94 – Siblings
Happy new year everyone! The holidays are over. :(
Back to the daily drudge!
At long last, Chloe and Frederic get to be together in the comic. (last week’s strip didn’t really count) The Langelier siblings are quite close. I can’t wait for them to have further adventures together. ;)
And here’s an obligatory DBZ joke. Even though I hate the show. I think most anime fans will get it though.
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They might have better success if they had access to the Potara earrings. ^_^
You’re going beyond my knowledge of DBZ…
also… strange choice of avatar. O_o
You not like avatar? :P
Also the Potara earrings are artefacts from DBZ which allows any two people who wear them to fuse permanently.
There is basically no reason to ever use the Potara earrings. Individuality is kind of a big deal.
You can call them Cloeric….or maybe Fredloe.
I like the first one better.
Sounds like Cleric. We can totally make a secret language out of the ships.
I feel old now…. But good joke and comics !
Thanks.
I’m pretty sure you’re younger than me still. ;)
The Fusion Dance? That’s it, I’m outa here…
*Does Instant Transmission*
*Does it again*
*And again*
*Tries 1 last time, opens ground bridge under feet & leaves that way…*
:P
Hey, I needed something quick and stupid, being busy with holiday parties and all. ^^;
I read your comment as “holiday panties”. :D
Get your mind out of the gutter.
…and back into the sewer right? :P
I know, just jealous. Not a lotta humans with power levels equal to a Pretender Armoured Minicon, so never works for me :(. So I tried Instant Transmission, didn’t work either, so I…kinda cheated with a Ground Bridge…:$
I was brought over by one Plasma Mongoose, and boy am I glad I clicked that link. -sits down with popcorn and awaits more-
Glad to have you along!
I can’t pretend I do something as good as Dumbing of Age, but I’m really glad to see how Plasma managed to make many DoA regulars check my comic out.
One more PM’s kid here! :)
I just looked around a bit and Wow! I love your art and your characters, pretty sure I will add this one to my comics list.
Now I will dive thru the archive and try to figure out what this all is about :)
Thanks for sharing!
I have kids now? Oh the stretchmarks! :P
You seem to be the parent of all the DoA commenters.
PM’s intellectual genome is slowly and unstoppably spreading thru all we pseudo sapient beings.
Resistance *was* futile.
So does that mean that I will become the internet Temüjin?
OH MY!
Wow! Thank you!
Glad you like the art. Hope you like the comic too. :)
Tell me who your favorite girl is!
Yup, now I can say that I like the comic, specially the “surrealism-ish”. You gained me in with that space cup of tea :)
The characters are them all lovely :) but I think I like the most Gaia and Flore.
Also Clementine, she somehow reminds me of Murasame Sumika (村雨 純夏) from Ikeda Takashi’s ( いけだ たかし) “Sasameki Koto” (ささめきこと).
Keep up the good work :)
Seems like Clementine reminds people of a lot of different girls. I guess it’s the long dark hair with short bangs look? Some people think she’s a lot like Mio in K-On too. But yeah, Sumika… I really loved Sasameki Koto, one of my favorite anime. Too bad it ended so quickly with a depressing filler episode instead of following the manga longer. :(
And too bad my ship didn’t sail.
Clementine is going to rock, I bet :)
I like anime but I’m actually more into manga. I liked Sasameki Koto A LOT even despite the ad nauseum delayed main plot. I watched the first episode of the anime and it was ok but I did not get hooked, being aware that it ends middle way :( could had something to do.
My main ship was, of course, Mayu-Koino, which did not actually sail but got a HUGE tease in the “Great Useless Addition #3”, damn you Takashi :) Who was yours?
Coming from an anime-only perspective, I have no idea who Mayu and Koino are. XD
My OTP was Sumika and Azusa. OF COURSE. They were so perfect. Ushio was a dumb **** who deserved to vanish in the depths of hell. It’s like… The basic premise of the show is Sumika who’s head over heels for her superficial friend who totally makes her suffer everytime she opens her mouth. Then along the way, she meets the perfect cutie who loves her. She ignores the cutie and keeps fawning over the horrible girl. (without ever doing anything about it either) RAGE.
*DIE FOR OUR SHIP*
…I’m quickly turning into a fangirl-boy here. WHAT HAVE I BECOME.
