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Generating the visuals for this particular comic was a satisfying experience. I'm not entirely sure why.
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As for this comic…
Generating the visuals for this particular comic was a satisfying experience. I'm not entirely sure why.
Am I seeing things or is Phoebe’s hair becoming wavy in the 4th panel? I don’t know if I should cheer or mourn!
The puckformation has begun.
Her hair does have a slight wave in panel four. It’s also subtly changed color. (The highlights used to be slightly on the blue spectrum. Now they’re on the red.)
[Insert astronomy joke about Red Shift here.]
This Phoebe dates from the earliest stages of the universe.
You were [blue] shifting towards us and now you’re [red] shifting away …
[This comment was brought to you by the Doppler Effect.]
I didn’t notice that before – it just looks plain black to me…
Might be the monitor you’re viewing it on. The color is low on the spectrum. Specifically, I swapped 0-0-20 (a very dark bluish black) for 20-0-0 (a very dark reddish black). Saturation would have to be high on the display to see that.
ok…
This week’s Title may have set a new record “The Devil’s Daughter Dances with Dastardly Dermatological Desperadoes”
That’s the SEX-D ! (sex as in Latin for six, you pervs)
I’ve not see such fine alliteration since Puck 50.
Huh. Didn’t notice that at first, but looking at it again, there IS a definite difference.
I’m glad someone sees it. I’m not making it up! Honest!
That “subtle colour change” is TOO subtle.
As in, neither the red nor the blue are visible on my screen at all, no matter how many times I look.
Phoebe’s hair highlights look white and grey.
I think your SCREEN is too subtle.
But yeah, any higher on the RGB makes the hair legitimately look blue or red, so I kept it down to just a hint. It’s very obvious on some screens. Less so on others.
You did spread the colour a bit more in later strips of this arc. I can see the difference there just fine.
I concede I am using a standard (if high-processing speed) HP laptop with a 1366×768 monitor, which while normal for most things, would be sub-par for someone who uses their computer to make art with (like yourself).
Not necessarily. I used to create on worse.
DUCK DYNASTY has begun.
YAY !!
And the story just keeps getting weirder…
SALEM! Your avatar! What happened to you!
Professor Fritz Huhnmorder offered me a unique opportunity to be his first
successfulTest Subject for his Body Transference System.I’m really BIG now, and a bit light-headed.
So far, so good (I guess).
Did your brain remain the same size? That would explain the light-headedness…
@Buggle
I’m mostly hollow now.
There’s a fan in my belly that keeps me filled-out, run by D-Cell Batteries that need to be inserted, and replaced, with some regularity.
I hesitate to disclose where the Battery-Box is, lest I be a target of ridicule.
My brain may have fallen into one of my paws.
I’m beginning to question certain aspects of the Professor’s competence.
Oh dear.
I’ve been investigating my condition, and I may not be his only
victimPatient.I apparently share a “Standard Body” with this poor soul.
Yes, he (and I) measure NINE FEET TALL !!
Oh dear! I don’t think any amount of tuna will fill that up….
I fear what 5 out of 5 Cronenbergs is.
Having seen Videodrome, Rabid and Shivers, I can tell you, it’s not pleasant.
While its hard to top Videodrome, I’m thinking five out of five is either The Fly or John Carpenter’s The Thing.
Pfft, I could tell you what a woman looked like after a load of scarap iron fell on her, but I won’t
Where in this hospital of yours do to work, exactly?
*do you work
I’m a surgical assistant for a GYN surgeon but I hang out in the ED when she is in meetings. I used to be a laboratory technician in this hospital before I went private (more $$$ and a lot more fun) and I have a lot of friends that still work there.
There was a scene in Rabid that was worse than anything in either of those films.
Not quite Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man or Testuo II: Body Hammer, is it?
Phoebe’s hair is looking better, and the Freckles are sexy.
I’m thinka’ EG is really onto something here.
Well, given the fact that I’m pretty haphazard in my approach to making this comic, I never really did any test images beforehand, or anything. So I didn’t know what Phoebe would look like with freckles until I generated this comic. But I tend to agree.
Phoebe makes anything look good!
Yes, yesssss (cat is fingertenting).
As Phoebe has discovered, “Forensically Reduced Extrapolation Canuck Kinetic Legumes using Established Standards” are good, very good.
