Not many cyborgs do
October 3, 2011
12:00 am
Robocop isn’t complaining and he can’t even eat thing that aren’t made of nutrient paste.
Sorry this is late and all but a million and a half things went wrong while I was trying to do this, everything from Photoshop crashes to forgetting how to draw heads and back again. Don’t bother telling me that Cyborg’s features are on backwards, I found out all too late that the reference I pulled was flipped. And Robocop’s punctuation isn’t wrong there, just think of the way Robocop talks.
hmmm, Jensen is a bit negative in the game…
to be fair, JC denton is similar
Dunno, he seemed pretty upbeat to me. Jensen’s just an emo.
Despite the broken mirror and all, you can make him give optimistic answers when he’s asked how he is feeling.
It’s weird – everyone else seemed to pick up on the broken mirror as a sign of rage, self loathing, frustration, and angst on Jensen’s part.
Me? It struck me as part of a larger, hilarious joke. EVERY SINGLE MIRROR in the game doesn’t work. Check the bathrooms out, they all have digital news-screens which are displaying random info and which say “Mirror Mode Offline”, or similar.
The joke is that in the first Deus Ex, the mirrors were cruddy. It was that old harsh, blocky 3D game engine and it couldn’t really pull off convincing mirrors – they looked like windows into another room, except some jackass in sunglasses was staring back at you. Oh, and all your animations were reproduced in the mirror about 1 second too late. You’d swing a melee weapon at the mirror, then your mirror counterpart would swing his slightly after. And for some reason, mirrors didn’t take damage – you could destroy boxes and trashcans and plants and even kill rats, but you couldn’t break a mirror (unless it was one of the two-way mirror-walls in Hong Kong).
So given the history of the first game, the complete absence of mirrors in HR seems to be a huge playful jab.
~D.
That’s terror
JC Denton broke into everyone’s house. He thought his reflections were disguised enemies and shot them down. ALL OF THEM. That’s not weird. My main source of income is raiding peoples locked apartments and garages.
I just thought he was clumsy trying to get used to his new cyborg body. “Okay. Outta bed, now on to the living room. One foot, other foot, okay, tricky balance there… WOOAH ow my face. Gotta get the super on that, as soon as I stop breaking glassware with my crazy robot strength…”
The clumsy theory is fun and it’s now my headcanon.
Even if he was just taking his frustration out on the mirror, come on, the guy woke up to find like 70% of his body replaced with cybernetics. That’s a pretty harsh transition, and given how strenuous it would be to get used to having a body like that and always accidentally breaking things and whatnot, most people would probably snap and murder the super rather than just settle for smashin’ a mirror.
That’s disproved though. If you talk to the desk and search around a bit you find out they deliberately “delayed” the replacement of his mirror because he’d been smashing them all the time.
oh my god is that Bionic Barry in panel 1
Six Million Dollar Man, I’d bet. :)
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. Then I remembered he was a parody of the Six Million Dollar Man and facepalmed like a bitch.
I still want to hear him jump.
BAAARRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
What punctuation?
Amen.
I believe you mean “What punctuation.”
Eh–I think it’s intended to be a very flat delivery, with a tone like, “again?” Were I to word it to sound that way, I think I’d use a period. I often do that to imply incredible snark:
“Like really. For serious. Wat. Is wrong with you. Oh no. Why you gotta. Be like this.”
Almost like I’m too bored to properly punctuate the message. And even if the author didn’t intend it that way, now they can pretend they did XP
Heh, Bryan Fury…didn’t expect that. Nicely played.
One nitpicky thing though…Robocop asked a question yet you’ve got a period. I know, sorry.
Read the description under the comment. It’s to show Robocop’s vocal inclination.
there’s always one…
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!
There can BE only ONE!
Read the description a bit closer, Colin.
That one guy looks an awful lot like Bionic Barry from Archer! Glad to see he’s found himself a support group.
If I am wrong, please ignore my crazy.
I’ve never watched Archer, it’s the guy from Bionic Commando.
Actually, I think they’re talking about Steve Trevor.
(I had to Google Bionic Barry to figure out what they’re talking about.)
It’s kinda funny. Bionic Barry is clearly a take off of the Six Million Dollar Man, but it’s been so long since that was on the air people are identifying the parody instead of the source.
They also did one one on The Venture brothers, His name was Steve Summers tho. I freakin love that show.
So why no 6 million dollar woman?
Female cyborgs have their own support group. It consist mostly of Japanese school girls with ordinary human boyfriends. Major Kusanagi is in this one though (off camera), for one no one is sure of “her” true gender and well, there only so much school girl squealing one can take.
I will forever recognize the Six Million Dollar Man, but only because of the Family Guy and Venture Bros. parodies.
Nathan ‘RAD’ Spencer! He has a bionic arm, there’s no way he can lose!
THANK you! I was wondering who that one was. ^_^
Wait this isn’t “Pornstash” spencer this is “Dread” spencer. oh well both “Wife arm” Spencer.
Nathan completely wins the has it the worst than the other guys they didn’t need another human being to make one arm.
Jensen, always the over dramatic…
<3 this strip. thank you coela!!
keep up the good work
Thanks to your comment, I now understand where the “funny” lies in this comic… Thank you good sir/ma’am.
Well I think I do. Not completely sure. Never happened to me before to not laugh in front of a MGDMT update… For my defense, my mind seems unclear because of illness.
I’ll be honest, I just phone it in a lot of the time. My feelings for this comic are gradually drifting from “I’m going to draw something funny for my site this week” to “I’m going to slap some shit together at the last minute so people have something to complain at me about this week.”
