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And as for the comic…
For those who don’t know what a funnel cake is, just know that it’s a food for fat people. In North America, it’s associated almost exclusively with amusement parks, carnivals and fairs. Like all forms of fried dough the world over, it is a wondrous experience. And unlike roller coasters, you can enjoy funnel cakes while caring for babies. They are the amusement park equalizer: everyone can enjoy them. (Except my wife, who insists that they’re “too rich” for her, whatever that means. She just doesn’t understand the joy of being fat.)
OMFG! Damn I ACTUALLY laughed out loud. For reals. Kinda wordy for a t-shirt, but I’m going to enjoy it immensely when I finally manage to work that into a casual conversation.
I called my own child ‘baby’. Baby just dominates your life at that stage and is an overwhelming force. In the early stages of parenthood, it felt right to say “The baby has pooped all over the mattress again,” instead of “Jonathan has pooped all over the mattress again.” Baby felt less like a person, more like a force of nature. By the time they’re two, though, the pain and suffering they cause is personal. Then names are used.
And apparently it’s time for another highly offensive joke from the ComedyHobo.
What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?
I’m going to save EG the trouble of censoring me to death again by leaving out the PUNCH-line. I’m betting he’s going to censor the joke this time instead. I probably would.
For some reason, I now want to try a Funnel cake. Huh.
However, I have a dentist appointment in an hour, so I probably should have waited to read this comic had I known what was gonna happen until after said appointment…
OH WELL.
To be honest, babies *does* seem to judge me all the damn time when I do/eat something next to one. That or I’m paranoid as hell…
Nah, you’re just paranoid as hell. And apparently (according the Wikipedia article I linked to) funnel cakes are available all around the world! They just go by different names. Fried dough is fried dough, I guess. But I like my fried dough with powdered sugar and cinnamon.
Random hot babes? I dunno. I drew a whole mess of random people to stick in the frames of the past few comics. If I’m drawing random people, I have to make a conscious effort to not have all those random people be hot babes. I obviously lapsed in that panel.
Oh Gecko,Gecko,Gecko. So sad. I so look forward to Tuesday mornings so i can escape briefly from reality into the fantasy world of Puck. And here i am seeing the absolute bane of this worlds reality….. idiots taking “selfies”. And these two aren’t even smart enough to at least have the Wonderland Mountain in the background. Aparantly a random tree is exciting enough for them. Whoops, I see my geographic location is seeping through. I meant to say Funderland Mountain. I do look forward to Puck on Tuesday though. Best comic strip going
Well, I drew the random selfie chicks on a separate layer, and I just stuck them into the frame in a vaguely visible location. So yeah, they’re taking pictures of trees. I have no problem with mindless selfie action. I’m a high school teacher. For me to take offence at selfies would be like a fish taking offence at water molecules.
As in… you cannot survive without them for very long ? Does that mean you have an automated camera in your bedroom that takes a picture of you making weird faces every time you begin to choke in your sleep ?
No. I wish I could say that I’ve never taken a selfie, though I can legitimately say that I’ve never taken a good selfie. Which is a claim I can share with most other men.
Seeing how I’m absolutely untouched by the phenomenon, what’s considered a good selfie ? Besides, I guess, that you can see the person taking the shot in it ?
One that looks … good? Guys just have a habit of making terrible selfie choices: taking them at weird angles, in weird lighting, in weird places like a public bathroom. (A co-worker once showed me her hobby: collecting hilariously bad selfies by guys on dating services. Her collection had me laughing for days.)
I’ve only taken one selfie. It was on request, so I used the reflection of my endless light tunnel and angled so I would be surrounded by lights with the camera out of view.
This arc is odd for me. I worked at an amusement park. Never ate funnel cakes whilr I was there. Too busy eating black forrest cakes.
Black forest cake is awesome. But you can find passable black forest cake at any grocery store. When you’re dealing with funnel cakes (or beaver tails, or elephant ears, or any variation of fried dough), it’s only good when fresh from the fryer. That makes the fried dough my focus when I’m at a special event.
Also notice the same slow walker in the first and last panel. She should have walked by in the time it took to say all the things that got said in this comic.
…also this is my second or third time reading this comic.
Hey, I love it, too, but I like to get a snarky comment in every once in a while. BTW, love Phoebe’s expression in the first two panels. Makes me want to hug her and say, “There, there.” My boyfriend says he would like to hug her, too, but he would enjoy it too much.
