The pumpkins make me feel more guilty than the pottery
This is an easy joke that a million people have made but whatever, I sincerely feel bad smashing pumpkins in this tiny little farming town to harvest rupees out of them and I can’t get over Link’s dumb placid lingering stare.
Anyway, final tally on the damage, I have a some impermanent nerve trauma making most of my right arm and hand numb that’s supposed to clear up in about six weeks, a small fracture in my shoulder, and some torn muscles and ligaments I’ll have to do physio for when it’s safe to lift my arm again in about three weeks. What I DO have is the go-ahead from the doctor to draw again with my right arm, because doing so with an ergonomically reshuffled workspace won’t exacerbate any of those issues. The experience of drawing right now is sort of like, if you lie on your arm long enough for it to go numb, then strap it to your body so you can only move at the elbow and try to see how much pen control you have. My arm gets tired quickly, it can’t move enough to sketch, and I need to intensely focus on what I’m doing to put lines where I need them, but by WORKING REALLY HARD and concentrating all my energy into the task I’ve worked out a system of sketching with my left hand and cleaning up with my right hand that allows me to continue working at the pace and quality necessary for a professional storyboard artist without doing anything to aggravate the injury.
If anything I hope this cements my career for the rest of my life, like whenever I apply for jobs, potential future employers ask around about me and testimonials are just like “She’s a fucking machine who keeps chipping at the work like the T-1000 taking shotgun blasts. She boarded five minutes of television with a broken shoulder even faster and more efficiently than she was working before.” Make this my Tony Stark in a Cave With a Box of Scraps moment, like “dude, what’s your excuse? Kelly did this with nerve damage, a torn ligament, and thyroid cancer.”
Anyway, that’s me trying to look on the bright side.
I’m glad the damage isn’t too serious! I hope you recover quickly :)
Meanwhile, I had two sides of this: I either felt really, really bad for destroying the pumpkins, or deliberately did it thinking “I hope you starve fools”. I can’t even say I felt remorse for the children because playing all those tutorials with the Wii remote was treacherous.
No wonder Ganon wants him dead
Also a minor typo: “atarving”
(And congrats on being an art machine. Shh don’t let the public know)
This joke will never get old. Link just barges into people’s houses to break pots and destroys crops for MONEY.
I hope you’ll get better soon! And your last part reminds me of one of the seasons of Hell’s Kitchen where that one guy fractured/broke his dominant wrist or something and still won HK.
Kelly, you beautiful badass, this cracked me the fuck up; poor pumpkin guy :(
There ya go. “Badass” totally encapsulates it. Old-school, it usedta be all, Dirty Harry / Clint Eastwood. Now it’s all you just cranking it out and, like, G.I. Jane doing 80 one-armed push-ups on each side with five guys stacked on top in an incredulous dogpile.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery! (also there appears to be a little typo in that last panel’s speech bubble, just letting you know)
So, Ive been watching this comic for a good year now, I always read the comments and stuff that you put under them, and I’ve always enjoyed this even though I’m not the least bit a gamer and don’t understand the references sometimes. I’m commenting though because I wanted to tell you how awesome youu are. Seriously, you need a medal or t shirt or something wearable that says “Bet your ass I can” cause you’ve gone through a lot lately and still manage to keep up this level of pure hardworking badassery that I strive to achieve someday. Don’t ever forget how great you are, keep looking on the bright side! Also, another bright side note, if anyone tries to pick a fight with you that swing that numb arm once and I guarantee a fatality, plus you can ice it before the feeling comes back afterwards so it doesn’t hurt.
I dunno, it might pop it out of the socket again.
Not to mention that there are REASONS we feel pain. You know who can’t feel pain? Stubbing your toe until it rots off is basically how lepers fall apart.
I wasn’t expecting that last bit to be taken seriously, I would hope she doesn’t do that! cause, if you couldn’t tell, that was not a comment made by someone who is a medical professional.
On the bright side, it makes getting out of straightjackets a lot easier, or so I’ve seen in the movies. #lethalweapon2 #youneverknow
May your recovery be swift, and may you continue to kick twelve kinds of ass simultaneously.
http://dapperdecorum.storenvy.com/collections/960429-shirts/products/15505599-kills-things-with-their-bare-hands-club-t-shirt
Someone seriously needs to make Coela that t-shirt! And I seriously need to stop complaining when something “bad” happens to me.
