Give me the fattest headed pigeon
November 28, 2011
12:00 am
If you want to know why this isn’t in colour, take “Because I Got High” by Afroman and rewrite it to “Because I Got Zelda”
If you want to play Hatoful Boyfriend, you can download the demo over on this site and the English translation patch is over here. The full version will run you five bucks, but the English patch for that one isn’t ready yet. It is… exactly what it looks like, a token Japanese dating sim where all the dudes are photographs of pigeons.
Discussion (222) ¬
I think the Commander has pretty much the perfect attitude to dealing with Jared, now that he’s explained it. I mean, it does make sense. Can you just imagine being Jared, the boy with the Gyrados who lives in a cave and spends potential ice cream time on pigeon dating sims? To end that would be to steal something unique and interesting away from the world.
Amen. This really does a great deal for fleshing out the Commander as well. One badass aspect of Commander Badass (look, if I messed up his name it still sounds good to me) is that he thinks.
To the creator: Something you do really well, Kelly, is that you put a very believable and human aspect into your characters as you go along. Even the gay-chicken war between Kratos and Leonidas had some hefty development put into it.
While Jared seems to represent both his very individual personality, there are parts of him that a lot of people can relate to. As one of those people, this comic has bolstered my confidence.
That’s actually the best argument against internet censorship (or internet quality).
I think it’s oddly adorable how the Commander sort of acts like a father to Jared.
Even if this is a humor webcomic and I probably shouldn’t be awwing over stuff like that. xD
I’ve never heard of the game he’s playing, but thanks to YEARS of me playing the old Dragon Quest: Monster games, I have a very deep appreciation for proper pairing off in the world of video games.
I love panel 5.
Ditto.
Sorry, couldn’t do shit, had a previous engagement with my potential imaginary boyfriend pidgeon.
BEST. EXCUSE. EVER.
I still don’t understand why this comic isn’t in colour…
Because why color when you can Zelda?
Maybe its because s/he is busy? o_0
Awesome comic, good fleshing out of the commander and Jared :D
The artist does this out of his(her?) own free will and time. Honestly, I think we should be content that there’s a comic every week.
CS is, in fact, a woman. Or possibly a girl. Depending on how she prefers to be called.
However there is always that tiny doubt in the back of my mind. It happens for guys, too. (what if he has breast omg what now)
But only one breast.
On average, we all have one breast.
My girlfriend is currently looking after mine. Looks better on her anyway.
If it bothers you that much, print it out and pretend you’re coloring a coloring book. Or that you’re color blind. Or try practicing cross-hatching technique on it. …Hmm… I should totally do that last one actually…
I just can’t get over the fact that Hatoful Boyfriend is a thing which exists.
You are clearly not familiar with Japan.
Hell, I’m extremely familiar with crazy Japanese culture and this STILL gave me pause.
A ways down the line I expect an anthropomorphized/humanized picture of the entire cast. Which will make my brain do twists as it tries to comprehend a human form picture of pigeons from a dating sim where said pigeons are used in place of actual human.
I thought all the pigeons already had humanized versions of themselves that the player saw.
All the pigeons have human pictures of them AND voice actors, though those are fake sadly.
I used to be able to just sum up shit like this with ‘it came from Japan’ and move on, but really. Come on.
This is just a little different.
See, this is what I love about the Commander. Sure, goggles, massiveness, time travel, but yet he’s so down to earth, which is a great cocktail of personality if you’re going to live in a world where a game about pigeon boyfriends is real–and I just realized I’m far less better equipped to live in that world, because the news that that game is real has me looking around shiftily and wondering what the hell happened to my planet while I was asleep…again.
JAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN
You ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie. Every time Japan comes out with a new fad, I wake up in a cold sweat halfway around the world and just know something wicked this way comes.
Mind if I quote you on that?
Only if i can lucas @ Scarlett naked. :p
I don’t get it.
oh, you will young jedi. you will.
So I’m not the only one who feels that way, then? That every time another anime fetish comes out, it’s as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror…and then kept on screaming?
Half of the voices are screaming in terror…
The scary part is the half screaming in joy.
