As facepalm as that last panel is, no facepalm can match the dramatic facepalminess of King Eric of Drostardy’s famously epic 2-panel facepalm near the end of "Clover’s Fortunes".
And what, you no like Rolf Harris??? Don’t let him go runnick amok, Bill, just watch me platypus duck!
I had to revisit and reexperience that strip (https://www.yafgc.net/comic/0561-the-kings-other-epiphany/) … and once I was through laughing I had to agree with you about the epicness.
… Ranma makes a nice second though XD
As for Rolf Harris, my wife is Australian (I am French and we are living in New Zealand) and they are very happy to have exported him to the UK 🙂 One has to wonder why…
I think what Francois was getting at was in reference to the 2014 convictions against Rolf Harris. Personally I don’t mind it in the comic, but I can see how someone might see it as being in poor taste.
Still, very satisfying seeing Ranna’s efforts foiled, however briefly.
You see this is why I never like Chaos Gods. They’re all about that chaos, but then somebody like Captain Fang comes along and implies that not only are you doing it wrong, you could go further.
Yeah, Ranna’s a bit of a lightweight in that respect.. claims to be a goddess of chaos and cruelty, but she’s never really embraced the chaotic part, perhaps thinking that bloodthirsty slaughter is the same thing.
So here’s Fang to remind us all of the true meaning of chaos.
Some of it is just me staring at the wall and thinking of a few sentences and blending them together. Some of it is memories inspired by looking at what’s on hand (I have a thumbdrive that looks like a Mini Cooper and when you plug it in the lights come on) and some of it is frustrating experience. (I was on hold waiting for the EI office while drawing some of those panels.)
More recently, my son’s world is very Fang-esque at times. He likes to draw cartoon puns and collects very bizarre stuffies and gives them strange names. Like “The Bready Brothers” are a pair of stuffed loaves that he cherishes. He’s got a stuffed monkey named Socks and a stuffed Doughnut-and-ice cream cone.
PFFT! Sorry, couldn’t keep a straight face for long. Seriously it’s what the pizza guardian ghosts sing in my head every Wednesday when I’m showering in the Jell-O mix.
EDIT: Now that I start to think about it real hard, I think a subconscious inspiration for Fang might have been VIZ magazine’s “Roger Irrelevant -he’s totally wardrobe!” I only ever read one issue of this magazine and it’s a Christmas special from 1992 (or thereabouts). But the two strips that made me laugh out loud were “Roger Irrelevant” and “Mr.Logic”. Roger Irrelevant is a character very much like Fang whose dialogue is unconnected to what’s going on around him. This tickled me immensely but I’d largely forgotten it until just now.
And do you mean ‘listening to my wife trying to cook and talk to CS on the phone?’ or ‘talking to CS on the phone while my wife is cooking loudly in the background?’
Trying to talk to CS is a challenge to anyone’s sanity, but trying to do it while cooking would challenge the patience of saints.
So, if I was researching insanity, I’d hand CS over to my wife while she was cooking and then sit in a corner with a pencil and paper. 😀
Ranna understands what just happened. Ranna, who recognizes no force that can oppose her will…*understands what she’s up against, here*.
If I am crushed momentarily, and consigned eternally to Ranna’s horrible afterlife, I will treasure, for as long as it remains in my memories, the memory of Ranna reduced to a tacit and oblique acknowledgment of [at least momentary] defeat. I saw it. It happened, and as long as there is a "me" to remember it, it shall be remembered, and treasured.
Oh, Fang. May your barnacles ever be minty-fresh, and may all of your Tuesdays be effervescent, except of course if SURPRISE! CELERY RECIDIVISM!
I can try, certainly, but I will never be truly fluent in Fang. My "accent" stinks of causal stability and continuity of consciousness. I defer to the diminutive master!
Now, when she isn’t looking: Power Word: Resurrect! (Opposite of Power Word Kill) That should do a number on a goddess of death. Captain Fang is effectively casting Power Word Stun all the time to any that try to figure out what he is saying.
Captain Fang: There is a house in New Orleans.
They call Hotel California.
Mirrors on the ceiling.
Pink Champaign on ice.
We are prisoners here of the Spinning Wheel.
Round and round.
…
Imagine what Ranna would do, had she the power to do that, too.
The good Captain’s powers transcend the very narrative boundaries of his universe. That is well and truly terrifying.
I would not at all be surprised, if I one day learned that his appearances in the strip happen during a lull in the ‘thin, monotonous piping’ of ‘nameless paws’ that are meant to lull him into a deep torpor outside of time and space.
Is the April Fool’s extended? Either way, I’m to not see any strip rpg.
