Does this get to count as one Pokemon?
October 24, 2011
12:00 am
If Magnemites evolve by attaching to more magnemites, maybe attaching magnemites to other pokémon counts as evolution too.
Oh yeah, if any of you fine folks have MTV, you can tune in on Thursday at 10:30/9:30c for the series premier of the latest TV show I’ve been working on! For people who can’t access the MTV site in their region, the show is Good Vibes, but if you google it be sure to write “Good vibes animated” or else you’re going to get results that…uh… have nothing to do with cartoons.
Discussion (421) ¬
thats the most amazing thing ever
Mr.Fish always looks so displeased :( Can we see him smile? Once? Pleeeease?
Jamie, that’s insensitive! He’s not displeased. That’s how a gyarados’ face is BUILT.
And Jared’s parents made me cry. I’M impressed that he caught that many magnemites! Damnit, spell check! Stop trying to correct the name of every single pokemon and learn some culture!
i’m surpried he caught a single one with mr fish’s quadruple electric type weakness, should have been owned in a second unless mr fish is way too high a level for them
Magnamite power armor….
You ma’am is a Genius!
But wait, Gyarados wasn’t OU? Or he gone down on black and white?
He is, but I don’t think that’s the point. Jared’s parents are upset that he isn’t a well rounded trainer, or attempting to be competitive.
I never felt that Gyarados was effective at higher levels, but I never did tournaments or anything.
And I mean, really – Jared hasn’t even started raising his second pokemon. What kind of crap trainer is he?
(I had to look up what OU was, and on the way realized my favorite pokemon, Garchomp, was banned in some tourneys. Curses.)
Oh believe me when i say, Gyarados is definitely OU. Nothing screams OU like the tanking ability that lets you launch 2 dragon dances before they know what’s going on. Gyarados is like the doom of the late game where there is little that can be done to stop it. Even the mighty Garchomp can be brought to its knees at this fearsome foe that has the awe inspiring attack power in addition to the speed and defenses to use it.
Bluesophia sounds like she writes for Smogon :P
That’s.. not entirely a bad thing though.
Choice Rotom-A is a hard counter, and it often survives to lategame
That, and Gyarados gets even stronger when you equip him with the Power Suit.
He was equipped with a power suit…sort of…
Wait, if magnemites evolve by attaching each other…will this become some garydos shaped monstrosity of a pokemon, surrounding an actual garydos?
Are you the random guy that does mac and pc parodies?
He has no reason to raise a second pokemon, he didn’t want to be a trainer in the first place, and he was kicked out of the league.
Seriously, pointing out obvious back story to nobblies is a waste of your time.
Garchomp blows Salamence is where it’s at.
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Sweet second
I have always preferred Charizard myself.
Mr.Fish is the only pokémon i fear more than charizard
Help me out here then. What does OU mean? I doubt googling random letters is gonna be too helpful.
I know this is old, but OU, stands for Over Used, there are many more as well.
(Somehow even older.) OU is the term they use at Smogon. The only real pokemon forum that let’s you compete against others Online. When someone is OU they are in the top sight of all pokemon. = they are really good competative. They make different group where you can play pokemon, so if you really want to use a weak pokemon (like Delibird) or a mighty legendary (Like Lugia) you can use them in each different group. Like NU(Never-used) and Uber. So you have equal playrules when you play against others.
Although, I’m beginning to wonder what will happen to poor Mr. Fish once he uses any water based attack… That, could be catastrophic.
You know, the fact that Mr. Fish sits there and lets Jared do stuff like that proves just how much he loves his master…anyone else would have been eaten by now.
or Mr. Fish is finding it hard to care
na he’s just a big old pile of luve….
or all that smashing him into little critters while he was small broke his brain
Maybe both
Maybe? I’d say there’s no doubt that it’s both.
There’s no question about the latter. Whether his broken brain has the capacity for love is in question let alone having love for Jared. Oh that we could all have our own (effectively) lobotomized dragon servants.
Funny… I was just thinking the exact same thing…
he has tried to eat him, just in a dream
Though in said dream its was obvious how much he cares for Jared
He’s not eating him, he’s hugging him with his mouth!
due to lack of arms im guessing xD
oh my god, mister fish.
just… oh my god.
He gets points for just takin’ it. Seems so calm about getting dozens of Electric-types strapped to his body.
Man, Jared’s dad is a /dick/.
Why did he attach all those magnemite to him? His dad said he’s quadruple weak against electric attacks, literally 5 seconds before.
The purpose was for them to take in the electric attacks instead of him.
or build up a resistance? ^_^
I think if he wants to solve the quad weakness issue, he needs to tie 3 graidoses to mr. fish, hopefully trained to attack with him
He just caught like, three magnetons and twent magnemites. Without any frggin pokeballs. Jared is a boss trainer.
He’s like the savant of Pokemon training.
Holy heck! How did I not spot that. Jared will be the name of every trainer I play from now on.
More than a savant. More like a savior.
Trainer of all trainers.
He has the idiot part down anyway.
and dont forget he got said pokemons to cooperate and let themsemves be tied to mr fishy, he should get his license back just for that.
If the tards who made the anime have any semblence of canon Pokémon understanding to them, Magnemite are instinctively drawn to latent electric sources.
i.e. He just has to start up a generator or something outside… and then pick the Magnemite off it once they investigate and get stuck.
He’s so freakin’ boss he’s the one trainer with way over 6 Pokemans outside the box. It must be the freedom of having a revoked license.
((Sorry for the reply years later :P ))
So… the Team Rocket and Flare and Plasma, etc. goons…. still all have their licenses? Even N has a license? Who allows corruption to that level, but still revokes poor little Jared’s license?
Probably because Mr Fish ate the small pokemon he was up against, rather than knock them out
I’m counting at least six Magnetons…
I stand corrected.
There are now words to the awesome you have brought to the pokemon world.
This should be standard trainer procedure for a gyarados.
I’ve never been excited about many things.
And when you update this thing I get so excited I almost pee myself.
That’s a compliment.
So….. Water/Flying/Electric/Steel, huh…
so…
Water > Thunder, Grass – Half damage with Thunder and Steel (normal damage)
Flying > Thunder, Ice – Half damage by Thunder and Steel (normal damage)
Electric > Ground – Electric and Steel both super effective. Negated by Flying. (no damage)
Steel > Fire, Fighting, Ground – Half damage to Fire and Fighting, Negated by Flying. (normal/no damage)
He just effectively got rid of ALL his weaknesses >.> against other pokemon. Let’s hope the Magnemites don’t turn on him!
So jared fine until he fights a Ice type.
Which means never challenge Storm to a Pokemon battle she could just make it hail and ruin Jared day.
No, I already said that Steel is strong to Ice. {Please listen!}
I’d just like to say that I only got halfway through that paragraph.
…And I LIKE pokémon.
Oh I must have misread the second line. Well then it’s all fine in dandy not like Storm could do jack against the Power armor given her power of fly, ground, electric, and water won’t do anything to it…
Though I wonder if one could just pepper the combination with ghost, psy and dark types or just use a lvl 1 rattata.
GODNMDAMNM THAT LVL 1 RATTATA! MY FRIEND USES THAT SHIT ON ME EVERY GOD DAMN TIME….
Um… Play a Tyranitaur, or somethign else that auto summons a sandstorm or hailstorm… lol
he’s 1/4th steel though, steel isn’t affected by Darude…
Water resists Ice too.
The more you know!
