Ballad of the Laser Fish
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Laser fishhhhhhhh.
When in doubt, HYPER BEAM.
IT IS THE BEST MOVE EVER OKAY.
Hyper Beam = Destroy everything
hadouken multiplied by infinity!
Mr. Fish uses Hyperbeam. It’s SUPER EFFECTIVE!
Mr. Fish destroys all opposition. Game Over.
Mr. Oak looks like a jackass now, trying to tell Jared not to pick up that useless flopping creature. Look how magnificent it has become!
PROFFESSOR. HE DID NOT SPEND TEN YEARS ON A PHD JUST SO PEOPLE COULD CALL HIM MISTER OAK. :O
well, if his doctorate is in pokeology, and he thought something that would eventually be a two ton sea serpent with the power to shoop da whoop was useless, he should have his degree revoked
perhaps he has another degree in like biochemistry or shit
No, he probably has a degree in art or english and became a self proclaimed Pokemon expert…
To which school can I go and major in Shit? Harvey Mudd?
South Harmon Institute of Technology.
You Sir, Win one whole Internets.
I can’t take full credit – my brother spent one summer watching “Accepted” over and over on our parents’ TiVo.
Well, to be fair, Jared DID use his magikarp to get his trainer license revoked…
…how did I not make that connection before?!
It was pretty glaring, that’s a good question
I still haven’t gotten my acceptance letter yet.
plumber school
To be fair, Oak had no way of knowing Jared would find a way for a lone Magikarp to win battles.
winning comment
MISTER OAK never thought the poor kid would MacGyver his way through battles. :3
Not really macgyver he didn’t put two things together he jujst improvised a weapon, that’s bullseye territory
He DID put two things together: Mr. Fish and Poliwag’s skull.
Epic comment, that was. *tosses a dollar into the jar* Well woth it. xD
LOL
I’d think it’s more Deadpool than Bullseye.
Having a magikarp as your starting and only Pokemon is seriously stupid. jared just cheated to make it work.
Leveling up a magikarp by having it actually fight it’s own battles is possible. But until it eventually learns tackle, it is an uphill battle. You could even call it a struggle.
What’s really sad here is that Hyper Beam is the last move Gyrados learns. This implies Jared either replaced perfectly impressive moves with dog tricks, or Mr.Fish never learned anything else.
I can’t decide which makes Jared a less competent trainer, but I’d like to hope it’s the latter, Purely because it implies Jared managed to train a Gyarados to level 47,without any actual attacks.
I see what you did there. Clever, clever.
What are the odds that one of Jared’s many paychecks from his internship went towards some Rare Candies?
He would probably eat them himself.
So what level is Jared, then? They’re pretty expensive, but he *has* spent an entire paycheck on candy before.
Alternately, I can see him giving them to some non-Pokemon just to see what happens. Maybe those Pikmin, or that chicken he disintegrated…
.. 0_0 Can I get a print of Mr. Fish blasting all of those Bots?
because like.. I keep returning to stare at it over and over…
Ahhh Want ;-;
Interns. Getting paid. Ha!
It’s already established he gets $500 a week.
I hate him by the way, he works for the coolest place ever, makes nearly double what I do, and has no appreciation for it.
I was wondering why I hated Jared so much.
Thanks.
Its only in the business sector that interns don’t get paid. I’ve had plenty of opportunity to be a paid intern.
I don’t know, some of those dog tricks would have seriously good combat uses.
“Roll Over!”
*Mr Fish crushes enemy pokemon, then does it again.*
“Play Dead!”
*Mr Fish lands on enemy pokemon trainer. FF7 Victory Music plays*
I actually did that once. Took me the better part of a week to do it with the magikcarp that one guy sells you.
I dunno; Mr. Fish was improvising a pretty decent Headbutt there.
Actually, Mr. Fish’s early battles consisted totally of Jared *teaching* the rudiments of Headbutt to him. Swing-Smack!
I don’t know, depending on how far back you go, I think splash used to do damage, that or the
guy who gave me my old R/B pokemon games did some SERIOUS hacking at the age of about
10
HE MEANT IT WOULD MAKE A TERRIBLE STARTER POKEMON. If you could only have ONE pokemon, which would you rather have? A pokemon like a Graveler or Charizard to get you going and staying alive until you can reach maximum potential and thus win fights while still experience grinding with other pokemon, or a magikarp that can’t to crap and that you must hope will SOMEHOW gain enough experience to level up and eventually evolve? I think I would rather have one of the others, because then I could get the Magikarp later on without any problems at all, and then use the other one as a backup pokemon or as a tool for experience grinding (EXP Share or simply the switch-out tactic).
Who cares? The guy dissed what is clearly the most awesome pokemon ever. The look on Jared’s face says EVERYTHING.
