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This is what I think agents look like. I think they are tanned and sport man-buns and wear sport coats with jeans. I might be wrong, but I think I’m probably right.
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THE PATRONS HAVE TAKEN OVER!!!
That’s right! For the month of November (and probably beyond) the voting incentive pics are in the hands of the fans! Patrons on Patreon who pledge $5 or more a month get a personal say in what incentives are coming your way! If YOU want to put your two cents in, then my HEAD ON OVER TO PATREON and join the select club!
See what all the fuss is about!
As for this comic…
This is what I think agents look like. I think they are tanned and sport man-buns and wear sport coats with jeans. I might be wrong, but I think I’m probably right.
Uh Oh.
Elaborate.
Did I hear someone horking up a fur ball behind the couch?
I wanna be a bubble….
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-25
My, Puck’s *assets* have plumped up a great deal since her college days… Has it all been from having a baby, or has she been using boob masks?
Ostensibly from pregnancy. Ostensibly.
Well, Puck became more pneumatic well before Miranda’s birth.
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-81
Though to be fair, even in Puck #81 Robin was with child, and Bewbage begins to increase from even the early months of baby-making.
Isn’t it a wonder that he doesn’t have that movie on D.V.D.?
What movie?
I’m with you. Not getting the DVD comment or the uh oh either. I just see a naked blonde Puck and all thoughts flow out of my head.
Good. I’m glad someone else is equally confused. Makes me feel less lonely.
The voting incentive movie, I’m assuming?
Oh. Right.
He *must* at least have Rosemary’s Baby…
Then my job here for this comment is done.
….because someone mentioned Rosemary’s Baby?
Satan (Mel to his buds) gets residuals every time someone uses his name.
No wonder he lives HERE:
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-221
And “Check” out his Campaign Symbol. I don’t think Electric ever got enough kudos for it:
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-167
Also, check out Mel’s SKIRT.
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-221
ElectricGecko swears he’s wearing Chinos, but you be the Judge.
They’re pants – you can see it in the first panel.
Well, Buggle, once again you have helped me see the light.
You are really observant !
Thank you! :3
Ooooh, Phoebe has a COLLAR on.
I luv collars on women – not so much on me, tho.
That is a choker, silly cat. I have one in black satin, which fastens in back with a gold chain that hooks onto the other end, and terminates with a black heart that dangles down my spiine. My bf says it is the only piece of sexy jewelry that he has ever seen that is actually sexy, so I don’t wear it when I am mad at him.
Purrrrrr…..
Much akin to Samson’s strength, the secret to Tony’s smarminess lies in the hair of his man-bun.
He’s defeated the same way that samurai dude is defeated in Ninja Turtles III, right? Wait, did I just make a Turtles III ref? Sigh.
Ha! I just went through that series on Netflix DVD a few months ago.
Yup. I purposely clicked them into my queue and then waited for them to show up in the mail.
I was not disappointed – only for the reason that I love the Henson Creature Shop.
I would have loved to work there.
First was great. Second was great if you were five. Third was … Not great. At all.
Oh come on, the second had it all, Vanilla Ice rapping for no other reason than he was a thing for about a month, a Professional Wrestler in a Power Rangers monster suit knocking a building on himself, and Michaelangelo hitting people with link sausage!
Yes. Yes it had all that. And more.
The reveal that their new, scary monsters are infants.
Hilarious.
Well Diet Baxter was right when he asked the Shredder what he expected.
I’m going out on a limb and saying that Tony is just a temporary character (mostly due to lack of ‘Tony’ tag).
I did chuckle at Puck’s remark about it being her dream (then again, it fits her).
Wonder why the 5th woman doesn’t feel bad after seeing Puck now…
Some women are impervious to the feel bads. Marketers hate them.
And yeah, I doubt Tony will appear much beyond this comic. But who knows? I never add a character tag until later in the game, when a character has reappeared a few times in the comic and I know it’s worth it.
*holds up hand* I’m a runner. We look down on all non-runners, no matter how beautiful
Oh, you runners. You all so smug.