Fingertenting is the best way of conveying diabolical intent.
BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?! YOUR AVATAR HAS A TAIL! IT’S A BLACK CAT! EVERYTHING IS WRONG!!!
Wrong ? Wrong ?
I think I look rather Dapper now.
I especially enjoy my Tail.
It does give a kind of “Witch’s Cat” vibe.
Hey, since witches are supposed to be women who cavort with the devil for supernatural powers, wouldn’t that make you a candidate for Tracee’s familiar?
Hey, since witches are supposed to be women who cavort with the devil for supernatural powers, wouldn’t that make you a candidate for Tracee’s familiar?
That would be acceptable – as in SUPER AWESOME !!!
You should go ask her – although, I can’t say how she’d react to being thought of as a witch… It could either give her ideas, or offend her.
@Buggle
If EG’s drawing of Tracee as a sinuous, slimy, slithering Octopus did not offend her I’m not sure what would !
Well then, tell me how it goes!
Although maybe you should get some training as a familiar first…
@Buggle
At 9 ft tall:
Skulking: FAIL
Sneaking: FAIL
Slithering: FAIL
Scuggling : FAIL
Scranching: FAIL
My Resume : FAIL
What about Snarling?
What about Snarling?
Let me try …… Grrrrrrrrr
I’m good at that !!
🙂 🙂 🙂
In panel 2 she has that Star Trek DS9 Dax thing going on, hubba hubba.
I thought that too when making that panel. Hubba hubba indeed.
I don’t get the appeal of Dax – she always seemed too worldly for me. Kira now! There was a feisty sometime-redhead for you!
I liked Kira’s attitude, but disliked her haircut. Seriously, I think it came down to the hair for me. Dax as a character wasn’t very appealing, exactly, but the actress was. For my teenage mind at the time, that was all it took.
The Jadzia Dax character was totally wasted by the writers. For a 600(or whatever)-year-old symbiote who in former lives intimidated Klingons and in this life was a triple-doctorate super genius, she did nothing physical but get rescued and nothing mental except let O’Brien come up with solutions. Pfah!
At least her successor Cutiepie Dax got to track down a psycho killer Vulcan etc.
I don’t think I stuck around long enough to meet the successor Dax. That show was just … okay. And I say that in the most pejorative way possible.
Doesn’t sound like you were watching the right episodes, then – Sisko could be pretty enthralling, especially with his ruthlessness… It was a lot more complicated than the other Star Trek shows.
I will admittedly state that I was not a serious viewer. I’d tune in every once in a while, and the intrigue and plot would mostly go over my head, and I was always like, “Whatever.” It was less episodic, I suppose. I just found I couldn’t really get behind the whole story arc. I didn’t care about the Dominion. Or the Cardassians. Or any of that. It was all too political and much like real international conflict. I wanted a simpler narrative. That’s why Voyager, which was admittedly a worse show by most metrics, sort of held me more because of the ‘trying to get home’ story concept which made simple sense to me. Of course, it got really dumb with that too.
I actually always thought that Voyager got better over time – once they sort of settled into what they were doing, I think they stopped relying on old formulas as much. Particularly when Seven of Nine joined the crew, since her character arcs had something new to add that hadn’t really been in the other Star Trek shows before.
Also, her tight, tight uniforms. Yowza!
@ Buggle
Voyager is my fave.
I really need to watch the final Episode again – Major Borg Action !
Queenie so creepy. *shivers* Serious psychological stuff they used with designing her and the sets and props…. Gave me the willies.
Every last single freckle has finally agreed what is best – ALL HAVE JUMPED !!
Like rats jumping a sinking ship…
It’s a scientific fact that freckles carry the chutzpah and beverage preferences of their original host, much like a mother passes antibodies on to her children.
As a representative of the scientific community, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
QED.
Yup, they’re definitely 600-year old ticks.
They really need their coffee after moving that much.
The Cronenburg rating really goes up if any of them feel like swelling up after they get their morning coffee.
Ew.
Ditto.
Better watch the freckles on my nose, then. They’ll make you hang out in the Emergency Department when you aren’t on duty and get frequent cravings for Canadian Club
Look on the bright side Pheebs, no boob freckles.
@Thisguy
No bewb freckles is a plus ?
I beg to differ.
Seconded!
