NEW VOTING INCENTIVE! 20th ANNIVERSARY BONUS COMIC!
That's right! Puck marks its 20th anniversary this September! Twenty years ago this comic began publishing in the McMaster Silhouette! Some of you weren't even alive back then! To celebrate, I've put up a bonus comic strip this month which serves as a little homage to the very first Puck comic. Vote for Puck on TWC to check it out!
VOTE FOR PUCK TO SAY, "TWENTY YEARS? HOLY S#$%, YOU'RE OLD!!!
As for this comic…
I don't know about you, but I personally think that this a good idea.
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NEW VOTING INCENTIVE! 20th ANNIVERSARY BONUS COMIC!
That's right! Puck marks its 20th anniversary this September! Twenty years ago this comic began publishing in the McMaster Silhouette! Some of you weren't even alive back then! To celebrate, I've put up a bonus comic strip this month which serves as a little homage to the very first Puck comic. Vote for Puck on TWC to check it out!
VOTE FOR PUCK TO SAY, "TWENTY YEARS? HOLY S#$%, YOU'RE OLD!!!
As for this comic…
I don't know about you, but I personally think that this a good idea.
Well, who called daddy dearest?
It’s the natural choice.
Well, I kind of thought of Tyler (nee Taylor) first. Then I remembered that he’s half the reason for this arc.
Yeah, he’s at prom too.
I said thaaaAaAAAAAaaaAAaaaat.
I think this comic arch is similar to the plot of “The Apple Dumpling Gang.” Someone has to babysit a child or two … there’s a gold mine involved, and Don Knotts blows up the town the dynamite. Then everyone goes to the prom.
I only steal from the best.
Don Knotts makes everything better.
Ehh, that movie wouldn’t have been the same without Tim Conway.
What’s a Tim Conway?
Eh, about 140 lbs.
Ba-dum tishh!
I was waiting for it.
Waiting for what, the punch line to that joke list I left?
that panel with pheobe and puck made me think wonder twins power activate form of bad parenting
Missed opportunity on my part.
VOTE INCENTIVE!!!
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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG – KAT KOLLAPSES WITH JOY
Well, I’m glad someone’s happy.
Tracee has an aversion to babies, doesn’t she? Her lover should tell her he knows how to handle little hell-raisers! :))
I mean, who doesn’t have an aversion to babies? They cause property damage, and have such large mandibles, and … wait. I’m thinking of termites.
Worse. They’re a bunch of snot encrusted, dribble juice, rugrats. Funny thing is I get along well with kids. Family keeps telling I’da been the best dad of all the kids, and I’m the only one with none. But dribble juice germ bags….Bew
Just as well. We can’t have competent parents. If parents were competent, who’d mess up the next generation?
Don’t worry about Satan babysitting Miranda and corrupting her. After all this time with Puck and Colin and Phoebe and Daphne, she can’t possibly be corrupted any further.
Exactly.
It would crack me the heck up if Satan turns out to be the most dreaded of all monsters: The one that likes babies and dumps everyone else into the trash compactor once Free Will kicks in at the age of 21.
That’s … probably pretty likely.
Satan running for re-election, needs a picture of himself with a child who isn’t crying?
What, an evil politician can’t just have a real soft spot for babies?
of course he loves to babysit – what better way to start the corrupting of the youth then being alone+unsupervised with them for hours on end? i´m not sure why tracee is panicking, if anyone will get stuck with diaper duty its sigmund. maybe she fears that just being around a little kid will ruin her figure…..or worse, give her hubby *ideas* i´m sure there´s no form of birth control he couldn´t sabotage with his hellish powers!
Yes, I do think Sigmund would get the worst of this.
Puck really needs to join a mommy coffee group. Because clearly she has no friends.
I model Puck’s social life on my own. Like me, Puck is a bit of a misanthropic loser with a bad temper, a pessimistic outlook and a nasty tongue. So like me, I assume that she basically has no friends beyond the few individuals who have been forced to coexist with her for decades and have basically acclimatized to her misery.
@EG
“acclimatized” ?
The judges would also have accepted “acclimated”.
Satan is a mayor and is going to babysit his daughter’s best friend’s daughter.
…Is there even a word for what kind of relation that is? Honestly asking.
I can see no reason why this babysitting won’t go terrible.
I imagine he might want to adopt one of those vaguely Eastern European terms for grandfather. Something like ‘Bumpchka’ or ‘Prappi’.
