He just doesn’t like talking about himself
November 22, 2010
12:00 am
Gotta say, this is strip is probably more relevant to the title of the comic than any other one I’ve drawn.
Forgive me if the Dinner Dress uniform doesn’t have the right embellishments, I don’t completely understand the significance of some of the different ranks yet.
OH YEAH! Before I forget, My bro Tish/WhiteTrashPalace just got her comic Modus Operandi up over at this link right here, so you best all be checkin’ it out because it is looking freaking sweet.
Discussion (281) ¬
Midnight bullfights are the best kind of bullfight.
Damn straight!
Especially with no capes…just wrestling…
Why else WOULD he invite Canadian Guy over? Why, ex-wife, why?!
That one is too obvious even if it’s not an exaggeration. Why ELSE would he invite Canadian Guy?
The goggles probably happened as it is, but I guess the reason was more like “but that’s my charm point! you don’t ask a guy to remove his tatto, scar or facial piercings to go to a wedding!”
He shaved off his side burns though.
. . . God, he looks weird without them in that panel.
He’s still got the five o’clock shadow, though. It would take several thousand whisker-sized tactical nuclear strikes to get rid of that.
So..Much..Chesthair!
Oh hey he did! I thought he looked different, but I just figured it was the tuxedo. …He looks younger without them.
That’s as much as he compromised, and yet his ex still wanted more.
That witch!
my mind substituted them in. lol
…and why were you not watching two shirtless beefcakes duke it out!?
Seems as though the commander and i both had a thing for redheads. they really are fine women, but can be on either side of the spectrum of harshness
I wonder what’ll happen when the eventual meetup between Aquaman and Canadian Guy is gonna happen.
Will it be… outrageous?
I’ll make the popcorn!
I’ll get the booze, and the sodas for all you under age miscreants.
I forgot one and the is a catapult that way it’s your neighbor’s problem.
We all have midnight bullfights our houses, come on it’s like man law.
If only he knew how to tell people to “deal with it” back then!
LOVE the sixth panel!!!!!
Lotta women dont appreciate the importance of a good middle of the night bull fighting.
…Much of Madeline’s complaints are similar to the complaints he has over Canadian Guy.
You know?!! Probably why he hates Canadian guy…aside from, you know, the accent and all. XD
Maybe she cheated on him with the canadian guy.
Hmm….he looks a lot like the Commander.
: O You may be onto something!
If you go back to the strip where canadian guy was introduced, Coela says in the comments something like “Apparently palette swapping the commander makes him a dead ringer for my father”-
and also they’re rivals, so it’s important that they look the same.
I, too, try to spark rivalries with people who look similar to me.
Is this who I think it is. If it’s you E, I love you.
that wasnt me but this is :p
I made the comment that Canadian Guy might be the Commander’s Ancestor, which was firmly denied.
Still my personal canon.
These are the bossest of mantorsos.
Ahahah, thanks, I figure Commander’s built pretty much like a fuzzy Brock Lesnar.
Brock isnt really that manly. he was out on injury for like 2 years. then got whooped.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with his physique.
Yup, some people just doesn’t match. Question is, what kind of girl would match the commander with his kind of lifestyle? I mean, seeing two men fight topless on the front yard is nothing wrong as long as you’ve got a video recording device at hand, but some other aspects of manliness are just childish. He could’ve brought the goggles in a man-purse or something.
Oh, but at least he showed restraint with the old shed. I know guys who would’ve tried using ‘sposives for that. Or if it’s a really rackety old thing, kick it until it falls and/or someone gets hurt.
Shed one is based on a true story of a friend trying to get rid of a crappy shed by burning it down. I think it fell over onto the nice shed they wanted to keep.
Haha! I didn’t know it, but I’m not surprised–I was totally thinking it was just the sort of thing my boyfriend would do.
(Thankfully, we don’t have a shed at the moment . . .)
There’s some other way to get rid of sheds?
None that I’ve found to be effective.
The only real ways to get rid of a shed are napalm, C-4, or an awesome midnight bullfight tournament style.
