Mar23
NEW MARCH VOTING INCENTIVE!
This month brings us Puck in a decidedly different style. Vote to see the cast as they would appear in OTHER comic strips!
As for this comic…
In an alternate reality, where different rules apply, there is no social distancing between these two.
I like their world better.
How long did this take?
Do you mean how long did it take for us to get to this point story-wise or how long did it take to draw? It took a while to draw, actually. Poses like this are hard. Especially when you draw it entirely from your head like I do.
Well no, I kind of meant from when they started playing video games.
Uh, twenty-two years or something like that?
I somehow doubt it’s been 22 years *in universe*, which I think is what Pat is referring to.
Since prom arc started in-universe? A few weeks. In our world? Two years.
No, I was referencing real time.
Started April 16, 2018
…. or do you mean how long the kiss was taking :-).
You know, I do like a good long kiss, but 22 years???? WHAT A TROUPER!!!!!!
You know what I love? The fact that you used the right spelling of ‘trouper’.
I am just waiting for his Jamaican mom to come out.
That’s next week.
Finally! I’ve been waiting for this for years!
Well, this prom story arc only began a mere two years ago. How impatient!
No, next week these two get kiss-terrupted as Phoebe and Papa Schnorf fly by in a limo that has large amount of White Castle burgers dropping out of the trunk. Then we see his mom in the fourth panel while Tyler and Daphne have only moved enough to watch the limo, unbeknownst that an (assumingly) large Jamaican woman is standing behind them. It takes two weeks for the foot tapping to start, because the same strip as suggested here gets kiss-terrupted by a serendipitous tumbleweed. And then kiss-terrupted by his mom.
Then the third panel changes to Daphne and Tyler holding each other in mortal fear of the world class storm is about to erupt.
Now I don’t know what to put in the fourth panel, unless it’s a prom queen traveling past on the back of a motorcycle.
Too much? If not, then his mom still calls him Taylor, and he truss to keep her quiet because of the music industry lawyers (like the ones in radiohead) and something, then the three of them find themselves in a GTAV style survival.
Your mind works in wonderful ways. But no.
@EG
Oh darn.
For once Pat and I were holding hands.
Yeah, the big problem there is that White Castle has no stores in Canada. You would have to go to Buffalo and eat it there; you could not import prepared food without a license.
I have never been to White Castle. And I’m sad about that because that stuff looks delicious.
AAAAAHHHHHH. You had better be a female cat, because if not, then no one can horde the amount of sanitizer that I’d need to dive into.
Too much? If not, Phoebe and Papa Schnorf fly past in a limo while they are straight lining Pixie Sticks. You know how kids do it, rip off one end and just throw their heads back and let that colored sugar fly down their throats. The limo is still losing bags of White Castle hamburgers out of the trunk. Only this time Neil Patrick Harris runs past in a suit while dropping some of those self same bags that had dropped out of the limo’s trunk in order to nail the Harold & Kumar ref, wait for it, ference.
Oops, the closest White Castle to Hamilton is over in Michigan, not Buffalo. The closest store in New York state is over by New York City.
I’ve never seen one. Ever. Been to a number of states, but never seen a White Castle. If I ever do, I’m stopping.
Where in Buffalo? I went onto Google maps and the closest one is three hours and three minutes away from a nursing home in Hamilton on the 402. Toll charges incurred. Maybe it’s the Ambassador Bridge or something. I think that it may just be across the street from Bad Brads BBQ in Clinton Township, Michigan.
@Pat
“AAAAAHHHHHH. You had better be a female cat, because if not, then no one can horde the amount of sanitizer that I’d need to dive into.”
I’m not a female cat, but I’m the closest thing !
That is, the closer I am to one, the betta’
(snicker)
Not the White Castles!!! They’ll spend the next week in comic time (so probably 6 months in real life) in the bathroom. We don’t call them sliders for nothin….. they slide right through ya.
And of course, now I want one.
The only problem I see for your scenario is that White Castle does not operate in Hamilton, or any place in Canada. The closest White Castle location is in Michigan. Otherwise, yeah that makes sense.
Aww, I hoped to have put something funny.
…and you’ve been planning it for at least five years. You made a “coming up in a ‘junior prom’ storyline” comment in April 2015 in the replies to Puck#282.
It was worth the wait. Presumably Tyler feels the same.
Stuff is planned insanely in advance in this comic. I have story arcs planned for decades to come.
And to think that it took someone whom she perceive as very shy and timid.
f***ing finally
Hey, I can’t tease the best, or tease the loudest. But I am totally the one who can tease the longest.
