Brett asked for Bearded Commander in November
November 10, 2014
1:37 am
I think I’ve had at least a dozen people point out how totally Jared Fred is to me recently, even some of my friends were just calling him “The Jared guy”.
No colour yet because I still have ambitions of cleaning the birdcage and going to the gym. But hey, while you’re here, five new pages of Platinum Black!
Yessss Jared.. the marshmallow guy..
I LMAO when i read this XDDDDDD
Gotta watch the movie this weekend!
Well, there is that one theory that, for everybody who lives, there’s a doppleganger of them *somewhere* in the world…
I thought the shark was a part of his hair for a minute there…
Nope, that shark is ready to LAUNCH from Commander’s head.
Wait wait wait wait wait….
Jared is the son of Stan Lee!?
…I suddenly understand everything.
And it all comes together.
But seriously, I didn’t see this until now, but it totally fits.I love your bearded commander, specially in the 2nd panel where he seems to be ready to shoot a shark torpedo from his head to wherever june bug sees necessary
Shit, wrong child. Guess that means I’m not ready to multiply myself yet
Well, when you ARE ready, let us know & we’ll take you off the list of potential candidates for a Darwin Award.
Come on, just because I’m not fit to be a father yet, doesn’t take me to the Darwin awards. I’m always willing to show how capable I am of licking the jelly off a knife without hurting my tongue
Nobody’s perfect & sometimes people have a mental lapse…An occasional “brain fart,” if you will…that can lead to a Darwin Award. In essence, *everyone* is a potential candidate.
If you *do* decide to have any progeny at any point, it could be questionable to leave you on the candidate’s list, because *having* offspring even *before* some otherwise-qualifiable accident would be somewhat at a cross-purpose for the Darwin Award anyway; it may remove you from the gene pool, but you’ve already passed your genes along.
I didn’t mean to “accuse” you of just being a human being, but if if you took it as some kind of an insult, I apologize for the misunderstanding.
No insult taken, I just wanted to bring out the jelly feat because it’s a thing I like to do, but since I was a little kid and even once being legally able to drink or drive I’ve heard people telling me not to do it because I was going to hurt myself. I had thought no one could be dumb enough for that to ever occur, but then I came across the Darwin Awards and I could see just how much I had underestimated the human capabilities.
Well, since Albert Einstein said something like, “There are only two things that are infinite; The universe & human stupidity. I’m not so sure about the universe though.”
I’ve long since resigned myself to bowing before his superior intellect.
He forgot to shave his stubble before the movie started so it just grew through the movie.
I have little doubt that the Commander has a high enough level of testosterone for it to actually be that way…
Also, platinum black gets cooler with every entry, I like the style of the creatures you portray in there.
It is funny how out of touch someone can be with how they are perceived.
I think that’s probably why Jared is so amusing – it’s because he does this all the time. Then we can laugh at him from beyond our screens and convince ourselves we’re not that bad.
That’s what makes him the protagonist, how much the audience identifies them whether they realize it or not.
who here is even going to go see that movie?
i went to see it yesterday it was perfect then seeing this comic i nearly choked
Phrasing it that way implies that you haven’t yet. Why not? It’s an amazing movie.
eh…i don’t know.
i mean its been a while since i saw an animated movie like this.
i guess i just lost my love for CGI ( wait is this movie even CGI?).
But tell me…for 1 to 10…..how good is the movie?
o.o
It is CGI, and it’s at least an 8/10. It has the classic Disney child/adult humor levels and a good combination of verbal and situational humor. It’s the kind of CGI that knows it’s an animated kids film, just in the modern world.
Hopefully a lot, it was really good!
… I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Fred
Thanks Captain, I needed a help too. XD
Am I the only one getting a Jaeger vibe off of Dagget?
As in Girl Genius or Pacific Rim?
Or Finder?
Girl Genius.
Wait until Arkantos tells you the story about who he got his hat from.
Like the… giant fighting robots?
No, the ones from Girl Genius. They’re people turned into human-ish monsters that speak with really thick accents.
