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[gigastar]

Considering the Mantis' habit of eating its mate and young, I'd give it a miss.

Only females do that. Males are too small to overpower them.

 

[Nooners]

The joke was fine, I guess, I just wanted to say that the artwork is absolutely friggin' AMAZING here. I need to go wipe all the drool of my monitor after seeing that. Seriously, it's gorgeous.

 

[Eleuthera]

Did Erin move? When did she get a driveway?

 

[Bindal]

Seems the cast has grown once again by one member... I demand more Mantis in future comics!

Only females do that. Males are too small to overpower them.

So, the mantis should be worried?

 

[Renegade-pizza]

I did NOT see this coming and got a good laugh.

Erin, you take him back and lay your eggs in a host body so that he may inseminate them immediately!

 

[grey_space]

Awesome artwork.

And thank you for setting up joke for us old people

 

[PunkRex]

*Holds up boom box*

Shock the mantis,
Shock the mantis,
Shock the mantis to life!

 

[kajinking]

Don't worry he got a new job.

Now he works for EA!

 

[Tsaba]

that... was awesome. I didn't see it coming.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Nawww....

BTW, when I starting putting "Erin Stout" into google, the first suggested search is "Erin Stout Rule34".

Yeah...

 

[Mojo]

Considering the Mantis' habit of eating its mate and young, I'd give it a miss.

Maybe even a critical miss? [small]... I'm sorry...[/small]

Even by regular Escapist pun standards, that was poor...

I'll be going now...

BTW, when I starting putting "Erin Stout" into google, the first suggested search is "Erin Stout Rule34".

What? You cant be ... OH GOD! I guess the internet really does honor its rules.

 

[NathLines]

Now I'm expecting Blorkesh cameos in your future comics. Do not disappoint me.

EDIT: Also, how the hell did he fit in the car? If that is his car and he didn't walk all the way.

 

[Quantum Glass]

...Y'know, something just occurred to me.

Erin suffers from schizophrenia. She experiences hallucinations, and has a handful of other symptoms too. Usually, her hallucinations take the form of game characters, who-for the most part-stay, "In character." Kratos recognizes that he's Kratos, Link doesn't speak...they act like the characters she's imagining, by virtue of being her own hallucinations.

This Activision guy is acting like a normal hu--like a normal Activision employee, and Erin is treating him like he's a human. She went on a date with him, and her friends knew about him.

You can probably see what I'm getting at now. What if this guy is human?

 

[grigjd3]

Those Activision guys really will say anything...

Now I hurt even more.

 

[JJShaw]

making a gag strip about Activision, and it's... let's just say not exactly lovable ventures is business as usual.

following it up with this (I literally have no words to summarize the current strip) pretty much instantly makes you some kind of absurdist gods.

well done, good sirs. well done.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

What if that crazy mantis monster is actually a man? And we - all of us - are all suckered in by some kind of reverse They Live! scenario where we see Activision representatives, not as humans, but as mantis, unless we put on the special glasses that let us see their true forms?

It would explain why every time I see Bobby Kotick he's preening his mandibles.

 

[RJ 17]

BTW, when I starting putting "Erin Stout" into google, the first suggested search is "Erin Stout Rule34".

What? You cant be ... OH GOD! I guess the internet really does honor its rules.

Dear god.....it really IS out there.

Actually, I'm not surprised at all.

Is Critical Miss posted anywhere but here on the Escapist? If not, then that means we've some pervs in the audience here.

 

[Something Amyss]

This comic is entirely false!

We all know Activision employees have no self-awareness or initiative of their own. Why do think they're with Activision?

Also:

Onlooker: "Don't go back to it, it's evil!"
Mantis: "I know it is, but it's attractive!"

Which is why he's imitating a movie, obviously.

Of course, "In your eyes" was not intended for insect species. Too many of them.

 

[Rinshan Kaihou]

D'aww that's cute in a evil corporate giant mantis sort of way.

Nobody in the history of forever has ever said that before.

 

[Something Amyss]

What if that crazy mantis monster is actually a man? And we - all of us - are all suckered in by some kind of reverse They Live! scenario where we see Activision representatives, not as humans, but as mantis, unless we put on the special glasses that let us see their true forms?

It would explain why every time I see Bobby Kotick he's preening his mandibles.

I always wondered why a monster was wearing a sweater vest.