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IT’S A PUCK ADVENT CALENDAR!!!
Christmas came and went, but you can still see the final pic in the Puck advent calendar, so...
VOTE EVERY DAY TO ... um ... SEE THE SAME PIC!!!
As for this comic...
Not much to say about the comic, but I do hope everyone is having a good holiday and Christmas went well for all the Christmas types out there. Please list your best gifts in the comic section below.
Wouldn’t the Jesus-Free Zone be the default?
Well, Phoebe’s entraced. That may be a problem for Daphne.
Not to the ultra-religious (which is sounds like Hannah’s parents are). To them, Jesus is there until you intentionally remove him.
It’s a pretty big zone, if you’re talking globally.
Fair. Then again, not seeing Star Wars is also the default.
Jesus said: Cleave a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up a stone, and You will find Me there.
… pretty hard to avoid actually.
… church-free zone, meanwhile …
“It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.”
Confirmed; Jesus was a Force user.
The last panel has me grinning like an idiot. This is going to be good.
Now I’m feeling the pressure.
I actually COL’ed at the last panel. (Chortled Out Loud).
i´m too scared to ask why phoebe is grinning like a loon – she may be as nice as they come, but she´s still satans daughter……and now i´m craving a scene where she meets hannah´s parents! she´s such a goody two shoes, yet clearly a demon in extremely sexy clothes, its bound to give them mental whiplash thinking about how to react – exorcise, slut-shame or invite to help with the next church basar?
Oh ,pleeeeease let her help with the next bazaar!
Part of me thinks that such an interaction would be fun to explore. But the other part of me feels that the resulting story would be a little too targeted a criticism of the extremely religious. I try to keep the satire relatively gentle in this comic and try not to cross over into overt South Park style hostility. Though it’s tempting.
Well, you could write a story where, in the end, they turn out to be just the kind of people they pretend to be. Only stuffy.
But that’s NOT FUNNY. You can pull it off, but it’s hard.
I would think the entire city is a Jesus free zone considering Satan is the Mayor.
Makes me wonder if Jesus and God go around in the human world like Satan does… and what is his and Phoebe’s opinion of them…
If they’re walking around in this world, they’re probably in Toronto.
It being the Centre of the Univrese and all…
Yep. Joke I heard, about the Good Ship Toronto: It never cruises, it stays in one place and the world goes around it. There’s also the Good Ship Ottawa, always in a fog, and the Good Ship Quebec; everybody’s in the lifeboats, threatening to leave! Anybody know any other Good Ships?
Not so much a good ship but a comparison of Toronto and Montreal I once heard.
“Imagine two brothers. One is a womanizing alcoholic, the other is an accountant.”
Toronto is a soulless corporate accountant that truly believes it’s a lady’s man party rock star. It’s not. If it had a true creative soul, it wouldn’t be behind NYC by five years on all the hot trends. Which is saying something, considering the fact that NYC is already five years behind Montreal.
“Imagine two brothers. One is a womanizing alcoholic, the other is an accountant.”
Are they both Montreal?
All the accountants moved to Quebec City.
“Toronto is a soulless corporate accountant that truly believes it’s a lady’s man party rock star. It’s not. If it had a true creative soul, it wouldn’t be behind NYC by five years on all the hot trends. Which is saying something, considering the fact that NYC is already five years behind Montreal.”
“All the accountants moved to Quebec City.”
I’m going to show off not only how old I am, but how old my father was as well.
He remembered when Montreal was the business center of Canada and a source of corporate innovation. So, yeah, given Toronto is literally centuries lat to a party NEW YORK was late to*, I’m not surprised.
* Despite having one of the world’s great natural harbors, Boston got a few hundred years head start by trading with the Spanish colonies against British policy. Still a proud New Yorker.
On another note, I love that Phoebe smells of strawberries and vanilla. A scent about as far from what you would expect for Satan’s daughter as you can get.
No brimstone whatsoever!
It’s the new Hell rebranded for the next century. Roast to the scent of rose hips and lavender.
Has anybody in their house ever *met* Jesus?
No. They aren’t rich enough to hire a gardener. (Named Jesus, pronounced Hey-soos).
I’m gonna say no. But you never know.
Looks like someone is in for a surprise…
Or not. Will she ever learn the truth? Maybe not!
Hard Cash
From personal experience, those stats are accurate…to anyone who’s witnessed how discriminatory their surrounding Christians are. Prefer you marry a Christian so you both go to Heaven, vaugely antisex, see their religions as fact as opposed to belief in an argument explaining your perspective on how they practice treats people bad, that sort of thing. (Personal dump much, me?)
I can’t speak for believers who just wish you good will, but they seemed nice.
