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Experienced readers know that whenever Colin comes home from buying groceries, things never go well. And I’m not sure where he’s getting those classic big paper bags from, because all the grocery stores around here stopped carrying those a long time ago. But sometimes, in the interest of iconic imagery, one just has to go for the quaint anachronism.
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As for this comic…
Experienced readers know that whenever Colin comes home from buying groceries, things never go well. And I’m not sure where he’s getting those classic big paper bags from, because all the grocery stores around here stopped carrying those a long time ago. But sometimes, in the interest of iconic imagery, one just has to go for the quaint anachronism.
“COL” ?
She’s called him Col before. I don’t have the energy to look through my archive to find out where, though.
Yes, Daphne as Squirrel Girl. Laugh if you must, but SG is well known to have whipped Thanos, Galactus, and Chuck Norris all on the same afternoon.
Exactly. Not a b-list character to be trifled with!
Since that Daphne is part dog, and dogs chase squirrels, would Daphne as Squirrel Girl chase her own (squirrel-) tail?
Potentially.
Dead Rising was so awesome… Who would have thought battling hoards of the undead while listening to shopping mall muzak could be so gratifying.
4 is coming out soon. Frank is back. Too bad I have no way to play it.
Even Miranda knew that was the wrong thing to say.
That was definitely a “Dad no!” face!
Babies know all and see all.
She usually does. She’s learned a lot about what not to say from her father.
More and more places here in the United States have ONLY those big paper shopping bags now. It is not at all anachronistic.
It does make finding a suitable bag for small waste baskets, and for scooping cat litter into more difficult now, though.
It also makes carrying multiple bags of groceries simultaneously very difficult.
I can appreciate caring for the environment, but only being able to carry two bags at a time through the apartment complex makes things difficult.
They have bags for that. Or just go more often.
Around here, they push these ‘reusable plastic bags’, with woven handles, and while they ARE reusable, I’ve heard they use so much plastic to make them that, when they do end up in the trash (because they wear out after a year or two) they end up being just as wasteful as the normal plastic bags. Though the normal plastic bags are still available around here for five cents a piece.
A “reusable” Bag consumes the same resources as 100 cheap plastic bags.
But that’s only if you don’t wash them. Washing them consumes Detergent (made from petroleum), gallons of water, and electricity.
Of course they’re going to push the heavy use reusable bags. However much a normal plastic bag costs, they don’t eat that cost as a consumable. They make money selling you a resource that they make from those collected and used plastic bags.
In my area some towns have banned the plastic bags… So…
You need to color her pinky in on the vote incentive.
Well, let’s leave it. Just to drive you CRAZY!
But, but, but, but, but,
But you’re blac…..
Nope, supposedly, I’m already crazy, man.
Dear Colin… the saying is “Live and Learn”…
You aren’t doing well on the second one, and you’re REALLY pushing the limits on the first one!
He’s made it this far. That’s gotta count for something.
I was honestly not sure how this strip was gonna end (on one hand, I thought it was this. On the other, I thought she was going to do something a LITTLE more painful a bit further south).
Regardless, it was funny, so it’s a win either way.
That was already done HERE. Gotta keep it fresh.
Last panel caught me by surprise and had me literally laughing out loud. Kudos!
Glad it worked. Wasn’t sure whether this one was kind of lame or not, so if someone finds it funny, that’s a good sign.
oh collin….she may have lost the freckles and straightened her hair, but she still got her eyebrow of doom – once it wrinkles, you´re doomed!
Although if she plucks the eyebrows to make them less threatening, does it take away her power? Hmm. Philosophical questions…
At least it wasn’t a “square” watermelon. I’ve heard those things are expensive.
I’ve never seen them in stores. But they DO sound practical.
As I understand, they’re a big thing in Japan and other places where space is scarce as they stack and store better.
I don’t know why they’d be significantly more expensive than the standard variety; there’s nothing special about them, they are just grown in a square box so that as the melon grows, it conforms to the shape. I suppose there is a little extra labor cost in setting each melon in a box, and then extracting them at the time of harvest, but that’s about it.
Here’s a video I saw which describes a little the history and growing of “Square” Watermelons. (Cubic Watermelons? Rounded Cubic Watermelons? Surely there’s a better term than “Square Watermelon.”) They seem to be primarily decorative art pieces — at least the original “Square Watermelons.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4NsaILbsaI
Filipino?
Props for not depicting French bread sticking out of the grocery bag.
Honestly, I just forgot about it. Missed out on an opportunity, I guess.
French bread and a stalk of celery.
We already did that. And I avoided French bread because that would again lead to an obvious visual joke. So no.
