ANOTHER OCTOBER VOTING INCENTIVE IS HERE!
I put the vote to my top tier patrons on Patreon to find out what Halloween costume they'd like to see, and you can see their SECOND top choice by voting for Puck TWC! It's another 80's milestone. My generation speaks loud.
VOTE TO HAND OUT THE CANDY WITH STYLE!
As for this comic...
Miranda's weird woobie panda bear is actually modeled on my own favorite childhood stuffed animal. It was a bizarre homemade creation that my older cousin made as a sewing project. It was always kind of droopy and sad-looking. It did show up in an earlier comic, so yay for continuity!
And for those who are wondering what Tracee and Miranda are watching, CLICK HERE AND WONDER NO MORE. Beware, though: the song is a nasty ear worm that you will never, ever forget.
Puck 516
ANOTHER OCTOBER VOTING INCENTIVE IS HERE!
I put the vote to my top tier patrons on Patreon to find out what Halloween costume they'd like to see, and you can see their SECOND top choice by voting for Puck TWC! It's another 80's milestone. My generation speaks loud.
VOTE TO HAND OUT THE CANDY WITH STYLE!
As for this comic...
Miranda's weird woobie panda bear is actually modeled on my own favorite childhood stuffed animal. It was a bizarre homemade creation that my older cousin made as a sewing project. It was always kind of droopy and sad-looking. It did show up in an earlier comic, so yay for continuity!
And for those who are wondering what Tracee and Miranda are watching, CLICK HERE AND WONDER NO MORE. Beware, though: the song is a nasty ear worm that you will never, ever forget.
Though sometimes there are more innocent things than self respect.
Is that what Tracee’s saying?
Important things. Though innocent works too.
Dang, ‘sometimes’ was the only word I couldn’t translate, and I tried too. XD
“Try it, you’ll like it.” I tried it, and didn’t like it. That’s why I never learned to cook my mother’s meatloaf.
You didn’t like Mother’s meatloaf? Blasphemy!
On the other hand, I loved her spaghetti sauce. I cooked that just a few weeks ago.
@Robert Nowall
A “bad” Meatloaf ?
Impossible.
Just drown it in Mom’s delightful Spaghetti Sauce.
I’m betting her sauce would make cardboard delicious !
Teela was on point and looked awesome. Great job!
[Top webcomics voting incentive for anyone not knowing, I mean… vote and find out?]
Hey, I really appreciated it.
I am glad you are pleased with it. Also, thanks for becoming a patron. Means a lot to me that you like my stuff enough to do that.
sharing her woobie? that’s not something you share with just anybody. you know!!!!
(sorry for the lack of posts. Geck… I busted my hand in an accident last month, and typing one handed is difficult… But I’m still here!)
Hey man, don’t sweat it. Save your energy for healing that hand.
Is that song based on one from an actual cartoon? In any case, it sounds like just the sort of message Satan would approve of. If you read it the right way, it has a very temptation-y vibe. “Hey kids, want some drugs? Try it, you’ll like it. Trust me!”
It does sound rather antithetical to the normal “just say no” at first glance, but then again it could be about helping others or making friends.
Check the link in the description. It’s about yogurt.
Oops, didn’t think to read the descriptive text. I’ve never seen that show before, but there’s a Daniel Tiger song along the same lines.
Also, yogurt, blech! I can tolerate the fruity kinds, but I’ll never touch the plain stuff.
Check the text under the comic. I gave a link to a YouTube snippet of the show. It’s actually about trying yogurt.
Are you going to do more Masters of the Universe costumes? Please do more Masters of the Universe costumes! Please please please please please!
A MOTU fan, huh? I wasn’t planning on it. I mean, almost all the other costumes are super-jacked warrior dudes, and I have no super-jacked male characters to inhabit those costumes.
That just makes it funnier. Also, since I was thinking about Satan already, I wondered if he would make a good Skeletor or Hordak. I don’t think he’s featured in any of your voting incentives before, has he?
Not really, no. But I don’t know how to navigate the “always in shadowy darkness” thing with a costume. It’s harder.
What an odd thing perspective can be.
For instance, from my POV, this babysitting gig has fixed a lot of things that are usually hideously wrong about Tracy, rather than breaking her.
~_^
Well, I’d tend to agree with you.
Awww, flow-going!
I’ve discovered that when a baby hands me something, the important thing is to take it. And then give it back. They seem to like it. So, flow-going.
But Tracee is still Tracee. Even though you KNOW she’s having fun. Well, you hope. I’d be having fun.
You, sir, are wise to the ways of babies. And wise to the ways of Tracee.
