Puck 378

Chapter: FrecklesCharacters: Colin PhoebeTags: responsibility responsible sexy
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190 Comments

  • pat

    So. Strategies for responsibility reduce the sexiness. Good to know to be irresponsible.

  • pat

    WHOA, Whoa whoa. Did anyone notice that Phoebe was rocking the plaid last week?

  • This is like watching a slow descent into madness, except with more freckles and rampant coffee addiction.

  • Is Phoebe’s hair taking on a reddish tint. And could this be considered — gasp! — flirting?? (Until Colin did a Colin)

    • ElectricGecko

      Yes. And yes. And yes. Wait, there were only two questions.

      • I never could have imagined Phoebe and Colin flirting.

        Or that I’d really like it this much. It makes a bizarre kind of sense. They may actually be, well, GOOD for each other, now that Puck-Prime has left her humanity behind for a spray-on tan?

        It’s all going according to your diabolical plan, isn’t it? Isn’t it?! XD

        • ElectricGecko

          Well, they’re not incompatible, I suppose. I think Phoebe just needs a decent human being as a partner. And I think Colin is (largely) a decent human being – though I’m not sure how much of his decency is due to his fear of Puck. So whether Phoebe would be able to keep him in line remains to be seen.

          • Buggle

            This should be an intriguing experiment…

          • DLKmusic

            I would argue that Colin’s family environment DID turn him into a responsible human being…

            Socially stunted, a babe-repellent, and doesn’t know how to tie his own shoes, but still responsible!

    • Peya Luna

      this is getting creepy. its as if the freckless have high-jacked her brain and make her not only get all maternal around miranda but also atracted to colin *shiver*

  • SalemCat

    OMG

    What’s going on in Panel Three is pretty obvious.
    No Speech Balloons needed !

    If these two were to share a fifth of Jack Daniels tonight, things could get pretty steamy !

    (BTW, I can FINALLY see the red in Phoebe’s hair. Nice.)

  • SalemCat

    I suggest next week Electric Gecko can both take a well-deserved break, while giving his loyal readers some long overdue titillation.

    All four panels should be BLACK, with only Speech Balloons visible.

    Squeeka Squeeka Squeeka Thumpa Thumpa Oh Baby Oh Baby OH BABY !!!!

  • So I wonder how Daphne’s gonna feel about the direction this is rapidly heading? Miranda’s pretty much adopted Phoebe as Mom the Second. Hmmmmm…

    • SalemCat

      So, if Phoe-buck and Colin “bonded” (this is family-friendly comic strip, so I’m trying to be discreet), I’m betting right off that Miranda would be perfectly pleased to join the new Family Unit.

      And Daphne, too !!

      • And will all of this lead to a Phoebe-Puck bout of selective and temporary amnesia (after a collision with the floor) to avoid unexpected news?

        Or are we just giving story ideas (whether good or bad) to ElectricGecko left and right tonight?

  • One of my pet peeves is the misspelling of “trouper” as “trooper.” Nearly as annoying as “loose” when you mean “lose.” Bah.

    • ElectricGecko

      Okay, this one I chalked up to my Canadian/American thing, but I’ll fix it. See, I spend my Canadian life taking ‘U’s out of words to make them palatable for Canadians. So I thought this would be one of those words that Americans would de-U-ize, but I guess it’s not.

    • SalemCat

      @Mark Shaw

      As I read your post, you are 100% correct on both counts.

      And EG is as well.

      In this context, Phoebe are TROUPERS.

      • ElectricGecko

        I personally find it a little odd, in that I equate parenting to warfare. So I really think ‘trooper’ is more valid. But the rules are the rules.

    • SalemCat

      Speaking of which, my brain explodes (a bad thing), when anyone says so-and-so or such-and-such “CUT THE MUSTARD”.

      Which makes NO SENSE at all !

      The proper term is “CUT THE MUSTER”.

      (cat is needlessly sputtering with rage at inconsequential matters …. again)

  • I like to think that by Phoebe simply trying on Puck’s clothes, they are magically morphing into skimpier versions of their former selves, much like how the Hulk’s boxers grow with him.

  • Duweep

    Annnnnd I am now shipping Phoebe/Colin. And whenever Puck comes back, Phoebe/Colin/Puck is all good too.

    • ElectricGecko

      There are so many comics already exploring a similar unique three-person relationship dynamic out there, though. I’d never want to wade into those crowded waters. Even if it would make the internet happy.

  • DLKmusic

    This, Colin, is why you get coal in your stocking!

  • Kaiser

    So, Colin is now getting hit on (supposedly) by Phoebe.
    I’m gonna go ahead and assume it’s due to the freckles. It’s probably the freckles. Like, 99% chance it’s the freckles.
    Still, it did make me laugh way too hard.

