Puck 298
on August 10, 2015 at 9:01 pm
THE PUCK BOOK IS ON SUPER SALE!!! LIKE, RIGHT NOW!!!
If you’re vaguely interested in possibly owning a copy of the Puck book, well, now’s your chance to take action! It’s in color, it’s big, it’s beautiful, and NOW IT’S ONLY $18.99! It includes +200 comics and a bunch of never before seen extras documenting the early stages of Puck’s creation. For instance, did you know that at an earlier stage of development, Phoebe had goat legs? And for a brief period in history, Puck and Phoebe were a pair of futuristic buddy cops? It’s all in the book!
ALSO…
VOTING INCENTIVE! WHOLE LOTTA DC!!!
I ran out of time to generate a full-on new voting incentive last week because I was on vacation, but I did have time to assemble a group shot of the JLA cosplay experience and even throw in a batch of new jokes!
VOTE BEFORE ZACK SNYDER STICKS A ‘V’ IN IT!
As for the comic…
For those of you confused by the fact that Shnorf Village is in a cave, I can only tell you to direct your concerns or criticisms to 1980’s-era theme park attraction designers. The real ride (Smurf Village, which in reality was dismantled decades ago) was in a big, fake cave. The cave setting was highly inaccurate to the woodland setting of Smurf Village in the cartoon, and actually gave the whole experience a more Fraggle Rocky vibe.
This is one of those entirely character-based gags that brand new readers cannot possibly find funny. If you’re a brand new reader, I’m sorry. If you’re not a brand new reader and you still can’t possibly find this funny, then I apologize.
Bestest best friend? Must’ve been the homemade ice pop threat that hooked him.
Must’ve.
Re: The vote incentive. I remember the original Super Friends in first run. I even found some episodes on-line. Why did I ever think they were good? I guess at the time, I did not have anything to compare them to. All the characters are basically the same, but with different power-sets. BTW, the design for the Hall of Justice was based on a train station in Cincinnati.
You thought they were good because, like all bad kids’ shows of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s (and honestly, they were pretty much all bad with very few exceptions), they were all you have to watch. You could watch Super Friends or reruns of M.A.S.H. and Super Friends always won out for a seven year-old.
And I didn’t know that Cincinnati was so Justice-minded.
i remember tonya harding
I knew that someone would. But that was over 25 f$%^ing years ago! Can you believe it? I can’t. It was outside the living memory of most of the internet. That scares me.
I’m 22, and I got the reference. Don’t feel so bad.
Well, your cultural knowledge is probably more impressive than most, then.
25 years?!
No. No. No. No… Can’t be!!
It was just yesterday…
…I’ve done nothing with my life in all that time.
I want a re-do!
Haven’t you at least eaten a few ice cream sundaes or something? I mean, Baskin Robbins makes life worth living, man.
I have never been.
yep, daph is her own brand of evil – she might´ve refined her style growing up with puck though. also: i still want to know what the BLEEPIN HELL she needs that smurf for. honestly, that question is driving me up the walls!!
Answers will be had. They might not be satisfying, but they’ll be had.
I’ve just been thinking of it as the same reason one of my friends now owns a crosswalk button. It was there. Seriously, he’d be with Daphne, enhancing and improving on the plan and making me steal the Shnorf.
Yeah, some people operate with theft the same way Sir Edmund Hillary operated with mountains: “Why do I need to steal that inflatable gorilla? Because it’s there, dear boy. Because it’s there.”
I knew who Tonya Harding was!
You win the ‘Internet Senior Citizen’ award! Just like me!
Considering that she’s been rather infamous in the media since 1994, it’s hard NOT to know who Tonya Harding is. 😛
Well, that’s what I would think, but I’m always proven wrong on this front.
I’d say since I’m 18 and know who Tonya Harding is, you’re pretty safe. Though, I do watch Gilmore Girls, which makes more references than any show I’ve ever seen, so I might have picked up the knowledge from there. Who knows.
Yeah, I’d say your knowledge and understanding of most things extends far beyond the norm for your age bracket.
Except for my knowledge of comma usage, apparently. ;p
Even there. You underestimate the number of misplaced commas in the universe, young one.
I wonder if Cybratron or whatever that is that’s presenting this might be punishing Daphne pretty soon.
It’s Cybagron, and I think they’ll probably reserve their doom robots for more nefarious purposes.
Is that a conglomerate combining the software, agriculture, and entertainment industries? I see the logic: sales of “food” may be a major component of the park’s revenue stream. and the park itself is merely a promotional gimmick for the entertainment empire’s electronic arts.
Maybe.
