Can’t knock it until you try
May 16, 2011
12:00 am
And so Commander gets to go back to whatever it is he does when he’s not sending his surrogate assistant into portal mazes.
I’m sure he very shortly learned that the reason you can’t put all that crap in muffins is because they won’t even make it out of the pan before they crumble apart into fruity muffin fluff.
And in other news, our esteemed tech guy, Vorked asked if I would point people towards his tumblr where he posts alerts people to updates on his own comic, Deputron.
Discussion (298) ¬
Those must be some damn manly muffins to be in one piece that that! :U
What kind of muffins are they? AWESOME THAT’S WHAT.
If someone brings up Herpy or whatever it’s called I swear…
Derpy would be all over those muffins!
So much win, Melinda.
Derpies are good…Herpes is not.
Father of the year, all years.
This.
Father of the universe, all universes.
Father of Time. All Time.
There is only one Time. Party Time.
Father of Parties. All Parties.
Father of the dimension, all dimensions.
WHOLE TEAM IS FATHERS!
I lol’d….. HARD!
in b4 /b/
Rule 1 and 2 McClaud, rules 1 and 2
Rules 1 & 2 only apply to raids. Also, 4Chan is still relevant? Wow.
4chan has never been relevant.
“4chan has always been relevant.”
There, I fixed it :)
4chan will always be relevant.
Everything is a raid lol
The rules of the internet are a lie…
It’s fathers, all the way down to infinity.
Nah, I’m sure he was able to double Teflon coat his muffin tins. A manly dude like that has to have at least fifteen ballistics vests lying around that he could poach.
It was manly muffin mix, so this made them physically edible for normal people. Still, it one box did make about sixteen dozen muffins with all that stuff in it.
Also, I imagine one should put Safesearch on before searching Google for “Manly OR Buff Muffins,” at least for work.
And suddenly, Buffins!
Those would go great with some mancakes!
With frosting.
(Why did I just say that?) >_<
What you got against frosting son? D:<
You see, to make that frosting, I had to… put myself into it…
i lol’d… oh gawd I lol’d
I’ve trained my mind to recognize potential pron site names at a glance. When you typed Buff Muffins, my pron site senses went off. I’m sure Fruity Muffins probably has a pron site in its search.
When I googled “Manly Guys Doing Manly Things,” my father incorrectly assumed that is was a porn site.
That’s why the site’s URL isn’t “manlyguys.com” :P
Thank you for making me spill water all over my screen.
I’m now disappointed that it isn’t.
Who says it cannot be? Ask Vorked how to set it up if you can, I already have it pointing at the correct nameservers.
nah, look at the ingredients out, those muffins are from scratch, there’s no way they’d scale like that otherwise.
True, those are definitely scratch materials, but then you wouldn’t have to joy of the phrase, “Buff Muffins” in an entirely safe concept.
We dad types are almost genetically incapable of saying “No” to our daughters at that age.
At ANY age.^
Unless it involves Boyfriends. In that case, all bets are off.
I live about two blocks from a swamp, own an ax and possess infinite patience. You *sure* you take my kid out for a night on the town, Casanova?
Got a cousin up north a piece what owns a hog farm. You know what six hogs can do to a man, Jimmy?
This? Oh, I like to call this shotgun Bettsy. I keep her and all her sisters polished up real good. 10 PM wasn’t it?
I’m a mom, but it’s a lesbian relationship. So, I carry the shotgun! There is nothing scarier then a mom pissed.
And all you boys know this to be true.
He can say no to the boyfriend all he wants but we all know that it won’t stop her. XD
Now, the boyfriend? That might give him pause. You know, if the “no” involves any of the aforementioned graphically-descriptive musings and implications. :P
The guy has access to an army of big daddies, god help that boyfriend if he is a minute past ten.
Your comment, I like it. I like it a lot. I wish for it on a shirt . . .
I can’t see him “deleting” any boyfriends while she still like them though. He wouldn’t want to hurt his little girl, even if it is best for her.
