Your Homework is to go Rewatch Incredibles
December 20, 2010
12:00 am
I am of the opinion that the word hipster means absolutely nothing anymore. People seem to use it to refer to people younger than 40 who wear clothes. And I’m sure even if they didn’t, that would be “so counterculture” and end up being hipster too.
You know, come to think of it, a reviewer once said this comic was “aimed toward hipsters who still moan the end of Arrested Development”, so I guess if you’re reading this right now and don’t consider yourself a hipster, you see what I mean.
And hey, it’s still Monday in Manitoba so technically the comic isn’t really late.
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I SAY.
Well, Time to go watch Brad Bird’s stuff.
THANKS BRO
More TF2 please! Soldier seems like he’d fit in well.
Oh God, I never even considered Soldier in this comic… but, c’mon, if anything, Scout is the manliest man in all of TF2. Well, that is, besides the great Saxton Hale.
Oh great comic artist, I implore you, if you do not know of the superbeast known simply as Saxton Hale, you must learn of him. His macho, manly glory should be known to all who read this comic.
And BTW, I AM still sad that Arrested Development is over, and I have never once in my life been referred to as a hipster. So, nyah.
Saxton Hale is representative for everything that went wrong with TF2. Saxton Hale and hats.
That’s almost like saying everything but the gameplay is bad.
I’m still surprised that he didn’t call Mr. Fish a Hipster. XD
I ran out of panels.
Yeah, but it really is a shame since Mr. Fish is OU in the environment so the joke would have been really funny there too.
But be that as it may, FALCON PUNCH!
Saxton Hale has chest hair in the shape of Australia! Cmon.
And muscles the size of texas…he beats of hippies regularly, and wears a badass hat…and has an epic stache…
FATALITY! bitch.
The gameplay is bad. You just stand around trying to get hats. Except for that team-FPS minigame it comes with — that’s ok.
Actually, the hats are part of gameplay. Whenever I describe TF2 to anyone, I say, “It’s a hat simulator that lets you shoot at guys in differently colored shirts. Also, you can sometimes push a cart up a hill.”
That said, I like my hats, thank you very much :-P.
saxton and hats was a lateral move. the downward move was trading. turned the game into auction fortress
This usually happens in any game with trading, but trading was in such high-demand.
You must remember, TF2 is a community game, even more-so than Halo. TF2 is taking steps for good, fuck, I am even signing up for the BETA 2!
Nothing is wrong with trading, hats, or Saxton Hale, anyone who believes so is just dumb.
Loads of dumbs.
Vorked, you have the right idea. See, from my perspective, anyone who thinks that trading turned the game into Auction Fortress 2 is an impatient moron. that only happened because, when a new feature is added to anything, those using it immediately go “NEW STUFF! SWEET, I WANNA TRY!!” so it becomes insanely popular. though, today, trading is now a convenience, not an obsession. If I get something I already have a bajillion of and i need something else, I’ll offer for trade. unless it’s Natascha. that goes straight to the scrap heap. (though a recent update did make that gun a TON more balanced.)
Loads of dumbs? dont you mean entire team of dumb
I don’t see what the problem is. I have never had an issue dealing with people trading over gaming.
Sir, I beg to differ. Sure TF2 is very different now, but as a purely fun and stylized shooter, the hats have done nothing but make the game more amusing. Sure some weapons are overpowered and complete bullcrap *coughnataschacough* but ever since Saxton Hale, TF2 has done nothing but expand and provide more and more options for fun. You are entitled to your opinion, my good man, but know that you are of a minority.
Uh… Why exactly? TF2 is funny, quirky and about a bunch of crazy people in a team together. Saxton’s all that but more badass and was incorporated before a lot of other things such as the catalogue.
I don’t mind trading and I can understand why they made the catalogue there but really… now they’re just adding stuff to the store instead of finally finishing up the Meet The Machinimas. :(
Saxton Hale would be brilliant in this comic. I reckon he’d get on really well with Canadian Guy. And Commander would probably HATE him.
Commander just hates Canadian guy because he’s Canadian guy.
Well…. apparently you just were :P
is one of the facts that commander hates canadian guy cus we got the best bacon?
Also i live in british columbia so your comic is early for me :D
Commander is a racist.
Agreed. if someone does need help to fit society, it is Soldier.
Scout’s just a jock, he’ll grow up eventually, and Saxton controls a multinational weapons company, he doesn’t need anything else. If anything, he’d offer Commander to host some event or something
HHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It feels good to see this joke finally come to form, and that form being Syndrome creeping over Captain Falcon.
He seems to be creeping over everyone ever.
I think he is just a creeper.
Coelasquid should make Minecraft comic.
What does that have to do with anything that has been mentioned in this reply thread. Get off of my cloud /rageface
SSSSSsssssssssss…..
Creepers are a type of monster in minecraft.
Just saying.
Get your Minecraft out of here.
Thatsssssss a nice every thing you have there, It whould be sssssssssshame if sssssssssssomething happen to it…
The Incredibles is an incredibly under-rated film.
That said, I was never found Arrested Development to be particularly funny. I guess that means I’m outside this strip’s target audience.
I’m with you in that audience outside that target audience.
I fucking loved Arrested Development. It is also getting a movie soon.
It’s okay, I’m sure we can find something in your sordid past to accuse you of being a hipster for.
You like MGDMT?
Hipsteerrrrr….
Your internet username doesn’t contain xxx or 666?
Hipster.
wouldn’t xxx’s be more hipster than not? I don’t know, you kids these days and your imaginary subcultures.
Nah, xxx’s tend to gravitate towards scene kids who shouldn’t be on the internet in the first place. Hipsters are “too cool” for that kind of stuff, so they rebel against it by not putting it in their names.