You think Japan is weird? Look up Bacon Sundae, Bacon Flavored Mayo, Deep Fried Butter on a Stick, Homestuck, and whatever the hell Cronenber is, then tell me which country is weird.
Hamsteak isn’t “that” weird.
Although Denny’s doing the baconify everything thing was in fact very strange.
-defencively screams- IT’S NOT WIERD! -meek voice- bacon makes every thing better.
…Hamsteak? What?
I -like- Homestuck ._. Even if it is incredibly hard to follow.
But yes. America is weird.
(….Fried butter on a stick is real?)
I’ve never had a hard time following HomeStuck…you just have to understand the complexities of the Double-Cosmic-Reacharound, Appearification, and Ectobiology…
but then…I’ve also been reading since JailBreak and BardQuest…
Oklahoma State Fair, 2009. The one year I didn’t get to go.
Not that I would eat that, but they make really good corndogs.
oh please. bacon flavored everything has been a staple since like … ? well. for fact i know fresno has had bacon charred everything in its fair for years. you want weird? you want grotesque? they have fried pepsi. top that world. i dare you.
fried pepsie, deep fried ice cream, and fried snickers. i am ashamed to live here.
The country I live in is too normal.
Weird food is comparable to the kind of crap that Japan gets up to? Sorry, but whenever I hear anyone give the “The west does weird shit too, you just like to beat up on Japan for being foreign” defense, I laugh aloud. America and Europe together can’t compete with either the level of insanity or the sheer number of crazy things that Japan produces.
It’s weird. I’ve been on the internet using the same name for years, and that is the only time I can remember that I’ve seen someone joke about my name with a near direct quote from the movie.
oh, i assure you. you are nowhere near as old as i am in the force.
I wish I had been that creative with my name. CURSE MY (how old was I, 12? 13? I forget) YOUNGER SELF!
i was blessed with a really cool mom who took me out of school for the day to go see the opening of star wars in 1977. i’ll never forget that. i was 5. i have a child hood mugshot picture that looks disturbingly like the first star wars trading card too. bonus points if you can tell me what that is :p heck, i even bought some of the first published fan made books lucas allowed. what i’m truly kicking myself for is blowing up or burning most of the action figures to re-create movie scenes. those suckers are worth bank today.
If you do, don’t tell me about it. It will make me sad.
Speaking of books, you know the first book made “Heir to The Empire”? I’ve bought that book about a dozen times because I somehow keep losing it. I saw that the 20th Anniversary edition just came out, and I bought that, because I KNEW that I was going to lose my current copy, and it somehow hasn’t disappeared. I have the weirdest luck.
Goggles are my favourite personality trait.
I wonder if western culture seems as weird to japaneese people as japaneese culture does to westerns…. probably not.
Japan is still a remarkably xenophobic and insular culture. We seem just as weird to them as they are to us. As to who has the higher preponderance of racism and elitist dismissiveness toward the other? Hard to say, although most of that is thankfully relegated to the older portions of the populations.
That said, Japan does seem to distort America in particular an awful lot.
Japan just think the rest of the world is inferior to them.
But so does America.
Diffrence is only in America, they’re right
Thats probably the most interesting fact about Japanese culture. That at once, its a very xenophobic, insular, dour and proper society, with nearly every citizen having a greater grasp of etiquette and manners at the “blue collar” level than most americans can expect. Then, at the opposite side of the spectrum, they’re incredibly outgoing, silly, and fun loving. Look on youtube, and their idea of comedy shows look like they were made with adobe flash and 20 kilos of crack, with an explanation that it is indeed the difference of generations that’s created this incongruency.
Japan is actually kinda obsessed with western culture, ESPECIALLY christianity. See most JRPGs. And also Panty and Stocking.
Oh man. Reminds me of the “City Face” filler arcs from Gunnerkrigg Court.
“Oh! But did you also bob your head and walk around in awesome circles?”
Yup, same here.
Oh my…
a comic about pigeons..nice.
