This would have been more topical three months ago
August 23, 2010
12:00 am
Upon watching the recent Prince of Persia movie and questioning their repeated use of a font that normally doesn’t see the light outside of high school Powerpoint presentations, I was informed by one of my coworkers that papyrus was in fact the official font of the Middle East and it was terribly racist of me to question their inherent right to apply it to everything.
I believe another Grand Rewind is in order. Or perhaps the Mask of the Wraith could give him another chance?
i totally got that reference. warrior within was kick-ass awesome
Sadly there won’t be another PoP game as good as Sands Of Time.
Also I dig his face in panel 4.
But… there are only three panels….
What do you have against the 4th panel!? Damned racist!
When will the anti-quadrupanelism feelings end, man?
Really. People just have no respect or understanding for the culture of tetrapanels.
lol I love randomness! XD
CONTINUE THE RANDOM AT ONCE!!!
The gun mounted on the Commander’s wall is so awesome it counts as a panel by itself…?
Exactly!
Thats not true, and makes no sencese, the 4th panel is the promised panel that the tetrapanelist are looking since the dawn of humankind
The 4th panel is the whole page.
Nay, these comments are the fourth panel.
Maybe the fourth panel was the friends we made along the way?
the top panel’s so awesome it takes the place of 1 AND 2 so that the other two can be 3 & 4; thus preserving quadra-panel-ity
theres 8 panals
There is no panel.
Morpheus reference noted.
The red panel or the blue panel?
There…are…FOUR LIGHTS!
That…made me laugh so hard. Thank you. Thank you thank you.
This is in fact VERY topical for me. I work at a 2nd run movie theater, and we are just now showing PoP this week. I got a good lol out of this, nice work this week!
Is he ever happy?
Who? The Prince or Commander?
Yes.
Does Kratos only use Herculanum?
If he wrote them himself he’d probably use Lithos Pro, but I image he finds a typist somewhere whose face he can smash against a computer screen until he writes it for him.
Makes me flashback to the time someone advised me to change my resume website from the Pokemon-style yellow background + blue font I had been using.
(Is it my fault my first website was in fact a Pokemon one? I mean, blue on yellow stands out!)
Dude, resume website need to be formal, clean and easy to look at, make a separate website for hobbies and fun
but i like papyrus :[
So…font is a racial thing now, too? Does that mean I’ll be part middle eastern if I start using papyrus as my font of choice for everything?
That’s their font you can’t use that.
Pfft, tell that to the fanfic I wrote for my 6th grade English class.
you’re lucky to be alive, Kat.
I know. I thought I was so cool back then. I’m lucky the teacher didn’t kill my ass.
I love how the commander has a gun mounted on a plaque.
I MUST KNOW WHY.
He’s an action hero. He probably has them mounted on the plaque on his teeth for chrissakes.
pretty sure he fished it himself.
Or shot it while on safari or exploring the Australian outback.
Yeah, we have this problem here in Australia with wild guns. From what i hear he cleared them out, so they’re not a pest anymore.
That’s a fine specimen he has on his wall.
I think I saw that on channel seven news!
Ghat damn, for such a poisonous continent things sure to seem to thrive and take over when they’re introduced to Australia.
It’s a Chekhov’s Gun; the Prince will come back, demanding that he get’s accepted, whilst trying to kill the Commander (The prince isn’t really thinking strait). So the Commander takes the gun on the rack and mows him down.
I never really minded Papyrus. I am, like, practically font-blind anyway. For me it’s Arial, Times New Roman, ooorrr… something series of crazy little shapes I never use!
At least it wasn’t Comic Sans.
B-but I love Comic Sans. It’s a guilty pleasure. Like downloading old cartoons or liking Ke$ha.
My guilty pleasure is Comic-Sans… i cant help it, i never grew up XD
Though i do NOT like Ke$ha >.>
Hehehe, i always get excited on a monday. My husband asks me every monday if i have seen “it” yet, then he gets a slap for calling the comic “it”
amen. I would rather decipher Wingdings than read Comic Sans.
