Oh man guys, it is absolutely unforgivable how long it took me to get these guest strips up. SO IT TURNED OUT IN AN IRONIC TWIST OF FATE that it takes longer to arrange and do commentary on guest strips than it does for me to just… draw a comic. So between work and comicking and just generally sitting at a cintiq ten to twenty hours a day it took me far too long to get all of this together, and I apologize for that, because you guys are awesome and didn’t deserve that.
ANYWAY! On with the show;
Everyone’s favourite gaychicken!married couple courtesy of Bridget the Gamer
Batman strip compliments of Geradr, I couldn’t find a gallery link to go with it, though, so if anyone knows where I can link to send some traffic his way drop me a line!
Jared’s adventures in wooing the ladies compliments of Gwyn Black. There is some fantastic painting going on in this one, but I gotta admit I picked Jared’s little throwaway face in the bottom corner for the thumb because it makes me smile every time I look at it.
A classic Schwarzenegger parody thanks to the talented Jamie R. Stone I have to thank him for this one, this joke seems to be one that people ask me for quite a bit. He saved me the trouble of having to draw it to keep everyone happy :P
Jenna Raef filling in Commander’s hypothetical Halloween adventures in the alternate universe where the coin must have landed tails and prompted him to do the Tywinn Lannister thing after all. I don’t think Jenna had a gallery link for me either, so unfortunately I can’t send you to more of her lovely artstuffs.
Kelsey Norden of Jupiter Palladium‘s adorable account of Commander’s adventures in tea parties.
I really have to thank Mark Harris for this one because it’s pretty much EXACTLY what I want to tell everyone who keeps asking for Kamina comics. I’m just not a Gurren Laggan fan, I’m sorry, I bear absolutely no ill will towards its fans but it just isn’t my thing. And if you think I started this comic because I have a fun time drawing blue haired shonen action comedy heroes, you probably haven’t been paying attention. So thank you Mark, today you are my hero.
This one may take a bit of explaining… So that original concept of the Commander up in the extra’s started as a potential character sheet for a DeviantArt Original Character Tournament called Manly-Mens. The point of the contest seemed to be for a bunch of Deus Ex Machina’d up characters to grunt at each other and argue over how many Saturns they could bench press, so I figured I would enter and troll it, and if I made it to the end I’d just do a comic about gay sex or something. But then I realized trolling OCTs was a massive waste of time so I decided not to. Anyway, this one comes compliments of PhiTuS and Angry Buddha 88 because they wanted to remind me where he came from (that is, aside from his earlier origins as an anthropomorphic representation of our internet router and the end result of a conversation about how people should make hairy man fursonas)
And Old Spice Parody from the immensely talented Writer-artist pair Michael Stangeland and Zolf, the same pair responsible for fellow Escapist runner-up comic Robot Viking Ninja Pirates.
Commander teaches Jared how to pick up tha ladiesss Fable style, Compliments of Macey. She’s another one I didn’t get a website from, so if anyone knows of her haunt of choice be sure to pass it along so I can send some traffic her way!
I absolutely love this one from Nami Tsuki, this was one of the ones I had to go for an outside opinion on whether to run it in the main guest strip week or not, because I was kind of heartbroken not to post it up. I mean, anything Katamari related has gotta be pretty fantastic to say the least.
this one comes compliments of Nipples the Cow, Commander teaches a spider what’s what.
This is another one that Pseudonym (artist of the “Manly Tears” guest strip) actually just sent along about a week ago, but I loved it so much I had to share. Some day I’ll get to do the JRPG story arc I’ve been planning for nearly a year now…
This one comes from Remi Roundtree, another apparently Gallery-less benefactor. It’s a shame that I didn’t get a chance to reveal Commander’s secret D&D nights until after people got their guest strips in, I’ll concede.
Even though it’s math, it still makes me laugh. IT’S LIKE I’VE BEEN TRICKED INTO LEARNING! This one is thanks to Scott Thong
This one is absolutely adorable and the artist seems to have figured out my secret weakness for all things Pikmin (even though I absolutely suck at the games), unfortunately I’m afraid I can’t give them proper credit for this because they didn’t give me a gallery link and their emails only identified them as “S T”. THANK YOU, MASKED STRANGER!
Anyway, that’s the lot of them! Sorry it took so long to get them up, but at least people can finally enjoy them properly! Thanks again! YOU’LL NEVER KNOW HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE YOU ALL! Oh, and if anyone has gallery links for the people missing them, please send them my way so I can properly credit these fine folks!
Discussion (44) ¬
One day I’ll go through all of these, then I’ll leave an intelligent but slightly funny comment.
Could I just say that something seems to be up with the RSS feed? I switched to this ‘new’ feed that displayed the comics in my RSS reader, but every time something new’s posted I get like seven or eight new items in the feed – basically the previous entries duplicated. It’s very puzzling.
I’m not sure, maybe ask Vorked?
My feed doesn’t have any Issues, I use the RSS Ticker thru FireFox. Perhaps it’s how you are accessing the feed?
