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I thought it was time to do a little retrospective, so here we go! I’ve been running constant voting incentives on TWC for years now, so dive into the vault and relive some real gems. Every couple of days this February, a new “classic” Phoebe voting incentive is popping up on TWC! If you never saw these pics the first time or you want to see ‘em again, be sure to vote often and catch ‘em all!
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As for the comic…
Puck and Phoebe are back at last! That ought to make readers happy! Though it’s possible that they’ve been gone so long that readers forgot all about them, and are now annoyed that these strange faces are popping up to break the Colin-heavy narrative. I dunno.
If you’re wondering why Daphne would be calling Puck on Phoebe’s cell, it’s because Puck doesn’t actually own a cell phone. Neither does Colin. Both of them are Luddites stuck in the past and resistant to new technology, like me. I initially tried to shoehorn an explanation for this in the dialogue but the resulting panel was clunky and dumb, so … yeah.
And if you’re wondering what possible crime Daphne could have committed to require the disposal of the unique body of evidence listed in panel four, well, your guess is as good as mine. Ideas, anyone?
New page! Yes!
First! Wait, if I posted the page, then I’m first. Whoa.
Can you… can you ‘Blue Shell’ the creator?
And, if I did, then NO ONE would be first!
Whoa!
If everybody is the FIRST, then nobody is.
Noodle Incident!!
Too much Calvin & Hobbs.
Too much TV Tropes, actually.
I’ve pulled this gag so many times that it’s now a sin, but I’m a-pullin’ it anyway!
Like what happened in Whitehorse? 🙂
Well, for all we know, this escapade might have occurred in Whitehorse too.
The dog was killed when Daphne and Taylor had a minor slip on the top of a warehouse housing top of the line Sega Genesis “Sam Burgler’s Revenge of the Creuller” in Christchurch.
Daphne then found a Buick with the keys on the dashboard. The dog and the games were put in the trunk. The games were ruined by the bodily fluids of the dog, thus necessitating their disposal as well.
Daphne lost control of the vehicle just two miles from McNiven’s, splitting the vehicle in half. Puck had to render assistance because Daphne used Puck’s student visa to fund this little brouhaha. This was during the time that everyone else was parading around like Jay birds. Au naturale.
Here’s my theory: Daphne was driving a Buick Regal with a trunk full of stolen/bootleg Sega cartridges, but she lost control of the car and crashed after running over a dog.
That’s a simple, relatively easy solution. Though it must have been a pretty crazy crash to break the Buick in two.
This is actually close to what I was thinking.
Well there ever be any flashbacks?
NO.
Stop apologising! You made it perfectly clear that you couldn’t handle the rides, and she dragged you along anyway!
Phoebe can never stop apologizing. She can’t help it. She’s Canadian.
It’s the sega cartridges that worry me – those things will poison the earth!
Aw come on! Not Altered Beast! Altered Beast is friend to the planet!
I’d agree with you when it comes to Atari Jaguar carts, but not Sega ones. There are a TON of great Master System and Genesis/Megadrive games. For example, the best version of Mega Man 1-3 is on the Japan/Europe Megadrive.
I’m rather fond of Comic Zone personally.
I have great affection for some of the Sega titles. Streets of Rage 2 is still one of my favorite games of all time. (Not Street of Rage 3, of course. That’s no one’s favorite game.)
I have Streets of Rage 2 on my 3DS, along with Afterburner and Outrun. I even have a little arcade cabinet on the folder I keep them in.
That Puck doesn’t have a cellphone, I somewhat saw coming a while back. Colin, however, I assumed would have one. I stand corrected, apparently.
I am somewhat curious (and slightly frightened) at the fact that Daphne had to bury a car, games and a dog. Then again, knowing her, she had ‘good’ reasons (‘good’ being arguable) to do so.
If you took Puck’s personality and somehow combined it with Colin’s stupidity, you’d get a pretty close match to my own personality. So neither of them gets a cell phone.
I have long held cell-phones are convenient…
to the people who want to interrupt your life.
when they first came out, my mother bought one that needed a small suitcase for the battery and was the size of Webster’s dictionary.
The ONLY reason I had one as a trucker is it was very useful for finding customers I hadn’t served before.
That cell phone was thrown away when I left the road.
If I ever get a cell phone, I want it to be one of those big Motorola models from 1985 that are the size of a milk carton and have that extendable antenna on top. That’s how to really show you’re a man through technology.
They make a receiver for smart phones that, no joke, are the old handheld receivers from the time before cell phones. You know, the part you lifted up and talked into? Yeah, I haven’t been able to figure out if that’s cool, or stupid. I think I may decide it’s both.