@Coelasquid: Was this the part that you couldn’t wait to get to? ;-)
The above was directed at the Professor comment, btw. Seriously, all those prof’s ever really did was piss me off. Go save yourself and just give me my damn pokemon already!
“I’m too old to fulfill my life’s dream! Do it for me.”
Actually, I think it was this:
“Your Mom’s still single? Here… take a pokemon and go out on an adventure for a few months…”
Notice, Oak was waiting in Jared’s front yard when his mom sent him out and Oak was in a hurry to get rid of him too.
Professor Oak’s PhD. is in Golf Course Management. He uses child laborers to cut the grass that is off the fairway because thats where Pokemon live… The Pokemon we know is just a fantasy of those children because the truth is to horrible to comprehend.
you have just ruined my childhood. i think i’ll go cry now.
Mr. Fish has fully matured. It brings tears to my eyes how he can make Godzilla envious.
EVEN WHEN THERE ARE NO DOUBTS
HYPER BEAM
Drop some sick particle effects in there! >:3
“Kirby krackle”.
YES.
Hmm… it might due to change the lighting and Mr. Fish’s coloration for this particular strip. If I remember correctly, in every instance of Hyper Beam being used, the screen darkened in the games, and sometimes the colors inverted.
Well if you want to go all the way you could “Flash” it to do the strobe/epilepsy-inducing effect.
Actually, not so. In the original R/B/G/Y games, they didn’t really have the graphical capabilities to do that. I can’t remember whether G/S/D did that or not, but I know starting at R/S/E they did.
a wallpaper with this image would be so AWSOME
Yes!
DO WANT. SO VERY MUCH.
Coelasquid, if by any chance you are stalking the comments, please? <3
Please make a wallpaper for us! 1920×1080!! I want it more than anything else in the world!
I’d go for a poster of that panel.
Since he leveled up, and had to give up another trick, does he also have a limited number of uses of Hyper Beam before resting? How far does the “poke-logic” extend in this odd universe you have crafted?
Laserfish.
LASER. FISH.
That is the only logic anyone needs.
second only to the greatness that is Lazar Wolf
Or Robot Unicorn/Panda/Wolf/Gorilla/Sabertooth tiger/Dragon.
Manbearpig?
Ah, Tevye, for once we agree on something!
(To the tune of “Tradition” from Fiddler On the Roof)
And tell me please,
What does Mr Fish charge
When threatened by evil Rainbots?
His laser, his laser. His laser!
His laser, his laser. His laser!
Forget that, what happens when he runs out of PP in “Don’t eat Jared?”
He dosent have that move ;)
It says
1) Roll over
2) Shake –> Hyper Beam
3) Dont eat.
4) Fetch Jared.
No, actually, the way the words wrap isn’t the same as if you just hit Enter in Word. It’s how it works in Pokemon; each move stays in its own corner. It’s Fetch, and Don’t Eat Jared.
It “word wraps” like in two *columns* & two rows. Each entry will word wrap within it’s own column.
1 2
3 4
Can’t wait to see what happens to them during the recharge.
Oooooh, that’s so quotable.
I’m looking forward to the Commander having a man-to-man talk with Jared about becoming a pokemon trainer himself. Nothing quite like having an unstoppable death machine that can vomit laser beams handy.
If the Soldier can stomach it…
Well, keep in mind that during Jared’s interview, the Commander admitted to him that Jared managed to make Pokemon battles out to be a sport that the Commander would actually WANT to watch!
I can’t see the commander wanted to be a poke`mon trainer regardless of how bad-ass Mr. Fish has become. but it makes me wonder how many moves did Jared survive this long without Mr. Fish learning a move like that?
This makes me wonder what kind of the pokemon the Commander would pick. Something horrifically over the top like Machamp, Vigoroth or one of the legendary golems, or something cute, small and deceptively kick-ass (or has a kick-ass evolved form) like Totodile, Treecko or Magikarp. What do you guys think?
P.S. Anyone who says Pikachu loses automatically.
Steelix, full stop
I raise you a motherfucking METAGROSS.
Screw your non generation-one pokemon!
A Hitmonchan. Who’s name is Bruce Willis.
I’m with Squeejee.
Stupid kids today and their 400+ pokemon….
Pfft… Pre-bishied Commander is CLEARLY the evolved form of Machamp. You have to trade him to another player whilst holding both a cigar, and a poster of Marlon Brando
Substitute the cigar for a pile of raw steak, and you get Canadian Guy instead
Trump card! CHUCK NORRIS…… wait I think Mr.Fish ate him……
He would have a Slaking for the matching facial expressions.
Actually, I change my mind. Conkeldurr looks a lot like the Commander (if he was a muppet) and beats things up with concrete pylons. Clearly the best choice.
