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And as for the comic…
As you can see in this comic, Canada’s Funderland does not have Cinderella’s castle in the middle of it. Rather, it has a big honkin’ mountain made out of concrete, sand and over one thousand tons of steel girders. (It’s hollow. And yes, there’s a roller coaster inside it.) Those who know and love the park can’t help but feel their hearts soar upon seeing its massive, manufactured silhouette from the highway.
Drawing it brings back memories. And unlike Phoebe’s, most of mine are positive.
Ah, yes, the memories come flooding back. The best ones are always at night, with the coloured water-jets… beautiful. As for the roller coaster going through the mountain, it’s not my favourite. Fun, but painful. Especially on the sides of the head.
Also, is it purposeful that everybody’s outfits seem to match, and then there’s Colin and the baby out of the loop?
Not really purposeful that the outfits match. It’s more random than that. I guess I was just in a red mood that day, then when I got to Colin, I realized that I needed to switch things up. I also planned the colours of Colin’s shirt to emulate the look of E.T. for the Atari 2600. It’s a particularly nasty shade of green.
Not anymore he can’t. Target was only in Canada for a year. They came up, everyone was excited, and then they declared the Canadian market ‘too competitive’ and ran back down south, leaving a wake of empty storefronts and unemployment behind them.
You and me both. I know a few people who used to wear glasses and eventually either switched to contact lenses or got laser surgery, and I never really understood what was wrong with those people.
Glasses – the right ones, at least, on the right person – are so awesomely hot…
My wife’s issue is that very few glasses actually look 100% right on her. She tried about ten different frames on the last time, and none of the current styles on the market worked. But she still dreams that one day she’ll find the right pair.
There was nothing wrong with those people. The problem is you. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 7, so I’ve been dependant on the fv¢&@$# things just to SEE for three full decades. There is NOTHING sexy about glasses. Only a moron that has never had to wear them would think that they were anything other than an enormous pain in the ass. Every single one of us that have to wear glasses for the privilege of SIGHT hate them. You get used to them. But the hate is always there. I think I would be willing to kill an innocent person for perfect vision. Glasses just make you look like you have sh!##@ eyes.
My wife’s had contacts for the past few decades. She’d love to go back to glasses, but her prescription is such that the resulting glasses would look weird. (One eye is very different than the other, which would to observers make her one eye look bigger than the other through the glasses. So no.) But she likes the look of them, and I do too.
Ya know, if a man wearing an Atari 2600 t-shirt told me that disaster was about to strike one way or another, I’d be the first one to follow his lead. Especially if said t-shirt has E.T on it. Mainly because you know that either you’re doomed or you can have a good laugh about it once done.
…Now I’m curious what Daphne and Tyler has planned… And if Phoebe will panic and run off or not. This’ll be fun.
As for the castle, I have no idea why people love rollercoasters so much (not really a fan of them personally). Eh, to each their own.
I love roller coasters. Not all of them, but most of them. I particularly love classic wooden coasters that bang the snot out of you. But metal ones are good too. Just not the tilt-o-whirl. Anything but the tilt-o-whirl.
If I was a Park Manager, I’d use paint to make the wooden beams look all rotted, and the hardware extra rusty. Maybe even a few bolts with obvious missing nuts – especially in the very beginning where people might notice. Even add some broken beams just for effect. And pipe in sounds of cracking wooden beams.
I remember some creepy old parks in upstate New York and Ontario from my childhood that created that effect WITHOUT the use of paint and effects. They were eventually condemned.
Daphne is planning on petty theft (and using the Young Offenders Act to avoid serious punishments) while Tyler is trying to figure out how to stop her. Phoebe will be trying to figure out how to avoid projectile vomit on DropZone; maybe you want the LazyRiver raft ride instead.
Hey, come on alt text, for a game programmed in 6 weeks by one guy, ET for the Atari 2600 was remarkably good. Everything worked as intended, for one. It wasn’t broken either, just frustrating as hell. And it’s not even close to the worst licensed game of all time, either. It’s just infamous due to the now debunked theory that they were the cartridges in the infamous Atari landfill. (There was a documentary a few years back that exhumed the landfill, showing that what Atari reported in 1980 was indeed what they found, and not a bunch of ET cartridges.)