My dad must not have gotten that gene. I think that’s fortunate for him, but it was darned annoying for us three girls.
My Dad complains about my sister spending money and buying things, then 5 min later she’ll say “dad I neeeeeeeeeed this _____” and he’ll be like “awww alright whatever you want…”
Also that face of the little girl “Why Not?” would be hard to resist, and if you attempted to explain muffin physics to her in some cute way instead of instantly giving in, she’d probably start saying “But I WANT them to have strawberries and bananas,( ad infinitum)” and it would be in such a way that you’d have to say to yourself “we’ll maybe they’d work…” The moral of this story is that resistance is Futile in this situation…
Muffin physics are delicious science-math. The underlying theory is similar in nature to the Mr. Pibb + Red Vines = Crazy Delicious postulate, except that the flavor solution instead becomes exponentially more delicious the more densely packed yet stable the muffin-fibers become, which in turn occurs as a result of the increase in volume of additive ingredients in proportion to the quantity of muffin-fibers.
In addition, it can be presumed that, as any of these values approach infinity, at some point in the projection the muffin inevitably produces a Gravity Well of Awesome from which no muffin-lover can escape without first being consumed with muffin consumption.
SCIENCE!
I feel like you’ve tricked me into learning something… but it’s probably just too delicious to notice.
Look at her face in panel five. Look at it! How can anyone possibly say no to that!
I think this is less a matter of not being able to say no and more a matter of she has a point, why can’t you put all that stuff in a muffin.
The MAN doesn’t want you to turbo-load your muffins, because then YOU would have the power, and not The MAN.
He’s just trying to keep you DOWN.
xD I love the comments on this website
By the by, the way he smiles at her in the first panel is pitch perfect. I have worn that very expression many times.
I was going to say the same thing about his smile. It’s just so damn cute!
It’s a smile that says “Everything you do is important to me.”
“It’s a smile that says “Everything you do is important to me.”” and also says “Conan is aware of the awesome responsibility of life and death as a barbaribaby daddy and will someday surely have to reach beyond this Thanks be to Crom moment and return to the slaughter of thousands to protect you” smile.
Its the smile when Dads don’t have to worry about pay, or work schedules, or marriage problems.
They can just spend time with the pride of their lives.
And have a damned good time with that.
Tiger shark is hungry too!
As much as I enjoy the primary story in this one, watching the son throw his Cheerio’s into the air took the day. At least until he decided to share with his shark. That officially cannot be beat, no matter how cute the little girl is.
That was defiantly the highlight of the comic. He is just so cute.
Not many comics can make me crack up on one page and go squee on the next.
Look at her hugging the bowl. :3
This made my day! I love the expression on Jones’ face in the second to last panel!
You simply need to use an adequately robust matrix. Raptor eggs instead of chicken in the batter, for instance.
And he is one HELL of a dad.
Ahhhhh, he looks so great in the first panel. <3
Those sound like some of the most delicious muffins ever.
Only a REAL man lets his daughter mix carrots with chocolate chip.
Not to mention Lucky Charms. I’m sure they add an interesting crunch to combat the softness of the chocolate chips and bananas.
Hey, don’t knock chocolate chip carrot muffins, they’re delicious. Especially with walnuts, but walnuts are SOP for carrot cake anyway.
I don’t know. Fruity Muffin Fluff sounds delicious.
It will be the name of my new Shonen Knife cover band.
god damnit where did you come from
A manly man knows how to make things work for his kids, even if it seems damn near impossible. Good job, Commander, good job.
From the size of that basket, I’m betting the first failure led to them making a bathtub-sized amount of batter to compensate. ~X3
Man, I love the episodes with the kids because it’s so delightful to see him being Commander Adorableass.
Not really. When you put that much stuff in a muffin, the batter just stretches a long, long, LONG way.
She’s still reaching for one after he told her what’s in it. I would too.
The tiger shark isn’t over an eye! The eyes are also big and round and pierce the soul with adorable!
Also I do quite enjoy the stunned silence from Commander, I imagine it’s one of those “Y’knoooooooooow” moments.
