PUCKWATCH VOTING INCENTIVE!!! GROUP SHOT!!!
So here's the big group shot of all the Puckwatch peoples, and this is honestly one of the more comprehensive single pics featuring the cast in a while. Get your beach on and vote for Puck on TWC! And remember, this idea came from THE PATRONS! 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!
VOTE FOR NO HASSLE, ONLY THE HOFF!!!
As for this comic…
Some people are scary even when they're vulnerable. Like a snapping turtle on its back: it ain't going anywhere, but you don't particularly want to get close to it.
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PUCKWATCH VOTING INCENTIVE!!! GROUP SHOT!!!
So here's the big group shot of all the Puckwatch peoples, and this is honestly one of the more comprehensive single pics featuring the cast in a while. Get your beach on and vote for Puck on TWC! And remember, this idea came from THE PATRONS! 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!
VOTE FOR NO HASSLE, ONLY THE HOFF!!!
As for this comic…
Some people are scary even when they're vulnerable. Like a snapping turtle on its back: it ain't going anywhere, but you don't particularly want to get close to it.
Puck seems to be afraid that Colin’s cancer will kill him forcing her to raise Miranda by herself.
Oh, I just adore the PUCK Comic when we get to see below the waist !
It’s kind of rare, I guess.
That’s actually kind of…. touching! I don’t even feel right about cracking a joke about that!
Who’d have thunk it, right? Certainly not in this comic!
*collapses into a sobbing wreck*
Puck loves him! She does! She is a strongk girlfriend, and will beat up anyone or anything that messes with Colin! But this time she CAN’T and it’s tearing her apart!
You wanted growth, Buggle? Here it is!
Unfortunately, THIS is kinda breakin my heart…
Oh, bad taste! I love it!
That’s a terrible joke! But yes, I got the growth I asked for, in more ways than I ever expected. Or wanted.
I’m slightly embarrassed to admit this, but I didn’t intend this to be a joke, and certainly not the awful pun that it was. It took me till last night to realize what you were referring to when you called it bad taste….
I’m gettin old, I tell ya, OLD 🙁
Never admit that. I’ve learned that when someone comments on a joke I didn’t intend to make, I should just let them think I’m really that smart and ‘with it’.
Did you ever have any doubt?
Everyone else did! It got to me sometimes!
Thigh and MR BUBBLES too ?
Yippee !!
I’m going to help out….
TAKE THAT YOU BAD BALL !!
(rip, tear, chew, spit ….. then …. pain)
OMG
I did it again. Chewed off my own freakin’ tail.
Serves me right. I just sorta aimed at the closest thing that was round. With my eyes shut. I just really didn’t want to look.
Dammit.
Stop, man. Just stop.
@EG
Too late … Sob Sob Sob
I don’t even have a consistent image of you in my head anymore.
@EG
There’s one thing you could do to help me take my tiny mind off the pain that follows my self-inflicted amputation.
You could add some FRECKLES to Robin’s “Y-ZONE”.
(you know, right where that sweet little white bow dwells. pleeze ?)
She’d need to get more sun.
lol Hanzo main.
They’re easy targets.
Google failed me. What does “YOU HADZO MAIN” mean?
‘Hanzo main.’
*googles* Oh. A worthless game character. Chosen by players who are just there for the gin and giggles and don’t care about play. Carry on.
Such a shame you can’t just punch the cancer away!
That would definitely be a hit TV show. Especially amongst married smokers and people who own g!mp cat suits.
I hit my head on the table reading that. Thank you Pat, I didn’t need that mental image.
You can fry it with a raygun, however. Well, almost.
It would be therapeutic.
You could punch a Cancer, esp. if they’re annoying.
Ooh! Good solution!
You can. You just need to punch with anesthetic, a sterile field, a couple of scalpels. a couple of Kelley clamps, some suture material (O and 4-O catgut would work) a needle holder, and a pair of toothed Adson tissue forceps. Oh, plus a faithful attractive surgical assistant who could use a raise and, um, five years of surgical resicency after college and medical school. Try it! You won’t be disappointed!
@Susan
CATGUT !!!!!
(say it ain’t so)
That’s just what we call it, it is made of sheep intestines nowadays and…WAIT! NO! It is made of the intestines of the cats we dissected in Comparative Anatomy! BWAHAHAhahaha! 😛
Susan killed my MOM !
And now she’s stitching with her GUTS !!
(hmm, now that i think about it, that’s pretty much how mommy would have wanted it. she always did have an odd sense of humor.)
THANKS SUZIE !
