#453 – Daydream Believer
June 15th, 2013 |
Sorry for last week. I did make a post, but I don’t think anybody saw it under the comic there.
We are glossing over the events of Simmons’ boating holiday. To be honest it was a throwaway joke that we had every intention of reverting to status quo on. But much to our surprise, everybody wanted to actually know what happened. One day we may tell the story of the horror that took place on that river. One day.
Point is, Schaefer’s fine.
He’s not actually shown up since 2011, I guess? Weird.
Edit:
Alt comic by Pixellated
Hah! Necrotelecomnicon, it says on the briefing file. Nice to see a Terry Pratchett reference going down.
What, I’m a Daemon…? Gah! Slur on my character! I call slur on my character!
Do what I did. Get a Gravatar account so you can be a Poooooooonyyyyyyyyyy.
Still miss the god of wisdom though.
I have thought Long and hard about your plight DHGM and i think i came with the ultimate solution to your problem!
Try hacking the comment section to force all picture to be the one of the god of wisdom. The beauty about this plan is that even it you fail the zany sitcom like antics that will ensue will most likely lend you with your original avatar picture somehow, or teach you to value your current Gravatar better.
Thank you for your consideration Enderman, but I am quite satisfied with my pony avatar.
Besides, I remember Silversword saying whenever he adds new avatar pictures, the existing ones get shifted. I would’ve had a different avatar by now had I not switched to the pony.
I don’t think anybody has ever referred to Simmons as “Brother Simmons”, did they?
Or to any other Inquisition member, for that matter. Weird.
yeah I was throw off by that too…
Schaefer addresses the assembled Inquisition as “brothers” in this one. It seems to be a more formal mode of address, and most of our dudes are pretty informal most of the time. I suspect Virus is reverting to formality because of the surprising discomfort of Simmons showing up in person.
But also worth noting: Eastwood wrote both this and the above-linked scripts
So I guess East is also the one who introduced “Lord Schaeffer”?
Because I think earlier in the comics, he was almost exclusively referred to as “Commander Schaeffer”.
…as long as Schaeffer’s first name isn’t “Tim”.
now, for some weird, obscure reason, I can see a “DECAPITATIOOOOOOOOON” joke in the distant future
seems to be more of a formal thing – since our group are informal so often, and talk to each other on a daily basis, they probably don’t use the title, sort of like if you work with a doctor/proffessor you’ll eventually stop calling them doctor surname, and shorten it. with simmons however, who they see far less often, is not frei..aquant…people they tolerate for unknown reasons with them and outranks them significantly, virus may use the title.
Alternative text for Simmons last line “His Lordship is a bit tied up up at the moment”
a guy can dream, can’t he?
Huh..Simmons likes the furless/unscaled girls? Kinky. ;-)
*reads the Alt comics* And apparently is a closet Jigglypuff, as well. :-)
not quite, one on the left has a fury tail and muzzle, and the one on the rights a mouse – both furry ;)
fury tail? sounds like a pokemon move
(sorry, I like to rip on spelling errors)
Ah–I missed the mouse ears and tail. Mea culpa.
Speaking of the girls, what’s their rank/job? By the mage-looking clothes they have, I don’t think those are rank-and file inquisitors, is that what their Tech-priests look like or something?
It looks like a less-armoury style version of soratis armour, if based off the grimdarky grim-darkness of the grim-dark side of the source material (did I mention the grim-darkness, because it’s important), so possibly the EN version of the sisters of battle…
…though if that is the case, Simmons should definatly keep this fanatsy to himself if he values his bodyparts.
While Vi did catch where I took inspiration for the girls’ outfits from, that wasn’t it. Actually, we don’t use either ‘source material’ as a referance these days, except maybe as something to avoid.
please tell me there’s going to be a coven of vampiric arms dealers… led by the folks from bargain hunt.
remember Charles Foster Ofdensen from metalocalypse…
heheheheh
DeAtH mEtAl
I have every instinct to replace ‘Ofdensen’ with ‘Kane’
I’m having a thought here. If Simmons wants the job of leading the Inquisition so badly, why doesn’t he just ensure that Schaefer has an “accident”? As we’ve seen during the Bookend story arc, there are A LOT of assassins for hire in the EN verse that would do it for a reasonable rate. RED, BLU, those ninja guys, Morth’s weird hawk/sniper guy, etc. Point is, it’s not hard to find a someone who would be willing to act out most of his thought bubble.