Really? I always thought that Papyrus was the font of gritty gravely voices or dangerous urgent tones. At least that’s what I always use it for.
…You see Papyrus as gritty and gravely? O_o
Well I suppose that’s a very unique way of looking at it.
I thought it worked out pretty nicely! …I mean it’s the fact that the edges are all worn and jagged and stuff…
It certainly looks nice, though I’d say it’s more of a Zen/Asian type feeling than anything at least in my opinion..
Jake Sully also has this problem.
I was wondering if someone was going to make a reference to that.
Why does an all-American hero like Commander have a Kalashnikov on his wall? Is that a trophy?
No. He hung it there to look pretty.
You’d think he would be more partial to an M16 or an M14 or something.
Maybe it’s a war trophy?
Actually, Russians have always been allies to the Americans. They just don’t teach that in schools anymore, because the Commander would personally track and obliterate every teacher that dared mention that as a footnote. It’s in his daily chores list, you know?
Forgetting the Cold War?
No, no. Soviet Russia was allied with the US arms industry to provide them with a steady income.
>heckno.jpg
the m16 is a weakling gun, accurate sure, but 2-3 well placed shots is not as manly as a 20 round burst from an ak where only 4 hit the actual target
and another thing, the m16 jams, and theres nothing manly about a jam
also, the AK has a wooden stock, good for bashing heads with
the m16 composite, collapsible stock couldnt handle the stress from the commanders mighty blows
So, whose font is Comic Sans? I need to know for B-52-related reasons.
And, of course, your amazing work on expressions sells this one. You have such a beautiful balance between realism and cartoonish exaggerations. Kind of hits the spot where reality overlaps with hyper-reality, if I may be so pretentious.
America. Comic-Sans is the official font of America.
Maaaybe she was pulling your leg. Someone who draws wrestler bears must have a sense of humour.
That last panel is just you with a beard and darker skin.
Still lol at it.
I’m not sure how you would know that… It’s a little disconcerting.
I think he was more referring to the incredible scowl on his face. Considering the majority of your characters seem to have scowls, perhaps you do as well!
Also I realise this comment is from 2 years ago. :P
ahaha nice one, the poster on the left one the first panel, was that Theodore Roosevelt?
Papyrus is considered one of the most over used fonts today. My friends and I joke about its (mis)use it all the time.
“As has been the case with Comic Sans, Papyrus is often criticized by graphic designers and others for being overused or used incorrectly in various media. Interviewed in 2007, the typeface’s creator, Chris Costello, agreed that Papyrus had become overused.” Source.
There a lot of “Top Ten Most Overused Font” lists and Papyrus is almost always on it. Also that Avatar movie apparently used a slightly altered version of it.
So I can’t believe you have only seen it in high school Powerpoint presentations but if that is the case you are the luckiest person ever. I hate that font, I wish I could stab it.
Really? Then Avatar the last airbender (the SERIES, eff the movie!) did too because they were the first to use it. :P (It’s the exact same font too. The dicks.)
Click on the link, he was talking about the movie “Avatar.” Blue aliens? Pandora? No airbenders.
I know this is old but I didn’t know anyone replied. Fact of the matter is, Avatar (the Alien-Pocahontas rip off) used the exact same font as Avatar: The Last Air Bender (Both movie and series.)
RACIST!
I’d think the fact that they cast a white guy to play the prince in the PoP movie would be a lot more racist that a stupid font.
Stupid racecard, speaks more of the person using it than the person it’s used on.
Hate to say it, but Persians are/were “white”. Now, if you mean by “white” some American, yeah, it was almost as bad as the casting for the “Last Airbender” movie. Which was almost as bad as the writing for “TLA”. Which came in a distant second to the directing for “TLA”…
But your AK 47 is a manly weapon for manly foes. And, as people get a little snippy when you peg a stuffed Ivan or Charlie to your wall, it’s a decent enough stand in.
