Nose ring problems
So I am about to go to the top of a mountain that I’m told will probably not have internet, cell phone access, or television and as such had to jam something out for the site ASAP. I in fact know approximately dick-all about Warcraft and don’t really now anything at all about this beautiful Val Kilmer Orc man other than he’s the first character I could think of with a big bull nose hoop like I have and this was the on thing I could think to draw a comic about because it’s BEEN HAPPENING TO ME ALL DAY. I don’t know if other people who can cover the end of their nose with their tongues do this when the mercury drops too but man I have basically been walking around all day with my tongue on my nose because as soon as I take it off it’s just wet and cold and that’s even more unpleasant.
I’ll dedicate this to Scott’s roommate because I hear she digs beautiful Val Kilmer Orcs. Also if you want a WoW comic that’s actually about WoW and actually well drawn go read Scott’s comic because he just drew a topical comic for the expansion that apparently just released but I know nothing about because as was stated, I know dick all about WoW. All I know bout is nose rings.
Discussion (62) ¬
Hope you enjoy your trip. Nose ring aside, I am curious how he can talk with that many (and that size of) teeth jutting out of his mouth.
How can he talk? Carefully.
Linguist class.
Years of practice.
You think those are bad, the male trolls tusks are even worse!
http://www.mikebarrington.com/images/Boards/trollRef.jpg
I wonder if your tongue gets stuck to the ring in subzero temperatures.
Yeah, was going to mention that as a possible problem :P
Teeth are now the cool thing to get pierced.
I feel like that would make the teeth useless.
Forget the nose, can you imagine all the cold that those teeth rings are shooting straight to the inner nerves of those toofs?!
Must feel like someone is constantly whacking him in the grin with a tuning fork….
That… sounds painful… A lot… ^^;;
I have to say, as someone who has had to have 2 root canals, the tooth piercing made, and makes, me cringe in fear of pain.
Nice World of Warcraft cameo (with Grom Hellscream as 1st one, no less ^_^ )
Have a nice trip – till next year!
At least you didn’t show him licking the nipple ring which featured prominently in the promotional materials…
Don’t know who Grom is?
Well came a sit down by the fire while i spin you a tale.
Long ago, on this World called Draenor, there lived a bunch of Orc Tribes, the orcs having Brown, Grey, or Black Skin. The Various Tribes squabled and fought with each other and the other Residents of the world such as the Draenei and Ogres.
One Day, this one Orc named Gul’Dan made a deal with a Demon (A Pit Lord), in which the orcs would drink his blood (which Gul’Dan did, and it turned his skin green……..yes, the Orcs are green cause they drank demon blood. Also it gave the Orcs who drank it a savage blood lust.) Grommash Hellscream of the Warsong clan was the first to drink (other than Gul’Dan of course.), while it granted them great power, it also led them to be enslaved by Mannaroth, and in turn the Burning Legion (Think an army of Demons who go around conquering entire worlds.).
They made them build a Dark Portal, leading to a World called Azeroth, where they waged war with the Humans, High Elves, Dwarves, etc with their allies, the Ogres, the Goblins, The Forest Trolls, and the Death Night’s Ner’Zhul or Gul’Dan created (i forget which one did it, i think it was Ner’Zhul.)
The lost twice, and the orcs scattered, many being captured to serve in Internment camps.
Years later, Where the Demon’s corruption of their blood wanned, an Orc named Thrall, who was born a Slave in Human Captivity, escaped captivity (ironically helped by the daughter of his captor, whom he befriended.) and seeked out his clan, the Frostwolves, where he learned the ways of the Shaman and found the Warchief of the 2nd war, Doomhammer. I don’t know much about this part, but basically Thrall gathered up the orcs, became the Warchief and basically said “Screw this, let’s go find a new home.” which he did right after picking up Grommash whom his was friends with. They headed to the land that is now known as Durotar. On The Way there they saved and befriended a Tribe of Island Trolls called the Darkspear Tribe (The Leader whom died’s Son, Vol’Jin, is as of now the Current Warchief, the first none orc to hold the title.), whom come along because they are gonna all die if they stay on their island. They get to the new Continent and meet yet another race being brutally slaughtered, this time a Race of Cow Men, The Tauren. Just like the Darkspear, they are saved by Thrall’s Selfless actions and the Tauren join the New Horde as the the Darkspear did.
