New Weekly Voting Incentive: PHOEBE GOES TO RIVERDALE!!!
For a long time, people have noted that Puck plays out a little like a demented version of Archie, so I thought, “Why not?” This month, a vote for Puck on TWC gets you a look at my progress on a Puck and Phoebe Double Digest cover!
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK! TONY THE TIGER WANTS YOU TO!
ALSO…
As for this comic…
For those who don’t know baby showers, Satan is correct in his observation. What he doesn’t say, of course, is that it is the role of the other women to get downright nasty, and make lots of portentous warnings about how the childless young woman will one day have colicky twins and saggy boobs and barf in her hair.
My wife got enough of this treatment in her younger years. “Well, you haven’t had kids yet, obviously,” a matronly peer once hissed at a gathering, looking at my wife’s thin waist with a critical eye. “Just wait till you do.” Well, two kids later, my wife’s still the same size she was then, so suck it, ugly moms!
FYI: it’s long been a dream of mine to have my mail brought to me on a silver serving dish. Not sure where this dream comes from, but I can at least include such a dream in this comic.
Satan is a green suit with a coffee mug “world’s best boss”…. Meh, he’s probably better than some bosses I’ve had in the past, but what’s with the green suit? that’s just wrong….
The description Satan gives about baby showers sounds about right.
Only been to one but essentially the exact same thing happened.
One of the mothers there turned to me and said ‘you’ll have the exact same problem when you get your first child with your girlfriend!”
I stared completely bored at her and replied with ‘given how my girlfriend is unable to carry children, I’d like to see that happen’.
She instantly shut up and left me alone.
(No, she has no problem carrying children – though at the time, she had severe back pains, which is what I was referring to).
I’m… Actually curious how THIS baby shower will end up. Mainly as, let’s face it, Puck. She’s probably gonna do SOMETHING to make it awkward. Or hilarious. Or both.
Yeah, that’s when things get ugly. Though at a real shower, the war would occur between the thin mother of three and the matronly types. But this is going to be a small shower, so that’s not going to be an issue.
Oh man, I wish. The Olive Garden chain closed down in Ontario a long, long time ago. I’m still in mourning over that loss. Words cannot describe how much I miss their bread.
satan is spot on…and tracee is already sharpening her metaphorical claws. what strikes me as funny though is that no one is expecting phoebe´s invite to be a trap – she´s (usually) that harmless even satan can´t imagine that she has nefarious motives. thereby he should know better – she´s HIS daughter after all!
He IS the lord of Darkness after all… If he does know (which he could), he would still delight in the mayhem that would be caused. Besides, he has faith in his championette.
One thing that strikes me though… After 10 years, these are the only 2 people that Puck knows to invite to a baby shower? That’s just (sniff) sad… 🙁
Baby shower will include Phoebe, Colin’s sister, Colin’s mom, Daphne and Tracee. Not a packed shower, I guess, but that’s the result of me trying to have a limited cast. I’m personally against webcomics with enormous casts; the creators are too often unaware how confusing and bewildering their sixteen main characters can be to the average reader. I like to keep the focus firmly on the four (I guess five if we include baby) primary cast members, and the bunch of secondary characters I try to use sparingly. Heck, I even thought long and hard about introducing Colin’s family into the mix, though I decided it was worth it for comic potential.
So the end result is a half-mast baby shower, but c’est la vie. Besides, unemployed, antisocial women with serious anger management issues seldom have scores of friends.
Hmm, as for the alt-text ‘wash bobery’ sounding dirty, bobby or boaby is Scottish slang for a chap’s, *ahem* ‘chap’, so there could be something in it after all…
I’m thinking a trashy cocktail dress. I’ll have to see how trashy I can manage to make it. In fact, this strip originally had an additional line in the fourth panel where Tracee said, “I can wear that trashy dress you bought me!” It didn’t really fit, though.
IMO, that yellow polka dot bikini isn’t itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeney enough for my tastes, but it’s close enough for an Archie-style artwork. Kudos for keeping the style in line with the style.
Hey, I looked at a LOT of Archie bikinis, and noticed that they all follow a very particular design structure. I’m nothing if not faithful to the source material!
I’ve also done a lot of…um, in-depth research…with Archie comics in my wayward youth. I was merely comparing the difference between then & now, with slightly more…uh, matured…sensibilities.
I have only been to one baby shower and that was when… I was hardly even old enough to get past the first level of Metroid Prime.
Which was a long time ago.
So… Yeah.
Still, this will be hilarious. Still bet on Satan just tossing money in watching it and Pheobe, Puck, and Daphne laughing about. Ah,. Mother, (adopted) Daughter, Aunt bonding. (though Pheobe is not Daph’s aunt. Pheobe and Puck are kinda besties enough to sort of be sisters any way though)
Satan might put a wager down. That said, I think that this particular rendition of Satan would be a very bad gambler. Something tells me that he owes a lot of money to certain people. (I’m guessing he borrows money at exorbitant rates from successfully touring heavy metal acts, but that’s just a guess. And speaking from experience, you do NOT want to default on Judas Priest.)
