This whole storyline was supposed to happen like the third month into this comic
I’m sure people are going to take this as a political message, but really, it applies to just about anything. Just go scroll through tumblr until you find two people at each other’s throats over something like “what body type an artist chose to give their My Little Pony gijinka” or “is Stephen Moffat’s Sherlock Holmes in a non-sexual homoromantic relationship with Watson”.
The alternate ending to this strip was something to the effect of Jared saying “BUT LASER CANNONS ARE AWESOME” and Commander telling him he’s everything wrong with the future.
Oh! and on the announcement front, MGDMT made it into March Madness for people who like voting on things (apparently I’m up against Romantically Apocalyptic right off the bat, so it’s been nice knowing you), and I might be at Wondercon this weekend hanging around the Glamrock Gorilla table and drawin’ thangs.
Japan must be a smoking crater in the future if this is how wars are fought.
I dunno, judging by how everyone goes into complete sensory overload the first time they’re exposed to Japanese pop culture, they’re probably running like half the globe.
Good point, a good number of soldiers probably get nailed by the epilepsy effect from the flashy transformations. Combine that with the stitches of laughter when a guy like Gackt comes at you (with a comically oversized sword that he shouldn’t be able to swing), stunning another large portion, that could wipe out a significant population of an attacking force.
I take it you don’t know much about japanese culture? I thought everyone knew where ninjas were from.
The guys in black pajamas? Hollywood, basically.
I’m pretty sure the “wearing black” part originated with Japanese theater.
There is more to a country’s culture than it’s animation and singers. If the US’s army was based on Twilight, Spongebob Squarepants, and local pop musicians, I would be very offended.
And Bottery, I see no issue with your description. You may have my finest horse.
If I’m not mistaken: the stagehands wore robes, and somebody thought it would be clever to hide the ninja assassin with the stagehands.
In more detail: Stagehands wore black from top to bottom, including full black masks.
This is supposed to be shorthand for the audience: ignore this guy, he’s not there. He is not part of the play and story. He is just a dude helping to shift props. He’s supposed to be invisible, intangible, removed from consciousness.
Some plays exploited this fact for when the play needs a “dude who appears out of nowhere”: a Stagehand suddenly participating in the play he’s working in is almost similar to a guy pushing a prop boat suddenly singing a few verses in an Opera.
And in a lot of old Japanese theaters, a “dude who appears out of nowhere” is a ninja.
The association of stagehand costume and ninja kinda came naturally afterwards, and now a days cannot be unstuck.
(actually, a “dude who appears out of nowhere” is more often an assassin. Except the Japanese flavor of assassin tends to be Ninja. You do the maths)
Koga were especially renown for remaining in character for up to 5 years before being activated. They were also infamous for recruiting a clan’s own people as spies – 50% of the “shinobi” of the Koga were actually nothing more than farmers passing information to their superiors.
The Iga and Koga shinobi trained in villages were few and far between. More than two-thirds of those infiltrators were killed before they achieved their missions. In cases of famous castle sieges, most successful missions only employed three to five ninja. There were no “armies” of shinobi as most fiction would have you believe. When they say “mercenaries” they mean gangs of six to eight trained people, with about 10 gangs per guild. So maybe 240 members, with one-third of those actually dressing up and infiltrating anything.
Even more detail –
Japanese assassins – the ones in clans – were not fighters. They were taken from regular people, trained get close to their target and poison them. They could be anybody – the blacksmith, the geisha, the farmer’s wife, your best friend. They were legendary because no one really understood how they got in and out of places that were super protected. One day your general was alive, the next day he was dead.
