“I birthed it, I should eat it!”
“You eat too much during the damn pregnancy! All those pickles, gone!”
“You don’t even LIKE pickles.”
“I like ‘um more than babies.”
I guess thats it then. Cal is gone, but the Syndicate still exists.
An unchained garf and bloody shmoo tainted with Cal’s insanity. At this point, if they want that goop so badly: they can have it.
My eyes say CalV1n is gone…
but inside I doubt it.
@Red – Didn’t look like the Garf was unchained yet to me. Pretty sure we saw the ass end. As to Cal… lets hope he is gone, but be unsurprised if he gets back up. He is alarmingly resilient.
@Menschenjaeger – he didn’t kill him, but it did look like he knocked a lot of his teeth out. As for CAL being dead: NOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGIT etc.
At first I was tempted to say this isn’t over, but then I went back and re-read the whole Cal Vs. Chuck fight and now see just how long it’s been going on and how many climaxes and cliff hangers it’s already had. I think this might be the end.
I still can’t figure out what is up with Cal’s face in panel 2; is he unconscious or dead with his eyes open or is he looking up with his eyes with an expression of shock on his face?
Cal isn’t dead yet. His healing factor will lead to some kind of resurrection. Whilst impressive the mighty punch, methinks the clue lies within the selection of Peanuts Comic on Weapon Brown #301.
Awesome scenario, Cal gets thrown into the GARF by Weapon Brown. Mission accomplished because Cal gets what he was sent to get; The Schmoo (Granted he gets turned INTO it, but potato potah-toe)
Captcha says “Good work Nick, now enjoy a fun filled day with teh killer Kudzu at the easedoec gardens”
Didn’t CAL go down the hole? So why is he floating in the steam back on the observatory level? Is it, like, visual shorthand? An art thing? That’s probably it.
It just occurred to me that it must be hard to draw stories so people can follow them. All Michaelangelo had to do was one scene, you know?
GAAAH of course it’s Walker. He doesn’t have a head.
No matter how hard it is to draw stories so people can follow them, it’s harder to draw stories so people who need new damn lenses in their glasses can follow them.
My impression is that Cal’s eyes are rolled back in his head. Most likely unconscious, or nearly so. I prefer to think nearly, so he is aware that he can’t do anything to stop his slow descent into a death by drowning in the Shmoo. You don’t f**k with Chuck.
Looks to me like his neck is twisted/broken from the punch or the fall. The battle has been going on so long, this should be the end. If he is somehow alive, being submerged in GARF might be a permanent acid trip or something. Looking forward to the wrap-up and purchasing the trade! I hope this isn’t the last weapon brown story, though.
@Juicetice, I hope not either… After all, the Syndicate is still out there… and could always breed another soldier to come after Chuck and friends… Chuck’s gonna have to deal with them someday.
@Meat Shield…I don’t know…Cal’s been doing that dead-ass-stare for quite a few panels. Not that it’s a long time in real time, but this is Cal we’re talking about. I’d think that thanks to the nanos, by now he’d be coming to or at least getting some shuteye. Also that Far Side Cow silhouette looks a little like…Galactus. 😀
@menschenjaeger – it’s been like a second and a half in real time, and he took a lot of damage this time, especially if his neck was broken.
@Nick – Hmm, I kind of like that idea… I figured that this had to end with one or the other or both being dead, but I didn’t think JY would leave them both alive…
@Steve – All of the climaxes so far have come because Cal was distracted by trying to kill someone OTHER than Chuck. And being the cocky, shit-eating little ADD bastard that he is, he thought he could handle it and got caught. He’s too sadistic to kill Chuck straight up and had to torture him first, like he did with the Family Circus family.
I still don’t think this is over – it would be a bit anticlimactic with no major good guys being dead at the hands of an “unanswerable weapon.” This isn’t Return of the Jedi.
Whom ever was controlling Walker could still try and reanimate CAL or the Schmoo could have some untold healing factor still and CAL comes out all normal and team up with Chuck. Or it could be the end.
I have a feeling that the whole Cal is going to assimilate with the schmoo is spot on, BUT the Syndicate will show up to try later on to try and sweep the area. At that point they will find the Schmoo with a splash o’Cal, and either try it then and get poisoned/go insane, or bring it back and start distributing it to the masses.
Dunno, now that I think about it Chuck taking CAL down quick kinda makes sense considering their respective comic strips. Calvin and Hobbes was a great comic but only lasted ten years whereas Peanuts chugged along for 50 till the day Schultz croaked.
