Link is Nux
June 15, 2015
2:25 am
Steals this princess, runs back to their tribe of badass desert ladies, wages a full scale assault to take the fertile green land by force? Hey now.
So hey funny story my computer is actually broken right now so I had to kind of rush this out the door. There are also a lot of really insane things happening in my life right now that I will hopefully be able to go into in more detail in the next week or two, but for the time being just be aware that I’m gonna be in a bit of a whirlwind until probably the end of July. Big things going down.
I haven’t seen the movie (not even the original, shame on me), but I just wanted to say that Link’s expression and gesture is priceless :)
I assume you were born in 1990’s??
Was the nineteen prefix really necessary? Obviously they were born in the 1690’s.
LOLs.
Actually I am 31 and I never got around to seeing the original MAD Max. Pretty sure it was on in the background at some point. It’s not as ubiquitous a movie as you think. The new one was amazing tho. Big ol’ lady crush on Furiosa, haha.
I wonder how the Deku Tree fits into this analogy.
The Deku tree is the crazy flamethrower guitarist.
That amp car would be more like an amp flatbed hauler
We need so many cosplays. I need to see modern, coffee-fly Zelda at a con.
We also need a Ganon clothing line because dude knows how to rock his suits. He is 24/7 swagger.
I love Ganondorf’s stylin’ in these comics. He’s 24/7 100% swagger indeed! <3
At cons my girlfriend does a modern [genderbended] Link cosplay, and I do a modern [genderbended] Skullkid ouob
Well no wonder they have two tubs of popcorn. Nobody wants to eat popcorn with someone else’s slobber all over it.
It’s so weird that they have tubs though. Here, it’s always bags of popcorn ._.
Wait a minute. Milk in bag… Popcorn in bags…
It’s usually in a bag unless you get the ultra giant tubs.
that is not a tub
THAT IS A MANLY BUCKET OF BUCKETS
and I was thinking the large bag of stock popcorn that you can buy for some reason, but it’s nasty
Ahahahahaha I love you xD
Fury Road was AWESOME.
And aaaaaah Nabooru & Impa look so cool! <3
Ghirahim: “WITNESS ME!”
Dem outfits, particularly liking Zelda’s and Impa’s outfits. Impa looks like she could be working in future space military.
Spacefuture Impa? Now I need fanart of that.
I’m just realizing that you never put Princess Zelda into a comic before this one.
Who walks out of the auditorium with a full bucket of popcorn? THAT’S MADNESS!
But with a movie like that, you forget to eat it during.
Free refills that what I do, I’m taking that home
I love Zelda’s outfit. For some reason, though, she reminds me of Cher Horowitz.
It’s inspired by the business casual Zelda garment prototypes Volante’s been working on.
Thank you for the link, ha, i said link. But in all seriousness, thank you. I have been looking for clothes like this for ages, now to start saving. I hope they come in insanely tall.
ghirahim no D:
Furiosa was also the villain.
Joe created a functioning society in the wasteland by building infrastructure and carefully rationing the limited resources he had. Furiosa and Max killed everyone responsible for that society and immediately put an end to the rationing that kept it surviving. It wasn’t shown on screen, but everyone in the three towns Joe built will be dead within a year, and all in the name of fairness and equality, despite the fact that neither exist in a society where the basics of human life are scarce and there aren’t enough to go around.
Even if the poor in Joe’s society were barely getting by, they were free to leave at any time and stuck around because they were still far better off there than they would have been in the wasteland.
I’m sorry Mad Max played to a power fantasy other than your own. I’m sure you will get over the trauma with time.
It played into a predominantly assumed to exist and immature paternalistic power fantasy that has real consequences in the world.
Like when America brought freedom to the middle east.
“Like when America brought freedom to the middle east” HAHAHA
HAHAH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hilarious. I haven’t had a laugh that good since China said they owned Asia’s resources.
All your base are belong to us.
