I’m sure Real life Gackt has the utmost respect for Tom Waits
June 11, 2012
12:00 am
I’m not sure how many pages are left in this arc, but the end is in sight.
There’s a lot of debate over what classic Beefshank Commander is supposed to sound like, maybe this will help clear it up.
Thank you! I have a new goal to aspire to now.
great one like always Coelasquid i have always fun reading your comic
Can wait for the colored version – this one is awesome enough.
Amazing as usual. While I cant wait for commander to return back to his normal self, its kinda sad the arc is coming to an end, I’ve really enjoyed it. Thank you!
Accurate, imaginable description.
Also that last panel is fantastic.
MGDMT, updated once a week; never on Monday’s.
And? At least she updates consistently and with creative vigor. That’s more than I can say with a few other of my favorite web-comic series. You can’t be this heartbroken over promises, your life’ll be miserable.
Figured i’d throw my 2 cents into the abyss.
wait…. Coelasquid is not a dude……
but…. so much manly…. an-and yet….
my brain….. but the…. whatever, Harlow, not cool, wait till you make your own web comic and then you’ll be sorry! …. bla bla bla.
that is all….
Be glad we GET updates.
Apparently you missed the new site header
This is perhaps the third time you’ve made comments of this nature, it’s becoming quite rude, I think if you continue I’m going to save myself the headache and start throwing you in the spam filter.
Dude’s a troll. Drop the banhammer on him and keep putting out the awesome, and everyone wins.
Apparently I did, disregard the first comment then.
And next time? Don’t be so rude. It’s annoying.
… This little gives you a headache?
Is your opinion of humanity in general so high that something like Harlow’s snark stands out as especially heinous?
… I suppose I should be worried about everything I’ve said then. Heck knows how you’d respond to the dissonance regarding Dragon Age stuff…
Fap fap fap…
As a reader of VG Cats, I could care less- as long as it’s updated.
A-effin-men.
You do NOT disrespect the Waits!
Also, I’ll just leave this here: http://nyanwaits.com/
It’s… hypnotic! I like it! Thanks, nitrokitty!
HA! That’s awesome! I like it so much, I opened it in multiple tabs.
Dear God , the wall of sound that hits you!
OOOOOH FIGHT SCENE!
Suspense!
The end is close! Woo!
So he DOES sound like Greyson from Bulletstorm? This is very acceptable.
Greyson doesn’t sound like Tom Waits and Beetlejuice, he sounds like Spike Speigle trying to do a Jet Black impression.
Parts of my brain stopped what they were doing so as to properly absorb that.
That is the RIGHT response!
That netted you a solid LOL. :)
Steve Blum always sounds like Steve Blum.
I love him dearly but he really can’t do much with his voice to make different characters.
Yeah, he’s no Scott McNeil :( I miss that dude.
Steve Blum is Guilmon. And the Spectacular Spider-Man version of the Green Goblin. So, no, he doesn’t ALWAYS sound like Steve Blum.
You forgot he’s also Urdnot Grunt
….HE VOICED GUILMON?! ….AND GRUNT?! O___O Well… Shit. No wonder I liked both XD
(Knew he was the Green Goblin though… There were some bits where Goblin sounded like Glum and I can hear Goblin in a couple other characters… I just forget their names atm. DX)
I like the crazed expression on panel 6. Shows that despite his new exterior, on the inside he’s still a guy who occasionally travels back in time a few minutes to beat the crap out of himself and steal his own coffee.
Which only raises the question why doesn’t he just go back in time, warn himself of the plague and go shoot Gackt in the face while he’s still manly… Or better yet, launch a nuclear strike against the castle.
Because then we wouldn’t get to see Mr. Fish learn Hyperbeam! That in and of itself is worth all the consternation!
P.S. Thanks again for that Coelasquid, it was so… extraordinarily mind-blowing doesn’t begin to do the event justice. I just can’t think of words to describe the pure awesomeness that is Mr. Fish.
It’s a Pokemon doing a Pokemon attack. It wasn’t a sign of God. Let me know when you come back down to earth.
You must be a lot of fun at parties.
I lol’d.
Because he’s contagious.
Starting the infection sooner isn’t going to help anybody.
I would say I’m surprised he could even find a drive through that knows who Beetle Juice and Tom Waits are but then I remember the Commander can time travel.
I do love the man’s thought process.
I also love this story line.