Um, excuse me? Have we forgotten about Lt. Surge and his badass raichu? i know its not pikachu, but Commander would need to have one first. But I say charizard because he says “F U Im A Dragon *spits fire*”
Commander gets the Kami trio: Tornadus, Thundurus, Landorus
Bah, Hitmonlee was always the better choice
I love the comments this spawned. We must continue this game!
I withdraw my steelix comment and say salamence
Okosan. He knows wing attack and everything.
He would obviously choose a Happiny. Have you ever seen Brock’s Happiny? That thing just randomly picks up 2 ton rocks and chucks them.
Nay. He’s a badass, old schooler. Nothing’s more old schooler than first generations. I’m convinced that he would have a Psyduck. Because nothing say better “I’m a badass motherfucker, and I’m gonna rip your butt apart” than having a Psyduck.
I would have to say a charizard. The color would match and charizard is a complete badass
don’t knock them ducks,
Magmar is just as derpy as Psyduck I’d say, but he packs a wallop. Commander strikes me as a Magmar kinda guy.
re: Magmar – I know for sure that the Commander would NOT have an Electabuzz, that’d probably mess up his time machine and all that jizz.
if anything hed use a ditto, thing can turn into a cannon imagine the tactical uses
I think he would have an Arcanine. not only is it great in battle, it looks awesome,
he could ride it, and it would be perfect to both play with & watch over his kids.
he’d use a ditto of course, pokemon can turn into a cannon for pete’s sake imagine the tactical uses.
So, is anyone going to write the song?
“I wanted to make it my new favorite dish,
But I didn’t know he was a laser fish!”
LETS DO THIS.
Once I met a Magikarp.
He was useless, he wasn’t sharp.
His trainer wasn’t any better,
just a teen in a ratty sweater,
lucky in a hopeless world.
*CHORUS*
I wanted to make it my new best dish,
but I didn’t know it was a lazer fish!
And now I’m writhing on the ground,
screams of pain the only sound
echoing in the air.
The useless fish, it beat me!
And then it tried to eat me!
So I swore revenge,
that we wouldn’t be friends,
(well, I was right on that.)
*CHORUS*
I didn’t know he’d learn Hyper Beam,
I didn’t know the kid was better than he seemed,
I didn’t know that he’d succeed,
I didn’t really know anything,
And now it really hurts.
*CHORUS*
*CHORUS*
You win. Everything.
I second that motion! He wins, everything.
We bow to your song making prowess
Woah. This was well received.
Ding ding ding! winnneeerrrr
I will write you a check with everything filled out except the amount. Write down any number on this piece of paper and I will pay it. Make this song into an album based on this comic.
I enjoy making a tune to this… thank you
What is this a parody of? Also you should make a recording of this and put it on youtube for our viewing pleasure.
It’s not a parody, it’s an original tune with lyrics. And I can’t sing, sorry.
Laser Fish powers go!!!!
I FREAKIN LOVE IT!!!!
I thought the last comic was awesome with the bulging mouth, but the awesomeness mr. Fish now possesses is far greater! Look at that thing go!!!!
RIP EVERYTHING APPART, MR. FISH!!!!!!!
You make us proud, Mr. Fish
“I didn’t know he was a laser fish” ranks among the greatest things anyone will ever say. I cannot stop laughing at it, combined with Jared’s expression.
Agreed. Jared’s amazement is beautiful.
Jared’s so proud of his baby Mr. Fishhhhhhhh! :D
He continues to have the best facial expressions in the comic.
Now Mr. Fish is one step closer to actually becoming Trogdos. Hyper Beamin’ the Commander is now totally possible.
XD
That was the first thing that came to your mind, too?
:p
What level does Mr. Fish learn “Burninate”?
I bow to the greatness of your comment…
Even the commander looks impressed.
Well, yeah, it’s a LASER-FISH (destroying an army of robots single-laseredly)
The funny thing is, that isn’t even the strongest thing he can use. Hyper beam does have high attack power, but gyarados have higher physical stats than they do special stats.
Still, I’m guessing if Mr. Fish were to use anything powerful on that end *cough*giga impact*cough*, then the world would end in a glorious explosion.
In earlier Pokémon games, Hyper Beam was based off of Attack. So, yes this is possibly the best thing he can do.
Also, Laser Fish is awesome.
he does seem to be centered in gen 1, but Jared having a base could mean generation 3
The physical/special split didn’t happen until Gen 4, so it’s a moot point anyway. XD
However Jared’s Secret Base was of the Gen 4 The Underground variety (with the bubble trap) so G Giga Impact would be much more powerful on a Gyarodos if that is the case.
YOU DARE QUESTION THE LASER FISH’S DECISION?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
QUICK! Someone with audio editing skills; take Ballad of the Wind Fish. And mix in some laser firing noises. It will be so cash.
Yeah, I can do that much. I’ll post both versions LA and MM, because I don’t know which you want.
