#466 – Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Ya know, it only occured to me last week, looking back at the Gone Cruisin’ sketch; I don’t think I’d actually seen Steamboat Willie all the way through before. A startling omission. So had a look, it seems to consist mainly of Mickey Mouse joyfully abusing animals for no reason. What an asshole.
Cruise was great, by the way. Already planning the next one. We’re wondering if we can afford to do a transatlantic and visit the family.
Sorry about the lack of updates! I have been a lazy Monkey. But I have been an enthusiastic Bat. Last week I picked up Arkham City on Steam for $7.50 and in a matter of days, completed my third playthrough (after a regular game and new game + on 360). Now I never replay games, much less on hard mode. That is testament to how much I love the Arkham games. They are basically perfect.
Despite that, I hadn’t been following Arkham Origins very closely. The new studio, new VAs and it being a prequel had perhaps made me wary, so I was waiting and seeing. But donning the cowl again put me in the mood to go look into it and I was quite surprised to find it was coming out the next day. Preordered on the spot.
So comic’s up, now if anybody needs me, I’ll be brooding on a Gotham rooftop. *swoops dramatically into the night*
Welcome back :)
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A-TEN-HUT!
How did he even get Horatio von Googlyeyes’ service?
Only lawyer that would take the client. Horatio will represent ANYBODY!
All the others figured there would be a catch of some sort followed by a stab in the back.
What if the payment was expected to be a stab in the back? Would the Patterner follow through?
And where is that court and how did Horatio get there?
Horatio died when Lothar fought those dragons in Morth’s first cult.
and well he went to hat hell by association and for not reporting Lothar’s crimes. He got the job because he was the only lawyer that didn’t have “you should make me a demon prince for this” in the contract.
So this is Horatio Sr. and Horatio Jr. was the one in the first appearance?
Or you’re all vastly overanalysing a joke that is visual shorthand for Pat having a shitty lawyer.
Isn’t that kind of the point here?
Maybe I just want to ruin that by overanalysing it. Is that so wrong?
Yes.
Then I insincerely apologize for starting this horrendous mess.
I dunno, I think Manic was on to something.
no, the flashback was before Horatio Sr died
I see Horatio’s clientele sources are a wide-range lot.
The 40k references are EVERYWHERE!!!
hope you enjoyed your brief stay in America, I hopw no one tried to force some stupid religion on you
oh, and Arkham city was loads of fun, though I could never find Mr. Freeze’s god-danged wife, no matter where I looked, and weirdly enough, you’d think batman, when facing goons armed with guns and he has nowhere to lurk, you’d think he’d at least pack a stun-gun or a gun with rubber bullets
So a walkthrough never crossed your mind? I vaguely remember finding her rather easily when you figure out the girl frozen in ice would need you to use the ice gadget to find her. Can’t remember if it was a requirement to finish the game though.
Nah, it’s a secondary objective. She’s in a warehouse in Amusement Mile. You need to use an ice grenade raft to access the dock entrance in the back.
As to countering armed goons, he has some options. The electric charge gun is a stun gun of sorts. He can use the batclaw to yank the gun from their hands. And the jammer tool is fun. I don’t think rubber bullets would be his style.
not at the time it didn’t Lothar, I didn’t use walkthroughs at all back then, I was stubborn about finding things myself, but I’m more inclined to using them now, and thanks for the tip Vi, very much appreciated, I’ll try that out next time I rent it.
I guess if I had to pick one thing to like about batman, it’s the fact that he refuses to kill, even though I think many of those villains are beyond redemption
…Is that Tzeentch, in the second to last panel? GENIUS.
Could be, or it may not be, Tzeentch is everything and nothing, he is there and not there, he may have weaved the twine of fates to make it seem like he is at court or it could just be a frail illusion of his many many forms.
He fucks with minds like that.
Regardless it is still genius
Yes, it is, with his Lord of Change solicitor.
He and Pat don’t get on at all. To be expected, they’re both trickster-gods.
What’s going on here? Who is patterner calling newbie? The pub-fight archdemon?
And I have NO idea what’s happening in that second-to-last panel.
If I understand correctly, he’s being sued for copyright infringement. The guy on the left is Tzeentch, the chaos god of change from warhammer, and the guy the authors based the patterner on.
