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As for this comic…
Puck and Phoebe don’t culturally see eye to eye on much, but they can bond on this: they both have zero appreciation for giant monster movies.
I think everyone knows where this is going, though. And the end of this current story arc is actually now on the horizon! Took long enough! But seriously, I’ve enjoyed exploring a more complex narrative structure over the past 34 strips. (Wait, seriously? We’ve been on this one story for the better part of a year? Damnit, this slow-as-molasses weekly update schedule of mine sucks!)
Any how, Puckand Pheobe: WHAT SHE IS TRYING TO SAY is you MAKE BOTH MONSTERS IFGHT EACH OTHER!
Of course i can see Colin and Satan both throwing money in the pit for that though because YA KNOW!
The internet has not been configured to incorporate aspects of Mario Kart 8, and will not until that defense has been integrated into popular culture. 😛
This isn’t bloodsport….. what Daphne is proposing is Corporate wife vs Elected official’s right hand… errrr. play toy….. errr…. puppet master….
it will not be fought with weapons, it will be fought with restraining orders and subpoena’s and orders of Stay, and Cease and Desist, and, and, and…..
….
OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!!
Some would say they deserve it. Mind you, others would say that expecting these two to appreciate such a ref is like expecting a professional football player to understand the inherent magnetism of Mr. Darcy.
By the way, the correct answer is to hit them both with the Oxygen Destroyer that killed Godzilla in the 1954 movie. There’s a lot less collateral damage if you destroy both monsters in one blast than forcing a blond kaiju battle.
Uh, really? Do you not understand that in these movies (and in this comic) the correct answer is always the one that involves the most collateral damage, not the least?
It almost makes me want to write the dang thing. Of course, it would have to be a constantly changing, online sort of thing, because nerd culture is a shifting, amorphous creature that never stays in one place. Sort of like ‘cool people’ culture. Huh.
A word of advice, Daphne….. Speak slowly, use simple words (no more than 2 syllables), and when using allegory, make sure they both understand the references…. for instance…
“what would happen if you put Cardashians and The Real Housewives of Atlanta in the same room?”
Come on, Daphne, we believe in you! YOU CAN DO IT, GIRL!!!!!
I was lucky… I had to read the first two Harry Potter books to my nephew when he was in the hospital, otherwise I would have been lost too,
I might have used a couple of Daytime soaps references, if I knew any, lol
Okay, references I got right away today; Godzilla, Gigan and Jet Jaguar.
References I had to look up; muggle. That one came out at the wrong time for me to get into. I was in high school when the first one was released, and was rejecting all things meant for kids that were new.”
My point exactly. We all reject something when we get to that “I’m too cool for kid stuff” in our teenage years, and then never give it a chance when we are older. Gargoyles and the stuff from that era are yours, Harry Potter is mine. 😛
good call, daph! setting those two off at each others throat shouldn´t even be that hard – just get them in the same room and ask heather to elaborate her opinion on howlers….and then get out of the danger zone, grab some chips and enjoy the show!
I’m not sure if there is a safe zone here. While they may go at it tooth and nail, or invoke a lawyer feeding frenzy, there is a third possibility. The dual cold shoulder. In that case we could be seeing the onset of a new ice age which would make global warming just a happy memory!
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this… Pretty much the first (and possibly last) time that Puck and Phoebe actually agrees on ANYTHING?
…I honestly can’t recall them ever agreeing on anything in the past.
Never have read Harry Potter or felt any desire to. I am, however, going to start calling Daphne “Daffy,” just for giggles. *Sits down and waits for the Tracee vs. Heather fight.*
There are few people under the age of twenty (especially females) who have not read, watched or been forcibly subjected to some form of Harry Potter right now.
I’m 28. I guess it passed over my head. My 16 year old friend wouldn’t go see the final movie because of what happened the Dumbledore in the penultimate film. I was relieved
Good idea, provided they don’t team up. “Our powers combined, we can do four times the damage!” But yes, I do like forward to the hoped-for catty-fight!