There’s also thermite. Beautiful, horrifyingly incendiary thermite.
That seems like the sort of problem that should have been foreseen and planned for. Such as by preparing long sticks to push on it and make sure it falls the other way.
You don’t “Plan for” a shed-burning. You “plan for” a midnight bullfight, but a shed-burning must come from the SOUL.
Turn in your guy card.
not me. i’d probably snap and it’d be bull-burgers for breakfast.
but if he puts the goggles in the purse how will he find the purse in the dark?
By the light of the burning shed?
Burning something away, as long as the fire can be controlled, is the quickest way to get rid of flammable junk.
Honestly, if the shed was crappy because the wood was crappy and couldn’t be re-used, burning it was the most practical thing to do.
Heh am i the only (only guy) who thinks that theres somthign building between The commander and …I forgot her name…
Well she invites him for coffee in like, the third strip, so I kinda think thats the point…
True but the lack of a blush or any sort of emotion on her face, aside from curiosity, suggests that it was just an innocent offer… But then again, I’m jealous of her so I could just be in denial. XD
Yanno, I can’t see it working for the Commander with anyone who blushes about coffee.
This. The kind of woman who can appreciate his need for midnight bullfights and topless lawn death-matches with Canada Guy isn’t going to blush over a little thing like coffee.
I was talking about Sarah’s facial expression, not CB’s.
so am I?
True enough but usually there’s some sort of reaction when one asks another on a date. All we got was some slight hesitation on her part but I don’t think these two are love birds or anything or that it’s leading up to that anytime soon.
Yeeah not everyone comes on shy when they’re asking people out.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I go red as a beetroot and find it difficult to form sentences when I’m asking someone out but I’ve heard that there are socially adept people out there, somewhere.
Bah. Most of them are scoundrels and scam artists.
Or whores/man-whores. XD
Well how couldn’t there be? The Commander’s adorable!
Why would any woman have a problem with a fight to the death with Canadian guy… especially a skins vs skins match ;)
The high iron content in Canadian guys blood would obviously kill the lawn! I gotta say i’m with her on this one.
She was hoping for a Turkish oil wrestling match and was disappointed?
I’m totally with the Commander on the shed thing.
Well I am not, do you know how much it hurts to be burned down.
Having been there myself (after being torn to pieces), I fully agree with you.
You earned it.
Whhhyyy?
Companion Cube didn’t.
I killed you because you made me kill my friend, and because YOU LIED ABOUT THE CAKE! Had to make it myself and it was tasty. http://media.photobucket.com/image/portal%20cake/Cletusfromcanuckistan/cake.jpg?o=161
Sucks to be you!
You ungrateful child, I gave birth to you and you just let him throw me away!
Hey, think about me! I wasn’t even meant to be burned down, but that fire got pretty close. I got really nervous!
Try having to carry a GIANT FREAKIN FIREBALL ON YOUR BACK!
Can I have a piggi-back ride?
Best thread of comments ever on this entire website. To whoever posted this, bravo!
Without his mutton chops, Commander looks like a different dude altogether!
…someone please agree with me that he looks like damon baird (gears of war) except with red goggles. 0__.
As much as Damon Baird looks like Cid Highwind and Simon Belmont and Jack Cayman and a pile of other characters I’ve never heard of that people always compare him to.
He looks like a lot of guys, he’s just a pile of action hero stereotypes. And stereotypes exist for a reason…
NOOO you completely ripped off macho character with whom I am most personally familiar with, you hack!
:C i didn’t say coela was a hack, she writes one of my favorite webcomics. i now feel sad.
at any rate, i’d love to see the commander as simon belmont. google image search pulls up a big macho guy with long, flowing red tresses. i imagine that if the commander had had a third son who inherited his mother’s red hair, that would be simon.
Oldschool Simon Belmont VS New Simon Belmont VS Captain N Simon Belmont are very different designs.
