Puck 291
on June 22, 2015 at 9:41 pm
IT’S JUNE! SAY CHEESE!
Every month I run a voting incentive, and every month fans have one question on their minds: “IS IT CHEESECAKE?” If that’s your question, then this is your month! Vote for Puck on TWC! See cheesecake! GUARANTEED!
As for this comic…
I am amazed that I finished a comic this week. It’s been about the most hectic, madcap week I’ve ever had, including massive house renovations, massive house problems discovered, many thousands of dollars spent, a Minecraft birthday party for my son on Saturday, final exams in all my classes accompanied by the ensuing onslaught of marking, and a bunch of other stuff I can’t even remember. I started this comic on Saturday night, worked on it pretty much all through the night, and it was done on Sunday morning.
I’m tired. But I’m still standing. Cue the Elton John.
I never knew that guys named Wilbur were incapable of sexy smoldering
Well, now you know. It’s an important lesson to learn.
This is possibly the closest Daphne has come to admitting she finds Tyler attractive.
And will probably be the closest that Daphne will ever come.
At least until she kisses him, and you just know that she will start their first kiss, because if he starts it, she will shoot him down faster than a photon across a nanometer.
This is an accurate prediction.
In the never ending quest to find the least-sexy name, Wilbur will always have a place in the list
It does have a certain ring to it. Maybe a little green around the acreage. Nah, maybe just a little piggish.
Like the name ‘Kermit’, Wilbur was unequivocally killed by an animal namesake.
I guess I kind of dated myself there. I was referring to a show ‘way back’ named “Green Acres”.
Wilbur was a pig that was seen as human by all the characters in the show except the one with at least two brain cells.
If I were going to date myself, I would mention a show called “Mr. Ed” that had a Wilbur in it! He was moderately good looking, but also as easily manipulated at Tyler is.
Yep, forgot that show had a Wilbur.
hmmm… can’t remember if “My Mother the Car” had one
Or “Car 54, where are you?”
Or… never mind.
The pig on Green Acres was named Arnold.
Wilbur was the pig in the children’s book “Charlotte’s Web”.
Hey, you’re right! Wow. All them pigs look the same.
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Dang it, you’re right!!!
Come on. I can imagine a Wilbur rocking a sexy handlebar mustache.
Think High-Wheel Bicycle.
Dwayne is a solid entry on the list… though The Rock is still trying to remove it by sheer force of presence.
Prediction…
“Ange” will know “Wilbur” (the real Wilbur) personally.
Chances are high.
Daphne’s comment both confirms that she’s interested in him and also confirms that there’s no way in Hell they’re gonna start dating in the coming 10 years (of strips, at least). Awesome.
I have no idea why I get the feeling that Angie is gonna EITHER
1) Know Wilbur personally
or
2) Fall heads-over-heels in love with Tyler
or
3) Be some old insane woman who keeps calling him ‘Whippersnapper’. …I’ve played too much Phoenix Wright the past few days, apologies.
As for what you’ve been through the past week – ouch! I’d not have blamed you just put up a message saying “sorry about the lack of comic, hectic week” and explained it all. Well, you pulled it off, so you got bragging rights for that at least!
…Hope this week will be less… Stressful for you.
I think Daphne and Tyler will actually start dating sooner than that, but more on that in the next story arc. And Angie will potentially be one of the listed options. Or none of the above.
This week, I hope, will be less stressful. Though the world’s giving us no promises. We’re in the middle of one of those huge home renovations that requires the coordination of a qhole squadron of local talent, including (but not necessarily limited to) a landscaper, a heavy equipment operator, a mason, and a carpenter. If you think that sounds expensive, you think right. 🙁
That just goes to prove an old adage, Gecko…. Money talks. it says goodbye.
In large quantities!
most of the time, it yells, screams, and hollers. it doesn’t just say good-bye.
Are Taylor / Tyler’s standards that low?
Hey Geck. At least summer vacation is here for a couple months right. Nothing to do but the strip……and probably every little household chore youve been putting off all year. Dont worry, your wife will remind you, im sure.