All your base are belong to us.
All your base are belong to us.
Power fantasy? What? I don’t understand what you mean.
Either way Rico is right. Immortan Joe is secretly a good guy. Like you can’t even mention anything wrong he did (other than protect a bunch of women from literally thousands of murderous psychopaths by locking them in a vault) and then the women (who had everything they could ever ask for) were conned into some stupid fairytale about a green place, which they already lived in. The women even all end up saying that it sucks out there and they should have never run off in one way or another.
Hell the women were even brainwashed into thinking that men were the one and only reason that the apocalypse came. Even though we have female leaders everywhere around the world and other powerful positions.
As soon as you think about it for one second. Mad Max: Fury Road is a rigorously anti-feminist movie.
What? Here’s some wrong shit he did: he could have fed the people, he could have given them water, he could have not started a violent death cult, but no, he had to go all scientology.
Also, it isn’t men who killed the world dumbass. It was religion (Immortan Joe), Big Business (The People Eater) and the Military Industrial Complex (Bullet Farmer).
@Anon
“he could have fed the people, he could have given them water”
Well prove it? He did give them water and who is to say that isn’t the maximum amount he could give them and still stay afloat? We all saw the ending. The beggars down there could easily overrun the guards and his whole crew. He gave them water and he was creating food and looking to expand. Just look at his plantations he was creating plants to go seed everywhere.
@Boosterseat
“What murderous psychopaths was he protecting them from? Because he sure didn’t protect them from himself and his crew.”
Yes he was protecting them from his crew and the thousands of beggars down there. He kept them to himself, remember? He and Furiosa were the only ones with access to them.
“I don’t know if we watched the same movie because you clearly missed the part where the women were held against their will and were being raped to create heirs for him”
There is no basis of belief that they were held against their will before Furiosa filled their heads with propaganda. We clearly see throughout the whole movie that they’re just spouting memetics that Furiosa filled their heads with. They’re cult members just like feminists in real life.
“and tried to create a breeding program”
They women they’re chasing ARE the breeding program. They’re the last and only hope they have for it since the breeeders produce offspring like Nyx that die of cancer and misgrowths. Note when the pregnant woman dies they point out that the baby was perfect in every way. Unlike all of the watboys.
“They said repeatedly that they would rather die than go back to him. Did you miss the part where the women, after finding out that the green place (which did exist btw) was poisoned and unlivable, would rather do a 160-day suicide ride across a dried up post-nuclear ocean on motorcycles than go back to him?”
One of them (the edgy one) said so. And they thought they were going to get murdered by him. Of course they’d rather keep going, they’re brainwashed cultists. They think men killed the world. They’ve been filled by propaganda.
“Also did you miss the part where he was kidnapping people and branding them and using them as slaves and fodder?”
A functional society demands that it is sustainable and thus has a future. Utalitarianism doesn’t stop the society from being functional. And for the sake of giving humanity a future and a chance of going back to a pre-apocalypse state in a post-apocalyptic world a lot of sacrifices are something we sadly can expect.
Remember we’re arguing about functionality, not happiness and sunshine. The Aztec societies were functional with daily blood sacrifices until they started dumping bodies into their lakes and poisoned themselves.
Cool trollin’ dude. 6/10
You might not agree, but that doesn’t make it trolling.
Whatever you say, birthday boy.
He had enough water to be able to dole it out in the most wasteful manner imaginable. If you’ve got a shortage you’re not going to be distributing it by waterfall.
He kept them to himself, remember?
How kind and magnanimous of him.
You might not agree, but that doesn’t make it trolling.
Congratulations then: you’re not a troll, just an asshole. Go you. Here is your asshole trophy, to put upon your asshole shelf and shine with your asshole polish, and when anyone calls you a troll, you can whip out this trophy and go: “No, see, I’m way better, I’m an asshole.”
Remember we’re arguing about functionality,
THERE WAS A FLAMING GUITAR TRUCK.