THough I noticed a distressing trend that Water type pokemon tend to get the Frozen status more often. This was Sapphire version and back, so not sure if it’s changed recently.
steel doesn’t beat ground you’re thinking of rock.
Yea I worded that last one weird. Ground is actually super effective against Steel – but as I said, Flying is completely immune. So there ya go!
Incorrect. Water/Flying/Electric/Steel still has one weakness, namely to Electric. Gyarados is doubly weak (4x weakness) to Electric; the added Electric only halves that to a regular 2x weakness. Steel, contrary to many people’s conceptions, does not resist Electric (rather, Electric resists Steel) – though it appears that your mistake here was not that, but rather allowing Electric’s resistance to itself count twice.
So let’s go back to a basic Gyarados: Mr. Fish by himself has a double weakness to Electric and a single weakness to Rock, which we’ll need to get rid of somehow. The former is obviously the primary limiter. To help us, Mr. Fish has several resistances (Fire, Water, Bug, Fighting, Steel) and an immunity (Ground), which will come in handy.
Mr. Fish, Water/Flying:
doubly weak to: Electric
doubly weak: Rock
resistant to: Fire, Water, Bug, Fighting, Steel
immune to: Ground
Now, we have two methods of correcting for that double weakness to Electric:
-> Firstly, Jared could add a Pokémon that is doubly resistant (1/4x) to Electric. Only three types resist Electric: Electric, Grass, and Dragon – therefore 3 type combinations are possible, Electric/Grass (i.e., staple a lawnmower-form Rotom to Mr. Fish), Electric/Dragon (i.e., staple Zekrom to Mr. Fish), and Grass/Dragon (currently nonexistent). Though all of these get rid of double weakness, none of them get rid of Mr. Fish’s weakness to Rock, and they all produce additional weaknesses as well (Grass/Dragon is particularly awful). So, this method doesn’t work.
-> Secondly, Jared could add a Ground type (or half-Ground type, as we will see) to Mr. Fish instead. Ground types are immune to Electric, and so that double weakness instantly vanishes. Ground is also resistant to Rock, eliminating that weakness too. However, Ground is weak to Ice, Grass, and Water. Mr. Fish’s resistance to Water negates that third one, but the first two remain:
grounded Mr. Fish, Water/Flying/Ground:
weak to: Ice, Grass
resistant to: Fire, Bug, Fighting, Steel, Poison
immune to: Ground, Electric
So, let’s alloy that Ground type with a second (well, fourth) type to see if we can remove those two new weaknesses. Grass and Ice are independently resisted by several types, but only two types resist both Ice *and* Grass: Fire and Steel. If we add Fire, we get rid of those two weaknesses – but we also end up adding another two, Water and Rock. (We could try to reiterate this method (Oy vey!), but that’s outside the parameters of the problem.) However, adding Steel *does* produce good results: Steel is weak to Fire, Fighting, and Ground – Mr. Fish’s resistances cancel the first two (making the new Mr. Fish neutral to Fire and Fighting), and his immunity negates the Ground weakness. Yay! No weaknesses! Adding Steel also adds a whole slew of resistances, though many of them aren’t terribly great – still, they don’t hurt.
carburized ferrous grounded Mr. Fish, Water/Flying/Ground/Steel:
weak to: nothing!
resistant to: Normal, Psychic, Dark, Ghost, Rock, Flying, Dragon
doubly resistant to: Bug, Steel
immune to: Ground, Electric, Poison
Thankfully, there are even Pokémon that are both Ground and Steel, two in fact, which we can staple or otherwise attach to Mr. Fish:
Steelix (Steel/Ground)
Excadrill (Ground/Steel)
Either of these would produce a Mr. Fish with no weaknesses.
Of course, why Mr. Fish would ever need to worry about weaknesses – when he can simply either eat his opponents, or paralyze them with his innate cuteness – is beyond me.
You could also staple a Lanturn to Mr. Fish’s head.
Lanturn’s volt absorb ability would make Mr. Fish immune to electric attacks, while Mr. Fish’s flying type would make Lanturn immune to ground attacks. Their water typing would be compatible, leaving only a weakness to rock types.
“leaving only a weakness to rock types”
And since the point of the thought experiment was to find a combination that would remove all weaknesses….
Can we get a set of strips showing jared catching pokemon as gifts for people?
While I’m sure that is theoretically possible it all depends on Coelasquid finding it interesting.
Have you seen Klink, which follows the trend of this classic one? Yeah, this here is definitively still one Pokeman. The only downside to making twenty Pokemans count as one is still four goddamn moves, but soon enough, Jared should have made his own vulnerability-less, all-types Pokeman.
having all types leaves you weak to one type. Rock. One of the very same types that Gyarados is weak against.
Water is double effective against rock, so I guess it balances out.
Water beats rock? Hmm. it also beats paper, and metal.
I just need to figure out the proper hand gesture for water.
It’s hard. Most people end up accidentally invoking squid.
It breaks scissors too
Actually water isn’t super effective against steel types for some reason.
On an unrelated note he wasted a move on roll over.
Water rusts steel.
roll over is jared brand rollout
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock!
Goatse Burns Your Soul!
Fighting resists rock. If you are all types, you are also fighting…and resist rock.
No, the point is that the combo of types would end up having more rock-weak types than rock-resisting types overall, SO it would be weak to rock. Just being part Fighting is in no way enough.
Types strong vs Rock: Fighting, Rock, Steel
Types Weak vs Rock: Flying, Ice, Bug, Fire.
Weaks outweigh the strong.
Wait. Taking a super strong creature…and putting him in “power armor”. Jared is making tue pokemon equivalent of a Space Marine.
I was thinking the same thing. XD
he is surrounding it by an electric type, piss off the magnets and they will kill him in one shot.
BAH to your beakies! Orks are strongest there is! :D
Orks are space mushrooms. That’s all there is to say about that.
Basically, yeah. I imagine Warhammer Fantasy Orcs breed the same way, jsut no one has figured that out yet since they are too busy trying to keep from getting killed by Chaos, Dark Elves, Skaven, Undead, rival Imperials, Ogres, etc.
The MMO certainly seemed to imply that they did.
Sure, sure, no love for these guys…
So THAT’S where Mr. Fish lives! Might just be me but I don’t remember that cave ever being shown…
I believe that cave may be Jared’s Secret Base, and I assume Mr. Fish either lives on the beach or somehow manages to fit himself inside there lol.
Jared’s base has been shown before – it’s one of those weird base things from…what, diamond and pearl? Where you could dig and make a “secret base” and fill it with random stuff?
Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald actually.
Well, DPPt had it too, but only in the underground, whereas Jared’s is clearly aboveground.
Mmhm. Ruby and Sapphire could use caves, trees and bushes to my recollection.
The most irritating thing about finding bases in bushes was my secret base. The room was about two screens wide and long and I couldn’t help but think “Just how big IS this bush?”
Eventually it turned out to be too big for me and I relocated to some normally sized tree (because caves were depressing) that I never put anything more than a bed in.
Jared is about one more phone call home away from starting a career in supervillainy.
Too true! I had hoped he had earned the respect of his parents by catching Mr. Fish. I guess I was wrong. As another boy/man hell bent on earning the respect of his own parents, I sympathize, Jared.
Given, Jared didn’t actually catch Mr. Fish so much as pick up the flopping thing. And Im sure Magikarps don’t rank high on the impressive scale sadly.
Oh how douchey his parents are.
See, there’s a guest comic opportunity in that. Jared daydreaming about hacking his parents apart with a machete while singing the Pokemon TV program’s theme tune.
