Tag: funny

#192 reposted 29mar18

Arwen’s return would be a much bigger thing if I hadn’t cut her from the re-issue. Her original appearance just wasn’t that funny years later. In short, they met last war, were a thing for like two issues and then she left to join the Navy. Now she’s in colour and everything!

#188 reposted 15mar18

Remember these guys? when I originally made these comics (and had my own website), I was updating regularly. Also, I really needed to emphasise how long the characters were stuck in that boat. So we had a commercial break.

I think I also installed some minor computer upgrades around this time.

#150 Reposted 5dec17

I wonder what I wrote in the fine print? It must have been something silly. We’ll never know because I didn’t note it anywhere except the long lost vindalf website.

The robot was programmed to destroy all Humans. Dwarves, Elves, Halflings, et al are safe.

#149 Reposted 30nov17

Loki, god of fire! God of Tricksters! God of Quantum mechanics! Quantum? Well, who else would switch photons between waves and particles when you’re not looking?

Many moons ago, one of my re-enactor friends had a silly pet peeve about the Frisian hats that people were wearing for their norse personas. He went on for several minutes about how the cultures were distinct and the right hats for everyone. Therefore, I ensured that Loki was wearing the wrong hat just for you, Mike!

#147 Reposted 24nov17

I found the right one this time!

Why is it that the monsters never just step on the power rangers while they’re morphing? Why don’t the monsters attach while Sailor Moon is getting changed? Sure, it fills time and saves on animation, but there are certain logical problems.

Trying to draw Elf with a more feminine shape was very difficult because, at that time in my life, I didn’t have much experience with the female shape. Most fantasy artists clearly have never seen a woman up close in real life.

Fencer’s first line is sung to the Final Fantasy victory music. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/164193?id=164193

#146 Reposted 16nov17

Psionic brains-in-a-jar are deceptively easy to defeat. It is a known law of physics that wizards have much lower HP than fighters. This is partly due to game balance in RPGs, where every bonus needs a trade off. In Skyrim, you can break this system if you use the right skills and see how it gets too easy.

It is also re-enforced by the idea of the mind/body split good old Rene Descartes liked to talk about. The idea is that mind and body being distinct things, and our spirits wear bodies like pilots in a giant fighting robot. (Probably not how Descartes thought about it, but much cooler).

We see it all over popular media that nerds must be weak, and pretty people must be dumb. It’s supposed to be a shock if the pretty person happens to be smart, or it makes them into a super hero.

I manage to buck this trend by being both ugly and dumb*, take that society!

*joking. I’m adorable. But if I was half as smart as I like to think I am: I would have better things to do than posting old comics on tumblr.

Don’t forget to follow me and click the notifications gizmo so you can catch these comics as I repost them. Watch them improve over time, then crash again when I try to make new ones.

#423-ish? Posted 10nov17

WOOHOO! 300* followers! And like, only 250 of them are bots! Thank you everyone who is not a bot for following my stupid comic. I’m going to have to get back to work and make more of these soon. I *almost* remember how I made that background, and that all of my characters are named.

Of course, life has moved on from when I was nerding around in my parent’s basement with my friends. These days my wife won’t let me nerd around in the basement at all! She keep making me live above ground and deal with children. Ugh, things were so much easier before I had to adult.

Vindalf’s adventures might not be quite as wacky now, so I’ll have to pester my kids into doing something amusing that I can draw.

*Pronounced “THISISSPATRAAA!!!”

#144 reposted 9nov17

HEMA types on youtube can devote hundreds of hours to the usefulness and historical accuracy of throwing knives. The skill of throwing a knife seems to be mostly a sport or carnival trick. In combat, you would almost never want to let go of your weapon, unless you were definitely going to have an advantage. Sometimes, a distraction is all you need to get in your winning strike. More often, you end up short a knife and exposed.

That dagger is based on one Fencer used to own. It never threw very well. Yes, we tried.