MAY SHOWERS!!!
Okay, the standard is flowers, but this May it’s showers. Just a return of the first one from earlier in the month, but it’s a change!
In other news…
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As for this comic…
I know this is a weird thing to imagine, but just imagine you need to draw a picture of eight people around a couch. Those eight people are all different sizes. And they don’t actually exist. The couch? It doesn’t exist either. So they need to be the right size in relation to each other AND the couch and their poses need to be vaguely convincing, and that’s just the FIRST panel of this comic. No, this one was not much fun. But I sweated through it! Done!
Trying to come up with a witty quip related to Rowdy Roddy Piper, what do you guys have?
He’s NOT all out of gum. And also not kicking ass. Coincidence?
But doin that IS a dick move. So a little devil is still in him.
Did something similar wayyy back in the days I LARPed Vampire: The Masquerade.
Derailed a big game night another guy set up to polish his rep and set himself up as the big power in town. To do with some invading power that was a threat to vampires.
Derailed it, and all the alliances he was aiming for, when he wrapped up his speech with: “Now go away, or I shall taunt you a seaacond tiiiimmme!”
Everyone laughed their asses off and his plans fell apart. I didn’t even know how badly I screwed his plans until years later when we got talking about it and he told me that one line, and how it made ppl react to his incoming threat, derailed his entire plan to take over.
Timing can be more impactful than content, at times.
You’ve got a little devil in you, I’d say.
Still no Phoebe. Well, we already know she likes to have deniabiity.
Her reps may show.
Is her wrong? Probably.
I think you did well.
You know, I saw this video over the weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXL5IUTNbQ4&list=PLkRYIYLlXKtlaG8Yb073aE9w_2m80Hdqz&index=28
Is he wrong, rather. Oy.
I am NOT sure I comprehend what I just watched.
I was going to do a lengthy post explaining corn (with a short digression into Algonquin legend), musicals the musical Shucks, AMV’s (or anime music videos, if you will) and the fact that I was at Anime Boston that weekend. But who has the energy? If you’ve got a thing you need explaining let me or one of you classes know.
If your explanation includes all that, I don’t think you’re explaining it right.
It will fail because most important person is not there.
Well, wait for it.
An elite cadre.
A crack special ops team.
With THS crew?! More like a CRACKED Special Ops team.
Heh.
I miss frazzled hair Daphne. I mean she had the look that express the seriousness of the situation.
It was very mad scientist.
When she’s with it and not freaked out, which is most of the time, Daphne’s hair tends to obey. Phoebe is the only person to bring that hair to life.
“I’m forever blowing bubbles / Pretty bubbles in the air / They fly so high / Never reach the sky / Then like my dreams / They fade and die / Fortune’s always hiding / I’ve looked everywhere / I’m forever blowing bubbles / Pretty bubbles in the air.”
Real cool guys are carefree.
Ah, Forever Blowing Bubbles, the West Ham United Football Club song. Adopted because one of their players in the 1920s had the nickname Bubbles . . . . . and get that thought out of your mind, there is no hidden meaning here!
Now THAT … is comedy.
I think you’re right. Big league chew is definitely a tool of satan. Double bubble might be as well.
Bazooka Joe is the darkest of princes, though.
Oh man! I had happily forgotten Bazooka Joe.
It’s much worse than Double Bubble.
See? I am tuned in to the gum world. I know awful.
rude much? i mean, the whole thng is about trying to get him back into power+swag….come to think of it, when (if) their plan works out, he better reward them with enough gold to feed daphs new-found obsession
Well, what’s rude about gum? Gum is cool. He’s just vibing.
They’re actually trying to get him out of Phoebe’s room.
How old is Miranda now?
Haven’t they bought a new sofa yet? I hope they prioritize it.
Nah. Some sofas are forever.
There’s not enough gold in the world for that
This was meant to be a reply to Peya Luna
I was wondering.
This is the first time I remember where all the Main Character Good Guys are here in one place. Unless Papa Schnorf counts as one.
We need Papa Shnorf and Phoebe. Always missing at least one.
Dang. Forgot Phoebe. I should know better by now to say something like that without doing a headcount.
There’s never been a comic with all the primary characters in one, save for comic #80. Tracee and Hannah hadn’t yet been introduced back then, though, so that’s a wrench in the works.
Wasn’t Tracee once one of the bad guys. Has she been elevated by Puck to, maybe, chaotic good?
Re: bergerjacques, since the replies don’t go that far down: They can be bad guys again after they’re good guys. I had that problem with a school bully once. Thought I’d made a connection, but the next day it was back to the usual.
True. Bad Tracee might return. Or at least antagonistic Tracee.
Satan, c’mon, this is not a meeting of the Hamilton City Council, this is important! Not serious, not with that cadre, but, important!
Exactly. He has fallen too far from the ways and halls of power. He needs to get back in the groove.
*cue cliched knockoff Mission Impossible theme*
I can’t afford the licensing costs, sadly. Cue Mission Impossible royalty-free soundalike.
Quickly, Gecko. To the Bat-AI-MI-R-F soundalike generator….
Satan knows envy when he sees it.
He IS the authority.
Satan’s really come down in the world if he has to quibble with a teen over bubble gum. Well, that’s what he gets for callling Colin a “man-child.” :))
He’s a Satan of small things. Annoyance, peevishness. That sort of evil.