SEPTEMBER VOTING INCENTIVE FOR ALL!
So the deal here is that I’ve been working on background images for that bonus comic I keep working on. I had some backgrounds of scenery from my city drawn and colored but nothing that would make a good voting incentive. So I quickly drew a pic of Puck, smacked something together and the end result actually looks pretty good!
VOTE TO BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE!
As for this comic…
I just finished this one quite literally a few minutes ago. I’m tired.
ARUGULA !!!
I wanna know. I WANNA KNOW !!
Come on, EG. PM me.
I’ll even share my next can of tuna with you….
Wanna know what? How flying forks fly? So do I.
@EG
I have no need of a “FORK” while I possess FANGS.
But please point me in the direction of the closest Meatloaf.
I never met a Meatloaf I would not devour with gusto. Tho some DO require major Catsup.
Yum Yum Yum
I think you might have to pace yourself with this Meat Loaf, Salem.
Meat Loaf again
@T-Renn
What did I evah do to deserve THAT ! ?
Cats consuming meatloaf is just a little bit too close to cats consuming lasagna. And we all know how we feel about that.
@EG
Au contraire mon ami.
Cat Food from a can very much resembles Meat Loaf in both appearance and texture.
Do they sell Meat Loaf in CANS in CANada ?
As Canadian author Douglas Coupland once noted, it’s hard to clearly identify Canadian cuisine as a fully formed national palette. But there are themes and motifs that run throughout, and one of the most prevalent is the Canadian penchant for food that comes from a can or box. So I’m guessing yes. Even though I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.
How most things fly: Pure, unadulterated rage. At sufficient concentrations, inanimate objects will take flight by virtue of being within arm’s reach of the epicenter. I should add that this is in no way strictly limited to purely inanimate objects. It can also include living beings without the mobility or reaction time to escape.
That’s not how Douglas Adams posited you fly. He said that you fly when you reach a state of such shock that you forget about gravity entirely. Then gravity ceases to have an impact on your reality.
Speaking personally, I like your explanation better.
Simply throw yourself at the ground, and miss.
Precisely.
I’m bettin’ it’s Papa and Phoebe.
I would think that only students would be eligible.
@Wyvern
Capt’n Buzzkill.
So your fave couple ?
My bets are on Tyler and Daphne
@JJR
But but but….
I’ll go with any combo that makes Daffy cry.
Like I said Tyler and Daphne.
@JJR
I’m warming to Tyler & Daffy.
Hannah would suggest it (Daffy gets the pity-vote).
Then she’d be up on stage, grinning from ear to ear, just in time for the BUCKET OF – POPCORN ? to fall.
(It’s Canada, and the traditional bucket-o-blood used in the USA would be considered gauche. Tho I may prefer blood to that nasty “butter”-soaked theatre corn.)
Daffy cries and cries, while Hannah howls in mirth !
Yes, as you have suggested, pure Carrie.
Maple syrup would be more Canadian.
@JJR
mmmmmm … Maple Syrup
BTW, it’s Maple Syrup Candy SEASON !!
Maple syrup IN FUR?!
That’s not only evil, it’s a waste of the greatest condiment on Earth.
Best use molasses for that. Molasses: the crummy, poor southern brother of maple syrup used primarily to sweeten animal feed.
@EG
Tho a distant relative of REAL Maple Syrup, Molasses remains delicious.
I’ll bet most Supermarkets in North America have Genuine Molasses, but no Genuine Maple.
Plenty of MAPLE-FLAVORED Corn Syrup, tho.
Up here, ALL supermarkets have maple syrup. All. Multiple types. Molasses, meanwhile, is relegated to a few dusty cartons somewhere in the baking aisle.
You say “flying fork”, I think Blue Raja.
I’m sure you’d be “fork”given for that.
Best. Superhero. Move. Ever!
(If only because they were the sort of hero I could relate to. The Shoveler especially although who hasn’t been Mr. Furious now and then?)
Appropriate.
Why am I getting Carrie vibes?
Well, thus far no telekinetic powers have been displayed in this comic. But anything’s possible.
Aww, just like you say, “Where’s that squirrel”
So. Little blind girl or Daphne?
