To be fair Hugo’s shirts are basically mad of wet tissue paper
November 16, 2013
7:11 pm
It’s transgender awareness week so here’s a comic about Poison accidentally dying Hugo’s shirts pink And I can still say I haven’t missed a week for updating yet.
Hope that was a 9′ door. Hugo’s like 8′ +.
Across.
It’s however big it needs to be for me to not have to listen to pedantic complaining.
Also – Hells yeah.
Hugo doesn’t get enough love.
There aren’t many women in the world capable of loving Hugo without ending up looking like an extra from the game that made Poison famous. Poor Andore.
Andre the Giant drank a LOT. I imagine it wasn’t as easy a gig as we all might have thought.
Best response ever.
*APPLAUSE* :)
I just assumed he curls up like Samus to get through doorframes. Granted that wouldn’t make him much smaller.
So it’s like Johnny Wander’s John’s relationship to cars then! Kinda.
I’m assuming that it’s Hugo’s house – so having custom door frames and ceilings built to prevent continual head-klonking seems like a reasonable assumption.
Look up “World’s Tallest Children” on Youtube. British family at about 5:30 has a custom built house because they’re all super tall. They kept standard doors so they wouldn’t get out of the habit of ducking, but I doubt Hugo’s concerned with such things.
Pretty much. Tall people make these changes all the time, and not just in doorways either. Another good example is Julia Child who had a custom kitchen made because the counter tops were too low for her.
Andre the Giant (the guy he’s supposedly based on) lived in a house big enough to suit him, why not Hugo? Piss off, Strykor.
To be fair to Strykor, I think his comment was intended as light-hearted rather than serious.
Not just Andre. Paul Wight AKA The Big Show, Mark Callaway, AKA The Undertaker, Glenn Jacobs AKA Kane, and Kevin Nash all would also need houses like that.
Don’t listen to these meanies, I’m with you, bro.
It’s his house, of course it’s gonna have huge doors.
Seriously? If they’re roommates, that means they made sure their place would be able to accommodate Hugo’s stature.
The door does go almost all the way to the ceiling. If he can fit in that building, he can fit through that door.
Huh, so that’s why he wears pink. Doesn’t make him any less manly. He is huge as hell though.
I’ve said it once, i’ll say it again: Real men wears Pink. SHOCKING Pink.
I’ve said it once, i’ll say it again: Real men wears Pink. SHOCKING Pink.
You’ve said it twice now!
Thrice actually.
Once when I mentioned Kratos in a tutu.
Best not think about it, someone got nightmares.
Uh…The trice one is actually i accidentally clicked the “Post COmment” button too fast… =_=;; My bad…
No big deal. Although, when it happens to me, I get a message instead.
Pfft, beautiful. Poison’s done him a favour, though. Pink is many as hell; just as the Hart Foundation.
Yeah, was just gonna say something about the Hart Foundation :D
…..I love all the bulgy eyes and angryness in panel 4. I don’t know why, but I just read it as “best-thing-ever-this-week”
Hand Wash Only is no excuse to not hang up the clothes afterwards, Hugo. You brought this on yourself.
Totally :D
Well, sometimes to handwash something you have to let it sak for a lot of time, like wool sweaters.
soak*
They have these wonderous inventions nowadays, called ‘buckets’
Buckets are for squares. Real men dare to use the sink that everyone else uses.
Then they have no rights to get snippy when their NewHalf partner end ups dying their favourite shirt pink
Guesticus, I love that you read all the same comics as me.
Yeah, I though that, too. Or maybe a washbasin.
Obviously you’ve never had to get dried blood out of cotton/silk/cashmeir/angora/wool/alpaca. IF it dries it’s not easy to clean, then there is all the body funk and such which is just as hard to get out if it dries in with the sweat and offal.
That’s what Hydrogen Peroxide is for.
Won’t the peroxide bleach the fabric a bit? I know it does that to human hair (don’t ask) so I’d suspect the same of wool.
Are they just roommates or something more? And if more is she… Never mind.
Poison and Hugo have always been just friends.
They’re best friends/business parters/fight partners.
Oh you ship-teaser… XD
This week on “Me and my Poison,” Poison accidentally dyes Hugo’s favorite shirt just before a job interview! How will these two pay the rent before their crazy landlord Mr. Roeper kicks them out? Will Hugo have to go dumpster diving for big, whole turkeys for food? Tune in this week!
who da fuck is hugo?
Hugo Andore, one of the common enemies in Final Fight, like Poison. He and Poison became popular enough to transcend the status of regular beat ’em up baddies, so they’ve made appearances in other Capcom titles, like Street Fighter.
From Final Fight and Street Fighter III. Giant guy, was in a gang called Mad Gear with Poison, but they quit and went strait, Hugo becoming a professional fighter.