Specifically, they underwent a technological procedure that turned them into monsters but made them really good at hunting and effectively immortal, and people fear and hate them. And the like hats.
Ahahah I’ve never read Girl Genuis but I can see how people would draw the parallels. Daggett’s really tough to kill because all the platinum regenerators can recover from just about any egregious soft tissue damage, they can grow back from a skeleton if there’s sufficient protein around to absorb (because they obey the law of conservation of mass).
Daggett just has an accent because he’s from a Slavic settlement in the North.
You should try reading it, it is a good comic.
They totally stole Jared. Here’s proof Disney isn’t above petty theft or maybe everyone just has the same idea for the quirky millennial layabout guy.
Wow that blue scarf monster guy on PlatBlack has a mouth on him!
Isn’t this movie an adaptation of the comic Big Hero 6 as well?
Yes and no. Yes they used the characters and stuff from the comics, with a few winks and nudges. No, Marvel specifically told Disney they wanted them to do their own thing rather than doing a straight adaptation.
Hey, you think Disney’s plagiarizing, try reality: I literally know a guy who not only resembles but shares a name with our beanie cap-wearing layabout.
It’s been freakin’ me out from day 1.
Jared’s like the most average teenage gamer kid, he’s an amalgamation of my brother and two or three of his friends
ahahaha There is no shortage of Jared looking dudes out there.
Now I reimagining Jared as having TJ Miller’s voice and it totally changes his dynamic for me. But I love TJ Miller so it’s still great.
I didn’t think Jared like Fred, but mostly cause I don’t read Jared’s words in TJ Miller’s voice.
Yeah, Jared’s voice sounds kinda screechy in my mind.
If it helps at all the friend of my brother’s he’s based on most aesthetically sounds kind of like Cr1tical
Weird. I always read Jared’s voice as being high pitched, nasally, whiny, and generally more teenagery rather than “college bro”-y.
Hopefully Jared doesn’t start climbing in Mr. Fish and trying to breathe fire.
I think it would still be safer than Mr. Fish’s Laser Fish Mode
To be fair…Gyarados CAN learn Flamethrower….
I’m glad to see you didn’t immediately jump to the “they stole my character” frame of mind that seems to be the default of people with any creative talent. That being said, it IS uncanny how like Baymax he was >.>
I don’t think that it’s the default setting for creative people. Most accusations of plagiarism break down to one of two things: either cases where it’s pretty obvious (usually a specific drawing in which the thief seems to have literally traced it with a lightbox or the digital equivalent), or one in which the “plaintiff” thinks that their prior use of age-old tropes constitutes ownership.
I see Commander forgot to shave again today.
No, he’s just getting into the Noshavember thing. By the end of the month, he’ll be Cousin It.
Or a giant sheep.
A giant *blonde* sheep…
Well, no. Not a sheep; wrong gender. More like a ram.
Sheep are either male or female. A female sheep is called a ‘ewe’.
Still, what people commonly think of as ‘sheep’ are indeed ewes, so there’s that bit of confusion.
*goes back to lurking*
Okay, I admit it. I’ve been a baa-aaad boy & ewe caaa-aaalled me out for it.
Aw jeeze, has it been a year already? Good thing I decided to visit here; I was planning to shave in the morning.
Completely forgot about that part of flipping the calendar page.
Wait, is that what it’s called over there? Down here it’s either ‘Movember’ or ‘Blue November’
The whole concept of “No Shave November” has always baffled me. It’s apparently supposed to ‘raise awareness for prostate cancer’. I still have no idea how anyone is supposed to know whether or not I’m shaving around that area.
Why not encourage women to quit shaving for Breast Cancer Awareness
MonthYear?Cool fact, Breast Cancer awareness gets such a disproportionate push because it was basically deemed a “sexy” illness from a marketing perspective. Businesses are so hung up on running Pink Ribbon campaigns because it gives them an opportunity to sell breasts in a way that makes people feel philanthropic, and it’s deemed the least politically controversial by marketers to boot (Heart disease and diabetes have associations with things like obesity and smoking, AIDS fundraisers could be seen as “pro gay” to conservative American consumers, prostates aren’t “sexy” like breasts are). How much money is actually raised/where it goes is usually pretty suspect. A lot of the time companies slapping pink ribbons on their products create merchandise with known links to cancer (like certain cosmetics or fast food brands) so from a business perspective they don’t actually want research being put into prevention (because it would most likely include people being advised against consuming their product) and put a disproportionate amount of money into advertising mammograms for “early detection”.
