Puck 309
on October 26, 2015 at 10:06 pm
A NEW VOTING INCENTIVE COMIC (generated by me and my six year-old daughter)!!!
After watching a Reading Rainbow episode about comic artists, my daughter really wanted to try her hand at the process. This is the result: a comic co-written and colored by her, with my fantastic brush doing the ink. (Her watercolor job is actually better than my contribution, IMHO.)
ALSO…
As for the comic…
In all seriousness, this comic does touch on a common misconception that I hear people spouting all the time. Folks tend to think karma functions like some sort of divine retribution, punishing the wicked and rewarding the good. And it does. It’s just a very delayed process. If you’re wicked, you might come back in your next life as a spider or something. But it’s not going to happen in this life.
There’s really no major world religion that promises rewards in this life for good deeds. No one’s bold enough to make that claim because of the plentiful evidence to the contrary.
And hey, look! More plot happened! Fancy that!
They’re lucky that they didn’t get sent to the Phantom Zone.
FINALLY!!! Someone who get’s that aspect of karma! Thank you!
It’s good to know. No one wants to come back as a mollusk.
I’ll just have you know that snails are really cool and cute. Just watch out when crossing the sidewalk…
I was thinking that the other day as I ate a whole plate of them. Do you know the grocery stores sell plates of frozen, buttered snails for, like, five bucks? It’s magical.
…you’re nasty.
*dry heaves a little*
I love Escargot! With garlic butter. Course, everything is better with garlic butter
Escargot really are just like eating sponges for butter. But I’m down with that.
My dad once tried to get me to taste escargot, and I’m really glad I refused. Why? Best case scenario, I don’t like it. Worst case scenario, I like it, and am forced to question all my choices in life. Over-dramatic? Yes, but hey! It’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Do they taste like tiny french chicken wings?
Everything tastes like chicken. Except snails.
To Pat, as there is apparently a limited number of levels of reply here-
the one time I tried them, frogs’ legs taste like tiny chicken wings, but snails tasted and felt like rubber.
Did I mention that I love frog’s legs too? I love frog’s legs. They’re like the flavor of an entire chicken compacted into a tiny little piece of meat.
Snails ?
Wait, you’re a Gecko.
Whew.
For a second I was imagining a Human Being would eat those.
No, no even in Canada.
Colossal Squids are molluscs too, y’know.
Or a starving ghost.
Side note, my grandmother always taught me that Karma comes around about five years after your deed.
What if your Lifespan is, like, 15 years, tops ?
(maybe even 12 with all the Catnip)
Damn you, Karma !!
That is NOT adhering to any actual belief system I know of. But your grandmother has a right to create her own.
It’s because of Sylvia Brown. My grandma loves the fraud.
I was about to say the same thing. No one portrays karma as part of reincarnation anymore, it’s just “Do good things and good things will happen to you” these days.
Maybe we need to differentiate it from the religious concept of karma. It’s western pseudo-karma. We’ll call it korma!
Mmmm, Korma… If pseudo-karma tastes like the indian recipe… well, I’m down with that. “Do good upon others and ye shall be granted korma chicken” is a reason I can accept for playing nice…
See? Doesn’t it sound delicious?
I was going to reflect on the fact that Daphne’s knowledge of religion is pretty good for her age, but got distracted by the question whether “Ye Olde Clink” has an “e” on the end.
In Daphne’s defence, if you don’t understand it, how can you mock it? (I’m assuming that’s why she knows anything about any religion)
I think you’re right there. I assume she has a fairly strong basic knowledge of all things, if only to deride and mock them.
I actually did not put an ‘e’ on the end. A missed opportunity, to be sure.
Jailer Schultz: I KNOW NUTHINGK KOLONEL HOGAN
Thanks for the public service on karma.
My primary goal with this comic is, after all, education.
You mean I won’t turn into a spider next week?
Pfft! And here I am doing all this evil for nothin’.
screw how they ended up in the slammer, i want to FINALLY know what the heck she needed that smurf for!