…does…does that last one even qualify? the first two seem to evolve understandably, the last one just kind of blinds me a little.
interestingly enough, i’ve never really had a concept of “what looks macho.” i think i probably failed to recognize quite a few of those. missing teeth = creepy inbred hillbilly, broken nose = dumbledore, sideburns = weird old historical figures with those huge beard-minus-the-goatee things. that, and baird is probably the least (or next to least) macho character in that series.
but i do see your point, and i’m seriously sorry if you thought i was thinking “oh noes, coela snatched this design!” :C i swear that the commander’s sideburnless face just clicked and i was like “ooh, i like this character too :D”
Missing teeth and broken noses both from brawling. There’s a difference between “inbred hick doesn’t know how to dental hygiene” missing teeth and “seasoned barfighter” missing teeth. Sideburns are one of the most stereotypically macho things going, there was even a whole Spongebob skit where they put on sideburns to instantly increase their manliness. And since I know nothing about gears of war I can’t attest to Baird’s personality, but his aesthetic is undoubtedly designed out of a pile of stereotypes.
I’m reminded of Red Dwarf, when they’re talking about ‘Ace’ Rimmer versus regular old Arnold; same features on the same face just arranged differently so that they looked…good, and manly. There’s probably another Commander doppleganger out there (British Guy, maybe) who would be a pallete swap for the Commander but the result isn’t Canadian Guy, it’s…Jared :-O
On that thought, as an Aussie I’d love to see a pallete-swap Commander from the downunder (although that would probably just end up being Saxxon Hale…)
With all due respect, he does look just like Baird without the chops.
That just means the people who designed Baird were exactly as unoriginal with him as I went out of my way to be. Y’know, I recognize the resemblance and all, but I always have people jumping down my throat like “oh, just used this design or that design” without taking the time to notice that all of the characters they’re talking about look extremely similar to one another.
Literally, the train of thought behind the Commander is “what looks macho? Broken noses, square jaws, stubble, sideburns, missing teeth, James Dean hair, cleft chins, chest hair, motorcycle jackets, blue jeans, wallet chains, steel toed boots, goggles, cigars, and a muscle beach colour scheme, those are pretty macho things.” Every one of his features was just Frankensteined together for maximum stereotypical manliness.
NOOO you’re a hack :-P
IM JUST… SAIYAN
Hey, how about you read the FAQ sometime, I put this whole bit up there months ago so people wouldn’t feel the need to constantly write to me about who they think he looks like today.
NOBODY ELSE SAW WHAT YOU DID THERE.
Or maybe just didn’t care…?
He reminds me of (Marvel’s) Sabretooth in the 5th panel… XD
The Commander and the Canadian wrestling topless…MMMMMMM…*Homer Simpson-style drooling*
I know when someone tells me to get rid of a crappy shed the firs thing to come to mind is fire.
His son must be a great disappointment to him, that child will never be as manly as his father, although he still may be a chick-magnet.
Jus’ sayin’, that little boy is the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen, while the Commander…he was most likely BORN with chest hair.
The most manly men are born without chest hair, then suddenly on their 13th birthday, an ultra manly howl erupts from their lips and the world changes to allow their manliness to come forth.
It’s kinda like lycanthropy.
This actually happened to Conan. Conan was minding his own business as a beardless yute, when suddenly he grew a foot and had to shave a beard like a bristle cone. Conan. being then 13, was confused and scared when people started treating him like an adult, but soon got used to buying Camels and later LOLed at pictures of himself, in 9th grade, looking exactly the same as he did when he was 25.
Then, Conan got fat, and was not pleased. Now, Conan is mighty, and well able to hear lamentations, but there were a few years that were dicey, no thanks be to Crom, that unfathered bastard of a godling.
And then Conan fought an invisible alien in a jungle with a pro wrestler, and then he got paid millions of dollars to say accented catchphrases, and then became the Governor of California, and then Jay Leno took his show back.
Without his sideburns he really looks alot like the old Captain N version of Simon Belmont.
As for the bull thing, that was her own fault. If she hadn’t asked him to get rid of the crappy shed, he could have kept his bull in that until he needed it for a midnight bullfight.
