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IT'S THE OLYMPUCKS!!! NEW VOTING INCENTIVES!!!
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As for this comic...
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Just call your dad.
Yeah, that’s a possibility. But Mom always finds out.
But on the other hand, look at Marc Zuckerberg
I’m looking. I don’t like what I see.
Truth hurts.
But it’s also liberating.
Oh, yeah.
Tyler’s into chess? He never struck me as the type. But what IS the type? How should I know?
The type is quiet, nerdy boys who wish to show dominance in some field that’s not sports. He qualifies.
Fair.
Hey! I resent that. We’re not nerds. We’re mathletes and vh3ess jocks.
When his mother hunts him down…then they’ll all be rescued.
A dangerous form of rescue, to be sure.
Who is going to rescue them from the rescuers?
The Rescuers! You know, from the Disney movie?
I dunno…somehow I think this is a job too big for Bernard and Bianca.
Tyler, think very carefully about what you’re saying. Your mom is a long way away and Puck and Daphne are right next to you.
He hasn’t learned to fear them enough. Not yet.
Colin/Puck: relationship strained
Ty/Daphne: relationship strained
Next up: relationship between Phoebe and everyone else
Still in the bullpen: Miranda.
“Captain, the relationships canna stand tha strain. Thar gonna blow!!!”
It can only go down from there!
I think Ty going to a chess tournament with a blonde wig and 70s hippy clothing probably tipped off his Mother that something was not as it seemed.
I’m guessing he changed outside the house.
He’s under stress and probably doesn’t quite realize what he’s saying, but soon he’ll realize the oops.
Well, if Puck is saying it, is it really an oops? Maybe a little, I guess.
In fact, it’s why he loves them.
Deep down, yes.
He had an ‘out’ to say “but I like you guy, and I love Daph” until he said “YES!! THAT!!”
Then he is likely to draw the worst kind of fire… the kind that is started by a female’s ire.
and that’s just the first dose.
‘Mom’ will supply the second dose.
The scared usually lack tact. At least I do when I’m scared.
Does it make me a bad person that deep down I kinda side with Tylers Mom?
No. Puck kinda does too.
Eh, I look at it as he’s David Huxley, and the rest all together are Susan Vance. (Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, as it might be a little obscure; Bringing Up Baby, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. BTW, ever notice how in comedy it’s always the uptight guy and the free spirit gal? Has there ever been one where it’s the other way around? Hmmm . . . )
I think the core of the comedy comes from the ‘typical gender role reversal’ element. Society has for a long time preached restraint, caution and fear as sort of the default state for women. Whether fair or not, we tend to view a restrained, cautious woman as prudent. Meanwhile, society tends to put out the view that good men need to be bold risk takers, pushing the envelope. We view a cautious man as somewhat neurotic and ridiculous.
As narrow and silly as these norms might be, I think that they do inform comedy. Since time immemorial, comedy has found laughs through the flouting of social norms. Ergo, a cautious woman pushed out of her comfort zone by a reckless guy is viewed as just sort of … expected? A wild girl dragging a cautious guy into peril is on some level unexpected, and therefore funny.
Excellent points.
Ahhh….
And so Daffy is the result of a Human/Monkey-Bear Union.
This valley was where she grew up.
She will sonn be re-united with her Monkey-Bear Mom and Dad, and never be seen again.
HAPPY ENDING.
Nope.
Hmmm…
It is unfortunate every last character here is indespensible.
Because to highlight the terror someone must die.
It’s a shame Mrs Marple did not hitch a ride.
Her time is overdue.
Well, Scooby-Doo was never a murder mystery. You’re channeling the wrong genre. Though I do appreciate a good Agatha Christie.
Ms Marple was committed to an affair with a married man, who died, senselessly, in WWI. A most senseless of many senseless wars.
And she never again fell in love.
A sad state of affairs, indeed.
I admit her stories are amusing, but so far-fetched.
Sherlock Homes, in contrast, typically makes perfect sense afterwards.
Too many Agatha Christie tales leave one befuddled, even after the reveal.
We’ve been watching Mrs Marple Mysteries lately.
