We’re not done yet!
March 23, 2014
11:53 pm
I keep cutting it down to the wire but it’s so I can actually get some progress happening on buttons! And Platinum Black! The MGDMT buttons will be for sale at TCAF, I’m planning to give the Platinum Black ones out as freebies.
I have to hand it to B52 he knows what buttons to push to get what he wants. Personally I’d love to see him punch that smug General in the face as well
Indeed! He even *manipulated* a way to get a legal representative in on this session! He’s playing their game even better than they do!
Finally, a marketing team that actually knows what the people want.
That was my first thought too!
Well said. Too bad fiction is the only place something like that is likely to happen
The Old Spice marketing team. My work here is done.
Wow, he really DOES know how to play them like a fiddle.
yeah this is probably a reference to Ground Zeroes
Yeah! Yeah! Being controlled by badass imagery doesn’t seem like such a good idea now, does it General Pauldrons?
*Admiral. Admiral Pauldrons. This is the future space navy, remember.
Those are epaulets.
No, this isn’t the future space Navy, this is the spacefuture Navy. Biiiig difference.
the nondescript spacefuture navy very important that nondescript
He’s gonna punch your face…
IN THE FACE!
General: “NOOOOOooooooo!!!!”
*Gasp* There’s something on your face!
*Punch*
IT WAS PAIN!!
You two are now my favorite people on the internet.
Why thank you my good sir.
I like trains.
Hello, Mine Turtle!
Hello! *click* *BWOOM*
Everybody do the flop! *Thump*
I love lamp.
When I grow up I want to be a pie!!
*evil laugh* Why wait?
Hehe general beak there is gonna get his bill busted :)
I’d really like to see B52’s enlarged, to show more detail…Maybe wallpaper-sized with the caption:
I fought the system
And WON!
I think that would also make a good T-shirt too…
Oooops! I forgot some words in my previous comment. It should read “see B52’s reaction in the last panel enlarged”
That’s what I get for failing to proofread myself before posting. My bad.
It’s fine. a lot of people want to see B52’s e–.. I’m not going to finish that sentence.
But I agree with wanting to see his facial expression rendered larger. Beat the system!… literally! (In tonight’s performance the part of the system is being played by your Commanding Officer)
Perhaps something more akin to “I punched the system IN THE FACE.”
That way we get our in-joke along with it, without overexplaining the implications of “fought” in both senses.
I am loving every bit of this comic, oh man, I love you.
So the boss guy is getting screwed by his own system. The next page or two should be so much fun.
We get to see CB act calmly and rationally to prove a point AND him punching this guy in the face? Is it Christmas again already?
If this actually happens, it’s more than I could have ever wanted from this arc. It’s one thing for him to punch dickhead general in the face, and a whole other thing to be allowed to punch dickhead general in the face by the very institution dickhead general supports.
Yep…The Commander manipulated to get a lawyer into the room (under the urging of Marketing) to TELL him that it would be legal (& badass marketing) to let him punch out the Admiral.
Marketing is about to get the Admiral hoist on their petard…
I cannot, for the life of me, find Platinum Black. Is it on the web somewhere? Is it going to be? Is this just a print thing? I feel so out of the loop.
It’s going to launch in a couple months.
Cool. Thank you!
You mean it isn’t http://www.gouletpens.com/Platinum_Black_60ml_Ink_p/plat-ink-1201.htm ? :)
Platinum Black is a real thing, platinum in the form of a fine black powder, it has good catalytic properties and can be used to increase the surface area of platinum electrodes or as a fuel cell catalyst.
Them’s some real smart words you used there, missy.
so you want him to be a brooding rebelleion badass, eh? not the best plan for your face :P
I do like the reaction of the Commander in the end panel.
It’s like Space Christmas come early.
Yeah, it’s as though he never really expected it to happen :D
It’s like Christmas… but in space!
It’s nice to have the Commander finally have things go his way in dealing with his superiors. It’s even better if we get to see him punch someone he REALLY doesn’t like in the face.
If this actually happens, can we start calling him Commander Facepunch?
…OK, yeah, doesn’t quite have the same ring to it that Commander Badass does. Never mind.
…Maybe we could call him Cdr. Badass Facepalm. Sure, a normal facepalm is pretty much nothing significant, but a badass facepalm is when you facepalm someone else.
Or faceknuckle, perhaps. Add a ‘Mc’ to the beginning to make it flow smoother.
This guy didn’t realize how many cool stories revolve around clones/robots/soldiers rebelling against their creators/leaders? He didn’t realize he’d be the badguy getting his ass kicked in those stories? And that’s what appeals to people?
Consumer here! Marketing might be right!
PUNCH HIM IN THE SNOUT!
