IT’S PHOEBRUARY! VOTE FOR PUCK ON TWC AND CELEBRATE!
I thought it was time to do a little retrospective, so here we go! I’ve been running constant voting incentives on TWC for years now, so dive into the vault and relive some real gems. Every couple of days this February, a new “classic” Phoebe voting incentive is popping up on TWC! If you never saw these pics the first time or you want to see ‘em again, be sure to vote often and catch ‘em all!
VOTE TO ALLEVIATE MINOR ACHES AND PAINS!
As for the comic…
Next week, we check in on Puck again. Promise. Some people might say that nine weeks without a single appearance of the comic’s titular character is misguided storytelling. And those people would be right. I hereby promise, though, that Puck will return to the comic next week, and will stay present in the comic … for at least a week or two. Maybe more!
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IT’S PHOEBRUARY! VOTE FOR PUCK ON TWC AND CELEBRATE!
I thought it was time to do a little retrospective, so here we go! I’ve been running constant voting incentives on TWC for years now, so dive into the vault and relive some real gems. Every couple of days this February, a new “classic” Phoebe voting incentive is popping up on TWC! If you never saw these pics the first time or you want to see ‘em again, be sure to vote often and catch ‘em all!
VOTE TO ALLEVIATE MINOR ACHES AND PAINS!
As for the comic…
Next week, we check in on Puck again. Promise. Some people might say that nine weeks without a single appearance of the comic’s titular character is misguided storytelling. And those people would be right. I hereby promise, though, that Puck will return to the comic next week, and will stay present in the comic … for at least a week or two. Maybe more!
OH SH#$ wauuuh waaaauhh wwhhheep wheep prepare FOR A CATEGORY V+ collins gunns need a wall around his genitals for this one
No wall is too high. Didn’t you see Pacific Rim?
On I know but…. I just thought it sounded cool.. He’s gunnna need some Jaeger sized box of chocolate pheobes help and a distraction, hmmm oooh I know who would definitely do that!… 2people infact.
Klaatu Barradda Niktos.
I’m assuming this is a ‘Day the Earth Stood Still’ ref, but for me, it’ll always be an Army of Darkness line.
KLAATOO BARATA ..NNNnn(mummble mummble)
Alright, then.
We’re good.
“….necktie?”
Nickle…
Noodle…
It was definitely an “N” word….
Star Wars references that too; Klaatu and Barada are servants of Jabba the Hutt, and Klaatu is a member of the Nikto species. 🙂
There’s also some old Expanded Universe stuff that deals with the Nikto, and Barada’s species, the Klatooinian, and their history with the Hutts. Basically, there was a war between the Hutt Empire and Xim the Despot that ended with the Nikto and Kaltooinians signing over themselves to Hutt slavery that lasted for over 25,000 years.
Yes, I am quite the Star Wars nerd. 🙂
That’s … kind of disturbing. And kind of wonderful. Too bad it’s not canon anymore.
Like I’ve said to fellow SWTOR players, Star Wars canon is what you make of it. Just because Disney isn’t going to do anything with it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it.
Besides, the majority of the population don’t know anything but the movies anyway, so most of what is gone was just shed stuff so they can do their own thing. They won’t be touching the stuff that I actually like. 🙂
True. ‘Canon’ is a really sort of meaningless word, I guess. I prefer to accept as canon anything really rad, and reject stupid crap as stupid. Ergo, Jar Jar is not canon in my universe.
No Gecko, “Canon” is one of those awesome words that allow an English Teacher to duct marks off a student’s English essay that was too lazy to correct the obvious spelling mistake in the grammatically correct word in a sentence about a “Cannon”.
{corrected sentence follows:}
Jar Jar may not be “Canon” in your Star Wars Universe, but he’s very important as wadding when you want to blow up two cannon barrels at the same time. You use him as the stuffing or glue that aligns the two muzzles together and your remote fire the two cannons at the same time….
I call that useful.
Except that what is “canon” does matter in the extent that it dictates what characters will play a role in any future officially published works. We will likely never see another book by Timothy Zahn featuring Mara Jade or Talon Karrde, for example, and while Wedge Antilles still exists, Corran Horn and the rest of “Rogue Squadron” will never fly another mission. While I can enjoy what has already been produced, I mourn the lost potential of future stories that now will never be.
