Puck’s line in panel four is a direct quotation from my wife at a similar stage in the birthing process. It was an utterance that gave me nightmares long after the trauma had passed. Because it was horrifyingly accurate.
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Something tells me that after this Puck is going to make Colin sleep on the couch for a month.
Well, depending on where the baby is located in the house, he may want to.
I wonder how pissed puck would be if she was having twins. nothing like a surprise second baby to make your birthing experience truly special
I think they’d probably know that from the ultrasound. ‘Surprise’ twins don’t happen very often anymore. But two kids for the price of one… It’s tempting. Mind you, the twins things has been done to death on so many awful sitcoms. I don’t think I could go there.
One would have to be evil.
One would. Evil like Mary Kate and Ashley.
ha! that ranks right up there with ‘Baby Juice’, which is a gift that just keeps on giving!
A friend of mines’ wife has a family history of twins. When they went for her first ultrasound and two little heads popped up on the screen his jaw dropped.
Nobody had told him hey scan from 2 angles. When they focused the scan it was only one child but for just a moment he thought it would be twins.
Years later, during the birth of their third child, his wife lifted her hand and made a scissor snipping motion while in labor, he got the hint. Of course I can’t blame her, Sarah was 12lbs 9oz at birth.
I was in college when I heard about it, told some friends of mine there. One of the friends, female of course, grunted when I mentioned the weight. Then she said, “You know how when some man is kicked in the balls in a movie every man in the room flinches? I never understood that until now.”
A co-worker had an almost 12lb baby. She eventually had to have an emergency C-section. She’s pregnant again, and going to try to deliver it normally this time, but second ones are almost always bigger. Ouch.
then surprise triplets?
Now THAT is cruelty.
What if the kid generates copies of itself when ever it sneezes and re-integrates when it hiccups? All of the new knowledge comes into the original and is stored correctly, thus giving the new kid that much more knowledge and stuff. Also, he’s not allergic to anything. Not even sneezing powder….
I could say a number, but when is puck going to grab Collin’s lower lip?
Gotdangit, PUCK PUCK PUCK Puck. Stupid capitalization scheme of things.
sorry.
Just own it, man. Like ee cummings.
He might escape with his jaw intact if he’s lucky.
According to QI…
The show?
Speaking of inappropriate similes, Colin, you do not want to be quoting Star Wars: A New Hope here. This is a tunnel, not a channel. The hole at the end is about the same size as the rest of it (at least at this point). There are no gun turrets raining down death from the sides; at least there shouldn’t be.
Besides, I really don’t know how one can effectively target a baby.
Well, it is potentially possible to insert one of those camera-thingies up the uh, tunnel…
Ow.
Better a baby then whomp-rats
“…and it burns, burns, burns…the ring of fire, the ring of fire…”
Indeed it does, my friend. Indeed it does.
Ew man.
I could tell you horror stories. But I won’t.
I have a child of my own and my wife is three months pregnant and still eww.
Mission accomplished!
Dude, don’t tell. ILLUSTRATE!!!
I don’t they’ll be going thru this again for a while (Colin will have nightmares for at least 3 years) and it looks like Daphne will be delaying her ‘first’ for a long while
Yep. NO BABIES FOR A LONG WHILE. Heck, this pregnancy lasted over two years. I can’t face another fictional pregnancy any time soon. Or a real one.
With or without a time machine?
Both.
I like to say something about Soap Operas which i think is appropriate here.
“It takes eighteen months to have a premature baby and two years for it to grow up.”
That’s uncannily accurate.
Ha! Star Wars references. “Use the force, Puck… No I mean, use force: you’ve got to bear down.”
Babies delivered by Force-assist? That would be awesome.
Lazarus Long used rocket thrusters to assist a delivery in one of Robert Heinlein’s SFs. Time Enough for Love, perhaps?
Oh Heinlein. You so sci-fi crazy.
I’m guessing this is Puck’s first baby ever.
Which is moderately surprising, considering the libertinous attitude of most faeries in mythology, not to mention her age…
Oh, well!
It’s heartwarming to see Puck’s family there for her, really there for her, at this critical moment. :’)
They are there for her. Though I have a bad feeling that this whole thing is vaguely reminiscent of that awful scene in Spice World where all the Spice Girls are circled around the pregnant chick yelling “Push! PUSH!!!” Just thinking about it gives me hives.
It didn’t remind me of that for even a moment, so I think you’re safe. ^^
Don’t think too hard about it. Because it doesn’t make any sense.
Hey GeckoDude, I found your comic for the first time a few days ago, and just got caught up to the present today. Great art, and I love the humor; keep up the great work!
