NEW VOTING INCENTIVE!!! CHRISTMAS FEAR!!!
More has been added to the December voting incentive! Check it out! (And remember: fans who donate $5 or more a month get a say in what voting incentives run! If you want to join their controlling ranks, HEAD ON OVER TO PATREON and join the select club!)
VOTE FOR PUCK BECAUSE I’M DESPERATE!!!
As for this comic…
So this might be the last appearance of spirit guide Mr. T in the comic, though I'm not ruling out another appearance entirely. For now, at least, it's the last.
As per usual, my attempts to wrap up this whole story arc quickly are getting foiled by the natural needs of the story. Things should be winding down soon, though, and then we officially enter the Puck Comic Universe's Phase 4. That's right! I'm already on Phase 3, meaning I'm one phase ahead of Marvel Comics at the time of writing! Suck it, Marvel! (Phase 3 of the PCU, for the curious, started with the birth of Miranda and runs to here. We started with a hospital room and ended with a hospital room.)
![More like "420 Praise it!" Ami'ight?](https://puckcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/puck-420.png "More like "420 Praise it!" Ami'ight?")
Puck 420
NEW VOTING INCENTIVE!!! CHRISTMAS FEAR!!!
More has been added to the December voting incentive! Check it out! (And remember: fans who donate $5 or more a month get a say in what voting incentives run! If you want to join their controlling ranks, HEAD ON OVER TO PATREON and join the select club!)
VOTE FOR PUCK BECAUSE I’M DESPERATE!!!
As for this comic…
So this might be the last appearance of spirit guide Mr. T in the comic, though I'm not ruling out another appearance entirely. For now, at least, it's the last.
As per usual, my attempts to wrap up this whole story arc quickly are getting foiled by the natural needs of the story. Things should be winding down soon, though, and then we officially enter the Puck Comic Universe's Phase 4. That's right! I'm already on Phase 3, meaning I'm one phase ahead of Marvel Comics at the time of writing! Suck it, Marvel! (Phase 3 of the PCU, for the curious, started with the birth of Miranda and runs to here. We started with a hospital room and ended with a hospital room.)
so collin should face his fears, hu? no problem, puck is about to visit in 3…2…1
Hey, don’t make the plot beats seem THAT obvious!
Is it possible that they Colin some ketamine for the anesthesia?
Maybe? Or maybe his spirit really did need to go on a journey, with or without any inducing through substances.
RE Incentive….
PURRRRRRRRRRR
Tracee makes a very appealing present. Although only people on the naughty list have ever received it.
Well, the people on the naughty list always get the best presents.
O M G
Miranda’s hair and Tracee’s hair – CHECK.
Miranda’s outfit and Tracee’s outfit – CHECK.
Something Wicked This Way Comes ?
Miranda’s hair is a different color. Slightly.
@EG
I dunno, man.
My “Whisker Powers” are sensing CHANGELING !!.
The only question in my mind is Miranda a Changeling left by TRACEEE and Satan for Puck to raise, or (more likely), Robin swapped her FIRE-BELCHING REDHEAD (shudder) in place of TRACEEE’s sweet little tow-headed darling.
Now, I know there are some holes in my theory, but nothing that some LAME-O “Dream Sequence” couldn’t fix.
(except that a serious Web Comic like PUCK would nevah stoop THAT low.)
😛
From that Wiki: ” In rare cases, the very elderly of the Fairy people would be exchanged in the place of a human baby, and then the old fairy could live in comfort, being coddled by its human parents. Simple charms, such as an inverted coat or open iron scissors left where the child sleeps, were thought to ward them off..”
Hmnnnnn……
Comic #420… Sounds indeed like what Colin sounds like to the nurse in the 4th panel.
Totally accidental, I assure you.
Hey, getting called Mr. T is a compliment! Even for a lady – at least I’d consider it one.
