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By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Last Jerkcity HD I'll post:
I need this on a t-shirt:

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rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Emzedoh posted:

Hogback Saga

Fortis
Oct 21, 2009

feelin' fine

vyelkin posted:

Fortis I continue to like Blasphemous Saga Fantasy. I didn't realize we were that close to caught up!

Back near the beginning I mentioned that it gave me Dragon Quest vibes (which I think was intentional) and it still seems that way, but now with a lot more of your own style and worldbuilding added over time, which I think you've done a great job building in organically. It's not something fantasy stories are always good at, so well done on that front!

Playing a Dragon Quest game it feels like you're acting out a fairy tale or something. It just makes you feel good. The plot and the characters aren't full of unexpected twists and surprises, they often hit on the same themes repeatedly, but they do it so well that the experience of going through it is just really enjoyable, and I feel the same way about your comic. It's bright, fun, and pleasant, and I really enjoy it. Thanks for making it!

Thank you, I'm glad you're still enjoying it! Yeah, the Dragon Quest vibe was definitely baked in, if not entirely consciously intentional, but I'm glad that the story seems to have found it's own voice. I've been thinking a lot lately about what kind of story BSF is, actually... and I think I'm okay with it being, much like a Dragon Quest game, the equivalent to a really well-crafted bowl of macaroni and cheese. Like it's still comfort food, but it's got buttery breadcrumbs on top and the cheese sauce is thick and creamy and you can tell whoever made it takes their comfort food fuckin seriously. Especially these days, in hellworld, it's important to have stuff that's just there to enjoy, and I'm good with being someone who can provide that to people. Thank you for reading!

Blasphemous Saga Fantasy







Seb's new outfit is the main character's outfit from my OHRRPGCE game, Time Flies, which is more than 20 years old now (while it was posted on this particular site in 2007, the original release was in 2001).
Ceris's new outfit, meanwhile, is the main character's outfit from a comic I did in the mid-2000's during college called 'The Diggers.' There's nothing left of The Diggers online, but you can get an idea of his design from this sketch from around 2005. You can tell this is from the mid 2000's due to the superfluous goggles.

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

Fagtastic posted:

Does she... eat 2 oysters for her entire dinner? So many of the things she eats are very much like a side dish or like, one of the maybe 3 or 4 small dishes you'd have at an izakaya. Then she just stops.
I was reading it as two orders of the oysters

Kit Walker
Jul 10, 2010
"The Man Who Cannot Deadlift"

Emzedoh posted:

Welcome back! I forgot to say earlier, but I think the prayer for forgiveness is one of the coolest setting details ever.

PRIM!

Who swore by GENTLENESS!
Thanks! And I agree. It's really effective in its introduction because in just a few lines it establishes a lot about White Chain as a character, Angels as a concept, and hints at something far larger and older than we can yet comprehend. And then every example of angels not bothering with the prayer, White Chain's ardent adherence to it in contrast, and the few cases of White Chain not reciting the prayer are all really meaningful plot points. Plus it's just cool at face value for being a fancy way of saying, "Oh Lord, forgive me for how badly I am about to beat this fool's entire rear end." Case in point:


Kill Six Billion Demons


Alt: All he needed was a few moments

quote:

THE SHAPE OF ROYALTY

1. The very tip of a swallow’s wing as it cuts the air.
2. The sword that splits the plum, pit and all.

These are said to resemble Royalty. It is not curved in the slightest. Turn the wheel on its side and you will see its shape. Cut the wheel in half and you will see its shape between the two halves. This is its purest expression, in the non-space. Observe how it extends forever, and look how it glitters!


Alt: https://youtu.be/5_fsWBERU-s?t=7
The clip is gone now, sadly. I don't remember what it was either

quote:

“FIERCE HORSE SOUL

A peculiar internal style with very narrow application, and one almost solely focused on defensive techniques. Practiced by most angels, it is almost entirely focused on getting close enough to a foe to subdue him without harming him, with maximal speed, safety, and precision. The movement techniques in this style are very popular and often borrowed by other schools, such as the Unlimited Chariot Sprinting technique which, when practiced properly, allows running at incredible speed over long distances without tiring. The student of this school is taught to endure all kinds of harm, hardship, and exhaustion in the pursuit of his quarry, and in doing so develops a truly unique constitution, resiliency, and ability to channel internal force.

