Feb23
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As for this comic…
I don’t have much to say. My wife thinks Phoebe’s outfit is insane, but that’s par for the course. “How does her clothing even stay on?” she always asks. I sometimes get a little defensive on that front. Phoebe’s clothing is always physically possible. It’s highly improbable, but impossible it’s not. I leave the impossible costume designs up to those anime guys; they’re good at them.
I know how that feels…I mean, that box was just LAYING THERE! What did they expect me to do? Walk on by (cue ear worm)
When SO MANY boxes fall off SO MANY trucks EVERY SINGLE DAY! I mean, LOOK AT OUR ROAD SYSTEM! Littered with boxes.
Maybe the sheer number of cracks & potholes have something to do with it…Misappropriation of Public Funding notwithstanding.
Cleaner than Detroit.
Boom!
I recently got a 2nd part-time job doing deliveries. Because I’m inexperienced, I did not securely close the back of the truck (and put waaaay too much faith in a bungee cord to keep it closed). A couple bumps in the road and one of my boxes was in the street behind me. Because it was a cube van with no rear view, I had no idea. There was some honking, but it wasn’t until a car pulled up beside me at a light three blocks later, and told me what happened through the windows, that I realized the problem.
I circled back around to find my big box of $250 product. People had stopped their cars, picked up the heavy box, and moved it to the side of the road so traffic could continue. It was still sitting there when I got to it. No one even considered stealing it.
Now I grant you, I’m not transporting 50+inch televisions or anything (which would have broken I bet) but all the same… I’m happy to share a city with such helpful, honest people.
How about putting the well known Sun Tzu quote All War Is Based On Deception on a t-shirt.
This theft(?) reminds me of when I was really small and accidentally stole utility keychains from Home Depot. They were a buck each, colorful, and my Mom decided to buy one for the two of us. I carried them around the store in my hands, and when leaving the store, I realized we hadn’t paid for them. My Dad (divorced from my Mom and visiting me) and possibly his parents were there too, and I was the only one who noticed a little too late. I suggested to return the keychains, and my family said it wasn’t that big of a deal and pushed me towards the car with a distinct air of shame.
That, to me, sounds like a ‘teachable moment’ that your parents passed by. I personally absolve you of this crime. Your family, though…
I’m imagining Gollum in a Home Depot vest yelling after you, “Theif!”
That’s horrifying and kind of sad. Tricksy hobbitses.
That’s my riddle for my turn in this riddle contest: “What do I have in my pocket?”
This shiny, new (key) ring!
Caviar…on Ritz crackers…
Somewhere in the universe, a rich, blonde Bravo India Tango Charlie Hotel named Heather just sensed a disturbance in the Force from her Swiss chalet hospital room.
I am assuming you do not know that Swiss Chalet is a chain of roasted chicken restaurants here in Canada. As for Puck’s sister-in-law, she would not want to be seen anywhere near one; she only dines at minimum 3-star restaurants; nothing where an appetizer costs less than $10 and the entree costs less than $30.
Yes, but a REAL Swiss Chalet? Heather would totally do that. But never, ever the Swiss Chalet restaurant. Ever. Though dang, now I want to go to Swiss Chalet. Quarter Chicken Dinner FTW!
St. Hubert’s is MUCH better that Swiss Chalet…
There’s no St. Hubert’s (that I know of) around here! It sucks. Because I am SO down with St. Hubert’s. It’s a highlight of visiting Quebec.
In regards to Swiss Chalet being a roasted chicken restaurant in Canada, to quote the late, great Johnny Carson:
“I did not know that.”
I’ll put that little nugget of info away for future reference though, as I do love a good roasted chicken.
Swiss Chalet, in Canada, is not Swiss, and really has nothing to do with a Chalet. But it’s a pretty good super-cheap sit-down restaurant.
“I sense a great disturbance in the class…”
Considering this is a humourous web comic, I would say she sensed a disturbance in the farce.
Those caviar trucks are always so overloaded aren’t they? Boxes fall off all the time for no reason.
“Box fell of a truck” is code for many things, but it’s NEVER code for “box fell off a truck.” Ever.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Daphne dug up a few strategic pot holes near hot billboards.
For all those trucks that keep their back doors open.
She waits nearby with with a pair of bolt-cutters, for the occasion when the pothole causes severe enough chassis damage to stop the truck…
Or she just steals it the old-fashioned way while they’re unloading it.
Its why the kid isn’t named Taylor anymore, isn’t it?
Witness protection program.
This one read like it just flowed out of the nature of the characters … something like Puck is ruthless toward her enemies and caring about her friends; Phoebe is, uhm “innocent” doesn’t seem quite it, but within her frame of reference she’s much more driven by her sense of right and wrong; Daphne does as she pleases, although she cares for the good opinion of her friends.
(Colin stays out of the way – wisely).
Do you ever just put them in a room together and let them create a story?
It’s the good thing about having distinct characters. They often sort of write themselves. But I seldom put all four primary characters in a room together for the simple reason that they don’t fit into the panel well. Three characters is sort of my maximum, because I need at least one quadrant of the panel for a speech bubble. I guess they could all be in the same room silently.
