When the government is in chaos, ridiculous leather straps have a very calming effect
October 11, 2013
1:58 pm
Sorry this one took a while, I just got that new Wacom tablet PC so I don’t have to sit at a desk 16 hours a day between work and home to get all my shit done, and while the hardware is great Windows 8 does all sorts of fun things like SURPRISE SOFTWARE UNINSTALL and SURPRISE CONTROL PANEL SETTINGS RESET and SURPRISE ALL FOLDERS MOVED AND DIRECTORIES CORRUPTED!
It’s pretty great for drawing on at least, I did this one for the most part hanging out in my favourite coffee shop after work, I’m sure once Windows 8 gets itself under control it will be a great tool.
Oh man pin head lol
I always found it odd how he seemed so much less deformed/tortured than the other Cenobites. He seems to be in charge, be also the least into it.
Dude, Pinhead is stuffed full of organs. He’s got, like, four hearts, six spleens, two or three mutually incompatible GI tracts stuffed in there. He’s the forward face of the Cenobites, so he can’t get the face tats and six-inch ear plugs his buddies get. Everything he does to himself, he’s gotta be able to cover up with his work clothes.
Yeah, it’s important to make eye contact, which is difficult with no eyes, and it’s hard to make the sonorous pronouncements when your teeth are constantly chattering, your mouth is wired shut, or you have a giant spike displacing your whole face.
(Least into it? Offender, the man starts his day by stuffing his ass with hungry ants before he has his first cup of acid and bad vending machine coffee).
Vending machine coffee? You sick bastard!
So your answer is basically “nothing the judge can see”.
In the book chatter box was actually the one calling the shots, and pin head was just a spokesperson. Also the dude cut his head into bite sized cubes, then put it back together with nails. that’s pretty hard core, in fact I don’t even wanna know what he’s hiding that big ass trench coat.
I thought that would be Craig Jones / #5 from Slipknot?
I’ve been touring horror movies this month, and I’ve been told Hellraiser is mostly kinda slow and boring…
Hellraiser has the slow building dread and gruesome sexual iconography that is Clive Barker’s trademark. Other horror movies may move faster and bloodier, but Hellraiser has staying power.Think of it as the difference between getting stabbed in the back an going mad & dying from syphilis.
That…is a wide gap :P
Only see the first one. They get really bad really fast.
That they do. But the first three make an odd sort of sense to me, if you can get past the more ridiculous parts of the latter two.
I kind of watch movies from a “creative” perspective, where the quality takes a back seat to what I can glean from them; and those three taken together are decent for ideas. But I won’t defend their decline.
The first one is the only horror movie to ever actually scare me. The rest are kinda meh.
Hellraiser movies vary in quality substantially, but the best manage to keep a feeling of surreal dread going. And by best I mean there’s about two good ones and the rest are pretty horrible.
Anarchy just ain’t as fun as it sounds, eh?
I haven’t laughed this loudly here in some time. This comic must’ve struck the right pin or something.
He doesn’t have to ask your PIN number…Pinhead’s already GOT your number.
:0
You do know that the ‘n’ in PIN is ‘number’, don’t you? You just said ‘Personal Identification Number number’ (you don’t happen to work in the Department of Redundancy Departments, do you?)
Not anymore. The department of departments of redundant departments of redundancy ruled that our department of redundancy departments is redundant amd should be closed.
The worst thing is, if people do need our so-called ‘redundant’ departement of redundancy to deal with redundant departements, they can just pin it to the shutdown. Pricks.
Heh, yeah, It really hammers in the funny you know?
I think you nailed it with that last one
Seeing the Commander fight the Cenobites would be kind of awesome.
http://ghostradio.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/pinhead2.jpg
I’ve always found it fascinating how all those pins really lends extra “animation” to his facial expressions in the movies…
I like that, but how did you manage to mess up Pinhead’s design? 0_o
Maybe it had something to do with the unbelievable amount of stress and rush that comes from keeping up with a regularly updating webcomic for a commonly rude and argumentative reader base on top on a demanding art-related job
Throw Mefista to the pigs!
Burn the witch!
She turned me into a newt!
…I got better!
I hear Mefista’s father smelt of elderberries… true story.
Commonly, really?
Yes, commonly. There’s at least a dozen comments bitching about ridiculously insignificant things on every one of her comics. These people take entitlement complex to new and disgusting heights.
