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Right now there’s a nice little Christmas pic for your vote!
As for this comic…
As an English teacher, I sometimes am required to speak of Freytag’s triangle in connection to Shakespeare’s works. Gustav Freytag believed that all tragedies form a triangular plot structure, where the highest point of the pyramid is the ‘point of no return’ – that moment where you realize this story will not and cannot end well. The tragedy after that point is inevitable.
I think this comic right here is that point of no return.
And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder:
One of the four beasts saying: “Come and see.”
And I saw.
And behold, a white horse.
I’d say nice knowing you Tracee but … you know …
But is she doomed? Really? I’m not so sure about that.
Given the fact that your own site was terrified enough to put Johnny’s Cash’s “The Man Comes Around” into immediate moderation in an attempt to forestall the inevitable tells me all I need to know.
I get a 50/50 chance of YouTubes going through immediately.
Doesn’t seem to matter the content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2DTLbTQj0I
One of us. One of us. One of us!
Cults have all the best fun! Why be left out?
Wow, you’re a Canadian, English teacher with these art skills? You sir are a paradox. Meanwhile *Ahem* NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Drop that can, you evile, blonde, bimbo.
Well, my path was a weird one. It might have been an art teacher, but university art programs wouldn’t take me because my animation background was, let’s say, not ‘fine enough’. I didn’t have gorgeous watercolors or experimental oils to show them. I didn’t. The university art programs also don’t care if you can actually draw. They tend to look down upon such skills. So I applied to English instead. You need NO talents or abilities to be accepted into English!
I know, take a look at England for starters.
That’s hilarious that you’re an English teaching cartoonist. I also taught English for like 5 years. I think you’re my Canadian doppelgänger.
Don’t you teach at the college level? Media or something?
You know who else wasn’t accepted into art school?!!
Everyone! Keep your eyes on this one!
I directed my seething anger into my personal manifesto of hatred. Which took the form of a webcomic. Which is really pretty harmless, all things considered. Boy. That story wasn’t that dark at all.
You know Gecko you are one of the three most awesome teachers I know of, the other two being my former ap history/government form high school and an American Lit Professor who got the cops called on him on campus (Someone thought he was a homeless man).
You don’t know what I’m like as a teacher, though.
Well, you’re not in jail for starters which is more than I can say for far too many of mine.
Skrew the details.
I am totalling hiding this week’s COMMENTS from my human “dad” Baldie.
Or he’ll be triggered into yet another, spit-filled, half-hour rant about how he was unfairly passed-over by the Admissions Team at MIT.
I don’t think my “mom” Janet could take it. Her eyes nearly burst into flame from rolling last time.
Dad!
Janet!
Rockie!
Free Will definitely takes too long. Except if you’re listening to Rush. Wait, what am I saying? Free Will takes too long, ESPECIALLY if your listening to Rush.
In my van, it’s all RUSH, all the time.
You’d make a better Canadian than me, Pat.
But I’m at best 25% Canadian.
THE TALE OF TWO BLONDES
It just (finally?) occurred to me that this Puck Tale (which begins here //www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-211) was, in fact, a dead-on prediction of America’s recent Presidential Election !
Two Blondes enter – One Blonde leaves (still on her feet) //www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-269.
Donald Trump qualifies as a blond about as much as processed ‘cheese food’ slices qualify as cheese. But as we’ve already established, I guess, that’s one of the defining traits of all blond people.
TWENTY FIVE PERCENT. AND I DON’T KNOW ANY OF MY CANADIAN COUSINS.
And alas, this great Rush joke is lost on me because I’m a bad Canadian.
Take OFF! You a bad Canadian?
With all those Canadian tire coupons lining your glove box?
The back seat covered in Tim’s cups?
The ultra super secret Leafs shrine in the secret compartment of the closet? My father in law from Nova Scotia would say it’s a smart choice…never let you down they could only do better.
Then I’m a bad American for not liking ‘country music’.
