Silly Jared, you can’t vote in the United States, you’re from Kanto
October 22, 2012
12:00 am
Does Kanto even have a central government? They seem to have universal Healthcare for Pokemon, at least. They’re really slacking on the “roads” front, though.
Commander probably can’t vote in our time either, due to being from the future and all.
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Commander has the best logic.
darn right he does!
^Exactly.
Sure is nostalgic, when i was playing Final Fight at an arcade during my grade school era… & Bison Dollars? God bless Raul Julia XDDDDDDD
OF COURSE!!!
i have to agree with the commander but how is it that Bison even made it into congress? he’s a total loon!
Like that ever stopped anyone.
Clearly, Bison started out as a Yes man and worked his way up the ladder through blackmail.
Bravo sir, just… Bravo.
………..you’ve never looked at who IS in congress have you?
i can never last more then five minutes once they start speaking. because of that i assume they are almost all crooks and thieves who try to bore the general public into not caring what they say since they’ll do what ever they want as long as they are able to profit from it.
If only they were crooks and thieves instead of uninformed patriots. Then at least they’d be possible to work with,
All I can say is that M. Bison and Haagar are both wrong for the office.
Lex Luthor for President….Again!
Lex Luthor nearly destroyed the world. besides his appearance is not very manly
I beg to differ.
http://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/l/e/Lex_Luthor_4.jpg
Clearly you’ve never seen him during “Public Enemies,” where he’s been injecting himself with kryptonite-laced Venom.
LOL Nancy Pelosi already took that title
Obviously one of Haggar’s policy is bringing “Casual Tuesdays” to the White House.
A firm stance shared with his choice for VP, Felicia.
If that’s his vice he’s probably getting 100% of the male vote.
Funny. I always figured that Haggar’s Running Mate, video game wise, would be Saxton Hale.
FALSE… That would be like Chuck Norris declaring himself KING OF EVERYTHING!!!
*random-person-whispers*
Oh, damn it
*puts-a-dollar-in-the-EpicJar*
It’s been well established that Chuck just isn’t funny any more.
Speak for yourself. Chuck Norris never gets old for me. That said, as a meme, yeah, I’m glad people aren’t posting those on Memebase as much anymore. Now can we kill the “better than Twilight” one too? Or at least the franchise?
Chuck Norris is better than Twilight.
However, there are lots of things better than Chuck Norris.
Pants, for example. Pants are good.
Screw pants. Bacon, on the other hand, is admittedly better than anything else on Earth.
I like shorts, they’re comfy and easy to wear!
but they leave your legs exposed…. I much prefer my armored slacks to shorts, especially here in Canada.
@flabort: WHY AREN’T YOU WEARING SHORTS?!?
Shorts are made of god, go shorts.
I c wut u did thar. And I like it.
The only good Twilight is Twilight Sparkle.
But Saxton is Australian. Why would a man whose so Australian his chest hair is in the shape of the continent want to be involved in American politics? Besides it looks like American politics even in this setting doesn’t have enough punching of wild animals for his interest.
Decreasing regulations on abuse of wildlife is on the top of his list, along with outlawing hippies.
Actually you just raised an interesting issue, perhaps inadverdantly. I know the US President has ro have been born in America, but what about the VP? The VP takes over if something happens to the President right?
The vice president, being essentially a back-up president, must meet all the requirements for becoming the president. So, no foreign vice-presidents. TheMoreYouKnow.jpg
The VP has to be from this country yes. However a senator, governor, or congressman needs no such standard.
I don’t know why I felt Hale would be the running mate, to be honest. Something must have just clicked in my mind to make me think that the burly Australian CEO that likes to get into fights would partner up with the burly American mayor who likes to solve problems with fighting.
Wait, is that even allowed? Saxton Hale was born in Australia, wasn’t he? Do VPs have to be born in the US too or is that just Presidents? But then his forefather was also said to come from Australia, so does that mean Saxton was born in the US? Also, isn’t he in the 1940’s or 50’s? How’d he get to 2010’s? Was he taken here via time travel? Would he even be allowed to run for VP if he’s from a different time frame even if he was born in the US? AAHHH! MY HEAD HURTS!
I thought TF2 had a canon immortality machine running on Australia power.
