NEW WEEKLY VOTING INCENTIVE! VOL 2 PREVIEW!!
Follow along as I draw the cover for Puck Volume 2! The second entry is up now, so…
VOTE FOR PUCK AND MAKE RUTABAGAS EDIBLE!!!
ALSO…
I recently put a bunch of work into updating the PDF collection of voting incentive images, and the results are finally assembled! This new PDF volume contains all the voting incentives from 2011 all the way to 2017 (including some that never even ran) in a print-ready high resolution! That’s almost 200 pages of stuff! So if you’d like to buy a copy, please do!
As for this comic…
Whoooooooo boy. This comic almost killed me.
And you wouldn’t think it, looking at the dang thing, because (let’s face it) it doesn’t have more visual impact than any other comics. But the added work of drawing, inking and coloring the complex backgrounds added a good eight or ten hours to my process. If this sounds like an awful lot of time for what it is, let me remind you of two very important facts: 1) I am slow at what I do, and 2) I am not very good at what I do, which slows me down even further.
Anyway, I need to calm down and rest a bit. I could really go for a drink … except I stopped drinking almost a decade ago. Oh well.
More nerd humor in this one. Another Star Wars ref, and another shot at Sonic. Other possibilities instead of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog fans’ included ‘Dragonball Z fans’ and ‘Digimon fans’. In fact, I had a comic totally finished and worded that had a very different target. I’m posting it on my Patreon feed soon. Let me know which one you thought was funnier.
Also, if you want a better look at the nerd background, and all the nerdy details, again you can check the my Patreon feed. It’s all going to be popping up there.
I don’t get why nerds/geeks have to constantly put down other nerds/geeks because they perceive then to be part of an inferior fandom. I don’t care what people like so long as they don’t get too obsessive about it.
That, and there are plenty on non nerds and geeks to judge.
Agreed. It always seems that when you take a dive into smaller social groupings, you always end up uncovering a whole bunch of internal rifts and grudges and stuff. I like to dream of a more peaceful world, personally. In areas of nerd culture and beyond.
Hah. That reminds me of an xkcd comic.
https://xkcd.com/1095/
So long as two people have different minds, there can never be peace.
Exactly.
what about bronies can we look at them and at least scoff in derision ?
Not in this store. But outside this store, feel free.
would larping be allowed in the store i dont know if i could contain myself if someone started shouting lightening bolt
Leaping expeditions likely start at the store every hour, on the hour.
A place where a nerd is judged NOT by the color of his horn-rimmed glasses, but by the quality of his Imagination! I have a DREAM!
I have a dream that one day in the nerdy halls of some con the fans of Star Trek and the fans of Star Wars will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
That, my fine Gecko, is a pipe dream I fear. WAY too much nerd “testosterone” flowing between those two groups…
…the hate is strong in those children… 😛
We can still dream. Even in pipes.
Before or after the Korean peninsula is once again whole geographically, politically, culturally and horticulturally.
Simultaneously.
And the Maple Leafs STILL would be without a Stanley Cup… lol
Well, that’s a given.
If those series have taught us anything, it’s that that will only happen when there’s a bigger evil.
A bigger evil? You mean like “Real Housewives”?
… there is a con in my country merging Star Wars, Star Trek and Star Gate.
(Of course, it’s just because we have common enemy: lack of money. Neither group is able to afford making con alone.)
@hkmaly
Well, someone is buying the $300 Action Figurines and $500 Signed Comics.
A whole lot of Nerds have a whole lot of money !
(it’s easy to put together a wad of cash when you’re living rent-free in the basement)
Or when you funnel the meager proceeds of your webcomic into such questionable purchases. But hey, we wouldn’t know anyone like that.
@EG
And I thought you were spending my generous PATREON on something worthwhile – like LEGOS.
Or DRAWING LESSONS.
( No, NO !! He’s filling the Squirtgun again !!! Cat scurries away as quick as his widdle paws can take him )
Actually, 100% of the Patreon money goes to paying for the comic – either hosting fees, or ads, or that sort of thing. I only spend money I make from ads on stupid stuff.
And drawing lessons… I’m past that. Can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Or a guy who hasn’t learned how to draw in many decades how to draw.
I would eject Stargate. Never liked that IP much.
With my luck they’d come together to gang up on the Honor Harrington fans.
Of course, we are a snooty bunch of bastards.
The Honor Harrington crowd would kick your collective butts. I know an ex-Marine who is an HH fan.
