SEPTEMBER VOTING INCENTIVE FOR ALL!
So the deal here is that I've been working on background images for that bonus comic I keep working on. I had some backgrounds of scenery from my city drawn and colored but nothing that would make a good voting incentive. So I quickly drew a pic of Puck, smacked something together and the end result actually looks pretty good!
VOTE TO BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE!
As for this comic...
This one took a long time to make. I'm tired. I am also happy with panel four. Might be my new most favorite panel of all time.
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SEPTEMBER VOTING INCENTIVE FOR ALL!
So the deal here is that I've been working on background images for that bonus comic I keep working on. I had some backgrounds of scenery from my city drawn and colored but nothing that would make a good voting incentive. So I quickly drew a pic of Puck, smacked something together and the end result actually looks pretty good!
VOTE TO BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE!
As for this comic...
This one took a long time to make. I'm tired. I am also happy with panel four. Might be my new most favorite panel of all time.
All 4 panels- best looking Phoebe ever.
All it took was a little sugar.
Much wider range of expressions, for sure.
I used to tease EG that she only had two: open-mouthed mild surprise, and lidded-eye deadpan.
This arc is fun for all SORTS of reasons! ^_^
Well, I’m glad that I can extend outside that container.
That’s a twist usually Puck scares people.
She has become newly acquainted with this ‘fear’ thing recently. Must be motherhood changing her.
Sugar hangovers are not as bad as caffeine hangovers, but Phoebe may kinda hate herself tomorrow.
As she wakes up behind a Tim Horton’s with empty pixie stix wrappers scattered around her.
Perhaps. We shall see…
What did you think it was, Puck?
the most obvious possibility, of course: gluten-free flour.
Had to go to the prom to get that? Couldn’t she get some at the crack house next door to them?
Snorting icing sugar at a big party is a great party. Snorting icing sugar at home? Well that’s just sad.
Last week, I held it in. I thought, “She’s going to become some horrific fusion of the Kool-Aid Man and Dr Rockzo, the Rock ‘N Roll Clown”.
Why couldn’t I have been wrong?!
Well, sometimes it’s easy to see where I’m going.
Most times it’s easy to see where I’m going.
It’s always easy to see where I’m going.
It’s like being on a train. You can hear the brakes are failing, and – hey! So THAT’s where my sofa wound up!
Icing sugar? Does she carry some in her purse, or does Papa Schnorf stock a *really* complete collection of mood enhancers?
Either way … Phoebe is the naturally sweetest of the adults in this comic so it just makes sense that she runs on sugar.
I don’t know where it came from. But I am reminded of a guy I knew in university. He smoked all the time, and as we would walk around the campus between classes, he would surreptitiously pull cigarettes off hidden ledges or out of tree stumps. It was like magic. I then found that he for some reason hid cigarettes all over campus, like a squirrel. Just in case he ever needed one. Can’t stop an addict.
And the sweet Phoebe thing was exactly what I was going for. It’s the most endearing form of substance abuse.
obviously it was freshly made by the local school cookies and cake dealer…they make fresh batches at their nightly hideout the home economics room with their crew the “bakers dozen”, by day the territory is ruled by the Twins Tyron and Jesse the Legendary “Macaron Kingpins”.
You know this market well.
… are you a Confectionery Oversight Patrolmen?
A National Authorized Regulator of Candy? We call them NARCs.
Phoebe’s having such a weird night.
Puck’s become such a mom.
This is fun!
Motherhood changes you. Puck is somewhat resistant to some of the changes, but not all.
I buy that.
This does not bode well. Based on subjective time the events of this storyline have been running, tops, a couple of hours. She’s either consumed enough sugar to put a kindergarten class into a coma or she’s a real light weight. Also, based on the inverse property rules of hangovers, considering how INCREDIBLY happy she is, the resulting emotional crash should be fairly devastating. I’m just glad she’s not an angry “drunk.” The level of “I love you man” and “y’know how s’pecal yar” that would follow would be beyond Puck’s ability to cope. While I’m still waiting for the inevitable Tyler storyline to reach payoff (because he’s about to have his eyes widened) wondering what the aftermath with Phoebe’s bender is going to be might be fun as well. Candy Anonymous perhaps?
