FOLLOW THE ADVENTURES OF LEGO PUCK!!!
Puck has taken a vacation to the land of plastic bricks, and a new postcard from her travels will be arriving in the form of a voting incentive every few days! Things are bound to get wacky, so…
VOTE BECAUSE YOU CAN!
ALSO…
As for the comic…
I initially thought it would be way easier to draw Colin’s inner idiot, but when I got to the actual design, I burned through three or four failed attempts before coming up with this. I wanted a sloppier, stupider version of Colin done in a much cruder style. I think I succeeded.
Well, within the context of the comic, we’ve never seen him. But I assume Colin is very familiar with him. And I don’t think I’ll be making him into a sentient secondary villain any time soon.
You know what I find amusing? How many people keep assuming Puck and Colin are married DESPITE how many times it’s been said in the comments that THEY ARE NOT MARRIED!!!!!! Seriously folks, just because a man and a woman live together, and have a baby does not mean they are married. I know this is a difficult concept to grasp, but humans are actually capable of having children WITHOUT getting married.
This is like the debate I have sitting in the hall at school… leave laptop and risk it getting stolen, or continue to sit there and torture my bladder. But in my case, bringing my laptop with is an option – it’s just more work. (I’m also not debating another human’s fate.)
I might have to deal with this kind of thing soon though. My dad’s fiance is pregnant! Weird age to get a baby sister/brother, but I’ll take it. Here’s hoping this never happens to me when I babysit!
Well, having a little brother or sister in your late teens is… a good lesson, I’d say. It means that when the time rolls around where you think about having your own kids, you’ll have no false impressions whatsoever about the experience. And it is an experience. In many ways.
I’m pretty excited. It’s weird, but it should be pretty cool. It’ll certainly be interesting to not be the youngest in my family. And hopefully the impressions that I get aren’t too bad. I don’t want to be turned off of kids any more than I already am.
Well, you won’t have to deal with the really awful stuff if it isn’t your baby, so I think you won’t be too horrified. You won’t be waking up five times in a night (for an hour each time) or freaking out at minor medical emergencies or trying to feed the kid or what have you. I think it’ll be almost kinda fun. For you. Your dad’s in for a fun trip down memory lane, though.
“Long time no see”… I’m curious how often he (it?) appeared during the 10 year gap between the old and the new series.
To be honest, I can’t really argue with Colin’s problem: I suck at babysitting because if I have to go to a public place, it’s a 99% chance I won’t be able to bring the kid with me to the bathroom without looking like a creep (seriously, I’m babysitting a kid – I’m NOT gonna kidnap my own nephew/niece, people… Though with all the stares I get, I might as well try and kidnap their kids instead.)
So it’s two possible outcomes:
He leaves Miranda and thus goes to the bathroom and she ends up kidnapped (or found by someone else in the family)
OR
He brings Miranda with him to the bathroom, at which case people will stare at him like he’s a creep or something (yes, this is mostly talking from experience). Either way, sounds great!
With my kids (all sort-of grown up now). I just ignored the ugly stares and took them along to the bathroom. Those who’ve had kids understand and those who haven’t are unqualified to judge so I didn’t give a rip what they thought.
The alternative of leaving the kid unsupervised in a public place was NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!
This happens a lot at my very family-friendly Y. Good Dad and Tinkerbell are going into the pool, and it is the job of the rest of us just to be accommodating – moving into the next row of lockers or whatever as needed. That’s why it’s a community (…although I’ll admit I was surprised the 1st time it happened.)
Yeah, I love the new rec center near the school I teach at for this very reason: it’s got a huge, cavernous family washroom complete with many little mini-washrooms and family change rooms that solve all the problems.
When we were in San Francisco, my boyfriend bought me a button that showed an old-fashioned weeping girl with the legend, “I can’t believe I left the baby on the bus.” I was kinda insulted at the time, but now I think it’s funny.
Everyone gets all indignant about this sort of thing, and a few people are saying that Colin is an awful human being, but really? If you’ve been there, it’s crossed your mind. And if you haven’t been there, don’t judge people for leaving babies on buses.
I’ve never been in this situation, but yeah, forgetting your kid is not the most awful thing ever you could do to them. The parents are already punishing themselves anyway, they don’t need to be looked down. And it can happen to anybody: Have a mind full of stuff, and you ought to forget anything that’s not firmly attached to you, even your most cherished possessions.
On the other hand, considering the idea of letting your baby alone because you don’t want to wake them up and have them cry again… Well, if it’s only considering, there’ll be no harm done. Act on the idea, and you’re a terrible parent. Colin may not be the best, but I just can’t picture him doing that.