*smiles smugly*
Under Law of Good Composition Rule Three, every time a woman is in a bathtub, at one point, especially at the end of a scene, she has to kick a leg up.
Bonus points if flicks of foam or bubbles get kicked up.
This reminds me. At some point … I need to do some bathtime comics.
CAUTION: BAD EXAMPLE:
Remember when Tolkien spends a whole chapter in FELLOWSHIP, devoted to four chaps with hairy feet having a bath and singing bath songs? Ugh. That’s an entire chapter that could have been devoted to Éowyn (in my imagination we meet her much earlier)! What are bathtubes like in the Golden Hall of Medulsed? Do Shieldmaidens of Rohan use a lot of bubbles? Does a princess of the horse nations have a rubber ducky? These are the type of questions that SHOULD be answered!
I mean, who was clamouring for a chapter devoted to four hairy munchkins singing about mushrooms? Did one of the Inklings say, ‘John, your Hobbit sequel is fine so far, but you know what you need? A chapter about singing micromorphs taking a bath!’ Did Lewis say this? I bet he said this just to mess with Tolkien.
Maybe this was Tolkien’s revenge. “What … the Gothic language is so poorly preserved!? I’ll avenge this early Germanic tongue … with Hobbit Bathing Songs!”
Makes perfect sense to me.
You have your fetishes; Tolkien has his. Nothing wrong with tubs full of short, hairy dudes. Though my own inclination hooks more towards your tastes.
So … I’m hoping we get to read a spin-off comic in which Puck reads aloud William Bennett’s AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GOTHIC LANGUAGE whilst she’s bathing in a bathtub. (“Chapter Six: Strong Verbs: Class VII; the a-Declension”).
On a slightly more serious note, I think a web comic in which the heroine explains art history whilst bathing would be a lot of fun. I find it disappointing that art history is often presented in such a dull manner. Perhaps the art teacher has a little chalkboard in the tub so that she can explain pointillism. I feel that “pointillism” is a word that’s not used in comics enough.
As for Rohan, Saruman once describes it as having a “reek” (“What is the house of Rohan but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek and rats roll on the floor with the dogs?”) But one of these days I think I shall draw my fan comic of Éowyn in a bathtub. I just find the idea of Rohanish rubber duckies fascinating.
I, for one, would enjoy an art history show in which the teacher is that chick Botticelli had the hots for and always drew (as Venus, and as Spring, and everywhere else). Simonetta Vespucci was her name, I think. She could be dressed or clothed. Really doesn’t matter. If she’s talking, I’m listening.
I would LOVE a webcomic featuring Simonetta Vespucci as a character or narrator or teacher. Were I to draw it, though, I may give her some freckles.
Don’t tempt me, man. Don’t tempt me.
Botticelli – YES
Rubens – NO
What you got against big girls, anyway?
One sat on me once. Ok, twice.
It hurt.
Um, YEAH !
Personally, I doubt Shieldmaidens bathe. Ever. But saunas, yeah
And I love Bilbo’s bath song :p
I dunno, she looked awfully clean in the movie…
When you go around in 5 lbs of woolens all the time, you don’t come in contact with dirt. Saunas clean out your pores and wash all the dead skin and curdled apocrine gland secretion. Then you go roll in the snow (or, in Eowyn’s case, grass). Takes complexion to a whole new level.
So she does bathe – in a way. And saunas are just as sexy as baths… yum.
Well, she does get naked and has water hit her skin, yeah, even if it is in the form of steam.
Wow Wow Wow
Ice Water, pleeze.
No, not in a glass – just dump it on me – STAT !
Not to mention, she also comes into direct contact with water in the form of SNOW and rolling naked in it with all her shieldmaiden friends, giggling and starting snowball fights. *licks lips* It must be a lot of fun…
Now THERE’S a Voting Incentive !!
I don’t think Shieldmaidens have friends like that. They are too serious, living the doctrine of “having it all,” including death in battle. Except for Aragorn, natch. Eowyn really dug him.
I do NOT remember that chapter (creeping senility has its advantages), but this is the best discussion of Tolkien since the Harvard Lampoon took a whack at it. 😀
You don’t remember “A Shortcut to Mushrooms”, one of the most tangential chapters in all literature? Though not as tangential as Tom Bombadil. And honestly, 80% of that first book is solid tangent.