Well it’s a success, she’s the most likeable character of the lot. Not that the others are not, but she’s the nicest.
And just to be perfectly clear, her figure has nothing to do with my judgment; I objectively, genuinely, find her nice.
She’s the nicest character in the comic, certainly, but that doesn’t always make a character appealing. I mean, Superman is a ‘nice’ character in every sense of the word (acts nice, looks nice, probably smells nice), but a lot of readers find him a bit boring. It’s the flaws we love in characters. I just always try to keep Phoebe from falling into the ‘nice but boring’ trap. Especially when she’s surrounded by the crazy cast we’ve got here.
It’s kind of part of her appeal (for me anyway): she’s pretty… zen, even though she’s her parents’ daughter. She’s not boring in part because of this normality. I assume it would have been easy to make Phoebe a “Tracee Mk I, the Original”, given her lineage. And I’m glad you didn’t.
Fried dough, eh? As an Ontarian you need to hie yourself down to the Canadian Riviera – either Old Orchard Beach or Hampton Beach – and try sucking down some of the plentiful, hot, powdery sugar-fried goodness they specialize in down there. They’ll even add blueberries or apple to it if you like.
And they don’t even force you wear Speedos if you go swimming in the ocean! (Unlike some places.)
I think your embrace of the citrus has to do with the fact that those are the colors that you’ve purposefully rid your palette of for Deak Sledge in order to get that grim noir feel. I think if you took Puck’s palette and Deak’s palette and mixed the two together, you’d get a standard comic. Maybe that’s why I like the stark, muted grimness of Deak so much: it’s what I don’t do.
Well, I’ve certainly changed how I draw her. I don’t want to retcon it and say that Mammagrow’s the cause. I’ll just chalk it up to ‘a woman’s changing form’, though I know that argument might not make sense when dealing with an ancient fairy.
Ah! perhaps a 600-year-old fairy was going through an extended period of development before finally hitting her womanly curves about the time that she graduated from college. Goodness knows I developed my manly belly about that time!
Yeah, at the actual place, it’s a brand name. So though it seems redundant, given the fact that it’s in Canada and all, people do call it that. It’s weird.
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…
For those who don’t know what a funnel cake is, just know that it’s a food for fat people. In North America, it’s associated almost exclusively with amusement parks, carnivals and fairs. Like all forms of fried dough the world over, it is a wondrous experience. And unlike roller coasters, you can enjoy funnel cakes while caring for babies. They are the amusement park equalizer: everyone can enjoy them. (Except my wife, who insists that they’re “too rich” for her, whatever that means. She just doesn’t understand the joy of being fat.)
Oh, Colin, Ask not for whom the Funnel Cake Frys…. It frys for thee!
Dude, you’re making me hungry.
Wait, babies CAN judge my eating habits? Dang it so much for guilt-free chicken nuggets.
Who cares what babies think? I automatically discount the opinions of people who require regular diaper changes. That includes babies and the elderly.
OMFG! Damn I ACTUALLY laughed out loud. For reals. Kinda wordy for a t-shirt, but I’m going to enjoy it immensely when I finally manage to work that into a casual conversation.
That comment about discounting those that need regular diaper changes was FAR, FAR funnier than the strip itself.
Well, I’m not always on point. But somewhere on every page, I might get slightly more on point. Briefly.
Don’t forget the incontinent
Yeah, I discount them too.
I discount them three!
So Puck did take Collin’s interests into consideration! She’s not as terrible as I thought 🙂
She’s a considerate kind of terrible.
Or a terrible kind of considerate. In any case, I’m guessing Colin is going to have more fun than most of the group in any case.
The kind of terrible that she calls her own child “baby” and doesn’t use her name.
I called my own child ‘baby’. Baby just dominates your life at that stage and is an overwhelming force. In the early stages of parenthood, it felt right to say “The baby has pooped all over the mattress again,” instead of “Jonathan has pooped all over the mattress again.” Baby felt less like a person, more like a force of nature. By the time they’re two, though, the pain and suffering they cause is personal. Then names are used.
Oh c’mon. You gotta get more creative with nicknames than that.
Baby nicknames are the gift that keeps on giving… most notably because you can bust them out years down the line for maximum humiliation.
“She’s a considerate kind of terrible.”
