At least she saved him from the partridge
December 5, 2011
12:00 am
Sorry there isn’t a better comic for this week, but we’ve been doing some animated shorts with an extremely fast turnaround and I’ve been trucking until 10PM-5AM or so every night. I just took a short break to scribble this one out before I get back to the grind.
So uh, Shale’s response to Hatoful boyfriend for whoever said they wanted to see it last week.
It’s really for your own good, Jared.
I mean, sure, maybe smashing the computer was overboard, but PIDGEONS man.
…I still do the puffy fathead pigeon dance the best though.
Oh yeaaahh? Prove it! Strut your stuff and post it on the Youtubes!
Even more better than the city fairy?
lol you read Gunerkrigg?
I love that the plot to that story turned out to be cyclical
Its cyclical for realism.
Because it is an accurate depiction of real city pigeons.
‘Tis even better than the Futterwacken
No, smashing the computer was motherboard! Haha…ahhhh
I always back my funny cat gifs up on my other computers. Just saying.
Backups on anything is a must!
Backups on backups. On backups. Just to be sure.
I heard you like backups..
backups on backups, on the backups backups, which you back up…. just to be sure…
B-back that ass up.
But then your computer might fall of the table.
Backin up Backin up, cause my daddy taught me good…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIoG4PlEPtY
Backception is upon us.
Not to mention the porn collection he must have.
I KNOW RIGHT!!!
poor, poor jared
I’m trying to fathom what Jared would consider “pr0n”. Because that breaks my brain. Are we talking about Pokemon pr0n, or Digimon, or what??
I don’t think he understands the concept of porn. Sure he knows what it is shyeah, and if you ask him about it he’ll say something along the lines of “well I guess some might people like that stuff” and then get really excited telling you about his my little pony fanfics. Or he has somehow managed to circumnavigate the internet without running into any, a feat once thought completely impossible. …i still don’t think he understands it.
This is Jared you are talking about. I’m sure he’s too busy with his collection of bean babies, reloading his bubble death traps, teaching mr.fish new tricks and whatever else he does that is geeky and fun
Isn’t Shale a female?
damn, spoilers.
Yeah, it’s not really am spoiler, she’s got a woman doing her voice.
Bart simpsons voice (as wel as several others) were done by a woman :P No indication the character is a woman though.
Women are commonly used to voice prepubescent boys, not usually adult men unless the joke is “Look how effeminate this guy is”. Certainly not big tanky walking fortresses of adult men. And honestly, with the amount Shale talks about “not wanting to look too wide” and “Wanting to glitter from ear to ear”, it’s really not a surprise. Honestly, I feel kind of insulted when people act like it’s a big spoilery reveal that Shale is a lady-golem, because the only inherently non-womanly trait about her is the golem physique. And yeah, I know golems are supposed to be gender neutral and all, but you wouldn’t see people being like “SPOILERS! CARIDIN IS A GUY!” and then arguing over whether or not it’s appropriate to refer to him as “he”.
I believe the actual question refers to the title of the comic and how the “manly” character this round isn’t a guy (unless the pigeons count as taking it LIEK A BAWS). I still think it’s hilarious and don’t actually care about the discrepancy. Seems like there’s been some burly/badass girls before this but I can’t remember for beans on a good day so don’t quote me on that.
And saying Shale is female isn’t a spoiler, if someone doesn’t know it’s more of a, “Whoah, REALLY!?” which was what I thought the first time I heard. I’d done a couple of playthroughs of the entire game by that point and just hadn’t used the character much, so it wasn’t until waaay late that I noticed the girly dialogue. The voice definitely doesn’t imply that Shale is female all on its own, sounds like a guy more than anything.
sounds a lot like Dodoria from Dragon Ball Z.
Yes, the big burly bubblegum monster with a deep, male’s voice was a female.
…No he wasn’t. Dodoria was only a woman on DBZ abridged.
I dunno, I thought she sounded like a woman pitch processed into a gravelly chain-smoker voice. I knew it was a female voice as soon as I heard it.
I saw what you did there…
Frankly, I’m still not convinced Frieza isn’t a she with that voice.
I’ve heard that some European countries did actually dub the series as though Frieza was a female character.
