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And who DIDN’T think Puck foregoing epidural or other pain meds would not lead to a scene like this one??
Yep. This one was sort of a foregone conclusion, really.
Is the doc a half vamp? Or just one heck of a canine there? 🙂
All characters in this universe have rather prominent canines. Not sure why.
Guess that’s a quirk of your drawing style.
That hospital must have extra lighting in the maternity ward and that could be a side effect for intimidating the fathers into eternal submission for doing that to a woman’s body.
The fathers need no more intimidation. They’re already cowed by the experience.
You know, people saying that “men do that to a woman’s body” really bugs me. It takes two to tango you know, at least half the effort of having that done to her body was her own doing.
I say this as both a woman and a mother. I had that done to my body twice, and I seem to recall that at least half the effort was mine.
Yeah, I get where you’re coming from. And in this case, Colin was actually kind of a reluctant party to the whole thing, so I blame Puck.
Yeah, responsibility is 20/20 in hindsight, unless a person is on welfare and expects the state to provide food, shelter expenses and clothing expenses, then it’s always r—.
Come on, can’t make a joke about a joke in a cartoon, can I? Maybe I’ll just go and grab my bottom lip.
I guess. The canines become more prominent when people are screaming. Just seems to make sense to me.
I have prominent upper canines, so it doesn’t bother me.
I think it’s more a case of other similar works of art ignoring the canines altogether, so they just become more noticeable in this strip in comparison with expectations. Most comics don’t have the attention to detail to bother with canines, so when you do see them in a comic, they stand out.
I certainly exaggerate them, so I get why people are confused. But hey, I like canines. Especially good for snarls.
Code White? Sounds so benign… At my hospital it’s Code Green – as in somebody “Hulking” out – but I’ll take your word that redheads deserve their own special Code.
Yep. Apparently in most Canadian hospitals, ‘code white’ means aggression. A code green means evacuation. Anyway, I have no idea about their logic behind the color system. Seems rather … arbitrary.
I think that for Puck, heh, Daphne should find the mic room and start announcing “Attention please, we have a Code Green Lucy” in her best Desi Arnez. Or John Leguizamo
And the crazy thing, the person who did do the job before this crazZy story arc, was decimated by puck’s domination of the maternity ward, and had to take early retirement five days shy of her 45th anniversary of hire. The Hospital administrator, who was drinking puck espresso coffee (because the Dr’s, nurses and secretaries hated her) was under the impression that she loved Dap’s voice and immediately hired her and got a temp to fill in for while she was at school.
Of course, Daphne was able to finagle a secure iron clad contract with extreme benefits for herself and no way out on the administrations part. Tenure, if you will. >:D That and she found another way to get back onto the poker playing online, through the Administrator’s computer access, routed through the morgue to her station at the mic. 😀
Dude, are you writing fan fic now?
Uhm, not sure if I’m offering a shared joke at Puck’s expense or not…
P.A. system humour. There needs to be more of it.
Actually, I can see the logic behind Code White. Everyone knows that Code Red is bad news, and hospitals are typically filled with sick and injured people. Announcing Code Red risks getting people trampled like shouting fire in a crowded theater. So you go with a more innocuous color like white and people are fine.
Of course Code Red likely won’t result in blind panic, but assume the worst, hope for the best and all that.
Code red is actually fire in almost all hospitals. Makes sense. Though I’m not sure why it’s not just a fire alarm. Code white is more Canada-specific, but it means that a patient has turned violent and is hulking out on everyone. It apparently happens often enough to warrant a code.
Is there a PCP problem in Canada? A bunch of soccer moms secretly trained as body building ninja assassins? An influx of Banes running around with their Venom attachments put on high? This all would go towards Code Hulk Out.
Sounds likely.
What do you think that a “Code Richard Simmons” would do?
Too horrifying to contemplate.
Code Richard Simmons: Middle Aged guys run out in mankinis and squeak in rather feminine voices to fat people to get up and dance to bad oldies music.
Source: My weird imagination.
Now you went and imagined that which was best left unimagined.
That may be true, but then an army of David Letterman clones armed with fire extinguishers unleash their chemical and carbon dioxide contents upon the squeaking mankinis and then pummel them to the sounds and delight of a bald guy playing a piano and leading a house band.
Personally, I think of Hulk Hogan first when I think of “Hulking Out”, which would be a “Code White” in this instance.
Now that’d be a voting incentive; post pregnant Puck and the rest of the cast dressed like the cast of Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling. 🙂
Now THAT would be a voting incentive. Though I’m afraid most of the readership is too young to ever hope to get that ref. Heck, even STNG is pretty vintage.
Whatcha gonna do, gecko, when Puckamania runs WILD over you?
Call the Ultimate Warrior.
I’d get it, I actually got to see him wrestle live once, very entertaining. But then again I am 44.
Which one? Hulk Hogan or Ultimate Warrior? Anyway, his UW’s wrestling skills were FAR better than his comic book writing skills.
Yeah, I’m curious about whether you were referring to Hulk or Warrior. And yes, that’s his actual legal name now; he did that so he can still lay claim to the Ultimate Warrior name, since Vince McMahon owns the rights to the character name, which is something he did a LOT.