…she is still terrible, but at least she is considerate about it…which actually makes it a little worse.
I can’t argue.
It is truly awesome to see Puck so adroitly pinpointing Colin’s weakness.
Almost as if she were 600 years older than he, or simply married long enough to do this sort of thing automatically.
Colin, bro, don’t even bother. You and we all are overmatched!
Know when you’re beat, that’s what I say. And you’re always beat. So it’s an easy equation.
Yeah, when a man and a woman get into an argument, the woman always wins.
Anything the man says after that is the start of a new argument.
And apparently it’s time for another highly offensive joke from the ComedyHobo.
What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?
I’m going to save EG the trouble of censoring me to death again by leaving out the PUNCH-line. I’m betting he’s going to censor the joke this time instead. I probably would.
I would.
Ooh, smooth. She’s got him pegged.
And you don’t want to do any wicked fun rides after that funnel cake… The spewage can be quite awful.
Take the kid for a walk and enjoy!
I see a Funnel Cake addiction in Miranda’s near future. Don’t worry kid, the first one is free!
Free… And delicious!
Yeah, funnel cakes don’t mix well with rides. Which sort of begs the question of why we always want to pair the two. Beats me.
Chew and spew. Fill up on cake, blow chinks on everyone in the rows behind you. Guilt and calorie free fun, with wicked gross stories for later.
Even if guilt-free and calorie-free, I generally try to keep my fun puke-free.
For some reason, I now want to try a Funnel cake. Huh.
However, I have a dentist appointment in an hour, so I probably should have waited to read this comic had I known what was gonna happen until after said appointment…
OH WELL.
To be honest, babies *does* seem to judge me all the damn time when I do/eat something next to one. That or I’m paranoid as hell…
Nah, you’re just paranoid as hell. And apparently (according the Wikipedia article I linked to) funnel cakes are available all around the world! They just go by different names. Fried dough is fried dough, I guess. But I like my fried dough with powdered sugar and cinnamon.
Mmmmm, funnel Cakes
They’re all a good diet needs.
Who are the hot babes in the background taking a selfie of themselves?
Random hot babes? I dunno. I drew a whole mess of random people to stick in the frames of the past few comics. If I’m drawing random people, I have to make a conscious effort to not have all those random people be hot babes. I obviously lapsed in that panel.
What about the safety inspector, or the McKenzie’s? :p
Oh Gecko,Gecko,Gecko. So sad. I so look forward to Tuesday mornings so i can escape briefly from reality into the fantasy world of Puck. And here i am seeing the absolute bane of this worlds reality….. idiots taking “selfies”. And these two aren’t even smart enough to at least have the Wonderland Mountain in the background. Aparantly a random tree is exciting enough for them. Whoops, I see my geographic location is seeping through. I meant to say Funderland Mountain. I do look forward to Puck on Tuesday though. Best comic strip going
Well, I drew the random selfie chicks on a separate layer, and I just stuck them into the frame in a vaguely visible location. So yeah, they’re taking pictures of trees. I have no problem with mindless selfie action. I’m a high school teacher. For me to take offence at selfies would be like a fish taking offence at water molecules.
As in… you cannot survive without them for very long ? Does that mean you have an automated camera in your bedroom that takes a picture of you making weird faces every time you begin to choke in your sleep ?
No. I wish I could say that I’ve never taken a selfie, though I can legitimately say that I’ve never taken a good selfie. Which is a claim I can share with most other men.
Seeing how I’m absolutely untouched by the phenomenon, what’s considered a good selfie ? Besides, I guess, that you can see the person taking the shot in it ?
One that looks … good? Guys just have a habit of making terrible selfie choices: taking them at weird angles, in weird lighting, in weird places like a public bathroom. (A co-worker once showed me her hobby: collecting hilariously bad selfies by guys on dating services. Her collection had me laughing for days.)
I’ve only taken one selfie. It was on request, so I used the reflection of my endless light tunnel and angled so I would be surrounded by lights with the camera out of view.
This arc is odd for me. I worked at an amusement park. Never ate funnel cakes whilr I was there. Too busy eating black forrest cakes.
Black forest cake is awesome. But you can find passable black forest cake at any grocery store. When you’re dealing with funnel cakes (or beaver tails, or elephant ears, or any variation of fried dough), it’s only good when fresh from the fryer. That makes the fried dough my focus when I’m at a special event.
