Children are apparently something you can have around Kratos. Sometimes.
June 20, 2016
8:57 am
People have been asking me to draw Dad of War and it’s father’s day so here you go. my little bro and I laughed at the “Don’t be sorry, be better” line because it’s EXACTLY the kind of thing our dad would say to us. See also, “Don’t be sorry, just don’t do it.” or “You’re going to be sorry, but I don’t want you to be sorry, I want you to not do that.”
That’s good parenting! We’ve seen the way he’s handled other family disputes lol. Full circle from the Best Buy incident :)
I’m legitimately more invested in MGDMT Kratos’s character arc than Regular Kratos’s.
Considering Kratos here is copied, both in appearance and temperament, from the latest God of War trailer, you might be surprised.
its more about seeing being putted in mundane situations
I’m not sure what golf has to do with this but okay
Golf with God of War is a great game
Golf of War.
Played passionately by Highlanders of Scotland!
God of Golf.
Come on, it was THAT easy.
More like God of FORE
Don’t forget about Rod of War: Kratos Extreme Bass Fishing.
Rod of War is also the name of several erotic parodies.
Didn’t they already make that game? Kratos was playable in one of the Hot Shots games.
I’m just waiting to see if the final product makes a bubble tea joke somehow.
I can dig that. I’m in the same boat with MGDMT’s Ganondorf narrative than actual Zelda games.
I’m not sure how I feel about Kratos being a father. Watching the demo, I Kelly waiting for the kid to get killed so Kratos could be all angry and whatnot. Honestly, when the game comes out and I watch a play through on YouTube (because I don’t have a ps4) I’m still going to be waiting for something to kill the kid, because I’m pretty sure that’s going to happen
I meant kept waiting, not Kelly. Fucking auto correct.
No offense, but what the hell did you type in that it auto-corrected it to Kelly when you were going for waiting? Just curios .
‘waiting’ came out right. It was ‘kept’ that autocorrected to Kelly.
Waiting is still there. It was kept>kelly, not waiting>kelly.
Some fans are speculating the kid becomes the god of war and Kratos helps him do that. Like a father and son bonding adventure coming of age story only with killing dragons and trolls. That honestly sounds pretty badass to me and better characterization for Kratos than the infinite bloodrage of the last few games.
I suspect Kratos is going to become Odin, the Norse God of War, and the little boy is a young Thor. Notice he has lightning powers when he shoots his bow.
Tyr is the Norse god of war
Being fair, like half of the Norse gods have War in their portfolio.
Practically all Norsr gods are war gods, and then something else specifically. I believe Tyr is the god of justice, law, that kind of thing.
Depends on the source apparently. The sources I found specified Odin as the God of War, and a friend of mine who is way more knowledgeable about Norse stuff said that he was considered like a “General” when it came to War. Yes some sources list Tyr, but others list Odin. And considering how much he LOOKS like Odin (minus the missing eye at this point in the story), and the red headed kid, with an affinity for lightning bolts, I think it’s a decent chance they’re going down that route. It will be a site better than “And then Kratos killed the Norse Pantheon too” plot that many people think will happen.
Nahh, the creator of the series had a son between GOW3 and this. I think this is going to really be Kratos’s sons story as Kratos guides him into being the man Kratos wasn’t.
First thing they should do is figure out how many bastards Kratos made along the way so the boy can avoid having flings with his half sisters….assuming he considers that a taboo thing at all, hard to tell with this culture.
The Greeks did have a certain story about accidental incest, and it seemed to hit Oedipus pretty hard…
rofl
Ah, but gods have different codes of behavior. Remember, Zeus and Hera were brother and sister and that didn’t prevent them from sleeping together and having children. It wasn’t considered to be incestuous merely a way to preserve the divine bloodline. Screwing around with mortals and siring demigods and demigoddesses came later. Zeus slept around with so many people that his bloodline got seriously twisted; he happened to be father, great-great-grandfather and great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather to Hercules. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaphus to trace this tortuous family tree.)
Honestly, I’m expecting the opposite. I have a feeling this is going to be the last we see of Kratos, and this game is a way to hand off the torch, kind of like what happened in,
*Spoiler*
The Witcher 3.
I now feel like this father and child hunting trip is something Kratos and Commander have wanted to do together for years.
Is that dadspeak for “GIT GUD SKRUB”?