On a side-note: love the upside-down ET on Inner Idiot’s shirt. Dunno why. It’s just… perfect.
Considering leaving a baby for thirty seconds to make a mad dash to go pee and leave the baby sleeping? After she’d been fussing for an hour? I dunno, man. I might think about it. And do it, depending on the severity of my pee need.
Although the idea of leaving the baby is a BADDDD idea, when a person gets desperate (what I refer to as “my molars are floating”), their judgement sometimes can become clouded. I’m not sure whether I should chock it up to pain or toxic backup of urea… 😉
I’m willing to allow that a parent can have a temporary lapse of judgement without considering them an awful parent. It’s when a pattern of “lapsed judgement” events is demonstrated that it becomes legitimate to start questioning the quality of their parenting.
Well, I think that Colin’s heart is in the right place, but his brain isn’t. It is starting to be a pattern. Whether you consider it a pattern of bad parenting or a pattern of sheer stupidity is really a personal call.
In my Moms’ last year of life she was confined to a wheelchair.
Her facilities worked, but her arms couldn’t lift herself up.
I couldn’t go into the ladies’ room. She couldn’t go into the mens’.
We didn’t think that far ahead the first time we went out, and I had to ask a nice lady to babysit/help my 55 year old mother to go potty. (she did it, happily)
We didn’t go out without a lady relative much after that.
It’s now a mild source of difficulty for me with my daughter when we go out. She’s six, which means she’s really too old to go into the men’s washroom with me. (She refuses to because it’s gross and dirty.) That said, she’s young enough that she sometimes gets into washroom trouble, like needing help with the stall door or that kind of thing. As in your case, various friendly ladies have stepped up to assist. But yeah, I hear you.
I always find the women’s complaint that men’s rooms are “smelly, dirty and gross” to be hilarious, since you find MUCH nastier stuff in a women’s restroom. It just gets found out quicker, since women are more likely to complain about bad smells. And that’s not being sexist; men are more tolerant of bad smells because we HAD to be during our earliest history.
I chalk it up to a prevalent cultural taboo against being a ‘wussy’ guy who would dare complain. But yeah, I know for a fact that most of the time, the places we go to have men’s and women’s washrooms that are basically the same in terms of cleanliness. My daughter just makes a big fuss about the smell because she’s horrified by the concept of going into the boys’ washroom.
FunFact: Cell phones do not exist in Puckworld, which is why Colin can’t just call Puck and ask her to swing by for a minute while he runs to the washroom.
Colin is living on a teacher’s salary. One cell phone – let alone 2 – might be beyond his budget.
Kind of sad that we pay our teachers so poorly and then everyone wants to blame them for their kid’s failures (most of which are actually the fault of the person complaining – or just that the little “angel” is really a brat).
Americans pay their teachers poorly. Canadians pay their teachers better. And tend to blame them lass. Mind you, the majority of Canadian kids are doing well, so maybe we’re onto something.
You know, in most of Europe, people make the assumption that there is no one lurking nearby to steal every unattended baby. They therefor feel free to do things like leave strollers sitting outside restaurants while they go inside to it… or use the bathroom, I suppose. Which leads to happening to Danish visitors to the US…
See, this is what I’m talking about. It’s very cultural. In North America, there has developed this weird, to my mind almost pathological anxiety about children and supervision. It’s a recent development, and it’s gone over the top in the past few decades. It’s led to all sorts of police involvement and silliness.
In my (European) country, letting a kid alone is frown upon. We had, some time ago (geeze, 20 years ago actually), a VERY mediatic case of children abductions and murders and I guess we were traumatized by it. So much so that, even if I would say that most public places are completely safe for kids, every case where they weren’t, is highlighted. 6 month ago tops, the news were all about a kid who has been abducted in broad day light, in a kindergarden full of other parents who SAW the abduction happening and just thought it was a kid making a tantrum.
So, is the anxiety really too much on that matter ? Definitely. But at the same time, it only needs one time, one abduction to ruin a lot of lives.
And that’s the thing. Statistically, child abductions are super rare. In terms of actual danger, if we were to look at the numbers, parents that are super-worried about child abductions should be WAY more worried about ever letting their kids in a pool, or ever letting their kids in a car. But the car crashes and the drownings are not as sensational and attention-grabbing. It’s human nature that we seem to most fear the dramatic unlikely.
Remember Denis the Menace*? Always going to that grocery store by himself and/or with Tommy to get stuff and cause havoc?
This was 20 years after the Lindbergh baby.