I once made a T-Shirt with the cover art from Field of Dishonor with the caption “My starship captain can beat up your starship captain.”
Cool. I would buy one with the cover art of “A Rising Thunder” or “War of Honor” on it, though I have not made it through the entire series yet. I can’t get through “In Enemy Hands.”
Can’t make shirts of art that isn’t yours. That’s one of the golden shirt rules.
Is Emily going to be making more appearances? Her character design is really cool!
She seems to be a new fan favorite, so I might not have a choice.
I think that’s her in the background of the 1st panel, isn’t it?
Yes, yes it is.
Much as looking at Emily in her, er, costume disturbs me, it is still better than seeing Daffy.
I know you don’t like her, but this whole mini arc is daphne trying to show Colin that she loves him… I think it’s….
Sweet…
(and totally out of normal character, but I’ll take it!)
De gustibus est non disputandum. 😛
@DLKmusic
Can you possibly be suggesting that PUCK COMIC is engaging in (shudder) Charcter Development ?
If it is, it’s very, very slow.
Oooooooo!
Panel Four may have the BEST “Daphne-Expression” in the ENTIRE SERIES !
BTW, is her hair tied up in the back ? I’d love to see Daphne let her hair DOWN.
With her hair down, a little make-up, some jewelry, and wearing something feminine she may be UNRECOGNIZABLE !
And then there is EMILY – purrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Up next (starting very soon) is the prom story arc. So wait for it. And for the record, Daphne’s hair has been tied back in two short messy pigtails since the comic restarted in 2011. It has never changed. I look forward to soon changing it.
Hm…
Speaking of which, is it just me, or is she holding hands with Tay/Ti?
@jeffepp
I think Daphne is simply picking Tylor’s pocket for a bit of Tee-Shirt money.
They aren’t holding hands. Their hands are just very close together, but that doesn’t mean anything, right?
The Sonic guys don’t bug me too much…
…those Pokémon kids on the other hand…
Pokémon is ubiquitous and, while irritating, is too dominant to be considered a persecuted underclass.
Even Trekkies?
I feel bad for Trekkies. They haven’t had a real property to follow in at least a decade -they’re a fandom set adrift without a property to follow, outside of reruns. And the Orville, if you count that.
Well, I kind of thought that “The Orville” shot higher than MacFarlane was aiming for.
I haven’t really watched, but that’s what I’ve heard.
I thought that it was great.
Orville – Not watched it – YET.
Mebe when I’m caught up with THE EXPANSE.
It’s the best “Trek” since “DS9”. IMO. But don’t get me started!
After fifty years of this and that, I’ve realized that the only Trek series I like is the original one. Probably like childhood comfort food. (I heartily disliked the Next Gen movies, enough so I haven’t watched the recent reboot stuff.)
Gene Roddenberry once said that his creation could run twenty years. By my calculations, I figured the whole thing ran about six or seven years longer than that—too long.
@RN
DISCOVERY is not bad at all.
It’s “modern”, as was the Original. But it is not preachy at all (which was my fear).
And the hero’s and villains are represented by various races and genders. Which is fair – as that is reality.
There is a nice mix of plot vs action.
Sadly, I cannot watch for free, but must pay CBS $5.99 a month to stream (with mandatory commercials that cannot be skipped).
That seems to be the upcoming model. Everything will be streamed, and VCR’s, DVR’s, TiVo’s, any local storage will be eliminated.
Bummer.
I have seen reviews and profiles of Discovery. I have no interest. Too ‘dark’ and dramatically lit and non-Trek for my tastes.
I liked the original. I liked TNG. I liked DS9 less, and Voyager even less, so when ‘Enterprise’ came around, I didn’t watch it. And apparently neither did anyone else.
The TNG movies weren’t very good. At all. None of them, really. The newer stuff is not, in my opinion, in keeping with the spirit of the original stuff.
@EG
We adored VOYAGER.
It was pretty much “All Borg; All of the Time”.
Borgs are my favorite !
Voyager was okay. I mean, it was light years better than this newer stuff like Discovery, but it still wasn’t my bag. And to be honest, I never really followed Voyager much past season two. I never really got to the Borg-heavy bits.
VOYAGER = SEVEN OF NINE
The first NextGen was tolerable—it was a crossover, after all—but if you have Captain Kirk, you’ve got to give him something better to do than what they did.