More or less.
Sweet lightning, you just made my night. I didn’t see that coming at all.
Every time I say things like that to people they for some reason end up thinking that either I’m being rude or giving them a license to screw up and never learn anything through their experience. What gives.
Probably because this is a dad line. If you’re not their father, then it doesnt work.
Yeah, it’s the kind of thing you say to a social inferior (like a subordinate, a child, a student) not a random stranger. The phrasing assumes an inherent authority over the listener, which is rude if you don’t have such authority.
You guys are making so much sense I should be ashamed. Alright, no more dispensing (possibly?) life changing wisdom without first making sure I have real, we-look-up-to-you authority. Next step.. find some inferior folk..
If the guy your trying to give advice to isnt yout subordinate, then instead of giving him the ‘be better’ line, make him feel really guilty about it. Milk that guilt, it shall be his teacher.
Your dad was way patient and understanding. My dad said he’d make me feel sorry.
I tell my sister this all the time but then she seems to think saying sorry will fix everything without changing her behavior. I’m kind of glad Kratos and the Commander both don’t let their kids think that fixing things ends with saying sorry.
I don’t really know much about God of War, so I don’t know if he actually has a son, but I’m going to assume the mother was Leonidas.
I don’t normally make requests but you gotta do this one, Coelasquid.
Learning lessons for future parenting is so much fun!
I want to see the awkward conversation between them regarding Kratos’ previous family.
“Say, Dad, how’d you get to be pale-white with a red stripe?”
“Oh, that’s because Eres is a DAMN F*CKING ASSHOLE, MOTHER******“— /connection lost/
Oops, I meant Ares.
IDK I like Eres being the one he’s mad at.
Hm. I dunno who that is, to my shame, but Eren Jaeger probably has enough issues to qualify for the agency… though I dunno if he’d count as ‘ridiculously macho.’
I’m fairly certain Ares/Eres are the gods of War and Chaos respectively.
Also, Eren definitely does *not* qualify as macho. His sister is more macho than he is. Levi might be able to fit in, and so can Commander Erwin. Except Erwin is pretty well socially adjusted already. So Levi would probably be the only male character that would belong in the agency.
Don’t know, Erwin is high functioning but he’s still pretty messed up. It kind of comes with the territory of his actions y’know.
Actually, why hasn’t anyone mentioend Reiner? He’s literally messed up macho personified and as a bonus he’s modeled on Brock Lesnar.
He’s certainly macho. He’s just that rare type of macho that lacks serious muscles.
Just have him go Titan, he will have all the Macho he needs then.
Eres is a greek word for ‘Couch’….
Its similar to Eris, though, goddess of rainbows.
Chaos is the domain of….well…Kaos. From whom all things were born originally.
Minor correction.
Eris was the Greek Goddess of Chaos and Dischord, also the mother of several maledictions (Hardship, Starvation and so many more). She was the one who used a Golden Apple in a party that eventually caused the Trojan War to happen. Also the mother figure and source of the original snub for us Discordians.
Now Iris was the Goddess of Rainbows and a messenger for the Gods.
Given the fruit of his loins is giving him troubles, perhaps it’s Eros he’s cursing.
Who is the orange hair kid? He looks like he’s supposed to be someone but I don’t know God of War lore.
Kratos has a son in the newest game. Which was just announced.
Thanks.
Well. Can’t get used to his new beard. Looks too friendly. ^^
That’s the “Git Gud” of parenting, in a good way.
Seems to me Kratos has expanded his job description from “god of war” to “god of civil* war”.
*or polite war.
Ha! Civil wars are anything but polite XD.
What I’m getting outta all this is that kratos just need to grow a beard. The wisdom is in the whiskers…
Still not sure if the kid is Kratos’ actual son or he just came upon the kid’s mom a few years ago after she had him and stuck around. He’s doing dad things and the kid kept calling him father, but I can’t tell if Krato’s is simply trying to be a not-dad but still fatherly role model or if his past of directly or indirectly being the cause of death of everybody he knows is making him keep his distance so to speak.
I’ve only seen the demo and haven’t really looked into it at all. Other than the comics here I haven’t paid attention to anything God of War since I finished 3.
All the press Santa Monica’s released is referring to him as Kratos’ son, so even if he is Stepdad Kratos it’s still copacetic to refer to him as the kid’s dad.