But most important is Cap’n Fang’s worst crime to date. You’re chaotic? Fine. Nonsensical? ‘kay. But even with all that. Even if you’re going for the non-rhyme. You end it with SCREEEEAMMMM! (Ice cream, I scream, and, of course, eye scream, all permissible.
Yeah, it’s like when he sets up a board for chess, he always swaps the knights and rooks. Until you expect it, then he replaces one of the pieces with a ham sandwich.
There’s an increasing amount of evidence for claiming that Cap’n Fang isn’t actually mortal. Some sort of Chaotic Neutral elder god, perhaps. Reaching beyond his own world and drawing his power from the worshippers in the comment section. 🙂
Was worried when the fourth wall began to crack though. I like Fang’s antics hugely, but I think prefer him at a safe distance to reality.
Thanks for all this in trying times, Rich, there were times when the long Ranna take-over got pretty grim, but the playoffs are coming when the world really needs it (both our world and the one in the strip) and that is working well for me.
Yeah, ‘Ranna Goddess of Chaos and Cruelty’, meet Fang. I suspect Ranna has been out-chaosed. I know Jone has. I still think Fang might be a manifestation of an inter-dimensional elder god of pure chaos. Thus the patter leaking through from many other realities.
Thanks Rich, I really needed that laugh, even if it did make me cough more.
Brilliant, Richard! This was a perfect match between Fang and Jone, and of course Fang would win every time.
Big cheers not only for Fang’s speeches, but also for the great pacing and wild antics in the panels. Ranna’s facepalm at the end was the perfect finishing touch. Again, bravo!
Okay, I already liked him, but now I’m definitely a Captain Fang fan for life. 😀
In RPG terms, he must have a Luck trait of MAX+infinity or something, and his Agility score must make Spiderman’s "tingling sense" look like being caught flat-footed. 😀
Your lines for his dialogue are definitely inspired, but my favorite has to be the one about your bifocals being inadequate for my salad. 😀 😀 😀
In RPG terms, he’s a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toon_%28role-playing_game%29">Toon</a> character in a D&D game. Even if you do manage to get a solid hit on him, it won’t do any good. Crush him with a giant hammer? He’ll look like an accordion for a couple of seconds before going back to normal. Incinerate him in a fireball? He’ll be a solid black silhouette with blinking eyes, then shake the soot off and be back to normal. Cut him in two with a sword? One half will wander around a bit, trying to catch the other half that for some reason will try to run away, and then they fuse back and are back to normal.
Yep, the fight went pretty much as I imagined it. Except for that brief but rather scary moment, when Fang suddenly talked to me…
I wonder now what is Ranna’s next move. Perhaps an order to our favorite genie? 😀
Panel 9 is a message for me.
I worked for an answering service for 27 years (yes, I’m a mature halfling) and that was my Boo’s way of telling me he’ll be late for supper but to keep it warm plus he’d like a bubble bath.
(seriously everyone, today’s posting made my evening – especially the comments!)
I knew Jone could probably have made this more difficult, and I wanted a Fang cameo, so I used them to get eachother out of the story entirely while still showing up for their part.
Is this a record number of comments on a single strip? 90 including this one. I’m too lazy to go back and look. If I had to choose, I’d pick Lucas’s wedding as near the top of most comments.
It’s certainly one of the longest comments pages. But it’s very hard to say because when I migrated the site over from its previous location I lost a huge amount of old comments.
I think the /other/ record holder would be one of the ones where I finally got sick of Guesticus’ shit and blew up at him.
This has probably been said before, but based on what I’ve seen of Captain Fang, he may be the most powerful clairvoyant in history. So much so that he cannot focus on a single time period, so he converses in one time while acting in another. Nobody can hurt him because he literally sees everything coming.
One good thing is this miserable virus lockdown is that Rich have more time to do comic stip…. realy like the fun/silly Stip D&D part, to lighten the mod….
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Yep.
He went full Screwy Squirrel!
It could have been called facepalm just for that last panel. No more Rolf harris please.
As facepalm as that last panel is, no facepalm can match the dramatic facepalminess of King Eric of Drostardy’s famously epic 2-panel facepalm near the end of "Clover’s Fortunes".
And what, you no like Rolf Harris??? Don’t let him go runnick amok, Bill, just watch me platypus duck!
I had to revisit and reexperience that strip (https://www.yafgc.net/comic/0561-the-kings-other-epiphany/) … and once I was through laughing I had to agree with you about the epicness.
… Ranma makes a nice second though XD
I go to check out the double panel facepalm…
and I lose an hour re-reading part of the archives…
YAFGC do be like that
OK, that’s some top face palming all right.
As for Rolf Harris, my wife is Australian (I am French and we are living in New Zealand) and they are very happy to have exported him to the UK 🙂 One has to wonder why…
I think what Francois was getting at was in reference to the 2014 convictions against Rolf Harris. Personally I don’t mind it in the comic, but I can see how someone might see it as being in poor taste.
