Jun12
NOUNS ARE BACK!!! REVENGE OF THE NOUNS!!!
Over on Patreon, my top-tier patrons suggested nouns and we had a big battle royale between them, with the victors getting the most votes … and here are some of those glorious nouns in picture form.
As for this comic…
Puck returns just in time to subvert our expectations. Just call her Rian Johnson.
Let’s see where it goes. Hopefully not to that stupid casino planet.
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Phoebe just lied. Good for her.
Perspective is a wonderful thing. Miranda looks bigger than normal. But we should've known that she'd be Satan and Tracee's ticket to the guest room.
How did she lie?
Doesn’t Phoebe own the house?
Nah.
Pjoebe lent a hundred and fifty grands so they could buy the house (damn the early 2010s…), but Colin and Puck are the owners.
Phoebe didn’t lie: She just didn’t know about Tracee and Miranda’s bonding time. Or at least I think she didn’t.
She was busy at the time. With a certain Shnorf.
As a number of people have already noted, I don’t think Phoebe lied, exactly. To her knowledge, Puck wasn’t a big fan of Tracee and Satan. BUT… I will acknowledge that she definitely exaggerated the truth as she knew it in pursuit of escaping this fate. So you’re half-right.
And as for Miranda looking bigger, it’s not growth. It’s just really hard to draw toddlers at the right size.
I’d thought it was exactly Phoebe’s house.
I’m actually curious if Phoebe lied given panel 4 or if she just assumed things.
…I’m also curious if the site will let me post a comment this week or if it’ll just delete my comment for seemingly no reason after I hit ‘post comment’ again.
I’m sorry that my aggressive spam filter killed your comment. If it happens again, just write a comment telling me to rescue your previous comment. I’ll dive into the spam pile, retrieve it, and delete the request comment.
It’s not your spam filter I don’t think – it’s more like, whenever I posted the browser would just refresh itself and the comment was removed. Happened on 3 different browsers but seems to work again… for whatever reason.
Ugh. I’m sorry. I wish the site worked better than it does.
I don’t think its your site or Kaiser’s browser.
I believe that there is an entity cruising around just below the surface of the internet that surfaces randomly to snap up juicy comments from comic threads.
I call it, dun, dun, dun …
“NetShark”
Waddya mean there is already something called NetShark?
What? It’s a VPN?
Well, bollocks!
Got that wrong, the VPN is SurfShark.
So my malevolent entity theory still stands.
YAY!
It was a good theory.
On one hand Phoebe does have a point of judgment of puck’s attitude towards the situation, but on the other hand there are times where Puck can surprise her suddenly.
The world is unpredictable.
Also, sorry for the double post, but it look like someone is happy to see Tracee here…
Hey, Miranda is happy, at least.
Verily I say unto you: the way to a mother’s heart is through her baby.
Especially by being a beloved babysitter. That’s a win for everyone (except Phoebe. I don’t blame her for not knowing this, she had other things on her mind during the whole Tracee/babysitting thing).
Precisely. The quickest way to a mother’s heart is to say, “I like spending time with your kid.”
“Puck returns just in time to subvert our expectations. Just call her Rian Johnson.” I hope that she won’t make as much of a mess of things.
Well, she’d need a J.J. Abrams to further mess it up by course-correcting after the first course-correction. It’s a complex dynamic of foolishness to replicate that disaster.
Indeed.
I can just hear Puck thinking: “Tracee’s here! She can watch Miranda! And I can take a nap!”
This. This is a wise observation.
Re: The voting incentive.
Can I have some of whatever you patreon subscribers are smoking?
Great drawing!
Well, when people are randomly voting for nouns they like, the mix sometimes results in a rather trippy chaos.
I mean, technically Puck owes Phoebe because Phoebe loaned Puck money for the house…. But Phoebe is still just trying to convince her dad NOT to stay with her.
Yes. From a certain point of view, you could say that the house is Phoebe’s. But note that Phoebe didn’t take that point of view. Conveniently.
I’m not entirely sure if Phoebe would have gotten an I.O.U. or some other written agreement with Puck. A bond of word only goes so far in the court system. It could also be why those phone scammers always want you to say “yes” to their stupid computer phone robots.
But… if Gecko’s right about the real estate system, I’m sure if Mr. Trotter wishes to Vire Dire the witness to the extent of her knowledge, I’m sure that he’s going to be satisfied.