he’d probably have to leave out the part about killing the hired assassin in order to look valiant or noble
Inquisitors are pretty inquisitive. They might find out who arranged such an assassination.
ah but think about it, he too is an inquisitor, surely he’d come up with an explanation that would sate the inquisitiveness of the inquisitors while still making him look like a hero, as opposed to others, he DOES expect a mobian inquisition
Simmons isn’t a backstabbing murderer. He doesn’t like his boss, but he isn’t going to kill him because he’s annoying.
I was making a joke dude, wasn’t that obvious from how I worded the statement?
Easy, Spike. This is the Internet. Intonations don’t carry well across text. I’m a very, very skilled reader and I didn’t pick up on it. So why expect others to? What you *intend* is not always what someone else will *read*. And a good rule of thumb is that if there is room for someone to take your statement literally, then they will.
Smilies are a good way of softening your speech and adding context, but there isn’t an accepted ‘I’m joking’ smiley, so using that in this case is less effective. Using -.- or ;) is something to consider. But less effective in the case of your prose.
J/K is universally accepted as a joke marker, so in extreme cases use it, but be aware I hatre the usage and it makes me spit teeth, both because of #don’texplainthejoke and becasue using it is a gateway to cheapening the currency of expression.
Hope this helps!
I’m not really one for using smilies, except for maybe XD, but that’s about it, I’m the kind of guy who is anal about spelling, I don’t replace words with numbers, honestly, slang is not something I use on a regular basis, but I thank you for taking the time to inform me in a polite way instead of trying to troll me like a certain rat, and yes, it does help, thank you
Hey Spike, it’s not all about you, dude. Eastwood’s comment is clearly answering the initial question by Lumi. Sure, the thread tree has it as a reply to you, not Lumi, but wasn’t it obvious from how East worded the statement?
don’t you have anything better to do than troll me?
All I did was mirror your tone. If that sounded jerky, then perhaps you need to self reflect.
*sigh* look man, I wasn’t trying to sound snide or condescending, I was asking an honest question, wasn’t trying to sound like a douche or a troll
Speaking of, last I saw, Schaefer was being hunted down like a rabid animal. Did I miss an update?
Now I can’t get the TF2 Spy voice out of my head when ever I read Simmons lines.
Okay, I guess the court story can be put on hold.
Simmons is probably 10 times more competent than Schaefer anyway.
Weeell, who said “gah!” I think that buble need a tail
It was likely both Virus and Rouge.
I meant Rogue, not Rouge.
Yeah, both. Couldn’t really make the tails snake around to both.
Taradadan dada! http://s017.radikal.ru/i411/1306/da/d16d4c1a3714.jpg
no, if it really break the composition, I’ll shut up already, because it your comic, not mine.
why, pray tell, do you not have your own webcomic?
because I still do not have a good practice in drawing backgrounds, I need to learn English well, and buy a graphic tablet
and by the way, it’s FUCKING hard for a teenager.
and generally, я украинка XD
I know how you feel (turning senior just this year), it’s hard for a teen to find the right site to use, in my opinion, you could make it a group effort, like these guys, find someone who can draw backgrounds while you handle the characters, then find someone to write scripts (and maybe a translator)
Ah come off it, teenagers have nothing BUT free time :P And there are far more site-building resources now than when we started out.
I don’t have a reply button of your comments, but I can draw all comic stripes by myself, but without tablet that IS very hard and long work. If Alan make one stripe per week (or faster), I will do it TWO weeks. And yes, problems with site, translate, and money. My children brains fly out with that thing. Free time? Only summer. Because our Ukrainian schools think we nothing doing at home, and usually I do my homework 3-4 hours. And I study at piano class. That why I have some problems with it. If I will web-designer in the future (how I want), MAAAYBE I will do something like web-comics (of course if I can have free time).
I’m pretty sure actually starting would be the hardest part. I’ve been meaning to start my own for years but the farthest I’ve ever gotten has been writing rather detailed notes about the first three story-arcs, which I then proceeded to lose.