This is the cutest damn thing ever.
too…cute…must…resist…d…da….DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW
So now I am hungry for muffins…
Damnit, now I want those muffins.
I think that this marks the first time that lil’ one’s face wasn’t covered at all.
You are exactly correct! He is at a distance, but there is an entire Badass Jr. face to be seen!
That was the most adorable manly guy thing ever.
Is there anything the Commander can’t make work?
His marriage. *Bad-dum-tish*
That was low.
He just got over wanting to set fire to women with his eyes, you know.
You mean with his mind. He can already set ladies aflame with his smoldering eyes. [/fanfic]
Smouldering gray-blue?
I guess so…
Blue flame burns the hottest, I hear.
Touché.
At what point does muffin end and wad of dough begin?
Batter. Muffins are made from batter, not dough. Just sayin’.
I don’t blame the kid for throwing Cheerios in the air if they had Lucky Charms available.
I scrolled up, looked, lawled, and scrolled back down to reply.
I . . . I must this muffins!
Correct answer: “Because they’ll EXPLODE AWESOME ALL OVER THE PLACE and destroy our kitchen.”
YES!!!
You, sir/madam win a free internet.
No, he wins a whole bushel of Internets… or is it bundles? I’m not sure what groupings internets come in; a dozen? A score? A pound?
A Bakers Dozen.
I think you mean “improve our kitchen”
Ah ha! A fellow disciple of Olethros, I see.
I love how his son is throwing his cheerios in the air so ecstatically in the first panel.
I always say you can tell where a parent with a young child has been, by the trail of cheerios :D
I would love to see how many of these he pushed on the guys inside. Certainly Jared would have one, and prolly Sten, cause….yanno….they’re not cookies. Not sure about Canada guy though….he’d eat a few for sure, but I don’t know that Commander would let him.
He still calls her by her last name? One would think he could switch to something slightly less formal after he stuck his tongue down her throat.
its the name he’s used to using. Of you always call your mom “mom” you’re not gonna randomly start adressing her by her first name.
Funny story — My parents trained us kids to call them by their given names because one kid screaming “MOOOOOOOM!!!” sounds pretty much the same as any other kid yelling “MOOOOOOM!!!”. It wasn’t until our public-school days that we learned that this was weird and started calling them by their titles, rather than their names. Mom still thinks it’s weird that we “forgot” what they taught us.
So… yeah. Sometimes people do “randomly” change what they call someone.
I think it’s more of a enduring-way-of-saying-her-last-name sort of thing.
Okay, “fruity muffin fluff” is the phrase of the day. And also, I want some. :3
neat, his expression in the first panel is cool, but nothing in this world can’t beat his expression in the 5th panel, wonder how those muffins taste? <3
That is the face worn by many men in the past when “Impossible” and “Awesome” collide to become “Awepossible!” And muffins.
Why not indeed
OMG! Too cute, too early. X_X
What? Yes, I’m aware it’s almost noon. That’s the point.
Aww, it’s so cute.
Love the little boy in the background.
I felt my face turn into a grin at just the sight of the Commander smiling at his little girl with assorted baking things surrounding them. It’s so cute.
I admit I thought the comic would end with the oven exploding. XD
Whoa, you can see the little boy’s whole face for the first time! I thought he was hiding something…just smiles, I guess.
He’s just shy.
Those just happen to be my favorite.
Mufffiiiiiinns..
Derpy Hooves would be proud. <3
That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw muffins. I think I might put that “baked bads” recipe on hold for a bit and try making some of these instead.
you totally made those didn’t you?? who can resist fruity buffins even if they are a tad…. fluffy! up your lucky charms next time! so happy to see l’il one making sure his sharky’s well stuffed w/cheerios…
Naw, my only experience in that sort of venture is putting too many berries in muffins and then realizing that every berry equals a gooey wet patch in the muffin’s core stability.
Solution: if you would normally use one cup of blueberries, use 1/2 cup blueberries and 1/2 cup strawberries, or 1/3 cup blueberries, 1/3 cup strawberries, and 1/3 cup bananas, or 1/4 cup blueberries…
You reached critical mass berry-style.