“I WANNA BE *CLEAVE* THE VERY BEST *HACKCHOP* LIKE NOONE *SPLATTER* EVER WAS”
or such. But any rate, I have no other experience with the pokey mans myself.
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Jared is a damn passionate guy. (Spelled it right this time.. I think)
Firefox auto-spellchecker is your friend! Makes you look smart, like me! …’Cause I use it… *cough*
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Mr. Fish looks rather determined to me. Maybe he’s just as keen on proving Jared’s dad wrong as Jared is. I can’t think of a better word for ‘wrong.’
Or he always looks like that and I’m just anthropomorphizing him.
…Mr. Fish is possessed of a single expression he uses for all occasions.
Man, though, 23 Magnewhatsits. Either he already had those, or his secret base is near Mauville.
…Or, the North American equivalent to Mauville, rather.
Berkeley?
Brownell actually. Berkeley has little tech props. They are mostly soft science.
mr. fish has at least two previous expressions- neutral(derp), irritated (herp), and now resolute (herp derp herp)
Requesting wallpaper of splash panel.
HAH. SPLASH PANEL. GET IT, BECAUSE GYARADOS EVOLVES FROM MAGIKARP okay I’m just going to show myself out, sorry.
Agreed! I want this on mah desktop!
fucking magnemites. how do they work?
LIEK()MAGNET’Z! (hint: zZZz)
the () part was supposed to include *super conductive* in there… :/
think minecraft with circles and you get magnemites&tons
I am tempted to find a way to make magnemite power armour now…
I think if I could convince one of my friends, we would do Jared and Mr. Fish (complete with power armor) as a cosplay.
The fact that Mr. Fish has a “what the fuck ever” look is the funniest part of this comic. xD
He ever had a different look about him? :P
Only when dining on the flesh of his fellow pokemon at the pokepark! Then it was the usual tinged with pure pleasure!
also the page right after the one talking about commanders idol, mr. fish looks kinda annoyed when commander is trying to squeeze bye him to get out the door
Not a single fuck has been given in Mr. Fish’s entire life, and he will not start now.
He didst give a f*ck when he was taking the children for a ride.
And it was a glorious f*ck he didst give, full of joy.
Holy cow that sounds so wrongbad all written out like that.
he gave a fuck while thinking with portals, about cake, cupcakes
Jared, you fool! You want ground types for that! Or at least something with Lightningrod or Volt absorb. Yeesh…
Oh god, I just imagined Jared cutting the horns off a Zebstrika…. but it would be just as cool to see a Joltik riding Mr. Fish all day…
Nah,if he’d used ground types he would have regained the weakness to grass (flying>grass>water, but grass>ground too), and this way he’s got no weaknesses (aside from his own armor)
False. though the electric part of the Magnemite part negates other electric attacks, the fact that he now has steel as a type makes it so that he will now be hit at 6.5x that of the normal electric attack.
Steel isn’t weak to electricity, only fire and fighting. Steel does reduced damage to electric, but it takes regular damage from it.
Steel is also weak to ground.
But Flying is completely immune to Ground so yay! :)
I had a discussion with a friend about quad-weaknesses. He also refused to use psychic and electric types because dark and ground are immune. He also uses a Ditto because he is an imbecile and a noob to the Tenth power.
Wow, seriously? One type they can’t deal damage against and they automatically get the trash heap? Even though Dark types have some of the lowest concentrations in the game? Does he not use Normal or Fighting types because they can’t hit Ghosts or something?
usually with Gyarados, though, I find that I can destroy everything else before it destroys me
I’ve made it a goal to only use Steel types in the games now and knowing how to work with your three weaknesses(Fighting, Fire, and Ground) makes the game a lot more fun. Plus, the ridiculous amount of resistances and immunity to Poison(lololol who the fuck even uses Poison anymore) outweigh the cons, I believe.
Steel types are BOSS. I’ll be over here with my badass Metagross, fist-fucking everything into the stone age.
Necessary images to reinforce Metagross’ untouchable level of badassitude.
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In the words of ELPRESADOR, “LOOK AT THIS SHIT”
Megaton always, always, ALWAYS supplants my starter as my highest leveled PKMN between when I get its lame-o first evolution and the last gym because A) no other PKMN are worth grinding (except Houndour/Houndoom, but I haven’t seen a wild Houndour since the original GSC) B) even if the others were awesome, Megaton would still be twice as awesome and C) Meteor Mash. Second time I played through Ruby, I beat the Elite Four with nothing but a level 70 Megaton and a level 47 Blaziken (and only so I could use Explosion on those tough bitches).
Megaton always, always, ALWAYS supplants my starter as my highest leveled PKMN between when I get its lame-o first evolution and the last gym because A) no other PKMN are worth grinding (except Houndour/Houndoom, but I haven’t seen a wild Houndour since the original GSC) B) even if the others were awesome, Megaton would still be twice as awesome and C) Meteor Mash. Second time I played through Ruby, I beat the Elite Four with nothing but a level 70 Megaton and a level 47 Blaziken (and only so I could use Explosion on those tough bitches).
Bluh, Megaton. I’ve got Fallout on the brain. <_< Also, damn spastic fingers for spontaneously double clicking.
I tried using Metagross and I hated it. It’s such a boring and ugly looking pokemon in my opinion. D:
And yes, I do care way to much about appearances, lol. Can’t stand ugly pokemans.
OMG *too not *to >:[
-poofs away-
Boring? It’s a goddamn METAL SPIDER TANK WITH FOUR BRAINS THAT SHOOTS LASERS AND SQUISHES TRUCKS LIKE GRAPES.
>:C
That, friend, is some impressive fandom!
Beat HeartGold with nothing but an Umbreon I hatched instead of using my starter. Got past the Fighting gym on the third try. Sand Attack & Confuse Ray FTW.
Protip: don’t train anything you won’t use. When you’re training just one Pokemon, before long you’re ten, twenty levels above the competition. At that point, who cares about type advantages?
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if this can all fit in a single pokeball, i don’t see how your idea couldn’t
Power armor like a boss…but wouldn’t that armor..idk…tickle Mr.Fish? Id say go with a rubber (that’s right pokemon ep.1, rubber beats electric) suit, but hey, Mr.Fish probly will end up getting zaped,and using it like resistance training! Go Mr.Fish!
(P.s. this is my first post here :D glad I finaly caught up to the comic)
This one hit a little close to home for me :(. Panels 3,4, and 7… let’s just say I feel Jared’s pain. The never ending quest for respect from one’s parents can be a bitch.
Damn, I mean, just Damn, I’m with you on that one Mice, I seriously feel for Jared, yeah he has his effeminate moments, but I mean even Robert Pattinson doesn’t deserve the kind of crap Jared’s getting shoveled into his craw by his parents…
Who’s all up for a lynch mob!!!
No?
What about just a call to CFS?
Get a restraining order and an appeal for the Xbox?
I would love to see The Commander give Jared’s parents what-for because they’re emotionally destabilizing his intern…
You must learn not to care. Care is the mind-killer.
Tie an Electivire to him. Problem solved.
I say hack in a new ability; Motor Drive. Increased speed every time someone tries to use electric attacks, plus immunity to boot.
Hey, when you lose your license, who’s to say what’s fair game.
Heck yea, someone tell Jared how to do this^ haha
Speaking of, does anyone else remember the reason WHY he got his license revoked? I do! He beat the crap out of a Pikachu and ate it. Screw his double weaknesses, Mr. Fish is bad ass!
