#015: Checkmate

[Kenjitsuka]

Lol, nice one! Really liking this series a lot, dudes!

 

[Fox12]

So that's why Americans have flags everywhere, it's to make sure that everyone knows they already have that land!

You mean you don't? Then how do you know which country your standing on? How do you know it loves freedom? Don't you get confused?

Spoiler

 

[whtkid6969]

Erin's 2-panel expression in the last part of this strip was ... worthy of being made into Avatars. Just edit a tad bit and it'll look like she's twitching out of anger + frustration + resisting to kill all of mankind in one setting. Hilarious comic man.

Eh?

 

[Darth_Payn]

So that's why Americans have flags everywhere, it's to make sure that everyone knows they already have that land!

You mean you don't? Then how do you know which country your standing on? How do you know it loves freedom? Don't you get confused?

Spoiler

Ah, the flag farms. Always an inspiring sight and an important part of our nation's agriculture. Strangely, those places use LESS water than the almond and alfalfa farms.

I claim this planet in the name of Mars.

Not if I disintegrate your flag, with my Disintegrator!
[pulls trigger]
Huh, whaddaya know. It disintegrated.

 

[BX3]

First Erin was my favorite character in this comic. Then Rad was. Now I think Gunnery Sargeant might be.

Cut this shit out, guys.

 

[Asclepion]

Funny as it was, what exactly is it mocking? There was literally no invading in Halo, it was all "raze to the ground and hang everyone by their intestines" with the Covenant. Same with the USNC.

The Covenant didn't annihilate the Grunts on their planet, or the Hunters.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I claim this planet in the name of Mars.

You got a flag, Mr. Martian? ;p

So that's why Americans have flags everywhere, it's to make sure that everyone knows they already have that land!

You mean you don't? Then how do you know which country your standing on? How do you know it loves freedom? Don't you get confused?

Spoiler

Ah, the flag farms. Always an inspiring sight and an important part of our nation's agriculture. Strangely, those places use LESS water than the almond and alfalfa farms.

I claim this planet in the name of Mars.

Not if I disintegrate your flag, with my Disintegrator!
[pulls trigger]
Huh, whaddaya know. It disintegrated.

Don't make me stick Gossamer on you.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

I claim this planet in the name of Mars.

You got a flag, Mr. Martian? ;p

So that's why Americans have flags everywhere, it's to make sure that everyone knows they already have that land!

You mean you don't? Then how do you know which country your standing on? How do you know it loves freedom? Don't you get confused?

Spoiler

Ah, the flag farms. Always an inspiring sight and an important part of our nation's agriculture. Strangely, those places use LESS water than the almond and alfalfa farms.

I claim this planet in the name of Mars.

Not if I disintegrate your flag, with my Disintegrator!
[pulls trigger]
Huh, whaddaya know. It disintegrated.

Don't make me stick Gossamer on you.

So long as you don't dress us up as rabbits and send the Abominable Snowman after us. <.<


That would be troublesome.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I claim this planet in the name of Mars.

You got a flag, Mr. Martian? ;p

So that's why Americans have flags everywhere, it's to make sure that everyone knows they already have that land!

You mean you don't? Then how do you know which country your standing on? How do you know it loves freedom? Don't you get confused?

Spoiler

Ah, the flag farms. Always an inspiring sight and an important part of our nation's agriculture. Strangely, those places use LESS water than the almond and alfalfa farms.

I claim this planet in the name of Mars.

Not if I disintegrate your flag, with my Disintegrator!
[pulls trigger]
Huh, whaddaya know. It disintegrated.

Don't make me stick Gossamer on you.

So long as you don't dress us up as rabbits and send the Abominable Snowman after us. <.<


That would be troublesome.

Nah, I'll just use the illudium Q-32 Space Modulator.

 

[praetor_alpha]

Unassailable logic if you ignore actual law, in particular the Outer Space Treaty that prevents nations claiming celestial bodies even if they have flags.

I wonder how long it will be before the people living there disagree.

 

[camazotz]

Funny as it was, what exactly is it mocking? There was literally no invading in Halo, it was all "raze to the ground and hang everyone by their intestines" with the Covenant. Same with the USNC.

I was thinking the same thing. One the one hand it was amusing, but it was clearly poking fun at a satirical not-Halo, so I was confused because the message wasn't actually related to the game. Sort of like satire by someone who only knows halo from a google search of images.

 

[Amir Kondori]

Unassailable logic if you ignore actual law, in particular the Outer Space Treaty that prevents nations claiming celestial bodies even if they have flags. Neil Armstrong was wasting his time.

Still, your clearly an Eddie Izzard fan and that's alright in my book.

That only matters because no nation can really do anything in space except a little exploration. You can bet once we can actually start mining and colonizing that this treaty will become meaningless.

 

[Ed James]

Too many 0's in the title this time. Are you doing this on porpoise sir?

 

[Ohlookit'sMatty]

I really hope the first panel in the next comic is of a huge alien flag

-M

 

[Rowan93]

I don't like this joke, in its many iterations. It basically relies on a weird dumb misconception - that there are or were people who actually believed putting a flag somewhere made that place yours. Raising a flag on a territory is just an official symbolic way of announcing "we own this place now".

Inb4 "it's a joke", dumb jokes are not made immune from criticism by the simple fact that they are jokes, at least respond in a more substantive way than that.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

In that case, I claim this thread in the name of Scotland.

Alba gu bràth and all that jazz. You can collect your complimentary kilts, Irn Bru and Tunnock's teacake on the way out.

I'm with you! Scots unite! First it will be this thread, then the entire site!

 

[Ed James]

inb4 thread has a referendum on independence

 

[zombiejoe]

Funny comic, but I'm not very sure what aspect of Halo you're really making fun of.

 

[BX3]

I don't like this joke, in its many iterations. It basically relies on a weird dumb misconception - that there are or were people who actually believed putting a flag somewhere made that place yours. Raising a flag on a territory is just an official symbolic way of announcing "we own this place now".

Inb4 "it's a joke", dumb jokes are not made immune from criticism by the simple fact that they are jokes, at least respond in a more substantive way than that.

*looks around*
But... no one...responded? Who're you talking to?