Back on track: my point is, I’m sure you have or can gain access to all the required resources to start a webcomic, but you and I both suffer from that terrible condition called “Just can’t be arsed.”
Like I said in the TVT thread, I loled at the alt comic. Well played, Pixellated. :)
I can neither confirm nor deny that I have been involved in similar activities in the past.
By the way, sometimes Simmons reminds me of Mr. Tanaka from Sonic, I do not know why. Glasses xD?
not at first, but now that you mention it…
xD
now imagine if Simmons was Taikan
Really, how long was Simmons there?
A Scorpion Ninja? And he’s not wearing orange? HERESY. No, I’m joking, not everything can be a reference.
Hope you have a good week Virus. Stay cool.
He had yellow details when Vi and I were knocking around the concept sketches, but he decided to pull it back down a notch rather than make it -too- obvious. :)
Aw, man. XD
The Discworld Necrotelicomnicon is in the UU Library, which is infinite in size being closed in on itself in space and time.
I think Brother Simmons just told those two to get lost. Or maybe he’s trying to cut costs by eliminating some of their less effective inquisitors.
Who is to say that there’s more than one copy across time and space? Or that two people didn’t write blasphemous tomes of unspeakable power and give them the same name?
I wasn’t saying that there isn’t. L-Space is all about books wandering across continuity lines or inspiration occurring in more than one place. Or it’s just a rather obvious name.
I was aiming more at the subtext of asking two inquisitors who are not well liked by the establishment to fetch a book that is known in another continuity for being heavily guarded in a library in which people have gotten lost for so long that they’ve founded civilizations in the stacks. IE ‘Get Lost’
im seriously amazed a badass like schaefner can succeed in getting his tie stuck in a pencil sharpner again.
i mean seriously put him in the frontline teams like our main crew and you alteast have a one hell of a force to use, not put him at a desk where he keeps getting in problems like this, though itd be less hilarious for us so for the comic sake keep him behind that desk.
I’ve always felt that Schaefer was that one guy who was overpromoted. He’s exceeded the levels of competence. He’s a great inquisitor, believes in doing good, and he’s obviously skilled both with firearms and hand-to-hand combat if his encounter with E. Bay is anything to go by.
But put him in a desk job, and he’s completely out of his element. Simmons does almost everything for him, and while he understands how to uses his forces, resources, and funds, when it comes to filling out paperwork and stuff, he’s a bumbler. I love the character, and EN wouldn’t be the same without him, but dang he’s probably the worst boss an Inquisitor could have.
Still kinda weird that Simmons didn’t just call them on CABAL though. Can’t wait to see what’s so important that he showed up in person.
What I want to know is who the hell still uses those old timey crank operated pencil sharpeners bolted to the table (otherwise this wouldn’t be a problem).
meet the peter prinacple. people who excell at jobs will continually be promoted until they find a job they’re not so good at. Schaefer seems to be a major victim of it
The panel where Schaefer is in an inquisitorial power armor is awesome! Say, is that Gadget in there?
I think gadget’s hair is a bit darker (not sure, since I’m a tad bit colorblind XD)
Not nessecarily ‘darker’, but less yellowy certainly
No, this is Gadget.
Heh, yeah, after the arm candy became a mouse, I couldn’t seem to evade that colour scheme, so there’s a loose resemblance.
maybe it’s gadget’s long lost sister
Simmons gets all the bitches…said no one ever
wow, the grin your gravatar is making just makes me want to laugh, that’s the kind of smile that could defuse any argument
Am I the only one impressed that Simmons can apparently enter and exit rooms like batman? gotta give the man credit for sneaking up on a Ninja Jedi and a Inquisitor even if they are killing their braincells on daytime tv.
think about it, the “jedi ninja” was passed out, and virus is an idiot, you or I could sneak in there no problem hehe, but yeah, imagine the pranks he could pull with that ability
thats a lot of pranks one could pul without ever having to worry about payback.
*grins eviily* are you pondering what I’m pondering?
Why can I imagen Simmons whith a french acent when he says “Gentlemen”?
In reference to the alternate comic:
SOON…
Love Simmons. He racks. This strip was awesome. Though, I must admit, I wish the alt one happened. Of course… you KNOW vi would be blamed.