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 fourth one’s up now, so vote for Puck on TWC and take a look!
VOTE BEFORE GORILLA GRODD ESCAPES! (Again!)
As for the comic...
Word to the wise: if you ever want to impress learned people by making up your own witty quotation on life or philosophy, attribute it to Rousseau. No one will doubt you.
If instead you want to make up your own flowery poetry quotation, attribute it to Wordsworth. No one on Earth has ever read everything that Wordsworth ever wrote. No one. Not even Wordsworth scholars. If they say they have, they’re lying.
SUPER IMPORTANT NOTE: If you want to make up some sassy, pithy aphorism, never attribute it to Wilde. You’ll be found out as a fraud. Rather, attribute it to Ovid. No one will ever question you, because just like Wordsworth, no one has ever read everything Ovid ever wrote. Not even Ovid junkies like me. (I couldn’t get through the Fasti. Sue me.)
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Chapter: The Happiest Place in OntarioCharacters: Colin Miranda Papa ShnorfTags: innocence mascot rousseau
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 fourth one’s up now, so vote for Puck on TWC and take a look!
VOTE BEFORE GORILLA GRODD ESCAPES! (Again!)
As for the comic...
Word to the wise: if you ever want to impress learned people by making up your own witty quotation on life or philosophy, attribute it to Rousseau. No one will doubt you.
If instead you want to make up your own flowery poetry quotation, attribute it to Wordsworth. No one on Earth has ever read everything that Wordsworth ever wrote. No one. Not even Wordsworth scholars. If they say they have, they’re lying.
SUPER IMPORTANT NOTE: If you want to make up some sassy, pithy aphorism, never attribute it to Wilde. You’ll be found out as a fraud. Rather, attribute it to Ovid. No one will ever question you, because just like Wordsworth, no one has ever read everything Ovid ever wrote. Not even Ovid junkies like me. (I couldn’t get through the Fasti. Sue me.)
Wait a second…
A new Puck comic?
And it’s Sunday?
…Did I miss something or is this just to finish off a good week?
Either way, I don’t mind.
As for ‘no one read everything Wordsworth wrote’, I have to agree. I had a teacher in seventh grade who said he had. When I quoted something (I forgot what), I was met with a blank stare and called a liar after I said it was Wordsworth. Oh well.
Nice to see Colin back in the action… AND of course his life is the most “interesting” of the bunch (and with that, I mean he’s babysitting his daughter and she gets scared of a mascot).
Admitting, I don’t BLAME her for being scared of mascots – those guys scares the hell out of me as well!
Things will get more interesting for Colin shortly. Guaranteed. And yeah, comic’s out one day early! Because I’m going on a trip tomorrow. So if comic’s going to happen, it’s going to happen tonight.
Hope you’ll have fun on your trip!
I’m in Quebec city right now. It’s always awesome. Best city in North America, in my opinion.
actually, looks like she may get a phobia of clowns (whatever that’s called) from this.
That mascot may have intended to look like a smurf, but he failed badly.
Hell, I’ve seen children terrified of Santa Clause the first time they saw one. I can understand that. The guy is wrapped in red and white… the instinctive colors of alarm.
People must realize little ones see things not just from a tiny point of view but an instinctive point of view. You must avoid splashing certain colors about when you’re excited in any manner.
But putting small children through a fun house of horrors and colorful craziness is just too much fun! It’s by far the most amusing way to traumatize kids.
Colin will have to explain to Miranda that it’s just somebody wearing a costume.
Nothing spreads joy like radioactive smurfs.
Especially radioactive smurfs with weird Greek theater Joker grimaces.
Long time fan of the series. As in I love this great series.
Way to scare the baby early Colin, it’s going to be a while until she calms down. 🙁
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying. And yes, the baby’s not going to settle easy. At all.
Can we be sure that this guy *is* a mascot? He could just have a real creepy personal look…
He’s a mascot. And believe it or not, he’s going to get a significant speaking role in upcoming strips. Sigh. Guess this is going to mean that I have to pay him S.A.G. rates.
The Burger King “King” creeps me out so much ive never gone there to eat even one time. Man that dude is just plain weird looking!
I ate at Burger King once in my life. It was in a bus station in Rochester. There was nothing else to eat. I really, REALLY wish I could say I’ve never eaten BK, though.
Nuclear Smurf?
Get ready for GAMMA RAYS!
I’ll bet that Miranda will be a real screamer when her teeth come in.
I can see that he’s look away from them in the first panel. So at some point between panel 1 and panel 2 he turned around, saw a man eating funnel cakes with a baby, and decided it was a good idea to walk up to them.
There’s actually a great shot of the creepy Shnorf scaring a little boy in panel two, but it’s partially obscured, as these things always are.
yeah, looks like the kid’s having the time of his life, but Colin’s speech bubble doesn’t let us see what the clown is doing.
Maybe it’s for the best.
Aww.
There goes the last subset of the cast that was just having genteel fun. 🙁 So sad.
Everyone must have misery! Everyone!
“That’s what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.”
Garry Trudeau
Dang. Now I have to create a happy and well-adjusted character and make it interesting somehow without using bad things…
Good luck. Few people have ever succeeded at that.
Never was it said better.
It would be awesome if Miranda looked like Colin but acted like Puck and Daphne! 😀 ( i’d feel bad for Colin but meh that’s life >:} )
I think she’ll look a little like both of them and act like her own unique brand of crazy.
😀 i just can’t wait to see what will happen! i love this comic!
