NEW WEEKLY VOTING INCENTIVE!!! PUCKWATCH!!!
All throughout June, we’ll be paying tribute to Baywatch, that awful show from the 90’s! Because hey, if Hollywood is doing it… Get your beach on and vote for Puck on TWC! And remember, this idea came from THE PATRONS! Patrons on Patreon who pledge $5 or more a month get a personal say in what incentives are coming your way! If YOU want to put your two cents in, then my HEAD ON OVER TO PATREON and join the select club!
VOTE FOR NO HASSLE, ONLY THE HOFF!!!
As for this comic…
Only after generating this comic did I realize that Puck’s gingham dress sort of combines with the weave of the wicker chair to make a weird visual nightmare. I guess I could have changed the dress pattern once I noticed, but by that point I’d fallen in love with the gingham. So the visual nightmare remains. Sorry.
Wow! A supportive Puck! Am I reading the right comic?
She’s trying. Really, she is.
Next ARC – the newly widowed DATING PUCK !!
(major Life Insurance payout)
Nope. Spoiler alert: Colin lives.
As a YOO-NITCH ?
(pretty much like me after my trip to the vet ?)
Uh, no.
@DLK
Yeah.
We’ve not observed Robin exhibiting any signs of actual affection for Colin for many, many, many years.
Or perhaps she figures it is simply appropriate to be seen as “nice” for the 30 to 90 days he has left to live.
I am firmly of the opinion that she is actually somewhat supportive and caring on a regular basis. We just don’t see a lot of that in the comic because it’s generally not as funny.
Heck, the fact that she instituted sex back then is good enough for me. If I woke up next to Colin, I would pin a note to the pillow and be on the next bus out of Hamilton 😛
*initiated, darn auto-correct
The Puck Institute for Sex
You are wise, my friend. You are wise.
Love Miranda runnng about at bottom of panel.
As for the incentive, I agree with Pheobe, she may as well be wearing a burkini.
And curse you for making me feel cold by referencing beaches. It’s winter in some parts of the world. Not that I can complain much, an Australian winter is probably still pretty mild by Canadian standards.
Well, up here on the RIGHT SIDE OF THE PLANET, it’s totally summer. So there. 😉
I really don’t know much about Australian winters. All I know is that I’ve talked to enough Australians who’ve never seen snow in their lives, so with that in mind, I’m guessing that the Australian winter is roughly equivalent to brisk spring day in Canada. Although maybe they lived in that tropical northern section; I dunno.
I’m glad you liked the Miranda inclusion. I sometimes struggle to include her in frames, or not have her get in the way. But I try to have fun with her expressions or actions when I can.
Snow seems to be common in the southernmost part of Australia, at least if you get away from the coast and climb a hill:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania#Climate
OTOH, Sidney, which is south of most of the continent, is said to have a “humid subtropical climate”, and the detailed climate table doesn’t have a line for snow at all. Melbourne, at the end of the mainland’s sourthernmost continent, is somewhat colder, but the record winter low is about -2 C, and the average snowfall is not listed. For comparison, I live in Grand Rapids, MI, which is nearly the same latitude as the southernmost point in Canada. The annual snowfall averages 75 inches (190 cm). The record low is -24F (-31C). At -2C, I ride a bicycle to work and don’t get my winter coat out of the closet yet. And this is the warm part of Michigan – when I lived 200 miles north of here, it reached -24F in an average February, we got as much snow, and it didn’t melt in between storms but just kept piling up.
All of Michigan is north of where I am. You get winter way worse than me, honestly.
@EG
On a serious note (yuk), if you wish a beneficial climate, you create a large, shallow, inland ocean (the Mediterranean).
It captures solar heat, and buffers it so well that the entire surrounding region is warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
@markm, EG
Yes, using Latitude as a method for judging Climate can be very deceiving.
Did you know the entire USA is SOUTH of the Latitude Paris is on ?