Good idea, though hopefully it won’t result in a team-up. “Our powers combined, we can do four times the damage!” Poor Hamilton, though. Maybe have them take a weekend trip to Toronto? And stay with the Ford family? Please? If we ask nicely? Pretty pretty please?
It’s impossible for these two women to combine in any form of team-up. They’re like oil and water: at a glance, they sort of look the same, but they can never, ever mix. And it sounds like the Fords are dealing with enough misery right now. While I’m no fan of their political perspectives, I wouldn’t ever want to wish more strife on them.
You are a better man then than…….. ANYBODY!….
don’t just shun a politician, Break him…. make him crumble under the weight of his own Hubris…
Expose him for the li…
Bizarrely, when trying to find evidence via google, I came across a very professional looking scissor lift rental company, also named El Cheapo. http://elcheapolifts.com/
Just watched Godzilla’s Revenge with my son this morning. Great film for a good laugh. He thought it was hilarious. Oh, son of Godzilla. You so “I’m da baby.”
I like how you identified the sci-fi challenged ones as the ones with the chasm. It makes us nerds feel like we’re the ones on the right side of the gorge.
Impossible. They’re too alike in all the wrong ways, and too different in all the right ways. Unless they had a really good reason to team up. But that’s not going to happen. (Not in this story arc, anyway.)
That’s the problem with teens…
Their brains have developed enough to be crafty, but not enough to think ahead very far.
Their hormones are preparing them to take their place in an adult world, but they do not have the experience to realize they can’t handle being on top (which they all want to be).
That doesn’t quite apply to Daphne. Experience is something you get AFTER you need it. Daphne has been racking it up for several years (even before becoming a teen).
Si, in Daphne, you have a teen’s craftiness mixed with experience. Not a good combo to face as an opponent
I am sort of with Phoebe on this one, in that since we are at the “So bad its good Godzilla films, let us go all the way to the bottom and watch one with Mothra as the other main monster….”
As to the “Blonde Bloodbath”, Are you planning on having Puck provide a running commentary with super bad dubbing – by having Puck mouth open in one panel and the actual word balloon in the next with with words “Look – They’re fighting! – Hamilton is Lost” and clearly the Puck’s mouth is shut? God, the horrible s memories…
I love those movies, man. LOVE late 60’s to early 70’s Godzilla movies. I don’t think I have the creative chops to communicate their grandeur in comic form, though. They’re just … too grand.
Did ya know in the first Godzilla they put a man in a lizard suit, then had him walk SLOWLY (slow is critical for Godzilla), through a room full of cardboard boxes they glued PHOTOGRAPHS of real buildings to ?
The B&W photos glued to cardboard looked pretty good, too.
I’m thinking a job opportunity for Puck, here. Maybe Heather has friends in the Canadian Film Industry ?
New Weekly Voting Incentive: PUCKIANS OF THE GALAXY!!!
In the spirit of Halloween, the Puck gang are celebrating the second most entertaining movie of all time (almost beat the Blues Brothers for my number one spot!) in crazy cosplay fashion! The first one’s already gone by, so don’t miss this week’s!
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK! A VOTE FOR PUCK IS A VOTE NOT FOR GARY BUSEY!
ALSO…
As for this comic…
Puck and Phoebe don’t culturally see eye to eye on much, but they can bond on this: they both have zero appreciation for giant monster movies.
I think everyone knows where this is going, though. And the end of this current story arc is actually now on the horizon! Took long enough! But seriously, I’ve enjoyed exploring a more complex narrative structure over the past 34 strips. (Wait, seriously? We’ve been on this one story for the better part of a year? Damnit, this slow-as-molasses weekly update schedule of mine sucks!)
YES FIRST COMMENT!