That sounds 100% cool to me.
https://img.grouponcdn.com/stores/hmtQ213q1YKcRhSTmNUEQq/storespi31842-1040×640/v1/c700x420.jpg
Wonderful.
And they actually have a Bluetooth version now, so you can have a cordless replica of a corded handset, paired with your cell phone.
Actually, I would prefer one of those twisty pigtail-type cords.
My question is, what did she do with the front half?
I think I read too much Perry Tretchet and Douglas Adams, but I don’t think I want to know. Stuff not even mentioned in the noodle incident is most often the wierdest.
It’s best left unsaid. Always.
I have my own noodle incident me and my friends bring up involving jerky, chili seasoning, chocolate milk, and a guy I never liked enough to learn his name. The full story is hilarious, but the looks on people’s faces when I just mention the components involved is just priceless.
That’s the real question. Maybe it just was the less incriminating end of the car, and so it was left for the junk yard.
The back half was all that was left after the train hit the front, obviously.
“She just called to say she loves you, and she means it from the bottom of her heart…” Yeah, right.
Panel four originally had Puck referring to Phoebe as ‘Stevie’ but I took it out, mainly because I wanted to be spared the endless questions from confused twenty-something readers wondering why Puck would call Phoebe ‘Stevie.’
Probably a good idea to self-censor yourself in editing panel four in these crazy Politically Correct times, Gecko. People who know what you meant by “Stevie” could have misunderstood Puck’s comment as not referring to his song, but to something else about him…
What, that he’s blind?
Nah, that Phoebe’s still BLIND to the ways of Daphne after all these years…
I’m not politically correct enough to even get that.
Neither am I.
I’m an idiot when it comes to the PC crowd.
Actually, I consider THEM as idiots and fools.
I need it to be explained.
What is an online comic if one can’t make weird and strange in-jokes?
Maybe she just called to say how much she cared?
Puck should have called in Winston Wolfe to Clean. He’s pricey, but well worth it.
And he has connections in the car disposal business, I hear.
My guess is that Daphne was after some sort of mixed freight boxcar from the local downhill train switching yard and was not able to turn the handbrake wheel fast enough to stop the car from plowing into the front end of the Buick Regal, mangling poor Fido in the front seat as well, and sending the crate of 50 Sega cartridges flying though the boxcar. The remaining cargo of poker chips survived the crash intact, which was what Daphne was after all along to fund her High stakes poker championship game mentioned in Puck #91.
Hmmm. This is an appealing solution. I do like, though, how everyone’s possible back stories give Daphne the benefit of the doubt and assume the dog’s death was accidental. That’s nice of you all.
I think the key lies in the fact that Daff started out as a dog. She had a date with another of the same species and killed him playing too many Sega games. Or maybe after? Heh, heh, heh. They were, um, preoccupied” in a Regal that was going to that big car musher in “Pulp Fiction” and rocked it half out of the hopper.
That’s my story and I am sticking to it.
That’s too disturbing, honestly.
So is that “Left Shark” or “Right Shark” in panel three, Gecko ?
I drew that shark, like, 30 comics ago or more, and have been waiting for an opportunity to stick him somewhere. As for whether he is, indeed, the shark of yore, well… I leave that up to your imagination.
I know exactly what crime Daphne committed! She… uh… uh… Hi Daphne! Long time no see! How are things? I wasn’t going to say anything about a… Um, you know what? I think I left my stove, uh, on fire. GottagoBYE!
Whew. That was a close one.
I like to think the 50 cartridges came from a huge box she bought in an online auction, and were 50 copies of Madden Football.
Because if it were 50 copies of Mutant League Football, you’d totally keep those. I actually believe that you’re right and the more valuable carts were already culled from a larger collection. Because who needs Madden? Every freakin’ year?
Of all properties coming back, I’d love to see Mutant League Football or Hockey to come back. It’s like the old game Blood Bowl, which I think the current kiddies could enjoy both of them. Though Blood Bowl did have a less than stellar video game. Bad AI, can happen to any franchise.
Mutant League Football and games of that ilk were the only sports games I had any patience for. Let me kill my opponents. If I can’t, then why am I playing a video game? Basewars for NES rocked for that reason too. When getting hit by the ball can result in your whole upper body getting blown clean off, you know you’re playing ball!
Then I recommend for the NES the game Super Dodge Ball. Pat the NES Punk has an interesting review of it, but let me sum it up for you right now. Remember the game dodge ball when you were in elementary school? Well this is a world tour of dodgeball TO THE DEATH!!!! That’s the entire plot. You’re the americans playing against teams across the world and you throw balls that act like guided missiles, wrap the opponent up into a trip around the world to slam them to the ground, all sorts of things you could never do with a medicine ball and each round is last man standing. With the final standard team being 80’s America’s true enemy in all things, the Dirty Commies of Russia! 😀
It’s not that hard even on hard, and it is just such a goofy game that’s almost a parody of sports movies and the 80s. I recommend it tremendously because it is just pure zany fun. And hey, you turn a kid’s game into a bloody murder fest. We’ve all been there haven’t we?
