04/19/2010
April 19, 2010
12:00 am
I’m gonna give Toshihiro Ono credit for doing my favourite interpretation of Professor Oak, he draws him like Clint Eastwood if decided he wanted to live on a mountain eating instant noodles and playing with little furry animals forty years ago.
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So you want that Pokeball…do you feel lucky…punk?!
Haha, I love Prof. Oak. Like, seriously, there’s a strong man-crush there.
Thought I’d point out, though, I just noticed that the comics look kind of fuzzy on the site. That’s because they’re 650 pixels across, while the div they’re in in the CSS is set 640 pixels wide, so the browser has to resize them on the fly. Looks like it may be because the whole page is set to 650px but there’s 5px padding on the .narrowcolumn class? Might want to get that fixed, either removing the padding or widening the whole page by 10 pixels, since the comics’ quality suffers through no fault of the images themselves.
Yeah, I honestly have no idea how CSS works so if I try to fix it I’ll irreparably break the page, but the two people who know what they’re doing have been alerted to it. They’ll probably get on it when they figure out how and have the time to get their hands in.
(Squints eyes through fuzzy pixels) Are… you a boy, or a girl?
Man Coela, I love you. I bought that Magikarp from the Pokecenter and did not cease leveling him (or her, as it turned out) until she evolved into a Gyarados. I broke my tiny little mind BUT MAN WAS IT EVER WOTH IT. FUCK YEAH MAGIKAAAARP
I’m guessing he picked the magikarp because it was the only thing on the lawn that didn’t look like it could kill him. That, and it has a vague similarity to the fish skeleton thing on his shirt.
Gotta respect that kind of loyalty to a brand.
Yeah, that’s how I pick all my pokemon, always make sure you can defeat them if they rise up against you. That’s why my team is all Bellsprouts and Metapods! Magikarps are just ticking time bombs waiting to happen!
dude…I am in favor of freaking rayquaza…that thing PWNS!! Especially when you replace Rest with Ice Beam!
Okay, that was really funny. I especially love: “But we’ve already bonded, I named him Mr. Fish.” I don’t know why but I just found that absolutely hilarious. Keep up the awesome work man.
This is my new favourite webcomic.
*grovels and worships*
Ah Toshihiro Ono, as I recall he really did make Oak look like a total badass, as if he could wrangle five Gyrados at once for science. He also drew pretty monsterous versions of pokemon…
I’ve been keeping an eye on your stuff since the escapist competition, and just wanted to say keep up the amazing work, fantastic humour and art = must read comic.
I cannot find a picture of Oak by Toshihiro Ono.
Pics please?
Also, I love his expression in the last panel. Kinda a mixture of “OOooooo…kaaaaaaay…” and “Whatever, I don’t even care.”
Oh wow. I am thoroughly creeped out by this webcomic. Keep up the good work!
Is there going to be a rival, and are they going to be a bigger dick then Gary Oak?
Y’know, after growing out of puberty, I stopped seeing Gary Oak as a jerk. He could easily be a jokey kind of guy with the right intonation and he actually seemed helpful and encouraging a lot of the time. “Bill’s house is up there.” “There’s a world famous CUT master on board!” “I’m going to become the world’s most powerful trainer! Well, good luck to you!”
To be fair, the kids show I watched when I was younger always gavge him the negative jerk-off intonation tho…
If you ever read the manga Gary was less of an annoying braggart and a cold, detached, know-it-all.
I don’t even fully comprehend how this is funny, but, by Zeus, it is.
I knew that magicarp was going to be Mr. Fish.
These are so hilarious. I’m gonna get a gyrados named Mr. Fish just for this reason.
This is a few years after your post. But if you want a Magicarp, I would recommend looking for one of these fishies.
The Attack of the Jumping Asian Carp – Reel Shot TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc-e8EGkLMo
In the South, the fish are impatient to be caught, so they jump right into your boat.
Man, this is good stuff! Make more, yo.
>>”I am rather impressed that you parked a sea monster in my office.”
>>”But we’ve bonded already, I named him Mr. Fish.”
>>”He has my scent now, his mother will never take him back.”
Classic genius. Good job, man.
Just started reading these; funny as hell. I’m waiting for the inevitable Starcraft humor.
His lines about his attachment to Mr. Fish slay me! “He’s taught me the meaning of love. He has my scent now so his mommy will never take him back.” But seriously, man, you should have gone for the Golem.
Oh wow… This is definately my new favorite web comic. Awesome art, and hilarious to boot. Keep up the good work.
“I see you’re starting a a Pokemon journey!”
;)
Dammit, how has no one brought that to my attention yet?
Lol scent
Heh heh. His mother will never take him back :3
What?! What’s this I see?
A car? A bloody car?!
Error! I call error! Everyone knows that there are no cars in the world of the Pokemans! There are only moving trucks that you mother makes you ride in the back of without a seatbelt like some cheep piece of furniture that she obviously forgot to tie down because everything gets around when the car suddenly jerks to a stop and you go crashing forward into the door and get a concussion and become a vegetable who can never go on a a Pokemans journey of your own!
Oh, and there are bikes, too. And those little scooter things that the Officer Jennys uses.
But not ca-a-a-ars. Never cars!
