I didn’t want to title this entry anything related to the comic so I titled it Tuvan throat singing. To make it relevant, here is a video.
Also, need I remind you to buy an Octo-bear shirt? Check out how good it looks on people like this girl named Noelle for instance.
this is what winning looks like.
Tonight I was on a podcast with Doug TenNapel and Jason Brubaker who does reMIND which I highly recommend. All three of us happened to have books on YALSA’s list of great graphic novels for teens. That has nothing to do with why we did a pocast though, we just did it because Jason has a podcast and we like Jason because he is our friend. It is actually the first time Doug and I have done a podcast together and I think it went quite well. We’ll find out when the recording goes up.
See you in a couple days when we will find out if Dickinson just died.
Ethan
Oh no, he died? Now we’ll never find out what his name is!
That Noelle girl looks hot in that Octobear shirt, btw! 😉
I’ll be out of the country next week with no internet or TV. You know what I’m disappointed about missing?
The Super Bowl? No.
Bearmageddon? Heck yes.
Consider this as consolation: you will get a hefty amount of pages to look forward to when you come back.
crud indeed.
Can a man punch through a bears skull?
A man can’t, but Dickinson Killdeer can!
My guess is that he’s going to stab that arrow through its eye!
Agreed, in the second to last panel, it looked to be position for facial stabbage.
I love that his response to the bear reaching him before he could loose another arrow and thus beginning to maul him is “Aw, crud!”
Fantastic! Big number 50 next week!
So what I get from this is that GYRARWH! sounds roughly like Tuvan throat singing, correct? Ok, just so we’re all on the same page.
Way to tie it all together. You just did what I do every time I convert Malachai’s insanity into comics.
I just noticed Killdeer’s bandana. Is he some ex-boy scout who grew up into a crazy survivalist?
Probably a Boy Scout who got lost in the woods. All his character page says is he says “RraaAAHH!!” and fights bears.
The neckerchief harkens of a bear cub scout who obviously liked the idea of scouting for bears. I believe the technical term is “mountain man”.
Nooo, Dickinson! Axeman has lost his axe!
Having flashbacks to playing Shadowrun, where a muscle character was always, always, always recommended to use ranged attacks and avoid engaging in melee unless the odds were seriously on their side. Even after Dickinson Killdeer tears this bear’s head off with his bare hands, he’s still going to be in bad way, and take the entire rest of the comic to get well, if he survives the comic at all.
Regardless, he’s going to cease being a good Savior, forcing our band of schmoes to look after their own well-being (which they kind of suck at). Loving it!
GUYS, Gogs is going to pull some wicked Ninja axe throwing move and take that bear’s head off at the neck. Dickinson will be forever in his debt.
Gogs will run at the bear with his axe, possibly hit it, distracting it so Dickinson can kill it, but getting injured when he’s knocked away by the bear.
Cool,
I already follow all of you three on Twitter, so I’ll be sure to check out the podcast!
Oh, and Ethan, you could have done the arrow butt…mouth…brain…thing that as the arrow might have gone out of the bear’s mouth (with the brain attached to the arrow of course) at an angle, narrowly missing Gogs and hitting a tree instead.
Wow, did I really just say that? O_O
Just watch out for that sac…thing. {puts on goggles}
I wasn’t even sure that big bear would react to having a little splinter in his buttox… Still. Looking forward to see what happens next. 🙂
Did anyone else notice the boy scout handkerchief that killdeer has on him?
Yes, it has been established already that may very well have been a Bear Cub Scout who was lost in the woods and became a king of beasts.
Or he’s a French fur trapper . . .
Hmm, another mauling
yeeeeeeeessssss
….
no I don’t have problems
Although we all know he’ll be okay, I actually wouldn’t mind if Killdeer got offed here. It’s not that I don’t appreciate his radicalness. I just like Joel and his crew, and I’m sort of worried that it’s going to become the Killdeer + some guys show.
Of course, he could get injured, forcing the gang to buck up a little bit and come into their own.
I love that his swear of choice is CRUD! That just cements him as a unique guy.
I highly doubt that Dickinson Killdeer is dead yet. That would be a terrible way to go.
