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As for the comic…
I hate drawing cars. I hate drawing car interiors and exteriors. I hate drawing lots of cars even more. I hate drawing people next to cars. And people in cars. And cars. This comic was a nightmare to draw, and I hate it, and it makes me sad. I just finished working on it about five minutes before posting. And I started working on it five days ago.
That it all.
Puck 339
Chapter: The Happiest Place in OntarioCharacters: Colin Daphne Miranda Phoebe Puck Tyler (aka Taylor)
NEW WEEKLY VOTING INCENTIVE! SEE THE METHOD BEHIND THE MADNESS!!!
There's a new weekly voting incentive up on TWC! Each week in May, vote to follow along as I reveal both the method and the man behind Puck comics! Watch as I lead you through the many, many steps of drawing some classic Phoebe cheesecake for an upcoming ad. Plus, for the first time ever, you get to see what I look like! It’s not a draw, but I’m making it sound like it is! Marketing!!!
CLICK HERE TO MAKE LEARNING FUN!
As for the comic…
I hate drawing cars. I hate drawing car interiors and exteriors. I hate drawing lots of cars even more. I hate drawing people next to cars. And people in cars. And cars. This comic was a nightmare to draw, and I hate it, and it makes me sad. I just finished working on it about five minutes before posting. And I started working on it five days ago.
That it all.
Really? The big man can’t say anything more harsh than poo?
Although is part of the funny supposedly from either onomatopoeia or alliteration?
He’s not getting horizontal with a certain Cat-Girl anytime soon, either.
Though, you know, check out Daphne’s expression in Panel 2. He could totally manipulate this situation to his advantage. It’s been done before….
BUT WAIT – she’s like SIXTEEN ! Turn Back Tyler !! Alcatraz Alert !!! Alcatraz Alert !!!
She’s a dog. Isn’t 16 gonna be pretty old by dog standards?
She ages well ?
Anyhow, I was really just baiting the Lizard.
He HATES it when anyone calls Daphne a cat.
Try it sometime. PLEEZ ?
(i need all the help i can get)
It probably has something to do with his drawing skills.
He figures “No Whiskers – No Cat”
If it were only that simple….
Like, ANCIENT!
Well, he’s sixteen too.
Daphne is a dog-girl. Maybe a furry? Check you archive again
Well, the words ‘baby’ and ‘poo’ seem to go together. Calling it anything else when it comes from a baby seems excessively harsh.
Ever hear the story about the old lady who screamed one day, “Oh, sh#$! I stepped in some doggie poo-poo…”
That’s almost as bad as the great kaka debate in “Good Morning Vietnam.”
Although, what happened to the cruellers? Didn’t they come with the coffee?
Canadian Custom ?
Real Americans charge extra for EVERYTHING.
You just wait until I start selling the American version of poutine dude. Just wait. It’ll be “down home hillbilly style Americanized Canadian import foodstuffs made fresh that hour.” And not just cheese curds and a pain roux gravy. I’m talking red eye poutine, bacon poutine, sausage poutine, roast beef poutine, french dip pouti e and dirty poutine.
It’ll be so dirty, that you wouldn’t let it fall on the floor. Although your cardiologist recommends it. So dirty, hookers in Nevada have banned it. So dirty, subways in NYC gleam by comparison. So dirty, you couldn’t tell the difference between Detroit and Windsor on a bright, calm day. So dirty, terrorists are afraid to weaponize it at all.
A bastardization of Idaho spuds, Wisconsin dairy, and wheat from Fort McMurray.
That’s not to dirty, is it gecko?
A bunch of urbane hipsters already beat you to it. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/poutine-quebecs-accidental-delicacy-becomes-global-haute-cuisine/article4320407/
Bah, high blood pressures. Those lousy fleshy hipsters are not I.
I pledge to bring forth a culinary abomination so vile, death row contracts me to make the concoction. That prisoners will eat after their ginal meal will such gusto, they’ll be licking the bowl while their heart bursts like the explosion of Chernobyl raised to the second iteration of the death star’s reactor overload.
And it saves money on cremation expenses as well.
God speed, you noble soul. And may flights of chubby angels sing thee to thy high-calorie rest.
Poutine sounds pretty good. Never had it, though. Or seen it on a menu.
