The GREAT NOUN ADVENTURE RETURNS!
A year ago we did a big, weird noun-voting experience over on Patreon with my $5+ patrons and this year it came back with much fanfare! And now you get to see the bizarre results! It's a pile of weird nouns just thrown into a blender. What will result? Well...
VOTE TO EXPOUND WITH A GREAT DEAL OF NOUNS!!!
As for this comic...
Just going to say that it is immensely satisfying to draw these characters in outfits that are more typical for them. It's been a while. Puck is in plaid. Daphne is in a baseball tee. Phoebe is in something that makes you raise an eyebrow. All is right with the world.
For the record, I had a friend in high school whose parents got in hot water when they tried to redeem gift certificates that were purchased using counterfeit money. I think the gift certificates were given to them by a relative who claimed innocence. Officially they all blamed the store. But we all know what happened. In this scenario, though, I think Phoebe will have more success redeeming the gift card. Daphne is usually quite competent in her scams, so if she's cheating the system, she's probably doing it in a very effective way. Not that that's a good thing. But there you are.
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The GREAT NOUN ADVENTURE RETURNS!
A year ago we did a big, weird noun-voting experience over on Patreon with my $5+ patrons and this year it came back with much fanfare! And now you get to see the bizarre results! It's a pile of weird nouns just thrown into a blender. What will result? Well...
VOTE TO EXPOUND WITH A GREAT DEAL OF NOUNS!!!
As for this comic...
Just going to say that it is immensely satisfying to draw these characters in outfits that are more typical for them. It's been a while. Puck is in plaid. Daphne is in a baseball tee. Phoebe is in something that makes you raise an eyebrow. All is right with the world.
For the record, I had a friend in high school whose parents got in hot water when they tried to redeem gift certificates that were purchased using counterfeit money. I think the gift certificates were given to them by a relative who claimed innocence. Officially they all blamed the store. But we all know what happened. In this scenario, though, I think Phoebe will have more success redeeming the gift card. Daphne is usually quite competent in her scams, so if she's cheating the system, she's probably doing it in a very effective way. Not that that's a good thing. But there you are.
I’m thinking that Daphne figured out how to work some of those online surveys that offer gift cards. You know, just to have something in her back pocket.
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Super Fabric World, for the SNES? How many levels?
There was linen world, and cotton world, and polyester world, and the secret poly-cotton blend world that you could only get to by using the secrect level exits.
And good working theory about Daphne. I’m assuming whatever method she used was slightly more slick and modern than old counterfeit bills.
Counterfeit money? Printed on paper? That might be an thing if Daphne’s generation used legit cash money, but usually it’s apps, debit cards, or PayPal (and such). Any financial chicanery on her part would be fully digital, except for that actual card at the end.
Agreed. I liked the suggestion of someone who said it was a scam that involved those apps or sites that reward you with gift cards for filling out surveys. I could see Daphne cooking up some kind of bot to answer hundreds of surveys in a matter of minutes.
It would be the thing to do. Arguably, a moral thing to do, but I wouldn’t tell her.
I’m thinking Daphne just grabbed an unloaded card off the rack and figured that Phoebe was too nice to say anything.
I feel like Daphne would do that to someone she doesn’t like. But for Phoebe, I think she’d have an option that had at least an 80% chance of working at the point of redemption.
Wait is that supposed to be a real store a video game? I’m so confused.
No. It’s not. This is all nonsense.
Is it at least real in terms of the comic?
Store is real. Game is not.
Whew!
Well, that was fun. 🙂
That said, how ABOUT a Fabric World game? You could play as Phoebe trying to get specific bolts at a reasonable price for various outfits. It would have to be a side-scroller.
If anyone wants to make it, they have my blessing.
There is a real Canadian chain called Fabric Land that sounds pretty similar to where that card came from?
Indeed. And yes, I have purchased gift certificates from Fabricland. But not gift cards, because Fabricland is still stuck in 1983 and uses gift certificates on old-fashioned paper with the carbon sheets and everything.
They must have gotten quite a deal on snapsets if they’re not even carbonless.
Yes! It’s not a fake Mario knockoff! It’s a fake real store!
Aww, how thoughtful. I didn’t have the NES growing up, but I was raised in Doom.
Wunna me best mates, whose wedding I attended, was one of the designers for Doom after he’d done Civilization. I took my copy of the Civ manual to his wedding and he and two of his groomsmen initialed their bits of the manual. I gave my free copy of Doom to my sprog.
With Phoebe, a little fabric goes a long way.
That’s a good thing. Fabric is weirdly expensive. Like, for some reason, it’s cheaper to buy already made clothes and repurpose the fabric from them than to buy bolts of actual cloth.