It will all come to pass! Very, very, VERY slowly!
i can wait it shall kill me but i CAN WAIT! 😀
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I thank you for your patience.
We should stuff trash in that things’ mouth as well….
That’s why most mascots have ‘minders’ walking around with them. To keep people from abusing the poor mascots.
Is it me, or does the mascot look like a deranged Red Green?
I think it’s just you.
Maybe it’s just me, but Panel 1 looks a little bit like a drunk Schnorf is taking a leak …
… I love the way the lens flare in panel three emphasizes the emotional impact. You’ve been doing that sort of thing for a while, it really works.
Yeah, shnorfs have poor bladder control. And it’s not exactly a lens flare (which is a Photoshop thing) but a color field that has a radial transparency applied to it. And you’re right that I use it all the time. Adds some color to the mix, I find.
//*color field that has a radial transparency applied *//
Maude, what is it with kids these days and their science-y software? When I was their age, I drew on ROCKS! and we LIKED it that way! Bah!!!
At least amusement park mascots didn’t have the sunken eyes of the animatronics in the 70s and 80s for Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurants, or the ones in the first Five Nights at Freddy’s. THOSE are terrifying.
But those creepy eyes that didn’t work quite right were awesome! So uncanny valley!
It’s only the sunken part of animatronics that has ever creeped me out. That dark black space between the eye and the foam/fur from that era that is always gave me the shivers. Those fake looking plastic ones you see on mascot costumes? Those have never bothered me, because they look cartoony.
Funny, I don’t remember Hulky
SmurfSchnorf.LoL. There was once an online game that allowed the player extreme ability to customize his character.
I created “Nurse Smurf”. She was optimized as a healer, but her ‘battle-cry’ was “TIME FOR A SHOT”.
Somehow, that battlecry wasn’t well received by most teams, but her dedicated healing sure was.
If it’s a shot of tequila, I’m all in, man! Though maybe not when offered one by any form of smurf.
Been trying to think of something clever to say all week, but I’m stumped! I’m with Miranda on this one… get that creepy thing away!
No one will argue with you.
“I’ve been thinking of something clever to say all MY LIFE” – Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, The Picture of Gorian Dray: page 123
And he succeeded.
I, on the other hand…..
I think that the Mascot will tell Miranda that he means her no harm.
Sadly, though the powers of Canadian TV and even worse Buffalo coverage, I remember “The Super Friends show” in the late 80’s, to the point I wondered why Puck was not the female half of the “Blunder…” er, I meant “Wonder Twins”…
Hey, I got up early on Saturdays in those days…It was either that, or “Beachcomers, Danger Bay and Forest Rangers” on CBC, worse crap on CTV (infomericals), and “The Hilarious House of Frightenstein” on the local channel, or wait for 90 minutes until my friends even woke up…
The only thing I learned back then was how awesome a rapper Vincent Price could be (This was before MJ’s “Thriller”…)
Yeah, the Wonder Twins were a REAL temptation, let me tell you, though I resisted. Maybe in the future? Your TV choices sounded exactly like mine at that time. I’d regularly wake up at five in the morning to watch The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, which happened to be a product of of my hometown. Not sure how they roped Vincent Price into it, but thank god they did. That show kicked butt.
hey, Vincent Price (to me, at least) was the king of horror.
IMHO, it wasn’t truly frightening unless Vincent Price starred in it.
Vincent Price had a lock on a genre of horror that sadly died in the 80’s: a horror that established itself more through atmosphere and character than anything else. We shall miss those times.
I bet the “Grammar Slammer Bammer” is currently your favourite hero of HHofF…. 😛
Maybe now I’d think that. As a kid it was the Wolfman, whose crazy swirling colors used to light up my dark living room at five in the morning. Good memories. Good times.
I am now wondering who would be whom in the Puck version of the Legion of Doom. Other than a toss up between Luthor and Brainac for Daphne, the choices can get really crazy really fast….
I don’t know, but I’m sure it would be fun to draw. Maybe in the future.
Puck and company in the twilight zone would be neat as a guest or vote comic.
I’ve always found it funny that certain venues that usually cater to children usually has the very things that terrify them.
lol it never fails.
Kids’ venues, kids’ entertainment, kids’ movies. Lots of it is terrifying. A recent study I read compared movies for children and movies for adults. The results showed that major characters with key ties to the protagonist died WAY more often in kids’ films. Why? Let’s scar ’em real good!
Wasn’t Firestorm a member of the Justice League? He’s actually 2 people in 1.
First appearance of “Pappa Smorph!”
This character’s fun… and somehow reminds me of Wilson from Home Improvement even more than our hot-dog therapist.
He is the amoral Wilson. Not evil. Not good. Just there. A survivor.
I do feel that the shadow of Home Improvement does loom large over my psyche.
I was going to encourage you to watch it again on streaming services (and maybe join you) but it appears legal disputes are tying it up (in summary: appropriate licensing fees and distribution royalties are owed to pay everyone who made the show a little something for their excellent work… and Disney’s cabal of villainous lawyers would like to… not pay that, or pay a small fraction of what is appropriate. While this conflict should be settle now, Disney+ may have some more minor fiddling to do before they’re ready to put it up.)
In the meantime, you can buy either singular episodes or whole seasons on Amazon Prime video. ($2/episode, $15/season).
…Or just wait for Disney+ to figure it out. Probably best they not do what they did to The Simpsons; rework the aspect ration to crop out a portion of every scene. Gah… who thought THAT was a good idea, and are they fired yet?)