Just click your heels, Commander
August 6, 2012
12:00 am
For anyone wondering the DMV went well, I have my license and my bike is all registered and insured and I haven’t crashed it yet.
On the subject of insurance, man, this was the way I planned to start wrapping up this arc from the very beginning, but holy crap, I never appreciated just how horrible American medical insurance is to deal with until I went out and bought some a few weeks back.
Wait, what? There’s a vaccine? What? What?!
No one thought to ask…
This is one of those times where the simplest course of action was forgotten. “I am sick” should be followed up by “go to doctor.” Although depending on where a person is, this may not be too simple but probably easier than fight Rainbots, climb mountain, fight Gackt, fight Gackt again, then fight Gackt again but with laser fish! However, I’ve lucked out to have good healthcare most of my life so it may be equivalent for some.
Gackt needed to get beat up anyway.
He needed to pay.
Truth is he really did need to pay! If you look up the guys history he really isn’t a very nice guy. Especially if you cross reference him with Japanese Wrestling. You will find out he has treated them rather poorly and even come to their shows yelling out against them if they ever expressed any opinion that -girly- men should not be the staple Japanese male.
There was even one case where he yelled loud enough during the openings of one of the nicer wrestlers very similar to this comics manly men types show. The guy in the ring then called him down and Gackt come to the edge where the audience was still yelling about how wrong the guy was about his opinion on manly guys. The wrestler then came over and slapped him across the face telling him more or less to shut up and leave the show. He also reasserted his opinion of what a real manly guy is.
The incident was not staged or scripted like much of wrestling is for show. Gackt really did show up with the intent to ruin the show and get his point across. He just did it to the wrong guy and got what he deserved. Which was to be humiliated in a public forum.
Sadly it happened during a wrestling event so many people saw it as fake in the US and other areas. When in fact it was real as not everything even for wrestlers is staged. Especially not in Japanese wrestling where many injuries leave them in hospital for long periods of time.
Wow, is this online somewhere?
I have a real love/hate relationship with Gackt, I’d love to see this.
I think really any circumstance involving a laser fish is preferable to ones that don’t have a laser fish.
They did talk to Volt, and he implied the doctors couldn’t do anything. But yeah, no one actually checked. Super funny. And I love the return of Canadian Guy. Great comic, as always.
I assume it’s the difference between Childhood Nomura’s and Adult Onset Nomura’s.
Or Volt doesn’t have access to health care either, I mean, he’s an ex-mob goon nightclub Bouncer. He got shot in the head and his solution was to hide it with a transdermal piercing.
Either would make sense to me. :)
Or maybe they found something since Volt’s grown up. He has had it all his life, and is an adult, after all.
Imagine what he’d look like if his was suddenly cured
Volt? If that man was cured of Nomura, the onset of manliness would destroy the fabric of the universe around him. He’s damned manly and handsome already, and thats WITH Nomura. I can’t imagine a ‘manly’ version of him that wouldn’t be so over the top…
There’s either a vaccine, or Canada Guy’s Manliness overrides all attempts at bishi-fication…either way, FUCK YES. CANADA.
Suck it, American Healthcare System! Suck it long, and suck it good.
^I’m not an Amercian but… Yeah, Hospital in Indonesia are such a pain in the @$$ too. Like, they won’t treat you or even give you meds if you didn’t give them “down payment”. In some cases, the JERK@$$ hospital won’t treat the patients until the patients ALMOST dead. In WORST cases, the patient died, the hospital will try to avoid public humiliation by saying “we already tried hard”.
Being stabbed in the brain without any pain at all sound more delightful… =_=;;
^Sorry, i mean American. *darn typos*
Don’t worry, an app put out by a certain presidential campaign over here made the very same mistake. Just google “For a Better Amercia.”
It tastes salty. D:
I am sorry, I can’t hear you from MARS!
As an American, I should be offended by this. but American healthcare does suck
American healthcare is among the best in the world. American Healthcare system, not so much.
Funny thing about that, Alaska Natives get free health care for most things, so I honestly cannot laugh more at the Obamacare stuff, because either way I still am insured.
I’m very proud of our healthcare system but… anyone who’s had any extended experience with it will tell you that the “free” part comes at a price. Doctors are stretched thin and ERs are inundated.
Nonetheless, fuck yeah, Canada :D Also, CB’s statement in the first panel feels directed at impatient people like me ;)
…And it turns out all that the Commander needed to do was believe in his inner manliness
I imagine the antidote could only have been delivered via the fists of Dr. McNinja.
…I mean, who wouldn’t want to punch Canada Guy in the beard?
I think it’s time for a…. ROAD TRIP!
You mean it’s that simple????
On a similar note, I missed Canada Guy!
I don’t get what “Canada” says in the last panel.. anyone care to elaborate? Especially “Ay Danno,” since I do get Halthcare is healthcare in the characters accent (I suspect)
-facepalm- It’s “I dunno”, right?
