I get by with a little help from my friends
I’ve officially hit the point where my work ethic has surpassed the physical limitations of my body, because between comics and crazy work hours and con appearances I am quite literally falling apart. After I managed to catch an incapacitating eye infection (don’t stare at a cintiq for twenty hours and wear contacts and rub your eyes a lot, kids) and a head cold (don’t work twenty hour days, kids) within two days of each other, the amazing and wonderful Scott DeWitt of the fabulous webcomic, Fanboys came to my rescue so I didn’t have to stress out over how to draw a comic while simultaneously being a blind puddle of goo and working overtime. So check out Scott’s comic! And his Tumblr! And hell, check out his brother’s Tumblr while you’re at it because he’s a cool dude too!
And to offer my apologies for abdicating my duties of a webcomicist, here is a Commander Mii I made that you can pal around with on your 3DSes or WiiUs or whatever will scan this.
Bwahahahaha I was wondering how you’d pull it off, but he doesn’t look bad at all XD Woo, Badass Mii!
Now my Mii has the most badass company of all
Your friend Scott is awesome, this was pretty enjoyable. Hope you get well soon Coela.
I’m having a great time imagining what went down at that party.
SPOILER ALERT: He’s actually just come from kicking the shit out of himself way back in strip #58. Nothing bad ever happens, he’s just pro-actively stopping Jared’s stupid idea without ruining the surprise party for himself.
Commander likes to get his ‘Timeline-Fixing Bullshit’ out of the way all in one go so it’s easier to keep track of and he doesn’t have to spend months at a time thinking about where/when he is/was/supposed to be.
You say that, but uh, his shoulder is on fire, and I’m pretty sure that didn’t come from beating the crap out of himself over coffee. I reckon he came back from after the party, which (being full of the biggest, most macho badasses in modern media) turned into an insane melee brawl. So he is shutting it down before it ever gets started.
Time travel has a tendancy to set you on fire sometimes. Just go with it.
NEVAR! D:<
Proof positive, no moral man can resist ice cream cake.
I assume you meant mortal, but moral works just as well here, actually.
Does it really? “I will give you a slice of ice cream cake if you murder that man.”
Well. What would YOU do for a Klondike Cake?
Honestly? Learn how to make my own.
I did mean “mortal”, I sure of proofread before posting.
Should have proofread that too. Or is it “Should of”… Meh.
Eh, it’s pretty much internet (originally usenet, IIRC) tradition that a correction post has to contain at least one error beyond the one being corrected. :)
Goes all the way back to print Journalism, in fact. That’s where it became known as “Muphrey’s Law”.
serious? cool
Heh, “Muphrey”
It’s a bit strange to call just 20 years ago as ‘all the way back to’
Even that would have been wrong, since it’s “should have“.
Except the lactose intoller-
No, not really, the gastric distress is worth it.
Knew a girl who considered it part of why she like hot sauce.
Its an honest way to lock yourself in the bathroom for 2 hours and get some decent reading in, disruption free(besides the occasional growler attack.)
Please allow yourself as much rest as possible and heal up fully before you jump back in the fray. Wishing you well!
so i wonder what was planned that he got injured in the future !!!
Get some rest and some chicken soup and… whatever you’re supposed to eat to deal with eye problems.
Can’t go wrong with Ice Cream cake apparently.
No worries, Squid. Take your time. Your comics are like dessert. We immensely enjoy them, but we can live without them. If it’s proving too much for you, why not take a break? Maybe host a month of guest comics again?
Yeah, I imagine that much testosterone in a room can make quite the mess when the Commander isn’t there to reign it in.
Hope you get well – and very funny today’s strip (kudos for Scott Dewitt) ^_^
Your first duty is to yourself. If you wear yourself to nothing, you’ll burn out. Next time, get some guest comics to cover a con, and go to twice a week updates if work is eating you alive. It’s not worth killing yourself over something you put out for free.
wait, I didn’t mean twice a week, I got this one confused with a MWF I read. I meant twice a month.
I hope you get well soon, Squiddie ^^;; And a help form a friend is very nice too!
Soldier probably pissed off Merasmus again…
This is an unusually good guest comic. Well done, Mr. DeWitt. Don’t stress out on our account, Coelasquid! We can be patient while we wait for your orifices to end their mutiny.
‘TIME!’ Is quite possibly one of the best onomatopoeia words ever.
Those were my exact words. It made my day. Lol.
agreed XD
Hmm… I didn’t think it was onomatopoeia… I took it to mean Commander was shouting “TIME!” as in “Time’s up, brainstorm over!”. But as time travel sounds, it works too.
HAH!
I knew I recognized the art style! I was thinking
“This looks like fanboooooh my god! Scot DeWitt!”
At first I thought “What’s Soldier doing there?” and then I thought “Yeah…yeah, he’d fit right in, actually.”
Him and Heavy. None of the rest, I don’t think. Scout wants to get in, but he’s not allowed.
No, your first thought is quite correct. It’s not that Soldier wouldn’t fit in. It’s that he already has a job, doesn’t he? Fighting clones of himself and his coworkers wearing different colored uniforms. Or fighting robots. That bleed money for some reason.
Canonically since the events of ‘A Fate Worse than Chess’ the TF2 mercs are technically unemployed. A few stick around and continue making money fighting robots, but the rest probably looked for work elsewhere.
Who WOULDN’T stick around to fight robots that bleed money?
