Puck 342
on June 13, 2016 at 10:04 pm
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As for this comic…
We’re back on the couch playing video games! I haven’t drawn anyone sitting on that old couch in fourteen months! How I missed you, duct tape.
Anyway, we’re almost to the end of this lengthy story arc. Next week we get to the bottom of why Daphne actually wanted to steal the Shnorf in the first place. And maybe one or two more after that, but then … done! Onto something else entirely. (Something shorter this time.)
Some friends. Some friends.
KISS ALREADY
Sorry.
Oh come on. We can drag this tension out for at least another year or two.
I agree. Plus, I doubt Tyler wants to be on the hook even more than he is already when Daph cooks up her next scheme
True. It would be (A) tougher to get out of Daphne’s schemes, and (B) harder to anything after his mom killed him. Because that would probably happen.
Not to mention who likes dog breath?
Well, yeah. But at least Puck fainted.
Is that a year real time, or a year in Puck time? Because you just finished spending a year following 1 day at an amusement park. At this rate, the sun might consume Mercury before Daphne and Tyler actually get together.
That’s a year in real time. Puck time is seemingly a little unpredictable. Sometimes a few months pass in the blink of an eye. Other times it’s one day per one year.
Wouldn’t Daphne just be licking his cheek and panting loudly, though? I don’t know if that counts as proper kissing.
Oh My.
I thought Daphne bought herself an Upper Lip.
Well, she has. Though it’s not prominent.
Oh, BTW.
Thank You for the lack of INK in Puck.
Yuk.
That’s what I forgot. It’s the girlfriend who is passive aggressive.
So is the relationship progressing?
I’ve known enough guys who are passive-aggressive as f@#%. Actually, I’d say from personal experience that the passive-aggressive stuff is even more common in guys because guys are commonly raised to not talk about their feelings. I’ve found that women are way more likely to say something like “The fact that you’re ignoring me right now makes me feel unappreciated,” as opposed to guys, who are way more likely to say “Whatever. If you don’t want to listen to me, that’s cool. It’s not like it was very interesting, I guess.”
Tyler could do so much better.
Perhaps. But he doesn’t want to. For oft is winged Cupid painted blind.
He knows he could do “better,” right? He knows and he doesn’t want to?
Daphne’s shirt just sent me on a journey of Google-discovery that I desperately need to get back to… But I just wanted to say that I like the Ye Olde English lettering. I think the calligraphers of yore would feel good to know that their art form evolved into something that is now used exclusively for decals on the backs of lowriders and MMA tattoos.
It took me a long while to find the exact blackletter (Gothic German calligraphy) that they most often use for ‘Thug Life’ t-shirts and the like. I guess I couldn’t be too surprised when I found out that it was the most common one.
Welcome to a world of nerds, who take children’s games and turn them into grand adventures or hellish warfare!
…Most of us are more sane than it sounds, I swear.
Ok, I gotta admit, Daphne’s droopy ears in panel 2 are priceless. Awesome job, Geck!
I drew her ears like that, and asked myself “Do her ears work like that? Because they haven’t before.” But then I thought that Daphne’s never really been this vulnerable, so … I went for it.
One of the mostly unsung things about this comic is how well you emote with the ears. This has been a constant all the way back to strip one!
Ears are for emoting. The human race is broken because our anatomy doesn’t recognize this.
About the voting incentive, I wouldn’t say very different. A little different, perhaps.
Well, given the fact that every leather-clad female super spy owes their existence to the fabulous Emma Peel (and the even more fabulous Diana Rigg), I’d agree with you there. Dang it, 60’s! Why were you so sexy? All the women I desire more than life itself were at their primes in the 60’s: Diana Rigg, Julie Newmar, Peggy Lipton. Where’s that time machine when you need one?
Ha! I’m in the same boat as you – though I like the ladies in the 40s and 50s.
Jane Wyatt is my biggest crush.
Veronica Lake FTW.
Veronica Lake looks very similar to my ex-wife – so I’ve been down that road. 😀
My ex will probably die of the same renal failure if she keeps going the way she is/was.
She was a real … something. I love her specifically because almost every man who ever worked with her hated her intensely. Something about the way she just didn’t give a flying f#$% about what guys thought about her, I find that appealing. The horrible alcoholism maybe not so much.
My favorite Veronica Lake story is one where her male co-star (I think on ‘I Married a Witch’) had to physically carry her in a scene. She was a tiny, tiny girl, of course, so this wouldn’t have been too much to ask of the guy — save for the fact that she strapped sixty pounds of weight onto her body beforehand. Apparently they did multiple takes and the guy almost died from the strain. When he was recovering afterwards, she just went up to him and whispered, “Big bones.”
That’s my kinda goil.
Emma Peel beats every other sexy spy. To heck with Black Widow.
Agreed! But not if played by Uma Thurman. That doesn’t count.
Here’s VERONICA LAKE sporting a look totally unlike any Women’s-Wear the Gecko has ever drawn.
BE INSPIRED: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HIk2mmCJ4F0/TlZuCiEqGaI/AAAAAAAAAz8/bgiIN0vkajQ/s1600/VERONICA-LAKE-COWGIRL.jpg
Checked Voting Incentive after reading comment. Was not disappointed.
As for the comic, I laughed way too hard about the whole guilt tripping part. Mostly because, let’s face it, it’s Daphne.