Bingo.
“I donno, Healthcare?”
Canadian Guy speaks with a stereotyped Newfoundland accent.
He’s actually based on a Manitoba accent, Newfoundlanders just think they’re the only ones who talk funny.
omg
I live in Manitoba
It’s accurate. *sobs*
However if you go into Southeastern MB, it turns into this mess of Mennonite and… whatever that is accents.
It’s true, we really do think we`re the only ones who speak like that. I guess it`s cause it`s the only thing we got going for us haha.
Never realized how strong Canadian accents were until I had a guy from Alberta come into the store. I almost couldn’t understand him. It was like listening to all the stereotyped accents, “Aboot” and all that.
I’ve had people ask me if I was British or Australian before. I’ve never heard a Canadian outside of the maritimes say “aboot”, that’s more of a Scottish thing, most of us say “aboat”.
As a Manitoban, I’ve been asked many, many times if I’m British.
And a lot of people from outside the province seem to have trouble understanding the word “film” when I say it, too.
Americans can’t hear the difference between ‘aboot’ and ‘aboat’.
That’s because we don’t spend all day oat and aboat the oathoase.
It’s less that we can’t hear the difference and more that we can’t spell the difference.
That’s funny, I’m an Australian and I get asked whether I’m British a fair lot of the time here in Australia.
Ironically, I’m English, and speak-with a weird-ass (and totally unexplicable) accent that everyone always thinks is either American, Canadian, or Australian.
I haven’t actually got a friggin’ clue, my parents are from Birmingham and London as it is.
I know the feeling. S#*t makes no sense to me either. I got an accent on all my languages.
I got a light accent in swedish which makes some people think i’m danish (And I don’t speak danish at all, my parents are friggin Chileans that raised me in Sweden). I got a light accent in spanish which makes people think I’m American and I got a light accent in English which makes American people think I’m Brittish in the States and American when I am in Brittain…. ~.~ It’s a real pain. I have no idea why it is like that for me either.
Just to add to the ridiculousness: I have a Canadian AND British accent, and I’ve gotten asked if I have an Australian accent :)
As a Dutch guy,
I once witnessed this discussion between an Australian girl and
a girl from Bristol about if my accent was either Welsh or Irish.
They couldn’t decide on that… The Australian girl thought it was Welsh.
I sort of find all this talk about accents funny.
When I moved down to Texas, they didn’t have as strong an accent as I thought, but it was certainly there. Everybody asked me if I had a Kansan accent.(that’s were I’m from, SW Kansas)
I found this hilarious because, and I can’t say this enough: I have no accent. At all. Period
I was born with an inherited speech impediment. So I was sent to speech.
That already helps reduce accents. But I went for 4 years.
Now, that may not sound that long, but it was a whole year longer than I needed to go.
For about a year after, i spoke in a perfect, superpronounced, superinflected, accentless monotone.
I still speak with a rather flat tone of voice.
You can understand why it’s hilarious for me to be asked if I have an accent.
I guess now days, having no accent, counts as one?
Everyone has an accent, no matter where they’re from. As long as you’re talking differently than the people around you, you have an accent. Really, even if you DO sound the same as everyone around you, you have an accent. You have an American accent to a British or Australian person, you have a Southern accent to a Northerner, it’s all a matter of perspective and relativity.
I’ve always wondered how pronounced the difference is between Northerners and Southerners to people who aren’t American. Non-English speakers in particular.
I’m an NZer who’s spent a decent time in the US, and it’s quite strange! I get confused for British or Australian in the US, British people assume I’m Canadian, Australian’s can identify me as an NZer, but at home everyone thinks I sound American!
I’m british, and I’ve been asked if I was Australian, Canadian, and once, south african.
The last one was weird, cause the dude was from South Africa…
“Release Terrance and Phillip, or we’ll give YOU something to cry aboot!”
I’ve never once heard an Albertan say ‘aboot’, and that’s based off a lifetime of living there.
I’m from vancouver island, and most of us (99% or thereabouts) sound like a typical american, must be a regional thing
Vancouver and Toronto are basically America.
I’m from the uk, and I have this weird indescribable accent/voice, though I have had people call me harry potter, and troll me to make me agitated ( I tend to get high pitched when having loud reactions to things). Some people can;t seem to geuss my gender either.
Well, as someone from Toronto, I constantly get mistaken for having a British accent by
Americans. Though I will admit that a lot of Toronto accents (especially in the ‘burbs) can
get a bit Americanized.
:D I am from Vancouver Island (Nanaimo) as well! Booyeah! When I worked at a call center for MSN, which served Americans only, people kept mistaking me for being from Oregon or Washington.
I’ve never heard someone from BC say ‘aboot/aboat’ … I pronounce it ‘ab-out’.
I’m from the interior of BC and I’ve been told I have a “Canadian” accent.
