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December 9, 2010 7:13 PM

Manly Guys Doing Manly Things. The title should explain itself.
posted by lauratheexplorer (24 comments total)

Oh, I don't know.
posted by cog_nate at 7:29 PM on December 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

That is great. I didn't think I had room in my heart/RSS reader for another video game webcomic, but I was wrong.
posted by danb at 7:40 PM on December 9, 2010

Listen. I like to do manly things. But, I like (baby) to do them with you.
posted by moonbird at 7:44 PM on December 9, 2010

This reminds me a lot of Fanboys -- the art style, the exagerrated expressions, the video game focus, and especially the bearded bad-ass/wimpy sidekick/levelheaded token female dynamic. If you like this, you'll probably like that.
posted by Rhaomi at 7:46 PM on December 9, 2010

The title should explain itself.

Yeah, the title perhaps explains itself, but leaves out a lot about the comic, like the fact that it's basically a series of in-jokes about video game characters.

Most of which apparently I get. The one about the big daddy especially had me chuckling.
posted by dubitable at 7:47 PM on December 9, 2010 [2 favorites]

Link busting up Ganon's flower pots because he thought they might have rupees made me laugh.
posted by Existential Dread at 8:01 PM on December 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

>Yeah, the title perhaps explains itself, but leaves out a lot about the comic, like the fact that it's basically a series of in-jokes about video game characters.

and the fact that it's a webcomic.
posted by xbonesgt at 8:04 PM on December 9, 2010 [2 favorites]

In the caption for this one she says, Last two weeks of my Ugly Americans contract coming up, it’s the big push to the finish. So a perfessional, evidently.

Review at Webcomic Overlook.
posted by XMLicious at 8:05 PM on December 9, 2010

OK, who else read the blond guy's dialog in Brock Samson's voice?
posted by dirigibleman at 8:51 PM on December 9, 2010 [6 favorites]

I really enjoyed the Pyramid Head one.
posted by Evernix at 8:54 PM on December 9, 2010

Yeah, panel 5 of that one owns. [guttural snarl] ayyyyyyyyyyyy [/guttural snarl]

Trying to figure out what Pyramid Head's doing with his hands in panel 7 though.
posted by Existential Dread at 9:08 PM on December 9, 2010

Actually, I think this is pretty damn funny.
posted by Edgewise at 9:53 PM on December 9, 2010

Okay, I don't know what the Commander is smoking, that was totally Sense and Sensibility.

And this is the first time in quite awhile I've taken such a shine to a comic, but there weren't nearly enough archives there for a proper late-night binge! Now I'm just going to have to actually keep up...
posted by gracedissolved at 11:33 PM on December 9, 2010

This is amazing. I may be the only person I know who will fully appreciate the Kratos / Carrie one. Thanks for posting!
posted by yellowbinder at 12:32 AM on December 10, 2010

I'm disappointed and glad that the archives don't stretch back that much. I would have wasted a lot more time otherwise. Well, not "wasted".
This is now in my feed reader. Thanks!
posted by _Lasar at 3:18 AM on December 10, 2010

What's a "yanno?" Is it something Japanese?
posted by ook at 6:45 AM on December 10, 2010

Hey, it's just this word, yanno?
posted by Snyder at 7:15 AM on December 10, 2010 [1 favorite]

Up next: ladies doing ladylike things.
posted by gjc at 7:42 AM on December 10, 2010

oooooooh
posted by ook at 8:10 AM on December 10, 2010

OK, who else read the blond guy's dialog in Brock Samson's voice?

I came in here to ask when the lawsuit starts because seriously.
posted by DU at 8:50 AM on December 10, 2010

I came for manly men, but all I found was nerdy men writing nerdy comics. ;)

...and I didn't get the jokes.
posted by Stagger Lee at 9:18 AM on December 10, 2010

I added it to my RSS reader. Sorta hoping they have gay porn week where the Manly Men do Manly Things to each other with their Manly Manness.
posted by msbutah at 10:47 AM on December 10, 2010

Puts me in the mood for a Mantage.
posted by CaseyB at 12:51 PM on December 10, 2010

Stagger Lee: "I came for manly men, but all I found was nerdy men writing nerdy comics. ;)

...and I didn't get the jokes"

Nerdy woman, actually. She's pretty fantastic.

Fun fact: This started out as an entry to the Escapist's webcomic contest but lost to, uh, this. I'm not exactly sure why.
posted by flatluigi at 2:30 AM on December 12, 2010