Those sunglasses had to be good for something
July 2, 2012
12:00 am
Apparently today (the fourth of July) is Gackt’s birthday! May his good health and sense of humour be everlasting.
Also, for anyone following the Dick Figures Kickstarter, we’ve got a little less than two weeks and 28% to go! Ed and Zach are going to ramp up the reward tiers in the home stretch, they’ve just put up a video featuring the voice actor behind Lord Tourettes to accompany the incentive that gets you his green elfy hat!
I definitely did not see this one coming. But I applaud it all the same.
^because this is awesome & you know it :D
Aw, when he said that I was hoping he’d throw it and Gakt would explode into sparkle dust. But slitting his throat with accesories is great too!
That’s strange….I thought the commander’s moon tiara magic was the only way to do it. There was another?
This is one moon tiara magic I’d like to see activated in the show itself! BAHAHAHAAHAA!
I’d love to know how Commander even knows what “Moon Tiara Magic” is…
His daughters probably watch Sailor Moon. Speaking of which I am really starting to miss the adorableness they brought to the comic.
Sailor Moon Pyramid Head
XD
Your brilliance… it frightens me greatly.
oh my… you just created another Silent Hill edition… I wonder how the developers would feel about Bishie stalkers…
Um…he only has one daughter…I think.
No he’s got two
Jared doesn’t count.
he has two kids but only one is a girl
I’m guessing it’s the lesser of evils; Let your daughter watch pirated sailor moon, or let her watch trite, brain destroying crap like…Bratz or something worse. At the rate children’s TV is going downhill, I think I need to start stocking up on decent programming from the 80s and 90s for my kids to watch. If I ever have any.
My. Little. Pony. Friendship. is. Magic
You’ll have the new 2013 Sailor Moon to look forward too then, being worked on by the original creator so thats good :D
It isn’t my imagination, right? It IS a Sailor Moon reference.
OMG, I wanna see Commander in a mini skirt now (?)
That’s kind of a disturbing and yet very hilarious image. Well, he WAS in a kilt before, so that’s probably the closest we can get to seeing him in a mini skirt.
A mini-kilt?
If the Commander is so all-fired macho as he was *made* to be, a mini-kilt would instantly earn this comic an X-Rating…
Now I have to draw fanart of Commander as a Sailor Senshi..what have you done Coelasquid? WHAT HAVE YOU UNLEASHED?
^Awesomeness? :P
Sailor Badass.
Alright that name made me laugh. I was completely like “Poker face” -_- until I read that!
Keep waiting and periodically check deviant art it will show up.
Bring on the genderbending villian.
Piramid Head had one of those outfits.
I’ve actually seen at least one image of a Sailor Pyramid Head. It was.. odd
Well…that went well. Maybe he should thank Gackt for the sunglasses.
Then again, it’s Gackt’s fault that the Commander has those sunglasses in the first place…
Catch 22.
Huh. It was “Moon Tiara MAGIC” in the dub? Learn something new every day, I guess.
…And I see Mister Fish hasn’t shut off his lasers yet. IS he going to shut them off at some point in this arc, come to think of it?
The Sailor Moon dub was horribly inconsistent with attack names. And just about everything else, but in this case, attack names. You could say it was “Moon Tiara Magic” in the dub just by virtue of that was what they called it most often, as opposed to “…Action”, “… Stardust”, or three or four other phrases they used.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure they just had a magnetic poetry set of magical girl phrases that they threw at the fridge to see what stuck.
What does it say in the Japanese? Just out of curiosity.
According to two different sites a more correct translation is moon tiara action.
Yeah. I never really got what the “action” was. Quarter-circle-forward-A? That it flies? Mystery for the ages.
It was Action. They actually deliver that line in English so there’s no translation necessary.
Funny never remember hearing action, only remember hearing magic.
Well, that takes care of that. Time for steak (and possibly figuring out how to turn Mr. Fishys laser off)
My question is, lasers and woolly mammoth steak aside…
are we gonna have to wait on a giant hour-long explosion-of-final-boss scene before all of the victims of bishie-virus (Commander included) get transformed back?