Its the Firefox system, bro. You’ll either have to go back to the imageless version, or keep with the duplication. Or try another one. There is a Google Reader Firefox extension you could try.
The art on that “capitalism, ho!” one is fantastic.
I LOVE that one. The rage-face on that is now my Steam avatar and TF2 spray.
I look forward to the morning when I’m actually conscious enough to read through all these.
And oh man, I shoulda known ’bout the trolling thing, what with the Ginch and Pep connection and all. I guess I’m honoured that MM was shitty enough to warrant the cursory attentions of the OCT terrorists and their extended network. The Wooden Spoon’s still an award, dammit.
Ahahah, I had nothing to do with OCT terrorists at all :p
You’re probably just a brainwashed sleeper cell agent or something. Pep is sneaky like that.
Hooray, you posted mine! I’m Mark Harris.
And I’m Corbin Simpson. And today, we’re here to…
Host the BEST WEBSHOW EVER!
*clap* PUM– wait, really? Okay. Yeah, that.
FIGHT. LIKE MEN.
I giggled/laughed with most of those, but the last one… uuh… what am I not getting here?
PS: The JRPG comic, for those who don’t know, is based on a famous strip itself, where a dad walks in his son’s room and finds him watching anime on his computer.
You can pretty much guess what happens next (same angry face at the last panel and all).
Yeah, I know the meme well.
The Katamari Damacy one is just wonderful :D
I think he meant 1/3 instead of 1/3%. God I’m such a nerd.
Some koi site or other said one third of a percentage, so that’s what I rolled with…
Okay, better start updating my hobby blog again!
I was soooooooo confused why I had so many pageviews today until I checked the site.
Thanks a bunch and here’s hoping next time you need fan-comics, I don’t wait until the last minute to make mine!
Awesome Overload
This is the collective apex of human achievement.
lol I never noticed how Jared and the Commander could be set up like in Pseudonym’s comic.
Look at all those submissions! Don’t abuse your powers of MIND CONTROL OVER TEH INTERNETS now ya hear?
Haha a few of those had me laughing out loud!
Loved the Tywin Lannister one. I don’t care if it’s only composed of two panels, they’re panels of win and awesome, and together they stand for great justice.
Agreed. Never could’ve imagined The Commander as Lord Tywin myself, back when the comic first came out, and now I don’t have to.
Woohoo, they are finally up! Earlier today I was thinking about asking when these were going to go up, but now I don’t have to. Great job everyone. Also, I’ll email a link to my DA account.
~S.T. The Masked Stranger.
Well, Recettear (that game in the JRPG one) is a nice game and it’s more a Business Sim/Management Game than a real JRPG. For one, you don’t even save the world from giant naked angels!
Kelsey Norden… what’s with Dante/Neo (can’t tell which) in her strip? His head is turned around completely backwards in the next-to-last panel. That must hurt. :x
Hey, coelasquid, can we send you a guest strip whenever? Just in case you ever need one?
Your like, me and my girlfriends biggest inspiration! (we’re studyin animation see)
Great work everyone on the comics, they’re very good! Some are quite ominous too.
In Pseudonym’s comic the Commander looks like Radigan Connagher, the Engineer’s grandfather.
Like, a mirror image.
Wow, I’d never even heard of that character before, but that’s pretty uncanny.
I’ve become a fan of Psudonym through his contributions on this website. This Fat Son was just outstanding. Everything else was delicious too, but I am just becoming a sucker for the man’s work.
I felt my blood pressure go up and almost went for the power button on my laptop to reset for the Pikmin comic.
Almost.
For all pseudo-intelligence, bloody hell don’t they know to stay away from cliff ledges?
Also, Pikmin 3: Wii or 3DS? What do you think’s more likely based on the rumours?
That Kamina one had me rolling.
I’m a massively huge Kamina fan, but I totally get where Coela’s coming from. As much as I’d LOVE to see how Kamina translates into her style, he’s not rugged enough…it would be extremely weird.
And the fact that they apparently have a whole floor for pretty katana-wielding guys is just GREAT.
I had trouble getting into Gurren Lagann myself but the fact Kamina
(Spoiler ahead, but the show’s been out for a while so I call spoiler prescription)
gets killed in the first quarter of the show does a lot to move things along in the right direction. Not that Simon is any manlier but there’s always Lord Genome for that. He’d definitely fit around the office, and his pectoral girth is quite acceptable.
Dude literally spent centuries just chilling out and having sex in his giant city sized robot he made with his mind.
When he lost the mech fight, he got out of his giant robot and he himself physically punched the other robot to death.
He got a hole through his chest wide enough to stick your head through and he still had the werewithal to tell the guy who killed him how badly he was still fucked, while still standing.
The only thing that finally killed him was literally taking all the energy of the big bang IN THE FACE.
Yeah, it was sad and all when Kamina died. Yeah, it was pretty manly that he got back up and avenged his own death. But seriously, if anyone from that series qualifies for this agency, it’s Lord Genome.
Surely Gyrados’ head alone weighs more than 518 lbs…
by the Pokedex numbers, a Gyarados is about the same size as an anaconda.