Umm… yeah… I can’t find any quick laser sounds, and don’t exactly have the equipment to do it myself. :( I was really looking forward to that crowning moment of awesome too.
the level of awesome is already too damn high, can’t wait for colour :D
JARED learned MR. FISH WAS LASER FISH! +10 EXP.
Jared Leveled up!
Jared wants to learn state the obvious!
JAred already knows 4 moves!
what move should be forgotten!
“proper sea dragon riding”
“intricate facial patterns”
“hug”
“someone else think of a fourth move, wifes got dinner on the table”
4th move: Whine about still-missing Xbox
Move 4 is fanboy. Obviously.
Move 4 is Nerdgasm. ;D
Because of you, I am now training a Gyrados. Well, I’m breeding. Still in the breeding stages…effing Pokemath…
I didn’t play pokemon for about 10 years. I finally got a 3DS and pokemon Black, and learned how deep the buneary hole really goes. Every single battle matters. Its ridiculous.
Mr Fish has a Derpy nature, raising its Special Attack (and everything else) to awesome levels of nuclear-blast-manga-leveling-awesomeness.
“I didn’t know he was a laser fish”…I think my life is somehow complete…
I just imagine Jared saying his lines in a level, enthralled whisper. That’s what I’d say if I was saying about my cat that I didn’t know she was a laser cat.
I can’t wait for the colors. Even without it, it’s as fantastic as I hoped it would be.
Now there’s the SHOOP DA WHOOP I was expecting.
Hoping for this since last comic. I expect it to be properly colored!
When this strip finally gets colored, it will be so beautiful in a manly kind of way that Shakespeare would bring himself back to life just to write a prose or two about a Laser-Fish Hyper-Beaming ten different shades of robotic crap out of the Rain-bots.
Your forecast was correct. You win an Internet.
Well, it was either that or SKADOOOOOOOOOSHHHH!!!
I can’t wait till he tells his parents and they are furious that he didn’t learn Giga Impact instead.
“But in Gen 1 it was Phy-”
“NOOO EXCUSES!”
Dude, I would bet that you’re right. Commander needs to go to Jared’s parent’s house and crack some heads. Or just send the Laser Fish to laser them in a laserly laser fashion into laser hell. Laser.
Of this, I approve, too bad gyrados cant learn hydro cannon…and F$%K YOU ITS GEN 1! (then he should have commander hold his parents at gun point until they accept the fish)
Not even through breeding? :'(
Gyrados + most powerful water move ever = DROWN THE WORLD.
MR. FISH + most powerful water move ever = DROWN THE COMMANDER!
:P
Commander won’t drown, he’s a SEAL from the future.
He’s a TIALS
Time, Air, Land, Sea for clarification.
If this gets much cooler looking it might burn my eyes right out of my head. Use your powers wisely, Coela.
I’m already having difficulties processing this much cool all at once. When the color version goes up, I’ll have to, I don’t know, just look at one 10×10 pixel square of it at a time, with ample rest in between, until I’ve built up a tolerance for it.
This comment had me in stitches, thank you for that
That beautiful moment when you realize just /why/ you caught a magicarp.
I know that feel
Seriously, I had an entire team of Gyarados. Its my favorite pokemon OF ALL TIME. So to say the least, I’m a bit of a Mr. Fish fangirl XD
In the Jhoto games I just waited until the Lake of Rage and captured the red Gyarados. Of course, I then fished the shit out of said lake because of that old bastard who gave out rewards for large Magikarp.
Definitely did that two weeks ago. It was amazing. Gary (yes, I named him Gary) is my new favorite in my team.
That reminds me, i have to buy the only magikarp in black from that guy… see yall in a few hours, gunna get me a gyrados.
ALL GLORY TO THE LASER FISH!
I actually love getting the opportunity to look at your black and white art. Sure, the special effects aren’t quite as awesome, but Jared’s face still is. XD
Jared finally reached stage 4 of the bish infection now he going have to learn to live with Doe like eyes for the rest of his life.
Stage 1-3 is just removal of anything manly from bodymass to facial hair third is mannerisms.
He’s probably had eyes like that in a dozen other other strips.
Man, the worst of that? I actually read that as do-eh. Ferk.
“This is….like 10 times better than the pressure washer!”
Exactly!
now we must misuse it for mundane purposes much like the pressure washer
It’s a testament to the awesome of the pressure washer that Hyper Beam is only ten times better.
Precisely.
Aw man I can’t wait for this to be colored. This strip and the previous one are the most glorious MGDMT strips ever :D
It should be a coloring contest!!
Mr. Fish has gained AVATAR STATE
Oh he better use it to kill Ozai, that ending they went with sucked
I think it matched Aang’s nature better, personally, but I would have liked to see how the characters dealt with dealing death. Maybe they’ll work it into Korra.