Hahahahaha, I love the expression in the last panel. Classic.
I echo the positive opinions reguarding this comic. Awesome!
Is that an AK-100 series rifle? Or just a black AK-47? I wouldn’t doupt it being a 100 series, what with the AK-107/108 being recoilless (assault rifles & no recoil seem like a combination for future weapons, to me anyways).
Real men love recoil.
I know it makes ME smile.
it a drawing of a gun dont get tecnical
for all we know it’s a CZ 858, REAL men use the derivative
Papyrus is the new Comic Sans…
Impact is the new Papyrus? :S
HELL YEAH WINGDINGS!
I’m a fan of Occidental.
Please tell me thats a photo of Teddy Roosevelt on The Commander’s wall…
It is indeed.
Hmm, official font of Middle East? So what is official font of Europe, America or just North America and South America or any other area? I’m bit sceptical they have gotten around choosing one font at official…
BTW AKs are cool atleast Sakos RKs are ;D
Aw, grumpy PoP kind of looks like Mr. Fish.
We should not be judged by our font, or how we dress. But by what we order when we got to a Subway. (I still don’t think he’d get the job.)
I would NEVER hire someone with a Papyrus font resume. I would, however, hit them in the face.
I just finished taking a typography class so I feel as though I can appreciate this particular comic a lot more than I would have originally. Awesome. :D
Also. <3 Teddy.
Papyrus is really over used; it’s one of the most popular fonts used for movies/tv (although there are cool things that used papyrus, like Serenity and the Crocodile Hunter).
Besides, he lacks the muscles. Why would he even attempt to apply there? Especially with that goatee
Nice too see some backrounds again. More impressive when you can see manly memorabilia hanging on the walls.
man.
papyrus and comic sans.
my mortal enemies.
There’s not much to say that hasn’t already been said. *shrug* Great expressions, as always, and I loled.
*lacks wit at this time of night/morning*
Yeah you’re a racist if you say anything bad about anything other people like, it has gotten really frustrating and ugly in here. You catch someone stealing from your store and you apprehend him/her, then you’re a racist… Riiiight… Has nothing to do with the fact that you idiot stole something. :D
Even more racist: the middle east probably uses Papyrus a lot less than we do on absolute terms considering THEY WRITE IN ARABIC…
Not if they’re Persian.
Lol fine Farsi
Love the AK on the wall. Little-Gamers reference?
As much as I liked the comic, the little blurb under it made me laugh even harder. The thought of an “official font” for a nation or whatever made me laugh until it hurt. Please ask your coworker who gets comic sans.
So, Brando and Roosevelt confirmed for the office’s wall, Connery as well perhaps?
Anyone else notice that the pic of Teddy Roosevelt morphs into a mounted gun?
…on second thought, that sounds kinda cool.
The poster is by the door, the gun is beside his desk, I’ve shown wide shots of the office before.
TR would morph into something with REAL stopping power, like a velociraptor-mounted 600 Nitro Express.
Win.
You had me at velociraptor-mounted
Am I the only person who noticed he has a cigarette in the first panel and a cigar in the last panel?
Oh the wacky antics
I think you’re mistaking a handle on the filing cabinet for a cigarette.
Are you somehow suggesting that a guy called COMMANDER BADASS isn’t man enough to smoke both a cigar and a cigarette at the same time?
-just made a comment like this below- Oh poo. I guess I should read before I comment.
It’s also the font of choice for shitty Italian restaurants.
I almost broke my husband’s thigh-bone when I realized they were using papyrus in PoP… in a comparably hideous shade to the low-budget font used for the Na’avi in Avatar. Isn’t it funny when studios pour millions into making a movie’s special effects, then throw a couple hundred to some pre-teen to throw up MS Word subtitles? So hilarious. We are trolled so hard.
ARRRRGHHHH pet peeve.
