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Published: 2012-10-23 01:06:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 2552; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 22
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It occurs to me that Puck and Daphne are really very similar characters, though they differ in terms of maturity and experience. Puck, being the older, worldlier woman, would know better than to ever expect a man to side with her on this point. Daphne, on the other hand, still has a lot to learn.I actually had to put a great deal of research into the proper spelling of ‘Boop-oop-a-doop.’ Now if you ask me, it sounds WAY more like ‘Boop-oop-BEE-doop’ in the cartoons, but Fleischer studios has a whole cartoon named ‘Boop-oop-a-doop’, so I guess that’s canon. Mind you, studios have been wrong of the spellings of their characters’ phrases before. Warner Bros. always claimed the Roadrunner said “Beep beep,” but the original voice actor insisted (quite correctly) that the sound was more a “mheep mheep” than a “beep beep”. I guess it looked too weird on paper. But anyway … I’ve digressed so far that I’m totally lost.
Oh, and for those of you who want TWO Phoebe Halloween costumes in one week…
New Voting Incentive! It’s Halloween … BATMAN-STYLE!!! A new costume EVERY WEEK!
Each week of October will bring with it a new Batman-themed costume on one member of the Puck gang. The fourth one’s up now, so VOTE! At long last, it’s Phoebe! She’s wearing the Catwoman suit! This is not false advertising!
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I, sir, have no complaints, really.
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So generally I mark how long I haven't been paying attention to dA by the number of Pucks that have piled up in my inbox. But please stop throwing it in my face by having holiday-themed strips. It's really been since Halloween? Jeezus.
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Sorry, dude. But virtual time keeps on ticking. And real time just flies by!
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I know. What the fuck is that? I really could use something of a break. Anyway, still happy Puck is being produced regularly. You, sir, are a man with a work ethic and a backbone.
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When you see someone with a work ethic, you see someone struggling for meaning and looking for something to occupy his time.
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This is true, but at least you can feel good about how it puts you in the company of Thoreau.
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True enough. The fundamental nature of our existence, I suppose.
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Oh the conflict! My sensitive, new-age guy (SNAG) side desperately wants to side with Daphne, telling her she is correct and has every right to be angry, but 50,000 years of male evolution forces me to succumb to my true nature and high-five Ty. Went to a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Mayfair this weekend (yes I threw toast and toilet paper!) with the wife and friends and, well, it was a blast, and proof of Ty's thesis.
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Halloween is everyone's god. Well, everyone interesting, that is.
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Is that a good face?
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Even better, that's a me gusta face. It means I'm enjoying every part of the parts that should be enjoyed. Ah, well...
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That looked to me more like a 'constipated' face.
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It's all about internet memes. How can you even avoid those rage faces building a series of comic strips on the internet?
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I haven't. But I've never really understood them.
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Suddenly I am reminded of Who Framed Roger Rabbit where Betty Boop is serving drink's says her catch phrase and the detective says "She still got it" That charm will never go away. Very funny strip!! Yes Halloween is my god as well, for the most obvious reason and....CANDY!!
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Betty Boop has got it forever. But really, candy is an even better god to worship.
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I remember the time I was working a halloween coustume party and a 19 year old walked right past the alcohol gatekeepers by wearing a cannoncal "Vampirrilla" coustume, and only held up by spirit gum
oh back after two weeks of vacation, and almost ready to write and submmit to harsh critique my Mo'rrigan/Macha original super hero story. (about a teen discovering that she is now the Maiden third of the Morrigan.
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19 year-olds, I assume, cannot drink where you are? Just asking because 19 is the legal drinking age here. But hey, Vampirella deserves a drink no matter what the age, I'd say.
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California where the drinking age is 21, yeah I know no sense of fun, this state...
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21 is a stupid drinking age. Just saying. You're well into adulthood and you can't drink? Dumb. The only time I've ever been served an 'illegal' beer was in NYC when I was in a bar (age 20) with a friend in his forties, and I ordered a beer. They gave me one. It was only afterwards that I realized this was illegal, because I'd been of legal drinking age for almost two years back in Canada.
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We all are. (Well, the males in the room, anyway.)
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Phoebe has very good taste in cartoon characters and is that a peep of bum cheek my pervy eyes spy?
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That is a peep of bum cheek. How cheeky!
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BEST STRIP EVER absolutely hilarious! THIS is why I have to make my own costumes!
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Thanks! I'm sure this one was hand-made with love and care by Phoebe. It didn't really take much fabric.
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Also I hate to say as a girl, Phoebe has a nice rack. The costume really emphasizes that.
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Phoebe knows how to play to her strengths. Mind you, while drawing the outfit, I was struck by the physics-defying nature of its design. The only way it would actually stay in place would be ... glue. That's the only explanation.
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Well true that. Or transparent straps.
I was initially thinking about the halloween special costume but then I realized that Phoebe also was in today's strip.
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Yeah. Halloween special costume is kind of boobinous too. Weird ... coincidence.
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It HAD to be Betty Boop, hadn't it? Last year I actually had a look at some of those vintage cartoons. Weird but entertaining! Old animations really are fascinating however.
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It didn't HAVE to be Betty Boop. But it was. And the Boop was good. I personally love old Fleischer animation. It's some of the weirdest, trippiest stuff ever put to film.
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Haha, it was just a kind of HAD with a smile on it. Somehow works perfect with Phoebe.
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She does do it pretty well. That cannot be denied.
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Woozers, phoebe wins.
Daphine is yet to learn the true power of skanky. But this is a good lesson.
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Nah, Daphne knows. She knows that once you start down the skank path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
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I think girls will always find an excuse to dress in a scantily manner. Not that I'm complaining.
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Ah, but Halloween's 'departure from the every day' allows for an increased level of abandon. You're not being skanky; you're acting skanky in a skanky role, and that's entirely appropriate for all audiences. They think they're getting away with something. But everyone knows the truth of the matter: they're being skanky.
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Eloquently put sir. I would be inclined to say that most dress up occasions bring this opportunity for that sense of 'abandonment'.
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Hip hip hooray!
Hip hip hooray!
Hip hip hooray!
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This is the main reason why I'm not happy that Halloween never caught on around here.
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