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Puck 186
Chapter: The Magic of ChildbirthCharacters: Phoebe PuckTags: cinnabomb cinnamon bun diabetes pregnant watermelon
The warm weather is here, the parkas have come off, and it’s time to celebrate all that swimwear has to offer. Hit the beach with Phoebe! A vote for Puck on TWC will get you access to this rather special pic – guaranteed to include all of the following: sun, surf, sand, bikini, and palm tree. In no particular order.
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!
Diabetes isn’t funny… o_o Then again, isn’t Puck immortal? That probably means she has immunity to a lot of ailments which humans must suffer through.
I’m a firm believer that all ailments and maladies can be funny … when looked at through the right comic lens. As for Puck and immunity to ailments, your guess is as good as mine. Maybe?
Nobody finds HairBalls funny. NO-BODY. Got that ?
What about Garfield readers?
My cat skips hairballs, and goes straight for projectile vomiting.
It’s kinda’ funny, though.
(not really)
SalemCat, i thought you meant YOUR hairballs.
I had triple negative breast cancer. It is one of the most aggressive cancers with the poorest prognosis. Laughter and jokes about the cancer really helped me put it in perspective and keep my spirits up. My boyfriend used to tell people, “She just has a little touch of the cancer”. It helped to remind me that I was not the disease. I had the disease. It didn’t make up the entirety of my existence.
I’ve had an experience like yours. I don’t talk about it much, but I’ve been through testicular cancer and the only way I could deal with it was a healthy dose of comedy. Laughter is life. That’s why I love comedy so much.
She wasn’t immune to pregnancy or reproduction.
Or the flu. Or various bouts of insanity.
insanity is a cure, sanity in the real ailment
True dat.
Oh, this is going to end so well. 🙂
Or end very badly. One of the two.
In Corner Alley 13 a elf woman named Noelle was immune to lots of diseases.
Well, Puck is not that type. She’s already been shown in the comic suffering from regular human-type maladies, so I’m willing to bet her constitution is pretty normal. Which (I know) makes no sense, but we’ll go with it anyway.
OMG, 14 more weeks before she gives birth? 14 more weeks of pregnancy/labor? …cool!
Come on, seriously, her pain is our gain!
Well, when you put it like that, it sounds so long…
It’s not really 14 weeks when you consider that a lot of the comics happen in the same day. It’s like how Spider-man went through 40 years and was only in his 30s by the time of One More Day (quiet rage here), or how a webcomic lasted for 11 years but the characters only experienced four or five years at best; timelines in “printed form” can’t be accurately measured unless specifically stated.
Well, Puck is giving birth on this current day in the storyline. But not for another 14 weeks in OUR timeline. So yeah. Weird.
There, you see? The next 14 weeks of comics are going to be one day. So, I’m wagering that the next few comics is going to be Puck going into labor, getting to hospital, birthing process, and family dealing all of this.
I can imagine Collin’s reaction to all of this. 😛
Watch as the magic unfolds…
Ok- there’s a little truth to what you said and what Puck believes.
First- eating a particular food will not induce labor (unless it’s some weird herb that has been known to increase the chances of miscarriage)
Second- heavily greasy foods or foods known to cause indigestion/diarrhea (like eating way too much fruit in one sitting), can cause a myriad of gastrointestinal movements which have been known to trigger contractions… Some women will take castor oil to get the gut moving.
This is an EXTREMELY bad idea as it can promote dehydration which has it’s own set of concerns…
I’m a mother and a doctor…. And can vouch that bad indigestion/GI problems do not help anything while carrying a little parasite inside you!!!
A little parasite huh? I know that you (hopefully) don’t mean it literally, but still, harsh. XD Funny, but harsh. Also, helpful information. Very good.
In the later stages of pregnancy, parasites are WAY more enjoyable.
Well, before being born, babies are technically parasitic life forms. They grow with no regards to the “host”, they consume nutrients that the “host” must compensate for, and they produce excess waste that the “host” must get rid of.
The difference between a real parasite and a baby is that the baby is necessary for the survival of the species, and as such, a woman’s body is built to compensate.
To be honest, I got that idea from a movie. Don’t ask which one though; I don’t remember. But considering that it sparked researching and critical thinking, that throw away line was worth my time. 🙂
Your logic is impeccable.
But you need to consider, that at least as Mammals go, killing Mom during birth is a real bad idea.
Unlike many animals, mammal babies require a certain time of nurturing.
So the baby-parasite had better not kill mom during birth, and had better be CUTE enough so that mommy WANTS it to live.
Which brings brings us back to the mystery of early Daphne’s survival….
(Sorry, Daphne, I don’t really mean it. I just wanted to see how it felt to live as SotiCoto for a moment.)
Well, I work with a bunch of women, and they all swore that large amounts of something or other got the labour in motion, which led to MY (totally unproven, unscientific) theory: I’m willing to bet that the body knows labour is a trying and draining experience, and when it senses there’s a big influx of energy coming in (in the form of pasta, cinnamon buns, watermelon, whatever), it deems the time is ripe to start contractions. Maybe nonsense, but I’m sticking to it.
Remember the Green Lantern Puck vote comic where in the background aliens were abducting people I think that they were solving our people bomb problem by making people unable to have children.
Please be done with the pregnancy. Please be done with the pregnancy. Please be done with the pregnancy. Please be done with the pregnancy. Please be done with the pregnancy.
Guaranteed! Within 14 weeks or your money back!
k. See ya in three and a half months.
Haha! Eat lots of fish, Puck. Works wonders for a timely delivery… 😀
Glad to see you back, E.C. doing the do.
Trying to keep my head above water, man.
How about a Corner Alley 13 Puck vote comic.
Looking at all these posts combining Puck with another webcomic gave me a chill when I combined one of my favs… Wapsi Square.
BTW, I follow 27 webcomics.
Wapsi Square is certainly one of my favorites. 27 webcomics is pretty serious. Do you use an aggregate or portal site, or just follow RSS feeds? I’m curious.
Puck should address the people bomb problem.
In the Saber Rider episode ”Sole Survivor” Colt fell in love with a redhead named Annabelle Codie only to be heartbroken when she turned out to be a Outrider.
I got a suggestion for Puck’s employment after she has her baby make her a prison guard.
Is there such a thing as web-comic-commenting Tourette’s?
No reason.
A few of my readers seem to have that. But honestly, I love people who comment. There are so many people who don’t. This site gets between a quarter and a half million pageviews a month, but how many of those visitors leave comments? Few. I cherish the ones who do.
250-500k views per month! Dang! Power to the Gecko!
This brought Weird Al’s “My Pancreas” to mind…
Alas, I’m not familiar with it. My Weird Al familiarity ends with the early 90’s.
Concerning the idea of certain foods inducing labor I have one thing to say. It’s even in Latin so it MUST be true. (Actually it’s only true some of the time.) Post hoc ergo propter hoc.