APRIL VOTING INCENTIVE UP NOW!
You asked. I provided. Everyone wanted to see her come back, so…
As for this comic…
Everyone has heard of Godwin’s law: as an argument continues, the probability of someone invoking a comparison to Disney eventually approaches 1. And here is your proof.
On another front, Phoebe directly quotes Macbeth word for word in panel one. This is almost certainly unintentional on her part but fully intentional on my part. As an English teacher, I reserve the right to crib from Shakespeare as often as I want.
Traumatizing kids is a part of the rearing process. Walt helped a lot of parents avoid the need to traumatize their kids personally, so really he just provided a service. Okay, he also taught a generation to hand their problems (i.e., kids) off to a screen. But at the time, we didn’t realize that would lead to texting thumb injuries.
I find the Disney movies of the 40’s, in particular, to be an interesting selection. Most other Disney movies from prior and later decades present an implicit moral view along these lines: “There are cruel and unjust people in the world, but there are good people (or mice or birds) who will stand by you in times of need.” The three big Disney kids’ flicks of the 40’s,meanwhile, have an implicit moral view that is basically thus: “The world is cruel, people are cruel, everyone is cruel. The world is out to shatter your sense of dignity or just straight up kill you. Only your direct family will be kind to you, but they will be powerless to stop the cruelty of the world from exacting its terrible toll.” I guess they echoed the uncertainty and fear of the era. And I can’t say the stance is wrong, but damn it if that ain’t a grim message for the tots.
@EG
I knew this benighted Dimension had a Dark Side.
X-cellent…..
So basically, Lemony Snicket?
@Kurmudgeon
A favorite of mine 😛
Pretty much.
Well, I cant ever remember seeing Hitler and Disney in the same place at the same time…food for thought perhaps
RIGHT?!?
He also accidentally killed his mother. I think that might have had something to do with the darkness for a while.
Really? I obviously don’t know my Disney lore.
Yup.
He ha built of bought his parents a house in California near for their retirement and this was when he was first making really GOOD money.
There was something wrong with the furnace and it was putting out carbon monoxide. His dad recovered, but, you know.
So yeah, there’s a reason why he seemed to gravitate towards stories with absent of passed on mothers for a while.
Yikes.
Indeed.
Imbeciles.
The “SADIST with the MUSTACHE” was MR WHIPPLE.
In Niflheim we let people squeeze as much TOILET PAPER as they like.
In fact, it’s REQUIRED.
Mr. Whipple didn’t start until the 1960’s. Stop clouding the debate with mustachioed lies!
@EG
Mr. Whipple is the PRINCE OF LIES.
As such, in Niflheim he is highly regarded.
We even allow him to Park in the Handicapped Spaces, although his “Limp” is clearly just another fraud.
Ahhh ….. Niflheim.
(I’m getting homesick already)
I dunno, if I were going to compare Daphne to a mustachioed wanker from the 40’s, I would say Groucho Marx…. without the wit!
@DLKmusic
We LOVE that guy !
Even in Niflheim Crowded Ocean Liner Cabins are out of style.
So now he designs AIRPLANE SEATING !
HA HA HA HA HA HA !
Genius never gets old.
I’d have gone with Stalin, personally. (“If Josef ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. And Josef is never happy.”)
@Freezer
He’s cleaning the Litter Boxes in Niflheim – with his TONGUE.
Brutal Evil without an Ounce of Wit ain’t our style.
That brings up a pet theory of mine. All the major villains in WWII: Hitler, Tojo, Himmler, Hirohito and Franco; all were mustachioed. All except for one…
If Mussolini had just grown a decent ‘stache, it might’ve changed the entire outcome of the war!
@Lokitsu
I am not allowed to comment (officially) on your genius.
Though if we look at overall performance, one might say that mustaches were a liability. I mean, none of those mustachioed fellows really fared that well. Except Stalin. Who had the biggest mustache. Hey, maybe THAT’S the key! Their mustaches weren’t big enough to succeed!
His was the most impressive mustache of the bunch also.
WHOA !
That new BANNER AD is totally EXTREME !
We always knew that Lilith’s granddaughter didn’t have an evil bone in her body, but she certainly is a MASTER of inspiring humans to a DEADLY SIN or two.
Well Done, Well Done.
Well, I’m glad you approve. Interestingly, when I used to run that ad on Google ads, it didn’t perform as well as you’d think. Maybe it’s too much of a muchness?
Oh crap.
I feel a weird pull on my aura.
My twin SalemCat has little power of his own, but I have heard he is pals with The Dreaded Yule Cat – Jólakötturinn.
I am fighting this, tho.
This Dimension is more entertaining than I thought it may be, and I’d hate to leave so soon …..
Is SalemKatte gone now ?
I think so.
Thank the powers Huntigowk Day comes but once a year !
Wasn’t that Groucho Marx? Or was that in the 1930s?
Well, Groucho was forever. 30’s, 40’s, it was all Groucho.
How very Canadian of her.