Now what will the fight scene music be from? Something from Startrek? Conan The Barbarian? Rocky? Venture Brothers?
Can the commander fight all bad ass in this weakened less manly form? Perhaps he will cure him self when he finds his inner manliness. You know that little voice that says the bonfire could be bigger or the explosion could be bigger or the steak could be bigger.
A collaboration between Danny Elfman and Tom Waits, of course. It seems the most appropriate.
I would love to see Jared breaking a wall, riding Mr Fish with “Anyway you want it” again.
I just realized now that Tom Waits and Danny Elfman would be a perfect fit for some musical shenanigans. Why hasn’t this happened yet?
I realize that he’s not videogame-related, but Rider (Fate/Zero) would be awesome to see in this comic at some point.
Manly guys is about manly guys. Not videogames, manly guys. So who knows. (Coelasquid does.)
As far as we all know, MR T and Ganon might decide to go sign up Link for telemarketers to bother. All Secondhand Lions style.
All that matters is machismo. And deflating it.
GO COMMANDER KICK HIS ASS WOOOOOOO *RAUCOUS CHEERING*
So you know, I totally read that as you saying “Go, Commander Kick His ass, Wooo!” And I was totally like “But he’s Commander Badass” for like five seconds :P Anyways, AWESOME! Fight time!
What music is playing in your head for this battle?
A REMIX. INVOLVING EVERY BATTLE MUSIC EVER.
Tom Waits – Going Out West.
I’mma go with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Nmc84Noos&feature=related
I believe, given the name of the comic, this would be more appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSS5dEeMX64
Nah. Boss-fight music, right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FHckC42QU
Ahh, the internet strikes again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsY_yk370G8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbuqlnN_2ZQ
This has already been established. Journey’s “Any Way You Want It” is going to be the final boss battle montage.
Go Commander Badass, go!!!
So what I am wondering is; are we gonna see some final boss cliches?
“so you don’t break my nice things when I throw you into the wall”
This is one of the things that always pissed me off about Buffy. How many times did they destroy the magic shop? How many crews did Xander have to send to fix it up? How many man-hours did that cost him, because you know Anya and Giles never paid him? And because it would take away from other, paying jobs? How much pricey magic stuff was broken that they couldn’t replace? There is no way that shop ever made money, and by extension, Xander should have been housing Anya and Giles in his parents’ basement for the entire series.
Not counting all the times before Giles bought the place. I think he was the only owner of the magic shop that did not die…in the shop. Or in Sunnydale.
Plus I think Xander only fixed things up as a favor. Or maybe he and Giles had a deal going on.
Let the shrieks of “Not the face!” begin!
“IT’S JUST NOT THE SAME!” is my new battlecry.
Now to find a battle…
What does the Commander sound like now if he no longer sounds like wakes up every morning by gargling with thumbtacks and whiskey instead of mouthwash?
Reader consensus seemed to be “American David Bowie”.
But… David Bowie is hot and has the sexy voice of awesome… but beefcake Commander Badass also awesome…
I want normal Commander back… but hot David Bowie voice…
WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO MEEEE!
No one said bishie commander wouldn’t be sexy.
But the price is too high.
Few things give me more joy than realizing that Normal-Commander sounds exactly the way he sounds in my mind.
Now let’s hear that voice again for real! Go get ‘im, Commander!
(And, if he called Jonesy “Babes”, I would not be at all upset. *smiles*)
I spy with my little eye a “The Big O” joke at the end of this comic. Roger Smith is disappointed.
What? I’ve never even seen Big O. That’s a Beetlejuice joke.
I thought of Big O too, though I assumed your intention was Beetlejuice, yeah.
The thing about Big O is that Anime!Batman says “It’s Showtime!” to summon his mecha every episode. At one point, someone even makes a robot bust of him that says “It’s Showtime!” over and over. So the association kind of gets hammered into your head.
But… Beetlejuice is so classic and incredible… how can people not associate “It’s Showtime!” with it? *sobs*
See, that’s what makes it work though. Animu Badass could use it and it’d be a valid reference no matter how it’s interpreted. As big o or beetlejuice.
He doesn’t want to, but Jonsey is good at this.
You really should watch it Coelasquid. The Big O was very well thought out and is a classic. It’s so good that it still runs on Adult Swim today and the series ending about 9 years ago.
