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This one seriously almost broke me. Lots of characters, assets, shading, some dramatic lighting - all things that make a comic take forever to draw. And then at this resolution, you really can't see most of the work. That's been a growing problem for me lately: I've sort of been framing and drawing for a bigger canvas, but losing sight of the resolution and clarity limitations of the comic that's actually posted on this site. You've heard about working smart, not working hard. Well, I'm managing to work myself to the bone in the dumbest way possible.
Also, a little heads up to readers: some time this month, I'm going to have to bite the bullet and try to update this website to a new platform. I've got a plan and know the basic moves I need to make, but doing this update may seriously break the site for a while. It sadly can't be avoided. I'm in a situation where the age of my webcomic plugin (Comic Easel) is making it increasingly impossible to keep going. So it's either I design a whole new site from the ground up, or try to migrate my old site to a new plugin. I'm going to try to do the latter. Soon. I'm just mentioning it here so that people won't be too dismayed when they come to the site and it looks terrible.
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YOU SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!
It's hot. LET'S COOL DOWN!
VOTE FOR FROZEN TREATS!!!
In other news...
First, this comic is brought to you by THREE top supporter! The Lurker and Jeremy have been joined by Hyena Beans, who are all Mayors of Pucksburg. Maybe you're generous enough to join them! CHECK OUT THE PATREON!!!
As for this comic...
This one seriously almost broke me. Lots of characters, assets, shading, some dramatic lighting - all things that make a comic take forever to draw. And then at this resolution, you really can't see most of the work. That's been a growing problem for me lately: I've sort of been framing and drawing for a bigger canvas, but losing sight of the resolution and clarity limitations of the comic that's actually posted on this site. You've heard about working smart, not working hard. Well, I'm managing to work myself to the bone in the dumbest way possible.
Also, a little heads up to readers: some time this month, I'm going to have to bite the bullet and try to update this website to a new platform. I've got a plan and know the basic moves I need to make, but doing this update may seriously break the site for a while. It sadly can't be avoided. I'm in a situation where the age of my webcomic plugin (Comic Easel) is making it increasingly impossible to keep going. So it's either I design a whole new site from the ground up, or try to migrate my old site to a new plugin. I'm going to try to do the latter. Soon. I'm just mentioning it here so that people won't be too dismayed when they come to the site and it looks terrible.
“I am shocked, shocked! To find gambling in Rick’s bar!” Still, I do hope the cops insisted on a good pay-off. Bribery’s one thing, but going cheap is just so . . . Moncton.
I think they got a good pay-off. It’s not that they got underpaid; it’s more that every other part of this plan was insanely expensive.
A bar of solid gold makes a heavy impression. Sometimes in multiple ways.
Didn’t make much impression on Oddjob in “Goldfinger.”
Very odd.
Time machines are a always scam. You could make so much bank abusing it, why would you lend it out?
Also, any civilization that discovered time travel woild destroy itself. At least, if it is anything like ours.
Well, unless the one guy who managed to get the time machine to work never told anyone else about the secret.
Squidbillies, where the “Time Machine” was a firework NAMED “The Time Machine.”
“No! No! No! Nononono! Stop the time machine! Stop the time machine! Stop the time machine!”
“Daddy, you’re back, what did you learn?”
“(hurls) That we got ripped off in Alabama! This thing’s a dang dud!”
“Gigantic.. delayed.. booom..”
“Gigantic delayed what, son? Son?” (Boom)
Or Idiocracy, where “The Time Machine” was a ride at CostCo
They do make good amusement park rides though.
It’s always uplifting to watch Charlie Chaplin’s Nasties being beaten by the Dino-Marines.
It’s the Revisionist Theory. Every time you try to do something in the past, your future self will come and tell you why it’s a bad idea to do it.
Say what ?!?
Just what did Daphne do to make the cops look the other way for this plan to work ?
Simple. She bought them off before any of this occurred. Just a little insurance plan.
Oh, that’s delightful. Gold well-spent!
She is fiscally responsible.
No need to buy the cops; just rent them from time to time, like politicians.
Well, this is really more like renting. This is a one night ‘turn the other way’ fee.
Just bought herself a ticket to the Policeman’s Ball, that’s all.
Is that all it takes? Perhaps.
Or got one of those “Back the Blue” stickers to put in the back window of the van.
Joey, do you like movies about Gladiators?
Funniest movie ever.
Nope, Airplane is #10 on AFI’s list of the 100 funniest movies of all time. They just revised the list and elevated Blazing Saddles to #1, replacing Some Like It Hot. In fact, Mel Brooks has 3 of the top 15 comedies on the list. No other director is even close. Also, Happy 100th Birthday Mel!
https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-laughs/
Well, AFI is wrong. I do like Mel Brooks, but Airplane and the Zucker Bros. just have a slight edge in terms of laughs per minute. For me.
Concur. And Young Frankenstein is the second place comedy for me. Even tho it is’nt considered the best Frankenstein movie.
Young Frankenstein, for me, is also more in the ‘amusing’ category. I have a smile on my face while watching, but the uproarious laughs aren’t as much a thing. It’s too classy for that.
