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As for this comic…
I realized only at the coloring stage that I really should have made Colin’s anthropomorphic balls look like pink versions of the California Raisins. But now it’s too late. Oh well. I doubt I would have been able to even convey A California Raisin-esque look at the shrunk-down scale of those images.
Eagle eyes might note that the crowd behind fantasy hockey Colin is comprised of faces that look a lot like the crowd from NES Punch-Out! That makes two 80’s video game references in one tiny pic!
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As for this comic…
I realized only at the coloring stage that I really should have made Colin’s anthropomorphic balls look like pink versions of the California Raisins. But now it’s too late. Oh well. I doubt I would have been able to even convey A California Raisin-esque look at the shrunk-down scale of those images.
Eagle eyes might note that the crowd behind fantasy hockey Colin is comprised of faces that look a lot like the crowd from NES Punch-Out! That makes two 80’s video game references in one tiny pic!
Reminds me of the ad with the bladder who follows that woman around and always has to go.
I haven’t seen it, but I like the sound of it.
Hah !
Sass him Robin !
We’re getting back to old times again !!
It helps both of them maintain their composure.
Well, the old times are never too far away. Hopefully.
@EG
It would have been fun if one Thought Bubble had a PRE-BEARD Colin in it.
Yeah, I didn’t want to confuse people.
No such thing as pre-beard colin…The beard Grew colin
Except for all those comics where he didn’t have a beard… Though I guess we could argue that he was no true Colin before the beard.
That’s one thing about PUCK; although the drawing-style has become far more polished, the Characters and their Personalities have remained remarkably consistent.
Which is something I like.
To me Pre-Beard Colin is EXACTLY like Beard-Colin.
(except Pre-Beard had TWO of them)
SLIGHTLY more polished. Only slightly.
Let us remember their greatest achievement of all, knocking up Puck.
It was a team effort. Colin scored but both of the other two got the assist.
Heh.
I’d consider that more a misadventure.
Their greatest adventures have been while with Puck!
But sometimes the boys just want to go off and have manly adventures on their own! Like snorkeling, and wine-tasting, and quiet walks along a beach!
Show me a man who likes quiet walks along the beach, and i’ll show you a man trying to impress a woman. 😛
I was trying to list the least man-type things I could. On purpose.
My bf likes snorkeling and scuba diving. He proved it last time we vacayed on St. John. And wine (and beer and whiskey)-tasting (and guzzling). Quiet walks along the beach, no. Unless he is following some chick in a bikini having a quiet walk along the beach about fifteen feet ahead of him. Also he doesn’t like taking about our relationship or movies about relationships.
I’m not on for the snorkeling, and not on for the wine, but the part including and following the ‘chick and bikini’ part I am totally in agreement with.
*cough*creepy!*cough*
@Buggle: What part of *BOY*friend do you not understand
Well exCUSE me, but I think it’s sexist both ways to expect men to be creepy. 😛
You forgot the ‘princess’ part. It’s “exCUSE me, princess!” Never forget the princess.
Maybe it’s sexist, but that’s the way to bet 😛
(Lol) Well exCUSE me, princess, but if we change expectations so that men are expected not to be creepy, I bet that the odds will start to shift.
Yeah, good luck with that, changing men’s nature. I expect that to be a feature of human life for the next hundred years or more. I don’t know a heterosexual male who doesn’t girl watch, though they have the grace to blush when you catch them
Camdenton Pac-Men?
Hartford Pac-Men.
Heartfield Pac-Men?
You two speak a language all your own.
That’s nice.
I approve.
That would be WAY better if Pac-Man collected hearts.
Pac-Man hassling Hasselhoff?
Hello. I haven’t commented in quite a while but I have a question that has been bothering me and I hope that it isn’t too personal or upsetting in any way — is your brother okay? He hasn’t updated his comic in quite a while and I have been wanting to ask for some time now but I have been somewhat afraid to do so. Thank you.
Hey, thanks for asking! Yeah, my brother is fine. He’s super-busy because he basically works two jobs on top of the comic stuff (working in an architect’s office and playing a lot of music gigs as a bassist) so he kind of ran out of time for comic stuff. And his webcomic experiment was sort of frustrating, I think. He got a lot of shares through social media, where people really liked his stuff, but (as is the curse with many gag comics) almost no one ever went to his actual dedicated site. So it was costing him hosting fees to run it, and he’d get maybe five views a day or something like that. I wish he’d put the older strips up on Smackjeeves or Comic Fury or one of those free hosting sites, but whatever.
A lot of people don’t necessarily stay in the webcomic game forever, mainly due to the ‘lots of work for little gain’ thing. Only weirdos like me.
That is very good to hear. I enjoyed his comic, it was quite entertaining. I had a few comments back and forth with him, too. I used to play the bass in a band years ago so that was fun for me — I guess too much of a niche — although the comics weren’t about the bass anyway — except for the upset stomach part! Please let him know that he had some fans out there and seeing the comics posted would be nice — maybe a Kickstarter book?