I think I sound pretty much normal unless I play up the Canadian stereotype or some other accent XD
I kind of giggle internally when someone says “Canadian accent” as if they all sound the same. XD ‘Cause someone from Vancouver Island sounds so much like someone from Newfoundland… like someone from Texas sounds juuuust like someone from Brooklyn I guess. teehee
I have no idea what you people are talking about and i live in the middle of a backwater Manitoba town. I have only heard someone say “aboot” when they were visiting from America.
Eh, that’ a french canadian accent.
Think of the former Primeminister Chretien saying so clearly:
” I don’t want no hassles with no hassles.”
That reminds me to ask, before we move on, what’s “ay bay” supposed to be? I’m still not sure about that one.
“hey boy”
Daang, I’d been wondering where Canadian Guy was for this arc all week. You read my mind.
Gawd dang it, that’s amazing. Love it.
That wolf pelt looks so friggen overjoyed to be used as Canada Guy’s hat.
The happiest wolf ever.
Does that make it Canadawolf?
Just that comment alone reminds me of the bear on Vikke’s shoulder from Lollipop Chainsaw (Except, that bear roars and bites like hell)
I bet his boots are made of Sasquatch.
So… In Canada there’s prophylactic vaccine for Nomura Syndrome? XD
Although the joke is hilarious I hoped to see Canadian bishiefied as well XD
He would look like a young Brendan Fraser, with the voice of Paul Anka.
I’d think he’d have the face of a young Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall).
This might be horrible stereotyping, but I think if he was bishified, he should look like Paul Gross.
I totally agree with you.
He’s gorgeous, but he’s not skinny enough.
I was expecting Hetalia.
I knew the solution involved Canadian guy!
Just in the day I got my healthcare from my employer. Geeee, I laughed so hard. Your comics were already godly, but they are still getting better, I am wondering where’s the stop to this madness.
Goddammit, Canada.
Wait, where’d Jared go?
He’s riding Mr.Fish, apparently
Riding Mr Fish, I assume.
Yup, I though the first line was his for a moment
Oh commander, chin up!
I’ve been riding a Yamaha YBR (it’s a 125 if you’re wondering) since february and I gotta say- I’ll take a motorbike over that four-wheeled box of metal ANY DAY!
I mange des guimauves dans le milieu d’la place assis su un ski-doo, tabarnak! asti que je l’aime ton canada guy!
” OMG! He’s eatin’ marshmallows in the middle of the place, sitted on a sky-doo. Damn I love your canada guy!” (this is a try to translate my Québec-french comment to english so that you may understand a little.)
Well done, except “sitted” is not proper English. The correct term is either “seated” or the present-tense “sitting.”
Does that mean the cure is optional and Mark will remain like that? I keep thinking I’ll feel somewhat sorry for the guy if they revert him to his old look (no matter how badass it is)
I’m just gonna assume you’re talkin’ ’bout Marv.
Yeah, Marv, sorry, him. He seemed so happy with this virus thing.
I… I love you.
I hear a celestial choir, and the herald angel has appeared to reassure us, with his godly canadian accent : Yes, there is a cure to this vile bishification…
…This….this was a beautiful moment in comic history.
Also yeah, American healthcare is….100% horrendous. And NECESSARY, like holy crap. No healthcare? Lol, FUCK YOU YOU CAN’T GO TO OUR HOSPITAL.
Whaaaat? You’re mildly uncomfortable because of a preexisting condition? Well sorry, it’s dental, which automatically makes it cosmetic unless it’s going to KILL YOU!
Seriously America, get with the program.
No, no no no no!
See, if it’s dental, you can get the procedure if it’s not life threatening sometimes. They just won’t cover the drugs to make living through the procedure seem like a good choice for the week or two of recovery time.
And God help you if you actually want to NOT be at work during the recovery period. Sick time? Pffft. That’s only for when you’re sick for less than three days. If you’re sick for more than three days it’s “medical leave” that you don’t get paid for. If you’re lucky enough to have PTO to start with. #NotBitterAtAll
It’s ok though! We’re gonna elect a billionaire who’s gonna set everything back to rights!
His mormon grin will heal all ills!
Honestly I have never had problems with healthcare mostly because America has a free healthcare system for Alaska Natives which is kinda like the Canadian system in which all non cosmetic healthcare is paid for.
Eh, guess all of them will have a bit of canada guy in them if he’s the cure XD
I think that was the plot of an A-team episode. In which case. Commander badass will complain endlessly about getting “crazy blood” and canadian guy will tease him about it endlessly.
I… I just…
I read Canada’s last line and now I stop the accent. I’m now reading everything in Canada’s accent. I’m afraid to start talking, because I might start speaking in it.
*Can’t stop the accent
It the Mennonite Virus! Quick, quarantine MLS before it spreads.
He managed to park his snowmobile in the middle of an office building?
Pure talent.
