Windfully Distressing
Dammit, I woke up at 7am this morning on my keyboard with a half finished strip, I need to find some kind of illegal brand coffee or something. Also, I’m really pleased you guys like Nergil, I was pretty worried about how that would go over since I hatched that little ditty quite some time ago. Anyways, see you guys tomorrow 🙂
try and get some regular sleep at regular hours 😛
Yay, a distraction from my horrible Chemistry assignment, it was worth the wait 😀
Love this webcomic! <3 🙂
Ever since you first mentioned that the filler was relevant, I’d been waiting for something like that—especially with the similarities between Nergil and Chase and Shadow Guy and Chase that kept being pointed out by commenters. I don’t wanna say I saw it coming—I didn’t—but I certainly wasn’t shocked, either.
So when are we getting our news on what big things are in store? We were promised news on big things in store.
Also phyllo. Lots of phyllo.
Come to think of it, I may have imagined that last part.
I did smile very broadly, though, just in case you’re reading that as “I FELT NOTHING FROM YOUR BIG REVEALING COMIC.”
‘cuz that’s not how I intended it.
Scott, I just wanted to let you know over the past couple days I kept coming back and reading the last strip to make sure I was being properly mind fucked and not just some psycho trip I was playing on myself. Now I’m curious as to if we’re going to see Nergil revert back to some old ways from dealing with Chase for too long.
^What he said.
^Glad I’m not the only one.
^We felt ur dick fuckin our mind brah .. we felt it.
Chase works at the carnival for shadow guy, learning the ways of dapper-wizardry and to own Monty.
You forgot the flock of frightened birds taking flight in fear of impending doom in that middle panel… I’m guessing you were about to start on that part when you fell asleep, and had forgotten about it when you woke up on your keyboard…. Still, the lighting in that panel (or lack there-of) is spectacular.
… i truely cannot wait to see wat happens next
See I actually agree with Taryn in panel 1, especially since Shadowguy…err sorry Nergil (gotta get used to that) thinks he’s already dead. When you’re dead, the person who killed you can’t get tried and convicted for killing you again (at least that was the premise of a movie I once saw…)
Also, pupil-less Chase in the middle panel reminds me of blind Finn from Scout Crossing. (Yes, in case you hadn’t realized I have also invaded your other webcomics as well muahahahahahahaha!!!!!!)
Only when the killer was found innocent the first time. Double jeopardy is protected by the Constitution.
As there was no trial the first time (at least, as far as we know), there’s no problem.
Looking at the amount of comments, I think -liking- the last strip was a slight understatement, heh.
Much love for panels 3 + 4. I think my face did a similar thing today when I was cornered in the metro by a guy dressed as Bugs Bunny. How I wish I was kidding. Yay for carefully contained panic.
YOU PLANNED TO EXPLODE OUR SKULLS SINCE THE BEGINNING!?!!? Nice work.
It took some convincing to get to believe that was canon. I thought it was just a joke, but WOW! That’s really cool. It was definitely a good idea.
I love how Chase’s eyes go all white in panel three. I can just picture the guy’s in the processing station using that time to try and decide what expression goes there.
Try Peet’s Coffee. You can get it at the grocery store. It’s great stuff. Also white coffee is good.
Chase: RUN AWAY!!
http://www.instructables.com/id/Extracting-almost-pure-Caffeine-from-Caffeine-Pi/
or
http://purecaffeine.info/
if you’re feeling lazy. Just keep it under 600mg daily and you should be ok, so long as you don’t have heart problems.
I love this comic so much. After finding out about Nergil, I’m fearful this is going to turn into a “Luke, I am your father” comic, complete with the dark side and the force… only fearful because I’m not sure my brain could handle it. You’re doing great work.
hahahaha I had his exact same thought!
and then I thought maybe he’d take it up a step and make it his grandfather xD
So is Monty Nergil and Marion’s love spawn?
could that be Nergil and Marion’s fathers love spawn?
Could be Marion’s Father! 😮
Or it could be Marion!
Uh oh… spaghetti-os
RUN CHASE!
Think geek has a bunch of stuff that is loaded with caffine. try there!
I love your comic. 🙂 And Nergil is awesome. <3 By the way, you should get an RSS feed all up in here.
J Hulk, gangler, I was thinking the same thing about Chase’s eyes, but I’m pretty sure the pupils are there. Note that they are almost invisible in panel 4. Now go back to three and look really closely on the right side (Chase’s left) of his eyes. Methinks I see pupils.
Ah ha, you’re right…that’s what I get for not wearing my glasses while reading comics…
Sleep is for people that don’t have to worry about deadlines.
