I was going to apologize for how horrible this is but I guess you can call it a PSA
December 10, 2012
12:00 am
Everyone’s favourite bullshit Pokemon legend. Possibly because it seemed like the most feasible of all those catch-a-mew “”””””””cheats”””””””. After all, what was that truck doing there anyway? Maybe the kids on the playground were right about Mew hanging out under the truck, but the recommended extraction method was the problem.
I was gonna hold off on posting this until I could colour it but I’ve been pulling so many extra hours to get shit done it’s entirely possible I’ll just pass out as soon as I get home without accomplishing anything so eh.
(In retrospect, I’m pretty sure I put a car in Jared’s driveway when he first showed up some odd three years ago. Let’s say it was a decorative prop or something)
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The funny part is is that there is a Cracked article today that featured this very urban legend >http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-video-game-urban-legends-that-are-actually-hoaxes/
i had the exact same thought. man, imagine if Coelasquid worked there…..
Interesting article, sadly none of my favorite hoaxes made that list. Still worth a read.
What I find interesting is there is a way to get Mew in Yellow (not sure about red and blue) without a gameshark or event, but you almost never see it. I actually traded that thing over to silver and played the heck out of it. I never could get Yellow Missingno though, it always froze on me.
!!!!!!!!
…You’re lying, aren’t you. How cruel. *sniffs*
Actually, he’s not. I got one too. It’s really hard, but possible.
There’s a glitch you can do with any of the Gen 1 pokemon games (Red, Yellow, etc) to get any pokemon, including Mew. You can google it.
BUT HOW?!?!?!?!?
It’s done via an exploit that produces a glitch allowing you to not only generate Mew for capture, but any of the other 150 pokemon in the game, always at level 7. There’s a guide on how to do it here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/gameboy/198314-pokemon-yellow-version-special-pikachu-edition/faqs/27916
I used this one upon my teenage years to get a level 7 Machamp.
Not entirely sure I remember, something about hitting pause on a specific person (one of those rough-looking characters, gonna have to look up he specific one) right before he battle you, because the game doesn’t disable your start menu, then using fly to cerulean. Walking towards the bridge, the game will glitch out and you’ll battle a lvl 6 Mew. I played that thing all the way to silver! That was fun. It’s not really all that hard, just make sure to avoid the people you need for the step. I tried repeating it for multiple Mew, but it always gave me something different after that. The one for yellow missingno is similar, I think.
There’s even a Pokemon Blue large skip glitches speedrun at speeddemosarchive.com that uses the Mew glitch (in addition to using the walk through walls glitch a few times). The Mew goes straight from level 1 to 100 &, like any Mew, it can use any TM or HM so it’s amazing for speedrunning.
Wonder if Jared left any Lava Cookies in the back when he and his father ran like crazy out of there. It’s the only logical explanation for why they both haven’t been Judgement’d by Arceus for killing the progenitor of Pokémon.
For a Creator God, Arceus really doesn’t give much of a f**k, outside of that one movie.
Which is why the first thing He did was create subordinate gods to do all the actual work for him.
Is it bad that it took a moment for this comic to actually set in, and then once it did I busted out laughing hysterically? I just didn’t put two and two together right away, mulled it over for a second, and had it hit me like a Mack truck.
I wanted that mew so badly as a kid…
Do you mind sharing with us what the epiphany you had was?
It’s a mew under a truck.
There was a hoax that you could get mew legitimately within the first game by finding a way to move a truck that you had to go out of your way to get to.
What really got me (and it took me over a day to realize this) is that this comic makes Jared responsible for the results of the first Pokemon movie.
The one with Mewtwo and the island of clones and whatnot.
I nearly died laughing once I realized XD
The best thing about that movie is watching it now, making jokes and making out through the whole thing.
It gets even better than that.
The events here are apparently pre-Mewtwo, which must mean they precede the events in Red/Blue/Yellow as well, since Mewtwo already existed when the game started. (Or at least, by the time the player gets to Cerulean.)