And it isn´t walking, it is struting. If one doesn´t strut and twirl around his own axis instead of walking in circles, the other pigeon will not take notice…
Does it sound strange that I realised this exact moment how much pigeons and humans have in common when it comes to impressing their potential partners?
Well, I don’t think “toughened up” nerds lose much of their personality, they just gain a little muscle mass (and maybe lose some fat) and a bit more self confidence. But then again, “pure” nerds are different, so, I don’t know, I’m the toughened up kind. =D
Also, my first comment here, freakin’ love this comic, don’t ever stop writing it please. (:
He’s not exactly lacking self confidence, he just kind of marches to the beat of his own drum…
A drum that he happened to pull out of a Dr. Seuss book
The Bloogaphone or some other nonsensical word I believe.
To be fair I think most of the other manly men march to a similar, yet much more macho, Seussian drum.
who need confidence when you got a frigging gyarados at your side.
Btw coelisquid, we need moar Mr. Fish!!!!
Who would even want to change Jared? He’s the pickle on the Xmas tree! ….or at least the cat in the branches knocking everything down.
Pigeon. Dating. Game. Sim.
Well, I can’t say I’ve seen everything, but I’m starting to believe the end of the line is coming up quick.
Nah, I got zillions of oddball video game ideas I’ve never seen done before. Things like Zeplin Lords, The Choosy Cannibal, Monkey Poo Flingers (like a gun fight only worse), Nail Gun Nick (you don’t shoot things, you nail them down). Also Charge the Machine Gun (try not to get shot)
Nah, can’t say any of those compare with a pigeon dating sim.
I dunno, if you get to play as John Bonham in Zeppelin Lords…
I think by comparison to everyone else the commander has to deal with, Jared is low maintenance. Is Jared the throwing ungrateful ladies across the street? No. Is Jared starting bar fights before all the other guys from base get a chance to arrive? No. Is Jared playing Gay Chicken? No. Is Jared part of team rocket? No. Is Jarred sending invites to bishounen? No. Is Jarred plotting world domination with Pec-Min? No. Is Jarrod abusing power washer rights? Not anymore.
Not everyone at the compound can say the same. By the way is it a compound, head quarters, base, studio, or man-cave?
It’s a temp agency. No, really. It is!
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/date/2010/02
I know it’s a temp agency for super heroes but I though maybe they would call it the home base or something. Either because it is home base or it’s hard to drop super hero/villain/video game/manly man lingo. Maybe I’m over thinking this.
When you put it that way, Jared could be the Commander’s Gyrados…
Regarding base – I always see that kind of place as a railway station – no one really stays there too long, and they all meet the Commander as some kind of information personnel who knows best which train to take and at which time.
On second thought, scratch that – I see life as a railway station without any information booths.
If Jared is Commander’s Gyrados what did he evolve from?
I wasn’t meaning metaphorically, but that is a good metaphor for the agency and life. Are the trains on time in your station? I think mine are always late.
At least you have trains. I have giant toothy worms with flowers growing out of their heads that like to eat trains.
I’d like to hire some manly men to protect those worms, crazy alien women are always blowing up mine :l
I’d say he evolved from JarJar Binx, but that would be too cruel for Jared.
In my station I keep hopping on the wrong trains and coming back to try another. One of them has to get me to the right destination..
So then Canadian Guy is like that hobo-who-isn’t-a-hobo-but-is-still-a-hobo that everyone hates but secretly loves that’s always at the station? or Something?
Doesn’t that just enable Jared until he collides head-on with a world that will crush his spirit and leave him a self-loathing husk of hatred and depression?
… it might be one of those days.
He had his first taste of that in the past with GLaDOS and the cake, which was only sort of a lie.
Don’t forget Mr Fish.
If reality hits Jared, it’s going to end up in hospital.
I dunno, there’s an entire CITY of people like Jared – weird place called San Francisco. They seem to do well enough for themselves. Plus the weather is LITERALLY always nice there.
~D.
Those, actually, were/are his parents.
The Commander just gets cooler every time he presents his weltanschauung.
wait, you can sound smart in english by using german words?
