Sometimes I don’t know if things I write are funny or just kind of weird.
October 19, 2015
2:53 am
I have to say I feel a lot of sympathy for the person tasked with managing the people they’ve been friends with since they were kids.
In other news this Iron Bull helmet for Comickaze is starting to come together.
I just cannot process this. The commander is too badass it be Jared then again I guess badass is relative isn’t it?
To be fair: Jared keeps up. In fact, he’s pretty hardcore – in everything involving Pokemon.
He beat the ever loving shit out of pokemon, wielding his own as if it was a bludgeoning weapon until it evolved.
That is badass.
That’s like saying Jared is too Jared to be the commander.
Rainbows.
If I recall correctly they did try having Jared take the commander’s place when he went to the future with Jones be in order to tackle his workmans comp claim. The Whole illegal genetic modification thing. That didn’t work out too well as I recall.
Not true! He showed that he can show initiative and has real influence over the Manly Guys ™.
I think it ended with a collection of Cthulhu Like pokemon destroying the world. I think it had something to do with him starting A cult of the helix?
He became the leader in response to a cult of the Helix, and ended up keeping them alive with his leadership. xP
And wasn’t that whole cult of helix thing actually the result of Jones thinking about time travel while doing it? :)
You mean this time?
Yes!
Easily one of my favorite strips.
He goes everywhere with a 21 foot lon, 500 pound water dragon with the ability to change the weather. A water dragon he got by beating up hundreds of wild beats with a carp when he started his journey at the age of ten, guided by a senile professor who couldn’t even tell if he was a boy or a girl without asking. He probably also walked across a micro continent at some point.
Jared didn’t leave on his pokemon journey at 10. He mentioned it during his first appearance. The woods didn’t have an internet connection for his Xbox so he opted to stay home until he was forced to mow the grass at about 16. Though to be fair, they never really give Jared’s real age. I’m just assuming around sixteen because of the chin scruff.
He was a Highschool Graduate in a class of 1 or something so it’s safe to say he was 17 or 18.
That’s more like he’s surrounded by badass than badass himself. Still He did get Garados by beating the snot out of lesser Pokemon using mr fish as a blunt weapon so that is kind of bad ass we’ll call it even. it’s sort of like Rick Jones hanging around the Incredible Hulk all the time every so often Rick’s badass potential shows through I’m sure it’s the same with Jared.
Relative isn’t the right word. Situational fits better.
I’m sure a lot of us have would rather be couch potatoes and just let everything happen around us when we can, but are still ready to take care responsibility when things go downtown.
Okay I’m good with that interpretation
Who are the other two in panel 5? Jet and Angel? All the clothing makes it hard to tell.
yeah
Is his chesthair BLUE in the noncolor? Or am I just colorblind.
It’s black
It’s varying shades of black, so.. grey. Given the thinness of it, it just kinda looks blue.
I challenge you to not accept this challenge.
Challenge Accepted…….wait…
I’ll think about it, but probably not
Hey, something similar happens to me when I write. Whatever the case I’m sure of one thing, weird or not your stuff is awesome.
I guess this is one of several reasons why Commander keeps Jared around.
That’s my thoughts exactly. I think he sees a lot of himself in Jared, as well as what he could be. which is why he helps him out when he can.
By the way and as you all know, Winter is Coming!. Everybody needs a hairy partner if they wish to survive. I’m available ladies and gentlemen.
Harvesting & exploiting all that hair even sounds like a valid idea: As fast as the Commander’s beard grows (as shown before…waaaay before), he should be ready to harvest just a few hours later.
Definitely funny! The weird makes it even more funny, and if anyone reads this from a place where these guys aren’t being total goofs, they’re doing it wrong.
Also, awesome helmet! Can’t wait to see the finished product!
Wait a minute… If CB is Angel’s Jared… Then wouldn’t Jared become more like Commander Badass if Angel were to temporarily take over at the agency?
Also, freaking gorgeous helmet you have going there.
Sounds more like the plucky comical relief trope then anything else. CB is the closest thing to a ‘Jared’ on the TEALs team only he is built like the TF2 Heavy Gunner. Maybe why Jared and the Commander identify with each other so easily.
Cool jacket, but it’s a bit too shiny and new, needs some scuff marks. Maybe you should try sending your scooter down the road.
What… the… heck?? What is going on?! Things are getting weird! o_O
If this whole webcomic was literally only just build-up for this punchline, it would be worth reading.
The best answer to your question… is yes.
Yes. The things you write are weird or funny. And that is okay.
That being said, jones is definitely going to have to process that for awhile.
Wait a sec… Iron Bull has a helmet?
… How does he even put it on…
It’s possible that the horns in the helmet have some sort of slot/opener in the bottom that let the horns just slide in before re-fastening.
Certain katana (the kind that are 4+ feet long) have that kind of design made for their sheaths as well.
I don’t know if it applies to the helmet, but it seems logical, and it’s my only frame of reference for something like that.
Also I cannot look away from that 5th panel. I can’t. I just can’t. Seriously, someone send help.
Yep. One only he can wear called “Dread”. There are slots built into the sides of the helmet for his horns to slide into place so he looks like an unholy minotaur-terminator with a giant freaking sword/hammer/axe.