Well sure, if the Internet is anything, it’s home to many jerks that would never be allowed to exist in a real society. But a dozen out of – to take this comic as an example – one hundred and twenty isn’t really a majority! By internet standards it’s overwhelmingly positive. Man, that’s sad.
Yeah, it is. What I don’t understand is why they do it here so much, though. I’ve seen webcomics that were pure unadulterated horseshit that got a negative comment like once a month. This one is one the best drawn and funniest on the internet, and people nitpick because there was one line that wasn’t drawn with a ruler or something. It’s ridiculous.
Hey wow guess what “common” doesn’t mean “the majority”. It just means it happens often enough to be inherently expected. Which it does and is. Wonders never cease.
I wouldn’t worry about it. I noticed it was off, but I can also understand not wanting to do every single line. That could get really messy, really fast, and I can imagine it would only add to the frustration.
Noticed it was different, but thought that was just a nice twist (instead of pins, he is now Thumb-tackhead :))
Correction: Drawingpinhead :P
I actually like the wide-head nail approach, it has more definition than the plain straights.
Wide-head nails? Thought they were drawing-pins/thumb-tacks
Well… If your heart isn’t in it, give it up. I mean, don’t get me wrong I’d hate to see the comic go, but, you gotta do what you gotta do.
This is clearly his casual wear, he wants to look approachable for new recruits. Needs to tone down he metal a bit is all.
Now I’m trying to imagine what Pinhead would wear on Casual Fridays. And I haven’t even seen the movies yet!
Rob Halford is the best metal singer in the world. Now and forever.
You misspelled Bruce Dickinson
Bruce is one of the greats, but he never had a 6 octave range…
He isn’t called “The Human Air-raid Siren” for nothing
My library literally switched from Iron Maiden to Judas Priest as I opened this page. I would say Priest with Halford is one hell of a force to reckon with and Maiden With Dickinson is in the same league. Maiden being more progressive and priest being more shredding.
Was just about to put that :D
. . . I am in awe of the Commander’s body hair.
I am in *lust* of the Commander’s body hair. <3
I want to have Commander’s body hair!
I have it. It’s not as awesome as you would think. Sure, it keeps you warm when hunting polar bears with nothing more than a combat knife and a loincloth, but it takes all day to scrub the bear guts out of it when you get home.
You, sir, just made my morning! XD
Speaking of gut, today is the ‘Hari Raya Haji’ for muslims, we are making sacrificial offerings to God, just like Ibrahim (Abraham) did long, long time ago… So i was imagining you, with a combat knife & a loincloth, gutting the sacrificial cows, goats, & lambs… XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
I have it too, and I find I am LITERALLY sweeping and vacuuming my own sheddings more than my dog’s. If dust bunnies could really come to life, the ones here would call me “father”.
On a side note, a blonde’s body hair should not stand out like mine. I have a blond friend, and his body hair, from a short distance, looks like his skin has been highly polished. He’s not as hairy as me, otherwise he’d look like the Golden Fleece from “Jason and the Argonauts”. Shouldn’t the Commander look more like that?
I dunno, my boyfriend has blond head-hair and darker chest hair.
My boyfriend is the same way.
Same here. My boyfriend has blond hair, blue eyes and brown/black body hair. SO yeah.
Oh god that mental image of the golden fleece is cracking me up!
Besides, the commander’s orgin more or less accounts for all impossible combinations of physical traits he might have.
*lust* is not a strong enough word to describe how The Commander’s body makes me feel.
Am I the only one waiting for the Commander to team up with Mad Max to bring order?
Which version? Original ‘cop’? 2nd wayward wanderer? Or 3rd tired old man?
Funny thing about that, it also kinda describes all three versions of Solid Snake :D
All three at once. He has a time machine, you know.
Windows 9 is gonna be spectacular if the every other version rule manages to apply.
Some days you just with Microsoft wouldn’t be so pushy on the revisions between the good ones.
Otherwise I hope this doesn’t go on for another week(the situation), you can only imagine what would come next. I got my hopes up for impromptu thunderdome.
I’m a novelist trying to meet my deadlines and in the middle of it Win 8 devoured my dictionary and I can’t get it back. Now every word is being marked as wrong.
The ‘every other version’ rule doesn’t imply they do it for the hell of it… The theory is like this:
They make a crappy version > Sales go down > They desperately try to fix every mistake they made > They make a version with those fixes > Sales go up > They get complacent > Redo from start.
So it’s not that the bad ones are “revisions between the good ones”, but the other way around.
