NEW NOVEMBER VOTING INCENTIVE!
It's Thanksgiving for 90% of my readers, so that means weird Phoebe cosplay! If you've ever wanted to see a devil girl dress up as a sexy pilgrim, then, well, I think it's safe to say that this is your only chance. Better vote while you can!
VOTE FOR PUCK! SAY YES TO THE BLUNDERBUSS!
As for this comic...
It is a comic. I had things I wanted to say about it earlier, but at the moment I lack the inclination to write them down.
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NEW NOVEMBER VOTING INCENTIVE!
It's Thanksgiving for 90% of my readers, so that means weird Phoebe cosplay! If you've ever wanted to see a devil girl dress up as a sexy pilgrim, then, well, I think it's safe to say that this is your only chance. Better vote while you can!
VOTE FOR PUCK! SAY YES TO THE BLUNDERBUSS!
As for this comic...
It is a comic. I had things I wanted to say about it earlier, but at the moment I lack the inclination to write them down.
Well, I like it, the black and silver seem to fit in with Daphne’s style. Looks simple, elegant, but not too flashy.
And unlike Phoebe’s outfits, it does not defy physics.
Phoebe would know better than to try and defy physics with someone else’s outfit. No one else can pull it off because they don’t emit physics-warping space distortions like her.
My personal headcanon is that it is being held in place by the imprisoned souls of prudes.
Or for those who are more practically minded.
Double sided body tape.
Lots of.
Shh! Don’t give away trade secrets!
Tyler’s eyes are bugging … out.
Him, every nerd, 1/3 of the girls (regardless of choice), two teachers and some of the jocks who forgot the punch was going to be spiked.
Well, not yet. He hasn’t seen her. 😉
Well, clearly he doesn’t know WHY his eyes are bugging out yet, but this is a dress that transcends time and space.
Fashion seems to do that every now and then.
classy and awesome, the style works well with daphs new sleek look….and i´m sure its just my crazy mind thats thinking of steel blades rather then jewelery when looking at the silvery fabric…and sees amazonian shoulder plates in those straps…yup, just a normal prom dress, not battle armor
Well, battle armor may or may not be an additional feature. We’re not ruling out a light mail slip underneath.
But the REAL question, of course:
Is it a black&grey dress mostly because your reference is a B&W photo? 😀
That would be funny, but no. I mostly referenced modern photography of the dresses. And yeah, they had a thing for black and grey at the time.
Daphne and that dress would look might sharp in a nicely shot gelatin silver print!
Ala Marlene Diethrich 1923
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I like soft fuzzy look.
Holy Schnike Gecko, that dress rocks. Retro ’20s with a herringbone stylized spiderweb suggestions hint strongly at a stylish Halloween dress as well. Great work.
My suggestion, have it made in time for next year’s fall fashions and sell it for real.
Yowza and other antiquated phrases for hubba hubba and wolf whistles.
Well, I’m glad you approve. The only downside is that it’s kind of hard to draw. But it’s an idea I had a while back and I really wanted to see if I could pull it off visually.
You nailed it. Really cool. Tracy J. Butler will steal it for her cats. 🙂
Check out the gams on that dame! They’re a real hum-dinger, I tells ya!
Land sakes!
I was sitting in my office at it rained on the City by the Bay, with five shots in me. Two were lead, the other three, bourbon, when trouble walked in. Trouble, in this case, was a flapper wearing a dress that showed getaway sticks about a mile long that went on to make a perfect ass out of themselves. I drank another quilt and offered the bird one, too, as well as a perch…
You’re hard-boiled.
That Surly Teen Translator App would be worth a fortune!!!!
P.S. Nice dress, worn nicely. And Daphe’s glance at Puck in Panel 1 is delightful.
The Surly Teen Translator App would be much easier to pull off than the baby translator from the Simpsons, and yes, I think it would be a hit. Anyone who wants to make it, let me know! I want a cut!
Hot damn! If I were 20 years younger… well, I’d still be too old for her. But Tyler’s gonna bug the F out.
Hopefully that will lead to some conversation about where their relationship is going, but then again, that might be hard to get a punchline out of.
When has a hot dress, a prom and two teens ever led to a meaningful conversation? That combo’s led to other things many times, but a meaningful conversation?!? (For the record, though, you may actually be right.)