And the majority of inhabited Canada is likewise far SOUTH of both Ireland and England.
For some reason the Atlantic Ocean hates the New World, and steals all our warmth to send it East.
Atlantic Ocean – you stink !!
It’s called the gulf stream. It’s the reason why colonialists from France landed in Quebec and got ready for winter in light jackets. The First Nations people in the area told them they weren’t prepared properly and needed better clothing, but the French dismissed them. “Foolish natives! France is on the exact same latitude, and thus shall have the same clime!” They got less smug when a number of them died that winter.
For over a century scientists were baffled why dinosaurs were so big, and why “JUNGLE FOSSILS” have been found in Antarctica.
Recently the answer became apparent.
The meteors that hit the earth, and set up clouds of dust, that blocked sunlight for decades, had yet another disastrous effect.
Due to a few reasons that are clear only to geological physicists, following the impacts the earth LOST an enormous amount of its AIR – its atmosphere – forever.
A thick atmosphere not only supplies concentrated oxygen for large animals to prosper – with fairly small lungs – it also is dense enough for huge flying creatures to soar with ease.
But wait, there is more.
The thicker the atmospheres, the more temperatures and weather are UNIFORM across the planet.
Everywhere tends to be the same, without the extremes present on Earth today. Our neighbors with thin atmospheres – Mars and the Moon – have incredible extremes across their surfaces.
Uniform Temperatures are not always beneficial. For instance, you can melt lead anywhere on Venus, with has a very thick atmosphere.
But for Earth – yeah – a bit more air would be a good thing.
The gingham is nice and light and summery, a good contrast with Colin’s dull dun despair
I would kind of like to point out that shouldn’t the house color show through some of the holes in that couch?
Nope. It’s a tight weave. 😉
Well, at least Puck is a tight weave, ain’t she?
@rewinn
“dull dun despair”
That’s poetry, man.
Good point. ‘Dun’ is the ugliest of color names, isn’t it?
Called “sad-colored” in the nineteenth century, as any English teacher ought to know.
Any good English teacher.
Oh – Nice Voting Incentive.
(waiting for TRACEEE!!!!! to go NUTZ)
It’s coming.
Okay, I’ll hold still for Tracee, but Daffy? *shudder*
That’s coming too. Though it’s not very terrifying. Promise.
While Phoebe has a point about the “sexiness” of the Baywatch swimwear, she forgets (or never knew) that the show made up for the relatively bland suits with roughly ten minutes of slow-motion running per episode. With multiple angle coverage.
True enough. Alas, no slow-mo running in the incentives. Because that would be A LOT of work. But … almost worth it?
@T’R
So true.
Bewbs always look better in Slo-Mo.
Not sure why.
Oh, gecko I came straight to the Web site on my phone and that damn hijack happened right off the bat. Isn’t there a way to track the amount of time an IP logs on to your site before leaving? If so, you might be able to track the ad that hijacked my browser.
There may be, but I’m not nearly smart enough to figure that out. I’m still not entirely sure what you mean by the term ‘hijack browser’. Are you talking about a pop-up? Or is it a straight redirect that takes you to a different site? Is it for a particular company?
Honestly, I really have almost zero control over this sort of thing. My option is ‘have ads’ or ‘not have ads’, and seeing as ads are my main source of money for the comic, I’m not going to not have ads. But if there is something I can do about it, I’ll look into it.
It’s a common problem with certain ads on phones. What’s happening is that the ad redirects you to the side they want you to see, which is usually “You’ve got 5000+ viruses! Click here to get rid of them!” along with a loud beeping sound that doesn’t go away even if you shut down your browser. No, you’ve got to shut down the page you were on and clean your browser’s cache in order to get it to stop.