Naw, it’s a trait that comes with being Canadian. Kind of like the natural affinity with cold weather and ability to play hockey without ever having tried it before.
The Red Green Show it show us you don’t need snow to use a snowmobile.
OMG TY i could not remember the name of that show, i loved the episodes i saw of it on YouTube
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssss…
Like a cross to a vampire, Pro-nationalized health-care rhetoric is anathema to my cold, Conservative heart.
I had to think about this one myself, after all, Australia is another example of a socialised healthcare system that works pretty damn well (with a tenth of the population of America). Most of the Americans that aren’t just all ‘grrr, social healthcare bad…like, COMMUNIST bad’ seem to be in favour of the concept, they just don’t trust the politicians not to attach a bunch of other mostly unrelated shit for their own benefit.
Sort of like how Australia voted against becoming a republic a decade ago because we don’t trust the bastards in power NOW, when they can and have been dismissed from office by the Governer-General (nominally, the Queen’s representative in government) in the past. So I can understand why socialised medicine hasn’t happened in America.
My issue is that with everything else, the US government is so ponderous and inefficient that they ask for a bunch of bidders and then just go for the lowest bid. Doesn’t matter how the track record is or how likely it is they’re lying about the costs. I don’t want the Doctor claiming to be the lowest and then working on me with horror tools just because he’s the lowest.
And here I never thought I’d see someone else on the internet with the same opinion on nationalized health care as I am. Thank you for making my… obscenely early morning.
For future reference, I’ve been explaining it in a shorter and more humorous manner, thusly: “In the [U.S.] Army, we learned that government supply has three categories to pick from: Fast, effective, and cheap. And if we’d been really really good little soldiers and got extremely lucky, we might get to pick something that fit two of those.”
That principle applies to everything. I worked in a scene shop for a couple of years, and Professor Teddy Bear, our technical director (who is awesome), told us that we could have it fast, cheap, or good – pick two.
Canada is here to save the day!
Oh no… I got upset that CB would continue to look girly for a long time because his usual self is much sexier. Then I realized I was just as bad as his bosses, only with different preferences. Arrg! My tiny brain!!
In unrelated news, Canada Guy is awesome.
Oh God, you mentioned the poor quality of American Healthcare, I can already hear the grinding teeth of a million people who are going to make a lot of really stupid comments approaching.
Probably, but as someone who has experienced both sides of the coin personally, I could not give fewer fucks.
This is probably wisest.
I <3 you even more now.
And Coelasquid takes the prize for most awesomely nonchalant webcomicist!
Yeah, Canadian healthcare is good, I don’t have much of an opinion, though, because I’ve never been healthcare-less. As long as we use a similar method to Canada, I’m a-OK with it. But if they try something like Britain, that’s crossing the line. A friend of the family that lived in Britain died a few years back of cancer because, although she knew she had it, it was taking 4 months for her to schedule a visit to the hospital.
I looked it up, and Britain has higher mortality rates for things like cancer, compared to the US and Canada, because it takes so long to get in for treatment. And while the healthcare is some of the reason that British people are healthier, I think that’s mostly because Americans on a whole are fucking obese.
Also, to be fair, the next comic needs to be a joke about although everyone was cured, it took a year everyone to be prescribed a vaccine.
It needs to? Really? And here I thought comics were about making jokes because they’re funny and relevant, not about representing healthcare experiences fairly, as reckoned by readers with anecdotes.
Who needs to schedual? I’m sure one of them has a tranq gun, just load the vaccine into that and shoot everyone.
So you’re saying it needs to be portrayed as British healthcare? Or are you implying that Canadian healthcare has the same issue?
Bad choice of words, best choice would have been something like “should possibly.”
And Canada has some of the same issue, but is the best happy median between speed and cost, IMO.
Speaking as someone who’s been through the British healthcare system all his life, and has known people who have had cancer and gone through treatment in britain: yes, we do have slower average treatment times, yes, our services are more stretched than some american hospitals.
But at least our hospitals will treat poor people, and a family doesn’t get bankrupted cause of a case of appendicitis despite the parents being currently unemployed.
Is it perfect? No. But is it worse then the american system? HELL NO!
I thought most poor people had health-care already in America.
They don’t get turned away from the E.R. if they’re in serious trouble. But everyone else has to pay for it. One of the problems is, people not being able to afford to pay for health-care/insurance so they don’t go in for check-ups or when they first get sick.
Then there are the people who don’t take sick leave because they don’t want to lose their jobs and/or pay.
As I learned from my recent car accident adventure; if the ambulance happens to take you to an out-of-network ER, even if you are insured the provider won’t necessarily cover you.
Nope! Obamacare hasn’t kicked in yet. It’s rolling out in small waves.
And that’s how you can tell its election year, Johny, everyone is arguing about healthcare.
I swear, I just had this healthcare discussion just yesterday. Living on the US side of Sault Ste. Marie sucks so much. Weird as heck, but I still love Canada!