What murderous psychopaths was he protecting them from? Because he sure didn’t protect them from himself and his crew.
I don’t know if we watched the same movie because you clearly missed the part where the women were held against their will and were being raped to create heirs for him. Not a viable future for humanity, his heirs. If he gave a damn about humanity’s future we would have them pair up with healthy people, or at least someone who wasn’t massively diseased like himself, and tried to create a breeding program instead of flooding the fort with his inbred grandkids and keeping all the women he didn’t think were sexy as milk cows.
First and foremost, the women were his property, namely his sex slaves, not assets for humanity.
They said repeatedly that they would rather die than go back to him. Did you miss the part where the women, after finding out that the green place (which did exist btw) was poisoned and unlivable, would rather do a 160-day suicide ride across a dried up post-nuclear ocean on motorcycles than go back to him?
Also did you miss the part where he was kidnapping people and branding them and using them as slaves and fodder? The whole reason Mad Max is even in the movie? I think that’s a pretty bad thing.
Yeah, they got the ‘green place’ from Immortan Joe, but Immortan Joe and his crew being dead for that bit was also a key part of that package.
“Functioning Society”.
Let’s see… massive amounts of cancer and other diseases due to lack of regulation and encouragement of dangerous practices (see: huffing spray paint). Religious fanaticism.
A society with any slavery whatsoever is basically a horror story shitshow, but on top of that there’s sexual slavery and slavery of people to drain their blood.
Super functional.
“Careful rationing of limited resources”
Spraying water willynilly over thirsty crowds. Keeping and storing human breast milk (do you know how many calories it takes create breast milk? Huge loss of energy, just store the FOOD.) GIANT FIREBALL CREATING GUITARS. Nothing says careful rationing of limited fossil fuels like burning them off in huge shows of bombastic musical interlude.
You know who DID show careful rationing of limited resources? The Vuvalini.
“massive amounts of cancer and other diseases due to lack of regulation”
The implication was that Immortan Joe were keeping the women because they were the only ones who could make babies without diseases and deformations. Immortan Joe even says in the movie that its the baby that is “his property”. He doesn’t care about owning the women. He only cares about making a humanity that can actually survive in the future.
“encouragement of dangerous practices (see: huffing spray paint). Religious fanaticism.”
Done so for the one and only sake of control. There’s no way the world is going to be even close as idyllic as we have it now.
“A society with any slavery whatsoever is basically a horror story shitshow, but on top of that there’s sexual slavery and slavery of people to drain their blood.
Super functional.”
If you bothered to look around the setting his setup is super functional compared to literally anywhere else. He’s got protection, he’s got fuel, he’s got food and water. And he has a project inside the bluffs obviously meant to seed more plant life. As far as a post-apocalyptic world goes this is probably the most functional “civilisation” ever depicted outside of the vault in A Boy and His Dog. And even that is arguable.
Just because its utalitarian doesn’t mean its not functional. And the slavery part is highly debatable.
“Spraying water willynilly over thirsty crowds.”
Yeah for 10 seconds as a show of power to keep the people from storming his troops and destroying the entire infrastructure. Keeping the people alive and happy. Sure the Warboys can probably take 5 of them at once but they literally outnumbered Warboys 100 to 1.
“Keeping and storing human breast milk (do you know how many calories it takes create breast milk?” Huge loss of energy, just store the FOOD.) GIANT FIREBALL CREATING GUITARS. Nothing says careful rationing of limited fossil fuels like burning them off in huge shows of bombastic musical interlude.”
I’d say the guitar is done for cool effect because hey its a movie fuck it. We’ve also never established oil as nearly as precious as water/women. And while the breast milk stuff is weird its just another way of showing how he takes care of the women by giving them tonnes of resources to stay happy and make sure they have good lives while the men live shit lives that are considered super cheap compared to the women as he just lets men die for no reason in tens or hundreds to secure a few women (what he most likely sees as the future of the human race). It shows just how much he regards and respects the women.