I think that the Kommandants Einstellung to Jareds Wesen is großartig because he does not try to verändern it, but accepts him the way he is. BtW: Vorzüglicher Comic, i liebe the Humor.
I think Jim’s post was actually a stealth dick joke, not a genuine attempt to sound erudite.
are we talking about genitalia here? let me get in on this.
Apparently we’re talking about stealthy dicks.
Solid Snake?
Solid Snake stealthy dick jokes eh,hmm
Colonel:Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAAAKE?
Solid Snake:What?
Colonel:You’re a dick Snake. *ends call
Snake:-.-
Now that I think about it I guess I’m kind of surprised that the Commander hasn’t been more hard on him. It’s really kinda weird that he’s putting up with him at all. But it’s kinda cute, I s’pose, so whatever.
But Jared should go for Shuu first. Shuu has the best route, for sure.
Potential Imaginary Pigeon Boyfriend.
I feel that phrase doesn’t have enough modifiers in it.
I think pigeon dating sim has blown my mind today….
And the highlight of my Mondays continues to be the highlight of my Monday.
I don’t care what you are doing, there is ALWAYS time for ice cream.
So glad I have you and Fat birds on my tumblr. Or this would have been slid far more towards the confusion side of the scale, rather than funny.
So instead I am laughing hysterically, good work =P
Panel 7 have summarized about everything I thought when I was first reading this comic.
I think it’s supposed to be “Heartful”. Not that that makes much more sense.
It’s supposed to be a pun, hato means “pigeon” in Japanese.
potential imaginary pidgeon boyfrined…
this comic always make me smile, you are the best coela <3
This is one of the last places I would have expected to see Hatoful pop up and it’s just about made my day hahahaha
Another great installment of Jared Guys doing Jared things. I was legitimately flabbergasted to see that the game he was talking about was real, and then it was Japan and I wasn’t surprised anymore.
I immediately thought of City Face, and I went and found the link for those who are interested.
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=562
I could totally see Jared doing this.
That was my first thought. “They made a City Face dating sim?”
When I read “hatoful boyfriend” I first thought it was a typo for “hateful boyfriend”. And you know, I can’t decide which would be the weirdest dating game to play: an abusive relationship simulator or the one about pigeon courtship.
I guess I’ll go with the Commander’s wisdom and agree that the pigeon thing ain’t that bad, at least.
(Also the best pigeon dude is City Face. But he’s already engaged to Female Pigeon.)
Now see, my thought was something to the tune of “Haloful” boyfriend.
I’m not sure what that would entail.
Oh man, this is like me on Pony Vs Pony! Confound those Ponies, they’ve turned into Jared. Or more like Jared… I guess.
As long as you get to poop on statues and windshields, I might just be interested in that game.
Ah, that game. XD If I were to ever use this dating sim engine in my bookmarks, it’d probably end up being something as weird as Hatoful.
the concept is kind of lost on me, not getting the punch line at all. BUT.
the artwork, and the simple human contact and embrace at the end more than makes up for it. although, i can totally relate to jarreds nerdgasm over gaming options. i just rerolled in skyrim because of it. i admit it.
Panel 5 face is the best thing I have ever, and will ever, lay my eyes on.
Also, it always makes me squee to see Commander and Jonesey being all cuddly and junk.
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5947/manlyguys.png
I’m seeing a boatload of spammy links on the page for some reason?
Yeah, I dunno what’s causing it, I’m aware of the problem but I’ve hired someone to build a new site anyway, so I’m hoping it’ll be taken care of soon enough. Only some people can see it, I’m one of the ones who can’t apparently.
That’s the place where Project Wonderful ads go. Now those vary by region and are somewhat random in the pool. It’s possible a spammer bought an ad on your site.
It’s odd that it wasn’t rejected by the PW guys, though.
And that’s why AdBlocker is here, the manliest Firefox addon saves the day again. I hope you don’t hate me for that, though.