You would just hope that one day they understand that this is a legitimate problem. Rather than swiftly removing the preferable product off the market. That big push on retailers to shove 8 into the customers lap quickly rather that later was just a bad money grab.
Otherwise, I’m sure that all of us will love the revisions included in 9. So much so that we will be able to understand what they were aiming for with 8.
Still though, just a simple two year pay beta for the latest big version is something that should happen one day.
Hm.. Maybe. Let me offer an alternative: They make a crappy one– sales go down but not as far down as you’d think because they have a virtual monopoly. They make a good one and then not only do they sell it to all the people buying new computers, but the people who bought the old bad one pay out for upgrades, effectively doubling the money they get out of those people.
Here’s another interpretation:
Microsoft make a new version of Windows from scratch. They test it internally, of course, but it just doesn’t stand up to millions of end-users and developers who will between them use every feature in ways that the designers never realised. Not to mention all the people who either find the interface difficult because they’ve never used Windows before, or have used the previous versions so much that it’s all in muscle-memory for them and the interface changes are screwing them over.
Lots of bugs are found. Lots of bad press all around. The bugs get fixed eventually, because Microsoft has a lot of people working on that, but by that time years have passed and the even-numbered version is universally accepted as shit. So Microsoft decide that the time has come to distance themselves from it, and release the odd-numbered version. Which is pretty much the same as the one before it, but with some mostly-cosmetic changes and a few genuinely new features.
And now everything is fine, and people like the latest version, so the programmers can quietly get back to re-writing Windows 10 from scratch…
Actually Microsoft has no QA department, that is Quality Assurance. Bill Gates fired his whole QA team, and then we saw the report error dialog boxes that popped up in XP. So every other version of Windows is technically a beta product.
Windows 8.1 is coming out soon (this week?) and it should make things work much better. I’ve been using the preview for a while, and it’s great. (Yes, it’s a free update)
Following Rob Halford around is a legitimate plan of action in times of crisis.
Also in perfectly ordinary, government regulated times. If you’re not Hell Bent for Leather, you’re probably just maladjusted. Seek help.
Man, some people are just Never Satisified. You think you can act the Tyrant and Take on the World? If You Say Yes, you can Eat Me Alive. I’d rather be left Out in the Cold than have some Grinder Ram it Down my throat.
Better to be a Savage and Running Wild than be Run of the Mill.
I have no idea what you just said, but it sounded pretty legit.
Can you be Breaking the Law if there is no government?
As soon as I saw this, I immediately pledged my steam powered double-headed chainaxe to Rob Halford, just in case the apocalypse did happen.
Just picture it… Riding on the Wind with the Hell Patrol, Screaming for Vengeance, singing our Battle Hymn and taking that One Shot at Glory? All us Leather Rebels would have something Worth Fighting For as long as Halford and the Defenders of the Faith Rock[ed] Hard and R[o]de Free…
Ok I’m spent.
Yup, Commander is still hot.
Rob Halford? Bah. I put metal spikes on my cow and walk around behind him. All cowhide, baby.
So your cow is a “him”? Um, next time you might want to check when you milk the alleged cow and if it only has one thing to milk and is ecstatic when you do, there might be a problem….
Cow, while generally used in reference to the female cattle, is actually a gender neutral term. While bull is commonly used for males, a bull is merely a cow. There is no similar gender specific term for female cattle, although some gender+age specific terms (Such as heifer) exist.
I dunno. I find this version of Pinhead to be rather… tacky.
*tomato to the face*
I’m sorry. I could not resist.
Maybe because his pins are not long enough?
*glance @ Squiddy*
“When the government is in chaos, ridiculous leather straps have a very calming effect.”
Why, yes. Yes, indeed, they do. <3
All the time, really.
So does that mean Tan Mom would be a contender to lead? She’s pretty much made of leather.
Oh, sweet merciful FSM, this is the single most glorious thing I have seen in ages. All my Hellraiser and metalhead fangirling forever. ♥
Does this mean we will see a Commander vs Pinhead fight?
‘Cause I can get behind that.
The Commander might be wise to utilize whips…Pinhead’s already got the monopoly on chains.
this strip was awesome, haha
Waiting for Max…
Love this. Love this a lot. The mental picture of Pinhead, Duke Nukem and that guy from God of War going on a rampage is ever so slightly chilling though.
Kratos. That guy is Kratos. BTW, next time when you don’t know a dudes name but know the game/movie/show he’s from, google it and check the wiki page for a name.