They are called women on steroids…
You should see the person who does the voice of Elmo. My brother showed me a clip of a talk show this weekend. It’s an honest to god low voiced swarthy dude. And no one believes he voices Elmo until you see it with your own eyes.
Ahahaha I’ve seen him. Still doesn’t change the fact that Shale is voiced by a woman and obviously sounds (to me) like a woman.
That and it says that she is a she in the games manual (or on the DLC description, cant remember which)
Just like the woman who did the voice for Harley Quinn in Arkham City is also the same voice of Timmy Turner in Fairly Odd Parents.
I vaguely remember Shale being surprised to find out that she used to be a lady-dwarf. Am I making stuff up or did that happen?
Still not really a spoiler, I think.
I think she was–though the shock over how she was once a squishy flesh-thing may have trumped over surprise at how she was once a squishy, *lady* flesh-thing.
Shale needs to absorb the computer and have PC-based armour/attacks.
I cast “BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!”
Your opponent crashed…
Rofl!
HAAAAAXXXXXX
*random computer flies out of nowhere*
Hurr. I always liked Shale. Good to see another Dragon Age reference in your comic!
Honesly, this is the best way any dating sim could end.
Ahahah oh my god this is awesome, I didn’t see this coming at all
Aha made my morning to see Shale rescue Jared from Japanese Pigeons! Another excellent comic Coelasquid! and good luck with your shorts or whatever it is exactly that youre working on!
Coelasqid’s shorts! Oh wait, they’re animations. Now I just feel embarrassed.
It’s “its”, not “it’s”. /can’t unsee it
This is America where we redesign our words all the time so you will just have to live with it. Look at our silly pluralization rules: Goose – Geese but Moose – Moose. Shouldn’t it be Meese? And ox becomes oxen but box becomes boxes, why not boxen? If we pluralize coal it becomes either coals or coal depending on scale. Why isn’t the plural of coal, coalen?
Even though American English is messed up, the conjunction ‘it is’ is always correctly written as ‘it’s’; bringing up an argument about pluralization is absolutely irrelevant.
No, they had it right. It’s the possessive form of ‘It’. ‘It’s’ is ‘It is’. This is true for American English, at least. If you’re from another country, then it might be wrong, but here, that would be the correct usage.
See, now this is a dating game I could get behind…just end everything in violence and property damage.
Those games exist and let me tell ya that stuff is just… well let’s just say that stuff has given me more trouble sleeping than Se7en or Silence of the Lambs.
RIP cat GIFs.
You will be missed.
It’s not like he can’t go out and GET MOAR.
But those cat gifs are hard to find once they are gone! D:
Nothing is ever gone-gone on the Internet.
THE INTERWEBS NEVER FORGET.
True o.o
Yeah, but “needle in a haystack” doesn’t even get remotely close to beginning to describe finding one particular image on teh intartubes. :P
I was under the impression that Jared saved them ALL anyway.
Just use google images…it will show you them all…wether or not you want it to…good luck switching it back to how its supposed to be…the button is at the bottom…of the never ending sea of images flowing in from every relevant image to the phrase you searched from THE ENTIRE INTERNET!!!
The interweb is a series of tubes! You can only stream so many cute kitteh before it goes boink!
Untrue, the fufme is gone.
If those animated shorts were MGDMT shorts, that would be the coolest thing in the world. I know they’re not, but that doesn’t change anything.
I would gladly contribute a bit of cash in concert with many others to get MGDMT strips converted to web friendly shorts.
I’m tempted to get into Dragon Age based on your portrayal of Shale alone.
Typo. “It would appear I’ve solved IT IS pigeon problem!”
I understand missing it though, you’ve got a lot on your plate. Just giving you a heads up.
Augh god dammit, I just want to put my skull through my computer screen and get some sleep.
*pats shoulder* there, there, Coela. when you’ve reached the point you’re at, people need to just STFU, and let you be until you’ve either had a very large batch of coffee, or have managed to get a days worth of sleep.
I’m pretty much a grammar Nazi but seriously, (Its, It’s, Its’) are all pretty flexible in modern American English and really, even if the text was all gibberish, I’m getting far more than I paid for. To plagiarize Stephen Flint – “people need to just STFU”. (Its’ is the legitimate pluralization when referring to multiple people of questionable gender.)