I just realized Jared lives in a Trainer Hideout.
How raunchy!
I’ve got to believe that someone in the agency could make a pretty decent suit of power armor for Mr. Fish. I mean, a few of them are wearing power armor that, in theory, would require maintenance at some point. Either they do that themselves or have a super genius to help them, but in the end, they do have access to SOMEONE who could make it…
I wonder if every other “Son, I am disappoint” situations ended with such extreme measures.
You remember Jared’s “shopping sprees”?
I’d put money down that his parents disappointment are the reason Jared has no money right now.
Is it just me, or was Gyarados the kind of Pokemon that even with it’s electric weakness, was still pretty damn tough? Or was my Raichu just weak as shit whenever I fought Lance?
Probably your Raichu.
I find Raichu’s Sp. ATK is usually less that it’s ATK. Meaning that Raichu’s better with physical attacks rather than specials. (Then again, I generally take out Lance’s Gyarados out with one blow with my Raichu–but I think I gave it vitamins during training…)
Anyway, that’s why Ampharos is my favorite Electric type, for it’s way high Sp. ATK.
Before somebody else does, that should it “its”, not “it’s”. Both times.
As an editor I deal with this one regularly. Allow me:
S.Pronoun // To be (contraction) // Possessive
he // he’s // his
she // she’s // her
it // it’s // its
Gyrados has never given me much trouble in a fight, but maybe I’ve just been lucky in that respect… God knows my underleveled one in Soul Silver wound up saving me a few times. Get the right pokemon and they can compensate for even 4x weaknesses through tactics, sheer force, or a combination. My Scizor survived a higher leveled Lucario’s Blaze Kick to one shot him with her Brick Break thanks to the species’ high defense and attack. Give a pokemon like Scizor or Gyrados protection from a Light Screen and even the special attacks won’t be as much of a concern.
I believe in general Gyarados’s have low physical defense but respectable special defense. That said the proper sort of trainign and do wonders.
My brother put his Larvitar through a special training regimen, all quick opponents, msotly Flying types.. By the time it was a Tyrannitar it was likely the faster Rock-type pokemon you would ever see.
Nah, the only stat they were truly sub-par in was Sp. Atk. They’re ideal Tanks, monstrous Physical Sweepers, and their HP potential means they can still take a hit. Base stats (80 is pretty good):
HP 95
Attack 125
Defence 79
Sp. Attack 60
Sp. Defence 100
Speed 81
I think Jared’s parents need counseling for trying to live their Pokemon dreams through they’re son.
On the the other hand I kinda want to see Jared compete in the Pokemon league while being coached by commander.
Both plz.
The commander’s way of referring to the magemites is my favorite part of the comic.
the magnet dudes are getting’ pretty freaked out
I honestly don’t know if I find this funny or depressing. On one hand it’s hilarious, on the other hand, Sad!Jared being shot down by his parents…
Why stop at attaching Magnemites? Why not trying combining other Pokemon to each other? OMG I JUST CAME UP WITH THE PREMISE TO THE NEXT POKEMON GAME!
Do we call this the PokeCentipede?
Oh, lol. I was looking at your comment for a sec, and I was like, ‘Did I post that?’ xD
Oy.
Do not sew your pokemon together. PLEASE.
if it happens it would follow digimon, pokeDNA evolutions
like the dnadigivolves
SFW version: Do we call it Shin Megami Tensei?
…..Yes. That is all I have to say to this.
Yes.
….Wait, no….
Voltorbs.
Voltorbs glued onto Mr. Fish. That is Yes.
no… not voltorbs… their first reaction in a situation is to self destruct, as seen in the old TV series many, many times. A powersuit of Voltorbs would inevitable cause more Harm than Help to Mr.Fish
Yeah, but on the plus side, Mr. Fish would then be able to learn explode and self/destruct.
Ask yourself this question first; Would you every attack a gyarados covered in voltorbs?
Or better yet, would you be able to outrun the blast of the amount of said volt orbs needed to cover the surface area of Mr. Fish?
For the people living in Pokeworld his parents’ knowledge about Pokemons is really small. There are only two Pokemons that have no weaknesses and every other one has some.
Ya, but a QUADRUPLE weakness to an element is kind of a downer.
Let’s see if we can spot other 4x weaknesses. I’ll start off…
Tyrannitar, Rock/Dark This guy does not like a fair fight, goes down liek a ton of bricks agaisnt good fighting types.
Ferrothorn – Steel/grass- can we have a no lighter fluid policy? in fact why don’t we just flood the battlefield with surf before every turn?
Abomasnow has quadruple weakness to fire and double weakness to SIX other things!
Okay, to clarify:
DOUBLE weakness = QUADRUPLE damage
A hypothetical TRIPLE weakness is found in some abilities double damage from a double weakness; Dry Skin Parasect.
And while we’re on the subject, there’s a third pokemon that has no weaknesses; The recently introduced pure-electric type with Levitate the name of which escapes me.
Thanks for the clarifaction Me-Me, we could tyr to be a bit mroe careful with nomenclature.
Continuing on: Breloom! -Flight of the Valkyrie begins to play- Oh no, not again!
tynamo eelektrik and eelektross
Haha! I love the detail of Jared’s bed sheets…so inspiring. so full of personality.
too bad “Power Armor Training” means his Gyarados is only going to have 3 available moves now if he wants it to be able to use that.
Poke-ability -power armor – the surrounding Magnemites create a magnetic field so powerful, they deflect all incoming electric attacks…
Will this be an arc of sorts?
Will we finally meet Jared’s Parents?
Now you all have to tune in next week!
but seriously, will we ever meet them?
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/132
That’s him mum, at least. No sight of his dad, to my recollection.
~D.
he could have just used a metal coat….well a couple of them then again 1 metal coat will fit over an entire Onyx ….
Steel is also week to electricity…
Only attack-wise, it takes neutral damage from it.
but … but …. but … jarred doesn’t have the power armor perk. i’m sorry, i just can’t and never did get into pokemon. i was born a little too late to even get into magic.
I know! Plus electric weaponry such as pulse guns, pulse grenades or the arc welder shuts down power armor!
He’s going to have like, octuple weakness to electical attacks.
Hmmm…. Mr. Fish in a Brotherhood T-51B would be neat though.
Wait, quadruple damage? When did it start?
But yeah, typical bad parents to put one small flaw above everything else good he got.
Back in the original GSC line.
Don’t you mean RBGY? Gyarados is a Gen1 Pokemon.
Quadrupal damage did not exist in RGBY.
What good does jared got?
A very obedient Gyarados ? The kind that is really strong and can really defend him ? And he made it evolve all by himself, while he had no other Pokemon (That we are aware of, anyway) ? Seriously, it’s not nothing.
And he owns his own secret cave, with bubble trap included !
And you know, he is living on his own, supporting himself, and living quite contentedly. Not a whole lot of nineteen year olds can say that. (I guess maybe a lot of them in Pokeworld can…)
Nah, most of them are hobos.
and stay in one single spot for eternity waiting for a person to walk by. even then they can be lazy enough that they don’t even look at you till your in front of them.
some spin in circles and miss their chance to fight, all due to not turning quickly enough, poor guy, waited for years to get that one fight, and he just walked right on bye
I love how Mr. Fish always has a “do not want” face
more like a “no fucks to give” face. Commander and the sunglasses, if you don’t know what I mean…
So…I’m not following his Insaner Than Usual Nerd Logic…how is tying a bunch of magnetites/magnetons going to help defend Mr. Fish? And what stops them from just electrocuting the hell out of Mr. Fish?