You know, I really feel your pain about the Zelda thing. I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep since I got Skyward Sword. I work all day, come home, play Zelda all night, repeat. It’s funny because I’m not even that far in the game– for some reason I feel compelled to do things like sit on every bench, chair, and couch, break every cup, vase and pot, and sleep in every bed before I can leave Skyloft when I’m there. Also, catch every bug, talk to all the citizens, stare at the fortune teller for a good five minutes, and repeatedly get lost on my bird. And that’s just in Skyloft, this behavior follows me when I go to the surface too. :|
Thats the way we were all trained by the original Zelda. Don’t worry if you aren’t old enough to have experienced it the collective gaming mind obviously connected to you! XD
I identify with Jared, because my train of thought sometimes confuses the hell out of those around me. It all makes sense in my head, though, and all too often I end up thinking that the people I’m trying to explain stuff to must be idiots or deliberately being contrary instead of my ideas being bizarre.
I just realized how much time the people in this comic spend drinking coffee.
I think the artist must drink lot of coffee and is projecting her caffeine addiction onto her characters.
I don’t actually drink coffee at all. Caffeine doesn’t do a thing for me, it doesn’t even make me jittery.
Caffeine makes me go directly to the crash. No energy whatsoever.
Doesn’t even do that for me, it’s about as effective as drinking bitter water.
I think Jonny D has coffee issues and is projecting them on Coelasquid. Maybe the people in the comic are drinking a variety of things. I rarely see them specify.
I think you are projecting your projection issues onto the projectees. Maybe the projector in the comic are projecting a variety of shadows. I rarely see them specify whether it is a dog or bunny.
;o; The Commander really understands Jared.
Sounds like my own mind! But I don’t exactly go for gay romance between animals like that. The closest I’ll get to that is straight romance between furries. Plus, I don’t play romance games like that anyway.
Jared still needs to man up a bit. I mean, dating imaginary pigeons instead of going for ice cream is cool, I guess, but he’s still a skinny little guy with no mettle to him.
Seriously? All these comments and no one has made a joke about getting “pigeonholed,” yet? What’s wrong with you people?
Does this mean that the new Zelda is starting to grow on you?
I never disliked the game, I just thought that the controls were irritating and some of the mythos is handled kinda sloppily.
I have many times cursed the fact that “Because I dicked around on the internet” has far too many syllables to even attempt a parody song. It’s the story of my life.
STUPID PIGEON WEBSITE IS IMPOSSIBLE TO NAVIGATE!
You should fly away then.
I honestly hope that Hatoful Boyfriend is meant to be satirical. Please.
It is, but at the same time it has a surprisingly solid non-dating plot and really clever writing that makes me genuinely like it.
Why would he even NEED to toughen up? He has a giant dragon on a leash. I would take that as permission to do nothing but eat ice cream and play video games. Anyone disagree? DRAGON ONNA LEASH.
Water/Flying
it bothers me that this game exists. looks like next weekends I have an afternoon game to play
Pigeon dating sims? I’d personally go for the ice cream, but I still gotta say: DAMN SKIPPY. I just spent the last two evenings applying paint to multiple clinical pyromaniacs, I got no room to get weirded out.
Also, I must third or fourth or (integer-verbed) panel five. I’m gonna have to save that one for a forum avatar, it’s just too awesome not to use!
I’d like to know where did you ever find out about this, it’s just so bizarre.
Tumblr.
Just when you think Commander Badass couldn’t get more manly, he gets MORE MANLY.
Dayum. To you, Coela, I bow. Deeply.
I secretly hoped the pigeon game was an actual thing.
And then I discovered that it was an actual thing.
Which pigeon is the tsundere?
I own some fan-tailed pigeons. Now I will always think of a blue haired blue eyed bishonen every time I look at them. Why japan why?
Are you sure it isn’t “Hatoboh Boyfriend”? Hatoboh, in English it’s Tranquill, the Wild Pigeon Pokémon.
This is what I thought the comic said until I read the description…
It’s a pun on the word “Heartful” with “hato” instead. Because Hato means pigeon.
I think it’s a double pun on heartful/hato/hateful. Hateful fits with the secret plot.
Eeeeeeee! Ba ha ha. Jared is just so … special.