Phoebe’s niceness goes beyond just being Canadian. Contrary to popular stereotypes, Canadians aren’t nice. Canadians are just polite, and people mistake that for niceness. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: Canadians are like that catty girl at a party who is super friendly to you in person but talks trash about you behind your back. Phoebe, on the other hand, talks trash about no one, ever. She’s just legitimately nice.
Plus you have to remember to watch out for the quiet ones. They snap the loudest.
Jeez. Saying Canadians aren’t actually “nice”. And before, that hockey is too expensive for most people up there to get into.. Next you’ll be telling me Poutine isn’t really Canadian. Please, please let me believe that for once, that delicious, heart-clogging abomination didn’t come from America.
Poutine is Quebecois. There are many Quebecois who get angry at poutine being called Canadian, because they have their own culture and, you know, have tried to separate from the country before. But yes, poutine originated in what is legally a part of Canada. And for the record, the junk you’ve had probably is nowhere near the real thing. Every summer I stop by in Drummondville, the town it first started in, and get some of the real deal. The snag is in the cheese curds. Cheese curds basically can’t be more than a day old, or they lose their freshness. They should squeak when you bite into them. But fresh cheese curds and fast food don’t mix.
Oh! If the snag is the cheese curds, then I might have gotten closer than either of us suspected. I’ve spent some time in Wisconsin, you can get some good cheese curds up there (or down there, relatively). And.. I had to kinda jury-rig the Poutine with cheese curds, gravy from a jar, and fast food french fries. And yes, they were squeaky-fresh.
That place DID also have at least one chain with deep-fried cheese curds. Those were pretty good. But I mostly enjoy that chain for the frozen custard.
Now I’m wondering if I could make it “better” with just the right kind of potato wedges instead of fries.
In Quebec, from what I’ve seen, the big sticking point is the cheese curds. Poutine snobs primarily look to that ingredient because it’s the hardest one to get right. And yeah, Wisconsin would totally be the right state to get killer cheese curds in. The fries in Quebec are just standard good quality fries. And the gravy really usually isn’t anything very special. There are poutine purists who say “thou shalt not mess with the dish by subbing in potato wedges” or that sort of thing, but I say go crazy. If you can get decent ingredients, it’ll probably be a great experience.
phoebe, honey, you DO remember you´re the daughter of satan, right? accusing others of causing misery is kinda a pot/kettle situation. besides, i´m sure dear daddy would be proud if you finally followed his footsteps, at least a little.
on another note, wouldn´t it be awesome if that ‘harmless’ little blind girl turns out to be an utter a#hole?
Phoebe is not her father. And never has been. And harmless LBG will not turn out to be a monster. Though she may have some surprises to her. Wait and see.
I consider Walt Disney to be a mentor. For most of my life, no one’s been interested in my artwork, so sometimes I imagine that Uncle Walt is.
(As for mustachio’d men of the Second Great War, my thoughts turn to a Mr Chaplin of “The Little Dictator,” Groucho Marx of “Duck Soup,” and Moe Howard of “You Nazty Spy.”)
Moe Howard is my preferred fake dictator. He was the most convincing. I mean, he legitimately struck terror into Curly, Larry and Shemp on a regular basis. (I refuse to mention Joe Besser and Curly Joe. Outright refuse.)
Moe as a dictator is quite amusing — though I do like the Esperanto signs in “The Little Dictator,” and the mirror scene in “Duck Soup” is still comedy genius.
I may have to rewatch all these. Good stuff.
Is it bad that I read panel 1 and went “Wait, why is she quoting Macbeth? …Is that even intentional?!”
I have read way too much Shakespeare when I studied and a lot of stuff stuck with me – for better or for worse. That is one of my personal favorite Macbeth quotes, as it’s easy to use even in everyday speech without it being obvious where it’s from. Might just be me. I dunno.
I do like how the comic was released on April’s Fools but didn’t have an April’s Fools joke.
That reminds me, I should vote…
…I have voted.
…I stand corrected on the no April’s Fools thing.
You are far too literary for your own good, obviously.
yea probably thinking of Mr. Disney.
Disney scary only got scarier after his passing.
I feel vintage scary Disney was the scariest. Disney lost its scary by the 70’s.
well we have lion king a movie for kids with incest adult themes murder ect. if you have a princess in any movie the one or both parents pretty much have to die, a lot of dark humor throw in a step mother a music number make a lovable character become the enemy or possibly die and then make everything be better magically oh and throw in a few phallic objects and a little extra adult humor, and remake the heck out of it.
the scariest thing is the musicals in my opinion though.
Still not as scarring as Pinocchio. Nothing is.
Is it just me, or has the English teacher missed the missing “a” in “they’re just trying to have [a] nice time?” *grins, ducks & runs*
I read over these comics about five times, and every single time I miss some glaring and dumb typo. But I thank you for pointing it out. I shall fix.
Daphne doesn’t scare easily. She used to work for Satan. 😉
Well, contract work. Not sure whether that counts or not.
