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January 19th, 2010 at 12:07 am
(Well I feel like a dork commenting on the wrong thing but I’ll just put in what I had posted eairler here)
BWUAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! I WAS RIGHT!
I knew he had a crush on her!
January 19th, 2010 at 12:30 am
Ok. Either we need to change the channel or Mentle is going to blow lightning bolts out of his butt. Can we say juvenile stalker in an adults body?
January 19th, 2010 at 12:30 am
Yatta-Ta has a cruuush.
January 19th, 2010 at 12:47 am
*facepalm*
January 19th, 2010 at 1:03 am
Heheh Ayup
January 19th, 2010 at 1:57 am
“I mean, when I was training, “HE SAID”"…. He Who??? I believe that is the answer that will reveal what really drives Yatta-ta.
Great page JED. And don’t worry about the “Talky, talky.” that’s what we like about this comic, the character development. Keep up the great work.
January 19th, 2010 at 1:59 am
Sorry for the double post, but, with all of the “I Mean’s” does anyone else hear Arlo Guthrie form Alice’s Restaurant?
January 19th, 2010 at 4:10 am
*snicker* Poor Yatta-ta. I still think there is more to him than he pretends there is here, but he is as confused as any teenager.
And seconding Lebbrin. Keep them talking. It’s a nice change of pace.
January 19th, 2010 at 4:57 am
Should have guessed !
Oh, and Doc Alaska: I saw what you did there.
January 19th, 2010 at 5:55 am
I think it was the ‘ee-yup’ that got me laughing.
January 19th, 2010 at 7:18 am
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! “Can you pass her this note???”
January 19th, 2010 at 8:02 am
Ha ha ha! Mentl is great. He’s used to hear drunk people from the parties he’s been to in our world, I imagine, and so doesn’t really care to much about Yatta-ta’s rambling.
I think this is where Mentl explains that he’s Zona’s boyfriend.
January 19th, 2010 at 8:33 am
ROFL. I was wondering and with Tula walking off with Red… Now we need to have several of the ladies decide to change their luck with a city dude while his inhibitions are suppressed.
Mentl tells Zona and Zona simply asks the ladies if there are any of them that thinks they can work off a crush on her. That should do it.
Then we can find out who the trainer was. That could be real interesting.
January 19th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Ya know, all this mead-soaked feast is a little music. Mentl? key of G?
Thanks Lebbrin, I don’t feel so old now!
“…I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I’m
sittin’ here on the bench, I mean I’m sittin here on the Group W bench
’cause you want to know if I’m moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug.” -Arlo Guthrie, Alices’ Restaraunt
January 19th, 2010 at 11:08 am
Oh, good lord, Yatta’s a talkative drunk! And it looks like he may not have much alcohol tolerance at all, either. Which may just be the reason why he’s unburdening himself to the only other non-Erogenian there, who happens to be (effectively) living with the object of his affections. Now I imagine Mentl is just thinking if he knows a song to get Yatta to either sober up or nod drunkenly off to sleep.
January 19th, 2010 at 11:09 am
And I can’t say that Tula’s gone off with the redheaded guy. To me it just looks like he’s trying to chat her up, and he got her to laugh.
January 19th, 2010 at 11:16 am
“You see this golden tankard? This golden tankard right here? This gold tankard is AWESOME to drink Metheglin out of.”
At least that’s what I figure she’s saying.
January 19th, 2010 at 11:26 am
Looking at Yatta’s *hic* while talking to Mentl, I was wondering something…..
Who is so important, so secret, or both, who Yatta will not mention even when drunk? He quickly changes tack mid-sentence from “someone specific told me about Zona” to “I just heard stories from random people about Zona.” Interesting to see how he’s related to this mystical person, and what Yatta owes this person to keep such a secret even when drunk.
Good job!
January 19th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Oh , this is too funny! LOL
January 19th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Niiice! The plot thickens.
1st the mysterious swordmaster, then Mentl´s stumbles over his old not too little self-image problem.
Now he´s gona have to face the green eyed monster when watching how his girl likes to play with this manly oaf who has a total crush on her.
Wonder if Zonie will actually have a clue about it all, or if I´m totally on the wrong track.
January 19th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
I swear I heard that guy from the Top Gear show say that last line when I read it
January 19th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
sorry Top Gear is a car show on the BBC, think of a car show that had hosts that while also talking about serious stuff about cars ALSO did cool stuff kinda like in Mythbusters
January 19th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Agreed re the dialog and character development; absolutely wonderful!
The build-up to the last panel is great - if I hadn’t had the foresight to swallow my coffee and put the mug down, I’d be replacing at least my keyboard! And the position of Yatta’s hands in that last panel - yup, Teenager
January 19th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Yep, Yatta-ta has got it BAD! props to the Arlo reference too, I totally get that. Mentl, maybe you need to sing Yatta-ta away with “sitting on the dock of the bay” ?
