As you may recall, in an earlier strip, Dimitri conditioned himself to withstand stun lasers.
Today (Wednesday) Danielle Corsetto will be posting a fill-in comic I did for her, of her really fun strip Girls With Slingshots. Check it out! Read the archives (and buy her books). And to visitor’s from Daniell’s site, welcome! 🙂
Also, there was a very nice write-up by Professor Timonin about my body of work over at Apollo Fireweaver’s Reviews. Thanks, Apollo and Professor Timonin!
On topic of other people’s merchandise, I have a few more recommendations…
Tom Dell’Aringa’s store (books) but also pre-order for Volume#2 which includes a 2 page piece I did in it.
Howard Tayler’s Schlock Mercenary (books!)
Indigo Kelleigh’s (of Ellie Connoly) Store (8-Bit Tarot Deck and buttons)
(and do not forget my own Online Store, or that original Spacetrawler strips go for only $80, or my Little Dee strips for sale.)
….my gods Dimitri how is it that everything you do that seems stupid turns out to be awesome?
I am enjoying his facial expressions. He seems to get some sexual kick out of laser blasting.
oh, Gods, that first alien with three oranges for eyes and a brown trunk thing is ugleee….and hilarious.
Hey, so I don’t usually comment on this–Lord knows why–but I just had to say that I love this strip SO MUCH and I pretty much died of happiness when I saw that you did a guest strip for Girls with Slingshots–this comic continues to be full of sci-fi awesomness, and I love how helpful Dmitri is being. Shocking, ne? Hee, I love the expressions in this comic especially. Keep up ze good work!
(And I am just waiting for you to throw out some crazy plot twist I never saw coming which will shock me into a coma of AWESOME. I will pull out of it just to read the next strip. You know it. 🙂
@Matt, awesome. Now I know what to draw on your Christmas card.
Thanks, @Amber! In the future I will aim to put you in a coma. 😉
I love how he doesn’t even drop his drink. And how his facial expressions run the gamut from hilarious to ‘reincarnated serial killer’
hehehe! that is Classic Dimitri!
Just discovered this via GWS – I saw your name on the guest strip, said, “Hey, wait, wasn’t that the same guy that did Bruno?”, and have proceeded to read through the whole archive here. Um, AWESOME. And now that I know that you’re doing director’s commentary-esque things on your old strips, I am totally going to give myself that as a reason for re-reading.
Excellent.
Absolutely love this one! The last panel almost made me fell off my chair laughing.
@Tomb — I know!!
When we first met Dimitri, I thought, “Eh, not bad…” but didn’t really think much more about him. But it wasn’t too long before he, Pierrot , and Emily became my top favored characters.
I love that Dmitri doesn’t even try to get quicker on the draw.
I love that Dmitri not only doesn’t spill, but continues to sip as he goes.
I love the facial expressions.
I love that Dmitri has basically invented a superpower for himself.
But most of all, I love that even though he essentially asked for a battle mech, Dmitri’s so damn happy with his field trip pass.
Brilliant strip!
Glad you liked the review, and I hope that I can write more nice things about future projects.
Dmitri’s mother would be so very proud.
Lord know I am.
First time I’ve commented – I should have long before, though. This strip’s punchline is so artfully done, it had me gasping for breath. And people find it difficult to make me laugh (though I find things funny, I just…don’t laugh). The long build-up, the expectations for something massive, gaudy, and destructive, only to have it reduced in an instant to the simplest (and most logical) solution possible, makes this my favorite gag of the strip so far. And that’s saying a lot, because I find all of the strips hilarious. Thanks for the great work!
Thanks for mention Chris, and CONGRATS ON 100 strips! Woot! This one was great fun, I did immediately remember that he was zapping himself. Hilarious!
Geez, that man is fearless.
One of my little cousins was born in Russia. I’ll have to introduce him to Dimitri (when he’s a bit older).
Hahaha! One of my favorite strips yet. He doesn’t even spill his drink: awesome.
EUREKA! IT WORKS! AND WITH MINIMAL O-FACE INTERFERENCE!
Must be kind of terrifying to the guards that he doesn’t go down when they zap him…
I laughed out loud at the last panel! Sweeeet! I am a little jealous of people who are just discovering this strip because they can sit down and read all of them one after another in the archive and not have to wait for the next one. The stretch between Wednesday and Monday can be especially long.
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LOL! I literally laughed Out Loud. Literally.
he’s like the russian equivalent of Julian from the Trailer park boys. always with his drink. never spilling.
the last panel had me fall sideways on the couch laughing.
That is so crazy-funny! While I don’t really like Dimitri (too much like some flaky “friends” in my past), Da-um! he is funny! And literally LOL’ed too.