Which is why I use adblock on my computer. Yes, it hurts people like who depend on ad revenue to make a living, (or pay for server costs/art supplies in your case), but it protects me from not only crap like that on my computer, but also malware. I’ve been searching for an adblock on my phone, but I can’t find one. Shocking, I know. :sarcasm:
I use the phones browser until an ad hits, or if I have a group of comics that have some value over the ads. At that point I’ll open up the adblock browser that I downloaded from the app store. Apple, Google or the phone’s manufacturer only for me.
If it’s on your phone, I think I know the answer. I thought you were on a PC. They’re ‘sticky’ ads that boost revenue on phones, because phones are notoriously hard to monetize. Because I don’t really own or use a cellphone, I haven’t given much thought to the ad features I’ve got turned on for cellphone traffic. I was told, “These boost revenue,” so I turned them on. I can turn those off if they bother you, because honestly I don’t get a lot of traffic from phones.
I just thought that you would be possibly able to report some of the problems up the chain, so to speak.
Not sure how Puck’s dress is related to a nightmare but at the same time, it’s not like I’m a fashion expert, so eh…
I do feel bad for Colin, given what he described.
I’m curious how bad this will end up being but knowing you… Yeah, it’s not looking good, Colin.
It’s comedy. It won’t end THAT bad.
“Tragedy ends in a funeral, comedy in a wedding” my English 101 prof
Exactly.
“Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall in an open manhole and die.” Mel Brooks
I haven’t heard that one before.
Tragedy is when it happens to me, comedy is when it happens to you.
Really simple.
That’s a clear and elegant formula, really.
Is Miranda walking now?
Evidently, running, which is pretty much the same thing for a toddler *shudder*
Not without support, I don’t think. I think the form of locomotion is called ‘cruising’.
Drat you, Gecko. I had not a clue and had to ask my boss. I got an explanation, along with the snark, “Rethinking the No Kids Pledge, Susie?” All the other women in the office in earshot giggled fit to die. Of course, any joke the boss makes is funny.:o
A friend I’ve had since high school calls it “toddle”, which likely where the term “toddler” stems from.
Then again, he refuses to allow any other term, due to a nickname he had (and hated) in high school, which I am not at liberty to say if I want to KEEP the friendship with him.
Aw, but now we want to know.
Considering that he’s about the only friend I’ve got left at this point in my life, you’re going to have to remain in the dark. Sorry. 🙂
It’s got to be “scooter.”
Not even close, Pat, but you’d have to know him to not only understand the nickname, but why it upsets him even to this day.
And somehow, this ended up a new comment, rather continuing the chain. Gecko, would you mind deleting both these comments?
When I was growing up, I had a friend named “Junebug,” and another nicknamed “Charlies.” And my bf’s med school roommate was nicknamed “Dirty Dan,” or just “Dirty.”
How about Borg versions of Puck and company.
I would like to see Miranda as a teenager wearing a Crystal Prep uniform in a Puck vote or guest comic.
That was surprisingly a dramatic moment./Puck’s showing layers. I lik
There’s more to Puck than we might think. Not MUCH more, but a little more.
I hope this ain’t an actual thing you did research on, because this applied to my nuts too.
Is it sad that I didn’t know oranges were called Navel Oranges until I became a cashier at a grocery store?
Well, navel oranges are a specific variety of orange – the most common variety, but still a variety. It’s useful to differentiate them from mandarin oranges or juicing oranges, or whatever. I, for one, don’t think it’s sad. It’s the kind of knowledge you might not have if you don’t buy groceries. Or work in a grocery store.
Yeah I just meant I didn’t know that’s what normal oranges were called. I knew mandarins and clementines and such, but not navels. And that’s fair, like how most white people have no idea what lobok or dasheens or yampees are. My knowledge of produce, at least, has grown in university :p
“Navel” is a gross name for oranges anyway. Whoever came up with that was failing at the name game.
True. It supposedly has to do with the tops, but I personally think it looks nothing like a navel
Well, it looks like an “innie” belly button. But innie belly buttons are just wrong.