The only time I remember having caviar, all I could taste was the salt. I might as well have put a huge pile of fine salt on a cracker and eaten that. In fact, salted crackers taste better because there is a good balance there. Not so with the salted fish eggs I ate. Yuck!
I agree with you there mate. Had it once up in a fancy party I had to attend. Everyone there was raving at how good it was, so I decided to give it a go. It went into my mouth, and I spent the next few minutes finding a spot where I could discretely spit it out into a napkin.
It took a lot of scotch and soda to get that taste off my tongue.
I third this opinion. Sometimes there’s just no accounting for refined tastes.
If a box of food falls off a truck, it’s “damaged goods.” And “damaged goods” must be “disposed of.” And isn’t that what Phoebe is doing?
Caviar on Ritz crackers? I’m… Actually not even a little surprised about how Phoebe complains about it. Huh.
As for her clothes, well, I have to agree with your wife on that one; she looks like she needs 5 buttons on each side of the legs just to keep the pants on…
As for ‘weird clothes in animé’, not sure what animé you’ve watched; most of them are either school uniforms or generic clothes. Unless you watch some REALLY SH#$%Y animé. That’s another story!
What’s wrong with buttoning up your pants every single morning? And for anime, I’m thinking more the crazy fantasy sci-fi stuff. The Final Fantasy Square RPG school of costume design: the ones that girls cosplay where they need to carve the costume out of foam with steel support rods and then it’s STILL stretching the limits of physics. That stuff.
Danbooru, a website dedicated to ALL Asian anime/manga/etc art, has a tag “impossible clothes”, happens enough in that sorta thing that there’s a tag for it
Yeah, it’s a few genres of anime/manga/etc. that really take the cake on crazy costumes.
If WWE Divas can make smaller things stay on during a match, phoebe is doing fine.
Exactly. I mean, it’s not like Phoebe is really active or anything.
So she maintains. But I doubt she can maintain a body like that without some form of rigorous aerobic exercise.
na, she has a sinful body straight from hell. regularly comes with killer t#$s, firm bottom and endless legs. she probably never has to worry about orange skin either…
I think you’re probably right on that one. Some are just cursed from birth, right?
Caviar?
It’s best when stolen.
I find it amusing that, at the top of my screen, I got an ad for belly dancing costumes, and the subject in this comic’s comment section is once again Phoebe’s clothes.
It’s the power of contextual advertising at work once again!
Heh. At least the site is tame.
Just the thought of putting Pheobe’s wardrobe in the context of “simple wholesome lifestyle” is enough to put my entire understanding of the cosmos in question.
You can’t live a simple, wholesome lifestyle and look fabulous while doing so? Maybe the cosmos is crazier than you think!
How about having Puck and company end up inside a computer and ride lightcycles like in Tron.
That would actually be kind of fun to draw.
Sounds like it would be! That ever make it as a vote incentive EG?
Not sure it’d fly … unless there were bikinis involved.
Layer-of-skin-tight black bodysuits that light up aren’t enough?
Do you think you could get Colin IN a bikini? He doesn’t seem the type.
For money? Yes.
Good lord. I spent about a week reading this from the beginning. Awesome! That is all.
It actually sort of makes me feel good to hear that it took you about a week. Makes me feel less frustrated than when people say “I read the whole archive in half an hour!” The concept of many years of work being read in a single sitting is always a little sad. A week I can accept.
Haven’t had the opportunity to taste caviar yet (probably never will) but I’m fairly certain the upper crest crowd doesn’t team it up with Ritz crackers. But what do I know?
Least it’s free in this case. 😀
It’s not even worth free.
On another note, I love how hot Phoebe looks in those hip-huggers! Well drawn.
Thanks. I pay close attention to certain things when drawing. Tight pants make the list.
So, question about the ‘Elmer’s Glue’ flavored chocolate…
How does Puck know what Elmer’s Glue tastes like?
I’m guessing that she might not be going on flavor here, but more general consistency and viscosity.
It’s funny how Phoebe – once you ignore the way she dresses, which is neither easy nor recommended – is really a sweet girl.
Not an intellectual, exactly, but her heart is in the right place, which is surprising given her, uh, heritage. Satan either did an excellent job raising her, or a lousy one, depending on one’s definition of good or bad.
She’s a recessive genes baby, I think. Like the geeky super-nerd whose parents are a quarterback and a cheerleader.
I wonder if Miranda will be signed up
for swimming and self defense lessons.
I wonder if Miranda will grow up to be a warrior making use of Sun Tzu the great military minds of history and anything and everything to do with wars and battles.
…says the girl who’s room is decorated like a classy bordello.
Well, it LOOKS like a classy bordello, but that’s just the looks. In terms of functionality, I actually think Colin’s dad might have been the first guy to sleep in that room.
All I said is that it looks like one. We all remember what happened when Pheobe went on a date.
FISH EGGS !
Ewwhhh !
So salty! So good.