its not entirely gone, they do the “ShortZ” which is their own original 3-D animation based on post Cell Games what-ifs; like right now they have done two with Cell in “The Home for infinite losers”.
It’s a derogatory term in British English, not so much in American English. I find this amusing when I see ‘Cack Amusements’ trucks driving around town. I’m in NC in the USA btw.
Yeah, first strip had a nice satire ring to it as a one-time thing, and this also happens to be the case for many of the best LOSRHs strips ever.
Making it a story arc instead is looking worse with each following strip.
Sandra and Woo: “I see you read a lot of manga and have very few Western webcomics on your list. Here, let’s add a Japanese maid to the permanent cast.” me: “Please don’t.”
Erma: “Let’s mke the first big story arc about going to Japan and make ghosts and monsters less mysterious.” me: “Why?!”
LoSRH: “How about an arc with Totally-Not-Goku?” me: “Uh-oh…”
You forgot Spinnerette, where one of the MC is a Korean girl that based her mech suit on an anime called Mahoromatic, about an android (more like a replicant) that goes to work as a maid for her creator’s son.
Mecha Maid was weird but she was in the comic almost from the very beginning and it was always clear that she based her style on tropes she has seen a hundred times before, as opposed to being a trope we have seen a hundred times before.
(I stopped reading Spinnerette during a hiatis years ago, so I’m not up to date, though.)
the Erma Japan story arc makes perfect sense, her mother is based on Sadako from the Ringu series, and Sadako is based on one of the more famous stories about Onryo; the story arc is also letting others see what previously had been a pay only event with Emiko’s parents and that whole situation. We get new characters, a look into Emiko’s past, her family, and Erma gets new experiences in a surrounding where she isn’t one of the more powerful and scary beings around. I can see if you are frustrated if you don’t like arcs but were wanting only short comic strips like a newspaper comic.
All of the yokai come from Japanese folklore, and are used mostly within their types, some are rarely seen outside of Japanese media. So only mundane if you are used to them which you seem to be apparently. The other monsters in the series were not mysterious they were horror movie tropes, even the rat people. You are welcome to your opinion, I am only saying I disagree amd rather like the current arc of Erma for expanding on the background. That said for this comic I am not a fan of thia character and DBZ fits poorly with super hero tropes, a magical girl, Super Sentai, or Ultraman would be more super hero. But parody is what it is so let’s see where it goes
How can they be best buddies without having fought each other? How can they know each other without having fought each other? They are superheros! They can’t!
About Erma: well, if you consider that her mother is based heavily on Sadako (not Samara, I hate that name) from the Ringu movies, it was obvious that she came from Japan and I love how he is relating her with yokai, while sharing these mostly unknown legends to the western readers. What did you expected? Relating her to the more well-known bathroom killers from Urban legends?
This reminds me of one of the many reasons the original Dragon Ball is one of my favorites of the series; they actually fought, like martial arts, learned new techniques, used strategy, it wasn’t just powering up and lobbing energy blasts…which at this point is a real turn your brain off thing as they could destroy planets before but are like ten thousand times stronger now; so those energy blasts leaving the same sized craters when they miss…are they any more potent or something? Because now it has to be like throwing koosh balls at each other…then again they can somehow have bodies able to hold world ending levels of ki energy yet are still somehow hurt by bullets…despite in earlier series not being hurt by bullets…yeah “rule of cool” turn your brain off as things go boom.
So, this is clearly the Abridged version.
What can I say? I really miss it.
its not entirely gone, they do the “ShortZ” which is their own original 3-D animation based on post Cell Games what-ifs; like right now they have done two with Cell in “The Home for infinite losers”.
Somewhere there’s a man with a shield yelling, “Language!”
Unlike regular humans who stand far away and fight with sticks that use mini-bombs to hurl knives at eachother.
Listen dude, I don’t wanna hear shit about stupid costumes from a comic book character.
Who hurt you
Superman, obviously
So Asstronormous pretended to insult him using his real name? (Kakarotto)
Sure we get the reference, but that might not even be his name in this spoof. His real name might be even more ridiculous.
Kakarotto?
Kak-Karrot-o?
Cack Carrot? Oh.
(For those non-native English speakers among us, ‘cack’ is a derogatory term, primarily used in the UK)
I’ve never heard it.
