Colin and Puck continue to chat at the bar in this strip. Yes, that’s supposed to be a bar in the background. (Don’t ask me what I was thinking when I drew that. I really don’t remember.) This strip also […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This marks the first appearance of Colin, Puck’s boyfriend, in the series. Puck, Daphne, Phoebe and Colin make up the central cast of characters in the strip. Anyone introduced after this point is just icing on the cake. Colin is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The point of this one is to quickly sum up the hostile relationship between Puck and her new roommate, Phoebe. (Phoebe, by the way, is the daughter of Satan.) I should really say the relationship is hostile in one direction […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This strip marks the first appearance of Phoebe, Puck’s roommate and one of the primary characters in the series. Besides being the daughter of Satan (who controls the university), she’s actually a good-hearted, twitty sort of character. She’s the direct […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the first appearance of Daphne’s consistent outfit with the ‘Gosh Kosh’ jeans and the backwards baseball cap. The joke here was lost on some: another play on Puck’s terrible mothering skills. A decade later, I’m not even sure […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another bit of a rush job on the drawings, but it gets the point across. This is the second panel to feature Puck’s standard outfit: the vaguely ‘Catholic schoolgirl’ outfit with a micro-miniskirt and a sweater vest. I’m not sure […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is about the furthest extent of ‘university humour’ as it was used in the strip. I tried to shy away from ‘academic comedy’, but it slips in now and again. This one takes a pot shot at the Humanities […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This strip is one of the first jokes playing on the contrast between Daphne’s cute exterior and her cynical, worldly personality. She’s an old soul. I have yet to explore her mysterious background (which makes sense, because I never really […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Puck’s atrocious mothering skills would serve as great fodder for many future strips, though no example is quite as blatant as this one.
This one really split the population in two, kind of like pumpkin pie. (You either love it or you hate it; know what I mean? Man, do I hate pumpkin pie.) Some people thought this one was funny, some didn’t. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