And I don’t care what anybody else thinks, I dearly loved Colin’s Star Wars quote, especially at such an inappropriate time. :-]
When there’s a panel in the comic and I don’t know what to put for dialogue, I always go for a Star Wars quotation. It’s never failed me before.
Oh Puck rejoice for after a baby is born the mind melting, body shredding, bone cleaving horror that is labor pain almost instantaneously disappears! I don’t know why but I think the Elder Gods did it as a horrible joke so that after 3 years parents start missing that new baby feeling and want a new one, and then 6 months into the pregnancy realization dawns and their internal organs collectively scream expletives
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But if you manage to ride PAST that urge to have another one (which hits hard two to four years after the first), the feeling goes away fast. And stays gone. Thank goodness.
I’ve been watching the Green Lantern animated series on Youtube and I’ve noticed that the Red Lantern oath in the animated series is different then the 1 in the comics.
There are red lanterns?
I would have asked the same thing had you not.
Heh, Red light, Green light. The world goes round and round. These are the days of our skies.
Yes and they are awesome. The real oath, “With blood and rage of crimson red, Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead, Together with our hellish hate, We’ll burn you all–That is your fate!” You can see why that isn’t in a children’s show. The oath from the show, “With blood and rage of crimson red, We fill mens’ souls with darkest dread, And twist your minds to pain and hate. We’ll burn you all—that is your fate!”
theres a bunch white black purple was love iirc yellow blue orange (greed)
There’s one for each color of the rainbow plus black and white. The black lanterns represent death. They can regenerate as long as their rings still exist and are capable of bringing back those they killed to serve as zombie slaves. Since “Blackest Night” had that include almost every super hero in the DCU including Superman they’re pretty powerful. White lanterns represent life. They can heal themselves as well as others and bring the dead back to life on a planetary scale. From there is Red (hate), Orange (avarice), Yellow (fear), Green (willpower), Blue (hope), Indigo (compassion), and Violet (love). Red through yellow represent negative emotions while blue through violet are positive emotions and green is a balancing force that doesn’t rely on any emotion.
No pink? What’s with the horrible prejudice against pink?
So why is green inherently good, then?
Because it’s overseen by the Guardians of Oa who set up the Green Lantern Corps. Green is meant to be a central force that balances positive and negative emotions but the Guardians are notorious for their hatred of any emotion and (after the Manhunters destroyed an entire sector leading to Atrocitus creating the Red Lantern Corps) believed that sentient beings who have been taught to control their emotions would be a good galactic police force that won’t try to destroy all emotion in the universe. Pink could be added if there was an emotion for it but there’d have to be another color added to the opposite end of the spectrum. They’d also need a special ability since most Lantern Corps have one. Indigo Lanterns for example can depower any ring when two of them work together. The Orange Lantern (there’s only one for obvious reasons) can create hard light duplicates of anyone he’s killed. Even the Green Lanterns are too afraid of him to risk going to war.
Pink is for fabulousness.
Those are indeed wise words, alt text. Even before the actual birthing process, you’ll hear a litany of pain.
And I’m guessing Puck’s either going to pop next comic, or the one after that? Or are you going to wait to 200 for her to pop?
Soon, my young apprentice. Soon.
Gecko, you ebil vastard, no wonder you have an insurance company gig.
I’m a Sith Lord, Gecko. Not an apprentice.
At least, according to two of my characters in Star Wars: The Old Republice MMO. I’m also a Jedi Knight, Jedi Master, Republic Privateer, Bounty Hunter, Imperial Agent (Spy) and a commander of a special forces squad in the Republic Army.
You deserve your titles. May they hang proudly upon you.
Better that then an Albatross, eh?
That second panel had my mind in the gutter for a brief second or two…and THEN I read it. 😀
LOL at the 4th panel from Daphne and then Colin’s Classic Woody Allen response.
You’re doing a beautiful job with this, E.G.
Yeah, Daphne’s reaction in panel four is one of my favorites. It takes A LOT to scare Daphne. This qualifies as a lot.
id like to point out that dianna troys outfit was not offical its jsut what she wore she shouldnt of been on the bridge and she wouldnt of been if she couldnt read minds/emotions
That sounds like Trek babble to explain their ridiculous outfits to me! I mean, she’s wearing the Starfleet insignia? She’s in uniform. Period. That’s my authoritative (largely uninformed) opinion.
well sure but she has her %^&s out there.. none of the others have cleavage.
Therein lay her ‘charm,’ I suppose.
Although, what is weird, is the positioning of the graphic on Collin’s shirt, suggesting a possible contenance of what the kid would look like.
I did that on purpose. Atari Mr. T is bein’ born for YOU, FOOL!