Or maybe I just made that up but whatever
From my observations it seemed goth kids spawned emo kids spawned scene kids spawned hipster kids like some sort of highschool subculture Pokemon evolution chain.
YOU REFERENCED POKEMON
HIPSTER
Hey, I’ve been playing pokemon since ’98, I EARNED Pokemon.
I thought you earned pokemon with that spot on Mr.Fish :C impression on your DA
AS. HAVE. I.
You know, I was playing pokemon in its original Japanese game boy version. You know,
before it came so mainstream.
Hell yes. Pick the ones you like, nevermind the ones that are popular.
I WILL BLAST YOU TO DEATH WITH MY FORRETRESS CANNONS.
Death abalone.
And I played a rom of green in Japanese. When I couldn’t read any Japanese. And I beat it.
….with a Wigglytuff mostly. Beware the squishies. Bewaaaaaaaaaaaaare.
use “angry rebellion” on normalkid?
what’s this? normal kid is evolving! normalkid has evolved into darkangelofdarkness!
use “extra sad sauce” on darkangelofdarkness?
what’s this? darkangelofdarkness is evolving! darkangelofdarkness has evolved into xcrying~*~blood~*~wingsx!
use “lots of weird camera angle shots” on xcrying~*~blood~*~wingsx?
what’s this? xcrying~*~blood~*~wingsx has evolved into xXxcutie*night*angelxXx!
use “individuality” on xXxcutie*night*angelxXx? what’s this? xXxcutie*night*angelxXx has evolved into falkisrethitaleitalke!
The advantage to having an uncommon (in english at least) name is that you don’t need to add a bunch of random digits to get a workable internet handle.
You Hipster
Tru’ dat. I made my Intername™ by using dark, forgotten name manipulation witchcraft sorcery magic oogey-boogey shit. Also, it turns out that it’s the name of a city in Tchad. COINCIDENCE? I THINK SO!
Oh I’m sure, this one time in high school…
Arrested Development was awesome, at least their first album. I especially liked “Mr. Wendal.”
Wait, what are you guys talking about?
Oh, Syndrome… isn’t the whole point of being a hipster that you don’t care what other people think and just do your own thing? So they are immune to your taunts!
That’s the original point of hipster but it turned into rebelling whatever’s popular as opposed to doing your own thing. Soo…
I rebel by farting noxious gasses in elevators as the door closes. So far it isn’t hip and I’ve been doing it for 3 decades. I dare farting in elevators to become Hipster!!!!
You claim you’re not a hipster because no one else is doing it?
HIPSTER!
All this talk of hipster sounds like a commercial for an exercise machine…
Also, the Mr F episode nearly caused laughter-related hernias the first time I saw it. I’ll say no more.
So all you hipster go and buy your fatbuster 9000 now for only 5 payments of $99.90
Man, F this!
… F for FABULOUS!!
(Seriously, please, someone know what this is a reference to.)
Holy crap! Seriously? TWEWY reference yes. <3
Love that guy.
Doublepost zomg.
The guy’s name is Eiji Oji, the “Prince of Ennui”. Love it!
I get it! Prince reference for the WIN!
A the world ends with you reference?
HIPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I have finally seen Coelesquid draw the Heavy.
It’s like the universe is just right all of a sudden.
Is what I said on TWitters.
TWTITIERSE
you follow people on Twitter?
HHHIIIIIPPPPPPSSSSSSTTTTTTTEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!!
No, Twitter is too mainstream.
Yes. And I hate Twitter and Facebook for that very reason. …And I will be the first to admit that it’s a really stupid reason.
…That makes me a hipster, doesn’t it?
Yes. Yes it does.
Honestly, I don’t use social networking sites not because everyone and their dog has a facebook page, but because my real identity doesn’t appear ANYWHERE on the interwebs, and I intend on keeping it that way. I’m Batman.
My friend, that is an amazing reason.
But trendy goggles are awesome….
HIPSTERRRRR!!!
I laughed, I cried. I threw out all my silkscreened shirts and my pilot goggles. I buried my flannel shirt.
Then I watched Jack Jack attack.
Pft. Talking about hipsters? You guys are such hipsters.
Making fun of hipsters?
Hipster.
Making fun of people making fun of hipsters?
Hiipppsterrrrrr
Making fun of the guy making fun of the guy who is calling someone else a hipster?
Hipsteeeeeerrrrrrrr
Chain-calling people hipsters for meta-hipster labeling?
Hip-fukkin’-ster.
Using longer and longer sequences of “e”s and “r”s?
Hiiipppppsssttteeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Using the word ‘sequences’?
Hipsteeeeerrrrr
(Grasping at straws here)
Using single apostrophes?
Hipsterrrrrrrrrrrrrr
(Me too. I got nuthin)
Making bad comebacks and ironically calling yourself out?
Hippitydipster
…That was the idea?
Saying little side comments in parentheses?
Hipsters!!!!
Grasping at straws!? Getting out of ideas?
Hiiiiiipsteeeer!
Ran out of bread so you had only cheese for breakfast?
Hiiii…pster?
Riding on the bandwagon?
Hipsteeeeerrrs
Accusing others of riding the bandwagon?
HIPPPPPPSTERRRRRRR!
Copying Syndrome?
Hipsterrrrr…
This is EXACTLY what Syndrome was trying to accomplish…
Combo breaking?
Shakira says “my hipsters don’t lie”
“No Jared. You are the counter-cultures.”
and then Jared was a hipster.
I giggledsnorted.
Which was awkward.
My coworkers are looking at me funny.
You’re a fan of John Stalvern too?
