Puck 300
on August 24, 2015 at 10:54 pm
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As for the comic…
I’m putting this one up a little late because I spent the whole day with my kids at Canada’s Funderland. (Well, the real life equivalent.) Life imitates art! First time I’ve been there in a long time, but it was still a blast. Lots of good memories from my own childhood, and it’s fun to share the place with my kids. I’m pleased to report, though, that the real world equivalent of Shnorf Village was dismantled in the 90’s. It was probably for the good of humanity.
And hey, 300 comics! I celebrated by doing nothing special in this week’s comic! Oh well. I tried to pull off the rare dialogue-free fourth panel. It’s a fun challenge to convey a joke entirely through facial expressions and art. Not sure whether it works, but it’s a noble challenge to try.
They seem bigger close up. .
And their teeth gnash and grind
While souls in their songs entwine
Yeah, there’s nothing inherently creepier than the electric motor whir of an animatronic monstrosity’s servo motor.
Five Nights at Canada’s Funderland. 😛
Let’s avoid the endless mildly sub-par sequels.
Yeah, besides pizza just can’t be the number 1 mall food can it?
Was that a comment on the series? If so, I agree. The two even ones don’t even add new plot.
Yes it was a comment on the series. On the one hand, I commend the creator for knowing how to milk a fad to its fullest potential. On the other hand, no one really needed any of those sequels. It was a cool game concept, nicely realized in the first game. It didn’t need to be remade three times in quick succession.
Those things are pretty scary. We should exterminate them immediately.
They can’t be killed. You can smash them up, but they only become creepier then.
Lots of fire, acid, then holy water.
The holy water keeps turning unholy the second it touches them? WHAT DO I DO?!?
In that case I would say launch them into the sun if that wouldn’t cause said sun to be cover in an eternal darkness.
I like it, grats on the big 300.
Thanks, man! The big 300 is not that big, I guess, given the fact that it’s not even a full year’s output for a newspaper strip comic, but these suckers take me considerably longer to generate than a strip comic, so I guess it’s something.
300 was enough to stop the Persian army of a million strong…
But this 300 doesn’t have awesome abs. It’s the abs that count.
They’re singing, Daph… they’re singing… the song is just for you….
For Eternity! Bwuhahahahahah!
They’re coming to get you, Barbara…
NOTLD – cool
Congrads on the 300, Gekko! !Now is anyone else hoping for some The Simpsons inspired Funpark robots come to live a la the “Itchy and Scatchy Land ” Episode mayhem?
Man, if I had all the time in the world, I’d totally want to do a wacky side comic in an alternate timeline where crazy animatronic shnorfs take over. But seeing as comics like this one take me twenty hours to generate, I think we’ll just have to leave it to the imagination.
They just want to be friendly…
Yes, and perform the traditional shnorf greeting of pulling out your eyes!
Through your chest!!
Cuz, out of the face holes is just too easy.
Ew.
It’s a small world after all.
On that ride? It’s the smallest.
Also…don’t touch that shnorf!—hand me the pliers.
I think an ax is called for in such situations.
There are few situations that cannot be resolved with the judicious application of an axe.
Or a wrench.
Congratulations on 300 comics!
To be honest, in my opinion, there’s no dialogue that could have made panel 4 justice, as her facial expression speaks for itself.
And hey, I noticed the FNaF (Five Nights at Freddies) reference!
Admitting, not sure she’d have to survive until then to be fine…
I came up with about three or four potential thought bubbles for panel four, but I really thought it was better with just the facial expression. I’m glad you concur. And I’m always happy to slip topical references into the alt-text.
Congrats on Comic 300!
By the way, are there not like… um, security cameras in there as well, catching our two hooligans on tape?
Probably. To be honest, in today’s day and age, there would be ten security cameras and four staff manning that ride. I’m going more from the lax security model that I remember in the late 80’s. And in truth, the real Smurf Village ‘ride’ wasn’t a ride at all. It was just a walk-through experience, and I don’t think there was a staff member stationed there at all. It was really this creepy, though.
I went in the Disney equivalent, once. there was no line before the entrance and my feet were sore, and I had absolutely no idea what it entailed. The fact it was a ride made it a whole lot creepier, because I just couldn’t get away before the end.
It was something like 20 years ago, and merely reminiscing about it made me want to flee…
I’m trying to channel that visceral terror here. It really is nightmarish in my personal opinion.
I rode it once. And the ride itself broke down while the animatronics kept going and singing. They couldn’t get it fixed for an hour. Not a good time.
I do hope the park paid for your therapy afterwards.
Lets just say that is my favorite boss in Epic Mickey. And I always use the thinner.
Whoa, that’s a boss in Epic Mickey? I’ve never gotten that far! I think I quit somewhere in the haunted house section. Fun game but I didn’t keep playing for some reason. Maybe I need to pick it up again.