Any how, Puckand Pheobe: WHAT SHE IS TRYING TO SAY is you MAKE BOTH MONSTERS IFGHT EACH OTHER!
Of course i can see Colin and Satan both throwing money in the pit for that though because YA KNOW!
Time to throw out the blue shell!
Can’t you defend against that now?
The internet has not been configured to incorporate aspects of Mario Kart 8, and will not until that defense has been integrated into popular culture. 😛
Are we back to talking about the three seashells now?
you son-of-a-beech tree.
I paid Hot Dog Guy plenty to scrub my cortex clean of those posts.
Colin’s not the type to gamble recklessly on bloodsport. Daphne, though…
This isn’t bloodsport….. what Daphne is proposing is Corporate wife vs Elected official’s right hand… errrr. play toy….. errr…. puppet master….
it will not be fought with weapons, it will be fought with restraining orders and subpoena’s and orders of Stay, and Cease and Desist, and, and, and…..
….
OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!!
But before it will be fought with restraining orders, it might possibly, however briefly, be fought with fists. And that’s what we’re counting on.
I love ’em both like they were my own sisters…but. They’d both be getting a dope slap for that.
Some would say they deserve it. Mind you, others would say that expecting these two to appreciate such a ref is like expecting a professional football player to understand the inherent magnetism of Mr. Darcy.
Which I do not get…how can one (regardless of gender) be attracted to a man who has not faced the 36th chamber?
There’s a nerd to muggle translator? All these years I thought I was doomed to social awkwardness when I could have just bought a dictionary.
By the way, the correct answer is to hit them both with the Oxygen Destroyer that killed Godzilla in the 1954 movie. There’s a lot less collateral damage if you destroy both monsters in one blast than forcing a blond kaiju battle.
Uh, really? Do you not understand that in these movies (and in this comic) the correct answer is always the one that involves the most collateral damage, not the least?
It almost makes me want to write the dang thing. Of course, it would have to be a constantly changing, online sort of thing, because nerd culture is a shifting, amorphous creature that never stays in one place. Sort of like ‘cool people’ culture. Huh.
A word of advice, Daphne….. Speak slowly, use simple words (no more than 2 syllables), and when using allegory, make sure they both understand the references…. for instance…
“what would happen if you put Cardashians and The Real Housewives of Atlanta in the same room?”
Come on, Daphne, we believe in you! YOU CAN DO IT, GIRL!!!!!
Phoebe would probably get those references, but I doubt Puck would. Reality TV doesn’t seem like her thing.
I was lucky… I had to read the first two Harry Potter books to my nephew when he was in the hospital, otherwise I would have been lost too,
I might have used a couple of Daytime soaps references, if I knew any, lol
Sokath, his eyes opened! I say that with the full knowledge that this exchange is strictly nerd-to-nerd.
The who?
I don’t know what either of those are.
I know more about Godzilla than those two, and I’m college age.
That’s a good thing. Stay in the dark about what those are.
Ah, the depths we sink to in order to shelter our youth from the atrocities of this world…
Blonde fight!!!
I’d make that air horn noise with my mouth, but it’s hard to do in print.
Okay, references I got right away today; Godzilla, Gigan and Jet Jaguar.
References I had to look up; muggle. That one came out at the wrong time for me to get into. I was in high school when the first one was released, and was rejecting all things meant for kids that were new.”
But a true nerd vacuums up all stupid fantasy/sci-fi culture no matter what, no matter when! Are you sure you’re not actually, secretly (GASP!) cool?
I could say the same to you, mister “I abandoned Disney as kiddy when I in high school and missed out on cool stuff as well”.
You know as well as I do that we all have that cut off. 😛
I watched all the movies. Isn’t that enough? God, what Disney horrors I’ve subjected myself to.
