SEPTEMBER INCENTIVE ON TWC!!!
So yeah, as unbelievable as it is, we're celebrating 25 years of Puck! This stupid comic was started a quarter century ago by some dumb teen. Now that teen is old and has back pains and the comic is still somehow going. Let's celebrate!
VOTE TO CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES!!!
As for this comic...
This comic is inspired by a conversation I had with my friend Hope back in high school. Her parents were old, relatively speaking - so old, in fact, that her dad was 85 years old when she was 17. Once she was talking about how she needed to drive him around, and the exchange went something like this:
ME: Oh, your dad doesn't drive?
HOPE: Not anymore.
ME: Why did he stop? Was it his vision that was causing problems?
HOPE: Well, we just can't afford the insurance for him to drive anymore. Not after he hit those people.
ME: You mean he got into some fender benders?
HOPE: No, he hit people. Like, pedestrians.
ME: WHAT?!?!? Were they badly hurt?
HOPE: Well, the first person he hit wasn't hurt too bad, but the second time he hit a pedestrian, it was a little worse.
ME: YOUR DAD HIT MULTIPLE PEDESTRIANS ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS?!?!?
HOPE: Yeah.
ME: No wonder he lost his license!
HOPE: But he didn't lose his license. We just can't afford the insurance.
Even though I had this conversation many decades ago, I'm pretty sure that's verbatim. It never left my brain: the fact that an old man could mow down multiple pedestrians and still legally drive.
And if it worked that way for him, why not Puck?
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SEPTEMBER INCENTIVE ON TWC!!!
So yeah, as unbelievable as it is, we're celebrating 25 years of Puck! This stupid comic was started a quarter century ago by some dumb teen. Now that teen is old and has back pains and the comic is still somehow going. Let's celebrate!
VOTE TO CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES!!!
As for this comic...
This comic is inspired by a conversation I had with my friend Hope back in high school. Her parents were old, relatively speaking - so old, in fact, that her dad was 85 years old when she was 17. Once she was talking about how she needed to drive him around, and the exchange went something like this:
ME: Oh, your dad doesn't drive?
HOPE: Not anymore.
ME: Why did he stop? Was it his vision that was causing problems?
HOPE: Well, we just can't afford the insurance for him to drive anymore. Not after he hit those people.
ME: You mean he got into some fender benders?
HOPE: No, he hit people. Like, pedestrians.
ME: WHAT?!?!? Were they badly hurt?
HOPE: Well, the first person he hit wasn't hurt too bad, but the second time he hit a pedestrian, it was a little worse.
ME: YOUR DAD HIT MULTIPLE PEDESTRIANS ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS?!?!?
HOPE: Yeah.
ME: No wonder he lost his license!
HOPE: But he didn't lose his license. We just can't afford the insurance.
Even though I had this conversation many decades ago, I'm pretty sure that's verbatim. It never left my brain: the fact that an old man could mow down multiple pedestrians and still legally drive.
And if it worked that way for him, why not Puck?
Celllllebrate good times come on!
It’s a celebration.
Celibate good times?
Less good times there.
Come-on!
Talk about your legal troubles when it comes to puck driving. Also happy 25 anniversary of this series. Forgive me for asking you this question, but have you ever considered collecting the Puck series strips in a book via either physical or digital ?
Gecko already has a volume one of PUCK out.
Yeah, I did make a ‘volume one’ of the first 200 comics, in PDF and and print, but it was an INSANE amount of work to assemble, and it sold poorly. I’d really love to have the comic in print again, but the demand just isn’t there. Maybe if I went to cons, then it’d be something I could sell. But I don’t go to cons.
Yes celebration! Three cheers for Puck and EG!
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
I thank you and your many huzzahs. They and you are appreciated.
:))))))
It’s more glorious than I could have imagined.
:)))))
What is?
Puck on her not driving.
So, you can have a license, not drive, and not burden your loved-ones with higher premiums in Canada. Interesting.
Gecko, congratulations on 25 years of PUCK. And I’m wondering what would happen if Puck ever got her hands on a riding mower.
Hey, you don’t need insurance to ride those, right? Do I smell a loophole?
Oh no, no, no!
Pink -> Puck. Corey -> Colin. Ride-on Mower.
It was all there, right in front of me, the entire time.
How could I be so blind?
Kudos Gecko. “Puck” – 1998 “So What” – 2008. It looks like you inspired a Pink song and music video.
