Happy Easter!
Colour! Finally!
ANYWAY so, if you follow my Twitter and/or Tumblr, you’re probably aware I’m going to be at the Toronto Comic Art Festival on May 10th & 11th! I’ve been working hard to get merch together and in addition to this Society Six Shop I just opened with prints, shirts, phone cases, pillows, and tote bags available, I’ve also been working on this designs for shirts I’ll be bringing along with me!
As of now this shirt isn’t online, so the only way to get it for the time being is to come find me at TCAF!
I’ll also have vinyl stickers (the big durable ones you can put on cars and windows and laptops and stuff) of the TIALS eagle, prints, and buttons!
As of now I don’t plan to sell the shirts, stickers, or buttons online (I don’t have the time to box up things and get them to the post office with my work schedule, sorry!) So if you want them your best bet is to stop by TCAF or tell your Toronto friends to stop by and grab on on your behalf!
I’ll also be launching my new comic, Platinum Black at TCAF, and have these buttons with me as well!
So if you’ve been following the development of this comic on all my personal blogs and stuff, get hype for that!
Praise Helix!
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つPRAISE LORD HELIX༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
PRAISE HIM, FOR HE HATH RISEN! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ All praise be to Dome
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つPRAISE LORD HELIX༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ LET HIS GLORIOUS OFFSPRING LEAD THE MACHO MEN TO VICTORY!
Also, that’s a very specific number to guess, Dom!
Arceus.
Makes me wonder how they taste now…
Taste like shrimps?
kalamari
Jared cloths are ratty, yet Duke Nukem’s sunglasses are still pristine. My take away from this is that Duke really takes the time to maintain his shit.
Well, his Sunglasses anyway. You can’t see his clothes.
His hair is also pristine, and he is clean shaven. So I think it is a safe bet the shirt/jean/boots are all still well kept at this point.
A knight in shining armor is a knight who’s not doing anything
That, or Jared is terrible at looking after himself. Or he felt the situation just called for tattered clothing. Not sure which is more Jared.
Rule Of Cool. Period ^_^
This does not appear to be going well. Hopefully none of them remember this when Commander B gets back, or there will be a lot of expensive therapy sessions.
Is this in reference to the pokemon community spamming the GTS and Wondertrade with omanytes for easter?
Nah, it’s a reference to TwitchPlaysPokémon.
Probably a combination of the two.
well that was pretty funny I’m guessing that you take a certain numbers that I ordered to hatch Pokemon eggs right?
You are correct. The amount needed actually depends on their “tier”, or something. Which is based on their stat growth rate/maximum base stats, as I recall. (I could be wrong, do not quote me on this.)
For example Charizard is in a different/higher tier than, um… Spinda, I think. So a Charmander egg would take more steps to hatch, and Spinda eggs take fewer.
Huh. I thought it had something to do with the similarity between the two, so that Skitty-Skitty<Wailord-Skitty<Skitty-Ditto
Naw, that’s their affection value. The closer the two species are, the easier the adults will breed. Egg steps are always determined by the species of the baby which is generally the species of the mother pokemon, unless the mother is a ditto (in which case the baby will be the father species.) The only exceptions to that rule are Nidoran (f) which produces Nidoran (f) and Nidoran (m) and Illumise which produces Volbeat and Illumise.
So basically, if it’s a magikarp egg it’ll always take 1200ish steps, no matter what the parents are. Likewise, a charmander egg will always take about 5600, or a pichu egg will always take about 3200.
wow. so. much. nerdy.
Talk nerdy to me~
Yup. And damn proud.
This seems reminiscent of Final Fantasy 3 (6). I remember something about an EXP egg that would do something special if you took a certain number of steps….
Or pokemon,which they are. You take so many steps with an egg which differs for each pokemon. And Omanyte (which this pokemon is) requires 7680 steps to hatch.
You might be thinking of the Cursed Shield.
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Cursed_Shield
“If a character has the Cursed Shield equipped and has won 256 battles, the shield will transform into the Paladin’s Shield, the best shield in the game.”
No, the Exp Egg is a thing. http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Growth_Egg
It occurs to me… Jared is probably ideally suited to dealing with any eldritch horror invasions/incidents. He is, after all, a professor of Pokemon… he is literally an authority on fighting, capturing, taming, training, and weaponizing various exotic fauna, including his massive sea serpent that fires laser beams.
Dude, I think you’re onto something!
You have to remember, though, his knowledge mainly pertains to caring for Pokemon and playing with them, not actually catching and training them for combat. After all, pretty much all of his experience with Pokemon has been picking up a Magikarp off his lawn, beating other Pokemon with it, then pretty much letting it do whatever it wanted after it evolved. Honestly, I’m kind of surprised to see that he actually knew that you have to take a certain number of steps to hatch a Pokemon egg.
Actually, that just reminded me: Where IS Mr. Fish? I don’t think we’ve seen him since the initial Helix worship, before everything went horribly wrong.
