Dec29
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As for this comic…
Lessons about life I’ve learned from survival horror games:
1) Always take the food with you.
2) Grab whatever ammo you can find.
3) Lengthy hallways, staircases and elevator rides always contain jump scares.
That’s about it, really.
ok… 38%, a minority shareholder? Heather, what have you been smoking, and where can I get some!!!!
well, it is less than 50%
I see you have been smoking the same thing!
And that’s all it takes!
A minority shareholder is, according to Investopedia (which doesn’t in all honesty have a name that screams ‘legitimate source’), is “a significant but non-controlling ownership of less than 50% of a company’s voting shares by either an investor or another company.” So Satan would qualify as a minority shareholder, which is not to say he’s not important, but it means from a business perspective that he would have no direct control over the running of the company.
I personally think that a power far more evil than Satan has direct control over big oil, but that’s just me.
Key word there, Gecko is Voting share. All major companies hold a portion of thier own stock which is non-voting.
Well, even factoring in non-voting shares, the effect’s still the same within the comic. I wanted Satan’s holding in the company to be big enough to raise eyebrows, but small enough to cast some doubt on his actual potestas within the organization. The intention was for Heather’s ‘minority shareholder’ comeback to be a comical understatement.
I just occurred to me… Assuming the Haxxon Corporation itself holds a minimum of 25% (assuming the CFO and the army of attorneys and CPA’s are interested in long term stability), and Satan holds 38%, that would make Satan the controlling shareholder.
Does that mean that Heather’s Husband is one of Satan’s Minions?
Possibly. But aren’t we all, when the mood takes us?
Number one – hey look! A gnome in a bucket ^-^
Number two – ‘minority share-holder’? Never bring a nerf-bat to a knife-fight lol
Well, if it’s a large enough Nerf bat, it can be quite effective against knives, actually.
Never bring a NERF knife to a bat fight.
That I can agree with.
first: all garden gnomes belong into a trash can. period.
also, its good to see that puck is responsible enough to retreat even if that means a slightly less satisfying view of the spectacle, but our favourite psycho redhead is a mom now after all! so, lets get some popcorn and enjoy the free show right outside your window….might want to start filming, if they get to the clawing part tracee´s clothing will give right away so it would be an instant youtube success 😉
Nah, if those dress straps break, you’re getting an immediate ‘mature’ flag from Youtube and your royalties go WAY down.
Fun fact: my girlfriend and I played a survival horror game (forgot which) a few days ago.
Me: Hey, I found some food here.
Girlfriend: Oh. Okay.
Me: …You don’t need it?
Girlfriend: I’m fine.
Me: …Okay…?
(A few minutes later)
Girlfriend: WHERE’S ALL THE *bleep* FOOD?!
Me: …I asked if you wanted some that I found.
Girlfriend: Oh. I thought you asked if I was hungry.
Me: *silently stares at her for a few minutes*
As for the gnome being in the trashcan… I wonder if Satan knows about that (given how he wanted to use them as an army to take over the world. Or so it seemed, at least).
*Girlfriend taps me on shoulder as I’m typing this*
Me: Yeah?
Girlfriend: Can you ask EG something?
Me: What?
Girlfriend: Is there a special reason he puts up Puck on Tuesdays? Like, first day he originally released it or something?
Me: …I’m typing out this convo so you just asked him.
Girlfriend: Oh. Hi EG!
Other than that, I won’t say ‘have a happy new year’ because who can guarantee you’ll be happy for 365 days straight? SO I say “survive another year!” (yes, I realize this is a Cyanide & Happiness reference but it’s also true so w/e).
Puck is out Tuesdays because … I dunno. I started that a while ago, and it seemed like a good idea. There’s enough Mon-Wed-Fri comics out there, so Tuesday seems to work for a weekly. No other reason though. And I wish you and girlfriend 365 days of solid happiness. Because I can. Because of untold powers.
That’s better than my reason for a Tuesday comic- to prevent missing a Monday deadline.
Well, I post Monday night, so yeah. Mondays suck all around.
Daphne’s probably remembering scenes between Puck and Colin that Puck has forgotten in her amnesia. She still has amnesia, right?
Puck may or may not have amnesia now. That was never entirely addressed. But I’m thinking Daphne’s survival horror experience comes more from video games. Puck and Colin fights wouldn’t last long, given the powerless, spineless nature of the one combatant.
