NEW VOTING INCENTIVE: PHOEBE IN SPACE!
So yeah, I came down with a wicked case of the flu all week, running a scarily high temperature and all that, so I didn’t get around to doing a voting incentive. Once I got better, though, I dedicated the duration of two ‘Game Grumps’ episodes to the creation of this … er … masterpiece. In HB pencil! With glorious no color!
To be honest, on a labor-to-satisfaction level, I do think this picture kind of rocks. Yay for cramming at the last minute!
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK!!! IN SPACE! WITH SHARKS!
In other news…
Puck recently was featured as Comic of the Week in an article by the Webcast Beacon, everyone’s favourite webcomic-based podcast. Check it out and give them a listen/watch! If you love webcomics, they’re a source of cool news and can open your eyes to some awesome stuff out there.
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NEW VOTING INCENTIVE: PHOEBE IN SPACE!
So yeah, I came down with a wicked case of the flu all week, running a scarily high temperature and all that, so I didn’t get around to doing a voting incentive. Once I got better, though, I dedicated the duration of two ‘Game Grumps’ episodes to the creation of this … er … masterpiece. In HB pencil! With glorious no color!
To be honest, on a labor-to-satisfaction level, I do think this picture kind of rocks. Yay for cramming at the last minute!
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK!!! IN SPACE! WITH SHARKS!
In other news…
Puck recently was featured as Comic of the Week in an article by the Webcast Beacon, everyone’s favourite webcomic-based podcast. Check it out and give them a listen/watch! If you love webcomics, they’re a source of cool news and can open your eyes to some awesome stuff out there.
Why do I get the feeling that at least one of these “In-laws” will be leaving Pib’s home on a stretcher.
Might happen. Then again, she sometimes has remarkable control. Consider the following evidence: she hasn’t yet killed Colin.
Pib? Is that a nickname for Puck that’s been used in the comic, or in the comments for that matter?
I thought it might be some sort of acronym, but I can’t make it work. The only acronym I can come up with for Puck is PAFOL (for “Puck, Ancient Fairy Of Lore”).
Pib is the nickname for Pibgorn, Brooke MciEldowney’s cartoon fairy on GoComics. She has red hair, no freckles, and occasionally wings. Puck is more like Drusilal IMHO.
It’s a good thing I know none of this!
You know you’re right I blame that it was early whe I wrote this. Still I maintain possible stretcher. And besides. Puck, likes Colin enough to get busy and have a baby.
Yet another reason to dislike her. Big oil.
You’ll be given a few more reasons to dislike her by the time we’re through, guaranteed!
And, what does your car run on, Dragon?
Also, how come no one ever dislikes ‘Big Ink’.
Someone a while ago did some maths and found out that a gallon of printer ink comes out to about $1,200 or some such.
And, how come printer ink doesn’t have the volume printed on it, like all other liquids do? (12 fl. oz., etc)
My car runs on angel tears and unicorn dust. I buy it bulk from Conrad Black.
Bulk is the way to go.
PHOEEEBEEE!!!! IIIIINNNN!!! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!
Sorry for the Muppets reference. 😛
That was bound to happen. No need to apologize.
Just ask Albert Einstein. He invented space! 🙂
Game Grumps?!
The more I read, the more I think at we could be best friends! Haha
On another note… I am in awe of Puck’s control. She is far stronger than I.
I’m always in need of something that I can listen to and half-watch while drawing stuff. Game Grumps fits the bill. Which is why the voting incentive this month is a sly nod to NSP.
I guess all we need now is aliens from Mars riffing solos on elec guitars, huh?
I tried, but I ran out of space. In space!
Or the dinos, robots and sharks saw they came in peace, and killed them with lasers. 😀
Ah, the magic of nutritionists, personal trainers, and plastic surgeons. I think it was in one of my favorite Superhero comics that one character said something like, “I sometimes think access to money is the most useful superpower of all.”
Money is, indeed, a powerful force in the universe. Or our little pocket of the universe, anyway. The greatest prof I ever had used to say, “Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but it’s awful useful stuff to have around.” That’s about right.
The person that says money doesn’t buy happiness has always had money when he was starving or always makes his rent.
Exactly.
Money *doesn’t* buy happiness…, but it *does* make misery a *lot* more comfortable.
Who the hell goes into someone’s house and starts cleaning it? Let alone lecturing them on the proper way to clean it?! 😛 You’re a guest heifer – don’t be dissin on your in-laws barn!