  • Their weird family unit seems a little better than Colin’s own weird family unit…

  • PueyMcCleary

    Freckles and plaid make all comics better.

  • Susan Schroeder

    Hm, Phloebles and Colin. Disapprove. You can do much better, Pheeb. Sneak over to Judge Parker and hit on Sam.

  • Buggle

    Wait, what if Puck came back to secretly check on Miranda out of guilt and then found Phoebe and Colin in a creepily intimate relationship?

  • SalemCat

    THIS is what happened last time Colin made the moves on Phoebe.

    • Yes but now Puck is a soulless hollywood ghoul and her freckles have relocated. Phoebe-Puck might give Puck-Prime a run for her money (if she, uh, ever cared to return?)…

      • SalemCat

        @Dueeast

        Ooooo – Soul-less Hollywood Ghoul – that’s Good.

        I believe at this point there’s no “Puck” left in Robin. And she needs a “Hollywood Name.

        “Robin” is no proper name for a Ghoul.

        • Puck-less Robin will probably create a soulless Hollywood (ghoul) stage name like “Blondonna!

          Did I just strike brilliance or what??

          • SalemCat

            BLONDONNA

            OMG, that is so cool.

            Catchy, too !

          • DLKmusic

            In Typical Hollywood Branding fashion, I was thinking…

            “Robynn”

            No last name needed

          • ElectricGecko

            Perfect!

          • SalemCat

            @DLKmusic

            Robynn is pretty good, but when you’re going for soul-less ghoul BLONDONNA beats Robynn to a quivering, bloodied hill of entrails, which are then wolfed down by a pair of freckle-less claws, while blonde air dances above, nearly but not completely shielding the viewer’s eyes from the sanguine spectacle.

          • DLKmusic

            you have a point, SalemCat, but in hollywood, your stage name is how you market yourself, not how you are… a Robynn, she would get all the parts of the sweet innocent girl that is horribly abused by a male dominated society until she finally breaks… and everyone would love her. As Blondonna, at best she gets the part of the supporting actress that is trying to steal the heroine’s boyfriend/husband.

            Hollywood is all about illusion… Lord knows it doesn’t reflect anything close to reality!

    • SalemCat

      @DLKmusic

      This time you’re just not seeing BLONDILLA’s BLONDONNA’s potential.

      The HOTTEST shows on video right now feature Zombies, Vampires, Demons, Serial Murderers, etc.

      I mean, her and TRACEE could play a soul-sucking Tag-Team of EVIL.

      Remember, the best actors assume roles they actually personally identify with !

  • Lokitsu

    The freckles seem to have accentuated it, but Phoebe seems to have matured a lot in the last couple of story arcs. Maybe mature isn’t the right word, but she’s not the clueless airhead she used to be.
    Or am I just imagining it?

    • SalemCat

      Umm …. Wat ?

      Sorry, every time I glance at Panel Three, my mind (what’s left of it), wanders away.

      IMHO, that Stance and Smile are Simply the Sexiest Phoebe we’ve seen yet !

      Very much a modern-day Marilyn Monroe.

      (Did Phoebe’s mom, Elizabeth Taylor, know Marilyn ? They were contemporaries.)

    • ElectricGecko

      You might be onto something. I think she’s growing into a reasonable adult with a certain layer of flakiness over top.

  • H….uh. Wow. That…. that almost went somewhere odd.
    🙁 It looks like Colin has truly given up on Puck, as Daphne suggested.

  • F: “Sexual tension….”

    M: “Wow, I could use that to get other girls!!!111”

    F: “…has died, never to be reborn.”

    Oh Colin. The universal male.

    • ElectricGecko

      He manifests the stupidest part of us all.

      • DLKmusic

        I can’t beleive I’m actually defending Colin’s stupidity here, especially after my “coal” comment earlier, but…

        Being with Puck, he has been a platonic friend with Phoebe for a long long time! His brain still needs time to shift gears after Puck has left and realize Phoebe might be available.

        Then, there’s also the whole “out of his league” thing…

        • SalemCat

          Phoebe has always been very concerned with fashion.

          And unlike her former boyfriend, I’m betting Colin would have no qualms at all about Phoebe dressing him.

        • ElectricGecko

          Exactly. You are a smart man.

        • Well, yeah, good point After years of being conditioned through passionate love and blunt force trauma to keeping Phoebe solidly in the friendzone, Colin is not slimy enough to skid over the line – even with an army of freckles in train.

          Although one *really* wants to know how far those spots go ….as the World’s Best Valentine’s Day Voting Incentive demonstrates, Phoebe’s not shy about increasing the acreage available for absorbing light and raising freckles.