Awwww…. You guys are full of sweetness today! Thank you!
12/08/10 Dimitri’s March http://j.mp/f5aluK via @AddToAny – Spacetrawler's hilarious 100th strip.
Eebs: The next step in counterfeiting
Eeb sighting! Today’s Scenes From a Multiverse: bit.ly/gQ0n1w
Oooooh boy. I’ve been laughing so hard at the last panel! You’ve been reaching new levels of awesome, Chris. Please don’t stop!
oh gawd I love Dimitri! You do the best expressions! 😀
Heads up: While looking for all the strips that are tagged for Growp, I found that the strip for 11/17/10 is not tagged at all. Should be tagged for both Emily and Growp.
11/17/10 Discussing Sides
Thanks for the heads-up, @JKCarroll! Fixed!
Note to Christopher: JKCarroll’s last post is pure evidence that your fans have become obsessive. Congrats!
@Matt, obsessive? What, me obsessive? Never!
I just wanted to check to make sure I knew where all the characters are. Let’s see…
Emily is running for her life from Growp, moving away from the ship, as well as away from the maintenance tube where she left a romantically-discombobulated Pierrot handcuffed with a plate of hand-made peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and a relationship-challenged pottybot;
Martina is in places unknown, having just “shown her ID” to a logically-challenged Dustin and probably trying to figure out how to haul his Australian derriere back to the ship;
Yuri is trying to right herself so she can have her do-over while Nogg is in the evil clutches (do spaghetti fingers clutch, slither, or entangle?) of Kuu-Drahc;
And Dmitri is busy leading the way on the Eeb Field Trip (do you think they’ll get to see how they milk space cows?) (And did all the Eebs have to get their parents to sign a permission slip?)
I think that’s everybody.
But me, obsessing? No! I can quit reading this any time I want to. I just don’t want to right now. I’m going to wait until after Monday’s strip. Yeah, that’s what I’ll do…
The problem with Dmitri’s strategy is that when the enemy figures out that you’re immune to stun lasers, they don’t stop shooting you. They just stop shooting you with stun lasers.
(See also: Dmitri vs. the Bollycks.)
@John, that’s the problem in dealing with high-tech all the time: you forget that before there was high-tech, there was (and still is) low-tech. I mean, how many years has Nogg been dealing with Bollycks? He could have had everyone (well, maybe not Krep, although those tentacles appear pretty flexible) with AR-15s. But he (and the great majority of GOB members, apparently) are so used to pushing buttons that they don’t even consider options that DON’T involve pushing buttons.
This is rapidly becoming OUR lot, too — just look at everyone’s reaction to the last panel of today’s strip: a low-tech solution when a high-tech (and high-powered) solution was expected.
@JKCarroll Except Nogg busted out a SPEAR and took it to the Bollycks.
Yeah, all of the crew, upon figuring out that the opposition was immune to lasers, busted out non-laser solutions: bullets, spear, aggressive stupidity, bludgeoning, attempted domestication, biting sarcasm, ship’s cannons… they just weren’t prepared for it because they weren’t expecting laser-immune boarders to drop in. And, as Krep points out, spraying bullets around on a starship may not be a particularly good general solution (even assuming that the particular alien menace you’re dealing with is one of the seemingly rare ones that isn’t immune to bullets).
The G.O.B. goons are currently not expecting and not prepared for someone immune to stun lasers, but that doesn’t mean that they will always be unprepared.
But now I’m wondering what the plan is in case of Bollycks taking the G.O.B. Eebs on an unvalidated field trip…
Best expressions on Dmitri’s face! So funny!!!
Dmitri’s facial expressions made me laugh so hard I woke people up.
Currently, it’s 3 AM.
Oops.
ZAP!
*Sip*
‘sup?
This is fucking priceless. Brilliant work man, thanks for the laughs.
Agree with everybody else: this one had me in stitches!
I just laughed for at least 15 minutes straight. WELL DONE SIR.
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Of the SpaceTrawler comics, I think this is my fav so far. Dmitri has developed a tolerance for the stun setting. http://ow.ly/1tHF9F
I know you’re already hashing out your own plans for T-Shirts, but I love this page, and others seem to adore it too–perhaps it would be good for a shirt! It wouldn’t have to be the whole page, maybe just panels 11 through 15, or 9 through 15 if you want the joke to be clearer to people who have never read the actual comic. Maybe a tagline underneath, like “Friends Don’t Let Friends Shoot First” (if that hasn’t already been used on someone else’s merchandise.)
Stun resistance = WIN
http://t.co/cBGnHV8o
Dimitri has Adapted. Resistance is futile.