RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH QUICK SKETCHES!
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In other news…
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As for this comic…
Moving into the final act of this whole heist plot. I am not making promises, but I am almost 100% certain that this story arc will be done by the start of 2027. 96% certain. 93%. Optimistically hoping.
Huzzah for 27.
And Daphne does care about her friends. Or Emily hasn’t seen all of Daphne.
Heh. Cats and dogs living together. MASS HYSTERIA!
Well, raccoons ARE closer in relation to dogs than cats, so I guess it counts.
Talk about motivational words to encourage the raccoons to be more helpful.
The most motivation.
As one of the remaining group that watched the show when it aired, I want to thank you for refreshing the memory of Fess and Ed. Glad to see Daphne’s research was wide and deep!
Daphne is oddly hip to old media. Strange for a teen. But I do know some like her.
Fess Parker and Ed Ames starred in “Daniel Boone.”
Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen were in “Davy Crockett.”
Both work for a coonskin cap.
And I know who NONE of these people are! I’ll admit it!
Maybe you know Ed Ames from his time in the Ames Brothers. They had hits in the 1940s and 1950s, like “Rag Mop,” or “You, You, You,” or “The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane.”
only daph can terrify the masked menaces into following orders with only two words. satan should totally make note of her potential!….if only to make sure that she doesn´t take over his job one day 😉
Personally, I think that Daphne has higher goals than to be the mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
She is the REAL threat to Satan’s throne, surely.
She is the living embodiment of “heaven doesn’t and hell’s afraid I’ll take over.’
I’m amazed “Davy Crockett” would still resonate 70 years after the Walt Disney mini series made coon skin hats popular for a hot minute. Down here, raccoons would be much more terrified by the phrase “road kill.” But I’m sure Daphne can make any word pairing a mortal threat with just a sneer of her snout.
Speaking of “down here,” I was excited to find All-Dressed potato chips in my local grocery today! They are delicious!! I am now a true believer, and I owe you a jar of Wickles Pickles, payable on demand. Happy new year!
I was aware that some (most) of my readers under a certain age would not get this joke. I did not care. I play to the old geezers now.
I did look into the purchasing of Wickles Pickles in Canada, but basically it seems like the only option is to buy a jar on eBay, which feels weird.
If you could buy food on Ebay, it would be pickles. Or pickled thing.
I got it!
But then, come to think of it, I’m in the target audience.
I’m so deep into the geezerly target audience, I’m ground zero. I remember watching Disney’s Crockett series on TV. But we’re in good company– who better to appreciate a comic about an ancient fairy of lore, than other ancients.
When she was a kid, my mother got a personal record player for a gift one year. Her one album was a 45 of the theme song for Disney’s Davy Crockett. She listened to that damned song about three thousand times until the record wore out.
I have never seen Disney’s Davy Crockett. But you bet I can sing that theme song.
Well, I didn’t watch Disney’s Davy Crockett except in a couple of reruns. But I did have a cap—can’t remember if I ever put it on my head or not.
There’s more to Crockett than Disney, though.
Crockett was consumed by Disney. Like Snow White. Like other figures real and imaginary who became part of the juggernaut against their will.
No other Crockett remains.
You never saw John Wayne’s “The Alamo?”
Nope. The only John Wayne movie I’ve ever seen is McClintock! Which is a little like saying the only classic horror movie you’ve seen is Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
Serious? Well, if you want humor, try “North to Alaska.” And if you’re looking for something that’s more serious, try “The Searchers.”
Ooh, I think I did see “North to Alaska”. At least I know I can sing the theme song, so that means I probably saw it. My mother had very particular tastes when it came to westerns,
“North to Alaska” was a chart hit by Johnny Horton, so you may have just heard that. There is a lot of funny in the movie, particularly Ernie Kovacs. Give it another shot if you’ve got time.
Indeed… Old, old geezers.
I used to watch that show when it was brand new. The funny thing to me is that Fess Parker (Davy Crockett) also played Daniel Boone in that TV series.