Of course. With literary skill like that, who could resist?
I especailly appreciate “Quarter Life: Halfway to Destruction.”
Good lord.
I was not made aware that we have been graced with another glorious epic.
Mind you, I’m more preferential to the Half-Life fic Fulllife Consequences.
WEPON
Nothing can top squirrelking’s masterpiece. NOTHING.
Zombie goasts! Leave this place!
Me? Hipster? Son, I am disappoint.
Using a /b/ meme?
Hipserrrrr
Something came from 4Chan? MUST BE /b/.
No bro, no.
/b/ may use it a lot, but that does not mean they made it.
Knowing that not everything comes from /b/?
Hippitty-hop-ster
Vorked got pwned
Whoa
People still say “pwned”?
Or are you being “ironic” because this comic is about hipsters?
Say “pwned”?
Hipsterrrrrrrrr
Using finger quotes around the word “ironic”?
Hipster.
I love this comic, and it can only benefit from more Heavy.
THE INCREDIBLES! YESSS.
Cry some more ?
Hiipppsstteeerrsss !
This is awesome. Awwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesome.
Also, that review that I have not yet read seems unfair. This seems like it would appeal to far more people than those sad to see Arrested Development go.
I see it as an opposite.
There are far more fans of a national TV show that went through four seasons, than there are of little ‘ol us being here.
I’ve never even seen arrested development.
I know there was a moose or something.
Iunno. I’ve seen several episodes and enjoyed it a lot, except I saw it after it was already canceled and was on dvd.
The humor does ring similar on a few levels but overall I think the type of humor in the comic is easier for people to appreciate.
I think she just means not everyone who reads this comic watched Arrested Development.
That too.
I have actually been called a hipster because of my aviator goggles before. :| S’weird man.
:( Am I the only one who doesn’t think that Syndrome is particularly manly? I love that film…but yeah… XD not really feeling the apparent manliness of Syndrome.
Not sure he’s supposed to be manly. He just kind of came out of nowhere to be a dick to everyone.
Thinking Syndrome isn’t manly? (Even though he isn’t.) Hippppppsssterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
On a related note, imagining how that would sound, I’m now afraid of myself with candy.
You have fear in your heart?
Weakliiiinng
You have candy?
Hipsterrrrr…
It’s cause he’s missing his cape.
No capes? Hiiiipster.
Presence of capes are a dangerous hipster fashion, as explained in the Incredibles,
Missing out on a movie theme? HIPSTER
Well this came right out of left field. Still appreciate Syndrome, and demand to know when Disney is going to make that Incredibles sequel where they fight Mole-Man.
Also, Dustinland is relevant here with his newfound theory of hipster relativity:
http://dustinland.com/archives/archives464.html (or maybe old, iunno).
They fought the underminer in the video game.
Forgive me, but I tend to be somewhat prejudiced against movie video games under the assumption that they’ll turn out…well, bad.
There’s GoldenEye for the Nintendo 64, and the more recent Lord of the Rings games weren’t so bad. The Aladdin games are classics to gamers of a certain age.
But yeah – by and large…
GoldenEye is an excellent point, seeing as how I am currently (re)enjoying both the N64 and (soon-to-be-revered-as-a) Wii classic.
Unfortunately, could not get into LotR. And as for Aladdin…let’s just say I was denied a home console till GameCube, and the Virtual Console is my sacred Holy Grail for reliving what I never had.
The Riddick games and the new (old-ish now) Ghostbuster games were supposed to be good.
Best I can tell Ghostbusters was above average at best, but I still want to get my hands on it sometimes.
Especially if Dan Akroyd and co. really define the game as the third movie and are going to follow it up with Ghostbusters 4.
Having a giant S on your shirt representing your alias, ripping off of Superman in a new age way?
HIPSTERRRR
I’m not sure this is a comic about syndrome being a creeper. It may be about that hilarious t-shirt Jared’s wearing. The fish face reminds me of the one Jared makes when the Commander shows him his action figure…
The annoyed look of Gordon Freeman and Captain Falcon are both awesome, haha. But why did everything blow up at the end?
Falcon Punch? *excuses self for fanboyism*
Everything imploded on itself from the paradox.
I don’t know if that makes sense…
Exactly.
If it made sense, it wouldn’t have imploded on itself.
QED.
a world where everyone is hipsters.
High-heeled boots on men?
You know that’s hipster.
And for short people.
…Didn’t Syndrome have a cape?
I guess he got rid of it as only hipsters wear capes.
No. He got rid of it because it was cramping his style.
Aren’t hipsters a kind of jeans with alarmingly little crotch room?
Why is this comic so fantastic?
I’m pretty sure a good chunk of it is due to the Commander’s awesome mutton chops.
Well, obviously. I’m sure the extreme expressions are also apart of it.
I’m pretty sure the only prerequisite for being a hipster is having hips. However, if somebody had no hips ironically they could probably get away with it.
I have a friend with no hip. It was eaten by staph infection. On top of that, he doesn’t want the hip replacement. Does that make him an anti-hipster? (A titanium hip, to be exact. I dunno about you, but I sure would want one of those.)
But Syndrome, didn’t you know? It’s hip to be square!
I love the hipster joking, though I don’t really see why it’s Syndrome. That being said, I think I’m going to post pictures of syndrome on any thread where there might be hipsters.
Because of Syndrome’s whole “When everyone is a hero no one will be” thing.
What the hell’s Arrested Development?
I don’t watch shitty sitcoms, man, I just like comics that I like because my opinion is that they are funny. Now I’m going to go put on my beret and sip my coffee and go watch a bongo show or whatever the hell it is hipsters do.