Wow. Small world. I live there too.
XD So just go to the doctor? That’s pretty funny and very obvious.
Awesome!
Touché, canada, Touché
*Facepalm*
Of course it’d be Canadian guy who saves the day.
OMG HE’S BACK! -manhugs Canada Guy- He’s too manly and Canadian to get infected. his chesthair gave him protection.
Cue people setting up internet websites to try to sell Authentic Canadian Chesthair (TM) as a cure-all. (It worked for PowerBalance…) Actually…. hey… waitaminit… Umm, gotta go.
*Runs off to find razor and hosting provider*
And here I thought it just gave up and died when it tried to infect him?!
Once again in Manly Guys, common sense prevails over testosterone poisoning.
I remember a storyline from X-Men, The Animated Series where there was a virus that originally was infecting only mutants, but managed to spread to regular humans as well. In the end, Wolverine, who is a Canadian, used his healing factor to create the antibodies needed for a cure. That didn’t happen to cross your mind while working this mis-adventure up, did it?
I’ve never read that story, I’m afraid to say.
Part of the animated series, actually. Part of that whole Bishop time travel bullshit where something was always fucked up for some reason. Cable was in it. Don’t blame you if you don’t remember it. It was a pretty dull and lack luster episode all said.
It was their take on the Legacy virus.
No need to be afraid to say it. Say it loud, say it proud! “I didn’t observe an obscure Marvel storyline!”
I remember that story line. He didn’t really use his healing factor to create it. It was more of he was thrown into the glass vat with the virus and was purposefully infected to create the antibodies.
But he didn’t die and both the timelines were saved so it was all good.
Hey now! The animated series was a good series for it’s time and far then -amazing- friends or some of the BS after it like Evolution. ;p
Anyways…. All these tidbits are right. Apocalypse made the virus to what else take over the world… by eliminating mutants. Bishop caring only for himself as usual goes back in time to stop the virus and save all the lost mutant lives. However as usual he screws up and is not only going to lose his but destroys Cable’s future. Cable with his lil time cube poofs off to the past to try to stop him. He fights Bishop and the X-men and does a great job of it and kidnaps Wolverine after learning of his healing factor to use him to create the antibodies that Bishop ruined from getting made. So everyone ends up at Apocalypse’s base where Cable tosses the Canadian Wolverine into a vat of the virus. Wolverine of course heals himself of the virus and creates a better antibody to fight it off. Cable leaves, Bishop leaves, everyone is happy.
The simple version though is that once again a Canuck saved the world.
Meanwhile I always love cooking marshmallows in the middle of the hallway: no spot like it.
I’d love to see a Noruma help group, though if there is a vaccine then I suppose it’d be more like alcoholics anonymous or for addiction. “Hi, I’m ____ and I’m addicted to being Bishie.” “Hi _____!”
The simple, real-world-friendly answer to the problem just seems completely ridiculous at this point.
I love it.
I couldn’t have been the only one who broke laughing at Mr. Fish’s face in panel 4..
That and Canada Guy just there in the middle of the hallway cooking Mallow Puffs on an open fire.. while sitting on a Snowmobile.
I missed Canada Guy.
Coelasquid, I want to say that I love your comic and have reread the whole things many times, basically whenever I want to laugh ina good way. Though I was rereading the comic with Poison and while the message of it was awesome I was wondering if anyone had told you that the story you posted for her backstory, about being censored into being transgendered since it was innapropriate to punch girls, was actually just a video game urban legend? Posion was always transgendered, right from her conception. Not a big deal and I don’t expect you to go back and edit the comment or anything just wanted to give you a heads up.
That has never really been confirmed. Capcom has nicely and wisely kept ‘her’ as an unknown so no one is right and no one is wrong.
Some say that it was always the plan since it was written on a concept art or whatever for her. But that could have been added after a debate on if fighting women were okay for the American audience which seemed silly considering some of the action movies and stuff out at the time.
Whatever the case there’s not really any hard evidence that I’ve seen anywhere where Capcom gives a firm yes or no on the matter because that’s a double edged sword and they’d get cut by it either way, although nowadays it would be better to say that it was their intentions that Poison was female vs transgendered.
The thing is there can be so many versions of her: the concept that she was planned as a woman, the hermaphroditic, the transsexual, and the transgendered.
But in the end what does it really matter? I mean as the Commander pointed out in that comic you’re not trying to get in Poisons ultra short shorts. And really in the games it doesn’t make a lick of difference because in the end she’s still badass and well any other focus besides fighting isn’t the objective.
With the game-play and stories as far as memory serves me there hasn’t been a focus on her being a ‘trap’ and Capcom has gone to great lengths to make sure that the only people who are going about with the issue are the fans and the media but no one in game. So they can continue to make bank and make people uncomfortable with that Poison Kiss attack because really it’s not them who is making the fuss about it, it’s the players.