I really wish they’d done another season of it tho… :(
It’s been too long since Beetlejuice was last aired :c most people either forgotten, never seen it, or worse, never heard of it. Big O however has aired back on ye olde Toonami prior to being taken down, and again on Adult Swim for a couple years or so.
Then maybe when this arc is done with there might be time for a Beetlejuice strip. Heh, as much as I’d love to see it, I don’t imagine there would be a tiny Commander Badass at a hot wheels display screaming “Nice Fucking Model!” *Honk honk* Just not his personality.
Your lines are just wonderful. *sigh*
I can totally imagine the Commander saying “IT IS ON” using the exact same intonance as Rarity (at least while he’s still bishounen).
Regardless of that, omg omg omg this is awesome. I wonder if Mr. Fish will appear to help, if something goes awry? :D
Now I wanna see Gackt get his ass handed to him by the Commander, and then eaten by Mr. Fish… oh no wait, that would give Mr. Fish indigestion. No, Mr. Fish! Chew in self-defense!*
*10 points to whoever gets the reference!
He’ll chew in self-defense, but he’ll never swallow.
10 points for you!
It is very hard to imagine his voice without it being deep and gravely. I know the his grammar and manner of speaking is unchanged, it just doesn’t work in my head without it being well… manly.
You could always imagine the Commander’s voice like Kamina’s english voice from Gurren Laggan. That could help fit with the new “bishonen” look are manly friend has ATM.
And now that is the only thing I can imagine when I see that panel. Thank you, and curse you.
Dammit, that was supposed to be a reply to BigLord
WATCH THAT BISHIE FACE, COMMANDER. IT’S NOT MEANT TO CONTORT THAT WAY. YOU MIGHT BREAK IT.
I think that might be an improvement…
Also a statement on how immensely that Tom Waits comment pissed him off. Remember he couldn’t even get so much as a frown out when he was transformed. I wanted to smack Gackt very hard for that quip too.
OH IT IS ON. SORE YUKE, COMMANDER BADASS!
Hmm funny how Commander forgot about his verbal tick up until someone call him on it. then he just POUR IT ON THICK. makes me wonder if during this change he was talking with a feminine voice with his old mannerisms. So I guess once he was called on it he pulling an girl trying to sound like a gruff old man/dad voice. Shame kicking the tar out of strawman pretty boy here doesn’t stop others from following suit. Kelly shown that someone will morph another person for personal motives and which may or may not lead to an epidemic.
Uuuuugh, I know it’s not canon, but I still can’t imagine him as sounding like anything but Brock Samson. Even in Bishie mode. >:|
That’s because they’re secret time-twins.
He’d probably sound like Steve Blum’s Spike Speigle.
Huh. I always “pictured” the Commander sounding like a cross between Ron Perlman’s Hellboy and Wolverine from X-Men: Evolution. I think I like the Beetlejuice/Tom Waits even better, though.
I think of it as closer to the voice of Sgt Hatred.
I always pictured the commander sounding like someone doing a Silvester Stallone impression. Basically sounding like Stallone but taking all of his mannerisms and quirks in his speech and turning them up to 11.
I keep trying to imagine him sounding like Beetlejuice and it always just seems wrong somehow.
This is basically what I hear in my head when I write him.
I love you so much right now.
For bringing this awesomeness and more in my repressed sheltered life I will always love you.
The right shoulder and the rest of that arm in the last panel looks a little off.
I think it’s supposed to be exaggerated foreshortening, in keeping with the silliness of the comic.
Alternately, in the late stages of Nomura’s Disease, the victim develops one tiny hand.
Well….If his normal voice was like that and nice & deep & gravely…And his voice now got girlified like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxY8lpYAUM It’s no wonder his kids screamed….Poor, poor Commander.
See? THAT’S what I imagine pretty-boy Commander sounds like, too! Albeit with a speech impediment that somehow still sounds badass.
Glad I’m not the only one.
…That took me to the weird part of youtube really fast.
‘Tom Waits? That shriveled old prune?’
Thats it im gonna break his limit breaker!
The very last panel reminds me of a Charger from Left 4 Dead 2.
KARMA CHARGER WILL KILL YOUR BISHIE ASS. >:o
Karma Police, arrest this man.
A vein popped somewhere in my temple as one thought cycled through my mind. Did he just insult Tom Waits? Temptation Tom Waits? The One That Got Away Tom Waits? Downtown Train Tom freakin’ Waits?
Oh hellz no! Bash his head in! Beat that bishi face in! Make a man out of him!