The explosions in the end are the result of so much fanservice not being able to contain itself in a single strip.
In ten years time, half my goddamn dictionary will be deleted as words are rendered meaningless. Words such as Epic, Hipster, Failure (now immediately associated with “fail”) and so on and so forth. What the hell are we gonna do? Do we start making a new dictionary?
Y’know, the internet is like a genocide, except innocent words are the victims, rather than innocent people.
But…wait. Did hipster ever have a meaning? I’m a young’un, and know not.
I dunno, when people started calling everything hipster I thought we were still supposed to be making fun of the Preps.
True hipster is a style of person that is fighting a war with the Jews in New York. They’re gentrifying the traditional Jewish sects and corrupting morals, with their bicycles and hipster glasses and scarves and drug use. And bad poetry.
Hipsters are those kids that do everything ironically because they can’t own up to having their own preferences and shit. It grew out of indie culture. It also has some fashions associated with it.
Heavy looks great in your style, Coelasquid. I hope we get to see more of him!
Im not sure if any1 said this yet but, Its Gorden Freeman!
Ps,
The spy is the most manliest TF2 character.
What are you, president of his fan club?
No! Zat would be your mothzer!
Ah, mon petit chou-fleur.
Chain-referencing a popular animated short?
Les Hipsterrrrrrrrs.
Gordon. GORDON FREEMAN. SPELL HIS NAME RIGHT, OR HE’LL DO IT FOR YOU.
With a crowbar. TO THE FACE!
how can a joke drag on too long on a single page comic? does this person have no attention span?
Hipsters have to follow 3 rules for me to be hipsters. They have to have a love for tacky clothing, which they wear in order to get attention from you. They have to have a gift for bringing up things they’ve done or seen that you haven’t. And most important of all, they are pretentious douches.
Also, the clothes they wear and the things they do (aside from knowing more obscure bands and movies than you) have to be done “ironically.” That’s the trademark of the hipster. He doesn’t just love the tacky 70s look, he loves it IRONICALLY.
I think sarcastically fits a little bit more properly here.
It does, by actual definitions,, but “ironically” is what hipsters say.
I don’t think people can help bringing up things they’ve done that you haven’t, that’s like saying people with different life experiences aren’t allowed to talk to you.
I think what he meant to say is how they “rub” their “superior” experiences on you. Just plain bragging.
If someone rubs their superior experiences on me I generally have them arrested as a sex offender.
Ironically, most people confuse the meaning of sarcastically and ironically like they do with literally and figuratively.
Never seen Arrested Development but I luvs me some Syndrome !!!
Favorite Pixar EVER. And we finally get to enjoy him on Blu-Ray soon :P
Gordon and The Heavy?!? Nice. Also blah blah blah The Incredibles was a good movie blah blah blah….
He wears tights. & you gotta be a man to wear tights.
crap. how do I delete this?
You don’t.
We’re men, we’re men in tights?
Tight tights!
HIPPIIIIIIIE
No, wait
That is the most adorable fish-shirt I have ever seen and if you put it on a shirt I would buy it with my money.
I’m kinda surprised Gordon’s in the comic. Yes he’s awesome. Yes he’s video game hero who survives all manner of weird-ass crap with nought but a crowbar and a gluon gun. But he’s still a relatively normal guy (hell, _Jared_ could grow up to be him) with only a nice suit and a degree worth more than any commenter on this page keeping him alive.
Oh wait. Gordon Freeman is also the man who takes the Beard of +2 Evil Counterpart and turns it into a Beard Of Awesome. Inclusion justified.
I hate to say it, but that article is totally right on the Brock Sampson thing. Right in that Brock Sampson’s voice is what I hear when the Commander talks. I can’t change it. That’s just his voice in my head.
He’s got to many cigarettes and shots of bourbon under his belt, he’d be more on the Clancy Brown/Ron Perlman side. Smoky voices, people, Smoky voices.
To me I always imagined him sounding exactly like Jack from MadWorld. Considering they look so alike. & remember, Sampson had the sane voice actor as Kronk from that Disney movie, so it’s hard for me to picture that voice on him.
Ohhh, man, Ron Perlman, that makes it all fall into place. Now I can’t imagine it any other way.
Yeah. Clancy Brown. That makes it work.
Thank you, C.
(Calling someone by an initial? Hiiipsteeerrrrrr)
No I’m pretty sure I’m talking Steven Blum
I actually really hated Steven Blum as Jack. It felt like what you’d get if Jet Black started using Spike Spiegel’s voice, like, just wasn’t deep and gruff enough for the character, more nasally tenor. Think of it like… He should have been Volt Krueger but they made him Kou Leifoh. Think something like the Goon or Volt or Perlman.
I see what you’re saying. Some of those voices would’ve been more fitting, mainly The Goon’s. But what I liked about Steven Blum being Jack’s voice actor (and why I imagine the Commander in that voice) is because he’s tough, grotty, manly, but not heartless. He (The Commander) seems to have more to him aside from being a huge bruiser type of guy. Go back & read any of the comics of him around/talking about his kids. He’s rough around the edges, but is a very “whole” person.
But I digress, I’m only talking to THE PERSON THAT CREATED HIM! >.< What kind of voice did you imagine him with so I can properly adjust my brain?
Playing with his kids doesn’t make him lose a hundred and fifty pounds and a lifetime of abuse dealt to his lungs. You can be mellow and rough around the edges at the same time, just watch any episode of the Maxx where he talks to kids.
Haha, yes very true. & I finally got around to watching that video of Antfish voicing him; It all falls into place now.