Unless you tint his armor with dawnstone and give him the new Prismatic Greataxe, in which case he looks like a pretty pink minotaur-terminator swinging a giant sparkly axe made of magic.
Which is way too much fun, so of course I did it instantly. Unlike Sten, though, I imagine Bull has a sense of humor about it. I can hear him: “Hell YES, I’m a pretty pretty princess! Bring it on!”
I heard that in Bull’s voice in my head.
Then I heard Krem sighing.
No but seriously he has banter with Blackwall about wanting an axe made of dawnstone because it’s pretty. And when Blackwall’s like, “It’s pink,” Bull doubles down and goes, “It’s pretty.” It’s also why I dress Dorian in phoenix-scale Antaam-saar in games where I have them hooking up. “Looks good in rope” indeed.
The best armor for it is the Revered Defender armor from Descent, because it is like 90% spikes and 10% boob window on him. Make it pink, give him a sparkly magic axe, and as far as I’m concerned I’ve just made Bull the happiest person in Thedas.
…I MUST DO THIS NOW.
I have been laughing non-stop at this
:’D
Also awesome helmet! you did such a good job with it!
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL. THIS IS A THING OF BEAUTY. I’m really worried about him being shirtless in that kind of… cold… place…. but omgoodness.
‘I am like a beautiful hairless marine mammal’ (MORE LIKE SPACE-MARINE MAMMAL, OOOHHH!!!!)
*groan* I would not have gotten that. Thanks.
at first glance i thought that was a mighty jill off cosplay.
hehehehe, I can really see it. Commander is probably the kind who when he doesn’t have to be responsible for a lot of things is a lot goofier or at least more free to do strange things for his and others amusement. Probably also explains part of why he seems to get on so well with Jared, also probably part of what helps keep him grounded and sane in all this, he doesn’t take himself very seriously.
I actually keep thinking of a line from Tom Smithees Rocket Ride ‘A hero not a weapon shop with pecs’ now when I think of the commander.
So Jonesey, what are you going to do now? What are you going to do, now that you know, you’re dating a Jared? lol.
I bet it’s a lot easier to become cold when you have metal plating inside your torso.
This is probably balanced out by being a 300lb weightlifter.
…. in fact, as long as it’s wholly contained within the body, it probably doesn’t matter. If it’s part in and part out, like the nosering featured in a previous comic, the highly conductive metal will transfer heat from the body to the colder out-of-body environment very quickly, but if it’s all inside the body, the metal isn’t subjected to a temperature gradient, and you’d just transfer heat from one part of your body to maybe a slightly colder part.
#science#probably
I can definitely confirm that having metal bits inside of you doesn’t really make you any colder. It does hurt as the metal expands and contracts from pressure differences caused by cold air and raining weather.
That’s just metal bits, though. Plating has to cover a large part of the body to be effective, so heat will transfer more quickly from one end of the protected area to another. From the head to the torso, for instance.(he can take a sixteen round mag to the temple after all) It’d be like having a greater amount blood circulation.
well if it’s all one contiguous plate, sure, but a solid piece of metal from the temple to the torso seems like a bad way to do things. and the relative orthagonal dimensions of the plating, thickness vs extent etc, will be relevant there too, in how much heat can be transferred how quickly
AAH hadn’t considered expansion, thankyou for value-adding to this incredibly science discussion =D
That punchline keeps cracking me up.
Also, that helmet is baller as fuck.
You have learned well, Jim.
Funny. Definitely funny. I laugh more at this comic than any of the others I read regularly, and that’s… a lot.
So, either you write funny, or we have the same weird sense of humour. Possibly both. Either way, victory!
That helmet is freaking sweet and today’s comic is why this continues to be one of my favorites.
Now I’m quite sure that if Jared went back home, he’d become the local Pokèmon Commander that everyone looks up to. ;P
Or in other words he’d be the PokèMander? xD
Though if he was to get burned, then he’d become Charmander.
“Sometimes I don’t know if things I write are funny or just kind of weird.”
Well, why not both? =D
I vote “Just enough of the latter to make the former possible.”
I kinda think that this sorta revelation helps explain how he’s such an amazing dad. I mean – he’s responsible sure, but he’s always up to doing pretty much anything his kids suggest within reason. His inner goofball is probably why he can relate to them so well and keep them nicely entertained.
I can see this. Remember we’ve seen inklings of Jared being awesome, or at least competent. He somehow managed to start, run, and lead a cult in spite of being the weakest(?) person involved. He survived the apocalypse, too, right up until someone carried Omanyte eggs to their spot.
Only reason why he isn’t the Pokemon Champion we deserve is because Mister Fishy ate someone else’s mon.
I feel like you’re just at that line between funny and weird, and it’s a perfect balance. It makes Commander seem more likable (not that he wasn’t already likable, this just makes him more so).