The second one turned my stomach—literally—the Borg conversion scenes were graphic and gross. And I really didn’t like the way they abandoned the converted Redshirts to their Borg fate.
*****
Still, there are moments. I caught part of a DS9 last night with Vic Fontaine, the holosuite lounge singer—which was more fun than I thought it would be from the descriptions I’d seen.
@RN
Ok, MAN !
You’re CRUISIN’ for a SLAP-FIGHT !
NO-BODY talks that way about JERI RYAN and lives !
@RN
TAKE THAT !!
When I worked at the hospital, the first series was always playing in the House Staff Lounge at one. I would time my breaks so I could watch, plus there was a really cute anesthesiology resident…
There aren’t any good Star Trek movies because it’s an ensemble cast that has to basically remain the same at the end of an episode as at the beginning – whereas a movie has to have character growth. These demands are not compatible.
The exception that proves the rule (in the true meaning of the term) is DS9 – because it was designed to be a long-form arc, the characters could actually grown. The leads start broken (Cisco mourns his dead wife, Kira is psycho after the rebellion, etc) and over the years heal and grow. Delete a few of the clunker episodes and you have a story that works whether it’s Star Trek or not!
DS9 was okay. Just kinda wasn’t my show; I never got deep into it. But it seemed decent. I agree with your movie observations, though. Very true.
In the TOS movies (if that’s grammatically correct), after the first one they all dealt with the same issue—growing old. The NextGen ones lacked that, far as I could tell—they just seemed extended editions of the series.
(One thing that cheesed me off, ’round the time NextGen went into the movie business, were reports that the guys producing that thought that NextGen should be considered *the* Star Trek series—that TOS was lesser. *That*, too has colored my perceptions of all that went after—unfavorably.)
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Gecko, love the Arcee poster. And that pink is powerful thing, they made feminine and tough hot chick’s popular along with pink and it’s subtle gender associations.
Just didn’t realize it until now.
Good work teach. And I’m being that you didn’t get that from a grade 12 Mario Bros workbook.
It’s a shirt I designed: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/1787064-arcee-pink-but-deadly?store_id=55320 Probably the best design I’ve done so far, even though it really hasn’t been a hot seller.
@EG
Oooo … Oooo
Is that a 3-Color or 4-Color Tee ? (The color of the tee itself does not count. Just the inks).
Those things are hard to print.
Each color needs to be perfectly registered to the previous color, or all is lost.
Did you design each level separately, yourself ? Or did you simply draw the design, and leave the individual color layers to the printers ?
You send it Teepublic. They break the layers down. The shirts look great. I own a few.
Daffy, you just wouldn’t believe what would happen to you if you wandered into our club. Have you ever heard of “Drawing and Quartering?” It\’s not legal for people, but jackal girls are fair game. Bwahahahaha!
I’ve heard about your type of club. I think they’re illegal in Canada.
I laughed way too hard at the fact that she doesn’t like Sonic fans.
Or, at least implied she doesn’t.
I like how the Transformers poster reads “Pink but deadly”.
There’s somehow even more stuff I recognize in the background (such as the Power Ranger/Super Sentai helmet). I’m now curious how giant that store is…
As for being exhausted, I don’t blame you – the amount of details in the background is quite frankly both impressive and insane at the same time.
There’s a lot of goofy details. Honestly, the process of coming up with that stuff is lengthened by the fact that I need to go to a ref pic for almost everything. Because sadly I can’t draw a proper Power Rangers helmet out of my head. And then later I need to go back to the ref pic for the colors too. It’s not that arduous, but when multiplied by a bunch of items, it really slows you down.
The Transformers poster is stolen from my shirt design.
I’ve suggested 2 Puck vote comics involving Sun Tzu.
Puck actually has The Art Of War by Sun Tzu and has used it.
Everything fun is illegal in Canada. *pouts*
Did you know that after the Restoration, they dug up Oliver Cromwell’s body, hung it in chains and then beheaded it, officially executing him for treason! His head was displayed on a spike … and they did the same to Bradshaw and Ireton. Those buckos knew how to throw a party!
@Susan
Jeez Louize, Susan !
FIRST we scrub the History Books.
SECOND we tear down the Statues.
THIRD we vandalize the Tombstones.
Digging them up and disgracing the corpses is NEXT.
These things take time, and the new season of Dancing with the Stars is coming up.