She was refered to as such in the manuals to the games. Manuals which came out before they even tried to americanise the game. And thee’d be no point changing it anyway since they just removed her entirely from the american version.
Just a point – Poison is obviously depicted as female, regardless of what lies in her pants, and should in fact be referred to as female without quotations.
But…but I like to do the quotations.
It’s fun to do the excessive amount of finger quotes especially when talking, it’s a nice distraction.
But really I wonder why it’s an issue at all. Poison is a vg character that when made had and still has nothing between her legs, the same with every other video game character unless it was necessary to show off the genitalia.
Though if it were a clear cut answer to if she was I wonder what she would have looked like with the virus even though technically Poison would already have that bishi thing going on.
Consider Ducky’s advice a friendly warning. You are clearly a reasonable, thoughtful person who likes to share your views respectfully, but putting a person’s gender-specific pronouns in quotes is a pretty major faux pas, even if the person in question doesn’t fit the traditional male/female and even if the person is fictional. Keep this in mind and show your understanding and support. :) It’s easy enough to refer to others by their obviously preferred gender pronouns.
Never have I lol’d so hard at a reference to Canadian medical care.
So does this mean Pyramid head Canadian or already immune and was wearing Sailor suit for the hell of it? So did Duke Nukem get abducted by rabid Homestuck fans?
I’d expect Pyramid Head to be immune by virtue of not being human… or probably even biological when you get down to it. Silent Hill monsters aren’t ontologically “real” or independent organisms: they’re a kind of tangible hallucination or dream. Physically he’s probably something like an ectoplasm homunculus, or the magical/mystical equivalent of a Star Trek holo-person.
Only way he could get “infected” is if the person who summoned/created him were to associate Nomura Syndrome with the feelings of self-punishment or retribution PH represents. Like if they got infected and perceived it as something they deserved for the same reasons they “deserved” PH, or if they perceived infection as something the person they unconsciously sicced PH on really deserved.
We don’t know who’s Pyramid Head this PH is, though I’d guess he’s probably James Sunderland’s: that’s what he looks like, and that would be consistent with the way the comic works character wise. If it is James’s PH, then there’s no vector for him to be “infected”. Dressing in a sailor suit is probably his own special way of trying to both fit in and mess with people at the same time.
Oh god, he’s just like new coke now!
So… we wait till everyone dislikes him and the bring back the Classic Commander? :P
Slight diversion after reading your screen name. You wouldn’t happen to play Champions Online? And something tells me I just opened a whole new kettle of fish here.
I’m just surprised nobody noticed Canadian Guy wasn’t infected earlier. I mean he stands out when there isn’t a virus going around anyway. I would think it would be more so now. Unless, everyone was just entranced by what they saw in the mirror so that they didn’t notice anything else.
Does this mean volt will be cured?
Me, I just figured he was out in the woods while the virus was going around and didn’t get infected. But hell, I’ll take the Canadian Health system for the win.
Maybe Canadians are immune to Anime cliches?
(sees Wolverine anime at local comic store)
… never mind.
Was wolverine in the shot of those who was infected? No, looks like he and Canadian guy left to do Canadian things or were immune. My theory is that due to Canada being the big cartoon biz those born there has a high immunity to being altered. Okay so since this arc wrapping up should someone tell Hans that it’s over?
To be fair, going by Canadian Health Care, Canada Guy should still be in the waiting room, twiddling his thumbs.
Yeah, that whole half hour it took for me to see a doctor in the ER waiting room (after having my blood taken immediately for testing) when they worried there might be bleeding somewhere in my digestive tract sure was way worse than paying a few thousand dollars.
Why do people who have painful but non-life threatening injuries complain about the time it takes to see a doctor? Someone who might be dying > your broken ankle from being stupid, every damn time.
My issue (American hospital) is that I came in saying “I think there’s blood in my stool” and they took 3 hours to do a butt-wipe and find out that there was not. Blood in your stool is kind of a huge deal and should not have been shelved when there was a 2-minute, instant-result test.
>twiddles thumbs< Waiting rooms in the US aren't exactly racetracks either, unfortunately.
Especially if it’s a VA hospital you’re going to.
This. My son (freshly 3 at the time) waited about an hour and a half to get 3 stitches when he fell and busted open his chin.
That 1.5 hours was the expedited time. I can not imagine how fast they’d be able to get to anyone else who wasn’t a screeching 3 year old.
YES CANADIAN GUY. I yelled in glee and did a dance seeing him. AWESOME!
Mr. Fish’s face! Fourth panel! I just can’t stop laughing
No wonder the Commander always wants to kill Canadian Guy. XD
Try Medicare sometime. It’s terrible, although slightly better than Medicaid (if you make little enough money to not have to pay for Medicare). No dental, though. America: doing a bang-up job of taking care of the disabled. *sigh* Doesn’t help that there are jackasses running around on disability who shouldn’t be on it in the first place.