Making a man out of that train wreck requires powers beyond mortal ken…
You made a mention of Tom Waits in a web-comic… in one of my favorite web-comics, I must add.
Marry me D:>
You know, I wasn’t really enjoying this storyline much. I thought the way that the Commander responded to the virus, by just going off to kick someone’s arse, was way more Chuck Norris than Brando…
Course, now that our antagonist is trash talking Tom Waits, I realise how wrong I was. He needs to suffer.
Hope B hits him so hard when he wakes up he feels like Tom’s lungs on a Monday morning.
“Goin’-t’ drive-throughs an’ convincin’ the clerk I’m Beetlejuice an’ Tom Waits on a road trip.”
This line. You made my day.
Thank you. xD
Thanks for throwing in the Tom Waits description. Made my day and really fixed the voice in my head. I kept hearing something along the lines of the original singer from the Dubliners, Joseph Ronald Drew.
Can I just say that I absolutely love the commanders expression in the second to last panel and the perspective in the last one?
Because I do.
Any ways, I can’t wait for the battle! Keep up the good work!
Even in prettyboy form, I still hear him as Scruff-McGruff-but-less-kid-friendly.
Also, truly love reading everyone’s descriptions of how they hear him.
…Would Beetlejuice actually exist in MGDMT’s world?
*gasps* THAT WOULD ROCK SO HARD!!!!!!!!
Y’know, I’m going to miss this Nomura-ized version of Commander Badass. I’ll admit I wasn’t too sure if I was going to like it at first, but dammit, he’s grown on me and I wouldn’t mind if he had somehow stayed that way. Regardless, I’m still looking forward to things returning to normal.
Excellent comic as always, Squid. Keep ’em coming whenever you can!
Well, Coelasquid could resolve this fan prob of being torn between Regular Strength Commander and New Bishie Commander in the Family Matters style…
A machine, born of Bad Sitcom Science, to split the one man in twain! Then one remains Bishie, while the other is cured! Then the two women that love him can each have what they want… wait, who would Bishie Commander’s love interest be?
I vote Kratos. (grins, ducks, runs)
I dunno, “It’s on!” is a pretty badass statement on its own…
YES. Appropriate response to someone insulting Tom Waits. Hi-fives all around.
I honestly didn’t think it possible, but the Commander’s levels of awesome have increase 200 fold.
You’ve completely won me with the Waits reference. Awesome.
I’ll be imagining commander with Waits’ voice forever now.
As it should be. Everything is benefited by the addition of Tom Waits.
I’m still sad that he wasn’t chosen to voice Smaug in the Hobbit movie. (Come on. The man sounds so smoke hoarse and burnt that it doesn’t even require suspension of disbelief to accept that he breathes fire.)
Oh, it!
is!
ON!!!
“IT’S JUST NOT THE SAME!” I can see this becoming a meme. XD
Designated Big Empty Combat Atrium had me in giggles XDD
It… It looks like the disease can’t stop Commander Badass from living up to his name’s sake. Go on Commander, you fight on for the honor of Tom Waits.
Ah! So his voice IS different like this. I wasn’t entirely clear on that. How is he supposed to sound while bishie-fied? I’m curious if there’s an intended voice.
Because part of me is really hoping for “David Bowie.”
Never in my life have I shouted at a computer screen. Never. And though he may be a fictional character, the moment he crossed that line I let off a Viking battle scream like never before. I’m scared of myself right now. I’m going to go hike to Norway, offer a sissy man to Valhalla, and then come back. If that character is not smited off the face of the Earth when I return….I swear to everything good and holy I will hunt down Justin Bieber and man who sings about ten thousand fire flies on my battle moose and assure myself their genetics will never be passed on.
You should listen to John Di Maggio’s voice. Whenever I read your comic I get that voice whenever I read a dialog from the commander!
You’ve probably been asked this already, but.. Did you see this movie called Bunraku?
Nobody disrespects Tom Waits. Nobody.
I fully understand and endorse this act of violence. The only acceptable solution is to charge into battle screaming something from Bone Machine. (Maybe “The Earth Died Screaming”?)
Wow, angry bishie commander looks freaky. Seems he’s mustered the strength to move that plastic face.
Got to love the comander’s revenge face ;)
Wait. Is this the final battle? That is Gackt? … Now I seriously want to see him pulling off the One-Winged Angel, preferably with a joke that rips apart all the sillyness that is boss fights that just throw something bigger against the player over and over again when you think it’s over.
