Aug24
THE BONUS STORY ARC COMIC CONTINUES! PAGE 12 IS LIVE!
After two years of what the movie folks call ‘development hell’, the Car Wash bonus comic is ready for release! I initially planned this thing to be a print-only comic that would conclude Puck Volume Two, but then Puck Volume Two never really happened due to low (to no) demand, so now I’m putting it as a voting incentive! Yay! Every week will bring a new page, and new pages will be dropping all summer, so please…
VOTE TO WASH THAT CAR REAL GOOD!
RE: the bonus comic. Awwww… the kid done good.
Hide the Cinnabombs!
But you know that you’ve accomplished something when your daughter brings you Chinese food.
I like this. This is a good line.
Thanks. I guess that they’re one of those families who may not say it, but they’ll show it.
I am of the opinion that saying it is cheap. It is only meaningful if you’re someone who doesn’t usually say it. And if you usually say it, it just becomes words, and words are easy. Showing it is always harder. Much harder.
Was there ever any doubt?
(Thinks of all the schemes Daphne’s pulled in the past.)
Yes. Yes there was.
Yeah, you’re right.
Now, didn’t I tell you not to drink my drink?
Uh huh.
OK now.
And the child grabs my bottle and quickly begins to drink.
You know it.
And how surprised was Puck when she found Collin in a sugar stupor?
Hey, sugar never hurt anybody! Except all those people with diabetes. And keep it away from Phoebe.
She had a snack!
I’m waiting for someone to make a ‘She IS a snack!’ joke, but so far no dice.
…That’s a little too sexual to be referring to a toddler with, Gecks.
I was referring to Puck. Because the opening line is “Puck has a snack.”
Oh, I didn’t notice that, whoops
Well that to, and I was talking about Puck not the kids Buggle.
I thought you were referring to Miranda eating the snack… XD
I don’t know much about young kids (beyond my fear and irrational hatred of them), but I do know that if you leave ANYTHING within reach, they will put it in their mouths.
At least it was food this time.
Yeah, honestly this is child-rearing basics and Puck has no one to blame but herself. Anything within reach will be reached, and anything reached will be chewed.
Had. Had a snack. 🙂
When my mom was a toddler, her cousin Puddin’ would dress her up, put her in a stroller, and they went trolling for guys.
Your mom had a cousin named Puddin’? Now that’s the REAL story here!
It was Florida in the late 30’s and early 40’s. What were you going to do?
You didn’t really need to specify the decade. Just say, “It was Florida,” and I’d be like, “Oh.”
Well, it matters. My mom’s family wasn’t a bunch of Yankees, they were actual Floridians. Been there since the Spanish had the place.
Daphne, you darling! That was nice of her. Breanna did a bit of that for me when I had my surgery.
Katie bar the door! There’s another heartbreaker in the game.
I wish I were learned enough to decode this.
Katie bar the door is an old American colloquialism that means in this case, “Watch out. Miranda is ready to breakout and leave the background.
Huh. Learn something new (or old) every day.
It isn’t THAT old, said the child of the sixties! It was very common in my part of the world!
Granola prompted the kid to walk like a bolt of lightening, now didn’t it.
Such is the power of food. Though really, kids make a bee line to eat dog poo too, so I can’t give any real credit to granola.
Okay, I just caught up after being off-line for weeks . . . public computer user here, so no love for a while . . . anyway, so nice to be caught up . . . guess I am a soap opera fan, so long as it’s comic strips–you catch up much faster, the dialogue’s better, and those involved are two-dimensional not one! (Also, re Tyler’s mom– I have the feeling she objects to Daphne because Daph’s way too much like she was at that age . . . )
Ahhh, you like good writing.
Glad you were able to catch up somehow. And as for Tyler’s mom, I 100% agree. Very observant.
Well, she could have grabbed a lot of other stuff that was not as healthy to put in her mouth, such as bacon, Pepperettes, chocolate, mussels, birth control pills, detergent capsules, Magic Eraser, OxyClean, etc. Okay, maybe the first few would not be so bad.
Yum.
New D.a.d. is surprised at that… old D.a.d. is not
Please tell me that Daphne got Colin a Roma Pizza…
As a Hamilton boy I like Roma pizza, but even I haveTo admit that it’s not exactly pizza. My wife, who was not raised in Hamilton proper, hates the stuff with a passion.
About the latest car wash bonus comic: who are you, and what have you done with Daphne?
She DOES have a heart. Though you’ll note she exploited others in order to facilitate an act of kindness. So two steps forward, one step back?
That “Dick the Birthday Boy” shirt tells me someone is a fan of Red Letter Media!
I am a big fan.
And I think Daphne would be too.
I was just wondering who the Birthday Boy was.
Rich Evans is always the birthday boy. And Julia Roberts is always the Showbiz Pizza Bear.
Thought it was an instruction.
It’s a meme.
That’s the joke. Rich Evans wore it when he was a kid on his birthday, but it’s also an unfortunate innuendo for a kid to be wearing in public.
I guess that’s why he’s “Rich” Evans.
I was just feeling glad it wasn’t me!
I misread “walking” as “talking” and it did make me wonder if there’s gonna be timeskip at some point to when she can make pseudo-sentences.
No, she’s already said her first words. But both will begin to formulate soon.
Well, I already knew that – was just wondering when she was gonna start making sense. 😛
It’ll happen. Some time in the next twenty years. I’m sure.
Jopeshi!
Good memory!
For cruising around to pick up hot chicks, you need a hot car. The one kind of hot, not the other.
And instantly after, the Nature’s Valley granola bar atomized into countless sticky fragments.
The label (which isn’t actually readable in any panel) says “Chunky Valley”. So close.
After the car wash, Colin goes to junk food heaven! 🙂
Is there any other kind of heaven?
One of the things I like best about the carwash sequence is that Daphne felt compelled to conceal, even lie about the purpose, even though it was a good and worthy purpose.
Perhaps it happened for plot purposes, but in her head was it (A) to maintain her shady reputation, (B) avoid confronting the side of herself that is not selfish, or that experiences love for her family, or (C) habit?
People are complex; we may never know.
Or the most likely explanation, (D) All of the above.
Puck, ancient fairy of lore, HAD a snack.
Past perfect.