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New comic april the 8th, 2009

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    JAEF wrote: »
    Wait a minute. The snow fell in the exact same pattern in front of that tree three winters in a row?

    I demand a refund for two of those panels.

    What are you talking about the snowfall is different each time.

    scarab you have mental problems
  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    I've never understood the complaining about the CTS. I think its a nice diversion from the regular routine.

    Nothing wrong with a little variety.

    Also, this is simply another parody of nerd culture, similar to the whole Witchalock thing. The difference being, the Witchalock strips tend to be very heavy handed, whereas the CTS is all about minimalism. Its a different form of expression, and I appreciate it.

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  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    Is there, like, a list of all the CTS strips? Could it be available to me?

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    TiB wrote: »
    BE A MAN

    YOU MUST BE SWIFT AS THE COURSING RIVER
    WITH ALL THE FORCE OF A GREAT TYPHOON

  • DruhimDruhim Usagi's cuddlefish Registered User, ClubPA regular
    sure, in the archive

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  • AntimatterAntimatter I remember touch I need something moreRegistered User regular
  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Greatest Wizard In All of Ooo. Cantrip!Registered User regular
    Penny Packer could probably help you find'em, if you're using Firefox.

  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus The machine is broken. The universe is broken.Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    TiB wrote: »
    BE A MAN

    YOU MUST BE SWIFT AS THE COURSING RIVER
    WITH ALL THE FORCE OF A GREAT TYPHOON

    WITH ALL THE STRENGTH OF A RAGING FIRE

    MYSTERIOUS AS THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOOOOOOOOOON

  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    Does samurai gabe always have the mutton chops? He looks sort of...not gabe. Like, if I just glance at the panel, it doesn't look like him.

  • RoloRolo Registered User regular
  • ColdbrandColdbrand Registered User regular
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I've never understood the complaining about the CTS. I think its a nice diversion from the regular routine.

    People love to bitch. They'll only be happy when Gabe & Tycho make comic strips that require no previous knowledge, where you don't need to follow any gaming news, when they never cover the same topic twice, when they never do continuity again, when they never do another CTS strip, and when they never do material outside video games again.

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  • RoloRolo Registered User regular
    Coldbrand wrote: »
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I've never understood the complaining about the CTS. I think its a nice diversion from the regular routine.

    People love to bitch. They'll only be happy when Gabe & Tycho make comic strips that require no previous knowledge, where you don't need to follow any gaming news, when they never cover the same topic twice, when they never do continuity again, when they never do another CTS strip, and when they never do material outside video games again.

    also every strip needs to have homoerotic undertones

  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    Rolo wrote: »
    Coldbrand wrote: »
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I've never understood the complaining about the CTS. I think its a nice diversion from the regular routine.

    People love to bitch. They'll only be happy when Gabe & Tycho make comic strips that require no previous knowledge, where you don't need to follow any gaming news, when they never cover the same topic twice, when they never do continuity again, when they never do another CTS strip, and when they never do material outside video games again.

    also every strip needs to have homoerotic undertones

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/6/16/

    the scorpion is a metaphor

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  • ColdbrandColdbrand Registered User regular
    That's no scorpion

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  • TheCanManTheCanMan Registered User regular
    Coldbrand wrote: »
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I've never understood the complaining about the CTS. I think its a nice diversion from the regular routine.

    People love to bitch. They'll only be happy when Gabe & Tycho make comic strips that require no previous knowledge, where you don't need to follow any gaming news, when they never cover the same topic twice, when they never do continuity again, when they never do another CTS strip, and when they never do material outside video games again.

    I'd just like to defend myself a bit. I'm not bitching that they're doing more CTS. I don't mind continuity at all (the witchalok arch was one of my favorites). I don't mind needing to know a little back-story to get the comic. And I even said that I can appreciate the artistic quality of the CTS series (and I'm sure Gabe thoroughly enjoys stretching a bit of artistic muscle for them) . I'm just saying that CTS just isn't my cup of metaphorical tea. :|

  • DruhimDruhim Usagi's cuddlefish Registered User, ClubPA regular
    so why did you assume that post was about you?

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  • ThatDudeOverThereThatDudeOverThere Ymir owns. He fucking owns!Registered User regular
    uh, thecanman... coldbrand was agreeing with you

  • TheCanManTheCanMan Registered User regular
    Umm...huh?

    Me: I've never been a fan of the CTS.
    Lucas: I don't understand people complaining about the CTS.
    Coldbrand: People love to bitch.
    Me: I'm not bitching.

    What am I missing?? :?

  • ThatDudeOverThereThatDudeOverThere Ymir owns. He fucking owns!Registered User regular
    nevermind, I misread whose quote was whose

  • DidgeridooDidgeridoo Registered User regular
    Good god, when will mysterious wandering Samurai ever learn that taking on apprentices is a bad idea? He'll only inevitably betray you! Trust no one

    In other words, i am the asshole in the theater shouting

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    DON'T OPEN THE DOOR

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  • ThatDudeOverThereThatDudeOverThere Ymir owns. He fucking owns!Registered User regular
    also: don't strip down

    if your outfit (or lack thereof) is revealing, you are about to die

    a burka is recommended

  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    All of these comics that have the "Wandering Age" are all set in the past. If you've followed the whole CTS saga, you'd know that the Wandering Age was a specific period of time in the backstory of the character, and is all in the past tense.

