NEW JULY VOTING INCENTIVE: PUCK GOES EXTREME!!!!!!
Have you ever wanted to see Puck reinterpreted as an Image comic circa 1993? Of course you didn’t! And that’s why I’m here to make your non-dream a reality! Starting July 1st, a vote on TWC gets you a glimpse of Liefeld-level majesty! Check back every week this month as I 90’s-ize all of the primary Puck characters!
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As for this comic…
I felt like something a little summery for the first week of July. Those of you who have been around for a while (or those of you who have seen the downloadable beach day wallpaper from the store) may recognize that this is Daphne’s standard bathing suit.
How come characters in comics always have those double-scoop ice cream cones? Have you ever seen real people walking around with those? I mean, they’re sort of impractical. Anyway, who am I to buck tradition?
Oh, and if you’re curious (as some people seemed to be last week) about what Daphne and Tyler’s kid would look like, super fan Amanda Robertson took it upon herself to visualize the cute yet horrifying possibility! Go to the Puck Facebook page and have a look!
Love Daphne’w one piece … you should try to get that marketed (if it hasn’t been done so yet).
But …
Damn that a hell of a bikini O_O …
Dude that is seriously well … drawn … ♥‿♥
Surprisingly, I have no connections in the women’s swimwear industry, so I doubt the one piece will go into production any time soon. But yeah, when I break out a bikini in the comic I try to make sure it’s seriously well … drawn.
The incentive comic is still Phoebe in Space.
It flips on July 1st at midnight Pacific time, I think. The new one is up now!
Canada turns 147 tomorrow and on Friday USA turns 238.
Huh… When I tried voting, I still got the old one… Weird.
As for her bathing suit… That’s kinda of awesome (I haven’t seen it before).
As for Tyler’s reaction, I kinda-sorta don’t blame him.
I mean, let’s face it; ice cream. Who doesn’t like that?
(Unless you’re lactose intolerant or something else… Then again, more ice cream for me if so!)
New incentive’s up now! (It flipped on July 1st.) And yeah. Ice cream seals the deal. So luscious and creamy.
I’ve known lactose intolerant people who would STILL eat ice cream… and claim it was totally worth it… from the toilet.
Well, Phoebe’s Dad is Satan, isn’t he? So why shouldn’t his place on Earth be hell?
It’s TORTURE, man. Sheer, unadulterated torture.
I have had a double scoop ice cream like that. I have even had a triple! One of the towns I grew up in had an ice cream shop with an ice cream factory built in and they would give you as many scoops as you were willing to pay for. And still will. It becomes a why choose situation.
As for the picture, it’s more late 80s. You forgot things. The legs need to be getting smaller near the ankles for the overly tiny feet that couldn’t support her. We don’t see her butt and her boobs at the same time because chronic pain is hot. She’s only got one bandoleer of pouches when she should have a costume made of nothing but pouches. There’s not enough lethal weapons, especially guns larger than the White House. And everyone knows for a 90s hero she needs to be wearing all black, have a costume without a clear design, and look mopey. Goth super heroes! For when having a tortured back story just isn’t enough! Love the parody, but Liefield would be deeply disturbed about what this thing called talent is.
That’s the thing. I can’t really, really force myself to go all-out Liefeldian here because it hurts my sensibilities as an artist. But as for all the great features you listed above, remember, we’ve still got three other primary characters I need to draw in this style. I won’t do the Escher girl pose, though. It hurts me just to look at it.
I have to say, after having drawn this, that the 90’s comic style was more about the detail than the form. And detail is tiring! Man, this style is time-consuming!
Yeah, unlike Liefeld, you are a good artist. Your art doesn’t make my back hurt and I think it’s several notches above even the latest art in DC and Marvel. Better production rates at any rate.
Some of the costume bits I can understand, like a gadget guy with all those pouches. Same with a paranoid character. They probably need all those pouches to store who knows what that’s been collected because it might come in useful. The rest, I can’t understand. They all started looking like the same exact character with stupid names like BludZtorm!!!! and that’s not a good thing. Meanwhile, while yes I want to look at a woman’s chest and butt at the same time I want it to be realistic and not like something that would kill the poor lady. Like have her stand in front of a mirror or something. You know, something that makes sense.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I’ve learned over the years that I’m not a good artist, but I’m good at a few elements of art. And really, so is Liefeld. I’d say he and I are polar opposites in art: most of my attention goes into the structural integrity of the figure, while I suck at detail and visual splendor. Liefeld’s got no structure, but he’s always been the master of crazy-level detail and visual slendor that (temporarily) overwhelms the eye.