To be honest, the hardest I have ever laughed in my life was the time I saw Borat in a packed cinema. What gets me hardest is the fully unexpected and the absurd. That movie was just one long, sustained absurdity and I expected none of it.
I do hope that the movie “Canadian Bacon” is on that list.
It is just sooo topical at the moment and full of funny people.
RIP Mr Candy.
Canadian Bacon is a cute movie. Though I don’t remember a lot of real laughs. I watched it in college with a mixed group of Canadians and Americans, though, so that enhanced the experience.
Funny man, Mel Brooks. Didn’t actually see him on his hundredth. Hope he made it.
So… I’ve been wondering, how Canadian police work? Is it like the US where each city and county have their own police who answer to the mayor, or is it like Australia each state has its own police force which polices the whole state?
It’s like the US. Exactly like. There are municipal cops, like these, who would be employees of the city of Hamilton. Then in Ontario and Quebec, there are the OPP and QPP, which are the provincial police. They are mainly responsible for larger highway traffic enforcement. (The other provinces don’t have provincial police for some reason. Probably money.). Then there is the RCMP (the Mounties) who are the federal cops. You almost never see the RCMP in Ontario or Quebec, but they do exist. And they only occasionally wear the adorable outfits.
Point of order, we canucks don’t elect sheriffs like some places in the US. Here in QC the smaller towns don’t have their own police force, they pay to have the provincial police do the whole work on their territory. And it’s true, never seen RCMP around. Sad.
Yeah, I should have mentioned that municipal police only exist in the big cities. Just like provincial police only exist in the big provinces.
Are you asking about the structure of the possible jurisdictions? Not counting federal law enforcement, which are varied and numerous. There are mail cops (US Postal Service), forest cops (US national park rangers), cops for the federal courthouses and federal office buildings. But like I said, those guys are federal, national police. But their jurisdictions end at the proverbial sidewalk or where the national park meets the local road. I just watched a youtube video where a forest ranger had started a traffic stop in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, but the person kept driving I don’t remember if it was the local county sheriff or the local city cops that staeted having a, jurisdictional grievance and short attitude against the forest ranger.
But in the a US state, my take is that the state police would cover what is not directly covered by either county or various sizes local municipalities.
But for those local municipalities within a county would be supporting both their local LEOs (Law Enforcement Officers) and their county sheriff and his deputies/ officers. To cover a much of their county if/as needed and may work with neighboring jurisdictions and the state police. And possibly provide support to federal agencies of alphabet soup, like the FBI for one.
Simple, yet effective.
Money is always simple. And usually effective.
Bought off with what? It was Tracee who had the gold.
Daphne had full access to that gold for this whole scheme. That was the idea here. That was the source of the funds.
Better not to ask where Daphne even gets the amounts of “money” required for buying off cops, especially in Canada! (…how many scams, kickbacks, laundering, etc. have gone on behind the scenes never represented in the comic? Ha ha!)
It was Tracee’s gold. It funded this operation. Daphne might have additional funds somewhere, but I doubt she’d use them to help others.
Look at the designer quality of those cop uniforms. The fancy red highlight stitching, the tailor made fit, and the polished badges that gleam. Clearly, the cops are using the
bribepayoff money to invest in better quality equipment and uniforms rather than to benefit themselves personally?“This state-of-the-art all electric law enforcement vehicle made possible by your payoff money.”
They MUST be Canadian!
The uniforms are based (at least loosely) on actual Hamilton police uniforms. So maybe someone’s taking real kickbacks? Who knows?
This actually makes total sense.
I felt so.
Happy Canada Day to everyone celebrating it!
Thanks! My Canada Day was marred by a severe heat wave, followed by epic thunderstorm, but our spirit remains unperturbed.
Last night, I had poutine for the first time. Part way through it was in belated honor of Canada Day.
You’re right. The Quebequois have some darn good junk food.
They are the best at it. They have a North American love of fried, convenient things. And a French eye for excellent food. So the end result is basically, “What is Americans demanded quality from their junk food?”
Even with tater tots, it was a darn good product. Americans would never.
Wooo! Canada Day!
With the website change it sounds like a really good time to package up a PDF version for sale, just in case.
It would be. Though it’s tons of work to compile. Most of it is also on Webtoon.
I did not notice that. Yikes!
This city really did go all the way down the toilet when Canadian Scratch became its mayor, didn’t it? You can’t tell me he didn’t encourage police corruption on all levels.
It was already stinky before that. It was just the king of badness sitting atop his throne of garbage.
Corruption has its place. What about enacting draconian laws about trivial and harmless things, and slipping a cop a few bucks to look the other way?
Panel answers the important question: is Ty quick enough to ditch the head? yes.
Has Phoebe figured out an elegant solution for her tail in a sort of a chiton? yes. Is that vertical line the edge of overlapping panels or at they connected by vecro?
The vertical line is overlapping panels that have a slight crosswise diagonal cut (on the underside piece at least) which means some level of modesty. I think.