Next week you’ll get the Sucker Punch comic I was going to do for today.
March 21, 2011
12:00 am
After a series of unfortunate and unfortunater events, I ended up having to restart this week’s comic from scratch at 12:30 AM on the Monday it was supposed to go up. So uh. Yeah. Only one panel this time around.
If you’re left wanting more content to chuckle at, I feel I should direct you over to my buddy Chad’s blog because he’s more clever than I could ever be at one in the morning.
I’ll always accept one panel over no panels! Especially when you have such great visuals to go with the one liners :D
I concur. Not much else to say.
That´s right!
LOBSTAH
Yes.
If Jared actually said that to the kid, then the guy can be hilarious at times!
Gyarados loving makes Krabbys now? Methinks Jared needs to get his Pokedex more often.
considering some of the evolutions? (vibrava -> flygon? dragonair -> dragonite?) i wouldn’t even be phased.
also you mean “gyarados gives birth to corphish”, not krabby. (no explanations to that color, though. your average corphish is orange, shiny is yellow.)
Not applicable due to the egg groups. But what IS appicable is a Corphish giving birth to a Horsea which in turn gives birth to Magikarp.
Not giving birth – fathering. The egg is generally of the female’s species.
Dirk, what are you doing in here? Is this some kind of scam?
Now what is scary is that you can mate a skitty and a whalelord…
O_O
Don’t remind me…..
Obligatory “Hot Skitty on Wailord Action!” reference.
because in the real world there are shiny lobsters that are blue or yellow rather than red
no really like 1 in every million is blue and 1 in 30 million is yellow
I agree with it being krabby. But then again I constantly deny the existence of any pokemon other than the first generation. They are the ones I fell in love with in middle school on my GameBoy Pocket. They can never be replaced. Ever. :)
uber late response, as I just started reading, but Krabby is a crab, not a lobster… :P
you also for get that there is a crystal lobster witch is 1 in 100 million.
Just wanted to let you know that the Trapinch to Vibrava to Flygon evolution isn’t random at all, but is based on the lifecycle of the Antlion. The more you know!
and knowing is half the battle!
Excellent. One line, One panel.
Somehow I think Jared might get a little “fight training” soon though….
My friend’s running a Pokemon Tabletop Adventures game
Jared is required reading
Hehe too funny. With the imagination kids have, I doubt that Jared has anything to do with it.
Sadly I don’t have enough imagination to figure out why The captain and his ex are having a lobster cooking party in the garden.
Because sometime its good to make nice in front of the kids.
I know people that divorced but stayed good friends. So there is that.
It’s not hard to see why the fell for each other, nor that they still have enough in common to be more than civil. Which is props to the storytelling.
The Commander is obviously just a classy enough guy to still do family activities with his kids, including their Mom. Just because they didn’t work out doesn’t mean they can’t have family activities!
As crazy as it sounds, you can be divorced and still be friends, some even find they get along even better once they’re divorced.
I thought he was just talking about the “lobster cookout” part. I was under the impression that was more of an indoors activity, though I know nothing about cooking lobster.
I dunno about that, it creates a “shellfish smell singularity.” My sister did this once with crab. Both me and my mom have issues with iodine and we were both sick from the smell.
While it’s true that all of her appearances so far have her with a cranky face, we haven’t seen anything that suggests she’s mean or spiteful, just annoyed. Which, in context of what we’ve seen so far, is not unfathomable.
This scene suggests that at the least they get on well enough to do stuff like this.
Obviously there was a rough patch, but since even the commander cannot actually will his brain to develop gender-specific pyrokinesis, he clearly cooled down enough to do this all civil.
Also… Madeline is quite voluptuous isn’t she? That’s a heartbreaking woman, right there (why do they always have freckles!?)
“That’s a heartbreaking woman, right there.”
I suspect that the commander’s desire for gender-specific pyrokinesis would not have been so strong otherwise.
What’s wrong with freckles?
Nothing wrong with freckles. I think he’s more commiserating over the high probability that the ladies with freckles are 1) attractive, and 2) in a relationship. Or in this case, fictional.
Close. I meant 1)attractive, and 2) heartbreakers. Mine all seem to have freckles.
This is based entirely on my own experience and should in no way color yours if you find yourself in a happy relationship with an attractive freckled gal.