Knowing Phoebe, it was nothing but a handshake. And knowing Puck, she would dearly love to ignore that handshake but her internal moral compass wouldn’t let her.
Poor Puck Let down by her by her own nature.
“I have stood next to death, and people liked him better.” —Dan Fielding. Depressing to find out one’s friends like one’s relatives better than they like you.
Especially when that relative is Satan.
I was surprised to see him in an episode of HOUSE M.D.
It’s a little difficult to tell with his hoodie of darkness, but is that a sly little smile on old Unk Satan’s face as he looks at Miranda?
Hey, he knows a free meal ticket when he sees one.
Satan,s been cast out before when he and his followers lost the war in Heaven and were cast down.
https://www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-88
Technically, unless Puck has paid Phoebe the $150,000 Dollars Phoebe loaned her, the house remains more Phoebe’s than Pucks.
I personally doubt that Puck has paid a red cent to Phoebe over the years. That said, the way that real estate has gone in Canada over the past while, you couldn’t buy a lemonade stand for $150 grand, so if they sold the home, they’d likely get quadruple that. Even next to Crackistan, that home likely is worth over $600k. So if the house is in Puck’s name, she could sell it, pay Phoebe and pocket the remainder.
Where would they then live?
Put the pocketed money into a down payment, buy another place. The usual nonsense.
They are already in the cheap-ish part of town. Trading up may be difficult.
Hmmmm . . . the future Empress of Earth does know how to treat her subjects well. Very important, that.
Learning early all about that magnanimous reception.
Geez Puck, you had one job and you let us down.
Disappointment is her middle name.
Bwahahaha! Free babysitting!
Precisely.
Contrary to all the queries about Phoebe telling a lie, Phoebe’s point is still a valid one. The only thing Puck knows right now is that Tracee is visiting and that Miranda and Tracee bonded.
How that translates into Puck happily welcoming Satan and Tracee for an indefinite stay into an already loaded household is still TBD.
PROS:
Tracee has proven herself a capable babysitter.
Satan may re-discover his evil charisma among the meth and crack dealing neighbors. At least he’ll have friends.
He’ll have peers, at any rate.
Omg. What a valid way for him to rebuild a lost empire. One crack at a time. He’ll soon to be able to buy a cup better than one that belongs to a carpenter.
So many pros! So many cons! Who knows what will happen?
Wait. I thought this was Phoebe’s house and everyone else is just living with her.
That’s why I thought Phoebe was trying to pawn not wanting Satan there on Puck.
Well, Puck borrowed the money from Phoebe to buy the house. So it sorta depends on your point of view.
Perhaps Phoebe had the cash for the down payment, and Colin had the job with predictable income to get the mortgage?
No doubt Phoebe makes more money in tips (…and I assume reports it on taxes…) but Colin’s government (presumably … does he teach in a parochial school?) paycheck might be more reassuring to the bank.
If they paid straight-up cash for the house, that would be an impressive amount of tips!
Phoebe paid $150k for the house in cash. Not sure whether all that money was from tips or whether some of it was from her dad.
Best to not look too closely.
O.K., now it seems like a scheme set up so that they could afford a house for all of them to live in. Money, presentable income and advanced caffine addiction. All things the bank wants to know before they finance buying a house next to Crackistan.
I’m disappointed in Phoebe now. It was so much cooler when she was blaming Puck. But I guess this is closer the characters we know and love.
So … no bank involved? That’s probably just as well; I don’t see Puck as someone who went through the effort of cleaning up her official backstory. Imagine the birthdate she’s put on any paperwork!
“Imagine the birthdate she’s put on any paperwork!”
Given how everyone reacts to her, I’d expect as soon as they realize that she’s not a minor, they stop caring and move on to the next thing.
Ummm.. what, what just happened?
Wish I knew.
Seeing Miranda’s face and her saying “TAYCEE!” just made me go “Aw!”
Mission accomplished.
Oh, I recognize that reaction that Puck has here. “FREE BABYSITTING!!!!”
You are a cynical yet accurate analyst.
Miranda just rescued Tracee and Satan! I hope they’re grateful!
It IS Satan.
They’re not the grateful types.
“Just a few days” is always a lie. So is “Just a few weeks,” or “Just a few months.”
Leeches stay put until extracted by force. You’re better off never letting them in. Even fully legal extraction of squatters can take months.
Real leeches are actually better. They let go when they’re full.