…MAYBE MR. FISH WILL BUILD A RESISTANCE TO ELECTRIC TYPES BY BEING AROUND THEM SO MUCH!!!!!!
the magnemites are stopped from zapping him due to the rubber rope he is tying them onto mr. fish with
It makes sense of Jared to get steel types, not because they balance his team, but because Mr. Fish won’t try to eat them.
but mr. fish needs his daily doses of iron D:
WHY THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE!
I can’t wait to see the explanation Jared gives to Commander about this.
I wonder how Jared managed to attach a bunch of Magnemites to Mr. Fish without something going horribly wrong in the process. He’s either really good or really lucky. Based on past comics I’m going with lucky.
I alway felt the same way about diglett/dugtrio. Guess it was just a foreshadowing of how lazy the designers were getting.
Second to last panel. Mr.Fish has the most beautiful eyes. :o
I was gonna say, that’s the most soulful look I’ve ever seen on a giant fish-beast.
its because in the next page you see mr. fish in a coffin
Is it just me or does that magnamite tied near Mr. Fish’s eye seem to be pleading to be released. I am sure Mr. Fish must be the boogymon that all the little pokemon tell their pokekids to stay far away from on pain of death.
Oh geez. So many magnemites. I can’t help but wonder how he caught so many magnemites and magnetons. That must have taken a lot of time and energy, and yet… I feel like this is the backstory of so many evil villains. They just can’t take their parents’ pressure. OH GAWD JERED’S GOING TO GO CRAZY AND KILL THE COMMANDER AND THEN TAKE ON THE GROUP NAME TEAM GALAT- *is shot*
But yeah. Jered’s got some real childhood traumas. Not being able to reach parental expectations is horrid.
Pokemon — They work just like Ikea and milk crates!
Man, parents sure are great at finding unique ways to be completely disappointed in you.
If only there was a way to ground Mr. Fish. It’s not like he has any flying moves. He mostly just eats things.
this is fantastic! at first I thought he was committing suicide by jumping into the water with mr fish and a bunch of electric pokeyman.
i want to see him fight a zapdos like this
Where did all the other pokemon com from? Are they native to the area near his cave? Or were they captured by him at a point before working for the Commander?
Probably the latter it explains their obedience.
WAIT.
WAIT.
JARED.
WAIT.
Instead of attaching Magnemites, Jared… Cover Mr. Fish in Dirt.
As a ground type, he will be immune to electrical attacks.
But then ice would actually hurt him. :(
Excellent work. Now, Jared! Find a lot of Mareep wool, throw it on the Magnemite, and Mr. Fish will be all set for Halloween as a giant Flying Nimbus!
Now that is a great idea.
Just try to imagine Jared awkwardly dressed up as Goku and the image is complete.
Man, I beat blue with only a charizard and a gyrados I’d both leveled from base. Haters gonna hate.
Not..quite sure if I get that reference. Are you refering to people dislikign you because you beat the game with just two pokemon? If so look a bit further up, there’s someone who did it with one.
It’s because Charizard and Gyarados both have a 4x weakness. Charizard is weak against Rock, and Gyarados against Electricity.
…I don’t think quadruple damage actually worked in Blue, so…
Hurr, my Team back when I was a kid on Pokemon Red was fronted by Gyrados, Aerodactyl and Charizard. One tough lightning pokemon and both of my tanks were down for the count. So I sympathize with Jared on that count.
Although I don’t know, a power armored Gyrados is like the Master Chief of Pokemon. Watchit.
That is one brave Mr. Fish, letting Jared attach all those Electric types to him. I mean, you’d think Mr. Fish would AT LEAST have some sort of deep, primal absolute fear of all things Electric that he can’t eat.
On a side note, I’d love to see Gyrados trying to eat a bunch of Magnemites and Magnetons. Shockingly good jawbreakers!™ A Magnezone would be, like, an Ed, Edd, N’ Eddy jawbreaker.
I got really scared in panel 5 that the Magnemite were going to just randomly start thundershocking…and that would be the end of poor Mr. Fish. ;o; but luckily that didn’t happen. yet. bahaha
The world needs more Pokemon nerds. You guys make us videogame nerds look better.
Silly father, shouldn’t he have said “double weakness”? It takes quadruple *damage*, sure, but still.
Can’t he just ask the guys at the agency on how to armor up a gyrados?
I’m sure there are ways around that weakness. If I remember correctly, there was an episode involving a starfish Pokemon that could use an electrical attack despite being a water Pokemon. Maybe he should try that.
Gyarados actually can learn several electric moves – however, none of them are protective. I reckon his best bet is high defense and sp. defense, and a Cell Battery (Elec attack = attack up)
XD Kratos needs to go soothe his Gay Chicken depression with Jared’s dad.
i think that you can only count it as one pokemon if they make a collective noise
otherwise get the ductape and, got to tape em all pokemon!
lol that’s freakin’ HILARIOUS!! XD
The only reason Mr. Fish isn’t eating the Magnemite is because they’re metal and probably not very tasty.
He obviously needs to bring Mr. Fish to the Brotherhood of Steel to get him outfitted for a suit of power armor. And lazers. And Turrets.
Turrets would be overkill.
overkill is underrated
But oh so awesome and appropriate, because I don’t think Mr. Fish knows Hyper Beam. He needs the firepower!
thanks. you just got me wondering about what a mr. fish “i’m firing mah laser”
face would look like. on second thought. thats actually pretty darned funny.
Dont take him to the Brotherhood, the NCR would be overrun
ha!
unmarked quest: “gotta catch ’em all”
on my first playthrough, i found you gain no infamy or any npc becoming hostile if using a melee attack (i used the displacer? glove thingy)
while hidden. i 1 shot sneak attack killed the entire legion camp except casear and his assistant. including all the dogs. also no karma loss.
yeah, i really don’t like the legion :p
but imagine the lazar with the idgaf facial expression
And sharks with lazer turrets. Strapped to an elephant, strapped to an ocelot, strapped to mr. fish. With Duct tape.
Part 2: Mr. Fish joins the Space Marines.
Jared needs a beldum to take ’em all doooown~
Bah! Type advantage is overrated. I always liked crobat, because with confuse ray + toxic + fly, you won’t be taking much action against me as you rapidly bleed to death.
Check out a fifth gen move; Sky Drop. Same thing, but it prevents them from taking any move at all, basically skipping a turn for the both of you. So no Recover during turns you’re in the air.
Also, have fun against my Steelix. ROCK SLIDE.
Jolteon thunderbolt.
Aww, the 5th panel just makes me want to give Jared a massive hug…
Good God, can I maim Jared’s parents? Please? I mean, they’re seriously complaining about him having a Gyarados!? They’re complaining about a pokemon having a dual weakness to Electricity when several members of various Elite Four teams do a good job of stomping your liver out with one!? If they complain about Gyarados having a dual weakness, would they complain about him having a Salamence, Dragonite, Garchomp, or Flygon, who are are doubly weak to Ice? Or what about a Bisharp, with a double weakness to Fighting, along with Aggron and
BastardonBastiodon? Volcarona, with a double Rock weakness? How about Toxicroak and its dual weakness to Psychic? What about all the Rock/Ground-types with their dual weaknesses to both Grass AND Water? Would they complain about him having one of those?Okay, I’m done ranting now, I swear, but Jared’s parents are the biggest jackasses on the planet.