I have a sister who thinks that if she stubs her toe her foots broken it can be really annoying when she complains
A very good point, after all it’s not like they can eat the chickens, it’d be suicide.
To be fair, that guy is a farmer. He should know to harvest the food either when or before it’s ripe. Seriously, when the fruit changes color (squashes are fruit), pick it immediately.
Pumpkins are a good, rich orange for quite a while before they’ve reached their optimum size and ripeness. Really, you can let them keep growing until the first frost, and they’ll just pack on more and more pumpkin-meat for your winter consumption.
You are seriously THE MOST badass. Keep it up!
You’re so totally Supergirl.
Superhero batgirl and black widow all rolled into one plus she-hulk
I meant supergirl not superhero
“Kelly did this with nerve damage, a torn ligament, and thyroid cancer.”
HOLY SHIT.
This is fucking incredible. This sort of determination belongs in history books and epic poetic sagas.
Good luck with recovering from everything, from another cancer survivor who broke or damaged a lot of stuff.
I second everything you’ve said here.
you said it, dude!
So, Homer’s Iliad would’ve gone right to the back burner if he had known about this. …I get it.
That honestly does sound pretty brutal to Nathan Explosion right about now.
Jesus, I had made peace with not seeing updates for a month or two. You’re goddamn incredible.
Seconded! Are we sure the Commander isn’t just Coelasquid’s own badassery in physical form?
You know, Cassie, I was thinking the same thing…
Okay, Coelasquid… come clean… is this comic semi-autobiographical? Are you sent from the future? Because I can’t think of any other explanation as to how you’re able to draw so awesomely despite all that’s happened.
Well, okay… there’s also the theory that you’re the result of a hybrid cloning experiment involving the Terminator, One-Punch Man, Wonder Woman, Chuck Norris, and Rebecca Sugar (In which Sugar’s pro-gay genes totally overrode Norris’ homophobe genes), but I still think the “sent from the future” theory makes more sense.
Jokes aside, you’re awesome, an inspiration, and truly incredible. Wishing you a swift recovery (Not that anything less could stop you!).
Working through all that pain and injury just to provide us with a hilarious comic? You’re manlier than several men I know, and I live near an iron foundry.
men and women process pain and illness differently.
The sort of danger men evolved to face was a death sentence for a person not at 100% so when we we are at the point where ignoring it is no longer an option it tends to incapacitate us so we are forced to actually take the time to recover rather than going off and getting ourselves killed.
I guess my employers are probably glad I process pain in the way that allows me power through drawing with nerve damage instead of the way that makes me go home and wait to get drafted.
probably along with the fact that they can pay you less for doing so. but most employers would I think prefer employees working at their best especially when men take much less time off for other reasons and work more overtime and holidays. especially when men STILL do most of the really difficult and dangerous work where they die far more often even when working at 100% much less when they are sick or injured.
but that’s the difference between doing the things which keep civilization functioning at a basic level and drawing cartoons.
I really don’t know why you’re so angry this guy complimented my work ethic.
I think they’re trying to earn their MRA merit badge.
do you disagree that men are human or that they deserve human rights?
Congratulations! You just got that merit badge! Now you can go home and never use the internet again.
What does that even have to do with this comic or Coela being a bad-ass?
One thing I hate in this whole equality struggle is the constant man VS woman discussions. Two wrongs do not make a right, and nothing is solved pitting groups against each other. The kind of arguments you are making as as bad as the kind of arguments negative feminists are using. Same dealio!
Instead how about we all try to ensure equal opportunity and respect for all genders and orientations and stop this innane infighting?
As far as manly men goes, it’s all stereotypes and social construct. Some biological differences here and there, yeah, but the concept of gender is still in a large degree a social construct. There’s no “all men” or “all women” because we are all different individuals with different characteristics. I am far more masculine/macho in some ways than my brother, but that doesn’t make me male nor him female. And it’s not a negative on him that he’s sweet and sensitive!