Plenty of time for random selfie chicks, but no love for the Bismark.
WHAT ! No convenient stream or puddle to sail in for the ONLY Battleship that any Millennial may be able to remember ?
Weird, huh ? Pointless & Weird.
Sorry. My bad.
Tracee- Deprivation turns for the worse.
Egad.
Also notice the same slow walker in the first and last panel. She should have walked by in the time it took to say all the things that got said in this comic.
…also this is my second or third time reading this comic.
You’re looking far too closely. I encourage that. Good job.
I love this comic and I just want to say thanks for each week with a new post.
You’re welcome. And thanks for letting me know. It helps.
Hey, I love it, too, but I like to get a snarky comment in every once in a while. BTW, love Phoebe’s expression in the first two panels. Makes me want to hug her and say, “There, there.” My boyfriend says he would like to hug her, too, but he would enjoy it too much.
I’m glad that Phoebe comes across as huggable. I always work actively to make Phoebe a character that female readers won’t actively dislike.
Well it’s a success, she’s the most likeable character of the lot. Not that the others are not, but she’s the nicest.
And just to be perfectly clear, her figure has nothing to do with my judgment; I objectively, genuinely, find her nice.
She’s the nicest character in the comic, certainly, but that doesn’t always make a character appealing. I mean, Superman is a ‘nice’ character in every sense of the word (acts nice, looks nice, probably smells nice), but a lot of readers find him a bit boring. It’s the flaws we love in characters. I just always try to keep Phoebe from falling into the ‘nice but boring’ trap. Especially when she’s surrounded by the crazy cast we’ve got here.
It’s kind of part of her appeal (for me anyway): she’s pretty… zen, even though she’s her parents’ daughter. She’s not boring in part because of this normality. I assume it would have been easy to make Phoebe a “Tracee Mk I, the Original”, given her lineage. And I’m glad you didn’t.
That was, indeed, sort of the plan when I first started out: for Phoebe to be the token roommate from hell. But the character pulled me in weird ways.
As someone who is writing as well (for my own enjoyment, mostly), I very much understand.
It seems the character talk to the author and dictate what they want. It is interesting how often a story goes much better when the author listens.
Fried dough, eh? As an Ontarian you need to hie yourself down to the Canadian Riviera – either Old Orchard Beach or Hampton Beach – and try sucking down some of the plentiful, hot, powdery sugar-fried goodness they specialize in down there. They’ll even add blueberries or apple to it if you like.
And they don’t even force you wear Speedos if you go swimming in the ocean! (Unlike some places.)
Never been. But if there’s fried dough, I can always be lured.
Oh, and my wife – a former head pastry chef – makes a rather nice Black Forest Cake…
…amongst many other tasty things.
No trip to the fair is complete TO ME…without inhaling a fresh smoked turkey leg and a double order of funnel cakes.
Makes the experience all the more worthwhile 😀
Beautiful strip once again, man. I’m embracing the citrus!!!
I think your embrace of the citrus has to do with the fact that those are the colors that you’ve purposefully rid your palette of for Deak Sledge in order to get that grim noir feel. I think if you took Puck’s palette and Deak’s palette and mixed the two together, you’d get a standard comic. Maybe that’s why I like the stark, muted grimness of Deak so much: it’s what I don’t do.
I had a 2nd look at the voting incentive (…well maybe a 22nd look rawhr!!!…) and thought “Is that some sort of delayed response to the Mammagrow?”
I need some for my garden!
Well, I’ve certainly changed how I draw her. I don’t want to retcon it and say that Mammagrow’s the cause. I’ll just chalk it up to ‘a woman’s changing form’, though I know that argument might not make sense when dealing with an ancient fairy.
Ah! perhaps a 600-year-old fairy was going through an extended period of development before finally hitting her womanly curves about the time that she graduated from college. Goodness knows I developed my manly belly about that time!
I wonder where Electric Gecko gets his Puck vote comic ideas.
Well, I know they’re at Funderland, but they don’t mention WHICH Funderland!!
Now I’m all confus-ified.
(it’s cuz you didn’t say ‘Canada’s Funderland’)
Yeah, at the actual place, it’s a brand name. So though it seems redundant, given the fact that it’s in Canada and all, people do call it that. It’s weird.
… What is a funnel-cake?
Google it. They’re delicious.