IF YOU KILLED OFF WHAT IS MOST LIKELY EVERYONES FAVORITE CHARACTER RIGHT NOW, THAT WOULD BE PURE
GENIUS!
id be satisfied if he makes it out alive, but i digress.
PURE
GENIUS
WEDNESDAY, Y U NO COME SOONER?
And Ethan, I gather that you like axes?
Punch the bear’s asshole into his brain! ONE PUNCH!
http://www.livevideo.com/video/Maxtaro/70949A7AD1EB4386BC7D117BE055529F/spumco-the-creators-of-ren-.aspx
Fight him UFC style, Killdeer! Get him in your guard! CONTROL THE ELBOWS!
OK. I’m going to be an asshole. STFW.
You have a Webelos neckerchief slide on a Cub Scout neckerchief.
Here’s the proof:
Webelos Neckerchief slide: http://www.scoutstuff.org/bsa/uniforms-insignia/bandanas-neckerchiefs/webelos-scout-neckerchief-slide.html
Which MUST be worn with a Webelos neckerchief which is ALWAYS plaid:http://www.scoutstuff.org/bsa/uniforms-insignia/bandanas-neckerchiefs/webelos-scout-neckerchief-slide.html
Cub Scout neckerchiefs can be gold or light blue:http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/CubScouts/Uniform/webelos.aspx
Why do I care? If you’re going to send a WWII fighter into a fight against Nazis with a laser sight, you’d better have a good reason for this mix up.
Ethan, I’ve loved your work since about the third page of Axe Cop. You’re smart and inventive and now you’re going to have to squirm your way out of this… mu-ahahahahaha.
Plus my father forced me to go through all three levels of Cub Scouts, Webelos, and Boy Scouts and I HATED it.
I actually never was in the scouts, so I am doing my best here. I based the neckercheif on this painting by Norman Rockwell:
http://www.flagsbay.com/flag/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/r1945-on-my-honor-one-scout.jpg
though I admit the slide is wrong, I just looked up the logo for the scouts and put that on the slide.
Ha! Lucky guess on my part. I was gonna make it red until I read somewhere that Bear Cub Scout neckers were blue.
yeah I googled that image after I saw the color you chose and figured it was fine. From what I can tell in the handbook I have from the 70’s, the neckercheifs can be any color, they just distinguish troop.
Yeah, but you are assuming the Cub Scouts are in regulation uniform. If you google Cub Scout images you will find all colors of neckerchiefs and even some cub scouts in uniform without neckerchiefs. Such as these:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/azrainman/1002724605/
And should I add, these cub scouts are carrying guns which is clearly outside of the rules until you are a boy scout.
Am i the only one who noticed the title? Singning = singing.
grammer police, roll out!!!
wow I noticed it right before I read this comment. Must have been some kind of conspiracy.
Oh no, you see, the strategy here is that he’ll get inside the bear and fight it from the inside out. Works every time.
I agree! I’m thinking it ends with something like an Ace Ventura moment where Dickinson exits via the bear’s bum.
Boy, it sure is hot inside these bears!
I want to grow up to be just like Dickinson Killdeer! Although his name Dick-In-Son sounds a little inbreed, and his last name should be legally changed to killgrizzly. =D I could help but notice the bow is drawn with the arrow rest drawn on the opposite side as it was on page 47.
wow. you didn’t approve my original comment. lost a life time viewer/purchaser of both axecop and bearmageddon.
Huh? I don’t approve comments, they just go up and if they are obscene I delete them, but that hardly ever happens.
Ah I see what happened, it didn’t auto approve because of all the links. It’s up there now.
Did this guy really stop coming to the site over this? The internet has made people really impatient.
yes yes the comic is good…
but can we all just focus for a second on this Noelle person for a second? How is there only one other reader to comment on her!?!?
I know, right?
He’s not dead. I remember being a scout, and one of the requirements to go from bear scout onwards is too dive into the mouth of an attacking bear who’s got you pinned down and burst out its spine. It’s also a required merit badge for becoming an Eagle Scout; “Bear Tunneling”.
Oh well, too bad, he is definitely dead.
Yep, definitely
I’m pretty sure that bear will be chewing on something sharp in the next panel…