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  • SticksSticks Registered User regular
    also: don't strip down

    if your outfit (or lack thereof) is revealing, you are about to die

    a burka is recommended

    Or just be fat and unattractive so you don't get cast in a horror film...

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  • jwalkjwalk frosty Registered User regular
    DON'T GO IN THAT CELLAR YOU CRAZY CRACKA'!

  • ThatDudeOverThereThatDudeOverThere Ymir owns. He fucking owns!Registered User regular
    Why white people always wanna split up?

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    All of these comics that have the "Wandering Age" are all set in the past. If you've followed the whole CTS saga, you'd know that the Wandering Age was a specific period of time in the backstory of the character, and is all in the past tense.

    Uh

    was there ever some confusion as to this?

    I think we all knew they took place in the past

  • DruhimDruhim Usagi's cuddlefish Registered User, ClubPA regular
    thank you for clarifying something no one was confused about!

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    You're welcome!

    (And maybe someone was confused and they were just pretending that they weren't. Its a crazy world out there.)

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  • ThatDudeOverThereThatDudeOverThere Ymir owns. He fucking owns!Registered User regular
    (not really, no)

  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    When I went to bed last night I knew Bogey would give the topic to somebody else, even though there were no other topics that were posted about it. I hope the person who got it winds up having a daughter who gets raped and then murdered

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    Coldbrand wrote: »
    Gabe's artistic talent is really starting to get pretty impressive.

    Starting? Like, since...since when? How far back can we go and still use "starting"? Like could I say that Microsoft is starting to look like it seriously wants to be part of the console market?

    hello massa, I jar jar binks
    I've overheard someone say "Don't say something is retarded, its not cool to make fun of retards. Just say its gay."
  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    Didgeridoo wrote: »
    Good god, when will mysterious wandering Samurai ever learn that taking on apprentices is a bad idea? He'll only inevitably betray you! Trust no one

    What? No, man, that's only one possibility. My counter-cliche is where the student gains skill over the years and eventually saves or avenges his master. Or marries his daughter after helping him to finish off his decades-long battle with his arch-enemy, like in Banderas' first Zorro movie.

    hello massa, I jar jar binks
    I've overheard someone say "Don't say something is retarded, its not cool to make fun of retards. Just say its gay."
  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    Rolo wrote: »
    Coldbrand wrote: »
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I've never understood the complaining about the CTS. I think its a nice diversion from the regular routine.

    People love to bitch. They'll only be happy when Gabe & Tycho make comic strips that require no previous knowledge, where you don't need to follow any gaming news, when they never cover the same topic twice, when they never do continuity again, when they never do another CTS strip, and when they never do material outside video games again.

    also every strip needs to have homoerotic undertones

    Well OK but that last one is just boilerplate for life in general. Let's be fair.

    hello massa, I jar jar binks
    I've overheard someone say "Don't say something is retarded, its not cool to make fun of retards. Just say its gay."
  • NimoyNimoy Registered User regular
    Nah, its the first student. First students always become over confident and tragically die.

    Then years later when the master has lived in solitude and guilt he'll take a 'trouble child' and mold him into the level headed warrior.

  • sarukunsarukun Carl Edgar Blake II Nerd-King of BaconRegistered User regular
    DarkHawke wrote: »
    matthias has already said it, but god damn those are some mutton chops.

    Watch any of the many live-action wandering Samurai team shows made in Japan in the late 70s/early 80s and you will understand where the chops are coming from.

    Edit: Apparently most of these come from the 60s and 70s.

  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    Nimoy wrote: »
    Nah, its the first student. First students always become over confident and tragically die.

    Then years later when the master has lived in solitude and guilt he'll take a 'trouble child' and mold him into the level headed warrior.

    Yeah, see, this is what I mean. There are so many possible cliches, don't limit yourself to just one!

    hello massa, I jar jar binks
    I've overheard someone say "Don't say something is retarded, its not cool to make fun of retards. Just say its gay."
  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Registered User regular
    Defender wrote: »
    Didgeridoo wrote: »
    Good god, when will mysterious wandering Samurai ever learn that taking on apprentices is a bad idea? He'll only inevitably betray you! Trust no one

    What? No, man, that's only one possibility. My counter-cliche is where the student gains skill over the years and eventually saves or avenges his master. Or marries his daughter after helping him to finish off his decades-long battle with his arch-enemy, like in Banderas' first Zorro movie.

    I like the whole Jin thing from samurai champloo

    everyone thinks he betrays his master, but it turns out his master was ordered to kill jin in his sleep and jin winds up killing him

    STEAM
    Spoiler:
  • AstoriteAstorite Registered User
    How about little dude just ends up sucking and he goes home? Or maybe Mr. CTS just disappears one day and the kid becomes a hermit? What would the perfect anti-cliche be here?

    Uh.
  • A duck!A duck! Super Moderator, Moderator, ClubPA mod
    CTS kills him because he's tired of the dude's face.

    Favorite quotes
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  • sarukunsarukun Carl Edgar Blake II Nerd-King of BaconRegistered User regular
    Astorite wrote: »
    How about little dude just ends up sucking and he goes home? Or maybe Mr. CTS just disappears one day and the kid becomes a hermit? What would the perfect anti-cliche be here?

    You are forgetting that people like to read shit that is interesting and cool.


    Hermits are usually only cool when they have a long and mysterious past to hide from.

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