NEW COSPLAY VOTING INCENTIVE!!!
I asked my high-tier patrons on Patreon about cosplay possibilities they wanted to see in a voting incentive. And we've got some wonderful suggestions that garnered a number of votes! So got to TWC and...
VOTE TO COS LIKE A BOSS!!!
As for this comic...
I think we all know where this is going.
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NEW COSPLAY VOTING INCENTIVE!!!
I asked my high-tier patrons on Patreon about cosplay possibilities they wanted to see in a voting incentive. And we've got some wonderful suggestions that garnered a number of votes! So got to TWC and...
VOTE TO COS LIKE A BOSS!!!
As for this comic...
I think we all know where this is going.
I am shocked (shocked!) that you would call a teen cynical. Teens are posers. To be truly cynical, ya gotta have seen some sh*t.
(Okay, okay. But Daphne is a bit of an outlier.)
Some people are born world-weary. I can’t explain it.
Some are born world-wary, sone achieve world-wariness, and some have world-wariness thrust upon them.
Daphne may be all three.
Which Daphne? The one dressed as Scooby, or the one holding Scrappy?
Just like greatness. Only less useful.
Anyone else hearing this in Kristen Chenoweth’s voice? No? Just me? Okay, then.
wierd monster if he prefers “Cynical” as his favorite Teen flavor. It’s a well known fact that 9 out of 10 monsters get Heartburn from Cynical teens which is why monster Doctors recommend “Innocent” as a substitute.
Of course, Innocent is a lot harder to find these days, so… Just be careful of the Heartburn, Mr. Monster, and have plenty of Rollaids handy!
Maybe it’s like the equivalent of spicy food. Innocent teens are milder but once you develop a taste for the cynics, you’re hooked.
I’m now picturing trying to rate cynicism with a Scoville scale.
What, eat them? Raw? Ew.
This is an incredibly ironic post, but you wouldn’t understand it unless you’re from that area of Canada.
“Eat ’em raw!” is the final line in the famous “Oskee-Wee-Wee” chant that is the “team chant” for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats – the city’s professional Canadian Football League team.
I was unsure whether he was aware of the ref. But same thoughts here.
Definitely unaware. Haven’t been in Canada since my mid-teens…and that was Quebec.
“it’s favourite flavour of teen is Cynical!” lol!
Dude bounces back.
You just know what’s going to happen don’t you? You’re just watching–u-um, reading because seeing it done well is just so much fun, ain’t it?
Me too!
Sometimes I don’t know what’s going to happen either.
If it likes cynical teens then its going to LUUUUUVVV Robin!
(Frankly, I think the ‘monster’ is doomed)
She might be too cynical, even for monsters.
Who said she was a teen?
I thought she left THAT behind before the USA was the USA.
That’s Daphne. Puck’s the one with the red hair, short skirt and chutzpah.
Who is playing Daphne. Another Daphne.
Just to be nice and confusing.
Quite.
🙂
It’s like the regional equivalent of the Bayou Boo-ya? (yes, the ATHF parody of Scooby-Doo). And.. they both probably speak a French-based dialect.. Zoinks! This, like fits too well.
We got some serious brand integration going on here!
Who’s ATHF?
I am relieved TRACEEE is safe and sound back home with Satan.
I fear Spooky Valley will lead to the ulimate annihilation of every last cosplay character, leaving only TRACEEE, Satan, the Monkey-Bears, Sigmund, Hot Dog Guy, Tony and Stan to carry on.
Perhaps “fear ” is too strong a word…..
It would be a very different comic if that were to occur. Not bad. Just different.
Will there be PIZZA at the funeral ?
Asking for a friend…..
All the best funerals have pizza.
but will there be pineapple on the pizza? (goading for a friend)
I am pleased no character has ever died in this Comic.
Other than Colin’s dignity – on a daily basis.
Not a depature from this plane, but still cause for PIZZA !
Preferably Hawaiian with browned Spam toppings.
Thoughts on the death of fictional characters:
I find it doesn’t usually work in long-form storytelling like a TV show or a comic. Viewers/readers are attached to those characters and they miss them, and then the creative decision makers find a way to ‘bring them back due to fan outcry. This might be through outright resurrection, or cloning, or in more realistic fiction through flashbacks and the like.
It makes sense when an actor in a long-running TV show passes (a la Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street) but when characters are just killed off for a bit of a thrill (a la Maude Flanders), I think it’s a cheap move. Either the character is unloved and their absence won’t bother fans (as in the Maude Flanders situation) or they’re beloved and will return in some fashion anyway (a la Gwen Stacy) because fans won’t accept it otherwise.
It did work on M*A*S*H. I don’t really know why.
It’s a variation of the problem of switching characters out. It’s why when Sarah Michelle Geller and Jim Parsons decided to leave their shows, they just ended. Two and a Half men tried, but it was already suffering
On the other hand, it worked out for Monk and the aforementioned M*A*S*H.
I feel it can work, but it’s hard. It’s easier if the show has strong dramatic elements and a realistic tone, where the ramifications of death and the emotional fallout and all that can be fully explored. If it’s a comedy or genre fiction, though, it tends not to work. You gotta make with the funny, or the laser fights, or the dragons, and so the writers often can’t take the time needed to give the death weight.
In my comic, I feel that such a thing would result in a terminal tonal shift that would ruin the comic. Like in the case of the comic-that-shall-not-be-named-which-became-a-meme. It doesn’t work.
And this is coming from a guy whose comic has a cancer arc.
Interesting. It bares thinking.
Oh, history from my home town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxZ5IVqzPqY
I think Veritasium did one as well.
I saw the Veritasium one.
“I saw the Veritasium one.”
Wild, huh?
By the way, my dad worked at Kodak for a while. Not in that department and not at that time, but he was there.
Melusine, a French graphic novel series. Teen witch Melusine’s best friend was Cancrelune. Was, as the artist got tired of her and killed her off. Bad enough he did that, but he did it by suicide, which was, is, just so wrong.
Characters killed off because the creator doesn’t like the character … that’s just another category of stupid entirely.
Your Traci picture this week resembles Phoebe, sans tail and horns; always a good resource image. Bravo!
Sometimes I’m a little off-model. I’ll readily admit it.
Real talk: I didn’t like this Tracee pic at all and didn’t really want to release it, but I was running out of time and had nothing else to post.
(sigh)
Oh, come on!!!
You dress a bunch of people in costume as the must ‘meddling’ of all ‘meddling’ teams, then you send then into THIS?
Who in their right mind would expect them to stay away from that valley?
I prediction last strip about the poor monster’s fate stands.
Your prediction is probably correct.
On the other hand, I don’t think they will WANT to stop there. So … the car will break?
Powerful predicting.
Actually, Colin will break the van’s transmission.
But the TEAM will definitely stop in the Valley.
It is THEN that the ‘monsters should ALL flee for their lives (if they know what’s good for them).
Of course, they won’t know.
They were hired to provide some “Scooby-Doo” action and will think the ‘scooby crews’ will just be nerds.
WHOOPS!!!
Tracee offers what can be called “heat treatment.” 😉
Sounds like something to do with essential oils.
I am obligated to offer the following response to the incentive:
*wolf whistle*
Appreciated.
Phoebe and Betty seem very much alike in their outward sexual appeal and inner naivete; a killer combination that drives a man wild! HOT! HOT! HOT!
I am heartened that you appreciate!
Yeah, I’m now convinced this is an actor working for the Con.
Mind you… that is both awesome and appropriate!
Bit of flavor.