Puck 383

Chapter: FrecklesCharacters: Hotdog Guy PuckTags: blonde dream
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189 Comments

  • pat

    Is tow head a Canadian slur, or am I just way too young?

    • ElectricGecko

      No. But it should be.

    • tow = flax. Towhead = flaxen-haired = blonde.

      Nothing to do with towing or pulling hair. That just happens sometimes.

      • Nick Manly

        When I was younger I thought it was Toe Headed since I saw so many blonde people who’s hair matched their skin tone.

        • ElectricGecko

          Heh. That makes sense, actually.

        • Typeminer

          I thought it was toe-headed because so many blonde people need a kick to the head. 🙂

        • SalemCat

          @Nick Manly

          O M G – That is so silly !

          However, my human pet “Baldie” insists the proper name of the widespread chain store is “GEARS and ROBOT”, and they only began going down hill after the name change in ’92.

          I figger why argue.

        • Mahnarch

          I always though ‘toe headed’ was a hair style that was popular in the 60s and 70s – and happens naturally on kids at certain points.

          It’s similar to a bowl cut, but fluffs out, and makes their head look like a toe.

      • Buggle

        My grandfather was towheaded when he was a child!

        Then he grew up to be a ginger.

        Genes are weird.

        • Greywolf1963

          Not uncommon for kids with Irish heritage to be born blond and darken, usually to brown as they get older.

          • ElectricGecko

            That’s pretty much standard, really, with most non-Scandinavian blondes. Which means, practically speaking, that about 75% of the adult blondes you see walking around are bottle blondes.

            I have some Irish/Scottish in me, and also some Italian. My brother and I had much lighter hair as kids – my brother could easily have qualified as full blond – but now our hair is DARK dark, close to black. Go fig. So the Italian won out eventually.

          • SalemCat

            @EG

            “I have some Irish/Scottish in me, and also some Italian.”

            O M G

            I had no idea.

            No idea things have gotten so tough in Canada.

          • SalemCat

            @EG

            Are they tasty ?

          • ElectricGecko

            Groan.

          • SalemCat

            @EG

            Groan

            Guess not !

            I’ll stick to my Tuna.

          • Buggle

            I think my mother was blonde when she was little, too – she’s a brunette now. But in all the pictures I’ve seen, she was a golden blonde, and her father’s hair was practically white.

            But strangely enough *I* was never blonde, which boggles (buggles) my mind.

          • ElectricGecko

            Genetics are weird. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

  • Shan

    Paging Sigmund (Freud)!

  • I feel like if you can eat during your therapy session, people would be more willing to talk about their weird dreams to strangers with vague college degrees.

  • SalemCat

    I’m thinking this may be just the thing necessary to divert Buggle off her War Path on EG.

    Now if EG just draws Tracee and Phoebe again in Bikini’s, all will be right with this world.

    LAND BIKINIS

    • Buggle

      *Just* Phoebe is what I would prefer, but you do you.

      • SalemCat

        Ok, “Just” Phoebe.

        EG, are you listening ?

        The LAND PIRANHAs are coming !

        • Susan Schroeder

          How about Phloebles in a nice normal tank with slightly ripped jeans and slides and Tracee being drawn and quartered in a burqua??

          • SalemCat

            @Susan

            J – F -C !!!!

            And during Lent, of all times.

            You, you, you leave my girl Tracee alone, you !

          • Buggle

            I’d like to see a gif of Phoebe licking an ice cream cone, now that I think about it…

          • SalemCat

            @Buggle

            “I’d like to see a gif of Phoebe licking an ice cream cone, now that I think about it…”

            Oh yeah, yeah…….

            (drooling)

            What flavor ?

            (say Banana Crème)

            Huh ? It’s the Gecko – No NO !!

            He’s got his Water Squirt Gun out – Aieee !!!

          • Susan Schroeder

            I gave up Tracee for Lent. I felt so good that I am evangelizing everyone to be like me. I plan on giving up Heather next Lent. Planning ahead is good.

