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As for the comic…
I’m not sure this qualifies as character development, but it’s as close as this comic ever comes to it.
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NEW VOTING INCENTIVES THROUGHOUT JUNE READER’S CHOICE 2016!!!
There's a new voting incentive up on TWC! It’s READER’S CHOICE 2016! Where I take the suggestions from YOU, the reader (or some other weirdo) and turn them into sketches or finished pics! A new one goes up every few days, so vote often!
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As for the comic…
I’m not sure this qualifies as character development, but it’s as close as this comic ever comes to it.
Wow Gecko, that was totally unexpected of Collin.
In Billy Crystal’s voice, “It turns out that your friend here is only mostly idiot. Now mostly idiot … is slightly smart.”
What an appropriate approximation. I just bought that movie. Albeit from the discount bin, but still new.
panel 3 priceless
I’ve long held that panel three is the most important panel in a four panel comic. I’m glad this one worked.
Sparky pioneered the four panel comic in “Peanuts,” and I wish I had the time and the money really to study that comic, especially in its prime. The third panel is like a caesura in a poem — or the pause after the first line in a haiku.
The third panel is, indeed, like the kireji (or cutting word) in a haiku. I find the four-panel comic to be very much the haiku of the comic world. There are so many limitations, really, but the art of the form is dancing within those limitations. That’s why I never, ever, ever deviate from four contained panels. I’m a purist.
This is profound wisdom you impart upon us. I had never noticed this before and now I can never unsee it again.
Panel three should be a tshirt with the possible tag line of “unexpected Gecko plot twist.”
Well, it could be. But no one would buy it. (I feel fairly certain saying that, if only on the basis that no one buys ANY of my shirts.)
Score another one for the men!!!` in this strip, that puts the score at….
Women 132
Men -749
I’m not sure I’m following your math. Most points the men have scored have been through inaction or incompetence. And if you include Satan in that count, I’d say the scores even out.
let me rephrase that…
Women: One Hundred and thirty two
Men. Negative Seven hundred and forty nine.
I was once told that if you have to explain a joke, it’s because the joke stinks…. Let me get the air freshener!
Oh. Didn’t see the minus sign. Or I assumed it was a bullet or something. Carry on.
Oh Daphne – I don’t like the finger you are using in Panel Four.
Prepare to walk home….
It is only the trigger finger that Daphne is using to point at Colin, with. (Although, I was sort of expecting it to be the middle one, bring Daphne…)
Jordan, look more CLOSELY…..
Your “expectations” are correct.
All characters wield fingers freely in this comic. Why? It’s an easy-to-draw gesture that nicely accompanies dialogue.
Better than weldings fingers, am I right?
Yay, we got some actual character development!!!
Well, maybe. Maybe a little.
Yeah, right. She’ll be contrite for a while after being called out on her bad behaviors, then go right back to doing them.
She’s the type that’s never sorry for what she does, only sorry that she was CAUGHT for doing them.
You know her type so well…
Well, I’m just basing this evaluation only on everything she’s ever done in the comic…
🙁
the daphne has no character to develop.
@CH
See what a nice refreshing train ride can accomplish ?
Oh, if I had a nickel for every time I set an amusement park ride on fire in the name of love… As someone who had a few crazy delinquent friends growing up, I definitely recall what it feels like to be the one “guilty by association” and it’s nice to see Colin stick up for Tyler here.
Some of your exploits, I think, were subconscious inspirations for this whole plot.
I hope she has to work off that debt. She is never going to learn to be some what responsible if she doesn’t have to face the sh!$ storm of her actions.
Well, we’ll see. Baby steps in the right direction. Even getting her to see she’s in the wrong is a big thing.
What newspaper were these exploits chronicled in?
I swear, I read panel three and woke up on the floor 2 hours later. Damn you, Colin and your wisdom right crosses
BAM! Just when you least expect it!
Careful Colin, I am sure that one too many “Momentary flashes of wisdow” is how that poor fool Yorick ended up in his grave too….
