MAY SHOWERS!!!
Okay, the standard is flowers, but this May it’s showers. This one’s a bit of an older incentive but hey. Recycling!
In other news…
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As for this comic…
I realized, upon looking at the previous comic, that these three have sadly NOT stayed consistent in their placement order. Baldy originally appeared standing to the lady’s right, with Colonel Sanders on her left, but I somehow reversed the order last comic when I showed them from the rear. Dumb me. Oh well. Too late to fix, given the fact that the error occurred many weeks ago.
A premature villain gloat, or is she trying to drown out her own worries ?
Just a PVG.
Ahh hubris, excellent.
We need a crack in the armor.
Ah, hubris! Heh!
They’re becomming mythic ain’t they? Too bad they’re not as good at it as Satan is.
Becoming something. We shall see.
Well, Satan has been at it longer I’d wager.
Never underestimate the power of a squirrel…or is that a chipmunk ?
That’s a chipmunk. No bushy tail.
I like that copy of “ATLAS SHRUGGED” up there on the bookshelf. Seems like an Easter Egg to me.
It’s an evil bookshelf. All evil bookshelves have Ayn Rand on the shelf.
I’d guess Mein Kampf would be considered too cliché?
Turner Diaries: Too amateur hour?
But I’d bet The Satanic Verses would be there just for the transgressive rage bait.
That is the thinnest copy of Atlas Shrugged I have ever seen.
I will admit that I drew the books without really planning out the names on them.
Also, I was thinking of Anthem, which you can see barely in frame on the left. Should have switched them.
The Virtue of Selfishness is pretty thin, at least.
True evil is not so obvious.
That’s when it gets smacked.
“Also, I was thinking of Anthem, which you can see barely in frame on the left.”
Why would they be honest in the labsling of their books? They’re bad people.
They’re a more subtle type of evil. Building a movement, or at lest they think they are.
And why would you say that?
I’m just not a fan. Bit of a joke is all.
I thought that Ayn Rand wrote that to vilify communism.
The Chipmunk is an Objectivist. An enlightened capitalist that requires working together with Puck & team to pull off the reinstatement of Satan as mayor.
Not sure the chipmunk is in support of the book.
I kind of gave that last panel a brief standing ovation.
What else would they read?
Chipmunk drooling at the sight of the three biggest (lug)nuts it has ever seen.
Delicious!
These high tech corporate types always underestimate the Druid.
Druids are easily underestimated.
Yes. Too often they are thought of as nature loving peace type hippies.
When what they actually are is the wrath of nature incarnate.
Thorns ripping at you, branches scratching, rats chewing through your floorboards, squirrels stealing food, pollen, bees, bears.
Yay for the destruction of man.
Ahh hubris, good.
Red in tooth and claw.
don´t forget the racoons, they´re basically mother nature´s special ops – able to get in anywhere, way bigger teeth+claws than a rodent, looking deceptively cute but wearing a mask for a reason….
They have a rep for a reason. Ask anyone that has hunted them.
In regards that they’re in the “wrong” spots: they’re all standing up.
I figure one of them just went to the bathroom, came back and stood in a different spot.
It literally is not weird if they move around.
Well, they COULD move. I just really wanted them to not.
They could have rotated in place.
They don’t have Satan’s shadow yet.
Satan’s shadow is just for him.
Then we know they must ultimately loose to . . . well, not him, obviously, but to the people sick of hearing him whine. It might be Satan’s most evil trick.
Look like their defenses are a little squirrely.
Or chipmunky.
When are we gonna learn the names of the villains so they can be put on the character list?
They’re just ‘The Cabal’. I do need to add them. It’s just very difficult to add characters on this site’s architecture. I have to emotionally prepare myself for the attempt, as it involves messing with the site’s coding.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEk!
Badger, Haggle, and Bill?
Ayn Rand, huh? So they’re not only evil, they’re stupid. Good to know.
Maybe not so much stupid as “Completely up their own ass with their own ‘brilliance.'”
Different sh@#, sme toilet.
the chipmunk: *thinking* wanna bet screwballs?
I just experienced a small shiver at the thought of Phoebe being the phantom manipulator – the surprise third party, the gun in Avatar’s robe – in this game that the players mistake as a chess match, but who are in fact “merely pawns in Phoebe’s game of life.”
https://makeagif.com/i/FAUhz_
Thank goodness we can trust her.
yeah, satans daughter is clearly showing her evilness potential in these arc
Ah, but goodness shines brightest when one has the most power to do evil.
Yes Paarthurnax, we know.
Secret Squirrel Lives! Or, Covert Chipmunk Lives!
Radical rodent reconnaissance.
He better not be named Simon, Theodore, or even worse, Alvin…
Almost guaranteed to be true.
Squirrels have sharp teeth and claws. Watch out villains! :p
Chipmunk, but same danger.
A small one man fighter will be able to fire at thermal exhaust port only two meters wide…
Good thing he used to practice by shooting at womprats in Beggar’s Canyon. They’re not much wider.
EG…Chipmunk or Squirrel? Clearly Phoebe will have an impact.
No big, bushy tail. It’s a chipmunk.
Ah. got it. If you get bird’s involved its my spring nightmare. Squirrels digging the garden, chipmunks undercutting the greenhouse, and sparrows pooping those awful berries on my old truck. YAY!
Clearly, it’s a chipmunk. But is it Chip or Dale? Or maybe even, Alvin, Simon or Theodore. Chipmunks have quite the subversive network on call..
Maybe it’s Chalevondore, an unholy merging of all five.
Seems like they’ve got the required reading.
I have that work of fantasy alongside ones that involve orcs.
(Bioshock came out when I was in high school, so I did a paper on the Objectivist themes in it).
Nicely put.
@EG, oops, my bad! Yes, it’s clearly a chipmunk. I need to walk in the woods more often! I can’t wait to see what mischief it will inflict. 🙂
Chipmunk is just the info gatherer. The spy.
(Considers the “May Showers” VI theme.
…Honestly, it’s BEEN a May full of rain. We may need to revisit that old rhyme for some revisions as climate change progresses.
It’s rained continuously here for two straight days. I’m tired of rain.
The last two days here as well. At least the lawn is happy.
Soon:
“Violets are red and roses are blue,
I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.”
*sings*
Some times some crimes go slippn’ through the cracks.
New reader here. I just completed binging all 800+ strips and I have a question. Perhaps this was answered in a previous comment section but in the interest of expediency I mostly skipped those.
Since Puck is a fairy doesn’t she have any magical abilities, and doesn’t Phoebe as a demon have any demonic abilities? Except for Phoebe’s recent communing with animals I haven’t seen either of them over the entire run of comics use any type of supernatural powers.
Nah, no real powers to speak of. My head canon says that Puck sort of forgot about any of her magic powers a few centuries ago, and they’re gone for good. She still has inordinate strength, though. Phoebe may have more powers to expose. We’ll see.
Yeah, you can tell they are doomed…randian thinking always fails.
Definitely didn’t work for Ayn Rand, who primarily succeeded due to the assistance of her very rich friends.
Can they feel it, coming in the air tonight?
Oh Lord.