NEW VOTING INCENTIVE UP! APRIL SHOWERS BRING … FULL FRONTAL NUDITY!!!
It’s April, and that means another Puck voting incentive on TWC! This time we’re going whole hog! It’s all coming off, with Tracee! She’s evil, she’s hot, and she’s getting clean! Seriously, how has this chick NOT gotten her own voting incentive yet?
I had some troubles uploading this image to TWC, but I think I’ve got them fixed now.
This particular voting incentive is no longer up on TWC, but you can GET IT AT THE STORE, along with all the other incentives, for a few bucks!
As for the comic…
Herein lies the bizarre conundrum of the final stages of pregnancy: a choice between a brief (but not brief enough) explosion of sheer agony which is labour, or the prolonged, irritating and incessant annoyance which is pregnancy. There’s no winning here.
On other fronts, I think Daphne’s shirts and Phoebe’s shirts are in a perpetual war for the most attention.
Puck really wants the childbirth over and done with and I don’t blame her.
Well, it’s only been going on for (almost) two years now so I don’t blame her.
She wants pregnancy to end… and child raising to begin.
This is a lose lose situation. A rewarding one however.
I don’t think that Puck is able to comprehend the nature of child rearing, nor the rewards of said rearing, yet. She just wants to be able to wear shoes again.
“Rewarding”?
It is not “rewarding”. It is punishing. Pure and simple.
One that will be punishing her for many years to come.
I vote you ‘least likely to become head editor of Today’s Parent magazine’. May you wear your title with pride.
I find myself wishing for a “vote up” option on the individual comments on your webcomic. Why? A baffling mystery, to be sure.
Thankfully the comments are few in number and easily readable. I’m sure there’s a ‘vote it up’ plug-in for WordPress, though. I’ll … have to look into that!
Because the creator of this comic is a funny guy?
Seems clear to me.
should I mention I have Harry Chapin’s parental nightmare fuel song stuck in my head anyways. “My child arrived the other day, he came into the world in the usual way, but there were trains to catch, bills to pay, he learned to walk while I was away.”
That’s why I make sure to regularly play video games with my son. Quality time, man. Quality time.
that song makes me cry
Few men can listen to it without shedding a single, manly tear.
Women too.
But it gets better when the baby’s born, right?
Sometimes. Sometimes not.
Doesn’t always get better. I had no symptoms of pregnancy other than a big belly- not much pain, feet never got swollen, was pretty mobile… After baby the body just kind of shut down 🙁
I’m not sure what a body kind of shutting down entails, but I’m fairly sure it’s very unpleasant. Alas, the problems never end after the pregnancy. In fact, some would say it’s just the beginning…
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!
… Are you serious?
Babies are filthy, noisy, sleep-killing, hideous little parasites.
It isn’t until about the age of 4 or 5 they become tolerable, mostly on the grounds of saying utterly hilarious things on a regular basis. Like having a constant comedy routine in the house. That and they don’t need absolutely everything done for them any more.
And after that… they just become worse again, and it never gets better.
I’m glad you’re looking on the bright side of things here.
My daughter is 11.
She plays Minecraft.
And she refuses to min-max her Skyrim character because she is determined to play a pure mage. I tried explaining to her how the levelling mechanic works, and that the reason she keeps dying is that the Destruction school of magic is severely underpowered in Skyrim… but she just wouldn’t listen.
She didn’t even have a backup weapon. I told her that even the mages in-game carry knives with them just in case… but she wouldn’t do it. So I had to watch her Khajiit die against Snow Trolls.
… Her Khajiit Mage.
I hope her mother eventually teaches her to min-max her characters more effectively.
Both points well made! Definitely!
I really had to search hard for Daphne’s t-shirt this time! All quotes on the phrase took me to Tahjay’s rhymes. Dunno if that’s where it comes from, but it is there…
Great work!
Uhm, you’re digging too deep on this one. It’s a play on the movie ‘300’ and the various internet memes that have sprung up surrounding that.
This is one of those times where I like Daphne’s shirt better than Phoebe’s shirt, despite the cleavage on Phoebe. Both the comic and movie for 300 were awesome. 🙂
I liked this t-shirt idea a lot. Had to wait a while for a comic where there was a shot close enough for you to read it properly.
I think I know where Daphne gets her shirts too; there’s a website out there that allows you to make your own shirt designs.
Yep. I always half-consider putting some of the designs through one of those websites and selling them, but you know what? The prices on the shirts are always pretty crazy so I never think it’s worth it.