Aww man, what happened to the yowza post?
I had to find it in my spam folder, but it’s back. I actually had to search for your name, because in the last six hours I’ve received about 2000 spam posts and I couldn’t find it by browsing. No idea why the spam filter caught it.
It hates me because I don’t haven’t eaten that stuff in years.
Wow, she looks gorgeous.
Mission accomplished! Phoebe and I are happy.
As someone who hates fashion: I quite like her dress. It looks neat and it suits her really well.
As someone who doesn’t understand fashion: See above comment.
I can’t disagree with Phoebe’s remark about Christ never looking that well.
Or I could, but I’d have no way to disprove it. So yeah.
Well, I get you. I dislike the fashion world, with its seasonal crazes and tendency toward the inane, but I kind of love women’s fashion, as can be clearly seen in my comic. The truest praise, though, is the kind you gave.
Will they be dancing the Charleston at the prom? ‘Cause if they do, that outfit will be the bee’s knees…
When one needs to cut a caper, it’s best to cut a caper in style.
I feel bad for Tyler!
Don’t.
Oh yeah, this works!
“There’s one thing that you need at the prom,
You’ve got to get that straight.
If you want to make a splash at the prom,
You’ve got to have a date!”
Why have a date of your own when you can steal someone else’s?
Dr. Seuss for Surly teans? Did I miss a series of his?
More a distorted line from “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back.”
I think it would actually look better, and less like it time warped from the roaring 20s, without those dangling participles at the bottom.
I like dangling participles in truth.
Old joke about dangling participles:
A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
How OLD is Phoebe, if she can name drop Jesus?
Phoebe is not that old. She’s going from pictorial representations, I think. Phoebe’s age has remained at around 29 for the past many years. It won’t change any time soon.
She doesn’t have to be.
Puck: “Wait… how old ARE you, Phoebe?”
Phoebe: “A) none of your business, but B)… well consider that my dad is Satan. A.K.A. Lucifer. A.K.A. ‘The Morning Star’. He predates the human race.”
Puck: “Whoa… I feel like this should have come up sometime before now.”
Phoebe: “YOU’RE over 600, Granny!”
Daphne: “Though something smelled stale in here…”
Well, no, but she talks about her high school experience, and they didn’t have high schools in ancient Sumeria.
Also her mom is… Elizabeth Taylor, IIRC?
That would have Phoebe born in, at the earliest, the 1950s.
At the same time, there was mention of a deal with said Devil for eternal youth, which suggests their marriage probably occurred sometime after ol’ Liz was starting to show her age, and grow concerned about it. She’d have hit 40 in the early 70s, so presume she married him then, add a few more years, and we have Phoebe being perhaps born in the late 70s… let’s sprinkle on a couple more years and call it 1980.
Puck the comic begins in 1998, and before long she’s in college rooming with Phoebe, who is presumably 18-ish years old.
Yup, it comes together.
Canonically (sorta) Phoebe was born in 1980. At least within the context of the early comics. The real Liz was magically youthful all the way through that, so this universe’s Liz had children way after the one in our universe stopped.
Now time dilation has meant that about three years of comic time has taken ten years of real time to convey, so there’s a certain weirdness to the timelines. Though we can all hand wave it away by saying that Phoebe inherited her mother’s eternal youth, I guess.
We forgot the most important test.
Would the wife wear it to a function?
The wife approved of the dress. She thought it was quite nice. I doubt she’d actually choose to wear it, seeing as it’s a bit showy for her tastes, but she did think it was a nice dress. She’s also a fan of vintage stuff, so that goes a long way.
Still doesn’t answer the question man.
I love the “I will explode your head with my mind” look from Daphne in the 4th panel. 🙂
That’s definitely my favorite drawing in this comic. That one pic of Daphne turned out well.
But the scripting in panel 3 was delightful.
Sue me – I like writing!
I like Daphne like that! Weren’t those twenties girls called ‘flappers”?
Well, she can flap her ears with the best! 😉
They were. What she’s wearing right now is generally referred to as a flapper dress.
cat callers can do the ol’ 23 skidoo, nice gal like that don’t need mooks of that type around. Looks good kid, now you just need some nice ice to go wit it. I’ll send the boys around to ask some guys who owe me for “donations”.
p.s. befores ya ask I’m a scout master.