It’s territory-claiming of a sort. Instead of peeing to mark your turf, you clean up the pee.
Alpha b#$ch dogs always pee ON TOP of their lesser brethren…Even the sweetest will kill if a lesser dare to leak over her “message”…
The fact Colin’s sister got 3 kids is… Actually quite surprising.
And having the flu all week? Yikes, that sucks.
…Your 30 minute drawing is still something better than I’d do in 3 hours.
Wow… so Colin’s an uncle? I wonder if we’re ever going to meet his nieces and/or nephews. Oh, and his brother-in-law, of course. Things are getting interesting, on his side of the family!
That side of the family might make for an interesting story arc eventually, but not now. I think we’ve got enough on our plate at the moment.
Actually, if the pattern holds here Colin’s nieces and/or nephews wouldn’t be interesting enough to bother with in this strip. Look how Satan’s daughter turned out!
I think Phoebe is a one-in-a-million genetic fluke, but yeah. I don’t think the comic needs a squadron of tow-headed hooligan children added into the mix right now.
Many times Heather’s gotten up in the middle of the night to tell the nanny the baby’s crying.
It’s a real irritation, let me tell you!
Not just nanny but wet nurse also. Maybe even a Au Pair who does cooking and cleaning as well as children care.
Let’s forgo the nieces and nephews. With a mom like Heather, they’d be insufferable brats
Exactly. I’d imagine them as one solid mass of bratdom, like Huey, Dewey and Louie. They’d all be boys, too, I’d imagine. I shudder at the thought.
Hmm…I’ve a feeling that Puck and Colin’s sis are going to play off each other well before this is over. The situations and terse dialogue between them have the potential to be classic.
We can all assess the devastation afterwards.
That green glow emanating off of Puck is priceless.
I likes my weird glows. They’re a primary crutch of mine. But yeah, we gotta string this along a little while, just for entertainment value.
I read 38 webcomics each day. On one of them this past weekend, an alert went out with a weblink to a serious threat of censorship of webcomics. The webcomic is called “the Devil’s Panties” and those who read that comic know Obby (the person raising this alert) does not tend to be an alarmist, but he is very good with digital technology.
I am providing the alert and the link to every webcomic I read and every online game I play. Since many of the webcomics and 4 of the games I play say posting links could get the poster banned from that webcomic or game, you can see how serious I consider the alert.
Below is the link to Obby’s alert.
https://medium.com/p/3f559a96e166
I truly hope I am wrong about the seriousness of this alert.
Oh, you’re not wrong. And now you know why I am very vigiligant about what goes up on my site, particularly what goes up in easily searchable text format. That’s why the ‘f’ word doesn’t show up uncensored anywhere on this site. And people think I’m nuts to censor my stuff, but believe me, someone’s watching, and it could seriously damage my income. (Well, relatively speaking, of course. It’s hard to ‘seriously damage’ something that’s barely there in the first place.)
F-WORD?
You mean,
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FREAKY?
Oh, now I have to go and block you.
I’m getting simular reports from my other webcomics and games.
In fact, several are reporting they didn’t know of the site and are finding their ‘stats’ greatly below where they should be.
I gather you found your strip’s stats were where you expected. Sorry i troubled you.
Oh, keep up the great work. Glad you’re over that flu.
I didn’t actually bother to look up my site stats, but I have close to 100% coverage as is, so I’m not worried. I keep a VERY close watch on my site for ‘flagged phrases,’ so I’m not too worried.
Aren’t dog’s females called B#$ches?
Technically yes, but you obviously didn’t read an earlier comment on this very comic where someone was posting about the fact that foul language (whether contextually appropriate or not) can seriously cut into or flat out eliminate a webcomic’s ad revenue. Put simply, the more profanity you drop, the less money I make. I’m not a prude nor a censor by nature, but I’m also not stupid.
on another note… have you ever got extra money from a government agency than you were expecting?
I did from my state-sponsored scholarship. I must live on $200 a month while attending college on my scholarship. Yesterday, I found $1400+ available in it.
the college’s finance dept and student financing can’t find the reason. They’re all telling me it must be my money, now.
Free money from a state or federal government agency? It’s scaring the hell outta me.
No, can’t say I have.
