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A different Puck character cosplays as a famous cartoon villain … every single week in March! Now I know some of you have given me flack for going all 80’s retro on you too often, so this time I’m making it all about prominent cartoons from the post-millennial decade. Just for the young’ns!
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As for this comic…
I want to make it clear that that Sin-ee-os just taste like original sin. Daphne is not compromising her eternal soul by eating this cereal, no matter how delicious it is. (Or to be more accurate, she’s not compromising her eternal soul any more than it already was before this.) Besides, if we’re going to be theologically in line with standard Christian doctrine, you’re born with the blight of original sin just by virtue of being human. Then again, I’m not sure whether Daphne qualifies as human.
Let’s just all agree that this whole comic is doctrinally confused and inaccurate and leave it at that.
I seem to keep spending inordinate amounts of time designing different elements that become barely visible in the final image. The Chinese dragon on Phoebe’s top? Hours of work. Ditto the cereal box design. Oh well. C’est la vie. I’m firmly of the belief that someone out there somehow appreciates these things, even without totally being able to see them.
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NEW WEEKLY VOTING INCENTIVE! MARCH OF VILLAINY!!!
A different Puck character cosplays as a famous cartoon villain … every single week in March! Now I know some of you have given me flack for going all 80’s retro on you too often, so this time I’m making it all about prominent cartoons from the post-millennial decade. Just for the young’ns!
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK!!! IT’LL GRANT YOU TEMPORARY INVULNERABILITY TO METEOR ATTACKS!
As for this comic…
I want to make it clear that that Sin-ee-os just taste like original sin. Daphne is not compromising her eternal soul by eating this cereal, no matter how delicious it is. (Or to be more accurate, she’s not compromising her eternal soul any more than it already was before this.) Besides, if we’re going to be theologically in line with standard Christian doctrine, you’re born with the blight of original sin just by virtue of being human. Then again, I’m not sure whether Daphne qualifies as human.
Let’s just all agree that this whole comic is doctrinally confused and inaccurate and leave it at that.
I seem to keep spending inordinate amounts of time designing different elements that become barely visible in the final image. The Chinese dragon on Phoebe’s top? Hours of work. Ditto the cereal box design. Oh well. C’est la vie. I’m firmly of the belief that someone out there somehow appreciates these things, even without totally being able to see them.
Phoebe’s old man got Adam and Eve cast of the garden of Eden by smooth talking them into eating the fruit of knowledge.
It was the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Until they ate of it, they were innocent. After that, they knew guilt and tried to hide their nakedness and hide from God.
Some people think that the original sin was sex, but they had been told to be fruitful and multiply way before they got suckered into having their minds and salvation blown.
… swiss chocolate and crispy bacon sounds like weird taste for FRUIT.
It’s a weird fruit, man. A weird, weird fruit.
Supposedly, instead of an apple, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a fig tree. Apples are just easier to get stuck in the mind when choosing imagery I guess.
Kinda would make for an interesting ad campaign.
Snake!Devil: Eat the figs Eve. Eat the figs.
Eve: I don’t want to.
Snake!Devil: But it’s not just figs, it’s figs and cake!
Eve: Well all right then.
Announcer: Fig Newtons! They’re worth getting kicked out of paradise for!
I imagine the tree of knowledge having weird brain-shaped fruit, but maybe that’s just me.
I’ve heard some people claim it was a pomegranate tree.
Could be. Pomegranates rock. People don’t eat enough of them.
Eve was told that by eating the forbidden fruit they would BE gods. And supposedly there was also a tree of life that some posit god was afraid the couple would eat of next and live forever with the forbidden knowledge.
Who knows, its a little before my time.
I used to eat pomegranates. Then I became allergic to them, and eating a single pomegranate seed or a sip of the juice causes me excruciating pain. I miss being able to enjoy pomegranates, but at least there’s pomegranate-flavored candy, none of which I’ve encountered has the real thing in it, and thus I can eat it without issue.
There’s pomegranate candy? Weird.
Well, there’s two theological models of Eden with that. One posits a sexless paradise of innocence, whereas the other posits a passionate paradise where Adam and Eve had lots of risk-free fun all the time. The second model is most notably fronted in Paradise Lost, which has a rather steamy scene in it. That got some Puritans riled in the 1600’s, let me tell you.
Milton wrote steamy stuff? Say it isn’t so!
It actually gets pretty steamy at one point in Paradise Lost, yes.
Back in the 1600’s entertainment was very different. Puritan-riling was cheap and popular, even more so than badger-baiting or nit-picking.
Badger-baiting is really an affordable option for your blood sport thrills. Badgers are cheap.