And by double/dual weakness, I mean both of the pokemon’s types being weak to that type of attack. It’s just how my circle of pokenerds refers to it. But I only just realized it would sound confusing/weird to someone else. -facepalm-
No worry, there I got it. -shrug- Maybe they would. We got nothing on his parent’s personalities beyodn that they practically forced him to become a trainer so chances are they have researched this and what to ‘help him avoid making glaring mistakes’ -shrugs- Which sucks because half of the Pokemon you mentioned are some of my favorites to throw down with.
Yeah, a lot of them are my favorites, too, which is why I listed them. I’ve trained every single one that I actually named, with the exception of Bastiodon, and love them all dearly. And most of them would be seriously overpowered if not for the huge weaknesses, so it’s not like having a huge weakness can’t be compensated for.
From the little bit I can tell, his folks should be happy he’s finally out in the world and has a job, but aren’t. Jared might not ever become the Champion of whatever Pokemon League, but he takes good care of Mr. Fish, and that’s they should be proud of.
Oh man, I… I kind of want to cry ;__; I can HEAR him in the second-last panel. Poor Jared! Can’t the Commander just, y’know, pay his parents a visit and explain a few things?
PERFECT XD I could not stop laughing at this one
8 Magnetons and 15 Magnemite.
I counted.
I feel like I am required to point out that magneton weighs a bunch more than 3 magnemites, and the same goes much more for dugtrio/diglet., Dugtrios, who knows whats down there with them, but I want an explanation for magnetons that I can get while maintaining sufficient laziness over seeing if it is explained in the pokedex.
I still play the card game for gameboy colour, no pokedexes (pokedexi?) in there to check.
Well if you look at a Magneton, it’s not jsut three Magnemites. There are a few extra bits added to it somehow when it …reconfigures?
As for the Diglett/Dugtrio, how the heck do they weigh that thign without getting ti out fo the ground anyway? Moving past that, a Diglett seems to barely protrude formt he ground while DUgtrio has two more evelated heads. Weak explanation, but all I have.
‘He’s still the same little fishie to me though.’
Aww. :3
There is only one solution to this problem.
Someone call up Giovanni, we need to rent Mewtwo out for some tag-teaming action.
Let’s see what they think of Mr.Fish after he uses Hyperbeam on their house. ¬¬
Giga Impact’d be better. Physical, rather than Special, where Gyarados’ Sp. Atk is kinda lousy.
Then again, Waterfall’d be even better since he could do it two turns in a row.
So, what we should take from this is, Jared’s father is a dick?
I very strongly appreciate that the implication here (that I got, anyway) is that the Commander is a much better father figure to Jared than his own parents are, and that he accepts who Jared is and all that jazz. This was sad, but it made me love the father-son relationship between the Commander and Jared even more. (I never thought a comic about manliness and machismo would emotionally affect me this way!) Repeating another comment, it would be vindicating if the Commander went to have a chat with Jared’s parents, but still, even him just flat-out accepting Jared is the best. THE BEST
1) Jared’s bedspread. 2) The raggedy curtain hanging in the “door” to his “secret lair.” 3) EVERYTHING.
Oh oh oh… look at Jared’s pillow it. Has little gyrados on it, like he’s sleeping with Mr fish.
What would be scary, all those magnemite/Magneton evovled while on mr fish.
I would so freakin’ buy a shirt of that. Gyarados with a ton of Magnemite strapped on, and Jared riding him defiantly.
I know you’ve said before that you don’t want to use other peoples’ copywrited stuff for your own profit, but if you ever decide to…
I’m proud of my little keyboard. I can write pokémon with a nya over the e.
Pokémon!
Where is the goddamn like button
Wow. Jared’s old man is an ass. A couple of other anatomical features generally found colocated in that region, too, all italicized, and the ones that start with “c” get bolded, too.
Gyrados is a fucking Disk 1 Nuke if you can grind one up from a Magikarp at the first opportunity. It ain’t easy, god knows it ain’t easy, but if you pull it off, you’ll have a beast. You’ll also be like, 10 levels ahead of the competition and have type advantages forever if you’re playing around in Kanto. By the time you get to having to deal with electric types, they’ll just die in one hit which you get by virtue of Speed advantage, and that quadruple weakness will not be a thing until you face the Elites.
Still, I love Commander Badass’s dramatic imploring at the end there. He’s probably a better father-figure to Jared than his own old man ever was. Plus, I bet if Jared’s so freaked out about this 4x weakness to electricity, Commander Badass can come up with some future tech to insulate him.
Leauge Trainers: “OMGWTFHAX!” Jared, Mr. Fish: “Deal with it.”
Also, is it just me, or has anybody else noticed that the region of North America where Commander Badass has his testosterone-control agency shares its Pokémon encounter set with Kanto, (primarily,) instead of Unova?
I mean, seriously, this Pokémon Park featured in the comic has (at my count,) Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Eevee, Vulpix, Oddish, Marill (not normally found in Kanto but within a boat ride away,) Togepi (also not native to Kanto), and a little white and blue thing I can’t quite identify.
And now we’ve seen Magnemite and Magneton. Granted you can find some of those in Unova, but still, unless Jared’s hanging out with a lot of other Japanese expats, it’s very unlikely you’d find all of those in North America.
You’re thinking too far into this. ;D
I’m sure the artist just likes first Gen.
I think that little white and blue thing your talking about is a poliwag.
But wouldn’t the electricity be attracted to all the magnemites? It’s like a giant lightning rod man!
I wana string a bunch of Chimechos around the waist of a Scyther. Then it’ll have a pretty skirt thing. :3
Those are not “real” Pokemon, sir. They are lies. The only Pokemans that count are the ones that you can PokeRap about. End of discussion.
scyther is in pokerap
-chuckles- And technically Pudding didn;t say “The Pokerap” so as long as ANYONE can make a decent rap about ANY Pokemon, it should count.
Put your money where your Mudkip is sir. I challenge you to a PokeRap.
ya…. the commander needs to have a “talk” with jared’s parents. or mr. fish needs to go and ‘visit” to show how “weak” he is. glad to see jared looking healthy after playing with andrewsachus….. do you think mr. fish helped out with that little dilemma?
(looks around) i don’t see any more andrewsarchus.i DO see mr. fish. hence, i have to assume mr. fish ate him to save jarred. that, or mr. fish reserves the right to eat jarred one day for going too far.
Now hold up lets think about this logically
His parents live in the Pokemon world and pass judgement on his pokemon. What if they have some super strong pocket monster we don’t know about?
then fuck them, mr. fish will hyper beam their house AND eat their pokemon
I’m more curious about how and where Jared managed to get his hands on all Magnemites and Magnetons. And I also believe he should fully evolve one of them and call it either Mr Alien, Mr Saucer or Mr Shippy.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call Jared my favorite character of the series (that would be Canadian guy and Sten), but goddamn, I love him when he does his “AWWWWMAHGAWWWD” faces.
even though i don’t like pokemon much i did cry a little on the inside when i saw pikachu slap fighting himself in the first movie. thats all im going to admit to :p and just in case anyones interested, this looks to be a flash style pokemon gaming web page. but again, im no expert in anything pokè.
http://pokefarm.org/
Sorry to be picky, but can you update the bubble on the 3rd panel? The way it is now it looks like it’s still Jared who’s talking and not his mom/dad.