January 19th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Yatta, dear, your hands need to be just a little further apart to be right for Zona’s cupsize.
Oh, sorry, wasn’t that what he was indicating while saying how amazing Zona is?
January 19th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
@Lora… No, he’s just using TWO hands to indicate ONE boob.
That’s how big they are.
I could go on and on about how awesome this comic is and how funny Yatta is and whatnot, but people before me have done that already. What I want to say is I LOVE ZONA’S HAIR. It’s all floaty and pretty and not-quite-tamed and it looks SO COOL and I have no idea how even such an amazing artist with a computer could make it look so real. It is the hair that I, as a child, dreamed of having when I was grown up. It is AMAZING.
/fangirly hair-rant
January 19th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Yup - Yatta’s hand position in the last panel sure indicates just what he finds so amazing about Zona. BTW - smashing job on those trees! Very realistic! Can almost here the leaves rustling.
And I’m just going to point out that Mentl is drinking responsibly - out of a relatively small horn - looks like less than a pint glass. And Yatta’s tankard is big enough to be a pitcher and STILL there’s a pitcher right next to him for more. No surprise that he’s getting a bit tipsy.
Love ‘Red’ going after Tula again.
January 19th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Ooh, nice catch mish_lady. I missed that. Yes, that was a definite re-direct. He almost spilled some beans there. Now we have to wait a few more pages to find out… More late night refreshing of pages hoping for a Zona fix.
JED, the depth you put to this. Incredible. /bows I hope more are donating because it’s definitely worth it and you deserve it.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Yatta -ta’s one love struck Jock. I have to say I do connect with this guy on levels that I so long ago put behind me. Good thing I married my own Zona, she’s just a little shorter is all. Thank you JED for such a fun and happy interlude between all the evil doings.
Now more Mead for all.
January 20th, 2010 at 12:35 am
I love that he is drunk and Mentl is sober it helps illustrate the comparative maturity of the two characters as well as fitting their personalities in general. I think Tula did run off w/red hair boy but we’ll see.
I did notice how Yatta redirected even while drunk. I am beginning to believe he is the prince of his country and his father told him about his visit to Zona and her people and probably mentioned Zona by name as well. Probably Yatta is the youngest son/nephew of the King. He could be the Heir…but I don’t see them letting the Heir run around unescorted. That is not to say he could not become the Heir some day….
I love the fangirl rant about Zona’s hair Kit-Kat hon I was impressed with it myself actually. I was wondering how long Jed had worked on it.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:39 am
I would like to repeat a sentiment that I believe everyone is feeling right now.
*major league facepalm*
Seriously, though, gotta love Mentl’s expression in the last panel. Nice one, JED.
But, out of curiosity, what’s up with that whole “HAVE TO WIN” sentiment Yatta’s talking about? “Always holding his own” What’s up with that?
January 20th, 2010 at 10:44 am
Haha! Yatta-Ta’s hands in the last pannel made me giggle!
But I am also under the impression he’s hiding something.
January 20th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Hevaess - Yes, you’re very smart.
Doc Alaska - I don’t know about that. Mentl doesn’t seem very threatened.
Sheela - Ee-yup.
Kosetsu - hehehehe…
Ga’Tor -
Lebbrin - “He Who?” Who, indeed? And as to Arlo, I didn’t have it in mind, I was just projecting through the alcohol when I was writing this. But I LOVE “Alice’s Restaurant.”
The Old Hack - There is gonna be a joke a page for about three or four more pages, so don’t worry.
Gremalkin - And a few already did guess. Heh.
Freelance - Glad you laughed. It’s a lot better than crickets …
Sockpuppet - OMG, like, he’s SO into her …
Lora - Yeah, he’s heard enough drunken BS in his life that he’s not terribly concerned here.
Kamatu - Well, we’ll see how that works out for ol’ Yatta-ta. But Tula isn’t walking off with Boric. He’s just following her and trying to chat her up a bit. She’s not trying to get away, but she hasn’t chosen him, either. First Dance doesn’t happen until after dark.
Local Yokel - There is music, there will be music. Wait til they get going.
Lictre - Well, he’s not used to the potent mead that he’s drinking. Erogenian metheglin is spiced with cinnamon and cloves and some other sweet herbs, but it’s sent through at least two fermentations and they will sometimes fortify it with honey brandy after that to make a really stiff drink - hey, such as the stuff Yatta-ta’s drinking right now!
Someguy - LOL! It’s definitely something like that, though she might be referring to the excellence of the contents rather than the tankard itself.
mish_lady - Wheels within wheels, m’dear. You have to keep reading to eventually find out.