Here’s the thing that I’m not certain about. IS THAT CANADA GUY!? Is that him, claiming to be a hairless marine mammal? Could that be where Canada Guy comes from and why he and B constantly fight? Sibling rivalry? (or just siblings, since the more we see of him and his siblings, the more his relationship with Canada Guy seems more like buddies who are also bulletproof super soldiers)
No, that’s Angel’s hubby, Jet
No I mean the one who’s got Jet sandwiched between him and B. The one with the beard.
Angel is sandwiched between Rock Lobster (Commander Badass) and Jet.
Huh… you’re right. You don’t usually see Jet with a beard, I didn’t recognize him. Though I still wonder: IS Canada Guy one of his relatives? Or even a fellow soldier from Future Canada, not part of the same service and they’ve gone toe to toe more than once during their careers?
No, he’s just some Guy who wandered down from the North
Yes.
The answer to your question is yes.
I was hooked from the moment you showed Kratos trying to be a salesman.
It is astounding to me that you managed to capture exactly what it’s like to be in the military. This is basically how soldiers are all the time.
OMG The Commander is to a Raichu like Jared is to a Pichu???
No. Jared isn’t going to become a three hundred pound juggernaut, dye his hair platinum blonde, or become that shade of ambiguous brown, as the Commander has pointed out.
Of course not, first he needs a thunder rock to evolve…
I don’t think it was meant quite so literally. However, I could certainly see Jared growing into a much more mature role as time goes by.
Regarding the title of this one, I’m going to classify it as “Little bit of both.”
Seriously though, more Goofy Commander. That guy is great.
You know, after an archive binge, this all makes sense. He has been Silly!Rock Lobster this whole time. Like when he talked about training free range fire.
The only times he’s been really serious is when he’s dealing with the agency he’s running for all those macho guys trying to re-integrate into society…Even to the point where he’s sort of “mentoring” employee Jared about life, the universe & socially-acceptable behavior.
I would argue the moments when he gets really serious are when he’s dealing with Space Future Army’s administration. Even if he keeps everything civil, with a lacquer of humour, those guys make him actually angry. In the agency, he mostly hides his goofball personality under a (thick) layer of professionnalism.
Well that and talking about Brando.
“I have to say I feel a lot of sympathy for the person tasked with managing the people they’ve been friends with since they were kids.”
Oh my god… I am Angel.
One more time this make my day – very funny strip (black-and-white at the moment)..
Plus, the helmet is awesome!!
I forgot to check in… Coela, is there any way for us to see the B&W versions after color is posted, or would that be too much hassle to set up? I enjoy seeing what stands out more in one or the other.
This strip and others from the past brings to mind a disturbing theory. The Commander and his brother and sisters were test-tube babies, but they still had to have a base of actual genetic material. Considering the fact that the spacefuture government can go back and get DNA samples from pretty much everyone from any point in time, isn’t it possible that Jared’s earlier theory wasn’t entirely incorrect? But instead of the Commander being Jared from the future, the Commander is kind of like Jared’s descendant. And the obvious differences between them (coloring, build, muscle-mass) can be explained as genetic tampering as well as the later experiments performed on them to make them ‘cooler’. Hell, the Commander once said he had plate armor implanted inside of him so even that might partially make up for the differences in build.
Ssssssh. You know too much.
Angel’s snotty-blushy face is awesome
Beautiful hairless marine mammal. This may be my fave panel out of all of your comics.
That helmet is looking sweet
Funny/weird… or ADORABLE/HOT/AWESOME?? ;) Woof, Commander! Woof, woof! <3
The things you write are both gorgeously funny and weird. That glorious majestic panel of Commander standing there with Jet hugging Angel from the other side and the dialogue about hairless marine mammals is making me giggle uncontrollably.
I just want to thank you. First, for giving Jones a moment of “gonk” when she comes to the terrible realisation. Second, for having that realisation. Third, just because of how awesome this comic is. It is, so far, the only one who’s website I can punch in without autofill to help me out. Delightful, and appreciated.
And as I said a while back, the Warden is Sten’s Jared, Link is Ganondorf’s Jared, and poor Kratos needs a Jared.
Good Gods, he needs a Jared…
I think Kratos is a Jared who needs a Commander. Unfortunately all the candidates from his setting were dicks, so he killed them, and then killed everyone else too. Fortunately B-52 is pretty great at his job.
In the Space-Future, where conflict is solved by who has the coolest super-soldier teams (rather than actual armed warfare), what kind of “Ops” does the squad run?
you say that like it’s a bad thing jonesy
Heh. That last panel made me break into giggling; that doesn’t happen very often.
“Sometimes I don’t know if things I write are funny or just kind of weird.”
That assumes this is a binary proposition! My vote is for “both”
Seconded.
Aye.
When someone says “A or just B” that doesn’t mean A excludes B.
First off, awesome helmet. Second off, I think using Commander’s hair as a source of warmth is a viable strategy, what with the kudzu vine beard growth he’s got going on.
You are going to comikaze? I WILL FIND YOU!
Honestly today’s punchline shouldn’t surprise longtime readers; CB once openly admitted one of his favorite things to do is impersonating Tom Waits and Beetlejuice over drive-thru radios.
Just found these comics recently, thought to read them all… I should probably sleep or something.
Funny. Definitely funny. I keep reading this damn page over and over again, laughing every damn time.