Apr14
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And as for the comic…
One word:
Ew.
Looks like this stay won’t last a “few weeks.” Heck, it looks like Phoebe and Daphne might return home before Colin’s parents get there, let alone leave.
The “God Sucks” embroidery in the background is hilarious. It’s just what he would have in his place.
This stay will last just long enough for it to end in disaster. That much I can say. And I felt strongly that Satan would have a folksy cross stitch sampler in his home. It just felt right.
A new one would probably be a really good idea.
Well, the stain might come out if you use vinegar and holy water.
Yeah, but would the Prince of Darkness really have any of that on hand?
No, most definitely not.
Seriously. Why would he have vinegar in his house? 🙂
She’s complaining… about the devil… doing something wrong.
…
*facepalm*
Weeell… there is plain old wrong, and then there is crongpy.
Phoebe looks so adorable in this comic – phoeborable!
Thanks. Some girls are cute when they’re indignant. Phoebe’s one of those.
Phoebe is by far my favorite character in this comic. She is adorable. I wish I had her for a friend.
She’s a bizarre combo of personality traits, but she’s lovable. I’m glad to hear someone else thinks so too!
Let’s face it, it’s Phoebe. Common sense doesn’t really apply to her.
Phoebe only possesses fashion sense, not common sense. They’re related to each other but distinctly separate.
Now we see why Phoebe doesn’t live with her dad on a regular basis.
??? I very much doubt this is WHY she doesn’t live with him. Otherwise, she would have known this sort of thing happens.
More likely, this happens BECAUSE she doesn’t live with him.
I used to ask “What’s so common about ‘common sense’?”, but stopped when somebody from the UK finally answered it.
I think you’re onto something with that theory. Maybe it’s a bit of column A and a bit of column B.
Phoebe has a degree of cognitive dissonance in regard to her daddy… or “rose-coloured glasses” if you prefer. Past strips have shown her defending him by insisting he’s “not that bad” or “just has a bad reputation”.
Thus, comedy.
Cognitive dissonance. Never heard it better described.
I showed this strip to my girlfriend (first Puck comic she ever read, I might add).
“Why is that person completely purple in his face?” she asked. “That’s Satan. He’s supposed to have a hidden face,” I replied. “But if he has a hidden face, how do you know it’s Satan?”
“…Because the creator says it’s Satan?”
“…What about that girl he’s talking to, then?”
“Phoebe, you mean? That’s his daughter.”
“…Satan has a daughter?”
“Yes…? She’s a bit of an airhead.”
“…I love this comic.”
Good job EG, you got yourself a new fan for making Satan have an airhead daughter.
As for my personal thoughts:
…It’s Phoebe. I’m not really surprised at her complaining about Satan.
Crongpy is now officially a word. Seriously.
The dialogue you just detailed is (I think) a map of standard thought patterns for many people who encounter Puck for the first time. But for 90% of them, replace the words “I love this comic,” with “I’m going to stop reading now.”
I’m surprised that he mentions that he has a girlfriend. A little Kung Pow in the dialogue there, aren’t we Gecko?
Maybe it’s just shadow from the cartoon balloons.
It’s the shadow of God’s disapproval which follows him everywhere. Or the shadow of the word bubble. Either one works.
Who gave Satan the “World’s Best Boss” mug?
I think he bought it for himself. Like Michael from The Office. Only in this case, I think the title is even MORE inaccurate.
Lemme get this straight.
Satan, one of the oldest creatures in existence and the definition of evil, happens to be a #$%^#$%^ in Puck (ie, Phoebe is upset that he’s a few thousand years older than her friend that he’s %$^&ing)
Phoebe should be seriously grateful he isn’t tapping the home team. To be honest. incest is in his wheelhouse as top scumbag.
Also, I’m pretty sure he bought the ‘world’s greatest boss’ cup himself.