The good news there is always a very comely young woman – or two.
The bad news is, unlike Sherlock, the stories never really make sense.
My mother used to watch Miss Marple. To me, it was about the furthest thing from what I wanted to watch. I was never a fan of the murder mystery, and then the universe was like, “How about a murder mystery where the main character … IS AN OLD LADY?!?” My young mind rebelled.
Poirot was always thought of as an older man. And got MUCH older in the course of the books.
Tommy and Tuppence aged between when they were first written about and when they were last written about.
She had a way of getting people to buy her books about old people.
My primary exposure to Miss Marple was through the TV version in the 90’s. And seeing as there was already a far more charming mystery-solving older lady in the form of Angela Landsbury, I felt no affinity for Miss Marple. I could dig a good “Murder, She Wrote”, though.
That’s fair.
I also like ‘MSW” a lot.
I am always trying to solve the mystery before the actual solution is revealed.
Problem is, often the mystery is solved by details that I rarely see, but at least they are there.
That’s the reason I like MSW so much. There is actually a chance of solving it… no details are hidden (like a lot of so-called mysteries that hide the most important details until too late).
A lot of mysteries today have fallen down the ‘pit of the unexpected’ trap that is ruining a bunch of narratives. The Internet has meant that creators are all the more connected to audience reactions, and that has led people to push for plots that are ‘prediction-proof’. They’ll say, “No one can predict where THIS is going!” But narratives follow a common pattern. If no intelligent viewer can make some correct guesses about the direction, you’ve written a nonsensical plot.
I pride myself on plots that are often shockingly predictable. And readers make correct guesses about what’s going to happen all the time. It’s not a fault.
“I pride myself on plots that are often shockingly predictable. And readers make correct guesses about what’s going to happen all the time. It’s not a fault.”
But fun.
I saw Enemy of the World yesterday. It has a fun little twist right at the end, but even without it, I’d have enjoyed it.
We don’t watch Romeo and Juliet because we want to see if they get away with it THIS time. We watch it because it’s so good and it’s so nice to see it done well.
See, we remember the twists that stand out and really work. They’re memorable. But they’re hard to manage and far too often writers mistake any twist for a good twist. A twist done well is divine, but a standard narrative done well is better than a stupid twist. And most of them are stupid nowadays.
I was more a Poirot kind of guy.
Another Christie character, of course.
I overheard my human pet Baldie josing with Janet, his legal mate.
He supposed that Mrs Marple could kill anyone on earth and arrange that she’d not be suspected.
But more believeably, there would be a tale that whatever Inspector was involved would be the actual culprit.
Yeah, don’t think I ever saw that. THAT would have been a better way for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to ‘kill off’ Sherlock when he really didn’t want to keep writing Sherlock Holmes anymore. Instead of having him fall off a cliff, have him be the actual guilty party in a murder! Can’t come back from that. At least not with your character intact.
People would have still wanted more.
True, but he wasn’t ALLOWED to kill off the detective, was he?
Well, he tried. But then he just got hounded at until he relented and brought him back. Turns out that cliff fall wasn’t fatal.
That worked for Agatha Christie.
And so, over the span of about three weeks, I have read about 400 Puck comics and come to the present. Now, I have to wait for the next installment in Real Time. A bittersweet feeling to be sure.
Now that I’m here, I can say I am eager to see how this Scooby-Doo story gets Pucked up.
400 comics. About eight years of work. Not sure whether it was worth it. But yeah, much slower going from this point onward.
YES IT WAS!
My unit conversion app and typesetting business on the other hand . . .
Now let’s see who the monster really is. DR. MORGAN
Tyler:”Mom?!”
Uh oh.
Losing is OK, but it has to be fun. Unfortunately, I can’t think of any examples, :p
I can’t either.
It’s very fitting to depict Phoebe as a banana because she’s sweet and feminine. (Bananas are part of the female part of the plant.) 😉
As are ALL fruits. Though the bananas we consume are cloned, sterile mutants that really have nothing to do with reproduction. Real wild bananas have a fruit that is full of large, hard seeds which make them very unpleasant to eat.