Though it is commonly perceived to have no offensive applications, a quirk of this school is that due to its energy conservation techniques, a trained master who has practiced them for an extremely long time is capable (or so I have heard) of unleashing attacks of staggering power, aimed at felling dangerous or impossible to subdue foes. Such an technique must be delivered at extremely close range and can take a phenomenal amount of concentration and cultivation of internal force. Only the oldest extant angels proficient in this style are said to be capable of this ‘ten thousand year evil-quelling fist’ style – those that have been alive for an age or more. If any of them truly exist and can be roused to action, it would be a most terrible sight indeed.”

-Manual of Hands and Feet


Alt: Excellent way to end a tournament. If the tournament was ending, that is.

quote:

Finale

Ditocoaf
Jun 1, 2011

I bet Solomon David spends every Ring of Power looking forward to his chance to slow clap ominously. I bet if a good opportunity to slow clap doesn't happen, he leaves the tournament vaguely dissatisfied.

Ditocoaf has a new favorite as of 17:18 on Jun 1, 2023

Phthisis
Apr 16, 2007

"Maybe some dolphins have sex for pleasure."
someone, please accept these terrible avatars



KennyMan666
May 27, 2010

The Saga

Previously on Tales of the Beanworld, it was time for Gunk'l'Dunk!






It's sticky stuff.

Hurl Warriors



Some time after this Hurl Warriors strip had originally been posted, the first Hyrule Warriors DLC was released in which Cia actually did get a green costume.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011








Lemony
Jul 27, 2010

Now With Fresh Citrus Scent!

Owl at Home posted:

Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur (Oct 9-23rd, 1938)








Tristram, you fool. You're an Arthurian knight, when your mysterious and unidentified noble foe shatters his lance upon your shield and lacks a replacement, the correct action is to immediately give him one of yours. What kind of mythological warrior are you?

Kit Walker posted:


Alt: Excellent way to end a tournament. If the tournament was ending, that is.

Also, just as a quick reminder for folks, because it's one of my favourite callbacks in the whole comic:

Lemony has a new favorite as of 19:16 on Jun 1, 2023

Emzedoh
Jun 26, 2013

Fagtastic posted:

Does she... eat 2 oysters for her entire dinner? So many of the things she eats are very much like a side dish or like, one of the maybe 3 or 4 small dishes you'd have at an izakaya. Then she just stops.

It's no wonder she enjoys food so much, she must be ravenous at all times.

E: there's like ten calories in an oyster. Ten.

Either it's just a snack on the way home or she's ordering them in twos because she doesn't want them to get cold. That's my guess, anyway.

By popular demand posted:


"No no, begone foul hunger!"

"The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown."


Outstanding.

Benagain
Oct 10, 2007

Can you see that I am serious?
Fun Shoe
Also reminder: we still haven't reached Peak Gay in K6BD. But it looks like it'll get posted here during pride month which is fitting.

edit I'm also realizing that I love when comics use four arms in cool ways like here we see grandpa brushing his hands off AND flexing at the same time.

Benagain has a new favorite as of 20:17 on Jun 1, 2023

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Excellent!
Also, if you want to ruin Hogback Saga for yourself, the author's habit of never using punctuation means it's possible to read all the dialogue in Roast Beef's "voice"

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Tree Bucket posted:

Excellent!
Also, if you want to ruin Hogback Saga for yourself, the author's habit of never using punctuation means it's possible to read all the dialogue in Roast Beef's "voice"

Just like I do with Cormac McCarthy!

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Benagain posted:

Also reminder: we still haven't reached Peak Gay in K6BD. But it looks like it'll get posted here during pride month which is fitting.

Please keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle and remain seated at all times. Hang on to your personal belongings, this ride's about to get bumpy.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Spacetrawler


Emzedoh
Jun 26, 2013

Oh, we're up to the Mhirrgoot planet. I read Space Trawler ages ago so I've only been lightly skimming it here, but I think I'll dip back in for this bit!