Yet…
I can’t go too crazy with the freckles. They take work to apply every panel!
Are you saying you would mind applying freckles to an attractive ladies’ cleavage?
I try not to visually clutter that part of the anatomy. There is a simplicity to it that must be recognized and maintained.
I’m with you, EG. I keep my freckles confined to my nose.
CALLED IT!! phoebe will turn….to the ginger side! satans daughter will finally become the evil spawn she was always meant to be….world beware, there´s a new+improved demon in town, and she´s freckled!
suddenly i´m glad that there´s an ocean between me and canada
Well, she won’t turn any more ginger than panel four. I like to keep things subtle. Because, you know. This comic is all about subtlety.
Wow … Phoebe looks good with freckles.
Agreed.
Do not worry. The freckles just need a intermediate host to carry them to Puck herself.
It will be a war between tanning spray and freckles. But I am sure the freckles will win.
The freckle species never returns to the same host twice.
Are you sure? You’ll have to find a way to return things to normal somehow…
Not if the comic is about to undergo a huge format change….
I highly doubt it. It’s pretty much like a sitcom – everything’s gotta stay the same over time for it to work.
One word: Miranda.
Yeah, but that doesn’t count. She was a part of the reboot.
BORDER GUARD: “They have made it to the front line, sir!”
COMMANDER: “Close the gates!” *over the radio* “All officers are authorized to use live ammunition!”
*sounds of guns chambering rounds*
[distant guard Wilhelm Scream]
BORDER GUARD #2: “It got Jackson!!”
Wilhelm Scream
Let’s see if the freckles spread all over. Take off your blouse and pants, Phoebe.
No.
Not even behind one of those silhouette shades, where other things get in the mix and it makes it look like crazy things are happening – a la ‘Austin Powers’?
Oh sure. But hard to see freckles behind those.
She can still scream “They go all the way down, dammit! I can’t wear my bikini or my sandals anymore!” or something, right? ^_^
Lack of sleep and busy all morning…
AND I read the newest Puck and my mood goes from 0 to 8 (note: new Puck strips defaults my mood to 8 if below 8. So that’s nice).
I did chuckle at how the ‘transformation’ took place. Now I’m curious what’s gonna happen next – if she’ll dye her hair red and whatnot…
Transformation is as complete as it’s going to get, I think. If only because this story arc needs to end!
Why?
You’ll only start a new one, so what’s the point?
That’s like saying you don’t need to eat lunch because you’ll eat dinner later…
I don’t eat lunch because I eat dinner later.
I eat lunch and dinner, but I usually skip breakfast, cause I run in the morning and then have to scurry off to work. If I am lucky, somebody left half a banana or a carton of skim milk open in the office fridge
I must be a Rebel.
I eat when I’m hungry, and not when a “Clock” tells me to, MAN !
I don’t eat when a CLOCK tells me to, I eat when my Boss tells me I can, and when the scales read on the right side of 105 lbs.
Fans are not authorized to witness the lavation.
But as I’m pretty sure Phoebe takes showers, she will be getting naked today.
Use your imagination.
And some fans are authorized to suggest concepts for voting incentive images. Not that I’m naming names or anything here, but just saying. If imagination fails you.
If I had this power, I think I should get some assistance from an intelligence agency.
You know, because they’re smart (it’s in the name!)
Speaking of voting incentives, YOW! 😛 This week is on point!
😀
I imagine you enjoyed drawing that, Gecko? 😉
My bf is on board with watching Phleebles take a shower. Just in case you wanna know, I am sleeping on the couch tonight (hey, it’s his place)
@ Susan
I’d be pleased as punch to take a Shower with Phoebe, except, you know there’s WATER involved (shudder).
Simply licking yourself clean is so much more civilized !
You don’t have executive power to force the man from his own bed? I say this calls for a contract negotiation.
I have tried that, but the bedroom has no lock on the door and, you know, me in bed, him coming in saying he’s cold… Couches are better, especially since I can roll over and face the back cushions and pretend not to hear him…
I’ve always thought that was kind of ridiculous – why tell another person where they can sleep? Only you can control where you sleep, so just sleep somewhere else if you’re mad at them.
Plus, it’s kind of sexist, as it implies that the bedroom is the woman’s domain.
Help for new readers: freckles
Waiting for phoebe to be too much for her dad now.
