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Phoebe and Puck talk to each other for the time in over three years. 157 comics since the last time they spoke, in this comic that is ostensibly about their friendship. Well, we're getting back to basics!
You might notice the little 'no AI' logo I added. I just wanted to embed an actual statement to the effect on the actual comic, to clarify my stance and my methods. Any terrible drawings you see in this comic are 100% MY terrible drawings. And that's a Gecko guarantee!
Talk about Phoebe growing a spine and not taking any of Puck’s usual remarks.
She’s always had a spine! She holds herself with dignity, avoids conflict, and lives life by her own code.
You tell her Phoebe.
Rude Puck, rude.
Team Phoebe!
We interrupt our feature presentation of Young Lovers Canoodling to bring you DRAMA!!!
Always little details to catch in the margins of the panel.
yeah, its going to take some time for those two to become besties again…..but hey, tracee+satan moving out of phoebe´s room is already a good first step!
btw, will satan ever regain hs shadow-shroud-thingy?
There will be answers. Eventually.
Well, the raccoons might be doing Phoebe’s laundry. They wash their food, at least some of the time.
(I’ve got a rant about AI art—I’m for it—but I’ll save that for a time when I’m more alert.)
I’d rather not start a charged debate on AI here. (And they always get charged.) I’m just say that it’s not part of what I do here, and leave it at that.
Okay, I’ll save it for somewhere else. It might not be what you think, though. Mostly it’s what I like and the recent problem I have with it. (Got to find that place to rant someday.)
Ugh the slide up ad at the bottom is really irritating…
Agreed.
I think I figured out how to turn them off. The maddening thing is that something like this pops off because Google auto-enables new advertising features. They don’t let you ‘opt in’. Rather, they just turn it on, or sometimes turn back on features you’ve actively disabled. And it’s up to you to figure out how to shut it down.
Not seeing them today, thank you!
I am seemingly unable to control the ad dynamics on my own site. I’m considering scrapping Adsense entirely. It’s very frustrating.
Not helping any here, Puck!
She can’t help herself. It’s in her nature to stir the pot.
I commend you for declaring non-AI. Besides appreciating your artistic talent, I’d rather see a human Puck-up than an AI generated Puck-up anyday. If weeks of scarey robot hijinx has taught us anything, it’s that AI may be good for feeding puppy shredders, but it’s not yet a substitute for good ol’ Gecko artistry.
Some people will say that the AI-generated art is awful and looks like garbage. They’re mostly wrong. The AI-generated art (while sometimes overly derivative) is often spectacular and beyond the skills of most artists. Beyond me, anyway. I’m just wanting to clarify that, for better or worse, I don’t use it.
Phoebe has her moments of clarity. I’m reminded of the prom in which she is upset, at first, with Daphne’s jealousy over Hannah. But then she reminds herself that Daphne is basically a garbage person and then went on a sugar fueled binge with Papa Schnorf.
And she’s been with Puck about the same. So there’s reconciliation coming, just right after Phoebe gets her well-timed dig in. (Though this may involve trained feral raccoons.)
It’s not as if Puck thinks she’s done anything wrong… She may already be crediting herself for playing a decisive role in Daphne’s plan.
The raccoons will continue until morale improves!
I’m not wholly convinced Puck is throwing shade on Phoebe on purpose, but I can see why her interest would cause some annoyance.
Puck cannot help herself. She’s just got a certain intrinsic level of stank.
If one can’t be friends with Phoebe, there’s no real friends in one’s life.
Puck teeters on the edge of that knife – the anti-social misanthrope knife.
“A while”? It’s been so long that I had forgotten that Phoebe had been mad at the household and moved to the park to be a nature princess and not just Phoebe doing Phoebe things.
I kid! …but I had forgotten that she was mad at Puck.
Well, if you read the comic back in one go, it was just, like, fifteen minutes ago. But as it stands for us right now, it’s very easy to forget this stuff.
That? That’s what you get caught on. All the stuff she’s been doing and *that*’s what you get caught on. O.K. I can see it. My mom was like that too. I just point out, she has a tiger bestie now. Just . . . that.
Come to think of it, What with Puck and the tiger and the crows and the raccoons and everything, she does have a tendency to befriend and wild and untameable.
The tamest of them all befriends the wildest of them all, I guess.
Unintentional Dolly Parton tribute. Phoebe is the Dolly of the Puck universe.
Not inaccurate.
Could be.
Easy. Walk In The Rain.
Walking in the rain in Hamilton carries it’s own risks…
Walking at all in Hamilton carries its own risks.
Solves the stank?