VOTING INCENTIVE: PHOEBE IN SPACE!
So yeah, I came down with a wicked case of the flu, 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!
As for this comic…
Another bit player come in for a brief showing! It’s Tyler (formerly Taylor), Daphne’s quasi-boyfriend but not really! We haven’t seen him since #158! I felt it necessary to softly bring him back in, because a few of the future story arcs will feature him a bit more.
I want to stress that Daphne’s final line does not mean that she’s Catholic. I think Daphne would be just the sort of person to carry around a bunch of stuff from a variety of world religions, just in case they were useful for some plot or scam. You just never know, right?
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VOTING INCENTIVE: PHOEBE IN SPACE!
So yeah, I came down with a wicked case of the flu, 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!
As for this comic…
Another bit player come in for a brief showing! It’s Tyler (formerly Taylor), Daphne’s quasi-boyfriend but not really! We haven’t seen him since #158! I felt it necessary to softly bring him back in, because a few of the future story arcs will feature him a bit more.
I want to stress that Daphne’s final line does not mean that she’s Catholic. I think Daphne would be just the sort of person to carry around a bunch of stuff from a variety of world religions, just in case they were useful for some plot or scam. You just never know, right?
So how old is daphne 16 17 also what species I forget if you mentioned it years earlier
Daphne’s probably about fifteen or so right now. And her species is … unknown. Total mystery.
Same species as Duckburg’s Beagle Brothers. Who may or may not be in any way related to actual beagles.
Possibly. Though aren’t they the same species as Goofy? And isn’t Goofy oddly similar in appearance to Pluto? Are they all beagles? Daphne doesn’t look to me like any form of beagle. She looks to me like some sort of terrier (a Norwich terrier, maybe?) but that’s the closest I can come. Even that’s debatable. When other artists (like Emily Ivie in strip #185) have drawn her, she looks more cat-like. Hard to say.
I always figured she was some sort of unspeakable abomination from beyond time and space… but you already knew that. ^_^
Certain parts of Daphne are getting real “grown up”, real fast.
Please, Gecko, let your loyal minions know when she turns 18, and can claim her rightful place in our imaginations ?
Pretty please ?
At current in-comic time, that will probably occur in ten to twenty years. Just saying.
I can wait….
Because Daphne is of a different species she doesn’t age like a human does.I’ll bet that she’s from another planet or another plane of existence.
Well, she does age like a human does, but as for her origin, who knows?
Yeah, leave it to daphne to so corrupted that the devil can’t corrupt her, that’s free will for ya. Don’t take not crap from anyone
Satan’s gotta find some people who are easier to corrupt. His daughter’s a write-off, and Daphne’s not much better.
He doesn’t realize his work here is done.
He should watch the Devil’s Carnival for tips from the version of him in that one. Then again he’d probably start singing to Daphne.
That’s true horror.
“He doesn’t realize his work here is done.”
THAT’S IT !!
I just want to say that I like how Daphne’s ears flatten back in panel 2. That is all.
I don’t know how I would communicate emotion without crazy emotive ears!
Actually, Satan ought to love her. She’s so anti-authoritarian that she refuses to obey anyone, even the ultimate anti-authoritarian, Satan himself. That, in a round about way, makes her his best disciple, doesn’t it?
True. They’re way too alike. I think Satan here is constricted by his concept of teenagers, which I think her formed by watching too many slasher movies. He needs to look outside the box of evil and appreciate Daphne for the morally groundless person she is.
In their social circles, celibacy *is* the “shock the adults” position.
Exactly. And to be honest, I think that adult perception of teen sexual activity is greatly exaggerated compared to the reality. The real teen reality often features lots of awkward tension but little else.
Being a teenager, if I recall correctly, is a lot like prison: the sex you want, you ain’t getting, the sex you’re getting, you don’t want.
Like that, but with a lot less sex.
You’re bringing up some really bad memories.
Got the number for the Hot Dog Guy ?
Now I need him.
thanx (grrrr)
I’m thinkin’ my teenage sex life would have been a lot easier if the Internet “TUTORIALS” existed back then.
That’s what they’re called, right ?
I think you’re checking out the wrong side of the educational internet.
If he really counted her sins together, they’d be sworn enemies. Only one person can rule hell and all.
Daphne never really struck me as a Catholic to begin with. I can imagine her just pulling out random holy objects (from literally any religion, ever) should it work against… Whatever the hell she uses it against. I dunno.
…For some reason, I have WAY too little trouble seeing TylerxDaphne kids.
…Damn it.
Yeah, I’m not sure I’m up to drawing Tyler/Daphne kids. I feel quite confident that they will one day have them, but visualizing that? Eeeeeesh.
Teens are capable of far greater sins than licentious behavior.
Being snarky is a sin, right?
Oh yes. And so is bilking money from seniors with ponzi schemes, and high stakes gambling, and all the other stuff Daphne is known for. He needs to cut a sinner a break now and then.
“Reticulating splines?” Had to look it up…and I still don’t know what it means. What I found on Wikipedia didn’t help. Calculus is where my math skills failed me, and I never played Sim City 2000.
It’s meaningless, really. It’s just a stupid phrase that Maxis worked into their games. (ALL of the Sims titles feature it in the load-up, and for what it’s worth, apparently Minecraft does too.)
meaningless? It made perfect sense to me.
Maybe I’m just crazy, but aren’t ‘splines’ associated with digital graphics and reticulated means ‘segmented or blocked off’?
I didn’t look in a dictionary yet, but it seems that way to me.