Is that Teddy Roosevelt?
Ha, caught the comments. Fabulous.
Oh ye God’s and Little fishes, you need Harry Dresden from the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher in this comic. it would make it acend into the online comic house of diety.
I’m going to imagine that in the future, you hunt guns. And this is why it is plaque’d.
Has anyone ever tried to say the word racist whilst biting their lip like that? It cannot be done.
You totally soudn like your just mumbling “mfsts* was all i heard XD
Yes, yes i tried it XD
But that assumes that he would be saying it in the offensively Amero-Centric English*, while the Prince would be ACTUALLY be hissing it in Farsi.
Of course, I have absolutely no Idea what “racist” is in farsi; for all I know, it could be “mfsts”…
*Four years was far too many to spend at a Liberal-Arts college for a thinkin’ man.
I am of the opinion that the official font of the United States is Copperplate Gothic Light. …. You know, the font DEATH speaks in!
so… did the Prince go on a fast since his last appearance, because in Forgotten Sands, he’s got a pretty good build on him.
Also, people whining about fonts makes me laugh for some reason
It’s Sands of Time Prince, because he was my favourite before they decided to take away everything that made him a fun, likeable person.
It’s dumb to get, like, completely up in arms about font, but when you see a big budget summer blockbuster that they’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars on you’d think that they’d spring for one of those graphic designers to do something a little more fancy than pick out one of the free “artsy” fonts that came with the computer. It’s like serving Quail with fois gras and truffles alongside Arbor Mist wine.
But I like Arbor Mist wine! D:
but it’s practically koolaid with cheap alcohol mixed in
while I understand the reason for the complaint, it is probably a beaureacratic decision from the beginning for font choices. It probably starts out with everyone reading the screenplay and then someone saying “so… we’re gonna need some subtitles here, what’s our budget for this movie going to be? Ok, umm we’re probably going to have to take in consideration for paying our actors, set design, special effects… all right it looks like we’re going to be shorthanded on creating a unique font for those subtitles, so here’s a cool one that we can use, and it’s free too”
uh, yeah, I seriously don’t think anyone with $200-$500 million to drop on a movie is going to be like HEY I THINK WE HAVE TO CUT SOME CORNERS ON THE FONT HERE…
Why is Coelasquid’s name no longer red?
(o.O)
I couldn’t tell you.
Your name is red if you enter a website. You can click the red name to be taken to the commenter’s website.
I thought it was Monday, so i checked for an update, and remembered it was Friday.
*sigh*
The grumpy face from the last panel look a bit like Kratos face
They’re both kind of Mediterranean?
Someone should collect all the angry faces throughout this comic, put them together, and sell it as a T-shirt.
The filing cabinet handle behind Commander’s hand in the first panel looked like he was holding a cigarette to me … I was like “Is he smoking a cigarette AND a cigar? …. of course he is.”
I can’t find any info online of Papyrus being the official font of the Middle East. I think your friend was joking.
Goodness me I hope this is sarcasm.
What do you white people have against papyrus fonts???
Fucking Papyrus…
Isn’t that an AK-47 on the wall?
yes it is.
For the longest time the explanation for this made no sense to me because my brain added the word “ancient” before Middle East (I read rather swiftly and my brain has been known to add and subtract words at random), and thus was confused because there were no real “fonts” before computers. Or at least typewriters.
I’m from the middle east and i never heard of that font >_> YOU RACIST
He’s got apoint though, using fancy fonts is one of those really common simple mistakes that people make on resumes. People think it makes their resume stand out but it just makes it harder to read and the reviewer just loses interest.
I just love this page! Haha! Especially funny if you’re a graphic designer, I suppose ;) Let’s just hope he won’t go for Comic Sans from now on… :P
Oh my gosh I just noticed that the “Racist” speech bubble was typed in Papyrus. Win. XD
Nyeheheh….
Frankly I’m surprised that there’s only one comment like this, heh.