Oh, you’re my best friend in a world we must defend
February 29, 2016
2:35 am
Got some shitty health stuff I’ve been dealing with but I wanted to get something out for the 20th Pokemon anniversary and also hey something Street Fightery because everyone’s excited about Street Fighter right now.
Mr.Fish said no.
Mr. Fish is the spirit animal of no.
Mr. Fish IS no.
We found no. Guess it isn’t missing anymore.
But Waldo & Carmen Sandiego are still missing. Maybe they’re in cahoots with each other…Cahoots is a little village north of Bumfuckt Egypt.
Waldo and Carmen have a kid. Her name is Already Gone.
Ah! A fellow fan of Tailsteak, I presume?
Yer durn right
Late to the party!
Well, her actual name is Aurora Giselle SanDiego. Already Gone is what her friends call her.
What you did there; It is seen and thoroughly approved of.
…God bless you, man, but that was beautiful.
I concur with others. Truly, ’twas a glorious wordplay you fashioned there!
What’s his theme song? Fish-no…
Good fish.
For being a…er, sea serpent…that hasn’t got any spoken vocabulary at all, Mr. Fish is effective at conveying his meaning:
No means no!
The inside of Mr. Fish’s mouth looks oddly sensual if you get my drift.
Which, if Pokemon’s reproductive functions are linked to their “eating” and “surviving fights” functions would make a lot of sense.
Mr. Fish bites and gets a mouth-gasm which makes Mr. Fish more likely to enjoy fighting and biting (which leads to Poke’volving and reproduction).
I am NEVER gunna be able to unsee this…
Ha! Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.
Also i have denied the Firsters.
Well you might have missed the target, but it is a worthy goal all the same.
Rashid should have brought Laura or Blanca to help him face Mr. Fish
I’d appreciate it if someone could explain this “stand” thing to me (and to Rashid, mayhaps).
Also, I wonder how could anyone mistake Jared for a capable fighter? Though, admittedly, he has no trouble fighting a cyborg army and defeating the Last Boss with his Mr. Fish and can survive without issues in the Omnipocalypse. ;P
Stands hail from JoJo’s bizarre adventure, they’re kinda an extension of the user’s will and often defend or act out to their user’s benefit. Look up arc 3 of JoJo sometime, either the OVA or newer anime series are a good bet there (as well as the abridged version of the OVA on youtube)
“Stands” are a concept from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, introduced in Part III: Stardust Crusaders. They are manifestations of supernatural powers. Some of those powers are simple like pyrokinesis, lightning, or time travel, while others are decidedly more bizarre, like forcing someone to always say the opposite of what they want, removing space, cutting out time, or reading people like books and rewriting them.
Stands are usually invisible to people who themselves do not possess Stands of their own, and taking damage only from other Stands, while others take physical forms. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, most of them bizarrely humanoid, some shaped like weapons, one was a literal ball of fire. In most cases damaging a Stand will damage its user in the same way.
I hope that helped.
“something simple” Like “time travel” you have an interesting definition of simple there my friend
Something “straightforward” then.
Or, “straightbackward” – fare more useful
For Jojo’s time travel is ‘simple’
There are numerous time-based powers on JoJo. So many of them are weird and some nearly impossible to explain in a way that makes sense.
It. Just. Works.
Someone gave a very good explanation of King Crimson by comparing it to intentionally forcing a video game to skip frames.
As The Commander has already pointed out to Jonesy, you should just not *think* about time travel while you *are* time traveling…The consequences could get devastating to the fabric of reality if you do.
ALL HAIL THE HELIX!
I’m a time traveler I move forward at a rate of 1 second per second
Hah! I got you beat!
I’m moving at 60 seconds per minute!
“I can go back in time a set amount” is simple.
“I can remove a set amount of your time, removing your agency from it, while I know what’s going to happen in it and act accordingly” is not simple.
Other powers are much less straightforward – The ability to remove a “quality” from a thing – like removing “the capacity to make sound” from a floor, or “the capacity to clot” from blood, or the “capacity to hide” from a person.
Another stand had the ability to make a zipper on anything you punch, letting the stand user do things like: unzip someone’s hand from their wrist, easy open heart surgery, easy breaking and entering/breaching impassible barriers, sealing breaches (by punching the rupture and re-zipping it shut), and memory erasure by unzipping the right neurons from someone’s brain (you, of course, unzipped their head to get at the brain).