Agreed. Though I understand if some ladies might not appreciate it.
i think shes just got bitchy nurse syndrom
If she does, it’s totally warranted in that line of work.
Never knew a Lady, or a girl or a woman, who appreciated being called “Mister.” “Master,” maybe. “Mistress,” no. Too many connotations. My friend the naval officer says she was addressed as “Miss Blank” by one old chief, and “Ensign Blank” by everybody else while on duty. Off duty, they just called her by her first name, other officers, that is.
During my brief unsuccessful stint in Air Force Officer training, there was a story going around about a cadet that called a female officer “Sir”. She chewed him out and finished with something like, “You understand?”
“Yes Sir. I mean yes Ma’am.”
An important lesson… Will Colin actually learn it?
Given the fact that Colin has been mostly governed by fear until now, it’ll be hard.
Has Colin ever learned anything, except fear of Puck?
Probably not.
He learned a father’s love of Daphne, which is no small feat.
He learned to devote his working life to the support of his family, which is admirable.
He learned he is at least brave enough to undergo surgery so as to extend his time with his loved ones, rather than just get blitzed and drive into a building, which is brave.
I am somewhat curious what the nurse in panel 4 has been called if she has a list of things she’s been called.
As for the voting incentive, I can’t actually argue with Tracee about people having different definitions of “fun”. Then again, it’s Tracee. So yeah. There’s that.
I’m surprised that this was the conclusion of phase 3 of Puck. Then again, it’s fitting. So yeah.
Well, if I ever actually come out with a Volume 2 book, it’ll end when this story arc ends. I think.
Female nurses are addressed as “Ms.” by people who don’t know them well, or by their first name by people who do. When they screw up, the list is endless. You should hear my boss when one of them hands her the wrong instrument in surgery. She doesn’t wrap them on the knuckles, as the old school used to (she considers that highly unprofessional) but calling them a “handless t**t ” or similar is par for the course. She has been known to throw things, I hear, but I have never seen it in seven years. I figure it is just part of her legend, like the scrub nurse crying outside the OR door.
Grr, Auto-correct changed “rap” to “wrap.” Curse you Auto-correct
It dun no howda spel.
You deserve a medal.
I’m only surprised Tracee doesn’t have a Festivus pole. 🙂
@Typeminer
Well, of course Satan does.
He erected it especially for her.
FESTIVUS POLE.
(OMG, EG is getting out his squirt gun. It’s ok, I deserve it this time)
The number of ways I could shock the robots by replying to this post is so high that metric numbers won’t go there 😛
Heh.
“I am somewhat curious what the nurse in panel 4 has been called if she has a list of things she’s been called.”
By patients coming out of anaesthesia? Mostly highly inappropriate things, I fear. Probably a fair few obscenities in there too, if the patient was intubated and the nurse has just taken the tube out…
NO SURGERY!?!?! ONLY A PSYCHEDELIC-ANESTHETIC DAYDREAM!?!?!?!?! THE NEXT COMIC SHOULD BE THE SURGERY FROM THE DOCTOR’S POINT OF VIEW, OR ELSE, WHAT THE FU- BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will post a link to surgical instruction video if pressed, but I suspect you wouldn’t like it.
Please don’t. I’ve seen enough of that flipping past bad reality shows, daytime talk shows, and Nip/Tuck (that show where Dr Doom was a plastic surgeon).
Now that Miranda is old enough to learn from the ‘rents, it’s time for PCU Phase 4: Colin Faces His Fear Of The Fall https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-157
Some fears are too great to get over.
“Nature isn’t going to hurt you, Colin,” says Puck, who knows all about lightning, floods, and wildfires.
Colin is basically married to Puck and is Daphne’s sort-of stepdad and has the daughter of Satan as a roomie. So his fears all did a double-take at the women in the household and took off screaming to hide under beds! Colin and Taylor essentially live in the eye of the hurricane!
Well, no one is more in tune with fear than Colin, that’s for sure.