The guys who attacked the guards and then ran away? Those were distractions, giving the person on the inside enough time to kill their target and blame it on someone else. People actually believed they somehow got in and out, killing people. Using magic and other wild tricks. Thus the legend of the ninja was born.
true ninja were mercenaries. their katana were often hollow to double as a breathing rod when hiding in a shallow pond. many used blow guns. few actually used sai or nunchaku. some times a ninja would capture a small woodland creature, such as a raccoon, or monkey and dress it in clothing similar to what the ninja was wearing. this would lead pursuers to believe the ninja had changed shape, adding to their supposed magical abilities. it is also commonly held that a ninja would wear whatever clothing was appropriate to the task at hand. say he was hired to kill an overseer at a farm, then the ninja would dress as a farmhand. killing dignitaries would require dressing as an ambassador, or perhaps a concubine. (not all ninja were male obviously) in fasct some of the most lethal ninja were female. the concubine ploy would often be used to spread debilitating venereal diseases amongst entire opposing armies.
Weez, where are you getting this info? Portions of it sound too fantastical to be real. Nunchucks, for example, were farming implements. They were used as weapons in the same way a pitchfork is used as a weapon: because the ruling class doesn’t allow an armed peasantry. Likewise, I question the hollow katana thing. They used a rather inefficient metal to make those swords (which were not easy to get a hold of) which is why they had to develop the unique folding techniques used to craft them. I doubt a hollow sword would be useful at all for combat, with its supposed benefit being so tiny as to be not worth it. Certainly, I could be wrong. This is all off the top of my head, just trying to make educated guesses based on my concepts of life.
And I would have to either move to Canada or learn Japanese.
Real Ninja had to blend in with every day normal people to get close to their targets, so they’d disguise as farm-hands, house servants, etc. Then, they would strike when the best possible moment arrived for them. :3 I seen a demonstration where an old Ninja master had to get past a team of Marines to kill a target, and he blended in as part of the film crew who were there. It was freaking ingenious. x3
Aren’t ninja basically militia with more knives?
And Nunchucks. Never forget the Nunchucks!
Historical evidence dictates ninjas probably didn’t use nunchucks they probably used improvised farm equipment and shit they stole from the samurais
Yup. Getting caught with a Nagato or a Sai in a border crossing is kinda hard to explain when you’re supposed to be a poor farmer…
Actually Sais were also used for farming. The helped dig deeper holes for seeds that needed more room to grow, they broke up the ground, and also made it easier to remove roots. Similar to a hand rake/cultivator/garden fork used today.
Nunchaku were farm equipment. You swing it to catch the rice strands or whatever you needed to collect, and with a sickle or whatever, slash.
Both incorrect. Nunchaku were a derivation of the agricultural flail- in Europe, that turned into the mace’n’chain (military flail- the stick with the chain and the spikey ball) but in Japan it turned into the 2 and 3-part staff (the 2-part staff is the Nunchaku)
Flails are actually used to beat the stalks of cut grain (in this case, rice) to seperate the delicious parts from the grass bits.
come for the comic, stay for the weapons education
Nunchucks were improvised farm equipment. Used to be used for beating rice.
A ninja is one who practices the martial art “ninjitsu”
Ninja’s or Kanja(Ganja) came from Korea first actaully…
Japan ruling 1/2 the world, and the actual island being destroyed are not mutually exclusive. Well, at least that’s what the Anime I’ve watched tells me.
Good point.
Coelasquid 1, Anime 2
How will our home team even up the score?!
Well, if half of the non-pornographic news stuff on Sankaku Complex (site VERY NSFW) is any indication, Seiyuu (voice actors/actresses,) can have their entire careers ruined if their fans find out they do strange things– especially the females.
Like, y’know, have a boyfriend, or enjoy singing music badly, or express discontent at people that tell them they should kill themselves for not liking when people throw a fit about them having a boyfriend.
Or not be a virgin in their 30s, waiting for their One True Love* to show up, sweep them off their feet, and put them on a glass pedestal to look at but not touch.
* “YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT OTHER UNTIL YOU HAVE A SIGNIFICANT OTHER THAT WE APPROVE OF” is the vibe I’ve gotten.
So, yeah. Japan ruling the world? Not fuckin’ likely. They’re too busy being aggressively passive-aggressive toward each other and refusing to couple with anyone that doesn’t fit in their three-centimeter-wide field of perfection.
Pardon the stray comma. 2:28 AM isn’t the best time for punctuation perfection for me.