          • ElectricGecko

            You have to give up something you like for Lent.

          • Buggle

            Ahhh, so good be agnostic…

          • Susan Schroeder

            You have to give up something you like for Lent. Spoilsport! *pouts*
            Well, I also gave up pork, which is beginning to make me cranky at breakfast, according to my bf (he put the ham, sausage, and bacon in the freezer, knowing I never will go there long enough to find them)

  • SalemCat

    That’s some fine Diamond Plate on that there Hot Dog cart !

    • ElectricGecko

      Is that what they call it? I just think of it as ‘hot dog cart metal’.

      • Susan Schroeder

        Strangely enough,they also have it on lunch wagon, AKA “roach coaches’s. Hmmmm

      • pat

        Not to go all Clifford Clavem, but diamond plate is usually associated with a fire truck.

        • SalemCat

          @pat

          You’re right.

          In retrospect I’ve not really sure what the metal sheet on a Hot Dog Cart (or an old Diner) is called.

          I’m pretty sure it’s much thinner than Diamond Plate, and is Stainless Steel. It’s still a diamond pattern, though.

  • Hernshound

    I know it’s a bit petty, but Puck looks odd w/ her hair up like that. She looks WAY too boyish…

    Beyond that, I totally agree with her: Blondes should NOT be trusted! They act all airheaded, but in reality they are the secret leaders of the Illuminati!

    Trust me on this: My dog wouldn’t lie to me about something so important…

    • ElectricGecko

      She wears her hair up in a bun every now and then. Mainly to provide visual variety.

      And I trust your dog to the ends of the Earth.

      • Buggle

        I like the boyish look! It reminds me that she’s Puck, ancient fairy of lore! And given the very modern storylines we have, I tend to forget that…

  • Aya

    Boyish?! She looks adorable as always! And, erm, not to be crass, but there’s two reasons sitting there that aren’t boyish!

    • ElectricGecko

      Well, she has a decidedly un-boyish figure.

      • Susan Schroeder

        Wish I had that “boyish” a figure. I’ll bet my bf does, too. Think I’ll ask him.

        • SalemCat

          @Susan

          O M G

        • DLKmusic

          Uhm, Susan, that falls into the category of a trick question for us guys.

          There is NO right answer…

          • Buggle

            That’s her point – she likes to torture her boyfriend. *shakes her head*

          • Susan Schroeder

            He said “I prefer breasts like the French do: able to fit into a champagne saucer.” So he got lucky last night.

          • Susan Schroeder

            And I don’t torture my bf. Just test him once in a while. Every day.

          • SalemCat

            @Susan

            Well, if you ever decide you’d like the twins to grow a bit, there is plenty of erudite advice in the PUCK Comics Series as to how this could be accomplished (and I don’t mean Mamagrow).

            Just sayin’ (snicker).

            (OMG, I just heard a Benelli get cocked)

            ARUGULA !!!!!

          • Susan Schroeder

            @the cat: Nah. Then my bf might dump me for my cousin, who is , um less developed than me. He’s an annoying bf but he is the least annoying man I know. And my mother likes it that he is a surgeon.

    • SalemCat

      @Aya

      Oh that MAMAGROW !

      (when is Mamagrow-Man coming for Robin’s First Born: Miranda)

      • Buggle

        *GASP*

        Maybe Miranda *isn’t* her firstborn! Maybe she had a kid before then and abandoned them!

        Oh, wait – didn’t she say somewhere that Miranda is her first kid?

        • SalemCat

          @Buggle

          Do you think Robin traded away her FIRST BORN from centuries past ?

          Can she even do that ?

          (BOOM !!!! My mind explodes)

        • ElectricGecko

          Well, it’s never been expressly stated, but that Mammagrow series early on does help establish that. Promising your firstborn as payment only sort of makes sense when you’ve yet to have kids, because otherwise the payment would come due immediately. Ergo, in those university strips, she’d never had a kid. So logic points to this being her first kid. Besides, the whole experience seemed rather new and traumatizing for her.