This means the rumor that Mew was under the truck was true… and it’s Jared’s fault it didn’t work and none of us could get Mew.
And a few months later, Mewtwo was born.
That’s the joke.
I thought the joke was “unexpected stuff happens to Jared wherever he goes”…
That. And the cloning joke, by default.
A few years later, but eh.
Eh, she’ll be okay, this happens to her all the time.
Whenever anybody gets a driver’s license, in fact.
Now the question is, why does anybody there really need a driver’s license? There’s only one motor vehicle in Kanto. When is it going to come up?
Maybe they all take it in turns to use it to move?
Actually I think the real question is why everyone assumes Mew is always female.
Because people get tired of the almost unilateral assumption that anything with an undeclared gender defaults to male.
Ah, and I assumed Mew was male, even though he’s pink. I guess I’ll just consider my SoulSilver Mew male and call it good. XD
Certainly in English that’s the technical case, but I find it not to be in practical reality.
I just assume that if Mew is the ancestor of all pokemon, and thus probably the first pokemon created by the pokegods to be ancestral to the rest or something like that, she’s probably female to lay the eggs.
No, that isn’t how actual speciation and abiogenesis works, but actual speciation and abiogenesis don’t involve pokegods.
http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/3816/ti5jq.png
Ignore the random Tentacruel.
… I think this is my favorite mgdmt yet.
Err, and for the record, I _love_ the pokemon games, from R/B to B/W2. I don’t love this strip for the fact that mew was run over, but for… everything else about it.
mew wasn’t run over… it was sleeping on the engine (as cats tend to) and was killed when he started it.
If anyone is too traumatized by that we can say she just got a little knocked around…
Mew “fainted”!
Oh thats terrible, that means that any time a pokemon fants its just dead.
Of course they do get hit with flamethrowers…
Damn…
No, they don’t die, they faint.
Macargo is hotter than the surface of the sun, a flopping Magikarp can hop mountains, Arcanine can run at 260 mph, Wailord can dive a hair deeper than a sperm whale while having a density somewhere inbetween helium and hydrogen, Machamp can punch 125 times per second, Raticate can bite with 10,000 pounds per square inch of pressure, and a middle-aged Wartortle is about the same age as the First Dynasty of Egypt.
Pokemans are sufficiently hax that them being physically incapable of dying is practically reasonable, comparatively.
Of course they can’t die, it’s not one of the four moves they know.
But if they can’t die, then where do Ghost Pokemon come from?
Haven’t you ever been to the Daycare Couple? When two Ghost Type Pokemon love each other very much…
Well Yamask is supposed to be a dead human.
And yet, you can breed them.
Ew
So if you put two cofarigus (or one and something else) into the daycare, you’re killing people?
Makes guns seem so old fashioned.
they must be able to die, or what is the point of the pokemon graveyard towers???? im assuming the pokemon there must die from old age, but the marowak in the first game was ‘killed’ trying to escape from team rocket
Sploink, they jump to pump their heart, if they feint they stop jumping…….
x,x
Not if they are like Rock Lee and their body is conditioned to keep jumping even while unconscious. XD
The expression on Jared’s face is priceless when he starts the engine XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
But yeah, it will be a nightmare fuel if you actually hear a scream came from your car engine. In some…, no, MOST cases, it gets… MESSY… If you know what i mean *nudge nudge wink wink*
This happened to one of my cats. I can only assume you wrote this comic out of tragic personal experience.
Haha, yeah, my cat used to do that. Doesn’t anymore, she learned her lesson when she climbed inside the neighbor’s truck and he turned it on. (She’s fine now, so it is survivable, if the cat’s really lucky)
Fancy seeing you here, Fluffy.
Best part is, you CAN catch a Mew in Red/Blue without a Gameshark.
Yeah, I used to use the ditto glitch. That was so useful, it was the only way I got the Blue pokemon as I lacked another gameboy.