No, with Yorrick it was his gibes, his gambols, his songs and his flashes of merriment. Colin is incapable of these things.
Of course, Robin should learn the same lesson with regards to Phoebe, after she dragged Phoebe along for a ride she’d already said she couldn’t handle. And then *Phoebe* apologised to *Robin*? Funny that Satan’s daughter is the innocent one in this.
Lessons all around. And more on that dynamic next week!
I can’t say if I love Daphne’s or Colin’s reaction in panel 4 the most.
Probably Colin.
As for the loser-mobile, I was actually going to ask what one looked like.
Now I’m curious, why a green one?
(This question is coming from a guy with 0 interest in cars in general, so apologies if it seems stupid!)
Puck and Colin drive a green ’99 Malibu, mostly because I drove a green ’99 Malibu for fourteen years. It died a warrior’s death. Like a good Klingon.
Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam!
(“It is a good day to die” in Klingon).
I think the flashes will be longer. I belive Colin’s fatherly instinct is kicking in. He is starting to think of daphne as more of a daughter then before.
Hey! A 99 Malibu is a classic GM product anyone should be proud to be seen in. Now if you had Colin driving a Pacer well that is definitely a ‘loser car’. Unless its being piloted by Wayne and Garth of course. Party on Gecko
See, an old subcompact has character. It says “I’m poor, but I’ve got spunk and youth and character!” An old midsize sedan just says “I’m sad and poor and old and poor and sad.”
Would that he showed that flash of wisdom just before he lost Miranda…
It’s like lightning. Even Colin never knows when it will strike next…
Let’s just hope it lasts long enough for Colin to remember the way home…
No promises…
Is Colin like the Fool in King Lear? “Poor Tom’s a-cold”
Colin is like the fool in all Shakespearean plays. The fool must speak truth. Shakespearean law.
Oh, man! Did not see this coming! The way Colin lead Daphne to enlightenment, beautiful! There is genius to Colin . . .
Ben Kingsley says, “You’ll never see my pithy wisdom coming…”
If they ever do hook up, I really hope you don’t use that tired never amusing ‘threatening the daughter’s new boyfriend’ crap.
No. I really hope I don’t either.
it wouldn´t work anyway, since daph is WAY more threatening then collin could ever hope to be – if anything, puck could do the threatening-thing.
though just looking at where knocking up puck got collin should be enough to have tyler run for the hills screaming his lungs out….
True enough.
Gecko, how much more road trip? I get car sick unless I’m driving.
Do ya think Crack-House Guy will host a Welcome Back Party ?
Wouldn’t you?
They’ll be home by the very next comic. Promise.
What if that’s not the real Colin and Gecko secretly replaced him with a wise clone?
Can they make wise clones? That seems like very advanced cloning tech.
It can’t be, there’s no voice over saying, ‘we secretly switched Daphne’s adopted father with Folgers secret coffee crystals.’
Indeed. The Fool is the most powerful card in the whole deck. 😉
It is… seriously nice to see Colin doesn’t just think of himself as Daphne’s dad, but ACTING LIKE IT as well.
He acts like it to the best of his limited (EXTREMELY limited) ability.
Looks like Colin’s Inner Genius has taken over from his Inner Idiot
They duke it out regularly. This is one of the few times the inner idiot lost.
This looks good enough for me. 83
My boy Colin sonned her :o! It’s the little victories from him that I truly enjoy 😀
They are small, but they do exist.
I’m just wondering, but is she a were wolf or something? Can she change out of being a wolf to looking more human?
No, Daphne can’t change. No one’s ever really figured out what she is, because there isn’t another one like her, so no one really asks too many questions.
It’s terrible when adults do that to kids, especially teens. LOL. Because of this strip, I think Colin should have been a lawyer.
Colin is smart. He just generally hides it behind laziness, cowardice or ignorance. But in his core, he could actually be a decent lawyer if his other failures as a human being didn’t get in the way.