Me too. Christ on a crutch. Comes of bad 60s tv shows like HeeHaw.
Alternatively … and especially since it’s current and topical.
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
followed by
Much Force(d) choking …
Ooh, current AND topical! It’s too candies for the price of two!
I can talk topical, also!
The Caribbean ocean is blue.
You’ve misspelled Tropical. 😛
(You’ve? … You? What we need here is an English teacher. Anyone know where we can find one?) 😀
‘You’ and ‘You have’ are both acceptable. Ain’t they?
All this Topical-Talk makes me want Coconut Juice in my drinky-bowl.
That’s a pretty pucked up thing for Tracee to do, if I’m being quite fully honest here.
It seems to me like a totally standard thing for Tracee to do. Which is admittedly disturbing, but there you are.
It’s not disturbing, it’s pucked up!
Nooo! Quick Someone splash Some ginger beer on Puck. Then Feed her some ginger bread Followed by some ginger snaps and wash it down with some ginger tea. If that doesn’t bring back my favorite Red head I don’t know what will
Nothing gets rid of tan faster than working in a drab office with no windows, possibly government managed, while being fuelled by coffee.
True. Pasty complexions aren’t that hard to achieve through indentured servitude under the glorious hum of florescent lighting!
Strange, for some reason, 3 or so years of perpetual night shift didn’t really have much effect on my quite dark skin colour for some reason …
Well, some people are genetically gifted in the melanin department.
Oh yeah, that several hundred years of Sri Lankan ancestry. You might be onto something there …
No amount of cosmetic ginger can save her now.
Maybe not, but I got you a 36 carat gold lame tail for those state dinners. Just so you know that you can dress snazzier than some freak nudist who sells car insurance.
It comes with a wardrobe, butler, two handguns, wet bar and the key that unlocks any car. Along with the GIS badguy positional readout.
Early humans were nothing if not hungry.
I mean, kudos to the first person starved enough to sample Ginger: http://runningmagazine.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ginger.jpg
It looks like a mummified Monkey-Paw.
I want to give Kudos to the first human that thought eating a raw oyster was a good idea
@DLKmusic
I’ll up the ante: GEODUCK
Whoa, forced blondification (which spellcheck does not pull me up on, hmmm) a fate worse than death.
For you become the living dead, hollow inside yet continuing to breathe.
-winces- OW! That’s gotta sting – can you imagine that stuff on your eyes?! ><
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that!
not to mention the taste – her mouth is opened wide enough that her tonsils will have a fake tan after this – also the side effects of ingesting that stuff *shudder* might as well swallow nuclear waste!
It will simply permeate into her soul all the faster.
Or she’ll come to her senses and beat Tracee into a greasy blond stain on the linoleum.
Tanned eyes. The most extreme form of sun worship.
I thought it was pretty obvious this wasn’t going to end well around the time Tracee showed up? Might just have been me. Oh well!
I love how Tracee says ‘you have to do it of your own free will’ but then tries coercing her (and finally just going ‘screw this’). Chaotic Evil, maybe?
Chaotic Evil indeed.
Was her rant after destroying Heather not enough proof?
Those of us missing Puck in all her ginger glory should check out the voting incentive, assuming you haven’t already 🙂
There you go. There’s your fix. With extra peppermint!
Delicious peppermint.
It’s underappreciated. Screw pumpkin spice. I’m all about putting peppermint in everything.
Goes very well with ginger, as demonstrated. But hot cocoa is nice too. Forget marshmallows, I want peppermint in my xocolatl!
You have good taste.
Thanks.
PEPPERmint has no pepper in it. At all.
Cat is filing a Class Action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppermint
I have and I miss the real Puck damnit ;~;
User name/comment synergy.
(There’s a storm coming …)
You don’t like New Coke either, I suppose. You people. Always stuck in the past!
Apparently, some people liked/preferred/didn’t mind New Coke until they were told it was New Coke (as opposed to the ‘Classic’ formula) at which point they got very angry indeed.
