IT’S THE JLA AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE!
I thought it was time to pay tribute to the Justice League of America before Zack Synder takes a steaming dump on the franchise. So every week in July will bring you a new, cool JLA-related cosplay experience, courtesy of the Puck crowd! The third one’s up now, so vote for Puck on TWC and take a look! The next one pops up in a few days, so check back soon!
VOTE BEFORE GORILLA GRODD ESCAPES! (Again!)
As for the comic...
I’ll readily admit that this comic doesn’t totally reflect reality. Phoebe could almost certainly find clothing that would fit Puck in a pinch in any average children’s store. Case in point: my wife is about the size of Puck (five foot eight, size two), and when I do the laundry, I can’t help but notice that some of her clothing is the same size as (or even slightly smaller than) my nine year-old son’s clothing. My own shirts, by comparison, always seem huge, like they’re tents or parachutes or something.
Maybe the clothing shop that Phoebe found was only for really little kids. If 5T was the biggest size they carried, the end result would look something like this. Though I think that it would be physically impossible to get into those clothes as depicted here.
Like I said, comic doesn’t totally reflect reality. Often.
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IT’S THE JLA AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE!
I thought it was time to pay tribute to the Justice League of America before Zack Synder takes a steaming dump on the franchise. So every week in July will bring you a new, cool JLA-related cosplay experience, courtesy of the Puck crowd! The third one’s up now, so vote for Puck on TWC and take a look! The next one pops up in a few days, so check back soon!
VOTE BEFORE GORILLA GRODD ESCAPES! (Again!)
As for the comic...
I’ll readily admit that this comic doesn’t totally reflect reality. Phoebe could almost certainly find clothing that would fit Puck in a pinch in any average children’s store. Case in point: my wife is about the size of Puck (five foot eight, size two), and when I do the laundry, I can’t help but notice that some of her clothing is the same size as (or even slightly smaller than) my nine year-old son’s clothing. My own shirts, by comparison, always seem huge, like they’re tents or parachutes or something.
Maybe the clothing shop that Phoebe found was only for really little kids. If 5T was the biggest size they carried, the end result would look something like this. Though I think that it would be physically impossible to get into those clothes as depicted here.
Like I said, comic doesn’t totally reflect reality. Often.
Having Dated girls just like Puck, I cannot even begin to tell you how much I appreciate this particular humiliation…
and yes, I know…. “But WAIT! there’s MORE!”
(do I have to wait?)
I can’t help but be curious as to the nature of the dysfunctional relationship dynamics that brought you to the point of taking such glee at this.
Let us just say I refuse to go out on stage (or in public, or even in private) dressed like one of the village people….
Never again…
I’m going to take your word on that one.
For the very first time (and last?) I feel for Puck.
The Phoebe-Phrappe she deserved.
But those DUDS ? Unfair.
I only feel for the cute sundress she had to trash.
That poor, innocent dress. It was the real victim here. Incidentally I really did like that dress. It looked good on her.
I liked the dress too. But as a storyteller, we kill our darlings.
I expect that this shirt cost much more than the dollar depicted on the front. The $20 bill on the back is the rest of what this shirt cost (but way more than it is worth).
The shirt actually has the Canada’s Funderland logo on it, but it’s stretched all the hell out so yeah, I guess it sort of looks like the back side of an American bill now.
No, I think David thought the logo was of a “loonie”, the Canadian $1 coin.
That was my thinking. I did not even consider it might be the park’s logo.
I thought it was the Bismarck.
Confession: I’m kind of myopic. A lot of things look big and iron-y to me. And they don’t come bigger than the Bismarck.
It’s all because I don’t understand how IRON SHIPS work. Iron sinks, dude !
Now Wooden Ships are cool. Wood floats. Whew.
So please stop drawing the Bismarck.
(And NO magnets – they are WITCHCRAFT)
Tribal people live simple lives getting what they need from nature they’re in want of nothing why not have Puck and company live this way for a time as a experiment.
I noticed that Puck was holding Phoebe’s hair. Is that a universal female thing?
It seems to be.
Regarding voting incentive: Yes, clearly, there is.
Regarding the comic: I’m… Somewhat surprised as it reminds me of a date a friend went on.
His date managed to destroy his t-shirt (puking) so she got him a new one… Which was size Small. What was even weirder was that it fit like a glove on him (he normally use Large clothes).
Me: …How do you wear a small t-shirt?
Him: …I’m not sure either but I’d be damned to find out.
My money’s still on it being a fabricating error.
Or that she brought a spare one along that she had bought and just changed the L into a S.
…What bugs me even more is that Puck fits with the midriff.
I can say that I’ve worn medium, large and extra large shirts at different points in my life, and I haven’t changed size much. I can fit into a small, but the results aren’t pretty. And I would say that Puck doesn’t fit with the midriff. No one fits with a muffin top. No one.
i know this must sound silly, but…
what is a ‘muffin-top’?
To quote the urban dictionary, “When a woman wears a pair of tight jeans that makes her flab spill out over the waistband, just like the top of a muffin sits over the edge of the paper case.”
Thank you.
and Phoebe’s vengeance gets better.
If by ‘better’, you mean ‘terrifying’.
Is it deliberate, though?
No vengeance without intent…
Maybe subconscious vengeance? The vengeance of the id? Not deliberate, exactly. But it happened.