That doesn’t mean Saxton Hale would use it! Have you seen who uses it? Two ancient guys confined to wheelchairs and one admittedly fitter guy who is also a snappy dresser, but he builds robots to fight his battles for him! The only reason why Saxton Hale isn’t fighting both RED and BLU teams is because he’s the one providing the merchandise and paychecks!
Saxton Hale is still very much alive and basically looks the same in the MvM storyline, though. I think Mann VS Machine happens a lot of years into the future.
i’m glad bison’s a congressman; i’d love to see how that’s going for him at some point
Its actually safer for everyone this way; having to pander to his base constantly and campaign against his rival candidates every two years SHOULD be keeping him too busy to pay as much attention to world domination.
promoting an idiot into a position where he can do the least harm no mater how badass a fighter he is? that actually makes sense but it sounds familiar like i’ve heard it somewhere before.
It’s a trope, “Kicked Upstairs,” originally stated by Scott Adams of Dilbert fame. When it comes time to cut the fat, the least competent but most productive members of the company are moved somewhere where they can do the least damage – middle management.
Michael Haggar / Michael “Metal Wolf” Wilson – President/VP 2012.
Your President Is A Bad Enough Dude To Save You.
(Obviously they’re the only guys to vote for.)
Are you a bad enough dude to be president, pilot a mech, and blow up anything, everything, and the White/Fight House?
Independence day, anyone?
Thank you, Coelasquid, for making a *smart* comic about elections. <3
Hah. Sweet shirtless collar, Haggar
I hope that’s the next big fashion for beefcakes!
Isn’t it already standard equipment for the Chippendale dancers?
Freddie from Cromartie High School should be Haggar’s running-mate.
Haggar is my kind of politician: a wrestler who could have starred in Predator.
I think you’re forgetting about Jesse “The Body” Ventura, the former Pro-wrestler and Minnesota governor and current lunatic who co-starred in predator.
But other than that one example I can’t think of any ex wrestler politicians that have done a bad job.
To be fair, subsequent Minnesota governors have taken up a handful of his actually good ideas and put them into action (central corridor light rail, for example). I think the reason people remember him as a bad governor has less to do with what he tried to do and more to do with the manner in which he tried to do it.
And being a crazy, abrasive, conspiracy theorist. There’s that, too.
Yeah well just because he’s a mixed bag of nuts doesn’t mean be didn’t have good ideas. I mean he got elected, that’s worth something. My point is this though: the man thinks the US government planned 9/11. Whether you have good ideas or not I think that qualifies you for some sort of soft padded room.
Bison would be a fantastic politician. Especially movie Bison. I can just imagine his campaign ads.
“For you, the day Bison saved the economy was the most important day of your lives. But for me, it was Tuesday.”
The man gets results.
Closing panel – Bison: Gets Shit Done
posted over that awesome painting of him on horseback.
Four more years of Haggar!
Was he president before all this?
He was a Mayor of Metro City. See “Final Fight.” Also showed up or had cameo appearances in a bunch of other games. Most recently, he appeared in Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Haggar
Yeah but he’s campaigning for president not mayor.
Well, mayors can run for President. So can just about anyone, really.
Correction: he was President in his ending in Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
His veep was Tony Stark (tiny text and photo confirms it). He is also endorsed by Chris Redfield and Captain America.
Yeah. MvC3.
Vote for America. Vote, for Mike Haggar.
Great, I got the Captain SNES comics that featured Haggar in the Presidential role running through my head now.
My first thought.
I guess Haggar just seems like a president.
Hahaha, same here. “I said that I abolished taxes.” “WHICH taxes?” “Oh, all of them.”
That was some classic stuff right there.
I’d vote for a politician that solves the crime problem in his town with HIS BARE HANDS AND A PILE DRIVE OF FURY!
Pile driving a SHARK head first into crime.
Finally. Some political sense. Back to the “which-bowl-has-less-crap” method. And I would not want to mess with Captain Falcon’s daughter.
Bison? are you sure he is not Vega or Balrog? XD
I have no sympathy for anyone stupid enough to mess with the Commander’s little girl.
I pity the boy that shows up to take her out when she’s a teenager. I doubt he’d even bother with the “shotgun and shovel” routine, he’d just zap back in time and pummel the poor kid.
