NINTENDO + PUCK = NINTENDO COSPLAY!!!
You click? I click! WE ALL CLICK ON AMAZING NEW VOTING INCENTIVE!
You click? I click! WE ALL CLICK ON AMAZING NEW VOTING INCENTIVE!
As for the comic…
I don’t know why the poutine shack outside would be stocking sporks, but I don’t care. Sporks are inherently funny. And, to my mind, seem like utensils perfectly suited for scooping out eyeballs. (What can I say? I have a fixation with violence. And sporks.)
I’m starting to think the social worker might be more powerful than she appears.
Doubtful, Robin’s ire is elsewhere targeted at this time.
Well, perhaps. She’s certainly difficult to faze, but I think anyone in this job would be after a few years.
Puck = Muffin Top ?
Try not to think too hard about it.
Oh, you will be. You will be.
It doesn’t take long. The transformation is almost complete.
Questions, since Puck is older then the Magna Carta shouldn’t her well supercede that of the child welfare lady?
Yet since everyone else was born in the last 100 years they should be subject to Canadian Canon, right?
However, I was thinking of that one Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chassle & John Candy film. It was somewhat based somewhere in New Jersey.
There was a Dan Aykroyd/Chevy Chase/John Candy movie? If so, I’ve never seen it. (I’ve seen ‘The Great Outdoors’ starring Aykroyd and Candy, but throwing Chevy Chase in there would totally seal the deal!)
Thought Chevy Chase was in Maryland.
“Nothing But Trouble” (1991)
Will not well. Stupid phone.
It’s kind of funny seeing Phoebe all surprised and worried about this.
Also, does this mean that poutine could be weaponized at some point in this storyline? Maybe invade Arkansas? I could use some good poutine without crossing international borders. Except for a family reunion.
The fact that Phoebe can be shocked about anything after all the crap she’s seen is, to my mind, one of the charming elements of her character. And poutine is already weaponized … for your arteries.
There’s a version of Poutine I really like, it has many names, the one I heard it under was Dirty Poutine. It’s slow cooked barbecue beef and sauce instead of the gravy. It’s amazing, the sauce is sweet and mixes well with the cheese and the fries, the beef gave it a texture contrast with the crispy fries. It was just nice. Even pretty good for you for fast food.
I’ll go for any variety. ANY.
Sounds like someone needs to go New Orleans on a true batch of dirty poutine and go cajun smoked pulled pork bbq on the poutine.
As a matter of cultural and circulatory exchange.
Double bonus points for the Aesop!
Indeed, much of this series could be turned into short fables, e.g. “The Best Friend Who Barfed On Rides” or “The Boy Who Loved A Klepto”
Exactly. We deal in pithy morals and stupid characters here.
Man, NOTHING rattles this social worker. She must have worked a nickel in the greater Hamilton area at some point in her career to get nerves this steely.
It’s because she hasn’t gazed into the abyss before. She really has no idea of the magnitude of what she’s dealing with here.
She’ll learn soon enough.
If she works in Vaughn, trust me, she’s seen some sh@#. That neighborhood could give downtown Hamilton a run for its money.
If I didn’t already love Puck, I would after this comic due to the sporks.
And Puck has a last name? I can’t remember that being mentioned since… The initial run, I think? Or sometime during the pregnancy arc, possibly… I forget.
I’m starting to feel more and more sorry for Tyler, as all he’s done is tag along (due to Daphne). I wonder if that guy has much of a will of his own, come to think of it…
Puck’s legal full name is ‘Robin Goodfellow’ (which is canonical with Shakespeare), though it often doesn’t pop up often enough for people to remember it. And as Daphne has noted before, God gave Tyler free will. He just chooses not to use it.
So … any problems with her age/date of birth on her legal documents being just a bit over half a millennia more than the average Canadian citizen or is it that being Canada, people are just too polite to point this out and that includes the authorities?
Assuming she has documentation. Really, the logistics of that sort of thing are just so confusing that they’re bound to be ignored by the writer of this comic.
Just sayin’.
Well, she’s been in hospital a few times and I know enough about your health care system to know that they need to see proof of identity and citizenship to make sure you’re not one of those US Americans sneaking across the border for subsidized health care and pharmaceuticals.
That’s not in any way a criticism. Might even be a doorway to more entertainment as people continue to not be fazed by meeting a 631 year old or thereabouts with that extending to government officials.
Poor Robin.
Methinks she is neither a Fairy nor 631.
She just had parents with a twisted sense of humor.
I, on the other hand, am a direct descendent of … um … someone who died a long time ago. So there.
I write her exactly as you’ve described.
So how do we explain those ears then?
Or her angry face which is the stuff of nightmares (and expensive dental bills).
No way any of that’s even remotely human.
i think Tyler met Daphne and then his free will was taken and he basically sold his soul to a fate worse than Satan the adopted daughter of Puck … and i feel that the Social worker isn’t going to end up in a great situation. |:/ Puck is already pissed ready for blood the social worker is now entering the ‘choose your words carefully’ tight rope in where one mistake then you’re in something worse than Tyler’s fate and where Collin is at the moment Puck’s line of vision ( which isn’t the greatest at the moment in the social workers favor )… except she get’s to escape he signed the forever deal… :3 i’m rooting for Puck
All will end well…ish. Have faith.
oh i was kinda hoping for Puck to atleast land a punch on someone new… meh :3 but i do have faith it’ll all come together -ish 🙂 i love that Miranda is blissfully aware… that kid will be all sort’s of messed up when she’s older i think Colin is praying she won’t turn out like Puck… who knows Bye!~
Isn’t there a quote from someone along the lines of, “It doesn’t take a great deal to remove someone’s eyes. Just a teaspoon and a certain mindset.”?