The only adventurer I can think of that might have more bastards then Kratos is James Bond.
Lol you forget Genghis Khan. Oh you meant fantasy examples….
The witcher
Actually witchers are steril, part of the trial of grasses. All the crazy magic steroids they put into their bodies has to have some negative side effects.
It could also be Kratos’ attempts to try to be a better father and man than he was in the past that’s hampering him. We saw him start to revert back to “rage mode” as he started to yell at his kid at one point but then caught himself and toned down to a stern voice. There is also the part near the end where he starts to reach out but hesitantly stops as if he doesn’t know HOW to follow through on the impulse. (This is something that I myself have problems with.)
I guess I’m saying that he wants to be a better person but his past didn’t quite give him the skillset to do so in a non-fumbling manner.
Indeed.
That is the most reproachful looking deer/moose thing ever.
I’m just waiting for Kratos to regale his son with stories from his homeland.
“Son, I ever tell you about the time I grew 200 feet tall and punched a God in the face?”
How is it the beard is making him so mellow? Also it looks like June-bug has grown up. Cool!
This doesn’t seem like the Kratos I know.
it would have been a case of
“two hunters shot the same prey”
if kratos used arrows.
I can’t help but think Kratos would at the very least backhand his kid for that. Nothing against Kratos or anything, but he does seem to have some anger issues.
It’s a situation that happens in the actual gameplay trailer and all he says is “Don’t be sorry, be better.” so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mean, it is worth considering that Kratos is never really portrayed as being unkind to children. I mean, yeah, in real life a guy with that temper is pretty dangerous around kids (and I’ve certainly pointed that out myself) but in practice in the games he’s pretty patient with kids.
He’s either gonna be hella awesome and become a better dude because of his son, or he’s gonna kill his family in a blind rage just like Hercules and have to get revenge or redeem himself or some shit. >:|
Santa Monica Studios has talked about how the kid is integrated into gameplay and assigned to a button on the controller, so evidence suggests they don’t plan on basing the plot around killing him off.
Unless his corpse is one or all of Kratos’ weapons.
“Tap Square to swing Kratos Jr.’s carcass in an arc to strike the enemies in front of you.”
“Tap Square twice while holding the analog stick to follow up the initial Son Swing with a Boymerang Toss.”
“Hold Square to use the remains of your beloved semi-divine child as a shield.”
He’s already done the ‘blind rage family kill’. That’s how he became the ‘ghost of sparta’, remember
Is the tape supposed to for carrying the deer or to patch up the arrow wound? Also is Kratos just carrying it alive or did they kill it between panels?
No idea on the tape but in panel #2 there is a “krk” sound fx that I believe implies Kratos broke the animals neck.
The duct tape is probably for the arrow wound. It’s either that or gunpowder for a guy like Kratos.
So awesomesauce.
A lot of people seem to think that Kratos Jr. is going to die but I just don’t buy it. Would be too much of a rehash of the first game and Kratos’ motivation. I think the better bet is that the kid will get kidnapped by a god (perhaps Loki who either frames the other gods for it or wants to use the kid to start Ragnarok) and it will be about Kratos seeking out his son.
Why would a God of War game contain Loki? Or any of the Norse gods? As far as I know there’s not been any indication that any deities besides the Greek pantheon exist in Kratos’ universe.
The gameplay feature shown has them in Scandinavia, where Kratos fights Draugr and a Troll (who screams gibberish at him including the word “Valhalla”) and at the end you can see Jormungandr in the background as Kratos & Son look onwards to a new beginning.
Because the game trailer stars a troll that’s screaming about Valhalla, there’s draugr, and a lot of runes are in the interface.
I mean, you have basically slaughtered the entire Greek pantheon already, so unless Kratos felt like punching corpses, there wasn’t much left to do in Greece.
Bowing out, as her dad hands him the bandages.
I legit say this to my son ALL the time. “Don’t be sorry, don’t do it.”
Dad of War: “Your words and actions are a constant disappointment to me, son”
You couldn’t tell from the footage released, but the new God of War won’t have a health bar, or UI at all, just a disappointment meter. Which makes your son your greatest enemy. Sony revolutionates the industry again!