We’re the first to say that attractive assistant needs a raise.
Busting a teddybear is not the worst way Puck could have vented her feelings of powerlessness.
If it helps her get through another day without a breakdown and causes no lasting harm to anyone, I say take her on a trip to build-a-bear and rock out.
Hey, Puck can’t afford Build-a-Bear! That place is pricey!
Fine, then take her to a thrift store, pick her up an old bear, a needle and some thread, and rock out.
Maybe that would work if Colin had colon cancer.
Voodoo?!?!?!
When I found out my mom had cancer, I couldn’t talk to her. I didn’t know what I could say to her that wouldn’t sound like I was resigned her to death, because cancer is really scary when you have done research on it.
There’s no healthy way to cope with the knowledge that a family member is dealing with cancer. At least, not that I could figure out. So props to Puck for not running away until it all blew over like I did.
Yeah. Cancer is frightening. Everyone’s frightened of it, and no one really knows what to say about it. I’m thankful, in some ways, that I’ve been through it, because at least it’s one point I can talk about with someone who’s been diagnosed with it. We can compare experiences. A good friend of mine recently got brain cancer, and that was most of our conversation when we got together: we could compare experiences with surgical oncologists, that sort of thing.
The thing I find most scary about cancer is that it’s not some outside source attacking your body; it’s your own body turning against you. Something is wrong with your body to cause the out of control cellular replication that is cancer, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. You could be completely healthy, not eating anything that’s bad for you, exercising regularly and all that, and have it hit you like it did my grandpa (I was too young to understand what was happening when he died, thankfully). Or, you can be like my mom, who while not in the best of health, was able to live a normal life before her stomach cancer popped up.
Which is why I’m glad you’re tackling this subject matter, as scary as it is. It’s good to see the very human reaction to a situation like this, knowing that there’s nothing you can do but trust in the doctors and try your best to live a healthy life after. So, thank you for giving me something to laugh at despite it being a situation that’s so scary.
It is terrifying, and that’s the thing: anyone can get it. There are no magic talismans, despite what some people like to think. There’s no perfect diet, no exercise, no guarantee that it’s not going to be you. But we keep going, we do what we can, and we listen to the experts. I’m still here because of that.
There is always Scotch. Works for me
Puck DEFINITELY doesn’t need to add alcohol to her growing list of sins. That sounds dangerous.
Good gracious! She has coffee and skittles addiction already! Don’t give her an incentive to raid my absinthe cabinet!
Well, she can come over to my place for a quick nip. Maybe my friend and bf’s model Lily will be here. They can exchange redhead stories.
Redhead model? Can I come over too?
Not unless you bring Pibby. Besides, you already have a redhead wife and a redheaded woofoo or whatever that Japanese term is. Here is his latest painting of her:
http://attalus.deviantart.com/art/Lilyblue2-686647414
My wife is actually not a redhead. She’s a blue-eyed freckled blonde, though she did dabble in the red dye in her younger years.
A striking picture, certainly. And I just took a dive through your bf’s gallery. There are interesting pictures there, I must say. In honesty, though, his style’s improved a lot from the earlier posted works to the more recent ones. He’s really developing a neat look.
@Susan
Pibby = EEEK !!
Must – clear – eyes – of – scarecrow – must – focus – on TRACEE – purrrrrrrr
(is Tracee my poowoo ?)
Tracee is totally your waifu. Though you might not be totally faithful.
@EG
Tracee Waifu
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
@EG: Those early pics were from before he met me, his muse. After 2008 he got much better. Oh, and he says thanks, and “Praise from Sir Hubert is praise indeed.” Don’t ask me who Sir Hubert was.
@Buggle
Last year you and I travelled to Canada in search of THE GECKO, and he donned that marvellous disguise to give us the slip. You were pretty much bombed on ABSINTHE every evening (after we finished driving – duh).
And I – toasted on some primo Catnip from my old buddy Sauron-Cat, never saw the need to ask you to share.
So, this evening my human pet Baldie and I were reminiscing the Good Ole Days, and he asked if I had ever tried ABSINTHE.
I said no, and he crawled low and brought out a bottle from the dusty depths of the Liquor Cabinet (he prefers cold beer).
Poured some in my Water Dish … and … ARUGULA !!!!
My tiny head grew three sizes, my tongue ran straight out, my nose smoked, and I SCREAMED !!!!
He laughed. Bastard.
Do you really imbibe that GREEN DEATH ?
If you drink enough of it, it stops mattering. Everything stops mattering. The taste doesn’t matter so much to me as the alcohol content.
