JUST PLAIN VANILLA.
Sometimes vanilla is all you need. So…
VOTE TO SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!!!
As for this comic…
The look of stupefied dread on the teens’ faces is the look I wear whenever I witness any emotion-driven event planning. My wife thinks with her head, so this sort of thing doesn’t impact me directly, but I witness such exchanges between co-workers or friends and quietly shudder.
Silly rabbit hole. Trix are for kids.
Kids don’t like Trix anymore. Trix is now for aging gen-Xers desperately wanting to taste a bit of childhood.
Beg to differ, dear Gecko. It’s us Boomers who have kept Trix afloat all these years. However, I’ll allow Xers have enabled Fruity Pebbles to keep haunting the shelves.
Fruity Pebbles is an interesting example, seeing as it’s the only way that kids today know anything about the Flintstones. When I was a kid (in the 80s), I’d see Flintstones reruns on TV, but kids today watch Tiktok, not TV, and some random cartoon caveman rendition of the Honeymooners is about the furthest from their cultural comfort zone you can get. They DO know about Fruity Pebbles cereal, though. And maybe the vitamins.
On the other hand, Alley Oop is still pretty cool.
Ten million strong…and growing!
Is that “Alley Oop” the comic strip, or does he have his own cereal brand too? (‘Cause I thought the last rewrite into more of a comedy mode made it not worth reading anymore.)
“Is that ‘Alley Oop’ the comic strip, or . . .”
The strip. I don’t know what strip YOU’ve been reading, but I’m enjoying it so much, I went back to 1939 to get caught up, I couldn’t find any earlier ones other than one or two.
Sooooper Ooooola!
Well, with the last change in writers / artists, it seemed alien to what had come before.
RUSH at a wedding?
Does Geddy Lee know the wedding march?
I’m sure he could learn it. Though it’s Puck, so I think the only option is the Midsummer Night’s Dream wedding march.
this should be ominous. I declare it ominous without evidence or research.
“You want a small wedding, but, if you go with my ideas, when it’s over, you’ll be broker than me and Satan.”
Funny how that works, huh?
Talk about listening to your darkest thoughts when you’re trying to keep things simple.
The entire wedding industry preys on this dynamic: suck you in and tell you that things should be grander and more expensive.
They’ve had thousands of years of experience.
its their way to make marriages last longer – cause you have to pay off those debts first before you can afford the divorce
You might say that Tracee is the devil on Puck’s shoulder.
Instead of the devil on Puck’s couch.
. . . y’know, there is a way in which affordable sumptuous luxury may be possible. Really. A wedding at the park, the Lady Of The Park officiating, all the woodland beasts with floral bouquets, birds trilling songs through the air . . . and if Disney sues for copyright infringement, so be it!
Affordable sumptuous luxury. That’s the lie. They always suck you in with that.
The few weddings I’ve attended that were anything near sumptuous were horrid ordeals for damn near everyone.
Is that the general experience?
Tis.
Oh hell. Satan is going to be the mayor and Hamilton’s newest niche wedding planner?
At least he has Nikki Sixx on speed dial if Geddy Lee falls through.
Nikki always had the classiest weddings, man.
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. – Marcus Aurelius
Fire makes everything better – Bart Simpson
Bart Simpson: the Stoic philosopher of our time.
If all else fails, use fire. — Legend of Zelda II
I’d be for listening to Daphne’s heart.
You are smart.
Well, even a broken clock’s right twice a day.
unless it’s reading 27 o clock….then it’s busted AND wrong!
Hey, my heart says “kill it with fire” all the time. Somebody gets me!
Other times it just says “try setting it on fire”.
As someone who has had to pay for a wedding I can confidently say Puck cannot afford a fancy wedding without going into massive debt.
You are correct.
So who is the worst possible of Puck’s relatives whom can turn up for the wedding?
Puck has no relatives that we know of. So all is unknown.
It would be interesting if Oberon and Titania showed there though.
Her aunt Agatha.
It’s been fun watching the gradually changing expressions on Hannah’s face, going from excited at the prospect of shenanigans to realizing the work before her.
Quite perceptive for someone robbed of actual sight. (Kinda the point, though.)
I visually cheat with Hannah as she does hold herself and emote in a more theatrical way than most people who were born blind. But it’s a comic, a visual medium, so I feel justified.
Uh-oh! Colin is MIA in this week]s panels. Almost surprised there wasn’t a cloud of smoke zzip! in the corner of panel 1.
Well, he had no role in this exchange and the law of drawing conservation meant that he mysteriously disappear.
He collapsed to the ground. He lays there like a slug. It’s his only defense.
A classic movie.
Vanilla- it’s not boring any more!!! 😉
Well, I for one have always been a big proponent of vanilla.
If this wedding had not been delayed so long Neil Peart could have been a surprise guest in wedding.
Well, time moves slowly in this universe. There’s no guarantee that ANY of us will be alive by the time this wedding happens.
The most perfectly planned, sumptuous and ultimately designed wedding I ever attended was more than a year in the making. I knew this because the bride was our departmental secretary, whose job apparently consisted mostly of cruising websites on wedding planning, bridal dresses, everything related to the ceremony including the cathedral in which it was held (but that’s another story).
On The Day Of, it was perfect – truly everything you’d want in a wedding and the celebratory dinner.
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They divorced not long after. It looked like she wanted a wedding more than she wanted to be married.
Our entire wedding cost under $5000 including the dress. We were young and poor. (I was still in undergrad.). It actually took a lot of work to get the cost that low. We did everything, including the mopping and sweeping of the floors afterwards.
That was twenty-three years ago. Time flies.
THAT sounds perfect. 🙂
Does Puck even know that many people? Not counting her immediate family/roommate, that’s Tracee, Satan, Hot Dog Guy, …Stan? Even if we throw in Colin’s friends, that’s Cy, Emily the Cat Girl, and mayyyyybe the doctor that treated his ball cancer. His family is on the fence.
Shh. Don’t tell her. Let her live in a fantasy.
She’s an ancient fairy of lore, where else would she live?