Grommash by this point buggered off somewhere else for reasons i can’t remember, somehow he’s in a forest with a bunch of Purple Elves called the Kal’dorei, or Night Elves. The Night Elves get really freaking made he’s cutting up their trees so they sick a literal demi god Centaur thing, they are losing. But oh look, Mannaroth just happened to leave a nice spring filled with his blood there for them to get roided up and live. They do so out of Desperation, now having red skin and glowing eyes, cause you know, that’s what happens when you drink demon blood. They proceed to kill the demigod and Purple Hippies using their Demon Blood steroid powers. Oh but Mannaroth now reclaims the Warsong Clan as his personal army, Oops. The Humans, led by a Sorceress named Jaina Proudmore, goes to Durotar and meets with Thrall, they encounter Grom and the Corrupted Warsong Orcs, they work together to Capture and free Grom from their control.
Then………then a Showdown happens, Thrall and Grom go out alone to face Mannaroth, Thrall is knocked out, Grom is wounded, but managed to sink his Axe Gorehowl into Mannaroth’s Head, killing him…….and makes Mannaroth Explode, which heavily wounds Grom.
Grom’s Lays dying. “The Blood Haze is lifting……i have Freed….Myself.” he dies. Thrall Says. “No Brother………you have freed us all.” Cue Thrall roaring in sorrow and younger me……..and present me balling my eyes out.
Other stuff happens, Wars happens, Thrall gives title of Warchief to Grom’s son Garrosh while he goes helps the other shaman of the world fight Death Wing and fix the World, Garrosh proceeds to go crazy, antagonizing the various other races of the Horde (Trolls, Tauren, Forsaken (Sapient zombies.), Blood Elves (High Elves under another name……..yup, the very people they fought in 2 wars prior joined them. IRONY!), and the Bilgewater Cartel of Goblins (The other Goblins are neutral cause it’s more profitable.). Vol’jin and Other Horde Leaders incite Rebellion, Alliance and Horde Rebels team up to take down Garrosh, they succeed, he is arrested by the Shado-Pan (Think The Night’s Watch from Game of Thrones…….only they are Panda men.), Bronze Dragons (Who have power of time.) do…..something with him, i forget what, he goes BACK IN TIME back to before the orcs first drank the blood, convinced Grom to NOT drink the blood. And he doesn’t, they Ensalve Gul’Dan (not for long sadly.), Kill Mannaroth immediately (Garrosh saving Grom from the Explosion.) and gives Grom the blueprints and tech to create an uber army of Orcs.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnd that’s where the trailers you saw come in.
The End.
……….also this if you feel like readin something that isn’t reliant on the poor memory of me.
http://wow.gamepedia.com/Grom
http://wow.gamepedia.com/Grommash_Hellscream_%28Warlords_of_Draenor%29
Your name is fitting.
The orcs actually won the first war, which was solely against the kingdom of Azeroth. The human survivors fled to Lordaeron, and their tales of the orcs are what led to the elves and dwarves getting involved. Which led to the orcs gaining ogre, troll, and goblin allies.
According to the WC2 manual, the original death knights were slain human knights that Gul’dan raised and imbued with the souls of his Shadow Council warlocks. They later became the WC3 liches, after being transformed by Kil’Jaeden. The WC3 death knights are paladins who were corrupted by the Lich King, aka Ner’zhul. WoW further changed it by making them into just corrupted warriors of any kind.
Anyway, like most Blizzard games, Warcraft is full of retcons and it’s practically impossible to get a solid story out of the game. Especially since every major content patch for WoW introduces even more retcons.
Does it ever get to a point that you risk going full Christmas Story and getting your tongue stuck to the ring?
Is there a reason you can’t take the ring off?
He’s a rockstar orc!
i wonder if growing a bushy moustache would help….. or, this begs an invention of mohair nose ring covers, or something fuzzy and non-ticklish!
I don’t really see Val Kilmer in the orc illustration. Then again, when I look at the D&D 3.5 manual illustration of half-orcs, I’m fairly certain that they were intentionally modeled after Stephen King, so, uh, anyway.
He makes me think of Mad Morrigan in Willow whenever I look at him.
Think you mean Madmartigan…
Probably, I was like nine the last time I saw Willow. I just know I typed that name into google to see if it was right and a picture of the character I was looking for came up so I figured it was all copacetic.
Couldn’tcha just keep yer scarf over yer nose? Or get one of them hoods that sit over your nose.
I think the scarf would entangle with his teeth *ew*
You think that’s bad, imagine what happens when he gets a runny nose from pollen or something.
This happens with multiple ear piercings as well..except for the licking it to attempt warmth thing.
The new WoW expansion is horribly hilarious for many reasons. For one, every time a rescued Draenei doesn’t keel over and die for no reason immediately (not an exaggeration), I tell the guild I’m reporting it as a glitch, because draenei, despite being larger than orcs and having multiple allies, just don’t seem to survive.
THIS is why your Garrison in the Frostfire Ridge is safe from Grommash Hellscream.