Yeah, I can imagine if she’s not trying to stop two small, lovable-but-really-really-imaginative kids doing dangerous things or cleaning up the results of escapades, she would be awesome somehow-why else would they have gotten married in the first place? Even if it didn’t work out, the Commander doesn’t seem like the sort of guy who would marry someone he only liked the look of. I almost want there to be a ‘Commander introduces a kind client-who -wants- to- settle -down to his ex-wife’ strip.
It is a gorgeously-drawn panel, though! (I do get the feeling that they all are, but we don’t usually get them at this size)
Now I’m scared of next week…
Oooh, the freckles seem to go down a ways…
…er….
Never mind me.
You too, huh?
Yeah, for some reason I have this overwhelming urge to play connect the dots…
…That’d be some interesting foreplay. O_o
Dem hips. :-D
Dem hips indeed
Yes. The freckles. An dat pelvis
Freckle-bodied redhead? How could they ever have broken up?! O_O
Commander obviously pissed her off, I think it was the death match with Canadian Guy and midnight matadoring.
Dem child-bearin’ hips
The Commander was crazy to pass up such a fine redhead!
You will never see all of the littler ones face.
You never do. If it isn’t stuffed toys, it’s a single chocolate chip smeared all over their faces.
That plushie he carries around is still the most awesome. But wouldn’t it be just as awesome if Jared got the little one a Sharpedo plushie!? :D
If you want to get technical, his face in uncovered when he rides Mr. Fish, but it’s rather tiny so it’s hard to notice.
Is it just me, or is that lobster HUGE?? O_O
Also, I love the little tiger shark!
He’s level 14 and almost ready to evolve!! ~80
I’m just thinking Gyrados with giant lobster claws now. Scary stuff!
Or tiny Trogdor claws. :P
Trogdor doesn’t have claws, he has wings (since he is a wingaling dragon) and one of them beefy arms…comin out the back of his neck…
They’re both blond like their dad, hm? The little girl looks as though her hair might darken to red as she gets older, though…..
How on earth did she manage to get that grip on the lobster in the first place? Was someone holding it right in front of her face?
Thanks for the comic, Coela!
Have it set down on the counter, she nabs it, hijinx ensue.
Strawberry blonde.
I just want a lil shark doll of my own. XD
Actually… I see the resemblence. Blue lobster is all segment-y and such like gyarados, and has the same tailfin and both have whiskers…
That’s what I figured.
Hahahaha, looks there goes the plans to cook lobster. Least not without upsetting the daughter.
Lobsters SCREAM when getting boiled. Think about what the children would think.
Only when they’re cooked by BASTARDS. The irish are kind enough to put them down right before cooking.
Jeez, calm down. Just because some people don’t doesn’t mean an entire nation doesn’t, too. Now, I’ve never cooked nor eaten lobster (I really want to, though. Crab too.), but none-the-less… There really isn’t any need to get so upset. Also, I’m sure some Irish don’t put the lobster down pre-boiling. (Or however you prepare lobster.)
So it’s true then? Oh dear… I didn’t think they had vocal cords capable of that…
It’s not actually screaming, it’s steam escaping the shell. They have a decentralized insect-like nervous system that would seem to indicate they can’t process pain.
That makes me feel so much better about it.
Yeah me too.
Ah, that’s B.S., anyone who has half a brain can tell they’re in pain when they freak out upon touching the hot water.
Whatever you say Mr. Science.
Almost any lifeform can react to perceived danger without reacting to pain. Earthworms do it when they’re stuck on hooks. Trees do it when it’s winter. From my understanding it would be hard to tell if a thing can experience pain without carefully monitoring its brain while hurting it, but to even begin to do that it would need to have something resembling a brain.
Pain works as a warning system that some complex life forms can afford, which lets us both focus our wandering minds on survival when in danger and change our mood and lifestyle and whatnot to limit and cope with injuries to our bodies while they heal. It wouldn’t benefit what we call the lower life forms to be able to feel pain when they make do with having instinctive reactions to being injured, so why should they? Mother nature is efficient like that.
That sucks. Still, one panel is good enough for me. I mean, it’s still freaking hilarious so s’all good.
Squid, I know how it feels to have something crash on you and lose several hours of work. Get yourself a big freaking muffin and a cup of coffee and you’ll soon forget what a bitch computers are sometimes.