What I always thought was the most interesting part is that the tree itself could be just another [insert fruit here] tree. It wasn’t the fruit that caused the problem, it was the choice and the eating. By making the choice to break the only restriction placed upon them in all of creation, they put themselves above their Creator, and that is why they were ashamed. They did become like God, in a way, in that they began to choose for themselves the difference between right and wrong. The sad part is, they weren’t wise enough to know what was best for them.
But I’m sure we’re all aware that this is just a comic, right? 😀
Right. And I’ve also heard that the forbidden fruit was actually a banana. Which I sort of think is kind of cool.
Heh. The christian creation myth is a funny one. Regarding knowledge as evil really is about par for the course with them.
Well, look at the statue in the background of this comic. Look familiar?
Hmm, missed the statue. I’m hoping it’s Sir Francis Bacon covered in chocolate.
Oh, nothing that wonderful.
IT’S BAAAACOOONNNN!!!!
Gecko,
you could save 15% on car insurance by placing the shirt and cereal box up for bonuses, eh?
I might post them to Facebook or something like that.
Solves everything.
Putting baby in a corner may not be original sin, but close enough.
Has anyone tried Swiss chocolate & bacon? Because that sounds like it should be a real thing.
They sell it at the local chocolate store in my town. It’s too sinful for me to consider. I look longingly at it, but the angel on my shoulder stops me every time.
Gecko, the easiest way to deal with temptation is to give into it – immediately!
What’s a few calories in return for the heavenly gratification of not only chocolate but also BACON?
Trust me on this…
It’s not the calories so much as my sense of dietary propriety. Eating chocolate-covered bacon just automatically turns me into a food heathen of some sort, and I’m not quite ready for that. Yet.
Chocolate maple bacon soda. We have it here, and I begin to suspect its a Canadian dietary weapon.
Yuck yuck Canucks :p
I… EG, how evil can one be?
Now I must find this to test it!
Kaiser away!
*Flies into wall*
…To do list: get a larger window to fly from.
You can’t escape the alluring aroma, no matter how committed your act of defenestration is.
No wonder Satan lives in a mansion. That cereal must sell like hotcakes.
It probably SMELLS like hotcakes too!
Well, Duh! 🙂
Okay, I give on the statue, unless it’s the lady from in front of the Rolls Royce.
I don’t eat chocolate or bacon. They are fattening and not all that good. :p
My boss says that Milton popularized the notion that Satan was disguised as the serpent in the Garden of Eden, though there are references to it in medieval mystery plays. All I know is that Samuel Jonson’s comment on Paradise Los was : “No man ever wished it longer.” Nor woman either!
It’s Eve plucking the fruit from the tree of knowledge.
Nailed it!
Paradise Lost is … long. It’s best read in truncated snippets. But good. And yes, the connection of Satan and the serpent was a largely medieval thing, which Milton sort of further entrenched.
I agree that it’s a good thing that Daphne can’t shoot blue fire.
And I have to ask what Daphne’s shirt references this time.
Dirty Dancing.
I always liked Azula. She was the unsung victim of Avatar. She’s twisted into this monstrous person by her father, then her mother disappears and she thinks it’s because her behavior drove her mother away. And we learn all this solely to set up Zuko’s victory with Azula, presumably, spending the rest of her life in a jail cell. It’s a really sad story when you think about it.
Azula’s a great character. Like every character in that show. Man, that show is simply amazing. They certainly didn’t have stuff like that when I was a kid. Makes me envious of later generations.
Avatar is awesome because there’s a lot adult humor mixed in with the kid’s humor, much like old Looney Tunes cartoons.
Avatar sucked. The art was terrible and it was stupid.
Now legend of kora … I was pleasantly surprised by.
The art was terrible? Dude, I don’t know what you’d say about this crappy comic if Avatar didn’t meet your exacting standards.
You obviously don’t watch many 80’s chick flicks.
I enjoyed the dragon and cereal box design, and I could believe they’d take a fair amount of work.
Thank you. I appreciate the sentiment. I knew one person would. And that person is you!
I think you shot yourself in the foot on that one. I was too focused on reading Daphne’s shirt and then wondering whether Dirty Dancing was too mainstream for her shirts. The details on the cereal box and especially on the dragon are fantastic though, I just wouldn’t have noticed without Andrew pointing it out.
Dirty Dancing is not too mainstream for Daphne’s shirts, as long as the ref is tongue-in-cheek and satirical in nature, I think. If it were a straight-up homage to a property, though, then that IP would likely have to be pretty dang obscure.