It’s bad enough that Blum even ended up playing Spike Spiegel. Spike originally had an deep and obscenely sexy voice. Then they dubbed it, and ensured that they found the plainest, most moderate and boring voice actor possible.
For what it’s worth, to me, the Commander definitely isn’t ol’ Patrick, even as much as I like the guy.
(Also, nitpicking voice actors, hiiipsterrrrz)
Hey, I’m a professional animator, this kind of stuff is my bread and butter.
I thought hipsters were a kind of pants that they sold at places like Old Navy.
I’m comforted to know that I do not qualify as a hipster because I have never seen Arrested Development and I dress myself exclusively in yak carcasses and peanut butter.
Also… Fukken Syndrome, indeed.
oh, I’m sure dressing in a yak carcass without living in a Sherpa alienage or something like that qualifies you as a hipster.
At Least Syndrome learned not to wear a cape.
He learned a lesson he’ll never remember, you mean. That was kind of a one-way walk to the Principal’s Office.
Hey does anyone else think that Syndrome looks suspiciously similar to Freakazoid?
I always felt that way about him, other than his color scheme. And I, for one, am totally cool with the resemblance, because Freakazoid was a highlight of my childhood.
Me not so much. I don’t want someone I can’t really respect (Syndrome) looking so much like someone so awesome (Freakazoid). Then again, I didn’t notice until it was pointed out….
I can’t help but feel like all the nuclear explosions were caused by annoying Captain Falcon. But then again that is probably knowledge of an old meme creeping up on me, by corrupted meaning of the word that probably makes me an E-Hipster.
Oddly enough, the thing that sticks out most about this comic for me is that Syndrome is missing his cape.
Maybe he learned his lesson.
Oh god, I just scrolled back up to re-read the comic and I noticed the Syndrome-butt in panel five.
MY EYES :<
I noticed this as well.
Dat ass.
As far as I can tell it was more hardcore punk kids spawning emotional hardcore kids (ie. the original ’emo’) which was co-opted by pop-rock/pop-punk kids to become emo kids which spawned scene kids which spawned hipster kids.
So you’re mostly right.
I just mean the kids in highschool who started following the culture. It seemed the kids inclined towards gothicisms gravitated to the emo stuff. Whatever lets them wear black and grey striped Nightmare Before Christmas clothing, you know.
When did being “naturally weird” suddenly equal “hipster”?
That reviewer made me sad with his one dimensional analysis. Feel free to just ignore people who don’t understand that sometimes jokes are meant to be taken at face value. No need to over-analyse and see what this comic represents or who it’s aimed at…honestly, I like the variety in types of humor provided and doubt there’s an overlying point or representation in the characters. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Also, why would anyone mention the “stereotypical Red Bull chugging, foul mouthed gamer”. Does he somehow expect that webcomics which involve videogames in any manner should cater to that particular category of people? *confused*
Finally, while that link made me sad, the comic fixed that. :D
Oh, hey, I’m not complaining about the reviewer, everyone’s entitled to their opinions, I was just referening him for his liberal use of the term “hipster”. :P
I thought a hipster was someone attempting to be hip…
Read the article at the link. Slowpoking like the fist of the north star, I know.
That article employs what seems like a strange sense of logic:
IF you are reading a webcomic featuring video game characters (as admittedly 99% of webcomics are about video game characters) AND you do not understand the video game references THEN perhaps the webcomic is a “hipster” webcomic.
Or you could not be part of said webcomic’s demographic. To be honest, this is a little bit like somebody who doesn’t follow politics complaining that political cartoons always involve something political. Webcomics tend to be stuck alongside video game characters, and I can get that the author of the article is sick of it. It simply means though that he hasn’t gone out and played all of these games, in the same way that I haven’t seen or read every piece of literature from the ’80’s (and so Family Guy jokes tend to be miss or graze for me).
Eh, I figure if you put something out there for everybody to read, everyone is entitled to put their two cents in on it. I will admit, though, sometimes I’m tempted to pull a Frank N. Furter and just tell the “I didn’t make it…. for YOU!” :P
Not to mention that the reviewer treated it as a strictly video-game-based comic. Obviously she hadn’t read more than the first ten-twenty pages.
I, personally, would love to see Dr. Frank N. Furter appear in the comic and weird everyone out. Since the ability to pull off heels and pearls like that is very, very manly.
I second this. He is surprisingly manly, even with those scarily shapely and attractive legs.
It’s always Monday in Manitoba. That being said, go Riders. ;)
That would make it a living hell, wouldn’t it? Always Monday, never Friday?
My god.
NOOOOOO
I’m so happy to see the Heavy finally made it into the comic hahaha. Great work!
No, no, no. A hipster is a person who appropriates working-class utilitarian clothing for the purpose of ironic mockery.
e.g., wearing fashion glasses with 20/20 vision, wearing a lumberjack outfit when you haven’t touched an axe in your life, dressing like a pilot when your feet have never left terra firma, and finally wearing keffiyehs despite apathy toward Palestinians. etc etc etc
the apparent definition has bloated so far past the original intent of the word that it’s ludicrous.
I dislike some fonts because I went to college and got a graphic design degree. This apparently makes me a hipster according to the internet.
I disliked Comic Sans and Papyrus before it was cool. See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8
Working with Comic Sans so much, I’ve learned to love it.
I don’t understand the hate for any kind of font. Even Wingdings can be nice if you use it in the right situation. If the sight of a predetermined set of characters fills you with rage, just get a tablet and write the letters out yourself.
I think they mean more inappropriate use of them. See: Comic Sans Criminal.
This comic is so awesome that I’m making a comment about it. GG
what.
Once again, it takes a Squid to point out what is wrong with the human kind.
