It’s hard for me to describe the incredible rage that a parent feels when his or her fussy baby is woken up. It’s a type of fury that’s hard to put into words. Imagine, if you will, that all of your happiness is temporarily dependent on you building a house out of playing cards, and after three hours of delicate work, some jackass opens the door too fast and it all blows down. It’s something like that, only worse.
I’m not exactly defending Colin, but I’m saying that even the most reasonable people can be driven to threaten the men and women of law enforcement when driven to extremes.
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well, you don’t have to be BIG and GREEN if you happen to be PUCK. She’s not gonna be happy when she finds out about this and I doubt very much she’ll be angry at Colin.
In fact, I think the police station will need renovating when she’s done.
Seriously? You think Colin’s actions need defending?
That a**hole Cop is the one that needs to get his head out of his a**. Jeez, you can tell He’s never been a father. Or married for that matter. If he had been, soon as he got home and spouted off about this One stop, his s.o. would be thumping him too!
What a dick.
Sorry, it just irks me that after Colin had been trying sooo hard to be a good daddy this Dick in blue shows up & can’t even buy a clue he’s such an idiot.
I don’t have kids and even I would be treading carefully as soon as Colin said there was a sleeping baby involved.
Those lil buggers are like ticking time bombs that go off at nothing and fill the air with ear-rupturing noise! [shudders]
You’re right. This ossifer needs some serious lessons in courtesy, but from (secondhand) experience, the second you start shouting at the police, your chances of ending up in handcuffs raise significantly.
I do agree the officer was being a bit overzealous, but you still don’t flip your s#$% on a police officer. Colin’s just not in his right mind, because it’s hard to find your mind at four in the morning when you’ve had zero sleep.
Why yes officer, I have been drinking, you’d know that if you picked your head up off of the donuts back at the shop. I’ve been drinking coffee and watching free tv on the interwebs, ya dopey idjit. You and your red stripe on the hat. You think you’re a big man, telling me to get out of my car. NO. Choke on that, ya mangy pig. Wake my baby up, next thing you’ll know is that George Lucas sold out to Disney. That and I’ve got a tank in my pants, bazooka in my trunk, and a wurlitzer in my glove box.
I think that I’ve tapped into some strong vein of hatred toward the long arm of the law in my readership here. But leave George Lucas out of it, man. Selling out to Disney is not a sin when you already sold out to yourself twenty years prior.
I dunno, I kind of think that Disney is the arbiter of evil outside of the oval office. At least Lucas had a company that made stuff for medicinal purposes, and it wasn’t even in Colorado man.
I just think he was a super-super-rich dude who’d gotten to the point where it was all about doing what he wanted, rather than doing what entertained. And some might say that a true artist never aims to entertain, but when we’re talking about dudes fighting in capes with laser swords, I think, “Yeah, entertainment is our primary goal here.”
Actually, the prequel movies were exactly what the original trilogy were originally going to be like. The difference is, back when he was making the first three, he wasn’t really making all the decisions. He got a lot of advice from a lot of people. He didn’t really get that for the prequels. After all, who was really going to argue with the man who made Star Wars?
We had a kid in custody care in my family like nine years ago. It was… Basically like that. It was… Not quite so much fun.
Frankly, I’m curious about your wife’s first reaction to this strip. Mainly as my best friend is becoming a mother in like two weeks so I’m looking for every single excuse to scare her husband senseless. It’s easier (and more fun!) than one might think, too.
My wife’s first reaction to this strip? She thought it was funny. And she wondered whether it was vaguely inspired by the recent arrest of someone we know, who flipped his sh#$ on a police officer. Which it was. Not sure if that answers the question. But my brother’s wife is expecting, and he regularly reports that my comic scares the jebeezus right out of him all the time.
My advice to new parents is to stay away from people who already have kids. Old parents just love to crap all over the hopes and dreams of those who are expecting. When my son was on the way this is an actual quote from a man I met. “They are cute when they are young but wait until they turn 18. Thats when you have to hire a lawyer,”.
Yeah, that’s pretty true. Parenting is wonderful, but whenever I encounter a young, innocent couple expecting their first child, I feel this overwhelming desire to scare them.
I’m not really sure what a cop does with the baby in this scenario. I’m sure the answer is complicated, involves child services, and can’t be done justice in a four-panel comic. Which is why I didn’t really show that. 😉
Usually, they would play with the kid on their lap, in front of the evidence camera until Child Protective Services shows up to rip the kid off to juvie or foster care.
