BONUS CAR WASH COMIC PREVIEW!
More car wash stuff. Lots of swimsuits. Goofy stuff. Why not vote?
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As for this comic…
There’s just so many good things to burn in life. And in honesty, this comic is at least partially based on real life. I honestly do sometimes have big bags full of ash sitting around. I have a reasonable excuse, though: it’s called a charcoal barbecue.
The angrier and dirtier TRACEEE gets, the SEXIER she becomes.
Good Choice, EG.
Is there anything about Tracee that you will ever disapprove of? I don’t think so.
Only when there is less of her to be seen.
I think that specifically her hair really looks sexier now …
Hmph, I suppose that no matter what happens to the dress, Salem Cat will always say yes.
Especially when it comes to Traceee
@pat
Poor TRACEEE…..
That dress MUST must be removed and laundered immediately before the stain sets.
I volunteer to assist in any way I can.
Purrrr……..
I find THIS METHOD to be most affectatious.
I find THIS METHODto be most affectatious.
(some things are worth repeating)
It’s a method.
Pat, you’ve noticed!
He’s wearing a gimp suit. But when it comes to Traceee, he’s let it be known that he’s predictable. You’re just making it so much easier.
I suppose one must make allowances for how one’s ashes are hauled.
Exactly. No accounting for some people’s ways.
I don’t know it it’s intended to be a sidelong glance, but in panel 2 Tracee’s eyes look like they’ve turned pure white.
It’s intended to be a sidelong glance, but yeah, at this resolution, I see the problem. I altered it.
Much better now. Thought the idea of her eyes glazing over in panic is pretty amusing.
*Though (not “thought”)
Yes, “charcoal barbeque” I use that term myself. No one ever suspects… no one.
We’re two peas in a pod, then.
I guess any chance of Phoebe having a half-brother or half-sister have now gone right out the window.
Chances lower by the minute.
Probably just as well; having a “stepmother” who’s younger than she is would be pretty weird. (That’s assuming that Phoebe, like Puck, is older than she looks. Has her age actually ever been established?)
A question that I, too, would like answered!
Her age has been established, but only partially within the comic proper. Phoebe is not centuries old; that much we can say. Originally her age was listed as nineteen (if I remember correctly) on the original Puck website, which seems to not be running now. So she’s not an ancient being; she talks readily of her school experiences and seems to have had a normal(ish) upbringing. Now as to whether Phoebe is actually an immortal being, and will remain young forever, that has not been answered. But odds are that she is an immortal being who will not age, seeing as her father is one, and her mother probably is too.
So immortal, maybe. But not centuries old. Phoebe has gone on record saying that Tracee is the same age as her. So … yeah.
Well considering her mom is Elizabeth Taylor, I never thought she was centuries old – fifty, maybe.
Yeah, I played fast and loose with that. The idea was that Liz’s purported immortality meant that Phoebe actually was born later than would naturally be possible. Originally Phoebe was my age, which would put her birth year around 1979. But thanks to this comic’s long run, I have another confusing time distortion problem, because the Puck world’s timeline is considerably slower than the real world timeline. I’m not really sure how to fix that. Oh well.
In Puckworld no one really notices or comments on pointed ears and such (whether because they geniuinely don’t notice are just are being Canadian polite), so perhaps likewise no one really notices the rapid transition of technology (IIRC Puck transitions from landlines to smartphones in remarkably few in-comic years).
(Voting Incentive: such a lucky towel!)
TBH I’m still on a landline. And I still don’t own a cellphone. So I’m still stuck in early era Puck.
oh satan….you´ll need to pay for this – i´m thinking a very hefty shopping trip – before tracee is letting you off the sofa and back into her bed again
You know how this works. But I’m thinking that he currently believes it’s worth it.
I thought my elbows were ashy.
You had no idea how ashy they could be.
I’m thinking Tracee will be wondering if Satan and Puck ever hooked up, on the grounds Miranda is clearly the daughter of the Devil . . . as Tracee sees it, that is! Nope Tracee, Miranda is the daughter of Puck and Colin . . . and this is her just being a baby, and that’s the real Hell of it!
Babies is as babies does. No way around it.
Wild baby out of control! This is too much even for a Howlers’ Restaurant manager. I wonder if Satan will take note, and enroll Miranda in a special pre-school for his most effective minions.
I think this is too much evil for even Satan to handle.
Watch out Satan you have a new rival in 15-17 years
I’m sure any random person pulled off the street would be a good rival to this Satan. He’s not bery good at what he does.
Such progress! She’ll be half the mother Robin is at this rate – which is to say, a quarter-decent one.
Wait and see where this is going. It’s … going somewhere.
*rubs hands together in antici…..
…pation*
Weird thing just happened… when I loaded the page just now, there was an ad that appeared below the link to TWC. (It disappeared when I refreshed the page.) It read “5 signs your spouse is cheating on you”, but the reason I thought it worthy of mention is that it featured a headshot of a young woman with red hair and freckles!
@Wyvern
THE REAL PUCK
I’ve gone on record before saying that is TOO MUCH FRECKLE. For me. Though I admit that the proper amount of frecklage is a subjective thing.
@eg
“TOO MUCH FRECKLE”
We are onto you.
You just don’t want to DRAW them all.
That many freckles would actually be easy to add. I’d just clip a premade freckle vector inside the skin tone and … done. Mind you, that number of objects and transparencies might well crash my drawing program.
This may or may not be the result of contextual advertising. Hard to say. Ads are smart. Like how I’m constantly inundated with ads for dating services targeting lonely single forty-something losers. I am not single or lonely, but I AM a forty-something loser, so I think the ad algorithms say, “He’s forty and he spends most of his disposable money on Transformers and Lego? This guy is definitely an easy mark for our ‘hot Ukranian ladies’ ad!” They’re smart, those algorithms.
EG, I’ve been getting photos of women in skimpy dresses, As Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) used to say “Well, surprise, surprise, surprise.”
😉
Hey SalemCat, do you think that maybe Buggle may know where Susan has gotten off to?
@pat
Nah.
We all miss her, tho.
I think I’ll email her again on Walpurgis.
Hopefully her email will still be active, at least.
(sad)
Well that’s what you get when you call a baby ugly.
I mean, she might have gotten that anyway, but she’s used a good part of my empathy up.
Well, it’s fun to torture awful people, right?
My boy Satan’s on skype!
Well, Satan has always loved technology. I think he invented the internet.
Tracy: “No seriously, what have you been burning?”
Satan: “Evidence, mostly. Quite a lot of my past activities as the Prince of Darkness are surprisingly not what most folks expect from their mayoral office-holders. There was this one time in college (fortunately pre-dating digital photographs) when I joined a ‘Minstrel Show’…”
Tracy: “Hang on while I Google that. Ah. Yikes. Say no more, ‘Justin’.”
Satan: “I was wearing blackface before it was cool… although truth be told I had to use a lighter colour than my real face. I somehow doubt that would save me from the wrath of SJWs on Twitter.”
I can think of some other notable politicians who share the same concern.