Aw, that’s no good for anyone involved
My deepest apologies if I hurt you, it really wasn’t my goal. I just didn’t get the punchline. After reading the other comments, it seems it’s because I didn’t play at “Deus Ex: human Revolution” and therefore couldn’t know about this sentence and its meaning.
Again, sorry.
Take a vacation. Maybe do another fan drawn strips if you want and for the love of god get some pee-ons to help you out.
You bring a a little joy to me each week but the price of that shouldn’t be a lack of joy on your part. This started out as something fun for you and should not end with you fantasizing about causing some of you r fans to burst into flames using your mind. Next week is fall break any way so your due a vaca and it’s right on time.
I had almost forgotten Yoshimitsu was a cyborg.
Yeah, same here. Although, his being in this made my day; enjoyed it even more than the actual joke. Yoshimitsu is awesome.
Agreed! I can already hear the kind of crazy dialogue that would occur between Robocop and Yoshimitsu :D
I’m more surprise that Robocop hasn’t kill him yet considering his experience with things made in Japan.
Ditto. But I’ve got an excuse of never playing Tekken and really only knowing him by the Soul Cal version. (Who also seems to be a cyborg… Soul Cal’s 18th century is straight up crazy, man.)
I thought he was some kind of reanimated skeleton / spirit-in-flesh / some other crazy thing in Soul Calibur’s universe? And THEN he went on to be a cyborg when some crazy 1970’s scientist got ahold of him in Tekken.
Ok just to clear things up, Yoshimitsu is cybernetically enhanced after losing his left arm in a lab raid, he has an evil sword that feeds on the souls of the people he defeats, and he saved Bryan’s life at one point by turning him into a cyborg.
No, he is, or at least was, early on, alive. He’s got a clockwork wooden arm, though. Whether the rest of him is clockwork seems to vary from game to game.
I’m pretty sure everyone in the Soul Series aside from Cervantes and Nightmare are living human beings.
Oh, wait, duh…completely blanked on Asteroth – he’s neither living nor human. >_<
One of the bonus characters in SCIV was a clockwork girl too. http://soulcalibur.wikia.com/wiki/Ashlotte
… I really need to get IV (and, of course, a system that can play it). She looks awesome.
Ashlotte was an Asta-clone with minimal story, but she’s very cool. She rocks the animations much better than the main wielder.
Soulcalibur’s Yoshimitsu and Tekken’s Yoshimitsu are two different people. They have different dominant hands, and the Yoshimitsu in Tekken didn’t have any cyborg parts in the first game.
I actually thought that was Bludgeon for a while there. O_o
Fixed the last panel for ya, was too easy
Seems I forgot the link
http://t.co/3iWiXkpO
Link no work.
Heh. Clever. :)
The direct link to the image is: http://p.twimg.com/Aa6dblHCEAI_IWw.jpg
That was annoying. Funny though.
Pff, if he won’t eat his kong poh–sorry, kung pao chicken, I will.
…Kung pao fish is also delicious…/stomach growls
man, funny thing is that as soon as i started to play some music it turned right to the Deus Ex: Human revolution theme. after that i popped this open and saw Jensen.
one of the more badass parts of my life right there
Jensen reacts better than another darkly-clad cyborg we know. He’d just yell “Noooooooo!’ and throw it down a reactor vent.
only after lucas made him. :p
HA! Robocop and the Six Million Dollar Man in a single strip. It’s a beautiful thing. (Also really enjoying the poster for “barbarian reintegration seminar”.)
Aw man, this committee and the other events advertised on the wall could each be their own webcomic.
By the way, the suffering you went through for this is much appreciated. Wait, that sounds martyry…
I wonder, this one-liner never stopped to make me laugh, almost like Portal 2’s Space Core’s bumbling.
XD Yoshimitsu is in this committee too?! Isn’t he like, 4 centuries too early for th- well, I guess Commander could’ve picked him up from the past. I could so see Commander keeping Soul Edge in a trophy room or something. Either way, that made my day.
Tekken Yoshimitsu. Not Soul Yoshimitsu. Both count since Soul Yoshimitsu does have a mechanical hand. Somehow.
It’s probably Tekken’s Yoshimitsu. He’s a legacy character between both series. But more likely than not, it’s SC!Yoshi. Though I see a distinct lack of his clockwork right hand…
Ah well, I can nitpick later.
Well aside from the mask & bionic arm, that’s deffinitely his outfit from SCII. Maybe Coela didn’t want any “URGGH THATS THE WRONG YOSHI”-type comments & decided to mix them both; Smart move lol
He’s actually cobbled together from pieces of about three different Yoshimitsu Reincarnations. I just picked and chose the features that make me think of him the most. I usually do the same kind of thing when I draw Ganondorf.
Soul Calibur II Yoshi is the only Yoshi for me.
[insert mario!Yoshi jokes here]
BIONIC
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Now that’s a real power glove right there son.
Steve Austin, not Trevor, but the error is understandable :)
gawd half the audience is too young to even get where these characters are from. still an enjoyable read though :)
guy in red jumpsuit: six million dollar man, steve AUSTIN from an old tv show.
yoshimitsu: before there was soul edge/caliber whatever, he was from TEKKEN.
and thank god you didn’t draw cyborg ala that craptastic teen titans cartoon.
there, i’ve said my peace.
Craptastic? Teen Titans? Craptastic? Really?