You forgot to eject the warp berry core.
I CANNA DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS! THEY’VE GOT TA BAKE THURRRRTY MINNITS!
Commander’s thought process: Wait, why shouldn’t I put more stuff in the muffins? But what should I put in them? Hmmm… What do I have? *expression changes into Jared’s excited face* ANYTHING THAT FITS IN THE MUFFINS MUST GO IN!!! Begin Operation Deliciousness!
More like begin Operation Do What Babygirl Wants.
So..cute..
kid..in background..
ovaries…going nuts!
Conan is here if you womb requires the stout sown seed of a warrior. Conan is very good baby daddy, by Crom!
That’s not weird at all… :I
Yes…yes she would.
The vibe I was getting from Panel 5 is that there is no good reason for NOT to have all that stuff in the muffins.
By the way, my first comment here
The solution if they do disintegrate is to make some more muffin batter, spoon less than you normally would into the muffin cups, then fill that with the fruity muffin fluff so you get a kind of cup of virgin muffin batter filled with delicious muffin fluff. Let the muffin fluff heap up a little bit and then cot with more batter and bake. Hopefully the result will be a core of delicious fruity muffin fluff held in a more stable muffin matrix.
I do not know if this would work. It must be tested.
Aww man… he’s so adorable! I want one! D:<
You’re too good to us humble readers, C. Squiddy! You gave us the super-cuteness (The Commander’s kids) AND the super-hotness (The Commander showing off the “guns”) all in one comic!
Welp, I’m gonna have to try and make this now. Will let you all know how it goes.
I am a heterosexual male, and yet I can’t stop staring at his massive, beautiful arms.
Same here
^
I love the son’s shark in panel 2. XD
I know what stuffed animal that’s based off of. I had one. I played with it so much as a kid that it got fixed like 100 times and never got thrown out
I had a hammerhead when I was a Teenager, and I STILL carried that damned shark around the house like a prized blanket or something
I’m enjoying how the characters have been established to the point where there doesn’t have to be a video game joke every week.
Fuck yeah.
I just looooooooooooove these comics where the comander is a big, muscular awesome soft-spot-hearted awesome dad
Yep, this one probably would’ve made a spot-on Father’s Day comic.
Cutest comic ever! <3
Epic job on the expression in panel 5! One can imagine the thought bubble: “Yeah… why the hell not?!”
<3 Commander
That reminds me of tastier version of: “No. not baked goods. Baked Bads!“
“Baked bads” was my first thought as well. Bronies, we’re everywhere.
I’m betting that the Commander and all the guys at the office are all Bronies too.
Im guessing you know they would fall apart like that because you’ve tried. damn just thinking about the muffins are making me hungry. To Popeyes!
The Commander with his children are the most cute thing I ever seen. EVERY TIME.
Lol, I dunno about the lucky charms, but the rest of that muffin sounds delicious!
Even the carrots?
Two words: “Carrot Cake”
Commander is like my brother Jimmy but in opposite form. My brother has a daughter that is younger than his son and he’s bald. He’s also not a time traveling space marine sent to the past to give action heroes a place to learn to integrate into society.
Father-Commander is so niiiiiiiice
That’s a… disconcerting meme-interaction there.
This is so cute xO
I may just have to make those muffins.
Does the Commander in the first panel make you melt? cause he makes me melt there. Oh gosh!
Aw, I love the Commander’s fatherly side, it reminds me of my dad! :)
Anyway, I want to try and make these muffins now…just because I’ve never experienced “fruity muffin fluff”. xD
See, one of the many differences between my dad and the Commander is that if that’d been me making those muffins and asking that question, my dad would have answered ‘because the pixies will come and steal them all’ or something ludicrous like that.
If my niece does this, I’ll probably wind up like the commander and go overboard putting stuff in the muffins. Though unlike the Commander, I’d be standing over the oven laughing like a mad scientist, because my niece thinks it’s hilarious.
