As promised, the double-sized issue that ties in with this week’s Imperial Guard Codex release!
Bacon and Eggleston take a back seat this issue, and we get to hear some of the other members of the 401st react to Captain Haddock & Sergeant Pantry’s speeches.
Panel 1 Company command stands on a landing platform filled with audio gear. Sergeant Pantry is holding a pair of grenades. Lieutenant Quail is trying to fix the broken Vox Haddock: *-anks to Sgt. Pantry for that definitive demonstration of the difference between a Frag and a Krak grenade; hopefully this will put an end to the confusion! Panel 2 Close on Capt. Haddock Haddock: Imperial High Command acting in the Emperor's Wisdom, has seen fit to re-organize the Imperial Guard on the eve of battle. But be not wary, for in their wisdom the authorities of the Departmento Munitorium have promised the transition will be painless. Panel 3 Haddock: I have codified the new doctrines and have passed it onto each of your lieutenants, in turn they will ensure that all steps for organization are taken. Panel 4 Shot of the audience where Specialists Coffey and Fryes are conversing Haddock (off panel): ...ordnances which do not comply with the new doctrines. A number of items due for recall are outstanding; of specific concern is a missing Powerfist. Coffey: Hey, didn't Cake give the sarge a Powerfist just last week? Fryes: Yup. Coffey: You don't think he would'a... Fryes: Probably. Panel 5 Haddock (off panel): ...more serious matters. The Ork "Waaagh!" which has been plaguing this world has gone on along enough and it's up to the 401st to make the filthy Greenskins pay! Coffey: Gonna be trouble? Fryes: Yup. Panel 6 Back to Captain Haddock on stage Haddock: I have full confidence that we shall prove ourselves capable of defending this land our Emperor has deemed we must protect and even though great tracts of the once mighty Imperium have fallen into the grip of the Greenskin and all the odious apparatus of its rule, we shall not falter. Panel 7 Ninety Minutes Later Haddock: ...even if this ground were subjugated and starving, then the Imperium beyond the stars, armed and guarded by the Imperial Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in His good time, the Emperor, with all His power and might, would step forth to the rescue and the liberation of us all. Panel 8 Sergeant Pantry joins Captain Haddock on stage Haddock: ...deployment orders have been routed to Platoon Leaders. All Guardsmen are to report to Sergeant Pantry for their kits - they've been designed special for you lads and I want to see you work them. Pantry: Thank you, Captain. Alright troopers, each of you will be charged with a kit containing... Panel 9 Shot of the audience where Specialists Cake and Salton are conversing Pantry (off panel): ...M-G standard Lasgun, remember to cite all appropriate litanies while cleaning your weapon... 4 Frag grenades... 4 spare power packs... Cake: Pfft! Some demonstration... I still think Pantry was holding two Frag grenades! Salton: No he wasn't; Frag Grenades look like pineapples - Kraks look like oranges. Panel 10 Cake looks perturbed Pantry (off panel): ...1 Lasgun maintenance kit consisting of: 1 bottle of Sacred Ungent of Cleansing... oiling agent... 1 blessed soft-cloth for swabbing... and sanctioned cleaning agent... Panel 11 Pantry (off panel): ...1 set of combat fatigues... 4 pairs of socks... 1 winterized greatcoat - what? Well where did you put them? Cake: Wait... what's a pineapple?
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Loving this web strip, cant wait for more.
I believe the silly names were in honour of TSOALR.
http://tsoalr.com/?p=634
I don’t particularly like the foody names, but am greatly enjoying the comic anyway, and will probably continue to do so until the names seem as natural as any others.
Losing them for extant charachters now would seem to be a bad idea.
Where did Bacon and Eggelston go? I miss them! In only 3 “webisodes” I’ve already become attached. I hope to see them in #5!
Love the comic, love the names. Just keep on going, and don’t let anyone else dissuade you from your vision.
I think the food names are absoultely hillarous. Its a “themed army.” Its like in Turn Signals on a Landraider where the Sargents are named Magnolia, Maple, Mountain Ash, Yellow Pine, Tulip Popular and Yew. http://www.hughesd.co.uk/tsoalr/chars.htm
Heck maybe the Ministoriam keeps on intended to send food supplies to the 401rst but they keep on getting soldiers instead due to a clerical error. As someone who has painted and named all her Brettonian Knights Errant after Monty Python characters I find it refreshing.
TSOALR has been successful enough, and it’s kept up a tree-related theme for the entire series. I don’t see how this food one is any better or worse. I think it’s funny enough, so far.
You guys are doing a great job. I still think this art direction is excellent, and I’m getting drawn into the story already.
TSOALR largely ignored the tree related theme throughout its existance, the vast, vast majority of the strips deal with Kren, Frep, Harkon and Jack. Turn Signals was also set in a world looking at a model’s eye view who are subject to the whims of their owners and this parodies the often ludicrous themes some people use when building their armies and in any case is not carried through with every character- most notably none of the main characters. It’s a completely different setting from Gone to Ground, in GtG there’s no escaping it since everyone so far has these themed names.
As for Monty Python – Bretonian Knights, assuming you’ve used Quest for the Holy Grail names this fits fine since these are names of Knights of legend and are actual names, it makes sense. If they’d been called them “Sir Lentils” and “Sir Foodmixer” then they would just sound daft, but no worse than Captain Haddock.
i starting reading this comic, it is very well drawn but i have to agree with half these comments, the food names arnt funny, they are just a bit — crap?
I will there were more jokes other than whats a pineapple, i didnt even snigger im sorry. THe 2nd one was good, but using fruit for laughs>?
I think it’s a great well laid out comic. The food names are funny and shouldn’t detract anyone from the comic. People really can’t say whether the comic is well or badly written until more are written I mean they are setting mood and setting for this world. The pineapple joke was funny with the theme of guardsmen. Recruits aren’t the worlds influential they’re the poor and downtrodden.
As someone who was really jazzed a few months ago at the (apparently false) rumors of “Greatcoat Guard” plastics, I appreciate that joke in the last panel. Very witty. Hopefully someone who works at GW will read this…
Are the food-related names meant to mean that this regiment is going to be ‘the enemies lunch?’