This is about as close to negativity as Phoebe ever gets right here. Her anger scale ends where Puck’s begins: at the simmering stage.
No fear: our girl Puck will actually make an appearance in her eponymous comic next week. It’s been a while.
NOT NEW VOTING INCENTIVE! PAPER DOLL PUCK – VINTAGE EASTER EDITION!!!
No new voting incentive this week, I’m afraid. People haven’t been very into these paper dolls this time around, so I think I’ll call it quits while I’m ahead. The Easter one is still up if you missed it, though!
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK!!! IT MAY OR MAY NOT EARN YOU A STUFFED BEAR!
Puck’s getting better and better keep up the good work.
Thanks, man.
Nice punchline. I keep forgetting Phoebe has a tail.
I’m pretty sure that I’ve forgotten that Phoebe has a tail too for one or two drawings somewhere in the mix. I’m actually kind of confused that Daphne doesn’t have a tail, but when I restarted the comic, I went back to the original character design and … no tail. The only thing weirder than my own thought processes are the thought processes of my brain over fifteen years ago.
Does her tail actually do anything?
Like, can she pick crap up from the floor without having to bend down?
Never established. Maybe? Mostly it just waves around and does nothing.
Phoebe’s Tail is HOT !
That makes it far from useless.
I’m glad we’re on the same page here.
I don’t like that smug Tracee smile in the first panel. It does not bode well for the future.
She’s a girl who got plans. Big plans. Evil plans. Satan would approve. Phoebe would not.
Babies are the most efficient of vomit comets!
They can be very useful as weapons against people you don’t like.
Babies and newly minted 21 year olds on their first night of alcoholic exploitation by their friends.
Hell, I heard one tale where one guy projectile vomited across 15 – 20 yards. And that was on his 21st birthday.
That sort of projectile vomiting really does exist. My wife actually has a very twitchy stomach and she used to do the ‘across the room’ barf when she was a kid. She stopped that. Which was good.
And that is how they reliazed that living with a newborn baby and it’s parents was not the worst accomodation they could have…
“Rather the Devil you know”, then the father you did not knew quite as well.
Or something like “Better the devil you know than the devil you constantly and give the benefit of the doubt to despite his overly dubious track record.”
“I bet you could borrow Puck’s baby for that”.
I find it…. Somewhat amusing she refers to Miranda as ‘Puck’s baby’ rather than by name. I dunno, might just be me.
As for Tracee’s smug grin in panel 1…
“SOMETHING bad is probably happening. In fact, it’ll most likely happen soon” went through my head when I saw it.
…Either I’m paranoid or… No wait, it’s Tracee. Nevermind it.
I don’t know, but I find it hard to apply first names to babies who are little more than a foot long and do nothing but sleep, cry and eat. They are primal beings, and referring to them as “William” or “Agatha” just seems weird to me.
And yeah, it’s Tracee. Bad stuff imminent.
She doesn’t just “sleep, cry and eat”. She vomits, too… very too.
There’ also emissions from the other end of her torso. Both liquid and worse.
True enough.
I suppose she sees Tracee as replacing her mother in her dad’s affections. Come to think of it, who is her mother? (Did I miss something buried in the continuity again?)
You’ll find out a lot more about Phoebe’s mother soon. But no, Satan and Phoebe’s mom are no longer married. She’s been out of the picture for a while and is happily on another marriage. But yeah, Phoebe’s a little anxious about the whole thing on an emotional level.
Sure they’re not married now? Thought this might be the kind of thing where Satan cheats on his wife…he just seems that kind of guy.
Satan gets married? Unholy matrimony?
Likely officiated by someone like Alice Cooper.
Can’t agree with you there. Alice Cooper, while awesome is the exact opposite of someone who would conduct these ceremonies. He’s up there with old man wholesomeness with Henry Winkler interestingly enough.
True enough.
I may be getting my webcomics mixed here, but wasn’t it mentioned once her mother was a succubus and Satan truly enjoyed the ‘draining’ feeling he got with here.
I bet it was really ‘filling’ for her.
You’re getting your comics confused here, because never once was Phoebe’s mom mentioned to be a succubus, except by a fan who figured this was the reason for Phoebe’s looks. We’ve never seen anything about her mom in the comic or from Gecko.