And is that Yoshimitsu from Tekken? I haven’t played since Tekken 3, so maybe he was re-imagined, but the ones from 1-3 looked nothing like that guy.
yeah, really. the teen titans toon was a literal slap in the face to the comic. it was drawn badly, and had very little to do with the actual characters/origins.
it was akin to mr. goerge lucas changing return of the jedi recently. i’m sorry, i was a true fan of the og comic and it is BAD. it wasn’t even drawn as well as BATMAN for chrissakes.
Wow, a TV show LITERALLY slapped a comic in the FACE? That’s really impressive, considering neither of those things have human features!
Then I assume that one of these things, the Teen Titans comics or the show, you have never experienced. Or the recent Return of the Jedi’s changes, for that matter . . .
well, you assume erroneously because i’ve seen them ALL. i even owned the original x-men teen titans crossover comic where darkseid and pheonix teamed up. and i watched exactly ONE episode of the cartoon, that was enough for me. and how would i be unaware of the recent changes to star wars by lucas since i brought them up? if you just stop and think you’d go far man.
If you only watched a single episode of Teen Titans, then I did not assume erroneously. Since that’s what I assumed.
Han Solo shot first. It’s something that most every fan has always believed and loved. And it was pretty much universally despised when Lucas switched the order in one of his remastered versions. And with the current one, is being brought back. All in all, the recent Return of the Jedi’s changes are adding more of what was liked in the originals and less of what wasn’t in the newer ones, though some do remain. So if you liked the first movies, you’ll like the most recent one, because it’s a step back in the right direction.
dude, you’re missing my point entirely. the return of the jedi change i personally take issue with, is the ending scene where vader picks up palpatine and throws him down the shaft. lucas now makes him say “NOOOOOOOOO”! as he is doing it. i don’t like my childhood memories being rewritten thank you very much. and please, do not EVER question my comic book knowledge. i may be a nerd, but i put people through college and better with the amount of blood sweat and tears i put into them. lastly, i don’t remember ANYONE ever asking for vader to say something in a climactic end scene. his “presence” is just that badass. your “more of what was liked” theory does not fly. anywhere.
“It’s different now it sucks.”
Alternately: “Ruined FOREVER”
The word you were looking for, friend, was “metaphorically”. Example: “His like of capitalization and misuse of a comma were, metaphorically, a slap to the face of English grammar.”
It’s okay, though, common mistake. And yeah, the Batman cartoon was one of the best. Here’s one of my favorite episodes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJlD1B43CbE
Of course, I meant “use”, not “like”. See what happens when you argue on the internet? You’re begging to make an arse of yourself. I had that coming for being a Grammar Nazi, I guess. XD
Heh. It’s cool. I rather like the addage of: “arguing on the internet is like competing in the special olympics”. Even if you win, you’re still retarded.
The cartoon was a reimagining of the team for a new generation.
I’m a member of the generation the original comic was produced for, and loved the cartoon every bit as much as the book that inspired it.
Some people hate change.
“A reimagining of the Titans? A SLAP IN THE FACE.”
“A version of D&D that doesn’t require 8 hours of rules and math? UNACCEPTABLE.”
“A Batman that doesn’t wear blue-and-grey spandex while making terrible puns? HERESY.”
“Updating any comic characters whatsoever to fit in the current generation? END OF THE WORLD.”
Some people are just obsessed with making sure things always stay the same, I guess? As if somehow, a new interpretation of something they loved as a child is actually causing harm to them personally.
Type Yoshimitsu into google and you’ll pull up about ten different costumes. The man likes to keep in fashion
Heh…Soul Cal Yoshi’s got at least 8 costumes alone, without adding in however many the Tekken version’s got.
I did after writing that, and holy crap did he change a lot. Dude must be a real star on his homeworld, having such a huge wardrobe like that.
josumitsu is the only one who may complain!
they equip him in weirder and weirder crap EVRY NEW GAME!
And people don’t even spell his name right!
My thoughts exactly. It’s a travesty, such a travesty. :P
hhahahahah, oh thats hilarious. Jensen is a great character to make fun, but not that great a character.
I wonder how much more than six million Denton cost to build…
*secretly wants to be a cyborg* I get why Robocop is upset, but seriously? Why the hell is Jensen bitching? his arm is awesome. >>
It’s a dialogue choice you can pick even when the situation doesn’t warrant Jensen being depressed about his cybernetics. I don’t know why Eidos thought that we needed an “I didn’t chose this,” choice in every discussion about cybernetics with Jensen – apparently they realized early that Jensen was a whiny bizatch.
Jensen needs somebody to slap some sense into him. I mean, when you’ve got hands that can rotate 360 degrees at speed, invisibility *and* x-ray vision…
at the cost of his humanity
and his dick. And his girlfriend, on that note.
He’s got hands that can rotate 360 degrees.
What was she THINKING?
Unless, well, maybe he’s just not that good, and this was simply an excuse…
Jensen bones an aug chick in the comics, so his manhood’s still intact. And he and Megan were separated PRIOR to the events of HR. Remember that awkward conversation in the elevator in the first scene?
Mostly because she feels guilty using his DNA to spurn the next wave of cybernetic people in a world that both hates/fears and loves cybernetics.
I would think there would be some cybernetic women he could hook up with. Not at the meeting obviously but they are out there.
I was more referring to the fence Jensen never got around to building for Megan’s dog, as well as them both mentioning they had regrets, which did remind Megan of how she’d ‘betrayed’ Jensen.
There’s also the dream Jensen had while he was being augmented, about himself and megan (to put it discreetly), who told him that she loved him, and that she was sorry.
