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!
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And as for the comic…
She’s baaaaaack. Again.
For readers who don’t recognize the blonde chick, that’s Tracee. We last saw Tracee working as Satan’s public relations officer. We now see Tracee in a slightly different role. What does this mean? It means that kooky hilarity will ensue. As always.
When my wife saw this comic, she recoiled. “Gah, Tracee!” she exclaimed. “She’s just too … blonde. It kind of stresses me out.”
And that’s the intended reaction.
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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!
And as for the comic…
She’s baaaaaack. Again.
For readers who don’t recognize the blonde chick, that’s Tracee. We last saw Tracee working as Satan’s public relations officer. We now see Tracee in a slightly different role. What does this mean? It means that kooky hilarity will ensue. As always.
When my wife saw this comic, she recoiled. “Gah, Tracee!” she exclaimed. “She’s just too … blonde. It kind of stresses me out.”
And that’s the intended reaction.
Oh snap!
Skidoosh!
Please don’t drag the Kung Fu Panda into this. :p
Uhm I don’t know how to say that and I’ll understand if you want to moderate this comment, but I saw panel three and for a few seconds I thought that although panel 3 is supposed to be fanservice-y already, I was looking at extreme fanservice (you know, the topiary kind) then I remembered that those are likely panties and that a woman like Tracee probably hasn’t dealt with something as mundane as body hair (especially so much body hair) for a looong time.
You are correct. Body hair of that variety would never be found on a woman like Tracee. I was aiming more for a general feeling of extreme impropriety than extreme fanservice, but yeah. Black seemed like the only underwear color that Tracee would wear, if you get my drift, but I think (for clarity) I’m changing the color right now to chaste white. Doesn’t work with the character, but less visually confusing.
I’d suggest pink, but that’s already taken by the robe. Fire engine red, maybe? Chartreuse? Something with polka dots?
I tried red, which didn’t look right, and other colors didn’t quite pop, so I went white. It’s iconic underwear shade is the least misconstrued here.
Heck, if you wanted iconic, you could have gone with black. Like tvtropes says, you don’t buy black underwear unless you want someone to see it – albeit briefly – and as most people consider it to be the colour of the Dark Side, it would have been entirely appropriate for the occasion and the location. 😉
It was black when I first posted it, but people were … mistaking it for something else. You can see the original version right here RIGHT HERE if you’re curious.
Hmm. Maybe all it needed was a red lace butterfly on the front or something. ^^
I feel bad that I didn’t even notice!
It seems like you were one of the few that didn’t. We call that a ‘moment of inadvertent controversy’, I think.
I’m not surprised. She was the campaign manager.
It was an entirely predictable thing … and yet no one predicted it.
Love the plot twist… and the fact that you confirmed that Tracee is not a “natural” blonde.. carpet and drapes don’t match… 🙂
Ack! It’s not carpet! It’s underwear! Okay, I gotta change this right now. And it’s changed. Whew. Better. White is less easily misinterpreted.
LOL.. I’m sorry!!. I didn’t mean to throw a wrench into your work!.. I really thought you were going for a bit of a naughty “peek-a-boo” thing … my apologies for being so daft. 🙂
Well, it was obviously visually confusing because you weren’t the only one who said that. So I changed it. But for the record, I think it’s safe to say that with Tracee the carpet likely wouldn’t match the drapes. Though girls like Tracee usually have carpeting removed…
For the record.. I prefer hardwood flooring too…. (Just how far can this flooring metaphor be stretched… ? 🙂 )
AWE-SOME !
(underwear ? yeah, right)
Once my mind is dirtied, there’s no cleaning it !
This comic has never been about cleaning minds. Quite the opposite.
Awwww. Phoebe’s getting a new mommy. And it’s also her boss. Gecko, tonight I drink to your Jedi powers of comedy!
I prefer to choose many different types of ‘wrong’, then throw them in the blender together. The results aren’t necessarily right, but they’re sometimes funny. That’s good enough for me. I’m very glad you appreciate.
AAAAND now I have a reason not to move to Satan’s manor. Thanks a lot, EG. Now I’ll never know the taste of Original Sin. Oh well…
This right here is a SERIOUS detractor. Not the blood taps or the seal eyes or the general air of sin, but THIS CHICK? Forget it!
Maybe I’m imaging things but doesn’t Satan look… Worried in the first panel? Then again, it’s probably because he forgot about her. I dunno.
Maybe he looks worried because he just remembered she was in his house – and that he owes her. :p
I think he’s taking off because he didn’t want to deal with the awkward meet-up. He’d rather come in after all the awkwardness worked itself out.
He’d need to leave for at least a year, then. That won’t do his political career any good.
She is a conscienceless politician and peddler of female flesh for the enjoyment of perverts, so…
You say it like it’s a bad thing.
Heh, mouseover text. Funny, slightly wrong, but funny
I want that carved on my headstone: “Slightly wrong, but funny.” Thanks for that!
0_0 … Now you’ve got me thinking he knocked up Tracee and Phoebe’s little half-brother or half-sister will cause her to flee casa del damnation and return to the abode del MacTavish (and Puck)…
No! No more pregnancies! NONE.
Like a woman like Tracee would ever let herself GET pregnant…with how artificial she is, I doubt she would allow it to happen. Her body was not *built* with those circumstances in mind.
She’s boinking the devil. Suffering and woe seem like a logical consequence.
Indeed Rock. Satan can make birth control fail at will.
“You down there”, indeed.
At first, I couldn’t quite see this driving a significant wedge between Phoebe and her father; she must be quite used to him having conscienceless harlots over.