From the Commander’s reaction in the last panel, he wasn’t sure how far marketing would go to “market” the Badass Rebel image that the Admiral is advocating. You notice that he carefully considered his next move just beforehand & his surprise-reaction in the last panel indicates that he was also testing to see if marketing would exercise any limitations on *themselves*
… come to think of it, that would be mad bitchin’.
“How about you promise not to deliberately infect me with any more disfiguring diseases?”
(Confession: I had to go back 11 pages to remember what the fuss was about.)
Honestly- how did the General keep his job after those breaches of the law?
*Admiral
They were legal when he did them, remember? It was following them that the commander lobbied to outlaw stuff like that.
Or so the conjecture goes. That hasn’t been confirmed (or denied) in-comic.
I never thought I’d say this, but, “Marketing, I don’t hate you!”.
I have to agree that is a sentiment I never thought I would hear expressed myself
What I see is that the Pavlov’s Dogs in marketing are starting to drool. The Commander simply rang the bell. Marketing is just reacting the way the Commander knows they’ll react.
Oooo! Chekov’s Fist now on deck, ready to launch!
Considering how “badass” a partially cybernetic face looks, the general may have more to worry about than just getting punched. Lol
We ALL have to make sacrifices for the country, eh? General?
Haha! (clap)
My seat doesn’t have sufficient edge for this.
I’m confused, how’s mad bitching related in any terms to legal and marketing. Also, I’m not exactly sure if it’s general doing “mad bitching” in this page, or is it commander. Anyone elaborate, please?
“bitching” is a super 90’s way of saying “cool”
Spacefuture is all about 90’s slang.
Of course it is. All the best space futures were from the 80’s and 90’s.
This must be Post-Fallout, where the 40s and 50s were “Mad Bitching”
I had to look it up too
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mad%20bitchin%27
I just read it as if the old scientist guy was saying “mad bitching” without the feeling that the marketing guys would’ve said it, making it sound completely awkward. The original line would’ve probably been, “Damn, that be mad bitchin’, yo! It be totes macho! Get them law-dudes makin’ it work!”
Please make the law dudes Terry Crews reprising his role as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion.
It’d just be funny, I guess.
This page made me laugh out loud.
The dream of punching your boss in the face… So beautiful.
…And being told that it’s legal is even better!
I assume they will allow it to make The Commander more marketable. Going with some kind of bad boy/anti-hero angle. I think my cynicism is ruining future jokes for me.
I laugh harder every time I re-read this page.
WHAT!?
You know, those really MANLY MACHO scenes where the rebellious hero PUNCHES the manipulative bastard general/leader-type-guy in the face for being an ass and the crown cheers and feels good about it.
Well, I didn’t see that coming.
I imagine that scientist-looking guy with an Indian accent.
So now, I’m imagining an Indian doctor saying “Mad Bitching.”
Just let that sink in for a minute.
You deserve a mad bitchin’ medal.
I had the same reaction to this as Commander.
Now that’s a punch line.
I’m sorry , I couldn’t resist…
Perfect. The General can accidentally injure Rock Lobster to the point he needs more modification…if he is conscious that is.
Every week you come right to the wire getting the comic out. What if you just did a quick sketch page in addition to the normal comic? Then you could say the sketch page is your weekly update, and the new comic page is a right at the start of the week page, so you’re not technically behind schedule anymore?
Also, I’ve been hoping Commander Badass would get to punch that ass in the face without repurcussions!
Pretty sure that “Updates Monday or whenever I feel like it” means that if the comic consistently updates with a page a week we should feel quite pleased. I mean, this is something that we get for free, after all. Just because you read the comic every week doesn’t automatically make you entitled to the comic every week. If you are getting something for free, you should feel privelleged and happy, not cranky that you’re not getting the thing you want fast enough.
That’s not really what I’d call cranky, just offering a solution to this constant time crunch.
This comic never ceases to amaze me! I can see now why Commander is totally fine living in the past and working at his desk job, I wonder if Rock Lobster gets any kind of pension plan set up for his years as a Space Marine or anything or if they did away with retirement in the Space future. :P
I may be the minority here, but I’m hoping that the Commander doesn’t bust his schnoz. I feel like to rebel against the unfair treatment of him and his and then do the exact same to another person, even if the hook-billed bastard has it coming, would be highly hypocritical.
“Mercy is the mark of the better man.”
I don’t think the Cdr. actually will punch him in the face *because* that would invalidate his whole point in the first place…But everything he’s done so far just brings the whole “wrongness” right to the surface & out in the open. His rebellion right now is focused against the whole “marketed military” in the first place; to punch the Admiral in the face now would only confirm *their* side of the argument. To really rebel against this system, he’ll probably be told that he can legally punch the Admiral, then *refuse to do so*
If that’s how this comic goes, then Cdr. B52 is *more* of a Badass Rebel than they can actually market!