Also, now I need a wallpaper of that central panel… pretty please? :P
The bubble is a different shape and the tail is pointing at his phone, I dunno what else you want…
A lightning bolt shape for the tail usually does the trick. I was confused at first too.
There might be a number of ways you can do this. Since I don’t know much about comic design, here’s what I came up with:
Changing the tail, like Stan said, could provide a better indication that a person is speaking through the phone, but I don’t know if that alone is enough.
Changing the shape of the bubble was a good idea, but this change needs to be more pronounced, making it square instead of round isn’t noticeable enough (specially if the square still has round corners). But if you also change the font that the person on the other side uses (maybe making it italic) that could do the trick.
Actually, that last one might be the simplest: just make the letters italic.
Did anyone tell you your comic is awesome yet? :)
evrytime i see jared do somthing with pokemon it makes me want to dust of my old GBA and play pokemon gold again
Do what I did: Fire up an emulator and play LeafGreen/Fire Red. Get “ripped off” and buy a Magikarp from the ripoff magikarp guy, use the speed-up functions to increase the speed of your grinding, and grind up your Mr. Fish to a Gyrados before you even enter Mt. Moon.
You’ll tear through everything in sight. By the time you start facing Electric types, you’ll be hitting them so fast and so hard they won’t even get a shot in.
Also, why do I want to see Commander Badass and maybe some of the other guys attending a Pokémon fight to see Jared and Mr. Fish in action (maybe double-teaming with Turok and Andrewsarchus?) Sure, they may be cute as hell, but the sport is fucking hardcore, kids kicked out of home at ten to wander the wilderness, capturing wild animals and making them first for people’s entertainment?
The thought of Commander Badass, Leonidas and Duke Nukem as the only three big burly guys in a crowd of weedy guys hooting and hollaring and cheering Jared on like football hooligans makes me snicker and giggle.
omg i love your plan!
google man to the rescue!
The problem is one of them might have a few too many, and try and get in the ring to join the battle. It’s one thing to hit a pokemon with another pokemon, it’s quite another to try and punch a hitmonchan before it punches you.
Will your show premiere on MTV Canada as well? I really hope so. Having the two characters named Mondo and Woodie already has me hooked to watch.
Not sure! Maybe it’ll get it a bit later? It should say on their website.
Soooo… What happens if the megnamites use Thunder while still attached to Mr.Fish?
O.O
that means mr.fish learned thunder times however many magnemite and maneton there is so thunder is 120 if there is 20 megna’s then it would be 2,400
I am suddenly reminded of an episode of Pokemon I watched many, many years ago.
“They’re using THUNDER AS ARMOR?!?”
Definitely the biggest WTF moment in Pokemon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_PI_hpPo_w
lol :p
How…how did he catch all those? Did he even put them in pokeballs?
(Amazing comic, everything about the last panel makes me giggle)
…Why has this show taken 19 years to come into my life? God that was awesome. I found a Google result with the pilot and it made me laugh more than any show has in a long time.
The animation is top notch, too. I’m not sure just how much you actually contributed, but kudos to you nonetheless.
I was an animator and sometimes layout artist. Each episode had a team of five or six people to do all of the animation, so I was on the crew for episode 2, 6, and the season finale, as well as helping out with some stray scenes from other episodes, revisions, and I did a couple scenes in the intro theme.
Haha, Gyarados power armor. Awesome.
Wait. Wait. You have a TV show? The “latest” TV shows? There were others?
I used to work on a show for APTN called By The Rapids, then I was on Ugly Americans, then Good Vibes, and since that wrapped up I’ve been working on some shorts, web series, concept stuff for assorted pitches, logos, that kind of thing.
It always amazes me to find out what webcomic artists have done outside of their comics. You miss, are no exception.
You know, I was really not into Ugly Americans at first, but it grew on me. Which, coincidentally, was how it turned out with this webcomic. “Yeah, this lass is pretty funny with the macho mockery and such, but I can see that getting old pretty qu– OHMYGAWD I love this Jared person. Oh, okay, I’ll add it to the list.” *Ctrl+D*
Turns out, doesn’t get old. Yeah. At least not yet, but until then you’re staying in my top five still-running webcomics.
Anyhow, I’ll check out The Rapids and Good Vibes sometimes.
I’m -so- glad that Jared has the Commander around to give him some positive parental guidance… and I’d love to see Jared’s parents get a good, hard kick in the ass for being such absolute jerks. D<
Beats the shit out of Electrode armor!
Thwack!
BOOM!
WROOAARGH!
Gyarados fainted!
Oh good, Jared’s alive. I was worried that Andy Serkis might have eaten him.
This can’t possibly be a good idea…
Oh god plz let him keep at least one of the Magnemites
why would he keep it, he will melt them down to forge a real power armor for mr.fish, kinda like how the magnetons melt together into magnezone, melted magnemite&ton all over his mr.fish for protection, then add a rocketlauncher….for good measure
Last con I was at (Ayacon ’11), some dude was cosplaing as Mr. Fish. Made my day, but he was too drunk to understand or respond to my friend and I screaming “Mr. Fish, Mr. Fish!” at him across the quad. That’s just how manly this guy was. He could only have been more manly if his friend had been cosplaying Mr. Chips.
so ia mr.fish gonna have a master chief armor? crysis or some sort of symbiot from spiderman….
Good strip, one note though:
When you use word balloons for peoples’ voices that are heard through the phone include some static interference on the balloon. Usually little parallel lines like this
—–//——//—-
on each side help the reader discern the voice’s origin easier, I had to read the comic three times to understand it was his dad who was talking about the electricity weakness.
Thanks, and keep up the good work!
i find the rounded normal talk/square(or) rectangular speech baloons more than enough of a visual confirment of who’s talking
Pffft. Quadruple weaknesses only matter if you actually get attacked. Scrap the magnemites, feed Mr. Fish a metric fuckton of carbos to boost his speed and watch him ascend to god tier.
The Dragon of Derp?
that one magnemite close to Mr.Fish his eye seems to like the idea of becoming power armor
Yeah, if you hadn’t been clear on the fact that people need to look at the ANIMATED Good Vibes, I know exactly what kind of show they would find.
>_<
Hmm . . . now that hes Water/Flying/Electric/Steel I don’t think he has any weaknesses anymore, and now he has some new nifty resistances :D Plus the defensive power gained from being part steel, as well as the added sp.atk bonus from the magnemite/tons makes him an even greater tank, and a mixed sweeper :D
OMG has anyone else noticed the facial expression on Mr. Fish? He is either un-caring of his own plight, or he is about to bite Jared in half, I’m not entirely sure which. On a side note, i can TOTALLY see Jared having to put one of those Dog cone-collars on Mr. Fish so that he doesnt gnaw at the magnemites. I also hope Jared is being careful not to tie those lines too tight, wouldn’t want Mr. Fish to get an embolism. =P
ive actually wondered another thing, why would the weakness matter, he was banned from pokemon leagues, so well, he isnt going to fight anyone with gyarados, why bother with the magnet armor
Hm….so, will the Commander be meeting with Jared’s parents anytime soon to to strighten them out? I think the poor guy can take Jared flipping out due to them for so long…..
Those blasted parents! Jared deserves so much better than that. Its Kind of funny but mostly sad to see his extreme happy face with the heartbreak face right beneath it.
I think you’ve been hacked dude.
The comic is so funny, but some comments ruins it.
Is Jared afraid of cameras? Because it would be fun to broadcast worldwide one of his pkmn battles only to add more shame to his family.
*hides carbonite bucket from Jared’s sight*
Just a heads up, you’re the second google hit for “good vibes animated”.