…Sorry if I scared you guys with how I’m being. ^^;
That last panel . . . the thing is, I’m not sure which of the two (Phoebe and Hannah) needs warning about the other . . . although that look in Phoebe’s eyes . . . I am reminded of lines from LMB’s Falling Free, in which a professional musician meets a Quaddie, a species of human designed to work and live in zero gravity, with four arms and hands- ‘Such long fingers, and so many of them . . . tell me, my dear, do you play music?” Let’s just say, the Quaddies never had a chance!
I am going to pretend that I know what LMB stands for and nod enthusiastically.
LMB- Lois McMaster Bujold. Her fan favourite is Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, described by his mother as ‘the most willful little monster she’s ever met.” He’s incredibly manipulative, fortunately allying that to loyality, integrity and honour. He does not appear in Falling Free, set about two, three centuries before Miles appears.
Please tell me Hannah is going to be the one to corrupt Phoebe, rather than vice versa.
Hannah is already pretty corrupted, and Phoebe is incorruptible. So really no tension here.
Protip: turning on God mode while in Jesus zone, while entertaining, is usually ill-advised.
Christ’s influence suddenly curtails your smiting powers considerably. The forgiveness perk really doesn’t compensate.
Yeah. It’s kind of counter productive to smite someone with leprosy with Jesus there to immediately heal it.
Comic was posted on December 26 with a new voting pic. Are you perhaps Orthodox and pics continue until January 7th 2023 or are you going to have a pic per day until Christmas 2023?
That voting incentive was posted Dec. 24. It was the last entry in the Advent calendar. So yes, it’s wishing you a Merry Christmas after the fact. I could replace it with a blank screen, I guess.
Oh noooo! 12 Days of Christmas Phoebe … at least!!!
Plot twist, Jesus is Papa Shnorf and he deflowered Satan’s daughter
He is very much NOT Jesus. That much we can gather from his behavior.
Ballerina Phoebe and Elf Phoebe jingled my bells this Christmas; thank you.
I’m glad to hear. To sure whether this one is actually an elf costume, though. Looks more like a very, very reduced Santa costume.
Oooh Emily
Yay!
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to youse toose.
I’m thinking Phoebe and Hannah are soul mates with fashion and the two are going to have loads of fun together.
I do believe that this game of chess just became evenly matched.
Judge not Jesus by the words of those who claim to follow Him.
As the Ghost of Christmas Present said to Scrooge: T”here are some on this earth of yours … who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”
Judge Jesus by His words and actions in the Bible.
Not by those who often claim to follow Him, but in honesty, would be abhorrent to His example.
Even this simple cat understands that.
As a lapsed Anglican (what you Americans call ‘Episcopalian’) I am reasonably down with the J-man. I think the world would be a better place if they lived their lives and created policies in line with most of his teachings. But it always fascinates me how many devout Christians place themselves far, FAR away from the ‘peace and love’ camp. I continually feel like shouting, “Do you know Jesus was a peacenik hippie? Do you know that? It’s all over that book you worship!”
Too busy worshiping it to read it. :/
Some advice: All Living Xmas Decor must be placed outside by Twelfth Night.
Otherwise the fairies who live within all greenery will be angered.
They do not mind being taken indoors for a while, but by Jaunary 5th, they feel thier benevolence has been taken advantage of.
Plastic or Metal Decor are exempt, of course.
As are wreaths which, attached to your outer door or siding, have been outdoors all along.
I tend to abide by this, but my motivation is more fear of the inevitable drying out of said greenery. Gotta get my Christmas tree down.
How else do said demi-beings let their displeasure be known?
And toss your “Elf on the Shelf” in the trash.
Satan’s Rat Fink.
I am not a fan of ‘Elf on the Shelf’. At all.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Pretty hard to do without sex.
Either Bible-Thumpers are being misjudged, or they, themselves, are mis-interpreting it.
Or neither.
Perhaps they are insisting sex is good, but only with marriage.
Humans.
Cats multiply pretty well without marriage.
But Cat-Girls are a mystery to all.
Perhaps they are syaing Sex ix good, but only within marriage.
Typos that cannot be corrected are the bane of existence.
LOL
Phoebe finds a kindred spirit. 🙂
They’re rare.
No need to panic. It certainly isn’t Satan. Heh, heh. Just his daughter.
I’m looking forward to see how Hannah handles this! 🙂
Don’t you mean that it’s his daughter who’s an utter sweetheart and an incurable goofball who just loves new people, fashion and knitting?
Yes. In fact, I’m rather fond of Phoebe. Ironically, sometimes she’s almost too nice to take. 😉
Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree.
“Get thee behind me, Satan! (‘s sweetheart of a daughter)”
Indeed.