Mr. Fish isn’t around because he is the fallen serpent, an enemy to the Helix who has fallen in the initial battle but will rise up to usher in a new age of anarchy. Or democracy. Or however the faux religion is supposed to go. Either way, I think Mr. Fishy is dead/brain washed but will return. Twitch Plays Pokemon loves water types after all
>Mr. Fish isn’t around because he is the fallen serpent, an enemy to the Helix who has fallen in the initial battle but will rise up to usher in a new age of anarchy.
(Gasp shock and horror at the end of Mr. Fish)
Jared was this reality’s incarnation of Bird Jesus, so I choose to believe that Mr. Fish was this reality’s version of the Keeper. Jared sent Mr. Fish to the PC as a protector of the other pokemon, shielding them from this chaos.
Nah, remember the time he caught, like, two dozen Magnemites and Magnetons, and they were docile enough around him that he was able to tie them all to Mr. Fish without any one of them shocking him?
I kinda want to see Jared train a great old one.
By Masuda himself one or more of those damn well better be a shiny.
Whoa hold up! Jared has more facial hairs now!
No, that’s about his usual amount of face hair. His head hair seems longer, but it may just be scragglier than usual.
Ahahah… so priceless… amazing….
Much wonder…
wow… such excite…
Probably?
I wonder what omanytes taste like…
Taste like… Shrimps?
But he’s carrying more than six! Nooooo I can’t take this comic seriously anymore ever again!
(jk)
Dom would be sentenced without trial for such an egregiously illegal act in Kanto, but luckily their local post-apocalyptic wasteland is lawless.
Phew! Thank goodness.
The Helix! It multiplies! Praised be the Helix(es)!
whispers “hail HYDRA”
Stop it. The Twitch fad is over, and you’re being an idiot like this. Now go and finish your crappy exposition arc so we can get back to real comics.
This is an imaginary tale, but then again, aren’t they all?
Oh hey it’s you again. “Being Yahtzee”, that’s what you call it, right?
I think the currently story arc is really amusing! But at the same time I think waht I think doesn’t matter.
This is your comic, that you do in your free time, and should do whatever way you want, because you’re pretty good at it!
p.s. – praise the helix
If you don’t like the comic don’t read it. It’s not that hard. Either that or learn to say “Not my favorite arc so far” without sounding entitled.
You know which fad ended at least five hundred years ago? Being ungrateful for free stuff.
The phrase “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” dates back to the mid-sixteenth century, in case you didn’t know.
http://cl.jroo.me/z3/B/J/t/d/a.aaa-No-fun-allowed..jpg
Looks like your link is broke (if anyone wants to see it, you have to type in the ..jpg)
It is literally a double-dot. That was a vaguely impressive fail there.
The fad is over, but many people are still involved in the stream and entertained by the creative work coming out of the games.
Is Jared trying to sharpen that spearhead? ‘Cause that’s gonna be pretty difficult, given that it looks like it’s made out of flint (or similar).
It might be obsidian.
If Jared has actually managed to craft a flint/obsidian spearhead then he gets points for that alone. Though he might just have stolen Canada Guy’s razor.
Yeah, but no matter which of those stones it is, they don’t take to sharpening, you just have to get a new stone and chip it the right way again. They’re both razor sharp when split properly, and don’t dull like metal does, by deforming, but rather they flake and crack under stress. But, given that this is Jared, he could be doing it in ignorance. Or just because it makes a cool noise and looks badass.
Maybe he’s using the obsidian/flint to sharpen that other rock into a spearhead, something that makes even less sense but is straight in the ballpark of Jared’s thinking.
I quite enjoyed how you made a humorously irreverent Easter comic within the “temporary alternate present created by Commander Rock Lobster B-52 Badass’s absence” – color can wait, humor’s far more important here, and the style is usually enough to let most of the intended humor through (there was that one comic with Poison’s hairdye that needed color for the proper impact of “macho pink”, but that’s the exception to the rule).
Of course, I’m laid back enough to be exceedingly easy to please – just get it up after Monday begins and before Sunday ends (or a few seconds late) and I’m happy… I’m also a WiiU player, so story trumps graphics for me (though gameplay is king, that’s not a factor in webcomics…).
ah christ that last panel spooks me
I’m just a little bit happy to see that Dom’s okay, even if he ends up being devoured by a bunch of baby Omanthulu later. =3
Looks like it’ll be calamari instead of scrambled eggs! Poor scruffy Jared. I love that this comic works so well with both the Easter eggs and the HE IS RISEN shenanigans. Ultimate slow clap for the perfect (and rather serendipitous) timing of this story and its hilarious alternate present created by TPP.
Just as well those were all Omanytes, the Way of the Dome must be held at bay! Though if there is a False Prophet around then Mr Fish will make short work of it. He might not have any Water-type attacks, but a Hyper Beam to the face followed by Roll Over on top of it should be more than enough to deal with a Flareon.
Also every time Manly Guys does a Pokemon-related comic it’s always freaking genius and cracks me up.
U know guys (and dames)… The second panel really gives me the feels that Jared did finally mature enough to take responsibility of leading a group of cataclysm victims on their way to survival.