Don’t be illogical man. His society is definitely functional.
>oil isn’t precious
What the fuck man. Have you watched Mad Max 2? Guzzline is the most precious thing ever. The entire plot is literally a bunch of assholes fighting over the stuff.
@Anon
“>oil isn’t precious
What the fuck man. Have you watched Mad Max 2?”
That’s a different place and a different time in the Mad Max universe. Immortan Joe’s place has obviously plenty of oil and no scarcity. Evidenced by the fact they have an actual oil well supplying them. If it really was scarce then the oil baron would have turned around instead of just complained and offhand mentioned it. If it was a precious and scarce resource to them he would have presented oil as a bigger issue.
@Anon
“Outside of bartertown you mean? ”
Bartertown doesn’t have vegetation and thus doesn’t have a replenishable source of food. Immortan Joe’s place is more functional. At least that’s my opinion. Again functional doesn’t mean happy.
>no really gas isn’t precious see they have a refinery
So you’re a dumbass and haven’t watched Mad Max 2, which also centered around a refinery. Guess what? Guzzleine was still precious.
>bartertown doesn’t have vegetation
They’re feeding the pigs with something.
>no really gas isn’t precious see they have a refinery
So you’re a dumbass and haven’t watched Mad Max 2, which also centered around a refinery. Guess what? Guzzleine was still precious.
>bartertown doesn’t have vegetation
They’re feeding the pigs with something.
Kinda expect this guy hasn’t seen any Mad Max movies and got their overview of this one from one of those MRA reviews.
Haven’t seen any, unless you count that parody one with the muppets. How bad are they?
It actually reminds me quite a bit of the people I occasionally see arguing for the Legion in Fallout: New Vegas. (Which is a similar level of creepy for similar reasons.)
>the most functional outside of
Outside of bartertown you mean? Not saying that corrupt pile of pig shit was a paradise, but at least it wasn’t run by a theocratic dictator.
Functional like cancer. Are we really going to pretend creating a suicide cult for cannon fodder, starving your followers and treating your sex slaves so badly they’d rather die than stay with you are some kind of positive acts of creation?
I won’t even get into the make-believe scenario that removing the cruel, barbaric, self-aggrandizing leaders is somehow guaranteed to make everyone in this society die, but I’m going to say if your goal is the survival of humanity you need to show any trace of humanity to begin with.
He’s just trying to think up reasons to like the bad guy. I mean really, just look at some of the shit he says. For example:
>it just shows how much he respects the women
Are Is the dumbass going to tell me Smaug respects his hoard next? Immortan Joe sees the women as things, things that are his. He wants them back because to him, someone has stolen his property.
Yeah, seriously, Bapho seems to be quite the master of baiting.
I would contend that it wasn’t a well functioning society, and that firing thousands of gallons of water straight onto the ground and creating a flame guitar isn’t rationing. Also, the mayor of gas town is called “The People Eater” and given his weight, I think that title was literal.
And Furiosa being the villain by rescuing young women from sexual slavery only makes sense if you’re as delusional as Immortan Joe.
two screen town, have an actual life…didn’t get to see fury road. Not heart broken, must be something wrong with me.
Ganondorf needs a badass cyber-arm now.
Does… this mean that Impa is Max?
I love how Ghirahim and Link are the only two wearing their original outfits, does this mean they are still out of touch with reality?
I like to think that Link is just bad at dressing himself, and holds grudges for too long.
Ghirahim just REALLY likes his outfit. He spent thousands of years perfecting it, and he’s not prone to just throw it away now.
Hahaha…you know, eating popcorn that way is pretty clean, as long as you haven’t to share. No greasy hands.
Loving Zelda’s modern casual look and Impa looks like she gives zero fucks and just wants to go back to training
Awesome outfits on the lady sages. I wonder how Ruto and Darunia would look in this setting. Now I think of it, Darunia seems like he’d get along with Commander B.