Stand Powers often seem bizarre, or weak, or useless…these are, almost always, the scariest powers when creativity is applied to them. Other Stands, which look impressive, often fail because the User missed something during the Xanatos’ Speed Chess match that Stand Fights often turn into.
Also, never, ever, get into a vehicle with Joseph Joestar. EVER.
BOOM! That is all.
I understood everything until your last sentence. I remember seeing this mini-strip in which a superheroine proclaimed her ability to make puppies appear everywhere. A villain laughed off that talent–until she made multiple puppies explode out of his body, effectively killing him.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Comic #499 – googling SMBC and puppies should get you there.
And yes, Stands are awesoweird.
Thanks, that’s quite thorough answer.
So technically speaking, it’s sort of a “stand-in” summon kinda thingie.
The in-universe story behind the name is that it’s a manifestation of your energy that ‘stands’ by you, but your version works well too.
And to add to the above, the character cast of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure are all incredibly flamboyant. Rashid looks like he’d fit right in.
The cast of JJBA is basically what you would get if you let Lady Gaga outfit and script this webcomic, really.
To summarize, Stands are psychic powers, usually dressed up as fabulous men, wielded by fabulous men.
Spice Girl was the only truly female looking stand I think…
Stone Free, Kiss, and High Priestess come to mind.
Except when they mock you – then they become distorted, multicolored horrors of scorn. It’s almost worth watching the show just for when someone insults someone else.
I dunno who Rashid is, but I doubt he made it to the World Fighter’s Tournament judging potential opponents by their looks. Nevermind the fact that judging Jared by his looks is probably a pretty accurate judgement.
2 words for you…..Dan. Hibiki.
Eh….I’d say it’s inaccurate… seriously who’d have predicted he’d be the one who would take point and lead with the commander’s absence during the onyx’pocolypse?
Didn’t he kind of *cause* that?
Wouldn’t it be omipocalypse? It was an ominite/omistar creature, not an onix
YOU DARE REFER TO THE GREAT AND MIGHTY LORD HELIX AS A ‘MERE OMANYTE’?!
Be cool, be cool! Just Slow, Bro!
If I could upvote one reply it would be this one.
It is derived from an omanite.
Rashid is from Street Fighter. I only know this because I played the newest one like a week ago, thinking that because I played the original I would have some semblance of skill.
In case anyone’s curious about the series, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is an action manga aimed at teenage males (shonen) that has been running for the better part of over 25 years now. It focuses on the ‘Joestar’ family lineage as members of the family throughout time are faced with supernatural dangers intruding in their lives.
Each part functions both as a part of the whole and its own story set in the same universe, which is based on reality- the characters visit real places for the most part, and references to real cultures and people exist. Each part also focuses on a different ‘Jojo’; Johnathan Joestar in part 1, his grandson Joseph Joestar in 2, and so on.
The fights are high energy, and as the series progresses, become more about the characters outsmarting each other than out-muscling one another (though early parts fall into that a bit). The series also tends to have some horror elements to it, a legacy left from part 1 which had some gothic horror vibes to it.
Each part has its own tone and touches of different genres or references- part 2 has a feel of an Indiana Jones movie to it in places, and part 3 has a strong ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ vibe, to name a few. The manga has had several different translations from dedicated fans, and the first three parts have been adapted to anime, with the 4th part (which is a fan favorite and where stands really start to shine) is set to start playing in April.
…got a bit sidetracked there, so on the topic of stands:
*Spoilers for a few stands in Part 3 and one in a much later Part*
The phrase ‘this must be the work of an enemy stand’ is also a bit of a meme and may be in reference here; stand abilities tend to vary from straightforwards (fire manipulation) to ‘the writer must have either been smoking some GREAT stuff, or talking to Jared (inflate inanimate objects and make balloon dogs to track whatever scents were on the object)’, and can take nearly any form (normally being humanoid, but there have been more than a few bound to objects).
To quote someone who was archive binging the whole series and getting frustrated: “This is starting to get ridiculous. ‘Oh, the freighter is a stand,’ ‘Oh, the car is a stand,’ ‘Oh, the ENTIRE TOWN is a stand.’ What’s next? The Sun is a stand?