Which is also why I love this comic. It does play around social constructs and stereotypes nicely, but it’s not really all that serious. This isn’t the right arena for gender conflicts so we might as well take that elsewhere.
As a sidenote; I too consider Coela pretty bad-ass and macho for drawing this well with all her injuries. Both thumbs up! But hope she takes care of herself too. Balance in everything.
he also likely unintentionally insulted the masculinity of most of the men he knows to deliver that “compliment”.
I laid out some facts about human physiology.
I wasn’t mad until you popped off with you girl power BS.
usually MGDMT gets a pass for being one of the rare positive depictions of masculinity.
and good on you for that.
The main message that the Commander portrays is utterly and completely lost on you, and that makes me very sad. You’re doing a good job of proving and old quote right, though. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
You Sir are one salty fucker
come from everything I said about male death and suffering being true and I didn’t even cover half of it.
You are a strange, sad little man and you should probably talk to someone before you give yourself an ulcer.
Well as far as evolution goes, men are unfortunately more expendible than women. While men may offer more security from threats, women are the primary limiting factor in population growth.
For a very basic and not too accurate example, imagine two communities of 100 people. One is 90 men and 10 women, one is 10 men and 90 women. While the 90 men community could be argued to be more secure and capable of more high yield resource activities, there population growth for the first generation is at best around 12 a year. Meanwhile, even if only utilizing only half efficiency, the community with 90 women could easily reach a population growth rate of four times that.
This is of course oversimplified and I welcome anyones thoughts and considerations on the matter.
I hate seeing passably-reasonable arguments made in the midst of conversations with terrible premises. They always do the least good and are effectively wasted on those with weak minds and thick skulls.
It is important for everyone *else* to remember, however, that humans never reproduce in a statistically-predictable manner without taking social mores into account, and that reproduction is not a foolproof process on the whole, so does not necessarily correlate with the predicted statistics of work-to-results ratios.
And also, no statistical model aptly serves as a foundation for discussions of historical statistics if it does not include historical statistics itself, which would be far more complex than the model suggested above and not uniformly distributed through axes of time or space.
That’s not the point you silly basterd. And I’m not going to waste time explaining the point to you because you won’t get it. Just trust me when I tell you you are wrong.
At no point did he say any of what you said was false so calm the fuck down
Making a comment as daft and far-removed from the direction of the conversation as yours really should have a consequence. I imagine it will brand you a loudmouthed, over-defensive intellectual burden in the community, if you aren’t already viewed as such.
As a loner with little in the way of interest in social acceptance on the internet, I have no place in a discussion about this, so I will focus on the falseness of your assertion about how men and women proceess pain and illness:
You’re utterly overgeneralizing and overstating the importance and prominence of sexual dimorphism in the global human community, and trying to make an issue that exists only on a personal level *for any human* – dealing with suffering – into an imaginary dividing line between people you have absolutely nothing to do with. Congratulations on making an enormous blunder, you miscreant.
Unfortunately for everyone, this thread proves an excellent reminder of why arguments about what constitutes “manly” *behavior* are a bad idea – because some buffoon inevitably takes it as an excuse to discuss “masculine” attributes in general, which in their mind opens the door for a discussion of *physiology* in general, and so they dive into a tangent about the “science” of human sexual dimorphism, which is not grounded one bit in any solid understanding of biology – or, for that matter, an understanding of humanity.
This then turns the whole topic of the discussion into something that has nothing at all to do with anything resembling friendly conversation, because naturally someone’s feelings get hurt and they feel the need to go to insult-war with each other over personal insecurities and social injustices.
And to think – this all started because someone used the word “manly” as a compliment in a context where there’s an implied-but-false dichotomy between masculinity and its supposed opposite, instead of the more neutral and entirely adequate word “badass”…
“Badassery knows no gender” truly is a major theme in this comic. And the theme of this thread? “MRAs do not know when to just stop.”
All I know is, I’m coming through late, and the comment section looks like somebody accidentally lit the Douchebag Signal. Are these guys always hanging out here, just waiting for the signal, or do they migrate?
I hope you get better soon, Kelly! You are definitely setting records for badassery.