It’s a derogatory term in British English, not so much in American English. I find this amusing when I see ‘Cack Amusements’ trucks driving around town. I’m in NC in the USA btw.
Man this feels like a filler arc. End it.
If you wanna write for this comic, be our guest. If you have better ideas, write for him.
Oh man, is that an option? Coz I got ideas. I just thought it was rude to send them in unsolicited – you know, general webcomic manners.
Yeah, first strip had a nice satire ring to it as a one-time thing, and this also happens to be the case for many of the best LOSRHs strips ever.
Making it a story arc instead is looking worse with each following strip.
Sandra and Woo: “I see you read a lot of manga and have very few Western webcomics on your list. Here, let’s add a Japanese maid to the permanent cast.” me: “Please don’t.”
Erma: “Let’s mke the first big story arc about going to Japan and make ghosts and monsters less mysterious.” me: “Why?!”
LoSRH: “How about an arc with Totally-Not-Goku?” me: “Uh-oh…”
Sorry, but after the “Woohammer 40k” comic, I’m prepared to forgive Hitomi just about anything.
You forgot Spinnerette, where one of the MC is a Korean girl that based her mech suit on an anime called Mahoromatic, about an android (more like a replicant) that goes to work as a maid for her creator’s son.
Mecha Maid was weird but she was in the comic almost from the very beginning and it was always clear that she based her style on tropes she has seen a hundred times before, as opposed to being a trope we have seen a hundred times before.
(I stopped reading Spinnerette during a hiatis years ago, so I’m not up to date, though.)
the Erma Japan story arc makes perfect sense, her mother is based on Sadako from the Ringu series, and Sadako is based on one of the more famous stories about Onryo; the story arc is also letting others see what previously had been a pay only event with Emiko’s parents and that whole situation. We get new characters, a look into Emiko’s past, her family, and Erma gets new experiences in a surrounding where she isn’t one of the more powerful and scary beings around. I can see if you are frustrated if you don’t like arcs but were wanting only short comic strips like a newspaper comic.
And it makes the ghosts and monsters mundane and feels like a blurr of about a hundred manga I read.
All of the yokai come from Japanese folklore, and are used mostly within their types, some are rarely seen outside of Japanese media. So only mundane if you are used to them which you seem to be apparently. The other monsters in the series were not mysterious they were horror movie tropes, even the rat people. You are welcome to your opinion, I am only saying I disagree amd rather like the current arc of Erma for expanding on the background. That said for this comic I am not a fan of thia character and DBZ fits poorly with super hero tropes, a magical girl, Super Sentai, or Ultraman would be more super hero. But parody is what it is so let’s see where it goes
I have no issues with longer arcs.
Now I know which voice to read this in, thank you.
Now I shall fight you using the same move repeatedly and you using the same dodge repeatedly!
How can they be best buddies without having fought each other? How can they know each other without having fought each other? They are superheros! They can’t!
They’ve fought before, and only Wukong thinks Asstronomous is his buddy – as a reference to DBZ Abridged, where parody!Goku says “best buddy” a lot.
“How many Dragon Ball Z characters does it take to change a light bulb?”
“I don’t know…”
“Only one, but the new bulb will need three episodes to power up!”
I’ll show myself out…
I get that reference. (But from a few decades earlier than)
If admin follows through on it, we’ll know what the next strip’s panels will all consist of.
+earlier than DBZ
About Erma: well, if you consider that her mother is based heavily on Sadako (not Samara, I hate that name) from the Ringu movies, it was obvious that she came from Japan and I love how he is relating her with yokai, while sharing these mostly unknown legends to the western readers. What did you expected? Relating her to the more well-known bathroom killers from Urban legends?
This reminds me of one of the many reasons the original Dragon Ball is one of my favorites of the series; they actually fought, like martial arts, learned new techniques, used strategy, it wasn’t just powering up and lobbing energy blasts…which at this point is a real turn your brain off thing as they could destroy planets before but are like ten thousand times stronger now; so those energy blasts leaving the same sized craters when they miss…are they any more potent or something? Because now it has to be like throwing koosh balls at each other…then again they can somehow have bodies able to hold world ending levels of ki energy yet are still somehow hurt by bullets…despite in earlier series not being hurt by bullets…yeah “rule of cool” turn your brain off as things go boom.