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As for this comic…
I’m just going to state right here that it’s very hard to draw a gesture signifying that a person wants to draw on another person’s face, but doesn’t have the appropriate drawing utensil in hand. Just saying. I think I got it pretty right in panel four, though.
Some guys are freckle guys. Some are not. I am (unsurprisingly, I suppose) a freckle guy. I think the human race is sadly bereft of cool markings like stripes or spots or whatever, and freckles are the closest thing we’ve got. That said, freckles are not a required thing for me; I am not exclusively a freckle guy. Though given the fact that my wife is of the freckled variety, maybe I should say that I am exclusively a freckle guy, but then it sounds kind of weird, and…
I’m going to stop writing while I’m ahead.
Poor Miranda.
Her chances of ever having a sibling playmate have just plummeted !
Well, her chances of ever having a sibling playmate are not high merely because I’ve already done a hundred-comic-long pregnancy story arc, and another one doesn’t sound like fun.
SORAS.
Just breeze right through the pregnancy in 2 panels and then hang a lampshade on it in panels 3 and 4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera_rapid_aging_syndrome
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging
Nah. People would NOT let that fly.
I would!
…
Nah, you’re right, I wouldn’t. Sad that they can’t have a little boy, though – it’d be an interesting addition to a household with Colin as the only male castmember.
If Puck happened to look at the audience and ever so clearly state that she wasn’t going through 100 strips of pregnancy again and that anyone who had a problem with that ought to take it up with her they would.
Hmm. Not a bad idea.
It didn’t take 100 comics to introduce Daphne as her child.
I’m just saying, there are other ways for kids to enter the picture; if you really wanted it to happen, I’m sure you’d think of something.
I don’t really want it to happen.
*Raises hand* I vote with the Gecko
“We’re having a baby!” is often the sign of the wellspring of ideas running dry. (See ‘Drabble’ and ‘For Better of for Worse’.) “We’re having ANOTHER baby!” is definitely a sign that your comic is intellectually bankrupt.
I’ve already crossed the first point of no return. I fear that the second would destroy us.
“I’ve already crossed the first point of no return. I fear that the second would destroy us.”
This is quite the conundrum.
Or not.
It’s just such a wonderful word, and I’ve been itching to use it, like forever.
AAAAANNNND, from wise man back to fool, just like that!
The wisdom never lasts longer than about ten seconds.
Love the voting incentives, I can’t wait to see what you have done with the rest. Although the indignation of Daphne playing Squirrel Girl would pale in comparison to the indignation of Tony Stark seeing Colin play him.
Stark can go suck a lemon. I like Colin better than him any day. :p
No Tony Stark this time. Mainly because I don’t want to draw the armor.
poor collin….try pretending to cough+choke while drinking chocolate milk, hence snorting the brown stuff all over. it could work…..or you can just draw on her while she´s asleep. the later option might get you killed though – remember those biceps?
also, i LOVE how miranda is clearly worried for her father throughout the panels – girl might not talk yet but clearly already knows that mommy can and WILL kick his a# six ways to sunday
Miranda is fun to draw. It’s always a bit of a challenge to figure out what to do with her, because she’s usually just there as an accessory, but sometimes I can get certain expressions out of her that work with the scene.
Indeed. I’m told it’s a wise child that knows its parents. I strongly suspect Miranda as she grows up will give Solomon a run for his money on wisdom.
Quite possible. She will have seen stupidity modeled so often, it’ll be easy to avoid!
I don’t think the chocolate milk concept would last very long. Unless you mixed some henna with it. Though that might be toxic… Kids! Don’t try that at home!
Awww….
*puts henna back on the shelf*
You are not a kid. So feel free.
How do you know? Maybe he’s a kid at heart.
1) Yay!
2) Also, true…
I’m in a dilemma, here.
When I’m in a dilemma I trick someone else into doing it for me. That way if there’s negative side effects they can deal with them and I can take credit for the positive ones.
As I’ve learned by giving various drawing implements to my toddler, markers are never a good choice.
And the ‘washable’ variety lie; washable markers should just be called ‘markers containing ink that, when wet, runs everywhere and makes an even BIGGER mess!’
I like how Miranda’s face is constantly… WTF is wrong with these people?! lol
Miranda: “Mommy screams more than I do… So much pressure to live up to her high standards.”
I think Miranda will be less of a screamer, really. She seems to have a cooler composition.
Wait until puberty hits…
Miranda as proxy for the reader.
Ooh, now I’m curious. When making each new comic up ’til now, did you map out those freckles before inking everything in, or were they more something you’d lightly spackle on Puck’s face at the end?
I have a few ‘freckle objects’ that contain pre-placed freckles, and I copy them from one image to another. So I lift the freckles from Puck’s cheek in one comic, and plop them down in the next. Sometimes I have to rearrange a bit, but that’s basically it.
That must take hours.