You know, before the internet, “that guy from God of War” would have been a very socially acceptable thing to say. Everyone would nod, understanding who the speaker meant, and the little geekling that didn’t have the self-control to keep from shouting “His name is Kratos! Duh!” was the one that would be derided. But, lo, here we are in a connected world, wherein someone is supposed to Google every damned thing they want to say in order to know every miniscule detail about what they are speaking on. Doesn’t that get tiring?
Nope. How many different comics has Coelasquid used Kratos in and mentioned him by name?
Derp.
I never have a problem with Windows 8, and I’ve been using it since launch. Sounds like Cintiq messed it up.
Lots of people have no problem with macs, or with basic smartphone devices, or with this or that piece of technology, but just because you’re not using it in a way that you’ve experienced the many flaws it has, does not mean it lacks those flaws.
8 is a brilliant operating system… for touch screen devices. Otherwise it is counter-intuitive and riddled with problems that Microsoft tends to create when they try to make solutions for problems no one has. And it doesn’t change the fact that within a month of its release Microsoft decided to discontinue support for all of the convenience features in Windows 7 (I’m looking at you gadgets) among other things, in an effort to force consumers to buy their unpolished poorly handled garbage.
Reverse incompatibility & planned obsolescence is the linchpin of Microsoft’s profits & virtual monopoly.
Uh, you have no ideeeea how much effort Microsoft puts into backwards compatibility. So much in fact, that most of the really f’d up things about Windows are solely because of that policy. Check out Raymond Chen’s blog sometime if you want an inside glimpse.
I will. However, planned obsolescence is a work of the devil.
Man I was saving all my money for that new Wacom tablet PC, and then they announced the price to be literally double what I was expecting, and I had no way to afford it.
So here I am, still drawing on paper.
Anyway, does it respond properly when you turn the tablet around? That’s the problem I had with the Surface.
My friends and I have figured out after the first movie, every prime numbered Hellraiser movie is one we like.
Man, Windows 8. Most people don’t have problems with it, but the ones that do seem to have the worst things happen to them. :(
If your computer was working fine before you started using the new tablet then maybe its software is to blame. Hope you can get things fixed up.
The new tablet IS the computer.
My old computer is working fine because it’s a Mac.
I love Macs. :)
Because when they work they work well. When they don’t they fail horribly and consistently. Been working with Macs long enough to see the same uber-fails from select machines. Not every Mac, and not every Mac in a model or OS line. Just the one or two cases where they just implode themselves and need constant chivvying for the rest of their limited lives.
The world is lucky that the Commander is there to keep those guys from following someone else. The government should really consider his work as ‘essential’ and keep funding.
What I find most hilarious is the face of Jonesy after the leather uniform of the Commander. I am almost expecting Aunty Entity, now.
Don’t you just love Windows 8? It’s so useful and straightforward.[/sarcasm]
WIN8: Oh no, your battery is low! I’m gonna turn off wi-fi to save battery power!
[User plugs in laptop and attempts to re-connect to internet]
WIN8: I’m sorry, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I don’t see any wireless networks.
[User checks all wi-fi settings]
WIN8: I don’t see any wireless networks. Would you like to try troubleshooting?
[User runs the troubleshooter]
WIN8: I think you should try plugging an ethernet cable into your computer.
[User restarts computer]
WIN8: Oh hey, wouldya look at that, I found some wireless networks!
They DO that?
That’s been a problem for many systems since Vista. If the wireless radio shuts off, the driver stops responding and the only way to restart it is to reboot.
Nailed it!
Is it weird that I just assumed the pins with heads were an artistic choice?
Same here, you mean it wasn’t? o_O
Apparently Coela was a little iffy on the character design. Honestly, I don’t think it detracts at all and is humorous.
Yeah, imo, it works, she seems to take what makes the character iconic and puts her own spin on it, just enough to make it hers but leaving it readily identifiable (of the characters that are familiar to me that is)
Me too. I thought the pins became tacks because making a single, thin, line stand out as a pin (and not a stray line) would suck.
I am loving this little story arc. I am intrigued to see if we get Cenobite version of Duke and Kratos.
Just my imagination, or Duke is not muscular enough??
…My imagination…
Duke just want to get some from the one and only female cenobite.
There are a lot of female cenobites in the other movies so he can have his pick.
My memory is a bit hazy on the sequels, I only remember the one in the first movie. Also there is only one mentioned in the original story “The hellbound heart”.
Well technically in the Hellbound Heart they don’t have much of a gender it’s just one sort of looks female down there at most.
