Hey, been doing this a lot lately, I know, but the next page won’t be up until tomorrow. I ended up with a pile of personal commitments this weekend and though I got close, I’m still not quite there. Tomorrow, though! Yes!
It’s one of the fun parts of a retro sci-fi milieu like this that all old things become new again. Using a turn of phrase like “bag some commies” is patently ridiculous in our reformed post-Cold War world, but here, it just works. Plus, this sequence has, of course, been a golden opportunity to get back to what this comic is really all about: tanks.
This week marks the fifth anniversary of 6-Commando’s existence. Five years, man. What a strange time it’s been so far. And looking back at the early pages, it’s really achieved at least one major goal – I think I’ve gotten a lot better at drawing comics over the years. Now, God willing, it won’t take a whole five more years to finish telling this strange story, but even so, I’m in it to win it at this point. And to all of you, I know I say it all the time, but it never gets old to me: you guys (and girls!) who read this comic make it worthwhile in a big way. Your intelligence and engagement and sensitivity and interest and general… “thingness,” well, that’s what keeps me drawing every week. So, thank you for five good years of comics so far – I owe you all great thanks for your support!
As for me, the world encroaches once again – time for sleep.
All the best!
Tanks! Yes!
Now what we need are *exploding* tanks. 🙂
Don’t put it past me!
Seems the Colonel knows something bad is about to happen.
Well, given his experience so far… Plus, Mike isn’t in as much control of things as he made himself out to be.
So, did mike download memories of all different traumatic injuries from his nearby human people? Physical in the case of Haulley, emotional in the case of Sarah, and maybe mental in the case of Rucker?
You might very well think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment. 😉
Well, yea. that’s the problem with memories: they pretty much define a person. Without them a ‘person’ is practically an empty shell (the shell still functions, but can you truly call it living, when most of the time it does nothing but trying to recollect what it knows has to be there / was there?)
So if you ‘download’ other memory collections, I’d say your own ‘self’ could get really messed up (hint, hint, Mike? Ringing any bells?)
I guess he found out the hard way :3
There’s a reason we can’t read each others’ minds. I mean, aside from the obvious physical impossibility of it, just the practical matter – I can barely handle my own life, let alone the entirety of someone else’s. And then lay that on a five-year-old (remember, Mike was ‘born’ in 1992).
Five long years. That’s five years for me looking forward to monday morning (yes, I do know what that sounds like).
Your evolution as a artist/ cartoonist is truly amazing. Well done!
I got most of the strips sttored on my harddrive and once in a while read through them again and look for details I missed. Always nice to notice a new detail I didn’t see in the first place.
Thank you!
Thanks, man! I really appreciate the support all these long years. It’s a bit tough sometimes but knowing that people are reading this keeps me coming back to it every week!
The only good commie is a dead commie!
Better dead than red!
Oh, commies. It was a simpler time, when all we had to worry about was the threat of global nuclear annihilation and expansionist crazies building totalitarian empires.
Nowadays we just have to worry about… oh, right.
Congratulations on five years running man! Your drawing abilities have certainly developed greatly!
Keep at it sir!
😀 If nothing else, this has been excellent drawing exercise. And if anyone doesn’t know, James H. draws his own comic, and it’s super-awesome! Click his name, or find it in the “links.”
I’m starting to get the impression that pretty much everything we’ve been seeing since Mike first went rogue and the nukes went off has been…well, inside Mike. Simulated. Kinda like Haulley’s little trip down memory lane, only on a *insert Inception noise here* deeper level.
Which probably means that most of the characters we’re seeing are either dead or dying horribly, all that remains of them being data stored inside Mike…
c.f. above.
You might very well think that, but of course, I couldn’t possibly comment!
Congrats M.!
This sure is a real achievement, I am looking forward to the next five years!
😀 Thanks, Joost! It’s been a crazy few years, but the only way to get something done is to do it!
Congratulations on being constant and persevering on your artistic endeavours for five years!
More than I can say about my reading habits and commenting 😛 hehehe
For five more years, cheers!
From Haulley’s anxiety/turmoil I’m guessing by the end of this experience he will find sudden relevance to the phrase “A blast from the past”?
Heh heh heh… that’s a good way of putting it. 😉
That tank doesn’t get collectivized, does it?
I doubt it. But I bet Rucker would like to see them try! 😀
Congratulations on 5 years! You’ve created a wonderfully fascinating alternate universe and kept us all enthralled waiting for the newest installments. If it takes another five years to tell the story, so be it. Take your time Matt, your fans are patient. (and we’re busy too! hahahaha!)
Thanks, man! It’s tough to balance work and all the other commitments with a comic, but knowing that people are reading it gives me the sense of obligation that keeps me at it! The responsiveness and engagement that I get from people like you is a real benefit to me and helps me do this every week, so thank you!
In regards to through late comic…
Unlike many webcomic authors, you at least let people know when you‘re going GP be late, and about when we can expect the new comic. For this, I thank you!
*Montage of Mike’s mental breakdown playing to Everybody wants to Rule the world (Lorde)*
Danger, Will Robinson, danger! Error, error, does not compute! Warning, warning, Heroic Blue Screen Of Death is imminent! 🙂