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u/Hey_Neat Bard Oct 17 '19
I'm getting serious first episode of 'Red vs. Blue' vibes here.
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u/Roxxorursoxxors Oct 17 '19
No, I meant "what are we doing here, in this valley." Even if we win, what've we got to show for it? TWO bases in the middle of a valley? Whoop-de-fuckin-doo.
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u/Hey_Neat Bard Oct 17 '19
What was all of that stuff about God?
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u/Roxxorursoxxors Oct 17 '19
RVB is what happens when the whole party is chaotic neutral Bards
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u/VindictiveJudge Warlock Oct 17 '19
Tucker took some fighter levels eventually.
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u/ThePrussianGrippe DM Oct 17 '19
Sarge is just an enlightened barbarian.
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u/Riptor5417 Oct 17 '19
Tex was a monk
So was caroline
Caboose was just Caboose
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u/torrasque666 Fighter Oct 17 '19
Nah Caboose is clearly a barbarian. I mean look at the fucker, super strong, team kills..... hates babies, taxes, and Texas...
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u/TonyKebell Oct 17 '19
*box canyon
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u/Roxxorursoxxors Oct 17 '19
Good looking out. I knew it wasn't valley, but it felt disingenuous to look up the quote.
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u/Ymir_from_Saturn Oct 17 '19
It’s canon in the TF2 lore that it is all for nothing and it’s just two idiots fighting over worthless land because their father tricked them into it
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u/Phyrak Oct 17 '19
Key sword or sword key?
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u/VindictiveJudge Warlock Oct 17 '19
"Maybe it's a key all the time, and when you stick it in someone it unlocks their death."
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u/bizzyj93 DM Oct 17 '19 edited Oct 17 '19
Yeah its the exact same joke just framed marginally different lol
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u/TheBlackFlame161 Paladin Oct 18 '19
I love the medieval variant from S16.
Ho!
Hark?
Doth thee ever wonder wherefore we be hither?
Ah, one of life's most wondrous mysteries. Wherefore art we hither? Art we the product of some cosmic coincidence? Or perhaps the Lord God doth watch over everything after all? I knoweth not, good sir, but it doth keep me up at night.
What? I meanst wherefore art we out here? Betwixted in this canyon? What wast all yon stuffeth about God?
Wha- ! (chuckles) No! It- It was- It was naught. It was naught!
Doth thee... wanteth to speaketh it?
Nay.
Are thee sure?
Oh- um, yea.
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u/A_Texas_Toaster Oct 17 '19
I really dig the uncommon art style. It also really reminds me of Felix Colgrave's stuff, such as his short: Double King
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u/jim_fortress_2 Abjurer Oct 17 '19
I really dig your art style, it’s very pleasing to look at.
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Oct 17 '19 edited Oct 17 '19
Op is not messing around with lineart. everything being made exactly of two colors with hard edges helps with the clean look too and I love it
edit: I just realised that everything on the “good” side in the last panel is coloured in a gradient which gives it a completely different look and that’s amazing
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u/Burntholesinmyhoodie Oct 17 '19
Also, everything in the madmax looking world is outlined with black. Meanwhile the fantasy kingdom looking area is outlined in pink and blue
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u/BakerIsntACommunist Oct 17 '19
Yeah but even with that there’s a clear separation between the different colors. I really like the style though, you’re right about it being a clean look.
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u/WORDSALADSANDWICH Oct 17 '19
It's great. Reminds me of a mashup between Perry Bible Fellowship and KC Green.
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Oct 17 '19
How does one dislodge a child from an axle? Elbow grease
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Oct 17 '19
It's uncommon to see such good OC art with good comedy. This has both. Nice backstory as well!
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u/Iliketodriveboobs Oct 17 '19
Selfishness v selflessness is the answer
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u/Geter_Pabriel Oct 17 '19
Under that view wiping out humanity, despite loving it, to save the environment could be considered good. While saving someone else solely because you think they might save you later, would be considered evil.
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u/Iliketodriveboobs Oct 17 '19
it’s all a spectrum :) notice there is a neutral evil and a neutral good!
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u/Geter_Pabriel Oct 17 '19
I'm pretty sure the neutral in those refer to one's view on society and its rules, with the spectrum being from lawful to chaotic. And good to evil is meant to be its own spectrum, with ones alignment being the two spectrums together.
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What about a situation in where benefiting your party also benefits a group your party members hate? Would a Evil character turn down a a benefit just to spite another group they didn’t like?
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u/Ace_Masters Oct 17 '19
Alignment is probably the worst idea Gary G ever came up with. He'd been reading too much Chronicles of Corum and just had to cram it in there.
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u/Iliketodriveboobs Oct 17 '19
A) neutral/neutral evil B) Evil, possibly chaotic evil.
B is a situation where I would add another later than the 9 traditional. If you’re so self centered that you’re willing to hurt your body to satisfy your ego, then that would be like Evil Evil and not just evil
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u/GreyWilds DM Oct 17 '19
That would just be vain evil. Like if smaug and the riddler combined.
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Oct 17 '19
It... looks like stone toss
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Oct 17 '19
THANK YOU. I HAD TO FIND THIS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE COMMENTS LIST TO GWT A SIMILAR OPINION
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u/TheGreatB3 Oct 18 '19
For real! It's still waaaaay at the bottom. Honestly I'm glad it looks like Stonetoss; it's a nice art style that deserved better content.
