Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Shoot the Bland One

One of the pretty rare hand-drawn comics, "Shoot the Bland One" started out as a wise crack at Battlefield Heroes players who bought battlefunds (an in-game currency that you sent real money on), but this was made about a month before I myself got $20 worth of them, and used them to buy "stolen" weapons for my National Gunner and Soldier (never been a Commando person...)

The person in the second panel is a character from an obscure Japanese Turn-Based Tatical RPG called Valkyria Chronicles - it and BFH take place at about the same time (though for radically different reasons - Valkyria is basically the 1941 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union transposed into a Steampunk 1930s setting, with heavy romance; Heroes is a war fought over the results of the Olympic track cycling tourney, and focuses entirely on comedy.)

A moral was to be affixed to the end - it would have read "The one in the default clothing is the one that should worry you most." Granted, the Blue Coat isn't default, but it clearly indicates that the National Soldier in the bottom panel is at least Level 14. He's just broke/cheap/saving up for something else.
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