I think Emptee don’t know about Final Fight (maybe he/she wasn’t even born when that game is still hot in the arcade). Who knows ^^;;
Shame Poison kicked poor Roxy to the curb when she went legit :(
they’re both going to be in the upcoming SFIV update as well
I’m disappointed with this comic’s lack of Alex Louis Armstrong
He doesn’t have much to do with these two.
WHY it would be downright RUDE to barge into another man’s home uninvited! The secret to not showing up unannounced has been passed down the Armstrong line for GENERATIONS!
BE-SIDES! It would be an inappropriate breach of Kayf-*AHEM*-conduct to be seen associating with such caddish characters, and could damage both our reputations in the professional wrestling circuit!
Enough! There can be NO DOUBT that this electro-visible amusement medium earns the UTMOST PRAISE of the STRONG ARM ALCHEMIST for it’s magnificent and respectful portrayals of the true complexity of muscles and the FRIENDSHIPS THEY FORGE!
*Applause*
I swear, FMA:B has some of the manliest anime characters I’ve ever seen.
On the contrary!! Alex Louis Armstrong is made of GAR & Fabulous! Hugo + Poison = him!
Having never played this game, I can only imagine you refer to a hybrid of Alex Keaton and Louis Armstrong.
FYI, he was referring to Alex Louis Armstrong from anime ‘Full Metal Alchemist’ ^_^
Just an FYI, your title has a typo, you put Mad instead of Made.
Not that I’m complaining, just figured I’d let ya know.
Could be a play on Mad Gear, which they were both a part of.
This could probably use a “Street Fighter III” tag as well.
Love Poison and Hugo :)
i can’t tell if his eyebrows are under his brow ridge, or if he’s so pumped that those ARE his eyebrows. Muscles be mucsley.
I don’t think he has eyebrows, just brow ridges and skin lines.
No eyebrows? How can a man with such luxuriant hair have no eyebrows?
Yup, his eyebrow ridges would make a cro-magnon look puny
It’s a mystery!
Riddick, Riddick, Riddick.
pretty-please?
<3 Poison. I love seeing trans characters get some love. ^_^
Thank you for doing a comic for transgender awareness week.
I’d like to second this thanking.
Oh, beauty.
I always wondered as a kid playing Final Fight why a dude trying to intimidate me on the subway would choose to wear pink… mystery solved.
Guess my only remaining question is why the mayor would be publicly seen eating chicken out of a trash can after vandalising his cities phone booths…
Is he the current mayor of Toronto?
Haggar was mayor of Metro City, in the state of New York
Heh heh, I felt that might come into it when I re-read my comment.
It’s actually cause wearing pink is how you know you’ve achieved the manliest manliness, once you have, nobody will dare to give you shit for wearing pink.
This is especially well timed because Poison and Hugo will be playable characters (seperately, not together, as well!) in Ultra Street Fighter 4, along with Elena and one other character I can’t quite remember.
Poison and Hugo are totally awesome characters though, and it’s great to see them given more love and attention. I especially love how you rendered Poison. She looks great :D
last character is rolento. I hope coelasquid does a comic with him in it for scoliosis awareness week.
Ultra SF4? With Poison *and* Elena? Now I’m kinda glad I put off getting SF4, that’s really awesome ^^
I’ll be honest… I thought that was Jem from “Jem and the Holograms” at first and I actually squeed. Then I was like: “Wait, she doesn’t exactly belong on a comic series like this…” so I scrolled down to see that it was actually Poison. Makes more sense than Jem I guess. :P
I’m picturing Poison as a kid/young teen in the 80s watching Jem and wanting to dye her hair to match, but her parents wouldn’t let her, then she moved out on her own and the rest is history ^^
You could build a sitcom around these two. Really, this has a strong sitcom feel to it. Seriously, insert a laugh track after the second and fourth panels!
This is great. Makes me want to go play those games for the first time.
He shut her up good.
*gasp* You mean she’s not a natural pink-head???
My world is shattered.
if it helps you feel better, I hear she dyes her pubes too, for completions’ sake.
… Yeah, I’ve got no clue who these two are.
Good thing I tagged the comic with their names and series.
Although Final Fight covers their original gaming appearance, if you want to make the tags more thorough, Hugo is also a fighter in Street Fighter 3, and Poison made her debut as Hugo’s tag partner in Street Fighter vs. Tekken.
Anyways, wonderful job as usual, Coelasquid. Thank you for sharing it.
Used to play that game decades ago, was kinda pleased that Streets of Rage (1 and 2) was included in the “Mega-Drive Arcade Classic” Console (only kinda please becasue SoR is an almost exact copy of Final Fight :()
Everyone remembers Poison (and the ‘controversy’ surrounding her), but most people forget about poor Roxy :(
hugo would look GREAT wearing pink. poster boy!
Finally a comic that shows trannies for the monsters that they are, ruining shirts and not even being apologetic about it.
I realize you’re being sarcastic, but “tranny” is still kind of an offensive term.