I hope so, ’cause I really want someone to kill Amon.
it is a nick series though. people pretty much can’t die on screen, or else its too “graphic”
I dispute that tanks were flipped and blown up time and again. No one could survive that.
People have actually done so, even during WWII.
Also, that doesn’t count as on-screen, just like the cave collapsing on Jet didn’t count as on-screen.
Ok well what about Zhao?
still off-screen, last we see of him is Koizilla carrying him off, we’re to assume he drowns/Koizilla kicks his ass to death offscreen.
I think it was fairly obvious that Jet died… but they didn’t show it so…. hmmm
That’s definitely over 9000
Where’s his other tentacle? :(
…? His other tes– oh, tentacle.. It’s probably hidden by the intensity of the straight-out-the-mouth end of the Hyper Beam.
I thing it’s more like a whisker/mustache than a tentacle…
Actually, it’s a barbel – a whiskerlike tactile organ near the mouth of carps. They house the fish’s taste buds and are used to search for food in murky water.
Okay Barbel, lol. It’s okay, Squid fixed it :)
Ballad of the Laser Fish.
BALLAD OF THE LASER FISH.
It never ceases to crack me up when Jared’s eyes go watery,
…Security detail fainted.
made me lol
The Commander looks hella impressed.
“Welp, kid, now you got yerself a laser-dragon-fish. Just don’t let ‘im touch my truck, I just got that fixed after Pyramid Head chopped the engine block in half.”
Hey, everyone. see the third guy up that is being laser’d? the left one. now look to his left.
Am i the only one that sees a face there?
No no, I see it too. Even the rocks are staring.
Dammit, Jared. Stop stealing my lines.
A “Link’s Awakening” reference and Hyper Beam? This day gets better and better.
I cannot WAIT until you color this! :D This is going to be poster-worthy, no kidding.
I’m guessing it’ll be more obvious when it’s colored, but I think there’s fade out behind the beam, so it’s blocking the other one.
It’s… it’s…..
BEAUTIFUL….
Dear Coelasquid,
I absolutely love the Commander’s face at seeing Mr. Fish be awesome.
However, I also desperately want to see what non-bishie Commander’s face would be at this moment of utter badassery.
I realise I could do it myself, or ask another person, and that it may mean more work for you. But I really want to see the author’s own interpretation of this, and a simple headshot sketch would suffice.
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE??? o(*w*o)
With Lots of Fandom Love,
pyra
Pyra, I had the exact same thought! Have we ever seen the Commander look quite this agog before? I’d like to see that expression on his normal face, too. Not that I’m trying to be pushy, Coela, you don’t have actually do it, because I know you’re really damn busy. It’s just a thought!
*pulls out a dollar for the Epic Jar*
You know you never really see collateral damage in the Pokemon games but when you have lasers, fire, tornadoes, and other crap there would have to be a great deal of it.
This reminds me of the issue of Astonishing X-men when cyclops takes off his visor to destroy all the sentinels on the lawn.
I just wanted to say that you are the coolest, coelasquid, and a consistent part of my monday morning experience. I frequently go through the archives and am always hungry for more. I want to have your merch.
I predict that Mr. Fish will use Hyper Beam on occasion, but most of the time will default to his favorite tactic of bashing things in with his face.
I fear for Mr. Fish and Jared, because Mr. Fish keeping Hyper Beam after this arc is over feels unlikely for some reason.
HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME
YOU FOOLS, HYPERBEAM ONLY HAS 5 USES! I think… it was one of those low pp moves right?
use a PP max it maximizes your PP count of any move!
Or just use one of the ether potions in Jared’s potion sack. I think it was ether in gen 1.
I dunno about needing the color, those charred bodies speak volumes.
so does jared now need to forget something in order to integrate mr fish’s new reality?
So Mr Fish finally hit level 47. 3 more, and Jared can take him online.
I love Mr. Fish every day more & more.
He has one whisker?
It looks pretty cool now. Tongue lolling out, vomiting light onto an army of robots.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned sheer size of Mr. Fish in this comic. I’m not exactly complaining, but it looks like leveling up gave him another 30′ of size.
This just raises the question, for me, of what Gen Jared and Mr. Fish are? Gyarados learns Hyperbeam at level 52 in Gen I, 50 in Gen II, 55 in Gen III, and 47 in Gen IV and V! Obviously, it’s important that we know what level Mr. Fish for purposes of our fanfic.
Jared and Mr. Fish are from Kanto if that helps at all.
(no relation to Ian C.)
I would presume Generation 1, as that’s the original Kanto Generation (though Kanto DID appear in II, III, -and- IV… I’m sticking with I). That would make Mr. Fish Level 53+ by now, since Rainbots are giving him decent EXP and he just vaporized another batch.
The very definition of Joke Character made lethal from the Pokemon games becoming even more of a joke here, followed by true blue lethality – that’s (stuffs the Epic Jar full of cash instead of saying anything).
