He who fights and runs away…
February 5, 2013
12:47 pm
Holy crap guys I cannot believe how much you tricked out my pawn last week, you’re awesome. I came home and his stats had literally doubled.
My actual Arisen in the game is based off a character in a comic I have wanted to draw forever but don’t have time to because I’m making vadayo gaem cawmacks in my every waking scrap of spare time, so it seemed weird to use him for this. So I improvised an Idris Elba Asrisen instead, I guess.
This is what happening in almost every Online game.
I hadn’t seen the EverQuest NPC mercenary run off or freak out like the game warned he could, until recently… when I triple-pulled by accident. He definitely pulled a Jared then. Dx
“Pulled a Jared”… XD Heh…
Oh, & Squid? I LOVE this new look on your site~! \(^O^)/
Gorgeous new site! Love the banner and TIALS emblem.
I love Jared’s sissy run-away pose. :D
It’s not so much sissy as the hand’s-up I-am-done-with-this pose.
At one mushroom, I’d be saying I’m done too.
“Screw you guys, I’m going home!”
Make me think of “brave Sir Robin bravely ran away”.
Boldly ran away away
when danger reared it’s ugly head
he bravely turned his tail and fled
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out
“I did not! I’d never!”
And then they were forced to eat the bards, and there was much rejoicing.
Yay.
aim for the Glowing red spot!
Yeah, hasn’t he ever played LoZ? The weak point is the eye.
I dont see Adela anywhere to help him with that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b77U1l0NL4Q&feature=player_detailpage#t=232s
Wait a second, I thought you had to climb its hair and stab the magic sigil on its head!
*is tossed around*
Thanks for nothing, Team Icoooooo!
Lol, as always, thank you for bringing joy to my life.
“STRIKE THE WEAKPOINT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE!”
Jared refused to follow instructions!
Jared instead used RUN AWAY!
WELP I GIVE UP
Jared is smarter than he seems. Somewhat amazed he looks entirely uninjured.
Well, he had the bow and arrow. Plus, he was trying to figure out how to use the damn thing while the others were getting hit
Yeah he’s on DPS. Commander is a tank. Kratos….. DPS……. Canada………. DPS……… Mr. Fish…….. DPS………… So, no healers?
Im pretty sure Coela has covered that exact topic in a previous comic about DnD.
Where I come from, we cut the tongues out of sorcerers.
Rouge is coward.
Oo… Love the texturing on Mr. Cyclops.
This is pretty unrelated, but did Antfish post his Commander voice anywhere else? It collapsed under the strain of 3 Youtube parties.
Still don’t understand why the Commander got so scared after reading the letter…
I think it was he just had a sudden realization that “Oh shit. JARED! DON’T DIE!” of who was writing to him.
Man, if only someone funded a coffee table book of Coela Squid illustrations of monsters and manly men…
I’d buy it
Hellz Yeah!
Me too!… Kickstarter?
That’s one bitchin’ Cyclops.
Heyy.. Is that just an elephant with no ears and an eye where the trunk would be?
Well, I have heard that the legend of the cyclops was originally inspired by Greeks seeing elephant skulls without knowing what an elephant is, so it is an accurate design for a cyclops.
Correct. Some Greeks found a fossilized mammoth graveyard on an island. Since the trunks are made of all flesh and stuff they rotted away and left nothing but a giant nasal cavity and tusks. The Greeks assumed the nasal cavity was an eye socket and since assumed they must have been the long-dead bastard sons of Poseidon or something.
Fun fact: Lots of ancient myths and legends are based on real animals that existed back in the day or even exist now. For instance, the legendary roc actually lived; there was an extremely large bird of prey that lived in the Phillipenes that preyed on other flightless, human-sized birds. Paleontologists theorized that sometimes the raptor would mistake humans for their actual prey. And the manticore from the Middle East is actually a legendary version of the Bengal Tiger.
Bit of random trivia for ya’s. Education, yay!
Legendary version? Is that like a shiny red Mr. Fish?
More like, “Oh a tiger? That’s cute. Let me tell you about how I got this scar…”
Well, that appears to be where the Ancient Greeks got the idea for it.
Pretty much. I get that impression from the actual artwork too.
http://www.dragonsdogma.com/images/sections/gallery/Cyclops.jpg
Dang it i want my four gold stars!
I meant to take your pawn out for a spin, but I’m still a beginner in the game, so I couldn’t afford his price. XD
Aw, I’m sorry, if you add me as a PS3 buddy you can play with him for free!
I didn’t know that! Thanks for the tip!
at least jared doesn’t fall off cliffs or the everfall…
At this point, I’d probably read any comic you did, honestly. :) Do what you wanna do. Your fans will follow you like the loyal puppy-peons we are. Well, most of us, at any rate.