Given how the pumpkins are back whenever I enter and leave a house, a pumpkin grows in a few minutes? Also: Link, it’s a lot faster to get rupees from rocks and rolling into trees and mowing the lawn (5-10 per hit, vs. 1 per 3 or so). Pumpkin smashing is only useful if you run out of seeds for your slingshot, which you don’t use a lot anyway.
It’s 30 rupees for the slingshot, right? That’s 15 on the hill and 15 in the village tree above the hornet nest you can remove with your hawk. If you need more past that it’s 10 near the monkey and about 10-15 from rolling into trees near Ordon Spring. (Yes, I’ve played this game way too much.)
They actually grow back in like, 30 seconds. It’s madness
Yeah – but the guy does actually complain to you in-game. Which sort of makes it weirder… by the time you’ve smashed enough for him to complain, depending on how fast you do it, there’s a good chance that the first one you threw has already grown back. If it hasn’t, it will soon.
They grow back instantly if you pour water on them
As if I’m going to waste valuable bottles carrying water around! There are only like four of them in the entire kingdom!
*slow clap of respect* Dude you are awesome.
My guiltiest moment in gaming: KotOR 2, there’s an Ithorian who’s hanging around Dantooine looking for a card game. He doesn’t care about money, he just loves the game and is willing to bet large amounts in order to get people to play. Once you’ve taken EVERY CREDIT HE HAS, he’s willing to gamble rare gear with you instead so you’ll keep playing with him. And since you can save-scum, you’re basically scamming this poor dude out of his life savings.
Wow, my timing is great, because I just finished reading through the MGDMT archive. I’m more of a bishie-lover, but I love how you’ve taken characters originally made as male power fantasies and drawn them from the female gaze. (And anyway, I figure there’s room for celebrating all sorts of male beauty.)
Hope you’re feeling better soon!
Coelasquid, I don’t know if it means anything to you, but my left arm has been pins-and-needles-asleep for the past eight years. No one knows why, and fairly extensive medical testing reveals nothing. Point is, it really sucked for the first handful of days, but you actually get used to it pretty quickly. No worries, it’ll get better soon.
I’ve never really thought about how it affected that town… Zelda has turned me into an unfeeling sociopath
We’re all pulling for you Kelly. Get well soon and glad to know that you are going decent for the moment.
Hope everything is cool with you soon.
As bad-ass as you can look at the workflow you can maintain, don’t set a precedent with any future work by saying that if you’re physically broken, you work better.
I’d fear for your well-being.
All Hail Kelly Turnbull, the most badass artist of our day!
Coelasquid is far better a bad ass than we deserve, but We are so glad we have them. Seriously – much love!
much love too.
And i’m sending a message to Ernest Hemingway, telling him he’s got competition
This page looks amazing and you’re a badass motherfucker for getting it done and working through this. Hope you get better on the sooner end of the prognosis if that’s the right way of phrasing it.
I just wanted to say that if you wanted to take a break from drawing this comic for a while because you have cancer, I’m not going to blame you. Not even the tiniest little bit.
If anything, reading it makes me feel kind of guilty, like I’m somehow pressuring you into doing it.
well sure if she needs to focus on cooking meth naked in a motor-home out in the desert then it’s perfectly understandable.
What the he’ll are you talking about
Got dang, I was already impressed with your dedication and general coolness, but finding a healthy way to keep up your output like that is incredible. I was expecting guest comics to go up until you recovered, but here we are.
Anyway, I also felt guilty doing this to get seeds for my slingshot. It’s a little harder to ignore when you’re not just smashing pots but their entire crop.
And great job rendering TP Link’s placid, porcelain face
Lady, you are an inspiration.
Good god you are an absolute machine, Coelasquid.
I never thought about this because of the respawn rate. I think I actually watched them regrow by magic over an hour or so once.
Yup.
Squid’s a badass.
“Link, I…”
Oh shit, Link caught Nomura Syndrome.
Wasn’t he diagnosed with it back in Ocarina of Time?
Is that what it is? I thought Link just had really dilated eyes, like he was off his ass on whatever in-game thing it is that makes trashing your neighbors’ pumpkins for hours on end (and breaking in and vandalizing their homes!) fun.