No wonder you don’t want to draw Freckles anymore.
Now you’re just baiting me. :p
Yes
Ha!
I think you should make a video of the ‘hows’ and ‘whys’ and post a link to it up in the descriptions until the freckles come back.
Don’t forget to add plenty of lens flare and glorious 80’s swipes!
The answer Colin is “I loved your freckles because they were a part of you. I love the full package.” That would get you not just baby making time that night, but most importantly, you escape blunt force trauma.
Alas, Colin is rarely that quick n the moment.
Last time I recall was when he called Daphne on being a bad friend to Taylor/Tyler.
I am like Colin. I only come up with the right thing to say ten hours after saying the wrong thing.
*hours later*
“OH YEAH?! Well the ‘Jerk Store’ called and they’re running out of YOU!”
“Who is this?”
You could sell this advice, man. Write a book! A book called ‘Romantic Advice for Total Morons!’ It would sell.
sadly true…think of all the “for dummies” books out there that are still selling.
It’s a license to print money!
“Printing Money For Dummies.” – DIBS!!!
The sad part is, as an unmarried man, any romance advice I give outside of common sense is like Dr Spock giving parenting advice despite not having kids.
Well, that hasn’t stopped Dr. Spock!!! And some would say that being a married man makes you fundamentally unable to give romantic advice. That certainly applies with me.
Actually, I’ll bet that Puck is the kind of gal that drags COLIN, kicking and screaming, into the bedroom for the NASTY.
And both love every second of it !!
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Not that I’d know. Fluffy dumped me for Grumpy Cat (the shame of it all)
“Though given the fact that my wife is of the freckled variety, maybe I should say that I am exclusively a freckle guy, but then it sounds kind of weird, and…”
So in other words, while you like freckles, you don’t consider it a must. But your wife has them, which makes you exclusive in that regard.
Simple!
I had been curious for a while why Colin liked Puck (I mean besides dating her for the past 10 years). Freckles being a reason for it?
Sure. Why not. I’ve seen stranger things happen.
…Now I’m curious what his reaction will be once she (at some point) gets them back.
Their relationship is certainly a weird one, but I think it makes sense. Colin likes Puck because I think he likes the adventure. She’s a bit wacky and periodically explosive, but it’s kind of exciting. Second, I think that both Puck and Colin are fundamentally very loyal people. If one of them was really in trouble, I get the sense that the other would go through just about anything to help the other. They work on that front. And third, Puck is attractive. That last point can never be ignored.
Puck is drop-dead gorgeous. Though if I were her friend, I would try to get her into less preppy attire.
Just like if I were Phoebe’s friend, I would try to talk her into real-world attire
Less preppy attire? Real-world attire? Where’s the fun in THAT?
I think Puck would look good dressed in leaves. *pervy grin*
It’s been known to happen before in at least one voting incentive pic.
I’m with you on that, Buggle…. although most women I’ve met I thought would look good in leaves, so that probably doesn’t help…
Hmm… Maybe a stereotypical fairy costume, (flower dresses, acorn hats, etc) with a sexy twist!
will she still become shockingly naked if she stands in a strong breeze?
Well the petals of her skirt *would* blow away. Does that count?
EEEK… Images of decency are polluting my dirty mind!!! Buggle, what have you done?????
But being in Manic Fairy Mode, she would be very amenable to taking her top off and dumping herself in honey wine.
“honey wine.”
S T I C K Y
I don’t do sticky.
Ok, the perverted images are back! Thanks Buggle, I knew I could count on you!!!!!
Anytime! I possess a wellspring of constant new (and filthy) ideas.
Miranda: “Mommy is screaming again, but I don’t smell anything… She must want Daddy to burp her.”
Colin is a doofus as usual, but the freckles really do look charming on Puck. They add to her beauty. ^_^
Agreed. I can’t wait for the freckles to return.
Give her five minutes in the sun, and it’ll be like she’d never lost them.
Perhaps. But if the freckles leave via a weird plot contrivance, they must, by the laws of fiction, appear again by means of a weird plot contrivance.
I smell foreshadowing!
Er . . Puck’s freckles when free will grow and grow and grow until they overpower the Sun, leaving Hamilton in total darkness and the only way to restore harmony and balance to the Universe is to have Puck call for them to come home? Or they will latch on to the nearest available face, transforming people into Pucks, leading to Satan taking one look at the transformed Tracy and shrieking in terror., causing the freckles to panic and return to the real Puck?
Something like that. Maybe.
“leading to Satan taking one look at the transformed Tracy”
Humph – Snort – (rolls over, rubbing eyes with paws, ears straight up now, tail – still missing…)
I was having such a nice nap, and then I heard someone mention TRACEE.
Where is she ? Where ? Where ?
WHERE IS TRACEE !!!