I would agree that he would have to be new to the job as well as new to not even knowing what people’s breath smell like if you have to ask them if they’ve been drinking.
At that level of inference, the person driving should at least blow a .45.
I’m of the opinion that, if you wake a baby after being specifically warned about it, the parent/guardian should be allowed to commit crimes against humanity to you. Will it put baby back to sleep? No. Will it make Daddy/Mommy/Whoever feel infinitely better? Silly question.
Officer Friendly is either poppin’ fresh from the Academy or a badge heavy fascist. He’s certainly not a parent, a geek or easygoing. Who thought that parenting would be so hazardous to your health.
I wonder what the social workers will make of lil’ baby Puck’s ears? “Look Marge, they lap over.”
If I’m going to spiral the comic in stupid directions, I’ll make sure that they’re entertaining stupid directions. ‘Puck’s baby gets put in foster care’ sounds to me like a thoroughly unfunny and unnecessary move. (Realistic? Perhaps. Funny? Not really.)
If it was supposed to be real, then Puck wouldn’t even be able to have the ability to take the kid home, not with those ears. Probably some rule in the C.P.S. books about human ability to breast feed the kids human female lactates.
And people are becoming less and less interested by the minute, since this dude keeps on about it. I mean, seriously. He seems to be the only person in existence who knows about this comic. I bet he wrote up the wikipedia page for it.
Who said I have anything against it? All I’ve been saying is that it has NO appeal to anyone beyond you, because it’s so damn obscure.
It’d be like if I were go to on and on about Parodius Da, an obscure Japanese video game that has no appeal to anyone outside the circles that know about, continuing to go on about it until people get so irritated with the mention of it that they want to destroy all forms of it, continuing to beg Gecko to mention it in his voting incentives or having guest strips based on it.
See what I mean? You’re not doing yourself any favors by doing this. All you’re doing is turning people against you and your interests.
Is this another really obscure comic book? Because all I can find is either the wikipedia article about that supposed phenomenon, the debunkatron article about it, or the snopes message board discussion about it.
Which begs the question; why do you want to see people on fire in Gecko’s comic?
And if this IS another obscure comic, don’t start going on about it. You’re going to turn people off to it just as quickly as the other one.
I thought he was talking about actual Spontaneous Human Combustion. I was asking myself why he would want to see Puck catch on fire for no reason. And it made me sad because I like redheads.
He was. And it made me sad too. Because I really like redheads too. And all my other characters, come to think of it. Maybe the sofa could spontaneously combust. I’m not so attached to the sofa.
The cop can suddenly burst into flames. I’m not like these other guys angry that he’s a cop using his power. I’m more annoyed he’s a moron that’s not paying attention to explanations. Those guys can catch on fire for all I care.
One thing that this particular comic has taught me is that Americans, generally speaking, harbor a strong dislike of police officers. Which I find funny because Americans tend to be very, very supportive of their military (never insult the American military) but cops? No respect. I guess it’s because they feel the police are policing them, and that gets in the way of their free-market libertarian spirit or what have you. Plus I’ve found that Americans dislike civil servants in general, so it taps into that.
I’m personally with you on this one: I think that this particular cop is a bit of a moron, or is practicing bad judgement here. He’ll redeem himself in the next comic, though.
It is partially because of the overall feeling that the police are policing them. I have family and friends in different police forces so the cops don’t bother me like they do others.
We ‘Murricans have a don’t tread on me attitude where even the most non-aggressive far from masculine guy drinking an over foamed starbucks coffee gets all macho upset when anyone seems to be threatening their right to operate as they wish. It’s something ingrained in us from a young age. Hell, unlike a lot of nations, our history is very young so our great heroes like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday are so close timewise to touch and we can trace our family histories to some of them. I myself am one of the famous Hatfields and I’ve got connections to Billy the Kid and Jim Bowie.
All this combined leads to us being still rebels and revolutionaries that get upset about any infringement on those qualities as long as it happens to us. Thus the rage towards the police.
Alternately, we Canadians have a long and prestigious history of politely asking for things (and, when that doesn’t work, resorting to swindling underhanded deals) as opposed to outright conflict. It’s not really better. It’s just different. Less aggression, more passive aggression.