Disney is taking over the world far more competently and completely than the Third Reich ever managed . . . I shudder for when The Mouse and China come to blows . . . by the way, have I ever said how much I simply adore the name Walt? Beautiful, beautiful name! (Yes, I’m sucking up, sure China has labour camps but Disney has “It’s A Small World After All!” The horror, the horror . . . er, I mean, the Happy, the Happy Happy Happy!)
You make a terrifyingly prescient point.
For a shockingly realistic depiction of Disney take a look at Epic Rap Battles Of History: Stan Lee vs. Jim Henson – strangely enough ERB were owned by Disney at the time this came out… 🙂
I’ve seen it . . . . I’m now beyond terrified . . .
I really like what you did with Daphne’s ears. Our dog does that!
I love expressive ears. And I love the crazy expressiveness of certain dog ears – how they flop, or fold back, or stick up, or raise unevenly, or whatever. It’s a great communication pattern.
I love that Phoebe is such a sweet heart and a softy. I guess being a rebel when your dad is the Devil would require being a goody two shoes.
I also hate that WW2 is distilled down to Hitler Bad. There was a lot of things going on at that time that lead to what happened.
It truly was a case of the road to hell was paved with good intentions for Gemany. The great Bear of the east did a lot to cause both WW1 and WW2. If the war was fought in the 1950’s Germany and the USSR would have switched sides. It still would have been terrible for everyone though.
Are Daphne and Phoebe in panels 3 and 4 taking on a pious nature with the haloing effect around their heads or are they starting to emit low level radiation?
All characters in this comic emit low level radiation. It’s just a thing.
Wouldn’t be true if they could afford to live someplace more upscale. Oh well.
They live next to STEEL MILLS, not nuclear plants. They get carbon lung, not radiation sickness.
Young Phoebe watching Bambi for the first time must have been sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTZPMJj-X9M
Or Dumbo. Or Pinocchio. Or Song of the South. It was a downer decade for Disney.
@EG
I’ll bet you’ve never even seen SONG OF THE SOUTH.
#1 There are no slaves. It was positioned after America’s Civil War.
#2 It was 100% respectful of every character: Black or White.
#3 It celebrates traditional African Folk Tales, that would have been entirely lost otherwise.
#4 The music and lyrics both are catchy, upbeat, and classic.
( I know because I own a legal copy. )
I HAVE seen Song of the South. A long, long time ago. And yeah, it’s complicated. I’ve watched videos on it more recently, and I would definitely say that I don’t know why they’re so afraid of releasing it, but … yeah. I do find the story a bit of a downer, though it’s not as bad as the others from the era.
@EG
Come’on…
Follow my lead:
Zippidy Doo-Dah, Zippidy-Aye, My-Oh-My what a Wonderful Day…
It’s so cheery and upbeat it forces even Baldie to crack a smile.
A Perfect Springtime Tune !
(beats the crap out of anything in Mary Poppins)
It is, admittedly, a great tune. Though them’s fighting words when you start badmouthing Mary Poppins.
Daphne might have a little bit more respect for Tyler. Even a bit more romance. This might have a John Hughes-type conclusion.
JOHN HUGHES-TYPE CONCLUSION = POSSIBLE.
I’ll admit, while that story line was interesting I never had much of a problem with Puck’s casual look. Maybe it’s the Celtic blood in me, or maybe it’s the years of mass media promoted bleached blondes who’ve burned me out to the aesthetic, but I honestly have no problems with redheaded Puck, Freckles and all. Well, aside for her attitude, she can go from tomboy to husband beater mannish at times. I can’t say that I’d be cool with that bit of predictable volatility.
Well, the voting incentive is more intended as a joke. Readers were overwhelmingly hostile towards the bleached blonde Puck and wanted old Puck back. I’d go so far as to say that 99% of readers would be in agreement with you. Though in my opinion, her predictable volatility is the best thing about her.
Well, I can see that some of those Disney Classics were not entirely upbeat.
Old Yeller: Boy loses pet Dog
Thomasina: Girl loses Pet Cat
Toby Tyler: Boy loses Pet Monkey
But Tragedy has always been the core of Fairy Tales, ancient and modern.
“No More Dead Dogs” was hilarious (if you like YAF). The protagonist/student gets in BIG trouble by telling his teacher that every dog on a book cover is a corpse by the final chapter. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160698.No_More_Dead_Dogs
Maybe Daphne could become so enamored with someone that she pretends to be nice. It would be funny to see her struggle with the others, and observe the others’ reactions.
Pretending to be nice is perhaps the closest thing to nice she will ever be.
Misplaced emotional baggage. A sense of aggrieved entitlement. The abillity to drag others into her own project. Inability to note warning signs.
Disney. Deffinately Disney.
One true Walt.
Misplaced emotional baggage. Unreasonable sense of entitlement. Inability to note obvious warning signs. Blind to relatioinship problems.
Disney. Definately Disney.