Then I got to thinking, what happens if Tracee starts to treat Phoebe badly at work because of this, and her dad takes Tracee’s side because she’s his campaign manager (and other things as well) ?
Tracee’s not going to wear her new title gracefully, let’s just say…
*snrk* “She’s been sponging off of you for HOW LONG? No way. Kick her out! She’s old enough to take care of herself, and sponging off you is MY job now!”
Something like that?
Or will she just flip out if Phoebe starts calling her ‘New mom’?
We shall see…
I wouldn’t worry too much, Rock; as our girl Daphne is the ULTIMATE FIXER. (As in, if Tracee hurts Phoebe; then Tracee feels the pain? heeheeheehee… we ladies are know for cold hearted vengeance.)
You know how these things play out. (Like dang it, you’re totally accurately predicting this whole thing here! What powers you have!)
Okay, I agree black was wrong, and that Tracee is too blonde, political and inevitable. I do love it that my gal Phoebe is friendly and nice to the blonde bimbo. All in all, one of your best, EG
Oh, and I really, really agree, NO MORE PREGNANCIES!!!
Thanks for the vote of confidence. Phoebe is always nice, though as we’ll see in the next comic, she hasn’t exactly clued in yet.
Notice that nothing has been guaranteed about foster children or another adoption (I am assuming Daphne is adopted in some manner).
Wow. I love how you make your designs and patterns contour to your characters’ clothes so seemingly. Great job!
Can’t wait to see where the Tracee thing is going.
I agree, this comic views like a fashion magazine!
Thanks. I think it’s pretty clear from viewing my comic that I have a HUGE inner drag queen inside me that just loves women’s fashion. I don’t go so far as to pull an Ed Wood and wear the clothes, though. I wouldn’t look too hot in them.
Everything in my comic is vector-based, which means I can use an envelope and stretch or distort the graphic to look reasonable … most of the time. It’s funny, though, because sometimes distorting the graphic makes it look worse than just clipping the flat image into the field. The dragon design on Phoebe’s shirt, for instance, is so complex and twisty (with nary a straight line in the whole thing) that I didn’t warp the graphic at all. It’s the same flat image clipped onto the shirt in every pic, and yet it looks okay. Thanks for that. Glad you think it works.
Sorry…”seamlessly”. I cannot type fast to save my life! 🙁
We all needs nonexistent waiter for difficult moments in life!
They’re incredibly useful. Especially the part about the nonexistent tips.
Phoebe’s cheek looks off in the fourth panel. Looks too square for her model.
Enh, maybe. Doesn’t look too off to me. She’s fine-boned, but her face is generally much more angular than Puck’s. I dids mah best.
With the way the head is tilted, the way the jaw connects to the ear makes the cheek look a little big to me.
I guess it’s just the angle of her face that makes it look that way.
Or maybe it’s just me.
Don’t give the Gecko such a hard time.
I’ve seen plenty of photographs of real-life people that look totally different from a frontal pic to their side pic.
And this is with pics taken, not hours or days, but 30 seconds apart.
(oh, sorry. you Canadian guys probably don’t use seconds, but likely have some weird metric thing instead)
Traceeeeeeeee…. Why does your face remind me of a bear’s face? And her hair is the worst part, by far. If you concentrate, you can almost believe her skin is that color because she’s from India or the Middle East. Almost.
She doesn’t really have the most delicate facial features, that’s for sure. The hair and fake tan are trying to compensate, but they don’t exactly work. And I’m pretty sure that complexion is from a spray can, not from genetics.
It’s like Tinkerbell. If you really, really try to believe, you can almost sorta think her skin is natural. Not really though.
“You can tan, you can tan, you can tan, you can tan, you can TAAAAAAAAAAN!” (Sung to the tune of “You can fly” from that Peter Pan movie)
Love is blond.
In this case, love is blonde hair dye #24.
Couldn’t think of anything funny to say this week, honest…
You are not contractually obligated. I’m the one who’s contractually obligated to be funny every week. Though I’ve been known to break contract now and then.
You adhering to contract…
Now that IS funny!
😉
I have a feeling thats Phoebe is a closet bisexual.
Then again what am I saying, she’s the daughter of Satan of course she won’t have a tacked down sex life with one person.
You may be onto something there, though I’d say that she’s not really the type to be a closet anything; she’s pretty open. I think of Phoebe as being permanently stuck at the ‘twelve year-old girl’ stage of interpersonal development. Female friendships rule the roost for her, whereas boys in theory are interesting but in reality are kind of smelly and largely not worth the bother. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Phoebe is overwhelmingly fashionsexual. I don’t think she ever truly imprinted on the human race.
Tracee-Tracee-TRACEE !!!
I was beginning to get worried…..
You can be the president of the Tracee fan club. I think you’d be the only member so far.
Now if there ever was a place for this, now is the time…
EGAD
Keep saying it. It’ll come back one day.
TRACEE- TRACEE- TRACEEEEE!
I don’t get all the hate for Tracee.
And apparently Phoebe’s dating experience in college with Colin’s buddy ruined her for the rest of us. At least she’s still fun to look at. Except for the glasses, and the horns that screw up her hairline.
The hairline gets fixed later on.
Oh Yeah I forgot. U spelled check wrong. This is what I mean when I say that people outside of the U.S. are only pretending to speak English. Just havta complicate things by adding unnecessary u’s and such to simple words, like armor, color, and humor. Whatu theu hellue isu wrongue withue…. eh!? The scary part is that as a “teacher” (glares suspiciously) you are propagating this nonsensical nonsense that poses as writing. Sad. Just sad. All y’all’s needs to be learned to reed an talk more gooder. Y come u kant do it more better like us Merrykunz?
Suury aboot dat.