          • Susan Schroeder

            That’s because she was a boy, before she got tricked by Titania into putting on the “Cursed Belt of Gender Change.” (Baldur’s Gate) and being a male, had no idea how many by-blows he left scattered over Fairyland/the Wood of Athens.
            Oberon: Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell.
            It fell upon a little western flower,
            Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound.
            And maidens call it “love-in-idleness.”
            Fetch me that flower. The herb I showed thee once.
            The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
            Will make or man or woman madly dote
            Upon the next live creature that it sees.

          • SalemCat

            @EG

            Did Robin get a refund from Mamgrow-Guy when her bewbs collapsed ?

            Though (thinking) I’d point straight to her bosom and declare “Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, the EVENTUAL efficacy of my system is self evident. HAND THE CHILD OVER.”

          • ElectricGecko

            Maybe a refund occurred. Either way, I don’t think the ‘firstborn’ clause holds weight in a court of law.

            And that stuff promised immediate results. IMMEDIATE. This delayed development must have some … other cause.

          • Buggle

            OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!

            OHOHOHOHOHOHOH!

            GENDERSWAP ARC!!!!!!

          • SalemCat

            @EG

            I’ve re-checked the initial MAMAGROW comic out quite thoroughly, and the banner makes no promises of immediacy. At all.

            I believe Mamagrow-Man has fulfilled his end of the contract.

            Before he absconds with Miranda, you’ll have to generate an alternate excuse to cheat this honest capitalist from his due.

            (Or mebe just hire me to skulk into his office and steal the paperwork. Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap.)

  • Well, Puck’s first and formative experiences with blondes would most likely have been blonde Fey…..

    ….and according to the legends, the Faeries can indeed be rather shifty. ^^; To put it mildly.

    • ElectricGecko

      Are blonde fey even shiftier? I dunno.

      • Shan

        I’ll let you know if anything answering that question comes up in my Fey Winds hardcover once I get and read it.

      • They don’t need to be shiftier. They just have to be true to form towards other Fey as they are to humans in the mythology.
        Which is to say: unapologetic jerks.

      • Susan Schroeder

        Legolas? Finrod? Celeborn? Galadriel? Shifty? Heresy! Feanor, otoh, was a brunette. Like me. *Smiles slyly*

        • Nah, I don’t mean Tolkien Elves, I mean Elves from the old stories. Like, “welcome someone as a guest for the night, and when they leave the hollow hill seven years have passed”-style Elves.

          • Buggle

            I’m writing a story with fairies like that in it! 😀

          • SalemCat

            @Buggles

            “I’m writing a story with fairies like that in it!

            Does it have hero cats in it ? hero cats ?

            (yes – yes – yes)

          • Buggle

            No hero cats, sorry – although one of the main characters likes to turn into one. (but I’m still debating whether to keep it in the story, or cut it for streamlining)

          • SalemCat

            @Buggle

            No hero cats !

            You know, every time I sit down with Baldie and watch a TV show, we have this discussion:

            “Do you know what would really improve this show ?”

            “Yeah”

            “Cats, and plenty of them !”

            “Yeah”

          • Susan Schroeder

            “And there she lullèd me asleep,
            And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!—
            The latest dream I ever dreamt
            On the cold hill side.

            I saw pale kings and princes too,
            Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
            They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
            Thee hath in thrall!’ ” -Keats

          • SalemCat

            @Susan

            “And there she lullèd me asleep,
            And there I dream
            , etc.

            Did you just call me and Buggle a couple of Keats ?

            (should we be angry or grateful ?)

          • Susan Schroeder

            If I did, you two will write some of the greatest lyrical poetry in history, then die.
            “Here lies one whose name was written on water.” -Keats’ epitaph

          • SalemCat

            @Susan

            “If I did, you two will write some of the greatest lyrical poetry in history, then die.”

