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Published: 2012-08-07 01:32:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 4685; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 18
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To be honest, I want to punch smiley-faced, duplicitous sales staff in the kisser all the time. Itβs a personal fantasy of mine. I think pregnant women would be a little more likely to turn such fantasies into reality, though. Hence the danger pay.NEW VOTING INCENTIVE
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All correct. Maternity wear stores are so nuts it's funny. Hence the comic!
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Lies! Nothing but a bunch of low-down lies!
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Sales staff are paid to lie!
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I was looking forward to the traditional "fourth panel death threat".
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Hey, I try not to disappoint. And when 95% of all the strips end in death threats or physical assaults, why try to swim upstream?
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Well, I don't know the statistics, but since you have a habit of packing your strips with several different punchlines, I don't see anyone complaining.
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See, I have to fight popular demand. Whenever the strip ends in violence or threats of violence, people seem to love it and 'like' it on Facebook and vote it up on Reddit, etc. Whenever I do a strip that involves a punchline with wordplay or character humor or whatnot, people don't seem to like it as much. Still, gotta fight the tide.
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If what you're implying here is that you're in some way stuck in a rut, I strongly disagree. Trying to fight the tide is a laudable trait, but I don't think you have any annoyingly predictable writing habits to get rid of.
That being said, a nice and simple way to generate new ideas in comic strips is to change the number of panels. Three-panel and five-panel strips work very differently from four-panel strips, and lead to different kinds of jokes.
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True. But I'm locked to four panels. It's a commitment I've made, and it helps me economize my thinking. I know the four panels are a given, so I work within that. It helps me. If I ever feel the need to break loose, I might, but not right now.
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Man, I hear ya on sales people. Any time a salesperson is particularly nice/friendly/complimentary, I start to seethe. Insincerity is annoying, but unfortunately, it's what they're paid to do.
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Canadian salespeople actually tend to be a little less fake friendly. And hey, if you go to Quebec, it's like a different world. You go up to the counter at a fast food place, and they'll say "What do you want?" in an angry voice. No "How can I amaze you today?" or garbage like that. Oh, and everyone smokes there. I kind of love Quebec.
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this is so me right now with shopping lol ( suffering the joys of overpriced mother and baby *Censored* . I so relate to puck.. ( however i did get a pluss size kilt skirt to stay on me .. however with the falling off phobia i put leggings under)
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Hey, if you can even get a kilt skirt to stay up, that's an epic achievement! Leggings are a good call, though.
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This reminds me of the DMV, where there are signs everywhere reminding you that it's a felony to assault a DMV employee. Now why would they need to remind everybody of that?
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Because you'd never, EVER want to assault someone at the DMV. I believe at the DMV around here, the desk that they're behind is rather large and offers quite a lot of protection.
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Oh, not so much around here. I just think it's funny that people assaulting DMV workers is such a common problem that a) they have to have a specific law against it and b) they have to post notices about the law. People get pretty frustrated at the DMV, you know?
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Also, this is a metal mask painted with my skintone 
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Highly useful for all retail jobs!
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Many thanks! I've tried to comment on the actual journal, but dA is blocking me for some reason. Anyway, I think it's a nice and very ambitious way to showcase your watchers! Greatly appreciated.
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she doesn't fall for smugging? that's kinda of a positive thing.
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I didn't even know 'smug' could be a verb!
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yeah, I know. it's not a real word but I used it anyway.
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That ad is probably the best part of the strip.
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can wear it after pregnancy? $20 raise to anyone brave enough to say that to a womans face, sly talk for "you'll always be fat!" lol
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Seriously, though, that's a key 'selling feature' that they market. Of course you CAN wear it after your pregnancy. You can also wear a hamburger bun on your head, but you'll look like a moron doing so.
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Puck, there is a simple solution. Go to Goodwill.
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Nah, Puck is horribly prejudiced against Goodwill and all other thrift stores. She'll have to come up with a crazier way to get dressed.
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I think she should know that you can get maternity clothes for like 5 bucks there. It may look a lot better after that.
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That's because you're smart.
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Or just weary of the easy to set off pregnant woman.
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Hazard pay should come with any job dealing with pregnant women.
To be fair, customers are assholes.
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Having worked a good ten years in retail, I say "Amen, brother."
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I remember a manager having to explain to a customer that we were a business and we have to make some profit from selling stuff. I was laughing.It was sad and funny how he had to explain that.
It was amazing how angry people could get over a few dollars.
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The smaller the item, the less humane the customers act when purchasing it. Which is weird. People get more bent out of shape buying mustard than buying cars.
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If "You Glow Girl" isn't already being used by a maternity-wear designer, you need to pitch it to one NOW! That is so exactly what they want to portray!
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That's what my wife said about that poster. I'll have to post the image of that ad as a separate pic, because it's just flat-out disturbing. The slogan came to my head spontaneously a few days ago. I had to work it in.
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I don't care what the poster is, it's the slogan that's gold. Serious gold. You are going to see that on maternity clothes somewhere soon, and this might be where the idea appeared first.
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Yeah, maybe. But what are you going to do? The only way to combat plagiarism of that type is to trademark the phrase. Apparently it's useless to claim copyright, because trademark trumps copyright and then some. But I'm not going to spend the ridiculous amount of money to trademark a maternity wear slogan.
Oh well. Let's just say "You saw it here first!" and be happy.
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Whoah, careful there, Puck! Your skirt might slip off any minute now! Better go buy some pants or a dress before it's too late...
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Well, that's what she's doing! Or trying to do! It's a Catch-22. No way out, man. Unless you're rich. Rich people are NEVER caught in Catch-22 situations.
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Catch-22? As a non-american, I assume it's an american way to say something I don't understand. (Canada or USA, wherever this word comes from, I don't get it neither way.)
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A Catch-22 (named after a novel of the same name by Joseph Heller) is a paradoxical situation in which an individual cannot avoid a problem because of contradictory constraints or rules. Often these situations are such that solving one part of a problem only creates another problem, which ultimately leads back to the original problem - according to Wikipedia.
The original Catch-22 in the novel was a character trying to be declared insane so he could get out of combat duty. The Catch-22 was that anyone who wanted to get out of combat duty was, by military definition, not insane. And insane man would want to STAY in combat duty.
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