Abductions have always been there (as have school shootings), but they’re getting more coverage for more eyeballs, today.
*the 1950s TV show
Fun Fact: Jay North grew up to become a prison guard.
Mahnarch is sort of correct – Jay North became a a correctional officer, reportedly working with troubled youth within Florida’s juvenile justice system and, as of 2011, continues to work for the Florida Department of Corrections. Not quite sure that means that he was a guard or more of a counselor.
FOLLOW THE ADVENTURES OF LEGO PUCK!!!
Puck has taken a vacation to the land of plastic bricks, and a new postcard from her travels will be arriving in the form of a voting incentive every few days! Things are bound to get wacky, so…
VOTE BECAUSE YOU CAN!
ALSO…
As for the comic…
I initially thought it would be way easier to draw Colin’s inner idiot, but when I got to the actual design, I burned through three or four failed attempts before coming up with this. I wanted a sloppier, stupider version of Colin done in a much cruder style. I think I succeeded.
There must be a good reason why the inner idiot disappeared so long ago, like Bat-Mite did.
Well, within the context of the comic, we’ve never seen him. But I assume Colin is very familiar with him. And I don’t think I’ll be making him into a sentient secondary villain any time soon.
He got married. His wife now makes most of his decisions for him, leaving no need for inner debates. 😛
Very, very true. Though they’re still not married.
Colin having sex with Puck kept the inner idiot spinning round, round, thus preventing him from manifesting.
Annd I forgot what I was going to say next.
My bad. I thought it happened sometime during the time skip.
You think I’m going to skip that great potential story arc?
You skipped quite a lot of years, with all their potential, so, yes. That’s exactly what I thought you did. Didn’t say I thought it was a good idea.
You know what I find amusing? How many people keep assuming Puck and Colin are married DESPITE how many times it’s been said in the comments that THEY ARE NOT MARRIED!!!!!! Seriously folks, just because a man and a woman live together, and have a baby does not mean they are married. I know this is a difficult concept to grasp, but humans are actually capable of having children WITHOUT getting married.
True. But as many have noted in the comments, they’d be considered common-law.
I think Colin will find Phoebe and Puck leave Miranda with them then go pee.
This is like the debate I have sitting in the hall at school… leave laptop and risk it getting stolen, or continue to sit there and torture my bladder. But in my case, bringing my laptop with is an option – it’s just more work. (I’m also not debating another human’s fate.)
I might have to deal with this kind of thing soon though. My dad’s fiance is pregnant! Weird age to get a baby sister/brother, but I’ll take it. Here’s hoping this never happens to me when I babysit!
the possibility of it happening is directly proportional to how inconvenient it would be…
of course it’ll happen.
Pretty much.
Well, having a little brother or sister in your late teens is… a good lesson, I’d say. It means that when the time rolls around where you think about having your own kids, you’ll have no false impressions whatsoever about the experience. And it is an experience. In many ways.
I’m pretty excited. It’s weird, but it should be pretty cool. It’ll certainly be interesting to not be the youngest in my family. And hopefully the impressions that I get aren’t too bad. I don’t want to be turned off of kids any more than I already am.
Well, you won’t have to deal with the really awful stuff if it isn’t your baby, so I think you won’t be too horrified. You won’t be waking up five times in a night (for an hour each time) or freaking out at minor medical emergencies or trying to feed the kid or what have you. I think it’ll be almost kinda fun. For you. Your dad’s in for a fun trip down memory lane, though.
What about one of those cable tie down lock things?
I’m not really sure how that would work with a laptop. Are you referencing my laptop? I’m honestly not sure.
I’m not sure either. The hallway in question has no convenient metal bars to lock one’s laptop to.
“Long time no see”… I’m curious how often he (it?) appeared during the 10 year gap between the old and the new series.
To be honest, I can’t really argue with Colin’s problem: I suck at babysitting because if I have to go to a public place, it’s a 99% chance I won’t be able to bring the kid with me to the bathroom without looking like a creep (seriously, I’m babysitting a kid – I’m NOT gonna kidnap my own nephew/niece, people… Though with all the stares I get, I might as well try and kidnap their kids instead.)
So it’s two possible outcomes:
He leaves Miranda and thus goes to the bathroom and she ends up kidnapped (or found by someone else in the family)
OR
He brings Miranda with him to the bathroom, at which case people will stare at him like he’s a creep or something (yes, this is mostly talking from experience). Either way, sounds great!
Yeah, you’re kind of in a bind all around. Caring for babies (or small children) makes caring for yourself infinitely more difficult.