“Shortcut to Mushrooms” is all literary space that could have been taken up with:
1) Giant spider battles. Either a battle against a giant spider, or a gigantic battle against spiders. Take your pick.
2) Anything with a Dragon
3) Éowyn wearing “Heavy Metal” inspired bikini armour
4) Quenya and Sindarin grammar, phonology, etc
5) Éowyn’s taking a bath
In other words, just the bare basics one needs for a good Middle-earth story.
Now, I will (half) defend Tom Bombadil because his poetry is just completely wacky, and Goldberry is pretty. If his chapters had just been relevant to the plot in some fashion rather than (extremely vaguely) thematically related, I think things would have been improved a bit.
Though I could have lived without the paragraph in which the Hobbits get caught by the Barrow-Wrights and lose their clothing and roll around in the grass, especially since this is just a few chapters after the bathing chapter.
See, I’m bringing everything back to today’s Puck comic. Ring composition, there.
I believe Tom Bombadil was essential, at least to Tolkien.
Tom placed The Ring on his finger, where it had no effect at all.
JR wanted to show there were forces in Middle Earth that did not play by the rules; that were above them.
Yeah, sure, but even THAT doesn’t really make sense … from a storytelling perspective, at least.
Speaking personally, I believe that Tolkien is beyond criticism. It’s like reading a holy text; you can totally question all the wacky, largely unnecessary junk in Tolkien, just as you can in the Old Testament, but there’s no point in that criticism because it all makes the text what it is.
Goldberry saved it. Totally. And gave me a totally unproductive fixation with beautiful forest ladies who have no real character traits beyond being beautiful and devoted and foresty. No wonder I was messed up as a teen.
“Under Law of Good Composition Rule Three, every time a woman is in a bathtub, at one point, especially at the end of a scene, she has to kick a leg up.
Bonus points if flicks of foam or bubbles get kicked up.”
Bubble-Clad Bathtub Babes ALWAYS do a leg-kick when they’re happy.
And that little kick makes the audience happy, too !
I wouldn’t know. I shower, mostly, and the only time I get into a filled bathtub is to shave my legs, and I have a little stool I sit on for that. The only time I kick is metaphorically, because I hate shaving my legs. Men are sooooo lucky.
Spun Gold? What are the chances this guy is Rumpelstiltskin?
High. Although Puck has already once signed away her firstborn child. (Though the contract wasn’t legally binding. I think.)
When did that happen ?
Oh, come on! You can answer that, certainly!
Aw, man. You said it before I could. ^_^
But yeah, it’d make sense that it’s another faerie taking Puck for a ride. I mean, he even calls her Robin! Hardly anyone else ever does that.
I’d imagine that Puck would go by her formal name when trying for modeling jobs. Sounds classier.
Every time she’s called by her real name I forget that she has one.
“Who’s Robin?…OH, RIGHT!”
That’s how ingrained the nickname is.
There’s an alternative to taking Puck for a ride. Taking Puck to all these shoots just to watch the chaos for giggles. That’s what I would do, take her and let her go full diva on people. I play a dangerous but satisfying game.
YES! PLEASE LET HIM BE RUMPLESTILTSKIN! THIS COMIC NEEDS MORE FAIRIES!
From now on, whenever Tony is mentioned, I will call him Rumplestiltskin.
Hmm…
Ah-ha! Rumplestiltskin is using straw as a wig* and has put a glimmer spell over himself to look human.
*symbolism, or, he just keeps straw on him all the time, in case he needs some gold in a hurry.
All he’d really need to do is hide his ears – and if this all does turn out to be Puck’s dream, it could be a dream he sent her to f*** with her.
To clarify, it’s to f*** “with” her, not to f*** her.
Oh God, what was I on when I wrote that comment?
Absinthe, maybe?
I don’t know. I didn’t look at the time stamps below.
Speaking of; it’s the 23rd, already?!
How did that happen?
Tony’s sign says:
THAT FACE
MODEL REPRESENTATION
hmmnnnn…..
