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I don't know what Puck is about to eat there. It looks sort of like tofu. I think I was going for chicken, but then I colored it wrong.
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I don't know what Puck is about to eat there. It looks sort of like tofu. I think I was going for chicken, but then I colored it wrong.
FWIW, that’s not how “venomous” is spelled.
Now, if I’d had to guess, I would’ve said that the thing on Puck’s fork looks like some kind of dessert — custard, or cheesecake, or the like.
The purple thing in the middle of the table, on the other hand… I have no idea what that’s supposed to be. A decorative candle surrounded by flower petals? A bottle of dressing surrounded by purple shrimp?
Thanks for catching the typo. It’s fixed now.
The thing in the middle of the table is a stupid prom centerpiece. Every prom I’ve ever been to has featured stupid prom centerpieces. They’re usually constructed from various garbage you can buy at craft stores or the like, and cobbled together by hand with help from the prom committee. They’re always hideous.
If you can’t say anything nice….
That policy is boring, in my opinion.
Screw it say it anyways
Then at least be honest and not TRY to insult.
IF YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT SOMEONE, SIT RIGHT HERE BY ME.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I do like that.
I can only assume Daphne has blocked out her entire childhood. (Not that I would blame her for that….) Because this is hardly the first time Puck has demonstrated a serious deficiency in parenting skills.
Well, I don’t think she’s surprised by the deficiency in mothering skills. More just reminded of the fact.
Honestly, I thought the thing on her fork looked like flan, that horrifyingly gilatinous dessert. Which honestly tracks with prom-type food.
Ooh, a flan! Yeah, that’s a good answer! That’s brilliant! It’s not failed chicken at all! It’s a beautifully accurate depiction of flan.
And for what it’s worth, I really like flan.
So do I. In fact, flan was what I was thinking of when I said it looked like custard.
It’s fun to mold the flan into little bears.
When people ask what you’ve got there, you can tell them it’s your flan cub.
Flan is soft, so it doesn’t hurt much when they hit you with it. 🙂
I am smacking you through the computer.
She is clearly eating Andes Mints.
??? Andes Mints?
Yes, they are green colored chocolate covered mints. The coloring looks somewhat like that (to me, anyway). Well they used to be greenish and bigger (about 40 years ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes_Chocolate_Mints
Uhhhhhhhhh…. Maybe? I am unfamiliar with such things.
The flan suggestion was good, too, let’s Go with that!
You’ve never had Andes Mints? You’re missing out, man! They’re the *best* kind of mint chocolates. (York peppermint patties have too strong a minty flavor for my liking.) They’re green and brown, though, not yellow and brown. And if you tried to stab one with a fork, it’d probably just break in two.
Looks more like polenta to me brah.
Well, Daphne may not have much of the moral high ground, but I don’t think that she’s worse than Lorena Bobbit, Emelda Marcos, that Sweeny Todd chic, or the one who wanted John The Baptist’s head on a platter. That said, Daphne’s going to have to examine her chaotic neutral stance.
Chaotic Neutral — the only alignment plane not shaped like a circle. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1138.html) Yes, I can definitely see that.
Also, it was Salome who asked for John’s head.
If it’s good enough for Shadow the Hedgehog…
There are MANY worse candidates. Daphne is not a monster. But she is not great. ‘Garbage’ is a good analogy: she doesn’t require the toxic waste disposal team, but you don’t really want to keep her around.
And with some time and careful recycling, she can become more valuable than she is.
Better or worse than the Kingpin, something Fisk. Spider-Man and punisher enemy
WILSON Fisk. Wilson.
Keep in mind that there is some garbage that can be sorted for recycling. Like they do on Hell’s Kitchen.
Maybe they got Gordon Ramsey to cater, and he’s a distant relative of Puck’s. You know, like he’s only 183 years old.
Must give Puck great comfort being able to tell people Daphne is adopted.
It goes both ways. They can mutually disavow any genetic connection and they’re both happier for it.
Well, Daphne…
*Sigh* Hopefully Puck has more success with the little one.
We remain hopeful.
Daphne was already walking and talking and scamming when Puck took her in. Miranda has a better start by definition.
I see three ounces of wasabi on Puck’s plate. Nice.
I don’t know what that stuff is. Wasabi is as good a bet as any. Not sure why it’s being served with flan.
What? It’s not actually bad until you go full (movie quote selection: Jackals / Tropic Thunder / Hotel Transylvania 2) nutsy cookoo and use any other orifice than your mouth.
Either that, or it was never made correctly.
ill say this that is a mom who knows the fine line of truth and kindness
yes would be just wow thats harsh
no is just a lie to pad the kid
her choice a Louisville slugger with foam padding and bubble wrap, it will help a little to ease the pain but still confirm it.
Parenting naturally steers you down the right path sometimes.
The other mom option would be “That doesn’t sound like Phoebe. Why do you think she’d say those things?” You’d be making that gamble if you thought your spawn was capable of introspection and Puck might be correctly intuiting that’s not in Daphne’s toolbox yet.
I think that’s WAY too smooth for Puck. But kudos on the deft parenting skills.
I think if she charged her a fee right after for the therapy session it might fit.
Then made a comment about how this must be how hotdog man feels
Not bad. Not bad.
With our without the hot dog?
Harsh.
I think it totally be harsher.
A bit of crepe?
Daphne is a much different person from what I was. This is age appropriate, though. I think. It’s been a while.
If Daphne is a much different person from what you were, consider that a good thing.
Daphne is not a much different person from what I was. And to be completely honest, I haven’t changed much in the ensuing decades.
Fewer felonies, though, I’ll bet.
