Puck 433

Chapter: One of the Boys EpilogueCharacters: Colin Cy Daphne Emily the Cat Girl Tyler (aka Taylor)Tags: liefeld nerd nerd store
NEW WEEKLY VOTING INCENTIVE! VOL 2 PREVIEW!! Follow along as I draw the cover for Puck Volume 2! The second entry is up now, so... VOTE FOR PUCK AND MAKE RUTABAGAS EDIBLE!!! ALSO... I recently put a bunch of work into updating the PDF collection of voting incentive images, and the results are finally assembled! This new PDF volume contains all the voting incentives from 2011 all the way to 2017 (including some that never even ran) in a print-ready high resolution! That's almost 200 pages of stuff! So if you'd like to buy a copy, please do! As for this comic… Whoooooooo boy. This comic almost killed me. And you wouldn't think it, looking at the dang thing, because (let's face it) it doesn't have more visual impact than any other comics. But the added work of drawing, inking and coloring the complex backgrounds added a good eight or ten hours to my process. If this sounds like an awful lot of time for what it is, let me remind you of two very important facts: 1) I am slow at what I do, and 2) I am not very good at what I do, which slows me down even further. Anyway, I need to calm down and rest a bit. I could really go for a drink ... except I stopped drinking almost a decade ago. Oh well. More nerd humor in this one. Another Star Wars ref, and another shot at Sonic. Other possibilities instead of 'Sonic the Hedgehog fans' included 'Dragonball Z fans' and 'Digimon fans'. In fact, I had a comic totally finished and worded that had a very different target. I'm posting it on my Patreon feed soon. Let me know which one you thought was funnier. Also, if you want a better look at the nerd background, and all the nerdy details, again you can check the my Patreon feed. It's all going to be popping up there.

105 Comments

  • Thisguy

    I don’t get why nerds/geeks have to constantly put down other nerds/geeks because they perceive then to be part of an inferior fandom. I don’t care what people like so long as they don’t get too obsessive about it.
    That, and there are plenty on non nerds and geeks to judge.

  • DLKmusic

    A place where a nerd is judged NOT by the color of his horn-rimmed glasses, but by the quality of his Imagination! I have a DREAM!

    • ElectricGecko

      I have a dream that one day in the nerdy halls of some con the fans of Star Trek and the fans of Star Wars will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

      • CuCernunnos

        That, my fine Gecko, is a pipe dream I fear. WAY too much nerd “testosterone” flowing between those two groups…

        …the hate is strong in those children… 😛

      • pat

        Before or after the Korean peninsula is once again whole geographically, politically, culturally and horticulturally.

      • Thisguy

        If those series have taught us anything, it’s that that will only happen when there’s a bigger evil.

      • hkmaly

        … there is a con in my country merging Star Wars, Star Trek and Star Gate.

        • hkmaly

          (Of course, it’s just because we have common enemy: lack of money. Neither group is able to afford making con alone.)

          • SalemCat

            @hkmaly

            Well, someone is buying the $300 Action Figurines and $500 Signed Comics.

            A whole lot of Nerds have a whole lot of money !

            (it’s easy to put together a wad of cash when you’re living rent-free in the basement)

          • ElectricGecko

            Or when you funnel the meager proceeds of your webcomic into such questionable purchases. But hey, we wouldn’t know anyone like that.

          • SalemCat

            @EG

            And I thought you were spending my generous PATREON on something worthwhile – like LEGOS.

            Or DRAWING LESSONS.

            ( No, NO !! He’s filling the Squirtgun again !!! Cat scurries away as quick as his widdle paws can take him )

          • ElectricGecko

            Actually, 100% of the Patreon money goes to paying for the comic – either hosting fees, or ads, or that sort of thing. I only spend money I make from ads on stupid stuff.

            And drawing lessons… I’m past that. Can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Or a guy who hasn’t learned how to draw in many decades how to draw.

        • ElectricGecko

          I would eject Stargate. Never liked that IP much.

