Manly Guys Doing Manly Things

Yeah, I really don't see why anyone who'd worry about water getting into access ports would be threatening anyone in a water fight. Unless you're that much of a ninja... which I'm guessing he ain't.

Mild aside: I was mildly disappointed that this wasn't Tank. I was thinking that it'd be neat to see him when he's being social and not intentionally 'roid raging.

Looks like he was just trying to intimidate everybody to stroke his ego.

I can totally see Tank in those shoes doing the same thing too - and then getting a forced check-up to see if he was messing with the settings again.

Honestly I had to double-check to make sure it wasn't Tank.

Too much superficial surface organic human content to be Tank, IMO.

I remember Tank only as "Stupid huge cybernetic guy constantly compensating for something". As such, I too had trouble not thinking of Tank when I saw this guy.

That was exactly my thought process. Plus I have no idea who the character he actually is is.

It's Tychus Findlay from Starcraft 2 / Heroes of the Storm

edited 9th Jun '17 11:14:37 AM by Eagal

The setup was so perfect for Tank that I did a double-take. That said, I remember Tank having literal abs of steel plus wiring coming out of the back of his head (plus, no weird metal joints/intake ports/whatever those are on his arms), so I knew it wasn't him. But damn, they have the same face. Of course, given that Tank was a custom-built space soldier from the indeterminate future, that was quite possibly intentional, even In-Universe.

Something I missed the first time - due to the way that water cannon is held at first, plus the fact that it matches his banana hammock (who the heck color-coordinates their water gun and their swimwear?!), Tychus is clearly Compensating for Something.

That said, it'd be pretty funny if the next strip was a follow-up that did feature Tank, who would then proceed to mock Tychus further.

EDIT: Coelasquid addresses the Tank/Tychus confusion here.

edited 9th Jun '17 12:18:45 PM by 32_Footsteps

Mr. Fish vs Facehuggers.

I like the title. "There are way scarier things in the Pokemon world than facehuggers."

It's true.

Although Mr Fish might come to regret the heartburn caused by eating those particular snacks...

Yamask, man.

Also Drifloon! Possessed balloons that coerce children into playing with them and then abduct them to a terrible fate are a thing in Pokemon world.

I named mine Amber Alert.

Drifloon are too light too actually realize their child-abducting dreams, though.

But yeah just about every Ghost pokemon and a bunch of others have some really unsettling flavour.

Happy (belated) Father's Day

I have, just, all the questions now. Probably my biggest one is... uh... is it time to worry about all those Gyaradosite that Mr. Fish had previously eaten?

Megastones require partnering with a trainer with a corresponding Mega-accessory of some sort, so I'd say I'm not particularly worried on that front.

And chestbusters usually kill their victim as opposed to getting vomited back out. I don't want to take anything for granted here.

But then facehuggers usually aren't swallowed whole. And I don't think we've ever seen a case where xenomorphs were laid inside something significantly larger than a human. All sorts of unusual circumstances for this situation, but the way mega-evolution works is a separate thing.

edited 19th Jun '17 9:46:53 AM by danime91

I mean, I don't see any reason why they'd have to take the chest-bursting route if there's a path of less resistance available.

What I want to know is why they burst out of the chest if they incubate in the stomach. Seems like a lot of extra work tunneling up to the chest cavity then bursting through the ribcage when all you'd have to do is burst out of the stomach.

I mean, by that logic, they should burst out of the stomach in the first place - even if you assume that they incubate in the thoracic cavity normally, bone is way harder to crack open than just tunneling through innards and ripping through digestive organs and some muscle.

I mean, push comes to shove, we're way off the reservation for both species at this point, so we really should just assume things will work in whatever direction will be most entertaining.

We're far enough off the reservation for both xenomorphs, pokemon, Gyarados, and water/flying types, that I don't feel bad about naming the hybrids something that represents none of the above.

Specifically, this is a new race called the coelasquid.

Still wouldn't recommend trying to cut them open with a Stanley knife. Even if you can get past the teeth.

Protect him, Jones.