          P.S. How far afield may Phoebe go to find Mr. Right? That nice Kaf Tagan over in “Schlock Mercenary” may be available.

          • SalemCat

            @rewinn

            But, but, Phoebe is not really, Phoebe anymore.

            She is now Phoe-Buck, a creature who has settledfor Colin before (and may again).

          • Buggle

            Puck’s transformation into Robynn was characteristic of that of a vampire – Phoebe’s transformation into Phoe-buck was like that of a scientist being eaten by his own creations.

            What is it Gecko and the horror movies lately?

          • Buggle

            ARRRGH! With! What is it *with* Gecko and the horror movies! What is wrong *with* you, Past Me?!?!?!

          • @SalemCat OMG yer right. PLUS – Phoebpuck has already been accepted by Miranda. Isn’t it really Colin’s duty to alleviate any confusion his child may have?

            Respect the freckles!

  • Susan Schroeder

    Not as stupid as my ex-bf when on Valentine’s Day, he bought me a box of chocolates that he had clearly bought on sale, said, “Whoops, I forgot you don’t eat sweets,” and then ate them all watching sports on TV. He now goes with a waitress at the local tavern. Poor girl!

  • SalemCat

    HEY FANS !

    I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’d still like to stress the importance of VOTE FOR PUCK EVERY DAY.

    The Electric Gecko creates this comic just for fun, and one way we can all make it fun for him is to VOTE EVERY DAY so he knows he is appreciated.

    And if you can become a PATREON for $1 a month ($1 !!), at least we can cover the cost of his daily Coffee at Tim Horton’s.

    And believe me, the content he publishes on Patreon is really worth that buck !!

    • DLKmusic

      Amen Brother, You TESTIFY!!!!

    • ElectricGecko

      Well sir, now you speak like a true gentleman. It sounds so much nicer and less desperate when you say it than when I say it.

    • Susan Schroeder

      Okay, okay I did. Note to EG: Phleebes looks classier nude than that awful voting incentive on Exiern. Blech!

      • ElectricGecko

        I try for classy. When it comes to cheesecake, I have decidedly vintage tastes and tend toward the quaint rather than the crass.

      • SalemCat

        @Susan Schroeder

        I couldn’t agree more.

        Straight-up Pr*N is a really cheap way to fish for votes.

        EG may tease, but always keeps it classy and clever.

      • Shan

        This is one of the funniest things I have ever heard for so many reasons.

      • Shan

        PS: So, female nudity’s OK but if it’s man, it’s not. Bit of a double standard, I think …

        • ElectricGecko

          Sigh. That is NOT a supportable stance, even within the logic of the comic. If a male character is, though magic or science, converted to a female, that doesn’t allow us to deem the ensuing picture an example of the male form. I mean, there’s little left to the imagination here, and I can testify that the picture is not of a dude.

          • Shan

            Twas but a joke my good man. If I really wanted to cause trouble, I could have directed people to the vote incentive of Sean’s brother John …

            (no ambiguity there! and no lots of other things either!!!)

            … though mind you given a major character trait that’s been ongoing is that the character in question has been quite insistent on reasserting his identity … despite the visual cues to the contrary, he would be rather cross with a certain lizard at the moment.

            Those tails grow back, right?

          • Shan

            … also on the subject of jokes, you kind of borked the set up for one but never mind, it probably wasn’t going to be funny anyway, given my track record …

          • ElectricGecko

            It’s what I do. Ruin jokes. Some would say I’m a professional.

  • Synigma

    I’m just going to say it: Puckified Phoebe is the perfect combination of the two.

    If the freckles bring just a little bit of Puck’s intelligence over and we might as well rename the comic. 😉

    • ElectricGecko

      I’m not really sure I’d say Puck is the more intelligent of the two. She’s more cynical, more jaded, and sort of has the trappings of someone who’s more intelligent, but she also displays moments of serious poor judgement. Phoebe, on the other hand, has the trappings of a ditsy goofball, but her judgement’s often pretty sound.

      I do agree, though, that combining them would get a pretty complete package.

      • Synigma

        It’s true, intelligence is not the word I should have used. “Down to earth nature” I think would more encapsulate what I was going for. Phoebe can be very haute.

      • SalemCat

        @ElectricGecko

        “I do agree, though, that combining them would get a pretty complete package.”

        COMPLETE PACKAGE ? Are we talking about Colin again ?

        snicker – snort

        (sorry, channeling Bemis & Butthead again – creepily)

        • DLKmusic

          NO channelling Beavis and Butthead…. BAD cat! BAD! BAD!