No, that is not correct. Shale refers to every fleshy being as an “it”. If you don’t believe me, play the game with the Stone Prisoner DLC.
Naw, they were just calling me for writing “It’s” pigeon problem instead of “Its pigeon problem” so it was technically saying “It is pigeon problem” instead of “The pigeon problem belonging to it”.
Yaaaaay *_* i was the one who told you *_* im so fucking happy rigth now *_*
You are totally my idol >______<
How long did it take you to draw this, Coelasquid?
The art’s great for a “quick scribble.”
As my father would say:
“Suck it up, little man. The Internet isn’t the end of the Universe.”
To which I would reply:
“Eh, I’ll just buy a new one.”
they sell universes now? 0.o
two for one special in the beyond section
I’ll buy a new Internet. Not a new Universe.
Unless what they tell me is true – you can only receive free Internets, but never buy them.
You can buy free things? The point of that being?
Nothing is EVAR free.
You’d do well to remember that.
Right now, I has bought new Internet. The question is – should I share?
Why buy one when you can build your own?
Isn’t Shale a girl though?
Not saying a female can’t be manly.
So is Lady Hawke, and she showed up.
Fem-Shep too, if memory serves me right.
If headbutting krogan, saving a whole brainwashed colony (by punching them in the face), and surviving 5 minutes against a giant acid spitting worm (always found that more difficult than outright killing it) isn’t manly, then I don’t know what is.
I never tried to survive. FemShep Renegade goes for the throat.
I dunno, the agency seems geared to actually curbing overly manly habits and instead refocusing the manlymen into “reasonable adult” territory. I can see shale needing that. I mean how can she even hold down a job in a city, there’d be pigeons everywhere she had to stomp before getting to work.
…That’s less to do with machismo and more to do with her constitution, isn’t it?
NICE! revenge stupid pidgeon!
Yeah, I bet he’d be freaking out at fat bird end, ugh. Hell, all the ends of that game I’ve seen are crazy wrong. Thanks, Japan.
I feel as if there’s a double-joke here, seeing as Dragon Age seller Bodhan in camp offers an “Unbreakable Pigeon” in his store that automatically gives negative 50 approval rating from Shale.
hurr
Not to worry, Jared; that was only the monitor, from the looks of it.
Funneh.
Shel definitely isn’t girly enough though.
First Zelda, now work?! One could almost feel that the creatorbot of this cartoonospace was human.
What the hell is Shale doing at an agency for ludicrously macho guys?
Admiring Sten’s glistening muscles.
This answer, I like it muchly.
If they’re letting women in to do that, the agency must be stuffed with ladies.
…and I’d like to be one of them.
What’s JARED doing there?
Work. He is hired as an intern, after all.
I keep reading Hatoful Boyfriend as “Hat full of Boyfriend.” It has made these last couple of comics a little confusing!
You only end up with a hat full of boyfriend when you get careless with power tools while making out.
A twisted thought, what if Samus found her way there. Opposites attract, imagine her and Jared.
Now that, is an interesting idea.
Poor Jared, Samus would probably break him.
in the “you are now my personal man-maid” sense. either way, they’d have to chase her off.
Shale’s voice is all up in my head now. Not that that’s a bad thing!
(And hey, good luck with the shorts. We’re rooting for ya :D)
I want that as a dialogue option for Shale now. Modding, anyone?
Seems like Shale would like Niko Belic. Both have spent a lot of time hunting down pigeons.
Also Shale was my favorite part of Dragon Age.
Just fyi, Coela, this is a perfectly fine update to me. Single panel comics win if they’re hilarious, and this one got a helluva belly laugh out of me. Shale is comedy gold.
Tsh, Shale is more manly then all of Dragon Age put together.
Although I agree that it is a sad sad thing to lose the cat gifs, I do believe that Jared owes Shale some thanks. That partridge is very very messed up. I looked the game up out of curiousity, but I didn’t expect that.
On another note, has anyone else wondered what Jared would look like if he were Manly? I mean, if he actually qualified to be a regular member of the agency. The only image I can come up with is him wearing a kids muscle costume.