Check out UW’s website for hilarity. He’s got blog entries that read like his wrestling promos. They are nonsensical as they are hilarious!
And yes, I agree with Gecko on the comic book; Spoony from the Spoony Experiment and Linkara of Atop the Fourth Wall did a four part review of it, and the over the top dialogue and insane philosophical rambling are only matched by the horrendous drawings and panel flow.
Just watched that profile of UW’s comic a few days ago. Seldom have I laughed so hard.
Code Michael Hunt: Code Michael Hunt, ward four.
Groan.
6 comics and counting until the 200th comic and the baby’s birthday.
And it’s the alt text that’s got me this time; code redhead. My dad’s girlfriend works as a nurse at a hospital, and she could tell you war stories of pregnant redheads, with or without an eipdural.
Seriously, there’s merit to the stereotype.
AS a practicing female redhead, I can vouch for this. The stereotype exists for a reason.
See? There we go. Confirmed unquestionable (anecdotal) evidence.
But is it AM or FM?
Daphne may be my favorite character, that may also be due to her shirts.
Unrelated question, though I’m sure it’s been asked before. Puck, being a 621 year old fairy at the start of this, 631 now?, does she not age or does she go through a fifty/hundred year or so physical cycle?
I have a soft spot for Daphne too.
As for the whole Puck age thing, Puck is officially 631 years old at this time. I think. As for whether she ages or not, or whether she ages on a physical cycle, or what, we … don’t really know. And given the pace of the comic, we’ll likely never find out, because even if I keep doing this thing for the next twenty years, we’ll probably only cover a few years in-world. It’s going pretty slow. Unless I do another time jump, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
When it comes right down to it, Puck looks, acts and seems to have the life experience of your average thirty year-old woman. Which leads to the question, “Why did you even make the main character an immortal fairy in the first place?” And that … is a good question. Which I have no answer to.
I think you made Puck a 621 year old fairy to set her apart from the college student comics, even if you didn’t realize it at the time. And when you restarted the comic? Well, her character’s already been established, so her life continues.
That’s kinda the way comics work; come up with something that sets apart and original, and just go with it.
That’s about right. Though I really have no idea what was running through my mind when hatching the initial concept for the comic. It was too long ago. I just remember that it seemed to make sense at the time, and it was only when I was explaining it to the head editor of the student newspaper that I realized it was really, really weird.
Verily, what light through yonder window breaks, It is beer stained wrath.
I guess you wanted to have the same Puck from Shakespeare, so you still her.
Well, she seldom gets very Shakespearean, but I guess…
Well, whatever the reason, it works. Keep up the solid work my man.
Are those yellow hot pants of a skirt Pollyanna’s wearing? HOT.
You draw nice bods on your babes, man.
Yellow hot pants. They’re the ‘uniform’ at Howlers, everyone’s favourite ‘breastaurant’ where Phoebe works. And coming from you, the compliment on bods means a lot. So thanks.
“OR” Sorry for the misspell… 😀
Hee! Terminally preggers and Puck can still kick some major ass. I bet she isn’t even fully dilated yet. When the lil’ dudes head crowns and he/she emerges, watch the bed frame bend and the windows crack from the frequencies of the birthing screams. If I was Colin, I’d be running for the tall grass and out of her reach.
Well, what fun would it be without banshee-like wails of suffering that can break concrete?
I was just wondering, are you going to put an obvious deaf person in the strip when the wailing starts? Just for visual humor, eh?
I’ll try.
Anyone else catch the juxtaposition of Phoebe, in the low cut top and hot pants uniform of Howlers, sitting there and knitting something?
I’m glad you did.
Why don’t they just put Puck under and do a C-section?
Nah, they won’t get a chance. Too dangerous.
Besides, the gas passer (Anesthesiologist) has to get within arm’s reach of Puck in order to put her under. That, and it’s an unusual pregnancy, what with the mother gestating a mixed species child between a human male and unknown elf species female.
Therefore, the untold effects of the anesthesia on the unborn infant is to great a risk to take that chance.
Besides, it’d just be more cannon fodder for Puck’s fists.
Exactly. We need to contain the collateral damage right now, not encourage it.
Phoebe’s faith in Puck is admirable, tough.
*though (whoops)
Admirable or foolish. Either or.
I blame it on the hot pants.
I wonder if the baby will have NF which is what most people seem to believe the elephant man suffered from.
No.
I heard that it was all an allergic reaction to Michael Jackson.
Didn’t Michael Jackson try to buy the elephant man’s bones?
Yep.
o_o Wasn’t Polyanna supposed to be PURE…?
Phoebe is pure! Purely fabulous! And that’s the only pure that matters.
The low wattage on her brain detracts somewhat from the claim of fabulousness…
Phoebe’s actually pretty smart. She just chooses to apply her intelligence in unusual ways.
Phoebe to me appears to be one of those Autistic geniuses. I have a niece like that – multiple professors think she should be aiming for medical school and others think she should not be in college.
On the subject on credit for babies sometimes the mother gets into state where she feels NEED to have baby now even if father is willing to wait for a few years.
Phoebe is just a girl with a certain set of skills. She is smart but a little kooky.