            Whew ! I’m safe.

  • Kaiser

    Differences between this and last Hot Dog Guy:
    He’s standing on the left instead of the right.
    She has her freckles.
    She has another hair style.
    Yeah, I’m gonna go with ‘not intentional’.
    Glad to see Hot Dog Guy is getting some love again.
    …Wait, that sounded wrong…

  • PueyMcCleary

    If I remember right, in Tolkien’s “Tales of the Children of Hurin” (Narn I-Chin I-Hurin) the term “straw-head” was a pejorative used against Hurin’s clan by some of the other darker-haired tribes of Men.

    I’m sure “straw-head” sounds like a better insult in Sindarin, of course.

  • SalemCat

    Robin doesn’t like BLONDES ?

    (and yet – truth be told – we’re not sure that even TRACEE is a real one)

    (and what of Colin ?)

  • Greg White

    Something soured Puck on Blondes not unlike something soured Jughead Jones on girls.

    • Susan Schroeder

      I suspect that is a consequence of girls’ attitude toward Jughead Jones. Who likes a misogynist? Especially one with bad hair and a worse hat?

  • Iam

    Blonds are a race?

  • Lokitsu

    Alfred Hitchcock had the ideal method for dealing with blondes. He’d star a cool blonde in almost every one of his films.
    And then kill her off.
    A shame they weren’t also lawyers.

    • ElectricGecko

      And, if we’re to believe the reports of the many blondes who worked for him, the hatred went both ways.

    • Susan Schroeder

      Yeah, but he was in love with Ingrid Bergman, who was not a blonde. When she ran off with Roberto Rosselini, he cried, “How could she do this to me? And with another director?”

  • Buggle

    Good, good – 2/3s of the way through. Now you just have to have her realize something on her own, and you’ll be safe.

    THREE WEEKS.

  • Buggle

    Also, I like this very solid interpretation. Two thumbs up.

  • SalemCat

    @Buggle

    Now be a good lizard, and have her talk about her experience with Hot Dog Guy.

    HAH ! HE DID IT !!!

    Buggle is a super-brain.

    This is a good time for you to reiterate your demand for the adult female cast to appear in LAND BIKINIs.

    Not only are LAND BIKINIs a Fan Favorite, EG enjoys drawing them (the scanty duds really saves on ink).

    • Buggle

      Huh. I did predict this, didn’t I?

      And that’s *your* demand, remember Salem? You have to assert yourself! With LAND PIRANHAS! Or mebbe LAND OCTOPI! Or LAND JELLYFISH!

      • SalemCat

        @Buggle

        Problem is, EG simply does not take me seriously.

        Even when he creates an awesome St Patrick’s Day Voting Incentive for me (yes, it was I), I get no color. NO COLOR.

        (sigh)

        • Buggle

          Yeah, right, like he takes *me* seriously? And you still got *something* you wanted, even if you weren’t threatening him.

          Huh. Maybe you do better persuading him with sugar than threats of LAND ANIMALS.

      • ElectricGecko

        You didn’t really predict this. It’s closer to say that you dictated it to me, and I provided. (Honestly, I felt I needed a bit of a ‘debriefing’ comic, and then you said, “She should talk to the Hotdog Guy” and I was like, “Right! That IS a character in my comic that I totally forgot about! Good call!”) So yeah, you directly caused this.

  • Joe

    My question is: How the HELL are hot dog carts NOT standard at EVERY therapist/psychiatrist’s office? I mean, maybe in Denmark where they likely prescribe MJ regularly, but they need to implement this in the US. Maybe I’ll actually start going to mine again…

  • If her family and friends are what she fears losing the most, I wonder what she could do without…

  • Laura

    You know, part of me wonders if this isn’t perhaps a reflection of guilt as well on Puck’s part. During the Tale of Two Blondes, she emotionally manipulated two women into attacking one another physically to the point where an ambulance was required. Maybe this dream sequence was her mind’s way of trying to tell her, “That could be you, with a little bit of hair dye and a spray-on tan.”