If there isn’t, there should be.
No doubt now we’ll find out that Puck and / or Colin never formally adopted Daphne.
Well, I think that’s the least of their infractions right now.
i don´t think the social lady is that unflappable, she just hasn´t learned yet that puck isn´t joking but dead serious. reality is soon going to burst her bubble.
The reality of Puck hits harder than normal reality.
Mischief Mayhem (Many) Dopes.
Nobody here read Shakespeare?
Midsummer Night Dream, act II:
FAIRY
Either I mistake your shape and making quite,
Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
Called Robin Goodfellow. […]
Those that “Hobgoblin” call you, and “sweet Puck,”
You do their work, and they shall have good luck.
Are not you he?
ROBIN
Thou speak’st aright.
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
Nope. Nobody.
Didn’t you say you are an English Lit teacher? :p
He didn’t say he was any good at it.
Heh, good one
I have but not in centuries and truthfully, I’m more of a Hamlet/Othella type meself.
Although I Have been known to wander into Taming of the Shrew or Much Ado About Nothing when in an odd frame of mind. [shrugs]
Here I am, fixated on the fact that she’s calling Puck “Ms” despite the fact that her and Collin are married. 😛 Is that common in Canada to just use Ms for everybody, or am I just being OCD about it?
Well, they’re not married, not formally anyway. (Different last names too.) And speaking as a public servant who is sometimes forced into conversations with the public, you’re always safest to lead with ‘Ms.’
All these people missing the whole ‘not married’ thing. I thought it was made clear in the story. Was I the only one taking notes when I read the whole archive after first discovering this weekly webcomic?
Dude, if you’re taking notes, then I need to suggest more meaningful reading material!
I, for one, can barely ever remember the names of characters to most of the webcomics I read. If people remember anything, I’m impressed. (You also dove through the whole archive fairly recently, so it’s fresh. Some of these people, like Sam, have been following along at a snail’s pace for years. The last mentioning of Puck and Colin’s marital status was years ago. Ain’t nobody got time for that.)
You remember that part of that reason for taking notes was my other job as point man for a hit team to determine whether you were a target of interest or not, right?
Well, yeah. That too.
Would that make Miranda’s full name Miranda Goodfellow-MacTavish in practical (if absurd) terms?
Yes, yes it would.
It’s”Colin and she are married.” Which they are not. I also have been following Puck for years :p
QUESTION! Who’s more of a devil? Puck or Phoebe?
Puck, hands down. Like, many, many hands down. The whole continent of Asia, the whole population, all their hands down. That kind of hands down.
Is it the whole of Asia putting their hands down at the same time cause an earthquake in North America type of hands down though?
I saw a VSauce on that, and apparently, no, it would not cause an earthquake.
That’s just what they want you to believe.
Well, Phoebe, like most children is following in a tradition as old as time in clearly rebelling against her parents. In her particular case, by being decent and nice individual to a fault.
Also, we already clearly established with this that Puck is definitely Tyler to Phoebe’s Jack.
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Yes, sporks are inherently funny. So is “poutine shack”.
*Wants to see Puck gouge out Daff’s eyes with a spork. Though pickle forks work better.”
Hence the inclusion.
The Farmer and the Stork: WISDOM.
Americans don’ts understand this – at all. If you’re “Hanging Out” in the midst of violent Rioters – “You Are One Of Them”.
You may not be throwing Petrol Bombs, but “You Are One Of Them”.
And as any high school teacher can tell you, if you hang out with the bad crowd long enough, you become the bad crowd. Really, it doesn’t take long for the transformation to occur.
Actually, most americans get that. You’re talking mainly people that think they’re entitled to things and attention just because they want it. I won’t get political, but the rioters are an embarrassment to the rest of us.
I was about to say that the people I grew up around got it. Only we tended to refer to it as “bad company”.
Read Patrick F. McManus some time. He’s got an excellent story about just that thing.
That social worker is so chill amidst the potential for violence being imminent.
She’s not phased 😮
I’m guessing this is not her first trailer trash rodeo.
Don’t fairies have, well…magical powers, or something?
With her ears and lack of wings or any sort of powers, I’d almost think she was more of an elf.
She might not even qualify as that. The only evidence we have that she’s anything other than human is the ears. And maybe that’s just a genetic abnormality.
It’s a bit like Voltaire’s statement about the Holy Roman Empire, when he noted that it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. This comic features Puck, ancient fairy of lore, who is for all intents and purposes neither ancient, nor a fairy, nor connected to any extant lore. Bit of a misnomer, really.
Wouldn’t that make the narrator a liar? It wasn’t Puck who said that about herself, it was the narrator.
Hey, I never said the narrator was a reliable one.
You know, the comic DOES include a Talking dog person, and Satan himself. And those we have proof of.
So, it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to think she’s a Fairy. Although Satan’s powers were pretty limited to just his large bank account.
A similar argument could be made for Satan, that he’s not actually the Satan but just some rich dude who really, really wants to be Satan. Kind of like Donald Trump.
Keep telling yourself that, Taylor/Tyler…