Well, the creators of the game actually admitted that it was a meaningless phrase that they thought sounded cool. In Simcity 2000, a sexy lady voice actually spoke the line “Reticulating splines” in a rather suggestive way. Later they admitted that the game actually had no splines to reticulate.
Well, I never even tried simcity (of any version). The closest I came was Sims 2 (which I played thru 13 generations a family of sims).
No splines? that’s interesting, since my dictionary lists a spline as “part of a animated character, to be manipulated to simulate movement”.
Or maybe it had splines, but they weren’t reticulated. Somehow the entire phrase was a total falsehood.
The definition you found in your dictionary is for spRiTes, not spLiNes. Entirely different thing.
(Though splines can also come up in computer graphics — especially drawing programs, and perhaps even in animations…)
In a way, it is somewhat less absurd with what splines (and reticulate) actually means — but it’s still pretty much nonsense 🙂
Had I been in Daphne’s situation, I would have brought out my Rosary, turned and ran while praying before I went in the door…
Well, you can never be too careful.
“Old Man”…
Ouch, especially when you are over 160,000 years old…
He was there at the beginning of the journey…people slaughtering each others…
Hey, at least it’s accurate.
It’s Daphne, maybe she’s all sinned out at the moment.
She’s selective in her sin. Lust is low on her list.
Would it be correct to assume Sloth and Greed are at the top of the list?
It would be.
Ever seen the 1996 Dr.Who movie. I’ve seen it.It’s very good.
About the 160,000 years journey…I guess links wont post…it’s humanity’s journey from Africa, with Satan on it’s left shoulder at:
BradshawFoundation dot com slash journey…the latest on genetics…
Hell yeah! Satan returns and his antics continue to be comedy gold!
Robert Vaughn, please voice this guy! 😀
This dude really does write himself.
I truly understand THAT statement. I’m writing a series of books, myself (wondering what to do when finished).
Sometimes, it seems a character will step up and declare “IT’S TIME FOR ME, NOW!!!” and pity your attempts to write anything else.
Makes me wonder who’s the writer, sometimes.
Comic contains an MVS. No one comments on MVS. Not sure I want to live in this world anymore.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m too nerdy even for the internet sometimes.
Considering that Gecko mentioned that old scratch had one of those in a previous comic, it’s not a surprise that we’re seeing Daphne and Tyler playing it.
I just needed to put it in somewhere because people seemed excited about it last time.
I love that Satan seems to think that ‘baow chicka baow waow’ will be enough to get these two in the mood.
He’s old. He dates from a simpler time.
Like when grandma says something racist at the dinner table? 🙂
Seriously though, now that I know you’re a Game Grumps and NSP fan, I’m going to find some way to reference them in the comments. 🙂
And he’s the Canadian Satan.
Now if he were the FRENCH Satan, mon cheri !
Where can one buy a Reticulating Splines shirt immediately?
Good question. I don’t have the answer.
Have you ever explained the shadowing that Satan is always encased within?
I’ve said that it’s the eternal darkness of God’s disapproval before, but that’s really just my best guess. In the early days, when Satan never left his desk, we could just say it was bad lighting, but now that it follows him around all the time, I guess it’s magical.
Does he have any kind of powers? You’d think he would. I don’t remember that being shown before.
Nah, no one has ever been shown to have any kind of powers in my comic. Puck has the power to hurt people with her fists. That’s it. Which, I suppose, really isn’t a power.
Well, I’d say she has the power to terrify power with her attitude.
to terrify people, I meant
Oh, what a bad, bad boy!
Satan better watch it. I know he’s been around 160,000 years but if he continues to bother Daphne and Tyler, he may not reach 160,001.
I don’t think Daphne would take a physical approach. She’s more likely to hank into some Swiss bank and clear out his account when he’s not looking.
I did notice the Kremlins joke before. I liked it. Good show, good show. But, is it Putin approved?
I sincerely doubt Putin would approve anything that didn’t involve annexing more of the Ukraine right now. (Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhh SNAP!)
So, Putin Invaders? Just like Space Invaders, but tanks running over everything and some poorly equipped guy jumping from bunker to bunker trying to shoot them? 😀
You really should check out the old Communist era arcade machines from Russia. I swear they look like the prop machines from the old show “You Can’t Do That on Television!” Really unique looking.
I didn’t even know the Communist era had arcade machines. What a weird world we live in.
Will we be seeing Tyler in the near future?
A little bit more. But not in the near near future.
Satan, don’t even try. For all we know, she could destroy your whole mayor status just by going on TV. Plus, I think Puck taught her “See Pheobe, who’s pretty much your aunt at this point? Yeah, don’t do what she does in your life. You’ll thank me later.”
I’m not sure Phoebe serves as a cautionary tale. I mean, she could theoretically qualify as being more together than Puck. Really, none of the characters in this comic can serve as role models. Which might explain why Daphne turned out the way she did.
I dunno. Colin seems like a halfway decent role model. He’s gainfully employed in a respectable profession, has a good set of hobbies, and is married with a family. Of course, he’s got a spine like an earthworm, isn’t the brightest glowstick in the drawer, and has an evil family, but still, better role model than our dear Puck at least. Phoebe… if you want to be a fashion model, she’d be a GREAT role model. And quite possibly manager and designer too.
You have solid points all around. If you combined various elements of all the characters, you might end up with a superb human being.
yes reticulating splines!!! good old sc2000!!!
Well, nice to see someone got the ref.
For a while there I kept wondering why people were going on about Reticulating Splines… Several people mentioned it in the comments and I couldn’t find it in the comic nor the description anywhere…
… And this has happened with several phrases over several comics…
THEN it occurred to me that it was probably written in the place I’ve actually filtered from my vision. It actually took me too long to realise that.