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GOF DAY ONE - THE ACTION BEGINS Tuesday, February 14, 2006 • read strip Viewing 47 comments:

It's really easy to miss, what with the picture of the guy getting his teeth knocked out dominating the frame, but if you look towards the bottom of the panel, somebody's engaging in Full Moon Kung Fu.

In the Great Outdoor Fight, you must use every asset available to you.

That also seems to include a dude with what looks like a hairbrush to the right of the ass-ets guy.

it's a boot.

No, further right.

speaking of that, what's with the dude with the pipe? Are weapons allowed in the GOF, and if so, why doesn't everyone use them?

Perhaps found in the yard?

According to the rules , the contestants have been allowed to use any object found on the Acres since 1932. So it must have been carelessly left on the premises, because I really can't fathom how a man could smuggle a four foot long lead pipe in without being noticed.

Wait, sir, asses, assets, assestbar... I think you just made a double-meta-pun! Somebody promote this man.

Also, that the teeth are being knocked out by a disembodied arm.

I'm proud to be this comments 101st chubby!

What's even better is that it couldn't have been spontaneous. That guy's been right outside the entire time thinking "I'm going to go up to the first guy I see and moon the fuck out of him."

yeah that's outta the blue

And then there's the graphic depiction of a kick right inbetween the nuts.

hard enough to knock the dude's pants off

More of a stomp

If my backyard at 5 this morning is any indication cats really fucking love fighting outdoors and in large groups

Although I think perhaps the noises you're hearing aren't ALL fighting noises. This puts a different spin on what might go on at the GOF.

The prospect of buying several cats, and forcing them to watch Van Damme films until they conduct an annual fighting tournament leaves a sliver of hope in my otherwise gray, meagerly apportioned life on this Earth.

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the bald guy on the left side is receiving the James Tiberius Kirk Double Fist to the top of the head

Shatnered Skull.

commonly called a "hardboiled egg" in my primary school. Hurt much more than the "soft-boiled egg" but wasn't quite as realistic.

and according to the alt-text, most of these guys are from circumstances

didn't Roast Beef think three dollars was a good price for wine during his date with Molly?

Beef knows that only a fool gets into the opening-minutes fight just inside the door. It is completely for amateurs.

Well, of course...he learned it from Rodney...

[IMGS OFF]

The fighting is good, but watching Beef intellectualize his way through the fight is what really juices me up!

so you'll notice, all the people getting the shit beat out of them have moustaches

..just like in real life?

This means someone needs to hand the frontman for Weezer his own ass.


please.

Beef is assertive.

i would be to if the only way to escape death was in a corner of a place.

wow.

fail.

TOO.

That sure looks like Perfect Ron Sipes getting his teeth knocked out.

cat fight?

This is probably just a strange product of my youth, but that shutter that acts as a door to the Acres reminds me a bit of the old school Mega Man games. The ones on the NES, before Capcom ruined the series by trying to give it a storyline.

I hate to be "that guy," but you were four years old when the last NES Mega Man game came out.

I know. I played them from the time I was 3, though. Mega Man 3 was the first video game I ever played. I sucked at it for a couple years more, but the NES ones are still way better than the crap Capcom pumps out now.

This reminds me of when people are surprised I know old Beatles and Dylan songs. They were recorded.

It had a storyline from the beginning, actually.

Yes, it did, so I guess I worded that poorly. The story in the NES games was pretty thin, it must be said, but it was present, and it worked. The series was fine up until about Mega Man X4, and then it all went to hell.

Although no-one is jumping onto the door as it opens so that it pulls them through onto the next screen.

Mega Man II = <3

Re-reading this arc with the assetbar commentary.

Looking at the last panel of this one, I thought to myself "Damn, I bet a lot of the Fighters end up getting D/Q'ed in the first few hours." Then I read Panel 2 of the next strip...

Onstad, you magnificent bastard.

I am there. And the other 2999 players are there. And it´s just the 3000 of us. And I put the other players´ body in my van. And I am the winner

three dollars IS a good price for wine, dammit. Don't judge me.

Directly below the WHACK: a distant relative of Lyle's?

I'll be honest, you have to want it.

GOF could be a dope film in the same vein as Battle Royale.