Man buns are abominations that should be expunged with extreme prejudice (with a haircut REAL close to the shoulders performed with an axe)…
Agreed.
“That face, that face, that dangerous face
I mustn’t be unwise
Those lips, that nose, those eyes
Could lead to my demise…”
What’s that from? it sounds familiar…
“The Producers.” The movie of the musical of the movie.
Great Catch Robert !
Mel Brooks – Gene Wilder – Zero Mostel
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462/
One of the funniest movies of all time !
(Springtime for Hitler)
we got the wrong play, we got the wrong director, we got the wrong actor… WHERE DID WE GO RIGHT!!!!!!!
My personal all-time favorite Mel Brooks line!
DLKmusic – what an insight !
LOL ! Brought a smile to my face.
OOOOOOOH! That explains it…
Buggle, you are way too young to have experienced the majority of these things firsthand, but dam, lady, you are one quick study !
Even with the Absinthe 🙂
Which I have yet to try – but I did convince Baldie to buy a bottle for New Years Eve.
I fear if I spend too much time getting familiar with the old classics, I’ll never have time to get familiar with this generation’s classics that are coming out now, and risk becoming a crotchety old lady early.
How *did* you convince him? Are you physically capable of speaking English?
*facepalms* I say this to someone clearly typing in English, with thumbs…
I wonder what Tony will have Puck sell next.
Meats. Baskets of meats.
She’s already nailed down the lady market.
Time to move on to the man meat market…
That sounds kinkier, now that I’ve written it down.
The only Man-Meat I’m interested in is Charlie the Tuna http://orig01.deviantart.net/c1bc/f/2012/268/a/c/charlie_the_tuna_by_mollyketty-d5fw5gv.png
Ick, fish. You can have my lifetime supply. Doesn’t count shrimp or lobster, now
Susan, can I have your Scallops and Fried Clams, too ?
Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum
Nope, only members of Classes Osteichthyes and Chondricthyes.
I had forgotten that Charlie existed.
You can have my lifetime supply of fish, too.
If it comes out of the sea, it ain’t for me!
Thanks, Crohns.
Charlie doesn’t.
Anymore.
He was DELICIOUS !!
RIP Charlie.
He died as he lived… delicious (I guess).
“Oh, Danny Boy!…”
Of *course* it’s soy in the coffee.
Exposure to anything natural could be fatal, if only to self-image.
Exactly.
I voted. I did not know that “To the Devil a Daughter” was made into a movie, though I have read the book, like three times. My father has the complete Dennis Wheatley set, bound in red leather. Though I bet it’s bonded . He bought them for like a buck apiece at a decor shop in Dallas.
I am not familiar with the film, and I am not familiar with the book. But someone who requested it was, and even went to the trouble of providing for me the JPEG of the movie poster, and it had Christopher Lee in it, so I was like, “Sure.”
Lee is awesome as always, but the overall movie? mayor suckage…..
also, that smarmy agent? totally reminds me of satans lackey sigismund(?), only with more tan – sorta like the lovechild between sigismund and tracee *shudder*
Anyone want true horror? We got true horror in the above comment! Get your true horror right here while it’s hot!
If you are going to start on Dennis Wheatley, you should start with “The Devil Rides Out,” my personal fave
Okay, now Heather *has* to meet Puck – sorry, *Robin* – in her new persona.
Also, where exactly does Puck’s new hair part? I can’t see a scalp at all…
Scalps are hard to draw in line art without making someone look sorta bald.
But she looks like she’s wearing a plastic bag on her head here…
Even in the voting incentive, Satan’s face is still in shadow…
It always is. Except that one time when he was all bandaged up. And that made no sense.
And Satan’s TAIL has disappeared !
Electric, I warned you about that !
The TAIL ! The TAIL !
(ok, I have no tail. that may explain my obsession. forget I said anything)
And now that I look again, there TOTALLY is a tail there. Here you are, telling me things are one way when they’re not!
Huh…
You’re RIGHT.
I am so confuzed.
But pleazed…..
Well, it’s probably there. You just can’t see it is all.
The visible tail is Phoebe’s tail.