          • SalemCat

            @DLKmusic

            But, But, But ……

            (I just said but – snicker snicker)

          • DLKmusic

            DRY FOOD ONLY FOR 3 DAYS, CAT!!! Care to make it 4?

          • Buggle

            But you’re not Salem’s owner – you’d have to contact Janet and Baldie.

          • SalemCat

            @Buggle

            “But you’re not Salem’s owner – you’d have to contact Janet and Baldie.”

            While that may be technically true, from a certain point of view, and though I prefer to identify them as MY PETS, right now Janet and Baldie have custody of my old body – a regular cat.

            At times I’ve snuck back “home” and peered in, and they seem to be right pleased with “me” now.

            “I’m” very well behaved. “I”sleep in Janet’s lap, don’t tear up the couch, and never have Litter Box “accidents”.

            (“accidents” – snort :))

            So as a 9′ inflatable cat, my regular crib is the LAB, where Professor Huhnmorder keeps my internal batteries fresh, lest my 9′ airy body deflate (oh, I hate when that happens).

            And as far as the “Channeling” goes, I heard a new “rattle” inside me a day or two ago.

            I fear I’ve contracted “Bluetooth”, and the Doctor is pairing me with his VHS Collection of 1990’s TV.

            (sigh)

          • SalemCat

            Oh crap, I caught him plugging in his BETAMAX. this can’t be good….

            Now I have an odd compulsion to straddle a motorcycle and hurtle over a Shark Tank.

            Eyh !

          • Buggle

            But then who’s inhabiting your old body?

          • SalemCat

            @Buggle

            “But then who’s inhabiting your old body?”

            No one, really.

            It’s just, you know, A CAT. Who follows anything Baldie and Janet suggest.

            Much like Robin, who lost her soul, and became completely controlled by TRACEE. (I’ll bet Satan was following the situation and knew exactly when to send TRACEE in to reap the goods.)

            It’s as Dueeast observed, Robin has become a soul-less ghoul – BLONDONNA.

            Anything that remained was transferred via the F.R.E.C.K.L.E.S. to Phoe-Buck.

  • Susan Schroeder

    I prefer “Blondezilla”. The biggest, baddest Blonde in h’Wood. Other than Gwenyth Paltrow, but then she is nutso-totalio

  • SalemCat

    BLONDONNA vs BLONDZILLA

    Tough Call, Tough Call.

    I suppose it really depends on what Roles her new Agent, TRACEE (the terrible), manages to land ROBYNN (which is an awful name, more suitable for a stripper than an upcoming Hollywood Mega-Star !).

    UndeadShe-Beast, bent on ripping flesh and draining fresh blood straight into her gaping maw ? BLONDONNA.

    Space AlienShe-Beast, bent on ripping flesh and draining fresh blood straight into her gaping maw ? BLONDZILLA.

  • BTW The Ultimate Voting Incentive references a Marilyn Monroe pose that my limited search skills have not found. Can you do a fan a solid and point to it?

    (Or is this part of the Patreon benefits? That would be fair.)

    • SalemCat

      The Marilyn Pose is by Phoebe, and right now is FREE to those who vote.

      Marilyn’s original pose.

      Come on, friend, give EG a buck, even for one month.

      • Susan Schroeder

        Phleebles is also showing that she has a better figure than Marilyn, with perfect hips and waistline. Makes Marilyn look dumpy, if you ask me

        • ElectricGecko

          Well, I don’t know if there is such a thing as ‘perfect’ in terms of human proportions. But I disqualify Phoebe on the account of being drawn, not born. That’s unfair.

          • SalemCat

            Oh, this is just Susan being Susan.

            She’s a lady who speaks her mind, and we love her for that !

            (even when we disagree)

    • SalemCat

      For those of you that decline to give EG a Patreon buck ($1 a month), I’d just like to make clear it’s ok with me.

      And it’s certainly ok with him.

      I, and other devoted fans, BEGGED him for years to set up a Patreon account. He consistently refused. It’s just not his way.

      But he finally did. And a dollar a month is so little.

      But, I’m done with my pleas this month, and promise to do my best to not beg on EG’s behalf again until Summer – at least.

      It can get tiresome very quickly, and EG seeks, above all, to entertain. And not to annoy (that’s my job).

      Thanks To All !

  • Greg White

    How about having Colin and Phoebe watch the John Candy movie Canadian Bacon together. It’s about the Americans intent on starting a new cold war with Canada.

  • This week’s strip kinda reminds me of when my kid was a toddler…if I took him to the zoo, a mall or just the park, he was the biggest chick magnet a guy could have.

    It’s the weirdest thing that doing the usual fatherly duties with your kids could be such a turn-on to women.
    That being said,
    Poor Colin…just can’t quit while he’s ahead.

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