Exactly.
That is also precisely why I laughed out loud at this update.
Ah, but then the greater and more mysterious question remains: who could be the judge in a case like this?
It’s too bad the judge’s box wasn’t yellow and shiny. That rules out one person who is wise and impartial. In as much as he’d hate them both equally.
Custodes: “All rise for the verdict.”
G-E: “Guilty!”
Patterner: “This wasn’t even a criminal trial!”
Tzeentch: “Eh, it could have gone worse.”
Fernex, being born of technology, is the youngest of the dark gods. He’s been around for a millennium or two, but Patt still considers that “new”.
That final panel made me actually LOL. Something I’ve not done in a while.
Love it! hehe.
Welcome back. Cruising is damn fine eh? I can’t wait till me next one!
I have a feeling that Hound is going to be getting a lot of offerings besides the carnal kind. After all, war is profitable.
Oh, the Hound wouldn’t be getting carnal offerings, that’s the Soulthirster.
And if they’re much like their Warhammer counterparts they’d be bitter rivals.
I have to agree with the other demons: I don’t like the change much and he looked so much better in dark battle armor then in Uniform.Maybe its just a phase. Also poor Patterner.
I wonder if we ever get to see a comic where the dark gods and the good gods meet? or the dark Gods and Eastwood and his crew? That would be awesome.(and knowing this comic very hilarious)
Lothar would probably try and scam ‘em-and manage to nick their wallets.
Wait a minute-the Patterner has a spider abdomen. So…does that make him a Pattern Spider, and a deliberate reference to Exalted?
Nope.
I’m going to assume that East hates the patterner most and assume that’s the reason why
There’s a famous couplet from a poem:
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
And the Patterner’s whole theme developed from there.
Brilliant.
Glad for the new comic I was either going in to withdrawal or having a vision but all I was dreaming about last night was EXTERMINATUSNOW.
those last 2 panels are comedy gold.
also we need more archdaemon of drunken slapfights, and more archdaemons in general.
… Could the Patterner ever wear a tie?
Really? No-one thinks about this?
I did think about it, but I thought you were asking a rhetorical question.
He could wear a tie, I imagine, but it’d have to be a floating magical tie. Or glued on. I’m surprised he wasn’t wearing a jacket now I think about it.
I must admit that panel could only be improved by a tie sticky-taped to the top of Patt’s shoulders.
If Lowly Worm can somehow manage it…
is….is that a….Lord of Change?
I think this comic just broke my brain. So the 40k gods DO exist in this comic????
Maybe it’s some interuniversal courtroom?
pretty sure its just a gag
Who’s the “newbie” to which Patterner refers?
I think he’s referring to he one that is supposed to be like Slaanesh (I forgot his/her/it’s name) as “it” would be the youngest god out of the 4, so he refers to “it” as newbie
wait never mind, I ballsed that up, I are wrong, forget about it and blow up that comment
worst part is he already knew he was going to win the court case, slippery bastard, if only he had CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED! as his lawyer, or the mobius equivalent, he would of won
Good ol’ Ursakar wouldn’t have won that case, he would’ve opened his briefcase to reveal a squadron of Bandblades.
*Baneblades, BANEBLADES!
Well, yea – Bandblade is a Noisemarine benzoylmethylecgonine-fueled megarmour, not bland and boring IG mbawks.
And of course Slaanesh would be the type to eat right out of the jam jar and put it back in the fridge…
I’m always impressed in how you can portray so much emotion in a character Virus, even if said character is just a floating eyeball :D
Lothar’s hat is a daemon sleeper agent? Gasp!
With a case between the Patterner and Tzeentch, I’m surprised it didn’t end up with a settlement document made entirely out of fine print resulting in them suing each other for eternity for insane breaches like eating a durian during a gibbous moon within two days of a lightning strike that registered precisely 1.21 GW.
Seconded the person who said the last panels made him LOL like they hadn’t done in a while. I actually didn’t get the full picture at first, and it wasn’t until I took a second look at it that I saw Lothar’s hat. I did a double take and broke down laughing.