Real talk: I am one of the only human beings on this planet who loves that game. I played the heck out of it when I was a kid: beat it all the time. It was one of the few Atari games you could beat. Of course, I read the instruction manual, which contained all the info you needed. It even had quite complex difficulty settings, so if you didn’t like an element of the game, you could remove it.
Oh, I figured as much. Most who hate the ET game either have never played it, or played it and never read the instruction manual. Even the Angry Video Game Nerd, whose entire movie was about his quest to get this game, doesn’t hate it.
For me, though, it’s a marvel of programming desperation; 1 guy, 6 weeks, and a working video game that unfortunately has a pretty big license behind it that raised expectations for the efforts that were made.
For those that say E.T. is a bad game, my question is always this: have you played any other Atari games? They’re all either ridiculously simple, or they’re ambitious yet flawed due to the limitations of the tech and the resources at the time. E.T. is in the latter category, but really, the only way it could be ‘good’ on Atari was if it were a mindless Pac-man clone where you led E.T. around a maze.
The only good good game I ever played on Atari was Doug Neubauer’s ‘Solaris’ game, which came out in 1986 and, because it was tardy to the party, doesn’t really count. But dang, that game is cool stuff.
My first video game console was the NES. That was a HUGE jump in technology over the Atari 2600. If that game had been for the NES, THEN people could rightfully call it a flaming turd.
As it is, it is a technical marvel for what it was and when it was made. But from a gameplay standpoint? It’s not fun. Granted, I didn’t play it until I was in college, so I don’t have any nostalgic connection to it. But I’m judging it based on 2600 standards, not modern sensibilities.
And I do enjoy Atari 2600 games, even though the system is before my time. Pitfall, for one, is one of my favorites, as are Burger Time, Joust, Space Invaders…the list goes on. It’s just not my go-to system for retro games. Furthest I go back is the NES, because that’s where my nostalgic connection is.
And I forgot where I was going with all this. But it was a good walk through the early days of home console video games.
Do three people count as an angry mob if they have enough hate, torches, and pitchforks to go around? Close enough. Time to run this daphne creature out of town. Let’s do this thing boys. DEATH TO THE DAPHNE!
(I don’t know that SalemCat’s heart is really into it though. I suspect he’s a daphne sympathizer. I’ve got my eye on you. And it totally has nothing at all to do with my plans to overthrow your place as the President of the Official Tracee Fanclub. NOTHING I say.)
Seems more like a “What ? She doesn’t even try to hide it ?” kind of look to me. And of course he regrets being there, he said he hated the place in a previous strip.
On a side-note, I just realised Phoebe’s pants are assorted to her top.
Speaking of sunblock – are redhead fairies immune to sunburn?
I’m guessing that the Daughter of Satan has some built-in protection, otherwise anyone wanna volunteer to help her apply some? Rohrr!
Redheaded fairies are not immune to sunburn. There have been jokes before about Puck and sunburns, including a notable voting incentive. Let’s assume she’s wearing lots of sunscreen here. As for Phoebe, your logic is actually close to what I was thinking. We know from the old comics that Phoebe actively sunbathes at times, but her complexion is about as pale as you can get. Therefore, I think that it’s obviously due to a genetic resistance to radiation inherited from her father.
You mean the glasses that somehow hides his double-identity as Clark Kent/Superman?
I have yet to meet ANYBODY who can pull off that deception. Sure, a really, really good role player could with a few more accessories, but nobody with just a pair of glasses.
MAY VOTING INCENTIVE! MAY FLOWERS!
This month’s voting incentive is special! It’s tasteful and bucolic! Vote! QUEEN VICTORIA WANTS YOU TO VOTE!!!