Black Ethel - Ah, but it’s also deeper than mere comedy. It contains elements of pathos! Of social commentary! Of deep philosophical meaning and all that kind of thing! But what I really wanted was to get a laugh, so thanks!
hans - Mentl doesn’t seem terribly concerned at the moment. As to Yatta-ta’s “he,” well that will all be revealed - in time.
Thantoss - I’ve only ever seen snippets from Top Gear, but I did know what it was. Wish I knew exactly who you’re referring to, tho.
Wolf - Thanks, very much. I know no one is going to believe me when I say this, but the hands were completely not intended to be anything like what I now acknowledge that they absolutely look like. When I was in Yatta-ta’s head (something not for the faint of heart) and posing him, I didn’t even think of it. Funny, huh?
Karyl - Ahhhhh, Otis Redding. Classic. Absolutely classic.
Lora - That’s not what I meant!!!! See, nobody b’leeves me …
Kit-Kat - The hair starts out as the standard wig, “Wild And Messy” for V3 from DAZ3D. I pose it as best I can and render. Then in Photoshop I just paint the details (which have become more elaborate and exaggerated as time has gone on, I notice) using my graphics tablet. It’s easy to just pick the colors from the wig itself and then draw in the fun stuff so it matches more or less exactly. Then I use the Dodge tool to create extra highlights to make it look all shiny and stuff. That’s actually a bit of real art, not just puppeteering.
Hwyla - He didn’t mean THAT! I mean … seriously, it was totally unconscious! And the trees are a pair of wonderful free models I have had, quite literally, for over five years and never used until now. I am not sure I can even find out who the extremely talented modellers who made them were. I’ll dig into my files and if I can, I’ll give them credit.
Lebbrin - Oh, don’t. Stop.
Thanks once again. And yes, it seems there’s a little bit of something that Yatta’s not telling. Hm..
Professor 61771 - Yes, at this stage Mentl’s not a heavy drinker. He has no wish to dull his senses at the moment, since things feel pretty good without it. Yatta-ta is, well … Yatta-ta. His backstory is pretty interesting, but because I am who I am it will be revealed very slowly and at strategic moments.
Sleepinin - Heh. It appears winning was extremely important to him, and his record in life or love or something isn’t what he could wish. That’s all ya get for now.
Nimue - See, it was just a normal two-handed gesture that anyone would make when they … that is, he … oh, what’s the use?
January 20th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
I’m guessing the “he” is either Yatta’s father or a father substitute since it was hinted earlier that his mfather might be dead.
January 20th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Why shouldn’t Yatta be a talkative drunk? He runs off at the mouth all the time anyway. If he’d kept talking during the fight he’d have won by exasperating Zona to death. Next morning they should ask the girls if he keeps talking in his sleep.
January 20th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
I still get the feeling vito was worked into this somehow… by the way JE i believe you about the hands.
January 20th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Snigger. Took waaaay too long for me to catch up. Moved house, no net till AT LEAST next week, probably later. Gobless free wifi. And coffee.
January 20th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Another great page, keep ‘em talking all you want.
I have to agree with you Thantoss , I can hear Jeremy Clarkson (the big guy from Top Gear) reading that line as well.
I’ve been working on this crazy theory about who “he” is and the self correction in panel 5 could support it, however geography does not. Is it possible that Yatta Ta travelled northeast before meeting his mentor ?
January 20th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Yatta-Ta in the last panel made me think,
“She’s beautiful, she’s rich, she’s got Huuuuge… tracts of land!”
January 21st, 2010 at 12:16 am
” with 8 x 10 color glossy photos, with circles and arrows on the back of each one, explaining what each one was, to be used as evidence against us”
January 21st, 2010 at 10:05 am
I’d be willing to bet before the end of this feast we’ll see EXACTLY how he has his current track record with women. Anyone take that bet?
January 21st, 2010 at 11:46 am
Oh, thank you Thantoss and Joe Kisonhew. Now I hear Clarkson in my head saying the last of Yatta’s lines as well. Heh. (Love TopGear). He do like the word amazing about the cars he like.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Y’know, this strip caused me to look up “boon companion.” It doesn’t mean quite what I thought it did. I hadda look it up:
The adjective boon, as in boon companion, is related to bonnie. Both words come (through French) from Latin bonus, ‘good’. However, boon does not mean ‘good’, especially in the phrase “boon companion.” An archaic sense of boon is ‘favorable’ or ‘benign’ (as in the French phrase “bon voyage”). The only current sense is in phrases of the sort boon companion, where boon actually means ‘convivial; jovial’, a sense made clear in this example: “Heightened as with wine, jocund and boon” (Milton, Paradise Lost). (Random House Maven’s word of the day, http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19971027)
Upshot: Yatta-ta knows how to use the word, while I’ll bet Mentl doesn’t: in other words, Yatta-ta’s calling Mentl a cool person to hang with, and I’m guessing Mentl thinks he means ‘dear’ or ‘beloved’ (as I did). Very funny.