That is awesome! *puts coin in the jar* The mad-scientist-cackling is such a perfect ‘eccentric uncle/aunty’ thing to do.
Your dad gets many points for being amusing- and if they were Lucky Charm muffins, it would have worked well for kid-logic.
Cheerios, part of a Tiger Shark’s well balanced breakfast.
How are the faces always this adorable. I love this entire family.
This is now my favouritest of all things.
Done this before but with brownies… poured two whole containers of sprinkles, marshmallows, and candy into them. Had no complaints, though it was nearly double the amount of batter as usual xD
I love the Commander Dadass installments like this.
Commander Dadass. I like the cut of your jib, good person.
I agree. This person has coined a decent phrase.
Alright, so after reading the comic and a few of the comments an idea formed in my head. So, after a few failed attempts I have created oatmeal, banana, strawberry, carrot, blueberry, raspberry, chocolate chip, apple, cinnamon, and lucky charm muffins. I had to remove the crunchy bit of the lucky charms, and really dice the fruit but they held together. The first batch didn’t, and thats when I diced the ingredients throughly. The second also didn’t hold so I removed the crunchy part of the lucky charms. After that, it worked… Oddly enough, it tastes really good. Like a warm fruit salad with sugary oatmeal muffin wrapped around it.
I’d recommend anyone and everyone try it, but you have to really dice and mix the ingredients. I can’t stress that enough, and I mean tiny bits. Maybe half a centimeter across and deep.
Adding onto this, I’ll eat just about anything so I’m gonna take some to my sister’s so she and my niece can try them. I’ll post again with the results in a few hours.
Hey man, send me some photos, I’ll totally post them up so you can get bragging rights.
And some instructions with pictures of how small you really had to slice them.
RECIPES NEED RECIPES, MANG.
Alright, so my niece loved them, and my sister doesn’t care for them. She never was one for fruit… I guess two out of three isn’t bad.
As for pictures, I don’t own a camera. Well, not one that connects to anything. My phone can take pictures all day, but since I don’t have texting or data, they just sit there. Sorry bout that…
Next, a recipe. I just used a generic muffin mix (it is HCF muffin mix) and an oversized muffin pan. You know, the nine instead of the usual twelve? Anyway, you want the muffins to be about 75-80% batter and the rest pieces of everything else. The size, as I said, should be tiny. Five millimeters in dimensions at best. The smaller the better. And you have to mix well. Really well… Well enough that it looks like someone put a rainbow through a blender.
Damn, I was going to try this myself, but where on earth can you buy Lucky Charms in Australia?
The internet, of course.
Nope, an imported box of Cereal is considered a Restricted Commodity by Australian Customs.
Just get a box of Stroppy Wallabies or whatever your local equivalent happens to be. All you want are the marshmallow bits, anyhow.
Well there’s your problem. We have nutrional requirement laws that rule out insane concepts like *marshmallow* in breakfast cereal. Aussie cereals are about giving you MAN ENERGY to wrestle crocs and rugby punt dingos.
Especially Kellogs Nutri Grain: which has been IRON MAN FOOD since I was old enough to remember this commercial. (SFW, but skimpy speedos and emasculating musculature warning):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUEEw8YEq4
Valve’s Saxton Hale is barely a parody. Look how hard they tried to sell us Lemon Soft Drink by making it MANLY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_1nZZrv8aU
Actual People Who Eat Lucky Charms can correct me here, but aren’t the bits just stale marshmallow? Normal ones sliced up and dried out might do the trick.
I think the marshmallows are freeze-dried or something like that, they’ve got that texture.
I’m going to visualize eating them and see if that satisfies.
……
Nope, just mail me some, thanks.
Or better yet, pass them on via FTP.
Food Transfer Protocol, of course. ;)
I just fell in love with the Commander.
Not that I wasnt before but… *fangirl SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* MUFFINS! And his cute daddy expression! *swoon*
Personally, it kinda made me want to have a dad like that in my life given I never had the luxury of having a dad. Random thought, eh? :p
Eh, mine didn’t hang about either. If he did, he certainly wouldn’t have been this way. He was more of a “hold my beer while I do something stupid” kind of guy.
