for serious, Joe and I laughed at “FISH AIN’T BREAKFAST!” for at least two days before we could finally breath again. Yeah, we laugh at our own jokes, sure! That’s, like, how you know they’re good, right?
On a related note, we’re going full steam ahead on getting NN4B VOLUME 2 formatted for printing! This involved the painstaking process of making Joe add word bubbles to all the crappy dialog of the old pages, and then rewrite that crappy dialog so it’s not so crappy. There are a lot of old pages that are not a standard size for printing, so he also has to cut and paste panels into a more page-like shape. For anyone who remembers, there are several pages that utilized hideous photo manipulations for backgrounds! So despite my best effort to make Joe do all the work, I’ll have to at least redraw and color those backgrounds.
In truth, I intend to clean up a lot of the old art, not too any extreme degree, but mainly fixing some awkward face shapes and expressions. We intend Volume 2 to be a MASSIVE book, with around 200 pages. It’ll cover everything from the page just after the Demons of Sorrow to a time after the second Yori vs Ryoku fight. We want to get a Demon of Sorrow battle into each book, so Volume 3 (which is looking a bit far into the future) will cover the entire village arc, weeeeeeee…. We’ll keep you updated, and even let you know when we post rewritten pages to the archive! It’ll make re-reading the comic a worthwhile endeavor, I assure you. Of course, Volume 2 will only happen if we get a successful Kickstarter off the ground, so expect to get more news on that in the not too distant future, dear readers!
On an unrelated note, the first Star Wars novel of the post Expanded Universe white washing comes out in two days! For those not in the know, the past 30 some years of Star Wars stories expanding upon the universe of the original films has been chucked in the garbage by Disney to avoid the hassle of fitting the new films into a pre-established continuity. Despite being an EU aficionado, I’m basically okay with this since I care far more about good storytelling than convoluted continuity. A New Dawn is a prequel story to Star Wars: Rebels, the cartoon that’ll premier a few months from now. I am going to buy this book and share my all too inconsequential opinion of it with the internet because you guys NEED TO KNOW MY OPINION OF STAR WARS!! Hopefully I’ll like it, is all I’m saying. But I’m also the one guy on the planet who was underwhelmed by Guardians of the Galaxy, THE HIGHEST GROSSING FILM OF 2014, so who knows!
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Ah, a dream-sequenced flashback…
And I disagree. Fish can be a very good breakfast, even from a “Western” perspective. I love a smoked salmon cream cheese bagel for breakfast, and last I checked salmon is fish. (I’d think the foriegner would complain more about the rice and pickles with miso soup for breakfast; they must really like this guy to give him a fish.
Who wouldn’t like him? Ricardo’s the life of the party! He just can’t appreciate anything less than bacon and eggs in the morning, is all. Also, he probably hates pickles. (I hate pickles)
Every day is better with two scoops of Fish Fins Ricardo!!! Nah but really Ricardo misses his box of “Quaker Puffed Rice” who’s slogan is “The cereal shot from guns”
If it can’t be used as ammunition, it’s not good enough to eat!
Fish ain’t even meat … until it’s dead.
– A vegetarian sick of being asked whether he eats fish
“Vegetarians don’t eat meat. Chicken isn’t meat. Duh.”
-Far too many “vegetarians”
I’m episcopalian. WAIT, I mean pescatarian (I get those two confused).
“Do you eat eggs?”
“EGGS AIN’T MEAT!!!”
“Do you drink milk?”
“Do YOU drink milk? I didn’t say vegan.”
KungFuKlobber You complete me. Not because I am a vegetarian. I’m not. I’m just a guy who likes to get the definition of these things straight. And it’s nice to have someone I can agree with about what should be obvious definitions.
Speaking of vegetarian cuisine. I hear India is one of the best places to go to for vegetarian food done right. Even the Late Anthony Bourdain who tended to be cynical towards vegetarians said that if more vegetarians made food like the indians he wouldn’t complain so much.
Speaking of vegetarian cuisine. I hear India is one of the best places to go to for vegetarian food done right. Even the Late Anthony Bourdain who tended to be cynical towards vegetarians said that if more vegetarians made food like the indians he wouldn’t complain so much.
Clearly this guy’s never had Fish & Chips from City Fish Market in Wethersfield, CT.
He’s lacking in a great deal of worldly eating experiences, no doubt.
When Mark Twain said “prejudice can not survive travel” there was clearly an asterisk next to it meant for Ricardo.
New book? Adding that to my collection! Went back through memory lane and saw that from page 308 is a bit blurry. Would be ace if those pages were sharper in print, really adds value
The blurriness is because the previous site didn’t regulate page widths, and many pages were saved at 550 pixel widths. For some time now, I’ve saved the pages at 600px. The current site blows the old 550px pages up those extra 50 pixels, which results in slight blurriness. As we format the old pages, we’ll resave them out as 600 pixel widths, but opening and resaving and reuploading all the pages that are off at this point would be a pretty involved task. (maybe less so with photoshop actions, admittedly). But they’re still plenty legible so it’s not our top priority at the moment.