Lol I had a great dilemma picking one birdie at first. Lol Jared overthinking this is hilarious.
Also, Jared, for your information: partridges are definitely not pigeons.
Looking at phylum tree, we get something like this:
Aves (birds) -> Neornithes (modern birds) -> Neognathae (“new jaw”) and that’s where they diverge.
For pigeons: Neognathae -> Neoaves -> Columbiformes -> Columbidae
For partridges: Neognathae -> Galloanserae -> Galliformes -> Phasianidae -> Perdicinae
So you’ve got to go quite high up in the family tree to link pigeons and partridges together. Pigeons are closer to pelicans, penguins or parrots (for example) than to partridges. Partridges are closer to pheasants and peafowls than to pigeons.
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NERDALERT!!!!
You mean Sexy Science alert.
Really love’n this week’s comic. Just as Rome wasn’t built in a day, a Man can’t be either. All one can do is plant seeds and hope they blossom into something good later on.
Let`s be honest, mostly of this comic is you talking yourself while you are dating imaginary pigeons.
i like panel 7.. i can picture her freezing for that split second..
The commander shouldnt be the one to toughen up Jared… It should be Rocky.. saying that Jared would probably try to copy him by beefing up his Sim..
Is his desktop background Mr. Fish, or that awesome dragon from Panzer Dragoon Orta?
The title says much about Coela’s tastes. Ofc, that probably should’ve been made clear with her creation of a webcomic about excessively beefy manly men.
Man, nevermind coloring these comics. Everyone, let’s have an official Manly Guys Manly Coloring contest! Print it out, grab your kid’s Crayola box and get cracking!
This is actually a pretty dope idea.
hell yes it is! manly guys coloring books? tbh it might teach kids who found them some positive things for once. plus its a fun idea.
My KID’S crayons… Right…
I love how without color, it looks like Commander’s chest hair is a collared shirt… I guess that explosion in his younger years did more than take his tattoo.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WftRIV6N3fg/STSVsz3HALI/AAAAAAAAALs/xFTfo_zBKC4/s320/good_feathers_names.jpg#goodfeathers
Bachelor number one is a jerk who will assume you are talking about him in a negative way and start pummeling you. You want to argue constantly over frivolous stuff? He’s the one for you.
Bachelor number two is the smartest of the three and will laugh as you are being pummeled. You want a good plan by someone with a cool head? He’s the one you want.
Bachelor number three is the youngest of the group. He will say something innocently and then bachelor number three will start pummeling him. If you want someone sweet and can take a beating he’s the one for you.
VOTE NOW!!!
I don’t think i will be touching your “link” with anyones ten foot pole.
Also, nintenuendo. it’s a word for gaming sexual inneundo that me and my friends came up with. sorry if this comment seems to be coming out of the blue, but you deserve it for using the words: “man-cave” :p
It just show a picture of the pigeons from Animaniacs. They were called the “Good Feathers” and were a parody of Good Fellas and a little bit of the God Father. So you can Google them to see them with out clicking the link if your curious.
It does seem out of the blue and would have made more sense above. I thought man-cave might be apt so I listed it. What’s wrong with using man cave and why does it’s use warrant “nintenuendo”?
oh, well i wouldn’t try searching for the word, as i made it up. funny you should mention animaniacs, i loved that show and got three of my friends turned on to it too. and as far as man-cave … wellll… just come on now, use your imagination :p or (i dare you) google THAT and see what comes up.
First one to pop up http://mancavesite.org/
try using google image instead, and make sure any filters are off. in my mind at least, it has a gay porn association.
By those directions I would get similar results typing in most anything. Man cave is a fairly common term for the designated room/living space for a man. Sorry you had your mind in the gutter about it but that IS the primary meaning of man cave. Now you know.
No kidding. I did a GIS for ‘miko‘ without turning on safe search (to get a reference for the standard miko outfit for a drawing).
I didn’t get a lot of mikos. I did learn there are a disproportionate number of ‘adult’ actresses named Miko.
Is anybody else wondering which pigeon Jared is going to take eventually?
Indeed. Inquiring minds must know.