I think we can assume that Phoebe has a relatively low tolerance to sugar. So the amount she’s had is hard to determine, but I think it’s sufficient to say ‘too much for her’ is the right answer. And sugar is a stimulant, so the resulting dynamics are different. It’s not impeding any mental processes; it’s just ramping them up to 11. So I don’t think we’ll get an altered personality for Phoebe. We just get more Phoebe. Dangerous levels of Phoebe.
The last frame, including Phoebe look of sugar induced bliss, is amazing. This weeks entire comic is just completely out of hand awesome. Both Puck and Phoebe’s facial expressions are priceless. You always find a way to outdo yourself, you well, you have totally outdone yourself this week!
And the really dumb thing? I ended up spending most of my time drawing throwaway images of random kids to stick behind the main characters. You can hardly see them. Still, I hold fast to the idea that your brain would end up noticing if they weren’t there.
I can see now that Papa Shnorf’s Phoebe’s sugar daddy! I always wondered why she was so sweet! Maybe she has Kool-Aid running through her veins.
I don’t think Papa came prepared with sugar. I suspect she’s improvising. Maybe stealing from the catering kitchen. Who knows?
Sing it:
She was the Sugar Queen,
Young and sweet,
(But not) seventeen
Her waist line, for seventeen.
I can’t see her having a seventeen inch waistline. That’s ‘creepy Victorian corset’ territory. I know my waistlines, and Phoebe would be a solid 23 to 25 inches. Somewhere in there.
her waistline is at most a 2 given she is 2d….unless this is all a documentary! THEY ARE REAL! YES!…i wonder why no one has ever commented on them wearing horns or why the media has never gotten wind?
Definitely not seventeen. The song collapses in on itself.
The waistline, okay not seventeen.
Her current mental age . . . . . well, at one moment it probably was seventeen, now though . . .
Her mental age is now just a more intense version of seventeen.
How about:
She is the Candy Queen
On cupcake
Number seventeen
Candy Queen
Dancing there
With a guy so green, oh yeah
You can chug, you can sniff,
But it all goes straight to your hips, oooh
See that girl, cause a scene
She is the Candy Queen
… sheesh, for a second there I thought I was going to have to parody the whole thing… thankfully the muse seems to have deserted me after the bit above. 😉
I doff my cap to you, talented one.
Panel 4 – I’m surprised that she didn’t pop out…
For those who questioned the strength of the adhesive holding Phoebe’s dress in place, I present panel four. If there is any motion that is guaranteed to lead to wardrobe malfunction in a strapless dress, it is definitely the “arms in the air, back arched” pose that Phoebe is striking right there. And yet the dress is still there. Magic.
Finally you admitted that devil’s daughter knows some magic.
Well, I don’t admit anything. It’s more that I suspect something.
Okaaaay ,for the fifth time= Y’know, it seems likely that as the literal daughter of Satan that Phoebe is immune to most drugs, legal, illegal, and will-be-illegal-once-the-law-catches-up. But sugar–icing sugar at that!– is also scaring me. (Also, Phoebe is wearing Schrodinger’s Dress, in that if it fell off her is there any objective difference?)
Yes! Finally! Guess there’s some sort of filter, can’t use certain words (for the record, none I tried were “Old Anglo-Saxon’ or ‘Pardon my French’ sort.). Eh, fine by me.
Sorry. The filter does strike an awful lot of stuff out. You are an unintended dolphin getting caught in the net, alas. It’s meant to weed out the thousands of trashy comments I get from bots.
That’s kind of the idea I was going for. It makes sense to me, given her lineage, that your typical ‘sinful’ lifestyle choices have a lessened effect on Phoebe. But sugar made sense, maybe just based on the whole ‘sweet personality’ thing that a few people noticed.
And to my mind, Phoebe’s dress is like a partly peeled banana. It is somewhere between fully peeled and unpeeled. But where it falls on that spectrum is hard (impossible) to say.
The one thing that is safe to say is that, thanks to Pheobe’s unique relationship with clothing physics, the one place the dress won’t be falling on that spectrum is OFF.
Dresses never come off. Even though she’s had a real problem with towels slipping in the past.
It’s too bad Phoebe’s got that tail, otherwise, Puck would spank her.
😉
Why does everyone automatically go to spanking? For the record, though, Phoebe’s tail is not full protection against spanking. It would be just a thing you sort of had to work around.
Her having a tail means you have something to hold on to while spanking her.