Oh! And Daniel Boone also wore a coonskin cap.
Raccoons beware this Fess Parker fellow.
I recently discovered that the Buc-ee’s stores now have their own version of all-dressed chips, which they call “Bold ‘N Blended”.
Bold-n-blended sounds very Buc—ee’s coded.
I’ve been wondering all my life how Davy Crocket got to be “king of the wild frontier” if he was “shot in a bar when he was only 3”?
Shot A bar, not in a bar. Guess you’ve gotta be a from that part of the world to hear the difference.
And if you have access to Disney+, check this: https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-9b3b7c50-b36c-4440-bbaf-4a2eafddfffc
But “shot in a bar when he was only three” is more interesting, surely.
Of course it’s more interesting, and don’t call me Shirley.
Well, I think (I’ve always misheard lyrics; that’s part of the joke :D) the real lyric is “shot him a b[e]ar when he was only three”–i.e., he shot a bear, and winged a vowel, with one bullet! As a toddler! 9_9
I don’t have Disney+, and won’t spend a dime on anything Disney anymore. First they wrecked copyright law, then they wrecked Star Wars, Marvel, and Dr. Who, and moved all their content off of any low-tier access. Screw McDuck! 😀
I stopped my subscription a few years ago. There was nothing I had to see on there. Though I do miss my Tron stuff. (I’m one of those Tron weirdos.)
I mostly think “F that guy” when I think of Davy Crockett. Or anyone fighting against Mexico at the Alamo.
Their purpose in seceding from Mexico (or coming to Texas to help the secession) was to preserve slavery, so they can all just rot.
I am (perhaps mercifully) clueless about many aspects of American history, so I cannot weigh in. But I know enough to know that most of the ‘hero’ figures in American (and Canadian) history are … questionable at best.
Well, both societies have changed quite a bit and become better people (by and large). One of us has rolled back a bit, but that may be temporary.
Odd words.
From the Rio Grande to the very bottom of South America, the European Spanish and European Portuguese enslaved millions of civilized indigenous peoples.
And frequently tortured and murdered them for pure sport.
These Europeans also imported Africans … I guess at some point you’ve murdered so many South and Central Americans that the supply dries up.
So decry slavery all you want. But never present Mexicans as blameless.
Everyone in the past was awful. Moral of the story. And in keeping with this pattern, we shall be awful in retrospect to future peoples.
The Spanish were absolutely horrible, yes. And the Mexican government that seceded from Spain wasn’t exactly perfect themselves. (Major infighting, for one thing out of many.) But the explicit reason for Texas’ secession was that Mexico was phasing slavery out.
And the constitution of the Republic of Texas made that extra clear, in that it made it virtually impossible for anybody, including the Texan government itself, to free a slave. And also basically forced every free Black person back into slavery.
This wasn’t a matter of “pure good” vs “pure evil”, but one side was pure evil. And the man with the raccoon-skin cap put a bit of extra-evil symbolism into that cap.
And she still hasn’t noticed the problem. -S. Many of them. Daphne did a good job.
I got the joke.
I am glad. It’s all I ever ask for.
The raccoons could tell Daphne to remember the Alamo.
Raccoons clap back.
Daphne’s behind the times, today it’s Lumberjanes. Specifically, Molly and Bubbles. Still, Daphne has the right idea= protect the innocent!
More current, less iconic. Gotta talk broad cultural strokes when talking to wildlife.
Daphne don’t play, she’s WAY scarier than Puck. The latter will beat you to a pulp in a white-hot fury up close and personal; the former will nuke your credit rating to the bedrock while sipping her ice-cold ‘Dew in her phosphor-lit girl-cave.
Never was it better said.
Did you know the word “gullible” isn’t in the dictionary? (Heh, heh, made you look.)
You’re a mean one, Mr. H.
Emily uses raccoon armor! It’s super effective!
Almost as effective as Racc Attack!