This week’s Puck is brought to you by Bill Taylor, creator of TRIPP. If you don’t already read Tripp, you should. Right now. This comic, by the way, is all him. He wrote it, drew it, everything. Managed to get it working right with the continuity, even though he created it almost half a year ago. Bill Taylor is a comic-making machine, let me tell you.
The joke’s a pretty accurate play on my actual situation. Powers beyond my control have forced me for professional reasons to take three ‘additional qualification’ courses back to back. These courses have been eating up about twenty hours of my time a week, in addition to my full-time job and the comic. At long last they’re finally over. I submitted the major assignment for the third course on Sunday, and I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Bill’s generous offer to do a guest comic allowed me to get that final beast of a paper finished. So thanks for doing me a solid, Bill.
There’s so much to love in this strip here. It’s the little details he gets right, like the Puck rage face, and the red halo of fury. He’s managed to hit that awkward place between cute and frightening where Puck normally resides. He’s good.
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I was hoping for a ministry of magic Time Turner.
Is that led by the Tina “Time Forgot” Turner?
Master Blaster run Bartertown.
Two men enter! One man leave!
Man, I could so use one of those things.
Besides, he’s had practice with Coco lately as well.
True. Coco is cute and scary. One of the scariest, actually.
I like Cassie’s time machine from Times Like This. She has been using it for time management for quite some time.
I hate to say this, but as bad as he’s been at it, he’s not getting into the 101 classes. He’ll be stuck taking the dead end 090 instead. =1
I didn’t even know it got more basic than 101. News to me.
Excellent!!!
She’s there telling him he doesn’t have time to do what he needs to and it turns out he wants to take a course on managing time.
What a responsible guy.
Women are like that; They want all the reward, but none of the work.
At least all 3 of my exes were like that. They wanted the yacht, but not the 100 hour work weeks to earn it.
Strikeforce Morituri Puck and company would make a great Puck guest strip.
That would require extensive knowledge of characters from an extremely rare and expensive comic book series. Yes, people are selling them for dirt cheap on multiple sites, and that’s an indication of the quality, I think.
And honestly? From what I read up on your favored comic series, it looks like the “out there” aspects of the DC universe from the 70s and beyond. So it’s not all the original either. The plot of the book is laughable, and it epitomizes all the negative stereotypes that are associated with comic books in the 1980s and 1990s.
And let’s not forget that Peter B. Gillis, the writer of this comic you keep mentioning, has only had 1 comic book job since 1989.
And Gecko, please don’t delete this. I want him to see that he’s not going to popularize his extremely rare comic series, and to get him to focus on YOUR work, just like the rest of us.
One question, are you sure that this is the same guy that you seem to be harping about, and not some nom de gurre dopelganger?
All that I said is that the comic book series that this guy keeps going on about is so obscure that the only way he’d see what he wants is for him to do it himself.
So, H.A..
Do you like that comic?
Liking or disliking has nothing to do with what I said. All that I said is that the comic book series that this guy keeps going on about is so obscure that the only way he’d see what he wants is for him to do it himself.
Thought the art style looked familiar…
Because it is!
Tripp grew a beard? Where am I? :?)
And Proxy got freckles.
Strip looks great! You left this week’s in very capable hands, E.G.!
I’m lucky that capable hands offered. Very, very lucky.
Was happy to do it, mate. It’s all about good people and good karma. Glad I could help out and that you are done with your courses. That’s quite a workload.
Well, I’m trying to funnel the attention your way. Hope it works!
Worked on me, read the whole bloody comic in like one or 2 days. And loved it.
I try to only recommend really amazing comics. Tripp’s one of those. And I’m glad you took me up on the recommendation!
Click the link to pay, it deducts the money from your account, and you are automatically redirected to a page with ‘YOU FAIL’ emblazoned upon it.
Uh, what link?
Uhm, the obamacare link?
He must be commenting on an ad that only he sees.
The Time Management 101 link… Some people have no imagination.
Yeah you need it man we all need to manage our schedules!!
Dude, I haven’t felt boredom in so long. Every minute of every day is accounted for!
In Soviet Russia time manages YOU!
That is all.
Proper.
Reminds me of the week we had twins (on top of two already existing) and I started a full time MBA on top of full time work.
Puck in frame 3 reminds me of my wife that week.
Bill injected some verisimilitude into this, that’s for sure.
The Colonel retired recently. Time mgmt consists of getting to the liquor store before it closes.
That’s a real, meaningful deadline.
@CC
There are worse plans….