More importantly– Holy shit you make it sound like you cover your nose with your tongue like a blanket!
Someone who can lick their own nose usually gets pretty popular with the ladies…
I’m actually curious as to the name of the mountain you’ll be going to, myself…
*Wide shot of Squid atop a mountain*
*Caption: UP A GOD DAMN MOUNTAIN*
Good enough for me.
I FUCKING LOVE YOU for referencing Transmetropolitan.
I love you so much.
Little disappointed this isn’t Garrosh in a scarf and tuque. I think he’d look adorable. :3
… I don’t think anyone’s going to care, but here’s a summary of the lore of Warcraft for people who don’t have time to read books or burn themselves out on games they don’t want to give a nick about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ__nRnO2mE
… I’ll just hide under my desk now. I shame the honorable manliness in this room.
Think that’s bad? His son wore demon tusks as shoulder armour
It looked more ridiculous than it sounds
Garrosh always looked like an old TMNT villain to me.
Just give him a lame name like General Tusk, or Rampage or something…
Think I’ll go recolor him on Deviant Art. “Original TMNT character, do not steal.”
link it when your done.
I have a similar problem with my nose ring. I find that when it gets cold and I exhale, the moisture in my breath condenses on the ring. Looks like I have a runny nose, but it’s just water.
And then it drip into my moustache…
“A nose in need deserves Puffs indeed.”
Also, here we have the bishy orc at it’s fullest potential, the Val Kilmer Bishy Orc.
(For those wondering about my sanity, refer to here: and find Trieste08 in the discussion.)
And it looks like I have to relearn how to use HTML tags again.
He has nipple rings too, but I guess the skin around them just went completely numb before it was worth complaining about. XD
ORK LIKE NOSE. PUT RING ON IT.
Really love the coloring here. It feels wintery.
Why don’t you… take the ring out when you leave? Then put it back in when you get back inside?
For cold and icy weather, I usually bunch up my top lip so it makes a little bowl, so when I breath out through my nose, the warm air comes back up and warms my septum ring.
You know, we haven’t seen these guys go on a job in a while. Why don’t we send… (Kratos? No, he’d make it too easy… Canada Guy? NVM, forget I brought him up… Jared? Nope, Mr. Fish wouldn’t even fit in the back hallways, let alone the office…), eh someone will turn up, and will be available for the night watchman job at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria.
Well, there’s always Duke Nukem. Or maybe Robocop? Oh oh oh, Marv would probably do the job well!! Wait Sten!!! It had to be Sten!!! “Why are there no cookies here? I was promised free cookies.”
Sten at Freddy’s………also can we delve into the backstory a bit with it? With Sten investigating as the night go on.
As someone with a 6-gauge septum ring, I can answer “Y U NO just take the fugging ring out when you leave the house, if it’s that cold out?”
The ring that Giant Val Kilmer Orc Man has appears to have is a “segment ring”, a style of captive bead ring where instead of the C shape of the ring “pinching” a bead (i.e. “captive bead”), the C shape pinches another tiny C shape, creating a contiguous near-seamless nose ring. You can see a picture here: http://www.bodyartforms.com/productdetails.asp?jewelry=captive&pagenumber=2&ProductID=14940&index=21
They’re great rings because they’re basically permanent jewelry – you don’t have to worry about anything coming loose and falling out, but they have to be put in and removed by a piercing professional with a pair of ring-closing pliers. Trying to put in or remove a segment ring by yourself, even in the middle of your own face, is a huge pain in the ass. This gets exponentially harder each time you go up a size.
In the winter, though, I just wear a small spacer or easily-swappable pincer styles. Because BRRRR.
Been waiting for a WoW-related one for some time :o Didn’t expect Grom though :D
Couldn’t you just put a warmth enchantment on the ring? Like a really weak fire rune?
Don’t have a nose ring, but my winter problem is when it’s really cold out, the condensation from breathing makes my mustache wet so I end up trying to suck the cold off of the ends of it like a weirdo. :/
I’ve had a nose ring for years, 10g (or 3.2mm for us Europeans). In Finland. Needless to say, it’s been cold up here, but I’ve never had issues with my ring getting too cold. You just get used to it, I haven’t even really noticed the whole thing for years, even in -20°C! Just bear with it, it’ll be fine.
I’ve actually had the opposite problem: Sometimes it kinda heats up in the sauna, but thats easy to manage by cooling it down with some water every once in a while.
Someone mentioned bishonen orcs, so I must post this: http://fromdraenor.com/comic/squeaky-green/
what have they done………
For some reason, I reeeally want to see Coelasquid licking her own nose. I can’t picture it, and that makes me super curious.
I feel weird about this.