With my kids (all sort-of grown up now). I just ignored the ugly stares and took them along to the bathroom. Those who’ve had kids understand and those who haven’t are unqualified to judge so I didn’t give a rip what they thought.
The alternative of leaving the kid unsupervised in a public place was NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!
Agreed on all counts.
This happens a lot at my very family-friendly Y. Good Dad and Tinkerbell are going into the pool, and it is the job of the rest of us just to be accommodating – moving into the next row of lockers or whatever as needed. That’s why it’s a community (…although I’ll admit I was surprised the 1st time it happened.)
Yeah, I love the new rec center near the school I teach at for this very reason: it’s got a huge, cavernous family washroom complete with many little mini-washrooms and family change rooms that solve all the problems.
When’s the last time Inner Idiot popped up? Sometime in starting his relationship with Puck?
I’m assuming he’s had many run-ins with this being that have gone wholly undocumented in this comic.
As a father, I remember that imp. I always said “screw it” and took her in with me.
That’s because you’re smarter than this gentleman right here.
C’mon man. Don’t make us hate Colin by having him abandon a baby.
He needs to go pee! He’ll only be gone a minute! Come on, man. I’m not going to cast stones here.
When we were in San Francisco, my boyfriend bought me a button that showed an old-fashioned weeping girl with the legend, “I can’t believe I left the baby on the bus.” I was kinda insulted at the time, but now I think it’s funny.
Everyone gets all indignant about this sort of thing, and a few people are saying that Colin is an awful human being, but really? If you’ve been there, it’s crossed your mind. And if you haven’t been there, don’t judge people for leaving babies on buses.
Better then being a foreign couple in NYC who left their baby in a stroller in front of the window of the coffee shop or eatery for 45 minutes.
Well, sometimes you gotta have some ‘me’ time. Am’i’ight?
That was funny. Old school Bugs B. funny. Kudos!
Thanks! I thought it was. People’s reactions seem to be mixed, but I’m glad it works for some people.
I’ll bet it’s because of Colin’s inner idiot that Puck became pregnant with Miranda in the first place.
I’ve never been in this situation, but yeah, forgetting your kid is not the most awful thing ever you could do to them. The parents are already punishing themselves anyway, they don’t need to be looked down. And it can happen to anybody: Have a mind full of stuff, and you ought to forget anything that’s not firmly attached to you, even your most cherished possessions.
On the other hand, considering the idea of letting your baby alone because you don’t want to wake them up and have them cry again… Well, if it’s only considering, there’ll be no harm done. Act on the idea, and you’re a terrible parent. Colin may not be the best, but I just can’t picture him doing that.
On a side-note: love the upside-down ET on Inner Idiot’s shirt. Dunno why. It’s just… perfect.
Considering leaving a baby for thirty seconds to make a mad dash to go pee and leave the baby sleeping? After she’d been fussing for an hour? I dunno, man. I might think about it. And do it, depending on the severity of my pee need.
Although the idea of leaving the baby is a BADDDD idea, when a person gets desperate (what I refer to as “my molars are floating”), their judgement sometimes can become clouded. I’m not sure whether I should chock it up to pain or toxic backup of urea… 😉
I’m willing to allow that a parent can have a temporary lapse of judgement without considering them an awful parent. It’s when a pattern of “lapsed judgement” events is demonstrated that it becomes legitimate to start questioning the quality of their parenting.
Well, I think that Colin’s heart is in the right place, but his brain isn’t. It is starting to be a pattern. Whether you consider it a pattern of bad parenting or a pattern of sheer stupidity is really a personal call.
Loved the inner idiot idea plus his design totally works 😀
I wanted him to look idiotic. I’m glad I achieved it.
In my Moms’ last year of life she was confined to a wheelchair.
Her facilities worked, but her arms couldn’t lift herself up.
I couldn’t go into the ladies’ room. She couldn’t go into the mens’.
We didn’t think that far ahead the first time we went out, and I had to ask a nice lady to babysit/help my 55 year old mother to go potty. (she did it, happily)
We didn’t go out without a lady relative much after that.
(Mum’s been gone for 2 years, now, already.)
It’s now a mild source of difficulty for me with my daughter when we go out. She’s six, which means she’s really too old to go into the men’s washroom with me. (She refuses to because it’s gross and dirty.) That said, she’s young enough that she sometimes gets into washroom trouble, like needing help with the stall door or that kind of thing. As in your case, various friendly ladies have stepped up to assist. But yeah, I hear you.