Satan has his tucked in his pants.
ok, ok
Satan’s tail turns me on.
there, i said it.
at least the cat is honest !!
“Satan has his tucked in his pants.”
Not anymore !!
(is this an interactive comic ?)
“Satan’s tail turns me on.”
Just because I’d LOVE to have one like his !!
:/
Now Puck’s almost made it big – will any benefits reach Colin, as the father of her child? Will she be invited to events? Cut ribbons? Get along with Satan?
No trickle-down benefits will occur at all. At all.
Trickle-UP benefits, then ?
(pleeze don’t ask me to define them. I’ve not thot this thru)
Puck says, “biggest dream.”
Inside my mind:
Tony: “There’s just one thing I need you to do, darling.”
Puck: “What’s that, Tony?”
Tony: “Wake up.”
POOF! Puck wakes up in her bed.
Possible endings:
1. Puck: (checks her reflection: red hair, freckles) DAMMIT!
2. Puck: (checks her reflection: red hair, freckles) Oh, thank God, it was just a dream!
I have been reading a lot of the webcomic Housepets. It may have infected my brain, or this could just be an incredibly overused trope. Either way, apologies if this spoils the ending of this story arc.
Well, we won’t know till we’re there, will we?
Ohh!!! She WAS sleeping when all this started.
Good eye!
Nah, can’t be – we’ve seen things from Daphne and Phoebe’s point of view.
Hmm… subconscious projection?
Puck implants bad attitudes on dream Phoebe and Daphne because they’re rude in real life?
But they’re being totally reasonable…
Good point.
i have to say nice job on that guy! ( trying not to offend anyone but that’s like dodging bullets sooo love 2016 ) he looks like a total jerk! the man bun + the little mustache and beard is a nice touch :3 along with the tan kudos! 😀
Some people just look untrustworthy. I was going for that sort of vibe.
and you did very well 🙂
Ooooooo…
If ever a 4-Panel begged for an Alt-Dialogue.
I could just imagine….
(actually i can’t. i’m not that good. but i’ll bet they would be awe-sum)
Where *is* Collin in all this? Hiding in a cupboard with Miranda, hoping to ride out the storm?
Likely.
Buggle, you don’t remember, do you ? (it’s the Absinthe)
After ElectricGecko gave us the slip, you figured maybe we could meet up with the Goodfellows.
So we got a rope, tied one end to the rear bumper, one end to a box of Kleenex, and drove around Hamilton for a couple of hours.
Before we knew it, Colin was on our tail, full speed, with Miranda’s Baby Carriage burning rubber.
Poor, poor guy.
We disguised them both, and invited them to crash with us for a few strips.
They’re both relaxing now, and I think, are even putting on weight.
Ah, always great to help folks out. (pours milk and absinthe together in a jar)
Are you serious ?
They mix ?
Sure they do – it’s called a Green Russian, and may or may not include vodka, as my memory fails me on that point. Have you not seen Archer?
With all the hours I spend here ? 🙂
(but mebe I’ll check Archer out. you’ve always been right about things so far)
BUGGLE !!!!!
Colin got into your Absinthe !
(how did he ever see thru the disguise ?)
http://i.imgur.com/aE6zvoi.jpg
Anyhow, he has my LAMPSHADE ! “Mr. Pleatie”
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-168
Oh Oh – NOOOOO !!!!!
Colin just unloaded an entire box of this morning’s Tim Horton Jelly-Filled into it.
We got to unload this guy !!!
Halp Buggle, HALP !!!
(cat panicking – this time fur real !)
IDK! The only one who knows how to handle him is Puck! Do we drug him?
Per your suggestion, I disguised the Absinthe better http://i.imgur.com/fepVZRy.jpg
Not that he could find it in his current condition. He’s out like a light – and snow-RING !!
It’s nice to see Miranda laugh, tho.
She’s been enjoying dad’s antics immensely – so much so she’s fallen right to sleep herself, grinning like a Cheshire Cat.
The Goodfellow manse was pretty easy to find. The address is right here: https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-127
Ok, ok, I crawled up the porch columns, peered in the second floor window, and Puck is sleeping (as usual). In the window, door the stairs, unlock !