Also, Madeline…yeah. If Commander wouldn’t pwn me throughout time and space, I would totally….
I think it would be totally worth the ass-beating. I have a thing for readheads though.
Ditto. And her kids have to be at least half bad-ass, at least.. Any kid who cuddles with a tiger shark when he’s scared, will wrestle bears as a morning work out.
I’d be proud to step-daddy that child.
I have a thing for freckles
I wish Photoshop had an option for automatic saving every so many minutes.
I’ve lost entire animations from forgetting to save.
I know there are some custom scripts people have written for Flash that autosave, someone might have made a photoshop one. Photoshop just crashes so rarely I get cocky about saving.
Exactly. One time it crashed BECAUSE I saved. That one had me screaming.
That happened to me on an enormous master BG I was doing for an entire sequence of animation once.
I think Jared accidentally(or not) trolled the Commander. Super. XD
Also, those are some impressive freckles right there. I’m definitely amazed at that handywork. :)
just the round brush with a couple extra options turned on to give it a scatter like that.
i love any comic involving the children their just too adorable for their own good
Holy crap that is a monster of a Lobster. That is going to be good eating.
… Doncha mean “Holy crab”? :B
*gets pelted with bricks for awful pun*
*Pelts Android with baby Mr. Fishes for awful pun*
Oh lordy, the claws!
I see that kid still has his “derpy” plush shark, awesome
By the way do these kids have names? I can hardly remember main character’s names, so I’m not surprised if I just forgot.
June and Sam.
Sam Badass will pretty much HAVE to be a noir private detective as an adult. June Badass will probably have more leeway …
Assassin, catburglar, or mercenary?
Why choose just one? ~|3
Because she may not want to kill people.
Cat burglar it is, then. :3
Sam “I am” Badass
Protagonist of “Green Eggs and Harm”
^That… so very, very much.
This is just WINrar.
Now, now. Badass is only her maiden name.
Like she’d drop it?
… I think Sam is the little boy. Unless you lot would call your sons June? ><
WHAT THE FEL?? That lobster is HUGE!!!!!!!!
…I used to sell seafood. That thing would go for probably close to 250 clams…
Man I hate how expensive lobsters are. I tried to get a small electric lobster for my fish tank and that little thing was like 50 bucks.
Granted Pet Lobster =/= Food Lobster…
I guess technically Electric Blue Lobster aren’t even true lobsters so much as crayfish…
Electric Blue Lobster is one heckuva Punk band name…
EBL is a nice acronym…
And 250 clams would be at least 1250 shrimp! They could be having a manly shrimp grill instead of that one lobster!
Clams.
Currently the nation’s basic currency.
We would run into overfishing problems pretty quick if that were the case, I think. Either way, edible currency would be pretty damn awesome.
Lobsters can’t be baby Mr. Fish, lobsters have claws that they can use to pick things up.
I suppose in the same sense that Magikarp can’t be baby Mr. Fish because they’re orange carp… Pokevolution is a strange thing…
If Mr Darwin had discovered that special lichen* that ALSO grows on the Galapagos Islands, the theory of evolution might be a BIT different…
*The one that gives those sea iguanas that happy, happy smile all the time.
You’ve got a legless blue dragon that eventually evolves into orange Barney the Dinosaur. I’ve given up on trying to understand pokevolution from generation one.
If it helps at all, Magikarp & Gyarados are based on a Japanese legend that if a carp is strong enough to jump over a certain waterfall it will be transformed into a dragon.
I got nothin for Dragonite, though.
I had never heard this legend before. Although that’s probably because I don’t know too much about Japanese folklore and the like.
That is glorious.
FFFFFFF. Why are his kids so cute? I can’t look away!
By the way, I work with an accountant named Mr. Fish, and every time he calls I have to stifle a giggle, and I blame you. :-p
Did you show him the comic?
Mr. Fish does not strike me as a man possessed of much of a sense of humor, I’m afraid.
So he’s your stereotypical accountant then? Or maybe he just heard one too many jibes about his surname when he was growing up…
One panel and still funny as hell I love this comic!
That lobster is way beyond the legal limit. o_o
He’s got steroids hidden in his exoskeleton.
Is it just me or does Madeline look like Triss Marigold from The Witcher?