In what way, I wonder?
I give you Judge Death’s (from 2000AD featuring Judge Dredd originally*) worst nightmare.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7xmbl9Bbo1qzv7jzo1_r2_500.jpg
*though this specifically was from a Batman crossover.
The look on Miranda’s face! “Mommy? But that’s not right….”
Miranda’s expression really doesn’t change much. It’s just the situation around her that changes, which imbues that same expression with new meaning.
Ah! Clever!
I think we should just talk about Colin just standing there doing nothing. God, he’s useless (Daphne gets a pass because we know from experience she just doesn’t care.)
Don’t worry, Shan… Colin will get his fo sho! With Puck gone, and the freckles on Phoebe, he will now have all the responsibilities of Husbandhood and Parenthood with none of the perks!
That would be ok, if the woman that lived in his house wasn’t so hot! Think about it for a minute, lol….
Yep, Colin’s outlook is dismal, alright.
What should he do? What would he do? This is all a lot to take in.
1. Put child down
2. Prepare to render first aid.
Failing all that, some sort of reaction? Movement? Sign of life? during all of that would have been something.
The stunned mullet look as we call it down here is not a good look.
Colin does NOT sport a mullet. He’s shaggy in the front and shaggy in the back. That’s called the ‘recently homeless’ look.
Not that kind of a mullet.
We’re talking about the fish.
After we’ve, for example, thrown dynamite into its pond.
There’s a mullet fish? Wow. Learn something new every day.
There is also a guitar fish.
Sadly, they do not play little guitars…
@Mahnarch
But do they taste like Guitars ?
He may still be reeling from apparently losing Puck. That has got to hurt.
@Rock
He may still be reeling from apparently losing Puck. That has got to hurt.
If Colin is feeling anything, it’s relief that he won’t be hiding under the Kitchen Sink again anytime soon.
ARUGULA !
Here is the correct link for Colin in his safe place KITCHEN SINK
@ SalemCat: Oh, come now. Colin has more feelings for Puck than just lust and fear. If that were really all there was to their relationship, he would not have tried to get her to stay, baby or no.
One last time:
Colin’s Hidey Hole
Rock knows what I’m talking about! These characters are more than their exaggerated primary emotions, man!
Daphne doesn’t *not* care. I think she’s just too full of despair right now to be able to do anything.
I concur. Daphne may be cynical as all get-out, but she has shown she isn’t heartless.
Thank you!
Does anyone really think D.A.P.H.N.E. is not simply lamenting a lost profit opportunity ?
Somehow ?
Yes. Me.
So many people are denying the great gift of a soul that Gecko has put into his creations… It’s disheartening for people to talk like his characters are incapable of deeper emotions.
It even curled her hair! I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!
Actually, I really like the curl on Phoebe…
Dude! That vote Incentive…. I”m in love with Phoebe all over again!
I’m glad.
Even Saint Valentine would approve !
How difficult was that shadow to line up?
*I’m no photo software pro… or amateur, for that matter.
I generally cheat on shadows. I take the form of the character, pull the outline, and use that as a shadow. Then I skew and warp the black outline of the character to my heart’s content, push it to the back of the composition, and line it up. That process takes me about thirty seconds, and is a favorite trick of of mine for creating an illusion of depth with minimal effort. Main disadvantage: it always assumes that the light source is very near the viewer, or on the opposite side of the figure. Can’t have light sources from the side. But few people ever notice.
LOVE that vote incentive…except for being copy written material, I’d say it would make great fodder for a TALENTED tattoo artist, or a sew-on patch for a denim jacket, OR sticker to put on the firewallm of a Hot Rod, OR just something really neat that a talented ( again) pistripe artist could (attempt) to duplicate.
Copy written material? Bah. It’s my material, meaning I’m not going to sue anyone for anything. So go ahead!
THANKS! But I do think you are working too cheap!
You’re a chill guy, Gecko.
Hey, the concept of making money from what I do creatively just never was in any way a realistic goal. It took over a decade for me to realize that, but once I accepted it, I found greater peace. If my stuff has even a modest audience and provides some pleasure to some people, then that’s more than I could ever hope for.
I’d rather have an audience than a royalty check any day.
*applauds*
🙂
One day, I hope Puck is remembered as an old classic.
