NEW VOTING INCENTIVE! BOOBS!!!
So after bringing you a voting incentive that required a rather staggering amount of time planning on my part to create, I sadly found out that my efforts were sorely misplaced. Practically no one voted, and Puck plummeted down to the lowest spot it’s been on TWC in years. IN YEARS.
So in that light, I’ve chosen to replace the voting incentive I worked hardest on with a voting incentive that … well, see for yourself. I hope you’re happy, lowest common denominator! I hope you’re happy.
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR PUCK. SEE BOOBS.
ALSO…
BIG NEWS!!! THE PUCK BOOK IS READY AT LAST, DAMNIT!!!
CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR COPY OF PUCK VOLUME 1!
As for this comic…
People seem to like it when Puck threatens violence, almost as much as they like it when she perpetrates actual violence, so here you go! This comic reflects my current mental state fairly accurately. I’d dearly, dearly love to punch a good twenty or so people in the head right now, and having Puck redline her anger engine is always a little cathartic.
And hey, 250 strips. Yay? I guess?
Oh, and I added Heather and Colin’s parents to the character list, which was overdue. I mean, if Stan from Crackistan is on that list, this obnoxious chick should be on there too, right?
about damn time! i was so waiting for puck´s legendary temper to make an appearance again. being a mom doesn´t mean that you can´t kick ass anymore – if anything, moms are more vicious then starving pirranias if someone insults their brood!
Oh yes, moms can be vicious, certainly. But I can’t have the comic be Puck freaking out and getting violent every week. Then I’d be a one-trick pony. As it is, I’m only a two or three-trick pony, and I have to carefully space out those tricks so as to not get repetitive.
I second that emotion! I was starting to feel like if Puck didn’t throttle that wench, I was going to have to find a way in there and do if For her. And That would have been darned hard to do I’m thinking.
Okay, so the incentive is a tank top…frankly I was expecting a picture of me and several of my friends. What? Everyone kept referring to us as “a couple of boobs”
I was thinking of maybe getting cute like that, but decided that MS Paint was a more fitting option.
I was expecting this:
http://www.factzoo.com/sites/all/img/birds/two-blue-footed-boobies.jpg
So Cute !
I had no idea SotiCoto had a feminine side.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…..
(seriously cute pic)
Here I was expecting another bait and switch like your “Naked Puck” one from a while ago for the voting incentive. Then again, going against the going against the expected bait and switch is a bait and switch in and of itself. 🙂
Nah, this is more the ‘bait and not switch but make sure the bait really doesn’t actually taste very good’ ploy. Keeping it fresh.
Well, I must say… the boobs thing got me to vote! Just sayin…
Exactly. One MS Paint drawing later, my ranking on TWC is 20 places higher. Amazing how fast that works.
Yes. Just yes.
There’s no words for how often I wanted to say the exact same thing as Puck says right now.
I have to deal with – daily – so many idiots that I’m basically “…Can I just please proceed and punch this guy in the face a couple dozen times? PLEASE?”
As for the voting incentive…
Girlfriend: What’s the voting incentive this week?!
Me: …Boobs.
Girlfriend: What. Why?
Me: Because it is.
Girlfriend: Did you send him a picture of my boobs?!
Me: NO!
Also, congratulations on 250 strips! I’ve been reading since I first found out about it… Which was 43 strips ago (holy shit, already?)
With this sort of weekly comic, real time flies by rather fast. Case in point: Colin hasn’t been in the comic for three and a half months, but I didn’t even notice until yesterday.
Neither did anyone else.
It’s Colin’s lot in life….
I’ve found that as I’ve gotten older, my tolerance for the stupidity and cruelty of others has worn thinner and thinner. It’s gotten to the point where I really do think my anger management issues are on the same level as Puck’s – only my filter’s a little better than hers, so few people really notice unless they’re watching the expressions on my face. My co-workers, though, have learned that it’s really entertaining to watch my expressions during meetings. I put on a good show.
As for the girlfriend dialogue, if anyone does have any interesting pictures they want to send me for a voting incentive, I’m always desperate!
Puck can prove that her being charitable has nothing to do with it—tell her how much money she owes Phoebe.
Ironically, charity does have something to do with it. It’s just not Puck’s charity…
Aw. And here I thought it was all about off-beat friendship and (dis)functional family. ^^
It is. But crippling debt is mixed in there somewhere too.
Give Puck a few more years. “Just out of college” people don’t have much money (with odd exceptions like Phoebe, who has connections).
Prosperity will probably hit Puck in her forties—or would that be in her seven hundred and forties? I forget how old she is exactly…
She’s 631 right now, and yeah, poverty happens. Poverty, of course, is all relative, but speaking personally, I can say that any money I’ve made in the past fifteen years has all gone toward some necessary life-building expense, like an education, or a car, or a house, or a better house, etc. It’s only now that I’m beginning to have a few dollars not directly spoken for – money for frills and the unnecessary things that make you feel less poor.