Nah, all the Commander would have to do is stand tall, put on a half-lidded disaffected look, and stare.
It says, without a single word, that the kid is free to date his daughter… but if he tries anything the Commander wouldn’t approve of, he’s going to find himself vanished somewhere in the space-time continuum.
Nah, the Commander isn’t the controlling/possessive patriarchial jerk type. He’s a lot more progressive and decent.
He wouldn’t need to say a damn thing because he knows his daughter is badass and smart and can take care of herself. That’s how a real man acts as a father.
Yeah, picturing the Commander with teenage kids I imagine him a lot like Tom Strong. He might have an instinctive dislike of Maddy’s date, there’s actually some evidence that dads tend to do that because they unconsciously notice their daughters ‘smell’ different upon having intimate contact with a stranger, but he’s capable enough of self-analysis to realize this is a problem and reasonable and disciplined enough to learn to deal with it, probably without giving said date too many heart attacks from the death glares.
I bet Kanto and other poke-countries have some sort of government run by the gym leaders, the elite four and the champion because they are the only ones who respond to any crisis or emergency ever…that is kinda a bad way to run a country.
Not really, its just a more lethal vrsion of parliament.
Just think of the implications for the games. In each game you are the one staging a military coup to seize power encouraged by the professor, a disgruntled rebel as a father figure and often the popular face of the revolution.
This just made Pokemon about ten times more badass.
And you attack with a pink balloon animal who sings.
And in Ruby and Sapphire, one of those leaders you’re overthrowing is your own father. Even more badass.
You sir, just became my hero!
Hmmm I’d be more worried about if one of those 10 year olds became champion then.
They kind of do. In Black/White 2 you actually do see the gym leaders and elite four running around doing things and being productive.
Marshal (the fighting type elite four guy) is seen cleaning up Twist Mountain outside of Mistralton after it collapsed and warns you to stay out, and several others are seen having lives outside the gym (Iris, Cheren, Burgh & Clay are all actively working on cleaning up the leftovers of Team Plasma and you can fight most leaders again in various tournaments). You also get to rummage around Caitlin’s (the psychic E4 girl) house, though if she has a position in the town is unknown.
Alder, the champion from the first game, is met rather early and is seen retired and running a pokemon school or something in the boonies.
Prof.Juniper an Bianca (now a researcher and Juniper’s aid) are globetrotting and doing actual fieldwork.
So it does seem like gym leaders, the E4 & the champion are doing things outside of sitting in a room and punching people.
and of course Mayor Drayden, who’s basically Haggar as you’re told he’s often seen wrestling with dragons and has a ridiculous training regime…
Actually yeah with what they said above I think the gym leaders form some type of counsel or something. It’s more apparent in the manga series.
Well, the law states 18 years of age. It doesn’t say positive or negative, so if we go assuming it is an absolute value of 18 then Commander’s plenty old enough to vote.
I mean more from a “messing with the timeline” perspective. Plus, he knows who wins anyway.
People are going have a field day with his birth certificate though.
Plus he hasn’t been born yet, which makes registering tricky.
The pokémon Kanto is based on the actual Kanto region in Japan. That means Jared is JAPANESE.
I’m sure there are Polish-American families in Japan.
Like my uncle for instance. Holy crap, I might be related to Jared!
No, nitrokitty, you are the Jared(s).
And then nitrokitty was a Pokemon.
You guys crack me up. :D
I wasn’t on board with Bison’s policies until I saw that one of his platform planks was punching Jean-Claude Van Damme in the face. I’m okay with that.
I think we’re ALL okay with that. Even Jean-Claude Van Damme. He knows he deserves it.
…but the value of the Bision Dollar will only go up (once we kidnap the Queen of England)
I approve of Haggar’s policies, especially his stance towards animal rights.
Gotta teach them sharks a lesson.
Vote for Bison or be destroyed.
This is a question that’s been bugging me for I don’t know how long. Jared may or may not actually be fully Japanese, or even born in Kanto, but does Jared speak Japanese?
Poke-Kanto isn’t Japan in the same way that Unova isn’t New York. Jared’s not supposed to look like he belongs in Pokemon at all. Don’t think about it too hard. When in doubt, Roger Rabbit Toon Town rules.
wait, unova is based off new york???