Why not both?
soory about the typo
The Origin of the Cronenberg
I was thinking the same thing! I wasn’t sure anyone else would get the reference…
One can hardly say enough in favor of the voting incentive.
Indeed, one can hardly talk at all.
Well, that’s good, right?
Marilyn’s Inspiration for Phoebe’s Valentine
Thanks. I knew I could count on someone to post a link.
That’s me !
SalemsomeoneCat
She doesn’t pull it off half as well as Phoebe does, though.
For the time this photo was taken, she most certainly did.
I want those sandals! But not those hips!
SalemCat did of course, correctly reference the Rick& Morty episode in which the term Cronenberg was used, BUT.. can’t fergit that the movie director ( producer? ) of the Jeff Goldblum version of The Fly saw to some spectacular model building effects for the ultimate form of “Brundlefly ” and then, after the most disastrous teleportation ever depicted, “Brundleflydoor ” when a PORTION OF THE TELEPORTATION CHAMBER WAS included in the make up of the most unfortunate movie monster ever. Especially impressive as that was all pre CGI ( likewise John Carpenter’s The Thing ) Thanks, Cronenberg!
Leave it to a Canadian to disturb and shock. It’s what we do. Wait, that’s not what we do!
The ethical implications of Teleportation have long fascinated me.
(huh ? what in the world is the cat babbling about this time ?)
You see, actual Star Trek Teleportation will never exist. In that confection actual physical molecules are moving, magically, supernaturally, from one place to another. Not going to happen – ever.
What is possible is that the data necessary to reconstruct an object remotely can be used to build a copy.
With 3D Printers this is Science Fiction made Fact – today.
Hobbyists are “transporting” small objects from one to the other all over the globe (mebe even Lego figurines).
In time it will be possible to “print” drugs, guns, food, sex and rock & roll, all remotely. But they will all be duplicated, and never actually transported.
And mebe even life forms. Maybe. Depending on whether the “Life Force” can be instilled into a dead thing. Let’s assume it can.
So if I want to “Transport” to China, it could be possible to “print” a SalemCat right by the Great Wall. But he would be a COPY.
And at that point there would be TWO SalemCats. An obvious problem when the World can barely handle one.
In “The Outer Limits” episode “Think like a Dinosaur” the answer is obvious. The original must be eliminated to “balance the equation”.
In the same vein is a major movie favorite of mine, that includes Tesla and David Bowie (what a team !) The Prestige
Based on an equally exceptional book.
Snag: the data necessary to store everything about the atomic structure of a person, if put on terabyte hard drives, would create a stack of hard drives taller than three observable universes.
And that’s not even accounting for the Heisenberg principle, which says exact atomic structure can basically never be known.
Interesting.
But the Atomic Data is not needed; just a Cellular (or Molecular) Map. Because we nothing but a collection of Cells (or Molecules).
And as all necessary information to build any creature is contained in a tiny bit of DNA, we can use that as a starting point.
Where the organism went from there, incorporating their experiences, memories, attitudes, and “customizations” (think tatoos, hair color, etc), would certainly require additional data.
But the bare minimum would be the unique contents of the brain. Which may be less than we think. Personally the things I remember from years past, that are significant, could fit in a thimble.
Autonomous functions such as the parts of the brain that control heartbeat, digestion, etc, would be well served by a set of Default Values that would work for anyone.
For that matter, “Transportations” may be best accomplished by having “Standard Bodies” at the receiving end, thus requiring the transmitted data to be a fairly small set,; basically just memories, preferences, and attitude.
Scary.
Perhaps the small bit of data that is unique to an individual could be stored in tiny Quantum Structures, that could be transferred, topically, between Standard Bodies. There would likely be more QS (Quantum Structures) than are technically needed, so as to provide redundancy.
I believe that is what we are witnessing here.
Wow !
After Googling this for an hour, I have discovered research, conducted by Professor Fritz Huhnmorder, who has actually anticipated these Quantum Structures.
He has coined the term “Forensically Reduced Extrapolation Canuck Kinetic Legumes using Established Standards” to described his QS (Quantum Structure) hypothesis.
I see what you did there.
This is a very nice philosophical discussion, and an interesting theoretical situation, but I still have a practical concern – why would we *want* to do this? There’s no reason for trying, besides doing it for the sake of doing it. Teleportation by copying yourself, as a means of travel, is impractical and wasteful.
