Fuck It! Nukes For Everyone!
Though this is posting on Monday as usual, as I write, it is Thursday, and a momentously straining and unpleasant week is slowly drawing to a close. This week was really brutal. I mean, REALLY. For the sake of tact and good common sense I will not itemize, but suffice it to say that it was one of those weeks that kind of just happen to you, like a force of nature – like a hurricane, in fact. And having lived through something owning to thirty hurricanes myself while living in the Carribbean, I know from experience that the response is similar: there’s nothing to do but weather it. And try to laugh a little about it.
With that in mind, I present the second interim comic. I hope it’s good for a chuckle. And aside from that, I have nothing to add this week, except that, discretion being the better part of valor, I have left town for the weekend for an undisclosed destination, and do not plan to come back until I step into my office on Monday morning. No drawing, no phone calls, no email, no nothing. Total disconnection therapy.
I do want to thank everyone who voted this past week, though – we pushed 6-Commando up better than ten slots on the meter! While I’m travelling, I will not be doing any drawing but with the success of last week’s Daily Sketch Incentives, I may well come up with something. I refuse to think about it before Monday, though.
All the best, folks! And next week, if I can muster the will, Chapter 2 will begin. So tune in then!
For now, I’m getting the hell out of here. Be well.
OH DEAR SWEET ALTANA! *still laughing*
Ok, with this you got ‘solve’ some problems, that’ i’ll give you. ^^
The bigger the explosion, the better it is at solving problems. Eventually, we can just blast our cities into orbit and nuke the planet from space. It’s the only way to be sure.
–M
Love it, brilliant, brought a tear to my eye because of the laughing xD
Keep up the good work, looking forward to the next comic,
Glad it wasn’t too over the top. I do have a pretty warped sense of humor.
And I can confirm that Chapter 2 is, in fact, in production now – the first page will be up next week.
–M
I’m sorry, but I don’t think the perspective on panel two is very realistic. It just ruins my suspension of disbelief for this page.
Yes, very funny. It definitely looks like you had a rough week when you drew this though. I haven’t seen humor that black in a good long while.
I once made a very warped wisecrack in my office, and my boss turned to me with a very serious look and said “What is it that makes you have such a wierd sense of humor?” Oh, well.
I consider myself an optimist, overall, but I do have a pretty ironic view of things. Not cynical, exactly, but… well, I mean, take this comic for example. Iran, Israel, North Korea – everyone wants nuclear weapons. But nobody wants to clean up after them. The biggest horror of nuclear war is that it actually is possible to survive it. As a matter of fact, most people would survive it, and then have to live through the aftermath of it, which would go on for years, or decades. I know it’s patronizing, but I feel like the United States and Russia are like the parents in all this, trying to warn the kids about what could happen if we give them the keys to the car and they don’t know how to drive. We know what happens from experience. At best, you have ideological stalemate backed up by annihilating weapons. And at worst, well… “DUZSH.”
–M
At first I thought; ” “DUZSH!”, a Nuke goes “DUZSH!”? But y’know what? You nailed it! Congrats on the pitch perfect onomatopoeia.
BTW, I like your lettering, you should create your own font for the main story. If I could letter half as good as you I would drop my “Komika” Krutch in a second.
Also, do you see much traffic coming from Top Webcomics? I have never pushed voting very hard because I wasn’t sure if it was worth it. I guess I figured that nobody would scroll below the top 100.
Hey CWrann, (wait, the guy from aquariumdrinking? wowz) I personally am one of the few who scrolls down, I once been to about 400, not checking them all of course, but some that seemed interesting by name (yes, I know that ain’t a proper strategy), so still, some people do it (though I don’t know if I am an exception). I personally do think most people don’t bother to scroll past the 100 unless you read a lot of comics where you feel connected to and driven to get them into the top 100. Cause I personally mostly read past the 100 to see if I could vote on comics I like while also trying out new ones.
The worst part is that some of the top 100 “best” webcomics are pretty bad (in my honest opinion) but just have a lot of readers, it’s not about the best webcomic, but about the most read one, which is quite stupid if you ask me. (though some deserve it in my honest opinion).