If Colin caved early, Puck would just have to carry both ends to keep it going…
Meanwhile Satan is living in his mansion having so much while others have so little.If he ended up having to live off the land as member of a tribal society he would hate it.
No, I see a Spongebob Squarepants frame entitled Five Minutes Later and him in an old lawnchair drinking fruit juice from a coconut shell while people serve him.
I concur.
I admire tribal people because they live off the land nature provides them with what they need to survive why not have Puck and company do that in a vote comic.
I just noticed this, but that’s a really nice backyard for someone living in crackistan. Certainly looks better than mine.
Also, happy new year! Or as I think of it (one of the many reasons people should not be around me January 1st) Happy It-Will-Never-Be-2014-Again-So-Let’s-Get-Depressed-and-Mourn-the-Year-It-Will-Never-Be-Again Day! (But really, hope your year is fantastic and filled with great moments!)
Well, It’s an empty square of grass with a wooden fence that’s not in the best of shape. I think that Puck would refuse to have things look too nasty, but … yeah. A lot of the rougher areas in my city were once quite nice, suburban neighborhoods (hence the size of the back yard), but then urban decay made them into slums. It’s a weird place, Hamilton is.
2014 is gone. Wasn’t a good or bad year for me, but I got through it. That’s all I ever ask. Hope 2015 is good to you.
Well said Jocelyn, although I’m too busy commiserating my “another 365 days that I’ve done nothing worthwhile with” mope-fest to join you!
At what point does Colin’s dad blindly walk into this to try and fix the issue?
When the whole thing’s over? The men have CLEARED OUT.
I still like where this is going! But I think it is time for the two blondes to resolve their issues with hair-pulling and scratching. If somebody had insulted Puck like that, she would beaten the $%&! out of that person by now.
Oh, and a Happy New Year to everyone!
Well, the violence will occur. Though I’ll warn you right now that the lion’s share of it will likely occur off-screen (or off-panel).
That is okay. I am not much into violence, but the aftermath is often very interesting, plot-wise.
That’s good. I get the feeling that people really want a knock-out fight between these two, and want it drawn in glorious super hero style, but generally speaking, I don’t find violence funny beyond the first punch. Unless you’re the Three Stooges.
When was being a minority shareholder something to scoff at by comparison? At an oil company no less?
I’d love to see this argument descend to mud-wrestling naked levels where so many erotic instances may or may not take place but that may be too degenerate of an action for Heather to even entertain. Her hotness is wired differently… 😀
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Geck!
Yeah, well, I get the feeling that a large percentage of my readership is expecting that sort of fight-in-the-mud thing to happen, though I think they’re going to be disappointed. Still, people can always dream. And Happy New Year to you too, Mike.
I’ll be perfectly happy to see the aftermath. I’m not a huge fan of blow by blow depictions of fights. I’m not a pacifist. Far from it, actually. I just find the meticulous details to be boring.
The five-page fight scenes in comics usually kind of bore me. I don’t think the medium’s very good at it. The silver age comics did it better: action was not fisticuffs, but more task-oriented. (We need to beat Luthor by getting to the top of the tower and shutting off the Electro-Phazo Ray!)
Survival horror will ALWAYS be S.T.A.L.K.E.R. for me.
I don’t think im ever gonna not love that game.
I don’t like any of them. I want ammo. Any game that doesn’t give me oodles of ammo doesn’t get played. (It might also have something to do with the fact that I’m really terrible at most video games.)
It’s horrible, HORRIBLE !
How can anyone treat my dear, sweet Tracee so ?
And the fact everything is so well-drawn just acerbates the agony.
(curse you gecko !)
38% is probably a significantly larger holding than anyone but the CEO of that oil company… and even that’s assuming the CEO maintains a majority ownership (51%) instead of merely the largest share. Any lessor exec (and if her husband was the CEO, I’d expect her to say so) would have considerably less (5-10%) if only because there’s quite a few execs to spread the ownership around, to say nothing of the non-voting shareholders in the company (of which there ought well be thousands).
…All in all, 38% is probably much too high a number. If Satan was that large a shareholder, Heather probably knows him by name, because she and her husband are expected to kiss his ass on the regular.
You are correct. 38% is an outlandishly high number. But we deal in the outlandish and the unrealistic here.