I’ll just mumble *Nixon!* here, and let myself out. 🙂
After being taken down, Cromwell’s head was severed with eight blows, placed on a wooden spike on a 20-foot (6.1 m) pole, and raised above Westminster Hall. Various conspiracy theories exist as to what happened to the body, including a rumor that Cromwell’s daughter Mary had it rescued from the pit and interred at her husband’s home at Newburgh Priory. A sealed stone vault was claimed to contain the remains of the headless Cromwell, but generations of the family have refused requests, including one from King Edward VII, to open it.] Biographer John Morrill stated that it was more likely that Cromwell’s body was thrown into the pit at Tyburn, where it remained. -Wiki
@Susan
History repeats itself (sadly)
What’s wrong with Sonic The Hedgehog?
P.S Loving The Captain America Shield table 🙂
P.P.S I like Digimon too 🙁
Nothing is wrong with Sonic. Except 85% of his games. And most of the Sonic fan art on DeviantArt. And a sizeable subsection of the fans who are just frightening. And the fact that you can open up a door to a world of nightmares by taking any name and adding “the hedgehog” to the end of it in Google image search. But besides that, nothing!
Sonic Games are just too hard.
At a certain level they toss you back to the beginning.
I ONLY HAVE NINE LIVES !
Sonic games are … sometimes hard. And then sometimes so easy you’re not really playing them. They just go. All in all, it’s just a mess of of inconsistent gameplay. The tight quality control isn’t there. That said, the old 2D games are good. I stand by Sonic Colors as a great game in 3D. And I’ve heard Sonic Mania (basically an officially recognized fan-made game) is spectacular.
I did not believe you, and had to see for myself….
SAVE YOUR SANITY!!! NEVER type ______ the Hedgehog in a google search! NEVER
Duly noted.
Darn. I was expecting the the store to be a “more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Mos Eisley spaceport”, cause let’s face it, Daphne frequents the place…
“Scum and villainy” pretty much describes Daffy’s character, all right. I could go on.
I’d have gone with either furries or bronies, since they tend to be the internet’s whipping boys.
I felt like they were low-hanging fruit. I mean, Sonic is low-hanging fruit too, but you at least need to raise your arm.
Okay, I get Emily is a fury. They were on CSI. *Looks up “bronies”* What!!! You’ve got to be kidding! Grown men do that??? Well, I never would have believed it.
I have consulted with my imaginary friends, and as punishment for EG, for his Lack of Lephrechauns, post THIS video MY LITTLE BRONY
(the rest of you BEWARE – once viewed it can nevah be UNSEEN)
Documentaries can sometimes be disturbing.
For some reason, I think that furries would hold themselves in a higher esteem than they would bronies. Some could possibly argue that the program was intended primarily for young girls.
fury = furry. Curse you, autocorrect!
Grumble Grumble Grumble
No SAINT PATRICK’S DAY INCENTIVE this year !
Baldie sez he finds it necessary to drown today’s sorrow in IRISH BEER.
Oh the other hand, if there be an incentive, he would find it necessary to celebrate his joy in IRISH BEER.
And POTATOES
I settled for Jameson’s * and potato chips (is it “crisps” in Canada? It is in GB )
*Irish whiskey
Canada is NOT Great Britain. It is ‘chips’ here. Though we are different because we have ketchup chips. (They’re gross. Trust me.)
We have KETCHUP CHIPS here in Salem, too.
I like ’em.
Seeing that Voltron in the back brings back memories. I bought my kid brother one many Christmases ago.
This kind shop feels like home to me.
Note: off the back of the recent Netflix Voltron, Playmates is coming up with an original 80’s-designed 16″ combining Voltron toy for (relatively) cheap. For years, the only combining Voltron toys have been hundreds and hundreds of dollars for expensive imports. Now, finally, I can get a reasonably affordable one for my office. Yes, it’s already ordered.
I’m cool with Sonic fans who enjoy the games or the cartoons… but the ones who are heavily into the Sonic pron scare me a little. There’s not even remotely a resemblance to a humanoid shape! T_T
Cy would no doubt tell me to be more tolerant if I want to hang around his shop, I’m sure. He would then point out to me that my name is on the staff page of a website (Ranmabooks.com) that makes adult-oriented (but funny) comics featuring a teen boy that transforms into a girl, his father who turns into a panda bear, and the occasional intersection of these aforementioned aspects on said adult-oriented site.
I stand on shaky ground to point the finger at anyone and call them “weird”.
Well put, imaginary Cy in my head. Well put.
He said it so I don’t have to.