I’m more of a 2:31 kinda guy.
Today, I have chosen to condemn an entire culture based on their weird obsession with celebrities, which is expressed different than the weird obsession MY culture has with ITS celebrities!
To my fellow commenters, I am Raiser. To my enemies in the Black Kettle clan? I am merely Mr. Pot.
you know Sankaku is basically a weeaboo tabloid, RIGHT?
I likes this comment.
Either that, or Badass is only one side of the warrior coin, remember, he said “The Raddest Motherfuckers”, doesn’t mean they need to be beefy to be popular (as has been laughed at many times over already in comments and comic.)
You’ll notice 50% of his little wolfpack there isn’t terribly tanky.
Is her name Vasquez?
It’s Cate.
how’s that pronounced? Like is the c hard or not.
Like “Kate”.
and here i was hoping it was rayne, like michelle rodriguez, one of my favorite female badasses.
I don’t know, I hate to admit it, but Gackt did look pretty badass in Bunraku. So the effete can still come off as a rad motherfucker.
Musn’t forget that Japan has samurai… and GIANT MECHA.
MECHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEIEIEIEIEIEIEIE!
did you know that the united states was actually the first to make prototype mechs? look up the cybernetic walking machine by general electric. they also made the beetle which was another prototype mech.
so my point is that the U.S would would be right up there with the mech building business
Japan built a life sized gundam model…then tore it down in a month
Every nation also has plans for a zombie apocalypse, a robotic uprising, an alien invasion, and I know the US has plans in case of a hostile army of Girl Scouts. So they’re probably ready for this reality too.
Ohh yeah, The gundam only lit up though, didn’t move, I was disappoint. I saw it while I was there, still got photos. :)
Have you watched Tiger&Bunny?
The show’s main characters are superheroes that are sponsored by corporations. The sponsors prefer them to fight crime in visible and flashy manners to get the corporate name out while also stopping criminals so that they can get higher scores (it’s all broadcast on television and they’re scored!). One of the producers even gets bitchy about stopping crimes during commercial breaks.
In the show, the higher scoring ones are more popular and sell more goods, but I could imagine stretching that so lower scoring but flashy badass heroes being more popular. If a hero doesn’t have popularity, they get cut to second string hero status, or lose their corporate sponsorship entirely.
I think Japan would be fine in a society based on badass.
>japan having a society based on badassedness
see: cromartie high
even in a soceity based on how tough you are the nerd managed to become king bad-ass
is there any chance you can post the last panel separately? :3 it’s pretty much amazing and would make an awesome background for my phone and other stuff haha
Just copy, paste to Publisher, then crop the image.
I would like to see the alternate ending. If only to see the probably amazing face you would draw for Jared. Seriously, I love those xD.
Chest laser cannons? I’ll take twenty.
But who cares? No big deal! I want more!
…Were you watching Little Mermaid (Disney version) while typing this?
Also: badass motherfuckers. I love it!
Tony Stark seems to do ok with just one laser cannon grafted to his chest. One on either hand and you’re good to go, automatically the coolest guy in any room, including SHEILD headquarters breakroom. :3
Well, laser cannons ARE awesome.
…just not on my burly manly men! YOU’LL RUIN THE PECS!!!!!
I’m also partial to bullets, myself.
Indeed. Nothing like good old-fashioned physical projectiles, and plenty of them.
A link to tvtropes. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-*schhhwoop!*
What about GATLING laser cannons?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GatlingGood
TVTROPES, AWAAAAAAY
Gatling bazooka shotgun
There can always, always be more dakka.
Including shoulder mounted dakka, dakka from inside your arms, handheld dakka, eye-beam dakka, groinal dakka…
Just not dakka from the chest – ‘dat’s too uggly. Ruin’s a man’s ability to carry all that dakka – and look good doing it.
http://1d4chan.org/images/thumb/1/19/Dakkatitan.jpg/746px-Dakkatitan.jpg
A perfect example of moar dakka. He still needs more though.
I love how Jones always manages to take this stuff at face value, even if it does weird her out a bit.
