Puck 702

Chapter: Prince of Dappled ShadeCharacters: Satan Sigmund TraceeTags: gym bag Life Savers mud
MAY IS HERE!!! FANTASY GOODNESS COMES OUR WAY!!! Patrons voted for dragons, so ... VOTE TO GET YOUR DRAGON ON!!! As for this comic... From humble origins to the lofty lifestyle of the one percent and back. Heckuva roller coaster. I'm aware that no self-respecting woman would travel that light, even for an overnight stay, but it's funnier this way. And there's only so much space for text in a panel.

40 Comments

  • Pat

    Did we forget about the inflation?

    • ElectricGecko

      I dunno. They may be worth lots as a collector’s item. Rolls of Life Savers seem to be very hard to find anymore.

  • the real question is what flavour of lifesavers they are

  • Thisguy

    She should just be glad they left her with the clothes she’s currently wearing.

  • As her husband, Satan would be entitled to half. So a quarter roll of Life Savers, one sock, and they can share custody of the toothbrush and the Howlers uniform, and divide the tawdry underwear between them.

  • demarion

    I dunno . . .I still think this will backfire on them . . . do they really want the bad old Satan back, considering who he’ll be going after?

  • sigpig

    I give her kudos for having a spare toothbrush, pit stick, and (hopefully) fresh undergarments in her “go bag”. The LifeSavers are there for those low-blood-glucose moments.

    Not knowing the total in-universe time they have been co-habituating, they could very well be in “Common-Law” territory. So, yes, Satan would be awarded half of Tracee’s stuff.

    • ElectricGecko

      Nope. It’s three years in Ontario. And they started living together around when Miranda was born. And she ain’t three yet. Maybe two and a half? Besides, from a cursory glance at Ontario law, the common law thing doesn’t result in property splitting and all that. The property and goods remain in the hands of the one who bought them.

    • rewinn

      In many common-law jurisdictions, things you own before being marriage that are not commingled with things gained during the marriage can remain outside the marital estate. This could require a very fact-dependent evaluation; for example, if Satan had a car before being married and Tracee never contributed to its upkeep, it would often be considered to be his separate property, not the estate’s. OTOH if he bought a car during the marriage, that would often be considered part of the marital estate unless he could clearly show the money from it only form separate funds, which would require a degree of premeditation and planning that doesn’t seem his speed in the comic.

      I don’t know about the underwear, but Tracee seems to have expected the LifeSavers to have been intact and unopened, therefore never shared and so still exclusively hers….or so her attorney would argue.

  • bergerjacques

    These guys are holding out. There should be a “surprisingly competent” ensemble of brown hoodie, powder blue sweat pants, and sneakers that rightfully belong to Tracee.

  • DKnight1N

    I forsee Satan going to his daughter for a roof over his and Tracee’s heads…

  • Frank H.

    That seems very fair. Is Sigmund betraying his principles? Maybe not. He could send an eeeeeeevil check.

  • LaughingDemon

    Remember: “I believe I had a hat”
    Whether you did or not. If it works, free hat.

  • Nice try, Tracy, and I respect your tenacity… but you really should’ve bought some valuable stuff and smuggled it to secret storage, or embezzled some funds onto a bank account in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands when you had the chance.
    Because now? Now it looks like you’re taking a step back towards “Trailer Park Tracy”…

  • Gecko: you mention ‘no self-respecting woman’ would travel so light, but isn’t Tracy heavily into reinventing herself and burning all bridges behind her so no-one can follow after? A woman so obsessed with moving up and away might travel light so she’d have an excuse to buy nice new things wherever she arrives.

  • bergerjacques

    What happened to the parental “competence” clothing? Surely the brown hoodie, sweat pants, and sneakers were things she brought to the dance…

  • ChrisH

    Candy is way too expensive these days. 🙁

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