(I’ve just got to expand my horizons beyond Arby’s)
Don’t. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. If we’re to believe Wilde, anyway.
During the big outdoor art festival, one stand makes both traditional poutine and “dirty” poutine which is the fries, cheese curds, and barbecue beef with sauce. At least here there’s a huge agricultural culture so everything is gathered within 50 miles. I know that sounds pretentious and it probably is, but when you know that you’re eating damn good junk food and helping the local farmers, that feels pretty good.
Sounds … DELICIOUS to me.
It is, and I figure, I eat all of those things separately anyway, mixing them together is a godsend. It is amazing, and a meal by itself.
I’ve seen poutine at my university. Once it’s served you have 10 minutes to get to a table and finish it before it becomes contact cement.
You don’t get to ask for a ride then bitch about it.
Exactly. It’s manly code.
Oh how I long for the days when my nose could still pick out puke and baby poo…
Why, you live over a cheap location for tobacco enthusiasts who use to much soap too?
True story: we were parked next to a van with three child seats in it. My daughter looked over and casually said, “Oh look, daddy! Their car is a total dump just like ours!” Indeed, child. Indeed.
I have a friend who has a child.
Thank you for listening to my story.
Tyler shouldn’t complain.At least he’s not riding home with Miranda like Colin and Daphne I think she’ll be crying most of the way.
Well, he IS riding home with Miranda, hence the baby poo smell.
Methinks this will have consequences. Ty puts his foot down…will Daphne break it? Or does she truly care about him? Hmmmmm….
I think that Daphne really, truly cares about the people that appear in this particular comic. Right here. The people in these two cars, that’s it. Anyone else is fair game for swindling.
So, if you were Rob Leifield, then cars would be your feet?
Precisely. But it’s not entirely analogous because I still DREW the cars instead of hiding them behind rocks or mist or something.
You could’ve made the POVs over the car rooves and only drew parts of the rooves.
(roofs?)
Roofses ?
Ruffs ?
Rive ?
Oh, this is Canada.
So…. Bonnets ?
But then I’d still have to draw the cars BEHIND THEM, see? There’s no easy win.
Ah, yes. I see that, now.
That’s how they get ya.
I’m gonna guess that you don’t like cars too much, EG.
Reason I think so: Alt-text and the description. Mostly.
Is it just me or does Daphne look somewhat annoyed in panel 3 when Tyler asks if he can ride with Puck and Phoebe instead? Like, “Damn it, I was hoping he’d ride in my car again so I could somehow screw him over once more! Intentional or not!”
I don’t like DRAWING cars. Here’s the issue: people are hard to draw, but I’ve spent a lot of time learning how to draw them passably. Cars are hard to draw, mainly because we spend so much time around them that we know when they look ‘off’. But I haven’t spent years drawing cars. It poses a unique and painful challenge.
And Daphne is indeed put out in panel three. The expression is way clearer at a larger scale, but whatever.
The cars look good. Much better than passable. And fairly detailed in the background where lots of artists would just sort of suggest carlike objects.
If I draw a car, good luck if it looks like a thing on wheels. 🙂
My issue, because I don’t use digital paint, is that I can’t just do some splotchy car-shaped objects. I really have to draw something. If I don’t, it’s just a blank color field, and I can’t deal with that.
With her five munchkins, my Sister and her Husband’s entire house smells like baby poo, toddler puke, and ear medicine. Whenever they come to visit me (imagine a swarm of locusts), as soon as they leave I have to take the trash outside and open up the windows for some ventilation.
But then again, I spent some time taking care of my elderly Grandparents, and their whole house had Old People Smell.
Imagine old people AND small children. It’s a terrifying combo…
I’m in the middle. So my house smells like middle people smell.
Smells like responsibility!
There were some weekends last year when I had to deal with Baby-&-Toddler-Smell and Old People Smell on successive days. I had a break at Thanksgiving when I visited my set of semi-estranged Grandparents (long story), and I remember, when I opened the door for the first time, that I was inundated with Old-People-&-Antique-Smell.
I love Antique smell. One of my favorite smells! Though I wouldn’t necessarily want to live immersed in it.
Yes! My sister lives near an antique/anything store that we peruse on the reg.