I supposed that explains some things, but opens up a bunch of new questions too…
I have to say, when I got to the “Change your clothes/name” panel, I Awww’d. I mean, that just seems depressing, having someone have complete control over your life like that.
…
I wonder what his name was beforehand? Damnit, I learn this bit of backstory and now I want more! T-T
Something related to his ex’s calling him B, perhaps?
(I just came back from re-reading the whole comic, and this many people have commented? XD)
I think a couple of other characters have called him “B”, also. I’m starting to think that it’s just short for “Badass”. :>
… so, basically, in the future the media and the military merge into one, and wars are fought based on the number of screeching rabid fans that a given group has?
So it’s Tumblr?
When I first looked, I thought the redhead woman in the 4th panel had a fe-mullet.
She’d win the redneck department of badassery with that.
good for the commander, i hate it when people graft weapons to idiotic places like in that one movie that had the chick with a machine gun leg and then they try to call it badass *shakes head*
Hahaha I love Planet Terror
I wouldn’t really say that movie was a serious movie trying to make everyone badass, even Cherry (the girl with the gun leg). Planet Terror is more of a situational zombie comedy than anything, given the fact that I always laugh my ass of when I watch it because of its expressiveness of its gore and ridiculousness. Its more of a parody of an action movie than anything, especially with the (at the time) fake preview for Machete at the beginning hahahahha
* excessive* not *expressiveness* sorry
huh i only watched the previews and probably got the wrong impression from it. might have to watch it now
watch the movie that is
It should be noted Machete was made into an actual movie.
Danny Trejo fucking ROCKS.
i did watch machete and laughed the entire time (the reason i do not watch comedy movies in the theater, i hate people who are inconsiderate of other people.)
So did he or did he not steal a time watch and run away?
From his expressions that would make some sense.
In the past, he’s stated that he was stationed here and running the agency “in his downtime.” But that probably took a huge fight.
That could have been a lie too
That would make sense….
But Kelly, clearly one person’s opinion is far superior to another.
Yes a person with a strong position could sway peoples opininion t like what they liked
Look on the bright side. At least in this distant image-focused future, nobody’s ever heard of Nomura Syndrome. Can’t be all that bad.
Can it?
It’s great, if you like getting shot in the chest apparently.
Nomura Syndrome is a solvable problem. Space Future War might never end.
In the future, there is ONLY war.
You seem to have forgotten the “grim darkness of” part.
I forget a lot of things.
Also, you didn’t specify space future. It’s a very important distinction. People might assume you mean the bland, not-space future.
We’re presently in the future. Spacefuture distinguishes the current future from the future future.
its like that movie sky crawlers ;)
kind of, as sky crawlers was about wars being fought for entertainment and all that.
Is that a robot eagle on the flag in the background? In the nondescript spacefuture even the poor eagle gets cyberized…
It’s the Navy TIALS logo with a robot eagle holding a ray gun and a lightsaber.
I realize this goes against the whole message of this but that’s fucking awesome!
I don’t think this goes against the message: remember how they fight in the future… Awesome is good in the future…
I love that we finally have confirmation on the “Is Commander Badass his real name?” question, but now we want to know his birth-given name :P
The questions will never end, Coela… never…
Ooooooh I’m so high
So the future is run by the WWF and the best promos win?
People said I was crazy that the WWF was not trying to take over the word but see I was right –inserts hysterical laugh here-
Well, not just the WWF, but corporations too, like in Demolition Man. Imagine the sheer power John Cena/Mcdonalds would have and the horrible wreckage that comes between them and Undertaker/Pizza Hut/Microsoft.
Who knew that the future of badassery could be so horrifying…
That explains why he ran back into the past.
The none discript space future is starting to sound like a crapshack world.
I… kinda wanna see the commander as his normal buff hairy badass self squeezed into his bishie leather outfit.
Someone forgot the
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GunsAkimbo
trope and the
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GunKata
And James Logan thanks you for your support, CM…
Is that emblem in panel 5 a nod to the Hunger Games, or am I laughably unfamiliar with military insignias?