:’D But still I haven’t been this excited about a webcomic for a long time! Show him who is throwing who into the walls, Commander! *cheers*
He is mad, sooo maaaaaad!!
Love it!
YEAAH! Teach him what is pain, commander!!
Everybody in high school used to give me a lot of pressure because of my long hair, so i’ve been loving this storyline.
Anyone else notice the Lupin (the III) style of running in the last panel? Not sure if that was intentional or not but that was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw it. XD;
How come you always take such offense to anyone saying anything negative about this webcomic?
I was so surprised by how incredibly rude you are to your viewers with negative comments, I actually took the time to read the comments page on many many different websites, to see if maybe it was just an artist thing, but it wasn’t I checked over 50 webcomic series and looked for lapses in the updates, but I didnt see complaints that they were late, actually the author often times apologized for the late updates, and their comment boards were more or less devoid of trolls. and I’m not saying you should throw yourself at the feet of your readers or anything, but you should be able to accept their criticism.
I won’t tell you how to run your site but I will say, subjective criticism is something you should welcome instead of scorn, because you will never get any better without it, and won’t that be incredibly boring for you? .-.
as for my fellow readers, before you blow someone up for a negative opinion, remember that few people benefit from unbiased praise.
And not the trolls, but rather the blind followers are more likely to corrupt and push a webcomic into the obscurity of a cult following and surely you want what I assume most be your favorite artist to get more exposure and more fans yes?
But I suppose if your fine with people being complacent with a “free” webcomic and not a “great” or “award-winning” comic then continue to bask in your praise and throw away your criticisms but if that is really the path you choose then you have truly lost my respect not as an author but as a person
Best wishes with the continuation of thepunchlineismachismo and remember that a truly manly webcomic about manly men should be able to take some negative heat without breaking sweat right?
Nice book you’re writing there. Where is all this stuff you’re talking about? I read the comments section fairly often and have never seen an example of this. Everyone is just talking about what his voice sounds like.
Really?
Plenty (great, free, regularly updating) webcomics I read get impatient readers posting about the comic updating, like “OMG FiV3 M1nuteez Lat33 I go diez Nao LOL”
It looks rude and troll-like.
Just do what I do when all my fave comic artists have gone on Hiatus/sick/off to cons/pregnant/having nervous breakdown trying to fit webcomic updating into an already full life/fell asleep at the keyboard – look up some new webcomics in their Links to add to your ever growing list of favourites.
Or, yanno, be one of those people who stay on the Furnace screen in Minecraft, waiting for each an every block to pop out, complaining it’s boring to wait for em all and takes too long. Turns out you can go do other crap while the furnace does its thing. Noob.
Complaining about update frequency isn’t criticism, it’s pissing and moaning.
Coelasquid has a day job (as a professional animator– she obviously knows how to stick to a schedule and meet deadlines). She does this comic for fun. It’s not fun to have total strangers complain about how you schedule your spare time. If Coelasquid stops having fun with this comic, she might stop making it altogether. Is that what you want? It’s not what I want.
I don’t see the rudeness or cultishness you seem to be seeing. Coelasquid’s place, Coelasquid’s rules. She doesn’t owe any of us anything, and comments criticizing her for not posting exacty on time are not in any way encouraging.
I’ve never seen Coelasquid respond rudely to a polite comment or a valid critique of her work. A complaint about lateness of an update isn’t an earthshaking revelation. She already knows, and probably has already been kicking herself mentally for not having the foresight to design 36 hour days for herself.
In addition, she knows that unbiased praise is likewise not beneficial, and has expressed several times her being uncomfortable with such. Whatever Coelasquid is doing with the comic seems to be working well for her, and if she decides to make it more of a full time thing, she’s sure to have good success and solid support from current and future fans.
I’m not sure if this essay is supposed to be some sort of revenge for throwing your last passive aggressive self-important blurb in the spam filter or for not responding to the email you pestered me with when I stopped responding to you on the site, but I don’t really care enough to waste any more time reading them.
If the only thing you can do with your time is complain at artists because they don’t update their webcomics to fit your schedule, then you need to get a life and do something else with your time.
Your ‘subjective criticism’ is more like entitled complaining. Criticism is constructive, but you’re not being constructive, you’re just being negative.