1999 – Puck cracks a joke about Taylor/Tyler being Daphne’s boyfriend
2020 – It actually happens
I play the loooooooong game.
@EG
I have nine lives, but this is ridiculous.
Ah teenage logic. (I mean “Bad idea=hot.”)
That’s not teen logic, dude! That’s LOGIC logic!
Many decades past my teens. Can confirm.
$&* $&* $&* $&* $&* $&* $&* $&* $&* $&* .
Ok, I said it.
Oh, I guess I didn’t.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR_TUVWXYZ
ABCD_FGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW_YZ
Read between the lines.
I’m a regular ENIGMA machine.
You tell ’em, Salem!
@DLKmusic
Apparently saying the naughty word 3-letter word over and over is a really good way for the Search Engines to downgrade a Web Site.
I’m been bad. And I’m sorry.
EG went to swat me with the rolled newspaper, but I scurried under the bed, and he missed me.
But I learned my lesson.
Until next time.
😛
Is this PG13 GECKO.
IS IT?
@Avstron
Mebe PG-32 ?
Yes. Yes it is. 😉
@EG
O KAY
???
So all this time Tyler just wanted Daphne to jump and kiss him passionately to show her feelings? So is he a gentleman or a coward for not admitting his feelings first?
I love that finger lock.
to answer your question? “Yes”
A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B?
Re the header: “Is this a kissing comic?”
All good things trace back to the Princess Bride. All of them.
“as you wish”
Now I’m waiting for the “and stuff”. 😀
I’m feeling like there lacks a panel or a strip between last week’s and this one.
She jumps on him and next panel they are kissing passionately.
Landing must have hurt.
What, you can’t land into a passionate kiss? It’s a move that takes coordination and practice. And you gotta watch out not to break your teeth.
Or in Daphne’s case, fangs… canines? Long teeth.
Yeah, I’d be worried more about him getting injured than her. She could bite his lips off if she’s not careful.
Costume continuity: in the last panel of the previous comic, Daphne’s left shoe is shown flying off. But in this comic her left foot clearly has a shoe on it. Now I realize everything is a lie.
I thought it was the other foot. But it speaks a lot to my method that I didn’t even bother to check. I will fix this. Eventually.
Eventually came pretty quickly
By ‘eventually’ I meant soon but not within the next minute. The world of the Internet has made people expect immediate results so I tend to exaggerate timelines so as to not lead to disappointment.
@Alfvaen
Haven’t you heard of TWO LEFT FEET ?
(eg, you can thank me later)
It’s called jump-kissing. It’s a thing. Well, it’s a thing now…
Best practiced on trampolines.
Or at the very least.. not on concrete.
Elsewhere:
Hannah pauses; she senses something, and smiles.
Ty’s mother senses something too; she does not smile.
Puck is just glad no-one’s headed for jail. She hopes.
This is canon.
E.G. since it appears the schools won’t be opening back up on April 6 I’m placing a formal request for 2 per week updates during our long period of social isolation. Anybody else think this a great idea?
I’d love that idea if I weren’t burned out and barely able to keep up. So yeah, though that sounds great, I’ll agree when you find someone else willing to do the second strip every week.
The schools are “closed” in the land of Kansas but we are gearing up and teaching online now. As the sole IT guy at a school I can attest that I am very busy, so I won’t be helping.
Well, right now in Ontario we’re figuring out what we’re doing still. But something similar is going to start probably very soon, because something needs to happen. I teach a whole bunch of grade twelve students who already have their university acceptance letters and NEED to graduate. So yeah, like you, I’ll likely soon be very busy with online learning stuff. And as it is, I’m still digging my way out of the pile of marking that came in just before the quarantine started. Hasn’t been fun.
@EG
It’s either repeat the year, or just pass them.
Both paths are bad, and repeating the year would be better.
But that would create so many issues, it is just not practical.
Just graduate them, and hope for the best.
I would agree. The big issue in Canada is that our school runs later. Students go until the very end of June, and high school is semestered, which means my kids started new courses at the beginning of February. So that means that I have a ton of grade twelve students who have only taken English for about a month. I have one or two marks on the board, and that’s it.
Still, I’m in agreement with you. I say just pass them and hope for the best.
Very funny…and sexy.
That’s two notes I wished to hit. Good to know I hit them.
Oh, how touching. I hope this reconciliation lasts.
It will. Scout’s honor.
Ah, to be young, and in lust. I hope one of them remembered to bring a condom…
Dude, they only now, after years of sitting on the same couch, got to the first kiss. You think they’re going to get all the way from first base to home in one night? These are two cautious and inexperienced kids.
@EG
Sigh
They have very weak hormones, IMHO.