…that’s right, Link isn’t normally drawn that pretty in MGDMT. Oh boy.
The most impressive thing is that I looked at the comic and had forgotten your current predicament until scrolling down because it does not show, at all. That is some serious powering-through-challenges.
Damn. You are hardcore
You are fricking incredible, you know that? I’ve wrecked my shoulder before (torn cartilage and rotator cuff, nerve damage and cracked bone) so when I was reading the comment I was thinking “Hyup, know what that’s like argh.” The thing is though, I spent the week after injuring it lying around on my couch bemoaning my fate and hating everything. You rigged up a way to get on with your job and cranked out an extra Link-mocking comment to boot. And that’s not even including all the other shit flying about that would qualify you for fate-bemoanment lol. Congratulations, you have now won all the things :D
I wish you a speedy and complete recovery, Coelasquid
You gotta stop being such a badass Coelasquid. The rest of us regular people are starting to look really bad. Think of all of us little people! People are not supposed to be able to apply for the agency in real life!
I am glad to see that you can’t be kept down by these random occurances happening to you. I think you are quite strong to keep working as you are while hurt. And I know I wouldn’t be able to keep working as you are; and following it with doing side work that is a hobby which spreads joy to people you never met.
Yeah, the best part is that you can still do what you love (or at least I assume you love drawing comics otherwise you wouldn’t still be doing them even with your injuries making them a bitchload of trouble). So good for you. Also hoping for a speedy recovery!
This (along with a disparaging lack of talent) is why I’d never be able to make it as a professional artist. “Well, I -hope- subjecting myself to almost medieval levels of torture is good enough!” suggests the possibility that… it isn’t. Which provides a sad commentary on how little respect even professional artists get.
I do get that there’s a level of competition in the industry I could barely hope to comprehend. and that foreign (Asian) animation studios are even worse. Still, it seems a cartoonish insanity has bled off the pages and into reality when it comes to this line of work. Sadly it isn’t the good kind.
—–
Even in the midst of crisis no rational person would blame you for taking some time to recover, you still deliver. Coel, thank you for your superhuman dedication to your work and willingness to share with us all.
Always gotta keep an eye out for that silver lining, even if it sometimes turns out just to be chrome!
Universe: *Hits Coelasquid with Cancer and a vehicle injury*
Universe: “Ha, ha, Coelasquid! Let’s see you not take a break from your comic NOW!”
Coelasquid: *Stares down the Universe*
Coelasquid: “Challenge Accepted!”
You’re my sprite animal
Oh god lol
I felt strange playing Hyrule Warriors .. Because Ganondorf is my guy and totally typical for me to like. A lot of people, he’d be a guilty pleasure. You know my guilty pleasure? Link in Hyrule Warriors. Ugh, it’s ridiculous, I even like the classic legs Tunic.
Glad you can keep going! Has anybody offered to pay for a WFO tattoo out of it?
Wow! Forget beast-mode, or the most interesting man in the world. We need a meme with you in it!
Your work ethic is amazing. I was expecting guest comics from your fans while you rightfully rested up.
You do what you do because you have to, and you do what you do because you love it, and you are also great at it!
What’s consistent is that you are consistent, and you actually do something.
I don’t care if it might sound cheesy to say so, but you are pretty inspiring.
I could say something about the author’s badassitude…
But all I can think of is how Link’s face just creeps me the feth out. That blank sociopath expression, sort of like Enchantress from Dota 2 (and several innocently bloodthirsty anime characters). At least Kratos’s usual expression is cold but angry and menacing.
Link here is just plain creepy (and that’s glorious).
Ditto everything else, just go back and read all the uber impressedness, cos it’s all true.
How the actual fuck. You put all of your characters (and your iterations of other people’s characters) to absolute shame
That’s a creepy fucking face and it’s funny as hell
MAXIMUM EFFORT
I’m amazed and impressed you made another mgdmt comic so soon! I’m glad there’s no permanent damage and that you’re able to keep working
You are a goddamn badass.
Okay, it’s rare when I leave a comment, and twice in two weeks is pretty unheard of, but you’re seriously, hands-down, the strongest lady in webcomics. Like, seriously, thyroid cancer? Not an issue. Busted up arm? No problem! A normal person would take time off their pet projects at least, but not you. Geez. Keep this up and people might start to idolize you more then they have before.