January 21st, 2010 at 3:50 pm
@Raoul: I believe this is stolen directly from French “bon compagnon”, ie. “good comrade”, if I remember correctly…
January 21st, 2010 at 5:28 pm
i wonder if zona wants ment to sing at the party
January 21st, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Yatta, baby. If you want to stop holding your own in the women department, you need to stop drinking RIGHT NOW. Otherwise, if you thin the evening is bittersweet now, just wait until that redhead shows up for you…
January 21st, 2010 at 10:26 pm
I’m drunk and the first thing I have to say is - I love the hell out of all of you. (Thank Goddess for spellcheck)
tricksterson - Good guess. Not quite correct. Unless … ah, but why spoil it for ya?
Sarge - Good Gods, indeed! Yatta-ta is loquacious to a fault! Hey, look that one up, Raoul.
ICEKAT - Thank you! *snif!* as “Bad Luck Betty” said, “It was an accident, but don’t nobody b’leeve me!” As to Vito, well … he’s deeply involved in all the possible outcomes of the multiversal threads involving Mentl.
Which ultimately means nothing, but it sounds good, don’t it?
Kaila - we love ya, anyway. Or maybe because. Hey, best of luck! And yes,Gods bless the free Internet! Good luck kid! Moving’s a beesch, hope all works well for you.
Joe Kisonhew - Alas, the identity of “he” will have to wait awhile for other things. Nonetheless, ALL things are *possible* at this point.
MacGuyver - oh, yeah. Zona’s got HUGE “tracts of land.” Gods, I love Poser.
Nytsky - “I wanna kill - kill — KILL! I wanNA EAT DAID, BURNT BODIES!!!!”
Sleepinin - What odds?
Lora - Dang, I hate that. But then, I don’t watch a lot of BBC Amerioca since they butchered “Robin Hood.”
Raoul - Wow. More than I knew when I wrote the line. I guess I’m more literate than I thought!
Nonetheless, it shows something very flattering to “Zona,” which I had known alreadly anyway. She attracts smart people. I feel pretty good about that.
Ed Z. - Wow, again. I think you’re both probably right.
niukal - mmmmm. Possible. Not telling. tho.
Joe - Oh, he can’t hear you right now. He’s SO on his own, and it’s a very good thing that he’s in a friendly place that is at this moment predispoised to like him because he came close to beating their champion. As to The Redhead? Well, no promises there. But ——
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:32 am
@ JE Draft I believe it’s Jeremy on Top Gear that is always (and I mean A LOT) saying something is either “best/Greatest in the world” and Yatta-Ta made me hear Jeremy’s voice lol
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:11 pm
@JED Smart webcomics tend to do that, and this one is very smart.
To all that referenced Top Gear. Curse you. I have the possibly unique problem of loving TG and loathing that wretch Clarkson, the American in Britskin (He hates us because he’s one of us). Besides, Yatta-ta makes me think much more of Cary Elwes, esp. in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Dunno why, but I have this idea the Kivilians have Brit accents and the Erogenians, American, at least relatively speaking.
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:17 pm
I mean curse you for making me ‘hear’ Clarkson. But I hope I’ve fixed it, now. And yes, I watch TG to see him lose. Hammond’s the man. He did the pole expedition with the dogsled and survived the Vampire crash.
Honestly, though, they’re all three morons. Or at least play them well.
January 22nd, 2010 at 4:28 pm
I love this comic.
Moox
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Oh, and by the way, I believe that Yata-Ta in reality is Dan in disguise:
http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_267.php
January 22nd, 2010 at 7:16 pm
JED, if you want reassurance, to ME, it came across as a “worshipful” sort of hand-gesture–like something you’d see in a religious painting or sculpture.
(Because, quite frankly, if he was gonna shape out her figure in such a juvenile manner, his hands would have to be twice as far apart, given how her cleavage has some serious spread, there.)
January 22nd, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Kaila, my sympathies; I just bought a house, myself, have to get internet and phone and a craptonne of other services hooked up…no, wait, got those hooked up, just have the internet/phone left, yay! Oh, and appliances to buy, and apparently I have no couch, and…yeah, not NEARLY enough bookcases, but I’m workin’ on that! But my sympathies, the whole moving process is, and isn’t, fun. It’s uber-cool to be moving into a new place. It’s hellacious to try and get everything packed, moved, sorted, set up…
January 23rd, 2010 at 12:32 am
I’m sorry Raoul
January 25th, 2010 at 12:56 am
Oh m’gawd. If you ever animate this series, I want to do Yatta’s voice. The drunken dialogue here is priceless. I mean, I mean, I mean…
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:57 am
Metheglin… I really want to taste some