Of course, that just makes me hardcore about being this sort of dad. ‘Course, the step-kiddoes ain’t as young as they used to be. Now it’s computer building and baseball. Eh well.
meh, guess it was better for me as well that my male parent wasn’t around, though it would have been nice to have someone I could consider a father figure around.. My male parent didn’t even consider me his kid(even though I am) Yeah he was a bit of an ass… My mum said he was pretty abusive too so yeah, I guess it was for the best not to have him in my life :D Still these kids are pretty damn lucky to have a dad like commander Badass, even if he’s fictional xD
any chance we can get a screensaver or backround of Mr. Fish
scratch that i had him on my mind lol i meant the Commander
AHHH!!! My dad calls me that! Brings a tear to my eye.
And I asked why not at the exact same time that I read why not.
You know what would be an awesome comic? Her boyfriend meeting the Commander for the first time. That would make me laugh so hard.
Egads, i’m hungry…
Would muffins like that actually work? or similar, just loaded with fruits and stuffs?
Ah ha ha! Vorked be crazy.
Go Blue Beetle!
OH YOU
WHERE ARE THOSE TURKEYS?!
There are no words for how adorable this comic strip is. So cute.
I’m also curious what those muffins would taste like. Might have to try to make them at some point.
I’m guessing they taste a bit like holiday fruitcake.
It would taste like everything.
This reminds me of me and my brother baking when we were little. We were allowed to bake if we wanted, and usually just took whatever we felt appropriate from the cupboards and fridge to put in it. I have no idea how it tasted, but I still love my parents so much for allowing us to experiment.
Also, both of us are really good at baking nowadays.
XD congrats good sir, you just successfully made me laugh my fukken ass off, childlike innocence plus muffins, amazing, now all I need is a few rolls of duct tape to reattatch my ass so it isn’t just laying around your site XD
That’s my kind of muffin!
I think the most creative I’ve ever gotten was peanutbutter-banana-chocolate chip-flax.
whadda boss
Oh my goodness we can finally see all of his son’s face, haha!
Also, despite the description, those muffins sound DELICIOUS!!!
You know if someone told me about a comic strip with that punchline I’d probably say “Nah, that’s weak…”
Still for the third time I’ve read this comic today and for the third time a grin appeared in my lips. Nothing can beat the expression in the third pannel. Marvellous work!
I love his kids ^-^
I have taken it upon myself to create a workable recipe for this.
I hope this will be a fruitful endeavor.
That was terrible :P
“I hope this will be a FRUITFUL endeavor.”
I see whut u did thar.
She makes a very valid point! Is there some muffin police guna come and get them, i think not!
So gotta get the bakery to make some of them bad boys
Wow…That actually sounds pretty good.
Don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but whenever the commander’s son is not covering his face he always had a giant open mouth smile. I think it must be permanent.
oh shit that disappointed lil girlface right on the middle of the page. you didnt stand a chance daddy. it was out for ya
Damn you Coelasquid… why you must break such manliness with adorability? And… those eyes… gah….
My spellcheck function on my Google Chrome browser is telling me “adorability” isn’t a word… eat it.
The spellcheck on Google Chrome is stoned lame, my friend. It rejects “spellcheck”, for crying out loud! P.O.S.
Requesting recipe.
…and I was like “Oatmeal?! Are you crazy?!”
I’m surprised those muffins turned out so well. I always thought muffins were difficult to make. You have to mix them juuuuuust right or they won’t have that muffin top they’re so famous for.
Now I’m thinking of the anime/manga Yakitate Japan (an gag/informative anime where they have a SERIOUS BUSINESS competition to bake bread against each other). In one of the arcs they have to create a bread with 34 different ingredients. Turns out pretty well for them too.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlet2cbv5fq
Have some tvtropes.
Another day’s productivity: DEFEATED.
Tuesday didn’t stand a chance, TV Tropes.
