This strip is #3 in the original run dating from my university days. Puck ran for three full years in the Silhouette, McMaster University’s student newspaper.
This strip is possibly the LEAST FUNNY STRIP IN THE SERIES. It was one of those ‘Dang, it was funny when I wrote it’ things, but few people seemed to share my opinion, and it’s definitely the strip that fell flat with the largest number of people. Like I said before, I was still getting my groove.
This also represents one of my few attempts to ‘shake up the panels’ and do anything beyond the standard, symmetrical three or four panel layout. Again, this was a bit of a failed experiment.
This strip (along with strips 1, 2 and 4) constitutes my ‘sales pitch’ package that I used to sell the Puck concept to the Silhouette. (The Sil, by the way, was a fairly high-profile student newspaper as far as student newspapers went, and they didn’t accept any old garbage.) I can’t believe I was using THIS material to hook readers. Oh well. The head editor looked supremely confused when I showed him my stuff, but he shrugged and ran it ‘on a trial basis.’ Thankfully, that trial basis carried right through my entire undergrad.
Why is daphne a snicker doodle?
Uh, like the cookie, she’s… um…
I’m sorry. Your metaphor is beyond me.
If only I had thought of that.
Insults based on Baked Goods – GENIUS.
Hey gecko what IS daphne anyway?
No one knows. One reader posited that she was a terrier-human cross, but there’s no canonical answer in the comic.
Not a cat. NOT A CAT !
(I learned that the hard way).
After a scene where her hair was finally unbound, I posited that her “breed” would have to be a more long-haired, shaggy dog… like a Puli.
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Nah, that’s the human side. Dogs don’t have manes.
the daphne is a kangaroo/dog/jackal hybrid that escaped from the Island of Dr. Moreau. Horrid little creature.
HA! I beat SotiCoto to the punch. FROM THE FUTURE!!
SotiCoto is no longer any standard of excellence.
He is KAPUT !
I’m like a Daphne Bashing TERMINATOR!!!!!
I’m the T-1000 to SotiCoto’s T-800. He is an obsolete model.
You might wanna rethink that metaphor. Remember, the T-800 always wins.
But only if it’s played by Arnold. If it’s not Arnold (OR if it’s a CGI Arnold), then they’re just disposable cannon fodder and die quite easily.
Awwwww, I agree! Cutest thing ever!
Well, sort of. She’s also a little horrifying.
Daphne is Dogbert and Alice’s love child. To answer the other question, that’s the President of McNiven University himself slipping away around the corner of the low-income housing unit.
I can’t deny your theories, having come up with no better theories myself.
Who’s the guy waving “bye” at successfully dumping Daffy? That looks like Satan’s hand to me!
Is Daphne is Phoebe’s sister?
@Clothespin
It’s Tyler
Not Satan. Satan has claws. Some people have said it’s the Hotdog Guy, but it’s not. It’s … A MYSTERY!!!
If Puck comes from Celtic mythology perhaps Daphne is Egyption – Anubis was fooling around on the side maybe?
Um… Possible?
I don’t know why, but the freckly shoulders are cute.
The freckle shoulders are, in honesty, one of the primary selling points of this comic.