Colin isn’t just being cute here. He really does have the safety of the maternity ward in mind.
Oh, and welcome to the all-new fantabulous Puck website! It’s really a lot like the old site, but there are a few new perks. For starters, the ‘Characters’ section now includes ALL the characters in the comic, and gives a fairly detailed rundown of appearances. And if, say, you wanted to see all the comics that featured Tracee, just click on her name and you’ll be taken to the Tracee archive! (Shudder.) Also, every Puck comic in existence now has added Alt-text goodness! That’s right! Just like the cool people in those other webcomics! Get an added chuckle (or wry observation from yours truly) by mousing over the comic. It’s not much, but’s it’s the little things in life that count, right?
You can still comment to your heart’s content; you don’t have to be a member on the site. Just give your name and email, and you’re good as gold. The email address, by the way, is NOT published, nor spammed, nor anything like that. (It’s just to discourage spam commenters; that’s all.)
If you were following the RSS feed on the old site, you’ll want to switch over to the new RSS feed for this site, featured in the link on the menu bar. This RSS feed will give you updates on the latest comic releases and all that.
MARCH IS HERE!!! THAT MEANS VOTING INCENTIVE!!!
This particular voting incentive is no longer up on TWC, but you can GET IT AT THE STORE, along with all the other incentives, for a few bucks!
More like elephant tranquilizers. This is Puck we’re talking about.
I was imagining just such a thing: some big, honkin’ gun with a big ol’ dart and all that.
Why do I now expect to see her with a dart sticking out of her but in a future comic?
Speaking from my and my wife’s experience two years ago with the birth of our daughter, I am a first supporter of the user of EPIDURALS! Colin is being *gasp!* wise for once to take such precautions…what is the world coming to??
When it comes to self-preservation, Colin is a very, very smart man. My wife had one kid with epidural and one with no drugs at all. They were both awful in different ways. There’s no avoiding the awful, really.
I’m glad to say that is not a problem I’ll ever have to deal with; got my junk snipped. Which is a while level of pain in and of itself which is comparable to the birthing process after the anesthesia wears off.
Well, unless I find a girlfriend who got pregnant before I met her. But how often does that happen? 🙂
I’d say you’re a smart man. Reproduction IS worth it, though – it just doesn’t feel like it during most of the process.
Well, the first part of the “process of reproduction” is always worth it. That’s why I got my junk snipped. 🙂
Touche.
They should have a Operating Room ready in case Puck needs a C-section.
Don’t worry. She won’t!
You heard it folks! Word of God says she won’t need a C-section, so she won’t need a C-section! 🙂
When Puck realizes having a baby is like trying to pass a watermelon through a garden hose, she is going to need those drugs. Unless Colin beats her to them to relieve the pain from broken extremities.
Oh, don’t worry. There WILL be a comical outcome to all this. Believe me.
Puck the Vampire Slayer would make a awesome vote comic.
Hmmmm. Not a bad concept. I’ll keep that in mind.
Well it could be worse for other colin (it means Dog btw), we could have other denizens of the fantastic with maternaty issues at the same time, oh and she’s now at full turtle stage I see.
Yeah, at least we don’t have crazy Egyptian fertility goddesses unleashed on the maternity ward. Isis gets dangerous when she’s in the third trimester.
That’s nothing compaired to Kali or the Macha Aspect of the Morrigan
C-section got it’s name from Julius Ceasar because he was said to have been born that way.
Yep. That’s the reasons the full make of the procedure is called “Caesarian section.”
Full name, not make. Don’t know where that came from.
In Shakespeare’s MacBeth, MacDuff was also born this way (perhaps prematurely). This made him eligible under the witches’ prophesy of to kill MacBeth when the came.
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.
When I first heard this while watching the play in grade 12 of high school, I thought, “So that is where Tolkien came up with the idea,” having read Lord of the Rings in grade 10 (and seeing the 70’s movie on TV). But alas, Tolkien had his own twist from Shakespeare’s version.
I love that line: “From mother’s womb untimely r-r-r-r-ripped!” It only works right if you roll the ‘R’ in true Scottish fashion.
Technically it’s not Julius Caesar, It’s his son with Cleo Caesarian, sorry 15 year olds who are on the small side have trouble with pregnancy. Scary thought she still had twins later on with Marc Anthony….
“If you hate your baby, give him formula”?????