Sorry, thought you read the manga. I just checked and the anime goes only to chapter 12, while the manga has 53. A lot missing.
Choosing freely inside those first chapters, you are right, Azusa-Sumika could be great.
“Ushio was a dumb …” hahaha :) yes, I know. You would love chapter 16, because reasons Sumi loses her nerves and, yelling, utters basically how much thoughtless and insensitive she, Ushio, is (not those words though) straight into Ushio’s face. Sadly five pages later Sumi regrets and here we go back to track.
“I’m quickly turning into a fangirl-boy here” You mean as everybody does? :P
I think you could give the manga a try, the anime stops just when things gets better.
We are legion!
Eek.
Yeah, another 1 Plasma brought over here. Seems you humans use this “word of mouth” (or at least word of keyboard :P) thing a lot, seems to work tho…
Well it seems to be working. ^_^
Word of mouth is really cool in a world where I can’t afford any advertisement.
They….must really like that show. They worked out the poses and everything…
And here I was expecting one of them to scream “Form of!” while the other names an animal and/or body of water.
I think they practiced a ton of weird routines like this when they were kids. I know that I have a ton of weird rituals with my brother, which never ceases to confuse people when we do them in public. :)
Also, you lost me with your reference.
I think that was a reference to the Wonder Twins…
I’m afraid my knowledge of superhero cartoons is quite limited. ^^;
if the fusion is successful, they might need a new driving license.
Not to mention birth certificate and other forms of proof.
Naa, isn’t the Fusion Dance temporary? Only 30 Earth minutes? Still, they never did a Male/Female Fusion Dance combo, the outcome might get…interesting…
How else do you think futa come into being? :D
Ick.
I thought I’d be nice & step around that one, but looks like I put my futa in it anyway… :P
You have to be really cocky to make a pun like that.
◦°˚\☻/˚°◦
BADABUM TSS
Calisse.
Language!
It’s weird how anime never delves into those potential problems. Like, what happens if female Ranma gets pregnant and turns back into a male? That sort of thing.
Haven’t watched a lot of Ranma 1/2 gotta admit, but the way I can see it going is developing Junior as long as his body can handle it, & if it gets ejected at any time, well, he’d be screaming for water. Let’s just say, the Male equivalent of the birth canal is what is used to pee with, & unlike the female version, it’s NOT designed to stretch… O.O X.X
That said, from what I’ve seen, he’s still his “Male” self inside a “Female” body, so unless it’s somehow involuntary, I don’t see any chance of pregnancy…
Well, actually What we use to pee, the Urethra, is the same structure in both males and females and it is stretchable in none.
The equivalent to the brith canal (ie Vagina) is the Prostatic Utricle, a small duct beside the Prostate, and it comes (carefully chosen term) being pretty stretchable too.
This discussion is slowly creeping into uncomfortable territory.
Rumiko Takahashi(The creator of Ranma 1/2) when asked that question about Ranma getting pregnant, stated that “I don’t even want to think about that and neither should you”, well I have read plenty of Ranma fanfiction that believes otherwise.
That takes me back.
The funny thing is that even though I have only read a few chapters of the Ranma 1/2 manga and only a few episodes of the anime I read hundreds if not thousands of R1/2 fanfics, 90% of them having 20,000+ words.
Where are yours?
Probably an instant miscarriage.
Unless it goes by EGS rules… in which case she suddenly becomes incapable of transforming back until it is complete. That always seemed unlikely to me though. Gender-changing a preggers person would pretty much inevitably result in instant miscarriage.
While I never thought about doing Dragonball-Z poses or anything like that, generally speaking this is why I always wished I had a little sister. Or any sister, for that matter.
I only have a brother, but we were always very close. Doing stupid shit like that and stuff. :)
You say that as though it were common.
Heck, by now I’m 31 and my younger bro is 29 and we’ll STILL end up squabbling like kids if we end up in the same place for five minutes. Arguments about all sorts of silly crap. Sibling rivalry never dies.
I know plenty of siblings that do get along well.
Not saying they are the majority, but they’re definitely not a rare occurrence. :P
As my hero Gru once said,”O.K….that’s weird.”
Test!