Waaaaiiiit-wait-wait-wait-wait-wait-wait-wait. Commander Badass has a SISTER? Hang on, we haven’t seen her, have we? *checks archives*
By “my sister” he meant her sister, he’s just repeating what she said to him. I figured that might be confusing, but it sounded equally muddy either way.
Woo! I always get so exited for these late night comic updates! I had to have a midnight bullfight before booting up my computer just to get all the extra energy out!
Ooh, I hope those two get together…. <3 (yes I'm a total sap)
It seems like they are sort of togetherish right now.
I agree, shes out spending the day with him AND his two kids…and why do I want that damn tiger shark plushie so bad? >_>
Because it’s incredibly cute and awesome.
I want one also.
Wait, does Commander’s goggles enhance his night vision? Then why is he wearing them when he is burning the shed? Unless it’s those type of goggles that can do lots of stuff.
They’re spacefuture goggles, they do all kinds of things. Least of which is protect his eyes.
Oh, awesome! I want those types of goggles.
The ones that I have do nothing.
Their most important function is to enable the Commander’s ability to make other people Deal With It.
THE GOGGLES! THEY DO NOOTHING!
They do a lot of things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFZh92MUOY
Uh, yeah, I know the scene. But these goggles do things, so you’re parroting memes for nothing.
It’s a substitute for humour.
rrRRAAWK! Polly wanna meme! RaWk!
Why does anyone do anything? Because it looks awesome.
rule of cool abides.
Am I the only one to notice that Commander is wearing his goggles for the first time in this comic?
He wore them in that filler strip I drew a while back.
hmm… be he was also wearing sunglasses so… :D :))
DEAL WITH IT.
Here’s a thought! Since the commander is from the future, couldn’t you have him going back and destroying the first copy of twilight before it ever got published. You know, to make the world a more manlier place to live.. Oh! And while your’e at it, do the same to Justin Bieber too.
But then we’d have those twits coming after our manly men… As much as I hate both of those things, I’d rather have them stay over there with their pedophilia and bestiality/necrophilia complexes.
Well, he did something similar when he won the Vietnam War, but something that’s really manly right now could possibly prevent something even manlier happening in the future, like Rambo. I mean, what’s more important, national pride or Sylvester Stallone in a headband?
And if the Commander had aborted Justin Bieber from time, 4chan never could have “adjusted” his tour schedule contest to send him to North Korea. I don’t know if that’s on the same level as Vietnam/Rambo, but it’s still awesome.
I love the phrase “Midnight bullfight” – and this installment in general- so much that I read it three or four times. Which happens to be as long as I need to notice that you spelled “night” without an i.
fuckdammit.
Swift correction of a typo which barely anyone noticed, anyway, there.
Oh I just knew his wife was a bitch. I mean, jeezus woman. He shaved off HIS CHOPS for your sisters wedding! What more do you want? XD
The body language on baaaabyCommander in that last panel is SO good.
Yeah, yeah. It’s alllllways man’s fault. I want to know what his wife did to make him upset enough to agree for divorce.
I think they made clear in the strip that they wasn’t really a perfect match. Adult people split up before things get really nasty, that way you can still work together to raise the kids without stepping on each others nerves. No one needs to be “at fault” just because things don’t work out.
Nah. Don’t take my comment too serious ;) Coelasquid show us how annoying was Commander for his wife. I just wonder how annoiyng was his ex. You know… like putting his weapons in alphabeitcal order, throwing out defeated enemies heads hanged over fireplace or invitng her mother without any warning.
She mighta tossed out his beer can collection.
“Goldarnit, woman, I was halfway through the bing-blamed ‘Y’s’ for cry-yi-yi!”
“I was gonna deep fry those things damnit!”
If I am not mistaken, baby Commander has a Mr. Fish of his own in that last panel…
I believe that that is the renowned TIGERSHARK!
Yup. Nothing says “badass” like a toy shark. He’ll be ready for the real thing in two or three years.