So maybe that’s being reflected here, CAL gets built up and seems unstoppable till he dies like a bitch, whereas Chuck just keeps going on the same.
Or maybe i’m just over-thinking this.
Nope, not buying it. Chuck’s never gotten what he really wanted at the end, and I can’t imagine why it would happen now; especially with The Syndicate still in effect. Too many loose ends for such a psychologically taxing story to end this way, right JY?
reminds me of an old Beetle Bailey strip. Sarge comes up to a beaten up Beetle.
“What happened?”
“I got into a fight with a guy from D company. I knocked him out with one punch… but I had to wait for an opening first.”
Oh, come on. Any sequence that ends with Chuck saying “NOTHIN’ surprises ME” is going to be followed by Chuck being surprised. A giant Cal-brained shmoo-monster rising from the pit, or something. (Hey, he could psycho-animate his toy tiger, and the shmoo responds to thoughts…)
Doesnt Schmoo respond to thought? Isn’t Cal a weapon with som Psi powers and a scary imagination?
It’d be pretty cool to see him turn into some sort of Killer Monster Snow Goon looking thing.
What do we know?
– CAL’s arm is broken (compound fracture), his jaw’s dislocated, he’s out an eye, and he’s just sunk into the garfshit.
– I can’t think of any comicstrips left to parody except maybe Love Is…
– The schmoo in the garfjohn is now contaminated, and if I understood Anne correctly, that means (only) that it can no longer self-replicate (because–*professional-biologist eyeroll*–it’s no longer photosynthetic?).
– there’s still a bunch of carnivorous kudzu.
– Only WB, the unconscious Anne, Hughie X, and Snoop are still at large in the compound, plus an unknown number (maybe zero) of Syndicate Legionnaires.
– there’s one vehicle, resembling a Delorean, left in the garage.
– and yeah, CAL’s spaceman ship is up top.
– if we assume that Capt. Preppy and his topside corps were all slaughtered by HOBS (as implied), then…then what? I don’t know.
– there’s still that business of CAL’s control-word out there. Preppy was said to know it.
in short, signals are mixed and I don’t have any idea what’s going to happen.
All is well.
Sentroller,
No one is controlling Walker. The corpse only started walking (rather than just standing upright) when Hildy and Wizard of Id fried each other in an orgasm of magic. Or something.
I also happen to know that the story is not going to end in the near future – Capcha tells me JY will increase Instist!
Anyone else confused where the headless guy came from? Granted, I haven’t gone back to review in a while, but I cannot remember anywhere where mr. headless corpse would have come from. I’d appreciate a hint if someone has already done the work.
Inane: it was The Phantom who got his head chopped off by Cal on a page so jam-packed with goodness that our esteemed author made it a separate link. The body didn’t drop, to Cal’s joy — such a perfect hit, the head came clean off while the body was still balanced upright.
Then Hildy encountered it later, just as the Wizard of Id attacked her. They struck each other with bolts of magic, presumably killing both of them — and the headless body was caught in the crossfire of energy. Thus, crackling with the power, it began to walk.
Hm…everybody saying “such a short fight” made me go back to the archive. I guess maybe it WAS kind of a short fight. Funny, seems like it went on for MONTHS…
“I birthed it, I should eat it!”
“You eat too much during the damn pregnancy! All those pickles, gone!”
“You don’t even LIKE pickles.”
“I like ‘um more than babies.”
and fireedv– or rather, and yet– I don’t think it’s over.
Hmm Baby it’s what’s for Dinner! Nice finish
I knew Calvin wouldn’t win.
Well said, Chuck, well said.
Yay! Chuck won AND got the girl!
But I must remain calm because this story isn’t over yet, IS IT, JY?
About that horned figure in the next to last panel…
@Egg Nog
Its the cow from the Far Side comics
That’s the problem with young punks these days, no staying power!
::shakes old man fist::
Now get off my lawn! You know how hard it is to cut mutant crabgrass! It won’t stop moving!
Seriously, good to see the smarmy little punk go down like a hooker on Fleet Week.
But this ain’t over, is it? The Syndicate is still all over the place, and the schmoo is still up for grabs.
I guess thats it then. Cal is gone, but the Syndicate still exists.
An unchained garf and bloody shmoo tainted with Cal’s insanity. At this point, if they want that goop so badly: they can have it.
My eyes say CalV1n is gone…
but inside I doubt it.
