APRIL VOTING INCENTIVE UP NOW!
You asked. I provided. Everyone wanted to see her come back, so...
VOTE TO KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!
As for this comic...
Hey look! It's the comic's main character, who's been MIA for ten comics! And to be honest, I don't really have anything for Puck to do here. I just felt we needed to check back with her for a moment.
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APRIL VOTING INCENTIVE UP NOW!
You asked. I provided. Everyone wanted to see her come back, so...
VOTE TO KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!
As for this comic...
Hey look! It's the comic's main character, who's been MIA for ten comics! And to be honest, I don't really have anything for Puck to do here. I just felt we needed to check back with her for a moment.
I didn’t think that Phoebe’s face could look like that too.
Well, it’s a rare occurrence, brought about only by the most obnoxious of behaviors. But the rare occurrence has occurred.
Phoebe probably didn’t know that her face could make that expression either. The night is full of new experiences for everyone.
Doesn’t hurt for Puck to be the observer once in a while, making truthful yet cutting remarks. Actually, Puck has been that for most of this arc. Which works well for her.
Having Puck and Collin hang a big, gaudy lampshade on Phoebe’s OOC behaviour is an important job. And honestly, letting those two observe the upcoming detonation from outside the epicenter will be a pleasant change of pace for them.
I thought the role worked. Glad you think so too.
Well, I don’t want to overdo the ‘Puck as observer’ thing, but it’s always an easy fallback. I’ve got to come up with something for her to do in the next arc. And she WILL have a role in this arc. Just not yet.
She IS, afterall, an inveterate observer of the fools these humans be (according to the bard).
Nice callback.
Clashing auras, love it.
They visually express emotion AND spice up uninteresting backgrounds!
Neither did I, Colin. Which makes Daphne capable of irritating the the daughter of Satan . . . . . . . . okay, so it’s not news, but it is confirmation!
We all knew Daphne was special.
It is nice that possibly the sweetest character in the strip is the literal daughter of Satan… so yeah, it’s a trifle alarming to see that expression on her face.
It’s a joke that only longtime readers of the comic will get, but … whatever. A lot of my jokes seem to be like that anymore.
The magic of prom night made her face have that expression.
It is truly a powerful magic
Well, black magic, yeah.
Phoebe was already gaining a lot of lift from that outfit (or magic), now she’s also helping standing like that and all I can say is
.
.
.
oh my.
Wasn’t really planned. It’s just what happens when Phoebe crosses her arms. I mean, the girls gotta go somewhere.
Daffy looks miserable.
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
I knew you would be happy.
There could be a few other kinds of infection spread around on Prom Night…
Pink eye. You’re talking about pink eye, right?
“I got it from Agnes, she got it from Jim. We all agreed it must have been Louise who gave it to him. Now, she got it from Harry, who got it from Marie. And everybody knows that Marie…got it from me.” —Tom Lehrer.
The classiest game of hot potato.
I could’a put up something about “Chlamydia the Tattooed Lady,” but let’s not be specific…
it’s nice to see Puck just having a good time, unlike so much of her story. Of course, I suppose happiness as lesser comedic potential.
Meanwhile, we can all feel genuinely sorry for Phoebe. She is seeing all her Artistry, performed with a good motivation, was intended for a bad purpose. I don’t know if she has a lot of experience being angry. The one time she tried standing up to her dad she ended up out on the street
It’s always an interesting experience getting to draw Puck smiling. It happens so rarely. And yes, this will be a learning experience for Phoebe. And then some.
You may not have much for your main character to do, but her freckly shoulders give me life.
Well, sometimes she’s just there for the freckles. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
@EG
Did someone say FRECKLES ?
I like how Colin says he didn’t know that Phoebe could even make that expression – it’s not that I argue about it, it’s because I fully agree.
Yikes, it’s been 10 comics already since we last saw Puck? Time flies. That and I honestly didn’t keep track, so there’s that, too.
I like how Puck goes from looking peaceful and happy to “Oh right. They’re here, too,” over the course of two panels. Hm.
Well, ten comics can fly by fast. Even though it’s two and a half months in real time. In comic time, it doesn’t feel that significant, I guess.
@EG
I like Puck because it makes the second half of my ninth life drag by at a snail’s pace.
I’m still half-expecting for Colin and/or Puck to do the almost mandatory “child mortification” dance that tends to pop up at birthday parties and proms. You know the dance, it varies but the result is always the same.
I do not know this dance. But I am curious.
@EG
You’ve never asked some poor unpopular thing to dance in pity ?
Nah – You’d only get tongues wagging.
But I’ll bet you wanted to.
(no good deed goes unpunished)
I was a poor unpopular thing when I was in high school. And yes, at my grad dance (we didn’t have a prom), a few girls pity-asked me to dance. They were kind and I will forever be in their debt.