Exactly. It’s the “Where’s the squirrel?” ears. And next week we will certainly find out the answer. LBG or Daphne. I mean, it can’t be some random girl we haven’t met yet. Because, you know. Narrative.
Is the girl who just moved there from Florida, isn’t it? She secretly hates donuts, pancakes, hot dogs and hockey.
Squirrel is in El Goonish Shive and has telekinesis as well.
I do like the rare comics that recognise that Daphne is not quite human.
I also like emotive ears, they are one of the reasons you see a lot of funny animal comics, ears are an easy way to convey emotion.
@Thisguy
IRL animals use their Tails even more than they use ears.
Fortunately cartoonists ignore this fact, or panels everywhere would be full of butt-shots.
Tho more butt-shots of Phoebe and her TAIL might be nice.
Agreed.
Nothing wrong with more butt shots of Phoebe
It’s interesting that geneticists have identified that one of the most significant genetic differences between dogs and wolves is a gene that allows dogs to manipulate their eyebrows in a slightly human-like fashion. I’m pretty sure the ears are tied to that too. So we find dogs adorable because we’ve selectively bred for adorable dogs that have faces which remind us of our own.
I so want to post a pic of an English bulldog, a pug and a Doberman in response to that!
The emotive ears are incredibly fun and useful for an artist. They carry so much expression in them. Definitely a failing of human anatomy to not have dog ears.
Does this mean Daphne’s a fox outside a henhouse?
Allowing for her age, she is kind of a fox.
And she definitely does not get along with the hens!
Potentially? You can carry that analogy as far as you’d like.
Perhaps in reality. She is adopted.
Who says Captain Obvious has to be a male? And Puck has had centuries to learn how to read not only words, but people (especially ones with emotive ears.)
Yeah, her little family unit seems to have really cornered the market on humanoids with emotive ears. No one has more experience than her.
2 to 1 odds Tyler and his date are Jr. King and Queen
5 to 1 Daph is named Queen
1000 to 1 odds they go a crazy route and name Poppa Shnorf and Phoebe
You could be a bookie.
Hmmmm. I was going to go for Tyler and Hannah, but Papa Shnorf and Phoebe . . . . . . . it’s so crazy it might work!
Here’s an even crazier concept: why not both?
@EG
Oh heck.
I suggest Papa Snorf and Colin and Tyler, too.
“IT”S 2019 PEOPLE” !!
~applauds~ You sir are a genius.
And EC thank you for the kind assessment of my bookie skills. I have always given fair odds when playing games against friends…especially when I’m playing in the game. ~maniacal laugh~
So that “Dogs Playing Poker” painting is a scam? Good to know!
Maybe those dogs are more practiced in their poker faces. But yeah, I do suspect their ears would give them away. Dogs are terrible at poker.
A painting by Banksy of chimpanzees in the UK Parliament as a comment upon Brexit is expected to get over a million pounds, meanwhile ‘Dogs Playing Poker’ is kitsch . . . see, sometimes it’s not what’s painted, it’s who’s painting . . . .
As I understand it, “Flying Forks” are female.
During their mating-season (in June), they seek-out the ground-dwelling, bottom-feeding “knife”-males.
Afterwards, they don’t spawn – they “Spoon”…
(…sings…)
…”By The Li-I-ight … Of The Silvery Moo-oo-oon …”
I don’t like this fantasy world we’re creating here. It’s creepy.
@EG
I think DMC-Run is postulating a Comic that would beat 99% of the drivel on TWC hands-down.
PUCK should be NUMBER ONE every week !!
[ElectricGecko]:
I thought that I was just referencing an old song:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shuQJ6nubo8]
…but I *DO* know that some folks find Bing Crosby to be just a tad creepy, so there’s that.
I’m not learned enough to get these references. Obviously.
[ElectricGecko]:
Nah — yer jes’ not ol’-enuf ‘ta be a grey-haired ol’ geezer like me, thassall!
🙂
#I_Remember_Back_Before_They_Invented_Dirt!
😉
From the reports of the way he treated his wife and kids, “creepy” may be an understatement.
Why do I hear that narrative regarding flying forks in the voice of Sir David Attenborough?