Kanto is Gen I, II, III and IV, so Mr. Fish has to be at least Level 47, it depends more on what game he came from.
Can Bishie Cananda Guy Show up please?
I don’t think Mr. Canada could turn into a bishie no matter how many times he’s been hit by the Nomura virus/syndrome. I think that man sweats manly that it vaporizes anything unmanly that tries to enter his pores.
*and that it vapor…
Actually, Canada Guy has always had a non-contagious strain of the disease. We’ve never seen his true, non-bishie, self. Think about that, and ponder how manly he truly is…
What do Link’s Awakening and this comic have in common? Both have fish ballads, and both eventually are in color!
ooooo – how’s mr. fish gonna fit on top of the car again??
He won’t have to … just point him in the direction opposite of where you want to go and have him laser you there.
Oh Jared, you don’t know a lot of things.
Gyarados has evolved into Angry Shoop-Da-Woop. XD Seriously, Mr. Fish looks PISSED!!! I’d run without even caring where I went if I saw that face!
Jared just fangasmed.
And this already looks awesome so when colored this will look fantasmagorical or some other lesser used term for beyond amazing
My husband’s response to this page:
“Hyperbeam is a Gackt-reflex”
*rimshot*
Cheers from the peanut gallery
Haha! Nice!
Mr.Fish could have also learned flamethrower OR Outrage OR Draco Meteor, now that would be just as awesome as Hyper Beam.
Jared is going to use this for just everything now.
“Hey this room is dirty, Mr.Fish.”
Mr.Fish used hyper beam
It’s super effective, room fainted.
Now Pokemon doesn’t look so lame anymore, eh Commander?
“I’m pretty impressed you managed to park a sea monster in my office.”
Commander always liked Mr. Fish. He’s the only reason Jared’s in there at all.
I have a feeling there was more to it, but I’ll let you keep thinking that.
I think I can speak for all of us, when I say; “A wallpaper is needed.”
Coelasquid said, “Let Mr. Fish learn Hyper Beam!” Much awesomeness ensued, and the fandom rejoiced.
Thanks be to Squid, Amen.
I love how Jared picked up Magikarp without even knowing its true potential. XD
He loved Mr. Fish for who he truly was, not who he would become.
Jared’s happy-face has made my day FOREVER.
Laser fish, indeed.
Mr. Fish is firin’ his lazer! xD
i alwas bought my magicarp from the shady dealer for 500
I can only imagine how Jared will abuse Mr. Fish’s newfound ability. You all remember the hose fiasco, yes?
DR Evil! “all i want is a shark with a Freakin’ lazer beam attached to its head! is that to much to ask!”
*after this Pannel.*
Dr Evil does the. *not bad* meme
I would mortally wound to have this strip made into a widescreen wallpaper
You forgot to draw Mr. Fish’s right mouth tendril.
Nicely made Coelasquid, nicely made. Also I laughed at the wind waker reference in the title, if it is one. Looking forward to next week. Good luck!
Mr. Fish is goign to get so many hugs when this is done!
NOW you are the king of everything Jared
Sharks with FREAKIN LASERBEAMS!
Yeah… I really would have waited ’til this was colored before posting it.
WHERE CAN I OBTAIN A LASER FISH
HYPER-MOTHERF##KING-BEAM GO!!!
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…… Someone had to do it xD This page looks glooorious ♥
I also here SKAAAAAADOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH! when I see it.
Can’t wait for this one to be coloured!
Oh my god yes. This will be magnificent with color.
This is the best strip ever.
I’m printing this out and framing it.
Yes, I shall come back every day to see the color strip. And probably after that, too, to see it some more.
I think we can officially close the internet. We have seen everything we needed to see now.
“Now I’ve seen everythang”
Would Shoop-Da-Whoop face kill this or make this?
Kill it painfully.
Oooooh, I’m gonna print this up and let my nephew’s kids colour it!
…I lied, I coloured it myself.
Now I want to draw a lazer fish. But my tablet is in Korea.
DAMN YOU, PACIFIC OCEAN.
Pen and paper?
the problem with technology these days. all the tried and true techniques are being forgotten.
I learned on traditional (ballpoint pen and napkin no less).
I haven’t so much forgotten, as just gotten excessively lazy.
Goddamn beautiful. Absolutely goddamn beautiful
god nice to see mr Fish booming away
*makes face like Jared*
Awesome coloring work, C. Squiddy!
Just… Amazing…
Had to do this, couldn’t resist.
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/227/lazere.jpg
If only the laser was coming OUT of the shoop da whoop mouth instead of coming UNDER it, that would be even better than what it already is: comedy silver!!
I suck at photoshop and/or image editing xD
Tried again xD
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2935/mahlazer.jpg
dude the laser fish is soooooooo bada$$ed
Coelasquid, could you please make a wallpaper of mr. fish hyperbeaming??? Please??