As much as I ADORE your comics, I care more about you than your art! Take it easy and don’t draw too much too fast, ok?
You are now officially my role model.
“Kelly did this with nerve damage, a torn ligament, and thyroid cancer.” Bad. Ass.
“dude, what’s your excuse? Kelly did this with nerve damage, a torn ligament, and thyroid cancer.”
I’m going to print that on a poster and hang it on my door for extreme self-motivation and self-scolding.
Drawing and coloring with all the muck happening in your life?
Respect + 9001.
I get the feeling you’ve had bosses tell you “No, go home. Stop working and rest.” O_o;
I think this and Triforce Heroes confirms it, it’s not the Triforce of Courage, it’s the Triforce of Pretty. The good news is, they can probably still make that pumpkin cheese soup out of this and it’ll keep pretty well.
Also, I am amazed you can do this with nerve damage and everything else going on.
“Tony Stark in a Cave With a Box of Scraps moment”
That’s an excellent way to look at things.
You ARE the Iron Squid of artists. Hands-down.
You have more badassery in your little finger than any character you’ve ever introduced us to in this strip. Rock on!
This may be a coincidence, but do you watch the Best Friends Zaibatsu :0?
I don’t know what that is so probably not
Mid-second-paragraph I was thinking along the same lines of what you said (in a much funnier way) in the third paragraph.
Yeah, Link’s got some serious issues when it comes to vandalism of private property.
http://acidsquirrel.com/fs/i/2014/11/30/a23098264f46d7b5bbda3456630e27.jpg
I wouldn’t even be surprised if there’s some court orders out on him to Cease & Desist.
Noone would have been mad if you skipped the comic for a while but you’re a BEAST (in a good way!) :-O
“And just as I was about to bring the pumpkin smashing down onto bed of the pumpkin fields, Rusl ran up screaming “Link! Stop! What do you think you’re doing, boy!? That’s no way to treat an expensive fields of pumpkins!” and I said “God Dammit, Rusl!You know a lot about swordsmanship. But you’ve got a hell of lot to learn about rock and roll!”
I’m glad you caught that.
Wouldn’t want to see it become a wasted spoof.
Whoa. You have way more dedication than I ever will. Any art job should be bowing at your feet to have someone this devoted. Hell, if you wanted to take a month off or whatever, I don’t think your fans would be peeved (though the dumbass rest of the internet might, and they can shove it). From what I can see I really can’t tell you left-handed anything at all!
I hope things fix up in your arm soon, and the thyroid treatment goes well. Hang in there, and no matter what happens, we’re here to cheer you on!
I sincerely hope your ‘box of scraps’ moment actually does become a reputation.
Y’know when you are an old Artists teaching other younger wide eyed artists you will have the best ‘when I was Your age’ story ever.
One of the other guys who rides a motorcycle to work talked about his story of getting in an accident and having to tuck himself up so an 18 wheeler would pass over him without hitting his arms and I was like “man that sure puts my ‘I fell on my side outside a grocery store parking lot’ story to shame”.
This guy’s got you ALL beat…
http://stevemandich.com/evelincarnate/knievelinjuries.htm
Not trying to make light of anyone’s injuries, they’re ALL bad.
Glad to hear you can keep doing what you need to do. Rest well, good luck with recovery!
Link’s void-of-any-remorse face in the last panel is equally hilarious and terrifying!
Also, you are awesome! I can’t draw to with two good hands and unfractured shoulders, but you keep churning it out like “What? THIS broken arm? Phfft. No prob.” You could easy get a job on Commander Badass’ team.
I wonder if he’s secretly an Elegy of Emptiness duplicate and nobody’s realised…
I’ve always enjoyed your work, but never commented before now. But I have to say that if you set the bar any higher, dunno how I’m going to compete *chuckles* Aspiring storyboard and concept artist. Well done, from now on, whenever it gets tough, I’ll say “What would Kelly do?”
Just got in an accident myself on Sunday, totaled my jeep, but still kickin. The bright side you should really be lookin at is that you’re alive right, I mean that’s what I keep tellin myself.