[Mark Christianson]:
That would be because you’re too young to have seen Marlin Perkins do it first:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Perkins]
I’m too young to remember that either.
“That’s no ladle, that’s my knife!”
(even more geezerish joke)
[rewinn]:
OK
FINE
I’ll SEE your ‘geezer’-joke & RAISE you a ‘Henny Youngman’-joke:
“Take My Knife — PLEASE!”
😛
#So_There
🙂
Question: when did the comment section of my comic become a seniors’ home?
You young whippersnapper! Puck is *how* old?
(“he-he-he” is the geezer “LOL”.)
[ElectricGecko]:
It was totally unplanned.
Truly, I thought that my only claim to any sort of “geezer”-hood was that I still have decks of punch-cards, from my earliest efforts at writing a program on an IBM-370 mainframe.
Its gonna be someone we’ve never heard of
Hey, do I look like Rian Johnson? I have never been about subverting expectations. With this comic, I have always been about meeting and (at times) overserving on expectations. So if you’re ever wondering where a narrative in this comic is going, it’s probably going exactly where you’re expecting it to, and then some.
Does that mean it’s gonna be someone we’ve never heard of? I’m expecting it.
“Hey, do I look like Rian Johnson?”
A little. Around the dynamo.
I do not, coincidentally, look like Rian Johnson. Though I guess we have similar beard styles.
Do you both generate electricity the same way?
Why do we have to spoil our few formal parties with elected titles? Is it because that’s how we know it’s not a sock hop?
Daph, that’s why we tell lies that match our current emotional register. I’d have thought you’d have learned that by now.
Moms. Knowing way too much about us since . . . well about second day of life, I’m sure. Once odor is added to the diaper and they figure out if we pee on them to the left or right.
That young couple reminds me of your work in college.
I didn’t go to my prom. I don’t know if it was a good idea or not.
Phoebe winning would be a hell of a shock.
Please note that the fact that I am featuring the social death match that is ‘prom king and queen’ in this comic does not mean I endorse this social behavior. I do not.
And the young couple in panel two … not sure why it reminds you of my earlier work, but sure. Maybe because they were drawn a little hastily?
Well, it was more of a general sociaological querry, not an accusation. I’m sorry if that’s how it came across. By the way, in terms of story, you absolutely have to have this moment. It was promised on the ticket we all bought.
As for the couple, maybe? That guy just reminds me of a young Collin. It may be the hair.
Don’t worry. I took it more as a general sociological query. I just wanted to clarify that I’m on board with you.
Oh. O.K. Good.
🙂
Hey, I’ve just noticed, there are two stems on the M in Hamilton. Fascinating. Don’t change it, it’s a great way to identify the type nerds out there.
You’re not left-handed are you?
@Frank Harr
Now that you mention it, I’m a bit concerned that the L T and O are engaged in some form of “Penetrating Behavior”, which I pray is consensual. 😛
True ‘behind the scenes’ info: I didn’t draw that Hamilton logo at all. The ‘Hamilton’and the ‘Ontario’ were swiped and vectorized from an actual vintage Hamilton postcard. I’m bad at font design and that goes double if I need a font that, say, communicates a certain level of vintage kitsch. So instead I readily steal from REAL vintage kitsch for my own nefarious purposes.
I can understand that.
Now I wonder about the designer. Not enough to do anything about it, tough.
The encounter between Daphne and Hannah makes me think the Prom King and Queen titles will go to Tyler and Daphne. I don’t think Hannah really wants it, and also, she has enough friends to make what she wants actually happen.
I finally caught back up . . .
[meta] I wonder if you might adjust the twcout link at topwebcomics to point here instead of that other site at which I was enjoying this romp until the connection went TANGO UNIFORM.
??? I don’t know of this link, or whether I have any control over it. It’s a mystery.
It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma…
The emotive ears strike again! ♂️♂️ Bwahahahaha
Oh, my ears and whiskers, I think Daphne will explode- er I mean emote! (Next page.)
She may or may not surprise you.
Not caring doesn’t mean not listening, mom…
Well, the best apathetic people are great listeners. They have to listen carefully so they know what they don’t care about.