24 Responses to “Absence Makes the Wait Feel Longer”

1. 1 Noodle_93 Posted: Dec 5th, 2007 at 2:42 pm

   Frame 3 looks awesome. I wonder if there’s anyone who won’t get it. Reply to this comment.

2. 2 Tristan Posted: Dec 5th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

   wow. thats cool. btw, that glowing orb under the stage looks like its from the melee stage “battlefield”. was that an accident (like you thought it was in that stage, but it wasnt), or intentional (like an inside joke or something)? or did just put it in because it looked cool? Reply to this comment.

3. 3 Tristan Posted: Dec 5th, 2007 at 3:37 pm

   oh btw, the new news on the brawl site, says that if a player on standby (holding a smash ball) takes damage, they can FUMBLE the smash ball and drop it, meaning another player could take it. interesting! much more so than freind codes! XD Reply to this comment.

4. 4 Ray Posted: Dec 5th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

   …that glowing orb under the stage looks like its from the melee stage “battlefield”. Was that an accident or intentional? I tried to stay as true as possible to Brawl (right down to the text itself), and the orb underneath is actually present in the Brawl version of Battlefield. oh btw, the new news on the brawl site, says that if a player on standby (holding a smash ball) takes damage, they can FUMBLE the smash ball and drop it, meaning another player could take it. interesting! much more so than freind codes! XD Yes…. except we had already known nearly all of those things from experiencing it first-hand at E For All, but that doesn’t mean I’m allowed to complain. So I won’t. Reply to this comment.

5. 5 Narnian Posted: Dec 5th, 2007 at 5:09 pm

   Funny comic. It still hurts to see anything Brawl related, though. It’s like trying to clean a paper cut by pouring lemon juice on it. Yowch. Reply to this comment.

6. 6 David Posted: Dec 5th, 2007 at 7:20 pm

   LOL. That was great! I added this on StumbleUpon. Great comic. Keep up the fantastic work, guys! David Reply to this comment.

7. 7 Zhinker Posted: Dec 5th, 2007 at 8:43 pm

   Lol, that was sorely needed. Btw, thanks for putting up the vectors. I’m kinda interested in learning how to draw pictures like that and the vectors are pretty helpful in seeing what you did. Reply to this comment.

8. 8 lwelyk Posted: Dec 5th, 2007 at 8:54 pm

   The updates are getting ridiculous. Me and a few forum friends had fun making up new ones, here’s my favorite: “I was thinking of how I could surprise you all, and now I have the perfect idea…” “Mario’s Overalls are BLUE!” *picture of mario* “BLUUUUUUUEEEE!” “If I had to call it something, it would be… blue” “I hope people don’t want mauve overalls, I’m not sure if I can do that…” “also, I have this new song of me singing how much I hate the Earthbound series. You can almost hear the Americans crying in the background! It’s so… powerful.” “If I had to call it something, it would be… HA HA NO MOTHER 3 FOR YOU!” Reply to this comment.

9. 9 VFDroid Posted: Dec 5th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

   Heh. That was great. I’m not sure I understand the comment about Paper Mario, however… Reply to this comment.

10. 10 Ray Posted: Dec 5th, 2007 at 10:33 pm

    Heh. That was great. I’m not sure I understand the comment about Paper Mario, however… I added it towards the last moment to set up the last panel’s text balloons. The idea is that the Paper Mario series is full of so much reading, that their entire staff is only writers. Reply to this comment.

11. 11 Daniel Posted: Dec 6th, 2007 at 6:52 am

    Great comic Since it seems like you guys are creating a new top graphic for each new comic, I hope you create an archive of them so that we can see them again after the next one comes up. Reply to this comment.

12. 12 EL CH33S3 Posted: Dec 6th, 2007 at 10:13 am

    HAHAHA! Great stuff… especially panel three. It looks very cool. Reply to this comment.

13. 13 Lava Posted: Dec 6th, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Great Jeaaoorrb! Love Smash, and Sonic is a cool character. Once again, a very lovely comic. Reply to this comment.

14. 14 Dj75728 Posted: Dec 6th, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    Great comic guys, keep it up! Reply to this comment.

15. 15 Anon Posted: Dec 6th, 2007 at 3:14 pm

    Writers? Since when did Sonic have writers? LOL Reply to this comment.

16. 16 Troy Posted: Dec 7th, 2007 at 3:06 am

    I have a love/hate relationship with Sonic games. I try to love them all, but hate admitting that. Great comic though, keep up the good work. Reply to this comment.

17. 17 hyper dude Posted: Dec 7th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    when did sonic failed? Reply to this comment.

18. 18 Andrew Posted: Dec 9th, 2007 at 7:31 am

    This a great comic guys. The art is particularly good this week, kudos Ray. I really love the papers and Masahiro’s hair flying about as Sonic whooshes towards him on panel 8. The nice, blue speed effect coming off Sonic is great too. Reply to this comment.

19. 19 A Visitor Posted: Dec 9th, 2007 at 9:27 am

    This comic is alright, but come on, you’re still riding the Sonic bashing/mocking train and thinking it’s funny? Strangely enough, in this comic you’re saying that Sonic has no writers while in a previous comic you complained about the abundance of text in Sonic Rush Adventure, which was obviously written by a writer, don’t you think? Maybe not a particularly gifted writer, but when I look at the nonsense that many of those TV writers on strike use to churn out, or at other games (Super Mario Galaxy had such an elaborate story, didn’t it?), then it doesn’t seem so bad at all. Cheers. Reply to this comment.

20. 20 MKava Posted: Dec 9th, 2007 at 11:25 am

    Heh, nice comic. Much like how the Mario titles (main series only) have so very little story, Sonic was rarely different. But how much story do you need to know that Dr. Eggman is bad? He’s a fat man turning little animals into robots for his evil bidding.. and you, Sonic, must stop him. Same rough amount of story as the Mario games, still fun to play both. Story isn’t important at times, so writers aren’t too terribly needed at times. …I forgot what I was going to say before I started to ramble. So.. um… nice comic. I’m jealous of the art even though I’m a more traditional artist instead of using digital means (I am experienced with both though). Nice artwork and nice joke about the Paper Mario staff. Reply to this comment.

21. 21 Gage Schmitz Posted: Dec 10th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

    The answer for the dec 10 edition of trivia for you the answer is Yoshiys story! Reply to this comment.

22. 22 Gage Schmitz Posted: Dec 10th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

    I mean Yoshi’s Story Reply to this comment.

23. 23 Gage Schmitz Posted: Dec 10th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    Trivia for you answer is Yoshi’s Story I think when you die or out of shyguys! Reply to this comment.

24. 24 CHUK Posted: Dec 17th, 2007 at 5:53 pm

    I agree the updates lately have been HORRIBLE, seriously WTF nintendo… The friend codes one was probably the worse because I am a competitive smasher and they ahd a tag real men use items… Reply to this comment.