Tree Bucket posted:

Excellent!
Also, if you want to ruin Hogback Saga for yourself, the author's habit of never using punctuation means it's possible to read all the dialogue in Roast Beef's "voice"

Haha, holy poo poo. If I wasn't at work, I'd like to compose some Roast Hogback dialogue.

thetoughestbean
Apr 27, 2013

Keep On Shroomin
“Stout-hearted young idiot” is the perfect description of Val. Gawain gets his charge

Pomme de Terror
Sep 30, 2021

Well, one of us must have killed him!
Previously on Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, even more survival shenanigans

07/26/2015 - Drink and draw edition

quote:

I was in the forest all week and I’m about to get on a plane so we’ll call this an update for now.
(editor's note: image was HUGE, so had to timg it, plus it's not plot relevant, so figured it was safe to shrink)

08/03/2015 - Big shakeup news

quote:

I am still having broken computer issues and unfortunately the person borrowing the cables for my backup work station has gone awol and isn’t returning them, so I had to keep this comic short enough to finish it on one battery charge before this computer dies and bricks itself. Hopefully I’ll have this issue fixed for good by next week, believe me, no matter how disappointing you might think it is to have less-than-great updates, it’s extra frustrating for me to have to be sending my computer into the shop every week.

On a cooler note, the dust is finally starting to settle and I can finally talk about that cool news I mentioned about a month ago, I’m officially a Cartoon Network storyboard artist now! I know the comic’s been kind falling on the backburner the past few months but now that I’m out of the gammut of board tests and Visa gauntlets, when my computer is finally working the way it’s supposed to I’ll be able to get back to business as usual. Thanks to everyone who stuck it out, this is super exciting for me and I can’t wait to see what the future holds.

Anyway, some supersoldier names and families because most of them only ever get to show up in the backgrounds and I wanna use them more. And people seem to keep getting who is related to who mixed up because they don’t show up often enough to be super memorable.

08/10/2015 - can’t read my Poké face

quote:

Still waiting for my computer to get fixed but I’m assured it’ll be here before next weekend so I’m working with last generation’s technology for now.

I like that T. Hawk face in the second panel, reminds me of the good ol’ days.

Fagtastic
Apr 9, 2009

I may have sucked robodick, fucked a robot in the exhaust, been fucked by robots & enjoy it to the exclusion of human partners; at least I'm not a goddamn :roboluv:

Emzedoh posted:

Either it's just a snack on the way home or she's ordering them in twos because she doesn't want them to get cold. That's my guess, anyway.

It's quite hard to read it that way. And besides it's not the first time! I'm thinking of when she ordered the Japanese potato salad (which cost her like two dollars), or the plate of sizzling corn. I know for a fact that both those dishes are intended to be quite a small part of a multi-dish meal.

Alternatively... There's the tradition of always eating something small when the primary activity is actually drinking. That would make some sense of this, but so many of her other adventures seem to suggest that she's doing this as her main meal every night.

I'm just concerned for the goblin, that's all.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

think the intent of the comic is to showcase one dish at once, calorie content be damned

Giant Ethicist
Jun 9, 2013

Looks like she got on a loaf of bread instead of a bus again...
I think Wakako is probably just going to order some other food too? It's a small-dish restaurant. She just got the thing she's been looking forward to and is going to wax poetic about first.

ChaCha, Chako





Flipperwaldt
Nov 11, 2011

Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?



lmao

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...




ThingOne
Jul 30, 2011



Would you like some tofu?


Kit Walker posted:

The clip is gone now, sadly. I don't remember what it was either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-sMiaE4aW4

Chainclaw
Feb 14, 2009

Giant Ethicist posted:

I think Wakako is probably just going to order some other food too? It's a small-dish restaurant. She just got the thing she's been looking forward to and is going to wax poetic about first.

ChaCha, Chako

The first time Chako's dad showed up is what caught my attention to start reading Chako

Giant Ethicist posted:

Chako



One of my favorite gags in comics.

Flipperwaldt
Nov 11, 2011

Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?



Well ok my memory's a sieve, so double laughs for me

Sleve McDichael
Feb 11, 2019

~nice~
Chako is so drat blood

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002
Last time on Joey's Special Experience by Hirohiko Archie: The mysterious masked warrior completely clowns Joseph Joseph Joseph and reveals herself to be King's heroin master, who Jos3ph will now be training under!