I personally would suggest just reminding people at the end of a (blog)post that they should vote, it only takes about 15 seconds of your (and their) time and it will help, even if it is only a little.
Anyway, you remind me, I ain’t sure if I got your comic open again (stupid firefox crashed, lost about 250 comics cause I always forget to bookmark them)
To answer both of you about topwebcomics.com, I see a lot of traffic from there when I advertise, but not just in normal times. Right now, when I’m not doing any publicity, the top incoming hits are from direct traffic – the thousand or so people worldwide who know this site and read it on a regular basis. And to be perfectly frank, I have serious doubts that the “top ten” are there legitimately. After all, there was recently a stink about someone’s comic getting sent to the top through the use of voting bots by his fans. I mean, tens of thousands of unique hits per day? For a comic? Really? I mean, I accept the thing as it is but still, it does just seem a trifle odd – that the gap between number 1 and number 10 is 95,000 votes. That alone. And then from 6 to 7is 12,000 votes.
But maybe they’re just totally awesome comics and they know something we don’t. That’s possible as well. And in the end, it’s mostly about participating for the sake of having some metric, of any variety, and a well-trafficked place to do some advertising. So, you know.
–M
Hey LCII^Bun-Bun thanks for the “wowz” it made my day. I guess I have never pushed for TWC votes because I don’t do a blog thing to accompany my comic. I really should because the blog parts of peoples comics often tend to inspire more comments and reader interaction then the ones without a blog and I seem to have a frustratingly silent readership. I tell myself their silence means I’m doing everything right but the tear stains on my keyboard are hard to deny. The thing is though, that I go catatonic when I sit down to write a blog post which is why I use other people’s webcomics to wax philosophical. THANKS M!
Speaking of Mr. Average, Interesting point about the difference in votes from #1 to number #10. though it could be momentum or if you are a fan of the comics that alternate between the top 3 spots you might vote repeatedly to make sure your “team” wins.
Don’t they zero out the votes every month? Youd’e expect to see more diversity especially if a comic in the top ten hasn’t updated in a few months.
Whereas typed lettering does a good of serving it’s purpose, your hand lettering ends up tells as much of the story as the pictures and words.
DUZSH is the sound of something deafening when heard from a safe distance.
The lettering is something I’ve been seriously considering. But I vary so much I don’t think I could really make a font – I’d have to do it by hand the whole way through. Which I am considering, actually.
As for “DUZSH,” I wish I could take credit for it, but it’s from a Tim Kreider cartoon called “The Fucking Moon Exploded The Day I Was Supposed To Go.” But I love that sound effect. So versatile.
–M
“I have left town for the weekend for an undisclosed destination, and do not plan to come back until I step into my office on Monday morning. No drawing, no phone calls, no email, no nothing. Total disconnection therapy.”
“No drawing, no phone calls, no email, no nothing. Total disconnection therapy.”
Look, I enjoy your comments and I think that its nice that you respond so frequently, but this is your chillin time. I know it is easy to get drawn back to the internet, but don’t! Stop! Just go chillax, Mr. Average, it sounds like you need it.
“Total disconnection therapy.”
You shouldn’t be awake at 11:20 am! Go fish or hike or read or sleep on a beach somewhere! Its a vacation!
HA! That was LAST week. I drew the comic early and posted it then. THIS week is back to the old grind, much as I’d love the extra time off. But the Secure, Undisclosed Location sure was nice. For a few days, anyway.
–M
Oh my gawd!!! You made me laugh till the milk came out my nose…wait, I didn”t drink any? hmmm… lol
Dude when I was EOD we were that bad, deuce ana half with a 2k warhead in the back and “speeding” down a dirt road, the Army wouldn’t play any more reindeer games with us!!!
And always remember the P in the explosive equationequals plenty baby …
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Haha! this is so good! I think you should start thinking about a second comic book “Alternate world of 6-Commando” or “6-Commando funny notes”.
By the way, can’t wait to start reading chapter 2!
Ahahahah, nukes are so convenient, it is known!
This page made me more than chuckle x3 Great one!
Stop giving Donald Trump ideas! 😉 But seriously, great stuff; keep up the good work! 🙂