IT’S A NEW MARCH MADNESS INCENTIVE!!!
The folks over on Patreon were curious about what might have been if Puck actually played Velma and Phoebe played Daphne, so if you want to see the first component of that swap…
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As for this comic…
Hey all. So I’ve been dealing with some rather huge shakeups with my website recently. The site just ceased to exist on Wednesday of last week, and it took multiple support tickets to my host to get it back up. For a little while I just thought the site was gone forever. I’ve also run into some fairly nasty issues with my ad service. I’m hoping I can resolve these problems, but … we will see.
In short, the site’s got some issues and may potentially cease to exist (either for a temporary span of time or permanently) at any point in the next little while. I’m working hard to keep it up but the universe seems to be conspiring against me. In the event of an emergency, I’ll post updates to Twitter and Facebook and such. But I thought I should give everyone a warning.
One would hope the mint isn’t wafer-thin.
One would.
I blame the russian dressing that I mailed to the server company three years ago.
This is all YOUR fault, then!
Is only my fault if they opened it WITH that egg salad sandwich that I heard Salem mailed book rate 3rd class six years ago.
Poor monkey bears… I’m sure we’ll see a glimpse of an actual monster as they leave, though. Even though that’s not very in-fake-genre.
Tempting. Very tempting.
give into temptation. it may not come your way again.
Thanks for the update on your site issues. Hope for good resolutions.
BTW, what the hell is a monkey bear? Google led me to a confusing array of stuffed toys and a kinkajou, none of which were Canadian.
Monkey bears are entirely fictional. Bit of a running gag in the comic. So no, you won’t find any answers through Google.
Its not a running gag YET. It’s more of a callback. I don’t think it gets to be RUNNING until the third iteration and even then it’s marginal.
How do I know? I don’t. I just had this line.
Yeah, not sure the line between ‘world-building’ and ‘running gag’. Or callback. Open to argument, I guess.
We could hold a symposiom to talk about it. Or just hang out. It’s not that important.
I get it. Monkey bears are sorta kinda like our skunk apes down here in the southern US. Except they have no medicinal value in the black market.
So beneath that mask, Papa Schnorf is found to be a Monster after all. Nice twist!
Well, he’s an opportunist. That’s a kind of monster?
I was thinking more like hunter of endangered species monster, but then I never gave much thought to the population of fictional Monkey Bears. Is the rural hinterland of Puck’s world crawling with an abundance of these critters. Are they to Puck like Nutria are to California and Cane Toads to Australia?
Ah, I see this issue is already being addressed in later comments. Monkey Bear gravy….hmmmm.
We’ve established in previous strips that they are a damaging invasive species, so yeah, Papa Shnorf is kind of doing the ecosystem a service.
LoL…
For a moment I thought you said he was an orthodontist and I was ready to agree he was a monster of the absolute worst.
For Psoriasis, you rub the pureed spleen-goo on your chappy elbows. For impotence, you rub it on your… well…
Location of application is key. I was assuming you had to eat the spleen, but maybe not? Just topical?
And if you’ve got the chappy skin down there? I suppose, two in one.
It’s all comes down to the sensation.
Wow, please send me a PDF of everything before it gets lost!
Well, the comics themselves won’t be lost. It’s more the site, and the forty-four thousand comments on the site that would be lost.
GAH!
How politically incorrect!
We are incorrect in many ways here.
Politically correct does not mean intelligent.
Quite the opposite, in fact
IIRC this is the first time the phrase “spleen sacs” has been uttered in this comic.
Correct.
Sounds like it might be time to find Puck on Facebook.
Pay with mystical USD, receive colourful CAD as change 🙂
I like Canadian money better from an aesthetic angle. But not a value angle.
Only the coin change
I’d ask for Euros.
I’m worried about inflation.
Euros? Am I buying a baguette? No? Then I don’t want euros!
O.K. Now we have to ask if this is recreational or if Schnorffland is recreational.
I’m sorry about your server issues. I hope they get streightened out. Where I work had some odd issues to today.
I think everything Papa does is recreational. He’s that kind of guy.
Papa does a LOT of “recreational” – he’s a walking hot box, for cryin’ out loud… lol
Exactly.
One hopes the fur and other meat is also used, as otherwise that’s wasteful. Yes, monkey-bears are an invasive species, so his hunting those is environmentally sound. Still, there is such a thing as ethical and responsible hunting. Which I confidently expect Papa Shnorf does. That Chester guy though . . . perhaps I misjudge him.
Monkey-bear gravy makes a poutine you would not believe!
(You don’t believe?)
Let’s just say we’re taking a “wait and see” stance.
Fun fact : I did have a line in panel three where Papa Shnorf talked about selling the pelts and meat, but the panel was just too crowded to fit it in.
Eh, that’s all I wanted to know. Thanks!
Monkey Bears – shudder
Worthy of a shudder, certainly.