Which just shows how out of whack priorities in the USA (and elsewhere) are. Prostate cancer kills about 20,000 a year, breast cancer 41,000. Cardiovascular disease kills 781,000.
I concur with everything Squid says. Even though there are more victims of prostate cancer than breast cancer, and more fatalities coming from prostate cancer than breast cancer, breast cancer gets more funding.
That’s not true. Prostate claimed 27k people in 2012, breast cancer killed 41K. see pg: 30.
Breast cancer also tends to kill younger people than prostate cancer. Death rates for breast cancer spike after 45, it doesn’t spike for prostate cancer until after 65. (page 25)
E.G between age 45-54 breast cancer kills 12.9/100000, where prostate cancer is only 1.1/100000
source: CDC mortality statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr63/nvsr63_09.pdf
Well, I guess I need some new orthopedic inserts… cuz I stand corrected!
Basically, it’s a cheap way for a business or brand to say “we care about women” by coloring their packaging pink for a short time.
Or even more accurately, a way for businesses to say “You care about women” and make you feel good about yourself by colouring their packaging pink.
You do realize that the proportion of men dieing from breast cancer is greater than women, don’t you? As in, the death rate of men with breast cancer is higher than that of women with breast cancer
If November is supposed to promote awareness of prostate cancer, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to stop shaving your @$$ instead of your face?
More people are going to notice your Movember moustache than will notice your unshaven arse. Anyway, who shaves their arse?
In the whole course of my life, I’ve never shaved mine. That means I’ve been aware of prostrate cancer ever since I was old enough to grow hair back there.
Wanna see how aware I really am?
O.o
I get waxed back there. Does that count for anything?
That procedure sure sounds like it would be a pain in the @$$.
The original concept of No Shave November is to save money through not shaving, and to give that money to the research against prostate cancer.
Then it extended to doing it for fun or to “raise awareness”.
I was sold on seeing this tonight by the prospect of Jared. Was not disappointed!
I’ll say it the 4 out of the 6 are mirrors of the characters of that cartoon, 6teen. Look them up and be stupified, the likeness is uncanny.
Actually, it’s an old Marvel comic of the same name (Wasabi and Fred and new
characters, because they needed a token character and they totally copied Jared :P)
Neither Wasabi nor Fred are new characters. Neither are original members of the team, but both were introduced in the first issue of the 2008 Big Hero 6 comic. (Where Wasabi was Japanese…they changed his race to make the team more diverse. I remember some complaining about making Honey white, too, but, not having seen the movie, I’m not sure if that’s true or just based on her character design.)
Oddly enough I can why Jared thinks of himself as a Baymax. He loves hugs, is easy going and a little simple, he’s the most caring person you’ll ever meet, but his is capable of awesomeness under the right circumstances.
I’d say Mr. Fish is more like Baymax, personality wise. Granted, I haven’t seen the movie yet, but that mix of awesome and adorable just fits with both characters. Plus, they both have a suit of power armor. Not that Mr. Fish wears his, but it was there, however briefly.
Just realized something unfortunate about Jarods words: he has a body dismorphic disorder, he sees himself as the size of Baymax (yeah, had to look the name up on a thread in the DCUO forums), it’s an illness that doesn’t just affect young women
Wow, new Platinum Black, that’s kind of a shock. I really liked it, but figured you’d dropped it since there hadn’t been a new one in months. Do you have an estimate for when you’ll be making more? I used to keep it bookmarked, but after going for so long without an update I removed the bookmark because it just never showed up…
I’ve said on multiple occasions it’s gonna be a slow one to get up and running because I have a full time job and two comics and I have to wait for the pages to be coloured by someone else. I regularly post updates about it on Twitter, patreon, and tumblr, and say as much on the FAQ as well. Honestly, saying “I thought it was dead because it doesn’t update enough” is kind of insulting when I go to every length possible to let people know what’s going on with it.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend. I don’t use Twitter or Tumblr and wasn’t aware that you had a Patreon, else I’d be supporting it already. I know you’d said it was going to update slow, I guess I was just surprised by it. Again, I had no intention of offending, I love both of your comics, and I’m sorry for the misconveyance of my thoughts.