Heh. You’re the first to notice that. Part of the ‘pro-breastfeeding gestapo’ movement. More on that in coming comics…
Whats wrong with breastfeeding? Far as I know its one of the safest and most healthy things you can do for a baby… and extremely important for early brain growth. If there are problems with the mothers bosoms you can always at least use the breast milk in bottles for the kid.
More on that in coming comics, as I said. I’m not anti-breastfeeding. I’m anti-highly-militant-breastfeeding-promotion. It’s not the thing so much as the approach. (For the record, I’m also against highly militant formula promotion too. I’m not a highly militant kind of guy.)
Can we chip in to give Phoebe a nose job? 🙂
Does Phoebe need one? I mean, she doesn’t particularly have a very prominent nose to begin with…
I’ll bet Phoebe will babysit and chip in money for a college fund.
You bet correctly!
Ever read Fray? It’s about a slayer who lives in the future.
Run, Colin! Run! You have just annoyed a pregnant redhead! Did what happened to Satan teach you nothing? 😀
See, Colin is intimately aware of the violence threshold with Puck. He knows that this sort of thing will involve getting yelled at but probably not pummelled. Ergo, it’s worth it for him. There’s method in his madness.
Liking the new site, feels comfortable.
Thanks! The Smackjeeves site felt crowded, but really it was a matter of the template having tons of dead space in it. I wanted to neaten the whole thing up a bit.
love colin’s triforce shirt
He’s an unabashed nerd, like me.
Oh cool you used to be on smackjeeves I love that site
I still am on Smackjeeves. I keep the original site going with backdated comics for the diehard SJ people, so if you want to follow Puck there, you certainly can.
Hey there, mouse overs only work on mobile devices with special coding, which isn’t on your comic. The only one I’ve ever been able to mouse over is … OOP s I need to look up the name. I’m on an iPad, so I’ll go look, post again right after this one. 🙂
Yeah, not sure how to figure that one out. I’m not a coding guy, so if it’s not a WordPress app, I’m lost.
http://eqcomics.com/2013/01/14/the-first-clue/
He has a little pen, bottom left of the menu. Would love to see your mouse over comments 😉
That’s neat. Unfortunately, I don’t see any info on how he actually managed to create that thing. I’ll look into it, though. I didn’t know mouse-over stuff didn’t work on mobile devices. Mostly because I don’t own (nor ever will own) a mobile device.
Girls with Slingshots has one too.
To see the alt-text on an ipad, do the following:
* Create a Bookmark (any bookmark)
* Edit the bookmark and delete the url substituting the following string instead (cut and paste it)
javascript:for(var%20imCt=0;document.images%5BimCt%5D;imCt++)%7Bvoid(document.images%5BimCt%5D.onclick=function%20()%20%7Bif(this.title)%7Bif((window.brbanta=prompt(‘Image%20title%20text:%5Cn(Click%20OK%20to%20insert%20this%20text%20before%20the%20image)’,this.title))&&this.parentNode)%7Bthis.parentNode.insertBefore(document.createTextNode(‘%20’+brbanta+’%20’),this);%7D%7Delse%20if(this.alt)%7Bif((window.brbanta=prompt(‘Image%20alt%20text:%5Cn(Click%20OK%20to%20insert%20this%20text%20before%20the%20image)’,this.alt))&&this.parentNode)%7Bthis.parentNode.insertBefore(document.createTextNode(‘%20’+brbanta+’%20’),this);%7D%7D%20else%20%7Balert(‘There%20is%20no%20title%20or%20alt%20text%20for%20this%20image’);%7D%7D);%7D
* Save the bookmark as “Show alt-text” or something similar.
Then when you want to see the alt text, tap the bookmark and then the image. It will pop up an box with option to show the text or cancel.
Wow. That’s some coding wonderment!
If you have trouble with this because it runs off the right hand side of the column, you can find it at http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100404045906105
I just noticed the poster in the back reads “If you hate your baby give him formula.”
I seriously have seen posters in the local hospital which are only slightly less aggressive.
“If you hate your baby, give him formula.”
It’s so perfect.
And an accurate reflection of the current opinion of most hospitals!
YAY! I’m on the real-time site, now!
It’s like; when you’re driving across country to visit friends and/or family and you merge onto that last stretch of highway.
As of this posting, it looks like you’re at #296 – so, 119 to go?
There you go. You’re finally gotten off the rural highways!
FIFTY-FIVE COMMENTS !
A new record ?
If not, here comes #56, Baby !
This actually marks the point where this site came into existence. Before that, the primary site for Puck was on a different platform. That’s why the early comics are so barren of comments.