The Commander is hawt.. why is he hawt?!
Is it the macho vibes he sends through my screen ? I don’t know, but I wish he was real.
I’d let him burn the crappy sheds in the backyard as much as he’d like! D:
He is distilled manlitude.
“Forgive me if the Dinner Dress uniform doesn’t have the right embellishments, I don’t completely understand the significance of some of the different ranks yet.”
S’okay, given the time travel stuff, it can be handwaved as being one of those butterfly things.
Well, that and you’re not trying to draw boring reality. :P
(Been reading for a while, just didn’t feel like commenting before now. Found the strip via TV Tropes.)
Besides, the Commander knows the importance of not having rank insignia displayed, even on his DDUs.
And the medals serve as ablative armor to protect his heart from laser beams.
Rank is indicated by the number and thickness of the gold bands on his cuffs. Only enlisted personell use rank/rate badges on thier dress uniforms.
The only error I can see on his DDBU that is lack of a trident (SEAL Insignia) above his medals. Then again I made a specific effort to avoid any event where I might be required to wear my dress uniform, going so far as to volunteer for additional watches and deployments.
Is it possible that being a TEAL The Commander’s insignia is jet black?
Just sayin’.
And My Brother & Sister-in-law hated getting stationed in Maryland, (Inside the Loop) ’cause then they’d have to wear their (Naval equivalent of) Class A’s all the time, instead of the far more comfortable Tans.
I suppose its possible but I just don’t see the future Navy Seals giving up thier “Solid Gold Budwieser”
And I completely sympathise with your in-laws.
I seriously did volunteer for a 4-month deployment to get out of attending the CNAF (Commander: Naval Air Forces) change of command.
I just want to say… fuck mess-dress uniform. It’s one of the [minor] reasons I’m going to join the IDF instead of my own country’s armed forces– looking nice means putting a few extra decorations on your combat uniform
I spent three years as a cadet, and while the bullshit threshold still bothers me, the skills involved were a lot of fun. Also, I STILL have not figured out what officers do– sergeants, yes; privates, yes. Lieutenants and everything above captain? With few exceptions, NO.
Poor Canadian Guy. I like him. :(
At least you had the hair within regs in panel 4.
Sorry, ex-military and that sorta thing bugs me.
He just grows his hair out when he isn’t actively on duty.
hey, good enough for me.
Geez, Madeline, he’s just being prepared. You’d be thankful if alien-rhinocerous-commandoes show up during the reception and cut the lights, requiring the Commander to use his night-vision goggles!
Also, since he’s from the future, I wouldn’t worry about the Commander’s dinner dress uniform and how unaccurate it might be. Just say that in the future, the medals mean that instead.
I mean more regarding the sleeve stripes and stuff.
Since he’s a Commander, he wouldn’t have the sleeve stripes – just his rank insignia on the lapel. The medals and other stuff look spiffy.
Enlisted ranks have sleeve stripes, (male) occifers do not.
Not so, I’m afraid.
Take a peek at this page, from the official uniform regulations for the US Navy, in particular looking at the picture.
The specific sections of the regs regarding the items going with formal dress uniform have links, if you want to dig further, but basically any of the male officer navy blue dress uniforms with a jacket have piping on the sleeves to indicate the rank of the wearer.
Huh, lookit that.
Why would you NOT want to manly shirtless men sweating and grappling each other in your lawn.
I mean, I guess maybe the ‘to death’ part could scare the kids, but they can just close their eyes.
*two
I think ‘manly shirtless men sweating and grappling each other’ serves perfectly well as a verb.
“I want to have a picnic on the front lawn”
“I think it would be a better idea to manly shirtless men sweating and grappling each other on the front lawn instead.”