Still, very satisfying seeing Ranna’s efforts foiled, however briefly.
That too, but I would have mentioned it if it was the only bother. Let’s say that particular one suffer from over-exposure down under.
Fang I gotta say Thank You,
For all you’ve done for me.
The nights are dark and lonely,
When you’re not on the sea.
t!
I thought those lyrics were "mind me platypus duck" and that the character was getting them wrong as he is wont to do.
All together now:
Tie me kangaroo down, sport. Tie me kangaroo down.
Morganna’s two-panel face palm was pretty epic too.
https://www.yafgc.net/comic/2413-wished/
ROFLMAO
I have been waiting since his first appearance, for him to show us his true awesomeness. Ever since we first saw him… he was a captain for a REASON…
Or for a total LACK of reason.
He did draw the axe out of the stone …
The force of chaotic evil met a force of purest chaos.
See, that’s how CN characters should be played, guys!
He’s not chaotic neutral. He’s chaotic chaos. He’s too chaotic to fit into alignment table.
The alignment table ends up in peices on the floor.
You see this is why I never like Chaos Gods. They’re all about that chaos, but then somebody like Captain Fang comes along and implies that not only are you doing it wrong, you could go further.
Where’s the like button?! I just giggled so hard 😛
So did I. ^_^
[Tzeentchian Cackle]
Yeah, Ranna’s a bit of a lightweight in that respect.. claims to be a goddess of chaos and cruelty, but she’s never really embraced the chaotic part, perhaps thinking that bloodthirsty slaughter is the same thing.
So here’s Fang to remind us all of the true meaning of chaos.
"You merely adopted the chaos. I was born into it."
I have reread that line a few times now, all doing the Bane Voice
He’s either an utterly jawdropping fool or a scintillating mad genius.
Well, given he hasn’t been hit, and now has the sword… I would have to bet on the latter.
or Yes.
t!
True, could be both. *chuckle*
Gotta ask, Rich: How do you come up with Fang’s dialogue?
Some of it is just me staring at the wall and thinking of a few sentences and blending them together. Some of it is memories inspired by looking at what’s on hand (I have a thumbdrive that looks like a Mini Cooper and when you plug it in the lights come on) and some of it is frustrating experience. (I was on hold waiting for the EI office while drawing some of those panels.)
More recently, my son’s world is very Fang-esque at times. He likes to draw cartoon puns and collects very bizarre stuffies and gives them strange names. Like “The Bready Brothers” are a pair of stuffed loaves that he cherishes. He’s got a stuffed monkey named Socks and a stuffed Doughnut-and-ice cream cone.
PFFT! Sorry, couldn’t keep a straight face for long. Seriously it’s what the pizza guardian ghosts sing in my head every Wednesday when I’m showering in the Jell-O mix.
EDIT: Now that I start to think about it real hard, I think a subconscious inspiration for Fang might have been VIZ magazine’s “Roger Irrelevant -he’s totally wardrobe!” I only ever read one issue of this magazine and it’s a Christmas special from 1992 (or thereabouts). But the two strips that made me laugh out loud were “Roger Irrelevant” and “Mr.Logic”. Roger Irrelevant is a character very much like Fang whose dialogue is unconnected to what’s going on around him. This tickled me immensely but I’d largely forgotten it until just now.
Listening to his wife cooking while trying to call customer services.
That will push most people over the edge.
? My wife wasn’t cooking while I wrote that.
And do you mean ‘listening to my wife trying to cook and talk to CS on the phone?’ or ‘talking to CS on the phone while my wife is cooking loudly in the background?’
Trying to talk to CS is a challenge to anyone’s sanity, but trying to do it while cooking would challenge the patience of saints.
So, if I was researching insanity, I’d hand CS over to my wife while she was cooking and then sit in a corner with a pencil and paper. 😀
Ranna? Meet Cap’n Fang! 😀
You claim to be the Goddess of Chaos? *gestures to the receding dustcloud* It went that-a-way
Oh, and Ranna dear? You don’t have enough hands to make do face-palm justice for this situation 😀
Haven’t looked forward to the next page so much in a long time, keep it coming! 😀
Ranna understands what just happened. Ranna, who recognizes no force that can oppose her will…*understands what she’s up against, here*.
If I am crushed momentarily, and consigned eternally to Ranna’s horrible afterlife, I will treasure, for as long as it remains in my memories, the memory of Ranna reduced to a tacit and oblique acknowledgment of [at least momentary] defeat. I saw it. It happened, and as long as there is a "me" to remember it, it shall be remembered, and treasured.