Or both?
It’s a sci-fi version of the SEALS logo.
Google “navy seals logo”. The first page alone (from my search) is full of a similar looking logo.
Ah. That would be it.
I googled the Navy logo, but it didn’t occur to me that the SEALS had a different one.
Of course, one must remember that he and his homies were the ones who thought of the “walking away from the explosion” picture and not the government.
But they probably got a medal of something from their government just for that act alone…
Well, they didn’t -invent- it, but the opportunity arose and they took it.
Yeah that’s what I meant. Sorry about the bad wording.
Draw the alternate endiiiiiiing. Pleeeeease. ;-;
– Who can make everybody think their army is full of the raddest motherfuckers?
– I can. By making everyone on my team wear tank tops.
They look really rad, though, in panel 4.
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Damn, the future must suck.
The future always sucks.
The good parts are too far away and we never quite live to see them.
and then everything blows up/ is destroyed by hulk
… but the future refused to change.
BLAAAARRRGGGGGHHHGGGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGGGG!!!!!
I like the fact that there is an Asian among Commander Badass’s badass crew.
Any badass crew must always consist of a token Beefcake Philosopher Hero, a token Action Female, a token Asian Karate guy, a token Black Badass Muth’*cker *, and a token skinny 300IQ mission command/mechanically inclined/computer-techhead who cannot fight for s***.
And a token team pet. Never forget the token team pet. :D
*(no offense intended)
I donno, that black dude looks pretty legit.
What species would the team pet be? A wolf? A bear? A dinosaur? A shark with a laser strapped to its head?
A genetically engineered bear-wolf with a chest laser and organic jumppacks, taught the ways of both a doctor and a ninja…
…
…nah, that just sounds stupid, not badass.
i say a talking raptor would be the most badass, but that is just my opinion.
Only Mr. Fish’s progeny will suffice.
…A magikarp?
A BIDOOF!
:D
http://chrishanel.tumblr.com/post/19196576643/spread-the-word-theft-is-theft
Some douchebag is ripping webcomics and bundling them into an app that he’s selling. Apparently he didn’t ask permission from ANY of the creators and is requiring that they contact him to get taken off. It looks like this is one of the webcomic series that’ve been bundled.
I love the commanders expression in panel 5 when they give him his new uniform.
I wondered why Commander got to wear a red leather jacket if he’s in the Army. I figured no one would try and tell him not to.
In retrospect that really isn’t very sensible as far as combat situations go. Poor Commander, guys like him don’t take being told what to do very well. But what are you gonna do? You’re in the army and they own yer ass, son.
It’s a world more sensible than a guy in a business suit and tie, or some idiot that runs into battle with a trenchcoat. Nice of them to give their opponent something to latch onto.
*stationery
Just gotta say. “Stationary” is unmoving. “Stationery” is paper.
from what I’ve gathered so far, Commander is definitely not biased without some reason. I’m thinking the problem he could have with bishiis is a possible rivalry from his time, you don’t even see the guy running the bishounen floor and for all we know he may have the same opinions about Commander. I kinda see the main issue here is they tried to change who he was. Hell, thats why Adam Jensen is always so pessimistic.
Am I missing a point of this currently storyline by thinking that Commander Badass looked really badass in that last panel?
Commander needs to fix himself fast…his new look is starting to grow on my…. im worried.
*me
I can’t help but speculate that this is the storyline that sets up the Commander’s trip back to beat his past self up.
By the looks of the last bit of that mini-story, he was already heading back to get the coffee cup anyway.
needgod.com
180movie.com
Just read the tvtropes page for this comic. Some of the definition links are not ones I would associate with this comic, while others are just outright missing. I mean, surely Jared counts as a Large Ham, right?
If things are missing, edit the page!
It won’t hurt you, will it?
It’ll hurt Strykor’s free time is what it’ll do!
Will we be seeing Cate Jet and Ace outside of flashbacks?