Maybe they realized that you should have the choice to be against “augmentation” too, being a role playing game.
Remember he was “augmented” without his consent (life at stake or not) on a world where there is very dangerously heavy debate against the use of this technology.
I think setting considered, it was a solid choice to add without being “whinny” or “emo”.
But GOD, does it crack me up in this comic.
I like choices in an RPG game, too, but man, they went really heavy on the whine factor after you chose to go with “I DIDN’T CHOOSE THIS.”
Granted, he didn’t. On the same subject, you don’t have to go overboard to make a point about it. And boy, did Eidos go overboard in many aspects. Had it been more subtle, I think it would have worked better. I would have enjoyed it better if Jensen’s “I DUN WANNA BE A CYBURG” responses didn’t come with the tone of voice that he uses for everything and the over-the-top dialogue.
I think that’s why the comic was so funny to me – the over-abundance to use that response and the monotone Batman voice he conveyed it in.
Choose the wrong dialog option by mistake
“I didn’t choose this”
“NEITHER DID I”
ZING
To be fair, Jensen really didn’t ask for it. Not only that but, if you’d read some of the logs you find, you learn that Sarif went way above and beyond what was necessary to save Jensen’s life, even going as far to cut off healthy body parts just so he could have his own private super soldier.
Add to that the strong anti-cyborg sentiments in the game (which Jensen obviously didn’t share given his employer, but could still affect his view on things) and the possibility of being forever having to deal with aug rejection and being hooked on Neuropozyne (neither of which affect Jensen, but at that point he had no real way of knowing that he was special like that), and it at least gives an indication of why he would not enjoy the idea of being fully augmented without having any say in the matter. And it’s not like you have to whine about it. Hell, one of the earliest times you’re asked about it you can say it feels surprisingly good.
As an added argument for “I never asked for this”, allow me to grab a bit of Robocop lore (Robocop 2 to be precise) since this comic features him as well, and remind you that they make it very clear that most cops react very poorly to cyborgization (it’s kind of an important plot point), and Jensen is an ex-cop…
Well, on top of the morality and duty factor, they do say that the cops who killed themselves were likely driven mad by the lack of a human face to look at… and I think they mention some relation between the breakdown and a machismo factor, like they can’t deal with losing their fit human bodies. Jensen does pass for a regular guy with a human body a lot better than Robo can…
I read that first line in Pritchard’s voice. O_o
Present at the meeting but not shown in the strip are Matthew Kane, Darth Vader and two Cybermen.
One Mondasian and one AltEarthing one, I’m guessing?
ok i may seem like a random troll, but could you explain mondesians to me? they sure do sound a lot like movellans .. you have to remember i’m OLD and i watched dr. who in the 70s/80s .. iirc movellans were the opposing race to the daleks .. i did catch some 9th and 10th dr’s though.
The original Cybermen came from Mondas, the tenth planet of our solar system. It exploded in their first story (back in William Hartnell’s tenure – his last story in fact, so circa ’66), so those Cybermen have basically been vagabonds ever since.
The Daleks’ original enemy back on Skaro in /their/ first story were the Thals, who were still human, whereas the Daleks had been mutated into creepy squid/crab things which we never got a close look in that story. I don’t think they’ve ever been mentioned since.
Lucky for them. They were peaceful, so if we don’t have news, that means the Dr didn’t need to save them again. That and/or it’s because they were kinda boring.
Thanks!
Nice job on Brian’s pants! They look very snakey or croc-ey :)
Personally I don’t Count Rad Spencer as a very manly man, but I’ll accept his presence as you needed more cyborgs :p
No, Rad is pretty manly. I mean he did fight a giant robot worm and won. Just because his game sucks doesn’t make him any less manly. And when he found out his arm is his wife (weren’t not talking about that) he didn’t whine and complain. He went and kicked some ass.
You are my favorite person forever: someone who turns into an animal other than a wolf is not a lycanthrope.
However… wouldn’t the meeting time sometimes cause… conflicts?
Hence the use of the term “Therianthrope”.
I imagine the dire were-mules would stop attending after a while.
Bryan Fury, best cyborg to ever kick ass.
Forget that Cyborgs features are flipped. Im still ecstatic that hes in here.
I mean who better to represent this group, And its things like this that make me love this comic more than any other out there.
I don’t know what’s worse –
That response choice or the Get Bent response choice to every conversation tree that Jensen has with someone when talking about cybernetics.
Jensen and Batman should have a voice-off, to see who is more somber sounding.
So who DO I ask for that? Because whoever they are has my permission to make me a into an awesome badass cyborg.
Yay for Yoshimitsu and Spencer! <3
YAY! I’m so happy to see Jensen in here finally. DE: Human Revolution is one of my favorite games, and as I played it I was just going, “hmm, this guy woul be a riot in Manly Guys…” Thanks Coelasquid.
A friend of mine led me to this site. I read all the comics once through. I loved them so much I read them through again.
Thank you Coelasquid for the very enjoyable universe of “Manly Guys”, it is a real treat. Two things really set you apart from most other webcomics on the internet, that I really want to commend you on.
I feel you have a better grasp on visual storytelling than the majority of web-artists. I love the little touches that are put into each of these panels. It shows professionalism and talent to add details such as folding chairs in a support group meeting. I feel that most web-artists wouldn’t even think to add things like that, Opting to show these characters standing, only drawing them from the waist up. The details really pull me in and get me absorbed in the comic. I feel like this could be a real meeting even though the room is populated by Yoshimitsu and the 6 Million Dollar Man! Most of the time, the little shit in the background gets me laughing more than the punchline itself. For example, the images on the commander’s coffee cups or the machine gun mounted on the wall in panel two of this comic (http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/393) really get a chuckle out of me. They add little nuances to his character that you simply don’t get by reading the text alone. You are creating atmosphere and character in ways that I don’t see in a lot of web-comics and I think it shows how far and above this comic actually is.
