Dec03
NEW CHRISTMAS VOTING INCENTIVE!
Everyone loves cats on the internet, right? And everyone loves Christmas? Well, boy, do we have it covered!
VOTE FOR PUCK TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE MITTENS FOR NEEDY KITTENS!
As for this comic…
My wife hates puke. Like, she really hates puke. She can’t stand to be in the same room when one of our kids barfs. She doesn’t like seeing puke in film or pictures either. But when she saw this comic, she was happy. Why? Because the dress was destroyed. As she said, “It deserved to be destroyed.”
She was also happy to hear that most of the readership agreed with her.
Johpeshi!
//www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-437
That’s one word for it.
You know, Salem’s going to say something about that dress again. That or Tracee.
@pat
On Cue:
Don’t forget TRACEEE worked at Howlers.
I’ll bet she has been in far sticker and messier situations.
And not the first time she’s been hurled on – tho perhaps the first time she’s been hurled on by anyone SOBER.
Nah, TRACEE will laugh it off, console Miranda, then hand her off to Sigmund for a Diaper-Change and cleanup.
as an experienced howlers-waitress HER instinct would´ve warned her before some drunk dude turned into mount vomit…..besides, even if being puked on wouldn´t phase her, there´s still the matter of her ruined dress! so yeah, i´m more thinking along the lines of ‘screeching banshee’ then laughing it off 😉
though i can´t help but wonder if maybe this was satans plan – because if tracee had any maternal urges left underneath the silicone, its now gone for good. she´ll never allow herself to get knocked up with a puking poop machine, not even for a ploy to trap him into marriage to become immortal (like phoebe´s mom)
@Peya Luna
There is much to consider here…
I’m with you, Peya Luna. I think that waitresses at establishments frequented by drunk fools would be very good at avoiding puke. The catch with babies is that they often give none of the usual warning signs. Note that panel three has a sound effect for the puke hitting its target, but NOT for the puke coming out. Babies are often silent when misfiring like that. So waitress instincts probably wouldn’t help. You need mom instincts.
I don’t think she’s the ‘laugh it off’ type, but that’s just me.
Well, I’m counting on it.
I think that he’s upset that you let her get barfed on bro.
Only a mother can weaponize a baby like that.
Babies are naturally weaponized. My nephew broke his dad’s nose with a well placed headbutt.
Yeah, babies are like that. They have an amazing ability to target the most fragile parts of your body and inflict intense damage. Toddlers are even more dangerous.
She’s used her baby as a strategic element of warfare before. Though in this case, I think it was just passing the grenade before it exploded.
Be careful where you point that child – she’s loaded!!!
Babies always are.
oh no
OH NO !!!!
Is Miranda wearing OSH-KOSH ?
This is a foul omen.
It’s ‘Gosh Kosh’. And yes. No omen involved, though.
Like Halloween, like Walpurgis, like Midsummer, the Yule is a time when the curtains between the spheres are most threadbare.
I’m looking at CENTER PANEL and see something most curious.
ROBIN HAS A CREATURE CROUCHING ON HER FOREHEAD !
Directly atwixt her eyebrows, it sticks out its vile tongue.
Its eyes, clenched in disdain, peer from either side.
I’m freaked out now.
(or maybe its just really bad artwork, drawn carelessly, by a college student truly pressed for time)
Uh, sure? I can see it too, now that you mention it.
@EG
The accursed demon attached to her skull is the dreaded PAREIDOLIA
(shudder)
Most likely just a bad hair day for Puck!
Wouldn’t they stuff her G-string if she could cover herself in that at the club?
I doubt even Howlers has hygiene standards that relaxed. It’s still a food business.
There’s one inappropriate thing one could say about panel three.
Well played Puck. Well played.
RIP horrible dress. Tracey will never wear you again.
…and will probably spend he next 5 hours in the bath trying to scrub away the smell of puke… how does virgin blood work for that? Or is it the baby seal jelly?
She might go right for the sulphuric acid! 😀
This calls for something stronger. Maybe unicorn tears.
There are much worse things than getting puked on. Many years ago, I responded to a cry of “There’s something wrong with this guy!” I ran over and started getting all First Aid-ey. As I was checking him over, he gasped and stopped breathing and no pulse. Crap! I yelled for an ambulance and started CPR. You guessed it. Four breaths in, and the guy filled my mouth with puke. That’s right off the “ewwww” scale. I was pretty jacked with adrenaline, so I just spit it out, cleaned him out, and kept going, but when I later had kids, seeing them puke never seemed so bad (as long as I breathed through my mouth – the smell always kills me)
Okay, well, that takes the cake. That’s what you get for helping random people in need!
So THATS the reason they stopped recommending breathing and started to focus just on heart …
@Lancinator
You did well.
Very well.
That’s why you put a cloth between your mouth and theirs when breathing.
*snrk* I’d theorized Miranda might hork all over Tracee’s snake-belly at some point during her stay, but I never dreamed it would be this soon. 😀
Hey, I can’t dilly-dally here. Gotta get to the good stuff!
I fully agree with your wife. And presumably most of the readers.
That dress was… Weird. Put mildly.
As for something said in panel 3, I believe that Satan’s “Uh-oh…” expression was the best way to put it without saying anything.