I may or may not be shipping them way too hard (then again, I do that in general, so it’s win-win I guess?)
I’ve had a few theories about why she wants the Shnorf, but I doubt any of them are accurate. Still, doesn’t hurt to wonder! (For those curious: most of it is “because she can” or “for selling purposes” or “smuggling things because let’s face it, it’s Daphne”).
Ship them all you like. But from my end, the Daphne/Tyler experience represents my primary memory of high school, which was spending lots of time with, hanging out with, and really having the hots for girls that I was not, in fact, dating.
Can you feel the love tonight…
That’s one of the best Disney make-out songs. Along with ‘Kiss de Girl’. The fact that you could probably make a top ten of Disney make-out songs is actually a little disturbing.
What do you think should be on that list?
Disney themselves have produced an album of their make out songs. Some of them not so much make out, but it’s called Disney’s Greatest Love Songs.
I am dissapointed Hellfire did not make the cut.
*spits out her coffee*
I’ll leave that up to Watchmojo.
Tyler is also growing as a person. He’s growing more assertive. 😉
This is good for both of them, I think!
Agreed. Let’s hear it for backbones!
And introspection.
And at least a bare minimum of ethics and morals.
Indeed, many scams require two persons or an entire team — or a gang. Perhaps Daphne will end up as the leader of her own little pirate horde, someday. A horde that smuggles Schnorf merchandise.
If your scam requires more than two people, it officially graduates from a scam to a heist. Seriously, that’s Criminal Actions 101.
And here I thought a heist involves getting a macguffin past multiple layers of security meant to prevent that very eventuality, while a scam involves social-engineering the target into willingly handing the macguffin into your waiting hands.
Now you’re complicating things.
My work here is done, then. 😉
(sighs) He’s still the same SUCKER he’s always been if he’s still listening to her.
Well, true. But one has to ascend from suckerage slowly, in baby steps.
It can take a lifetime.
Accept the word of one who knows 😉
Looks like these two persons ought to *get* jobs. They’ve got too much time on their hands. And they’re not *doing* anything of importance with each other…
They ARE doing something of importance. They’re playing Smash.
Is saying to your bf something like, “Boy, your pot roast makes me get all excited! Almost as much as your Chicken Paillard!” classed as passive-aggressive?
Probably. Because no boyfriend has ever made a good Chicken Paillard.
Wrong-o, Mr. Gecko, sir :p
I’m not familiar with these sexual euphemisms…
I knew there was a catch… it’s Daphne afterall lol.
Whatever good will is established in panels one to three must, by law, be dispelled in panel four.
About the voter incentive for this week, do worry Puck, I blame Gecko for making you look too Uma Thurman-ish instead of Diana Rigg-ish…. (The hair need to be bit a bit more curvey)
Maybe Tracee can rock an Honor Blackman role in a different British spy schtick? Who knows, might make SalemCat happy ?!?!?
Funny I just mentioned my picks for the best Bond Girls of them all…
Sure. Blame me for everything!
I’ve been PURRING so loudly for the last week my owners rolled me up in a Towel and use me now for their MASSAGE THERAPY !
Normally I’d be highly insulted to be a common appliance, but I presently I don’t care, don’t care…..
Tracee in a Bikini ! Freckle-Face with a Hot Dog ! Puck in skin-tight BLACK LEATHER and even MORE FRECKLES !!!
PURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!!!!!
Wait till next week: more freckles, more bikinis, and an extra dose of plaid.
“Baldie” is my human dad (that’s what Janet, my human mom, calls him all the time. I think it IS his real name).
Anyhow, Baldie was sputtering something about repainting the front of the house next week. And that Salem could help.
Being wrapped up with 80-Grit Sandpaper can’t be all bad – can it ?
PURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!!!!!
“applause”
I can take this. Baby steps for Daphne.
Well, seeing as it’s the best you’re ever going to get, I’m glad.
Gotta love the emotive ears. 🙂
I’m glad people are in support, because I do love to use them so.
Huh…I’d think him saying ‘at our age friends should have some benefits’ would have been a better response! From his perspective, anyway.
PAX
Well, awkward teens who wear polo shirts with the top button done up generally aren’t known for their overly forward attitudes.
Too easy, the daphne isn’t even worth bashing this time.
@CH
Awwww….
But you’ve got to appreciate how emotive her ears are in this episode !
@SalemCat
There is NOTHING to appreciate about the daphne.
Only by accepting Tracee in Her Infinite Glory can one find eternal salvation. Only She can redeem all from the eternal damnation that “the daphne,” brought upon us all.
REPENT O’ YE SINNERS! For Hers is the Way, the Light, and the Glory! Forever and ever. Amen!
@CH
Karen must be lovin’ this.
I figure she can lay off half the DAPHNE-BASHING UNIT and still show better numbers this quarter with you on board.
Take a Bow – (applause)
I am SO lucky Breanna doesn’t have criminal tendencies. I’d be mulch.
I am assuming this is a good thing.
I would prefer to not be mulch. 😉
“VAGUELY” criminal acts??? O_o
Explicitly criminal acts.
…So our takeaway should be, that she has promised not to pressure him into grey-legal area activities, but absolutely criminal ones are still fair game?
…
The ramifications of this, with the added context of their post-Prom, “Mystery Wagon Almost Shaggin'”, heating up of their relationship… are a little alarming.
Indeed.