Back to reality. Of a sort. And we’re right back where we were, in bed with Puck and Colin. And their dysfunction.
This comic is at least mildly inspired by real life. My wife spent the latter half of her pregnancies worried that her belly button would disappear, and it filled her with this strange, bizarre form of dread. The belly button anxiety WAY overshadowed her fear of actually giving birth. As it turns out, she never actually lost her belly button. It was a close call on the second pregnancy, but she somehow willed it to remain in existence.
MAY VOTING INCENTIVE! MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU – NEW INCENTIVE EVERY WEEK!!!
It’s May, and it’s time to get seasonally appropriate by ringing in May the Fourth in traditional Star Wars fashion. This year we’re going new school, with costumes from the new(ish) movies and the Clone Wars TV show. A new costume is dropping every single week. The first two May voting incentive pics has already passed us by, so vote now or you’ll miss this one!
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!
How about a Puck vote comic dealing with the 1976 science fiction movie Embryo.
Really? But that predates the birth of modern cinema! Modern cinema was born in 1977 with Star Wars. Everything before that (on the internet, at least) just doesn’t seem to count much. It’s all old, and probably goofy, and probably starred Charlton Heston.
It is just part of the process as her “inney” becomes an “outey” as she is running out of room in her abdomen. For a little while in the process, her belly button will flatten out. It will return to normal after the child is born.
So when is Puck due?
Soon. Very, very soon.
Whoah ranked 29th!!! That’s doing it E-Geck! Loving this episode! I’m following you man! One of your big fans!! 😀
Hey, I’ve been as high as 11 in the past few months! It’s all the fans: best fans ever. Always voting, doing Puck a solid.
How about a Dr.Who Puck vote comic.
Wouldn’t you know it, the banner ad I’m currently seeing at the top of the page is for Zulily, and sports the slogan “Style for your bump”
The power of contextual ads compels you!
A little more left.
And you’re mopping that up.
Apparently The Colonel is in weirdsville right now, i have an ad for cooking oil and from Bloomingdales.
Had weirder ones earlier.
Well, internet ads have shifted slightly in the past few years. They used to predominantly populate according to keywords on a page. So if your page had the word “burger” on it, you might get a McDonalds ad. But now most sites populate according to individual user history. So the ads you see are chosen specifically for you, because some A.I. thinks you will be responsive to them.
I try not to dwell on that when I get bombarded by ads for Russian single ladies – ads that are meant to cater to sad, lonely men.
If it were me, I would mollify my wife by saying “no worries, honey, that just means the kid’s almost done, and this will all be over soon …”
(hoping the joke beneath that actually comes through, do they even still put those in turkeys anymore?)
Oh yeah, that pop-up thermometer thing? I remember that. I think you can still get them.
I remember having Colin’s expression a few times during those months but I wish it WAS just a bellybutton…try going to the store at 3 a.m. in search of butter toffee ice cream. 😀
Hey, I was ALWAYS up for butter toffee ice cream at 3 a.m.
I’ve lost count of how many Puck vote comic suggestions I’ve given you.
So have I. I’ve got enough ideas to last the next few years now.
I’m looking to seeing Dap as a big sister sticking up for her little brother or sister.
Yeah, that might come out in various ways in the future. It’ll be a while, though. (a long, long while…)
Based on when my brother introduced my first niece to me.
Daphne: [Returning from school] Hey, you’re back from the hospital!
Puck: Do you want to meet your little brother? Here, you can hold him.
Daphne: Uhh, okay. [ Holds the baby by his ankle, trying to figure out what do with him ]
Colin: No! Not that way! Put your arm under his head and spine, like this.
Daphne: Oh, okay. [ Rearranges the baby’s position. ] Ahh, he’s cute. [ Takes a sniff ] And stinky!
Puck: Well, you could change him.
Daphne: Change him into what?
Colin: Change his diaper.
Daphne: Oh, that is parents’ responsibility, not big sister’s responsibility.
Forgot the last line of:
[ Hands the baby to Colin before bolting to her room. ]
With Daphne, it would play out differently.
Puck: We’re back from the hospital.
Daphne: Meh.
Puck: Want to hold the baby?
Daphne: No.
That would be it. You are obviously far more full of the milk of human kindness if we can gather anything from your conversation.
With me it’s; Bah. It’ll be there tomorrow (and the next day, and the next….etc)
They never go away!
My uncle had no Belly Button.
He had appendicitis during WII, and to save time, the surgeons did not bother saving it.
It’s either that or he was a closet marsupial.
The second explanation sounds less suspicious.
I wonder if monotremes have belly-buttons.
Puck! You are an ancient fairy of lore! Pull yourself together woman! But not too much. You have jokes to tell.
Monotremes do not have a belly button. Not do marsupials. There you go. I learned something.
Thank you.