Well, Disney said they were continuing to produce stories in an ‘alternate universe’ structure or something like that, but I’m not sure whether that was just something they said in the early days to keep the fans happy.
I never, ever really liked the Star Wars ‘extended universe’ much. Pockets of it were cool, but with the number of writers and hands in the pot, it got so crowded. I DID play a bunch of the computer video games (X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Defenders of the Empire, X-Wing Alliance, Dark Forces, etc.) and just from the games alone, I felt like saying, “Okay guys, this is getting a little silly now.”
But Puck will have to explain why she’s wearing kiddie size clothes and why Phoebe has turned into the “Barf Monster”.
:>D
Well, that’s part of the fun!
i suspect she’ll have to explain a mascot outfit instead, if the contacts on papa Shnorf’s phone is any indication of the person wearing it. bottom-most contact if someone wants to see what I’m referring to.
nvm, thought it said “me” on the last one not “Mo”
Yeah, it’s ‘Mo’. I was following the tried and true tradition of attractive girls going by unflattering short forms that double as old guy’s names. It’s a thing.
Deploy the “Redhead” ?!?!?!?! Any hope that this is a deliberate misdirection on your part Gecko and Daphne has some nice combination of a James Bond / Batmobile / Knight Industries Kitt 2000 car of a Ferrari Testarossa 512 (F or TR) or better still 250 Testa Rossa for breaking out of jail on their own ?!?!?
Okay, 4 people do not go easily into 2 seats in this situation, as I think Daphne would need to be the get-away driver, but I can’t picture Daphne grabbing a Ferrari 400(i) 4-seater even if she can get her hands on one…
No, no talking car. Yet.
“Thank the Maker” R2D2
Wait, it was CP3O.
Wait, it was Baba O’Reily.
I’m sure Puck would be happy to know that Daphne holds her in such high esteem as to use gigantic movie monsters to refer to her…I’m not even sure if I’m being sarcastic or sincere, Puck probably would be happy to know as it would mean people would fear her.
I do think that Puck would take it as a sign of respect. But that’s no guarantee that she wouldn’t also hurt you for saying it.
“With a purposeful grimace and a terrible yell
She stares her sitting high-schooler Daphne down
Helpless Colin in a Funderland jail
Screams bug-eyed as she looks in on him
She picks up Miranda which calms her back down
As she waits for the billing for the burning Schnorf town
Oh no!
Her rage is gonna glow
Go go Puckzilla!
Oh no!
There goes Colin’s yo’s …
Go go Puckzilla! …
RINJI NEWS O MOSHIAGEMASU!
PUCKJIRA GA FUNDERJAIL HOOMEN E MUKATTE IMASU!
DIASHIKYU HINAN SHITE KUDASI!
…History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men”
If we ever get a theme song to this monster movie, you can be the lyricist.
I had my heart set on the instrumental main theme from Pacific Rim by Ramin Djawadi though …
That song is quite literally the only action movie score that I consider to be memorable in last ten years. Still in my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vU7XqToZso
Ha! In my entire long life, nobody even dared think of releasing the Kraken…The Doomsday scenario is best left in the subconscious…
Leave it to Daphne.
I have often threatened to release the Kraken. It works best when nobody else knows what counts as the Kraken but have seen the good Clash of the Titans so their minds go all over the place to what you could mean.
The good Clash of the Titans being the Harryhausen one, of course. Right? Please tell me we’re on the same page here.
Of course. You can’t beat the little robot owl and the amazingly fun claymation figures. Those are awesome. Plus Burgess Meredith. I can’t side against it.
I certainly can’t. Finest movie ever.
Puck is gonna show up for the first time in… Quite a while in a comic called Puck? What kind of sorcery is this?
I can understand Colin’s desire not to get his balls squished, but at the same time, Daphne has a point as well.
Puck will show up. And after this story arc is over, we’re going to be stuck on Puck for a while, I think.
You should probably avoid Season 3 and 4 of the all time classic UK TV Show Blake’s 7 then.
Is that like ”Charlie’s Angels”?
Well, apart from the plucky band of rebels trying to overthrow the Earth Federation government in our future, yes. Also, said rebels being as amoral or even as evil as said government they’re fighting against, there’s that too – and spaceships and stuff.
Otherwise, exactly like Charlie’s Angels, yes.
That stuff didn’t happen in your Charlie’s Angels? I must’ve been watching the wrong show.