Hah! Commander has a lot of experience with this.
I know his pain.. Well except the fact it doesn’t involved pokemon XD
Oh and Coel :D What should the word ‘Epic’ be used for? My husband just said it for youtube video titled “Nyan Cat Falls In Love” And said it was epicly sad. *puts money in the jar* I have been thinking of making my own jar of that word irl :P So many abuse it
I don’t know what you people are talking about, sometimes. Everything after the first two generations of pokemon are a drug-induced hallucination.
agreed, all in favor say AYE!
*evryone* AYE
Nay. I will grant that some of the new pokemon are completely horrible… Howevery there are a fairly large number of decent lookingones… And lets face facts… Mr. Mime is horrible looking, if it had been in any of the newer generations… It would hav been soooooo hated.
true as that may be
i’ll just say one thing wich will make you hate new generation: icecream cone pokemon, wich get a extra scoop as they evolve………………
reconcidering that Nay yet?
Pokeball Pokemon, that flips over when it evolves.
Mole Pokemon, which gets TWO extra heads when it evolves.
Magent Pokemon, which gets TWO extra magnets when it evolves.
Pile of goop Pokemon, that just gets bigger when it evolves.
At least the ice cream Pokemon gets other changes as well, such as cone shape and “decorations.”
bit first gen had SNORLAX! wich makes the few crappy pokemon all ok
Fifth gen has Braviary.
wich looks like a pidgot glued onto a fearow!
every gen will have good and …wtf seriously? pokemon
but i think we can all agree that after the third gen they started trying too hard
…
Why don’t you tell me, then, what exactly is so terrible about each fifth gen Pokemon? Clearly there is no “awesome” one like Snorlax that “makes up” for the “terrible” Pokemon in this gen. So instead of me grasping at straws, why don’t you just list out the negatives of each one? That would be much easier for you, don’t you think?
Which is not nearly as awesome as Archeos.
Gyarados has always been a favorite of mine, mainly just for how badass he looks. And yeah, I’m that mediocre pokemon player/trainer person who plays the game and chooses pokemon just based on how “cool” they are (read: how badass they look). I’spose this is why, despite the obvious weakness of having a team of basically all one-type, I generally end up with an all Dragon team. :D After all, I’m playing to see some awesomely badass crits Dragonebreath//Hyperbeam/Waterfall/Flamethrower etc. other crits to untimely deaths.
Also, while I know that what Jared’s dad said has got to be devastating on many levels, I believe that his tears are mostly due to the fact that he just discovered the horrifying fact that his beloved Mr. Fish has a quadruple weakness to electricity. He’s just trying to protect him! ::sniff:: Tis such a touching tale…
I would love love love to see Jared collect a Charizard, Salmence, Tyranitaur, Dragonite etc. It would just be so awesome if this (for all intensive purposes) idiot savant of a pokemon trainer suddenly had all these badass, dangerous creatures following him around with the same unyielding loyalty as Mr. Fish, much to the chagrin of other trainers and everyone around him.
As ever, Mr. Fish’s “What the fuck ever” expression totally make this whole strip. Though, I did wonder why he doesn’t sort of fly everywhere if he’s a flying type? I like the look of him slithering down the street, either way.
*draws hearts around the Commander, Jared, and Mr. Fish*
That is not a sandtrout.
Poor Jared. He could have Mew and him parents would still be disappointed.
Type effectiveness-wise, I notice Gyarados is actually a little better off than Dragonite. They’ve both got a x4, but Dragonite has one more x2. (And Ice type attacks are super common. Practically any Water type can be packing one.)
What Gyarados is mainly missin’ is Outrage.
The Pokespeak is hurting my soul.
wait..pink eyes…? they have red or blue eyes depending oin which version you choose, black if you far enough back and white if its a legendary red garados ( i don’t care if it had a X4 weakness it was the sickest pkmn tank ive ever seen).
so pink eh? mr fish is a misses fish?
Female gyarados have white barbels. Mr. Fish has purple eyes, the colour they are in the cartoon.
Actually Jared all you have to do my boy is expose mr fish to small amounts of electricity over a period of time like people do with poison to build up a resistance. But honesly i dont think mr. fish has a weakness to anything because he always looks bored and unlike regular pokemon he’ll just eat the enemy pokemon so even the toughest trainer owned pokemon would have trouble with him. Youve done good boy. Youve done real good..
I miss my Blaziken now…
i would love too see jared and Mr.Fish fly to work one day
i mean flying type has to be abused somehow!
earthquake hits city and jared just sits on mr.fish wondering why everyone is freaking out
probably a mix of the earthquake and that a kid just flew by on a giant sea serpent! :D
90% of your jokes involve Jared. And I’m okay with that.
lol, my step-bro got power armor in fallout3. he can’t us it until he gets a manual.
i can see it now…
“pokemon: falloutchrome” (features new pokemon stuff, including power armor!)
i also like how it’s made completely out of magnemite…or magneton…whateveritis…which he’s weak too since they’re steel/electric types. i guess that’s why it’s POWER ARMOR!!!!!!(of epicness) *puts a dollar in epic jar*
He should’ve just wrapped Mr. Fish in tractor tires.
He still needs a laser rifle and a super-sledge.
mr fish can learn hyper beam *its a organic lazer!*
and he was used as a blunt weapon in his younger years so i think he is a super sledge :D
Fair point… If anyone ever knocks him out in a battle, Jared can just grab the tail and swing xD
Laser? Psh. Plasma is where it’s at. Somehow I prefer Enclave goo puddles to Enclave ash piles.
agreed…hmmm can mr fish spew magma? maybe if he eats load of green paint it will look like plasma goo!
I think this is the least derp-y Mr. Fish has ever looked.
Easy to solve problem, teach Mr.Fish Earthquake, then the only electric type that can mess with him would be that new eel one with levitate.
Jared not only has the perfect smiling trollface, he also has the perfect Y U NO face.
And that is how Zapdos was born.
His parents don’t know shit. Quad elec weak is hardly a danger for Gyarados and his typing actually makes his quad weak far and away the easiest to work around for competitive play. Jeez. His parents spend all their time criticizing their son for not being involved in pokemon but they’re so bad at it themselves. Isn’t that always how it goes?
So i guess Gyarados joined the Sub Marines.
Get it?
Get It?
Just remembered that Mr. Fish has fought with electric types before and won.
Apparently Mr. Fish ate a pikachu here http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/164
All he needs to do is to teach Gyrados Earthquake! Very handy to water type.
Now…why is Captain wearing Jonsey’s jacket… *eyebrows*
Why is his dad dissing Gyarados? He can pretty much destroy anything short of an electric-type.
Gotta love the “Fuck yeah” face Mr. Fish always has.
according to professor oak: yes
To be fair, Gyarados actually needs a quadruple weakness because otherwise there’d pretty much be no other way to bring the damn thing down.
…Centurions? All I’m thinking is ‘POWER EXTREME!’
Personally, I would have argued the point that Lance, AKA the Leader of the Elite Four has a Gyarados, and he does just fine.
Gyarados Mega Evolution Confirmed by this comic, clearly.
I seriously hope Mr Fishy is house trained.
This has made me want Mr Mega Fish.
I know this is late, but-
My Gyarados beat defeated Watson in Emerald. He tanked the electric attacks then ate the Manetcric. X4 weakness to electric means NOTHING when it belongs to a majestic water dragon.
oh, the third panel is the mom talking. this page has confused me for years