I don’t know what Triss Marigold or the Witcher are, so I can’t comment.
Ah, ok.
The Witcher is a Fantsy series written by polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski. A Game was released in 07 and the sequel is being released in May.
As for Triss, shes a Sorceress and love-interest for Geralt(main character)
/uselesstrivia
And know I Know!*
*I already knew.
*now I know.
Apologies for the Grammar Nazi-ing, but I tend to not be able to help myself. People I know in real life have gotten bothered at my being a Grammar Nazi to them.
Is it just me, or does the Commander’s wife seem to take some inspiration from Boudicea? After all, Boudicea’s one of the most badass women in history. Ever. And this comic seems to be running with that sort of theme.
I don’t know who she is so probably not.
Celtic Queen out of Early Roman Britain (or Prydain); had some issues with the social skills of an occupying legion*, raised a very bloody revolt.
Famed for using chariots with scythes coming out of the axles.
*(cough) understatement.
*starry eyes* You mean Taran, Eilonwy, and Fflewddur Fflam did exist?!
*punched in the face*
*washes fist*
Ye have been punished.
Not enough. *puts the boot in* There we go.
And yes they did exist, but were completely unlike their depictions in the books. Except for the thinly-veiled cannibalism.
…What? Thinly veiled cannibalism? Where? I think I might have missed that.
Go back and re-read them, now that you’re older. You’ll catch it this time.
it makes the books much cooler.
I did. I can’t find cannibalism anywhere. The closest I could find was Orgoch and I don’t consider her human.
Archeologists are certain that her name was more like “Buddug”. She was queen of the Iceni. She had a chariot however, as far as I know, blades from a chariot wheel/axel were never used because they would break too easily. They certainly are not mentioned in the original Roman histories.
Madeline used to be a Badass woman, but now she’s gone back to her maiden name.
I wish we could see the Commander’s face. On the one hand I think he would be really annoyed, but on the other hand I think he might be trying not to laugh what with Madeline fighting to get the lobster away. I get the feeling that the Commander trying to stifle a laugh would look pretty darn funny.
Commander obviously has a soft spot for Mr. Fish.
Probably because Jared parked him in his office.
It IS hard not to love Mr. Fish.
Lobsters are not Baby Mr. Fish. However, they are just as adorable as Mr. Fish.
… And yes, I find his grotesque scowl adorable. I’m a bit of a weirdo.
I still have that corgi lobster in my portfolio, it always gets people talking.
Really? Well, I’m glad it’s gone to good use at least. I still use it as my icon on Twitter. It doesn’t get folks talking in my case, but it sure as hell raises some eyebrows.
For some reason, the people I show it to think it’s Cthulhu-dog, which… Well, it’s a dog crossed with a crustacean, not a cephalopod. It occurs to me that most people don’t know shit about basic marine zoology.
i’d like to have a Cthulhu dog.
Any burglars try to steal my shit will have their souls eaten for a mid-morning snack.
I imagine Jared will have to give the kids a lesson in pokevolution now… and they’ll be all sorts of confused…
Commander’s wife sure has a great body uh?
OMGOSH I LOVE FRECKLES! They are so awesome! I never understood what people have against them.
Also, I’m surprised you posted anything considering. It’s nice of you to try even when stuff happened. :o
Corphish cor, phish phish corphish cor cor cor corphish.
Shut up and eat the damn thing already!
I’m already scarred for life from the Bird I shot throwing sand in my eyes!
actually, since Mr. Fish is a carnivore as well as a dweller of the sea, wouldn’t he eat things like lobsters and fish and sharks? The occasioanl wailmer when really hungry?
T-that lobster is BLUE….
….I MUST EAT IT.
You do realize that once they’re cooked they turn red, ritgh?
right*
So what happens when you choke them?
They… turn… purple?
Now THAT’S just NASTY talk.
I get the feeling that the commander’s getting jarads answering machine because hes busy swimming back home to escape the consequences of his little joke
*jareds
Jared probably already found out how hard it is to evade a time traveling Badass who can apparently go to Mars whenever he feels like it. ( Hard meaning impossible.)
Three things:
1.) Damn does Madeline have a gorgeous thick figure. Thanks for not making her NOT look like the Hollywood ideal.