Well, not sure, maybe? i can totally picture Darunia and Canada Guy doing a bar run, though
I wish you lots of good luck in your whirlwind adventures. I also hope your computer gets fixed soon. It sucks when they break.
Yessss, used Impa’s OoT look. I always preferred it over what they did to her in Hyrule Warriors.
Kinda curious now on what you thought of Ganondorf’s OoT look, with the long nose and everything.
As much as I love Ganondorf the reality of OoT was that it was a fairly racist character design than came out of a period of time where people were finally starting to push back on that kinda thing, and even though people make fun of how “hunky” Ganondorf got in later games I’m reasonably confident speculating that it had to do with making him less of a tastelessly exaggerated Islamic caricature. The Gerudo symbol was originally just a flipped Star and crescent as well until someone at Nintendo realized that was probably not a great idea, and a lot of the early art for Ganondorf in that game played up the “Middle Eastern Wizard” stereotypes to an even more uncomfortable degree. I really appreciate that the folks at Nintendo at least caught themselves on that one and tried to dial it back without much fighting or controversy.
You know, I see his point when you put it that way…
Are Link and Zelda holding hands? That’d be really sweet, despite Link being a bit of a jerk in this world.
I still can’t quite get my head round Impa not being the old lady as shown in various CDi YouTube Poops.
She was also an old lady in the very first Zelda.
And in Skyward Sword, you get to see her as both the youthful badass and the wise old woman.
I really, really love Girahim in this. Amazing.
I also want to echo someone else’s comment and say how I enjoy that Link and Girahim can’t quite grasp the concept of different outfits.
Coelasquid, what’s this you’re on about? Another COSMOS-sized project coming down the tube?
I don’t know who this Impa lady is, but i’m absolutely swooning over her.
Impa? Impa? I named the CAR Impa!
(It’s a Subaru Impreza, Impa as a nickname came easily)
Shows up in a number of Zelda games as a “ninja/advisor/protector/lady who actually knowqs what’s going on” to Zelda. First in-game apperance was on Ocarina of Time (she was in the Zelda and Adventure of Link manuals).
Cool, thanks a lot!
Truth be told, I’m still kind of grossed out about how the Commander thought that Zelda would marry someone who’s kidnapped her and/or put her life in danger as many times as Ganondorf has.
Then I assume you didn’t get the WWE scenario that strip was directly referencing about the captured princess storline they did with Stephanie McMahon that resulted in her and Triple H being happily married in real life for going on twelve or thirteen years now with three kids.
I got the reference, but I’d always thought that, in this comic universe, each of these characters still experienced each of their stories as though they were real. I get that the characters are performers like in pro wrestling, but they act as though they really went through those games/movies/TV shows that they were involved in rather than merely acting them out.
I think that I’m overthinking this.
Consider these characters are all out watching movies and eating popcorn together right now, I think you are too.
I figure it’s like Mario/Bowser rules “hey sometimes we wage century long blood feuds sometimes we play tennis and go-kart it’s all good.”
To be fair, those go-kart matches usually get pretty brutal.
Impa be pimpin!
Who invited Link anyway?
Given the rest of the group, I would rather ask: Who invited Ganondorf? :D
I think I like the casual Zelda the best =)
Now I need to go write Zelda/Ghost in the Shell fanfiction….
Now i hace to aak. If HE is furiosa, which ladies would work as Max and which guys would be the Husbands. And WHO pray tell, would make Inmortan Jane. Vender reversed max… Ah the internet…
GAH! I meant GENDER reversed Mad Max!
I kinda like the idea of an alternate universe where vending machines buy things from you instead of the other way around…
I thought that was already the case in Borderlands.