@EG
My human pet, Baldie, gets drunk and cries on my shoulder (out of earshot of my other pet, Janet).
Every time it is that he did not “Get Busy” with his girlfriends soon enuff.
He was a “Gentleman”.
I look crossways at him, and march away.
He was an idiot.
Baldie’s life is one of tragedy, I gather.
@EG
That’s why I stick with him.
It’s hilarious !
And I guess because he needs me.
I was cautious and inexperienced once. (In fact, I still am.) 😉
Daphne and Tyler are advancing to a new level in their relationship. Let’s not forget to give credit to Hannah, who is wise beyond her years.
That reminds me of a young lady I like.
You know, it’s a bad idea because it’s on the front lawn. That’s what the back lawn’s for.
I’ve obviously been using my back lawn wrong all these years.
As a long time reader of this series I have to say that it’s about time this happened.
I wholeheartedly agree. Which is why it happened.
As that old nursery rhyme goes. Daphne and Tyler sprawled out on the lawn, sucking face until the dawn…
An iconic piece of everyone’s childhood.
Been there Tyler, mmmmmmm (memories), been there 🙂
Does the super hotness of a bad idea by nature of its hotness make it into a good idea?
Within the overarching frame of bad ideas, there are the good bad ideas and the bad bad ideas. This is certainly within the sphere of good bad ideas, and may overtime prove to morph into a legit good GOOD idea.
welll part of tyler is about to stand to attention if i remember being a teenager accurately and daphne is going to be very very embarrassed, i dont think shes ready for that yet
I don’t think Daphne is quite ready for that either.
This sounds like a recipe for comedy. Maybe not to her, but definitely to us 🙂
Phoebe makes a sturdy dress. I would have bet it would have torn.
Recall Phoebe’s own dress, which did not tear and seemingly defied gravity. That is one mean seamstress.
I am impressed. She’s in the wrong job.
What he’s really saying is “We shouldn’t be doing this on the lawn – let’s go to my room before my parents get home.”
Good chance his parents are already home.
ok, who has been in a similar situation? Raised hands??
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For me, I was quite a bit older but OTOH it was on the little lawn at the foot of the walls of the Kremin.
After a while, a cop came along and ended the moment; we eventually got married.
And divorced.
In retrospect, I realized that I was the one who got jumped.
No regrets.
Your life is an interesting one. Just going to say. It’s the little details that make it magic.
@rewinn
The KREMLIN ?
The one in Moscow. I think most old Slavic cities have a central fortress called a kremlin, but this was THE Kremlin.
I was on vacation. She was visiting from Siberia. We met at a subway stop. It was romantic.
In retrospect, she might have been on a shopping trip, so to speak, but it was real good before it went bad.
You roll your dice, and move your mice. Regret is a wasted emotion – but learn from mistakes – what I learned was “I shoulda gone with Janice the Lovely Programmer”.
Anyway – I totally relate to Ty Panel Four. Is EG drawing from experience?
For his sake I hope so 😉
Etc etc etc.
I am drawing from the well of human experience but not my personal experience.
Congratulations EG! This week’s cartoon now has over 100 posts!
(and it’ only Friday!) 🙂
People like to talk when the comic gives them something to talk about.
So Hannah can do what Satan can’t? Sounds like he’s in trouble.
It’s long been established that Satan in this comic is perhaps the worst Satan ever. Even a blind Dutch girl is ostensibly more sinful than him.
I hope Daphne will thank Hannah later. I’m assuming this scene won’t have any dire consequences. 😉
I hereby assure people that no dire consequences will arise. Maybe consequences, but they won’t be dire.
No need for a Dire Daphne.
Regular Daphne is dangerous enough!
O GOD NOOO!!!! Now they are going to make puppies
Hopefully there aren’t eight to a litter.
@Badtaiming
A horrifying thought.
I think you may have managed to summarize every kink in existance in that last panel.
I wasn’t even trying!
Billy, Dolly, Jeffie and PJ definitely need to stay away from the new neighbors. Grandpa may want to fly in more often as well.
Heh. Too true. I really think these two as next door neighbors would make Family Circus WAY more entertaining.
Walmart has begun selling microwaveable White Castle burgers in their frozen foods section. Find your nearest Canadian Walmart and you just might get lucky.
That doesn’t count. Microwaveable burgers? That sounds horrifying.
@EG
They are quite good, but rather expensive.
Mermaidan, your post made me laugh so hard I almost dropped my laptop. What a wonderful mash-up that would be!
There’s a beautiful shade of purple behind Daphne in the third panel.
(Also, “Puck” has many colorful characters.) 😉