Well, okay, this is escalating quickly! EDIT: I adjusted the lighting on the past four pages to give it a more bright sunny day feel (using some of Pascal’s artistic advice). The old version was looking very ‘yellow’.
Joe and I saw The Martian. It’s real good, go see it! We’d both listened to the audiobook a while back and both agree it’s an ideal adaptation of the book, retaining the book’s intelligence while streamlining the many problems the characters encounter into something highly entertaining to watch within two hours.
The only major complaint Joe had, which I agree with, is that they made the main character, Mark Watney, more of an everyman and less of the super nerd he’s portrayed as in the book. I mean at one point he wishes he could have a D&D Paladin’s water creation ability, which he’d always thought was useless when he role played, but would’ve been extremely useful while trying to grow plants from his poop garden. But that is a minor complaint, since I suppose main stream audiences would get it, or care, or something, even though Big Bang Theory is still an inexplicably popular sitcom.
Anyway, go see The Martian, it’s great. In fact, wow, there have been a lot of great action/adventure/scifi films this year! Mad Max, MI: Rogue Nation, Avengers 2, Ant Man, Ex Machina, Jurassic World, Inside Out, The Man From UNCLE, probably a bunch of others I haven’t seen. This has been a quality year for my favorite movie genres! And then there’s still that other movie that’s coming out, what’s it called…Star Wars?
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“I wanted to be a fisherman so bad. SO BAD. And now you’ve ruined that for me punk. All my dreams of catching all the fish: crushed in a single moment by you, punk that you are.”
“I’m older than you, you can’t call me a punk.”
“YOU CRUSHED MY FISHING DREAMS PUNK I’LL CALL YOU WHATEVER I WANT”
“NOW I’LL NEVER CATCH THE LEGENDARY BIRDFISH!”
You win!
Loved “The Martian” too. I knew, going in, that there was no way they’d get in all the material from the book (not unless they tripled the length of the movie, and that might have been a bit too much), but they included… well, most of the best parts. And I thought the brief epilog they attached to it, with the classroom speech and showing the “where are they now” for everyone in the credits, was a good and seamless addition.
And, lest we forget, Andy Weir (who wrote the novel) is a former Webcomic ArtistWriter, as well, with the (now long concluded) Casey and Andy.
Oh I did know now that about Andy Weir! He is one of our people. I watched a convention interview with him and he was a funny guy.
If you can’t catch fish in the sea, go for am*bass*ador on land.
Down vote
DOWN VOTE!!!
Alright, I admit that whale the pun cod be better, when you trout to krill the ambassador anyfin works.
Genchu wasnt Squidding around when said he wanted to be a fisherman. And oh water waste! Although the ambassadors a good catch Genchu has bigger fish to fry
I seal the puns are getting deep around here.
Flounderful, another pun thread. I feel eel already.
I should ban this comment thread for over abuse of puns.
Alright, alright, I did get overboard. Let’s just let the ambassador stick out his neck so that Genchu can cut the guns deal and now I’m stopping…
IT’S TOO LATE!
So much for his *sea*cret identity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhdONBHWOUQ
Really should have given him alternatives when he told them earlier that this would happen.
Huh, I just realised that Genchu is using his left hand to wield his sword… I remember him doing that against the Demon’s of sorrow fresh after getting his right arm wounded, but I wonder if the damage to that arm might have been more permanent.
But he’s holding the ambassador with his right arm. I’d assume holding a hostage requires no less strength than holding a weapon against his throat.
it’s more about leverage and using the weight of your body. I think holding the sword to the throat, you’d want the steadier hand!
All too observant, aren’t you!
lol. In my head I’m thinking ‘bring him the Tenchu!’ and get a heart throbbing feeling.
I miss Tenchu. The sequel not so much though.
Of course he’s a fisherman! That’s not a sword but a really fancy tuna knife that he’s just super excited to show off!
And anyway, since when can’t you be BOTH a fisherman and a swordsmaster at the same time?
Genchu’s not much of a multitasker,
My prediction: Ricardo’s pointing a gun at him. Genchu, even with his godlike swordsmanship, knows he’s not fast enough to dodge or deflect a bullet, so he lets the ambassador go. The ambassador, having no time for such trivial things, continues on his way with his hands still folded behind his back.
On second thought, that can’t be Ricky. The word bubble doesn’t have the “translation” symbols.
He could have been playing them all this time and can speak Japanese just fine.
What’s Japanese for “FISH AIN’T BREAKFAST!”?
Sakana wa asagohan ja nai? maybe? I know words, but my grammar is kinda shaky… ^w^;
Hmm, mine’s not much better, but
“SAKANA GA CHOUSHOKU NAI!!!”
is more grammatically correct while also being a bit slang-ier and less mouthful-y.
I added extra exclamation marks because this is Japanese, and you never shout in Japanese without using at least three exclamation marks.
My inexperience and preference for using ten words where one will do betray me >w< thanks for providing a better answer!
Lol I totally get that. Not too long ago I was right where you are, and I’m sure I used choushoku wrong or that there’s some incredibly clever way to say it that would never be in a dictionary, but since I have never actually lived in Japan, I think I am doing as best as I can. 😛
“Dangit Genchu! I was giving you and opportunity to get close to the head of the house in secret and you blew it!”
He probably learned the language while travelling, he seems like the linguistic type.
As the guru said, he speaks Profits very fluently.
It’s Nataku, and Genchu’s gonna be all “Time for a rematch, bitch!”
It’s Bunzo and he’s got a “little” present for them. He’s getting a little tired of holding Mt. Fuji over his head for so long, so he decided to sell it to the Wataro and he won’t let mr. Rrrricarrrdo take his spot of “main provider of weapons of mass destruction”.
Everything about this theory is appealing and plausible!
Genchu won with a flawless victory, no fatality needed. He doesn’t need a rematch.
Nataku still has nine more fingers…and his life (although I suppose we’re saving that for Ken). 👿
Such brazen assumption!
“Brazen” is my middle name.
Kid Brazen Chaos does actually have a bit of a ring to it, eh?
That is how ambassador do.
Hey, now ! You said you just wanted to cut your nails !
I did, but alas, his throat got in the way.
“Hey there fisherman! It’s me, Nataku! I know you’re nobody from my past because if you were you’d know well enough not to murder my emissaries!”
How could he want to be a fisherman if….FISH AIN’T BREAKFAST!
Genchu has no objection to a fishy breakfast!
Hmm…
http://nn4b.com/?webcomic1=42
Hmm!
“I wish I could say I was a noodle vendor. But alas, I am a student of the principle art of Cutting.”