You know, just because the Potato Squid dies, dosen’t mean the disease goes away, they still have to find the cure.
And in a previous Update, Gackts Inner circle was mentioned. Who are They?
I beleive it was said at one point that to cure the problem they had to kill the spurce(aka: gackt)
Yes, so maybe this means he is not dead?
We will have an hour long cutscene but I figure commander badass would just sorta walk out and make a sandwich while it happens.
Wait, Gackt let the Commander climb up him to ultimately slit his throat?
Seems legit. Reminds me of Colosus….
Well how could he stop the Commander from doing it?
Commander climbs up a tentacle – Fling him off
Commander climbs directly over a mouth – Bite his foot off or move the lips like crazy
Commander is right below your main head – Hit him with your chin
We can just assume the comic didn’t show the whole fight of him climbing and dodging attacks, though a few whipings and jumps could have been added, but I’ll still think that thing was not standing still.
He still could have used magical force push or something, not just whipping
I have it in my head this is a turn-based battle.
So hideous tentacled blob thing couldn’t do anything, and CB cheated.
Nah, he used one attack and it was an item in his inventory. Seems legit.
There have been bosses killed by phoenix down’s, so why not headgear…
Then he did not do it the correct way. The correct way kill an enemy instantly in such a way first requires them to SUPLEX said enemy for awesomeness and then kill them with the item.
Look at where the laser fish is pointed. I think Gackt may have been slightly distracted by fish laser.
I feel like I just saw a reference to Shadow of the Collosus in this, and if so that makes me even happier with this comic. If only it was as easy as he makes it look.
Is it odd that the thing I dig about this the most is the fact that the commander has a daughter so he shows as much interest as he can muster in shows she likes so he knows the words but has no idea what they really mean beyond the basest level?
CB is such an awesome dad. :3
Indeed, but the move is essentially “throw your headgear at something to kill it”. Using it as a melee weapon seems more like a natural progression than a “missing the point” moment.
Oh, I get you. I’m just sayin’ there are a lot of dads who try their darndest to get into things that make their little girls happy but just can’t so they fake it to make the lil girl smile. For someone as manly as CB, I just saw him as being that type.
Next Coelasquid’s (Can I just call her/you Squid? It’s hard to remember how to spell the other one) gonna throw in Voltron reference, just to shake things up. (Just idle bullshitting here, nothing to see. These are not the droids you’re looking for, move along)
Awwwww, and here I would’ve preferred a Gurren Lagann reference. Oh well, I’ll definitely take this instead.
My thoughts exactly, when I saw this I assumed as much before I read the text. Then again maybe Commander is a bit ignorant maybe and has difficulty distinguishing one japanimation from another (and here we see Gackt, and multiple Final Fantasies as literally being one and the same thing.)
“My sunglasses are the drill that will pierce the Gackt!”
I agree with that, that show was strait up hilarious.
I always wondered why cloud din’t just head butt eneimies and impail them on those quils he calls hair rather than dragging along all that metal on a stick.
Cause that would be too easy. When was the last time a hero (besides the Commander here) did something easy?
When Batman disabled Harley Quinn’s coveyer belt of doom by pulling the plug?
When Indy shot the swordsman? Believe Commander referenced that scene a few comics back.
Indy shot the swordsman not because of a planned thing, but because of gastrointestinal fun-time and he REALLY had to… The swordsman just went with it.
The metal on a stick had sentimental value, it belonged to his now-dead best friend.
I love this one! Especially Mr. Fish in the background! Not to be gross, but does panel 7 look like a bloody, sharp-toothed version of a certain part of the female anatomy to anyone else?
It pretty much looked like that even without the blood. Well, with teeth. Vagina dentata and all ;)
She said the magic phrase … and now a sing-a-long …
Vagina Dentata … What a wonderful phrase.
Vagina Dentata … Ain’t no passing phase.
Vagina Dentata …
It means no weiners … for the rest of your days.