On a similar note, your facial expressions are superb. You talk about this a lot in your blog entries, so I don’t think I’m saying anything new here, but bravo! All the smiles, winks, nods, scowls, and smirks are expertly placed and further solidify characterizations and atmosphere.
The other thing that really moves me is your firm belief in what it takes to be a man. Thank you for refusing to conform to your fan’s perceptions of what men are. Whether in video games, other media, or real life, a man is not measured by how much shit he can destroy (Here’s looking at you JRPG fanboys), but by how he treats those around him.
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/275
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/395
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/548
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/551
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/811
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/917
This is a real man right here. He’s good to his kids, dedicated to his job, he’s a good mentor to Jared, he keeps his friends in line, etc. Commander just has his life put together. The man has the occasional problem, but he doesn’t angst about them (Here’s looking at you JRPG fanboys) he generally meets his problems head on. And the fact that he’s spending his time reforming the badasses of society and turning them into decent respectable humans proves he’s one of the best role models in media.
I don’t mean to get preachy or to hate on fanboys too much. There is certainly a lot of reason to admire a few JRPG and Anime Characters. Kamina from Gurren Lagan comes to mind, or Kenshin Himura from Samurai X, and many others. I just want to express my gratitude towards Coelasquid for a beautifully constructed character and universe and for an enjoyable strip. I hope you never compromise the integrity of your strip, and it’s message, because of fan requests or popular opinion. You have good shit here, I would hate to see it ruined because you caved in to fan requests.
Word.
AWESOME post! Thanks man!
And that reminds me. Commander didn’t even appear in this strip. That’s… uncommon.
No cybernetic implants. 100% natural manly man.
Who says he doesn’t have any cybernetic implants?
DUn DUN DUUUUUUUuuuuuuNNNNN!!
I just figured he had techno gadgets but nothing was connected to him. I shall continue to read to find out if this is true.
Yes, I’m positive all your admiration of this character has to do with his redeeming personality traits, and nothing to do with how very masculine he is. :P Don’t get me wrong, I love this comic too, I just think it’s funny that you have to quantify what a “real man” the Commander is. Not a good person. A real man.
True,
Most of my points could be applied to men or women.
I’ll give you Kamina but not Kenshin. Not only is he a pretty boy, but he spends most of his time being a hypocrite.
And what about Jet Black? Lockon Stratos? Kotetsu Kaburagi?
I would add Vash the Stampede to that too.
There is nothing wrong with being pretty per-se. Once you begin to define you character by your looks is when you run into problems. Besides Kenshin has a pretty prominent scar, which can be photogenic, or it could be a turn off. Either way I don’t think it is fair to deem Kenshin less manly because he is a “pretty boy”. You have to look at other traits.
The hypocrite thing, I will be honest, I don’t remember a single example of this. This does not mean you are wrong, it’s been almost a decade since I watched the show. He DID say he was a pacifist, and got into many fights. But I don’t think that is an example of hypocrisy, because he frames his actions by calling himself a “Sword That Protects”. He also uses a reverse blade sword to prevent himself from killing. Again not that you are wrong, I just don’t remember.
Jet Black, Vash and many others are Manly Men and Good People, but it was impossible for me to list every example of a man in anime. Cut me a little slack ^_^
Dutch from Black Lagoon. Or Chang.
Ahhh Yoshimitsu <3 When Soul Caliber 2 came out, he was always my choice <3
Bryan was my favorite in Tekken, nice!
I will always remember Bryan for that gut-punch move of his.
You know the one.
Where he punches your dude in the stomach… and then you hear that evil laugh as he lifts you up on his fist and slams you into the ground.
Love that move… and hate it… depending on which end of it I’m at.
Two Tekken Cyborgs? Not complaining.
Wait, Bryan Fury doesn’t even eat food, does he? His whole plot was about stealing that super power source from Dr. Boskonovitch.
He needed the power source from Dr. B to run his systems, but maybe he still eats out of habit.
Or, since he seems to have taken his “calm-the-hell-down” pills today, maybe he’s just being nice to the other cyborgs who still can eat.
But Bryan and Yoshi in the same comic? Love it.
Good to see some of my favorite cyborgs from the past make an appearance. Keep up the good, work.
He brings food for the other guys. What a nice guy.
i’m curious… you said you forgot how to draw heads? do you have any drawing from when you stil haven’t finished it (just for comparison sake?)
Eh. I used to read Teen Titans and I didn’t notice Cyborg’s, er, cybernetics were on backwards.
Was hoping t see JC Denton here too, but he is missing in action. I wonder how he would react to the rather whiny character from the new game.
I think he’d react with a smartass remark. He didn’t make a lot of wisecracks in Deus Ex but when the situation was as perfect as this one he probably would. I’m thinking something like, “I totally asked to not have parents and be grown in a lab by world-conquering conspiracy-nutjobs. I don’t know what you’re whining about at all.”
What a shame.
Well, Jenson only needed to have his chest cavity and an arm replaced. Instead, his boss used a contract clause to have both Jensen’s arms (1 healthy arm) and legs (healthy legs) cut off and his brain (undamaged) spiked with experimental chips. You can read his file in the LIMB clinic in the first metropolitan area. So, some whining is justifyable.
