Adventurer’s Warning
If Andrew didn’t do this joke last week, and if I wasn’t hell bent on showing a little bit of character growth… I would have done this strip. Sorry for the lack of punchline in this post D:
Little known fact about Mr. Mills, he’s more or less inspired by 3 people. My mom’s dad always walked around our old farm with a holstered revolver, and even won marksman competitions like they were nothing… he seriously was a cowboy, lasso and all. My dad’s father was terrifyingly intimidating, as a foreman to a foundry and feared by the hundred’s that worked under him… even 20 years after retirement I still hear people talk about the man he was, a towering general in a sense. Also, my Great Uncle, who taught me how to skin, clean, and gut whatever he hunted (and I don’t even hunt!) at an age way too early for my own good. Even though these 3 people were really something else, I haven’t met another person who had half the moxie they had, and I don’t think I ever will. (and that’s enough of my malarkey for today). Oh yeah, I have power again 😉
first oh and by the way great comic
Mr. Mills totally belongs in this webcomic,
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/71
its all about manly dudes
Oh hell yes he does! Mr. Mills is the manliest of all the manly men 🙂
D’awwwww. Who knew Mr. Mills had a soft spot, eh?
I know! I never imagined someone could be so sweet and so badass at the same time.
As a non-shadow monster, I doubt Nergil could survive another of Mr. Mill’s face-punches.
Considering he was immune to bricks to the face in shadow-monster form, but got taken out by a hunk of wood without it, probably not.
That and the fact that Mr. Mill’s awesome fist powers let him fight toe to toe with and thus cause the shadows themselves to flee and find a different tactic, when he was shadow form in the last fight, at the wedding.
The men in your family sound quite familiar to those in mine. My Paternal Great Grandfather’s were real cards. One ran away from home at 12 and was raised by whores. The other was a medicine man and game hunter. I wish I had an ounce of the will they had.
The Mills man is finally falling prey to the Conners effect…. those that stare into his puppy eyes too long shall fall under his spell O.o
If Nergil doesn’t become a full fledged character, I’m going to get Grizzly ;D
I shall say this now, good sir. If you pull the trope where you break up Taryn and Connors, I shall show you that your definition of sadistic is horribly lacking in both depth and detail. Their coupling is one of the few things that brings genuine happiness into my life.
I just read all of Nerf This in one sitting, having discovered it today. You have a magnificent talent for this, and I will definitely be checking out your other comics tomorrow. I’d love to know how you make comics (I’ve thought about and wanted to start a comic series for a couple years, but don’t think I could stick with a concept long enough, and have no idea how to do lay outs or anything for it.) I just wanted to let you know that this was truly an impressive and inspiring comic.
Reminds me of a line from Yellowbeard….
“I’m gonna… make… you eat… both… yer own… buttocks!”
You haz teh powah? Yay!
I sense character development! Mr. Mills is finally warming up to Chase! <3
dude this one makes him feel like he is human in some sense. as for the men in your family yes they are all dieing traits that few have and even fewer of thoe have them and know how to use it right.
You should meet my father.
Sounds like some amazing people wish I could measure up to that
I like how no one has connected the bear from andrews strip with the bear with the knife in it face. Come on people!
I want a copy of the Adventurer’s Handbook. Where can I get my hands on something of that sort of intrepid finery?
(A) What the fuuuuuu~
(B) I’m glad your back, we missed you Nergil.
(C) Anybody else think it would be an interesting twist to see the personifications of Nergil’s mind? I have a feeling they’d be like Chase’s, except with tophats, monocles, and dapperstaches!
Please good sir. I BEG you to create a actual adventures handbook, I would buy a copy…no wait 12 copies!
And to think all this started with Connors getting old men to box and a very different art style.
Mr. Mills reminds me of a combination of my dad, grandfather and great great grandfather. I guess in Austria my great great grandfather was known as “Terrible Louie” and he was the guy that everyone called to break up bar brawls and street fights. My grandfather was in Pearl Harbor and dove off his ship in nothing but his underpants and pulled 20 men to shore from the sinking ships. My dad has a moustache that rivals Tom Selleck and is 6’6″ and massively intimidating. Every time I read your comics and Mr. Mills is in the panel I think about my family and it makes me laugh and smile, so thanks for that!
a strip full of mustaches… yes.
dawwww he likes chase