It’s a penis-free … girl cavity
Vagina Dentata
I’ll never hear that song the same way again, thanks lol
I think that is what they are supposed to be, considering how Japanese entertainment works.
I had no idea he fought evil by daylight AND won love by moonlight!
You know, that is one move that Sailor Moon should have used. But i would have (for the sheer unobtanium levels of it) see a sailor moon transformation of the Commander. I would have expected a Scrander Boomerang with the glasses (In the recesses of my geeky mind). But that is the punchline. Like Guile using a Care Bear Stare.
That is possibly the best use of Moon Tiara Magic I have ever seen. If Sailor Moon had more moments like this, I might have actually watched more than a handful of episodes.
Speaking as someone who’s watched all 200 episodes, all 3 movies, and the assorted OVA specials… For this, I would watch it twice.
Is that really it, though? I mean, the thing has at least six heads and an equal number of throats; for all we know, it could have a decentralized circulatory system. Plus, the arena stopped crumbling when Mr. Fish made his entrance. No, I don’t believe we’ve quite seen the last of mega-Gakt.
Maybe he’s just waiting for the right moment to transform. Any given final boss’s “One-Winged Angel”-fight tends to have a “bizarro” form, something huge and scary (as seen in this comic), and then they cross the Bishonen Line into an “angel” form, that is winged for optimum Christian subtext, eeriely beautiful and accompanied by Ominous Latin Chanting.
I see I’ve found a fellow reader of TVtropes
There is no one who is not a reader of TVtropes. NO ONE!
Yes, there it is!
ME!
(LOL)
You will join us….
Do ex-readers count?
Was I that obvious? :p Yes, I am a TV Tropes-reader. XD
I was a little torn between that and wondering if “One winged angel” is a common knowledge thing that I just hadn’t heard of, but I knew once I saw Ominous Latin Chanting :p
FITHOS! LUSEC! WETHOS! VINOSEC!
Wecos. Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec. Anagram of the game’s two main themes, ‘Succession of Witches’ and ‘Love’.
More to the point, he’s dead, that is a shit load of blood coming out
Even more to the point, when has being dead put a permanent stop to a video game or comic book villain? Commander already has Jason Voorhees and that guy from Splatterhouse working for him; he knows what’s up.
When you are sufficiently bad-ass, ‘Improvised’ is the only weapon specialization you’ll ever need.
Nice. I’m stealing this.
And here I was expecting “Moon Tiara Magic” to be the logical progression of bishounen to bishoujo. Then again, the Commander using his glasses as a melee weapon might just be even funnier.
As a man who was a child in the 90s, I’d have to say that Sailor Moon taught me more about “magical friendship” than a pony show ever could. Especially because it had talking cats. Plus that one episode where Sailor Moon resurrects her friends with magic.
However, this was, by a wide margin, the best Sailor Moon reference ever.
4th panel.
Commander climbing Flying Potato Squid-Gackt,
using the vagina dentata as a foothold.
Wut.
(I also love how you just stuck to the silhouette + blood for panel 6. It just works so well for that moment. <3)
I bet the final forms slithers out of the new neckhole the Commander made. I just can’t shake the image that he’s gonna look freiza-ish.
How can anything look more freakish than The Flying Potato Squid?!
Bishie flying potato squid?
I suspect that is how it worked, but they just toned it down for the kiddies.
And now Mr. Fish will stop his lasers so he can eat the corpse.
Kamina would be proud.
What’s Kamina?
-1
Seriously?
http://cosplayisland.co.uk/files/costumes/370/58953/CI_58953_1330853117.gif
I mean, I’ve only watched a few episodes of Gurren Lagan and even I know who Kamina is.
>_<
what’s Gurren Lagan
An awesome anime about kicking reason (and anything resembling physics) to the curb and doing the impossible.
And Mecha. So many mecha…
Gurren Lagann is a particularly over the top Japanese animation series that is pretty good, but you have to be able to enjoy some very silly things to like it.