I think it’s how often you get to have him whine that breaks it for me. Also, when whining about your cybernetics, don’t you think you’d try to add some inflection and whatever tonal changes you can to express your unhappiness? Instead of constantly talking like Batman regardless of the situation?
To be honest, it might have been my dialogue choices, but Jensen basically never complained in my playthrough. The closest he came was something that, paraphrased, was more or less “well, I didn’t ask for this, but they’ve been useful, so we’ll see where this stuff goes”. Of course, I did tend to go for the “optimist” dialogue tree whenever possible.
I like how the report completely sidesteps the inherent injuries of being SHOT IN THE HEAD WITH A REVOLVER. I honestly expected Jensen’s eyes to have been replaced for genuine reasons; the shock of the bullet’s impact would have damaged both his eyes beyond recovery.
Made me smile. :)
Gunter and Anna should be there too. I wonder whether Paul, JC and Alex would technically be allowed into that meeting or not? They’re cyborgs but they’re squishy nano-cyborgs rather than clanky mechano-cyborgs.
bet you had fun doing Brians pants….
What a shame.
You win a free internet.
Hey Coelasquid, question here. Is there any chance Jecht is going to show up? He is one of my favorite characters and I’d like to know if he will appear some day.
Dude! You asked so now he won’t. It’s some kind of karmic law or something. I think XKCD covered it.
I hadn’t ask for him to appear. I wanted to know if he will appear. I’m won’t be mad if he doesn’t.
Needs more Inspector Gadget B)
HAHAHAHAHA that would be hilarious!
He’s not a cyborg, though.
There’s something inherently classy about cybernetics.
He’s more of a …Clownborg.
WHAT? Inspector Gadget is too a cyborg. A cyborg is classified as any animal melded with machines. Of course this also means Doctor Octopus is also a cyborg (those robot tentacles are grafted to his body).
Still a step up from a Beetleborg
I watched that show again recently when I was feeling nostalgic. So so so so so so so so so bad.
the very moment i saw the word “takeout” i knew how the comic would play out.
what i didnt know was that the punchline would be from robocop.
So I was going to say something about Yoshimitsu but then Autocorrect told me I was actually trying to type Mitsubishi, Damn you Racist Autocorrect :P
DOWN WITH THE RACIST MACHINES
Long time reader, no first time poster.
Just want to say…i really want to see the Barbarian Reintegration meeting Friday at 9.
Mostly i want to see if Shwarzneggars Conan is leading the meeting or not.
PS- I will never spell his name right, so i wont even try.
It’d be interesting if both new AND old movie Conans were in it. Strange, but interesting.
I wonder if Canadian Guy would be in it…
I was thinking the same thing! I want to see that meeting.
I can’t be the only one who read Robocop’s line in a monotone (out loud).
nope.
I too wish to see the other meetings. :3 Love ya ‘squiddy.
I feel guilty for only recognizing three of them (Six million dollar man, robocop, and cyborg, who the group should force to think up a more creative name). But it’s hilarious and the art is especially great in this comic
I feel bad for the therianthropes and barbarians though. Cyborgs get welfare while barbarians need anger management and therianthropes are out of luck and have to buy many lint rollers.
I recognize three people.
NEW RECORD!
Bryan Fury, Yoshimitsu, and Victor Stone (who’s robo/face is reversed)
You can’t do this Coelasquid, you put three jokes to be had in far too short amount of time. It’s an obvious attempt at murder.
“I never asked for this.” Got me going.
“Why are you always so difficult.” With proper Robocopian punctuation was killing afterwards.
“Barbarian Reintegration Seminar” almost ended my life right there.
You’ll be hearing from my lawyer. When I get one.
I think there’s alot more comedic potential for Jensen, like how he needs to eat a candy bar before punching someone, and since he’s controlling the augs with a chip in his brain he’s not really burning any calories
No, you see, he has an augmentation that accelerates his metabolism giving him more bioenergy which is diverted to the power supply for his augmentations.
I’m not a sci-fi nerd, nope. ^_^
http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p82/
Is it my birthday? Is it?? I just fangirl squeed when I saw Adam.
Oh Adam….. *melts all over Adam like butter on a fry pan*
Thank Goodness this went up, I was concerned that you pulled a Daisy Owl on me…
For those not in the know, I was an avid Daisy Owl reader and then the web comic stopped…
crossover love for inspector gadget/robocop.
http://blip.tv/inappropriate-soundtracks/robocop-1987-inappropriate-soundtracks-1558885
Man if Yoshimitsu and Bryan Fury can sit civilly in the same room with one another JC can at least try not to be an unappreciative dick.
$6,000,000 man for the win
Most restaurants won’t serve you if you’re not wearing a shirt. I wonder what hellhole he went to for Chinese…
Could’ve done a drive-through I guess. Granted, I’ve seen some dark things in the depths of Chinatown…
When a man that built comes walking in wearing nothing but snakeskin pants, you just serve them…
exactly. just look at what happened to the bikers in the first terminator.
Coela, I can’t stop believing. No matter how late it is.
Oh, hey, it’s good ol’ Wife-Arm! Nice to see he and the old lady get out and attend functions to help out similar members of the community.
And Jensen doesn’t like Chinese take-out? What a shame.
Wonder if Robocop could take Jensen…..
Short answer: Yes.
So.
Both Detroit cyborgs in this comic.
Yay!
Off topic: Deux Ex could have really used some of Robocop’s humor. Fuck, I’d have just like the same news program as Robocop’s whenever you turn off TVs.