      • Billy Yank

        With my luck they’d come together to gang up on the Honor Harrington fans.

        Of course, we are a snooty bunch of bastards.

        • Susan Schroeder

          The Honor Harrington crowd would kick your collective butts. I know an ex-Marine who is an HH fan.

          • Billy Yank

            I once made a T-Shirt with the cover art from Field of Dishonor with the caption “My starship captain can beat up your starship captain.”

          • Susan Schroeder

            Cool. I would buy one with the cover art of “A Rising Thunder” or “War of Honor” on it, though I have not made it through the entire series yet. I can’t get through “In Enemy Hands.”

          • ElectricGecko

            Can’t make shirts of art that isn’t yours. That’s one of the golden shirt rules.

  • Dakishambada

    Is Emily going to be making more appearances? Her character design is really cool!

  • SalemCat

    Oooooooo!

    Panel Four may have the BEST “Daphne-Expression” in the ENTIRE SERIES !

    BTW, is her hair tied up in the back ? I’d love to see Daphne let her hair DOWN.

    With her hair down, a little make-up, some jewelry, and wearing something feminine she may be UNRECOGNIZABLE !

    And then there is EMILY – purrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

    • ElectricGecko

      Up next (starting very soon) is the prom story arc. So wait for it. And for the record, Daphne’s hair has been tied back in two short messy pigtails since the comic restarted in 2011. It has never changed. I look forward to soon changing it.

  • CuCernunnos

    The Sonic guys don’t bug me too much…

    …those Pokémon kids on the other hand…

    • ElectricGecko

      I feel bad for Trekkies. They haven’t had a real property to follow in at least a decade -they’re a fandom set adrift without a property to follow, outside of reruns. And the Orville, if you count that.

      • pat

        Well, I kind of thought that “The Orville” shot higher than MacFarlane was aiming for.

      • After fifty years of this and that, I’ve realized that the only Trek series I like is the original one. Probably like childhood comfort food. (I heartily disliked the Next Gen movies, enough so I haven’t watched the recent reboot stuff.)

        Gene Roddenberry once said that his creation could run twenty years. By my calculations, I figured the whole thing ran about six or seven years longer than that—too long.

        • SalemCat

          @RN

          DISCOVERY is not bad at all.

          It’s “modern”, as was the Original. But it is not preachy at all (which was my fear).

          And the hero’s and villains are represented by various races and genders. Which is fair – as that is reality.

          There is a nice mix of plot vs action.

          Sadly, I cannot watch for free, but must pay CBS $5.99 a month to stream (with mandatory commercials that cannot be skipped).

          That seems to be the upcoming model. Everything will be streamed, and VCR’s, DVR’s, TiVo’s, any local storage will be eliminated.

          Bummer.

          • ElectricGecko

            I have seen reviews and profiles of Discovery. I have no interest. Too ‘dark’ and dramatically lit and non-Trek for my tastes.

        • ElectricGecko

          I liked the original. I liked TNG. I liked DS9 less, and Voyager even less, so when ‘Enterprise’ came around, I didn’t watch it. And apparently neither did anyone else.

          The TNG movies weren’t very good. At all. None of them, really. The newer stuff is not, in my opinion, in keeping with the spirit of the original stuff.

          • SalemCat

            @EG

            We adored VOYAGER.

            It was pretty much “All Borg; All of the Time”.

            Borgs are my favorite !

          • ElectricGecko

            Voyager was okay. I mean, it was light years better than this newer stuff like Discovery, but it still wasn’t my bag. And to be honest, I never really followed Voyager much past season two. I never really got to the Borg-heavy bits.

          • The first NextGen was tolerable—it was a crossover, after all—but if you have Captain Kirk, you’ve got to give him something better to do than what they did.

            The second one turned my stomach—literally—the Borg conversion scenes were graphic and gross. And I really didn’t like the way they abandoned the converted Redshirts to their Borg fate.

            *****

            Still, there are moments. I caught part of a DS9 last night with Vic Fontaine, the holosuite lounge singer—which was more fun than I thought it would be from the descriptions I’d seen.