As long as the pixel issue doesn’t show up in the print version, I’ll be happy. (Heck, I’ve been waiting 2 years, now, for volume 2… I’ll probably be happy even if it does).
Incidently, how likely are you to be booked up for a commission starting… (checks progress of latest book) oh, some time in October, say, for a piece of cover art on a book due out in January?
“FISH AIN’T BREAKFAST!!!” is a good reason for anything.
Incidentally, my eyes are watery from laughing way too hard. Also I’m so annoyed that nobody would get my joke if they were to ask me a question and I replied “FISH AIN’T BREAKFAST!!!”
People have been giving me weird looks for that very same reason all week now.
I 100% believe you would scream at people in reply to innocent questions.
That is generally how I reply to innocent questions, yes.
Then I guess I’ll have no trouble identifying you.
“Would you like fries with that?”
“FISH AIN’T BREAKFAST!!!”
“Oh. Theeeere’s Suburban Samurai. I should go say hi.”
KIPPERS!
They make amazin breakfast.
Didn’t stop me having a giggle though
Good! I’m glad to hear reality didn’t get in the way of the joke.
After much research, I had determined that as a Portuguese sailor, Ricardo probably has had fish for breakfast. But who am I to let historical accuracy get in the way of a line like that?
Wait until we reveal that, like in an episode of Archer, the dialogue is actually accurate and relevant for both scenes being portrayed!
What does it mean?
It’s one thing to have fish as breakfast on a ship. Quite another to have it on land, where certain luxuries (like a stable, non-moving ground, meaty, non-fish breakfasts and hot, non-uncooked food) are to be expected by every Portuguese-speaking Christian man.
Source: I’m one.
Clearly Ricardo Bartello is a hater of fish, and spends his ship time eating dried jerky! A delicacy in Portugal, why not!
Now, I’m imagining various Japanese people playing tricks on Bartello, like in the Jack Link’s Beef Jerky “Messin’ with Sasquatch” commercials.
Genchu would probably prefer dealing with Sasquatch.
That Archer is an amazing show?
Other reasons why:
I am your Father!
For great justice!
Because I ain’t had chicken.
Because I really did miss and am to ashamed to admit it.
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.
You’re alive? I need glasses!
Why bother. You will die of dysentery.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Wataro-Daisuki R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtag.
It was either kill you or chew bubblegum.
*takes last stick of gum from packet and walks off, like a boss man”
Better yet. REMIX!
PANEL 1:
G – “Why…?”
PANEL 2:
T – “I’M A’ CHARGIN’ MAH LAZER”
G [off screen] – “What?”
PANEL 3:
Tadashi now has giant, red lips and goggly eyes. A blue laser beam shoots from his red, lipped mouth towards the bottom of the panel.
T – “SHOOP DA WHOOP!”
PANEL 4:
G – “ARGH!”
PANEL 5:
S – “And that’s what guns will be like in the future.”
Sir, I am willing to give you this page sans dialog, you seem more than ready to pump out some remixes!
“Because I ain’t had chicken”.
Is it bad that I immediately thought of the Hound aka Sandor Clegane from Game of Thrones when I saw this line?
10 to 1 that’s what he really said there. He was channeling the spirit of Cho.
Tough odds, it’s a good thing you’re ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
So… the whole flashback was there purely for the purpose of making this one joke?
…
TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!
That’s how we roll.
Hey, dude’s probably had fish for what? Eight months? A year? For every single meal of every single day he was on that boat to Japan. Can’t blame him for being a bit tired of fish can we?
Yeah, SUCK IT, FISH!
“if memory serves (well or poorly please feel free to correct me), several things occurred during this era:
1) a chinese ship arrived from mainland china carrying portugese traders to japan. the journey lasted just under a month. the voyage to china from portugal would have taken up to a year. So yes fish would definitely be tiresome on land.
2) Guns were introduced to japan and the age of mounted cavalry began coming to a close as well actual combat or rather open hostilities between samurai clans under the emerging tokugawa shogunate, and finally
3) Dream/flashback sequences started taking on a more Kurosawa flavor up to the final moments of the aforementioned dream/flashback sequence concurring with the often cryptic “Fish ain’t breakfast.” The reason this for is unknown but many feudal japan scholars believe this is all “complete twaddle” and should be removed from certain academic text books like world civ and pre-law ethics.” Excerpt from the upcoming book ” Kurosawa and the fish that roared”
As a person who speaks Portuguese, I can only say: “PEIXE NÃO É CAFÉ DA MANHÃ, PORRA!”.
I’m constantly translating what they’re saying into Portuguese, just for the heck of it, haha.
It makes these jokes 30% funnier <3
Fuck Disney. Their version of the story isn’t canon.
Some seaman🤦🏾♂️
I want this man to be VAed by J.K. Simmons in the dub.
What about bird fish? Is it breakfast?
Fish is totally MY breakfast when it’s leftovers. I can’t heat it up at work. I have an oven at home.