2.) Don’t worry about the crash and single panel thing. You’re good enough to do in one panel what most would requre a page to do.
and 3.) THANK YOU for not making the lobster red. They only get that way AFTER they are cooked. (I’m curious though: If that is a “Baby Mr. Fish”, what will it look like as an ADULT “Mr Fish”?)
If they’re only red after they cook, what are all those red lobster looking things hanging out in the tank at the grocery store? Are they just very small dragons?
(Oh, funny linguistic thing, the Mandarin word for Lobster translates back as “Dragon Shrimp”)
Silly kid, Magikarp isn’t Corfish!
<3
The Commander’s ex-wife is a redhead name Madeline? He better watch out, or she’ll sacrifice those kids to demons!
Wait- does this mean the Commander can shoot lasers from his eyes?
What is this I don’t even. I have no clue what this is referencing, sorry. Still, that post is hilarious.
Managed to cram more story-telling in the this single panel than many comics manage in thier entire run.
I especially love the expressions on the mother and daughter. Perfect mix of anger, defiance, exasperation, and adorablness.
That shaaaarrrrk~ Do want
If it squeaks when you kick it I’m shelling out 5 g’s on that thing.
Damn, Madeline is a stone cold MILF.
Are we gonna get a comic arc that explains why on Earth he split with a woman that fine? I mean, she’s obviously some kind of bitch, but I can’t tell if that’s because she hates Commnder Badass because she misses him, or because she can’t get rid of him completely. It seems like it could go either way.
Something tells me that the got together partially BECAUSE of that bitchiness. Some guys like a little fire in their women, but I can’t imagine that lends itself to a stable domestic life.
Anyhow, I think it’s been implied that it wasn’t any problem with Madeline, so much as a lack of maturity/meet-halfway-ness on the Commander’s part.
Makes you wonder if he’s grown up any, or if his quasi-relationship with Jonesy is going to go down the same way it did with Madeline. (I say quasi-relationship because so far all they’ve done is kiss.)
Nope. Any problems betwn CB and Jonesy will end in bloody murder and tears. I have a suspicion Maddy didn’t entirely know what she was signing up for during their whirlwind romance, which is why they’re still talking.
Actually, I was wondering if Jonesy and CB would actually last, given how he was depicted as being the issue in his last relationship, not so much how they would end.
Of course, this is a moot point seeing as how there is no confirmation that they are actually “together” at this point. Until it actually says so in the comic or Coela herself says so, I’m just going to assume they like each other and have kissed, and that’s it. That way I won’t get my hopes too high.
Why is she “obviously” a bitch? She’s been in the comic like three times, and each time she was dealing with annoying shenanigans from either the kids or the Commander, and aside from wearing a frustrated facial expression she hasn’t even said an unkind word.
You do make a good point. So far it does look like the Commander is the one mostly at fault. Burning down the shed and wanting to wrestile Canadian Guy to death on the front lawn and such. I think we all just want to believe that the Commander wouldn’t screw up enough to do something like that. Or we all want to think that it was wrong from the start so we have an excuse to ship him and Jonesy in our minds.
At least I do. XD
Hey, we aren’t even 100% certain those events actually happened.
From what’s been shown, I think that the Commander was telling the truth when he said they were just very different people. Sure, he looks to have embellished it a little because he shies away from talking about himself, but the basic truth is there. Hell, maybe Madeline just got woken up one too many times by alternate-timeline Commanders coming to kick her husband’s ass.
I think it’s also that we’re so used to Commander being the voice of reason at the agency that we forget that he too is ridiculously macho compared to normal people. ;3
Well, and also that people are so used to relationships in comics being OMG SUPER DRAMA that the thought of an amicable divorce without a clear villain seems unthinkable. X3
As a Mainah, I do hope that lobstahs were caught down heah.
COUGH cough hack…It physically hurt to do that. I also don’t like lobster.
Jest call ’em bugs, naybah.
I just noticed something. Sam and the Commander have VERY similar outfits.
Whoa. Nice observation there.
Oy, Coela, care to give us some enlightenment?
Usually Sam wears a blue hoodie, but since June’s outfit changes every time she shows up I figured this week he could have a red hoodie instead.
Well one panel is infinity better then zero (math bitches!!) but aside from that for some reason this one made me laugh way harder then most full sized updates.