Course he isn’t going to punch him. However the document legal writes up will let any person who was affected by the genetic manipulation a punch. So Commander will bring forth all the guys. Duke, Kratos, Shen, Canadia Guy, so on so forth, and let them punch him.
NB: Canada Guy never got bishie’d, he healed everyone else with his uber-manliness.
Think’n y’mean halthcare, b’hay.
He had to have everyone’s blood transfused into and out of him, I say that requires some sort of recompse.
I don’t think Commander is rebelling against the marketed military, necessarily… They are kinda his “parents”, after all. He’s just rebelling against modification without due legal process and explicit, in-person consultations with all who could be affected by it. He’s supporting his favorite law.
Although I did just realise that it might encourage more illegal acts to milk CB punching the Admiral in the face… And CB is smarter than me so he probably already knows that.
Looks to me that the Commander is pushing his basic point (being wrong to create soldiers based upon marketing value) right to the very core. If this non-descript space future military actually has to *rely* on marketing just to get funded, then it’s a pointless purpose for *having* a military in in the first place.
If memory serves, it’s not so much that they need marketing to get funding as much as in the future everyone’s so stacked with weaponry that they just fight by trying to get the people to think they’re cooler. Basically, everyone’s capable of blowing everyone else up, so instead they just made war a popularity contest.
Basically, yes, you’re right…but to make anything popular, you’ve got to *market* it just to bring attention from the public. In other words, it becomes a “popularity contest” only *because* of marketing. It’s the degree of success marketing has on the public that determines how much funding they’re getting.
Does anyone else imagine CB’s voice as Patrick Warburton (The Tick) ?
Brilliant stuff. I hope that brasshat gets his nose rearranged.
Heh! “Brasshat.” Heh!
I wish I’d thought of that when I was still in the Navy…
“Mad bitchin'” Lol. I can just imagine a bunch of suits (space badass suits, but still suits) struggle with various bits of meaningless biz-speak jingo and then finally throw their hands up in the air and elect “Mad bitchin'” as their new sloagan. Air quotes mandatory. ^_^
In slo-mo, plz.
Go watch Raging Bull. Then do that.
Though really, I think B52 will probably be happy with the right to punch Admiral Pauldron in the face, and just have that hanging there in the air between them, like some ugly inevitability.
Mad Bitching.
The best part is Lobster’s reaction.
Frankly, I’m surprised he’s allowed to have kids, being the spacefuture army’s personally cultivated soldier. Or are they planning to “recruit” those kids later? …Dang, my mind is going to dark places… I need to go look at happy pictures…
They could be robots in disguise…
So, wait, if future wars are just popularity contests, and Commander Badass earns them the win by being super-badass, does that mean he becomes Spacefuture President Badass? Cause that might seriously cut into his barbecuing time. He might have to wuss out just to avoid that.
The way I understand it the wars are pretty normal here. The Cool Badass dudes like Commander are there for both the propaganda value “Look what awesome dudes we have, we can’t lose!” and to sell various merchandise. They are essentially military celebrities with their own lines of products. A somewhat veiled way to milk the public for even More money on the military effort. A secret tax of sorts.
This is oddly reminding me of that scene from Gladiator, “If you win the crowd…”
Well, what the people want, the people get!
I, for one, am super excited you’re going to be at TCAF! :D I love being able to meet some of my favourite comic artists there.
I want a marketing team that uses ‘mad bitching’. Been following this for ages, never told you that it was awesome, so there it is (:
Admiral’s lunch for today is… Knuckle Sandwich
And leave room for dessert…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nz9-NWdsis
Im honestly surprised the brass didnt see this coming, has there EVER been a single badass military man/renegade cop/overzealous parking maid who DIDNT play by their own rules and made life a living hell for their superiors?
THIS IS AWESOME. THANK YOU. <3
It might not seem like much of a request, but really, it’s like asking for the go-ahead to murder, considering it’s the Commander throwing the punch.
While everyone else is giving dope props to the Commander’s “mad bitching,” I want to commend the seamless integration of exposition and backstory in the Admiral’s retort. That stuff must be a pain in the butt to write without being really boring or obvious.
Apparently, the Admiral doesn’t really possess much in the way of observational skill.
In panel 6, we can see that the Commander has had enough time to tear enough strips of paper out of the files & fold them into at least two-dozen stars (while wearing gloves, mind you!) BEFORE the Admiral took notice & came into the room to stop him.
I got one! Have his kids come in and paint all those panels in the background a different colour and say they were inspired by Tetris.
http://firstpersontetris.com/
That was real smart in the first row there, Admiral, pointing out that you’ve given CB everything you can think of and he still has bargaining chips available. Could you even make it more clear that he can pretty much name what he wants?