Nice of you to say! I’ll let him know.
AIEEE! *adds incentive to list of mags never to read, like Golf Digest and Soldier of Fortune&*
Yeah, I’m with you on both those counts.
EG, I find it hard to “Like” Puck every day and still get out of there without seeing Daffy’s smirk. 🙁
Well, I’m sure you can shut the window down quickly enough to avoid it.
I’ve discovered the secret is to hit the “Link for Puck” without touching the scrolling wheel. What a feeling of accomplishment!
Rest in peace, little soldier. You won’t be forgotten.
He will be given a warrior’s funeral! (Actually, he won’t. He’ll be carted off to be biopsied, then chucked unceremoniously into a medical incinerator, but we can pretend.)
Hey, that sounds a lot like the kind of sendoff a lot of warriors have received; chopped to pieces and burned.
By the way, it’s interesting that Puck can see Colin’s thought bubbles. Still a bit of useful magic in her after all, hm? 😉
Nah, that’s just what happens when you live together with someone for over a decade.
You say “medical incinerator,” Collin says “Viking Funeral.”
So I suppose Collin needs to pick up a paper boat on the way.
Ooh, good idea!
Yeah, like they give their medical waste to patients. *eyeroll*
idk, my sister was able to keep her blackened wisdom teeth. Or is that different?
I think that’s different. Though honestly, I never asked.
That’s because the pathologists don’t embed the wisdom teeth in paraffin and then use a microtome to slice them into a zillion eensie-beansie slices and look at each one through a microscope. “And that,” concludes my bf, “is why I never wanted to become a pathologist.”
Mmmm. Now I’m hungry for shaved meat.
Curse you two for now making me forever associate b@ll surgery with salami!
They are more like liverwurst, really! Or olive loaf 😛
*spits out her coffee* That’s worse!
@Susan
I really like OLIVE LOAF.
Liverwurst ? Umnnn – NO.
@Salem: Oh, me, too. But the bf lies liverwurst and it’s his house, so I end up making him liverwurst on rye every so often. Mustard, no mayo, Jalapeno slices instead of pickles
How could we *not* put thought into the fact that Puck could see into his thought bubble? I was going to ask about that until I read the alt-text.
I’m honestly not very surprised that Colin has never played hockey – it never seemed like something he would do to begin with.
Bit of a shame on his end, maybe, but eh… Nothing to do about it.
Unless he decides to wake up in the middle of the night, play a short hockey game, then go back to sleep.
Though that might not be the best of ideas.
Here’s the thing with hockey: even in Canada, where it’s one of our national sports, hockey is played by a very small percentage of the population. It’s a hard game to play. You (A) have to master an entirely different sport/skill (skating) to even try to play, you (B) need at least $500 worth of gear to play, and (C) you can’t just play a fun game on the road, or in your yard or whatever. It’s like golf that way: you need to be born into a family that values the sport, forces it upon their young at a very young age, and imbues them with the necessary skills to be even marginally good at it.
My dad has played ice hockey constantly since he was five. I never learned. He never forced it on me, which I’m thankful for, because I would have been awful.
You got that right, hockey is stupid expensive. I only played because my dad was in the military so we could play on the base rink for way cheap. I played into my 50s, when back problems developed and I had to give it up. We didn’t encourage my son to play for the same reason, way too expensive, we did teach both kids to skate however, so they could try it if they really wanted too. Luckily they weren’t interested, they played soccer instead.
It also swallows your whole life. A friend of mine has had her two boys playing in a league for years. It dominates their life: every weekend in winter and spring is hockey; vacations are planned around it. And the only real way to play it as a kid is to be a part of a league; I’ve never heard of casual hockey meets for kids.
Soccer is, to my mind, the sensible choice. Or really anything else that’s not hockey, golf, or anything equestrian.
@EG
Any chance Robin could bend over and look out that window AGAIN ?
Oh wait …. there’s a Crib in the way. Dump that thing.
Miranda can handle a real bed now.
So, men have conversations with their gonads? Seems weird, but then, we women often speak to our b00bs, so it evens out, I guess. The only thing I might say to my intra-abdominal “girls” is, “Ovulate tonight? Forget it, I missed my pill.”
I do, however, sometimes speak to a near friend of my bf’s “boys” who lives right next to them. I will go no further. 😛
Well, not normally. But at reflective times like these…
Besides, I think the main difference between ovaries and the boys is the fact that you can SEE the boys. In that way, they’re really easier to talk to.
Which is why most women (I think – this may be singular to my experience) refer to their melons as ‘the girls.’
Exactly. The girls are, despite their very different locations on the body, most analogous to the boys in many ways. Like the boys are tied to a guy’s sense of masculinity, they are inherently connected to one’s sense of womanhood. Like the boys, they are also sadly prone to developing cancer.
And I’m going to stop on this track, because it’ll just make me depressed.