My point exactly. We all reject something when we get to that “I’m too cool for kid stuff” in our teenage years, and then never give it a chance when we are older. Gargoyles and the stuff from that era are yours, Harry Potter is mine. 😛
Ooh, I like where this is going…
It’s going in terrible, wonderful directions.
good call, daph! setting those two off at each others throat shouldn´t even be that hard – just get them in the same room and ask heather to elaborate her opinion on howlers….and then get out of the danger zone, grab some chips and enjoy the show!
Yeah, these two blondes, though quite similar in some aspects, are also the types to immediately and vehemently hate each other.
It’s a law of nature. There can be only ONE alpha-b!t¢h.
Or two at war.
I’m not sure if there is a safe zone here. While they may go at it tooth and nail, or invoke a lawyer feeding frenzy, there is a third possibility. The dual cold shoulder. In that case we could be seeing the onset of a new ice age which would make global warming just a happy memory!
New ice ages, while realistic, would (I think) be highly unsatisfying for readers. People want to see blood. So there will be blood.
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this… Pretty much the first (and possibly last) time that Puck and Phoebe actually agrees on ANYTHING?
…I honestly can’t recall them ever agreeing on anything in the past.
You’re not wrong. It’s a landmark occasion.
Meet in the middle and have lunch together in the Ginza?
Upscale coffee shops here we come!
So both blondes managed to get past the Godzilla Treshold? Or is this the Blondzilla treshold?
I think these blondes passed the ‘zilla’ threshold long ago, but that’s just my opinion.
Never have read Harry Potter or felt any desire to. I am, however, going to start calling Daphne “Daffy,” just for giggles. *Sits down and waits for the Tracee vs. Heather fight.*
There are few people under the age of twenty (especially females) who have not read, watched or been forcibly subjected to some form of Harry Potter right now.
I’m 28. I guess it passed over my head. My 16 year old friend wouldn’t go see the final movie because of what happened the Dumbledore in the penultimate film. I was relieved
Or it went under your head.
“Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it!”
How do you make Blondanade?
First, get a really big blender. …
Be sure to include a slice of lemon.
Good idea, provided they don’t team up. “Our powers combined, we can do four times the damage!” But yes, I do like forward to the hoped-for catty-fight!
Good idea, though hopefully it won’t result in a team-up. “Our powers combined, we can do four times the damage!” Poor Hamilton, though. Maybe have them take a weekend trip to Toronto? And stay with the Ford family? Please? If we ask nicely? Pretty pretty please?
It’s impossible for these two women to combine in any form of team-up. They’re like oil and water: at a glance, they sort of look the same, but they can never, ever mix. And it sounds like the Fords are dealing with enough misery right now. While I’m no fan of their political perspectives, I wouldn’t ever want to wish more strife on them.
You are a better man then than…….. ANYBODY!….
don’t just shun a politician, Break him…. make him crumble under the weight of his own Hubris…
Expose him for the li…
Easy, DLK… Happy place, happy place…..
Fun fact: there are numerous real companies named “El Cheapo” My favorite is the line of southern US gas stations (El Cheapo is the last on that page)
This…is on the wrong page.
Enh, don’t sweat it. I know which one you’re talking about!
Really? Wow. I wouldn’t have ever imagined something as stupid as that would actually exist. I guess the world is stupider than I thought.
Bizarrely, when trying to find evidence via google, I came across a very professional looking scissor lift rental company, also named El Cheapo. http://elcheapolifts.com/
Well, maybe they’re cheap in spirit.
For more, hilarious “El Cheapo” references, please revert to Puck #151. And then read all the PUCKs, all over again. It will be worth it !!
(ok Astrocom, how much is the Gecko payin’ you? I get kibbles for the plugs)
but the new godzilla was AWEFUL!
You preferred, perhaps, the Broderick one?
Or he may be a purist; only Godzilla movies from Japan might be good to him.
Then again, there was crap that came from Japan, though not nearly as bad as Zilla.
Hey, the cheesier the Godzilla experience, the better for me. But no Broderick. I draw the line there.