She should have a t-shirt that says ‘My other t-shirt is…a plain one’
But she doesn’t actually HAVE a plain t-shirt in her endless wardrobe. That’s her downfall!
At $20 a pop, if she’s just buying them off a rack, she has to have, what, a quarter million dollars in clothes, alone.
Of course, it’s Canada dollars, so… $80US?
The charges to get those shirts shipped to Canada are always insane. I recently bought a shirt online to support a favorite band. List price? $20 US. Charges I actually paid on my Visa? Close to $50 Canadian. And people wonder why I’m so gun-shy when it comes to making online purchases.
Oh, jeez!
The iron is; the shirt was probably made in Canada before being shipped to the US to be shipped to you! 😀
They don’t make anything in Canada anymore! We only export raw goods at discount prices so that other countries can make goods (and a decent profit) off them. “Canada: We’ll rip our country to pieces and sell it to you for cheap!” That’s our motto.
Hang in there, Puck…this is the home stretch.
The citrus-y colors never fail to make this strip visually pleasing.
I like that adjective. “Citrus-y.” It’s way better than “eye-searing”, which is the usual adjective I use for my color scheme. I should note that my wife generally never allows me to dress our children because of the horrible, vile color combinations I always come up with. It’s a talent.
Ah, plaid and orange. What haven’t you done for fashion?
Hey, what’s wrong with plaid and orange? I’ve only dressed my daughter in that about … twice.
I was absolutely certain the “real frontal nudity” vote incentive for april (fools) would be a hairy fat man.
See how conditioned I have my readers? Everyone’s expecting the absolute worst, so pretty much ANY voting incentive comes as a supreme relief. But people seem to be quick to click for this one! As of right now, I’ve been hanging in 11th place on TWC for a few days. 11th! That’s … not too shabby!
Hey, there may be a problem with the image. After I voted, the image had so much digital noise that I could not even read the dialogue balon.
Funny that. Must be your computer. 😉
Now why would squeezing something the size of a football (North American, not soccer ball) but nowhere near as aerodynamic, out a one-to-two-inch hole cause any discomfort at all? Time to duck the female fists!
Also, there might still be some problems with your vote incentive. The water does not look correct. It should be little arcs, not straight lines, as it comes out of the shower head. Her body needs more sheen if she has been standing in the water stream for any time. Oh, and I think there might be something wrong the colours around he torso.
Regarding points on the voting incentive:
(a) The water pressure is very, very high.
(b) Sheen is really hard to get right when you’re coloring with vectors. I tried a really sheeny sheen and it looked really bad.
(c) I actually can’t color worth a dang, and I’m too old, tired and busy to learn how to do it properly.
So that’s all you get!
Luckily, my years of watching scrambled cable channel material have left interferance as a primary kink.;-)
Sometimes it’s the stuff you DON’T see, right?
There is truth to that. Most people actually look better with clothing ON.
Oh boy. Let me tell you, I was totally taught that during my art school experiences of sitting through twenty hours of life drawing a week. Clothing … is underrated.
I actually did that from the other side of the drawing pad. The hard part was staying still.
There was once a guy we art students nicknamed ‘Danger Boy’ because he’d strike action-packed poses … for thirty-minute poses. Bad move. By the end of the pose, he’d always shifted his arms and legs rather considerably from how he’d started. It made drawing him a nightmare.
How about having Puck open her own store after she has her little bundle of joy. She could sell maternity wear. I even have a name and slogan picked out. The Stork is on it’s Way Looking Your Best While You’re Expecting.
I don’t think she would want to tangle with the mob bosses. Besides, the ‘Shopping For Two’ store already has the best possible maternity wear slogan on Earth: “You glow, girl!” It’s so good I should patent it.
I think, by drawing and publishing it, that you have already.
Of course, Canadaland copyright laws might be different.
Same in Canada and the US, trademark trumps copyright usually – especially for a phrase like “You Glow, Girl.” So any company willing to pay the exorbitant price of a trademark can steal it from me.
I think that after Puck has her little bundle of joy she’ll get her tubes tied.
Finally decided I’d found another one to comment on and scrolled down… and down… apparently lots of people decided to comment on this one. Anyway, Phoebe seems to have gotten a lot more cynical and snarky here.
Phoebe is probably the character who’s changed the most over the years. Between the original run and the new comics, she became a lot less silly and a lot more chill. She’s also capable of the odd little zinger now and then.
No it ain’t Sparta. They had more slaves and rich widows. NO ONE tell the girls. Or the women. Basically, forget I said that.
Already forgotten.