And don’t forget that the Star Trek TRANSPORTER did not even require a device on the Receiving End. How silly was that !
As every Trekkie knows, the entire concept was introduced simply to save money, as there was no money in the budget for any “Space Shuttle” to be made in the early days.
As audiences accepted the effect, and as a plot device, the TRANSPORTER was cheap, and easy, it stuck and continues to be used to this day.
“According to The Making of Star Trek, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s original plan did not include transporters, instead calling for characters to land the starship itself. However, this would have required unfeasible and unaffordable sets and model filming, as well as episode running time spent while landing, taking off, etc.”
The Making of Star Trek
Okay, so now that I think about it, why did O’Brien need to always work the transporter pad when receiving people to the ship? I mean, they didn’t have a transporter pad receiver on the planets they beamed down to. I’m sure they claimed it was something to do with distance, but whatever. I call bull!
Maybe to make sure the memory banks didn’t flux up and turn travellers into Cronenbergian monstrosities? You’d need a lot of primo memory to translate a person into energy and reassemble them flawlessly.
@Rock
You’d need a lot of primo memory to translate a person into energy and reassemble them flawlessly.
1.21 Gigawatts – exactly
Yeah, but they didn’t make sure of that for away missions…
I have long suspected The early Star Trek Episodes borrowed a lot of equipment from a certain Lost In Space to save money.
Including the Transporter.
Check out the Freezing Tube sequence from LIS, and you be judge.
Teleportation by the use of “Standard Bodies”, could be very useful indeed.
First of all, if it were at all possible to transmit the data that defines an individual into a Standard Body, and that Body was a very beautiful or handsome one, few of us would ever choose to return to our original.
In this manner Humankind would achieve Immortality. right off the bat.
Then we could ship batches of Standard Bodies to Mars, or wherever we choose, and have them waiting in stasis (eventually making the spares right there on Mars).
When it came time to travel, just transmit the data that defines you into the remote Standard Body (most likely using lasers so as to make the trip as fast as possible) and delete the original data.
When it became time to return, transmit the updated file back to Earth, and just write it into another Standard Body.
If we can do this, and treat the individual consciousness are merely a packet of data, the ethics of overwriting it, and deleting it from the original, become sanitized.
At least that is how Professor Fritz Huhnmorder has explained it to me.
He has graciously offered me a chance to be a Test Subject. I’m giving it serious thought…..
Wait, in this scenario, if one were wealthy, could they have a Custom Body built for them? Like a Vacation Beach Body, just for their summer villa?
Oh yes.
And I’m certain, like Artwork, and Fashion Clothing, bodies could be Copyrighted.
The 1% always finds a way.
Although, this whole scenario sparks a whole new side and set of complications in the crime of identity theft…
A very rare file photo of the good professor celebrating his breakthrough research
Salem? Is that you in that Picture??????
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SALEMCAT, YOU FIEND!!!!
No, not me.
I have no tail (whimper).
The good Doctor has assured me, however, if I survive the “experiment”, he will provide me with one.
Or a prosthesis, anyways.
Also, well, I’m small.
Really small (sigh).
I’ve come to grips with my limitations.
@DLKmusic
Ok,ok.
The good Doctor convinced me to sign on the dotted line.
He harvested a few F.R.E.C.K.L.E.S. that were under my fur, and transferred them to my new body.
Fritz even gave me a Custom Tail !
Cool, Huh ?
(but I do feel just a bit light-headed)
OOoooooooh. So that’s why you’ve changed.
(I still am reeling, but will try to cope)
@Buggle
After my transformation by F.R.E.C.K.L.E.S., I felt really beat, and bumbled home to rest.
Or so I thought.
Firstly, I couldn’t fit through my Kitty Door. Not even a paw !
So I scratched, gently, which sounded like thunder and, as I discovered later, left deep gouges !
Baldie cracked open the door, freaked, and slammed. I guess he did not recognize me (or maybe, he did.)
Stunned, I retreated.
Later, after dark, I crawled to a window, as quietly as I could, and peered inside….
My old body was right there !
Stripped of the “SalemCat” overlay, he was just a REGULAR CAT !
He was in Baldie’s lap, grinning and purring. Didn’t seem to be scratching the furniture, at all. No Litter Box “accidents (accidents, sure, lol).