Funnily enough, I’ve seen the “Epic Jar” panel with epic substituted with “hipster”.
Am I the only one who’s noticed that Gordon does vaguely look like a hipster? At least in the sense the word was recently “developed” for.
Yeah, with the big framed glasses and the goatee he does resemble what we call a “hipster”.
The HEV suit and beating in the faces of Combines, though, make him not, because I’m pretty sure he’s not doing that ironically.
Well if you lean your head backward and squint it vaguely looks like a preppy sweater tied around his neck or something. That’d be a pretty ironic thing for him to wear, right?
I think he’s using it to pad his enviro suit, so that the hard edges don’t chafe his delicate, lily-white nerd skin.
This may be my favorite comic yet.
Incidentally, I consider myself a hipster. That’s kind of like saying “I won the game,” isn’t it?
If I see “Irony” where “coincidence” or “sarcasm” should’ve been I will spam EPIC phrases, full of so much WIN that all the goddamn FAIL that is the internet will delete itself.
No, seriously. Goddamn, it burns. All of those burn. Will you never stop hurting me internet?
Oh, on about the whole hipster thing. My personal thing has always been a “hipster” likes something just because it’s “hip”, which is a word used for something that’s currently a trend. So a hipster to me has always been merely a mindless drone that like whatever’s trendy. Whatever’s popular.
So maybe the “mindless drone” part is more an opinion than part of my personal definition, but you gents surely follow.
Well technically the hipster’s they’re referring to singlemindedly reject what’s popular, making them just as much of a mindless drone. They just are mindless drones ironically.
APOSTROPHE ABUSE RAGE!
Wait wha—
Oops. Dang, and usually I pride myself on proper use of apostrophes!
lulz just an hour ago my friend was telling me about hipsters and there was that nice phrase “I used to be a hipster when it wasn’t trendy” and now I see your comic – it’s perfect.
canadian guy is awesome
I heartily lol’d at this. I loved it.
Great job, Coela, as usual.
I think I once referred to a friend of ours as a hipster, and my husband asked what I meant by that. I was like, “Well, you know, she’s all, with the glasses, and the shirts and junk, and she listens to that music and whatever is mumblemumblemumble” and just sort of trailed off when I realised I had no idea what a hipster actually WAS.
Later that evening in bed, I put my cold feel on his butt as punishment for exposing my wisdom as incomplete.
Cruel but fair.
Whelp, time to go rewatch The Arrested Incredibles.
Okay so you say my homework is to rewatch the Incredibles.
But from your post, it seems to me that my homework should be to not wear clothes, and see if I get called a hipster.
Unfortunately, it’s pretty chilly these days.
Also public nudity is illegal here.
So maybe I’ll just go shirtless.
Dood, Syndrome? Favorite Disney Villain ever~ Made my day
I don’t like webcomics reviewers
it seems kinda sad to me that someone dedicates to “analyze” or review someone else hobbie
a big industry games movies, etc sure why not they are pretty big kids
but a webcomic artist what the hell is wrong should we start reviewing reviewers also? with a whole site about it? (inb4 someone links me to a reviewer reviewer site and I lose complete faith on humanity)
I don’t quite get what a hipster is either. But this one time I heard this guy say “I think our generation is so important because we’re so post-modern.” I’m trying to figure out if he was a hipster or just a freaking douchebag.
Freaking douchebag.
There are far too many opinions and self-depictions and false meanings of this word.
Which? Hipster, or douchebag?
I’d guess “post-modern” before either of those.
One term does not preclude the other.
Wouldn’t post-modern be the generation after ours? If we’re speaking literally. If not, then yea, douchbag.
Looooove the fact you used “When everyone is hipster, no one will be” — made my day! And so funny. xD
Arrested Development was a great show. This is a great comic. Beyond that they have very little to do with each other. I don’t even think I’d class the humor as being at all similar. This comic is very video game-oriented, very full of funny visuals, and over the top nonsense at every turn. Arrested Development always struck me as shooting more for wit and wordplay. Its humor is very dry. This comic feels very… wet? To me, anyway.
So yeah, that review feels kind of absurd. Mind you, I do like both AD and Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, so I guess it’s possible they had a point. Though I’m not exactly sad AD ended when it did–more would have been great, but 53 episodes isn’t a bad run.
Anyway, this reminds me that I really wanted to do this joke with the trend of comparing US Presidents/politicians/parties to Hitler. Just start drawing connections from everyone ever to Hitler via Syndrome etc. etc.
The comic’s humor is ‘wet’? It’s the fish, isn’t it?
“The Lost Vikings” ‘s Vikings would fit just rite in this comic.
…with all that hair gel he uses, does Syndrome have any right to call everyone else a hipster?
If you don’t get video game references, shouldn’t you recuse yourself from reviewing a comic that largely deals with them? Like a judge or something? Otherwise it’s like Roger Ebert reviewing video games.
I half expected the punchline to this comic to be the Commander punching the guy in the face… maybe i just miss violence XD
Missing violence…
HIIIIIPPPPSSSSTTEEERRRR!!!!!! XD
It takes a lot to get the Commander worked up anymore.
Everyone post above and below this comment are INFACT, Hipsters.
Gordon freeman FTW
The weird part is that I never even HEARD the word hipster until people used it to describe Scott Pilgrim. After that, I started hearing it everywhere.
Also, the Incredibles is one of the best movies out there.
after looking at Vorked’s artwork, that’s some pretty hipster looking shit, and i’m not using hipster to say “under 40 and wearing clothes”, i’m basing this on the whole “that’s some obscure love for something trendy and relevant.”‘
cute use of the “edit” function on posts, really wins readers over when you pull shit like that.