Look I’m a first time commenter and I agree with this guy. I also wish to say that there’s nothing worse than working on projects that don’t connect with you anymore; so if that’s the case with Commander and Jared and the rest of the gang then go ahead and lead us to your new comic.
Imagine if he’d brought Mr. Fish along.
Hyper Beam for massive pwnage?
Idris Elba, from being a DJ, to slinging rocks to rising in stardom to now become the Arisen
Hmmm…two stars for helpfulness…Did he perhaps throw some more health potions at faces? Because two stars is pretty harsh of him for just one cyclops don’t ja think?
Y’know, from what I understand, healing potions can work via direct contact just as well as they do via imbibing. So, throwing the potion can actually be beneficial, because the glass cuts are healed by the potion’s regenerative effects.
“Told you we should have grabbed the sea monster instead.”
Those are important stars
I am really quite impressed with this comic. I have been following it for awhile. The material you have rivals any animated cartoon show (and it much better drawn). Thank you so much for posting for free on the internet for us. It is really one of the best I am reading these days!
yea i totaly agree with jared on this one
I love manly guys, but more of Blue would fill me with glee.
Doesn’t jared know not to make Luther angry?
The cyclops design is pretty cool… way back when the Greeks would find fossilized skulls they’d make up different monsters they thought they represented. A mammoth skull has one giant hole in the middle for the nose, but the Greek imagination saw an eye socket and the cyclops was born :)
So this is like, a historically accurate cyclops, tusks and all.
To be brutally fair, he is probably helping more by leaving.
lee remembers your decision to ditch him.
I see what you did there.
That game’s ending made me cry like a little schoolgirl bitch.
Though I think that would be more like, “You chose to abandon Lee,” or “He will remember that.”
And that concludes my “every few month re-read of the entire MGDMT comic”
I like how the Cyclops is elephant inspired, deliberately echoing the theory about elephant skulls inspiring the Cyclops myth.
I shouldn’t have read this during work. Jared’s “F- that noise” pose just had me almost in giggle fits and just fit perfectly. I love your comic!
Holy crap! Revamped website! Looks awesome!
Didn’t even recognize the website at first! Nice!
Lovin’ the website’s new look, Coela, especially the TIALS emblem on the top left.
….I dont like it.
Im sorry but I thought the first one was better.
The Commander Pic on the right is pretty awesome though.
You’ll get used to it. ;)
I have never heard wiser words. “Nnnnnnnnope”
I gotta say, as a web designer/developer, this really seems to reflect what the website is actually about. Not many can pull that off. Congrats on making the site looks so amazing. c:
I love the website’s new look! The style somehow seems more fitting than the old one, and the banner on top looks awesome. :)
This new site format is incredibly manly.
Awwwww yeah. Loving the new layout. I’m certain that Brando would approve.
Love the new site PLEASE tell me the TIALS pin is in the works!
Love the new banner, especially because it includes Canada Guy. Man, I love that guy and we haven’t seen him in a while….
I was delighted to see the new style of the website. Congratulations, you did quite an astounding job.
Hi! The “Random”-button doesn’t work, it leads always to the IKEA-furniture-strip.
Similar for me except instead it leads to the chest hair contest. It won’t randomize anywhere else no matter what part I’m on.
With this information, I suppose we can assume that the Random Button actually does work.
Just…only once.
Huh. I hit it twice to check this out, both from this page, and I was first lead to the Chuck Norris Christmas strip, then to Sten being harassed about cookies. Guess it works?
Is it just me, or does the Cyclops’ face vaguely resemble Shockwave’s look in TRANSFORMERS 3?
By the way… Love the new layout!!!
The new layout looks amazing!
I really, REALLY like the detail you put into the Commander pic at the bottom of the page, and how the entire new layout is presented. I’m also glad that the red still lives in the plaid background.
That is just too badass to be at the bottom.
But if it was at the top, the intensity of that man’s gaze would tear us from the comic itself…
We’re all full of fear so let’s get out of here!
Run away, run away, run away!
You got a random button! I love this comic even more!
IE7 hates the shit out of your new layout, btw.
IE7 is 6.5 years old and has a 1.5%-5% market share. It was surpassed by IE8 4 years ago. If you’re still on XP (and not using Chrome or Firefox), please upgrade to IE8.
So I just now read every single one of your comic strips from begining to end in one sitting ever since 4chan on facebook linked me to it and I have to say its the single most funniest thing ever.
Sweet, Sweet layout. And this is hilarious. :D
At first I really read ‘Hufflepuffness’.