Yeah, and his theme during the boss fight is the Small World After All song backwards. It actually sounds really creepy and awesome. That game deserved more love than it got.
I loved the design aesthetic and some of the gameplay, but what really killed the experience for me was the problematic camera that you’d always have to fight. It became a serious problem when the enemies became much harder in later levels.
I can’t disagree with you. So many good games were ruined by the camera. The best part of the game didn’t even deal with a bad camera. It was those fixed camera levels where you went through the various cartoons in my opinion. I always wanted to explore the toons as a child.
I do think that game would have been improved if it were a 2D sidescroller. Maybe something along the lines of Little Big Planet with paint and thinner. That would have been cool, right? The best part of my experience with that game was the fact that it put me and my kids onto the Oswald cartoons. We found a DVD of those at the library and they were absolutely hilarious. My kids loved those old silent cartoons.
Yeah, I bought “A Knight for a Day” from the game menu and just couldn’t stop laughing. It didn’t feel like ole Walt’s work. It looked like it, same art style, same animation jankyness. I could tell by watching it was Disney. But it was funny, uproariously funny. Anyone else reading this, do yourself a favor and go look it up, probably on youtube. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is comedy gold.
Yeah, if they had more of those videos available in the game, THAT would have given me more motivation to keep going. As it was, they had two. TWO! So sad.
I wonder if they’ll actually manage to pull this off.
Oh yeah, I can just see Daph getting a Schmurf loose and the others cry out “Nooo, get her!” Buttboy comes back to find tools on the floor and Daph in a group of Schmurfs glassy eyed and singing happily.
Yeah, they probably turn you into a shnorf. That’s how there came to be so many of them…
Agh! I meant Schnorf up there! Damn you auto correct!
Same diff. My favorite is the French ‘les schtroumpfs’. Could there be a more awkward name?
I always like to see wenches with wrenches…
Better than fogies with stogies any day.
OMG DON’T SPLIT THE PARTY!!!
Don’t these kids learn ANYTHING from horror movies?
And just when Tyler was getting some screentime. We shoulda known, it couldn’t last, kid.
Fairwell sweet prince; flights of Schnorfs sing thee to thy rest.
I think that the shnorfs could kill you even if you stuck together. Actually just makes it easier for them to clean up, I think.
She will be
She will be alright if she makes it to 6am AND ‘doesn’t go into the basement’ !! Well if there is a basement that is.. Congrats on the 300th E.G. !! Looking forward to many many more.
I think it’s mandatory that all amusement park rides have a basement containing a disturbed native burial ground.
Well, them “mocheenes” will soon be our “caregivers”…but they have no sense of humor…see what they do with critics and malcontents:
http://www.quantumvibe.com/
I don’t think these ones give a care. At all.
Thanks to the Lord…but it’s coming, they say…Maybe another Taiping rebellion will set “them” back a bit…You are not the younger brother of Jesus, by any chance?
Looks like Daphne’s wandered into a Stephen King story. Dollburgers, anyone? 😉
You mean she’s going to soon encounter pan-dimensional beings who consume the past in the form of spider clowns who assault psychic people in sentient big rigs? NO WAY.
Dang. You got some sick Stephen King madlibs going there, chief. ^^
I always felt like Stephen King was really good at establishing characters and a general sense of dread, and then for the final act of all his books, he just drew the loose ends closed by playing madlibs.
Stephen King must be paid by the pound.
Why else would he turn a Short Story into a 3000 page behemoth ?
um…..
The Last panel gnomes were turned off.
………….uh oh.
RUN.
It’s too late. Their lifeless eyes have already locked on.
Great job on that 4th panel! Expression is perfect. 😀
It’s always a fun challenge to get more complex expressions right, I find. Glad this one turned out okay.
“Actually”… it’s not quite complicated, it’s a one-sound word. It’s pronounced “shtroomf”. I know you English speaking people have issues with our “r”, about as much as us French-speaking with your “th”, but “schtroumpf” is as easy for us as it is for you to say “three”.
Dang, it was supposed to be an answer to yours about the awkward name…
Well, even if it’s easy to pronounce, it sounds really doofy. Not as doofy as ‘shnorf’ but still…
I suddenly wonder whether the ride actually WAS popular…
… but the Shnorfs ate all the punters to wander into their lair. o_o
You’d think the park administration would have shut it down long ago if that were the case. Dead patrons don’t buy nearly enough overpriced food; it’d seriously cut into their bottom line.
Silly Gecko. The administration must sacrifice flesh to its demonic contractors to pay for continued success – or else lose its souls… And it already sold those to other evils. 😉
Oh right. Sorry. Silly me.
Big congrats on making it to 300 strips and maintain or outdo the high quality of the writing & art at the same time, man!
The one thing that I can say for myself: I keep going. That much I can be proud of.