Satan doesn’t go in for SUPER creepy things here. He’s more of a minor-level creep. Really, he’s not a very good (or bad) Prince of Darkness.
seriously drawing that drgon every frame for weeks must be a bitch.
I, uhm … don’t … draw it. I drew it once, a few weeks ago, then clip it into the shirt every time it’s needed. I do that with all of Daphne’s shirts and all of Puck’s tartans. It’s the only way I survive.
impressed. i was looking at the diff positions and assumed some of it was re drawn weekly
I sometimes warp the images (or crop them) to work with the pose or angle. So there’s some tinkering with each shot, but it’s the same vector.
In his own diabolical way, a thoughtful dad.
Exactly. He’s considerate within his own somewhat problematic framework.
I honestly don’t see what the big deal is. She’s legal, smart enough to make her own decisions, and willing. Hell, I’d tap someone young enough to be my own daughter if she fell into that category.
Well, no, there’s nothing technically wrong in a legal sense with this scenario. Tracee’s probably in her late twenties, so legal. He’s her boss, but that’s legal. She’s a sorta-friend of his daughter, but again, legally upright. Come to think it, ALL SORTS of really nasty things are totally 100% legal! (Doesn’t make it any less icky, but hey.)
Being able to say that puts you into the “old enough to be a grandparent” group, because any younger, “tapping someone young enough to be my own daughter” would be highly illegal. 😛
I think he was talking hypothetically. But then again, he might also just be old.
I’m just going by the math, Gecko. Depending on your age and the age of consent in your country, you’d have to have sired/given birth at a certain age in order to “tap someone old enough to be your daughter/son”.
For me, I’d have to have been 13 in my country to have a kid at the age of consent, 16 in yours. Which is insane, hence why I said “old enough to be your grandparent”, because at least your kids are over the age of consent in that age group. 😛
You do crongpy math.
Yeah, a bit. And I also made a mistake; it is 15 I’d have to have be in your country, not 16, since your country’s age of consent is two years younger than mine, not three.
The only reason I did the math is because my younger brother has kids in grade school, and I’m three years older than him, which means that any kids that I could have been able to have would be in grade school.
And it’s not all that “crongpy”, since I only do the math to avoid the “crongpy” aspect when I’m actually looking.
Actually, I’m nearly forty. Still, she’s in her twenties, and like I said, she’s smart enough to know what she wants, and she’s strong and determined enough to go after it. She’s a strong, independent woman, so who cares if she’s with someone older? By portraying him as a predator, you devalue her and paint her as too feeble to be anything but a victim.
Oh, Tracee is certainly not a victim by any stretch of the imagination. They’re a pretty good match, really: they’re both morally questionable and have a taste for the finer things in life. So really, there’s probably more right to this relationship than wrong. Or alternately, you can say there’s a whole lot of wrong here, which sort of makes a right. I dunno.
Interesting on how much difference a decade makes in “making it creepy” isn’t it? Me, I’m 31, and I’m only old enough to have kids in grade school. You, Jesse, are old enough to have kids in high school and slightly older, which is not disturbing in the slightest.
And none of what I said has anything to do with the comic; I was talking about our ages and the age of consent. Like you said, if she’s over the age of consent, what does the age difference matter?
Wont somebody think of the bathrobes!
Jesse, with what happened to that bathrobe, you’ll always be wrong!!1!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks it’s crongpy.
Of course Satan would have God Sucks on his wall after all God kicked him out of Heaven.
God hasn’t given him many reasons to be positive. (Mind you, Satan hasn’t given God many reasons to give him reasons to be positive.)
I love how Daphne is the daughter of Satan and is trying to convey he’s doing something morally wrong.
It’s very witty.
Very witty … or very silly, depending on your perspective! You get the idea that this sort of discussion happens a lot between these two.
LOL only creepy thing about him having relations with Tracee is allowing her to wear his daughter’s robe I guess…that might be a little uncomfortable for me.