*a few minutes and chapters later*
‘OH [censored] YOU TOO!’
Walking on raindrops.
Just…walking on raindrops.
Using weather control to turn people into snails, bro.
Replacing your own larynx with a piece of cobblestone. That was a hardcore fight.
Or restoring someone’s hand so it will find their exact location?
Whenever someone mentions stands I always think of Gintama.
I can’t wait for pokemon S&M. Nothings going to beat garydos’ huge angry lobster mega evolution but it’ll be nice to see new pokemons again.
OH wow is that an unfortunate abbreviation…
Eh, we got past Pokemon DP, we’ll get past this.
The game is about capturing creatures, breaking them in and making them go at each other. Nothing unfortunate about that abbreviation.
Pokemon is about forming a bond of trust with a creature so they’ll willingly listen to your commands, making them experience only as much pain as they’re comfortable with and taking the utmost care of them in case they push themselves too far.
At least, in the anime. The anime does a pretty good job at portraying S&M in that regard.
Perfectly summed healthy BDSM relationship! I wonder if the creators knew what they were doing when they made those titles…
It’s kinda like naming a kid. It is almost impossible to devise a name that will not, at some point, be deconstructed and used for teasing.
In dp they made the cover art legendaries based off human anatomy. Dialga’s head tall and ribbony, palkia’s head and shoulders forming a dick. I can’t sugercoat it, it’s straight up a penis and balls.
I wish people would stop using it, I mean it was funny for a few seconds but if the joke is everywhere it runs a real risk of alienating kids, you know, the intended audience. It’s not just a matter of, “oh kids wouldn’t get it anyway,” they can tell when there’s a dirty joke and be made uncomfortable (I can’t find it again but there was an article a while ago by someone whose daughter would get uncomfortable and quit Splatoon whenever a miiverse post with a dirty joke or racy picture popped up).
And since almost every generation has been abbreviated without an & (DP, not D&P; RBY not RB&Y, etc), except for X & Y, which isn’t an abbreviation… I can only assume anyone saying “Pokemon S&M” is intentionally spreading the joke.
Alright, I was misremembering; it was a tumblr post, not an article, and it was someone’s sister, not daughter, but this is what I was referring to.
I wish people would get off their idiotic high horse in regards to something that is natural, that side, lets see what the creators of childrens entertainment have provided us with: sex jokes in Disney and loony toons, smoking alcohol and nudity(dont forget the sex!) in pokemon. It isnt exactly “unusual” to find “adult” themes in games, movies or tv shows designed for a younger audience. Note that its the CREATORS of this stuff doing it, yet what someone who enjoys these things as an adult is supposed to ignore it, or not make an OBVIOUSLY INTENDED joke about it? Maybe you should raise your kids not to be such pussies/dicks about pussy/dick.
That is all going off of your assumption that the person with the screen name of “cumdumpster69″(as an example) is a “mature” “adult” how do you know it isnt some 13 year old kid who just thinks that is the funniest name ever. Ever been on xbox live playing a “grown up” game like Call of Duty only to have some 13 year old say nothing BUT a racial slur for the entire 20-30 minute match? Point being, you cant tell someones age by the screen name they choose, or their profile picture etc. Sure some of those names are adults who just think its very very funny and indeed it sometimes is, one of my good buddies went by the screen name of “my couch pulls out but i dont”. But most of the time you see a name with an innuendo or flat out “inappropriate” word(s) in it it is some child who thinks the pinnacle of humor is a good fart joke. That isnt to say that a good fart joke isnt a damn fine thing. Gah! Point being, you cant protect kids from the adult world, and indeed “protecting” them from such minor things as an innuendo is not only impossible, its pointless and frankly a waste of time. Why dont you spend that time protecting your kid(s) from something that can actually harm them, like child molesters.
Sorry, you’re right, I forgot that the existence of any one person being a dick, somewhere on the internet, makes it impossible for anyone else to even consider not being a dick, and unreasonable for me to suggest it.
Pretty much this. It’s Pokemon SM, the same way Diamond, Pearl, Platinum was DPP, or RBY. If you’re saying S&M, your a troll.