Oh, about the new voter incentive, err, I know that this is based on the Archie Comic book series, but as as bit of ex High School rivalry, I misread the “River” part of Riverdale to “West” – God, no! Not there!!!! Would not Phoebe be a Sir John A. MacDonald girl as it would have been closer to her assumed home at the time?
Oooh. Good one. Though at first glance, I thought you were talking about making it say “Under the best boss in the world,” and I thought, “Nah, that needs to be Tracee’s mug.”
New Weekly Voting Incentive: PHOEBE GOES TO RIVERDALE!!!
For a long time, people have noted that Puck plays out a little like a demented version of Archie, so I thought, “Why not?” This month, a vote for Puck on TWC gets you a look at my progress on a Puck and Phoebe Double Digest cover!
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK! TONY THE TIGER WANTS YOU TO!
ALSO…
As for this comic…
For those who don’t know baby showers, Satan is correct in his observation. What he doesn’t say, of course, is that it is the role of the other women to get downright nasty, and make lots of portentous warnings about how the childless young woman will one day have colicky twins and saggy boobs and barf in her hair.
My wife got enough of this treatment in her younger years. “Well, you haven’t had kids yet, obviously,” a matronly peer once hissed at a gathering, looking at my wife’s thin waist with a critical eye. “Just wait till you do.” Well, two kids later, my wife’s still the same size she was then, so suck it, ugly moms!
FYI: it’s long been a dream of mine to have my mail brought to me on a silver serving dish. Not sure where this dream comes from, but I can at least include such a dream in this comic.
Satan is a green suit with a coffee mug “world’s best boss”…. Meh, he’s probably better than some bosses I’ve had in the past, but what’s with the green suit? that’s just wrong….
I’m guessing that his wardrobe has had a bit of a style makeover courtesy of Tracee. Just a hunch.
The more disturbed you are, the more Satan is well pleased.
What’s interesting is that Satan’s so evil, he’s even helping Tracee live up to her pride.
Hey, he’s more than just a pretty face!
Vanity, that’s what I was looking for.
Oh my, she is SO setting her self up and he’s helping. What great boss.
Well, he’s evil. No one ever said he was smart.
I can see she’s not just dating him for his looks.
There’s also the nifty mug. That’s always a plus, good crockery.
She’s also dating him for his worldly wisdom. And maybe a little for the money, the mansion and the evil.
*Liked
The description Satan gives about baby showers sounds about right.
Only been to one but essentially the exact same thing happened.
One of the mothers there turned to me and said ‘you’ll have the exact same problem when you get your first child with your girlfriend!”
I stared completely bored at her and replied with ‘given how my girlfriend is unable to carry children, I’d like to see that happen’.
She instantly shut up and left me alone.
(No, she has no problem carrying children – though at the time, she had severe back pains, which is what I was referring to).
I’m… Actually curious how THIS baby shower will end up. Mainly as, let’s face it, Puck. She’s probably gonna do SOMETHING to make it awkward. Or hilarious. Or both.
Awkward hilarity will (hopefully) ensue. Or my name is not Prendergast. Which it’s not.
Teddy?
Where’s Geddy?
Satan has it MOSTLY right. Puck is relying one one factor…
One of the other ‘special’ guess has given birth to 3 and does not look anything like what he describes.
This is gonna be fun.
Yeah, that’s when things get ugly. Though at a real shower, the war would occur between the thin mother of three and the matronly types. But this is going to be a small shower, so that’s not going to be an issue.
Maybe if they held it at a branch of the Olive Garden…
Oh man, I wish. The Olive Garden chain closed down in Ontario a long, long time ago. I’m still in mourning over that loss. Words cannot describe how much I miss their bread.
well, throw them an Olive…
never mind
What Satan did NOT tell her is that REAL olives contain pits. The Baby Shower is gonna wind up being the pits for someone…
Da dum dum TISH!
The prince of darkness knows the hearts of women.
Very, very well.
Purrr
I’m glad you agree.
@Buggle
purrr ? PURRR ?
Halp ! Halp ! I’m being co-opted !!
That or I’m turning into a cat.
@Buggle
You have been accepted to Felidae !
(Your Welcome Basket will arrive shortly. Please tip the Delivery Human generously.)
? Welcome basket? Pray tell, what is in this welcome basket?
@Buggle
Heh Heh Heh Snickle Snorkle Snackle – You DON’T want to know !!!
(ok, it’s those leftover JuJubes that I bought on impulse and that Baldie hates)
satan is spot on…and tracee is already sharpening her metaphorical claws. what strikes me as funny though is that no one is expecting phoebe´s invite to be a trap – she´s (usually) that harmless even satan can´t imagine that she has nefarious motives. thereby he should know better – she´s HIS daughter after all!
