily inked images. Even the coloring is weird. Puck, Colin and Phoebe appear to be close to the color of new-fallen snow, and Tyler (then Taylor) appears … greenish? Hoo boy.
Phoebe’s toes in later images are not as weird, though they rarely appear in the comic proper. At least according to the Puck Foot Wiki. Which, strangely enough, is an actual thing.
@O8h7w: Well, I’m glad the somewhat questionable drawings and the total lack of color didn’t ruin your experience. I still do like these old strips, even if they pain me to look at.
I wasn’t making fun, here, truly I wasn’t. Most of the ancient reek statues and their Roman copies have brachymetatarsia like that. Both the Venus de Milo and the Venus of the Tresses have feet like that. Apparently, the Greeks, with their subtle aesthetic, decided that foot was prettier than the standard foot. I guess for the same reason they drew the nose taking off straight from the forehead. I know one person whose nose does that, and he is Jewish!
I didn’t take it as you making fun. I’m just honestly saying that the drawing here is dodgy and you can’t ascertain anything about Phoebe anatomy from that. I have, however, assembled a quick compilation of more recently drawn Phoebe feet to you more effectively gauge her foot structure:
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But when THE KAT suggests Phoebe would be better off with HOOVES, the Kat is KrAzY.
Humans are idiots.
Morton’s Toe is GROSS.
Anyone caught with it should be executed.
OMG – We have finally left Kansas.
It took a while, I know.
EGAD!
WOO!! Finally finished The Old Ones!
I bet it didn’t take very long.