Criticism doesn’t have to be constructive, but it does have to include well-reasoned arguments. Guess what Bernard left out of his posts.
Wow, dude, get off the internet. Coming at someone with some of the things you’ve posted and then getting on a high horse about the recipient not being able to take criticism is ridiculous. If you wanted to be an adult and sit down and express an actual issue reasonably, there would be nothing wrong with that. I’d be behind you even if I disagreed because you made your point in a way that could be respected. It doesn’t really seem like you have much of an issue other than “BAAAAAWWW Y U NO UPDATE? U DUM” and “Y U BE MEAN TO ME, I ONLY SAY UPDATE” So you should probably just go home and rethink your life.
Bitching about how Coela’s updates aren’t on time isn’t criticism, it’s bitching. Nothing more, nothing less, particularly when she tells us ahead of time that she’s going to be gone for the weekend and that her comic won’t be updating on that Monday. Combined with you patting yourself on the back when she DID update, acting like you had some part in it–well, naturally we’re going to get a little angry. Do you have a valid critique of her work? Can you spot some discrepancy in her anatomy, or a typo, or a place where she might’ve forgotten to color? Do you have any ACTUAL criticism? Or are you just complaining because your free product doesn’t arrive quite on time? Think about that, sir.
Like the others have said above me, this is, indeed, a free webcomic that Coela does in her spare time. And the majority of us are thankful for it. I’d even like to point out that it now simply updates weekly, rather than ‘on Monday’–check the header if you don’t believe me. If you don’t like it, you’re welcome to get your weekly dose of lulz elsewhere, or, better yet, go subscribe to some gaming comic that updates on the second it’s meant to because you’re paying them to do so.
Plus, you could stand to take some criticism of your own actions better, Bernard. You came into our battleground calling us cultlike and blind. We’re not. We call shit like we see it and you are a rude, entitled douchecanoe who’s stirring up drama and pissing off the creator of something we love by shouting what we already know from the rooftops and being taken aback when we tell you to stop acting like a spoiled brat.
Ahaha, there’s plenty of stuff wrong with the anatomy, perspective, colouring, and all that. The art is far from perfect :P
Ah, there’s nothing wrong with the art, them ain’t bugs, them is features ;)
Go go Commander.
Also, I don’t think I can thank you enough for the newfound knowledge of this Tom Waits… ‘The’ Tom Waits I mean…
I don’t understand these comics anymore
Whoa. I never really imagined him sounding any different than he normally does. To think of him without the gravel-for-breakfast tone kind of disturbs even me. To be forced into having a whiny anime/teenaged protagonist voice… that would make me as mad as him.
Gak should learn not to insult a mans idols
gotta fight like hell to get back your kiddies’ smiles and hugs!
gotta fight like hell to get back your kiddies’ smiles and hugs!
delete one of those!
Gackt will apparently play Oda Nobunaga in the Sengoku BASARA TV show. I don’t see him fitting that role very well. Or being any incarnation of Nobunaga.
Is he committed enough to shave the top of his head?
He grew a mustache at least
I always just pictured him with a nice deep voice and one of those almost impenetrably thick accents…. He always sounds like he’s taking his time on those words in my head.
Y’know?
Can’t really imagine him sounding like Tom Waits, but that’s canon and I respect that.
To anyone who feels pissy when the updates are late:
This is free entertainment with high standards. Cut the Squid some slack, she has a grown up job that takes most of her time plus a social life and a mate. You don’t like the fact that your free entertainment comes ‘late’ every once in a while? Don’t moan if she stops updating altogether.
Frankly in her shoes I would’ve told everyone to suck it a long time ago.
But then I ain’t as nice and forgiving as Coelasquid is.
Sincerely,
Hindsight is 20-20
For some reason, I’m expecting him to (unintentionally) start calling out his attacks, and all of them are references to random awesome stuff or something related to his Bishie Form, like “Heaven-Piercing Spiral Punch”, “Fist Of Tulkas”, or “Meteor Descent” much to his frustration. “Now what’s the point of shouting my attacks if they tell this idiot what I’m doing?!”
Oh my god, I would LOVE to see that.
“There’s a lot of debate over what classic Beefshank Commander is supposed to sound like, maybe this will help clear it up.”
I was actually wondering whether his voice was supposed to have changed along with the rest of him; I read these out loud to my younger siblings was at first uncertain whether I should continue using the same ultra-gruff delivery I’d been using for the Commander to that point before deciding to try and approximate the smoother tough-guy tone you might hear in a Funimation dub for the bishonified version.