Sure you could put all that stuff into muffins(except maybe Lucky Charms(experimentation time!)). You’d just have a lot more muffins than you’d really know what to do with.
Excellent fathering, Commander.
This is one of my Signs of A Manly Man and nobody can tell me otherwise.
why couldn’t i have a dad that cool growing up? T_____T
I’ve been skulking around here a few months and I just wanted to say that I like this one the most so far. Very cute.
Theoretically, if you used a dough base with enough gluten it WOULD hold together. It would have to end up closer to a muffin-shaped donut though.
A muffonut? A duffin?
A doughfin.
No wait, now it sounds like a pastry-based dolphin.
I would totally eat a pastry-based dolphin.
I love his expression in the fifth panel. XD It looks like he can’t argue against that argument.
This is a beautiful thing.
My Dad and I did almost everything together as I was growing up. I can remember the first time we grilled a steak together.
“Son, do you want BBQ sauce or Garlic salt on your steak?”
“Why not both?”
“Well- uh- …. Hmmmm”
That was the best steak of my life.
Thanks for bringing back memories, Coela.
Manly man and awesome father.. where can i get one?
Ditto. Big, gruff, muscular guys aren’t really my thing . . . but big, gruff, muscular guy that acts adorable with his kids? I’m sold. Want one.
Honestly I don’t know whether I want Commander to be my dad, or my boyfriend. He’s so incredible either way. :D And don’t take that the wrong way: it’s an either-or, not an and. ;)
Seriously, he’s truly the best. Jonesy I am sooooo jealous.
Can’t believe nobody commented on how both Commander and daughter have missing teeth. AHHHHHH SO CUTE
I dub thy confection “Omnimuffins”, for they are every kind of muffin all at once.
I would eat several. :I
Coela, i wonder if u can use someone from the game saga frontier, its my one of my favourite games, and Gen would actually fit the requirements XD
although it would be fun looking how lute looks for job in the agency, considering some momma kicked “someone” out
WANT
I think of all the comics you’ve done, the ones that show the Commander just being a Dad are my favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1_04GLrPs&feature=aso
When I started watching this video I instantly thought about this comic strip. Great job with this comic, it is one that I really look forward to through the week :)
I love that besides being a manly man, he is also a caring dad. :)
That’s the sign of a true manly man –
He’s not dead emotionally and loves his offspring. And isn’t afraid to show it.
Oh, man… I was first thinking that those ingredients weren’t so bad… They’re still edible. Then I saw lucky charm. I laughed.
Awesome father! XD
I cant make it through that last panel without laughing, the lucky charms are killin me!
googled “manly muffin recipes” and got “Manly Muffin Meat Loaf” lol XD
Love your comics :D
Panel 5 is pretty much the best thing on the internet. I can’t get over how much is said in that one face without a single iota of text. Fantastic.
……I might actually try to make these muffins someday.
Father of the /b/, all oatmeals.
Then her head exploded from the sheer flavor. The end.
CURSE YOU AND YOUR PERFECT LOGIC, LITTLE GIRL!
My favorite scenes in this comic are always the ones of Commander Badass with his kids. That goofyloveydoveydad look he gets on his grizzled, chiseled face when he talks to them just melts my cold black heart.
This. I don’t generally like children, but the Badasslets warm the cockles of my heart.
Two things, thing the first; fourth panel D’AWWWWW. Thing the second; I know its the same shark plushy but damnit in the second panel the sharks fin looks like a rib cage and the kids evil (I assume all children are evil, especially the quiet ones) expression just reinforces it. (I know he’s eating the cheerios) First things that went through my head, good job! (no sarcasm)
I think what you’re seeing as ribs are the shark’s gills.
The comics where it’s the Commander with his kids are really the best part of this strip for me.
Not that I mind everything else, I like that too, of course.
http://adarhysenthe.blogspot.com/2011/05/manly-muffin-why-nots.html <– this is the blog that introduced me to this comic. They actually made the "Manly Muffin Why Nots" Pictures of muffins included
Aww, Tek beat me to it. I sent the link to Ceolasquid last night so she could have pictures. I took Nin’s advice and made my version of the muffins. So yeah, if you make these, do what Nin said! Oh they were soooo yummy. I took them to the restaurant I work at and tested them on my coworkers. Thumbs up all around.