He did in the ’50s, but what about now? Surely the Mann fortune ran out at some point, squandered as it was on gravel. Or, hell, maybe he’s on vacation and likes the company. Mike Haggar’s a big-time politician, and he still drops by to play foosball and smoke cigars sometimes.
Heavy already popped up in one or two strips, I wish Coela would give us TF2-junkies more fanservice though. Whine whine whine whine whine, you know the spiel.
I just have to ask… is that Commander’s Pet Flame on his shoulder?
I was thinking the same thing, since it’s not spreading
and it doesn’t seem to be hurting himwhat am I saying, CB doesn’t acknowledge burn injuries anyway.Feel better, Kelly!
Get better, squiddy!
Nice mii get wel soon bdw
“What about Canadian Guy’s suggestion for a Pin The Tail On The Donkey game?”
“Naw. He couldn’t find a donkey picture, so he used a moose instead. Also the moose was real. Y’don’t want ta know what it did to th’ whole second floor.”
some things are better (NOT!) left to imagination X-D
Take a week or two off already! D: Dun kill yourself for our lulzy benefits.
That’s awfully nice of DeWitt.
Wait, so does this mean you have a 3DS/Wii U? If so, do you also have Monster Hunter?
She does. She made reference to it a while ago in a brief arc.
Must be that time of the year. Everyone around me is getting sick too. Feel better :o
I’ve been a long time reader of Scott’s work before the plug. I love Fanboys, excellent comic.
Also, drink lots of orange juice. Because reasons.
Hope you’re feeling better soon, Coelasquid! I don’t work half as hard as you and I got burned out and possibly sick from one four-day convention… good luck!
Jeez Squid! IRL before the URL. We love Manly Men, but in cases like this, take a week or two off, let your natural squid like powers heal yourself. Put in asking for guest strips like you did that one time if you need to, let yourself recover! From the way you make it sound though, you sound like you could use a vacation in general.
So I read this comic earlier and loved it so I went back and started with your very first one at that was at 9:10 P.M. my time. I just got back to this comic it is now 4:18 A.M. my time….BEST 7 HOURS OF MY LIE!!! Keep up the awesome work.
Life*
i did that too when i first discovered it, i think when jared was intorduced was where i came in…
“Time!” is the best unsound effect EVER. It lets you fill in the blanks.
Unfortunately for me, filling in the blanks has now convinced me that Commander Badass cruises through time in a TARDIS.
Nah man, see that green square in the last comic? Vortex manipulator for sure, a motorbike through traffic
panel, last panel
Just noticed it.
I’m just wondering why Jared’s tongue is orange in the second panel.
The sad think is, he’s still going to get injured when he gets that ice cream cake. He wouldn’t be there otherwise, would he? At least he’ll get ice-cream cake.
Yeah, that’s just what I was thinking.
We know from the coffee incident that the Commander doesn’t do paradox. So the only logical conclusion has to be that he punched himslef in the face several times, set himself on fire and then went back in time to ask for an ice-cream cake.
He must really like ice cream cake.
Well, he already had his ice-cream cake when I punched himself, so he must already have known it was going to be really good.
Get well soon Coelasquid! Rest and movies with explosions, that’ll fix ya right up =D
is that commander’s free range fire, now so tame it rides on his shoulder like a parrot?
It doesn’t seem to be burning his jacket, so I think so.
That would actually be pretty damn badass. He could teach it to ride his shoulder like a parrot, then when he needs to burninate something – like to light a cigar, or torch down a mansion full of Chthonic books – he can use the fire he has on his shoulder.
Everything is bad ass with ice cream cake.
Oh, forgot to say this in my first post. Thank you kindly for the Commander Mii, and I hope you feel better soon. If it were possible I would give you some soup.
Aw! Head colds combined with eye infections are nasty! I hope you recuperate and feel better soon!
So cute, my Duke Nukem Mii started a fight with Commander’s Mii over my desktop table next to a wild triceratops and my Zekrom figure. Can’t fathom the consequences of downloading this badass Mii. Can you make a Jared for the sake of sidekick completion? =P
Hope you get some well deserved rest and get well soon. It is nice to know you have helpers for these situations ^^ I’ll make sure to pay a visit to their sites :)
I knew it was Scott’s art and handwriting at first glance. I enjoy Fanboys and have been keeping up with it for a few years now, at least for time it’s been active. Hello, Scott! Your comic is cool!
Take care of yourself, Coela. I hope you are feeling better soon.
You know you’re an artist when you recognize who did this on the first panel.
Oh my. How embarrassing. I’ve read this three comic three or four times, and only just got the joke. I thought Commander was shouting “time!”. Like, as in, ‘time out’. Or something. And he was beat up because he was sick… you know, because that makes total sense.
What worries me is that he put on a bandage over his chest without putting out the fire.
I have a Commander Mii to take with me everywhere … joy has been brought to my life. <3
I love how Commander is not killing Jared. I expected him to take that clipboard and beat him with it.
The Commander isn’t violent to people who can’t take it. Like Jared.
I just came back to this one. I finally get why he’s so violent to Jared’s clipboard
That……..that was a bulletproof clipboard………..damn.
The meaning of the phrase “ice cream” varies from one country to another. Phrases such as “frozen custard”, “frozen yogurt”, “sorbet”, “gelato” and others are used to distinguish different varieties and styles. In some countries, such as the United States, the phrase “ice cream” applies only to a specific variety, and most governments regulate the commercial use of the various terms according to the relative quantities of the main ingredients.
I love the use of time as a sound effect
You should add a link to this under the “Commander” section on your “Extras” tab!