Nicely done.
BTW, the detail on this one is just amazing!
But its a SHINY lobster! Mother should be happy her daughter can spot a rare when she sees one
…Wait, so does that mean the shiny red Gyarados in Gold/Silver generation was just a boiled Gyarados?
Well, since it lived in the Lake of Rage, I think it would be safe to assume that it was just angry.
Hey, maybe the reason why it was so angry was because Team Rocket was boiling the lake.
Touche.
Then again, perhaps the lake was hot in the first place.
Maybe they were cooling it down.
Lakes sometimes DO occur on the top of volcanoes, you know.
It should also be pointed out that blue lobsters are insanely rare, only occurring once in a couple million due to a rare genetic mutation that causes the lobster’s body to produce largely excessive amounts of a certain protein. A quick jump to Wikipedia confirms that one in between 2,000,000-5,000,000 lobster will have the mutation. /amateur biologist
Further if I remember correctly a collector offered boatloads of money in exchange for one when it was caught recently and I can see why. Blue lobsters certainly do look really, really cool.
http://jasonhollatme.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/blue-lobster-beware.jpg?w=470&h=328
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Blue_lobster_02.jpg/800px-Blue_lobster_02.jpg
So yea. I wouldn’t eat it, however I like to suspend my disbelief and think that the commander has truly, truly, extravagant tastes.
Thank goodness, I was just wondering how rare blue lobsters were. Thanks man!
I’m well aware of that, but I don’t think people would see the gyarados relation if it wasn’t blue.
It’s only American lobsters that are so rare in blue. European lobsters are all blue.
Oh snap. Now its a REGIONAL debate!
The lobster in that first link looks a little TOO blue. Photoshop, I say!
Is it me or did Commander’s ex get fatter? Maybe its because she’s squatting or something.
If I could remember when her full body was shown, I might be able to answer.
The only strip I can remember with her, offhand (CDR and Jonesy discussing why his marriage didn’t work out, here), didn’t show more than the back of her head.
There’s this strip that shows her full body. She seems to have changed quite a bit. I like the recent one better.
She was always supposed to have a voluptuous figure, the first time she showed up I hadn’t had a chance to properly design her.
Scoundrel. Those are CURVES. Real women have them.
I assumed you did Coelasquid, and I didn’t want to come off like the “one guy” who just can’t understand the importance of allowing artistic liberties and thinks he’s all smarter then everyone else as a result, but that was more for everyone else because it really is interesting stuff. And well I kinda only now really thought about how badass lobsters do look.
But I really do like to believe that in the commanders world lobsters are just as rare as they are in reality, but it would be below him to feast on anything less.
InB4- “oh, lobsters… I only ever eat blue ones. You’ve probably never even heard of them”. /hipster commander
Sasuga- yea but they are not nearly as wonderfully shiny (more of a really dark navy) and usually not all completely blue. :D
“So now to make it evolve you have to run around and beat the snot out of pokemon and it will grow up.”
I’d like to start by saying I very much adore this single strip and incidentally I checked MGDMT at least three times yesterday (Sunday) and here I am today pleasantly surprised. I am, however, sorry for your loss of time. You’ve got a week (realistically probably about 5 hours worth) of time before the next strip. It just gives you more time to make it fancy. Anyway, here’s to your system not whacking up your future strips!
Finally watched The Expendables, just now.
ITS.
SO.
EPI- *25 cents*
LEGENDARY!!!
75 cents. That was 3/4 letters there. Shame on you! :(
Nice to finally meet Madeline. Christ what was he thinking! ok never mind.
… Was that pun on purpose? Oh wow
Damn…. I think I missed it.
Is that a rock lobstah!
ROCK LOBSTAH!
The wonkiness of his shoulder exactly matches how I feel when I’m talking on the phone. I really don’t understand how people can talk on the phone for long periods of time. Do they get used to it, am I holding the phone wrong, or what?
The wonkiness of his shoulder matches exactly what it feels like drawing comics at 5AM
Well, Cmndr’s ex is certainly hot, shame it didn’t work out for him, but at least is working for the kids.
Who cooks lobster outside? Is that a common barbecue practice in Canada?
Whaaaaa?
Cooking lobster outside is the *normal* way to cook it!!!
Who cooks it inside? It makes your house smell like stinky dead sea things.