I prefer the Heisei and Millenium movies to the Showa stuff.
Just watched Godzilla’s Revenge with my son this morning. Great film for a good laugh. He thought it was hilarious. Oh, son of Godzilla. You so “I’m da baby.”
I got into the series with Godzilla 1985, so I guess that colored my tastes.
Probably a good point to enter. The worst sins predate that one.
Holy $h!+….. Did I really just see a Dinosaurs reference?
Let’s hope not. Stupid baby.
A Nerd-to-Muggle app would certainly be welcomed. It would help shorten the chasm for the sc-fi challenged to some degree. 😀
I like how you identified the sci-fi challenged ones as the ones with the chasm. It makes us nerds feel like we’re the ones on the right side of the gorge.
I’m sure that they can find a peaceful solution.
Sigh…
It is so obvious what Daphne is thinking and I think it is a good idea. I see only one flaw (and it’s a major flaw).
What if the two blondes decide to work it out and work together?
Impossible. They’re too alike in all the wrong ways, and too different in all the right ways. Unless they had a really good reason to team up. But that’s not going to happen. (Not in this story arc, anyway.)
I can give you one reason…
Her name is Daphne.
Enh, she’s good at flying under the radar. That’s the thing about being a teen con. No one suspects you. Ever seen Catch Me If You Can?
No one with NO experience with teens.
That’s the problem with teens…
Their brains have developed enough to be crafty, but not enough to think ahead very far.
Their hormones are preparing them to take their place in an adult world, but they do not have the experience to realize they can’t handle being on top (which they all want to be).
That doesn’t quite apply to Daphne. Experience is something you get AFTER you need it. Daphne has been racking it up for several years (even before becoming a teen).
Si, in Daphne, you have a teen’s craftiness mixed with experience. Not a good combo to face as an opponent
Daphne is the kind of deadly scenario that really only occurs in fiction. But hey, we love her anyway! Or fear her. Whatever.
I am sort of with Phoebe on this one, in that since we are at the “So bad its good Godzilla films, let us go all the way to the bottom and watch one with Mothra as the other main monster….”
As to the “Blonde Bloodbath”, Are you planning on having Puck provide a running commentary with super bad dubbing – by having Puck mouth open in one panel and the actual word balloon in the next with with words “Look – They’re fighting! – Hamilton is Lost” and clearly the Puck’s mouth is shut? God, the horrible s memories…
I love those movies, man. LOVE late 60’s to early 70’s Godzilla movies. I don’t think I have the creative chops to communicate their grandeur in comic form, though. They’re just … too grand.
Did ya know in the first Godzilla they put a man in a lizard suit, then had him walk SLOWLY (slow is critical for Godzilla), through a room full of cardboard boxes they glued PHOTOGRAPHS of real buildings to ?
The B&W photos glued to cardboard looked pretty good, too.
I’m thinking a job opportunity for Puck, here. Maybe Heather has friends in the Canadian Film Industry ?
GODZILLA MEETS OTTOWA
Canadian monsters would be very boring. Way too polite to step on anything.
Except for those “godd@m samsqwantch mansters!”
I thought the correct answer was: “Beg Mothra for help.”
EG – please delete my 11:40 am post with bad html
leave 11:43 as it is please
@Rock
SHADDUP !!!
If “Baldie” reads this it will remind him of his TRADITIONAL NEW YEAR’S EVE MOTHRA ORGY” !
Where he rolls me up in a Catnip-Infused Blanket, and sets me down next to him on the sofa.
The he watches every Mothra Movie ever made !
Worst of all, the battle sequences make him sad, as he is also fond of Godzilla.
So he fast forwards to the SINGING MOTHRA FAIRIES, who fascinate him.
During really bad years, he’ll hum this tune until nearly Candlemas.
(My life is hell.)
O.K., I was wrong. Heather and Tracee can’t go wrong.
You thought they could go wrong?