The reason you don’t overload a muffin is to avoid hitting the Allergies Lotto on too many people. If you do that you end up with a lot of pissed off people who really want a muffin and are considering going into a seizure over one.
That little girl is SO CUTE. And the Commander’s such a good dad. Most dads would say “uh…because I said so!”
Yes she can put all of that in the muffins. Only that you need a very powerful blender.
And Tiger Shark plush is for the win.
Oh my god! Now I want to make muffins and have the obnoxious urge to find a manly someone to sire my future children! Two severely evil things to be wanting at 1am. *headdesks*
Coelasquid your father commander moments never cease to amaze me. The take you have on him as a manly man is just amazing. I wish my parents had fought less so my dad was like this when I was little.
Sounds like someone just invented “kitchen sink” muffins. As a clarification, there are “kitchen sink” cookies, so called because they contain everything… but the kitchen sink
wish my dad had been like that with me
So, I didn’t feel like reading through /all/ of the comments to check, but am I the only one who noticed that his other kid is like, eating a fish in the background? Is that a fish, or am I just stupid?
That’s his plush shark, Tigercharlie. He always carries it with him.
That’s the name, is it? Interesting. Must go add that to TvTropes right away.
Gooootcha. That makes a lot more sense than him eating a random fish from a bowl. Now that I think about it I do kinda-sorta remember Tigercharlie from before.
I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that this comic strip is made by a gay man.
Funny thing about people who think they can’t possibly be wrong…
nah it’s his toy shark eating his food.. :)
I am giggling like an idiot at this page. It’s so perfect.
I like the way you show her reaching for one, but not actually picking it up. Like her hand is frozen there as he lists the ingredients. I can see it now in my minds eye – her hand slowly retreating. :D
and thus the cluster fuck muffin was born causing taste bud failures around the world for people unable to handle the tastiness that was.
It’s like having a whole basket of muffins in every muffin!!! A different flavor in every bite… it sounds like the next big dessert craze or something.
..I kinda would really love to own this single page of the comic and frame it somewhere <3
Highlight the page, copy it, put it into a paint page, and print? o:
Unless there’s some issue with infringement there, Idk how strict Coela may or may not be with these things.
Also attempted to make. :) Everyone should try. Really. So good.
Here’s our attempt:
http://pitatewer.blogspot.com/2011/05/muffins.html
It’s nice to see the difference between macho and jerkishness being recognised. It’s really annoying seeing people act pointlessly, absurdly, prickish just because they think they need to to save face.
This is my hundredth time reading this comic specifically.
I’m still laughing.
God the boy is so adorable in the back ground.
Brando would approve of his parenting.
oh, my. i’ve been reading this comic for months (thusly reread the whole series a couple of times), and i never noticed until now that sammy is in the background playing with his cheerios and feeding them to his shark. i love all the little things you add to your comics!
Ditzy door would be proud
he cant find a single reason not too
Not sure why, but this is easily my favorite comic of this entire series.
Baking isn’t about why, it’s about why not. You ask: “Why put all’a that stuff into a muffin?” I say: why not marry ordinary muffins if you love them so much. In fact, why not bake an especially ordinary door that won’t hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired.
Omigosh…! Every time I go back to read the older comics, I wish a little more fervently that the men (or adults in general) in my life had been the kind of role models to me that the Commander is to his kids and also everyone. I guess it’s just more encouragement for me to seek out this sort of mellow personality type and respect it all the more when I see it. Why NOT encourage people to try stuff, even if you’re not sure of the outcome? Why NOT foster creativity and an inquisitive mind? And why not enjoy the little journeys we get by not over-thinking the stuff that doesn’t need it and by having fun on the way to finding some answers out for ourselves.
Intense Commander-fondness forever, I s’pose! Hahaha! <3