And don’t forget, real men only cook on a barbecue grill, so that’s why they’re outside.
Microwave magic… magic bad… fire good.
I really like that the ‘hot’ mum here has a waist and hips and is not a stick figure.
Why does every internet comic have women as stick figures….
I <3 the plushi shark
IT WORKS AS ONE PANEL, THOUGH :U;;;;;
I swear to god every time you add the little plushie shark it gets even cuter.
:3c
WHY IS HIS RIGHT ARM ATTACHED TO HIS BACK?
I CANNOT UNSEE THIS.
Because his torso is twisted and I had to restart this comic at 12:30 AM the morning it was due, as I said. Sorry your free internet shit isn’t up to your impeccable standards this week, but I like to try to get an hour or two of sleep before I have to leave for work in the morning. Sometimes that means quality suffers.
Damn… How do you deal with this kind of crap when you’ve had to all of the stuff you do on top of making a new comic???
Well… I am glad my webcomic is starting out as crap to begin with, so no one will expect anything more until it gets better.
Ah larfleez…. I need to see your comic now, you know that right? You had to open your mouth ^^
You have to wait. I attempted to make a website based on this design, but it completely shat out on me. Going to have to start from scratch and make a new website and theme.
I know a guy who used to move his arm into that position all the time. It’s hardy impossible.
And one panel is all you need for sheer genius. Baby Mr. Fish, what’ll Jared do next?
I want a blue lobster husk. If I had one, my life would probably be complete.
I’m not commenting on the comic because I love it and there’s not much more than that to say.
eh, you fit more emotion in your characters than most people do in a dozen panels anyway. I say it’s a win.
You should really put up some kind of tutorial or just a quick preview of how you create your images. I’m absolutely a huge fan of your renderings. I’m sure a lot of people would love to see how you put them together!
She has dude… Just not a vid. http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs38/f/2008/327/0/0/How_to_draw_all_sorts_of_crap_by_Coelasquid.jpg
Whoa Commander is married? i thought he was having a thing with jonesy?
That’s his EX wife. The Commander is a divorced man. Where do you think the kids came from?
Magic and sunshine
And rainbows. Can’t forget the rainbows.
he isn’t, she is his ex-wife
Das his ex.
Just gonna throw this on here, but when will we see some Dragon Ball characters. I mean, Goku might not fit in with the crowd, but Vegeta and Yamcha are overflowing with machismo…and are pretty awesome to boot!
Because DBZ sucks and Coela has pretty much made her stance on Japanese “katana wielding pretty boys” clear.
There is no such thing as manly in anime. Only slightly less bishounen.
P.S. Vegeta is not manly; he’s pissed off. And who the fuck’s Yamcha?
You’re talking crazy moon-man talk. Anime has Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop), Joseph Jostar (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure), Alex Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist), J (Heat Guy J), and Guin (Guin Saga), just to name a few. All of those men would not only fit right in at the agency but they make Cody look like a Square-Enix bishounen.
DBZ does suck, though.
If we ignore all the filler episodes where they do nothing but yell and wait for their opponent to finish powering up, DBZ was good until they introduced the multiple levels of Super Saiyan.
That first part is a pretty huge caveat, though. ;3
What mostly annoyed me is that I don’t think I ever saw an episode where someone defeated a threat with intelligence or cleverness, or even actual fighting skill. It always, always was “new villain! Gotta learn a new power level!” In something like Jojo, a person with a weak power can overcome a person with a strong power by using their head, but in DBZ the head is just where yelling comes from.
The Majin Buu Saga was the most frustrating piece of shit storytelling I think I’ve ever witnessed. OUR PUNCHES DON’T WORK! PUNCH HIM HARDER! IT’S NOT WORKING! PUNCH HIM HARDER! Repeat for six months.
After watching Dragonball (y’know, back when most of the cast were still kids), I realized I like that series better than Dragonball Z.
Dragonball is sooo much better than Dragonball Z, That’s not even nostalgia talking, I saw Dragonball years after I saw all of Z.
OH NO OUR PUNCHES STILL DONT WORK
MAKE HIM A GOOD GUY QUICK
Whitebeard from One Piece, much?