Now you’re just trolling. Because ever since I called you out for bombarding us with your extremely obscure comic love, you’ve been getting really weird.
Just let Gecko do his comic his way. Why is it such a hard concept that the creator knows his creation best? That he knows his characters’ personalities and interests, and knows what would fit and what wouldn’t fit for them?
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hmm, obviously he doesn’t know how to skin a pig.
Few Canadians do. And I’m glad about that.
Colin’s referring to the Hulk.
Actually, I think he’s referring to Alex Trebek.
well, you don’t have to be BIG and GREEN if you happen to be PUCK. She’s not gonna be happy when she finds out about this and I doubt very much she’ll be angry at Colin.
In fact, I think the police station will need renovating when she’s done.
Why does that make me think of a scene in Terminator where Arnie is shooting up the police station trying to find Sarah Conner?
Honestly, Puck is so sleep-deprived that I doubt she’d bother fetching her family from the station.
I think that Colin’s lived with Puck so long that he’s started to copy some of her behaviours. Which is bad news for him.
Well, he got the anger aura down pat, so to speak.
Oooooo this won’t end well…so many pretty blue uniforms. So much blood. Puck go cray cray, kill everybody.
I think this one will deescalate rather than explode. Too much explosiveness sometimes ruins the picnic.
Seriously? You think Colin’s actions need defending?
That a**hole Cop is the one that needs to get his head out of his a**. Jeez, you can tell He’s never been a father. Or married for that matter. If he had been, soon as he got home and spouted off about this One stop, his s.o. would be thumping him too!
What a dick.
Sorry, it just irks me that after Colin had been trying sooo hard to be a good daddy this Dick in blue shows up & can’t even buy a clue he’s such an idiot.
I don’t have kids and even I would be treading carefully as soon as Colin said there was a sleeping baby involved.
Those lil buggers are like ticking time bombs that go off at nothing and fill the air with ear-rupturing noise! [shudders]
I like the cut of your job, er, rant.
You’re right. This ossifer needs some serious lessons in courtesy, but from (secondhand) experience, the second you start shouting at the police, your chances of ending up in handcuffs raise significantly.
The cop needs to learn.
Colin did everything he could to be civil, the pig was harassing a law abiding citizen.
I do agree the officer was being a bit overzealous, but you still don’t flip your s#$% on a police officer. Colin’s just not in his right mind, because it’s hard to find your mind at four in the morning when you’ve had zero sleep.
Why yes officer, I have been drinking, you’d know that if you picked your head up off of the donuts back at the shop. I’ve been drinking coffee and watching free tv on the interwebs, ya dopey idjit. You and your red stripe on the hat. You think you’re a big man, telling me to get out of my car. NO. Choke on that, ya mangy pig. Wake my baby up, next thing you’ll know is that George Lucas sold out to Disney. That and I’ve got a tank in my pants, bazooka in my trunk, and a wurlitzer in my glove box.
I think that I’ve tapped into some strong vein of hatred toward the long arm of the law in my readership here. But leave George Lucas out of it, man. Selling out to Disney is not a sin when you already sold out to yourself twenty years prior.
I dunno, I kind of think that Disney is the arbiter of evil outside of the oval office. At least Lucas had a company that made stuff for medicinal purposes, and it wasn’t even in Colorado man.
Hear hear!
After viewing “The Force Awakens”, I must thank George Lucas for transferring the Torch to those more capable than he.
I just think he was a super-super-rich dude who’d gotten to the point where it was all about doing what he wanted, rather than doing what entertained. And some might say that a true artist never aims to entertain, but when we’re talking about dudes fighting in capes with laser swords, I think, “Yeah, entertainment is our primary goal here.”
Actually, the prequel movies were exactly what the original trilogy were originally going to be like. The difference is, back when he was making the first three, he wasn’t really making all the decisions. He got a lot of advice from a lot of people. He didn’t really get that for the prequels. After all, who was really going to argue with the man who made Star Wars?
Indeed. I could go on about this very topic, but I won’t because, well… Star Wars take up enough of my brain already.
We had a kid in custody care in my family like nine years ago. It was… Basically like that. It was… Not quite so much fun.
Frankly, I’m curious about your wife’s first reaction to this strip. Mainly as my best friend is becoming a mother in like two weeks so I’m looking for every single excuse to scare her husband senseless. It’s easier (and more fun!) than one might think, too.