You’re a complete badass, I’ll give you that. I was legit shocked to see a comic up. I was more hoping for an update on your condition.
Hey, sure it don’t mean much coming from random comic viewer 6733, but hope you have a speedy recovery and don’t push yourself too much.
Welp. I gotta say: you’re a force of nature.
Hope your recovery goes great and it’s smooth sailing here on out. Rock on.
You are fantastic, and I, for one, will wait for your comics for as long as it takes for you to heal so you will continue to be ok. I adore what you create. Be well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHmbe3dmugI
You know a comic is doing great when it is referenced by others.
best wishes for your recovery
Jeez, farmer-guy. Just leave and come back, and they’ll respawn.
You broke your goddamn arm, and you’re still drawing? That’s pretty hardcore. I have nothing but respect for that.
What? Back already?
Well, can’t say I’m not glad you’re already “well enough” to draw again. Just don’t over-exert yourself.
At any rate, you’ve just once again proven to all of us that you’re in every way badass enough to draw a comic about this level of manly dudes! Commander would be proud of you.
Still, take care of yourself.
You win the best employee ever award and the most dedicated webartist ever award.
Just please don’t push yourself and feel better!
Seriously by now I’m starting to believe that if Zombie Apocalypse hit you’d steam-roll all over it with ease O_o
You are HARD CORE
I just want to say that MGDMT is easily my favorite webcomic.
If you can be as efficient as you were before with the broken arm, imagine how efficient you’ll be once it heals!
You’re the best, and anyone who says otherwise gets my foot.
Wow! I did not expect strips for some time during your recovering. You are still cranking out awesome stuff with that kind of injuries?! Please take care of yourself and get well soon!
Coelasquid, I just want you to know that you’re my hero. You’re an inspiration of machismo and pretty much the real life version of Leo’s character in The Revenant.
Mmm, the realistic Links of TP and SS always takes the ultimate cake in placid stare.
Honestly the dull black eyes of cartoon Link is also creepy in some way.
(Mad respects, Coela.)
Hope you get better quickly, and properly! (as in no stupid bones/ligaments/whatever healing the wrong way)
I went through months of radial nerve palsy in my right arm last year thanks to some fairly severe nerve damage. Of course, it was better than what could have happened, which would have been a totally severed radial nerve rather than just a severely stretched one, but it still sucked hardcore.
Here’s to a full and timely recovery! Hopefully you don’t have anyone in your family telling you “I don’t know why you’re complaining, your aunt was born with only one arm and she gets along just fine.” If you’ve got family members that do anything other than wish you the best, I hope they’re like my grandmother, who lost her arm in a stroke and who I sat and comiserated with.
Oh, and one thing I kinda found interesting about nerve damage is how the nerve actually reacts. I don’t know if I was simply reading it wrong or what, but what I took away from it is that the healing process begins with the nerve killing itself and exploding. Then it fills the space with temporary tissue to keep the structure from collapsing. It’s pretty metal.
Dear god, you epic badass. I am in awe at your dedication. I love MGDMT and I always look forward to updates but please take care of yourself! I feel the need to ply you with good juju and baked goods until the healing powers kick in.
Now I’ve got the Obadiah Stane line going through my head with a background of T2’s theme. Thank you for this unexpected moment of bonus badassery.
The various Links do seem to like smashing things. When thinking of links though though I always had to wonder if Ganon and the other links would have a complex about the link that appears in Link to the past, the oracle games and link’s awaking given what a monster killing, exploring and ganon killing hero he is. I mean he even kills monsters and explores in his sleep and he killed ganon twice… Once with the entire triforce at ganon’s command.