COLORED VERSION.
I am in awe. This is… glorious.
People are commenting on Commander’s face, but look at Janie! Especially after she adjusted so well to everything in the agency. I think this is the first thing we’ve seen that really surprised her, other than PH.
Do you mean Jonesy?
MR. Fish deserves so much jiffy pop now.
just throw an unpooped pack at him, he can pop it himself!
By god, that is the best drawn Hyper Beam I have seen! You need to make that one panel into a print! I AM GYARADOS! DESTROYER OF WORLDS!
er… that was “unpopped”!
I couldn’t see the castle for how awesome Mr Fish is, took me reading it twice to realize there it was behind him.
Oh, it is wonderful in color!
Fantastic work!
Castle on a cliff edge? Are the going to Castlevania?
I was just thinking “Castlevania. I’m calling it now”.
Hyper Beam is the end-all shit wrecker. Fuck Giga Impact.
God, Coela, that coloring is excellent. It’s like Mr. Fish’s head is framed by a big, blue-grey sheet of storm cloud. Really good. It’s actually scary!
I don’t mean to diminish your previous works in anyway and I have been watching your art for a very long time. But i honestly think that this is the greatest thing you have ever drawn ever.
Amen to that!
Am I the only one who thought Jared’s face in panel 3 looked like this:
http://thedingleberry.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/cute-meme.jpg
Never in the history of the internet have so many people been so excited about a gyrados learning hyper beam. Well done Coelasquid, well done.
Now I kinda want to raise a Gyarados again, does that make me a bad person?
Also a poster of the main shot would be awesome.
Take the song Angelwitch and replace all instances of those words with Laserfish. Instagold.
This IS a really cool page with the color!
Too… Beautiful… Should have brought… a bard… *sniffles*
In my head, Jared always sounds like Donut from Red Vs. Blue. But ESPECIALLY in panel 3
HOLY GOODNESS IT’S AMAZING IN COLOR
Sorry. But really, it’s AMAZING in color.
*orgasm*
Yeah, the shading made this about a 100x cooler than it already was.
Hey, Coelasquid. I’ve got something interesting to tell you.
In my Film Acting class, part of our final exam was to create a documentary on a famous actor. I couldn’t think of anybody… But then I remembered your comic. So I chose Marlon Brando as the subject of my video.
I’d just like to say: thank you for reminding me who’s the king on manliness.
I predict HyperBeam is the new Leaf Blower!
LASERFIIIIIIISH! LASERFISH FOREVERRRRRRRR!!!!
It’s glorious!
this panel would make for a right fine shower curtain!
That, my friend, would be full of win. If they make this, i will buy it.
Well… He’s no RED Gyarados, but he’ll do the job JUUUUUST fine :D
On Monday: Holy crap, that is the coolest picture ever.
On Wednesday: HOLY CRAP I LIED!!!!
Uh-oh, he’ll have to recharge..
And so, Mr. Fish became the manliest character in the history of the Manly Guys comic. THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just realized something. The source of the hyper beam? All of the robo-Rains Mr. Fish failed to puke back up.
…they should have sent a laser poet…
This is possibly the best thing ever. And in colour now! Glorious.
Glorious.
Every time I look at the incinerated bodies, the first thing that comes to mind is “IT’S VERY SLOWLY COMING THIS WAY!” DRR DRR DRR
Oh dear GOD WHY
This world needs more Laser Fish.
I’m not sure if anybody here is keeping an eye on pokemon news. But manly guy Giovanni is making a return in Black 2 and White 2.
Anybody else forcefully and delightfully reminded of Godzilla at this moment?
Should i…. naah forget it.
SHOOP DA POKE WHOOOOOP!!!!
Speaking of badass pictures. I am going off on a tangent with a really rad Garrus. http://img.waffleimages.com/8586d33f67f4159ea12eb577f0be068645decbd0/1267981293840.png
does this mean an eventual Castlevania theme’d encounter?
When I read “castle” my mind instantly jumped to: “Sorry commander, but out Gackt is another castle!”
I LOVE THEIR FACES! XD Mr. Fish is-a firin’ his laaaasaaar…BWAAAAHHHH!!!
Hi, I’ve read this since the start and I thought it should be known that this comic got a Fave Five shout out on the Flog this week. I wasn’t seeing it in any of the other comments so I just thought I’d say grats! Keep up the hilarity :D
http://theflog.geekandsundry.com/
But…what about the recharge?
Just had an Thought Coelsquid. What about an opposite number for the Commander’s Temp agency? I’m talking one for women instead.
Could there be one like that going on? If so, could there be a rivalry going between them?
Just had an Thought Coelsquid. What about an opposite number for the Commander’s Temp agency? I’m talking one for women instead.
Could there be one like that going on? If so, could there be a rivalry going between them?