I think you can take “kind of” out of that sentence.
Please don’t use the word “Kind” that has racial connotations and triggers me.
And the award for douchiest reply goes toooooo
So you endorse racism then?
Poor Hugo… but at least the hair dye managed to dye it evenly!
Wonder what color it was to begin with..?
Pretty sure, in the original games, his top was Pink, but then again, there were two of him (like you had Poison and Roxy {won’t anyone think of poor cold abandoned Roxy?}, looked the same, just had different coloured hair/outfits)
Haha, I meant for purposes of the comic. Like, was it white with black spots and that’s why the pink bled into it? I do recall the original final fight and played it often. Honestly didn’t even bat an eyelid at the fact that it was pink.
Only reason Poison gets to keep appearing is because the fanbase grew surprisingly fond of her. If we showed Roxy the same love they’d probably bring her back too.
I approve of this depiction of Poison. She/He really looks like she/he might be a man with hormone treatment.
It is pretty subtle, isn’t it, especially for the drawing style of the comic!
Android, it’s my understanding that originally (in Japan where the game came out), Poison was a woman. BUT, since this was the 80’s/90’s, people in the U.S. ‘had issues with beating up women’– or so the thinking went by execs; thus, they made Poison into a transsexual– “No, really, ‘she’ is a HE! It’s okay to beat HIM up!” … Poison, being a transsexual, is to be referred to in the preferred gender, in this case, ‘she,’ regardless of actual sexual assignment. It’s only polite, and you can blame English for not having a neuter pronoun that isn’t offensive with which to reference individuals. (“It”).
I agree on the point of he should have used a bucket XD haha
“they”/”them” is usually considered an inoffensive gender neutral pronoun in the English language.
Actually, that is a rumor that most have taken as fact. Even the original concept art had both Poison and her pallet swap Roxy listed as transgendered, so it was intended to be that way from the beginning.
Also, to one of your following comments, those trying to make their outside fit the inside quite often take hormones and have surgeries. So if she has breasts or not has nothing to do with her genetic code.
In addition, Poison might actually have all-woman parts; after all, she does have breasts… why is this my life, speculating whether a video-game character has a vagina or not? >_< But also, there's the "XY vs XX" chromosome thing, which, considering someone can have like four X chromosomes (or even stranger arrangements), I'm not sure anyone can tell anything by even chromosomes!
Actually, any chromosomal arrangement other than XX or XY is a genetic defect. The presence of a Y chromosome makes a fetus develop as male (barring the odd medical cases where the testosterone burst didn’t happen, etc.). A fetus with now Y chromosome is female, no matter how many copies there are. There are actually only a few chromosomes where extra copies don’t result in miscarriage or stillbirth, and of those infants born alive only a few have a reasonable life expectancy (and all or nearly all of those cases have physical and developmental problems).
(Disclaimer just in case: None of the above is related to trans issues.)
Ok, you probably don’t know this, but the whole she/he thing is incredibly offensive. Plus, you called her a man, and I’m sure that with a little effort you can figure of where that falls on the complimentary to insulting scale.
I did not know this and did not mean to offend, but now I’m just confused. Clarity and political correctness are now at war in my brain.
You could always just refer to the individual by name and not use pronouns… colloquially, as Coelasquid has said, they/them is usually understood as a singular neutral pronoun (as well as plural! like ‘you’.) You made an honest mistake, I’ve done the exact same thing in this circumstance– but I looked it all up on the internet to fix it XD
at least it wasn’t “shemale.” *shudder*
Poison was never a man, she just has male parts, but otherwise, she is all woman (and will kick your Ars {R.I.P.} if you call her a ‘man’ again)
It’s Transgender Awareness week?
BE AWARE OF ME, PLEBIANS!
I didn’t know who these people were, not being a fan of games of this type, and I still lol’ed. Then I looked them up and lol’ed again. Great comic, I adore you Coelasquid.
I don’t know if Poison is a dude or not officially. I do however like the way you draw her… him… I honestly don’t know what the proper pronoun is in this situation.
Officially, she has always been what the Japanese refer to as a ‘NewHalf’
There are (or were) a couple videos on YouTube explaining the whole thing
Oh. Well the more you know.
her.
Thank you.
It’s ironic, really. Because Poison was…
Wait for it…
Waaaait…
… Unaware.
Somebody give this man/woman a cookie!
What?
Unaware about what? o_O
Unaware about the shirts in the sink.
Foolish girl! Now his shirt has been corrupted by your pink pit. It will rise up and create the League of Shades, destined to create balance in the world of fashion!
I was gonna post the link to the Canadians saving a shark from choking on a moose news story but then I figured there’s zero chance 100 people haven’t beaten me to it already
I really enjoy your comic and I really love the two pages (I’ve seen) featuring Poison because she’s one of my favorite characters! And you put her in humorous situations and jokes where she herself isn’t the butt of the joke and I really like it! Thanks!