If the commander gets a craving for a burger in the middle of the night, only eats food he has killed himself, and wants fresh ground beef, keeping a bull in the kitchen makes perfect sense. I didn’t hear his ex complaining about where he keeps the steaks while they age…
I just love how you based his uniform after the Canadian Navy’s ;)
Uhm… I didn’t?
yeah, thats obviously US Navy. Three stripes is Officer / Commander and, in dinner attire, ribbons aren’t worn but medals are fine. I still have my BlueJackets handbook, from 1998. :-O
It looks legit to me but you dont have many officers doing grunt work, unless, maybe, he’s a Navy Seal, then… he’d be expected to be badass and tough and wear futuristic night vision goggles that resemble snowboarding goggles.
*I* say it’s right. The research was well done. high five and junk. :-D
But for the sake of his background, no one would have cared if it was legit or not, because in the end, it’s a fun monday morning comic we read before starting our work day or whatnot. Why? Because its way better than doing Farmville before we start our Monday. xD
Yeah, he’s basically a Spacefuture SEAL.
Durp… I thought it was a Prince Charlie, the formal dinner jacket as worn with a kilt…
Looks like Sarah’s in for one hell of a ride.
On the Midnight Bull?
=3
But if Commander kills a Canadian, another one will take its place. THE CANADIANS WILL NEVER STOP COMING!!
Heeey, just realised his hair/beard is different in each of the flashbacks. Neato! I like the Wolverine look in the 3rd panel.
Somehow I suspected Commander’s missing tooth was involved.
Sorry if someone asked this already, but if he’s going to his sister’s wedding, doesn’t that mean that she would be a time-traveler as well…?
It’s probably her sister’s.
Actually, I always wondered. Is Madeline a time traveler as well, but they decided to settle down in the 200X-20XX?
Whoa… Since when does Canadian Guy have more chest hair than Commander Badass?
He lives in the Great White North, where it’s entirely possible that your shirt will get ripped to pieces by polar bears, moose, grizzlies, wolverines, and giant rabid squirrels. He NEEDS that hair to survive. Commander just needs his to be badass.
Sadly, he was the result of a failed breeding program in the 1800s, when the scoundrels in the NW Company crossed innocent Metis with Grizzly Bears to produce nigh unstoppable voyageurs.
Sadly, all they ended up with were furry Crown Royal swilling voyeurs and Canadian Guy.
Tragic, really. Astor got a much better value out of his “Steam Wolf” project.
My husband felt compelled to point out that, as a Canadian myself, I make the EXACT same expression Canadian Guy is making in panel six. He calls it my, “I am far too polite to point out how impolite YOU are, but rest assured I am aware, and I disapprove” look. It’s part of my heritage, and we’re required to practice it in the mirror every evening.
PS. Love the comic. Been reading for a while, thought I should finally say something.
Holy crap, you pimped me, too? ;u; It’s so early! You didn’t have to!
But thank you so much. argudkdhg too nice!
MO looks interesting, i shall add it to my weekly schedule! Like i don’t have enough things updating on Mondays already! I have no Wednesday comics (XKCD is more of a single panel usually…), where do i find some?
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ (eight years+ of archives…)
http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-1/chapter-1-cover/
Woly bunk! I didn’t think many people read XKCD. It’s on my tabs list with Least I could do, Looking for group, Goblins : Life through their eyes, the noob comic, modus operandi and of course, MGDMT.
Oh lord, I just laughed so hard at the Canadian Guy panel. And his face was priceless too.
am i the only one who read this in time with peace sells?
No, no you aren’t.
Stifling my laughter in a large lecture class is very difficult.
So, hang on, he was already missing a tooth back then?
I have a feeling he lost it fighting his way out of the hospital nursery.
I love it so much it makes me feel like a bad person to point out that “suppposed” in the last panel has just maybe a little too much p in it
It’s the fountain. That splashing water… Well, you know.
I looked at all those panels to get a chance to how a woman who wanted to keep her man to respond in all four situations.
1. “Okay, hon, just make sure the fire doesn’t spread.” Or, alternatively, “Do we have any marshmallows or do I have to go to the store?”
2. Put your arms around his neck and say, “Babe, not every event is going to be attacked by bad guys. Besides, it’s a daytime wedding.” Proceed to kiss the man, taking off the goggles as you do so. Then say, “I’ll have your goggles in my purse if you need them.”