And what glitch is that? I’ve never heard of another way to get Mew without cheats.
Thing is, there actually is one Mew cheat that works. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew_glitch
You’re welcome.
It’s weird that no one other than me used a GameGenie for their mew catching.
I got my Mew the legit way: From a Nintendo event.
I got my Mew the Other legit way: Trading for it.
I used the “fight slowpoke and then teleport before getting into next battle trick” and got the Mew. The best part, however, was learning how the game code allowed it. And how the game code used your name to determine what pokemon you find in the surf off that one island.
And that’s when I realized I was really a geek…
Yup. There’s a car in their driveway, alright. http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/132
The decorative prop idea seems to work.
Well, maybe they bought a smaller car after this, so they could avoid accidents like this one!
that’s his parents car not his.
The funny thing is that there is actually are legitimate Mew-catching glitches, although they have nothing to do with the truck on the docks. I remember abusing this one a lot a few years back:
It’s something along the lines of… you have to avoid fighting this one Youngster trainer who has only a Slowpoke early on in the game (in the area north of Nugget Bridge). Later in the game, once you hit Lavender Town, go west from there until you see a Gambler trainer who is facing north, toward the left side of the map, nearby the Underground Path.
Make sure you have a Pokemon with Fly in your party. Walk one screen above him and align yourself with him, then hit start immediately as you walk down into his line of sight. If you do it right, he won’t have the ! over his head and the start menu pops up. Fly to Cerulean City. The trainer will fly away just as the ! appears over the gambler’s head.
Now in Cerulean, you go back up to fight the trainer with the Slowpoke. Make sure you let him walk up to you, don’t walk up to him or it won’t work. Once you’ve beaten him, fly back to Lavender Town and walk to the left into the route where you encountered the Gambler. As soon as you step into the area, the start menu pops up. Close that, and BAM! Mew appears!
It actually works… you can look it up or even try it yourself if you don’t believe me. ;-; You can actually encounter a lot of different Pokemon with this, it depends on the Special stat of the pokemon you fight apparently. I got a Growlithe in Blue version from it once
…I’m not sure what happened in that first sentence. “Is actually are”? derp
It’s 10 times faster just to walk towards the nugget brigde once you bested the slowpoke trainer. And you dont need to have played thorugh the whole game to get fly. Teleport (Abra) will do just fine. (Escape rope and Dig would not do)
You can get any pokemon that way. Just fight the correct specific trainer.
If in doubt search “mew glitch” in youtube.
I did that because Mew is the perfect HM mule.
You capture the origin of all life and you use it as an HM mule.
This is why we Pokemon trainers can’t have nice things.
I just used a Missingno/Khangaskhan as my red/blue hm mule (other than flash). Teach missingno fly and cut, fight something small and squishy (around pallet town like a ratatta or pidgy) let it evolve into a level 1 khangaskhan, teach it strength and surf, trade it and 5 ratattas for mewtwos and eevees and legendary birds at school.
Hey, first time post, long time reader.
I have to say, I love Jared. He is one of my favorite comic characters of all time. But I hope we actually see him catch another pokemon. Imagine if he caught a legendary pokemon by accident, or used a Masterball on a Weedle, or something! Of course, this is all in my head, and I can only dream of it one day happening.
That could be amusing… but part of the joke with him is that he doesn’t understand Pokeballs. He’d have to figure that out in order to catch another Pokemon, and then there’d be no reason for Mr. Fish to be all huge and inconvenient and awesome out in the open all the time.
Who needs balls? Remember when he decided to make Mr. Fish some power armor made of Magnemite and Megneton? No balls, lots of Pokemon.
the car int he driveway is a to-scale pedal car.
Everything is explained.
They use it to pull parade floats.
Yes good.
There is only one MOTOR vehicle in Kanto. They can have all the pedal cars and Flinstone cars and whatever else they want. XP
I have nightmares about this happening. I wake up looking just like Jared everytime.