I know Mr Fish was in the previous comic and was much smaller than Gackt, but I just chalked that up to a trick of perspective. I had no idea the ultimate form was THAT HUGE O_O
Kamina would be proud…
(I swear I did not read Andy’s post before this)
If you hadn’t read Andy’s post, how did you know it said that in your original post?
Am I the only one who thinks the throat cut is weird? The initial stab site is too far to the right to make that deep a cut we’re shown a panel later or rather, it could but CB is holding it wrong in that case.
Hehe got him when he was monologuing too.
http://cdn01.animenewsnetwork.com/images/cms/interest/53034/11a.jpg
Gackt as Nobunaga…he actually looks less girly in this. I’m surprised.
That’s still pretty girly…
One of my favorite aspects of this storyline is that Jonesy ends up looking more masculine than Gackt.
That’s basically how they used their giant robots pointy sunglasses in the show too. Commander’s got the right idea.
And as the ultimate expression of Badass, he puts the bloody shades back on.
Exactly how moon tiara magic should work!
Holy shit! I didn’t think Gackt’s transformation was this massive! O.O
Maybe they’ve been doing it wrong. Mwahahahaha!
But he hasn’t changed back. With the head glampire dead he was supposed to change back!
Uh, oh.
Gotta have a transformation sequence.
Alternately, it may be a slow and steady change, like how it was before.
Alternately alternately, considering how often realism or simple logic creeps into situations in this comic, Gackt may still be dying. Slitting a man’s throat != instant death, he’s gonna gurgle and spit until he drowns in his own blood.
Alternately alternately alternately, Gackt will now enter Final Form, which will just be himself again but, like, with a single big wing. And then get laserfish’d.
Looks like you called it. Two wings tho.
I wonder if Mr. Fish will ever be able to stop firin’ his lasers. That’s gonna be one long Hyper Beam cooldown turn.
Also, I didn’t realize Gackt’s ultimate form was that big! I guess Mr. Fish must have been much closer in the last panel on the previous page than I’d thought. Maybe all the human heads were throwing me off.
How many times i’ve wanted to do something like this when you have to fight a ridiculously huge clusterfuck boss.
Or even the overpowered ones, case in point, the deus ex bosses where ridiculously hard unless you got all the combat upgrades. I did hacking however and had to restart, deeply frustrated me.
That is AWESOME. :)
Oh course it makes perfect sense now! the show was wrong all this time.
I have to admit, Sailor Moon would be a lot more interesting to watch if she did things this way.
Anyone else trying to imagine him saying “Moon Tiara Magic” with Beetlejuice’s voice?
Imagined it!
For this, I fucking love you.
Indeed!
Best Fourth of July comic, hand’s down.
This comic plus fireworks just made my day.
I was half expecting something like this due to the constant uses of the sunglasses boomerang in Gurren Lagann (got the boxset and am watching it again due to this comic).
Huh. Didn’t realize Gackt was that big in his ‘one-winged angel’ form.
Second thought: It amuses me how useless said form is. >:3
Third and final thought: The Commander watches Sailor Moon & seems to like it.
I’d freakin’ love to see a comic with him watching the show, and possibly commenting/ranting on it like a man watching football.
So much humor potential. :3
With his daughter and Jonesy!
Best idea ever
Is it just me or does there seem to be a sharp decrease of the e-word in the internet. I have not come across it in a while.
Emo?
Prettysure he means Epic, dood.
If I have to pay for that one, worth it for giving knowledge.
epic
Dollar in the jar
yeah yeah
(throws dollar in jar)
That sixth Panel!!! i would kill to have that as my wallpaper! Could you do a man a favor and release a wallpaper version of it?
Now i’m curious if Commander can see through those blood stains on his Kamina glasses…
I don’t think it much matters. He hasn’t been wearing them over his eyes, anyway.
This boss fight continues to have me falling out of my seat laughing. I definitely would have watched more Sailor Moon if this is how it worked.
Ok… that was just straight-up boss.
And through it all, Jonesy stands, arms crossed. You just can’t impress that woman.