I can’t say about “pity,” but, as for the “fool” part, well…it would seem Mr. T hasn’t read the rest of the strip.
Well, he IS a product of Colin’s mind. So I’m guessing Colin has a selective memory.
Oh Dear,
I realize many of you who are visiting this Comic right now are expecting THIS.
So as a courtesy, I have provided this LINK as a Public Service.
Hey, it’s not my fault.
I could potentially switch hosting options with my provider to something else which would (apparently) end the “problems with access” issue forever. But it’ll cost more (not really a problem) and MAY require that I rebuild the site from scratch (more of a problem). I’ll need to investigate.
@EG
I don’t think anyone blames the artists.
You are more the victim than we.
Like the crazy Patreon fee increases this week.
Oh well….
Heh, I just showed this comic to my bf and he did a great Brandon De Wilde impression , “Shane! Come back!”
I jumped him and tackled him to try to make him finish the “I love you!” part but we were both laughing too hard.
@Susan
You too were made for each other !
(Not literally of course. Tho mebe.)
I knew that five minutes after I sat down next to him at a very stupid conference on surgical technique.
Marlin Perkins, 1963 (grainy b+w footage): “Here we see a medical professional in the wild encountering a potential mate at a conference on surgical technique. She yawns in boredom at the lecture; he reciprocates with a murmured assent; in a short time they head for a local watering hole. It’s Nature’s way.”
O M G
Well Played – Except for the 1963 part.
I believe you have forgotten Susan’s facility with the Benelli !
(or BF’s skill with the drawing pencils)
Heh, good one. Actually he whispered something about keeping the tip of the eyedrops bottle sterile while ignoring the rest. His breath smelled good and tickled my ear. We sat together at the catered lunch and ran into each other at the coffee shop later and had coffee before evening rounds. He asked me if I wanted to see a movie together that weekend and I asked him why wait so long? THe rest is history.
What movie ?
Was it one of them new-fangled TALKIES ?
IIRC, it was “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” I didn’t pay much attention to the movie. 🙂
Oh.
I was figuring some Charlie Chaplin blockbuster.
(snicker snacker)
Canadian comic alert!
Hehe
https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/freerange/
I don’t believe that’s real Canadian chess. Neither of those players is apologizing.
“Eh, your move.”
“Eh, okay”
“Eh, check”
“Eh, I can’t move anywhere without being in check”
“Eh, checkmate, then. Awf’ly sorry, old chap. Have another beer?”
I dunno. Sounds kinda trite, y’all know. 😛
Gecko alert! I found one of them dead on the master bathroom floor. I hoped he was still alive and tried to put him out the front door but he just lay there. *Sniff. I* guess the roach paste got him, if it wasn’t a spider
Hmmf…
A likely story.
“Oh, children. Don’t cry. Daddy is allergic, so we had to get rid of Kitty-Kat. But don’t worry ! We found a nice FARM for him.”
“Kitty cat is on the roof, and we can’t get him down…assuming we would WANT to get him don…” 😛
@Susan
Starving to DEATH while trapped ON THE ROOF was how my 5th life ended. But I’m betting you knew that (sniffle).
“A Ladder, A Ladder – My Kingdom for a Ladder !”
(Tho in comparison to the FARM lie, I much prefer “Kidz, Kitty-Kat ran away because you are all awful children, and he HATES you.)
@Susan
I will admit I survived an extra day or three gnawing on some elderly lady’s bones.
Hmph, I have seen a cat leap off the top of a telephone pole and streak away like nobody’s business. I suspect that the correct Shakespeare quote would be, ‘Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would, ”. Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage’ 😛
@Susan
Your observation, combined with SCIENCE may have saved me a life.
JUMP !!!
But I didn’t.
Lol now I’m curious to see that nurse’s list. 😀
Ask a local nurse, and I’m sure she’ll give you a few highlights. Even worse, ask a nurse on a geriatric ward or in a nursing home.