You are a repository of dated diction, friend.
Most of that slang was the Bee’s Knees, and you seem like a good egg, but my noodle can’t grasp what a scout master is, so I’m tempted to tell you to tell it to Sweeney. Still, it might be jake, so I’ll lay off, for now.
“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” (But if it’s something else she wears, I promise not to object.)
Wow. I’m kind of surprised with what we’ve learned about Daphne over the last few weeks that she’s still single.
Daphne or Phoebe? I think this arc has clearly illustrated why Daphne and Tyler haven’t really ever become a real item. Phoebe, meanwhile, is single because of mysterious forces at work in the universe. Though I think those forces could probably best be summed up as ‘high standards and low interest’. Phoebe is happy, has a family of sorts, has a life full of people, and lives the way she wants to. I don’t think she’d be against companionship, but I think she’s not really actively pursuing that. Besides, Puck functions as her pseudo-spouse anyway.
Shh! You’ll cause shipping trolls to emerge, and Rule 34 madness will ensue! Be careful of what you say, man!
The shipping trolls are always good fun, though, aren’t they?
Please, the Rule 34 already exists. Nobody can stop it.
Well it already exists, but to my knowledge, Puck is too obscure or too uninteresting to fall under the rule’s sway. Which, coincidentally, disproves the rule.
Stylish, retro-chic, elegant, and classy. Even if it’s not what I would have done, I approve, plus the pattern is great. I would say that Tyler is going to go ga-ga.
Now I’m curious as to what you would have done.
Probably a classic, simple shift, with a belted waist to give it more form and showcase her body, maybe with an off the shoulder style, in a solid color, instead of patterned. Maybe in black with either a silver or gold chain belt, and perhaps an understated pattern on the hem and cuffs of the sleeves. Also, as to the above comment about the rule, Puck is obviously the exception that proves the rule.
You have thought about this.
And I’ve never understood the exception that proves the rule. That concept makes no sense to me.
Daphne looks great, and darling Phoebe looks great in the voting incentive!
Well, I’m glad that everyone is looking great. It’s always a goal of mine. It helps to counteract the fact that I never look great in real life.
Does Canadian Thanksgiving prominently feature turkey? Because the voting incentive is calling for inappropriate double entendres involving the choice between white meat and dark. Perhaps it is a cultural misunderstanding.
I considered making some turkey jokes, but considered it a touch too crass.
And yes. Canadian Thanksgiving does include turkey. We just have it earlier, so we aren’t having our big turkey dinner right before another turkey dinner at Christmas. You crazy Americans really need to fix your holiday schedule. Too much concentrated turkey on the calendar. Honestly, let’s just both move our Thanksgivings to mid-summer. Space that turkey out.
First off, ham is the traditional American Christmas meal. I have no idea why, and it’s not a tradition my family follows, but most Americans don’t eat turkey 2 holidays in a row. Maybe Canadians just need a new traditional Christmas meal so they’re eating less giant poultry.
Second, moving Thanksgiving to mid-summer would interrupt the meat coma that comes from gorging on steak, burgers, and brats on the Fourth of July.
I’ve heard the ham thing from my wife and others. But haven’t they seen A Christmas Story? Christmas turkey! National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation? Turkey! If ham is the official American meal of choice at Christmas, why have I almost never seen it depicted in fiction?
As for moved Thanksgiving, put it in August. Nothing happens in August.
August… A month that nothing happens…. and my wallet thanks GOD for August!
See also: 6th-grade manga boys of the 90s, where “I don’t hate you” means “I love you.” (I can’t remember if it used “ai,” “suki,” “daisuki,” or “koi.” Considering context in said manga, it’s likely one of the middle two.)
I was not even aware that was a thing.
I’m pretty sure “ai” means “love” and is rarely used. While “daisuki” roughly translates to “big like” and is used instead of love. And as far as I know “koi” is a type of fish.
Someone should give or loan a copy of F. Scott Fitzgeralds’s “The Great Gatsby” so she can do a flapper impersonation at the prom. Wouldn’t that be funny?
That is definately something Phoebe would design.
And yes, she does look good. No, no, she MAKES it look good. I must remember that.
I am not sure whether she makes the dress or the dress makes her. It’s a veritable chicken and egg thing.