All in good time.
A lot of people that I know of (including in my family) says “do good and good will happen to you – it’s called Karma”.
Me: …I’m pretty sure Karma could care less what you do in this life and will only help you out if you’re reborn, assuming you believe in being reborn…
…I’m then told I’m wrong and an idiot. Thanks for being someone who understands how Karma *really* works.
As for the comic itself, well, in Tyler’s defense, he DID have good intentions when he wanted to help out. …Makes me wonder how Puck is gonna react when she finds out Daphne and Tyler is in “prison” (I have no idea what to call it, detention maybe?)
Skipping stuff between panels 3 and 4… To be honest, I find it funnier this way – you expect everything to go well and “oh hey. They’re behind bars. Whoops?” happens instead.
Yeah, speaking personally, I’m with you. Any of the ‘you’ll get rewarded for good deeds in your next life/afterlife’ concepts sound way too reassuring to be true. I’m honestly a bit more Confucian in my world view than anything else. His main idea was basically, “Uh, guys, let’s stop worrying about this ‘next life’ stuff and start working on making this life marginally better by cooperating as a society.” But I understand that people don’t find that terribly reassuring.
Sounds greedy. The only reason to live is so people will treat you good because you’re good. Too much mafioso.
Daphne in lock up for being an arsonist, her precious baby missing because of her brain dead boyfriend and her best friend puking all over her multiple times??? This would be a good time for everyone to get the hell out of Funderland because this is gonna get UGLY !!!
But why run away when things are just starting to get interesting?
Somehow it’s comforting to know that the universe these guys live in does have a jail, after all.
I don’t think it’s a real jail. Most real jails aren’t themed.
Daphne and Wilbur will just have to make do.
Doesn’t Canada have a Fourth Amendment equivalent (to be secure in your papers/travels – search and seizure, etc)?
How would they know she had a Snorf without a warrant to search her bag?
Unless she volunteered it.
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure a bill was recently passed that allows police to search without warrant if there is suspected terrorism (it’s an anti-terrorism bill). If they viewed this as an act of terrorism then I’m pretty sure they would have every right to search her, unfortunately.
Shnorfs are, I think, not that important to national security.
There is a difference between criminal actions and terroristic behavior.
Yes, but the police can twist it and say they thought it was an act of terrorism. Until they found the Schnorf, of course, then they would know it was just criminal actions.
I don’t know, but I’m guessing the security video footage might be a little condemning.
Oh, yeah.
I forget video camera exist.
It’s probably a good thing I’m not a cat burglar in real life.
Sometimes when you purchase a ticket to enter a private enterprise, you grant permission to the staff to search your bag. Well, that’s what the fine print says anyway (even though it may not be written on the ticket itself but merely incorporated by reference.)
I don’t know whether Funderland does this.
Probably. Let’s retcon that and say they do.
Retconderland has a lot of fun rides, all of them confusing.
I’m glad you skipped all the ‘fun’ of Daphne and Tyler getting caught. Honestly, this is more humorous, and I feel like showing it all would just make it a bit too long and drawn out. In my opinion, this is much better for the story arc and the humour.
Besides, it forces us to use our IMAGINATION…
But who wants to use imagination now? The whole idea of the internet is that imagination is now obsolete!
This whole story arc is too long already. Any place I can speed things up, I will.
Speed pass with the ride lines, free quarters for the toll roads and doubling the damn speed limits on the roads.
On the upside? No hqving to live with a life of crushing guilt after the media report the hideous, fiery death of a toddler or toddlers in the inferno that was once the Schnorf Village.
Well, there’s that. And that does have value.
toddler lays on the ground, dying
Toddler (last breaths): “Don’t… tell anyone… I was… in here.”
Daphne (Ollie) – “Here’s another fine mess you have gotten us into Stanley (Tyler) !!!”
Poor Laurel. Always so gullible and well-meaning. The comparison is apt.
Puck will not be thrilled to have to bail Tyler and Dap out of jail.