Oh, I think I found out why people are finding the site through “Tony Stark Nude”. You used those exact words in the alt text of one of the comics from Puck’s original run. Don’t you love the “Random” option?
Well, I guess there’s a logic to these things…
Even if no one can understand WHY.
Personally, I like my bacon still chewy. Crispy bacon to me is burnt bacon.
Chewy bacon is a blight on the face of the bacosphere. Begone, you half-cooked heathen!
You need the happy medium. Too chewy and it risks being undercooked. Too crispy and it’s burnt. It has to have that perfect combination of crunchy and chewy for it to be any good.
I tend to think of ‘crispy’ as the description you’re giving. Crispy is not totally burnt. The alternative to crispy is, to my mind, the Yorkshire bacon concept that really doesn’t exist much in North America: a really fatty cut of bacon, barely cooked, where the primary sensory experience comes from the slimy feel of the fat slipping down your throat. That type of bacon is a punishment.
I was almost compelled to combine these two distinct flavors this morning out of pure curiosity but I probably would’ve regretted it…
I need a Satan-endorsed ad for that cereal on a tee, man. I would buy it!
Don’t cross the streams! I mean flavors!
I suspect that a San Francisco mixologist seeing this would mark the birth of the chocolabacontini.
These last couple strips have been very interesting. For the first time Phoebe becomes unlikable. (As Satan’s daughter would probably be.) Well done.
Well, don’t worry. She’s been sort of falling back into her father’s sphere, but there’s going to be a wedge driven between them. In exactly one week, the wedge drops…
I’m looking forward to that!
Bacon is not allowed in Judaism and Islam because it’s Pork which is a no- no in their food laws.
More bacon for me! And Satan!
By the way, what’s that sculpture of a hot naked chick with an apple behind them? Eve?
Got it in one!
Seems to be stretching. Was Adam that much taller than her?
That looks more like she’s picking it from the tree to me.
You’d be correct. The tree’s not there, but we can imagine it.
Have you considered showing off a larger version of the Sin-ee-os box? I’m interested in reading what the small text is under the Sin-ee-os name.
It just says “Breakfast-type Cereal”. Nothing too exciting. I didn’t put lots of copy on the box because I knew pretty much none of it would show up in the comic.
Cafe Press, man. Cafe Press. Costs you nothing.
Yeah, but it costs the end user tons, and I see (almost) none of that money, so I don’t see the point.
Why not have Puck and company make use of the Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Bacon and chocolate sounds nasty……..
It more than sounds tasty… It TASTES tasty!
Chocolate mixed with bacon…?
I’m trying to wrap my head around it, but all I can come up with is “Yuck!” ^^; Not a big fan of mixing my sweets with my savouries.
Say, did anyone else feel a cold chill when Scratch said for Daphne to join them, and that there was plenty of room at the table? He’s worse than Emperor Palpatine. (Duh!)
Let’s just say that there’s something magical going on that makes this special combination work for this cereal. And there’s always lots of room at Satan’s table. For everyone.
I’d be all over that like a snake on the Tree of Life!
And God said, “I forbid you to TRY THIS TASTE SENSATION!”
For our annual aPORKalypse party (a bacon potluck party in July/August timeframe, where all attendants must bring a bacon dish and we gorge on pork products until nightfall, at which point I burn all the Christmas trees I accumulated after driving around with a pickup truck in the weeks after Christmas) I usually make candied bacon and my fiancee makes chocolate drizzled bacon. A chocolate bacon cereal would probably do poorly, as bacon does NOT go into milk well; I speak from experience on this…but chocolate bacon snack bags would do very VERY well, provided you could market them. Amazingly delicious!
You sound like the closest thing this world offers to a bacon expert. I defer to you on this one.
What would the consequences be if that shirt were to… mysteriously disappear from Daphne’s wardrobe and appear in mine?
This shirt was one of my favorites. Maybe I need to put them in production!
Dirty Dancing sucked, still sucks, and will suck forever and always. Do you have any idea how many Friday and or Saturday nights my mom and sisters would watch that dumbass movie?
Hey, I didn’t say it was good. I just said it was a thing.
For a really eye-opening analysis of the real thing that happened (which is not an apple), look for a book called “Eve’s Seed” by Robert McElvaine.
I’d say pass the fruit platter, except I can guess what kind of fruit it’d be.
Don’t bother writing up the cheque, I’ll be off to find some bland porridge elsewhere. After all, you need a mighty long spoon to dine at this table.
I’m not sure what kind of fruit the fruit from the tree of knowledge was. Apples are popular choices, but bananas are also in the mix.
Figs?
Sure.