I think it would be horrible if he lost all his memories upon commanders return.
Of course we always could assume that the “normal” rules of timetravel still apply and on the point of RL’s return the timeline would go at least three different ways: one where he comes back and all the changes would be revoked, one where he wont come back ever and (i suppose) jared would grow up to become a new leader for the manly guys in memory of the one man that was a father to him in all but blood… and the third option would be rather hilarious: Commander comes back but the timeline does NOT reset accordingly! He sees Jareds maturity and tells him the words which the poor fella wanted to hear from his own parents so much: “I am proud of what you accompliched, Jared!”
Now THAT would be interesting!!
Commander and Jonesy will come back just in time to see Jared Defeat Helix and Take Commander’s place.
That wouldn’t just be interesting, that’d be AMAZINGLY AWESOMELY EPIC *deposits $5 in jar*
I actually feel proud of Jared in this Strip. And how long Has Commander been holding back the Mind Flayers?
Wait, Canada Guy’s name is Dom? I dont remember
No, that’s Dom Santiago from Gears of War. He grew out that beard for the third game.
Thanks, I’ve been trawling the comments to find out, a few peoiple mentioned Canada guy, but Canada guy has Black hair.
Speaking of which, I miss CG…
OH MAN I read a OCT on deviantart with those characters! It’s finally time!
Yes, Praise be unto him.
I like how Dom gave an incredibly accurate estimate.
This!
That is of my favorite types of gag right there. :D
It’s not the accuracy that made me giggle, it’s the precision.
Wait a minute… isn’t he supposed to have an active pokemon with him in order for the eggs to hatch?
He has a Geodude or a Machop.
Or a Sunflora…
Jared pulls the emaciated Rambo look off well.
Heh, I love Dom’s face in that last panel. It’s the thousand-yard stare of somebody praying for brain bleach.
What? Duke is here, and still has time to moonlight over in Grrl Power? Oh right, we are still on the first day of Grrl Power (first day that started about 10 years ago so plenty of time in between)
dude. complain about the speed of the plot, not how many abstract days the plot takes :p
also, Grrl power has had at least two days worth of time passed. or else they eat a metric crapé ton of food
Have no problem with it still being the first day, would be happy if the fight took another six months
Sydney left to deposit the stores money just before lunch, she stopped off to have some some chemical weapons for lunch, arrived at the bank, played ‘tongue-fu’ with a ‘bank robber’, cleared out the bank (turning it into an inhabitable location for the next hundred years), melted Maxi’s combat boots, got ‘invited’ to tag along to Archon, got recruited after meeting some of the semi-irregular members, advertised her business during the press-greeting, took part in a live-fire demonstration of a few powers, found the Orbs leveled up and placed a skill-up by accident, several members of Archon got together for an after-press-conference dinner (paid for by Maxi), dinner got party-crashed by some suicidal villains
Still the first day flashback (the first couple pages with the role-playing game doesn’t really count)
Also, wasn’t complaining, was explaining how Duke Goose could be in two comics at the same time (one is a flashback)
It’s just a guy on the team that bears an unfortunate resemblance to Duke.
Yes, his name is actually Goose and he is one of the “Space Marines”, he just happens to bear an unfortunate resemblance to Duke
Are… Are you going to turn Jared into a man now?
Wait, where is Canada Guy in during this event time in their lives?
Those bears aren’t going to wrestle themselves.
Fantastic comic!!!
I love how all the heroes are perfectly tidy and poor Jared looks run ragged. But where’s Mr Fish? With Dragon Breath and insatiable hunger, he’d be a great asset, provided they can keep him from being mind-whammied? Or is that what happened? Has… Mr Fish been hit with something super effective?!?
Wait. Why has Jared not brought out his Gyarados? It’d make pretty quick work of at least a large portion of the omathids, and quite probably turn the tide of the entire thing in the Manly Guys’ favor.
Yes, where is Mr. Fish?
You’d think Jared would have a full beard by now instead of just peach fuzz.
Lolled all over the place.
I was going to plead for a link to explain all this, and then I just Googled “7680 steps pokemon” and got this, and then got this after Googling “Omanyte”: http://old.pokeds.com/ref/7680-egg-steps http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Omanyte_%28Pok%C3%A9mon%29 I know, I know, it’s probably heresy to know so little about Pokemon, but I never got into it, and apart from a few dubbed exceptions like the 1970s Battle of the Planets and 1980s Mysterious Cities of Gold, I didn’t get into anime until the 2000s (starting with Cardcaptor Sakura and Serial Experiments Lain).
PS: Dom is hot, and we should see him shirtless.
He Is Risen!
Was there ever a rival of the helix? I don’t know much about Twitch.
The Dome Fossil.
Oh…..
SAVE US DOME FOSSIL!
HEATHEN!!!
Yesssssssssss, the blaspheme makes me stronger! Let the mortals topple the Old One of Helix! THE TIME OF THE DOME SHALL BE NIGH!
Did Omanyte’s hatch time change? Bulbapedia says it takes between 7710 and 7966 steps to hatch one.