Baldie even had the darn thing doing (shudder) DOG TRICKS !!!
Speak, fetch, roll over. Disgusting.
At least there was room for me back at the Huhnmorder Manse.
I awoke, SCREAMING IN TERROR !
From a NightMare so vile, that it shreds the very fabric of Reality. A fabric that may never be mended.
It all began last evening, while visiting Professor Huhnmorder at his Laboratory …..
“Yass, yass, my furry friend, please to come in. Some tuna perhaps ? Ah, gooood. Now, come see mein latest development…”
The good Professor was hitting the Schnapps, again (as is his custom).
In high spirits, grinning from ear-to-ear, he tinkered with a primed bank of Fluxed Capacitors, all the while continuing a rambled monologue – directed at no one in particular – which is his prime method of communicating with lesser creatures.
I understood but little, but certain phrases stuck in my mind: “Duplicitous Automat Parasitic Humunculus Nibble Experiment”, “Half Liter of Milk, Box of Cheerios, Two Cans Sauerkraut”, and then, with a dreadful chuckle, “Forensically Reduced Extrapolation Canuck Kinetic Legumes using Established Standards”.
Outside the winter wind was light, yet its chilled teeth still bit, so when the Professor bade I get comfortable, I gladly retired by his fireplace. The flames roared, fueled by Imported Bavarian Timber, and I gladly sank into a cozy bed of scrap fabrics he had prepared for me. Scrap Fabrics – that I only now recall – were distinctly PLAID !!!
Professor ‘Chickenmurderer’? Were his ancestors in the poultry business?
@Rock
Of course the Professor murders the chickens before he cooks them. Would you eat the poor things alive ?
(or torture them by batting them to about first ? pretty much like i do to mice ?)
Nope and nope, but I don’t name myself for the fact.
The Huhnmorder Coat-of-Arms incorporates images of happy villagers waving Fried Chicken Legs in the air.
The first Huhnmorder (I believe his name was Mel), was a very fine Chef. It was he that discovered the many benefits of killing the bird before eating it.
It was those selfsame villagers that bestowed the surname Huhnmorder onto his clan, as a great honor.
Eh, I give it one Cronenberg, maybe a half. :p
My only concern is: how do we get those little suckers back onto Puck and the Tracee out of her….?
“little suckers ?”
Ohhh, you mean the F.R.E.C.K.L.E.S
It is impossible. Give up.
NEVER !
That’d be really sad. :-/
Freckles are forever on PreTeena: http://www.gocomics.com/preteena/
Is this where Puck’s plane is shot down over the sea of Japan. It spun, crashed and went down with no survivors.
@pat
I believe that the FRECKLES contain Puck’s Individual Psyche, formed as QS (Quantum Structures).
So she is really not responsible for her callous actions.
If the FRECKLES were returned to Robin, she just might revert to “normal”.
But EG has stated “The freckle species never returns to the same host twice.”.
I’m scared.
Are we putting too much thought into this?
@Buggle
NEVER !
Did you know there are people who hold Professional Licenses, in FRECKLE-SITTING ?
They keep your F.R.E.C.K.L.E.S. safe and sane while you are undergoing Dermal-Abrasions, Facial-Peels, and other clinical procedures that could harm them.
This highly attractive young lass ( who may be related to Robin), comes highly recommended.
AAAH!! That’s the scariest thing I have seen today. So far anyway, but, then I am going clubbing tonight
What is that, a leopard?
I’ve looked at this page several times (reading comments, hoping for an update, etc.) and I never noticed how badly the “Valentines Voting Incentive” is mispelled. Has it always been like that?
@Lokitsu
NEW VALEMTRIMES DJAY VROTING IMCECHIVE!!!
Great Catch !
The Devious Lizard pulls stunts like this all the time.
Magicians call it misdirection.
He’s a MASTER at it.
He knows if he dangles BEWBS in our faces, everything else is suddenly invisible to us.
Maybe it’s just me but I just find Daphne’s look of amazement over trying to somehow come to Phoebe’s aid kind of hilarious. :))))
It’s hard to figure out these expressions sometimes, it really is. When it works, I sometimes feel like it’s a happy accident.
Pigheaddedness is, interestingly, one of things some people might misinterpret as chutzpa.