Judging by the ladies’ faces, I’m guessing he says stuff like this a lot…
I find it funny only Link and Tongue the Molesterblade (shut up, I can’t remember his name ATM) are “in uniform.” Everyone else is dressed for an evening at the movies except those two. Sword-man, I get, since he’s a sentient weapon and probably can’t – GHIRAHIM, that’s his name! He probably can’t change his outfit. But what’s Link’s excuse?
WHY IS NO ONE NOTICING HOW BITCHIN’ NABOORU IS LOOKING.
It’s obvious that they’re too stunned. I too, love the look. Coelasquid did an EXCELLENT job on her. Zelda and Impa aren’t that bad either.
Everyone looks fantastic still. Even casual Ganondorf.
Nabooru’s probably one of my favorite Zelda characters and completely underrated just because she doesn’t really have a gimmick like some of the other characters (Ruto being tsundere, Saria being the childhood friend, Zelda being the unrequited love princess character, etc.). Kind of wish she was in Hyrule Warriors.
It’s been a while since I last played Ocarina of Time, but wasn’t Nabooru the Gerudo leader whenever Ganondorf wasn’t around?
Zelda is really pretty here.
Also, may I request that you draw the guy with the guitar/flamethrower who was strapped to the truck applying to get a job where Commander Badass works?
who walks out of a theater with a full bucket of popcorn though?
I remember some theaters giving one free refill when you buy the largest size. Maybe they refilled on the way out.
I work at a theater, I can honestly say that full popcorn bucket is true.
People either don’t actually eat all their popcorn or they ask for refills when the movie is done.
While I do enjoy the comic itself I can’t help but feel the author can be incredebly hypocritical with the message of respect and acceptance. I mean, the message is pretty good, but whenever something bothers her (which is rather easy to acomplish) she is pretty quick to react poorly, ridiculing and resorting to mean spirited humor, pretty much ingoring her own message. I remember her first bishonen comic which was just a take that to that sort of character was simply because one particular fan annoyed her, or when she’s asked if she is a girl she’s pretty quick to give sexist undertones to it even if the question didn’t mean to… or her Skyward Sword responses were pretty agressive all in all. Dunno if that’s still going on, though.
I drew the bishonen comic because I was getting a ton of people who clearly didn’t care about the comic at all and just wanted me to draw free fanart for them. I would get dozens of emails every week that were just demands to draw people’s favourite characters with entitled complaints like “why haven’t you drawn x character yet, I’ve been asking all month”. That person went the extra mile and wrote a whole essay about how I had to draw her characters because they “had more fangirls” and “had bigger weapons” and had “dark tragic pasts” and that kind of thing, pretty clearly showing that she really didn’t care about the comic or get any of the themes about toxic masculinity, and just wanted a comic about her favourite characters being admired by everyone. So I made fun of them the exact same way I’d make fun of the macho dude characters if I was trying to joke about their pride in excessive numbers of fangirls or giant weapons or mental instability to make a point about all these people just asking for free fanart requests. And honestly, they backed off. Most people got what I was going for, but a handful came to me and politely said they felt concerned that the “pretty” guys were just going to become the butt of the joke, so I made sure whenever I drew comics with characters like Edgeworth or Raiden or Apollo or Lysandre or Ryu or whoever I tried to check and doublecheck as much as possible to avoid making them seem meanspirited. And the whole bishonen arc was full of things I’d wanted to draw since I was a teenager who played nothing but JRPGs and was super into Nomura games, so I tried to exercise caution and make it super clear the focus of the story was “he doesn’t like being in a body he’s not comfortable with” instead of “pretty is bad”.
I dunno about “sexist undertones” when people ask if I’m a girl, the stock answer is just “why does it matter”. I discourage people from making a big deal about it because when I started making this comic almost every forum conversation I saw about my comic turned into something about my gender and quicky devolved into people digging up photos of me and throwing around a lot of vile transphobic and homophobic slurs, which I pretty understandably got tired of.
Sometimes I think you secretly do not like Link. His facial expressions tend to be quite… unique.