          • SalemCat

            @RN

            Ok, MAN !

            You’re CRUISIN’ for a SLAP-FIGHT !

            NO-BODY talks that way about JERI RYAN and lives !

        • Susan Schroeder

          When I worked at the hospital, the first series was always playing in the House Staff Lounge at one. I would time my breaks so I could watch, plus there was a really cute anesthesiology resident…

        • There aren’t any good Star Trek movies because it’s an ensemble cast that has to basically remain the same at the end of an episode as at the beginning – whereas a movie has to have character growth. These demands are not compatible.

          The exception that proves the rule (in the true meaning of the term) is DS9 – because it was designed to be a long-form arc, the characters could actually grown. The leads start broken (Cisco mourns his dead wife, Kira is psycho after the rebellion, etc) and over the years heal and grow. Delete a few of the clunker episodes and you have a story that works whether it’s Star Trek or not!

          • ElectricGecko

            DS9 was okay. Just kinda wasn’t my show; I never got deep into it. But it seemed decent. I agree with your movie observations, though. Very true.

          • In the TOS movies (if that’s grammatically correct), after the first one they all dealt with the same issue—growing old. The NextGen ones lacked that, far as I could tell—they just seemed extended editions of the series.

            (One thing that cheesed me off, ’round the time NextGen went into the movie business, were reports that the guys producing that thought that NextGen should be considered *the* Star Trek series—that TOS was lesser. *That*, too has colored my perceptions of all that went after—unfavorably.)

          • Susan Schroeder

            [This comment redacted – WHA]

  • pat

    Gecko, love the Arcee poster. And that pink is powerful thing, they made feminine and tough hot chick’s popular along with pink and it’s subtle gender associations.

    Just didn’t realize it until now.

    Good work teach. And I’m being that you didn’t get that from a grade 12 Mario Bros workbook.

  • Susan Schroeder

    Daffy, you just wouldn’t believe what would happen to you if you wandered into our club. Have you ever heard of “Drawing and Quartering?” It\’s not legal for people, but jackal girls are fair game. Bwahahahaha!

  • Kaiser

    I laughed way too hard at the fact that she doesn’t like Sonic fans.
    Or, at least implied she doesn’t.

    I like how the Transformers poster reads “Pink but deadly”.

    There’s somehow even more stuff I recognize in the background (such as the Power Ranger/Super Sentai helmet). I’m now curious how giant that store is…

    As for being exhausted, I don’t blame you – the amount of details in the background is quite frankly both impressive and insane at the same time.

    • ElectricGecko

      There’s a lot of goofy details. Honestly, the process of coming up with that stuff is lengthened by the fact that I need to go to a ref pic for almost everything. Because sadly I can’t draw a proper Power Rangers helmet out of my head. And then later I need to go back to the ref pic for the colors too. It’s not that arduous, but when multiplied by a bunch of items, it really slows you down.

      The Transformers poster is stolen from my shirt design.

  • Greg White

    I’ve suggested 2 Puck vote comics involving Sun Tzu.
    Puck actually has The Art Of War by Sun Tzu and has used it.

  • Susan Schroeder

    Everything fun is illegal in Canada. *pouts*
    Did you know that after the Restoration, they dug up Oliver Cromwell’s body, hung it in chains and then beheaded it, officially executing him for treason! His head was displayed on a spike … and they did the same to Bradshaw and Ireton. Those buckos knew how to throw a party!

    • SalemCat

      @Susan

      Jeez Louize, Susan !

      FIRST we scrub the History Books.

      SECOND we tear down the Statues.

      THIRD we vandalize the Tombstones.

      Digging them up and disgracing the corpses is NEXT.

      These things take time, and the new season of Dancing with the Stars is coming up.

