Apr25
APRIL IS HERE!!! TIME FOR PANCAKES!!!
Whether you call them flapjacks, griddle cakes or flat muffins, you’re gonna want this short stack, so…
As for this comic…
Hey look. Comic #700. On the one hand, that’s a big number. On the other hand, that’s technically not even two calendar years of a daily comic strip, so I shouldn’t get feeling to proud of that.
You deserve accolades dude.
I deserve something. Maybe a sanity check.
INCONCEIVABLE
You could using that word…I do not think it means what you think it means.
Nope. ‘Cause Bob’s has proper goons. They spent 20 minutes earlier getting the mud juuuuust right in case it was needed.
Funny that the mud puddle was never present in any establishing shot. Almost like someone just made it.
But only if it were funny.
You just bury a soaker hose in the ground and turn on the tap in advance. It’ll turn that turf to mud pretty quickly. (just don’t forget where you buried it).
This sounds like something you’ve done before.
Mate. This isn’t even a daily comic strip. It literally updates once every week. Don’t compare yourself to something you’re not when it is an actual achievement.
Well, yes. But just comparing myself to one of those daily comic artists. Hats off to them.
Accolades!
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
And no, the large men couldn’t have put them down without the mud because that would be less funny than with the mud.
Exactly. The funniest option is always the most correct!
I’m surprised they let him keep the portable shadow.
He’ll lost it eventually. Wait for it.
I’m so used to seeing it, it honestly didn’t jump out at me until they flipped him upside down.
How ’bout John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara?
Iconic but … not quite as iconic?
Just hoping for a little mud wrestling.
Squish.
You beat m to it. “Only one thing left to do… Mud Wrestling!”
Yeah, don’t model a relationship around high tragedy. It never ends well for anyone involved.
Especially those of us who have to sit through yet another bad teen romance that ends in a double suicide by roadside ambush.
People love their romantic tragedy, man. Mainly because romances that don’t end in tragedy either end in mundanity or divorce.
Ooooooh, I aspire to mundanity.
Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyama.
It’s all part of the rich tapestry that is the
Klein bottle of life.
Together through dirt and mud…
Hey, you gotta test that bond through trials and tribulations.
Huzzah, ditto! 700-to-the-Puck Power outweighs a ton of those daily strips.
And if they did land ten feet to the left, they would have crushed that cheery little dandelion that Professor Gecko drew for us.
Always gotta include a dandelion. It’s a thing I do.
Ah, but it’s Hamilton mud! Top-quality!
Nothing from Hamilton is top quality. Except the carcinogens.
But, but, but, what would Broadway say?
Congratulations on being a consistent cartoonist who has delivered, as promised, a weekly comic strip since – gong by the archive – 2013. Uploaded the old strips and even delivered us a whole car wash caper in one swoop.
Considering I’ve read other strips where the cartoonist would be okay for awhile, then need to take time away, then deliver occasionally until the strip just atrophied…
Good Job MATE!!
Actually been keeping a consistent schedule since 2011. The webcomic version started on DeviantArt then.
I missed one update early on, due to my basement flooding.
Excuses! Excuses!
Seriously, that’s a really impressive achievement.
Only because I’ve just become aware of it, but Tracee seems to be forced into a classic/controversial Spiderwoman pose in panel 3.
Unlike some comic artists, I promise that none of my poses are stolen from adult magazines. I don’t use reference material at all because I’m lazy.
Don’t you mean panel 2?
Yes. I stand corrected. And, following some highly thoughtful consideration for hours of said controversial Milo Manara Spiderwoman pose, Tracee is not quite as close to the “pose” as I first thought.
Both, however, are quite excellent examples of pop comic artworkl.
Congratulations on 700 strips! I’m envious in that I never got there with any of my comics. Half congratulations, half envy.
Unlike other long-running series that stick around long after they ought to, Puck just keeps getting better.
Also, mud-based evictions are the best evictions. In comics, anyway.
Even in New Jersey?
You, sir, have started a new comic. Without telling me.
I’m excited.
700 pages divided by 50 weeks per year (for ease, not complete accuracy) equals 14 years of web-comicing.
Well done, dude!
I am nothing if not persistent.
It’s not necessarily a virtue.
700? You’ve been at this a good while, sir. Props.
Thanks for the mud scene. Many more to come.
We celebrate with mud.
Dude, you’re Satan! You need to raise up your attributes and assume your aspect.
He’s a terrible Satan. He needs to get his groove back.
Congrats! Many other web comics I’ve followed have ended well before this point. So if ypu compare to your contemporaries your doing well!!
It’s tough to keep going when it’s a lot of work and not a lot of money. (Or no money, in a lot of cases.) I feel now like a dinosaur from a previous age; so many of the people who started webcomics when I did have long abandoned the medium. The new ones coming in are all zoomer Webtoon teen types who love romance comics and isekai. The strip comic is all but dead.
And yet … I march on.
I mainly keep doing it because people seem to like it. And if it makes some people happy, it’s probably a good use of my time.
REVENGE will be served.
and …………. de served.
Walpurgis is in four days.
Typically Satan would be his height of power then.
But this Canadian Satan, so mebe not….
Just like Canadian Thanksgiving, Canadian Walpurgis is in a different month entirely.
Corrected.
When is Canadian Walpurgis ?
Hmmmm…..
Changes every year. It’s the third Monday after the first full moon that falls after the first blooming of the snow pansies.
Next page, we see her standing on a street corner, wearing a dress streaked in mud, holding a sign, “Homeless and hungry. Please Help.” In the same frame, we see Colin drive by. When he gets home, “Honey, you won’t believe who I just saw begging on the corner down there. Well a woman that looks like her anyway.”
I think women like Tracee try to stay far away from street corners.
Better a consistent joy than burning out and letting the comic die. I’ve been reading for years now, and I have no regrets. With the comic, at least, plenty of other regrets.
Well, I thank you for the vote of confidence. I am still trudging. It might be slow, but I think the glacial pace is better than no pace.
Best WALPURGIS INCENTIVE ever !!!
Six months to Halloween….
Dang it! Why am I just noticing now that His Dark Worship lives (or used to) in Dundurn Castle?
“I’ll be back! During ‘Doors Open’, but still, coming back.”
Well, in this alternate reality, Dundurn Castle is privately owned. By Satan. And not a publicly owned tourism hotspot. So no walkthroughs. But cool of you to notice!
With his face and upper chest permanently in shadow like that, one has to wonder if he’s rich enough to hire a drone to hover above him constantly or if he just wears two-toned suits.
Or his aura of evil sucks in the darkness around him naturally. Gotta stay threatening!
It is the shadow of divine damnation. It never leaves him. Though we shall see in the future.
In the last scene, it looks like Tracee has a pointed tail. (I’m not complaining.) 😉
Hard to know where to put that tail.
Esteemed Gekko, I think you put it most deftly. 🙂