@Red – Didn’t look like the Garf was unchained yet to me. Pretty sure we saw the ass end. As to Cal… lets hope he is gone, but be unsurprised if he gets back up. He is alarmingly resilient.
I want to say this ain’t over…but Cal’s EYES are still open. Did Chuck…KILL him with one punch?!
@Menschenjaeger – he didn’t kill him, but it did look like he knocked a lot of his teeth out. As for CAL being dead: NOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGITNOTBUYINGIT etc.
At first I was tempted to say this isn’t over, but then I went back and re-read the whole Cal Vs. Chuck fight and now see just how long it’s been going on and how many climaxes and cliff hangers it’s already had. I think this might be the end.
I still can’t figure out what is up with Cal’s face in panel 2; is he unconscious or dead with his eyes open or is he looking up with his eyes with an expression of shock on his face?
Cal isn’t dead yet. His healing factor will lead to some kind of resurrection. Whilst impressive the mighty punch, methinks the clue lies within the selection of Peanuts Comic on Weapon Brown #301.
Awesome scenario, Cal gets thrown into the GARF by Weapon Brown. Mission accomplished because Cal gets what he was sent to get; The Schmoo (Granted he gets turned INTO it, but potato potah-toe)
Captcha says “Good work Nick, now enjoy a fun filled day with teh killer Kudzu at the easedoec gardens”
Didn’t CAL go down the hole? So why is he floating in the steam back on the observatory level? Is it, like, visual shorthand? An art thing? That’s probably it.
It just occurred to me that it must be hard to draw stories so people can follow them. All Michaelangelo had to do was one scene, you know?
i’m holding out for cal’s legs being caught in a grinder of some sort before escaping, giving him the tiny little legs we all know and love
@Katy, he’s not… That’s Walker’s body falling over that you’re seeing.
Katy,
That’s the Phantom, finally falling over. Not Cal.
GAAAH of course it’s Walker. He doesn’t have a head.
No matter how hard it is to draw stories so people can follow them, it’s harder to draw stories so people who need new damn lenses in their glasses can follow them.
My impression is that Cal’s eyes are rolled back in his head. Most likely unconscious, or nearly so. I prefer to think nearly, so he is aware that he can’t do anything to stop his slow descent into a death by drowning in the Shmoo. You don’t f**k with Chuck.
DOWN goes Frazier!
with a ploop!
and a blop.
Looks to me like his neck is twisted/broken from the punch or the fall. The battle has been going on so long, this should be the end. If he is somehow alive, being submerged in GARF might be a permanent acid trip or something. Looking forward to the wrap-up and purchasing the trade! I hope this isn’t the last weapon brown story, though.
@Juicetice, I hope not either… After all, the Syndicate is still out there… and could always breed another soldier to come after Chuck and friends… Chuck’s gonna have to deal with them someday.
@Meat Shield…I don’t know…Cal’s been doing that dead-ass-stare for quite a few panels. Not that it’s a long time in real time, but this is Cal we’re talking about. I’d think that thanks to the nanos, by now he’d be coming to or at least getting some shuteye. Also that Far Side Cow silhouette looks a little like…Galactus. 😀
@menschenjaeger – it’s been like a second and a half in real time, and he took a lot of damage this time, especially if his neck was broken.
@Nick – Hmm, I kind of like that idea… I figured that this had to end with one or the other or both being dead, but I didn’t think JY would leave them both alive…
@Steve – All of the climaxes so far have come because Cal was distracted by trying to kill someone OTHER than Chuck. And being the cocky, shit-eating little ADD bastard that he is, he thought he could handle it and got caught. He’s too sadistic to kill Chuck straight up and had to torture him first, like he did with the Family Circus family.
I still don’t think this is over – it would be a bit anticlimactic with no major good guys being dead at the hands of an “unanswerable weapon.” This isn’t Return of the Jedi.
Whom ever was controlling Walker could still try and reanimate CAL or the Schmoo could have some untold healing factor still and CAL comes out all normal and team up with Chuck. Or it could be the end.
I have a feeling that the whole Cal is going to assimilate with the schmoo is spot on, BUT the Syndicate will show up to try later on to try and sweep the area. At that point they will find the Schmoo with a splash o’Cal, and either try it then and get poisoned/go insane, or bring it back and start distributing it to the masses.
“And so, having disposed of the monster, exit our hero through the front door, stage right, none the worse for his harrowing experience.”
I sense Stupendous Man coming up!