I love Mew! Even if I don’t ever recall having one legitimately (that is, an event Mew). Or at all, for that matter. Wait, why do I even like Mew so much?
Cause it can learn any move.
I don’t know why I imagine that Rocket with a Canadian accent.
Because under all that polite, we’re evil geniuses.
They’re not polite, in fact of the teams we’ve had to face they’re the second most dickish, behind galactic.
He was talking about… ah never mind..
*Fake Accent*
Ees both the same.
If I remember correctly, the truck thing was true in the Japanese version.
Nope. The truck was only ever a prop, and there was no way to legitimately obtain Mew in the R/G/B era without sending your cartridge in to Nintendo during certain promotions or trading for them at official tournaments.
The only true rumors regarding obtaining legit event Pokemon appeared later in the series, when G/S/C were released. The GS Ball was a dropped plot point in the anime, and many folks believed it was the key to finding Celebi–and it was! But only in Crystal, and only if you hacked it in or happened to live in Japan, where it was distributed over the obscure Pokemon Mobile System GB (a sort of precursor to wifi that required linking your Gameboy up with a cell phone).
I know too much about Pokemon. :(
Very, very clever comic. So many points to start laughing at.
Haven’t laughed at a Pokemon comic like this in ages, and definitely not as hard as this one in a while.
Isn’t anyone going to notice the guy in the passenger’s seat? Jared’s DAD? Aka Perpetually Angry Face? So awesome :D
He kind of reminded me of Owen from Gargoyles, so I heard his lines in the Brent Spiner voice.
Incidentally the truck is still there in the Fire Red Leaf Green remakes though it still does nothing.
Actually, if you go there after getting certain HMs but before completing the SS Anne subplot (which closes off the area) you can find a lavacookie there (which is otherwise unobtainable in FR/LG).
Finally, we get to see his dad. I wonder what he does for a living.
Maybe he works for Electrode Electric company. I only read the first manga issue, but they had a truck… Plus Mr. Kowalski looks pretty grumpy, maybe he got laid off from his power plant job. I always found it suspicious that the only electric plant in Kanto was full of explosive Voltorbs but had no people working in it. Perhaps they were striking for better safety regulations?
Wow, Jareds’ dad even LOOKS like an asshole
Huh. While I found this comic really funny, it’s also a bit confusing. To the best of my knowledge, Team Rocket never had a presence in Vermillion City. Of course, I never played the remakes of the kanto versions so I’m just going with what the original had to offer.
I think Lt. Surge was with Team Rocket in the Pokemon manga, but I’d actually advice against thinking too hard on those little details that are there for the punchline.
The manga is… different. Good, but very different.
Pfft!
Who needs a car (except if its a really badass car) when you have Mr.Fish?!?
Lol! love Jared’s expression in the fourth, sixth, and eighth panels
>=D
They had to tie Mr. Fish to the Commander’s car during the Nomura Virus arc, plus I’m not sure the kids could reliably not fall off Mr. Fish.
holy shit did he just kill a mew!
Nah, just knocked it around a bit. At worst, Mew fainted.
Exactly. Pokemon take way worse in the course of your average pokemon battle. A truck going that fast is a level 20 Body Slam without STAB and mediocre Attack, at best.
The truck was at a standstill. Mew was in the engine. :p
“A truck going that fast” is a level 1 tackle. “A truck engine” is a level 50 Fury Swipes.
Although both fit the rest of your description.
Unless it was a Nuzlocke run.
For the longest time I was seeing that as a bulbasaur…
I love how helpful the Rocket is…
<.< I have to say.. I was one of those cheaters in school.. Putting that code in my Game-Genie to catch blank lv10 mews to sell and trade to my fellow students.
I love those mews though.. had one for every major power type.. they were really quick as well.
I remember a car. It was when he was kicked out of the house to mow the lawn.
Mew! D=
Coela you make the best references ever.
I just…I love that the Team Rocket member is trying to be helpful. That’s the frosting on the cake.