I’ve actually come out and revealed Phoebe’s mom’s identity to people in the comments section before, but I don’t know when or on what comic. If you read every comment on every comic, you might find out who Phoebe’s mom is. Then again, it might be on the Smackjeeves mirror. Or on dA. Better yet, just wait a few weeks until it’s revealed in-comic.
Having powered through the archive over the past week or so, I remember comments that she is out of the picture and probably dead, but nothing about her profession. Sounds like she’s no longer dead. Definitely no mention of her being a demon and a few comments that she’s human.
No mention of her in strip at all, so no canon established at this point.
She’s alive. And human. Or was human at some point in time.
We’ll find out more about her in about three weeks or so.
Yeah, that’s another comic. Phoebe’s mother is human. Sort of.
Ummm, what is Tracee pushing in panel 1? Could she be practicing for… a stroller!? A pram?! A BABY carriage!!!!?
No more babies! Nah, she’s pushing around a big cart full of liquor. Or a dead body in a shopping cart. Or something sinful like that. Or I drew her arms a weird angle. One of the above options.
well, if you had turned her left hand around so the palm was toward the back… “SMACK”!!
OR……
Some of us remember an old Burger King slogan: “It takes two hands to handle a Whopper”.
Oopsie. This is a “Family-Oriented Comic”.
Apologies.
Is it? I think I’m writing the wrong comic then.
I really dig the paper doll incentives, I hope that you can bring it back at various points.
I might. Though the current craze is paper TOY stuff, so I might need to so some of those at some point in time.
Aw, come on, Phoebes. Satan is literally older than dirt, before the Creation. How’s he gonna get a human chick in that age bracket. But I get you. It’s her parent. Any sex interest would be resented. Lord knows I resent my own’s little amours.
Has anybody commented that Tracee is “The pretty little girl with a pretty little girl, right in the middle of her forehead?”
No, no one has commented on that, though I’m not sure I follow the logic.
I think you meant “pretty little girl with a pretty little curl”, and the last time I heard that was in a Looney Tunes cartoon.
Oh. That I get.
“There was a little girl, / Who had a little curl, / Right in the middle of her forehead. / When she was good, /She was very good indeed, / But when she was bad she was horrid.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(Yes, I copied and pasted.)
Let’s pretend it’s an intentional literary reference because it makes me look smarter.
When she was good, she was very good indeed,
But when she was bad, she was wonderful!
Looking at Satan’s face. He’s being taken, he knows it, and he doesn’t care.
That’s exactly the look I was going for.
That academic rumor that you brought up in the alt text? Total bullspit. When I went to college, I saw someone come on with the flu, vomit on her exam paper, and, while she didn’t get a B- because that happened, she did get to come back later and try again.
The fact that she vomited on the professor’s shoes on the way out when he told her to leave didn’t hurt either. 🙂
Yeah, that sounds reasonable. No free lunch. Even when you lose your lunch.
I’ve only known one or two situations where they don’t work with you if you come down that sick, and school is never one of them.
On a related note, I managed to catch that flu and spent the first week of break sick as a dog in bed. 🙁
Tracee’s smug expression is so dead-on for instances like this; she knows she’s won this battle.
I don’t know if this is intentional on your part but the rooms take on an almost celestial haze as the colors change from panel to panel…almost if the rooms themselves are organic and reflect the mood of the occupants at that moment. Pretty genius if so…
Still addicted to the color scheme but I’ve always wondered what your motivation for doing that was.
I’m not sure what my motivation for doing that is either. Mostly I want to vary the shots visually and color is one tool I can use to create that variety. Early color Puck comics (like strips 81 – 85) didn’t have this and I felt that they looked a little plain and monotonous. It sort of developed into a style thing and now I just like the look of it.
Today I saw a movie entitled Heaven Is For Real. it’s a true story about a 4 year old boy who has a near death experience.
And it’s totally not two religious parents telling their kid to say and believe he went to heaven. Not to go on a rant, but seriously? Your kid tells you he’s a spaceman from Pluto, even if he’s just had a near death experience you’re not going to believe him, but if he almost dies and says he went to heaven, it’s somehow more believable?
From the look on her face, I’d have to guess that either Tracee has a plan for all this, or she just likes her guys significantly older, tall, dark and sinister.
I’m guessing both.
Alt Text: In Australia, they’d make you retake it (possibly with different questions to what the one on the day had) along with anybody who missed it. Nice and scheduled and all.
That’s probably far more likely here too.