The “baguette in the grocery bag” is really only a requisite in romantic movies. As this scene was more slapstick, it would only have been needed if it were to be used to beat another character over the head. In this case, the watermelon filled that role, so three was no need for a baked bludgeon.
love the shirt, was a hair’s breath from not recognizing the character.
man he just keeps saying the wrong things left and right. How does he live long enough to get to the next smart thing with these kinda screw ups>
See, most people view Colin as an idiot. I view him as a secret genius, able to exist in the most hostile of environments. And like extremophile life at the bottom of the ocean or deep under the Earth, he exists there because nothing else can survive there. He has no competition.
Hmm…that makes sense a idiot would say incredibly stupid things to get him truely doomed. He makes himself not a threat merely a inconvenience that is still valuable….as for survivable hmm devils daughter spawn of puck, someone raised around puck and puck darwin seems to like colin
Nice product placement. Real or imaginary?
YUM cereal, you mean? I made it up. The full box has a magenta-colored Tony the Tiger ripoff on it. It’s been seen before in the aisles of the grocery store.
The baby always looks at him like shes scared of him.
More like she’s scared of what reactions he will cause.
So, question that’s been bugging me: what’s with the auras you put around everybody’s heads?
I have no real answer. It’s pretty much a style thing. It’s something I do which is kind of unique, and I came to it largely by accident, so I run with it. I like it primarily because it allows me to provide some color variation and visual intensity to a panel. Like for instance, this strip is set entirely in the kitchen. Every panel, without the color gradients, would have a very similar palette and the comic would look a little boring (IMHO).
The color gradients allow me to have the best of both worlds, I think: it gives the same effect as a simple color field (used in some comics for visual variety) AND a more complex background.
The color can also (sometimes) indicate emotion. Yellow is shock. Red is anger. That sort of thing.
Also (maybe most importantly) the color fields make the characters pop, standing out from the backgrounds. When the backgrounds are inked drawings and the characters are inked drawings, they can sometimes get a little visually confusing. (Unlike a cartoon, say, where the backgrounds are usually painted and the characters are hard-lined.) The color field softens the background, and lets your eye more easily see the character.
So I guess I have a bunch of real answers.
My bf only says one thing when I change my hair or get a new outfit to wear. “Gee, you look pretty.” He says it often.
Proof of his keen survival instinct.
Hey, they don’t give surgical residencies to people with self-destructive tenancies.
Looking more and more like Tracee, the Devil’s floosy, with every change. Now we just need a fake tan, and Puck’s transformation is complete!
Wouldn’t that be an interesting explanation for why her freckles fell off, she straightened her hair… last page’s ending calling into question if Puck knows what a conscience is starts to fit the pattern too.
Well, if you know your golf swings, you know exactly where the ball’s going to land just by looking at the golfer.
Oh, does he still *know* her? In *all* the ways that matter? Methinks if his stupidity goes on, perhaps that may cease to be…
The Biblical form of “knowing” may be a little scanty for a while, after a remark like that….
I think that goes without saying. But thanks for saying it.
So many layers of meaning…
The layers just keep on going. Like an onion. Cut in half, so it’s all very obvious.
Wait, why does he only have half a watermelon? Wouldn’t it be a whole one, or in a package? Stores don’t just leave open watermelons out for people to buy, it attracts flies and makes them look weird and gross…
The stores I go to sell halves or quarters, usually sliced along the long axis. They also sell chunks…
Same here.
why…
Well, it’s a half watermelon that has that cellophane wrap on it. I didn’t feel I was up to presenting the cellophane effectively.
Oh. You could’ve just put a sticker on it or something.
I did not know they had WaterMelon in Canada.
I imagined Squirrel Jerky was more popular.
Or in Montreal – Escargot Skittles.
Well, most of our watermelons are imported from the ole U.S. of A. They don’t like growing up here. (It CAN be done with some of the smaller varieties, and there are some short growing season types that work passably well, but the real watermelons are almost always imports.
US Watermelons are traded for Canadian Hothouse Tomatoes.
(there must be a joke in there somewhere – but I’m empty)
Why is Canada, a cold country, shipping tomatoes (a hot weather crop) down to a warmer country? I’m confused.
Canada is the largest producer of greenhouse tomatoes in North America.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/307173/err2c_1_.pdf
Also, how old is Daphne now? 17?
Daphne is fifteenish or sixteenish. Definitely not in her final year of high school.
But how old in Jackal-Years ?
Love Miranda’s little dress, by the way – so cute! Also, that is a tiny sink. It must be difficult to get any dishes done in that.
Well, yes. Now that you mention it, it is. They’re poor. They can’t afford a larger sink … despite the fact that most sinks sort of cost the same. (Actually, the small ones can be hard to find and sort of expensive, so my logic is broken. Oh well. What’s new?)
Small trailers I have seen have sinks that size. My bf’s niece has a weird kitchen that has two that size stuck together catty-cornered. I one time was helping her clean up after dinner while the mens were watching TV and spapping lies, and asked her how she was able to prepare meals in such a weird kitchn. She rolled her eyes. “A nightmare!”