True’s true. My prosperity hit when I got a better job—well, a job that paid better. Then there were some bumps along the way, but they’re past, and I learned from the bumps, and now I’m looking forward to a prosperous retirement in a few years.
But I digress…
@Gecko
Yes, poverty is definitely relative. When you spend part of your life living in a place where the average family lives together in a bamboo hut smaller than your bedroom back home, you get a whole new perspective on what constitutes “poor.”
And then you return to your first-world home, and see all the luxuries, support, and services enjoyed by our “poor”. Even in countries like the U.S. and Canada, there are some people who are truly destitute, but by and large we have some of the richest “poor” in the world.
Well, yes. We’re not talking real poverty here, exactly. I always struggle to explain that to my students when we talk about the Great Depression in grade nine. I always put it this way, that they’re likely most familiar with the “we can’t afford the latest version of Xbox” poor, whereas in the 30’s we’re talking about the “we can’t afford shoes” poor. Then I show them a whole bunch of pictures featuring families without shoes, and they sort of get it.
Did she just glow evil? Methinks so.
Evil has a glow. Mind you, everything has a glow in this world, it seems.
If anything the glow is just pure rage building and finally being released.
Whatever the cause, nobody in this world seems to need lighting, what with their ability to emanate visual light on their own.
Hmm, while it’s fun to watch Puck go medieval on people who deserve it, I worry. Heather seems too cunning to be intimidated by a beating; she’ll get revenge, and I see her as the kind of person who’ll lawyer up to take said revenge.
Yeah, this is not the approach you want to take with such people. And Puck won’t get far. But the intention is there…
It often is. :p With Puck, anyway.
Sweet Bewbs!
Uh, I believe the proper spelling is ‘jubblies’. Hate to nitpick, but I have to keep things accurate here.
NOW can Phoebe open the Gates of Hell?
Okay, maybe just a little.
Right, I just bought a copy of Puck #1, sure hope it comes autographed. (Subtle hint!)
It unfortunately doesn’t because it’s coming straight from the publisher. If it were coming from me, I’d certainly sign it, but one of the key reasons I went with Createspace was the fact that it made the shipping costs WAY cheaper for Americans to buy the book. Cross-border shipping gets super-expensive for some reason. So this way the book is about $16 cheaper than it could have been … but not signed.
For what it’s worth, I’m terrible at signing things. I would recommend getting someone else to sign it, and I’ll totally stand by its authenticity!
But seriously, man, thanks for buying. I hope the content makes up for the glaring lack of signifying.
Because they make Puck look (relatively) normal?
Yeah, they almost achieve that impossible task!
I think Heather needs motivation. Like another blonde to scheme against. Hm, can Phoebe take her on a visit to Daddy’s? To pick up some bargains that Tracee is throwing away? Women like Heather adore garage sales at mansions. Trying to come up with a reason for Tracee and Heather to square off. Would Satan be “Trading Up” for her?
Your logic is impeccable. But I don’t think there would need to be a reason for Heather and Tracee to square off. If they just were placed in the same room, I think their very natures would drive them to violence.
Yes please?
It’s not that I’m blood thirsty by nature (not much anyway) but I’ve Never been able to stand stupidity. Even as a tot learning to talk, when people baby talked to me, I’m told I often responded back that I spoke English, Not gibberish.
[winces] Yeah, I was a snarky little beast. My point being I have no patience for people with superiority complexes. (except my own. ;1)
I’m with you on the superiority complex people. It probably comes through in the comics, but people like Heather are my least favorite human beings. Ever.
In the immortal words of Popeye the Sailor: That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!
Puck’s about to crack open a can of spinach, so to speak. 🙂
You never can get enough spinach in your diet. Or so I hear.
Popeye was an early version of THE HULK.
Most of us just love to a protagonist who just SNAPS and wreaks justice.
Then there is Puck…..
She really does have the same ‘snap and kill’ appeal, doesn’t she?
“Colourful?” In her case, she must mean indigent.
Please Puck take back your home. 😀
I think colourful best translates as ‘undesirables’ in this instance. But she’ll clarify her meaning in the next comic.
Shame about the autograph, ah well. in other news, a thought just occurred to me= Phoebe right after this will be calling her dad and asking “Dad, were you ever in Calgary about thirty years ago, and did you meet a married woman named MacTavish then and do I have an evil half-sister, because I’m sure I just met her!”
They’re similar but different, certainly. Dark and light, good and bad. Not sisters, but crazier things have happened in this world.
You’d thin Phoebe would be used to evil.
And Hold my Beer sounds like you were relaxing. Hold my Baby sounds like you were interrupted doing something important.
Phoebe is unfailingly naive and unsuspecting, despite her upbringing.