I had no idea what it was. I thought that it was a retarded, mutated orange.
NERD ALERT! Troi doesn’t usually wear an actual starfleet uniform. It’s more like a cross between casual wear and footie pajamas. When Picard, Crusher, and Worf went into Romulan space she was forced to wear an actual uniform whenever on the bridge.
Yeah, I just don’t think that she can pull of a unitard, leotard maybe, but Troi did it a bit better. That and a myriad of camera angles.
Now, Seven of Nine. Hubba hubba for mecha.
Yeah, so they say. If she’s on the bridge and she’s wearing a Starfleet insignia, it’s a uniform.
The insignia is just a com device, it’s as official as a cell phone. That device has been worn by everyone who has ever had a reason to use quick contact with members of Starfleet or emergency teleportation.
The standard Starfleet insignia has been that of the Starship Enterprise ever since they completed their five year mission. It just so happened to have been incorporated into their com badge so as to not to have to use embroidery on the uniform and give it an up to date look. If you look, you would notice that it is also the same com badge used on DS9, Voyager, etc. Even in the future with Admiral Riker. Now, DS9 also had Bajoran com badges, Cardassian com badges, etc.
You also seemed to have neglected the fact that people could also communicate via voice command with the computer, I think. But the com badge was the principle means of communication amongst the crew. And does seem to be only military in application.
I wonder if I should show these comics to my stepmother. She’s due September 10th so it’s all getting pretty close x
Depends. Do you want to scare her?
Only a little x
Okay, now that I’ve seen Phoebe in the Deanna Troi outfit, I can see her as Demona from Gargoyles, or Matriarch Benezia from Mass Effect, who are both voiced by Marina Sirtis.
Gecko, get on the Gargoyles or Mass Effect voting incentives! 🙂
I second the vote for Gargoyles. I don’t really care about Mass Effect voting incentives (although Puck as Femshep could be interesting).
Ugh. Not another one! You guys won’t wear me down! You won’t!
(1) I never watched Gargoyles. I know who Demona is, but that show had its run when I was in high school, so I was a bit old for it. I watched Batman, but not Gargoyles. Not sure why.
(2) Mass Effect? Dude, I’ve never owned a piece of video game tech that wasn’t made by Nintendo (well, after the Atari 2600) and I am totally uninformed on all modern-type video games that came out after about the year 2000.
So no and no.
Too bad on both counts. As I’m four years younger than you, I was at the right age for Gargoyles.
As for Phoebe as Benezia? Now that I think about it, Phoebe wouldn’t fit her.
But Demona? I can’t see that out of character for her to dress up as, but the problem as Phoebe as Demona is trying make the rest of the cast conform to the Gargoyles cast. And since most of Puck’s main characters are female and most of Gargoyles main cast are male who go shirtless, that’d be problematic.
Ah well, there’s always fanart. :p
There’s no such thing as too old for Gargoyles. I will never bring up Gargoyles voting incentives again so long as you promise to watch the series.
No! You are not going to get past my illogical prejudice against Gargoyles! The concept of the show just always seemed silly to me, and the fact that the Disney name was tied to it (at a time when my hatred of that company was at its angsty teenage zenith) made it all the more unpalatable. I acknowledge that it has its merits, but as Doug Walker says about Power Rangers, “It’s not MY goofy show; it’s YOUR goofy show.”
What about the “Goofy Movie?”
Same camp. Different Goofy.
Now that I think about it, the Puck cast is looking less and less like reasonable Gargoyles candidates for voting incentives; most of the cast are both half naked, but also very muscular. And your cast are either average shape or slightly overweight, and wouldn’t fit the muscular tone of the Gargoyles cast.
And bonus points for knowing tgwtg.
Who you calling overweight, buddy?
And yes, tgwtg is a lifeline for me. When working on this comic, I’m usually watching something by AVGN, The Nostalgia Critic, Team Chick, Linkara or many of the other online reviewers out there. It’s pretty much all I watch anymore.
Puck has 3 female main characters (Puck, Daphne, and Phoebe) and 1 male main characters (Colin). That means Elisa, Demona, and Angela all have Puck characters that could portray them and Colin has a long list of male characters to choose from. If you exclude Goliath for his hulking physique that leaves two overweight guys, one scrawny runt, one average sized gargoyle, and MacBeth. All of those numbers increase when you add in regular villains beyond MacBeth and Demona like The Pack.
The fact that both Puck and Gargoyles use Shakespearean characters is just added reason to do the incentive or for Gecko to watch the show.
I say Colin’s somewhat overweight because of a comment Daphne made a long time ago about the man boobs.
