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As for this comic…
Hutch’s, for those of you wholly unfamiliar with the city of Hamilton (which, let’s face it, is 99.9% of the readership) is a classic greasy spoon diner on the Hamilton beach strip. Yes, there’s a beach in Hamilton; it’s about as lacklustre as it sounds, except for the Hutch’s part, which is awesome. A Sportsman burger, by the way, is their special name for a double bacon cheeseburger. Just thinking about one makes me angry that I’m not eating one.
Hmm, Hamilton is only an hour or so on the 410/403 for me. I am definitely going to have to visit next time I have the time and a reason to go beyond Oakville. 😉
I’m not quite sure it’s worth a pilgrimage, but it’s pretty good. The real attraction is the fries, actually, which are way better than any usual fast food fries, but (to be honest) probably on par with any fry truck fries where they use real potatoes and fry the hell out of them using real oil. I would recommend, though, going beyond Oakville, in either direction, and never stopping in Oakville, because Oakville is the type of place that really should be avoided.
I generally go to Oakville to visit one of my clients who has a store there.
Either direction? I see more than just two directions. South gets a little soggy; I might get a flooded engine going in that direction. East and west are probably the directions you considered but North is also a viable option; lots of green stuff up that way that is not just golf courses and garden centres, but yeah there are a lot of those too going up Trafalgar.
North is not a valid direction to most Golden Horseshoe people. It’s east or west. Anywhere but Oakville.
Well my brother lived in Oakville for a year, mostly for access to the GO-Train, so I’m not sure if he’d agree with you.
But I as far know, Oakville has the only Butcher in Ontario that sells South African Biltong (basically, what Beef Jerky wishes it could be) so I try to make the pilgrimage at least a few times a year.. but yeah I’d never want to be there for more than a few hours there at a time.
I’m sure there are reasons to go to Oakville, and good people in Oakville, but they are not my people. My people don’t drive that many Mercedes.
Even having lived in Michigan my entire life, I think of Canada as “up”.
I just Google mapped and found out the Hamilton (your hometown?) is on the same(ish) latitude as my hometown of Holland, MI.
I guess all of Canada isn’t a frozen tundra year-round. 😀
A big chunk of southern Ontario (where I live) is on the same latitude as northern California. Most of Michigan is north of where I am. Granted, it’s only a small section of Canada that dips down so far south, but it’s the section of Canada that contains a huge section of the population.
Wierd.
just me or is lil miranda watching most avidly? looks like someone is taking their first lesson in badassery!! phoebe on the other hand looks rather lost, evil scheming is clearly so not her forte….and puck is totally right, you can´t plot on an empty stomach 😉
Not sure Miranda is processing yet, but she’s slowly getting past the ‘eyes always closed except for screaming’ phase of life and entering the ‘intently watching with blank expression on face’ phase of life. And yeah, Phoebe is out of her element here. Scheming is not her strong suit.
You got that right – never heard of Hutch’s before.
That’s another reason I love reading Puck; I learn random new stuff while also getting a good laugh.
And I have to agree on Daphne’s “Woman, you’re losing your touch here!” comment. It’s quite… Unlike Puck to NOT murder Heather by this point.
I’m glad to be of service on the ‘learn random new stuff’ front. I’m not really writing the comic for a local audience, but I like to write from experience and put a little of my world into it. I like comics and books grounded in an actual geographic place – one of the reasons I love Dennis Hyer’s Inhuman Relations comic so much: the fact that it’s so New Jersey it hurts. And now I know way more about New Jersey than I ever thought I would!
As for Puck losing her touch, I write her like Thor from the original Norse myths: quick to anger, quick to smash, but also quick to cool down and have a sober second thought if given the chance.
So…. that would make Daphne the equivalent of Loki? hmmmm……
There are more than a few similarities…
Yeah
Puck, you and me both.
Anything I do can be done better with the addition of fried food, I find.
Diet and nutrition via fast food. Setting a real good example for the baby.
This whole comic is one constant example of how to set a really good example for your child. Take notes, man. Take. Notes.
If all gets filtered through her milk glands anyway. She is still eating for one-and-a-half.
Her milkshake brings all the Machiavellian to the yard.
She could teach you, but she’d have to charge.
Is this one of those overly friendly Canadian things? I ask because, the one time it happened, I had no problem telling a blood relative who had insulted my wife to get the hell out of my house.
Maybe? Conflict is generally less tolerated up here, and often results in social ostracism or simmering feuds that never resolve.
Ooh, good call. Insulting the wife is not done. My bf broke a longstanding friendship because the man called his ex a “soccer mom”
Outright verbal (or physical) conflict is never a good call if there are better ways to go about it. And there are always better ways to go about it. I’m thinking tiger traps and mob hits right now…
Last time I had a girl friend, it was more like 5 at once (couldn’t get close to one without the other 4 getting involved… not even for ‘intimate photos’).
Once, one of the “+4” said something rather ‘off-color’ about one of the others and the following conversation occurred:
#1> You better apologize before he (points over shoulder at me) gets angry about it.
#2> Why? He doesn’t hit women.
#1> Women don’t say what you just said.
I was actually expecting them to go to KFC.
Where’s the local color in that?
Puck, you may need a nice burger to scheme, but Daphne doesn’t.