Well, Puck’s not wrong is she, damn insurance company gouging.
Keep spitting truth girl.
Also, congrats on 25 years Gecko, a QUARTER of a CENTURY, impressive. That’s like nearly a THIRD of a LIFETIME, or to put it another way, HALF of a WORKING LIFE. (assuming you start at 20 and work until you are 70)
You started in the year that the first Russian AND the first American components of the ISS were launched. See, they could work together at one point.
The year of the minting of the first (faulty) Euros.
The beginning of the end for Bill Clinton, leading to impeachment proceedings in December.
The arrest of Pinochet. A bad year for pollies all over the place.
Puck has been around as long as Half-Life, TenCent and Google.
Just having a playful jab to make you feel old Gecko, it’s an Aussie thing, to show we respect you. Keep up the good work.
Canadians get the playful jabs. (Most of us.) The Aussies, Canadians and Brits all share that in common. But yeah, it’s been a long time. The first Puck website (now defunct) predated a functional model of Google. That was back in days of Yahoo. Good times.
Google has actually been around 25 years, it’s almost exactly the same age as Puck the strip.
Cue jokes about Canada being too polite to actually jail people who hit pedestrians.
Sad but probably true.
Actually that’s the same in the USA. I remember hearing about some crazy rapper whose had his licence revoked 43 times… and people were wondering why they keep giving it back to him?
…I made a longer post detailing why that’s how it works, but I used a naughty word, so it’s stuck in moderation for now. 😛
I cleaned it up. It’s up now.
Hi, congratulations on the 25 years and all. As I’m typing this I’m realising that you’ve done a lot of jokes so it might’ve slipped through the cracks, but didn’t Phoebe state that she’d never do another cake. (Back when the reboot started). Also as another Aussie I can confirm the jab as a sign of respect.
She said that she’d never do it again, but was willing to reconsider for a good cause. This is a good cause.
Indeed it is.
Personally I would have BOTH our lovely leading ladies popping out of that cake…but that’s just me.
Well, I may get around to Puck. We’ll see.
Good memory! Mind you, she almost got talked back into it to tell an amnesiac Puck she was pregnant, and that is the very SAME bikini she held up, yay these many years ago.
Looks better on her than in her hands!
I have that problem, but with homeowner’s insurance.
Insurance is fun, isn’t it? It’s all fine and dandy until something bad happens. Which is the point of insurance. The only time I needed insurance was with my home, and when I called them, I was told that the specific type of disaster that I’d suffered was not listed on the policy (the supposed ‘all inclusive’ package) and therefore received no coverage.
I’m obviously a big fan.
Well, last year, I paid almost as much as I collected (damage from Hurricane Ian). It’s this coming year’s bill that worries me.
Woo! Breakin even!
It’s not the pedestrians thinking they own the crosswalk, it’s the ones that stand chatting with their friends with their back to it while you’re stopped waiting for them and when you finally decide to go they walk out in front of you without looking, like there’s a force field or something to protect them.
Or the ones who are walking down the sidewalk with no indication they’re going to use the crosswalk and when they’re right beside it make a pivot turn that would make an army sgt-major burst into tears with pride and almost run in front of you.
Or my pet peeve, anyone in a supermarket parking lot.
They just HAVE to walk down the middle of the lane so cars can’t get by in either direction with their crotchfruits spread out beside them as far as they can go, same with couples of all ages, walk beside each other holding hands to take up as much space as possible.
We tend to go by the “expose yourself to the danger for as little time as possible” theory and walk single file to hide our number then go straight across a lane instead of the regular practice of angling as shallowly as you can to spend as much time in the traffic lanes as possible. I’m surprised people in this town have lived as long as they have, but most drivers won’t go over 10kph even in a 70 zone so they have lots of time to dodge.
Hmm
Llywenna : Walks single file to hide their numbers.
Everybody Else : “Ahh, it’s the Tusken Raiders!” Runs willy-nilly all over the road.
Part of the solution or part of the cause?
I jest, but I hope it gives you a giggle next time you are out walking.
I see that you have become one with the car. You were born to the car, shaped by the car. You are the car. And everyone is in your way.
I get annoyed when I WANT THE DAMN CAR TO GO FIRST and they refuse. You can go faster than me, so GO ALREADY!
Nice way to dodge the question of your actual age, Puck. Think maybe Tracee would have a hard time processing that you are in your 3rd century?