So, Puck turned Colin into a Roughriders fan?
I am not sportsy or Canadian enough to get that joke.
Saskatchewan Roughriders fans routinely carve watermelons into helmets and wear them at football games.
See? This proves that I am not a good Canadian man for not knowing this thing.
Is that what that meme pic of a cat with a watermelon helmet is all about?
I’m no math whiz, but I am perfectly willing to accept that Puck knows how to use 7000% of grocery items as melee weapons, in the sense that Puck knows seventy ways to use every grocery item as a weapon.
There you go. See? You ARE a math genius after all!
Is that box on the counter called Cracka? That sounds like something a person might buy from the next door neighbours. Speaking of which, did anything interesting happen with them while Puck and the gang spent a year at Funderland? Oh ya, I keep forgetting that all happened in one day didn’t it.
It actually says ‘Qracka’, which is, I feel, inherently classy. And the whole Funderland thing took one day for our main characters, but who knows? Maybe there’s split timelines. Believe it or not, that concept was actually floated in Marvel for a while: that appearing in comics is what keeps the characters young. Characters that disappear from the pages start to age during their absence. At least that was fronted in one issue of She-Hulk. I don’t think it went anywhere.
Nerd-Sync covers it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmGPQYwpWnU
Who the hell carries halves of watermelon like that?
Like what the what?
Does no one shop at places where they sell half watermelons? Is this one of those regional things?
I always keep my eyes open for watermelons with babies in them.
I don’t want to get it home and find a little surprise in there.
They sell half watermelons here in Texas. But there is cellophane over the wet part. Prolly Puck shoved up Colin’s nose.
Yeah, with the cellophane. Glad I’m not crazy.
Huh ?
They Sell watermelon halves here in california too… for about 80% of the price of a whole watermelon.
what confuses me is that people buy them!
That’s how they get you.
People can’t do basic math in their heads, they just see “$2.99″* is less than “$3.99″* and figure that’s a deal.
Or, like some of these companies that sold 8 packs of something for years and are now selling them as 6 packs for the same price.
*I don’t know what watermelons cost.
See, for me, the issue is (a) I don’t really eat a whole watermelon. I mean, if you’re talking about large watermelons, you kind of need a large family to finish it off before it goes bad. Either that, or you need to REALLY love watermelon, and (b) you can kind of see the quality of the watermelon by the fact that it’s cut. You can better tell the ripeness and all that. Still, yes, a ripoff.
Not to speak of the case when 1. Either one of you isn’t home much, and 2. it ruins if you don’t eat it *right away*
you can always put saran wrap over the unused half. just like at the grocery store. as long as it’s airtight it will keep for about a week.
I do. But if you’ve got two halves, that’s a lot of watermelon.
“I do. But if you’ve got two halves, that’s a lot of watermelon.”
My mom told me two halves do NOT make a hole.
For that you need a shovel.
I’ve been finding out what I can about other languages and even English in reverse.
…yakO
It’s been a minute since Colin has taken an “L” but his new “beanie” really brings out the color of his shirt wonderfully 😀
You sent me to Google to find out the meaning of “Take the ‘L'”. Which led to some rather hilarious image searches. So thanks for that.
I hope the next arc has Satan in it – he’s my fave.
Well, maybe for one comic or something, but no major role. I’ll have to come up with a good Satan-based story arc soon. (And by ‘soon’ I mean ‘in the next five years.’)
Lmao I hope I’ll still be engaged by this comic by then…
still engaged with this comic by then?????
Sorry Buggle, you will never stop reading it as log and Gecko produces it… you’re one of us now… one of us… one of us… one of us….
The more important question is whether I am still engaged with this comic by then.
I should hope so – you’ve put years of your time into it. If you just got sick of it one day, it’d be a little weird.
Well, the average lifespan of a webcomic is 36 entries or so. (That’s the average point when the thrill of creating something is dampened by the crushing realization that no one cares.) If you get past that point, though, like I have, it usually means that you’ve either found success, or are a weirdo and just don’t care that no one cares. I’m a little bit of column A and a whole lot of column B.
Honestly, the biggest killer of long-running webcomics, from what I’ve seen, is success – not of the webcomic (because THAT seldom happens) but success with another project or a paying art gig or something. Suddenly the drive to work hours a week on a project that pays basically $0 sort of dries up. Thankfully, no one’s breaking down my door trying to get me on projects, nor is anyone really waiting in the wings with lots of money, so … whatever. I’ll probably be here in another five years. That’s not necessarily a positive thing, but it’s a thing.
And where there is Satan – there is TRACEE !
Purrrrrrrr……….
Wow even the baby was like “bad move sir why you do that?”
When even babies know you’re an idiot, you know your idiocy training is complete.