They’ll somehow scratch at Puck’s bedroom door at night, having calmed down from their fright and wanting to come back home…
Y’know…Puck hasn’t changed outfits since her freckles left her. If she were freckled, y’know, all over, she might be in for some serious chafing…
Freckles are not made of sand!
How do we know? No one’s freckles have ever jumped off their face before now. For all we know, they might be. Their mystical powers are beyond our comprehension – they could be magic dust that gives you cancer, or the gift of the gab; they could even steal the souls of redheads. We may never know!
Makeup artists use an airbrush to “freckle-up” models these days…
They even have a freckle stencil and everything!
A redhead without freckles is like a chocolate donut without sprinkles: Yeah, you can eat it, but it just isn’t as enjoyable. 😛
Agreed. I think? Although I can’t tell if this has sexual innuendo or cannibalistic innuendo. Because I am NOT into the latter.
Former versus later, I assure you. 😉
Bah. Two words: Nicole Kidman :p
Yes, please.
She doesn’t count. Because she’s Nicole Kidman.
Yummmmmmm
Puck has a pretty face even without freckles.
Dhoy.
Bring back the freckles! BRING BACK THE FRECKLES, GOSH DARN IT!
Sorry, I went a little crazy there.
No problem. We all sometimes suffer through withdrawal.
Aw, Puck – can’t you see that Colin loves you the way *you* are, not the way you wish you were?
Also, I wonder how Colin’s sister would react to Puck’s new desire to be “urbane” and “elegant”
Colin’s sister would be approving of the desire, but scornful at the pursuit. Because while women like that prefer that the world acknowledges their mold as the finest, they prefer that mold to be broken.
So…. There can only be one?
That, and she’d undermine Puck because that’s how she is. Might as well expect a shark not to bite as her not to snob.
Dude, the only answer *ever* is “I love you, no matter what”. I’ve been married 30 years, trust me on this one.
This is why you are smart, and Colin is not.
Hell, I’m NOT married, and even I know that!
Kinda like… “Does this dress make me look fat? TELL THE truth!” there’s only one answer, and the truth is, we want to live!
What manner of freckle-returning wacky contrivance can match frightening freckles off?
Where, after all, did the freckles go? Are they flying, perhaps flocking, fleeing the flareup of fear? Have they a homing instinct that will lead them home once all is calm again?
After Panel Four, methinks that time will not be for a long while. Colin’s gift for saying the wrong thing just keeps giving!
It’s the gift that keeps on leading to pain and misery, at the very least.
Are freckles, then, kin to the 5 lb. that you lost with pain and agony and regained at a birthday party when you just ate cake to be polite?
Maybe? I never understand how one slice of cake can somehow expand to five pounds of body fat. But it seems to.
I’ve been reading this comic for a few days and suddenly the “next” button went broken! It doesn’t give me new issues anymore! What’s wrong, can it be fixed?
I’m working on a fix to this bug right now. It’ll be functioning in one week’s time.
Reminds me of the “FREE BEER tomorrow” sign at Hooters
That’s stupidly brilliant.
It looks like the rain you got earlier is going to keep going this afternoon.
I’m getting it first, so you’re getting the left overs – my used rain.
If it cuts through the insane heat and humidity, I’ll be happy.
English in reverse sounds like a different language altogether.
rethegotla egaugnal tnereffid a ekil sdnuos esrever ni shilgne
Is your head on backwards now ?
Oh Oh
! gnihctac s’tI
In the Excorcist Regan spoke English in reverse while possessed by Pazuzu.
I’d like to be possessed by Tracee…
Hey, Gecko, I found a pic of Emily Ratjankowski wering one of Phoebe’s dresses: http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/12/emily-ratajkowski-risks-nip-slip-on-the-red-carpet-while-wearing-this-insane-dress/
Oh, come on! Phoebe’s outfits are WAY more possible than that. Phoebe’s outfits are just on the somewhat impractical side. That’s just MADNESS.
Phoebe also is a much better person than Emily, who errs on the “easy” side
Well, I don’t know her. But I’m not going to judge her lifestyle. I’m only going to judge her dress. And I judge it ‘impractical’. That said, if she made it through the whole night without a serious malfunction, then props to her.
Appreciated, and more examples needed. But Phoebe is far more stylish.
On a related note, Science discovers the word BOOB: “rounder shapes contain ‘ooo’ sounds, which is known as the ‘bouba/kiki’ effect.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/09/12/humans-may-speak-a-universal-language-say-scientists/
May I point out that the word “boob” is also a synonym for “idiot?”
I wonder how that happened ?
Sadly, trying to research this word on any scholarly level on the Web is a fool’s errand.
🙂
Wow. I’m starting to wonder if YOU, Gecko, will be able to put the horse back in the proverbial stable if Puck continues to enjoy this kind of freedom from her signature blemishes.
I’m starting to see the signs of resistance oozing to the surface 😀
Oh, don’t worry. There are plans.
It took me a while to figure out it’s catching in reverse English however it finally clicked.