Where is that car in the Kanto region?
And why is mew in vermillion when the “mew cheat” is in Cerulean
Mew cheat = Get an Abra/teleport in front of a trainer/battle a spesific youngster/walk towards nugget bridge/catch mew.
The comic is referencing the mew under the truck rumor:
There’s a truck in the SS Anne harbor at Vermilion city that can be reached with surf, and back in the old days there was a rumor that there is a Mew under the truck and you could get is by using strength on the truck. The rumor is false, but quite many people believed that rumor.
That’s where there is a car in kanto, and that’s why mew is in Vermilion.
Ah. kay I see. I do remember that there where a rumor about catching mew around SS Anne, but as you said, we did not ever find it. Dough I have never seen the truck before, even now when i try to google it…. For me it’s more rare than Mew :P
EDIT:
Youtube did it for me. Have never ever seen it before. Weird.
Oh Jared, Dittos were your doing…
Well, my Pokemans breeding thanks you!
Is all of the incompetence of Jared springing from his time in Kanto? Or is that simply coincidental?
Well that wasn’t the only way to get mew. The other one was getting a pokemon that knew fly or teleport, teleport away right at the start of a battle encounter, walk through nugget bridge, battle a trainer there, and then fly/teleport back to the pokemon center, and walk towards nugget bridge again, the start menu would go up automatically, press B to get outta the menu, and then a wild random encounter with a lvl 7 Mew would appear. And no cheat codes, just a glitch in the old game.
“In retrospect, I’m pretty sure I put a car in Jared’s driveway when he first showed up some odd three years ago. Let’s say it was a decorative prop or something”
You could just say they got the car after Jared got his drivers license.
Continuity error averted!
The point was that there was only one vehicle shown in the entire (R/B/Y) game, and it was that truck. Hence the “only motor vehicle in Kanto” line. It was the source of jokes and rumours, such as the Mew rumour this comic is parodying.
I think you are missing the point.
Oh wow that is just awful. Well played I laughed my ass off. :)
what I find so funny about this comic, is that this exact scenario was envisioned in the comments of the last comic. Im guessing Coelasquid saw that comment and thought that was a good way to go. Either that, or this was the plan all along, and the commenters were thinking on the exact same wavelength as her
When you do decide to put color to this, remember that (for some unknown reason) every Rocket Grunt has pink/dark pink hair.
I don’t know if three years is comic time too but I like the idea that it took that long for Jared to grow like, six more beard hairs.
heh, I missed that that was Mew at first and thought he ran over Meowth.
If it’s any consolation, the car in Jared’s driveway might well have post-dated his dad attempting to teach him to drive.
Love it! Also, are T-shirts ever going to be available? I asked if I could pay Squid to have one printed myself, but no answer… I need permission :’-(
Oh my god I can’t stop laughing! Plus that Team Rocket member is probably the nicest Team Rocket member ever trying to at least try to make Jared feel better.
BTW why is that car left-hand drive? So Kanto drives on right and Japan on left?
Your knowledge of a years-old Pokemon hoax as well as other nerd cult things must prompt me to ask a question.
Are you single?
Fun fact: one among all the bullshit ridiculously complicated cheats, actually *works.* Google for the working Mew cheat; it’s there. It involves setting up the game so that you exploit the system by which the game chooses which Pokemon you’re going to catch. No joke. (However, alas, it’s not the truck. I wish that it were, and I wish all those other silly cheats worked, because they’re so much fun and I always felt like a secret ninja when I found out about them at age whatever-I-was.)
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…My nephew is going to love this strip.
I was right, he did.
Dude, I don’t know why, but I love the way Jared’s dad looks. Also, those have to be the most pleasant gangsters I’ve ever seen! I guess owning the only vehicle in Kanto means you have to be more tolerant and personable. And let’s face it, the Rockets could use some good press.
(By the way, here’s a thought: If you want to save time on coloring it, you could just color the first panel and then fill the others with a couple grey hues.)