Let’s carry Miranda in, tuck in her crib blanket, and she’ll be nice and snug. Done.
Ok, Col is in Zombie mode now, so at least we don’t have to lift him. Going left, going right, keep him UP ! Ok, he’s in, and zoned out cold again.
We’ll leave the Baby Carriage on the porch.
Your back seat sure is a mess though. And “Mr. Pleatie” is critical !
There’s a real nice LAMPSHADE HOSPITAL in Utica, just a few hours east. And probably a decent Car Vac place.
Can we call it a day, buggle ? I’m beginning to miss the good ole Red, White & Blue.
And who knew Hamilton Crack Dealers https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-130 treasured Shotguns so much ?
Buggle, you are one shrewd Bargainer.
There’s barely room in the Trunk now with all the cash !
I love Canada.
Same, man. This place has been awesome. (starts swigging vodka) I don’t think I’m recovered from the Drumpf victory tho. Maybe we can visit Rivendell next?
Oh BUGGLE, you’d have to bring up Rivendell.
The cat regrets little, but Rivendell – yeah.
Let’s start at the beginning: Sauron is a Stoner.
Myself, a bit of fine Catnip is my limit, but Sauron would smoke a Banana Peel if he thought it would get him high. sigh
This is Sauron on a typical Morning – Noon – Afternoon – Evening….
http://i.imgur.com/kwMgJx9.jpg
Anyhow, as you know, we had Frodo bouncing about the continent with his plastic crackerjack ring for quite nearly a year.
One evening, as 30 or more of us were crashing in a Motel Six (we always registered single occupancy. odd no one ever questioned when we called the Front Desk for so many towels).
Well, one evening Sauron’s favorite “merchant”, Tom Bombadil showed up. He rode a major Hard-Tail Harley, but his better, Goldberry – E-YOW !!!
No one who ever set eyes on her could ever forget her. And she was smart. Tom could barely mumble – Goldberry was totally the Beauty and the BRAINS.
He was pushing Magic Mushrooms that night. I said NO.
But Sauron ?
After Tom left, Sauron sold some shtick to Frodo that the ‘shrooms would give him powers to destroy the Ring.
I was agin it, but I was tired, and weak, and things progressed.
I was relieved Frodo had a “Good Trip”. He went on and on and on about Fairys, and Waterfalls, and Unicorns (how did Tolkien leave them out?).
Wow.
Buggle, you don’t want to visit “Rivendell”.
Dayum. Is there any location from the books that *does* exist?
Side note – How is Sauron also a cat?
You want the truth ?
You can’t handle the truth !!
Ok, I had a cute pic of a very lazy fellow, and it seemed to fit.
Tolkien made stuff up; I make stuff up.
How is Sauron a cat?
Did you not see the movies? What shape was that eye?
Umm, it was pretty cat-shaped.
@CK
Sauron’s a cat.
He’s visiting me today – and sleeping.
SLEEPING = CAT
SAURON SCHEMING.
The pure evil that emanates from every pore of his being is chilling.
Flowers wilt – Cream sours.
Upholstered Furniture quakes in fear (justified fear).
I felt my very soul quake in fear looking upon his terrifying form.
I can pretty much sense that this guy wears skinny jeans with no socks.
Maybe I’m wrong but the tight mustard blazer and man-bun inevitably lead me to that conclusion. 😀
May we never know….
You are almost certainly right.
Will Puck be using Sun Tzu in future?
So, is this guy 600+ years old too…? Because his lines sound ancient…
Maybe. It’s hard to tell in the world of models. They’re all so tanned and plastic.
It’s just a disguise. You’ve seen Zoolander?
I know two models pretty well. They are pretty girls but a bundle of insecurities and always borderline anorectic. And jealous. Heavens!
Ah, yes, soy! It’s one very versatile bean!!
Soy should never be in coffee. Ever.
Found it! After searching the archives for most of my lunch break! And now to use it, nefariously. Mwahahahaha!
Not sure what you found, but I’m … glad? And scared?
Don’t worry, you’ll be far enough away that the fallout won’t reach there.