I’d buy THAT for a dollar!
I love Yoshimitsu, but does he really qualify as manly? He mostly just bloody weird in Tekken and fairly camp in Soul Calibur(I loved his English voice in SC2).
Also, I can’t get over how amicable Bryan looks here. He’s usually so crazy in Tekken.
Not sure about his Tekken moves (it’s been a while since I’ve used him) but the guy stabs himself as an attack in Soul Calibur. HOW IS THAT NOT MANLY!?
He has the seppuku moves in Tekken as well, yes. And in both he performs the moves without any hesitation.
Also, Yoshimitsu is manly as all hell; he leads a group of thieves, has a strong code of honor, can do crazy physical feats like balancing on an upright sword (and the above), has done things like rescuing someone from an airborne helicopter, and is generally crazy and awesome.
He may not be built like other ones here, but in personality and actions, he’s a great, if bizarre, example of manliness.
i like you for the simple fact you use sepukku instead of the american bastardized version, hari kiri. pardon this gwuilos? poor attempts at japanese.
and while i know both are accurate i suspect the latter.
I guess it all boils down to personal definition of manliness. Kojiro pretty much nailed it – Yoshi may not be buff, and sure as hell isn’t serious, but he’s courageous to the point of insanity and carries a strange wisdom that is as sharp as it is unexpected – not unlike the Commander.
very succinctly put, and true.
Still, while he’s badass, I’m not sure if it’s a particularly manly kind of badass.
Though this is the cyborg support group anyway, so I think it’s ok to include him on that.
I’m not sure Seppuku is the right word here. Isn’t seppuku a very specific suicide method involving cutting open the abdomen with the tanto (though it probably can be conducted easily with the wakazashi or tachi, be funny to see a guy try it using a nodachi though)? Though I do think there might be a word for it, a perfect strike which misses all vital organs. (Hm. I wonder if that makes him a better swordmaster than Mitsurugi.)
Well, actually one of the variations of the move is simply sitting down and committing seppuku (which, unlike the other ones, can’t actually hit anyone as far as I know), although I am admittedly unsure of if the other variations would qualify or not. Still, it seems appropriate enough a term; I think that the games used either “seppuku” or “hara kiri” to refer to them at least.
Manji Blood Petals is the best one. Y’know… the one where he stabs himself while standing… THEN starts doing his signature spinning, just sorta spraying his blood all over the place. Typical Yoshi insanity.
Thing is… Yoshimitsu could always get away with those self-harming moves because he is also the only one who can heal himself.
GASP HOW DARE YOU HAVE A LIFE OUTSIDE THIS COMIC I GO TO COLLEGE AND ALL I WANT IS TO SEE THIS COMIC EXACTLY AT 12 AM MONDAY AND YOU’RE SUCH A HORRIBLE PERSON BLAH BLAH BLAH
i hope that was over-the-top enough to be obviously sarcastic. i haven’t had enough coffee to gauge whether or not anything i say is actually funny. i love your comic, and today’s was hilarious. for me, late comics means something to look forward to later in the week between classes. and you always make it worth the wait.
bee tee double-you, is that cyborg from teen titans? amazing.
Love the nod to the trailers in panel three, only way to improve it would have been to have him dent/crumple the box a bit to match the cracking glass, but that probably would have taken a lot more work for relatively little benefit.
See, at first I thought that was Roy Batty, then I remembered I haven’t watched Blade Runner in nearly a decade and felt like an idiot.
If anyone is being a baby, it’s Steve Austin. Really, no one can even tell he’s a cyborg, yet he’s in a support group for it.
Ah but he was the first, and now an entire generation hasn’t even heard of him.
He angsts (in a MANLY ASTRONAUT sort of way) a lot in the first book “CYBORG” upon which the TV show was founded.
good to see someone knows their stuff :) btw did you happen to watch the six million dollar man tv series? if so, could you perhaps tell me what episodes he fought those robotic tanks in? i remember really liking those as a kid and i’d like to rewatch them if i could only FIND them.
Of course no one remembers the original Yoshimitsu…
I remember his Tekken 3 rendition. I hated it back then.
Tekken 4’s take will always be my favorite. Simple but cool. Also his ending was killer.
I wonder if you’ve lost sight of the original concept. Wasn’t it all for manly guys who have trouble fitting back in to society? Now it seems like it’s just a clubhouse for every fictional character ever.
No matter what character I use, there will be people who say they’re not manly enough or people who say they’re promoting improper ideals of manliness or any of a number of complaints, So I just draw whatever I feel like.
It’s a support group! It’s whole purpose is for it’s members to help each other along through life because they share a common characteristic (it’s usually a negative thing, but it doesn’t have to be). Usually a support group has the exact purpose of helping those who have trouble fitting in with society. I think it fits the concept perfectly.
I thought the point of this strip is that it’s a support group for cyborgs? It doesn’t necessarily have to be connected to Commander’s agency.
HOW ARE CYBORGS NT MANLY!!!!!!! explain this logic too me? A quote from my play “oz” in theatre class “and you showed heart by not crushing everybody with your mass robotic strength”
It’s hard to deny that at least *some* of these cyborgs are super-manly.
After seeing so many game characters that I know of, but am not overly familiar with… I wonder if any characters fromt eh games I loved as a kid/teen will work their way in here at some point… And since I’m playing Xenogears again after so long, I find myself wondering if Rico Bandaras would fit in with the comic at all…
Well thats my thoughts on that, on the comic… Another great one,Coela!