    Buuuuut, I’m probably reading too much into this!

    … Also, I might just be trying to manipulate the creator into thinking this could be a motivation for her dreams, being an evil tow-head myself.

    Long live the Flaxen Fiends!

    • SalemCat

      I adore BLONDES.

      • ComedyHobo

        To quote EG, “(b) have two two-headed children.”
        It’s kinda wierd that your kids have two heads. That will get expensive if they ever need braces. Also I’m not sure what that has to do with blondes.

    • ElectricGecko

      I think you may, on some level, be correct here. And just to state openly, though I am not a tow-head, I am (a) married to a tow-head, and (b) have two two-headed children. So I will be the first to come to the defense of the flaxen fiends. Though it’s still fun to make those jokes…

      • SalemCat

        @EG

        O M G

        They’ve gotten to you, as well.

        All is lost.

      • Buggle

        I thought you said you didn’t believe in any adult blondes? That they got their blondness out of a bottle?

        • ElectricGecko

          It’s the shade that’s key. If it’s the super-pale Nordic blonde, then yes, that’s real. If it’s a brownish blonde, sort of oak color, like my wife’s hair, then sure. But that’s not what we think of when we think blonde: we think that pure spun gold look, and yeah, over the age of twenty-five, it’s pretty dang rare.

    • Buggle

      Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    • DLKmusic

      And again, a statement to which there IS NO RIGHT ANSWER!

      As a gender, I think us men are doomed… DOOMED I say!

  • pat

    Hey Gecko,
    Maybe you were also attempting a parallel between Hitchcock and Freud along with a pinch of Dallas. While the dream may have offered a precognitive sense of either a duplicate scenario or a sense of Dejá Vu, the plausible premise could be that Puck might be happy to be rid of the freckles.

    That or that it’s difficult for Canadians to get their hands on some Smith & Wessons.

  • aaron smith

    Will we ever see any other fey? Just 4 phoebe puck and Miranda oh and phoebe dad I guess mm I forget phoebe mom was she fey or Liz taylor. ?

    • ElectricGecko

      Maybe? And by ‘maybe’, I mean that no planned story arc calls for them, but maybe? I never really know where any of this is going, so it’s always a possibility.

    • SalemCat

      @ aaron smith

      Your answer is HERE.

      But I’ve a different question: Could it be Daphne is the daughter of Zombie Elizabeth Taylor ?

      • SalemCat

        Ahem.

        Your answer is HERE.

      • ComedyHobo

        the daphne is a kangaroo/dog hybrid with just enough human DNA to give it the semblance of humanity. IT was grown in a petri dish on the Island of Dr. Moreau, then loosed on the world to forever be a blight on the face of creation. The fact that it escaped from its just imprisonment, and righteous execution is proof of its unholy nature.

        • SalemCat

          @CH

          I have it on good authority that Daphne is an escapee reject from the Toronto Zoo Jackal Adventure.

          HERE is where the Head ZooKeeper abandons her.

  • Random Guy

    I didn’t know that blondes were a race! Not every prejudice is racism.

  • Bunmi

    First glance and I noticed that there is a hot dog cart in a therapist’s office. What?

  • SalemCat

    Many have speculated why there is no overt magic in a comic whose principal character is an ancient fairy.

    As a cat, I’ve had multiple lives, and on rare occasion small snippets of them surface in my dreams. This morning was such, and the answer became clear:

    It was a fine day, in the early Spring (much like today), when the Three Witches of Hamlet MacBeth were in the Supermarket, shopping for an afternoon Cookout. (I was working for them at the time, and was tagging along, scouting for cat-babes. This was before the modern horrors of pet surgery made this moot).

    Hot Dog Rolls were on the list, and, as was far too typical, disagreement as well. Winifred wanted White; Mary Wheat; Sarah (who was none too bright) demanded Tofu Bread (which did not exist at the time).