I don’t know, you be the judge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cEsAX4xaFI
You know what I want Charlie’s Angels to meet up with? Cthulhu.
Angels! We need you to confront and beat Azathoth! However, six of you will die or go insane!
But there’s only three of us!
See, I’ve already confronted it, as far as I’m concerned, there’s forty of you, all shades of colors beyond the scope of human imagination, and I am not talking out of my armpit! Good luck!
Ugh. The world needs no more Lovecraft than there already is. I know that’s not the cool opinion to have, but hey, I’m not very cool.
That ship is giving me hypodermic nightmares.
If it gets kids to actually read classic writers and literature in a round about way EG, I really can’t agree with you. Too many kids think they’re too good for actual good writing, and by kids, I mean both youngsters and oldsters that get real haughty on reading.
If it expands their horizons in a good way, I think that’s an important thing.
Sure. I’ll go with that too.
So long as we don’t meet a boy named “Flinx” and a winged snake named “Pip”, I’m fine.
I’ll always remember how his story finally ended…
Better than classic.
Yeah, right, like she’s not going to squash some part of Daphne, too…sure, she’ll squash Colin *first*, but there’ll be plenty of time for more…
Well, I think Daphne’s plan here is to throw Colin to the wolves and make a hasty escape, but who knows? She’s backed into a corner here.
There’s Tyler—or is it Taylor?—to throw, too…
It’s times like this I bet Tyler shared certain attributes with a certain Mr Durden.
“Tyler, I don’t understand this.”
“You were looking for a way to change your life, you could not do this on your own …”
He’s cuddling his sc#$%? Cause Puck has had them nailed to her wall for some time. She can stomp them any time she wants. :p
I think it’s sort of a voodoo scenario where the objects in question can be in two unique locations at the same time.
OOh, or Chaos theory. Maybe Schrondinger’s Cat was really a Tom named “Colin”
Possible.
Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up to the sky with hope! And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake…the Kraken!
ahem
Ya know Daph is being remarkably brave considering she started half of this 😛 not to mention that Puck is likely to eat her lady-balls sauteed with butter lol
Well, Daphne is nothing if not brave.
“Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.”
“SQUARED IN THE LADY BALLS!”
Welp, what do you think will be called in after this?
1)SWAT
2)Social Services
3)Hazmat
4)Nuke the site from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure.
The correct answer is #2.
Who will then call #1 in desperation, who will realize they need #3, who will then say “screw this,” and use #4.
Daphne– that really is unfair to Colin. The man has stuck around Puck and you for ten years. Now, perhaps he has severe masochistic issues, however even if that is the case, he has stuck around for ten years! Recognize that!
Exactly! No one gives Colin his props. All you Colin haters out there, you say he’s an idiot and … well, you’re right. He’s and idiot. But he’s a loyal idiot, and that’s worth something!
Ten years of loyalty…vs. losing Miranda and getting locked up. Hmm. Stomp him a good one, Puck.
I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve a stomping. Just… maybe a gentle stomping.
Puck and gentle is contradictory
Daphne bringing that ether to Colin! Man, that was pretty rough to read much less absorb if you’re Colin.
I think Colin’s used to this sort of thing.
Regarding the strip title, thank you for actually using “DEFCON” properly! I don’t know how many times I see people who think that “DEFCON 5” is the highest level, and “1” the lowest.
At least, I’m assuming you were going for the highest – we are talking the metaphorical “nuclear option ” here, right?
Right. And I WOULD have used the DEFCON thing wrong if I hadn’t looked it up beforehand, but I always make a point of looking up terms and phrases I’m not 100% familiar with before using them.
As Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans is one of the few movies I actually bothered to buy on DVD I have alot I could say about it. However I will limit myself to two statements.
1: The robot owl’s name was Bubo. I’m fairly certain it means “owl” in greek but I’m not 100% sure.
2: Judi Bowker was SMOKING HOT. Her birthday is only 2 days after mine incidentally.
I love that movie. And Judi Booker WAS hot, though I really think her finest feature was her long, aristocratic neck. Seriously, she had NECK FO DAYS! Like, I’d draw my characters with necks like hers but then everyone would be asking, “What’s wrong with their necks?”
O_O
How many read-throughs of this comic have I done… and somehow let it slip by me…
…That the literal female dog just called Colin a bitch!?!
Am I getting old?
I don’t know how many read-through you’ve done. But I appreciate them all. And we ALL are getting old.