When I just want to have a taste of something good, I prefer moscato. 😛
That TEDDY BEAR had a NAME !!
Rest In Peace, FANG
(sobbing)
I’m not a Hanzo main! I main Soldier, Orisa and Reinhardt!
Well, carry on, good man. Carry on.
@EG
I adore Daphne’s Tees.
They have been an amusing sub-plot for a long time.
But HOW can she pay for them ?
No job ?
Is poor Colin giving her a generous allowance o buy kewl Tee’s even HE can’t afford ?
Daphne has numerous schemes making her money at all times. We don’t know the exact nature of those schemes, but they’re … schemey.
Puck is lucky. After she has been caught crying, she just smooths an errant lock of ginger, and she immediately looks fabulous again. Me, when I have been crying my hair looks like a rat’s nest, my eyes are all swollen and bloodshot and my face is all blotchy.
Well, it’s like Hollywood. Everything is a little more smooth than real life, I guess.
I mean, her eyes are still kinda red??
Nah, you’re right. Envy is justified here.
She is even blushing attractively. No blotches for her, or staying in the bathroom till the eyes look less swollen
As a fairy, doesn’t she have some magic she could use for emergencies like this?
Not really. I think she ran out back in 1734.
1734
Wouldn’t it be awesome if Robin ran into the WITCHES again, and they deemed it appropriate to restore Robin’s abilities for just one day ?
Obviously it would be no Boon, but rather a Cruelty. Just to rub in what they did to her in the Supermarket so long ago.
Two-thirds of the way down HERE is what my fevered imagination believes happened to Robin’s Magic on that sad day in 1734.
In Pibgorn, fairy kisses have magical healing power. Just sayin’. 🙂
Le baiser de la fée? Well, it sure works for Pibby. If Puck is out of “baiser mojo,” maybe Pibby could make a guest appearance. To say that I would like that would be understating the case considerably, much like “SalemCat is a bit fond of bleached towheads with large …plastic surgery bills.” 😛
But we had better tell Pibby to leave Dru behind. I get the feeling that they would not get along. “They” meaning “any member of the Puck cast except maybe Colin”
@Susan
It was probably the FRENCH what got you in trouble.
It sounds better in French. Besides, Brooke McI. puts it that way in the comic.:P
@Susan
Français sonne toujours comme sexe – oh la la !
Phoebe might! Phoebe likes everyone until they piss her off!
I think you can rely on Dru to do that fairly quickly. She has that knack
Crud, I have a great comment, and the thing won’t let me post. No cuss words or medical terms or anything
Happens to me all the time.
Seriously, just post right here what you just said.
Eventually EG stops grading papers, or whatever he really does for a living, and will retrieve your wisdom from the PUCK dumpster (if he sees fit).
@Susan
Oh the other hand, you’re probably just going to be mean to me again.
Forget I said anything.
It’s back up. I’m not sure what was making the spam filter toss it, but I manually went in and brought it back.
Thanks. EG! Yoohoo, Salem…
Who, me? *innocent look*
*drops to the floor sobbing* Puck, Colin, my poor babies! Allow me to offer you comfort during this most terrible of times!
*brings out Peeps and vodka before drawing the whole Goodfellow family into a tearful hug*
You are a kind and generous soul.
I’m kinder and more generous to fictional characters than I am to my own family. I wonder what that says about me.
Also, next week is comic 400!!! Gonna do anything special, Gecko?
@Buggle
Let’s see….
#50 Nothing Special
#100 Nothing Special
#150 Nothing Special
#200 Nothing Special
#250 Nothing Special
#300 Nothing Special
#350 Nothing Special
I sense a pattern here.
But I’m thinking if any of we Pucksters were looking for SPECIAL, we’d like to see just a teeny bit of inconsequential MAGIC. Just once. To reaffirm our hopes that DEUS EX MACHINA was at least possible in the PUCK Universe.
If we harangue him about it enough, he might do something for #500!
how bout… 4 frames
1: THIS
2: IS
3: PUCK
4: #400
Then we get to roast Gecko over an open fire for that!
Sound good?
Honestly, I’d love to pull that because I’m horribly behind. I’m going away on vacation at an awkward time and I’m trying to get two comics done this week. It’s … a challenge.
What would we have to talk about, though? The Puck community would fall apart.
@Buggle
We could just tease him all week about being a lazy-bones.
(snicker)
@DLKmusic
If it gave EG a well-deserved break, I’m totally in on that !