I only hope the government stays shut down long enough that we get to see a strip of the Commander picking up his kids in that outfit.
I’m just cracking up over imagining Kratos’ voice saying “Seems legit.”
Mostly unrelated, but I’ve recently noticed an inability to read ‘doing’ as a verb, everytime I see that word I read it as *doing* sound effect. So, yeah. Manly Guys *Doing* Manly Things, :P
So, is Jonesy’s facial expression because of the studded leather, or just because she lacks the conceptual framework necessary for understanding that other people sometimes change outfits?
Considering that Jonesy has the MOST outfit changes in MGDMT (due to her propensity for picking up new thrift clothes rather than washing her old ones) I would say it’s considerably more likely that the face is because Commander’s wearing only gimp gear in what looks to be a fairly nice upscale restaurant. All in all, it might just be that you lack the conceptual framework necessary for understanding setting cues.
I love the coloring! Your work is always so great!
Wait, “gimp gear, again?” When did CB last wear gimp-gear?
I think its more a case if he tried explaining before, and she didnt quite get it, so she wants him to explain his reasoning for it again
She’s asking him to explain it again, because whatever explanation he gave beforehand didn’t make any sense to her. (I’m imagining he first told her what he told Jared.)
Also, sometimes people just append “, again?” to questions like that even if there wasn’t a prior explanation.
Gotcha, just thought maybe he had worn gimp gear before, and she was wondering what the occasion was this time
Confound it all! Spencer, you blasted idiot! Cicil warned you to get rid of that heathen box, to take it to Lourdes, and bury it under the feet of the Madonna. He was going to do it himself, but poor Chesterton caught the dysentery. Well, now that the Jerrys are jolly well routed, I expect you to go to Lourdes first thing tomorrow. I bloody mean it this time, Lieutenant, I never want to see that horrid box, ever again!
From the private account of Lieutenant Charles MacGillvery, last know person to speak to Lieutenant Spencer before his disappearance.
I am a derp who doesn’t watch movies, so I was kinda disappointed when I searched on the “suffering of strangers” line and found out it wasn’t Judas Priest lyrics.
You said you werent very inspired and bam! An awesome comic strip!!!.
Should I be worried that the last two comics seem to make far more sense than most of the commentary on the current US situation?
I keep thinking Mad Max? Sorry If it’s already been pointed out, don’t mind me. Been awhile since I’ve really kept up with the comic. Work a butt, yo.
Ohwaityesithas. Anyways, art is as handsome as ever, keep up the good work, kudos, I’ll name my first born after you yadda yadda and other pleasantries.
Ugh, I still don’t get why he’s wearing that D:
commander’s girlfriend should be proud to be seen with such a strappin’ (in the most literal sense) dude! he could probably apply for the top role in in that crappy trash “shades of grey”. hear it’s up for grabs…
You got a Companion!!! ROYAL ENVY. I just replaced a power laptop because I had no choice, otherwise the money would’ve been enough for a Cintiq Companion too……….
so I’ll admit i had no idea who the dude with nails in his face was when i first read this… but thats okay cause the next day at work (i work at a nursing home) in the residents lounge they had amc fear fest on… and hellraiser 2 was playing when i got there…
When I first saw this, I thought it was Xerxes (the 300 hundred, giant S&M model version)
Since it looks like (please God please God please God) the shutdown is ending tonight, can we get just one more shot of the Commander in that outfit, but without the helmet? That face… on that body… in that outfit… WOOF! :)
(I have no shame. No shame at all…)
We all agree with this sentiment, and those who don’t are wrong.
By the way, I do agree that leather straps always have a very calming effect indeed… ;)
now that the shutdown is over, we should get a comic about Jared finally getting a punk outfit only to realize he’s too late
I just realised something and I’d like to ask if I may make a suggestion for other manly characters that you can randomly add into this comic. Really, it’s only one but he’s a true BA: Jean Valjean from Les Miserables. I really think it’s difficult to find many characters manlier than him. Of course, I’m just a reader so I’m not going to bother you a bunch and expect you to add him in. Just a suggestion, nothing more. :)
Which version?
The most powerful one of all, of course: Jean Valjean Grey, with the Phoenix For—
I’m sorry, it just leapt unbidden to my mind and clawed its way out as I was typing. :)
Well, the book version is the manliest but the musical version would be pretty fun too. He sings out everything he says but makes it much more manly in doing so.
I just put on some Judas Priest as I was reading this. Freaky.