Needless to say, I feel vindicated. :p
Hahaha! Ahh, I love Tom Waits…
Glad to know why I always get the urge to watch Beetlejuice while reading.
P.S. I’d pay to be in the car for that.
Love the webcomic, but i haven’t looked at it for a few months and only like…..5 new comics :( when something is this good i want to read it all day.
I update once a week and there’s never been a week without an update, I do what I can.
I like to think the fight music would be from SaGa Frontier.. >.> But I’ve imagined SaGa Frontier music for this whole arc.
Particularly “Zap! Caballero Family” for the climbing the mountain/trek part. And this strip gets “Fight! Alkaiser”.
Don’t judge me. :O
Also.. is Commander Badass bulking up in the last panel? His left (our right) arm looks HUGE.
Or am I a ‘tard and that’s perspective at work? :O
Perspective plus puffy jacket shoulder. Notice how noodley the other arm is.
Noodley is a funny word.
I did notice the noodley arm. I was figuring it was like.. an action shot. He’s bulking in stages! Maybe?
I think this might explain why you’ve been getting more of the whiny types recently Squid
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLawOfFanJackassery
Simply, the more popular a series gets, the more jerks are in the viewership until the series is popular enough to have enough reasonable fans to drown them out.
I’ll continue to love this series anyways and once me comic has enough strips to qualify for prject wonderful (Need at least 30) I’ll support by buying some adspace.
Hee, I was kinda hoping she’d just shoot him in the throat like last time.
I’ve been going through this whole story arc thinking that the Commander’s appearance is different, but his voice remains the same.
If it’s not, then what’s Bishie Commander’s voice sound like? Cartoon Beetlejuice?
I always heard the Commander’s voice as a mix of Silvester Stalone from Rambo, mixed with Commander Shepherd and a small growl to make it sexier. :3
But if he’s got one of THOSE kinds of rumbles as is discribed here? Oooooh nice!
:-9
Wow… Tom Waits makes perfect sense as a voice for Beefshank Commander. It wasn’t what I originally pictured but now I can’t hear anything else :)
so as I understand it the commander sounds like wolverine, not really tom waits.
I’m here from five years in the future to tell you you don’t understand it.
Wh…? Shriveled old prune!? KILL HIM!! KILL HIM WITH HIS OWN LEGS!!!
Beefshank Commander! I love it! Also, great forced perspective, very Combat Anime.
You dissin’ Waits? I ought to woop your prettyboy-ass.
Now that I think about it, how much ya wanna bet somebody is going to break THROUGH a wall somehow and break some nice things? XD
Sounds like a job for Cool Aid Man.
No one messes with Tom Waits!
I keep getting weird reset errors today, ( though I only came on here twice once at the library and now during my insomnia cycle ) are you working on the webserver?
Gosh; I love this story arc, it’s really brilliant and well-written.
I miss the old Commander, though. :) Can’t wait for the end!
you are the best. love your work, always a lot of fun.
Bish!Commander is voiced by Jeff Bennett. That is my headcanon, deal with it.
Ironically, in my mind I hear him with a gravelly-er voice here in this form than as his normal self. Higher-pitched yes, but especially in the last panel where he he’s screaming I hear him getting very gravelly.
(I always hear his normal voice as Ron Perlman.)
huh… He always sounded like Brock Samson in my head, even after getting all pretty XD
I love that this is Commander’s favorite vice. A giant hunk of cigar-smoking beefcake and his favorite things are messin’ with drive-through clerks and playing and baking with his little kids. This is inbetween his community service at the agency and his public service in the spacefuture ranks. There is no way you could dislike this dude.
Pretending to be Tom Waits and Beetlejuice at the drive-through is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. (Commander really knows how to put his skills to use!)
It’s showtime, Synergy.
Doesn’t explain how his shades remain on his forehead.
This is one of the comics that got me hooked on Tom Waits. I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t really listened to him before you mentioned him in the comic.
I can only read the Commander’s lines in Sarge’s voice from red vs blue.
I have always imagined the Commander’s voice as Kronk’s voice from The Emperor’s New Groove. Totally different characters, but it just works.
Of all the things I expected out of this comic (I only started a couple days ago), a nod to Tom Waits was not expected (bonus Beetlejuice). Waits is my hero (and my band’s) and musical idol.