JUST PLAIN CHOCOLATE.
Sometimes chocolate is all you need. So…
VOTE TO HOCK A LOT FOR CHOCOLATE!!!
As for this comic…
One of the times when I’ve unfortunately got two blue bubbles talking to each other. What is a blue bubble, you might wonder? Well, when I originally was formulating the current manifestation of the comic, I wanted color to play a bigger role, so I decided to (somewhat controversially) make the text bubbles color-coded. Puck was light green, Colin was light yellow, Phoebe pink, Daphne light purple, Satan red, and Tyler orange. All other minor characters I decided to give sky blue bubbles with the thought that color-coding everyone was ridiculous. This, however, has come back to bite me at times. Like here. We’ve got Tracee (blue bubble) talking to Hannah (blue bubble), and it can get a little confusing. However, I have previously reserved the right to alter one character to a white bubble in such instances to maintain some visual clarity.
And now you know my insane methods.
Poor Tracee, always a wedding planner. Never a wedding receiver.
But I do like Hannah’s response about her attire.
Are you sure she wants a wedding? I feel like spending other people’s money to fulfill her vision for them is more her thing.
Tracee didn’t seem to question it. Score one for Hannah.
hey, you needed the colors to tell one speaking character from another. and just so you know, Blue is my favorite color, so i approve the use of Blue Speach Bubbles in this comic page.
True blue. For you.
Man, Hannah’s tiny. No wonder everyone of her friends are helpful. She’s just so cute.
I don’t think Tracee’s noticed yet.
Ahh, “Someone Else’s” The magic words.
Heights are sadly a little variable due to stinky artist syndrome, but canonically heights are as follows:
Hannah = 5 foot nothing
Daphne and Tracee = 5’4”
Puck and Phoebe (and Tyler and Emily) = 5’8”
Colin (and his sister) = 5’10”
Cy (the nerd shop owner) = 6’
Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head. Hannah is by far the tiniest. If we forget about Miranda. As I did.
Great, I’m shorter’n Puck and all those other people.
That’s fine. 🙂
It’s not a competition. At least it’s not Hollywood, where men’s height starts at 6 feet and goes up from there. And if you’re shorter, you’ll need some special shoes.
It is not. Similar to comics. Did you know that Wolverine is the only male superhero I know of who isn’t at least six feet?
It’s asperational, not realistic.
Like dating websites, where the minimum height for guys (from what I’ve been told) is six feet. Though it’s widely understood that guys add about four inches to their height, hoping girls don’t know how tall six feet actually is.
With Miranda, it’d be weight, not height. How much did she weigh when she was born? ‘Cause Puck doesn’t seem the kind of mother to ever let her forget what trouble she went to have her…
We never got a weight for Miranda. She wasn’t a big baby, from the visuals.
I love that Hannah just returns the ‘compliment’ despite not knowing what she’s wearing. And Tracey probably hasn’t realised Hannah is blind.
And she doesn’t lie while doing so. She acknowledges through the use of the word “whatever” that she has no clue as to what Tracee is wearing. But loves it all the same.
Tracee also hasn’t realised that the introduction was one-sided. Hannah gave her shade, but not her name.
I struggled to fit the intro in. Then I decided that it said a lot about both characters, so I left it like that.
That’s a compliment up there with “Nice use of fabric”. Or just “That looks great on you”.
Hannah is talented at conversational judo.
I’d flub it. “Heck yes, it makes your butt look big. Isn’t that what we were aiming for?”.
Or.. just to just burn down: “Yes, the dress made you look fat. And no, I’ve never met Picasso.. but I do enjoy his pies”.
Hey, we can’t all smell like cat litter and cigarettes…
Tragic, no?
Oui.
First thing that I would like to say is that it is a great idea to have colored coded thought bubbles to show which character is speaking. Very clever idea indeed.
As for Hannah and Tracee’s thought bubbles. Couldn’t you make Hannah thought bubbles a bit lighter to depend upon which character is speaking to her. So that she could sense who is talking to her and reply in a way to make sense to the person she talking to.
I’ve done that before. Though I’ve found that in practise it’s been hard to differentiate various shades of blue unless the difference is really stark. So I went with white.
“…wearing her perfume, Chanel Number Five, got to be the finest number alive…”
Interesting, seeing as Phoebe’s the actual devil in the blue dress.
. . . there’s nothing like an annoying person to motivate people, and Tracee is certainly motivational!
She knows how to work a room.
Prairie Barbie…. just when you think Tracee may have rounded a corner, you realize it was just a slight nudge.
It didn’t take long for Hannah to catch Tracee’s scent and identify the nature of the event that’s going to lead to across the board disaster.
Definitely a plot to savor….
Well, we will see if the plot actually goes anywhere. I’m trying. It’s slow but it just might get there.
Plot is moving like being in the backseat of a car driven by a really smart Kangaroo, in my opinion.
https://youtu.be/n3jHasc6a3Y?si=yvLP7KOsywFrPa_A
I like to think Alan and Candy got back together. Alan’s lovelife took a nosedive after her.
I’ll take blue balloons anyday. However, I never liked those comics that would morph their ballons into whatever the caption represented — a rain cloud for sobbing, a starburst for anger, etc.
Hey thanks for the Phoebe incentive. I’ve been really missing her. Now, I’ve got a sudden urge for a Hershey bar….excuse me.
Likely a Cadbury bar, cuz it’s Canada.
But yeah, my ‘getting cute with the speech bubbles’ extends only to color. No further.
Ooooo, I love Cadbury when I can find it. Either way, I’d love “S’more” of Phoebe.
Hershey does exist up here, but mostly in ‘Kisses’ form. It is not adored, as it is in the States. Canadian palates lean closer to British candy conventions.
I keep getting this weird screen full of cookie/tracking consent crap popping up every so often and there’s no way to easily say NO to all of it, instead you have to turn a bunch of them off one at a time. There’s an ACCEPT all button but no REJECT all button. I get the opt in/opt out model but almost every other one has an “opt out of ALL” flag. This nonsense with a screen full of tick boxes is ridiculous. I enjoy reading Puck, I really do but I’m going to stop following if it’s going to be this much of a chore. It’s not worth it. I’m guessing it has more to do with your hosting service than you.
It’s not my hosting service; it’s my ad service and they’re getting ridiculous. I need to do something about them because they’re making the site terrible. I’ve just gone in and tried to set the parameters to stop being obnoxious. I’m hoping it works.
I’ve been loving your comics after I first discovered them a few months ago, but I think my son has got the hots for tracy. When we read this comic together, he turned to me and explained that he wants tracy to give him a “hawk-tooah”. I am uncertain about what this means, but what is certain is that he definitely loves your comics – especially tracy!
I like how you display your cluelessness about the terminology of the younguns by misspelling ‘hawk tuah’. But yeah, if your son is expressing such things, I think you need to sit him down and talk about what his priorities are when it comes to his choice in women.
Can you translate that for people who were born in the 70’s?
It cannot be translated in a way that would be safe for young eyes, but I’ll try…The expression “hawk tuah” is an onomatopeia that sounds like the sound you make when you clear your throat and spit. That’s not the problem. The problem is WHERE the “hawk tuah” girl on tik tok was spitting….let me put it this way: a shaft needs good lubrication to work efficiently. If you need more than that, google it. But be prepared for a mild shock.
O.K.
When does that get sexy? Man, I AM old.
I was born in the 70s. I need no translation.
Don’t you teach highschoolers? Why wouldn’t you know?
I am hip and cool. That’s why.