Yeah, it is, but being pokemon sun and moon means there’s hopefully a chance to catch solrock and lunatone early in the game. They’re some of my favorite pokemon who really don’t get enough appreciation and I’d love them to get more attention. I’d love a chance to build a team with them early in the game and play through with them.
Wow, I thought that was some sort of fandom joke, not a real thing
Same here, and hopefully they listen to Coelasquid and base it off Australia, poison Pokemon need more love ASAP, also a Legendary would be so sweet.
To be fair, Poison DID get some long overdue love by being strong against Fairy types, which pretty much everyone runs as a Dragon counter, so they can find a place in pretty much any team nowadays.
Yeah, Australia, Egypt, or a mishmash of Central/South American countries would be cool. From what I hear though, Spain is the likely candidate.
Maybe they’ll even introduce some sort of status move that lets poison moves damage steel types, like Oxidize or something.
PokeMéxico, oh the possibilities
Wait what’s this about an angry lobster evolution for Garydos? I wasn’t aware it could get angrier.
Do a Google Image Search for ‘Mega Gyarados’.
Then, behold the Jumbo Shrimp.
Behold the shiny mega garydos https://akphoto4.ask.fm/279/013/085/1940003030-1roqme6-9jk218dh31s8p8a/original/shiny_mega_gyarados_by_zoid162010d701cpc.jpg
Ugg. Its like a badass water-snake-dragon turning into a confused tadpole…
Hit points. Any more than one and I’m ready to quip.
That’s some nice loyalty Mr. Fish shows in there. Some love. It’s moving.
…And soon to be moving through Mr Fish’s bowels…
Stand. Yeah it was at that point that I lost it XD Now I can’t help but imagine Jared strike a pose and yell “Ore no Stando! Muista Fish!”
I read that in a Yugioh voice, and I died
I feel like there’s a chunk of story missing here, are we missing a few panels?
Well, either way I got to watch Mr. Fish bite a dude, so I’m good.
Not really, old friend of the commander comes to visit with his apprentice/trainee/whatever. His appy assumes that he’s there to fight Jared and gets nommed by Mr Fish. Not every story needs 200 pages of backstory.
And this is why Jared classifies as a boss battle…
No, Mr. Fish classifies as a boss battle. Jared is his assist partner, like Yamato Nadeshiko is for R. Mika. Judging from what he said in Panel 1, Rashid was apparently not watching the pre-match versus screen, and didn’t realize just who he’d be fighting.
His mistake.
You know someone has to draw Jared’s Bizarre Adventure now right?
… I guess it has to be me.
http://i.imgur.com/GYXT099.png
I didn’t feel like effort. This is what you get.
Now we just need to maul Jared’s name to put Jojo in there. Jored Jowalski?
My name is Jared Kowalski, but because of the kanji I use to spell it, everybody calls me “JoJo”.
I don’t think JarJar’s Bizarre Adventure is going to be a hit.
Unless they reveal what everyone knew for a while, that Jar Jar was actually a Sith and he was the one manipulating the event of the new trilogy!
“Yousa thought it was Darth Sidius but it was actually meesa Jar Jar Binks!”
Ahahahaha thumbs up
I love it! XD
Unfortunately for me. The link isn’t working.
「Reel Big Fish」
Best band!
YES PERFECT
This must be the work of an enemy stand! “Big Blue”!
I don’t think Stands are ever gonna be named after race tracks in the F-Zero universe.
Outside of their introductory arc/season, Stands are usually named after bands or songs.
So Jared’s would probably be Phish.
or Reel Big Fish, the best ska punk band still around today!
I don’t get why the commanders apologizing everyone did try to warn that guy not to act intimidating towards Jared right?
Because it’s something polite people do. “Yes, the pain you’re experiencing right now is a direct result of your own actions in contravention to the advice I gave. Even so, I regret that you are feeling it. I may even be somewhat responsible–perhaps I could have warned you more effectively, or anticipated your pugnacious attitude and not brought my assistant and his giant laser-fish-dragon to this meet-up. Boy, that’s a mouthful, no pun intended, and you’re getting eaten, I’ll just say sorry.”
Or he might be apologizing to the big guy he was talking to, about his assistant’s laser dragon eating that guy’s friend. Again, it’s good manners.