Are you are telling me that the offspring Auld Nick and a double Academy Award winning actress can not come up with a scheme of vengeance? More likely, Phoebe went way out of her way to find those baby clothes, and had to pick up her family’s third Academy Award for that performance on selling the goods to Puck…
You are not a very trusting soul.
Monsters from the Id!
(Have you seen “Forbidden Planet”? freaked me out as a kid, and still does …)
I have watched Forbidden Planet. And once did a presentation in university on its thematic resonance with The Tempest. Manly young Leslie Nielsen at his finest!
It was amazing how the ID monster got heavier and more powerful as time (like only a few seconds) went by.
Oh now come on!!!
Who hasn’t craved vengeance at one time or another?
and with Puck around, it’d be a constant temptation.
Trusting soles always end up in trawl nets….
Phoebe repeatedly warned Puck what would happen if she got on a ride, my only surprise was you did not poke fun of Disney by having Puck and Phoebe ride a Pink Elephant….
Yeah, I only ducked out of the pink elephant because when I tested it out in the comic, there was just too much pink. But I was tempted.
Nothing makes somebody feel their age more than clothes that give a serious muffin top. And Puck is older than most of those somebodies, too.
I was just about to say, “Can I get a cup of joe with that muffin top”
Here’s the thing: clothes that give a serious muffin top don’t work for anyone at ANY age. Some people need to figure that out. Thankfully most did about a decade ago, though some keep on continuing the tragedy.
She can just pretend she’s UBER fashionable.
She’s so out of fashion that she goes off the one side of the fashion screen and comes back on the other side, like fashion Pac-man? HELL YEAH!
If and when Phoebe tells her daddy about this I’m sure he’ll burst into laughter.
Puck clearly does not embrace the school of fashion that makes you look like a deluded tart about to explode out of her clothes…
You might even say she doesn’t give a puck about it.
I’m going to resist the urge.
No, Puck does not embrace that school of fashion. And I think the picture in panel four clearly proves that there really is such a thing as ‘too tight’ in women’s fashion.
While I concur wholeheartedly, there are always women who do not, for some odd reason…
Moment of silence for Puck’s cute white sundress.
I feel very sad for the loss of that dress. I no longer get to draw it. I’m sort of grieving.
Puck has money now, and is unwisely not investing it in getting her family out of crack-land.
I’m sure she can bring herself to set some money aside for a new white sundress.
Pffft! She got ten grand! That money wouldn’t get her out of crack-land around these parts. Real estate in Canada never underwent the crash of 2008, and it’s now at insane values compared to most of the States. Case in point: my house would likely sell right now for over half a million dollars. And it is a normal normal house. In a normal fifty year-old neighborhood. Where, for some reason, all the houses are now worth over a half million. It’s insane.
I think Puck would be better off putting the money to a new dress. Though this story arc might reduce those stashed funds somewhat. Foreshadow foreshadow foreshadow…
Can you say voting incentive?
Hint hint nudge nudge wink wink.
(Like, every cast member in that dress. Because reasons.)
Those reasons must be pretty interesting.
Now Puck is even more in debt to Phoebe….
I was afraid of that, but after reflexion, not really: Phoebe did ruin her clothes, so I’m pretty sure she feels the need to fix her mishap. And she feeds her revengeful mind by having Puck wearing those. It’s a gift that keeps on giving 😀
Yeah, clothing in those gift shops go for premium prices, man. Just tack it onto the mortgage.
I really like the trash can…
DG
Nothing says ‘carnival fun’ like a creepy clown trash can.
Actually, there’s an answer to Puck’s problem with the clothes. Swap with Phoebe.
I don’t think Phoebe would be down with that. And honestly, Phoebe’s a little bigger than Puck, so it would make for some awkward fits all around.
If you’re gonna be squeezed tight, why not do it in a better outfit? And since Phoebe is responsible for this in the first place…
No matter. I think we both know someone who doesn’t want to be wearing a Funderland employee uniform, maybe that’ll fit.
Yeah, it’d probably fit Tyler. Badly. But that would be worth it just for the horrifying sight.
Who remembers that old R&R song by the Royal Teens?
“Who wears short shorts?
We wear short shorts.”
(spoken)
“Man, dig those crazy chicks.”
I’m all for short shorts. But they need to fit.
“Look at them girls with the Daisy Duke’s on!”
Mmmm…… Daisy Duke’s. Maybe Puck & the gang could go for a visit to Hazzard County. Voting incentive idea, Tracee, and Phoebe washing the General Lee. (I think I may have dated myself a bit here.)
Ah, Dukes of Hazzard. Good memories. And if you’re dating yourself, then your dating’s JUST RIGHT by me!
I suppose stuffing trash into a clown’s mouth is a good idea…
Better than any other!
I’m curious to see how Colin and the others react when Puck tells them what happened.
How long before Puck regrets talking Phoebe into this?
It’s all uphill from here, right?
It’s only going to get better!
BTW, is anyone else afraid of how much Colin looks like the wimpy 1970’s “Superfriends” cartoon version version of Aquaman?
The poor guy can not get a break from Gecko nowadays…
With the beard, he might almost have managed the virile and hilarious ‘Batman: Brave and the Bold’ Aquaman, but nah. He can’t. He can only manage the wimpy Super Friends version.
Phoebe looks ready to cry in panel two.
She’s not used to being in the wrong. It’s stressful.
That is one creepy-ass clown trashcan.
I tried. It’s based (vaguely) on trash cans I remember from a local amusement park that operated when I was a kid. Haven’t been able to track down which park it was.