ALSO…
And as for the comic…
As you can see in this comic, Canada’s Funderland does not have Cinderella’s castle in the middle of it. Rather, it has a big honkin’ mountain made out of concrete, sand and over one thousand tons of steel girders. (It’s hollow. And yes, there’s a roller coaster inside it.) Those who know and love the park can’t help but feel their hearts soar upon seeing its massive, manufactured silhouette from the highway.
Drawing it brings back memories. And unlike Phoebe’s, most of mine are positive.
No, Colin. No, you are not.
(I bet Miranda sees it coming, too. XD)
Babies see all. And say nothing.
I think he’s smelling the oh-so-pleasant aroma of an over-full diaper. How many times do you think Miranda revenge-pooed during the car ride?
When one is a baby, one lives one’s life in a constant state of exacting revenge. It’s an odd form of existence.
That’s some phine PHULL-LENGTH Phoebe there ! It’s nice to see her Phasion-Sense extends all the way down.
In any real world we’d see half-a-dozen guys in the background sneaking peeks – and being batted about the head by their ladies who caught them !
In this world, though, we’ll only see a handful of people really just sort of standing around, because people and crowds are hard work to draw.
Yeah, heh heh.
Ah, yes, the memories come flooding back. The best ones are always at night, with the coloured water-jets… beautiful. As for the roller coaster going through the mountain, it’s not my favourite. Fun, but painful. Especially on the sides of the head.
Also, is it purposeful that everybody’s outfits seem to match, and then there’s Colin and the baby out of the loop?
Not really purposeful that the outfits match. It’s more random than that. I guess I was just in a red mood that day, then when I got to Colin, I realized that I needed to switch things up. I also planned the colours of Colin’s shirt to emulate the look of E.T. for the Atari 2600. It’s a particularly nasty shade of green.
Tyler works at Target – Tyler works at Target !
(Red Top, Tan Bottom – the Target UNIFORM !)
Not anymore he can’t. Target was only in Canada for a year. They came up, everyone was excited, and then they declared the Canadian market ‘too competitive’ and ran back down south, leaving a wake of empty storefronts and unemployment behind them.
Pay attention to the nose, Puck! The nose knows!
(Name the quote: “This nose tells me when you are lying. It is never mistaken, not in 23 years. This nose will make me commissioner of police.”)
I got nothing.
It’s from one of my top five favorite movies of all time: Charade. Also known as the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made.
Ah, it’s a good movie. That explains why I’ve never seen it then. I generally only watch trash.
I like Phoebe’s fidgeting in panel three, thats a nice touch.
Shouldn’t Canada’s Funderland have a little (R) after it?
Canada’s Funderland(R) All Rights Reserved.
I think I pulled the TM gag way back when with ‘Howlie’ the Howlers mascot. Can’t repeat my admittedly limited grab bag of tricks too often.
I do like Phoebe’s glasses. Sexy, hip librarian styles for the new nerds.
I have a powerful love of glasses. You might have noticed.
That and they seem to be crazily paired with matching outfits.
Well, if you’re going to wear glasses, you’re going to have a matching pair for every outfit you’ve got, right? Right? Of course you would.
You and me both. I know a few people who used to wear glasses and eventually either switched to contact lenses or got laser surgery, and I never really understood what was wrong with those people.
Glasses – the right ones, at least, on the right person – are so awesomely hot…
My wife’s issue is that very few glasses actually look 100% right on her. She tried about ten different frames on the last time, and none of the current styles on the market worked. But she still dreams that one day she’ll find the right pair.
There was nothing wrong with those people. The problem is you. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 7, so I’ve been dependant on the fv¢&@$# things just to SEE for three full decades. There is NOTHING sexy about glasses. Only a moron that has never had to wear them would think that they were anything other than an enormous pain in the ass. Every single one of us that have to wear glasses for the privilege of SIGHT hate them. You get used to them. But the hate is always there. I think I would be willing to kill an innocent person for perfect vision. Glasses just make you look like you have sh!##@ eyes.