I don’t know why I started doing that, but they seem so happy.
Regarding the recent Hollowe’en voting incentives:
1. Ain’t nobody combat ready in THAT outfit. But she makes it look good and that’s the important thing.
2. I actually think she’s a very convincing bad girl. Or she could be if she scowled a bit more. She’s got the look down, she just doesn’t act the part. But that’s why we love her.
Well, the back story is that I designed Phoebe as a bad girl, but the character just didn’t go that way. It just always felt better to have her be sweet and kind. So it stuck.
And yet she still looks like she could be a bad girl. And that contrast is cool.
Puck has no butt! What happened there? Teela had a butt!
Must be the tights.
Puck has a long back.
The pose is the primary cause of the issue here, really. The leg closest to us is extended forward, which means the gluteus muscles are relaxed and extended on that side. That lessens the posterior protrusion, as it were. Either that or it’s just poorly drawn. A lot of my drawings fall into the latter category.
Awwwwww……
TRACEEE sucking on toes.
Works for this Cat !
I am glad something floats your boat.
Eh, I want to see Puck as Scarlett from GI Joe. Tracee . . . Cheetara from Thundercats. Daphne as . . . . . . . Daphne Blake from Scooby-Doo. And why not, Hannah as . . . . Black Canary.
You have a complex list of demands.
Pecan pie is much more important than self-respect every time. 😉
AGREED.
CANADA has Pee-Kan Pie ?
Of course, I am referring to the endless argument as to whether the nut is pronounced PEE KAN or PICK AN.
I understand Southerners scoff at Pee Kan.
I think that when one is talking about a certain food or beverage, the scoffing about pronunciation is pointless and dumb. Southerners will insist that it’s ‘pick-AWN’, and they’re not wrong, but ‘PEEH-kan’ isn’t wrong either. There’s a whole song about tomatoes and potatoes explaining the futility of this.
The only cases I will concede to someone else’s way of pronunciation have to do with place names or proper nouns that geographically or culturally rooted in a certain location or culture. Thus, I will readily admit that I am saying ‘Nevada’ wrong by calling it ‘Nevawdaw’ because the fine people of Nevada say its ‘Nevahdah’. And heck, it’s their town, so they get to tell me I’m wrong. Same with St. Augus-TEEN in Florida. They can rightly correct my pronunciation of their town name, because it’s their town. Even though the saint their town was named after is properly pronounced ‘Au-GUHS-tin’. Who am I to tell a whole town they’re wrong about their name?
That’s just my two cents.
@EG
‘pick-AWN’ is my new favorite !!
Still …. CANADA has Pecan Pie ?
Which Baldie adores IF … it is not too sweet. More nuts than syrup ! Which is rarely accomplished.
Yes, Canadians have pecan pie. We even have a special Canadian alteration: the butter tart. (It’s basically just pecan pie in tart form.) And I am of the opinion that pecan pie can never be too sweet. But that agrees with my nation’s tastes. Canadians love things that are insanely sweet. All our chocolate is sweeter than the American varieties. And I find American pancake syrup to be shockingly bland. I stick to the real stuff: dark grade A maple syrup.
Also, as proof of Canada’s pecan pie props, my wife made a pecan pie for Canadian Thanksgiving this past weekend. It was very, very sweet.
Pecan pie, apple pie, sweet potato pie, pumpkin pie.
In that order. I personally can’t stand pumpkin pie.
Though gooseberry pie (rare as it is) May be the best of all.
I think that the one that is be apprised by the most would be rhubarb pie.
I am a huge fan of rhubarb custard pie. It’s a rarity anymore, but it’s one of the best.
RHUBARB ?
Although I am surprised that a delightful treat such as Pecan Pie has travelled northwards from the Deep South, and am thrilled with the subtle flavors of Maple Syrup (how about a Pecan Pie made only with pure Maple Syrup ?), Rhubarb is the Devil’s Vegetable.
Slimy, nasty, only suitable for consumption on a Desert Island (not on a DESSERT Island, tho).
Yuk – I say YUCK.
@EG
Pumpkin Pie is generally fairly horrid.
Pumpkins are quite nice to look at; not so nice to eat.
Baldie does love his Pumpkin Beer, however.
CUSTARD can be wonderful. Cocoanut Custard, especially.
And Bread Pudding, which is a form of custard, is so good.
Baldie would drive miles and miles for a good Bread Pudding – or Indian Pudding.
Do you have Indian Pudding in Canada ? HOT, topped with Vanilla Ice Cream ?
Bread pudding is wonderful. But rare up here and most people wouldn’t know what it was. Indian pudding I am not familiar with.