And coma patients. >_>
Every strip makes me laugh. A lot of the webcomics I follow have gone down hill but this stays excellent always.
Awesome as usual.
And to you Scott, or anyone else whose interested, I think you’d like this and ones that come after it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miP21jnj3RU&feature=channel_video_title
The Nergil twist is one of the few compelling surprises I’ve witnessed in a long time in any form of media. Thank you so much for this comic!!!
hah…it’s odd, i like Shadow Nergil better than regular. Anyways, he got IMORTALLITY…I suppose that says something, that he’d rather be human.
I can’t find your RSS feed… Am I just blind?
Scott, gotta say, love your stuff! Love everything about what you do. I saw Scout and thought “this looks like Scott Pilgrim… I’ma read it!” Then clicked on Nerf… Haven’t looked back since… probably becouse Monty is looking at me funny… He’s so adorably evil…
U no what would be awsome??? If that one girl that likes chase, gets with nergil!! She wanted someone like chase!! And the shadowy guy used to be a lot like chase! She may even help with his curse! 🙂 then shadowy guy would be nergil again that we no and love 🙂
That would in no way be awesome. Because 1. Chase would be heartbroken at losing Taryn to Nergil, 2. the girl never goes for the bad guy, EVER, and 3.Chase is the main character of this story, and main characters don’t lose their girlfriends to the bad guy.
I think Tiffany is referring to Zoey.
Either way, the comment made me cringe and cry in a corner. GET WITH?! Argh. I guess I should be understanding, but I’m not 13 any more.
It’s a scary mentality, to be honest. Something horrible happened? Fix it with pseudo-romance and bonking! Oh, you got cursed into a monster? Here’s a pretty lady. She’s into that kind of thing. Oh, your husband of twenty years died? Have a nubile young man-waif! That’s not how any human interaction should work…ever. And it goes without saying that love doesn’t just pop its ugly mug up either because someone wills it, quoth the cynic.
I agree that it was immaturely worded, but honestly, it would be a convenient way to solve Zoey’s hopeless pining for Chase. The only thing that might spoil that would be Nergil’s tendency toward cruelty, which is the exact opposite of what attracted Zoey to Chase in the first place.
Hopefully Zoey’s theoretical affection wouldn’t immediately convert Shadowguy-I-mean-Nergil to the good side, because I agree- that’s a terribly unhealthy mentality that’s seen far too often in fiction.
True, but as we’ve established Nergil was hardly always the cruel figure he is today. Life’s really gone south for him, and it seems he’s a bit sour, but the Nergil of I’d guess about a hundred years ago was pretty much like Chase. A well intentioned off kilter man who’s actions sometimes adversely effected the people around him. The mentality that Shadow Guy after getting his life back together, finding a cure for the curse, and achieving a happy love life might be a bit less sadistic is not entirely without credence.
The problem of course is that despite a couple similarities still present there’s nothing really to attract Zoey to shadow guy at this point. He’s a dark and villainous cad who is actively attempting to harm Zoey’s friends and slay her crush. Add to this the fact that Shadow Guy in his current state is anything but receptive to such advances, and really completely incapable of either giving affection, or properly knowing when affection is being given to him and/or reacting accordingly, we can be pretty sure that this isn’t going to happen.
Not to mention the dangers of the “He’ll change” mentality in general. You start ending up with all sorts of ridiculous pairs like Ginny and Draco, Aeris and Sephiroth, Jesus and Satan, Louise Lane and Lex Luthor. It really just doesn’t work that way.
I’m re-reading Nerf-This from the first strip now, just because of that epic bomb you dropped. I have to say, even re-reading the series for the third time, it never fails to make me giggle madly.
That being said, I love Shadowman/Nergil even more now. It’s fascinating to see his change from awkward/adorkable eyepatch wizard to insanely evil Shadowman. Keep up the AMAZING work, Scott! 😀
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Hello, I just stumbled upon your comic two nights ago. I wanted to say that I love the evolution of your characters; I always enjoy seeing an
artist blossom over time. Not to mention that Chase is almost an exact copy of my husband! If you ever need any funny jokes from his actions, let me know, lol.
Can’t wait to see where this goes!
Ya I no u guys may be right, but nergil seemed to show a tiny bit of affection as him being shadowy, I’m just saying that zoey may soften him a bit. Maybe. And I was talkin about zoey not chases gf! No I want those 2 together forever lol but the. Drawer could totally make things happen with zoey and shadow guy. She could possibly even beat the crap out of him and he fear her. Or she could just plain scare him and he may eventually like her slowly. Like I said just a idea. But gosh no I don’t want gooy love for the whole comic lol 🙂