This sounds like the musings of someone who has thought about this before.
Maybe
Seconded
Part of me is Facepalming at Phoebe.
Part of me want’s to say “gimme some sugar, Phoebe!, heh heh heh!”
and the rest of me want’s to facepalm the part of me that wants to say that!
This … is an appropriate response.
Sort of an innocent echo of Tina Turner’s “I’m the Acid Queen” from “Tommy”?
Sort of. 😉
“This life is sweet,
Sweeter than you think.
Gonna live the dream
Like a candy queen,
Like a candy queen.”
Joao Sita is not mentioned in this house. Mainly because my daughter forces me to listen to those videos on a daily basis.
Never heard of song or singer till I went looking for a lyric. Still haven’t heard the song—I s’pose that’s fortunate.
Very, very fortunate.
I enjoy all of this, most excellent.
I vote for panel 2 – cutest Phoebe and panel 4 – most fun Phoebe 🙂
Panel 3 – most ‘induced state’ Phoebe!
I shudder to think what Phoebe will be like when the sugar crash hits. I’ve only experienced two types of feelings from people in the past. Wiped out in bed or ready to snap into a homicidal rage at any sudden movement. Though knowing Phoebe it’s more likely going to be the former…if it was Puck…either would be possible methinks.
I dunno. Usually sugar highs come with a low energy crash that results in sleep. Maybe some grogginess.
@Commander Clash, Phoebe’s too nice to become homicidal, but someone should put a bowl of M&M’s by her bed tonight.
I’m boycotting PUCK until I see TRACEEE again.
But of course I still VOTE everyday.
i boycott it on a regular basis by going to the website and look at pixels on my screen, and make absurd posts occasionally.
and to show my amazing boycott discipline i also vote.
I like your style of protest.
She’s back in two weeks.
@EG
Boycott – Postponed
TRACEEE shall return !!! YAY !!!
I just saw a new voting insentive. Heh.
I’d forgotten that she favors miniskirts. And yeah, we’ve got beeches.
In terms of needlessly tearing buildings down, you have NOT got Niagra, New York beat. They were experts.
Niagara Falls NY: the wrong Niagara Falls in every way possible. Niagara Falls ON is stupid, ridiculous, overblown, expensive, and many other things. But Niagara Falls NY is just … sad.
Hey! I’m from New York! And, well, yeah, it was. I hope it’s doing better. It was heartbreaking what happened.
Real talk: I find upstate New York fascinating in that it’s a study in crazy contrasts. There are some towns (cough cough Buffalo cough Niagara) that are sad, depressing, broken places of misery. The countryside, though, is gorgeous and there are some other towns, like Rochester, that are beautiful and vibrant and picturesque. All in the same geographic zone. It confuses me.
That’s New York for you. Confusing people since . . . well that’s confusing. Four hundred years at least.
Few people realize how much of the present Niagara Falls is diverted to the Hydroelectric Plant.
SHUTTING OFF THE FALLS
It certainly reduces the impact for modern-day visitors.
Yeah, but what remains is, by international agreement, set up as aesthetically as possible.
This made me laugh. Almost as much when I found out my stomping grounds of Saskatchewan has a navel base. One of my dorms favorite ways to mess with people was to answer the phone with “Saskatchewan coast guard.”
There’s a lake in Saskatchewan. I think. Too lazy to look at the map.
The only truly large lake is Lake Athabaska. We have a number of rivers, but still seriously, a naval base in Saskatchewan. A lot of people both in and out of the province thought it was hilarious.
They probably built it just for laughs.
I’m sorry to see that Hamilton, Ontario is struggling to have a positive image. I like both Eugene Levy and Martin Short, but they’re not helping the situation. The picture of Puck is hot! Maybe she can help raise the status of Hamilton through her endorsement.
Hamilton is … yeah, ‘struggling to have a positive image’ is a good way to put it. To clarify, both Martin Short and Eugene Levy don’t deny their Hamilton origins. That was a joke. They do hail from Hamilton (that’s NOT a joke), but they’re honest about it.
@EG, I am sorry to hear about old Hamilton buildings coming down, we have the same going on in my country all too often IMHO. (USA)
Yeah, well, Hamilton is for all intents and purposes a rustbelt American town. Only in Canada. They’re all the same, though. And they all tore their old buildings down.