I think GameFreak said so right out, but it’s pretty clear that it’s a direct caricature of Manhattan/ New Jersey/Brooklyn.
“In his director’s column, Junichi Masuda suggested that the geographical and social background for Unova draws inspiration from the New York City metropolitan area[1] [2], although the region features rural locations as well as industrial.”
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Unova
I’m too lazy to find the actual anouncement however. Just adding some addtional weight to the New York thing.
Its kinda messed up they made ground zero an ancient ruin and brooklyn the place no one wants to go after they finished with manhatten
You can’t fuck with the Haggar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGTKxhNY7uY
Wanna hear something even more messed up? Kyurem, the thing that caused the destruction of those ruins? 9 feet and 11 inches tall.
I didn’t even remember that I posted a comment, but I got a reply. Now I feel all special. And that is slightly disappointing, in my mind I imagined him being ridiculously proficient in Dance Dance Revolution or something.
That’s the first rule of Pokemon: “Don’t think about Pokemon”. It saves you from realising that you can capture the being that created the universe in a tiny ball.
Yeah, but who’s his running mate, Cody or Guy?
Maybe it’s Poison? Maybe Haggar supports criminal reforms?
He would get my vote in this case.
All I know is that the entire Andore family will be his cabinet.
An Election comic? :D
I find it intensely amusing considering how I work at the Registrar of Voters. Like it’s a comic specific for me.
I know it’s not, just let me believe it for a while.
It is nice Haggar collar and tie, but felt no need for a shirt.
*went with a collar and tie,
Well shit.
By having to clarify yourself, you’ve become the Repeat Offender
Yes, I should of proofread before posting.
Voting would be a lot easier if one of the candidates was a Moustachioed, Muscular Man like Haggar, or at the very least elections would be more… entertaining
Come on, Bison is ineligible, he wasn’t born in the USA
Thing is, Bison Dollars are still probaly a more secure economic strategy then the gold standard; at least Bison knows the value of his money is arbitrary.
Maybe I’m missing something, but wouldn’t it be better to back the value of money with a finite valuable resource than an arbitrary number?
Wikipedia can actually answer this question with minimal clicking around. Guess what happens when panics -> bank runs!
Gold is only valuable because the international community and tradition dictates that it is. Gold is of limited value in manufacturing — what it does, other metals usually do better or at lower cost (partly due to point one).
Yeah personally I never got why gold was valuable, it’s pretty I suppose. But it had no real practical applications until relatively recently, long after it was established as valuable. I think mostly it’s just used in connecters or something?
So I guess it’s just because it’s pretty and can be difficult to find ultimately. It’ll be interesting to see if perceptions change as technology gets more complicated, we may end up valueing metals with the lowest electrical resistance instead.
The main practical reason gold was valuable was simply a combination of rarity, weight, how soft it was (for testing if something was pure gold or not) AND most importantly, that it doesn’t corrode.
Iron rusts, Silver Tarnishes, Copper oxidizes, but Gold, Gold is forever.
Or, at any rate, that is what my Economics History Professor said in his lecture. How accurate it is I wouldn’t know, I barely passed that class.
Gold’s value comes from before it was even used as money.
See, the thing is, gold is completely useless for practical purposes. It’s heavy, and also very soft, so it’s no good for making things like horseshoes, wagon wheels, or nails to build a house with. However, it’s shiny and doesn’t become un-shiny with age, unlike the other precious metals. That means the only people who have any use for gold are people who have so much personal power that they don’t have to concern themselves with matters of practicality. Thus, gold was a trophy; a symbol of the sheer wealth and power of the one who has it.
This is the reason why a gift of some gold treasure was considered acceptable payment for murder in old Pagan cultures: by giving away his gold, a man is symbolically surrendering a portion of his power and prestige. It wasn’t that the gold had any value in and of itself; the gold represented something important.
Nowadays, we actually do have some good industrial uses for gold (taking advantage of its lack of a tendency to corrode and the malleability, ductility, and flexibility of the metal), but the real value of gold is rooted in that old, old traditional meaning.