@EG
I think we’re all just grateful you never inflicted on us that tired old meme of a Ball with a Hot Water Bottle on his head, and a Thermometer protruding from his lips.
That’s a meme?
you doubt me ?
Oh lord
HEY !
I’ve got SOAP !
NO NO NOOOO !!
My Soap is not meant to be used …. “back there”.
STOP I SAY – STOP !!
Okay, that Lush model just suggested my new Hallowe’en costume.
@Susan
You mean Sophia Lillis ?
Which is?
Don’t know Sophia L from Adam’s off-ox, except I am sure she is not as pretty as my friend Taylor Hill (because nobody is) , but click on the ad player next to the picture of Salem Saberhagen. Awesome!
@Susan
So the AD-MONKEYS give you pictures of Pretty Women.
And they pitch ME ads for Anal Suppositories.
Life isn’t FAIR !!!
(tho if my ads showed pretty women USING suppositories – no – no – this is a Family Web Comic)
If anybody ever told you that life is fair, they sure never told me. 😛
@Susan
Baldie tells me Life is Fair.
TRACEEE too.
The difference is Baldie doesn’t look me straight in the eye when he says that.
TRACEEE …… might.
The problem is I so rarely lift my gaze to actually meet TRACEEE’s eyes.
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
(sigh)
If you think Tracee is fair, try chatting her up in a bar when she is standing next to somebody who drove up in a BMW 😛
That’s fair in a capitalist market. If you think it’s unfair, then you can take a hike, commie!
Hey, I’m the one that keeps preaching that life isn’t fair. That’s why Tracee lives in the Mayor’s mansion, and I live in my bf’s very comfortable 5 bedroom house with a swimming pool, and the woman at the head of my class in college lives in a studio apartment wth a screaming brat and an unemployed husband 😛
@Susan
That is so harsh !
(and frankly hilarious – and fair)
😛
Mebe that is why I like TRACEEE so much (other than her awesome rack).
Her only “Job” is to keep Satan convinced she likes him.
And my only “Job” is to keep Baldie convinced I like him.
(I don’t bother with his mate Janet. She sees right through me. Women are hard to fool !)
They constantly pitch to ME dating sites for lonely single guys. I think they just apply meta-data and say, “Hey, this guy buys Transformers. He’s obviously a single shmuck in his thirties or forties with a little bit of money. Target market acquired!”
@EG
And they target me with suppositories because they believe I’m an A…….
Oh my.
They are pretty good at what they do !
I’ve got an ad for Healthy Living that shows a giant millipeed. At least they think you’ve got money and aren’t bombarding you with bug pictures.
Fourth wall? What fourth wall?
Also, apparently Colin is quite melodramatic! 😛
Well, one gets melodramatic at times like this, when the scalpel of Damocles is hanging above you.
I’m stealing that!
And now I want a Chuck E. Jesus T-shirt.
@Buggle
and …. STICKERS !!!!!
I already beat YOU to the punch too: https://www.teepublic.com/sticker/1842838-chuck-e-jesus
STICKERS FOR THE PUCK STORE! STICKERS FOR THE PUCK STORE! STICKERS FOR THE PUCK STORE!
WE’LL BUY THEM MORE THAN THE T-SHIRTS!
Like this one?
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/1842838-chuck-e-jesus
I already beat you to it.
The link doesn’t work for me
Hmm. It does for me.
LINK
Wait, nevermind, it does now! (stops self from ordering, because broke)
Puck is psychic !!!
Nah, that’s called ‘long-term partner mind meld.’
It enables us partners to finish our male half of the sketch’s sentences. And interpret them. “Oh, he meant we would love to come to your party. He’s Just shy.”
It is pretty obvious he hasn’t played hockey, holding the stick like that.
And pretty obvious I haven’t played hockey either.
I thought you did that on purpose.
To be honest, I was just sort of drawing those little pictures fast and cheap, without really paying attention. So I guess you could say the weirdness of those pics is sort of intentional in that I was … intentionally not really paying attention? Does that count?
Prolly thinking too much, but notice that Thought Bubble Colin has 3 fingers (and presumably a thumb) whereas Real People (as seen in last week’s strip) have 4. Dunno if that was deliberate or just a result of the absurdity of the Ball Boys images.
Result of absurdity of the images. But yeah, good eye. I didn’t think anyone would notice that.
I assumed Puck seeing his thought bubbles was a combo of a common joke from animation and Puck being a magical immortal fairy.
More the former than the latter.
Damn, Geck… that montage keeled me over in my chair. LMAO!
And, yeah… I could hear “The Way We Were” playing in my head for that. Good one.
I really would love to have a soundtrack. That would be a useful thing indeed.
“Ice” hockey? Holding the stick wrong with BOTH hands? I do believe that you are Canadian sir, but that stuff right there just about got you disqualified. But yeah, hockey sucks, at least the way we do it here. It could be a fun game, I suppose, but we manage to make it more of a violent stress-fest that teaches kids all the wrong things.
See what a terrible Canadian I am? See? A travesty!