Every time you walk in you gotta *sssnniiiffff* – take it all in.
[Unrelated update: I’m still off work from my leg thing back in March, but I’m going to give it a trial run back to work on the 6th! About time. I’ve been getting the cabin fever.]
Hadn’t realized how “pseudo” his relationship with Daphne was. I suppose he goes along on the “hope” of “something better.”
(By “hope” I mean “possibility,” and by “something better” I mean “sex”…)
You’ve got it in a nutshell.
Of course he wants sex. He is a male
Well, I doubt if any of Daphne’s aesthetically pleasing attributes are going to help. At least right now. But the question that might beg to be asked, what do the other kids say about Tyler and Daphne. And since they’re in high school, rumors of doggie style may be abound. Thus formenting a cement in a relationship that could doom them even worse than Romeo and Juliet?
Just verbal poison and patois speaking grand kids, if any.
the daphne has no aesthetically pleasing attributes.
Re: Your incentive. Has your program not got a “Resize”? Or is there some other, aesthetic reason that I need to know so that I can show off?
Resize? Well, I could shrink the image to fit entirely in the ad box, but then Phoebe would be so tiny it would look weird. I wanted her to mostly fill the frame.
Always A Price Must Be Paid.
Funderlanderdammerung (in English “The Quest for the Schnorf”) has concluded and our heroes will never be the same.
Well, maybe they will become better people because of it. (Insert stifled guffaw here.)
I wonder when the Asylum version (“Shnorf Quest”) is coming out.
Gecko, the third panel is confusing. First western style steering compnents, then British, then back to western.
Nah, I see the problem. Phoebe’s in the left front seat in panel three (just as she’s shown in panel 4), but the way Puck’s holding the door, it looks like Puck’s going to climb in. Honestly, I imagined Puck was putting the baby in from driver side (which is sort weird; you usually don’t do that if the child’s seat is on the passenger side in the back, as it should be), then turned to address Tyler.
What can I say? It’s cars and people together in the same scene. I can’t draw cars and people together in the same scene and not have it fall apart.
I simply assumed that Puck was opening and closing Phoebe’s door for her. Just as any Gentleman would treat a Lady.
Puck is a gentleman? Who knew?
Well, Susan, who “wears the pants” in the Goodfellow household if not Robin ?
And can’t a woman be a “Gentleman” if she identifies as one ?
We are living in 2016 !
(But honestly, I was just trying to help the Gecko out of a tight spot. Jeepers, compare the “Official Explanation” to mine and decide which is more likely)
We’ve already established that Puck is the dude in the relationship.
Yeah, something like that.
I’m just a humble fan who pays attention.
To the best Web Comic there is !!
(yes, I mean Puck)
I wouldn’t think Puck would self-identify with anything “gentle”. Tough dude,” maybe
True.
Dude, be glad you’re getting away from her when you are. The girl is so toxic, she comes with her own hazmat team.
Yeah, that’s one way to look at it. Tyler makes a smart decision for once.
One day Daphne and Tyler will get their own episode of ‘Cops’ – just like on ‘My Name Is Earl’.
Just roll down the windows, Taylor, and don’t mind the Junebugs. 😉
Yum!
On the voting incentive: “Time Horton’s”? Is that the Coffee Shop At The End of the Universe or something like that?
Tim Horton’s is the most prominent fast food chain in Canada – like, WAY more prevalent than McDonald’s. You’ll find one everywhere you go in Canada. So if Canada is the end of the universe (which it well might be), then yes. Yes it is.
I remember Starbucks and their evil plan to put one of their coffee shops on every street corner in the world—thought the recession had killed it, but of late they seem to have picked it up again.
Tim Horton’s has already realized that dream in Canada. And as much as Starbucks would like to take their turf, they’re still a super-minor player in the coffee wars. McDonald’s has recently been trying to muscle in with their McCafe initiative, and in Canada McDonald’s runs free coffee weeks regularly, where they just give their coffee away in the hopes of stealing Tim’s customer base.
In the U.S., though, it’s a totally different ballgame. Tim Horton’s keeps trying to gain a foothold, but the American fast food landscape is super-crowded and they keep getting their butts handed to them.