Me, neither
As death and taxes are a constant in life, you can count of receiving a $1,400 bill…most likely the day before Christmas…Americans keep pissing and moaning about the IRS…They should thank their lucky stars they dont have to deal with Revenue Canada…All Canadians are treated like Tea Party officials by these goons.
I love Revenue Canada. They’re fair, they will periodically recalculate your tax to determine they owe you more money, and even if you’re a bad person and don’t pay your taxes, you don’t do hard time for tax evasion in Canada. (Oh, they’ll get the money back, but at least you won’t be wearing an orange jumper while they get it.) Don’t knock them.
I’m still sore for receiving that $5,000 bill at Christmas eve thirty years ago from them Revenuers…While the cute and sweet IRS teen age girl auditing me five years later told me about the obscene traveling meal allowances they allow(I still had to give her $800 for missing moving receipts) However, thanks to her tip, I made it up a hundred times over.
Sorry to hear that you had the flu I bet that your wife and kids took good care of you while you were sick.
Thanks. They did.
Have you heard about the sweet orange tool root kit?
No. Should I? Do I want to? It sounds ominous.
I just realized who Colin’s sister reminds me of. My ex-fiance. I swear she was evil incarnate in a passive aggressive snobby sort of way. Every negative aspect save for big oil, they share.
Even in the hospital she was acting like this crap to the nurses. I must have saved her from having an “accidental” morphine overdose in her IV maybe seven times by taking the nurses aside and apologizing for her and thanking them for their services.
People like this exist. They’re dangerous. Avoid at all costs.
History Teachers on Youtube teaches history through music so if you’re into history give it a look see.
Will we be seeing Heather’s husband and children?
I doubt it. Comic’s crowded enough as it is.
I just realized. If Colin’s sister is married. Where is her ring? She doesn’t have it in the last comic she appeared in
Aw man, you caught a continuity error that I thought I could let slide. But no! You had to call it out. Dang it.
Now it’s fixed. As you can tell, I’m really not used to drawing characters with rings. And knowing Colin’s sister, she’d probably be wearing a big ole engagement ring in addition to the wedding band, but hey, I can’t really draw well enough to make that look good.
I love Colin’s family !!!
(Why do I enjoy seeing Puck being put in her place ?)
Well, one can’t help but enjoy watching a ridiculously dominant personality stamped down a bit. I can’t, anyway.
@EG, thank you for using the word “thrice”, which is one of my favorite little used words, which I would hate to see become obsolete.
I am always happy to keep musty words alive in a sort of zombie undead state.
Money makes everything easier.
For starters, hiring a night nurse to handle the baby for a standard 8-hour shift so you can get a full night’s sleep.
Seriously, even if you have to sell a kidney to afford it, that’s probably the best value you’ll get out of anything else you’ll spend on a baby. I fully recommend this.
Heather and hubby can probably afford 24-hour nanny-care. She only has to play with her kids when they’re clean and dry and she feels like it. Of course motherhood’s easy for her done that way.
Not sure I know anyone who ever hired a night nurse. Part of the snag of having a baby is that most young parents have children at a time in their lives where money is NOT plentiful. I know those years were the leanest of my adult life. Buying food was a challenge. Night nurse money was not in the cards.
It’s become a lot more common for people to have their kids in their 30s and even 40s now. Mainly because, as you said, they didn’t have enough money to support a family well in their 20s.
I’d call it a financially responsible trend… but there’s a definite downside… namely that if you start your family at age 45… you have to deal with teenagers in your 60s. 0_0
Even more of a downside is that nature has a very different timeframe in mind. Pregnancies in women over age 35 are called ‘geriatric pregnancy’ for a reason. It’s harder to have kids the older you get (for women, at least) and it’s a sad irony that 35 is about the age our current society says to women, “Yeah, you should start thinking about having kids,” when it’s the age that science says, “Yeah, maybe you’re too old.”
I had my kids at a very young age (for a guy, at least). When I went to elementary school events, I couldn’t help but notice that I was one of the few dads who didn’t have grey hair. Kind of freaky.
Oh the “after 35” bit has been largely debunked.
It sells more magazines and clickbait to say things like “your chances of a birth defects double after 35″… but when the difference is literally between 0.5% chance and a 1% chance, that’s actually not significant at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ryP0UyO5U
Not surprising. But they still label you as ‘geriatric’.
If this comes from personal experience, I hope your wife pulled a Puck and decked the doctor that called her “geriatric”.
And I really REALLY hope you got the whole thing on video! 😀