Well, it’s true that no one would ever expect Phoebe to be laying a trap. Which is why it’s so perfect.
He IS the lord of Darkness after all… If he does know (which he could), he would still delight in the mayhem that would be caused. Besides, he has faith in his championette.
One thing that strikes me though… After 10 years, these are the only 2 people that Puck knows to invite to a baby shower? That’s just (sniff) sad… 🙁
Baby shower will include Phoebe, Colin’s sister, Colin’s mom, Daphne and Tracee. Not a packed shower, I guess, but that’s the result of me trying to have a limited cast. I’m personally against webcomics with enormous casts; the creators are too often unaware how confusing and bewildering their sixteen main characters can be to the average reader. I like to keep the focus firmly on the four (I guess five if we include baby) primary cast members, and the bunch of secondary characters I try to use sparingly. Heck, I even thought long and hard about introducing Colin’s family into the mix, though I decided it was worth it for comic potential.
So the end result is a half-mast baby shower, but c’est la vie. Besides, unemployed, antisocial women with serious anger management issues seldom have scores of friends.
Hmm, as for the alt-text ‘wash bobery’ sounding dirty, bobby or boaby is Scottish slang for a chap’s, *ahem* ‘chap’, so there could be something in it after all…
See? I knew it sounded dirty.
that might well fit in somewhere at the local golf course. Many of them DO have ball washing machines…
Heh, this is gonna be good. Is Tracee going to wear a crop-top tank and low-rise jeans or a bustier and a mini? Only the Gecko knows 😀
I’m thinking a trashy cocktail dress. I’ll have to see how trashy I can manage to make it. In fact, this strip originally had an additional line in the fourth panel where Tracee said, “I can wear that trashy dress you bought me!” It didn’t really fit, though.
Heh, I went with a tank and a mini last baby shower I attended. Mind you, I felt guilty about relishing the evil looks I got afterwards 😀
Don’t feel guilty. Feel triumphant.
Somehow I just know that this will go wrong for Puck, and her revenge will crash and burn.
Well, we’ll have to see…
Love the voting incentive this week!
I’m glad! It was a fun one. I’m hoping to generate a full Archie-style cover by the end of the month.
IMO, that yellow polka dot bikini isn’t itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeney enough for my tastes, but it’s close enough for an Archie-style artwork. Kudos for keeping the style in line with the style.
Hey, I looked at a LOT of Archie bikinis, and noticed that they all follow a very particular design structure. I’m nothing if not faithful to the source material!
I’ve also done a lot of…um, in-depth research…with Archie comics in my wayward youth. I was merely comparing the difference between then & now, with slightly more…uh, matured…sensibilities.
A paragon of maturity, surely. Just like me.
I have only been to one baby shower and that was when… I was hardly even old enough to get past the first level of Metroid Prime.
Which was a long time ago.
So… Yeah.
Still, this will be hilarious. Still bet on Satan just tossing money in watching it and Pheobe, Puck, and Daphne laughing about. Ah,. Mother, (adopted) Daughter, Aunt bonding. (though Pheobe is not Daph’s aunt. Pheobe and Puck are kinda besties enough to sort of be sisters any way though)
Satan might put a wager down. That said, I think that this particular rendition of Satan would be a very bad gambler. Something tells me that he owes a lot of money to certain people. (I’m guessing he borrows money at exorbitant rates from successfully touring heavy metal acts, but that’s just a guess. And speaking from experience, you do NOT want to default on Judas Priest.)
*snort* And once again, evil shoots itself in the foot. Or hoof, as the case may be. (Tracee needs a pedicure. 😉 )
Puck really has these guys’ number, doesn’t she? ^^ Nice to see her plans working out.
As Wilde said, “The good end happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
Oh, about the new voter incentive, err, I know that this is based on the Archie Comic book series, but as as bit of ex High School rivalry, I misread the “River” part of Riverdale to “West” – God, no! Not there!!!! Would not Phoebe be a Sir John A. MacDonald girl as it would have been closer to her assumed home at the time?
No, certainly not Westdale. Not sure where Phoebe would have gone, actually. Probably Hillfield, but that’s just a guess.
I guess it is safe to assume that Phoebe did not have any Catholic Board Schooling then? 😛
That’s a safe assumption.
I read that with Robert Vaughn’s voice in my head and found Satan’s crass humor hilarious!
Always good to see my favorite Puck character make an appearance! 🙂
He always brightens my day as well, that Lord of Darkness
Perhaps his coffee cup should have one more word added to it.
Under
Oooh. Good one. Though at first glance, I thought you were talking about making it say “Under the best boss in the world,” and I thought, “Nah, that needs to be Tracee’s mug.”
On second thought, I’m totally doing that.