The Wikipedia article is well worth a look, it’s quite fascinating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
I hated new Coke, Shan. If that’s how I wanted my cola to taste, I would be buying Pepsi!
I did say “some” people!
I like coke zero.
It has bite.
… and Coke Zero was once banned in Venezuela. I am not making this up.
Huh. Why?
The Ban was no more than Politics.
You know the drill; USA = Bad; 3rd World Failed Nation = Good.
Hey! Nostalgia will always prevail over new stuff! That is till you realize some old stuff actually kinda sucked.
Can’t we all just agree that COCONUT JUICE is the best Juice there is ?
Though I would not want to be there when they cruelly crush the poor little things.
http://img14.deviantart.net/f508/i/2015/112/6/e/coconut_crab_by_ala1n_j-d5ybw66.png
Oh, the pain – the PAIN !
https://youtu.be/EbnQD9MVw5Y
Maybe next she’ll bring out the soft cushions and the comfy chair.
You go with the standard implements of torture in cases like these.
I’d rather torture Daphne than Tracee but just by a smidgen.
As long as someone suffers, it’s all good.
If you mean by “torture” is having your neck rubbed, and “smidgen” is meaning a whole lot, then Tracee can torture me anytime !
Heck, Tracee can even spray me Calico if she likes.
I’m easy.
No, no. Torture involves Either being tied up or manacled and jabbed with pointy things or hot things. Or else stretched to the point where they could qualify as LeBron James’ gf. :p
*bursts through door*
NO-ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION
I’m pretty sure history tells us that threatening a Witch with a Can-o-Tan was a frequent interrogation method.
The Spanish Inquisition couldn’t hold a candle to Elizabeth I’s interrogators. They simply manacled people and hung them dangling from their wrists for hours at a time. See [i]Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot[/i] by Antonia Fraser …
Somebody here completely missed that one.
Sign her up for the remedial class in british humour.
Tracee clearly isn’t graced with subtlety when it comes to seduction.
Who else got a weird vibe to a lot of vampire fiction from this scene? The victim of a hideous transformation being told they must “choose of their own free will”, and all….
There’s a whole bunch of vague subtexts going on here, some I might not even be consciously aware of.
I suspect that Tracee isn’t familiar with seduction methods aimed at females. Seduction of men is much, much easier. Trust me
Although, if she were…. purrrrrrr I can just imagine!
Tracee’s time as Satan’s girl friend is showing up. I assume she still is Satan’s girlfriend?
I assume so as well.
LUVIN’ IT !!
YOU GLOW GURL !!
//www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-148
Free Will is an idea which has complex and sundry applications in the fields of philosophy, theology, biology, politics, and economics. In terms of literature I think that Boethius’ “The Consolation of Philosophy” has had lasting affects on how one views Free Will.
Unfortunately, I spent most of my school days in drawing dragons and princesses instead of learning how Boethius expanded on the ideas of Plato & Augustine, alas.
So, I’m not entirely sure whether Snoopy, the Schmoos from “Lil’ Abner,” or Hobbes from “Calvin & Hobbes” even have Free Will. I’m sure that at some point Linus had discussed the topic.
Honest admission: I love Boethius. And I read Chaucer’s translation of Boethius. That’s right, people! I read a early medieval philosopher’s work IN another dead language! Yay! University makes you do odd stuff.
That’s swell. Then you can give me a summary of his view on Free Will while I go back to drawing dinosaurs, cave babes, robots, dragons, pirate babes, llamas, and ballerinas. Actually, tonight I’m just working on a comic with a dinosaur. I don’t want things to get too silly around here.
I couldn’t understand it. It was in Middle English. 😉
Comics should be translated into Middle English. If I were of a scholarly sort, I’d do it myself. But who wouldn’t want to read something like, ” ‘Tis the Greate Pumpkyn, Carolvs Brouwne!”?