It’s a strange world where MORE processing reduces the value of something, as well as doing that processing a long way away and transporting goods one way and then the other is cheaper than just doing the task yourself. Shows how inflated retail prices are.
Yeah, it’s a small market and so it’s one of those ‘economy of scale’ things, I think. But it always stuns me. The fact that my wife has to pay hundreds of dollars for decent yarn to make a sweater is just bizarre.
Huh. I’ve seen Bernadette Banner buy fabric in New York and London, and talk about how expensive the whole thing is, but given she doesn’t do a lot of premade clothing, I’m not surprised this hasn’t turned up. But it kind of makes sense.
Making your own stuff is never cheaper anymore. I saw a challenge on YouTube with a chef where he tried to make a chicken cheaper than the rotisserie chickens they sell at Costco. His only option was to buy an uncooked chicken … at Costco. And it was still more expensive. A raw, uncooked bird costs more than the cooked, seasoned one.
Costco takes a hit on their rotisserie chickens as a loss-leader. They are also (on average) at least 500g lighter than the raw ones (about 1.2-1.2kg, instead of about 2kg for a raw bird).
every store that has rotisserie chicken does this. Even the two major rotisserie chain restaurants in Canada.
FWIW, I get raw chickens when they are 30%-off (or more), I vacuum-seal them, and freeze them. I have a rotisserie on my BBQ, so I can have chicken whenever I want.
I buy them pre-rotisseried. Cuz I’m basic like that.
I just buy the rotisserie’d chicken and strip it for meat. Good cheap living.. mix that with some kinda starch and some greens and you’ve got the basis for a few days worth of meals.
Didn’t pay real money… huh! I see a 5 mile stretch of road ahead that has a red flag spaced every 15 feet… and Phoebe is about to drive overtop every single one of them full speed…
I can’t possibly be the only one here who becomes paranoid every time you put Daphne and money in the same sentence.
You become paranoid because you’re a responsible adult. Notice that Puck never seems too concerned,
She’s OK because she’s seen some of the mail from Daphne’s shell corporations.
Last time Puck questioned a good thing Daphne got pulled out of a tournament she was winning. Lesson learned: when Lady Luck wants to dance, don’t punch her in the boobs. (You have a wonderful way with words).
I like words. I wanted to be a novelist but then everyone decided to stop reading novels. So I do this instead.
Words are good.
I love the cut-outs in Phoebe’s sleeve and around her navel that mirror the one around her cleavage. Nothing eyebrow-raising there, it’s just “normal clothes” for Phoebe.
Also, Daphne probably has a hacked Crypto account (or ten) that she uses for “emergencies” like this…
Yeah, this is about as close to normal clothing that Phoebe gets.
And I feel that Daphne would definitely be very active in the crypto sphere. I’m tempted to incorporate some of that into the comic but I’m cautious du3 to the fact that such things can date really badly if you’re not careful.
On Page One, Puck is sitting in front of a CRT television – and it was probably (like the strip) a black and white TV too. Crypto will either fade into the ether, or become a footnote on the foolishness of digital greed.
I say go for it.
Given that ether is the name of on of the cryptos, it makes me paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson:
“The only thing that really worried me was the ether(ium). There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge…”
The question should be what the store will hit you with after you try that card.
If Daphne scammed right, they’ll just hit her with some choice fabric!
This is both terrible and terrific. Which rather describes Puck and Daphne. They truly are mother and daughter.
Well put.
Panel 4 Puck is not disapproving of Daphne’s chicanery; she’s a parent looking over her child’s homework ostensibly to ensure it’s alright, but really to figure out what kids are learning these days.
All these Nintendo references in association with fabric and yet not one mention of Yoshi’s Crafted World.
And there’s a lot of benevolent comparisons between the innocence of Yoshi and Phoebe.
I never played that one, but it certainly looked cool.
I did not anticipate how enjoyable it became. It was surprisingly fun to play.
Daphne’s awesome. I hope her and Tyler make it work. His dad would love her as a daughter in law.
I am very fond of Daphne. But I am weirdly fond of the prickliest, least lovable people. I guess they remind me of myself. Glad to hear someone else out there likes her too.
I bet Daphne used bitcoin! 😉
The Belly-Button Porthole just might catch on !
I do hope so. And nice to see you back in the comments, Cat!
We left the door open and he wouldn’t come in. We closed it and he was scratching at the door.
Naturally.
Since I was a kid I had a thing for petite freckled redheads with a pixie cut. Add the ears and it’s total waifu.
Puck forever!
Well, Puck here has her hair back in a bun, so it’s not quite the pixie cut, but petite freckled redhead? Yes.
It is good that Robin can mediate between the larceny Daphne and the high morals Phoebe.
Puck is the middle ground: hypocritical morality and opportunistic criminality.
Poor Jo-Ann’s.