As for character design, though, I will admit Liefeld let things get a bit silly. Pouches I understand, but why were they all so small? Perfect for holding marbles, or maybe seeds, a few short pencils, but really? Couldn’t the pouches be any bigger?
Hey no problem. As for me, my stick figures leave much to be desired, yet I can come up with characters with complex backgrounds that stretch out to every single day of their lives and keep it straight. We each have our strengths and weaknesses.
I think Liefeld became complacent. He got paid for a certain character archetype and art style and decided welp, that’s it. He had a temporary major influence on the industry and just sat on his laurels, which is always a bad thing. It’s like I tell people when I’m cooking, the moment I believe I can’t keep improving on my cooking is the moment when I start getting worse. And he certainly got worse.
Quite possibly. He was also really young when he started, and when the universe started telling him that he was hot stuff. That’s never good. Just look at Justin Bieber. It doesn’t … encourage artistic growth, shall we say?
I actually enjoy Justin Bieber. Not his music which is crap, or his character, which he obviously has none. There is just a very special joy in the fall he will experience that will just be wonderful to enjoy. If Miley Cyrus and Lindsay Lohan is a fun pair of train wrecks to watch, this trumps them both by ten fold. When he tries to become a serious musician and fails miserably because no one can stand him, he’s going to be on the top of a tower with a safety blanket and a stuffed teddy bear rocking and crying about the mean people. Mark my words.
I think if Liefeld was left alone by undeserved praise he would have turned out like Todd MacFarlane. Not a great artist much of the time, but definitely a niche that’s not something to be ashamed of. But that’s why I say people need someone to work as a reality check, and why I don’t hold my opinions back. Hell EG, if I didn’t like your art or story telling, I’d tell you. It’s sometimes good to have someone tell you straight how it is.
And people telling you why you suck is what the internet is all about! So thank goodness for that. Though it doesn’t seem to have phased Bieber much.
Can he truly be phased at this point? I mean he’s got this eternal aura of entitlement. Unless his crash practically puts him at Kathy Griffin and Pauly Shore level of worthlessness, which I’m banking on, I think he’s always going to live in a world where he’s better than everyone else.
You didn’t really say you’re bad with details, did you?! That’s insane! The little touches and details you throw in are some of my favorite parts!
I’m more talking details like ‘a whole big wall of intricate bricks’ or ‘endless carefully inked body hair on manly, hairy arms’ or that sort of thing.
At first glance I mistakenly thought he was loosely trying to imitate the pander brothers. And if you even know who they are your on a level of comic afficianado
That i’ve already blown past. Mentioning Liefield just reminded me that I loved Longshot and hated Cable anyways.
Does Tracee have an actual soft spot for kids, or is she supporting her ‘boo’ in his attempt to corrupt the two of them? o_õ
And Daphne? Go home already!
Well, given the fact that Daphne and Tyler are probably fifteen or sixteenish, I don’t know whether I’d qualify them as kids. They’re teens, and no one has a soft spot for teens. So probably the latter.
Oh, and Daphne can’t go home. If she goes home, she’s robbed of all this fresh new stuff to complain about!
on teen’s part:
Except you know, those that see it as a prime age to get them to make horrible life choices? like the house owner perhaps?
Exactly.
She would have to room with her aunt, which would give her plenty to complain about.
A lost opportunity. That would have been a wonderful story arc right there.
Gecko, are you as bad about Skittles as Danny Sexbang is?
Yes.
Too bad you don’t have access to the endless supply that not only Arin has, but the fans have sent him since, huh?
I guess I need to call Mr. Skittle Pants himself, Nathan Barnatt. He’s the source of it all.
For some reason, I’m picturing the elevator from the Shining opening up and instead of blood, all these Skittles pour out. It’s an amusing image.
Oh, that’s a good image. Delicious.
That girl could complain about anything. It’s one of her most endearing qualities.
I personally love a whiner. Then again, I’m a whiner too, so that might explain it.
Should you be a real whiner, you’ld being whining about whiners whining on whiners.
True. Though I guess, on a technical level, I’m not a whiner, nor is Daphne. We’re gripers. We enjoy being negative and finding fault with stuff, even though we don’t really believe our own criticism. Whiners actually feel hard done by. Gripers just gripe for sport.