Nah, I’m sorry, I’m probably kind of on edge because “You should just quit your comic if you aren’t updating regularly” or “If you’re so busy why don’t you just drop the comic” comments are unfortunately common and really grating when you’re basically working a part time job on top of a full time job to run two comics without getting deported.
Oh no, I’d never want you to drop either one, I just thought that is what had happened. MGDMT is the highlight of my Mondays, and I’m really happy Platinum Black updated again. If you’re happy with what you’re doing and it’s working for you then that’s what’s most important, because you regularly put out great content that makes a lot of people, including myself, quite happy.
Hot Bearded Commander is hot. <3
I read this comic and decided to watch the movie, pretending this was Jared on his days off when Mr. Fish was playing with the Commander’s kids. It worked out reeeeaaaaalllyyy well. Thanks for the heads up on a great movie!
I haven’t played or watched Pokémon in forever. Who looks like Jared?
The guy in the last panel
Fred, he is one of the protagonist of Big Hero 6.
Ah Jared, we love you and the mysterious ways in which your brain works.
Commander with a beard is best Commander :)
And the best part, in this comic, Big Hero 6 may be a live action movie instead of a made up animation, so the guy is an actor that looks like Jared.
I forgive, even embrace all of Jared’s other quirks and peccadilloes, but who the hell has that much popcorn left after the movie’s over?
How do you know that it might not be Jared’s second or third bucket being shown there? The kid may be scrawny (maybe not as much as he used to be, because he’s been working out recently), but maybe he’s got the metabolism to handle it.
Haven’t you ever met that kind of person who can eat out an entire buffet line without gaining an ounce, even if you might gain weight be simply *thinking* about chocolate cake? Is there anyone here who *hasn’t* met someone like that?
Yes. I’m the guy who gains by thinking, and then you have my friend who is skinny as a stick, is fast as all hell, and sits around eating chips all day, having KFC (mostly the skin) for lunch. So unfair it makes me want to cry. Jk about crying. Still pisses me off though.
So I have to ask if Jared shares the same approach to underwear that Fred and Stan Lee did.
Seeing as the box is already opened, do you think we can get a PSA of sorts addressing those “manly men” who shame women who partake in No Shave November?
The way I look at it, if a man’s beard can give a woman some rug-burns in…er, sensitive areas…then it’s only fitting for women to not shave too. Turnabout IS fair play.
I now have a new head canon voice for Jared
I think I swooned when I saw the commander with a beard.
WHOA! I caught up! I started reading this about 3-4 days ago, and I finally got to the current comic! Great series!!! You have a new regular reader. ^_^
It just now occurred to me that we haven’t seen Canada Guy in ages.
f-RED
Everything still checks out!
…..Is Jared the Commander’s adopted son now or something? For some reason, I’ve been getting a kinda…”Father son” vibe from them.
Damn it Jared! Also, Coelasquid, we need moar laser fish. That was freakin’ hilarious! Not much to use it on though…
Movember at will. Probably has better control of it than that fire he was training too.
I saw the movie yesterday and
A.) It was amazing
B.) Yea, Fred is basically Jared.
OH MY GOSH! I will forever read Jared’s voice as that of Fred from now on!
Commander looks rad with a beard, wow!
Thanks. Now Jared sounds like TJ Miller in my head.
Keep thinking the Bearded Commander was a Commander later/early down his personal-respective timeline of the not Bearded Commander
I just figure he grows a beard sometimes.
Birdcage?
Oooooh! What kind of bird do you have? I love parrots.
Satinette Pigeons