Dunno, now that I think about it Chuck taking CAL down quick kinda makes sense considering their respective comic strips. Calvin and Hobbes was a great comic but only lasted ten years whereas Peanuts chugged along for 50 till the day Schultz croaked.
So maybe that’s being reflected here, CAL gets built up and seems unstoppable till he dies like a bitch, whereas Chuck just keeps going on the same.
Or maybe i’m just over-thinking this.
Is Cal’s ship still around? Cause odds are good it is.
A ship that can drive right to the headquarters of the Syndicate unchecked. Hmm.
@SPSmith and @kagato23 : Both excellent comments. Well said!!
Hope we get another story of weapon brown. Best comic published or on the internet!! Go Chuck! Go Snoop!!
Nope, not buying it. Chuck’s never gotten what he really wanted at the end, and I can’t imagine why it would happen now; especially with The Syndicate still in effect. Too many loose ends for such a psychologically taxing story to end this way, right JY?
reminds me of an old Beetle Bailey strip. Sarge comes up to a beaten up Beetle.
“What happened?”
“I got into a fight with a guy from D company. I knocked him out with one punch… but I had to wait for an opening first.”
Oh, come on. Any sequence that ends with Chuck saying “NOTHIN’ surprises ME” is going to be followed by Chuck being surprised. A giant Cal-brained shmoo-monster rising from the pit, or something. (Hey, he could psycho-animate his toy tiger, and the shmoo responds to thoughts…)
Captcha swears it is so, by the sacred pavalute.
I hope Calv1n ain’t gone, hard to imagine a more worthy opponent for Chuck…
Doesnt Schmoo respond to thought? Isn’t Cal a weapon with som Psi powers and a scary imagination?
It’d be pretty cool to see him turn into some sort of Killer Monster Snow Goon looking thing.
He is sooooo going after Chairman Horns and the gang now.
you guys are nuts with the not-spoilers.
What do we know?
– CAL’s arm is broken (compound fracture), his jaw’s dislocated, he’s out an eye, and he’s just sunk into the garfshit.
– I can’t think of any comicstrips left to parody except maybe Love Is…
– The schmoo in the garfjohn is now contaminated, and if I understood Anne correctly, that means (only) that it can no longer self-replicate (because–*professional-biologist eyeroll*–it’s no longer photosynthetic?).
– there’s still a bunch of carnivorous kudzu.
– Only WB, the unconscious Anne, Hughie X, and Snoop are still at large in the compound, plus an unknown number (maybe zero) of Syndicate Legionnaires.
– there’s one vehicle, resembling a Delorean, left in the garage.
– and yeah, CAL’s spaceman ship is up top.
– if we assume that Capt. Preppy and his topside corps were all slaughtered by HOBS (as implied), then…then what? I don’t know.
– there’s still that business of CAL’s control-word out there. Preppy was said to know it.
in short, signals are mixed and I don’t have any idea what’s going to happen.
All is well.
Heyyy, it was a sensible proposal!
That leaves the question too, was the baby teriyaki or hearty seasoning flavor?
Sentroller,
No one is controlling Walker. The corpse only started walking (rather than just standing upright) when Hildy and Wizard of Id fried each other in an orgasm of magic. Or something.
I also happen to know that the story is not going to end in the near future – Capcha tells me JY will increase Instist!
Anyone else confused where the headless guy came from? Granted, I haven’t gone back to review in a while, but I cannot remember anywhere where mr. headless corpse would have come from. I’d appreciate a hint if someone has already done the work.
Inane: it was The Phantom who got his head chopped off by Cal on a page so jam-packed with goodness that our esteemed author made it a separate link. The body didn’t drop, to Cal’s joy — such a perfect hit, the head came clean off while the body was still balanced upright.
Then Hildy encountered it later, just as the Wizard of Id attacked her. They struck each other with bolts of magic, presumably killing both of them — and the headless body was caught in the crossfire of energy. Thus, crackling with the power, it began to walk.
Just go back and read the story Inane, it’s a big plot point when Walker gets decapitated and then stays standing. Cal is very proud of himself
How is babby formed? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-lia-FEIY
Now it’s how is babby cooked? babby served?
You’ll never forget it.
Inane, there is a link to view the full comic in episode 209
Hm…everybody saying “such a short fight” made me go back to the archive. I guess maybe it WAS kind of a short fight. Funny, seems like it went on for MONTHS…
You know? This is just damn well done. Anyone that doesn’t read Weapon Brown hates awesome, art, and America.