I always find the women’s complaint that men’s rooms are “smelly, dirty and gross” to be hilarious, since you find MUCH nastier stuff in a women’s restroom. It just gets found out quicker, since women are more likely to complain about bad smells. And that’s not being sexist; men are more tolerant of bad smells because we HAD to be during our earliest history.
I chalk it up to a prevalent cultural taboo against being a ‘wussy’ guy who would dare complain. But yeah, I know for a fact that most of the time, the places we go to have men’s and women’s washrooms that are basically the same in terms of cleanliness. My daughter just makes a big fuss about the smell because she’s horrified by the concept of going into the boys’ washroom.
FunFact: Cell phones do not exist in Puckworld, which is why Colin can’t just call Puck and ask her to swing by for a minute while he runs to the washroom.
I don’t own one. Seriously. And I don’t think Puck or Colin own one either. Phoebe does. Daphne does. But yeah, that’s sort of accurate.
Colin is living on a teacher’s salary. One cell phone – let alone 2 – might be beyond his budget.
Kind of sad that we pay our teachers so poorly and then everyone wants to blame them for their kid’s failures (most of which are actually the fault of the person complaining – or just that the little “angel” is really a brat).
Americans pay their teachers poorly. Canadians pay their teachers better. And tend to blame them lass. Mind you, the majority of Canadian kids are doing well, so maybe we’re onto something.
Ah, the inner idiot…. although in some places, (*cough* California State Assembly *cough*) he goes by a different name, “The Voice of Reason”
The Voice of Reason and the Inner Idiot sometimes switch jackets. It’s hard to tell them apart, really. Especially in political circles.
You know, in most of Europe, people make the assumption that there is no one lurking nearby to steal every unattended baby. They therefor feel free to do things like leave strollers sitting outside restaurants while they go inside to it… or use the bathroom, I suppose. Which leads to happening to Danish visitors to the US…
See, this is what I’m talking about. It’s very cultural. In North America, there has developed this weird, to my mind almost pathological anxiety about children and supervision. It’s a recent development, and it’s gone over the top in the past few decades. It’s led to all sorts of police involvement and silliness.
Yeah, it kinda is. The problem being: kids are reaaaally easy to kidnap. Frighteningly so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGIDHrYKJ2s
In my (European) country, letting a kid alone is frown upon. We had, some time ago (geeze, 20 years ago actually), a VERY mediatic case of children abductions and murders and I guess we were traumatized by it. So much so that, even if I would say that most public places are completely safe for kids, every case where they weren’t, is highlighted. 6 month ago tops, the news were all about a kid who has been abducted in broad day light, in a kindergarden full of other parents who SAW the abduction happening and just thought it was a kid making a tantrum.
So, is the anxiety really too much on that matter ? Definitely. But at the same time, it only needs one time, one abduction to ruin a lot of lives.
And that’s the thing. Statistically, child abductions are super rare. In terms of actual danger, if we were to look at the numbers, parents that are super-worried about child abductions should be WAY more worried about ever letting their kids in a pool, or ever letting their kids in a car. But the car crashes and the drownings are not as sensational and attention-grabbing. It’s human nature that we seem to most fear the dramatic unlikely.
Remember Denis the Menace*? Always going to that grocery store by himself and/or with Tommy to get stuff and cause havoc?
This was 20 years after the Lindbergh baby.
Abductions have always been there (as have school shootings), but they’re getting more coverage for more eyeballs, today.
*the 1950s TV show
Fun Fact: Jay North grew up to become a prison guard.
My mother grew up happily in the 50’s with basically no parental supervision between the hours of 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. She made it through.
Mahnarch is sort of correct – Jay North became a a correctional officer, reportedly working with troubled youth within Florida’s juvenile justice system and, as of 2011, continues to work for the Florida Department of Corrections. Not quite sure that means that he was a guard or more of a counselor.
My inner idiot suggests this but my inner genius suggest hiding the baby first.
Now who has the most voices in his head?
Disguise baby as a rock! Or maybe a cardboard box like Solid Snake. Can I join the genius club?
Disguise the baby as a police officer. Abductors will run away!
Those costumes are hard to find on the fly.
I hate to admit it…but I think a lot of guys have an inner idiot.
It’s the only way that I can explain some cringe-worthy thought processes I’ve had in my younger days.
Thankfully none pertaining to infants. 😀
I have an inner idiot who pretty much runs the show. It’s not a good setup.
Personally I never thought Colin needed an inner idiot…brilliant webcomic btw, only found it a few weeks ago but loving it!
Glad you like! Colin does sort of have an inner idiot AND an outer idiot. It’s a double idiot syndrome!