Offer one to Phoebe, though. Looks like she needs a little boost to the thought processes.
Add fries and a shake to that…. Daphne needs to be at her best here… Or worst here, take your pick
Poor Phoebe’s just a little stunned. I mean, she got kicked out of her family home and, in a separate incident, got insulted by some random blonde chick. It hasn’t been her day.
Just buy Phoebe a lil ol stuffed balrog who’s eyes go whirrrrr when you pull the string, she’ll feel better in no time.
That sh#$ sounds adorable!
My plans always involve food. Especially if I can get to what seems to be the local equivilent of Angie’s. A double triple cheeseburger with bacon. Delightful. And it looks like one of those comical stacked sandwiches you see in cartoons.
Scheming is best done on a full stomach.
Yeah, and eating gives time to the anger to cool down. Never do anything while angry, you’ll make stupid decisions.
Exactly. I love a good burger. And every town has at least one of these burger joints that date from the 40’s that still know how to rock a great burger. That’s where you need to go. The calories are always worth it there.
Puck’s best option to rid herself of the Heather problem is an easy one; get Ninja Brian. Maybe he’ll write a tasty medley after he stabs her. 🙂
Good ole Ninjab Ryan.
Just don’t call him fat. And stupid. And ugly. And fat again. After all, with what he did to Danny after he said that, who knows what he’d do to anyone else! 🙂
I would say get one of these cooks working at Hutch’s, preferably one that’s been working the frier so he is nice and greasy, smells like fried potatoes and everything. Blue collar hard work and all that. Everything Heather is against. And pay him twenty canadian dollars to give her a hug. Then again the next day. And so on until she decides to wait in the car.
You, sir, are devious. And you swing a mean vengeance.
Thought requires fuel.
It also requires the thinker not to be distracted by blinding rage because Heather keeps walking in, interrupting said thought.
Cool heads and full stomachs, ladies…
A change of location required!
Puck’s thinking my way.
Food = thinking.
Even if the thinking never comes, at least you got the food.
Don’t stew on your anger too long. Premature vengeance can be a hard thing to swallow. Gotta give it a personal flavor. Don’t get so steamed you can’t think straight. Let the rage simmer. Only when the time is right should your fury boil over. Dish it out properly. Chew on that.
You are a chef of suffering.
“An army marches on its stomach.” Napoleon Bonaparte
Let’s face it, thinking is better done on a full stomach. This is actually a surprising amount of wisdom from Puck. Just remember, Puck, when it’s time to fight:
“A full meal makes a slow mongoose.”
Good to know. My experience with mongeese is rather limited.
It’s a quote from “Rikki Tikki Tavi”, a wonderful short story found in Kipling’s A Jungle Book. It tells the tale of Rikki’s war against a family of cobras. I highly recommend it.
I’ve read it. But my knowledge of mongeese is still limited despite that.
LOL at the baby’s expression in panel 1. Little things like that cannot be overlooked. I love stuff like that. 😀
Is Hutch’s a real place in Canada or only existent in the Puck world? If it is, the franchise would do well having this strip as an endorsement.
I like to stick little silly details into this stuff, as you know. And the baby’s starting to observe the universe around her. As for Hutch’s, it’s a local fast food joint in Hamilton: one of those local landmarks that everyone in Hamilton knows. So I thought it was nice to pay tribute.
The brain is mostly fat. Therefore bacon and cheese are brain food.
I like that logic. I’m going to totally buy the pseudo-science that agrees with my personal whims and desires.
You know what else is brainfood? Chocolate milk shakes. Chocolate contains many chemicals your brain secretes. So fast food in this line of thinking is better for you than asparagus.
I am totally in support of that.
I wonder what the food at Hutch’s is like.
Fattening. Which is good with this type of food.
Puck finds it easy to be green, huh? Good luck getting that purple out of her hair, though.
I’m guessing it’s a rinse-out formula, but who knows?
Blues Brothers is your favorite movie too? Jesus H. Tap Dancing Christ, someone else has seen the light!
Also, Daphne sounds a bit like Colin in the second panel.
Not sure whether I’ll go on deck and say it’s my favorite movie of all time, but it’s what I consider to be the most entertaining movie I’ve ever seen, as measured by the size of the stupid grin on my face. Five stupid grin movies that rank exceptionally high in my book: The Blues Brothers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Scott Pilgrim, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, and the Lego Movie. The fact that two of those movies came out this calendar year says a lot about the renaissance of stupid grins going on right now.
I see. I didn’t think there was a difference. Scott Pilgrim is also high on my list of favorites though.
I find it difficult to separate the two lists myself.
The only way I can see to POSSIBLY turn this to their advantage is to start them with chocolates and to suddenly run out with only one piece of chocolate left on the plate.
Chocolate Dome! Two blonds enter! No blonds leave!
Ooh. Good idea. I might have to use it.
I’m going to WARN Heather of these insidious plans !
(being a rat is just a sideline. but a profitable one)
I doubt she’d pay well. Her type never does.
I’m gonna find a fair few familiar locations, aren’t I?
Hutch’s is a pretty good spot. Stopped there a quite a few times while biking on the waterfront trail.
One of my favorites. But really, any place with decent fries wins me over.