I’m **SO VERY SORRY**, but when I heard “Prappi”, I thought it sounded like the sort of noise that might come out of Miranda’s diaper!
That might have been intentional.
Dark Helmet: I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
Lone Star: So what does that make us?
Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing.
Except Puck and the Prince of Insufficient Light aren’t quite that close.
You don’t have to be close. You just have to be desperate.
I know that availiable cast members are limited, but seriously? I know he’s Phoebe’s dad, but Puck also beat him up once, and Tracee is… Tracee.
…
Probably still better than Colin’s family (even if they were an option).
When this world is mostly a flaming dumpster fire full of terrible horrible garbage people, the Prince of Darkness is sometimes not the worst choice for babysitter.
My (nearly) human pet “Baldie” actually SET a Dumpster on fire once.
Not intentionally – it was merely a side-effect of a woodworking project (long story).
Fortunately there were no “HOMELESS PEOPLE” sleeping inside the Dumpster, as “HOMELESS PEOPLE” were not invented at the time.
Satan, babysitting, what the hell could go wrong?
I see what you did there. And I approve.
Nothing, if he remembers the “red headed” pregnant crack whore who he sent a gift basket to. Maybe he’ll have to send another one.
Satan will work his wiles to turn Miranda into a little prima donna, a preeminent thoroughly spoiled brat. Nobody else will ever babysit her again, even if Puck had loads of money to pay them. Oh what wickedness is on its way!
Terrifying thoughts.
Well, technically Miranda isn’t a baby. I’m fine with Satan babysitting, but Tiffany? Mind you, this could backfire- Miranda could be so sweet Tiffany decides she wants one of her own . . . or Satan does!
Darn. Tracee, not Tiffany. Mind you, birds of a feather . . .
She could SO easily be a Tiffany.
Leaving her with the Lord of Hell is probably better than leaving her with a Catholic Priest…
Yikes! Let’s not get all topical here! I prefer to keep the comments section void of meaningful commentary on real life affairs.
Good choice. Less evil and less likely to corrupt her than Colin’s parents.
Exactly.
Is Tracee using Phoebe’s pattern drafting app?
Mind you, it is a most efficient use of material. Nothing is waisted.
You can tell the same designer is behind them both. (Me.)
0_0 No, Puck, NOOOO!
Oh come on! Where’s your sense of adventure?
It freaked out and hid under the sofa at the notion of intentionally handing a little child over to Old Scratch.
Satan lied if he meant “Tracee and I” when he said “We’d love to!”
I am sure he’ll lie to Tracee next about what he meant!
TRACEEE really needs to reconsider.
Imagine how a normally complacent PHOEBE might react should she be presented with a new LITTLE SISTER !
I’m thinkin’ she may not be pleezed…
@SalemCat, I can imagine Satan saying to Tracee,
“Don’t worry, dear, of course I’m wearing a condom!”
And Phoebe’s sister is on her way!
@ChrisH
One must wonder if that would be the first time that has happened in this strip.
Heh Heh Heh
No babies.
I’d expect Tracee’s been spayed.
Unlikely.
You mean… it wants to breed? 0_0
Interesting. So, the devil’s already working on wearing down his cyborg wife’s resistance to letting him take another shot at siring the anti-christ?
Maybe? I suppose it all hinges on whether her ovaries have been replaced with cyber-ovaries, which are far less prone to demonic reproduction.
I still can’t get over the fact that Satan is always slightly shrouded in the shadows. Just makes me giggle every time.
It makes me giggle too … because it’s way easier to draw.
I think Tracee and Phoebe are competing with each other for the world’s trashiest women’s wear. I tell you, the competition is fierce!
😉
I’d like to think that Phoebe is stylish, with the clothing sometimes incidentally wandering into the trashy zone. Tracee, meanwhile, is trashy, with the clothing sometimes incidentally wandering into the stylish.
Phoebe is SO the baby of the family.
That could be argued.
Satan: “Who are you again? Oh, the crazy redhead pregger chick who put me in the hospital. I remember you now. Sacrifice your child in a dark occult ritual this Friday evening? Sure, I usually do that on Saturdays, but why not? I’m flexible!
…OH! ‘Babysitting’? I must have misheard you. My bad. No really, my very very very bad. Listen… you remember I’m the damn MAYOR, right? Do you think I needed a part-time job that badly?”
You go dark places.