Gold was susceptible to, for example, the Fisk & Gould scandal. You couldn’t “corner the market” in a standard of exchange that, say, grew on trees, because there’d always be more of it, so by the principle of supply & demand, the occasionally replenished supply would thwart your attempts to increase demand (and therefore price) by hoarding it.
I wouldn’t want to fix my currency to one such commodity, purely because it’s a limit to growth on the one hand, and a vulnerability to speculation on the other hand. The drawbacks to a purely confidence-backed currency, on the other hand, are fairly obvious, since any period sufficiently damaging to erode the value of the currency would probably also rot out confidence in the government’s ability to pay its debts.
Perhaps a group of commodities, like gold, silver, platinum and so forth, with prices evaluated every so often to be sure they’re fair. (To avoid the hoarding of either dollars or metals, against the value of the other.)
Wait…. Jared is from Kanto…. Does that make him Kantonese?
That statement deserves this.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LamePunReaction
Has someone been kidnapped by ninjas?
When ISN’T somebody being kidnapped by ninjas?
When they’re kidnapped by Bowser.
Or those evil tetris blocks under Stalins orders
Bah, shoddy soviet workmanship. If they trap you, they either vanish entirely or are structurally unsound. Easy to smash.
Yanno I just realized… if you take that picture of Haggar you drew, give him a monacle and a particular type of hat, and suddenly you have Teddy Roosevelt! Then again Teddy WAS one of the most manliest presidents we had…
Maybe they’re related…
Speak softly and carry a big stick. Or katana. Or knife. Or criminal just aching for a piledriving.
What Roosevelt didn’t tell folks is the “big stick” was actually a steel pipe.
I would vote for Haggar for President. I love that his MvC 3 ending is him becoming President with Tony Stark as VP.
Holy crap, that’s an amazing ending. I’ll have to look for it.
It just occurred to me…is Jared an illegal alien?
Probably. Unless by virtue of being from a country with Pokemon you get a free pass to wander anywhere and stay as long as you like.
Well it does seem like having a Pokemon license comes with certain privleges, like ten year olds having some of the rights of adults as well as not having to go to school.
Perhaps Pokemon Training qualifies one for a temporary work visa? Though I doubt Jared would fill out the paperwork.
His trainers license was revoked anyway, he couldn’t even fill out the paperwork if he wanted to. Furthrmore there is nothing in national law preventing aliens from voting, but every state has a law preventing aliens from voting, but given the surrealism of this comic states may not have those laws allowing jared the right to vote.
And now you sorta know. And sorta knowing is 15.6% of the battle.
Ah right, I forgot he lost his license.
Maybe he should get a green card? :P
He doesn’t need to, he has the ultimate license, Mr Fish.
Bison Dollars? You still refuse to accept my godhood?!
Can the Commander vote? I mean, hes from the future, hes technically not born yet
Also, the Bison Dollar never did make much economic sense, Im pretty sure you cant FORCE value into your currency. But movie Bison was completely cookoo bananas
Don’t tell China about that forcing currency values thing.
It’s a testament to your drawing skill that I know who Haggar was before reading the text :)
Kanto’s criminal justice system is maintained by Light Yagami. That’s all you need to know.
I, for one, support L and N’s terrorism.
I still refuse to believe that America didn’t nuke that place once it got so bad.
I’m surprised no ones noticed the obvious reference. Bison dollars… Come on people dont you read other comics? They are worth 5 british pounds. You need to know…
I believe Kanto along with the rest of Japan, became a US Protectorate after the end of World War II and Japan’s surrender with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But unlike the rest of Japan, Kanto and Johto remained Protectorates while the rest of the country went back to Japanese government and law. Then in the early 90’s Kanto applied to become a Commonwealth of the United States and gained such a status on September 8th, 1998.
So yeah, Jared has voting power but has to deal with none of the taxes the rest of the US pays, hence why he can spend his money on all kinds of things.
Imaginary Pokemon Kanto =/= Pokemonless real Kanto.
They didn’t bomb anything in Pokemon, they attacked them with Pokemon. Didn’t you ever talk to Lt. Surge?
Theoretically that’s even worse.
Makes sense though. Who needs single-use genades, when you have reusable and loyal Voltorb? Who needs guns when you have living loyal lasers, flamethrowers, and lightning guns? Who needs nukes when every region with Pokemon has several ludicrously powerful Legendaries?