CITY FACE WILL ALWAYS DO THE BEST PUFFY FATHEAD PIGEON DANCE! GUNNERKRIG COURT SAID SO!
So, let me understand this. This boy is capable of playing a game that you dates pigeons, and when his computer is destroyed, instead of porn, he is worried about pictures of cats.
I don`t know if he is really a pure boy, or he has zoophilic tendencies.
Based on the brutal neglect portrayed in the few glimpses of his childhood, he never had proper mental stimulation as a child so large parts of his personality are completely missing. Thus instead of lusting after pr0n, he laughs at cute kitty pictures.
“Do these crystals make me look too wide? I find I am wide enough as it is.”
I love Shale so much!
The world needs more of her.. I wish she’d been in Dragon Age 2, but no..
Or maybe he just does not download it.
LOL! EPIC WIN!
WIN, Shale. WIN.
I actually downloaded and played Hatoful Boyfriend because of last week’s comic.
Wow, you … like dating birds … that crap on everything … wow.
REALLY?
*SPOILER WARNING*
Ah, that partridge killed me TWICE. And one of those times, I even “won” him.
Hey, been lurking for a while, just wanted to say, awesome work on this comic. Funny, witty, excellent art, and features awesome characters. I had an idea to make a similar one, but it’d look like crap (and a ripoff) next to this. Keep up the good work. andifyoueverbringupdanteagainidbetotallycoolwiththat
problem solved, shale style.
also wondering how shale went from awesome red to okay blue. and why jared doesn’t seem so distressed that his computer got foot-smashed by shale.
Changed crystals? When you equip different crystals on Shale, her damage type changes, and it has some other interesting effects. I like the earth type best, myself.
I’m partial to lightning, myself. 8D
I switch it up depending on what we’re fighting.
wait why would someone have that on their computer?
why would someone have that on their computer? that is terrible D:
Come on Jared! Fus ro dah! Fus ro dah!
But Unrelenting Force only staggers larger opponents, Jared would be screwed during the cooldown!
Don’t apologize for the short comic. I enjoyed that so very much! Thank you!
Better comic?
Please, oh great and wise Squid, HOW exactly would you make a better comic than one about Shale?
Didn’t Shale hate pigeons considering she was stuck as a statue for a good while? I think this would in fact be her reaction to Hatoful…
You should really have a comic about The Doctor from Doctor Who. He may not be as American or buff as some of the other guys, but he’s still pretty badass. He once turned a fleet of everyone who’s ever hated him around with a speech equivelent of ‘come at me bro’
(as seen here-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjnht1k8M7w&feature=related )
If nothing else, there could be a joke with Mr. Fish in the TARDIS. For some reason I can just see his face filling up the entire doorframe… Jared would certainly be amused.
Ma’am; these things that you do, on the internet: please do continue doing them for as long as it may please you to do so.
Thank you.
re: its vs. it’s
Considering Shale uses “It” as a proper noun in reference to basically -everyone-, It’s would be correct. Jared is It. ‘It’ is Jared’s name in this situation. The pigeon problem belongs to Jared, who is It. Because it is Jared’s pigeon problem, it would also be It’s pigeon problem, because Jared is ‘It’ and the problem belongs to him. :D
Oh, If you want it to be a possessive, it’s just “I-T-S”
but if you want it to be a contraction, then it’s “I-T-‘-S”
…scallywags.
__Strong bad.
Of course it is, if you mean “the thing belonging to it (the thing belonging to the thing)”.
But not in this case, where It is being used in the place of a name of a person. It would be the person’s name. If your name was It, and something belong to you, it would be “It’s thing.” Not “Its thing”. Because It is being used as a name and not an object.
After having read a playthrough of Hatoful Boyfriend, I have to comment on how being a game about a human dating birds is the LEAST screwed up part. Some of those endings you can get…
Wait……Shale was the girl?
I always assumed it was the guy with the braids until I saw him shirtless. Then I gave up and assumed it was a typo.
Shale takes the Hansel approach to the things in the computer…
… she is so hot right now.
Yay! I haven’t seen Shale in ages. Hope he shows up more often.
(Shale was a she)