I would’a thought, after they bought Burger King, or Burger King bought them—hard to say which, since it’s all a tax dodge—that they’d soon make a bigger foray into the USA marketplace. Always room for donuts…
That was the plan, but I don’t think it’ll work. Who knows? BK and Tim Horton’s is an unholy union, though. I’m not happy.
I passed a Tim Horton’s in Mesquite Friday! Naturally, I thought of Puck and Gecko. But no Timbits for me. Pastry goes right to my hips
Timbits are NOT pastry. So I think you’re safe.
TIMBITS ?
In the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave, we call them MUNCHKINS.
And they suck.
Timbits kinda suck too. Well, some of them are amazing, but some (like the ‘old-fashioned plain’) are barely edible. And when you get an assorted pack, they love to stuff it with the crummy ones.
TIMBITS are awful, too ?
Disappointing.
Well, there is always TUNA.
yum yum yum yum
I’m caught up? nyoooo… this cannot be… I’m all caught up? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
It’s terrible when it happens. But from this point forward, the reading experience is going to be REALLY drawn out.
Fyrebrand, go back and read all the COMMENTS. It will be worth it.
ElectricGecko responds to nearly every one, and his comebacks are often as funny as the strip !
Damn, Daphne. Ty is pissed. He needs some space. Hope she finds a way to mend her relationship/friendship with him.
She might try to patch things up. This is one time I think she might swallow her pride and actually admit she’s wrong.
Hope she admits it soon. X>
NOOOO !
Daphne, “Give yourself to the Dark Side.”
Tyler prefers Baaad Gurlz.
Puck *is* a fairy, right? Then why do we never see her use magic or do anything fairy-related? I’m curious.
That’s the big question. And it has no decent answer. But along with that, you can add “Why does Satan seemingly have no evil powers?” and “How come no one ever notices how weird this cast looks?” It’s just a few weird tropes that this comic runs with. There’s no logical explanation for any of it.
I think at this point, I’m just gonna give up trying to reconcile it in my head.
(Even though seeing Puck wielding magic powers would be awesome. [maybe a dream sequence?])
Wait, didn’t he make the streets run red with blood when he won the election?
We’ll never know if she was speaking metaphorically or not.
No, no – a pregnant Puck went outside and literally found blood running the streets the day Satan won, I distinctly remember she complained to Phoebe about it. I just can’t recall which strip it was…
Maybe it was just from a knife fight up the street. Though that doesn’t explain the sulfur smell…
Hmm. I think if it was a knife fight, it would be a small creek. Puck distinctly said a *river.*
Maybe it was a big knife fight.
Right here….
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-174-2
So… If you hate drawing cars why not simply draw the car parked next to a wall in a parking garage. Then it’s only 2 or 3 cars instead of half a million.
Also before seeing the voting incentive I wondered why don’t webcomics update more often. After seeing it I wonder how they update that often.
Yeah, I suppose I could do that, but I’ve never been to an amusement park that hasn’t been attached to a gigantic, far-as-the-eye-can-see parking lot. Sometimes you just need to take bite the bullet and draw the painful shots.
As for webcomics and updating, it all depends on the comic. If it’s super simple in style, then the work can come together pretty fast. But whenever there’s any polish to the artwork, polish takes time. LOTS of time. A comic takes me about ten hours of work for a simple one, twenty hours of work for a more complicated one (like this). Now my method is about the most labor-intensive you can get because I work the old-fashioned way, but most webcomickers take this long.
Think of a regular comic book. A regular comic book runs at about 20 to 24 illustrated pages, and comes out monthly. That’s almost a page a day! Way better than most webcomics. BUT a comic book is usually the product of between five and six people. One guy pencils, one guy inks, one guy letters and manages speech bubbles, and one guy (sometimes more) digitally colors. Each is a job in its own right. And it’s a full-time job. When you do everything on your own, each stage drags you down and takes time.
Ty curved Daphne? Wow he really must be pissed seeing that he comes across somewhat affable.
Should make for an interesting subplot going forward.
Well, it won’t really spiral out into a full subplot. It’s more of a brief, momentary turning point for Daphne, maybe.
Lies puck ever heard of a certain French big man named gaston. Definely not silent. A lot of big strong men are loud and obnoxious
But in an ideal world…