That arrow looks like it’s right in the heart, how is Kratos still alive???? Also after seeing Reaper in the last comic, I realised that both War and Death (from Darksiders) would be perfect for the agency, especially with their own franchise on indefinite hiatus
Heart’s are typically lower down, either below or inline with the nipple (also closer to the centre of the chest)
On top of that, people are remarkably resistant to being stabbed. The average person has a 1 in 3 chance of being unharmed by a stab wound directly to the heart if they get prompt medical attention. Kratos is anything but average.
What is Rocky holding in the last panel? o_O
Bandages.
Wait, what if you want to hit people with arrows? Should you still apologise if you hit them? Or do you apologise only if you miss?
I’d say, if you willingly shoot an arrow at someone, and miss, then probably being sorry about it isn’t high on your worries list. Avoiding retaliation seems like top priority, I think.
Personally, don’t like using the ‘s’ word, far too often people use it when they don’t mean it that it has lost its meaning (also never make promises, specially to children or idiots, so many things can happen to cause you to not be able to fulfil the promise but the child or idiot never understands that and blames you, like it’s your fault the forest burnt down preventing the long awaited {for two weeks} camping trip they weren’t that interested in in the first place once they found out there is no power plugs to connect their TV to)
You know, mayhap if big K were wearing hunter orange, these things might not happen.
He’s wearing bright red swirls like a bull’s-eye target; how could he be any more conspicu…oh. XD
I read it like 5 times (cos I like coming back and looking at the things and reading the comments) before I realised that was Rock and Junebug. (obviously I’m tags-illiterate)
THEY AREN’T IN THE TAGS I’m just slow, not illiterate
I think they’re a bit too obvious to be in the tags, lol.
There’s only one Junebug that looks like Junebug.
I always hated getting this sort of thing. “If you aren’t going to do it right, don’t bother doing it at all!”
It’s more “Learn to do it correctly” than “don’t even bother”
Not with my dad!
When I saw the video I was super stoked. I can’t wait for the game.
You can’t tell how glad I am you opted to use it for this week’s installment.
“Your deer is getting away.” lol
I look forward to Kratos’ evolution in both the game and in the comic.
Would that mean that in CB’s office there is a single fathers support group?
I personally get the feeling from the trailer that this is gonna take place with Norse Gods rather than Greek Gods this time around, mainly because I heard that creature they killed, think they said it was a troll, mention something that sounded strangely like Valhalla. I am guessing since Kratos killed all the Greek Pantheon they needed to give him a new one to murder.
I had a supervisor who used the variation: “Don’t be sorry, JUST. LEARN.”
The real show-stealer of this comic is the elk though. It looks so mad. “Man, this is some bullshit.“
It’s an elk, wouldn’t it be more Likely to say, “man, this is some elkshit.”?
No, I don’t think it would cuss with its own species name, if ot doesnt say bullshit it woule likely say humanshit. or some such.
Oh man, Kratos-dad had an extreme makeover. I wonder if Leonidas made a change in him for the better.
THANK YOU SQUID!
Kratos…beard. KRATOS BEARD! O.o Looks good on him.
Am I the only one who thinks they’re making Kratos Odin?
(GEEZ caught up in like 3 days wow)
Can’t say I’ve had this kind of dad experience, but my younger brother did accidentally shoot my older brother right above his eye. Can’t remember whose fault that was, but we stopped archery soon after :’D
Anyway, sorry to hear about your accident D: I hope you’re doing a lot better now! Your art still looks good, but you mentioned earlier that it still hurt a lot.
Looking forward to following this! Been a fun ride so far ^^
hmmm… think now there would be a spartan beard competition with kratos’brother?
Hi Kelly, I thought you would get a kick out of this, I know I cant stop laughing. XD
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClpPUVRWQAARHq3.jpg:large
i just recently saw the trailer for this, and i couldn’t believe that he actually had a beard in it. I laughed my ass off because of it
So will this Kratos be the new standard Kratos used for future comics?
Who else remembers macho man Randy savage
Bearded Dad Kratos AND Bearded Dad Commander?
I’ll be in my bunk….for several days.
Water down your feminist goat monster? What?
…. Would anyone else like to see Doomguy working at a pet store as part of HIS therapy?
I somhow kept reading “If you don’t hit people with arrows then you don’t need to worry about being SHOT”. Whitch summarises abot everything popular media taught me about american parenting.
I can’t get over Dadtos. He’s the best dad ever.