And he never needs to worry about “Don’t eat Jared” being overwritten, because Hyper Beam is gyarados’ final natural move in any generation.
Also, Mr.Fish is so unbelievably epic in this that AFSSASDFGDDL.
That is a beautiful gyarados.
Womanly Gals doing Womanly Things?
Nah, that already exists: cooking shows
The punchline is feminism!
I just read through all of these in one afternoon because of the sheer awesomeness of them. O.O This is beautiful.
So what you’re telling me is that they’ve finally found a way to combine Fish DNA with Laser DNA?
OMG! That is freaking hilarious! I love Jared’s face at first, ‘I’ve created a monster!’ but no, he’s just in awe! and the coloring is just beautiful. Mr Fish is kinda scary now…
Mr. Fish is kinda like me when I do certain things in video games. Mainly when I get my hands on explosives in 007 Nightfire on Gamecube. NOBODY WILL SURVIVE! >:D
I used to be a laser fish, but then I took a hyper beam to the knee.
But… ..fish don’t have knees…
oh meh gawd he gonna murder us all
It seems you have made a comic that can hold people off for about a week without them getting impatient! XD Now that I think about it, the lighting effects look just like those created by the Solar Eclipse last night. Then again, the sunlight DID turn white…
I love Commander’s face. He’s like “Yep, Jared DEFINITELY qualifies to be in our ranks now. He just went from being an intern to being a threat to society and maybe the world as we know it. HOLY S**T.”
HE’S THROWING UP LASER BEAMS!!!!! HOW FREAKING AWESOME IS THIS???
XD I GUESS THAT’S ONE WAY TO PUT IT!
The number of readers that have, following this update, caught Magikarps to evolve to Gyrados, and nicknamed them LaserFish or some variant thereof, will go over 9000 in 3…
2…
1…
*ding*
(and I am not ashamed to include myself in that number btw)
You ask me, it’s a real bargain buying one just before Mount Moon from that shady guy in the Pokemon Center. Moreso if you’ve had somebody donate an Exp Share.
yup, that’s what I did. Had me a Gyrados well before getting the Old Rod. Laserfish saved my ass with Misty’s Starmie, actually.
Shady Man: “I don’t take refunds, you knew what you were getting” yeah I was getting me something awesome.
Man, I just discovered this comic, I think I may had seen it awhile ago but I’m glad I found it again!
SHOOP-DA-WHOOP! :D
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It looks weird, but it works, and it took me quit e awhile to figure out how to make it. YAY! :D
Why nobody reply to MY comments? Y_Y
I replies. And probably because there’s an ocean of comments.
Must resist urge to make Shoop Da Whoop joke…..
My screen resolution is 1920 by 1080… ooh, I want the picture of Mr. Fish blasting the robots sized to make my backgroun!
Fus Ro Da!
…;7;
Laser beam is always so god-damn COOL LOOKING.
THIS IS WHY I MADE MY BEEDRILL LEARN IT.
Don’t diss my kick-ass Beedrill.
Beedrill can learn laser moves? I DIDN’T KNOW THAT! Why the heck didn’t I find out about that before when Beedrill wasn’t outdated and would make an epic bug type when combined with such a move? That’s just cruel… Y_Y
No wonder Chuck Norris pissed his pants……..
This calls for a theme song.
I was kicked out of the Pk League
But nobody else was
My parents have my X-Box
I left my game on pause
I will travel in Cmdr’s car
Searching for the Source
Of the Bish-thing and stop the man
With Mr. Fish of course
Chorus:
Laser Fish! (Gotta blast ’em all), it’s just us two
Didn’t know what you could do
Laser fish… oooh, you’re so awesome
You’ll get lots and lots of chum!
Laser Fish! (Gotta blast ’em all), take your best shot
You will stop all the RainBots
You are cool, and I will ride
Laser Fish!
Gotta blast ’em all!
Gotta blast ’em all!
Gotta blast ’em all!
Yeah…
*applause*
sure have been slack on the updates past couple of weeks eh?
There’s still a comic every week, if you’ve got a problem with it, you can stop reading any time.
Best Song Ever.
/)^3^(\ so awesome!
HELLS YAH! Love this character. The expressions on the last page were gold.
Now the gamer part of me is going “But Hyper Beam is a special move now and Gyarados’ special attack is lousy and it doesn’t even get STAB to make up for that” and the rest of me is going “Laser fish: your argument is invalid”.
Hyper beam was always a special move. It just didn’t tell you that in the first game. You were just supposed to guess. And I can say I have a gyarados named mr. Fish. Also this picture of the laser fish is the background on my phone :D
What happens when he runs out of pp?
Mi…mi… MIKURU BEEEEEAM
ummm is everbody forgetting the aquabird dragon LUGIA he can freaking talk and spit lazers out whilest eating youre tuna fish