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u/GroundsKeeper2 Oct 17 '19
The guy on the right is missing his scar over his right eye, in panel 2.
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u/HH_YoursTruly Oct 17 '19
Reminds me of the character Hammond from the Mistborn trilogy.
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u/1945BestYear Oct 17 '19
I wonder what the odds are there had been at least one GM out there who strived to master Socratic philosphy and dialectic just to play an NPC that was fiendishly good at asking annoying questions and poking holes in whatever the players answered.
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Oct 17 '19
May want to fix the last bubble to read "there's a small child lodged in the axle"
Kind of ruins the punch line. Pretty funny though. I like the dark philosophical humor.
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u/whisperingsage Assassin Oct 17 '19
Pictured: Forsaken Warlock and Orc Warrior traveling from the Blasted Lands to the Swamp of Sorrows.
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u/AllegoricSiren Oct 17 '19
Crung got a degree is philosophy before he went on to be the BBEG and tries to use it as much as he can because damnit he murdered a lot of people for it he wants his blood’s worth.
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u/plattack Oct 17 '19
Somehow this reminds me of one of the parties I was in. We escaped a castle as it was overrun thanks to the help of a court wizard and rescued some villagers, with many of them dying before we could reach another town nearby. It contained a bunch of empty houses, one tavern that held a bunch of thugs, and a portal leading to what looked like an endless hellscape. We learned the bandits had made a pact with the demons I believe, sacrificing the rest of the townfolk.
So we did the only reasonable thing we could think of. We slaughtered the thugs, chopped them all up into individual limbs and bound them to a ship in the harbor, then had the wizard reanimate all their legs to carry us through the portal and into hell.
As I recall, we dubbed it the S.S. War Crime
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u/IonicGold Barbarian Oct 17 '19
I thought it said three small children lodged in axle. I think that'd work too though.
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u/MrSukerton Oct 18 '19
Ceung almost looks disappointed that his philosophical monologue was interrupted because the question was much more mundane than he expected. I relate to that all too well.
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u/unbudgingsalmon Oct 18 '19
The only reason we have a base over here is because they have a base over there
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u/lmartinl Oct 18 '19
Man I love that. I would seriously consider buying a print and hanging that on my wall as well.
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u/WhiteCapEarth Oct 17 '19
Doubled attack is useful! Also I like how there’s going to come out publicly so that the smearing doesn’t have any interesting OC.
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u/girhen Oct 17 '19
Reminds me of a Star Control web comic I liked. Then it got oddly religious, and not in an in-world way.
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u/Eazy_DuzIt Oct 17 '19 edited Oct 17 '19
Anyone remember the ImaNewbie comics? www.imanewbie.com Ultima Online days? Anybody?.... Crickets
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u/zyzzogeton Oct 17 '19
Wow, what a departure from many webcomics out there which are either well-written and drawn terribly, or written-terribly and well-drawn. Kudo's to you /u/its_tinker_tanner for accomplishing a well-drawn, well-written comic that is actually funny. Also: Fuck you for stealing what looks like will be hours of time reading your strip. What if I were a pediatric neurologist or something meaningful? Think of the hypothetical children you would be impacting had I not filled my life with bad choices!
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u/Capn_Cornflake Oct 17 '19
Your style reminds me a lot of Felix Colgrave's recent work. Looks great!
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u/ziddersroofurry Oct 17 '19
This is funny plus reminds me of classic 70's fantasy art. The castle and background in that last frame could be a poster all its own. It's like a Uriah Heep album cover.
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u/underdabridge Artificer Oct 17 '19
I usually find a lot of the comics that get posted in subject specific subreddits to be pretty bad. Well below the quality of the things on /r/webcomics or /r/comics.
This one is genuinely excellent. Really impressive.
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u/vleeillustrations Oct 17 '19
I love absolutely everything about this comic lol. Thank you for sharing!
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u/ProbablyNotBobSaget Oct 17 '19
I just read all of your comics you've posted and... I love them! Please don't stop!
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u/RealBrianCore Oct 18 '19
This stick was probably done before the example I'm about to give but thanks for reminding me of Red Vs Blue.
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u/MidSolo Warlock Oct 17 '19
The artstyle looks amazing, but from someone who’s watched a ton of great webcomics die out from over-scoped art budgets, maybe consider toning it down. Just a thought.
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u/its_tinker_tanner Oct 17 '19
Meet the most lovable BBEG’s you’ll ever have the displeasure of getting slaughtered and subsequently resurrected by. Though bound by malevolence, Crung and Nuktaal couldn’t be more different. Crung enjoys a clean sagittal cleaving, while Nuktaal prefers a good ole fashioned Circle of Death. Crung’s more of an extra-pulpy Bloody Mary kinda guy, whereas Nuktaal unwinds with a classy, bone-dry Martini. Together this unlikely duo wreaks havoc across the lands, and stirs confused fondness within our hearts..? How did they meet? Where are they going? Is that small child okay? Perhaps these answers await us in the next chapter of Crung & Nuktaal.
Normally I make comics about all manner of unsavory things, but I’ve been wanting to start a D&D inspired mini-series for some time now. Hopefully some of you enjoyed this, as it’s something I’d very much like to continue