Yoshimitsu! SO MANLY!!!
Nice to see Jensen in this. Second webcomic I’ve seen him featured in.
Of course, though…he didn’t ask for it. Lol.
He only talks like that because he has a 1980s vocoder instead of a throat. Racist.
Man, that “Barbarian Reintegration Seminar” reminded me of those “What’s in your wallet?” commercials. Apparently Visigoths got it hard.
not as hard as the romans ;)
Bow chicka
wow wow. ;)
Made my day seeing Yoshimitsu and Bryan Fury in this :)
mfw Yoshimitsu: :3
He (both Soul Calibur and Tekken version) is my favourite video game character, I’m so happy to see him in your comic.
wait..yoshimitsu’s a cyborg? I forgot/didn’t know that
Don’t forget to bring your flamethrowers on Wednesday nights.
Give us more sexy ex-wife to compensate for the lateness. *nod nod*
Man, I miss Cyborg from the Teen Titans. The show really made him look much better and act much cooler than his comic book counterpart.
Cyborgs are the only people who hate magnets more than Mormons.
Nope. http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp23/Troubl3shooter/icp_how_do_magnets_work.jpg
Yes Bryan Fury my favorite tekken character you have made my day!
anyone else see MysteryGuitarMan in Jensen??
So the black guy in the last panel is that supposed to be your version of cyborg from teen titans? if not please tell me who because it bothers me and I want to know
It’s comic book Cyborg (not his cartoon incarnation, but he’s backwards because the ref picture I pulled was flipped.
would you recomend said comic book? assuming you read it. I love the cartoon version and I am hoping the comic book will have the same concept.
Nice use of Bryan! Bonus points for Yoshimitsu, Nathan Spencer and The Six Million Dollar Man.
YEEEE! MY YOSHI IS IN THE MANLY WORLD NOW!
Is happy.
what happened to Yoshimistu’s wooden arm?
what happened to the wooden cyborg samurai ninja’s wooden arm of win!?
Yoshimitsu’s in Tekken too, as a cyber-ninja.
The answer is obviously that he’s uprgaded it as of this comic, he’s just wearing the old duds for nostalgia’s sake.
ok, question is satisfied.
I would think if Isaac Clarke and Gordon Freeman can’t get in, then neither should Adam Jensen. What makes those guys nerdier than Adam?
Because guest strips are so totally canon.
-gasp- So they DO have a chance?? Say it’s so, Coelasquid!
I don’t think computer skills trump punching through walls to grab power-ups.
I love how every one is thinking the Six Billion dollar man is one of the many parodies of him because he hasn’t actually been talked about for so long.
so long that inflation raised his price tag? :p
I am super pleased to see Nathan Spencer there, what with the lack of respect he gets. Yes, I’m even pleased that it’s dreadlock Spencer because I honestly like the look more.
I’ve got the site bookmarked, in my feed reader and listed in my delicious.
This has probably been my favourite strip so far, in a series of fantastic strips. Perfect use of that line; you made my day!
Lawl, cyborgs. But since you made a comic on robots, I would like to inquire a question:
What do you think of giant mechs? Not the pretty-boys that pilot them, just the mechs themselves. Be interesting to see the Commander’s car he he used when car-pooling Poison is also Megas XLR, or him fixing up the Tetsujin #28 or even Voltron.
He wanted Lemon Lime
lol whoops I thought the guy who got takeouts was Gun Jack ^^’
Also, I didn’t know Yoshimitsu was a cyborg, I thought he was just an armoured fighter.
I wish you could add Mega Man X here. I mean not X from the video games. but the X that made a cameo in the original Mega Man cartoon. I mean he’s all man, he practically destroyed an entire plant with his normal arm cannon.
*an entire power plant
X isn’t a cyborg. He’s a reploid, or a robot with the capability to think and make decisions for himself.
Cyborg or not don’t you think he’s manly enough to be in this webcomic? well not in THIS strip but future updates.
I have to say i had been debating whether to get deus ex hr or not and this comic was the final point that made me give in and get it and i am quite glad i did
Love that Bryan’s the nice guy who gets the other cyborgs some lunch. One teensy, tiny “ffu” about the comic is he’s missing his scars (and bullet holes). But that you’ve got my TWO favorite Tekkenborgs in a single comic (about their welfare, even, considering they were enemies) makes me gleeful.
Have to say, I’d love to see Gunther and Anna in this one as well.
Jack Claw must have missed the meeting, too busy trying to walk down the street without smashing every window in sight.
And why not simply flip the last panel, and re-flip the text on the signs ?
Oh My God, Look at the Swag of Mr Fury
Hey, really happy to see Tekken characters being used. I’ve spotted a little error however – if I remember correctly, Bryan’s tatoo is on the other side of his neck.
Still nice of you to include him, I’ll be happy every time you decide to show him off.
Alright, I was expecting you to draw Bryan Fury sooner or later. :D
sorta figured Jax would be there.
He was ludicrously macho before the whole ‘my arms are robotic motherfuckers!’
I realize he doesn’t talk like that but thats what I say when i beat someone with him.
As the actor who plays Adam Jensen I agree that this is hilarious and true.
am I the only one who realizes that Bryan Fury has eyebrows in this strip? no big deal though
It’s no big deal because Fury doesn’t have eyebrows in Tekken.
Nathan Spencer!
Hell yeah!
This is awesome. I know we see a lot of “I never asked for this” jokes, but quality is never unwelcome.
I love it XD
I don’t think I’ve chuckled like this at a comic in over a year. I love it when I understand references.