Yep. And reassembling what’s left of my house after the massive amount of work that’s being done on it. Sigh. Oh well. We’ll do what we can.
Wilbur can offer to share his Vicks vapor rub.
Ladies can’t resist the warm, tingly feel of the Vicks.
Don’t laugh, I’ve known women who get off on Vicks. Masochistic women, true, but still.
Is Vicks still on the market? It seems so antiquated, like mustard plasters.
It is still on the market, and so are several knock-offs.
Even the guys I know named “Wilbur” who are my age—and that’s a lot older than the guys their age—usually go by “Will.” Wouldn’t you?
Yeah, go with Will. A lot better. Hell, even ‘Bur’ is better.
I’m curious to see how this plays out.
Okay, that trash can is freaking me out, man.
Hmmn. I wonder if there ever *was* a sexy Wilbur? I mean, there has to have been *one*, somewhere in history, right?
The trash can was inspired by the wacky trash cans at Crystal Beach, a now defunct amusement park in the Buffalo area. At least I think it was at Crystal Beach. Maybe it was some other now-defunct amusement park from my childhood.
Like mutton chops, the name Wilbur and its sexiness is all dependent on how you wear it.
I’ve always spelled the word ‘smoulder’ with a ‘U’, is ‘smolder’ the way Canadians spell it or is it a case of ‘To-MAY-to’ or ‘To-MAH-to’?
Huh. ‘Smolder’ without the ‘u’ is the usual American spelling. I’m surprised that the non-‘u’ version doesn’t look more common to you. ‘Smoulder’ with the ‘u’ is the British spelling, following the same pattern as ‘color’ – ‘colour’. Webster (the definitive American dictionary maker) had a thing against useless ‘u’s so he knocked them out of most American words. The Canadian spelling is ‘smoulder’, but given that 90% of my readership is American, I hook toward American spelling in the comic. It also looks a little cleaner.
And cheaper!
Think of all the internet ink you save by not using useless ‘u’s.
Beyond internet ink, it doessave an even more precious commodity to me, and that’s panel space. Sometimes that ‘u’ is the difference between the text fitting in the panel and not fitting in the panel.
This is true.
Is SMOULDER a Cheese ?
I like cheese.
In a word … no.
uh, Yep. Daphne has obviously claimed him and made sure all the other girls know it.
She doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to let him know.
Is it possible that Daphne is sabotaging Tyler a bit so his ‘sexy smolder’ won’t net him a girlfriend who is actually willing to be his girlfriend? 😉
It’s possible. I wouldn’t put it past her. And tagging someone with the name ‘Wilbur’ is like forcing someone to eat raw garlic cloves before the big date.
Ah, the Transylvanian dating scene… ^_^
Just lackin that smolder setting huh?
Maybe there’s a setting for broil.
Like “Your goose is cooked”?
ever seen Howard The Duck?
Who hasn’t?
How did Daphne get the work schedule for the Park?
I suppose she hacked into their intranet, using social engineering (calling around until someone coughed up what she needed?)
Your guess is as good as mine. A character with skills like Daphne’s makes writing easy. It’s like Scotty on Star Trek. Anything can be done/fixed/destroyed given the proper amount of time.
Imagine if Puck instead of being a fairy was from another planet.
Imagined.
It’s been done.
NEXT…
I’m pretty sure that the name Wilbur was left somewhere on the shelf way back in the middle 20th century…at least I hope it has.
It’s cause for emancipation should a child ever get named that from his parents nowadays. 😀
Well, at least it offers ‘Will’ as an escape hatch. I think Orville’s worse.
What the hell is “raffish”?
I have come to realize January 21, 2016, was the World’s High Point for comments.
Never before, and never again, will so much wisdom be conferred to this species.
In one lumpy sum.
Can’t say I’d ever heard the word before either, but there is a definition:
unconventional and slightly disreputable, especially in an attractive manner.
“his raffish air”
Basically it’s the same origin as the term: “Riff-raff”.