Yes I can see it working from that angle. Still it seems that everyone but Rashid knew better. I don’t like being the Rashid.
He may be warning because Rashid wasn’t doing anything REALLY objectionable, he couldn’t reasonably know or expect Jared basically commanded the fattest Pokemon to have ever existed.
Maybe I’m reading it wrong but it seems to me right after you said you were supposed to fight everyone was telling him to be careful think twice and not to act threatening. Admittedly they did not come out and say no don’t be stupid or anything like that it said they were trying to gently talking him down without exciting the situation aka Mr Fish. in Rashid’s favor even though he take a fighting stance he had not attacked Jared or anything that we saw On panel
I really enjoy seeing the line drawings for the comic, and i love to guess how they will be colored. and I’ve always been surprised when they are.
ora ora ora ora ora ora ora ora !
yare yare daze….
In this case it’s more
nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom
MUDA MUDA MUDA!
Noooo,, I hope you feel better soon!!
First (not saying I am because I know I am not, making a couple of things known), sucks that you are having health issues, second) your art is always impressive, and third, today’s was a good one.
Jared might not have muscles or fighting skills, but he has a giant, omnivorous laser-fish, and that’s good enough.
I love me some JoJo references in the webcomics I read.
Sadly this guy is doomed, Jared only taught Mr. Fish “don’t Eat Jared” not “don’t eat other people”
Get well soon, Coela. Much as I love your comic, and I do, I’d much rather you got your health thing sorted.
Just to point out that Rashid’s beard is groomed longer than it looks.
Anywho, nice comic.
Hee hee! I love Rashid! He’s so freaking adorable!
He was. Assuming he survives it’ll be a while until he is again. Right now he likely has a chewed look and stinks of fish breath.
“Mr. Fish is, uh…sorry if he wounded your aesthetic beauty, or something.”
Rashid was just *acting* like a s–t, but will soon realize his ultimate destiny of becoming a *real* s–t.
No! Rashid is my main! How am I supposed to beat my friends by spamming his tornadoes now?!?
Gyrados farts?
^ That
…is worth a +2 Internet.
Does this mean we could get some JoJo stuff in the future?
They would probably need their own agency. I’m not sure Commander knows how to deal with their … sparkleyness
(this is not a sexuality thing, but I’m just saying that the flamboyant stuff is not Commander’s area of expertise. And Jared would only encourage them.)
Mr. Fish used Bite. Critical Hit! It’s super effective!
I was going to say something about Bite being a Normal type move, but then I remembered that it’s Dark in Gen 2 and later. Playing Red on Virtual Console has broken me.
I’d say he’s a flying/fighting type so dark would be weak to him.
I’ll admit it, I kind of want to see Jared fight Dan now.
I love that Jared is this wimpy-looking kid in a place with a ton of super-buff guys, but anyone who tries to mess with him faces down a giant snake-dragon
I’m pretty sure the giant snake-dragon is just first in line for anyone trying to mess with Jared.
So far no one has gotten passed the first in line to figure out what’s second in line.
For some reason, Jared’s position in panel 4 looks absolutely awesome to me with that dialogue. It’s what cracks me up every time I look at this strip, lol.
I wonder if Coelasquid ever played Guilty Gear. Could probably come up with a great comic related to those characters.
Now onto the matters on hand, I’m surprised Rashid is taking it as well as he is.
He’s seems to be taking it quite well. I don’t hear any complaints from him…
O.o
I think Commander may actually be apologizing to Mr. Fish. No way that’s gonna go down easy.
I hearby swear, that the next magicarp I catch will be named Mr. Fish. I must remember to not beat anyone with my phone when playing Pokémon Go.
Thank you so much for the amazing comics squidy :D they’re much appreciated
For the love of god, please give us all more Pokemon as stands meets Jojo’s crossovers.
Mad props for the JoJo reference.
Oh man, Mr. Fish is my hero <3 (I just got teary imaging school bullies getting consumed by a giant fish, welp)
Proof, if ever it was needed, that Mr. Fish DOES care about Jared.
Is the white-bearded guy another regional knockoff of the Commander, like Canadian Guy?
He ain’t that far off; Pokémon kinda operate the same way as a Stand.