Of course looking at it from a kid’s perspective, I guess I see her point…
But it’s TRACEE! 😀
Y’know, E. I’m really loving how suggestive Phoebe’s dragon outfit looks. HOT.
Maybe you should start a clothing line…PhoebeWear! With these designs, I’m sure that you can make a profit.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, though I think that there’s a rule in the fashion world stating that women’s clothing can and should NEVER be designed by hetero guys over the age of thirty. It’s written down somewhere, trust me.
How about having Phoebe’s mother come for a surprise visit and catch her father and Tracee in the act.
Not going to happen, though we’ll hear more about Phoebe’s mom in coming comics.
What’s does Phoebe’s mother look like and whats her name?
I wonder what the Nostalgia Critic would say about Puck.
I’d be afraid to find out. Though I do love me some Nostalgia Critic.
Linkara would be more likely to review Puck, since he’s the comics guy. 🙂
Well, Linkara has an active policy not to review webcomics and I stand behind that. As he says, webcomics are mostly amateur creators who spend their spare time making comics for little to no monetary compensation. They’re not, in his view, professional artists or writers, and so he doesn’t view them as fair targets for attack.
I’m totally in agreement with him on that. I periodically see ‘reviewers’ who make a sport of trashing webcomics, but I always feel like saying “Really, dude? Does it make you feel good to totally shatter the confidence of some seventeen year-old kid who’s developing her skills? Really?” Some of those critics say “Yeah, but how can consumers know what’s good and what’s not?” And the answer is that IT’S ALL F#$$ING FREE. You don’t part with fifteen bucks to try it out, so who cares? Promote good webcomics by, oh, I dunno … PROMOTING GOOD WEBCOMICS?!? Trashing the less impressive webcomics is just mean, I feel.
Puck’s been tarred and feathered before by these types. But there have been lots of really wonderful reviewers out there who have given glowing reviews of Puck, and I’m very grateful for that.
Considering that Linkara is a former webcomic writer/artist himself, I’d call that hypocrisy.
I’m not even joking about that. Look up “Lightbringer”. All written by Lewis Lovhaug, and drawn by him as well for the first several “issues” of it. And the best part? He was still doing Lightbringer up to 2012, while doing Atop the 4th Wall!
Seems he’s a bit self hating in that respect, doesn’t it? Even more so, when you consider that he considers himself a professional enough a writer to write a movie, and the crappy skits he does in his reviews…
I wouldn’t call it hypocrisy. For me, Linkara can do no wrong. Though I do tend to skip over some of the skits at times.
You know, this actually makes me curious as to what sort of person Phoebe’s mom is. If she survived marriage to the Devil, that is.
Let’s put it this way: I think Satan likely got the raw end of the deal in that marriage. But we’ll hear more about Phoebe’s mom soonish.
I wonder how they met in the first place.
I wish the voting incentive pics had more freckles. I recall from the storyline where Puck was naked the spots when all the way down. This is a faint dusting by comparison.
The freckles vary in their number depending upon how much time and energy I have, alas.
Indeed, alas.
Hmmnnn….
Purple Head and Caucasian Hands. Weird.
Is Satan, like, SPOTTED or something ?
Only Tracee knows for sure !
(snicker)
The purple is the eternal darkness of damnation. It follows him everywhere. Though it didn’t show up when he was knocked unconscious. Weird.
“Eww” was my exact response as well! That being said keep up the phenomenal work! I especially ejoy the little details like the dragon wrapped around Phoebe’s outfit!
Thanks. I spent way too much time generating the vector for that dragon. But it was fun. I sometimes get lost in those goofy little details.
Ol’Scratch: “Sweetheart, expecting me to date my own age is unreasonable. I pre-date Christianity. Do you know how hard it is to FIND anything female within my age category? Certain ancient trees, maybe, but even those are pretty hard to have sex with.”
(Pauses to sip coffee.)
“…Not impossible, mind you, but pretty hard to–”
Pheobe: “STOP! stop. No details!
Such terror. Such resounding terror.