This is the first time I yell “we are living in the future, baby!!” in a very non-excited voice, and it was all thanks to this update…
I miss our normal burly commander
And those two people will insist VEHEMENTLY nearly to the point of LEGAL ACTION that these inane causes are WORTH fighting for. And nothing that can be done over the internet can show them otherwise, so they’ll never stop.
So… wait. You mean he has no choice but to wear the red leather and the rest? And here I thought he wore it just because. :|
CDR Badass has his own Weapon X moment. Awesome.
So how many pounds of fired bullets have been surgically removed from the Commander’s body over his lifetime? He’s damn right when he says that jacket makes piss-poor camouflage.
Surgically? Pfft. He pulls ’em out with his teeth and sterilizes the wounds with single-malt scotch.
4th, 5th and 6th panels…
Soooo glad to see the old commander back, even if he’s just in flashback form
In other words, in the future the army is basically G.I.Joe?
I can see that judging by the loosely defined dress code, but where are the specially trained animal companions? They’d need a wolf infantry, an aerial unit of hawks and a minesweeping aardvark or something, wouldn’t they?
Maybe they just didn’t show up yet! You don’t know!
And you know what they say about knowing.
In this particular spacefuture, I would suspect that, statistically speaking, knowing is at least 73% of the battle.
It’s based on fashion sense for crissakes.
first time poster, short time reader, but thought you might find this interesting: http://chrishanel.tumblr.com/post/19196576643/spread-the-word-theft-is-theft
apparently some schmuck is making money off of your comic (and many others)
“This whole storyline was supposed to happen like the third month into this comic”
It was worth the wait.
‘The alternate ending to this strip was something to the effect of Jared saying “BUT LASER CANNONS ARE AWESOME” and Commander telling him he’s everything wrong with the future.’
I am glad this was not used, as I’d like to pretend Jared would not advocate the forced crafting/mutilation of soldiers to win national popularity contests.
Yeah, I know he’s lovably vacuous, but I’d like to hope even his dulled creep factor would pick up on how wrong that one was.
Write the alternate ending into next week. It sounds pretty priceless.
Also, why do I get the feeling that this is the story arc where in some moment of perilously dangerous peril, Commander will yell out “JONESY!” and then facepalm when he realizes he led himself right into doing that?
I would buy a Commander Badass action figure in a New York second (loosely defined by Gaiman and Pratchett as the length of time between the light turning green and the cab behind you honking). So I’d have to say the future’s approach to branding works.
A vacation in a foreign land, Uncle Sam does the best he can, you’re in the army now, you’re in the army, now… ;)
Is that Status Quo reference I see?!
Marry me? We’ll have the most musically-gifted kids ever!
It is indeed ;) And here I was thinking I was the only one who knew that song.
This is the part where I type something relevant.
But I don’t give a f#ck.
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Funny comic is funny.
Aw man, this just opened up so much future story potential. Now I want to know all about the spacefuture culture wars and especially how the Commander came to accept and own his “personality modifications” (name, jacket etc.) enough to keep them in his new life.
There’s probably a war about whether or not to put the toilet paper over or under.
http://chrishanel.tumblr.com/post/19196576643/spread-the-word-theft-is-theft
Just a heads-up in case my mail didn’t send. It’s been falling off the grid lately for some reason.
Anyway, basically someone’s made an android app to gank comics into a glorified RSS feed without authors’ permissions.
Ah, It sent, I just got about a hundred and thirty emails all saying the same thing.
Interesting enough, this seems to be the way war right now is evolving or at the very least the perception of war. I mean, look at all the effort by the military to create power armor/mechs even though they really are not all that cost effective, but they certainly look pretty cool. *wink, wink*
And by “All the effort” you mean “Maybe 0.1% of the budget”, right? Also, compared to some of the stuff they’ve experimented with over the years, mechs are downright boring.
Wasn’t sure you knew about this, but I love your comic too much to not tell you if you didn’t: http://chrishanel.tumblr.com/post/19196576643/spread-the-word-theft-is-theft
might have to tell penny arcade too, along with this comic it is one of my two favorite comics
Boredom creates insanity. It’s an interesting and probably true concept.