So, Mew’s are the pokemon equivalent of the cats that used to get stuck under the hood of my grandpa’s car then?
is it sad it never occured to me there were cheat codes for pokemon,ive also only pokemon red ……and cought mew with a lvl 82 bulbasour……….i played that same game for years ……….and never finished it
Coela Squid: Expression-crafting queen of the world.
soooooooo good.
Now that the color is up, I thought to myself ‘why is there so much of a pinkish hue to everything?’. Then I remembered it’s in Vermillion City.
Plus, you know, flashback lighting.
I did it as a flashback thing, but I guess that works too.
Oh, well then it’s nice when these things work out.
I just thought Jared came from Pokémon Red.
If Mewtwo only knew it was really Jared’s fault…
The best thing about this comic? The way all the Rockets are spaced out and standing at unnatural/ right angles to each other to keep their fields of view from overlapping. Also; Rocket bro is awesome enough to be a reoccurring character.
Seconded. And thirded.
Is the shading of Kanto done because of the minimal degree of color available in the gen 1 games, or is it just dawn or dusk or something?
Neeeevermind, just read that it was because it’s a flashback thing.
Ohgod.
The layers to this joke.
Oh god!
i get the joke…and i’m also glad i receive my mew from a friend whom got his as well as the one he gave me legit…got the best luck to cuz BOTH were shiny
That happened to my youth pastor once.
There were these stray kittens hanging around his house, and one of them apparently crawled up under the hood of his truck before he left for church one Sunday.
A bunch of us were standing outside the church, waiting for him to arrive so he could unlock the door. When he shut off the engine, somebody standing close to it heard a noise coming from the grill. He popped the hood, and there was a little yellow tabby, sitting just inches from the radiator fan. She was terrified, but miraculously unharmed.
He let one of the girls at the church take the little cat home.
And that’s how Mewtwo was born.
No, that’s how Mewthree was born. Mewtwo is already alive and hiding out in a cave near Cerulean. He was created long before today, so it’s still possible that technology has progressed enough for them to successfully clone Mew without creating another “misunderstood monster”. XD Still, it’s also still possible that Mew was a special case making it impossible to clone perfectly.
I like the idea that the car in Jared’s parents yard is fake for decoration. The idea amuses.
Hehe not as rare as they would have you think as it turns out.
Jared’s dad looks like Owen Burnett/Puck from Gargoyles.
Read it all in his voice so also Data’s voice.
Imagine if some kid somewhere actually managed to move the truck in the game, and saw mew, but then when they click it, instead of a battle, it’s just a text box that says, “It’s dead. You must’ve killed it when you moved that truck.”
Why DO cats like to sleep inside the hood of a vehicle anyways? I’m ashamed to say this has happened to me a few times…not with a 1-of-a-kind Pokemon mind you, but jeez, it looked like it’d been bbq’d
when a car shuts off the engine is warm and the inside of the vehicle is like a little hidden cubbyhole where other animals and people can’t find them and leave them alone.
And they don’t mind the smell of gas and oil and coolant.
Jared used truck…. it’s super effective
Lol.
Alright, cloning Mew went bad the first time. Even if the technology has progressed since then, it’s still probably not a good idea. Am I the only one to realize this? XD
I dunno, except for the whole “kill all humans” thing, Mewtwo turned out pretty good. It’s even stronger than Mew, even if it has a smaller movepool and lower defense.
Was Jared’s dad modeled after the Angry Video Game Nerd or is it just a coincidence?
I don’t know what the angry video game nerd looks like.
I’ve been in college the past few years and so I haven’t stayed caught up with this comic, so I tried to come back, forgot where I left off, and restarted from the beginning.
Long story short (which seems pointless now), I didn’t get this one the first time I read it. I thought he had ran over a cat. But I get it now, and now it’s even sadder.
Ok now it makes sense for Jared to be more amazed that he’s being trusted with a car rather than with children.