3. Say, “Hon, half the fun of a midnight bullfight is finding the bull in the first place. Besides, I don’t think either of us know how to get bull turds out of the carpet.”
4. Say, “You can use the back yard then. I’d really rather the front lawn doesn’t get torn up, and if the cops get called then you won’t be able to finish the fight anyway. Say, why aren’t you doing this in a stadium with 30,000 screaming fans watching you?”
Number 4 is made of win!
<3
So romantic! *sniff*
Good responses! Although you wouldn’t want to toast marshmallows over the Commander’s shed fire. When starting a fire, men will use the most powerful accelerant available, and as much of it as is available, in order to get it going. Even if you managed to survive standing close enough to the fire to toast a marshmallow, your s’mores would be 35% jet fuel fumes.
Duuuuuude…. AWEsome!
But I like jet fumes.
Seriously I do.
The sound of the colors… So beautiful…
I’m wondering where the Commander found a tuxedo in his size.
Not a tux. It’s either a DDU* or a Prince Charlie. And MEN have to have them bespoke.
*Dinner Dress Uniform. Even higher than Dress Blues; you only wear them for Political Level events. And yer dang Sister-in-Law’s wedding.
Oh, I missed the buttons and medals.
Miss Jones here is really so naive? Everything the Commander says is approximately 200% true.
Gonissa, if I ever met you, I’d shake your hand.
Aw, thankee. I’m used to manly men, so I have to know these things.
I gotta say pannel 6 was probably the funniest to me, I have no idea why considering how equally deadpan they all are.
Looking at this, it’s kinda hard to see how they got married in the first place. Or maybe something a lot more serious happened and he’s just making up something else instead…
Canadian guy… oh how you make me lol.
Panel 5. Wow. You must have enjoyed yourself drawing Commander’s hair, huh?
I only just now noticed that Commander and Canadian Guy look very… similar.
slowpoke.jpg
They are NOTHING alike.
That’s like saying Americans and Canadians are alike.
Sheesh.
like saying Chinese and Japanese are alike?
Yep. Or Danes and Swedes.
Or Germans and Austrians.
Or English and “English”.
Or Swiss and Swiss and Swiss and Swiss.
Hmm… offhand, I’d say that the Fire is real, the bull is fake (due to… ahem, dung-related issues), the wedding one is real, and I sorta doubt that Commander would want Canadian guy anywhere near his house, as that would mean that Canadian guy could find him.
Considering the commander is a Navy TAILS, I don’t think it matters what embellishments you put on his dress. :P
He’s a navy tail? I didn’t think they went lower than privates…
*Yes, it’s my innuendo day >.<*
TIALS Pronounced like “teals”. Time Air Land Sea.
How old is Sarah Jones ?
29 abouts.
Gief comic telling us how he lost the one tooth he is missing :D
Someday…
I only wish that women found body hair as sexy IRL as they seem to in this comic.
It all depends on how the guy pulls it off.
What has been seen…cannot be unseen.
;_;
This makes me glad my hair is closer to the former rather than the *shudders* latter.
Pooorrr Quuueee??? My eyes….Sascrotch will now haunt my dreams forever. Thank you, Coelasquid.
So he won’t take off his goggles for a wedding, but he’ll take them off to (potentially) fight bulls?
The entire point of Midnight Bullfighting is that it’s dark. It isn’t any fun if you can see the bull.
Now I really wanna see a midnight bullfighting !!
Was he always missing a tooth?
The commander not only works at an agency for macho guys that have trouble fitting in with normal society, he’s also a client. =/
I could’ve sworn that he lost his tooth when Sten decided to turn his face into a plate shelf.
No, it’s been missing since the first strip.
Yeah I found that out now, I guess the close-up in the following comic was the first time I noticed the fugitive incisor.
I believe all of it. Especially the part with Canadian guy.
If Commander ever played with his food, it figures it’d be while it’s still alive and in the middle of the night.
when I see Canadian guy, I think Billy Mays.