It’s probably just some stupid office supply company with a jazzy name. That’s my best guess.
I am going with the thought that the CEO is Megatron with a tie and a very small chair he tries to sit in but never get’s comfortable.
You’re quixotically creative.
125% of your readers would be too young to get it? That’s… An impressive amount of people that’d not get the joke, actually.
“Bestest-best friend” just sounds… Weird. And at the same time, I don’t see how they’d be anything else either so yeah (possible love interests for each other? Doubtful, but not impossible!)
I think the the love interest thing is unspoken and unrealized yet nevertheless undeniable. It’ll happen. Eventually.
First it’s the kneecaps. Next time, it might be something he really needs.
Enh, I’m pretty sure all of him is safe, and he knows it.
Then again, if he does give in, maybe he’s already lost something important…
That’s deep.
Im old enough that i had almost ‘forgotten’ who Tonya Harding is. That was a sorrid affair everyone should let pass into history. Personally I thought Tonya and Nancy both deserved kneecapping. Anyway, my guess is Daphne is going to use that creepy Shnorf gnome to drive the crackheads next door away. The sight of a little blue person stareing at them everytime they look out the window is sure to drive them insane. It would me even without the crack im sure. Cant wait to get the book. Thanks EG
I think that motivation for getting a gnome is way too altruistic for Daphne. Yet I’m sure she has her reasons. And if you choose to order the book, I hope you’ll enjoy it!
Hey, I remember Tonya and Nancy as the funniest thing in the news for a while. But I was too old for Super Friends. *Double win!*
Us older kids had to struggle along with Jay Ward Productions and endless reruns of the Warner Bros. and MGM animation backlists. Heh.
Well, the WB and MGM theatrical shorts were gold compared to the ‘made for TV’ children’s garbage that started in the mid 60’s. The budgets were so thin, and the motivations were always suspect. (In the 60’s and 70’s, the only desire was to create some crap that could fill air time and make kids shut up. In the 80’s, it was the same, but with the added desire to sell toys.)
Cheat Commandos!!!
Buy all our playsets and toys!
And the Action Figure Storage Truck. Never forget that one.
Gun Haver: “We have to call in Reinforcements!”
Reinforcements: “Here I am, guys!”
The only really good Children’s Show was CANDLE COVE. Which is surprising, as it was Canadian.
http://candlecove.wikia.com/wiki/Candle_Cove_(TV_Show)
Or ALMOST Canadian (Ohio).
Ohio is not in any way Canadian. The Buckeye State and Canuckistan are pretty different in most regards, really. Although Cleveland does share a lot in common with my city.
Never heard of it. Looks creepy. Going to skip.
I wonder what will happen to them if they got caught.
the sign says “brought you by CYBATRON”?
Never heard of that company (not really a surprise, tho)
Actually, it’s ‘brought to you by “CYBAGRON.” You’ve really never heard of that company.
Sorry, but changing that one letter didn’t make the company any more recognized by me.
As I said, not really a surprise.
It’s the homeworld of the Transformers, of course!
Wait, that’s CybERtron…
Just noticed: What’s with the funky number system on this one?
I updated my toolbar link and clicked it. Said 404.
Had to click “Back” to 297 and then forward to… 297-2.
I mistakenly named it 297, then had to go back and edit it. I can change the post title, but WordPress doesn’t make it easy to change the permalink once it’s set. So yeah. Looks like I’m stuck with it.
I wonder what punishment they’ll get if they get caught.
Shnorf Village is brought to you by Cybertron? … hmm… maybe that explains the cave. The woodland village is a transformer. 😛
A gnome-based transformer would be awesome.
Brought to you by… Cyberdyne!! RUN.
I was trying for a simultaneous Transformers/Terminator/Strongbad reference with the name ‘Cybagron’. It was a lofty goal.
I think Miranda will be very pretty when she’s older.
Listen to her, Tyler before you get “Kerrigan’ed”
😀
There goes his figure skating career.
PUBLIC ALERT: Update from the Daphne-Bashing Unit:
That Daphne, she is a real …umm
That Daphne, she reminds me of ….ok
Daphne’s “freakish lower lip will forever be the most off-putting thing.”
THAT’S IT !!!!
Wow Salem…. just wow. No wonder you couldn’t hack it in the DBU, (Daphne Bashing Unit). That totally lacked SotiCoto’s venomous and vitriolic verbiage.
EGADS!
I remember Tonya Harding. Shortly after she was discovered to have Nancy injured, Saturday Night Live had a hilarious skit where “Tonya” was doing an ad for “The Club” which at that time was an anti-car theft device that locked on the steering wheel.
Classic. Harding was comedy gold for a while.