      • Typeminer

        I’ll just mumble *Nixon!* here, and let myself out. 🙂

      • Susan Schroeder

        After being taken down, Cromwell’s head was severed with eight blows, placed on a wooden spike on a 20-foot (6.1 m) pole, and raised above Westminster Hall. Various conspiracy theories exist as to what happened to the body, including a rumor that Cromwell’s daughter Mary had it rescued from the pit and interred at her husband’s home at Newburgh Priory. A sealed stone vault was claimed to contain the remains of the headless Cromwell, but generations of the family have refused requests, including one from King Edward VII, to open it.] Biographer John Morrill stated that it was more likely that Cromwell’s body was thrown into the pit at Tyburn, where it remained. -Wiki

  • Comic Reader

    What’s wrong with Sonic The Hedgehog?

    P.S Loving The Captain America Shield table 🙂
    P.P.S I like Digimon too 🙁

    • ElectricGecko

      Nothing is wrong with Sonic. Except 85% of his games. And most of the Sonic fan art on DeviantArt. And a sizeable subsection of the fans who are just frightening. And the fact that you can open up a door to a world of nightmares by taking any name and adding “the hedgehog” to the end of it in Google image search. But besides that, nothing!

      • SalemCat

        Sonic Games are just too hard.

        At a certain level they toss you back to the beginning.

        I ONLY HAVE NINE LIVES !

        • ElectricGecko

          Sonic games are … sometimes hard. And then sometimes so easy you’re not really playing them. They just go. All in all, it’s just a mess of of inconsistent gameplay. The tight quality control isn’t there. That said, the old 2D games are good. I stand by Sonic Colors as a great game in 3D. And I’ve heard Sonic Mania (basically an officially recognized fan-made game) is spectacular.

      • DLKmusic

        I did not believe you, and had to see for myself….

        SAVE YOUR SANITY!!! NEVER type ______ the Hedgehog in a google search! NEVER

  • Jordan

    Darn. I was expecting the the store to be a “more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Mos Eisley spaceport”, cause let’s face it, Daphne frequents the place…

  • I’d have gone with either furries or bronies, since they tend to be the internet’s whipping boys.

    • ElectricGecko

      I felt like they were low-hanging fruit. I mean, Sonic is low-hanging fruit too, but you at least need to raise your arm.

    • Susan Schroeder

      Okay, I get Emily is a fury. They were on CSI. *Looks up “bronies”* What!!! You’ve got to be kidding! Grown men do that??? Well, I never would have believed it.

    • pat

      For some reason, I think that furries would hold themselves in a higher esteem than they would bronies. Some could possibly argue that the program was intended primarily for young girls.

  • Susan Schroeder

    fury = furry. Curse you, autocorrect!

    • SalemCat

      Grumble Grumble Grumble

      No SAINT PATRICK’S DAY INCENTIVE this year !

      Baldie sez he finds it necessary to drown today’s sorrow in IRISH BEER.

      Oh the other hand, if there be an incentive, he would find it necessary to celebrate his joy in IRISH BEER.

      And POTATOES

  • Seeing that Voltron in the back brings back memories. I bought my kid brother one many Christmases ago.
    This kind shop feels like home to me.

    • ElectricGecko

      Note: off the back of the recent Netflix Voltron, Playmates is coming up with an original 80’s-designed 16″ combining Voltron toy for (relatively) cheap. For years, the only combining Voltron toys have been hundreds and hundreds of dollars for expensive imports. Now, finally, I can get a reasonably affordable one for my office. Yes, it’s already ordered.

  • I’m cool with Sonic fans who enjoy the games or the cartoons… but the ones who are heavily into the Sonic pron scare me a little. There’s not even remotely a resemblance to a humanoid shape! T_T

    Cy would no doubt tell me to be more tolerant if I want to hang around his shop, I’m sure. He would then point out to me that my name is on the staff page of a website (Ranmabooks.com) that makes adult-oriented (but funny) comics featuring a teen boy that transforms into a girl, his father who turns into a panda bear, and the occasional intersection of these aforementioned aspects on said adult-oriented site.
    I stand on shaky ground to point the finger at anyone and call them “weird”.

    Well put, imaginary Cy in my head. Well put.

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