The one holding a x-box controller in it’s wing and wearing a nitted cap would be my best guess.
Jared is not weak he is te master pokemon trainer ever, he actually wins many battles using a magicarp, not even ash con do that! any body can win battles having guns , starships or blades but not wielding only a silly fish!! he is a total badass :D
True but he was wielding the Magikarp…
…As a baseball bat.
He got disqualified.
more badass, badass make teir own rules…
and in any case at least he does part of the work not like those silly trainers standing and shouting to their pokemons.
PD: he got discualifiqued because the league was not prepared for his awesomeness :D
Not to brown nose, but are you a phycology major, because you always portray the commander’s father like abilities as if he were the perfect father figure. He handles even situation with Jared perfectly, and he is still a manly guy. I dont understand where the insight comes from, but I will have to assume that you are as vastly knowledgeable about how to deal with the strange, interesting kids as the commander is. Just wanted to let you know that I am impressed and awestruck in the superlative degree.
Ahahaha I just have a really awesome dad.
Jonesy has just broken the Fourth Wall! *eyes widen*
I really love the last 2 panels :)
I had my fingers crossed that this week’s comic would involve Hatoful Boyfriend.
Honestly, before this game came out I was unaware that a dating sim could have a Bad End.
Jared, just don’t go for the doctor. Whatever you do don’t go for the doctor.
♪ Why? ♪
♫ Because I got Zelda. ♬
♫ Because I got Zelda. ♬
♫ Because I got Zelda~aa. ♬
La, la, la, la, lalala!
Oh! I also like pidgeons! ;P
It gives new meaning to the old chestnut “Doing the (erp erp) Pigeon”. Someone tell Bert to never, ever go to Japan.
…I will never look at the Medic the same way again.
Archimedes?
I always think the Commander’s voice should sound like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky. I do think Jared could do with zipping up his mansuit and manning the hell up sometimes though!
i wonder what would think shale of da:o about that game
This reminds me of Tesla’s pigeon girlfriend. Though that was less imaginary on the pigeon part and more on the girlfriend part.
Sometimes I can’t tell if you love 80’s action stars or hate them. By the way, when are you gonna exploit the highly exploitable Van Damme? :p
This may have been said before but- Tesla, Commander. Should’a gone with Tesla. That man loved him some pigeons.
I intentionally skipped Jared’s part of the conversation so I’d hear what it was like from Jonesy’s POV.
I was not disappointed.
Is it weird that I’ve had a dream about this webcomic that semi-relates to this topic?
In it Jared grows up to be super manly and then trains the Commander in the future, who (as we know) goes back in time and mentors Jared and then it was all “Circle of Life”… it was a pretty awesome dream
Also I think pigeons are neat
This dream needs to be made true.
*clears throat*
♪Spring is here! Spriiing is heeere,
Life is skittles and life is beer,
I think the loveliest time of the year
Is the spring, yes it’s-♫ *WHAP*
Ow! Did you have to- *WHAP* Hey, that was my head, man! *WHAP* Put down the clipboard! *WHAP* Oh, that was a cheap shot!
I love you. I learned that song for my band. Tom Lehrer is GOD.
I was not expecting this~
Hahaha~ Hatoful, FTW~
Also, I forgot my old username and email for the comment thing? Then again, I forgot how old I was earlier today~
~Yuki~
All I could think of with Jared’s hard life is “first world problems”
Love your comics/work. Kinda disagree with you philosophically on this though. Love my video games, Skyrim, BF3 and all, but I never turn down an opportunity to spend time with people who mean at least something in my life unless money gets in the way. Whatever orc I’m bashing can wait, or won’t be important in the long run, spending time with people is an opportunity that once passed will never be presented in the same way again.
WHY ISN’T IT A BUDGIE DATING SIM D: I downloaded it. And named the main character after my recently deceased female budgie. SHE IS CHEATING ON HER (still alive) MATE, AAHHH. Seeing as I have no interest in dating males, obviously I’m putting on my “pretend these are girls” goggles. Not so hard, considering the images we’ve got. Yes, even the human versions.