Wait, we’re talking about a world were your mother is blond and doesn’t give you shoes that give you the magical power to run across the region without stopping so much as once if you avoid the tall grass… So that means you have to use something else to get around… And scooters are only for police officers who all look exactly alike… And… Well shoot. There goes that logic.
Carry on! Love the comic, by the by. The dialog is so much fun to read, and the art is really perdy’, too.
I do believe I recall at least seeing a few jeeps in a few episodes of Pokemon.
I haven’t watched the show in yonks, but I remember Gary driving around in a red sports car. With cheerleaders.
This is true.
Shot down
GARY OAK’D!
Don’t forget bicycles
Hey
nice webcomic…
i saw it on the escapist contest…i tought it was better than the one that won…anyway,it s preaty funny man.
i ll come back to check on it often
good luck and don t stop
Y’know, after growing out of puberty, I stopped seeing Gary Oak as a jerk. He could easily be a jokey kind of guy with the right intonation and he actually seemed helpful and encouraging a lot of the time. “Bill’s house is up there.” “There’s a world famous CUT master on board!” “I’m going to become the world’s most powerful trainer! Well, good luck to you!”
I’ve been playing through Leaf Green again for a Nuzlocke run, and no, he really was a total jerk. He couldn’t take a loss, never even thinks about admitting Red has more then the mental capacity of a Bidoof, and can’t form a sentence without making a snide remark. All three quotes you gave were insults in context. So yeah.
Hey that’s what I said.
And yeah I can see why you’d say that, but I still think he isn’t that much of a jerk.
Oh man, this is awesome! I would have picked the Muk, I loves me a Muk.
But man, this is hilarious and awesome…and kind of creepy that Oak just KNEW he was stepping into the grass.
I got the feeling his mother carefully arranged this.
I never say anything anymore.
I always read Commander’s voice in my head as the same voice for Marcus Fenix. Just makes it that much more manly.
Suddenly, Gary Oak!
Is that guy everywhere or something?
I’m not really hip and down with the pokemans.
“…to your father and ME.” Not I. (“I” is the nominative case and can’t be used in place the of the objective “ME” as an object of a preposition.)
This comic is brilliant and should be free of pesky grammatical errors!
Realize that I write dialogue how people actually talk, very few people in my life speak like they’re reading essays. Most people in casual conversation (or at least the ones I know) say things like “my friends and I”, “my mom and I”, “my brother and I”, etc. While it may not be technically correct, it sounds less awkward.
Some people are grammar nazis, I’m a crappy forced dialogue nazi.
Funnily enough I was taught that “etc. and I” is the grammatically correct version.
The trick is to take the other person out of the sentence. “My brother and I went to the store” => “I went to the store.” You wouldn’t say “Me went to the store,” would you?!
Yes. I have been in TWO college English classes. This is what both of them taught.
Oh, okay–ephiphany! I guess it’s a matter of perception! That’s interesting. I have always found that people will specifically use the word or phrase “whom” or “____ and I” in order to sound more educated, and achieve the opposite effect when they do so incorrectly. (Imagine a mid-atlantic accent saying, “Oh, of course! Mumsy bought the yacht for Lucille and I.” It’s a bit grating.) I understand now that the misuse may have become the vernacular for some, who have no intent to sound like anything. A bit like answering the phone.
Anyway. Words are lame. Your art is v. cool. I’ll now take the opportunity to say I love your facial expressions. Specifically panel six of this comic. Brilliant. I’m excited to see where you’ll go with this comic.
This is what happens when one drops out of school at th age of ten. His mother must be a Pokémon trainer too.
how does his lawn attract so many rare pokemon?!
It’s all about the tall grass.
fertilizer… it does amazing things
If I had the misfortune to be the mother of a Magikarp, I wouldn’t take it back, either.
would being the mother of a magikarp make you a magikarp as well?
Nope, it would make you a Gyrados.
Hmm…with how he’s drawn here one would suspect Oak of being in the manly league too. Heavens knows the things he wrestles daily. He’s even learned the trick of pokemon to appear wildly XD
I’d just use the seel,
Oh man, Magikarp. I made a pokecharacter who picked magikarp as a starter. You start slow, but you get a wicked gyarados at the end. :D
EPIC.
Turns out to be the most EPIC part of this EPIC comic.
is this the clint eastwood oak?
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Professor_Oak_EToP.jpg
Correctamundo.
I DID IT!!!
I love Oak’s expression in the 7th panel.
You really should have had Prof. Oak say to Jarred “First things first, Are you a boy? Or a girl?”. I always laughed at the fact that he would say that, then ask what his grandsons name was
The correct phrase in panel 1 is “… to your father and me.” Mom should know better!
He is a man after my own heart. I always go for the water pokemon.
I’m still wondering what a Magikarp is doing in long grass.
And why he didn’t pick Kangaskhan or Pinsir. Those friggers are rare to my knowledge.
“I want this one!”
“No you don’t. Trust me.”
That made me laugh out loud.
Good old magicarp what would we do without you?
IT’S YOUR FATHER AND ME NOT YOUR FATHER AND I!!!!
I’d get the nidorino. They’re awesome.
Arbitrarily decided to re-read Jared’s intro and realizing that I haven’t read the older author comments, I have to say I agree that Toshiro Ono’s Oak was the best. His version of the Pokemon world in general is one of my favourites.
I just felt the need to say that Jared’s face looks like a Metapod.