And I lost interest in tgwtg after half of the guys I liked left or started doing stuff I don’t like. First Spoony left, then Pushing Up Roses, then JewWario, the ones I like the most were gone. Then Doug stopped doing the Nostalgia Critic (which, as we know now, wasn’t a permanent thing), and Lee and Dena pretty much stopped updating for a while, and Linkara’s stories outside the 10 minutes spent actually reviewing the comics became incomprehensible (just like real world comics, it seems) I just stopped caring about them. And with the Gameheroes retiring and with plans to shut down their website? I stick with Screwattack and Retrowaretv now for my internet based entertainment.
Well, that, the websites for the three I mentioned, and youtube.
I skip over the story bits for Linkara. They’re cute, but I just don’t care. I’m there for the reviews, and his are intelligent and frequently funny. At the very least, they’re thought-provoking. The other folks you mentioned, I never really followed them. So no loss on my end. And Nostalgia Critic’s alive and well right now.
I always thought Troi looked most awesome when in an actual uniform. Starfleet blues actually suit her without making her look like Miss Fanservice.
Troi’s outfits were just … nuts. Just nuts. I’m sure I saw her in a traditional uniform as some point in time (because I do think I watched every episode of the show way back when), but I don’t recall it.
Call me strange, but I was always one for Dr. Crusher. A hot redhead in a blue uniform (minus the stupid coat/jacket) always made me pay attention! 😛
You and me both, dude. You and me both. Gates McFadden was (and still is) a strikingly beautiful woman, and I was always mildly infatuated with her. Troi (with her crazy boob tops) was just … too much for me as a teen.
me tooo ! redheads are hhhoot mmmmhmmmmm ive never understood ginger hate lol
Anything bigger than a handfull and you’re risking a sprained tongue.
I remember way back when The Hunt for Red October came out and Gates had a _very_ minor part as Jack Ryan’s wife Cathy(?). I was thinking “Yes! If they make more of Tom Clancy’s books into movies I’ll get to see more of her!” They did, but unfortunately they didn’t. Anne Archer was good, but I really wanted to see Gates in more roles. Ah well…
I believe that Green Lantern Puck’s first battle was against Karu-Sil of the Sinestro Corps.
Did you know that in Buddhism hanging skeletons are used to show that the body is just a vessel and that it’s the soul that’s important.
When is Colin going to say “I Love You” to Puck? And \I have read this webcomic during the summer, its really good. And I think it would be cool to know that my teacher does a webcomic (a kickass one in fact)
Tender loving moments just offer relatively little comedic value. Let’s assume that Colin and Puck do express some real affection … only we don’t see it. And I’ve really been tempted at times to tell certain students. Just this past year I had a crop of students who loved webcomics and talked about them all the time. We’d engage in lengthy discussions about the topic, and one girl really wanted to create her own. So much I could tell them and yet … I don’t.
The Guardians have split up the universe into 3600 sectors Earth where we live is in sector 2814.
It’s too bad the comments section doesn’t have an ignore function.
Well, I could delete the totally unrelated comments that get put up here, but I usually don’t. Unless they seem vaguely offensive or contain problem words. That said, some people have posted stuff that is so out there that I’ve deleted it just because it’s stupid.
“I FEEL LIKE I’M SH!77!NG A CHAINSAW!” <- single most accurate line about childbirth ever, any woman who has had a kid this way could agree.
And by Reruns on BBc, i'd assume old Dr. Who episodes.
Nah, the BBC reruns would likely be period dramas in Puck’s case. 85% chance that it’s Lark Rise to Candleford, Downton Abbey, or All Creatures Great and Small. Mind you, All Creatures did star Peter Davison, aka the Fifth Doctor, so there’s a connection. For my money, though, he was WAY more entertaining as Tristan Farnon.
This baby has spent more time being delivered than most take being all wombified.
True. “Wombified.” Man, if there was ever a good name for a metal album, that’s it. I can see the cover now, with the Satanic fetus in utero and everything.
Question is, does your wife remember making the chainsaw simile? Thanks to oxytocin, it seems the memory of childbirth can be worse for fathers than for mothers.
To answer your question, no, my wife doesn’t remember making that comment. And states (quite rightly) that it seems very out of character for her. And it is. Which is partially why I remember it. But she had no pain killers in her system at all that time, so if the memory has been erased, it was erased by sheer pain.
… I have never been so glad to be a lesbian than I am now that I’ve read panel four.
There are details that are too horrifying for comics that I didn’t include.
Well, at least Puck hasn’t grabbed Colin’s bottom lip and attempted to pull it over the top of his head. Of course, the baby isn’t here yet so anything could happen.
Still would be less painful than childbirth, though.