I thought you weren’t a true Canadian unless you called it “whingeing”.
I’ve never called anything ‘whingeing’, though that might be a regional thing. Like the U.S., Canada has a lot of regional pronunciations and slang. In Ontario (at least my densely populated pocket), it’s always ‘whining’.
Yeah, sorry, Daphne but I’m not turning down a bologna sandwich from her.
Tracee is killing in that bikini! Well drawn, sir. B-)
If I put a fraction of the effort I put into drawing girls in bikinis into something else, then … well, I might be a lot more productive in life.
Electric Gecko I wish you and your wife and kids a happy Canada Day.
Careful there, Tyler. I’m fairly certain Daphne could come up with many, _many_ inventive ways to make you regret saying (and staring at) the wrong thing here. Still, it’s understandable. I mean, _look_ at those two scoops!
What? I was talking about the icecream! 🙂
And as for the voting incentive: Still better and more plausible than anything Liefield drew in the 90’s. 🙂
Well, I don’t know, but I think that Daphne first has to officially start dating the guy before claiming the right to punish him for such indiscretions. She’s still holding onto the ‘We’re just friends’ thing.
On the voting incentive, I couldn’t bring myself to go full Liefeld. You never go full Liefeld.
Satan has so much while others have so little I don’t think that’s fair.
Satan cares not for fair!
Thats the point.
Vamp alert!
Tyler, look out! Somebody other than Daphne looks like she has plans for you… and her ‘two scoops’ don’t melt in the sun.
I’m not sure those scoops are real dairy. They might be ‘frozen dairy-type dessert’.
Just read something… and I’m wondering, do Canadian people really apologise for everything? (I was reading QC, so this could just be humorous exaggeration… but I’m not sure)
I just read that, too.
I am also somewhat confused by the implication.
Yes, to an American, it seems like Canadians apologize for everything. ‘Sorry’ is just a reflex word up here. It doesn’t mean you’re sorry, though. That’s the thing Americans don’t understand. Canadian culture is generally built around conflict avoidance, way more than American culture. So if someone comes in and deliberately steps on your toe, you’ll probably say ‘Sorry’ to the guy in the hope that the developing conflict will dissolve.
Yeah, hot chicks in bikinis and ice cream…, I wanna live there, too.
It really is hard to say no. I mean, think about it: ice cream! Ice cream seals any deal.
The ice cream…. The endless ice cream from bikini clad women. When will the agony cease?
It just gets even more agonizing from here on in. Wait until the ‘all you can eat seafood buffet/Smash Bros. Melee tournament’ starts up. True. Suffering.
Tracee and Coco in a joint voting incentive… We need to make that happen
I think that Tracee would refuse on the basis of not wanting to be seriously overshadowed, but yes, we need to make that happen. Or something happen.
I’d love to see what Puck’s reaction to late ’80s/early ’90s-style Puck would be. XD
Unimpressed, I’m sure.
Satan doesn’t care that he lives in mansion and has so much while others have so little.
Nor should he. That and when you have an MVS cabinet, all problems are meaningless.
So… I Googled “MVS” and the only results coming up are for an old mainframe operating system… and I can’t imagine why Daphne would care about that, or why it’s supposed to be impressive to a teenager (or ANYTHING else that’s been around since the 70s).
Try ‘SNK MVS,’ a.k.a. Neo Geo. In video game lingo, an MVS is the coolest arcade cab platform ever made. Daphne and Tyler were playing it in the previous comic.
Aha!
See now, “Neo-geo” or even “SNK” would have immediately clicked for me. “MVS” on its own doesn’t really invoke the game franchise at all.
It would be like if I said “BM” To you, intending it to be short for “InterContinental Ballistic Missile”. Sure, it’s still a ballistic missile whether we include the word describing its range or not… but you probably thought of having a different good B.M. first, didn’t you? 😉
Makes sense. And really, it only would click in reference to the earlier comic. Which ran a week ago. Which was a long time ago. (It is for me, anyway.)
In Helen Sweetheart Of The Internet Bill Gates runs away from home because he feels that he doesn’t deserve to have so much when others have so little.
Which is funny since he has done more to push forward Aids research than anyone else. I would say he has given plenty. Far more than I would have in that position.
Am I the only one wondering if.. at the end of this arc.. we get another arc involving puck’s parents.. and why do I fear its going to be Titania and Oberron?