And thus, WordPress lets me post again after having a strange bug for the past few days. Either way, I’ve been imagining Marie-Neige and Clémentine fusing together since Monday :3
Clemeneige. She would end up being a very normal girl, since the two personalities would cancel each other.
Im glad they have a good relationship. Too many stories out there use the siblings who are irritated by each other cliche too often.
I KNOW, RIGHT? I have a brother, and the two of us were always very close. He’s probably my favorite person in the entire world, and I can’t possibly imagine life without having him around. So it always pisses me off how siblings are always used as enemies, rivals, or having so little in common than they dislike each other in most stories. You rarely ever see a warm, healthy relationship between siblings in the media and I really don’t understand why.
Because a “warm healthy relationship between siblings” is unrealistic?
Or at least that is how I regard it.
Basically my entire family is just a nexus of passive-aggressive squabbling (which can veer into rather more active squabbling)… which is why we rarely have anything to do with each other.
First time ever I’ve been told my real-life experiences are unrealistic.
I agree. It’s nice to see siblings having fun and enjoying each other’s company. I love this introduction to their relationship. Unfortunately I have just finished the archives, and now I have to wait just like everybody else. Aaarrrgh!
Thank you! Chloe and Frederic will have many adventures together. I wish I could work faster and draw two comics a week. Maybe I could cut corners in some way… but right now, it’s just impossible. :(
You know, I don’t think I ever watched that show, I saw a few references to “fusion” and such, but not the original.
On another note, I admire their Devil may care attitude, most siblings would be super embarrassed to even consider doing this in public :)
I’ve never watched the show either (I’m highly allergic to shounen anime) but one OVA where the kid characters happened to do the fusion dance in it, something I found especially hilarious.
(I was actually a big fan of the early Dragon Ball manga when I was young though. When it was silly and inspired by Journey to the West. Before it turned into what the anime calls DBZ)
And they’re not especially in public, are they? Marie-Neige and Clementine are their friends.
As a kid I mostly watched that anime with giant robot, you know the one I’m talking about, right? It had this big robot that people went into using smaller ships and then it would fight other giant robots. Ok well, specifically it was Macron 1 (originally GoShogun) and Grendizer, ah memories.
For Dragon Ball, I only like the Abridged version :)
Grendizer (known as Goldorak, in french) is probably one of the most popular early anime in the french speaking world.
I never really got into it. My childhood was all about Captain Harlock, Captain Future and The Mysterious Cities of Gold. XD
Hmm, they never showed those back where I’m from… But Grendizer was pretty solid, I can see why it’d be popular.
Yeah, Quebec has its own unique history of cartoons. Aside from french dubs of american cartoons, we also had french dubs of anime aired in the english speaking world, arly french dubbed anime imported from France that the english world never saw, and some stuff locally dubbed in french here in Canada too.
Quebec is like this Twilight Zone of awesomeness where different worlds collide together.
It’s still better than the Safety Dance.
Nothing is better than the Safety Dance considering Men Without Hats is a band from Montréal, Quebec.
I now need to make a reference to it in my comic somehow.
This was probably mentioned somewhere before, but they’re raising the wrong leg in panel 3. In order to transition between the stances in panel 3 and 4, you need to stretch the leg you raised.
Also your comic is really great! I came here because the author of Flakypastry told the readers to check it out. Your style is really nice! Thank you for doing all of this for free! I don’t know how many readers you have so far, but I think you’re quite good enough to be able to do something Patreon-ish.
Yeah, I think you’re right. Man, that totally sucks. I never watched DBZ. I’m a fraud.
And thank you! Yeah, I think I could give the Patreon thing a try. Everyone else is doing it anyway. :)
Flaky Pastry is an awesome comic, and Felix Lavallée is a pretty cool dude. Thanks for dropping by, and for liking my little comic.
Her Red Ranger shirt only makes the fusion dance dorkier! XD
I never watched the show per say but this was my favourite manga growing up!
I fricken loved that reference, thank you :D
I’m not a fan of Dragonball or shounen anime in general, but that’s still a wonderful anime reference. :)
well thats enough nerd for one night
If that’s a red power ranger t-shirt, Chloe is eternally my favourite in the cast. That stuff was my childhood in its entirety