My wife’s had contacts for the past few decades. She’d love to go back to glasses, but her prescription is such that the resulting glasses would look weird. (One eye is very different than the other, which would to observers make her one eye look bigger than the other through the glasses. So no.) But she likes the look of them, and I do too.
Look on the bright side, Colin… there’s a very good chance that you and Miranda will be the only 2 here that don’t wind up in Jail!
(BTW, Phoebe, it’s 3 things you smell, not 2… Fear, Vomit, and humiliation, and your best friend is about to make sure you get a good whiff!!!)
Oh, I wouldn’t bet on Colin escaping jail time. Sometimes disaster strikes all. Even Miranda might end up wearing a little orange jumper. Who knows?
In real life the guy never escapes jail.
There could be five women in a rage out fight with one guy standing nearby, ordering nachos, and he’s the one who gets carted off.
That sounds fair to me.
Ya know, if a man wearing an Atari 2600 t-shirt told me that disaster was about to strike one way or another, I’d be the first one to follow his lead. Especially if said t-shirt has E.T on it. Mainly because you know that either you’re doomed or you can have a good laugh about it once done.
…Now I’m curious what Daphne and Tyler has planned… And if Phoebe will panic and run off or not. This’ll be fun.
As for the castle, I have no idea why people love rollercoasters so much (not really a fan of them personally). Eh, to each their own.
I love roller coasters. Not all of them, but most of them. I particularly love classic wooden coasters that bang the snot out of you. But metal ones are good too. Just not the tilt-o-whirl. Anything but the tilt-o-whirl.
If I was a Park Manager, I’d use paint to make the wooden beams look all rotted, and the hardware extra rusty. Maybe even a few bolts with obvious missing nuts – especially in the very beginning where people might notice. Even add some broken beams just for effect. And pipe in sounds of cracking wooden beams.
I remember some creepy old parks in upstate New York and Ontario from my childhood that created that effect WITHOUT the use of paint and effects. They were eventually condemned.
Daphne is planning on petty theft (and using the Young Offenders Act to avoid serious punishments) while Tyler is trying to figure out how to stop her. Phoebe will be trying to figure out how to avoid projectile vomit on DropZone; maybe you want the LazyRiver raft ride instead.
Do those drop zone ‘falling elevator’ rides make people puke? I’ve never watched them closely.
No way.
They never use real elevators.
And they make you SIT DOWN !
Then there’s the smell of all that chlorinated water in the flume ride…
Drink it! It tastes like blue Gatorade! Only burnier!
Hey, come on alt text, for a game programmed in 6 weeks by one guy, ET for the Atari 2600 was remarkably good. Everything worked as intended, for one. It wasn’t broken either, just frustrating as hell. And it’s not even close to the worst licensed game of all time, either. It’s just infamous due to the now debunked theory that they were the cartridges in the infamous Atari landfill. (There was a documentary a few years back that exhumed the landfill, showing that what Atari reported in 1980 was indeed what they found, and not a bunch of ET cartridges.)
Real talk: I am one of the only human beings on this planet who loves that game. I played the heck out of it when I was a kid: beat it all the time. It was one of the few Atari games you could beat. Of course, I read the instruction manual, which contained all the info you needed. It even had quite complex difficulty settings, so if you didn’t like an element of the game, you could remove it.
It’s a great game in its own way.
Oh, I figured as much. Most who hate the ET game either have never played it, or played it and never read the instruction manual. Even the Angry Video Game Nerd, whose entire movie was about his quest to get this game, doesn’t hate it.
For me, though, it’s a marvel of programming desperation; 1 guy, 6 weeks, and a working video game that unfortunately has a pretty big license behind it that raised expectations for the efforts that were made.
For those that say E.T. is a bad game, my question is always this: have you played any other Atari games? They’re all either ridiculously simple, or they’re ambitious yet flawed due to the limitations of the tech and the resources at the time. E.T. is in the latter category, but really, the only way it could be ‘good’ on Atari was if it were a mindless Pac-man clone where you led E.T. around a maze.