Definitely not. One set of parents is enough to deal with for now.
Well, negativity sure dont love company…Man, teenagers sure have a way to make you foam at the mouth…I remember it like it was yesterday…it is an automatic reflex, like sneezing or baby bawling…
as a teen, you seem like you have an ulcer or something…
I really like teens. I find the inherent characteristics of the age endearing. That’s why I survive as a high school teacher just fine. But I see and understand why other people can’t stand them. My wife taught high school for five years and it almost killed her. Why? She really, really disliked teens.
You would have hated me as a teenager, I’d have pushed all your buttons, just like our grand son…we had to send him back to his mother before we’d wrung his neck…
Re: Double scoops — this is one reason why I always order my ice-cream in a cup; you can get two flavors with no muss, no fuss, and you can even alternate between them! (The other reason is that with a cone, you have to eat the cone *after* the ice-cream. I like to save the best for last.)
See, that makes more sense. And I see people with big cups (or waffle bowls or whatever) containing multiple scoops, but the sky high cone? Holding a towering structure made of a substance that melts fast in warm temperatures seems to me to be excessively foolish.
Just do what I do when I get a double scoop. Have it in a chocolate dipped sugar cone with sprinkles and put in upside down in a bowl. It’s a great snack. And yes, I am aware how wussy that sounds for a 6’4″ 300 pound man to like that. Add some brownies and you’re set.
That don’t “sound” wussy. It IS wussy. But I don’t really expect much from a ‘lil feller such as yerself, what with me being a 6’5″ 301 pound man. I eats FOUR scoops, and TWO cones for a warm-up.
That is objectively too much ice cream.
The ice cream cone as I recall was invented at a world’s fair.
You’d want a room full of ONLY red Skittles? Personally, my favorite color is green, so it’d have to be the M&M’s room.
Well, my favorite color is green too, but the red Skittles are just too delicious. I don’t know why they don’t just sell bags of red Skittles and skip the ones that people want less.
I’m all over the green too…
But I hate the reds. For just about any coloured sweets, the red ones are almost always the worst… which just makes it all the more ridiculous that the red ones are always the ones that get their own packet. I suppose I can’t really complain since Sour Skittles are their own thing, and those are the ones I usually buy. That sweet Citric Acid BURN.
That said… colours can sometimes mean different things to different companies and in different countries.
I generally dislike Red because Red = Strawberry … and strawberry-flavoured anything tends to be vile-tasting (which is somewhat ironic as I like actual strawberries). When Red = Cherry, which is notably rarer… it isn’t quite as bad. But still worse than most other options.
Purple is usually Blackcurrant in Britain… and I believe it defaults to Grape in America…. Blackcurrant is the better of the two. Grape-flavoured stuff is kinda nasty, though not as bad as Strawberry-flavour.
Orange is always Orange. Like some sort of universal constant.
Yellow is almost always Lemon. Lemon is good. Lemon is wonderful. But then sometimes Yellow is Banana… which is one of the only things worse than Strawberry, and is the fast train to vomit-land.
And Green. Usually Lime. Lime is almost the best flavour of anything ever. Occasionally it is Apple, which isn’t quite as good as Lime (just below Lemon usually), but still not bad. But like most of the other colours, there is the potential for disaster. I did encounter one example (some jellybeans) of Green being Watermelon for some reason… which is down there in the Sub-Strawberry depths of unforgivable vileness.
The absolute extremes of sweet flavours are far more rare.
I’d have to say the worst flavour ever… even below the likes of Banana and Watermelon… is Coconut. The horror. THE HORROR.
And of course the best flavour possible is… Grapefruit. So nice. So tasty. But that is probably just because nobody ever makes Carambola-flavour sweets. I could die happy if I had Carambola-flavour sweets.
OMG, OMG, it’s Tracee, with her Twin Peaked Cones, um, and her Double D’s (Dips of Ice Cream), that take both hands to hold…..
Sorry, Gecko, I have to take a break right now……
(come on printer, do your thang, hurry up …)
Well, it’ll come out in high-def print copy eventually.
I sooooooooo wanna be Tracee’s bikini. And Daphne’s head badly needs to make like a tree, and get the #@$& outta the way!
Well, the panels are tight. I can’t always provide clear sight lines.
Wow. Them’s some powerful recessive genes.
Say what you will about Tracy, she’s good at making new friends.
True.