Sixth dude.
Seventh. She was 621 on start of comics.
She’s eternally in her 620’s.
She’s actually canonically transitioned to her 630s now!
“She’s actually canonically transitioned to her 630s now!”
Have you ever met a person who claimed to be in their 20’s for 20 years?
No, but I know Jack Benny was 39 years old for about three decades until his death. And it was put on his tombstone.
“No, but I know Jack Benny was 39 years old for about three decades until his death. And it was put on his tombstone.”
Kind of the trope I was referring to.
In her seventh century, actually.
But who’s counting?
Certainly no-one who knows what’s good for them.
That’s the thing about how the law treats unsafe drivers. Laws are both authored and lobbied by billionaire industries, and the automotive industry would REALLY like you to buy another car even after you totalled the first three.
As the bought and paid for Law views it, if you have an accident… it was an *accident*, even if you ran over four baby carriages on four separate occasions. S#@+ happens.
The exception is if you were drunk, high, or otherwise intoxicated while driving. That’s been fought for so heavily that Mother’s Against Drunk Driving is pretty much one of those billionaire industry companies at this point. You will go down hard in the courtroom if your judgement was chemically impaired.
On the other hand, if the only issue with your judgement is you are a reckless dumb@#$& who has played WAY too much GTA… you’re fine dude, just turn the wipers on to clear that blood of the windshield so you can see better.
You are not wrong. Lobbying and cash rules all.
25 years. Party Hard, dude!
I shall. By making more comics. I party hard.
That reminds me. Foamy turned 20 on Sunday (9/10). Another long-hauler that kept on going. As of this week.. Pokemon Yellow is also 25. Worth mentioning since I noticed that cartridge in the old Game Boy a while back.
And shows how old I am that I still think Pokémon is this newfangled thing all them kids are into.
My gosh! How time has flown. I don’t remember how I ran across Puck the first time, but it was a happy discovery. Puck was the mascot at Howlers, she lived with a cute werewolf (I presumed), an idiot, and a beautiful devil. Thankfully, I found the archive and got fully oriented. Yours is a great comic, getting better with age. Thanks for keeping it up for all us Pucksters — you are appreciated!
That was VERY early in the game – around 2012? You have been with this for the long haul, friend.
I hit someone in my car once. They were drunk and thoight they could cross the street in front of me . I thought i had killed the guy. Messed up my windshield pretty bad.
Their buddies all told the cops he was an idiot. And they had all stopped so I only hit the one guy. He wound up with a jay walking ticket because there was no crosswalk and my insurance sued him for the damages.
Later ghey hired a accident recreation company to prove I vould not have done anything differently. I won that as well.
Scary . Glad the guy was ok. But annoying too.
Ugh. Sounds like a nightmare. Glad it’s over for you.
I hate those bitchy pedestrains.
You’re driving along in your car, then suddenly, some train gets off its tracks and there it is, using crosswalks or jaywalking, ripping the concrete and asphalt.
Darned right those should be hit!
I am going to assume this a pun, and it is flying right over my head. Why is my head so low?
Because that is what Puck says. She states that she hit ‘a few bitchy pedestrains’!
Not pedestrians, people walking alongside roads and streets, she hit pedestrains!
Really, she does, recheck her words in the last panel, I’ve checked several times, she hits pedestrains!
Although, I suppose one could argue pedestrains are pedestrians walking in single or double-file . . .
Well, I’ll need to fix that, won’t I?
Surely there’s a line between reckless driving and serial killing. Like kill enough people and get 25 to life or something.
I think once people start dying, stuff gets more serious. But if you just bruise the odd hip, break the odd femur, I think you can keep going for a long time.
I keep forgetting that Puck is ancient figure of shakespearean lore…
I think she keeps forgetting that too.
She’s just livin’ her life. Ever since her ebb stopped being so low, she’s been looking . . . not forward so much as around and forcing it to acknowledge her. I think.
Phoebe was already irresistable, and now she smells like cake. Wow!
Reminds me of my brother’s former girlfiend. She used to hit parked cars. Her father owned a Chevrolet dealership, and she once hit two cars one after the other. IN THE SHOWROOM.
Well, that sounds accidental. Puck’s collisions sound more deliberate.
Puck may have learned to drive on something horse-drawn.
Horses do not like to run into people.
When most of the world changed over to “auto-mobiles” it was probably too late to change her habits.
Touché.