It’s like the finale of Seinfeld. Who puts men and women in the same cell?
Well, I don’t think this is a real jail. But yeah, I totally reserve the right to poetic license in the depiction of all highly inaccurate things contained in this comic.
Theme parks that use a detention cell to hold people a couple of hours until the real police arrive. A single cell under constant guard for 2 hours isn’t likely to see any funny business.
“It’s like the finale of Seinfeld. Who puts men and women in the same cell?”
A merciful God ?
How about having Dap and Tyler use Zen to relax while waiting for Puck to bail them out of jail.
There is absolutely no other way this incident could have gone (knowing all the parties involved) and yet I still found this hilarious.
Sharp wit.
Thanks. Sometimes the stuff writes itself.
Wait a minute, if that’s a make believe jail, why can’t they post make believe bail and get the schnorf out of there? I mean, really, it’s probably plywood with paper-mache bars.
Well, it’s reasonably sturdy make-believe. And I’m sure there’s a security guard close by. But I’m thinking if you built up enough speed, you might be able to Hulk your way through that fake concrete wall.
I’m not sure I would agree that’s entirely accurate… If you look at Pat Robertson, okay, yes, he said the Haitian people had made a pact with the devil “a long time ago”, so that particular instance might have been describing not today’s Haitians, but their ancestors… but I’m reasonably certain I’ve seen televangelists claim that bad things happening to people today is immediate karmic payback for things they’ve done personally in their current life… and I’m reasonably certain I’ve also heard wealthy/successful people claim that their wealth and success is a direct, karmic reward for their good deeds in this life (I’m pretty sure I read about Steve Harvey doing one of those “if I’m successful, it’s only because GOD!”) And it seems to me that’s not a really new thing — I think there are a number of passages in the Old Testament in particular that say basically that, for example, occupation by the Philistines was a punishment to the Israelis for breaking Yaweh’s commandments (several chapters of Judges), or that other people got good stuff for being faithful… Job being a really bad example of this. 😛
And during the American Civil War, people on both sides of the war tended to look at how the war was going for them and then point to the Bible and say “aha!, see, God is happy/displeased with us!”
I think where the three Abrahamic traditions are concerned though, the rule of thumb is “punishment for bad will be swift! (usually) but reward for good… will come when God is good and ready… maybe in the next life… be grateful if you get it early.” 😛
I don’t personally believe that the world is at all that simple… god or no god. (Positive Agnostic here.)
Well, you’re right in that a number of the protestant wings of Christianity flirt with this idea. And religious Americans in the 1% love this concept too. I would say it’s a very popular concept, especially in the American psyche, especially right now. Few religions take the step of turning it into official policy, though. They hint at it, allude to it, but don’t turn it into official doctrine.
Screw karma.
Causality is where it is at.
(FINAL Update from the Daphne-Bashing Unit)
Karen kanned the kat (sob sob sob). Hollered at me, too.
Brayed my observations weren’t on point, weren’t funny, weren’t even original.
Time to visit the Unemployment Office – again.
Sorry about your luck.
Tough bit of luck there old chum. Perhaps your heart was never really in it ; )
@CH
I still hold out hope for you, though.
Your unrestrained profanity just may be the Key to Karen’s heart !
A TIP: Sit at your Monitor, with a grimace, whiskey on your breath, unshaved, unwashed, and with Daphne on the screen. Mutter constantly, with frequent, violent, spit-laden outbursts of foul maledictions, combined with unrestrained gesticulations, and a bright future will be secure !
You know raising the alarm is sufficient help, given the park has adequite fire fighting capabilities. I know it’s not the joke, but in my head, they got detained for trying to “help” and the Shnorf was discovered by complete accident.
But for two ill-informed decisions.
There is an episode of the Animorphs television show where Jake eats snails in front of Visser 3 and his brother Tom, both with slug like Yeerks in their heads. He does it mostly because he knows it creeps them out.
Delicious too! Ah Animorphs. Classic 90’s.