My wife’s first reaction to this strip? She thought it was funny. And she wondered whether it was vaguely inspired by the recent arrest of someone we know, who flipped his sh#$ on a police officer. Which it was. Not sure if that answers the question. But my brother’s wife is expecting, and he regularly reports that my comic scares the jebeezus right out of him all the time.
That answers the question perfectly well, thank you!
My advice to new parents is to stay away from people who already have kids. Old parents just love to crap all over the hopes and dreams of those who are expecting. When my son was on the way this is an actual quote from a man I met. “They are cute when they are young but wait until they turn 18. Thats when you have to hire a lawyer,”.
Yeah, that’s pretty true. Parenting is wonderful, but whenever I encounter a young, innocent couple expecting their first child, I feel this overwhelming desire to scare them.
But what about the baby? Did the cop cuff her too, or just have him give her the keys?
I’m not really sure what a cop does with the baby in this scenario. I’m sure the answer is complicated, involves child services, and can’t be done justice in a four-panel comic. Which is why I didn’t really show that. 😉
Usually, they would play with the kid on their lap, in front of the evidence camera until Child Protective Services shows up to rip the kid off to juvie or foster care.
For some reason, I imagined the next frame be the baby sitting next to Colin with cuffs on to and Colin saying “Look what you got us into!”
Comedy gold and a missed opportunity on my part.
No judge would convict a dad for losing his crap of you woke his baby.
I’d tend to agree.
Most beat cops know all about the Dad trying to put the baby to sleep and simply say “move along”. Just sayin.
Maybe this one is new to the job.
I would agree that he would have to be new to the job as well as new to not even knowing what people’s breath smell like if you have to ask them if they’ve been drinking.
At that level of inference, the person driving should at least blow a .45.
I’m of the opinion that, if you wake a baby after being specifically warned about it, the parent/guardian should be allowed to commit crimes against humanity to you. Will it put baby back to sleep? No. Will it make Daddy/Mommy/Whoever feel infinitely better? Silly question.
I agree with this sentiment. Of course, I speak as a parent.
You do realize your comic has been woefully bereft of cleavage this past month?
I do realize that. I do. Le me reassure you that the comic will stop following Colin relatively soon. I’m getting tired of him too.
Officer Friendly is either poppin’ fresh from the Academy or a badge heavy fascist. He’s certainly not a parent, a geek or easygoing. Who thought that parenting would be so hazardous to your health.
I wonder what the social workers will make of lil’ baby Puck’s ears? “Look Marge, they lap over.”
Officer Friendly is likely all of the above. But even he will have a slight change of heart. No social workers will be involved.
Thank you, that’s a bit of a relief.
If I’m going to spiral the comic in stupid directions, I’ll make sure that they’re entertaining stupid directions. ‘Puck’s baby gets put in foster care’ sounds to me like a thoroughly unfunny and unnecessary move. (Realistic? Perhaps. Funny? Not really.)
If it was supposed to be real, then Puck wouldn’t even be able to have the ability to take the kid home, not with those ears. Probably some rule in the C.P.S. books about human ability to breast feed the kids human female lactates.
I wonder how much Puck will have to pay to bail Colin out.
Bail will be set a five dollars and a chocolate dip donut.
Will there be any more Puck guest strips?
Not anytime soon. I’m on my own for the next long while!
Clearly this cop doesn’t have kids. Mild abuse of authority or virgin? Hint: There’s no wrong answer. Sorry; I guess I put myself in Colin’s shoes.
Colin’s yelling at the officer didn’t help the situation so I can’t completely absolve him but the cop was a little anal with his approach.
Blame all around. Thankfully it’s not going to escalate.
Yelling is freedom of speech. Just the lightest touch is battery.
So if the lightest touch is battery, why not give the touch more oomph?
Most people in that situation aren’t thinking clearly, don’t know where the line is, and are really surprised when they find themselves in handcuffs.
I suggested devoting a Puck guest strip to the 1980’s comic book series Strikeforce Morituri and H.A. objected saying nobody would be interested.
Well, he’s probably right.
And people are becoming less and less interested by the minute, since this dude keeps on about it. I mean, seriously. He seems to be the only person in existence who knows about this comic. I bet he wrote up the wikipedia page for it.
Hitokiri Akins What do you have against Strikeforce Morituri? I found it quite enjoyable.