Most of them have a lvl cap of like 50, though.
Japan was not a protectorate, and that’s not how protectorates work. Japan was “Occupied” by the US, meaning it was controlled by the United States Military and Government.
However, even if they WERE a protectorate, they still would not have the ability to vote in our elections, as that privilege is reserved for citizens only. He could hypothetically become a citizen if he wanted to.
There are only two places that can be considered part of the “US commonwealth,” and those places are Puerto Rico and some of the Mariana Islands (Guam). Japan (or any part of Japan) is not included in that short list. In fact, not only is Kanto or any other part of Japan not a part of the “US commonwealth,” it was never part of the US in any way, shape, or form. We just bombed the hell out of them and then used our military to occupy them for a while. Also, people from the commonwealth, aka Guam and Puerto Rico, can’t vote in the US presidential elections. I don’t know about their voting rights in other things.
So…if Bison is a Congressman…any chance we can see him and Ganondorf have an open forum debate about gender politics? Considering one is most likely a transsexual man and the other literally grew up surrounded by women and a female viewpoint, I’d think they’d have some interesting things to say about the subject.
And from what I’ve seen, Haggar would be a good domestic policy president. What’s his stance on foreign policy though? Or is that the purview of his VP, Madame Felicia?
If Felicia is Haggar’s VP, I’m voting THAT duo in 2012!
BROCK OBAMA FOR KANTO PRESIDENT!
Peace! Change! Frying pan umbrellas! He has it all!
I’m pretty sure an economic plan that has kidnapping the Queen of England has it’s cornerstone is going to strain angl-american relationships.
I was wondering when MIKE HAGGAR was going to show up in this comic.
Eh, the Kidnap the Queen of England plan isn’t that great anymore, their economy isn’t as robust as it once was, so the ransom from them won’t be as fantastic as it would have been several years ago.
*sigh*
It looks like I’ve finally caught up with the latest comic. Oh, well, that was a good few days. I’m going to go get a magikarp and name it Mr. Fish now.
You too? :p
Seems that’s the tradition in all readers of the comic. Bonus points if you do so in Kanto.
COL John Konrad for US POTUS. He’s got what it takes to feel like a hero.
Bison Dollars FTW!!! :D
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m44ung7wkR1qfaf9co1_1280.png
I’m pretty sure that Kanto’s politics are solved through pokemon battles. Pokemon Champion is boss.
Its like the old west… in japan… with magic… ok its nothing like the old west.
Of course to become Champion you have to win eight badges, beat the Elite Four AND the current Champion without any of them disqualifying you for being a complete douche/incompetent/crazy/a criminal.
I have always, I swear to you ALWAYS wondered how Haggar got elected as mayor.
Two words. Jesse Ventura.
Although as crazy as Mr. Ventura was, at least he put a shirt on when campaigning, so far as I know.
Haggar sat shirtless in his office. He never seemed like Mayor material to me.
Refused to roll over for a gang that was terrorizing his city… Offered to clear out corruption including those within his own Metro City PD… Very charismatic… Enthusiastic…
I’d vote for him. And I don’t vote for fucking anything.
Coela, can you write a side comic for our next Canadia elections? I mean, not as much fun, but the fact it is Canadian is surely good for some laughs as being overly apologetic.
The politician who apologizes the most for everything usually ends up winning.
This is how the average Canadian citizen navigates election season; “Am I personally on fire at this moment? No? Then I’ll continue to vote for the current leader because as long as I am not personally on fire at this moment I’m too lazy to inform myself on the issues. Or I’ll abstain from voting completely because I’m under the nonsensical assumption that doing so somehow ‘sticks it to the man’. What, you say our present leader is the first head of State in the developed world to be held in contempt of Parliament? Well we better elect him back in with a majority because most of us are not personally on fire at this moment.”
Wow.
Canada must really have a problem if they’re that apathetic about being on fire.
Sometimes we don’t vote because we care so little that we’re not properly informed on who they even are and would just be voting at random anyway. ^_^
That counts as “too lazy to inform yourself on the issues”.
Sometimes we’re too lazy to fully read posts about informing ourselves of the issues. XD
Yeah, that’s not really something you should be proud of and making fun of.