Might be why B. has an ex-wife?
Even as a Bishi, Commander retains his 100% badass rating. He just slit a horrific monster’s throat with Kamina’s sunglasses while calling it “Moon Tiara Magic”. The world is officially out of awesome. He took it all.
This pretty much exactly describes my frustration with menu-style RPGs. You gotta scroll and choose and sort and level and all this junk, and I’m just sitting there like “WHERE’S THE BUTTON THAT JUST MAKES ME PUNCH IT IN THE DICK!?!”
Right next to the seemingly endless supply of legendary weapons
When I was watching gurren lagann, one of my 1st thoughts was “dayam those glasses look sharp!…literally”
Shadow of the Colossus? Nice. Even better for the “Moon Tiara Magic” bit.
I really hope all that One Winged Bishie blood doesn’t cause problems.
Yeeeeaaaah I barely know what Moon Tiara Magic is only because of the comments already posted, but even when I didn’t know, this was hilarious. Way to put those shades to good use Commander! Or should I say Captain? He doesn’t really look tough enough to be a commander anymore, despite his awesomeness at being deadly. XD Captain Bada** sounds more fitting right now to me!
I don’t understand. Why can’t they just point Mr. Fish at him?
Too easy?
Haha, genius! Definately didn’t see that coming. xD
Veni Vidi Vici, Commander?
Captain Viridian: D:>
Hmm… I have to wonder how Commander stabs the right side of Ghacts neck and still manages to slash from left to right.
That is the true power of Moon Tiara Magic. (It can also move eye patches and wrist watches from one side to the other when nobody’s looking.)
With how much of a fanatic my psycho roomie is for the androgenous glamboy; the idea of Gackt getting a Bolivian necktie truly tickles me to no end.
I hate to be “THat guy” but all I could see was a toothy penis in the 7th panel.
That second to last panel looks like giant, sagging boobs…..
… I wonder what kind of magical girl the Commander’s daughter could become…
Sailor ‘splosion!
Great comic and best bit is i read this on the day the new Silor Moon series was announced so yeah all the better LULZ for me.
is mr. fish eating the corpse?
You’d think they’d just point Mr. Fish’s laser at him and get it over with.
Then again, why pass up the opportunity for awesome bloodshed?
Also I don’t think Jared has any chance of controlling him right now anyway. It would be like watching a little old lady walk a wolf that has barely been trained.
Bad is what I;m saying. A little funny but all bad…
lol yeah i get what you’re saying.
I am really loving the Sailor Moon reference there.
And the blood. The blood is pretty great too.
Love the comic. Just got in to it last week and I have to say… the whole theme of the comic just makes my day! Thank you soo much for this. Also when will you next page come out!?
That was pretty anti-climatic. I was disappointed on how this final boss battle was handled.
What where you expecting for something that was just pure gold comedy writing!?
I like how you show up every week just to get angry that I’m still poking fun at JRPGs.
I’m sorry you must have got me mix up with some one else I just started commenting on this site yesterday…. I put Elementalearth by accident but I meant to put the current one i have now. So….. ya only 2 days so far , not weeks.
The reply was to Riku, it’s not nested with yours.
its not over! he woulda changed back!!
If this is a JRPG, he should have about six more forms to go through before finally dying.
And even then, he’ll have time to recite “The Odyssey” twice before he stops moving for good.
Serious question- How did the slash go to his right from the way he way leaning? If there is no real answer, I’m going with “Because its Commander Badass and his Kamina glasses.”
I do actually recall a few instances of where Sailor Moon used it or at least held it like a knife in combat, usually in the later seasons where it did jack squat against new opponents so it was about the equivalent of pulling out a knife after you were out of ammo.
Best. Line. Ever.
This page reminds me of Berserk.
Oh, god… I never laughed so legitimately while reading a comic before. That was really great! Kudos to you, Coelasquid :D
*Imagines him in a sailor scout outfit with sparkles everywhere* tee heheheheeee
…Actually I was expecting a giga drill…
FIGHT THE POWA!