Dammit, Did Vorked edit your post? I’ll change it back and have words with him.
I think the only thing that comes close to my love for this comic is my love for reading the comments about this comic, and when I run out, I just hit f5 and start over. It’s like a river of awesome.
This comic elicited a hearty belly laugh.
I don’t really know what a hipster is, I just know that they are commonly found in coffee shops, where I don’t go, because I don’t drink coffee. Apparently there was some kind of scourge of people say that they did thing “ironically” a while back that I missed.
Seems like Hipsters are like the term Yankee now. Outside of America, a Yankee is an American. In the U.S., a Yankee is anyone from the eastern U.S. In the east, a Yankee is from the northeast. In the Northeast, a Yankee is from New England. In New England, a Yankee is from Maine. In Maine, a Yankee is from Down East. In Down East Maine, a Yankee is anyone who eats pie for breakfast with a spoon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I
pretty exact definition of a hipster…
I thought that a hipster was the 21 century’s form of a hippie… I’ve never been called a hipster either though so yay I guess? (Besides from all the definitions here ‘Hipster’ is a pretty generic term.) And great comic! (AS ALWAYS.) I’m mildly dissapointed that Mr.Fish didn’t get called a hipster but that’s life XD.
Would you insult Mr Fish? The Commander is easy going to let it slide with slight irritation. Mr Fish would eat you.
Just wanted to say I love the site! Great stuff.
In the Captain Falcon panel, i thought that Syndrome’s fingers were his teeth and derped all over the hurp with my confusion ray.
Can’t unsee it now, and I’m laughing three times as hard.
YOU THERE. Artist-Squid.
HIPSTERRR!
Kidding. Last night, I was telling my roommate how awesome it would be if you put the Heavy in your comic. This morning, I checked for an update- and I find this. It’s like you are in my head. One day, you should draw the full team, and then i will make it my desktop forever.
Person 1: You’re a hipster…
Person 2: No! You’re a hipster.
Some old guy: Fellows, fellows please! We can settle this like smart and trendy teens!
Who ever can listen to the most Vampire Weekend wins!
Talk about your Pyrrhic victories.
I can SO hear the Heavy yelling “OOOOOOOH NOOOOOOOOOOO”… xD
Coincidentally, for the subject of my final essay I chose the work of Brad Bird, so I’ve watched “The Incredibles” like 4 times in the last 2 weeks. I come here and it’s like “OH CHRIST IT’S EVERYWHERE!!!”
But this. This is love. I love it.
>People seem to use it to refer to people younger than 40 who wear clothes.
Say Coelasquid, guess what. I’m younger than 20
But not a hipster.
Guess what that means
It means that you’re lying.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HIPSTER.
HEAVY IS IN THE HOUSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I am a happy clam, thank you for including Mister Weapons, Coela.
This comic came on my birthday, and I wear a scarf and Light jacket sometimes, OH GOD ITS STARING INTO MY SOULLLLLLLLLLLLL.
(but really awesome shit)
“aimed toward hipsters who still moan the end of Arrested Development”
What the hell does that even mean?
I can’t say off hand. I watched an episode of Arrested Development and found it boring. I couldn’t even work the energy into liking it ironically as the hipsters say, or moronically as they make it seem.
But everyone has their tastes, I won’t judge.
Hhhhhhiiiiiiiiippppppssssssttteeerrrrsss!
Nice Balck and White Super Hero costume, Syndrome…… HIPPPPSTEEEEEERR.
But anyways… Merry Christmas, Folks. I say that now because I’ll be busy for the next 3 days.
I feel like hipster is like the word “Epic” and is over used and often misused. For someone to be a hipster they have to be all in, not just one “hipsterish” thing. Like how every fail is not a “EPIC FAIL”, not everyone wearing “Hipster glasses” is a hipster.
Am I the only one that noticed that Syndrome wasn’t drawn with a cape? I haven’t read all the comments so I might be late to the party.
and cape’s are totally hipster…
It’s come up a few times. I figure he learned his lesson.
“Trendy glasses man” is totally Commander’s Incredibles identity forever.
And you draw Gordon Freeman all SEXY like.
Doop. “Goggles.” Not glasses.
I’m not a hipster >:(
it would have been absolutely fitting if the heavy was wearing a purple or hot pink hat…
TF2 is now a game of HIPSTERRRRSSSS
I still think most people these days are too poor to properly afford labels.
Perhaps ‘Hipster’ is just the high-school newbie default subculture now.
I agree with you 100 percent
for a second I thought you were referring to a syndrome known as fukken, where when everyone is hipsters, no one will be etc etc
and then I was like wait, that’s the villian! I love the Incredibles so much, and I am now sad.
Anyway, one of my friends thinks that being a hipster is about listening to underground music. And that’s it.
I feel like hipster is the new emo. What will come next?!
hipster is the new scene. Scene is the new Emo.
i’m a hipster now… wow… I feel so hip. :P
oh Syndrome. XD
I’d be hipster if I weren’t so against the establishment of anything, including being a hipster, damn your subculture, I’m gonna go fap.
ITT pretentious hipster bullshit.
(By the way, love your comic!)
Some people really just don’t know anything about what a hipster is. They think it’s all about the clothes and glasses, and those people overuse the word. “Hipster” is still a pretty damn exclusive thing to a lot of people.
…When I think “hipster” I think 1940’s jazz musicians…The ones in pinstripes and fedora hats snapping their fingers as they walk down the street. I guess I just don’t keep with the times >w> also, yaay syndrome :D I loved that movie
I would like to say to everyone. Coelasquid, her fans, everyone who visits the site.
Have a satisfactory, non denominational, obligatory, capitalist gift giving season! :D
Happy holidays.