Yep. Basically, it’s time to scrap this entire mess we have and get back to the drawing board.
CANADA GUY!
Also, “Ay danno, halthcare?” is the best Hand Wave in the history of ever.
Now we just have to kill Canadian Guy and turn his blood into a vaccine.
I’ve obviously spent too many years reading comics because my first instinct would be to pounce on Canadian guy and synthesize a vaccine from his precious, precious non-Namura’d blood.
Okay, love the comic but slightly confused by the line “I know fer FACT you weren’t livin’ with this shit before we all got Nomura’d”. Living with what?
Nomura syndrome. Like Volt was.
Now I’m curious to find out how horrifically over-muscled Volt would be if he got cured…
I’m gonna go with the juvenile-onset vs. adult-onset Nomura Syndrome idea introduced earlier. Like diabetes!
Ahh right. I feel dumb.
American health insurance is the biggest joke of the “civilized” world.
Not going to focus on the healthcare thing, people has said what needed to be said about it and I have my own issues with it I rather not think about right now because it’s just so dumb.
But with the possibility of a cure I wonder if Volt could take it and be cured. If so would he become even more manly without it hindering him to that which we can only dream of? Would his manliness surpass that of Canada, the Commander, and Brando? Would it be the manliness that puts to rest all of those Norris jokes?
Or would it just be too much to think that a Nomura creation would be one of the most manly guys ever?
ah, as a canadian, i found the “halthcare” punchline to be most…delicious. i tip my hat to you.
although, i was really hoping to see a nomura’d canadian-guy. oh well.
He’d probably look like Adam Beach circa ’98 if he didn’t just end up being another Commander pallet swap.
“This is my Original Character, Labatt Blue. He’s nothing like Canadian Guy, because his name is different and his hair is blue.” :D
Karl Denninger sums up a lot of my thoughts on America’s current health care system (and its faults) here: http://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2931463
/sits back to wait for color
//Canada, eh!
I don’t think I can take seriously any political article that EMPHASIZES POINTS LIKE THIS!!!
Also that appears to be a crazy person.
Interesting read. A bit polemic at times, but interesting.
You shouldn’t have health-care insurance aside from catastrophic insurance. The rest should be covered by subscription plans or out-of-pocket.
Subscription plans, however, are illegal. Businesses can end-run around this (they can purchase mass coverage, so payouts for any one employee’s needs don’t jack up their prices), but single citizens can’t.
Essentially, the whole mess of misregulation needs to be scrapped, and this time the replacement should be made visible to the public _before_ its voted on.
Well played, well played. I did not see that coming at all. xD
After they’re all cured of the disease, if they decide to form a support group for former sufferers, I vote for it being named “Nomora”.
I think canada man is kinda attractive… All about the beard :P good job :D
From now on, Canadian Guy’s wolf pelt hat is named Steppenwolf.
Or at least it should be.
YES
Its always a pleasure to see the black and white up before the color version, gives us all a chance to admire your beautiful inking
I agree with Warmaster, your inking is among some of the best that I have seen. It definitely give us the opportunity to see what your process is. XDX
As a very hairy guy(as in i look almost like i’m wearing a hair t shirt hairy) who comes from a generation that loves hairless men i must say all the manly love here really makes me feel good.
Also the healthcare line made me laugh. Also consider adding a non palin alaska joke. Not enough of those these days and yet we are about as manly as canada.
Oh god do not mention that woman I met her once and still have mental scarring from my failed attempts to claw it out of my brain. As for the manliness of Alaskans it is at least equal to the Canadians if not more so. It is a bit tougher to live in the villages than compared to the more urbanized Canada.
Canadian Guy is back?
i guess this is the perfect chance for this!
https://images.nonexiste.net/popular/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/google-imaged-Canada-Day-this-is-what-turned-up-now-terrified-of-Canada-and-their-moose-overlord.jpeg
This comment was perfect. :D
great finish, love it
I fucking LOVE Canada <3
But… but… America has The Best Healthcare System In The World!™ Fox News wouldn’t lie to me, would it?
Considering the Onion News Network has better news coverage then Fox.. well.. I’m sure you have nothing to worry about.
Congratulations, you just missed the joke.
I think this is the first time since I started reading this comic where I actually understood what Canada Guy said without having to read it more than three times. All the other times just sound like gibberish and I don’t bother trying to figure out what he’s saying.
I really like that second to last panel with the commander pointing. Very dynamic!
Man, I hope that this wasn’t all just a drawn-out cover story to give you an excuse to change how to draw your main character.
I think she’s made it rather clear that she is not a fan of bishie, from the comments on many of these.
Canada Man is honestly my favorite character. I really would love a backstory on him.
Booya! Called it!
So does this mean Canada Guy will take the team to Canada to cure them? That’d be pretty cool… Seeing Canada Guy as the hero.