Okay, here’s the deal. Initially the plan was to finish off this whole arc at #400, which would mean that I would have a tidy 200 comics to package up for volume 2 of the print book. But then the previous arc ran long, and I just gave up. So #400 will not be a normal comic, exactly, but it’s not going to provide the resolution I hoped it would.
Dear me. Well, surely it doesn’t *have* to be a tidy 200 comics to make it to print?
@Buggle
EG could remove few strips.
Then later print a second edition with those “Deleted Scenes”.
$$$$$$$
No, it doesn’t. And it won’t be. Because the print edition will need to end at the end of this arc, so that’ll be around … 225 comics, maybe? Something like that.
Loved the alt-text.
This is the 1st time I looked closely at the bookshelf (…the emotions are intense so my eyes go elsewhere…). Is that boxed set on the upper left Narnia or Little House on the Prairie?
I also noted Chekov’s Magic 8-Ball.
Probably Narnia. The boxed set in the analogue in my own house is Narnia. Though there’s another boxed set of Anne of Green Gables too.
And I don’t think the Magic 8-Ball will ever be used. It’s been on that shelf since way earlier in the comic, though I don’t know whether it was ever visible. But maybe it will be used? Who knows?
It’s said that if you bring a gun as a prop on stage, you must use it. Can’t recall them saying anything about Magic 8-Balls…
@rewinn
Brilliant observation to detail !
And on the lower shelf, lying flat, there is clearly a well-read copy of an unabridged Assyrian edition NECRONOMICON.
But whose copy is it ? Robin’s ? Phoebe’s ? Daphne’s ? Or ….. (insert ominous music here) …. MIRANDA’S !!
How is it *Chekov’s* magic 8 ball?
He was the first owner. Never used it again after he asked it if Uncle Vanya should take the morphine. It kept saying “Ask again later.”
Points to Susan for being way more erudite than I haha!
Buggle, it’s a reference to “Chekov’s Gun”.
Or you can just say that my reply was hazy, ask again 😉
Lol, thank you, but I know now, thanks to Robert up there. 😛
I don’t know why this just occurred to me now, but it seems to me that Daphne must shoplift all of those T-shirts to wear a different one every day. That, or maybe she finds them in a dumpster….
@JRB
I know Daphne has nothing on me, because Lord knows I’ve tried everything to gain her notice.
I could really use a little notoriety to grift me cred in the Feline Community.
But – no such luck.
@JRB
Nah, Daphne’s Tees are way too trendy to be anything but Custom-Made.
I believe she caught SotiCoto In flagrante delicto and is extorting just enough from the poor soul to clothe herself as she sees fit.
Is this Daphne showing compassion?
Aw! Our little girl is growing up. Burning down The Happiest Place In Canada was worth it!
(Puck may be doing some character development too. Colin is losing something but everyone is gaining.)
*beams*
This may or may not be Daphne showing compassion. It probably is. But it’s always two steps forward, one step back with that one. So don’t expect her to stop bilking seniors of their savings any time soon.
Hehe. I asked my bf for a “special picture” of Daffy and Puck for my bd. Aren’t you curious about what he’s working on?
Uh, yes. I am curious. Very, very curious. And just a little afraid.
WOT !!!
NO TRACEEE ???
GRRRRRRRRR…..
(well, bf probably does not have enough pencils or ink to draw tracee’s considerable assets, anyhoo)
My bf doesn’t like Tracee. Or Colin. Or Heather or Tyler. I provided him with several captures of Daffy and Puck. Oh, and Phoebe? He likes her way too much. He wanted to use her instead of Puck for this “pose’, but I told him Phloebes isn’t that violent. 😛
@Susan
The Fan-Art is going to incorporate VIOLENCE ?
(sigh)
I was hoping for something else.
Oh well…..
Oooooooooooo.
I’m looking forward to this! Will Gecko feature it? If not, could you provide a link, Susan?
I’m sure that Colin’s cancer isn’t deadly.
With such a great deal of detail already sketched in the background, the only thing that is missing from the bedroom aesthetic of already drawn was one of those eight-ball globes that you shake & ask the future with. 😀
I really appreciate how intricate you get on environments visually.
I really appreciate how you really appreciate my backgrounds, because I feel like I’m the laziest background guy ever. Mainly because I hate backgrounds. They annoy me, and they’re time-consuming, and I wish I were drawing something else that didn’t have straight lines in it. But if you think I’m doing okay, I must be doing something right.
There are not words,
to describe how grateful Colin is,
that Puck has elected NOT to punch him in the cancers.
Punches usually don’t stop cancer.