Don’t you just hate when you wake up and there is a bunch of cientist tryng to put a laser canon in you chest?
That’s more or less how we fight wars now.
It’s why Hezbollah runs hospitals, Hamas has a kids TV show, and the US ’embeds’ reporters to make sure they sympathize with and see the war from the point of view of US troops.
Hearts and Minds.
I just help but think that Commander Badass would’ve had to wear some sort of -very manly- bra like thing for his laser cannons.
and am trying very hard to remind myself that that is not actually a metaphor for anything.
Commander seems pretty down on the idea of chest-implanted laser cannons, but you know what? It works for Guyver. And if it works for Guyver then it can work for the rest of us.
Mega-Smashers works for EVERYONE.
*STATIONERY
http://www.truimagz.com/host/fortcrush2/folder1/hans.png
uh… okay?
The comic based on comment in the previous comic from hans “While I finally get where the current storyline is coming from, I´m really starting to get annoyed with it.
You made your point, please move on.
In the meantime I´m with the “X-wifey”.
I´ll check back periodically to see when the gay is out of your system.
“
So wait, what are your objections here? Objecting to the future as laid out in the narrative? Objecting to disliking bishies? Objecting to bishies?
I’m honestly trying to figure out what you’re indignant about here.
I should have said “it’s a low effort doodle of an idea I had about hans and Commander’s wife popping in to check up on the commander then instinctively walking away. Joking on not the comic but the situation the reader had said.(at the time I thought it was funny)” there no objecting involve here maybe some confusion.
You guys should REALLY vote for Manly Guys over at the march madness contest:
—LESS THAN 48 HOURS LEFT before the first round is over D:
Ahahaha, can’t fight city hall.
Or Romantically Apocalyptic’s social network :P
well i voted for ya, shame to see you only have 43% of the votes ;(
i’m surprised the commander didn’t want to wear the red leather TBH. dont see why he would continue wearing it in the past if he didnt.
You’ve pretty much perfectly summed up human society in that single last panel.
Good stuff. I don’t see any other webcomics reaching that level of depth (if only for an instant).
And then one day they make the soldiers so badass they can survive the earth blowing up
They don’t realize one of thems going for the button until it’s too late
The sad part os that I can completely and utterly see this happening in the future. I mean at this point the presidential election is just one big high school popularity contest, so having our soldiers fight for popularity just feels so feasible to me.
Plus, I know you missed drawing the commander as his large self, so yay to that!
Please tell me I can get a higher-res version of Commander’s face in panel 5.
That needs to be my avatar in places.
You got almost half of the vote! :U (in March Maddness)
I feel like Commander should be getting some support here. Maybe a hug? Does Jones do hugs?
I’m really digging that last panel.
Ouch, paired against RA in round one must suck. A shame, really-if it had been any other comic, you’d have advanced quite far. Ah well, win some, lose some :P
Yeah, in the first round of just open voting I think I came in 24/300-something. So that’s a bit of an ego boost.
The female solider looks hot! Hope to know more of her!
I love that, even bishie’d, he still looks way cool.
War. War does, in fact, change.
“Whevever”?
Um… Coelasquid? I think you accidentally this comic page. It’s got this week’s comic right below the one that’s supposed to be there.
I accidentally had an extra digit in this week’s comic’s filename, I caught it before I updated anything, but apparently it doubled up the comics here. Couldn’t figure out how to fix it short of deleting manually the jpg from the ftp.
started reading comments, and the variety of topics is astounding, i swear the ADHD flows like water here.
love the comic, kinda wondering whats going on, miss the old commander, and even jared, but i would kinda like to see commanders girl friend go animeish.
I thought you were talking about me when I saw “Rest in peace, Axi,” as a lot of online peoples refer to me as Axi.
Prior to this storyline, I had no idea gijinka was so widespread… or that it had a name for that matter. I think I was happier that way…
God damnit, now I can’t stop hearing CB’s voice in Demoman’s voice from TF2.
Several years later I realized, in hindsight, the last panel seems to exactly describe the Senkaku island conflict between China and Japan.