Bulls make fantabulous pets
I just love how even the Bull is all like, “What?! Geez dude your wife is soo rude!” XD
I love how his kid always has the shark! It’s so cute! I want one of those! D:
My boyfriend got me one at the Toronto Zoo. So cute. I like my sharkie.
Well, aren’t you the lucky one? :D
TO THE TORONTO ZOO!
Saxon Hale from TF2 needs to make an appearance. He and the Commander could chat about manly things together.
But Saxton Hale doesn’t have trouble fitting in with normal society. He just beats everybody up and TAKES SHIT TO ELEVEN.
I have got to say that I LOVE LOVE LOVE your comics and totally wish there was a Temp Agency for ludicrously macho guys. Although it may not last long if the fangirls ever found it. I’ll probably be drooling outside the window, watching Sten and you did make Ganondorf REALLY hot lol. Keep up the good work!
i love this comic, just hope you keep making it for a long time XD
keep the good work
Does commander by chance know the Emperor of Mankind and his Primarchs?
The bull looks like he was looking forward to the midnight bullfight.
I feel kinda bad for Canadian guy…. He looks like he hadn’t realised that that was CB’s reason for bringing him over….
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All this talk about chops made me notice, it seems Commander’s first appearances have “shorter” chops of sort. They don’t go all they way to the chin. You know, like in the banner. I am just wondering if this happened inadvertently or if Coelasquid here just decided on it as an improvement of sorts.
Also this comic needs more Canadian Guy. It was so well delivered that such a likable guy is hated so much that I find it hilarious any time he shows up, even when just standing there like in this entry.
I was actually just talking to Vorked about that a while back, trying to figure out when exactly they turned from sideburns to chops.
They do grow out, after all. Maybe Jonesie likes ’em.
I just realized that The Commander’s new lady friend is like the perfect female version of the Leon Kennedy in the extra’s section.
And that is AWESOME.
Why is his tooth missing in these flashbacks? I thought Commander lost it when Sten knocked it out.
No, he has always had that tooth missing. The one knocked out was most likely put back in.
Sten didn’t knock any teeth out, he’s been missing it since the strip started.
You know, after reading through the comics again I realized that the Commander has become much more handsome compared to the first comics.Not as…creasey.
Eh, he definitely looks different from the first strip, but chops aside he’s not changed all that much. He still looks like the same guy as he does in the banner. I figure you draw any character for a year, you’ll end up streamlining them a bit.
.. Ironically, those are all things I’d tolerate in a future husband. … I might even welcome them.
Ahahaha, sure, but you live in ALASKA, I figure that’s par for the course up there :P
That could be it. Though if he comes with Palin-seeking missiles, I’ll be 100% sold.
Canadian Guy might just rip the Commander into little pieces, then jump up and down on them.
Hey guys, what about Frank from Dead Rising? He’s covered wars y’know.
I love this comic. I feel it could be a pretty cool show and have H. John Benjamin play Commander.
You know… You’ve come up with so much comedy that I don’t know if I could ever compete.
I love the kid’s stuffed shark, i have one at home!
Another awesome comic, I enjoy Canadian Guy so much as he hails from my frozen part of the world. Keep up the funny!
thats how i get rid of all of my useless crap… burn it…
I just noticed… There ARE pictures of the Commander without his goggles on! Homuhguh. o_o
Somehow i get the feeling he tells the truth. Always.
Who the hell wears night vision goggles in the middle of the day, and then sets something on fire right in their field of view?
(The Commander does)
i think this is the first time ive seen him actually wear the goggles!
Well, instead of “Why things did not work out with your wife?” I would probably ask “Why the hell would anyone ever marry you in the first place???”
Canadian guy would kick his butt.
So, why is his daughter’s hair blond when it’s supposed to be red?
His daughter’s hair is the same strawberry blonde in every comic she shows up in.
LOL. The 6th panel is my favorite.
I’ve actually had to deal with a situation similar to the 3rd panel, my husband got tired of manually tearing down our old shed and decided to burn the rest of it down :)