NEW VALENTINE'S DAY VOTING INCENTIVE!!!
The February voting incentive is here, and it's ... a voting incentive! (Now with EXTRA INCENTIVE!) (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 AND WARM MY ICY HEART!!!
As for this comic…
Looks like there's another comic to add into the Puck Foot Wiki. And if you didn't know there was a Puck Foot Wiki, then you're in good company, because I didn't know either until I stumbled across it one day. (I'm not going to link to it. If you want to see, you can just Google it and add that to your search history.) It simply links to every comic where someone in the cast appears barefoot. I get that some people are just ... into that sort of thing, but it seems odd that this comic warrants such a wiki, given the fact that bare feet almost never, ever appear in the comic. For one thing, the framing of a comedy strip comic means that most shots are waist up or tighter. For another thing, SHOES. In a sad bit of irony, most of the bare feet have appeared in voting incentives over the years, but those aren't readily available for the wiki to link to, so ... :(
At least there's one more comic to add to the list. For those people who regularly check and update foot wikis. Whoever you are.
Puck 427
NEW VALENTINE'S DAY VOTING INCENTIVE!!!
The February voting incentive is here, and it's ... a voting incentive! (Now with EXTRA INCENTIVE!) (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 AND WARM MY ICY HEART!!!
As for this comic…
Looks like there's another comic to add into the Puck Foot Wiki. And if you didn't know there was a Puck Foot Wiki, then you're in good company, because I didn't know either until I stumbled across it one day. (I'm not going to link to it. If you want to see, you can just Google it and add that to your search history.) It simply links to every comic where someone in the cast appears barefoot. I get that some people are just ... into that sort of thing, but it seems odd that this comic warrants such a wiki, given the fact that bare feet almost never, ever appear in the comic. For one thing, the framing of a comedy strip comic means that most shots are waist up or tighter. For another thing, SHOES. In a sad bit of irony, most of the bare feet have appeared in voting incentives over the years, but those aren't readily available for the wiki to link to, so ... :(
At least there's one more comic to add to the list. For those people who regularly check and update foot wikis. Whoever you are.
Nothing like a girl who puts her foot down.
Or one who puts her foot up.
Is the coffee instant?
Let’s hope not. That would be some half-assed pampering if it were.
Wouldn’t Robin’s coffee addiction demand better than instant coffee. I mean I could see her spooning that stuff in like a kid with a bag of sugar.
Agreed. Although real addicts are known to not be picky when the addiction hits. I have a coffee-addled uncle who will drink ANYTHING even vaguely coffee-related.
i dont think robin has quite reached the meth addict licking the bottom of a medical waste trash can lvl yet that eating instant coffee dry would represent, shes more of a drinks super concentrated coffee lady i think
The return of the unpractically short nightie, combined with the strategic leg cross.
That nightie is well nigh USELESS it’s so short. That’s why I like it.
I’d guess that is why Puck and Colin like it, too. 😉
Don’t judge the nightie. Most of the cheesecake Gecko promises turns out to be lies. Just enjoy the view while you can.
Hey, they’re not ALL lies. In fact, the lies grew tiring a while back, so now the cheesecake is more likely to be legit.
Gecko’s CheeseCake
You know me well.
I don’t think there’s a guy on the planet that would say no to doing that!
So you’re saying you’re totally ready to join the free labor foot massage market?
If the clients are all supernaturally beautiful redheads, then where do I sign?
I don’t think they would be. At least some of the clients would be old ladies with bunions.
hey if they can cook me a really nice dinner im fine with the bunyun massageing
They’re so silly. ^_^
Lovely slice of life-instalment.
Thought I’d just insert a nice, light slice of goofy into the mix.
Hope you’re feeling better now, EG.
As for the comic, I wasn’t aware that feet wiki was a thing either. Then again, there’s people for everything, so I guess it makes sense. Kind of?
It is a bit weird to see them this affectionate (as normally they don’t seem to be) but I’m not judging – always nice to see something unexpected (as long as it’s not flatout dumb and/or stupid).
Well, I hope it’s not flat-out dumb or stupid, but I’ve been known for those things, so…
Puck and Colin are actually a pretty close couple, I’d say. They usually hide that fact behind a facade of snide hostility, especially in Puck’s case, but deep down, there’s a lot of affection. I’d like to think that the cancer scare momentarily knocked the snide hostility away for a bit.
I just assumed that affection is not often funny, but disasters are, so we see less of the one and more of the other. But it is nice to see that the couple is together, even if its components are not.
That is very, very true. Affection gets syrupy very fast without a good dose of hostility to cut it. So don’t worry; the affection won’t stick around too long.
Is that a Jimmy Saville mug?
Surely not…
No. Definitely not. That’s a Ratchet mug.
Ah, good – Couldn’t help thinking that it was drawing on the Jim’ll Fix It thing plus the hair looked a lot like his with a weird V shape across most of the face.
Ratchet? Never seen it but I’d assume Ratchet and Clank?
Look for Wheeljack and Ratchet.
Ratchet from Transformers. He was the medic. He always had a few wrenches on him. This is what the actual image looks like:
https://puckcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ratchet.png
I like that mug. ^_^
I’m glad you approve.
Glad to see Puck knows what real foreplay is. One of the (many) reasons I stick with my bf is that he gives a killer foot massage, using facial cream. I buy it by the case, now. Cheapest aphrodisiac, EVER!
BTW, Puck can keep her shortie nightgown. All those things are good for is to keep your neck warm. 😛
My wife concurs on the neckwarmer front with the short nighties. She purchased a few a while back and found them exactly as useful as you describe.