@EG
The underappreciated Indian Pudding – the Meat Loaf of desserts.
It is made from very simple ingredients: Molasses, Corn Meal, Milk, Butter – nothing exotic whatsoever.
And it must be hot, as its natural companion is Vanilla Ice Cream which melts on the top as you eat it.
I’m not sure why it is so rare these days.
It could be the appearance, which is so very plain. Or it could be it is simply unfamiliar.
Howard Johnsons always offered an Indian Pudding Ice Cream, which bore no resemblance to the actual pudding in any way at all.
I should entreat Baldie to make some Indian Pudding this year. It looks to be inexpensive and easy.
INDIAN PUDDING
Indian pudding is a baked CUSTARD with milk, butter, molasses, eggs, spices, and cornmeal. The name is likely derived from the cornmeal, which was known as indian meal way back when. Here is a tried-and-true recipe for indian pudding adapted from An Olde Concord Christmas, a long out-of-print book from the Concord Museum.
Hmmnnn….
Sounds a bit like Caramelized Onions.
Simple ingredients, but finicky preparation.
Baldie is still working on getting the Onions right.
Good votey
Thank you for your approval.
I’m going to pass along the tip I got from the Tripp webcomic back in the day: when you catch an earworm, listen to Spirit in the Sky all the way through. It cleanses your musical palate. More than one co-worker has thanked me for saving them from the Wiggles and Baby Shark.
But it doesn’t result in you just humming ‘Spirit in the Sky’ instead? Because I feel like that would be the inevitable outcome for me.
Try it. It crowds out the earworm and fades gently away.
@RoyanRannedos
I really enjoyed binging on TRIPP.
And Bill’s new strip ARIEL51 was always fun.
But RANK 69 and 1107 VOTES (so far this month), for a comic that has not updated since the Bronze Age (seems that way), is somewhat suspect.
I’m not accusing Bill of anything; I like Bill.
And I am happy for him that apparently his Day Job is finally working out.
But RANK 69 and 1107 VOTES ?
Loosely translated, “Never ask a one and a half year old to agree with someone older, by force.”
@Salem Cat, my trusty Gage Canadian Dictionary (1983) tells me there are two choices on how to pronounce “pecan”- ( PEE-kan or pi-KAN) (The second one starts like “pick”)
@ChrisH
Trust me.
During the short time I lived in the Deep South (which was pleasant enough), there were few Northern Mis-pronunciation that were as likely to elicit guffaws than PEE-KAN.
“A PEE KAN is what granny keeps by her bed for when she can’t quite make it down the hall, COLLEGE BOY.”
Well, fair enough. Though it’s a northern pronunciation – not a mispronunciation. And speaking personally, I find myself needing to stifle a laugh when listening to pretty much everything someone from the Deep South ever says. Maybe it’s just because I associate the accent with characters from Looney Tunes. But to my ear, it’s an inherently hilarious accent.
@EG
That feeling is mutual, I assure you.
Will Puck recognize her in this state?
I’m not sure I recognize her in this state. And why are you only probably Buggle?
There’s an opportunity to have Puck mistake her for a nanny Satan and Tracee hired. She’ll be *fuming.*
What do you mean? Of course I’m Buggle.
(que X-files theme)
That’s an option, certainly. In related news, whenever I’m drawing new slovenly Tracee, my wife consistently thinks I’m drawing Puck.
In that case, wouldn’t Tracee need freckles?
Well, here’s the deal: the freckles are added in post. So when I’m drawing them with pen and ink, and there’s no skin or hair color or anything, they do look similar. Tracee has a different nose and a different face shape but I’m not always the best at conveying that and when the hair is wavy and tussled, the resemblance to Puck is definitely a thing.
@EG
Your Wife is Wise.
The difference is a disheveled TRACEEE and 24/7 TRACEEE is the dishevelled look implies she was nekkid moments before and just threw something on – HOT HOT HOT.
But slovenly Robin IS 24/7 Robin. She’s been leaning back with both flipper-feet firmed planted on the floor – hands, lips and elbows encrusted with CHEEZ-WHAMS since 1998
O – M – G
That’s no WOOBIE
It’s Monkey-Bear LARVA !!
And both Miranda and TRACEEE have just ingested its horrible spores !
While Mommy-Bear is right outside gathering nesting material from Satan’s Caddy.
MOTHER OF MERCY
Is it a kids TV show about drug pushing and peer pressure… or is it a regular kids commercial unironically trying to make kids make their parents buy crap via pushing and peer pressure?
About getting kids to eat foods they’ve never had before.
Great. All my wit wasted for brussel sprouts. >_>