…Now I’m curious what’ll happen once they go to pick her back up…
Well, lots has to happen between then and now. It’ll be a long night.
@EG
“Long Night” = 2 Years ?
YAY !
A couple of weeks ago I was working on a panel in which a child gets sick. In the penciling stage I was thinking, “How would Charles Schulz handle this, assuming he were drawing this genre?” In the end I decided that the “camera” pulls back so that all we get is a large sound affect and an outline of the scenery.
If I had a better library of comics and a better understanding of its history, I’m sure I could have found some inspiration from Al Capp or one of the other great masters.
Thank you for providing me with a completely different avenue of inspiration. Plobt.
Well, I pride myself on handling whatever subject matter I tackle with the least taste possible. So if that’s enlightening, you’re welcome.
Well, at least she had more skin than fabric goin on there. It’ll be less painful to clean up
I dunno. All the cutouts and stuff make me think that the cleanup would somehow be worse.
Nobody likes puke, but I’m surprised your wife doesn’t have a “stronger stomach” for it, since, you know, she’s a mom. Very little disgusted my mom growing up, and she had two boys, so you KNOW things were worse for her. 🙂
Well, she has me to clean it up. So she’s never developed that tolerance.
Well . . . on the plus side Tracee will be getting her tubes tied . . . this same night, probably.
@demarion
True Revenge would involve TRACEEE having several children, raising them badly (though that is Robin’s dept), and somehow foisting the brats off to Robin for a week !
What makes you so sure that she would be the one going for the operation? I think she’d be insisting that someone else get the snippies.
… as if Satan couldn’t just regenerate that …
Enh, good point.
I am not really sure that there is an appropriate comment for panel 3.
@Don MacDonald
Perhaps TRACEEE should have used a phrase that was a staple of hers while employed at HOWLERS:
Hey, my FACE is up HERE !
I certainly couldn’t come with one.
wahahahahah at least it cameout the top end a diaper blowout would have been much much worse
Well, the night is still young.
Will that barf wash off the “fake bake” that Tracee always wears?
that fake bake is now tattooed on
Yeah, I’m not sure that hue comes off. It’s permanent.
An interesting twist would be that Miranda and Tracee bounds and have great time together.
Making Tracee want to insert herself in Puck’s life
@JJR
TRACEEE has always been nice to Robin.
Gave her a job at Howlers, gave her $10K at her Baby Shower, and even now is babysitting Miranda.
Although not related to Robin, TRACEE has always been more pleasant and more supportive than even blood relatives, such as Colin’s sister.
It sure would be nice if Robin reciprocated !
To be honest
nice but condescending
Well, we can just see where it goes.
I know that I should know what the title text is in reference to. I’m going to feel terrible about it when someone else says what it is, or I figure it out. I feel like it’s from something Sci-Fi, any help out there?
It’s really not. It’s just me applying quasi-military or narco slang randomly. Though if it does happen to perfectly line up with some sci-fi property, I’ll be impressed.
That kid’s gonna make one helluva fashion critic!
Da dum dum tish!
Quasi-appropriate comments for Panel 3? how bout:
“Not Butt, Tracee, MOUTH…”
“Miranda has a brilliant career ahead of her in the Air Force as a precision bomber!”
Everything else goes way downhill after that though…
Emphasis on “quasi”.
By the bye, you don’t have to be an expert to know when a tire’s going down—the feel of the car changes almost immediately when the pressure drops.
Well, I suppose. Babies are less predictable.
I like the new Sidebar Ad for Puck on TWC !
Well, thought I’d change it up. Glad you approve.
The mega-fun payoff of panel 3 sorta overshadows panel 1’s delightful hand-off complete with the first time I recall seeing TRACEE look shocked, panel 2’s contrast between Puck’s powerful sexy strut vs Tracee caught flatfooted, and panel 4’s intimate couple’s conversation pose. If this was on purpose, it’s nice design.
It’s all intentional. All the good parts. All the bad parts are accidents, but all the good parts? Totally planned.
@rewinn
I also call her TRACEEE because it is simply impossible to say her name without smiling.
@SalemCat I totally agree, although perhaps there’s a secret message involving TRACE and size Double-E?
Ahhh….. Life Is Good.
I’ve been quite successful at training my new servant … err … housemate at performing Plumbing Repairs.
Manxi awaiting orders
Manxi adjusting the Flapper
And before you condemn me, her training required hardly any violence. Hardly.
Adorable.
Hi EG, last post failed due to two links.
Fix please ?
So you know, wordpress automatically holds any comment with two or more links for approval. So it’ll go up eventually but I have to approve it first.
Manxi is a clever little girl.
She’s already engaged a subcontractor, Penne Pasta, to do the carpentry.
Fortunately neither have yet figured out that a Paycheck is customary.
And if they do, I’ll tell them they’re INTERNS.
So sweet I need a double-shot of insulin.
And I’m not even diabetic!
That kid was stuffed with milkshakes right before, wasn’t she?
😉
You know how this game is played, obviously.
I knew someone was going to get barfed on by the baby, but for it to happen right out of the gate? Awesome and with no influence from Satan at that.
We don’t faff around here. We get right to the goods!