I desperately need a picture of that face peering out of a hole in the ceiling
because of reasons
If memory serves, don’t mini-pumpkins show up almost immediately after you smash the big pumpkins? And don’t they grow to full size after ten seconds or so? I mean, they also re-appear completely if you walk into a house and then walk back out again. There’s a pumpkin surplus! They have more pumpkins than they know what to do with! They built scarecrows that don’t even have any fields to guard, just because Link could practice his swordplay, and they either replace the pumpkins when Link isn’t looking or they just grew back where they were… Heck, even the ambiguously stoned afro hermit has a scarecrow, even though there aren’t any fields out in the woods, and he has enough pumpkins to go about replacing the scarecrow’s head every time Link smashes it. There’s a reason that tiny little garden supports a whole village and a goat heard, after all. You’re probably doing the villagers, nay, ALL OF HYRULE, a most valiant service by smashing those things. You’re keeping them from being completely overrun by a mass of fast-growing deadpool pumpkins! It’s a conspiracy, probably!
Even the Yetis have a pumpkin just lying around! The Yeti guy who lives in an abandoned mansion on a cliff somewhere in the mountains, who wears a saddle as a hat, still has enough sense of the outside world to grow a pumpkin, or at least know where to find one without getting spotted. (Which would probably be difficult, since the Zoras spotted him whene) And apparently, one pumpkin is enough to create an infinite supply of pumpkin-flavored instant health soup. There are simply more pumpkins in this game than anyone could ever possibly need, and if there aren’t, they’re certainly getting close to it. The reason that Skyward Sword is a prequel is probably because everything that happened post-Twilight Princess took place in a terrifying pumpkin singularity.
@Coelasquid: Comic looks FANTASTIC for someone as injured as you are and at the stage of recovery that you are, especially given that you’re also battling cancer! I can’t even tell that you’re injured at all with the quality here. Take your time in recovery and do yourself right by not pushing TOO hard tho. Wish I had your talent and devotion…
I’m slowly becoming convinced that Link is a sociopath that is simply eliminating his competition whenever he fights one of the villains.
Oh that makes a lot of sense! :D
Go Kelly! Be careful though, don’t hurt yourself worse. I used to work as an airbrush artist, and same thing happened to me (Or pretty close at least) Motorcycle wreck, broken bones in dominant arm/shoulder, nerve issues. I had to go back to work before fully healing and I basically propped my right arm up in a position that wasn’t too bad, and then used my left hand to move whatever I was painting, rather than move my right hand. I’ve gotta say, no one really appreciated it at the time though. Stay strong, but take care of your self too!
Within a few seconds of smashing one of these lumpy orange gourds, another one pops out of the ground about half-sized. I’d say they grow pretty darn fast. Ordon is also said to have exceptionally fertile soil. I’d say probably a 90:10 nutrient to sediment ration, given how freaking fast them things explode off the vine. I they chose goats for their local industry because it’s the only way to keep the grass from being 4 feet tall at all times.
By the way, LOVE that expression on Link’s face. About half-way though the game right now and I can’t help but notice he ALWAYS looks like that, unless he’s fighting. It’s… kinda creepy sometimes. Twilight Princess really knows how to use Uncanny Valley to full effect.
Good on ya. Just good on ya, all over the place. Good on ya arm. Yer a trooper, and a credit to cartoonists in general. My mother often says the best thing to do with an injured limb is to keep it moving, anyway.
As for the blank face thing, I’d imagine this happens often in worlds where people don’t know the local adventurer is actually a puppet avatar for someone’s amusement in another universe. Then again, sometimes the face they’re given is more ambiguous, especially when there are customization options… it’s why I made sure to give my Dragonborn a sort of neutral Daria-esque “Whatever the Hell” expression.
Link: Does this look like the face of Mercy to you?
Perhaps it’s because despite all his rage, he is still just a rat in a cage.
I hope you recover swiftly. I know you’re excited about the badass points but don’t over do it and set back your recovery. I wish you the best!
i’m really glad you’re feeling better and didn’t get witnessed on the fury road!!! keep kicking ass!!!
ya know, i’ve seen justin beiber wearing that exact same expression. but he’s seemingly a more mature young man these days, so concievably he would update his egg bashing to pumpkin bashing!!
You’re freaking incredible. I haven’t checked this site in a while ’cause I figured you were almost certainly concentrating on like, rebuilding your body and cowing it back into submission. And here you’ve drawn and colored two comics for your non-job hobby comic strip, on top of doing your actual paying work, with a broken shoulder, nerve damage, and cancer. You’re a superhero! I hope you know how amazing you are!
I sincerely wish you a full and speedy recovery :-)