Read right to left:

Chapter 72 - Part 2 of The Teacher Wave Scholarship

e: This mysterious heroin tutor we just met deserves the fullsize embed imo:





lmao Jos3ph with his little rear end ripples









fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Ironheart Rune



CrocodileKingSaysNO
Jul 25, 2007

CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:

LAST TIME ON CLOWN CORPS




alt: what if instead of kneeing her in the face she just gave her a little kiss?


alt: No, not Ringmaster's purely decorative bookshelf!!


alt: hey Echo what is the deal with you and putting folks through windows?

Emzedoh
Jun 26, 2013



Hogback Saga



quote:

I hope you don't mind the wait for this update for just two pages this is set in Govan where I give tours so I wanted to put a fair bit of effort into it.

Govan on top of being an important church site was also a royal burial ground and the place of various workshops. The stone you see the carvers working on in page 119 is a stone that can still be seen at the church at Inchinnan.

There had been a church at Govan since the late 5th early 6th century so I absolutely feel there would have been manuscripts and books made there but due to the inevitable perils of time and war none have survived. Therefore the illumination at the top of page 119 was inspired by a couple of different Irish medieval manuscripts and the Book of Kells (which I believe was made on Iona)

When Gunnar says he didn't see it as any of his business I wanted to try present a certain Viking world view that acknowledged there were various gods and beliefs including Christ and had no problem with having multiple world views and beliefs existing side by side.

Dublin where Gunnar had been living started life as a viking fort but by this point would have been a cosmopolitan urban site and an important trade hub that contained a myriad of different belief systems


Shinozaki's Daily Maintenance






Yep, they were screwed after all. Yomoya here makes, what, 5 shorties treated as working age magicians so far? I wonder if they're all gnomes or something. Speaking of which, his buddy has the same kind of teeth and the same... level of volume as Zatto. I wonder if they're related?

Anyway, I love how the author is able to establish two new characters in just a few panels.

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:


alt: hey Echo what is the deal with you and putting folks through windows?

Surprisingly grim even by mafia execution standards :smith:

Ditocoaf
Jun 1, 2011

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja


July 18th, 2006
Behold now, Issue 4 (part 1)
D.A.R.E to Resist Ninja Drugs and Ninja Violence



Emzedoh
Jun 26, 2013

Emzedoh posted:

Wakako-Zake 52nd Night: Broiled Oysters


Special double length episode: Wakako makes takoyaki with the girls.

Wakako-Zake 52.2nd Night: Girl's Club









Someone commented before how Wakako seems lonely even in company - I wonder what they make of this chapter?

Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


Emzedoh posted:

Someone commented before how Wakako seems lonely even in company - I wonder what they make of this chapter?

That was me, and I think this is the first time we've seen her enjoying other people's company, though she is still food-focused. Also notice that she doesn't talk at all except for discussing the food, and when asked a question about her boyfriend, immediately deflects with more food. It really reads that she likes her friends but can't interact unless it's about her Special Interest.
but hey;

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon

the holy poopacy posted:

Surprisingly grim even by mafia execution standards :smith:

I feel like using rope to execute the rope specialist, who is also armed with a rope of her own, is begging for a reversal of fortune or improbable fancy escape. I'm not holding out hope for Oats but it's pretty clearly establishing Echo's flaw as a compunction to beat people using their own gimmick.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I feel like using rope to execute the rope specialist, who is also armed with a rope of her own, is begging for a reversal of fortune or improbable fancy escape. I'm not holding out hope for Oats but it's pretty clearly establishing Echo's flaw as a compunction to beat people using their own gimmick.

Which probably also dovetails with how McBell is her hard counter, not having a singular fighting style to mirror or improve on.

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Ditocoaf posted:

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

July 18th, 2006
Behold now, Issue 4 (part 1)
D.A.R.E to Resist Ninja Drugs and Ninja Violence





i just realized who dan reminds me of: master asia. i have been reading his lines in master asia's (english dub) voice this whole time without realizing it. i think it's the mustache.

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By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!




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