November 16th, 2012
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Yo guys I’m heading back to Tasmania for holidays this Saturday. I’ll be pretty busy catching up with people and settling back in so I’m taking a week break from the comic. Next update will be on Monday the 26th of November! BE THERE OR don’t be there it’s your decision really.
November 16th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Have a nice holiday 😀
November 16th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
He had a knife wound in his arm, but STILL won with a desk and his good arm. I say that’s fair.
Have a nice holiday. 😀
November 16th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
As a martial artist, you never want to have a fair fight. You want the odds in your favor. If someone is endangering you or others, end it quickly. Tang soo!
November 16th, 2012 at 5:24 pm
Desks are not outlawed weapons, so it was fair as Adrian had throwing knives
November 16th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
There is no fair or unfair in mortal combat. If it works, use it. If anything, Tom was more fair because he made use of what items were actually there, rather than being a wussy and bringing outside weapons.
November 16th, 2012 at 9:40 pm
well, I wanted to throw a chair at him, but you can´t have everything…
November 16th, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Dont fight to be fair fight to win.
November 17th, 2012 at 12:09 am
That’s the face of a woman in love.
November 17th, 2012 at 1:48 am
Lily’s original question was “Do you… wanna go out sometime?” but she changed it as a last-second decision. Way to play the field, Lil!
November 17th, 2012 at 3:47 am
Tom Cannon is not a fair fighter, he’s a pragmatic fighter.
November 17th, 2012 at 5:43 am
“No. Of course I didn’t throw the desk. I asked it to throw itself at Adrian, and it did.”
November 17th, 2012 at 5:57 am
How was this not a fair fight?
He was stabbed by a surprise attack, was unarmed until he armed himself with a table to fight a guy armed with knives.
November 17th, 2012 at 6:00 am
PS. Fair = Pretty. Fair fighting = Pretty flowery decorative pseudo combat invented by medieval aristocracy to give them an unfair (ironically) advantage over anyone who didn’t have their particular kind of benefits (shiny and very expensive armor, spending years training with APPROVED weapons, etc…)
Its rather unfair to pit a person who spent 20 years training for sword and armor fighting against someone who spent much less time training in knife throwing or marksmanship and telling he latter their weapons are forbidden.
November 17th, 2012 at 7:00 am
I love the fact that she’s still somewhat confused about the flying desk
November 17th, 2012 at 8:20 am
“Do you… EVER win any of your fights fairly?”
“Those words make a sentence, but I don’t know what they mean.”
November 17th, 2012 at 11:39 am
Okay dude you really need to work on your script.
November 17th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
I would have thought that the “A Desk!” sound effect was a pretty clear answer to her last question.
November 17th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
“Did you really just throw a desk at him?”
“No. It was a table that happened to have three enclosed sides and be the size for a single person to do work at while sitting.”
November 17th, 2012 at 11:30 pm
@mrtt: I think she just expects a government agent to work by the handbook a little bit more than young mister Cannon does. Didn’t exactly take a moment to read the assassin his Miranda Rights.
November 18th, 2012 at 12:58 am
Fair is for tiddlywinks, Go, and duels. This was a fight. Fights, wars, and other sorts of combat are the epitome of unfairness. The very purpose is to concentrate advantage for yourself, at the expense of your enemy, while preventing the enemy from doing the same to you. If allowed, I win ALL of my fights very, very unfairly. Hopefully very quickly. Even better, before the enemy has realized he’s about to go home very, very broken, or in a large Ziploc bag.
November 18th, 2012 at 7:41 am
she’s just comparing the way that she was taken down, whatever that was, with what just happened.
November 18th, 2012 at 8:24 am
well think about it, if he threw the desk one armed no problem, he could have done that from the start. perhaps shes comenting that he waits till his opponet should have an advantage before just flipping the table (sometimes litterally aparently)
November 18th, 2012 at 9:36 am
He was stabbed, I’d say that makes it fair enough.
Also, he’s Tom Cannon. Fuck you, eat desk.
November 18th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Please tell me that when we get back to Jack it’s in color again. I dig the black and white for the 20 years ago scenes but if you put current day comics in B+W it’ll jack up the whole tonal differencey shiz.
November 18th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Woo! Tasmania! Wait, what am I saying I live there and its boring as batshit.
November 18th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
I AM A FROG!
…BARK!
November 19th, 2012 at 5:15 am
And this has been Q&A with Tom and Lily!
November 19th, 2012 at 11:51 am
@ ventnor
No, the desk simply noticed Tom was pissed off and fled in terror; it just so happened to hit Adrian on the way out.
November 19th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Now I’m wondering what he threw at her when they fought.
November 19th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Probably the guy she was trying to kill.
November 19th, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Huh. Suddenly that comment she made earlier makes a lot more sense. “You were lucky he was there too.”
November 19th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
I love the way he answered that question lol
Also see if you can catch the Tasmanian devil while ur there
November 22nd, 2012 at 12:49 am
“Did you really just throw a desk at him?”
“Do not try and explain it. That is impossible. Instead… Only try and accept the truth.”
“What truth?”
“There is no desk.”
“There is no desk?”
“Then you’ll see, that it is not the desk that kills, it is only my awesomeness.”
– Zero
November 25th, 2012 at 7:26 pm
@lady: you might be on to something there 🙂
November 26th, 2012 at 1:22 pm
I’d like to take a moment to thank Jamie for making sure to show Tom as a badass and not go down that other route.
January 9th, 2013 at 4:49 am
I enjoy your site. Thank a lot for writing that. I’ll come to this site to see what’s new and tell my neighbors about it.
March 30th, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Now see, it was his boss’s desk that was thrown. A win All around.