Who said I have anything against it? All I’ve been saying is that it has NO appeal to anyone beyond you, because it’s so damn obscure.
It’d be like if I were go to on and on about Parodius Da, an obscure Japanese video game that has no appeal to anyone outside the circles that know about, continuing to go on about it until people get so irritated with the mention of it that they want to destroy all forms of it, continuing to beg Gecko to mention it in his voting incentives or having guest strips based on it.
See what I mean? You’re not doing yourself any favors by doing this. All you’re doing is turning people against you and your interests.
How about putting Spontaneous Human Combustion in Puck?
Is this another really obscure comic book? Because all I can find is either the wikipedia article about that supposed phenomenon, the debunkatron article about it, or the snopes message board discussion about it.
Which begs the question; why do you want to see people on fire in Gecko’s comic?
And if this IS another obscure comic, don’t start going on about it. You’re going to turn people off to it just as quickly as the other one.
I thought he was talking about actual Spontaneous Human Combustion. I was asking myself why he would want to see Puck catch on fire for no reason. And it made me sad because I like redheads.
He was. And it made me sad too. Because I really like redheads too. And all my other characters, come to think of it. Maybe the sofa could spontaneously combust. I’m not so attached to the sofa.
The cop can suddenly burst into flames. I’m not like these other guys angry that he’s a cop using his power. I’m more annoyed he’s a moron that’s not paying attention to explanations. Those guys can catch on fire for all I care.
One thing that this particular comic has taught me is that Americans, generally speaking, harbor a strong dislike of police officers. Which I find funny because Americans tend to be very, very supportive of their military (never insult the American military) but cops? No respect. I guess it’s because they feel the police are policing them, and that gets in the way of their free-market libertarian spirit or what have you. Plus I’ve found that Americans dislike civil servants in general, so it taps into that.
I’m personally with you on this one: I think that this particular cop is a bit of a moron, or is practicing bad judgement here. He’ll redeem himself in the next comic, though.
It is partially because of the overall feeling that the police are policing them. I have family and friends in different police forces so the cops don’t bother me like they do others.
We ‘Murricans have a don’t tread on me attitude where even the most non-aggressive far from masculine guy drinking an over foamed starbucks coffee gets all macho upset when anyone seems to be threatening their right to operate as they wish. It’s something ingrained in us from a young age. Hell, unlike a lot of nations, our history is very young so our great heroes like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday are so close timewise to touch and we can trace our family histories to some of them. I myself am one of the famous Hatfields and I’ve got connections to Billy the Kid and Jim Bowie.
All this combined leads to us being still rebels and revolutionaries that get upset about any infringement on those qualities as long as it happens to us. Thus the rage towards the police.
Alternately, we Canadians have a long and prestigious history of politely asking for things (and, when that doesn’t work, resorting to swindling underhanded deals) as opposed to outright conflict. It’s not really better. It’s just different. Less aggression, more passive aggression.
Hitokiri, I think Greg is trolling you.
Since people tend to fear anything they don’t understand Colin would freak if the cop burst into flames and burned to ash.
Or he could be freaking out because someone is on fire. He’s not a monster. 😀
I have a job suggestion for Puck make her a cartoonist like Jon Arbuckle in Garfield.
Now you’re just trolling. Because ever since I called you out for bombarding us with your extremely obscure comic love, you’ve been getting really weird.
Just let Gecko do his comic his way. Why is it such a hard concept that the creator knows his creation best? That he knows his characters’ personalities and interests, and knows what would fit and what wouldn’t fit for them?
It’s his shtick, man. Just ignore it and everything will be okay.
Come on man, do it like the Far Side! 😛 Oh wait! Calvin and Hobbes! No, no, Peanuts! Heh, heh.
Powering through the archive, I can definitely say that he has always been really weird regardless of your calling him out.
And you haven’t read the comments of his that I deleted!
I give Puck a 10 out of 10.
Bursting into tears probably would have worked out better for Colin…
Well, hindsight is 20/20.
Approve highly of the bill bixby hulk reference. I’d hazard a guess we are close in age. That show had one of the best tv themes EVAR.
I honestly don’t even remember the theme. I just remember being terrified of that show as a kid. I was more a ‘Greatest American Hero’ fan.
Dumb cop — now he has to listen to the crying baby!
Wouldn’t be my choice of action, certainly.
It’s amazing how that fails to work.
Consistently fails to work!
That IS better.