Dude, like I don’t own a copy of Super Dodge Ball, my favorite game ever. If it wasn’t marred by a bad case of NES flicker lag, that game would be the perfect game.
It’s amazing that, what was once a hot item for retailers back when these systems were new are now bargain bin items at retro game resellers, and the ones that didn’t sell that well are now big dollar sales.
I’m betting that I’ll be able to make some bank for my copy of Dragon Age Inquisition for the Xbox 360 from a collector some day for the same reason.
It’s all weird and uneven, though. With the NES titles, for instance, the least popular games are worth the most money, because they were rare end-run titles that had very limited release. (I own a bunch. Contra Force, anyone?) With the SNES, though, it seems to be the reverse, in that the most valued carts are often some of the most popular. Maybe the way they produced carts (and the numbers they churned out) changed, but it’s kind of odd to see what ends up being worth a ton of money later on. It’s never very predictable.
Yeah, but you’re never going to find a triple A sports game for more than 2 figures for an older console. Those were hugely popular back in the day, as they always are at the time of release, and you can’t give them away now. And games like Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic and Knuckles, etc…there were a lot of them made, so you won’t find them for a lot at used game stores or online either.
But games like Rocket Knight Adventures or Sparkster, with more limited runs, they’re more costly, due to the more limited runs back then, due to a lack of confidence in the product.
Yeah, the sweet spot is the limited release yet fondly remembered games. (Or limited release and not fondly remembered yet tied to a well known franchise games. Like Contra Force.)
I think the important question here is Where the heck does Phoebe carry a phone in those “barely there” outfits she wears?? I know you can buy slim model phones but man, hers would need to be wafer thin!
The same place Puck carries everything and Daphne keeps her backpack. Because I am not female, I never actually think of a purse as a necessary accessory. I do not carry a purse, ergo none of my characters do either. Though it really doesn’t work or even make sense.
In some of those outfits, Phoebe could wear the phone on her forehead like a unicorn, and who would notice?
I’m not complaining, mind.
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P.S. “I Just Called To Say You’re (my) Kaiju” is really hard to write!
I think Stevie Wonder would have a hit on his hands if he wrote that one.
I used to know a woman who kept her phone in her bra, since she refused to carry a purse. It was…interesting…to hang out with her when she got a phone call.
Although Phoebe’s got some assets that way, I have to say that I don’t think she’s full-figured enough to pull that off without it being pretty obvious.
I could try to describe how it looked, but you’d probably have to delete the comment. And that’s not even considering that it’s filtered through the foggy memories of a then pervy young man in his early 20s.
“pervy young man” is redundant, in my experience 😉
Shame about the dog.
But in my scenario, he died happy 😀
In my first draft, it was a moose.
Phoebrary 2016 proves:
1. A towel is one of the most massively useful things in the universe
2. You should never put sticky notes on your computer screen
Well, I’m very glad it’s been a learning experience.
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that, after remembering all the Phoebruary call-backs so far, I spent way too long trying to figure out how I missed the voting incentive with full frontal Phoebe. Then I noticed the sticky note says Feb 2016 and realized it was another classic ElectricGecko tease. How do you keep managing to get me?
The thing about having a brain that functions at about 43% the capacity of a normal person’s brain is that I can sometimes underthink people and fool them through sheer stupidity.
I think you’re seriously overestimating the capacity of a normal person’s brain.
As well as what passes for normal these days.
It’s not the stuff that was buried that was the complicated part. It was the DISCREET burial that was difficult.
You’d be amazed by how quietly those backhoes can operate.
Wow… both Phoebe’s two facial expressions in the same comic! A treat!
(Seriously though, it seems like that “lidded eyes” deadpan expression is being overused.)
Dude, I only have, like, five jokes, a handful of facial expressions and three poses at my disposal. Variety is not my strong suit. I’m like the crappy dollar store of webcomics. If you want variety, though, there are a bunch of webcomic Walmarts around.
Ok, Geck…it’s now time for a flashback moment. I’d love to see what all of that with Daphne stemmed from 😀
It wouldn’t be nearly as awesome as whatever’s in your mind right now, unfortunately.
“…like last time.” OMG. You just keep sneaking those in, don’t you?
I am not a one-trick pony. I’m more like a seven-trick pony. That just happens to be one of my seven tricks.