Have you seen Lone Wolf and Cub? That has to be the manliest guy I ever done see. He not only has a katana, but chesthair, manly age lines and attacks people with a baby carriage with a gun compartment. He pretty much created the first automatic weapon, too.
And has chesthair.
And shows off dat manly arse. One chapter of his manga is so full of naked men doing manly things and showing off their man bodies that it’s not even funny.
And then we have Kuraha from Bloodlust. He’s about as hairy as Wolverine and he’s a ninja bear mountain goliath of a man who beats the snot out of the pretty boy. Mind you’ he’s pretty much a battle buttler, but manly.
Like Kogarashi. >:C You ain’t a man if you can’t connect yourself to a printer.
Really liking the new look for Madeline, it’s a lot easier to picture her and the Commander together than in her first appearance.
If we’re on the subject of what we would like to see more of, I’d love more comic book characters. :) Lots of manly men in comic books, my fave of which is Bane from Batman.
Personally I think that there’s a good few anime characters that could be considered manly.
PS. I’m a bit gay for the Commander’s ex. :) She’s so beautiful and curvy. I’m glad to see that the Commander clearly has good taste in that he’s attracted to “real” women like Madeline and Jonesy, as opposed to certain video game women that could probably pop up in the Manly Men Universe.
Okay, this is my first time posting here, love the comic, but I gotta respond to the “why havent dbz characters been here” thing.
Normally i would disagree about adding in DBZ characters (then again Yamcha’s equivalent to Cody but whatever..Tiens manlier…) but…BROLY. C’MON. The guys first and only reaction to all situations is to CLOTHESLINE his problems. He has a PEC BLAST! And he out-macho’s half the cast here.
Bear Hugs. Clotheslines. Pec Blasts. And god knows he DESTROYS the required pectoral widths/girth required by the Commander.
Also I’m kinda curious to see Commanders reaction to seeing some scrawny dude like base Broly get rejected only to get ticked off and pump up to GIANT LEGENDARY BROLY lol.
That is all, love the comic, keep it comin!
Normal Broly is still 7 foot tall and larger than the Commander. So yeah, either way he would be accepted.
Love the comic, just found it yesterday….already caught up.
keep it up, this is INCREDIBLY awesome.
Y’know what other type of manly guy should be cameoed? A Warhammer 40K space marine! They’re supposed to be 3 metres tall and buff as hell. Besides, I bet you’d enjoy drawing the crackling energy surrounding the head of a power maul!
‘Course, Gotrek Gurnisson would also be a worthy addition, even if he’s not human.
Oooh idea!
Jared/Commander get June a real baby Mr. Fish (a Magikarp, of course), and then she uses it to start her Pokémon journey!
Coel, I have a question for you:
Does the commander ever take his kids on vacation in the future/past?
Thanks :3
i would buy that shark plush toy
His ex is very… voluptuous
As a writer, game designer, and storyteller, I love it when people show the “family man” side of their characters. These lighthearted moments have their greatest implications during the characters’ darkest moments. What kind of moments such as those could the Commander have? Only time(and the author) can tell.
Oh holy mother of god-
I SWEAR I WOULDN’T BE BITCH TO YOU IF YOU MARRIED ME, COMMANDER-
I ONLY SHARE A NAME WITH YOUR EX
Holy crap, blue lobsters are, what, about one in five million? That’s gotta be a hell of an expensive dinner.
I love little shorts like this, absolutely adorable kids the commander has. Also, I love the way you draw his ex. Often times I see redheads in comics drawn with four to six dots on their face, but I like how you gave her a realistic light spraying of them.
Keep up the good work!
Found him!
http://www.stuffedsafari.com/Stuffed-Tiger-Shark-Mini-Cuddlekin-p/wr-10884.htm
Hm, Commander’s ex-wife is hot as heckers! Just gotta say ;)
I love, by the way, all the panels about his kids, they are adorable and he’s such a sweet father. That little girl is going to grow into one strong-willed chick, I think, lol!
Heh, Rock that Lobster.
I refuse to comment on the new Commander’s Name Mystery Nonsense Extravaganza.
…
Aw crap.
found it.
http://9gag.com/gag/a2Pqq4Z
To be honest… I’d think that Goldfish are “Baby Mr Fishy” Considered what they evolve from looks like goldfish
I still like this ‘cuz you can practically hear her going “NOOOOOO!”