The only good good game I ever played on Atari was Doug Neubauer’s ‘Solaris’ game, which came out in 1986 and, because it was tardy to the party, doesn’t really count. But dang, that game is cool stuff.
My first video game console was the NES. That was a HUGE jump in technology over the Atari 2600. If that game had been for the NES, THEN people could rightfully call it a flaming turd.
As it is, it is a technical marvel for what it was and when it was made. But from a gameplay standpoint? It’s not fun. Granted, I didn’t play it until I was in college, so I don’t have any nostalgic connection to it. But I’m judging it based on 2600 standards, not modern sensibilities.
And I do enjoy Atari 2600 games, even though the system is before my time. Pitfall, for one, is one of my favorites, as are Burger Time, Joust, Space Invaders…the list goes on. It’s just not my go-to system for retro games. Furthest I go back is the NES, because that’s where my nostalgic connection is.
And I forgot where I was going with all this. But it was a good walk through the early days of home console video games.
Daphne . . . petty crime is beneath you.
She has bigger fish to fry, but little fish can be equally satisfying when you fry them in large enough numbers.
Does it surprise you than an abominable creature performs abominable acts?
Yeah, that Daphne, she is a bad egg.
(my supervisor in the Daphne-Bashing Unit is going to luv that !)
Do three people count as an angry mob if they have enough hate, torches, and pitchforks to go around? Close enough. Time to run this daphne creature out of town. Let’s do this thing boys. DEATH TO THE DAPHNE!
(I don’t know that SalemCat’s heart is really into it though. I suspect he’s a daphne sympathizer. I’ve got my eye on you. And it totally has nothing at all to do with my plans to overthrow your place as the President of the Official Tracee Fanclub. NOTHING I say.)
LOL at Tyler’s face as he silently wonders just who he’s befriended. Almost as if he regrets coming along. 😀
Seems more like a “What ? She doesn’t even try to hide it ?” kind of look to me. And of course he regrets being there, he said he hated the place in a previous strip.
On a side-note, I just realised Phoebe’s pants are assorted to her top.
The shoes match too … of course they do!!
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Speaking of sunblock – are redhead fairies immune to sunburn?
I’m guessing that the Daughter of Satan has some built-in protection, otherwise anyone wanna volunteer to help her apply some? Rohrr!
Redheaded fairies are not immune to sunburn. There have been jokes before about Puck and sunburns, including a notable voting incentive. Let’s assume she’s wearing lots of sunscreen here. As for Phoebe, your logic is actually close to what I was thinking. We know from the old comics that Phoebe actively sunbathes at times, but her complexion is about as pale as you can get. Therefore, I think that it’s obviously due to a genetic resistance to radiation inherited from her father.
Any one element of Phoebe’s outfit will always match all other elements of Phoebe’s outfit. QED. She also seemingly never wears the same outfit twice.
He certainly regrets coming along, but sometimes, when we’re powerless in our lives, we take solace by making faces like these.
If you’re going to have Phoebe wear glasses have her wear the same kind of glasses that Superman wears as Clark Kent.
You mean the glasses that somehow hides his double-identity as Clark Kent/Superman?
I have yet to meet ANYBODY who can pull off that deception. Sure, a really, really good role player could with a few more accessories, but nobody with just a pair of glasses.
Neither have I.
Dude. That’s why he’s Superman. What part of SUPER don’t you get?
No, I’m positive I smell the Heady aroma of disaster. It’s not that uncommon of a stench. Almost as common as these loaded diapers.
All can be masked by the soothing scent of baby powder.
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning! It’s the smell of victory!” 😀
Anyone who doesn’t love the smell of napalm in the morning is obviously not a fan of a good, hearty breakfast.
Why not have Puck and company sponsor a needy child.
http://www.theonion.com/article/six-flags-adds-sleeper-cars-its-roller-coasters-pa-50503
Phoebe need to relax…
Thanks for reminding me of the Onion’s existence. It led to a solid hour of hilarious reading and watching.
Two, no, Three Words, Colin.
FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION
Not a bad plan.