Actually, there was a very good reason that Mickey spends most of Steamboat Willie joyfully abusing animals. It was to show audiences in 1928 that “Hey! Hey!! Look at this!! We have SOUND!!! See?? See?? Isn’t it AMAZING?? Wouldn’t this moving picture be so BORING if it didn’t have SOUND?? You won’t get SOUND in Felix shorts, but in ours you do because we have SOUND!! We’re the BEST EVER because we have SOUND!!! …Did we mention we’ve got SOUND???”
Okay, seriously, I love Disney, but in my opinion Steamboat Willie’s only real strength is that it was groundbreaking for its time. …Not that Plane Crazy was any better, I mean, Mickey builds a plane and invites Minnie on a ride solely for the purpose of kissing her? Ehh… Different times, different times…
Huh? It’s the same reason dudes buy expensive cars: showing off.
You know it’s not merely some frivolous lawsuit borne of the sue-r’s own stupidity when they went to the trouble of having their head-stalks wear ties.
I never noticed that… and damn that must have been a lot of work.
I like the direction Hound’s going in, just not the accompanying wardrobe.
Maybe something along the lines of satanic SWAT gear…
Or something closer to a black Nazi commander uniform, maybe with spiked pauldrons?
I’m surprised he didn’t go this direction SOONER. After all, isn’t the quote “Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let loose the dogs of war!”?
god….god dammnit you guys
I just fell out of bed laughing my ass off at this.
congratulations
Something I’ve been wondering about. Do the Dark Four have followers on other worlds besides Mobius? And how much of their power is derived from their followers?
Nope. Nothing more than satellites have been achieved in the EN setting. They visited the moons once, but there’s no push to explore the rest of the solar system.
It makes sense, Khorne is the same in Warhammer and 40,000 because half the factions in 40k fight like it’s still the dark ages despite having machine guns and lasguns, and fully automatic grenade launchers. And all the armies we’ve seen in EN acted a bit more modern-day.
The Hound would outrank Khorne if he went for this motif since the Hound is a 5-star general and Khorne is a Colonel.
Only because generals aren’t allowed on the battlefield anymore.
I dunno, Hound may have 5 stars, but Khorne has a skull throne. You don’t fuck with someone sitting on a skull throne.
With puns like that, how do you sleep at night?
Aw shucks, I just pop into bed and close my ears.
Why do you want to know about my sleeping habits? Are you stalking me? Have you a deep rooted problem with Khorne puns? Stemming perhaps from people not leafing well enough alone and leaving a husk of a joke behind?
I just got the pun. You mother-fucker.
Took me a while, too. Well played, Cringle. Well played.
I was starting to wonder when the first couple of responses were so serious. I’ll try to make them more obvious in future.
And thanks, all! I’ll also try not to do it too often. Don’t want any pungularities on the comments page.
Not entirely sure about this, but are Soulthirsters eye’s supposed to be Blue and Pink in the 4th panel, or are they supposed to be black, cause they seem to swap with colour scheme of his/her eyebrows
or eyelids, or eyelashes, not entirely sure what part of the body that was
The blue/pink areas in panel four are his lower eyelids. Squinted in ecstatic, jam-eating pleasure.
I love the arch-daemon Durh-Whayen! Incidentally, I’ve just arrived home from my first transatlantic voyage and can definitely recommend it :)
Interesting that Fernex is male, or manifests as such, now I think about it. You’d think a being of technology would be genderless. But if he’s shaped by mortal thoughts and viewpoints, I guess most engineers are male, as well as the stereotypical internet dweller.
Ah well, it’s probably not for mortal minds to ponder. Not too sure about Hound’s new look either though. I like that he’s thinking modern but.. I don’t know. There’s something appealing about a berserker. Perhaps he just needs to scale it back a bit, and grin while smoking a cigar.
I think he could go for a more “refined” berserker look, maybe have a more “evil overlord meets SS officer” look to him, but yeah, army green just doesn’t suit him.
wait a minute did Loth forget his hat at the court???
I just realized why Toasters are possessed by Fernexite Daemons so often.
Fernex’s shoulder bits look like toasters! They’re naturally drawn to something that resembles their master!
Intersting. Funny. What wS the case anyway?
prolly identity theft or simmilar
as the chap on the left is who patterner is based off, Tzeetch.
I love how the Patterner and Lorthar has the same goggle eyed hat lawyer : D