Wow. I just found this webcomic yesterday, and just got caught up. I absolutely LOVE it!! Time for more now :D
There. Now is my gravatar showing? This is a test…still love this comic and can’t wait for more!
I don’t believe gravatars show up at all here.
You know, one of my best friends left me this great voicemail on Tuesday… and all it said was “Oh my god. Kadri. Did you know that there is a PIGEON DATING SIM now?! I MUST HAVE THIS GAME!!!” and I laughed my ass off.
Ironically, she was the one that introduced me to the Manly Guys comics…and thanks to this comic, I actually had a reference for her crazed message on hand (for once).
Thanks, Coelasquid! XD
Yeahhhhhhhh, I just finished working through all the storylines on Hatoful boyfriend. I really, really wasn’t expecting the doctor to be a serial killer who sent me the cooked body of another love interest for Christmas.
… it actually exists.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/12/09/bird-watching-the-pigeon-dating-gaming/
i.. i was ok with it when it was a joke… o_0
It still IS a joke – it was first mentioned as an april fools joke, and enough people thought it was funny to actually make it.
It’s not got anything creepy or fettishy. Most the endings are either AWESOME WTF MOMENTS or OH GOD HOW DO I FEEL SO SAD FOR THIS PIDGEON STOCK IMAGE moments.
If you get the proper version (now available in english) it is however the scariest murder mystery survival horror game with the most, biggest and best plot twists dressed up as a happy little joke game dating sim.
I highly recommend the full version, unless you have a phobia for part biological part mechanical blood dripping scarecrow monsters with huge metal club arms.
THE FATTEST PIGEON. IS CLEARLY THE RIGHT ANSWER.
You gave a very good reason for why this comic isn’t in colour (I would be willing to say that Zelda is a pretty good excuse for anything) but I was wondering if you thought you would ever come back to colour this one. I ask mostly because I actually opened this strip in a new tab because it contains such a happy sentiment, and I know that my wife will love the idea when I share it with her, and I know that your colouring work is gorgeous so I was hoping that this amazing strip would eventually get the full chromatic treatment.
Since this is my first comment on your strip and you don’t know me at all, please don’t hesitate to tell me where to shove it. Even in black and white, this is still a beautiful strip you’ve created here. Thanks for this one (and all the others, of course–“ROGUE IS COWARD!” is one of my favorite quotes).
Wait until he gets to the end.
That reminds me: whatever happened to Jared’s internet girlfriend?
I’m pretty sure the Commander is one of the people who gets the most “awwwww : )”‘s from me, especially when he’s dealing with Jared, and is almost definitely one of the people who gets the highest proportion of “awwwwww : )” to non-“awwwww : )” time. I think I may have a mild crush on him.
Out of curiousity, who DID Jared end up dating? LOL
Nothing wrong with pigeons. Exhibit A: http://nerf-this.com/pigeonly-advice/
Seriously. You may laugh at the premise for now, but soon enough you will discover that these pigeons show more human nature than many human characters in fiction. And you will start feeling for these pigeons. Trust me.
Hey, I love the game, bought the mug and everything.
First reaction: Wow, the Commander is a manly man, without all the traps that manliness comes from. He’s a legitimately nice guy.
Second reaction: That’s a real game!?
I’m with the bunch who read about pigeon dances and instantly thought of City Face.
Pretty much the most memorable part of Gunnerkrieg…
Mother of god! That’s like a spot-on summary of the anime “Chuunibyou demo koi ga shitai!”.
I believe that Cryaotic did a couple of parts of that game on Youtube. Every time you meet a new potential pigeon boyfriend, it comes up with a super bishie picture of them, for NO REASON. I think at one point, one of the hottest ones comes up and Cry is like “Damn, *I* would hit that.” XD
Okay, so it’s 2015 now. This comic claims it’s from 2011. Mike Tyson didn’t have a show until 2014.
I know the Commander is a time traveler. But… wat? Is Coleasquid… also from the future??
He had a show back when this comic came out where he was trying to get inner city kids to not grow up to be horrible. A good deal of the show involved him and his pigeon coop.