Why do I sincerely suspect that you’d started a Middle English translation of Peanuts long before this discussion?
Don’t tempt me to translate “Peanuts” into Middle English. Though … the first step would be in creating a semi-consistent dialect family (should I use Wynn and Yogh …?)
However, I would point out that I think that “Krazy Kat” may already be in Middle English. Certainly long stretches of “Pogo” read that way.
Though it would be fun to hear Linus’ reciting the Christmas Story in Wycliffe’s own translation:
8 And scheepherdis weren in the same cuntre, wakynge and kepynge the watchis of the nyyt on her flok.
9 And lo! the aungel of the Lord stood bisidis hem, and the cleernesse of God schinede aboute hem; and thei dredden with greet drede.
10 And the aungel seide to hem, Nyle ye drede; for lo! Y preche to you a greet ioye, that schal be to al puple.
11 For a sauyoure is borun to dai to you, that is Crist the Lord, in the citee of Dauid.
12 And this is a tokene to you; ye schulen fynde a yong child wlappid in clothis, and leid in a cratche.
13 And sudenli ther was maad with the aungel a multitude of heuenli knyythod, heriynge God,
14 and seiynge, Glorie be in the hiyeste thingis to God, and in erthe pees be to men of good wille.
(Luke 2: 8-14 in the Wycliffe translation as found on Wikisource)
Why is the Peanuts character LIE-NESS, but the Operating System LYNN-UCKS ?
It makes no sense !!
Merry Christmas you crazy cat. One kilo of Columbian catnip and a 1.21 giggawatt laser toy.
Seeking to compel a redhead to … well, anything, really … is not a wise path. Doable, perhaps, but throw in the loss of Miranda as well? Colin can be replaced but a baby is your own flesh-and-blood … I’m not sure Tracee understands the play of the cards here but then again she’s accustomed to getting her way.
You might underestimate the transforming power of spray tan.
It’s more than meets the eye?
It’s exactly what meets the eye.
“Single Form Robots: Exactly What Meets The Eye!”
Sounds like a boring cartoon.
Here in America we are experimenting with a Spray Tan Presidency … so wonderful to see a Canadian give us warning of what that might mean!
Re: Incentive I still want those stockings. The only ones I can find go vertically 🙁
What’s the point of vertical stripes on candy cane stockings?
Exactly. That’s why I want Puck’s. In a petite, though :p
As you can tell, Puck’s tights would NOT be petite. If I know my women’s sizing (and I do), she’d wear a medium on the bottom and a small on top.
“One size fits most” Bleah!
MERRY CHRISTMAS , ya’ll. Or whatever you guys celebrate in Canada. I mean, you have your thanksgiving earlier than those of us in the US. Sooo…. do you guys get Christmas earlier too? Like because you guys live oh so much closer to the North Pole. Right?
We celebrate Canucksmas. It lasts for seven days and though it’s really kind of meaningless, everyone is too polite to say anything about it.
Merry Christmas !
And now I know I’m in trouble. The rest of you are starting to make sense…
One of us! One of us!
Merry Christmas, all.
And Merry Yule!
And also to you.
Merry Christmas! Sorry I’m a day late, but yesterday was frantic. I’m a rag
@Susan
Agreed.
Christmas is WAY too stressful – a regular Mine Field.
And so the transformation is complete – will Puck like how it looks, or get angry that Tracee sprayed her in the face?
Robin was thrilled to have her Freckles banished, so I’m guessing she’ll welcome the Tan as well.
There might be a limit to it, though…
Oh, I keep forgetting to compliment EG on Puck’s expression in Panel 3. Well done!
What I will always love about this comic are the searing, citrus colors that you stick to your guns with. That’s pretty damn bold.
They always subliminally have me somehow hankering for Starbursts or an orange soda as I read them 😀
It is the work of an unsubtle mind craving stimulation.
I knew she’d be stronger than before.
Go Puck! Resist! You can do it!