War of the Words
on February 3, 2017
at 12:09 am
I normally draw these strips with a mechanical pencil. Decided to try using a wooden No 2 pencil for this one. Next week I’ll probably continue artistically devolving and etch the next one using coal on deer skin. Man, that’s gonna be a pain to scan in.
Should probably tranquilize the deer first.
Strike!
Hahaha!
Regarding your technique: Whatever makes you happy.
Regarding the comic: Depending on the chowderhead level I’d say there is a possibility they may think you just visited for badminton.
Huh, so that’s why wars don’t get called wars anymore – the people in charge simply forgot to announce it.
Could be there has been some succes with a war on wars. Can’t help wondering who’s behind that.
In the United States, that’s actually correct. Our President is allowed to order troops here and there, but only Congress can declare war.
But as long as you don’t CALL it war, it’s fine for our President to do whatever.
Love the “boot” on the first panel.
Thanks! I seem to start a lot of strips with something getting a swift kick.
Well, as long as you don’t de-evolve into smearing feces on your girlfriend and then try to scan her.
I’m fairly sure their Relationship started with him scanning her.
So when has any western Country last declared War on someone? Surely not in the last decades?
Nobody does that anymore. We don’t even call it “war” internally, so people aren’t so upset of all the warfare we undertake.
Excellent comic. Also, it would be awesome if you did that.
I have heard both good and bad things about the Apple Pencil.
As far as I can figure it is fairly dependent of the artistic technique, learning capability and finances. I thank the last is the deal breaker though.
It is something to check out if only to just have a reason to visit the Apple store to geek-out and play with the newest models and have the fanbois herp derp as you draw something of some artistic merit [no dickbutts though, that gets you kicked out]
I’ve seriously considered using a tablet and I’ve heard nothing but good things about the Apple Pencil. But, I still prefer paper, pencils, and pens. I’m just too damn old fashioned.
It’s not a war. It’s a revolt. They’re not soldiers. They’re tourists. On VACATION, damnit. We don’t know where they borrowed guns, tanks, ammo, shells or howitzers, most likely got them on the free market. Have you tried Amazon? It all seems like an im-plausible deniability reason. You haven’t declared a war, you have nothing to do with it, in name.
I always thought a declaration of war was simply the honorable thing to do. Give your enemies a chance to surrender to minimize loss of life, especially innocent lives.
It also seems to me like the courteous thing to do for your allies; letting them know what your intentions are and giving them some warning so that they can evacuate any of their people who might otherwise get caught in the crossfire.
Being noble and courteous is useless during wars, even if they’re not named as such. That’s why you don’t publicly announce them, it gives you time to advance your own pawns further while the others are wondering what to do. And if you see that you’d be soon overpowered, you can go all “Just kidding 😀 ”
When you’re waging war, you don’t have allies anyway, you just happen to momentarily share some goals and/or ideologies with someone else. Every party is in there for themselves first and foremost.
Don’t listen to this guy that’s the best way for you to end up pissing off everyone and just look like a complete douche. With that said once you do declare war there’s not really much stopping you from marching your troops as quickly as possible to catch as much territory before your enemy really has the time to mobilize his army.
Is this what the war room conversations sound like?
Next month’s drawing medium: Etch-a-Sketch.
I draw with pencil and paper, scan, then trace in Inkscape for nice crisp scalable vector graphics.
Q: “War, um, good god y’all, what is it good for?”
A: “Getting rid of a$%#@&*$”
(Never hear that song the same way again!)
On a more serious note, have you considered cave paintings? That would be a real challenge to scan!
(Spray paint on tunnels, bridges, etc. is just a more technologically evolved form.)
I think you’ve never heard this song before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L2Gve7oh_4
“Let’s not do that again!”
My reference was probably long before your generation, done by Edwin Starr as in https://youtu.be/ztZI2aLQ9Sw.
Yeah, but if you attack without a formal declaration, then you get hit with the warmonger penalty.
As long as you aren’t starting a land war in Asia, you’re fine.
And of course you never get involved with a Sicilian when there’s death on the line… Ah ha ha! Ah ha ha ha! Ah ha… (thud).
One Two Three Four. On your comic strip I declare a formal war.
The main point of declaring it is more so to state the casus belli, the justification for war. It is to make third parties viewing it less likely to think you are just jerk causing trouble. If you can properly explain yourself you can avoid third party retaliation and possibly gain support. Although these days you could probably do all this later with the internet. Other reasons include: not wanting to do a sneak attack which makes you look like a dick most of the time, and wanting to destroy the military while preventing collateral.
love the third panel:
“Hey, so we’re at war now.”
“Huh, can I finish watering my flowers?”
“I guess.”
This reminds me of the Civilization VI AI – they amass a large army right next to your border, which takes a good number of turns and is rather hard to miss/misinterpret, then declare a “surprise” war.