Does that mean she likes to draw, too?
There is an in-continuity comic that Daphne has drawn called “Daphne Goodfellow Vs. The World”. So yes.
I don’t know how I missed that, but I read S. Pilgrim and saw the movies and loved them both and it is so funny!
HA!
🙂
It was a voting incentive comic that’s about seven pages – a direct stylistic parody of that comic. The movie is one of my favorites. Comic too. Great Canadian indie work.
That sounds cool.
It’s also sweet that Daph doesn’t seem to mind being Daphne Goodfellow. Or is at least resigned to it. Or hasn’t gotten around to insisting that Puck’s not her real mom and she wants her name back.
Anyway, it’s sweet.
Well, I don’t think Daphne ever had an actual last name before this, so it’s kind of a last name adoption by default. Not sure if it’s sweet or not.
Sorry, it’s early in the morning and I’d misspelled Awesome as Cool. I’ll try to not let it happen again.
Then it is what it is.
Well, a female dog IS a bitch….
That is factually correct.
Put it like this, Daphne= Daphne Blake, no. Scooby-Doo, no. Fred Jones, no. Delbert Rogers, no. Velma Dinkley, no. The sudden reveal at the end . . . . let’s just say it’d be more fitting, if still no . . . maybe.
I didn’t even know there was going to BE a sudden reveal.
How about something like:
Daphne places a hand on top of her head, clenching violently and suddenly, she rips her skin off to reveal that Daphne was a clever disguise for Miranda. Yes, Miranda came back from the future to prevent Daphne hooking up with the blind dutch girl to prevent ragnarok invading the Earth with Snorf Minions who bite and gnash and wail. Also, Puck, Colin and Phoebe were barely able to escape the onslaught but succumbed to the evil minion forces within the week. Satan was no where to be found, which left Miranda in the care of Tracee.
It’s OK with me if Puck tells Daphne a flattering lie here. But it’s time for her also to give D. some constructive criticism.
Well, Puck’s only role in this entire arc is to sort of sit on the sidelines and offer the odd piece of constructive criticism.
Keep in mind, though, Daphne… no other mother in history has been your mother. And the only other person I recall who has made Phoebe ‘flip’ is Tracy, and that only after she took over the Dark One’s house and started selling off the memorabilia.
Take the hint and absorb the aesop already!
Didn’t know Aesop could be absorbed … like an aqueous solution?
It’s green eggs and ham
That’s the most likely option, really.
[Dragonmann]:
“Ham”?
Nah, too expensive for a prom-budget…
… more likely …
… SPAM!-SPAM!-SPAM!-SPAM!
SPAM!-SPAM!-SPAM!-SPAM!
SPAM!-SPAM!-SPAM!-SPAM!
SPAM!-SPAM!-SPAM!-SPAM!
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#BloodyVikings!?!
Well, actually, Salome’s mother told her to ask for JB’s head.
P.S. I’m late, I know. Story of my life.
“You can have emotionally supportive and pushy or honest and out of your business, choose one.”
While Daphne isn’t the worst, I have to concede that I cannot come up with a positive contribution to her friends and family that she has really made. On the other hand, I can come up with several negative contributions she has made, and that’s not in this arc alone. This arc really has her hitting a new low. Hopefully, this will result in her learning at least what direction up is.
During the birth arc, Daphne told her mom that she was strong enough to get through this, especially after dealing with her crap for all those years.
During the cancer arc, Daphne comforted Collin after having one of his boys removed by taking him to a “nerd store” that she knew he’d like.
So she does have an empathic heart in their. But it’s buried under a mound and has to dig its way out to be shown.
No, actually, she is the worst. Truly. I keep looking at the things she does and I figure that, when she finally achieves Supervillainess status, Puck and family will either be protected from her genocidal plans, or they’ll be the first into the meat-grinder.
I thought it was a pancake
haha 😀
Could be pancake. Could be chicken. Could be flan. All acceptable.
I am keeping my mouth shut on this strip for fear of sounding to “preachy”
Instead, I’m wearing my Phoebe shirt in solidarity!
You may preach as much as you’d like.
ehhh…. I think I’ll save it for Christmas time when people start bagging on the big guy again…
Is Puck regretting not earlier advising Daphne that revenge promming is a bad idea?
Or was she characteristically clueless about what her teenager was doing?
I think that Puck abides by a fundamentally ‘laissez faire’ approach to parenting Daphne. Daphne is allowed to pursue any and all terrible ideas she may have unless it will almost certainly lead to death or grave injury. Puck might make snide comments about her actions, but she will not pontificate unless Daphne basically asks for advice.
I’m taken aback by Daffy addressing her foster-mom as “PUCK”.
Isn’t she “ROBIN” in this world ?
And “PUCK” is her Fairy-Name ?
Is it common for children to talk to their parents this way in Canada ?
Daphne always calls her Puck. So does Phoebe. The only character who regularly refers to her as ‘Robin’ is Colin. It’s sort of a ‘romantic couple’ thing. He doesn’t call her ‘sweetie’, but he does call her ‘Robin’.
Garbage people genetic theory:
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/heritable
Actually, I’d say that was great mothering. By forcing her to confront this truth, Puck is giving Daphne a chance to grow and change.
I hold the opinion that Puck is not actually a terrible mom. Puck is a mostly hands-off mom who largely keeps out of her kids’ affairs unless she feels intervention is absolutely, totally, undeniably necessary. And that’s not a bad thing, really. It’s not in vogue right now, but it’s not bad.
At a certain point, Daphne, mother need to be honest lest their spawn go fully down the path of the dark side.
There are times where correction is the best support there is.
See, Puck ain’t THAT bad!