@EG
Oddly enough, my human pet Baldie went to SIX PROMS ! Yet not his own (he was not known as Baldie at the time).
He was sadly insecure.
Women clearly judged that he was a handsome lad, or, at least, would not be an embarrassing date.
Even his early – um – (how do I say this) – “intimate” experiences were extremely conventional (for the time).
In his defense, that was WAY before the Internet !
He eventually became educated, tho. He is not hopeless (he just plays hopeless on TV).
Well, weren’t you the ladies’ man, huh? I was not the ladies’ man. I went to one formal dance during my high school years – the grad dance – and I went with no date. I was accompanied by a troupe of my loser friends who also went with no date. We were the sad ‘no date’ guys. After the dance, all the cool kids were going to a sleazy motel on the outskirts of town to drink and do … things. We sad ‘no date’ guys for some reason accompanied them. We ended up sharing a room and, instead of partying, watched endless reruns of ‘Mr. Belvedere’ until 3:00 am.
My entire high school experience (and, indeed, most of my university experience) could be summed up in one word: pathetic.
@EG
Almost all “NO DATE” guys are that way because they “DON’T ASK”.
Or become crushed when one (or two) gals decline.
Try, Try Again.
Well, I didn’t ask anyone, operating on the (likely correct) assumption that no one wanted me to ask. And if there’s one thing I hate, it’s coercing people to do things they don’t want to do.
Daphne needs to get proactive, and ask some guys to dance with her. I bet she’ll get more than one “yes” reply!
Only if she threatens them. I am sure she is well know in her school as a nasty piece of work and not someone to be messed with.
@Badtaiming
I peg Daffy as the girl who plays tough at home, but is a total wimp at school.
No one likes her, nor fears her.
It’s sad, really.
I don’t see Daphne doing such a thing. That would require effort. And risk.
I wonder if Phoebe’s face is scaring the devil out of Colin.
Colin has no devils in him to scare out. He’s just full of idiocy.
Poor Phoebe, Her prom is being ruined by the dog face girl.
Exactly.
@Badtaiming
Can’t Satan fix up his daughter up with a nice Demon who is only somewhat committed to pure EVIL ?
SalemCat, that pretty much describes Puck, wouldn’t you say? 😉
Phoebe seems to me to have low testosterone, i.e, very little sex drive. But I could be wrong. 😉
@ChrisH
Well, in a Web Comic Universe infested with females whose apparent libidos exceed that of even the most frantic teenage boys, Phoebe is rather refreshing.
Though I did enjoy her all too brief existence as PheeBuck.
Puck’s arm looks a bit off in panel 2. I thought that was someone else’s hand on Colin’s shoulder when I first saw it. I’m art illiterate so take that with a grain of salt.
No, you’re right. There was a forearm line that was there that got lost in the shuffle. Maybe I didn’t ink it. I do that sometimes. I’ll fix it shortly.
You know what else is an effective way to avoid the infections sheer joy of prom night? Not going. That’s how I avoided it.
To be honest though, I didn’t want to see those idiots any longer than I had to. At least, that’s what I’ve told myself all these years.
This is my first prom. My high school was a Catholic seminary and dating each other was strictly forbidden (…not that it didn’t happen…). Aas we approach our 50th reunion, maybe I’ll propose a Geezer’s Prom. We can get our grandkids to chaperone.
The magic is *that*infectuous!
But maybe I should wait to see how this one turns out. Will Daphne start a fire?
No fires. At least no literal fires. That’s a promise.
So far, I think what’s been happening “chez Satan” has been more amusing, than the events at the prom. But maybe that will change.
It may not.
So, So Confuzed.
VOTING INCENTIVE looks SO much like TRACEEE.
There was a story arc about it. I think it turned out to be just a dream of Colin’s? I’d love to see redhead-Puck, with straightened hair, in that outfit and pose, though.
Well, honestly, it would take only about ten minutes to do that. I might run that for later this month.
no – NO – NO !!!
The charms have failed – and MY EVIL TWIN IS RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR – AND I AM POWERLESS TO STOP HIM !!
Flee SalemCat – FLEE !!
I am in charge now.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!
I’m surprised.
The way that simpering idiot SalemCat goes on and on, I rather expected this Dimension was ruled by some omnificent TRACEEE.
Yet – no.
Y’know I may sound like a sickie but Puck’s shoulder freckles are really sexy.
You’re not alone on that front. I am personally a big supporter of freckles, in that they stand as the only natural patterning in humans. Humans are generally so boring, being largely one color throughout. No cool stripes or spots or anything. Just freckles. So I’ll take what I can get.
You are SO not alone.