Jun13
The GREAT NOUN ADVENTURE RETURNS!
A year ago we did a big, weird noun-voting experience over on Patreon with my $5+ patrons and this year it came back with much fanfare! And now you get to see the bizarre results! It’s a pile of weird nouns just thrown into a blender. What will result? Well…
VOTE TO EXPOUND WITH A GREAT DEAL OF NOUNS!!!
As for this comic…
Running a little late, but got the comic up. Yay.
Sounds like a good reason for Tyler to move into the basement and rent it from Puck.
The basement of Puck’s house is pretty creepy. Definitely the last possible option.
I’m sure Scooby would help chase the creepies away….
I guess Tyler didn’t count on the fact that it’s uber late, and everyone’s tired. but they’ll take him home in the morning.
Or take an Uber when it’s uber-late.
That should be an ad jingle for them.
Does anyone remember Ty’s cover story? IIRC he’s not supposed to be seeing Daphne at all. Did he tell his mom he was going out with the Math Club to study calculus?
Chess tournament
Good memory.
hmmm I smell a checkmate.
He may have attempted to mate, but got checked?
I’d suggest he just moves in with Daphne and they get married, but I neither want to look up Canadian age-of-consent laws, nor want to go back and determine what their ages are.
Easier to just claim that he was trying to escape from a wendigo and leave it at that.
Some things are best left out of your search records. Though they’re generally much younger than
American equivalents.
dude, your dating daph. whatever amount of sanity you´d left after being her friend (and growing up around puck) went out the window the first time you kissed her. so take a page out of collins book and just live with it
Try to survive. That’s all we can do.
Well, his mom’s already met you, Daphne. Him showing up late in the Scooby-Doo van wouldn’t phase her that much.
Or if it did, she’d chalk it up to him hanging out with “those people.”
I think it would faze her. She’s not at the ‘acceptance’ stage yet.
If he can work stick he can steal the Mystery Machine and drive himself home.
When you’re talking about pretty much any Canadian under the age of 25, the answer to “Can you drive a stick?” is invariably “No.”
He could remember what Fred, er, Colin did, and do the opposite.
The opposite of foolishness is not always smart, though.
He’d better keep his stick on the ice!
I’m having flashbacks to family vacations and their aftermath. Ah, memories.
The worst kind of aftermath. Outside of regular math.
After Geography?
But before Spanish class.
Math is great! You’re not watching the right YouTube channels.
Stay the night…..
No room at the inn. Call a taxi.
There’s a couch on the front porch, isn’t there?
In this neighborhood? A deadly prospect, I’d say.
Personally, I think we’re underestimating the efficacy of “chess tournament went into overtime, mom. The Ruy Defense was countered by the Sicilian and it resulted in stalemate TWICE. Then the challenger flushed the champ with the Norwegian Gambit.
We were so stoked afterward, we caught two episodes of The Queen’s Gambit over a case of Sprites. What do you mean there’s lipstick on my collar and I look like Shaggy? The reggae star? Thanks!”
Just trying to help Tyler out here…
You’re good at this. You should hire yourself out for professional excuses.
The skill got my older sister out of plenty of trouble. Never paid me one dime for the service.
You were robbed.
Your sister should hire you come come up with an excuse why not.
Great picture of Puck!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thanks! Trying to come up with something special.
I don’t see the problem. Clearly this is a sign that it is make-out time in the back of the Mystery Machine again.
I went to Anime Boston a few weeks ago. Cosplay Pirates would have been the bomb!
Man, some people just don’t know how to live right.
Is Anime Boston a great example of the right way to live, or the wrong?
It’s right in so many ways. You should come down one year.
But I’m actually referring to myself. My mom would have been O.K. with me having Daphne as a girlfriend and I wasted it. Oy!
I’d like to. I never will, because I’m not much of a convention person, but in theory it sounds fun.
In theory, yes.
In actuality, also yes.
But if you’re not into it, you’re not into it. If you don’t like the whole crowd scene, it would be stupid to go.
“Where were you all night?”
“Mother, to the very best of my knowledge, I’m not sure!”
“Oh my god! You’re on drugs!”
“Mom, I’m not . . . yeah okay, we’ll go with that.”
Let Mom craft your narrative. That’s the real way to get her to believe you.
“Cosplat Pirates” – isn’t that simply LARPing?
(They helped out Hawkeye (NOT the Alan Alda version, nor the classical literature version) in one of his latest escapades…
I feel those were more cosplay mercenaries.
This is good, it took me a while to realize that what Tyler was handing back to Daphne was his wig.
Perfectly pink pinup Puck is also very good, I see the sundae on the table, is what she’s holding supposed to also be a different sundae, because it looks like a butter tart to me?
She’s holding some kind of tart. As a Canadian, it’s probably a butter tart. Because she’s the Queen of Hearts. She has a thing for tarts.
As to Abject Failure, it may be a mining camp ghost town somewhere in The Ring of Fire, near Eabametoong, as I vaguely remember.
Really? Great name.
If you’re gonna hang with the delinquents, you best get used to coming home late, or the next day. And seriously think again if you think you’re gonna guilt them into wasting more of their time taking you home when they’re tired. You chose to go out too. You being out is on you.
His parents can be happy he’s coming home the next day. And not several days later, like mine got used to. Whether they liked it or not.
Course, I was the one driving ppl. So I wasn’t in his shoes. I was the one who didn’t care once I was done driving. I’m sleeping now, not falling asleep driving and rolling into the ditch. That was my younger brother. < 36 hours after getting his license, writing off MY car.
You are obviously a veteran of the delinquent way. I applaud you.
He spent a lot of afternoons over at their house while hemming and hawing about his attraction. How did he get home for dinner back then?
Bus. Probably. Though it should be noted that in my terrible city, the bus stops running before midnight. Looks like he’ll have to get a cab.
You’d think he’d have well-hashed reasons for being late.
Some people are just born to tell the truth and have a hard time lying. I feel that’s the case with Tyler.
That is a terrible handicap in life. I’m not good at it either.
Happy Canada Day from the USA! 🙂
I thank you. The Canada Day celebrations have really gone the way of the dodo since the country decided it hates itself, but at least Americans can buy up all the fireworks we didn’t use for three days later.
Awwwww! How do you scare your demons and assorted naughty spirits? If you don’t do that, they feel all lonely and neglected.
Everyone feels lonely and neglected in Canada. So … they have good company in that.
Man! I’m sorry. I’ve always thought you guys were great. Would you like some cake?
Is there special 4th of July cake? That sounds delicious. Like, three layers with red, white and blue.
According to surveys, we’re pretty down on ourselves too.
I’m thinking rum cake. No raisons. They make my head hurt.
Not that we’d admit it.
@EG, you’re welcome. I hope Canada changes its mind about itself soon. Nobody’s perfect.