Look at the 3rd panel, tilt your head 90 degrees to the right, tell me what you see.
Commander reading a newspaper at a 90º angle?
Gordon Freeman is on MGDMT.
This is the greatest Christmas ever and my life is complete.
Thank you
2nd to last panel.
Falcon Not Amused!!!
Last panel.
Falcon Kick!!!
I hope that kick didn’t ….. *puts on shades* ….. hurt his hip.
Ayooooo!
Nghh. Love how Gordon looks in your style. <3
Also I just realized Syndrome reminds me of the Heat Mizer…
I just wished Heavy was using a weird hat. That would make it more hipster. Because hats are for hipsters.
Well, I don’t consider myself even a little bit hipster, and I’ve never watched Arrested Development, but I do like good comics, and this is that. :I
I love that movie…
as a self-proffessed hipster, i have to say that i 1) completely love this comic and 2) unfortunately completely match your reviewers profile.
Wow. I consider myself the anti-hipster, doing many things with no irony at all. I could never get into Arrested Development…
And I love this comic.
I am going to RSS this. This is great stuff.
I always thought “hipster” meant “someone who wears lots of vintage clothes and likes music no one else knows about.”
You’re from MANITOBA!? AWESOME!!
I thought he died.
A lot of the characters I’ve drawn here died.
Meh. I see nothing wrong with still moaning the end of Arrested Development. Or liking this comic. If liking funny things makes me a hipster, then fuck it all, a hipster I’ll be.
Syndrome butt.
T_T I’m sad now.
Syndrome is a whiny bitch with a rich boy complex.
just thought i’d share.
Bet Captain Falcon snaps out of it first.
Goddammit, now I’ve got Jason Lee’s voice stuck in my head.
I never saw Arrested Development and Red Bull makes me sick. I just like comics that don’t look or read like the same trivial big-chain hash that’s been boring me for the last 20 years.
(And thanks for clearing it up about the voice, Ron Perlman is spot on.)
Panel four is delectable, while panel eight makes me wonder how someone’s fist can be nearly half the size of their entire forearm.
The heavy’s fists are built like ham thighs. Without that, he just wouldn’t look right.
And now I have tiny-handed Heavy in my mind.
Thanks a lot for that.
HIPSTER
Saxton Hale wouldn’t need the agency because he’s incredibly successful. He needs no help adjusting.
However, he would be a great person to accept people as interns. If someone needs a job to re-adjust, why not work for Mann Co?
As I’ve said to the legions of people who have already asked for Saxton Hale and Brock Samson, when you use a gene parody character in a genre parody comic, it isn’t parody, it’s just copyright violation.
I am of the opinion that the word hipster means absolutely nothing anymore. People seem to use it to refer to people younger than 40 who wear clothes. And I’m sure even if they didn’t, that would be “so counterculture” and end up being hipster too.
To be fair, it’s not like you haven’t done this yourself. Just replace “hipster” with “gay” and “wears clothes” with “has Y chromosome”.
I feel like this is supposed to be an insult towards me that kind of got lost in translation. Nice try, though, I appreciate the effort.
Not an insult, just an observation, though I realise that those are often taken to be insults regardless, sadly.
pop quiz! what happens when a fag like syndrome calls captain falcon a hipster? *BOOM* the world is blown up from a FALCON PUNCH! at least if i was there i would burn that sissys eyes out XDDDDDDD
Truth said Falcon’s scarf is quite hip.
SYNDROME. That is all.
But I thought Canadian Guy and the Elk were friends! :((
Oh please use Captain Falcon in the future! He’s the manliest character from F-Zero, and he fits this comic so well.
SYNDROME DARES TO INSULT GORDON FREEMAN!
WHERE’S MY CROWBAR??!
But, my fan-rage aside, I love your comics, and this one absolutely still falls into that category of love. I wish i could draw like you; it’s not overly complex, but it’s still incredibly well executed, keep up the good work!
I don’t consider myself a hipster, but I love ironically dressing like one.
That said, I was never found Arrested Development to be particularly funny. I guess that means I’m outside this strip’s target audience.Saxton Hale wouldn’t need the agency because he’s incredibly successful. He needs no help adjusting.
love panel 4
I think the whole “hipster” thing has flown completely over my radar… or else it is some sort of american / canadian thing that never quite settled in Britain…
Either way, I never encounter the word outside of the Internet, don’t know what it is supposed to mean, and…. there is no third thing. I dunno.
And is “Arrested Development” some sort of television program or something?
… I only turn my games console off for sleep and work… so I don’t really know what else the television does. Don’t like to go outside either, on account of all the mundies staring at me… and also sunlight. Ew.
It’s quite funny, ever since I first saw this comic every time I hear or read about Hipsters I get an image of Syndrome going HIIIIPSTERRRS! in my head.
Somebody should add a new entry to the Urban Dictionary. The Syndrome Syndrome: When everybody becomes (whatever), then no one is (whatever).
But I’m too lazy to do it, so…If *everybody else* is also too lazy to do it, then the Syndrome Syndrome has taken effect.
I’d get called a hipster for ordering milk when eating out. Namely because people seem to honestly think I’m trying to be ironic or edgy when I do it. No, folks, I just really, really like milk.
Posting in an old thread to say: I am a proud hipster. I drank my coffee before it was cool.
WHO CALLED GORDON FREEMAN A HIPSTER AND ITS ENTIRE TEAM IS BABIES
For a moment, I thought Heavy was the one who said “Entire team is hipsters”.
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Well, the comic is still here, and the reviewer’s entire website is not.
Take that, Syndrome! Take that and smoke it.