My wife likes silk undies. Adds to her confidence.
I keep threatening to buy her a plaid flannel thong in honor of her Scottish (and First Peoples) ancestry.
I’m (at least) 1/8 Tsalagi (Cherokee), and anybody that buys me a plaid thong had better start running, because I will hunt them down and disembowel them. 😛
I’ve got to ask, Susan, is it the plaid or the thong that enrages you. Because I’ve got the theory that buying your spouse a thong is up there with asking her to get breast implants: a sure sign that the husband is tired of living.
As they say on the college entrance exam, “True…true…unrelated.” I loathe plaid, period (and animal prints, too) and buying a woman lingerie without being asked is way too aggressive. Particularly a thong! Butt-floss, yuck! I’m a runner, we are very conservative about that kind of thing, as a whole
@Susan
Pleeze.
Do not evah conflate yourself with a THONG.
My horrible imagination will lead to BF committing Feline-i-cide.
A very bad thing for him – but mainly ME !!
My bf says my girls are just the right size. They fit into a champagne glass 😛
@Susan
Your feet, right ?
Okay, okay, champagne saucer, sheesh. 😛
And my bf says he massages my feet to keep them from getting all callused and stinky. Which they were before we got together, because of my bad habit of running without socks in the summer.
@Susan
Callused, Stinky FEET ?
He certainly does LUV LUV LUV you !
He’s a surgeon. He has to deal with gangrene and other “interesting” odors. Anything alive is all right with him. Anyway, that was years ago
Good call.
Feet or whatever else — I assume Susan is not speaking of a champagne flute, rather than a goblet.
I suppose, too, that somebody must ask (so it might as well be me, ’cause I thought of asking): just how *good* is Colin feeling?
I feel like I don’t have enough innuendo power to decipher what you mean by this, but … very good?
Just that he’s likely to be called to perform his manly duties. And after he takes out the garbage, there might be something else he has to do.
I think Colin will be up to ANY task.
Wait! Isn’t this how it started! Colin had ice cream AND sex …. now Colin is about to have coffee and, um, what comes after a good foot massage?
After the foot massage comes … LEG MASSAGE.
He’ll gradually work his way up.
(ST:TNG — reference)
Caught up to current on this comic. Was sad that the “forward” arrow turned gray, but glad to see it is still going. Adding to my list of webcomics I follow.
Glad that you managed to make it through the archive. And yeah, it’s still going! It just goes … slower from this point forward for you.
Answer to question in new voting incentive: her toes are a perfect 10?
Works for me.
Yay, I don’t have to look at Daffy in the incentive any more!
Lucky Phloebles. I get Valentines from all my office mates and my bf. Oh, and drug salesmen (even the females). My boss gives us eensie-beansie boxes of chocolates, which I hoard and trade for items in my co-workers lunch that look better than what I made. Hey, after a five mile run, I am no Rachel Ray.
I am sure that you probably compete quite well against Phoebe in the Valentine department.
@EG
Susan hoards the ARROWS as well.
(shudder)
HAPPY CANDLEMAS !!
This strip and the voting incentive remind me (by contrast- your ladies have great legs) of a strip I used to read which had pretty good art, but none of the female characters had ankles. Their calves just ran without noticeable narrowing into their feet. The artist did a few pin-up style drawings of the “sexy” character, and the effect was a little odd.
Drawing sexy dames is hard. Really, really hard. Drawing sexy guys is hard too, really, but with guys you can sort of fall back on a decent knowledge of anatomy to help you. With girls, the shape is generally formed more by fat deposits, which makes it complicated. The issue is that we humans are really good at intuitively understanding the human figure, and ‘sexy’ usually means that the figure falls within a very specific range of idealized proportions which we all understand.
I think it’s safe to say that the element of this comic that I’m most self-conscious about is the artwork – specifically the figure drawing. I am never, ever happy with my drawings. About once every six months I produce a drawing that I’m okay with. The current voting incentive is one of those, but it must be noted that it took me three tries and I blew a full six hours on the sketching stage alone.
It really would be useful if I were better at this whole drawing thing.
I’d wager that even the most celebrated artists complained about drawing the human form, though. 🙂
I was reading about Ingres in one of Lord Clark’s books, and the sitter for one of his most successful portraits (“Portrait of Comtesse d’Haussonville”) was interviewed later and asked how long it took to paint it. She replied “Ever so long. Especially since every once in a while, M. Ingres would rush out and I could hear him sobbing in the next room.”
Exactly. And he was working from a model! I’m working from my own faulty brain.
EG, not to be a smart alec, but you could work from photographs. The Bettmann and Getty archives have innumerable pictures of beautiful women in almost every kind of pose. However, I myself can’t draw worth a lick, so take my advice for what it’s worth.
I could. But other than with really challenging poses, I seldom go to photos because it becomes its own endless challenge to find pics to use as refs for everything. And the other factor is that with comic styles like mine, the slight level of abstraction sometimes makes it so that the stock pic really doesn’t help. Like I’ve seen some poses from photos that I can replicate almost perfectly in my style and yet they still look wrong.
I draw mostly without ref pics (a) out of laziness, and (b) because it’s a bit of sportsmanlike challenge. Or at least that’s what I can keep telling myself.
In that case, you do an awfully good imitation of someone who knows what they’re doing
Puck’s shoulder freckles…and in a nightie too?
Thanks, Geck! 😉
Well, I do love me that ridiculously short nightie.