Whose proud? Just stating a fact.
One other thing Canadians are better known for then USicans is self-depreciating humor. It’s funny that we see ourselves as too lazy to care who we vote for.
Yeah, that’s kind of what it is in a nut shell >_>
Ugh, he’s using a left-handed mouse. I’m left-handed and even I think that feels unnatural and wrong. I had to learn to use MSPaint as a righty because I’m too cheap to bother with a tablet:(
And that right there answered another question that I’ve always had but never bothered to ask anyone.
Funny, I am right handed and I mouse with my left. I have to swap the mouse button though, “left clicking” with my middle finger is just weird.
well shoot, in the chess board of international politics, the guy with the laser fish wins, gets to vote, or gets to be a member of whatever country he /she wishes to grace. and stephen harper would do well to meet the sensation of laser-fished.
If the Commander is from the future, shouldn’t he already know who wins?
He knows the same way we generally know our past leaders. I.E. Not very well
Sure, we don’t know much *about* them, but we generally know the names, right?
Right?
…
*sigh*
I fucking loved those games.
This is soooooooooooooo awesome in color.
This is so funny! I say that, because there is a door I pass by everyday on campus that says “Mike Haggar for president” (FYI, that’s an instructor’s or an important person’s office and that was there long before this comic came out). You don’t know how badly tempted I am wanting to print this out and tape it next to that image.
I’d like to see the shelf/room that Commander keeps all his mugs in.
Kudos for managing to make a political comic that is:
1. Funny
2. Does not shove your own political preference down our throats (by using bison and haggar who cannot be correlated to real candidates)
I personally believe that it’s vital for a good leader to drink.
Not too much, but almost.
Anyway, in Finnland or someplace, their government is headed by the crew of a former anarchy-punk band, which is hilarious and, apparently, it’s working out just fine.
Then bison was outed by some random political candidate as being a woman, he got loads of votes under the idea for being the first female president… also that Political Candidate was also never heard of again I think his name was Joe or was it Mike?
Every single fucking panel. Full of gold.
But I think there were some laces of platinum on the third.
You know, it’s just occurred to me that if you wanted to make this coloring book of the line drawings that people (me) have been lusting after, you wouldn’t really even have to print or ship it. You could charge like two bucks and just offer a PDF download of some favorite comics. People can print it out on their desktop laser printer, no problem. Way easier for you than trying to run a shipping area. Coding it can be really easy, too, Paypal does a plugin. (My day job is webmaster/multiple-hat-wearer for my family’s ecommerce “empire”, so forgive me if everything looks like a nail for my ecommerce hammer)
I can say 2 things:
1 Compared to the other two he’d get my vote and I’m Canadian
2 How many agents does He really need?
Wait, since he’s from the future, doesn’t that make Jonesy a cradle robber?
Because she was born way before he ever was.
Wonder if they’ll ever meet a younger Commander Badass?
In all seriousness, how much for a commission of “Congressman” Bison!?
If Whoopi Goldberg says give five, what if you were able to give just 5% of a day’s or week’s ad income revenue for the people effected by Hurricane Sandy. Just a question I’m kind of asking only my favorites. And I must say, it’s a better question than asking, “Have you ever danced with the Devil in the Pale Moon Light?” :D
5% of a day’s ad revenue from this site is like 18 cents.
Well, okay. So that’s from a current ad revenue generated traffic. What if someone put a page out there saying that these web comics are donating 5% of a day’s ad revenue, and then you get so much traffic, you get swamped so much, you’re costs go up too much. hmm. Didn’t think it if like that.
I know I vote Haggar.
http://neroangelus.deviantart.com/art/Mayor-of-choice-212796323
Also Bison Dollars, ha, that movie is so delightfully terrible.
Oh come on. Bison would never make it into the US congress.
He’s a conservationist. His opponents would utterly massacre him – there is no way he could win.
I just realized
Kanto is a region in Japan. Even in game it’s basically Pokejapan
Jared would be Japanese
My head hurts
Still relevant even this year.
Manny Pacquiao could be considered a real-life version of Mike Haggar. He’s a congressman and champion boxer.
Roads are too socialist and don’t foster rugged self-independence.