Canadian’s snowmobile thingy is in villain colors! This means… probably nothing.
Are you gonna keep Marv Nomura’d?
This has been a very entertaining story arc, but I’m sure looking forward to seeing the Commander as his old rugged manly self!
I said a few comics back that the cure had something to do with Canadian guy. Not quite what I thought, but hell, I’ll take full points anyway!
Canadian Guy’s winter gear looks a hell of a lot like the Stormcloak Officers armor in Skyrim.
Canadian Guy is so freaking adorable sometimes. Just seeing him cook marshmallows makes me happy.
Turns out this whole time the cure was ketchup flavored chips.
Oh and milk in bags.
You know I thought that the cure would be watching The Expendables 2.
Did he have a hand in making this one too?
Lol. He gets all this new stuff and decides to act like it’s the middle of winter in the mountains by parking his snowmobile in the middle of four hallways and making a FIRE of all things to roast marshmallows while wearing a wolf skin over a snowsuit. And he says he doesn’t know and maybe healthcare did it. I just nailed it didn’t I? XD
seems feasible.
Kinda does. But that’s because I have delved into fantasy and fiction too much. XD What DOESN’T seem feasible is the reason I typed “fire” in all caps: what would REALLY happen if you lit a campfire in the middle of a carpeted hallway in a place like that? Especially if you were covered in warm but flammable clothing and surrounded by shelves of magazines and other flammable stuff? Did I mention the shelves were made of wood?
The thing I want to know is, how does the Commander actually KNOW that Canadian Guy wasn’t living with Nomura? He had no idea that Volt had it, and he didn’t even know what it was until Volt explained it to him.
It’s almost like he knows Canada guy really well or something.
And to think. Until yesterday I almost went the entire summer without getting some marshmallows – or jiffypops.
Oh, Canada!
The only thing that would improve our healthcare from my perspective would be free dental – I would kill for free dental! I mean I only have myself to blame for the quality of my teeth (I drink WAY to much Coca-Cola) but still free dental would almost be more useful to me at this point in my life. Although admittedly the fact that while there might be a wait I can get checked out even if it might be nothing without worry is really very nice.
I just had to come back for one reason and one reason only.
To say.
I totally called it.
*Puts on shades, takes off on a Pocket Rocket propelled by YYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAH!*
After this story ark, I’d really like to see a comic with Steve (Minecraft guy).
Maby something like a tree punching compatition with Canadian guy.
Canadian guy punches trees right?
ok, I gotta ask. wtf is a manitoba accent? I tried looking for it on the youtube and all I got was people that I could clearly understand that, at least to me, sounded american. I want to hear the correct accent for canada guy because right now I’m hearing the cookie monster when I read his lines!
I believe the cure is the Daily Dose, as emphasized by his snowmobile.
People ask me if I’m from Canada way too often for it to be a coincidence. I’m not but perhaps I was born there and my parents have been hiding the truth from me…
Actually…with every panel that the Commander gets angry, I think he’s curing himself. I mean look at that. Before, he could barely even make an upset, pissy face. Now he can damn well be as angry as before.
If you think getting health insurance in the u.s. is bad, pray you never have to actually use it!
I recently found out first hand that if you’re in an accident and the ambulance happens to take you to the “wrong” hospital, even if you’re insured they don’t actually have to cover you!
Holy crap are you ok?
Yeah, single vehicle collision, I was the passenger, got out of it with some bruised ribs. My boyfriend broke his ankle, though. He’s gonna need surgery to get some pins put in or something.
canada by far one of my favorit randome characters!
I adore his speech font.
I think it’s called Mouthbreather.
At least we have BLACK DYNAMITE, DYNAMITE!
I’m sure this has been asked before, but I can’t find it. Is Canadian guy an alternate-timeline Commander, who just so happens to be vacationing back in the past as well?
Doubt it, Cmd. Badass and him are basically frienemies for some reason.
I chalked up the dislike as “familiarity breeds contempt.” Or Doppelganger Rage — when faced with someone who looks just like you, an existential crisis develops and one of the solutions is wanting to kill the other guy.
Or he hates the idea of him, how the other timeline lets him become an awesome mountain man instead of a living action figure.
Unrelated to anything really, but does that poster say “Punching Victims”?
yup.
I’m still in the process of catching up on the comic, but I have to say this particular storyline has been more than played out… Hoping that It’ll get back in gear soon.
I just got declined coverage of a $4k CT scan because it wasn’t “medically necessary.” This is after two of my brothers both died (at a younger age than I am now) from aortic dissection.
Yeah, the American medical system is a joke.
I love how he’s just sitting there in the hallway on a snowmobile, roasting marchmallows. Like all of this bishification stuff happened and he didn’t even notice.
The first thing I thought was “Isn’t he from the cold part of Canada? Why is he wrapped up like that, inside, in the US?”
Why? He’s Canadian Guy, that’s why.