    Coming up the aisle was a young Fairy, with locks of fire, and a dispositon to match: “Aroint ye Foul Hags ! Stand aside so I may shop for mine morning Catsup ! (Yuck. Ketchup is much better.)

    The Three Sisters came to a Full Stop. Here was something they could agree on ! And the rest is History. (It wasn’t really the Foul, or the Hags, that got to them. But AROINT ? Them were fighting words !)

    Robin was stripped of her Magic. Perhaps for all time. But wait, there’s more….

    As cruel as the Witche’s Curse was, it never applied to any descendents. In this life it means that dear, sweet Miranda, may actually be harboring powers as yet unknown to us. Or even to her. It could take a while.

    Another one-time Master of mine, a certain Sabrina, could express no spells until puberty – which is a situation I understand is very common.

    So keep your eyes open, Pucksters. Miranda could be up to something.

    And don’t forget to VOTE for PUCK on Top Web Comics !

    You really need to see the new Voting Incentive with Phoebe ! It’s amazing ! (EG likes drawing her – and we all like watching)

    • Buggle

      Excellent work, my feline friend! Now if only we could get the Gecko to make it canon…

      • SalemCat

        @Buggle

        Thanks !

        Wouldn’t you love to see Miranda DO something unexplainable, though small, just once, and watch everyone bug out ?

        And then the Puck Comic goes right back to “Normal”.

        (“Normal” – I made a funny)

        Seriously, tho, Puck will and should never be a comic that relies on the Supernatural. Everyone, and I mean everyone, does that already !

      • SalemCat

        @Buggle

        Would having Miranda do a tiny bit of magic, even accidentally, free EG from the incoming Dreaded Land Piranhas ? Mebe ?

        • Buggle

          No. It has nothing to do with Puck’s character development, and while I like speculating, magic is something I can do without in this case.

      • ElectricGecko

        Nope.

  • SalemCat

    Hey EG, please delete the first post when I had Word Wrap on.

    It looks awful.

  • Susan Schroeder

    Voted. Liked the pic except those two odd cupcake papers behind her horns.

    • ElectricGecko

      Well, I’ve wondered about those myself, but all I do is faithfully recreate the insane outfits from other people’s minds. So I have no explanation.

      • SalemCat

        @EG

        I suppose, since all the other Pucksters have too much class to say so, it will be left to me to finally explain it.

        That weird headgear is obviously Chun-Li’s training bra.

        Like Robin, Chun-Li was late to develop, and when she finally did, she was so pleased ! Her first bra became a treasured memory; one she is loathe to part with.

        (and some believe that only males have Women’s Undergarments constantly on their minds !

        • Susan Schroeder

          Wrong-o, el gato. My smart-aleck younger cousin (who is living with us, much to my dismay, says they are hair-bun covers), much used in anime. WHY anyone would want to cover her hair buns (or have any at all) she doesn’t say (or know, I bet).

  • Greg White

    I must sound like a broken record writing this however I really want to see Phoebe wear the same kind of glasses Clark Kent wears to disguise his Superman persona.

  • pat

    Gecko,b some of the ads are hijacking the browser somehow.

    • ElectricGecko

      Hijacking the browser? If you mean they’re popping up in weird places, that’s just a new ad company I’m testing out. It’s intentional – a bit of an experiment, but if it starts going crazy, I’ll need to rein things in.

  • Man, her hate runs deep.
    Could we get a Puck childhood flashback to see where her dislike for the fair-haired stems from in the near future?

    *It may be a problem on my end, but I’m having trouble posting comments on your site. This is my 4th attempt after clicking the refresh button.*

    • ElectricGecko

      It’s probably a problem on my site’s end. I’ve been having terrible downtime and issues lately. Not sure why.

  • Thisguy

    Isn’t he going to point out why something funny happened again and again in different parts of the dream?

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