Oh, Fang. May your barnacles ever be minty-fresh, and may all of your Tuesdays be effervescent, except of course if SURPRISE! CELERY RECIDIVISM!
I think he appreciates the sentiment. His reply was "Caution: Risk of fire. Use only type A19 Lamp MAX 60 watts."
What’s fascinating to me is how when other people speak ‘Fangese’, they all have their own dialect.
I can try, certainly, but I will never be truly fluent in Fang. My "accent" stinks of causal stability and continuity of consciousness. I defer to the diminutive master!
fish
Now, when she isn’t looking: Power Word: Resurrect! (Opposite of Power Word Kill) That should do a number on a goddess of death. Captain Fang is effectively casting Power Word Stun all the time to any that try to figure out what he is saying.
Captain Fang: There is a house in New Orleans.
They call Hotel California.
Mirrors on the ceiling.
Pink Champaign on ice.
We are prisoners here of the Spinning Wheel.
Round and round.
…
He grabbed the panel line…
he broke the fourth wall.
Why does that frighten me so much.
Imagine what Ranna would do, had she the power to do that, too.
The good Captain’s powers transcend the very narrative boundaries of his universe. That is well and truly terrifying.
I would not at all be surprised, if I one day learned that his appearances in the strip happen during a lull in the ‘thin, monotonous piping’ of ‘nameless paws’ that are meant to lull him into a deep torpor outside of time and space.
No, come back True King! You now have the sword that wounded the orcish god in combat, time to impale Ranna’s foot too!
Is the April Fool’s extended? Either way, I’m to not see any strip rpg.
But most important is Cap’n Fang’s worst crime to date. You’re chaotic? Fine. Nonsensical? ‘kay. But even with all that. Even if you’re going for the non-rhyme. You end it with SCREEEEAMMMM! (Ice cream, I scream, and, of course, eye scream, all permissible.
And I think thay wound up Joan the most, too.
There will be more strip D&D.
Yeah, it’s like when he sets up a board for chess, he always swaps the knights and rooks. Until you expect it, then he replaces one of the pieces with a ham sandwich.
Saltshaker to Queen’s Bishop 4.
Ranna, dear — don’t touch your face.
Anyways, that’s why you don’t make plans to rule the world when you’re a deity of chaos. Your enemies can play chaos judo against you.
There’s an increasing amount of evidence for claiming that Cap’n Fang isn’t actually mortal. Some sort of Chaotic Neutral elder god, perhaps. Reaching beyond his own world and drawing his power from the worshippers in the comment section. 🙂
😀
Was worried when the fourth wall began to crack though. I like Fang’s antics hugely, but I think prefer him at a safe distance to reality.
Thanks for all this in trying times, Rich, there were times when the long Ranna take-over got pretty grim, but the playoffs are coming when the world really needs it (both our world and the one in the strip) and that is working well for me.
That too was a fortunate coincidence. I’m glad I’m able to help.
But is reality at a safe distance from Fang? O_O
all together now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tan me hide when I’ve died, Clyde….
This needs the Benny Hill theme in the background XD I love Fang so much
Different song:
FANG! Ah-hah
Saviour of the Universe!
FANG! Ah-hah
He saved everyone of us!
Okay the 10th panel is creepy. Fangs eyes are in focus and he looks… sinister.
It almost looks like he’s… *attracted* to her?
t!
Nah, he just likes making eye contact now & again. Throws everyone off.
It’s the FOCUS.
t!
That was entirely satisfying.
Someone answer the phone…because I called it!
Captain my captain! Chaotic Silliness defeats Chaotic Evil and a step towards balance is taken!
HUZZAH!
In these dark times, we all need Captain Fang!!
And I thought Fang’s appearance was a joke!!
…. it was. Most of YAFGC is a joke 😀
I was sure it was a joke.
"It was at this point that the Dark Goddess realised, she had f- er, screwed up…"
Trying to keep it Family Friendly…
I ship it
That strip was everything I was hoping for!
Bravo! Bravo!
Watch me platypus duck, Bill,
Watch me platypus duck,
Watch me platypus duck, Bill,
Someone don’t gi-ive a rogers. 😛
Um, Ranna? As you were saying… ?
Yeah, ‘Ranna Goddess of Chaos and Cruelty’, meet Fang. I suspect Ranna has been out-chaosed. I know Jone has. I still think Fang might be a manifestation of an inter-dimensional elder god of pure chaos. Thus the patter leaking through from many other realities.
Thanks Rich, I really needed that laugh, even if it did make me cough more.
Who would have thought that Captain Fang is more than a match for her?
Anyone who has actually met him? 😀
Turg obviously did.
Now that I think on it, how much has Mrs. Turg told Turg about Captain Fang?
Turg has first hand experience with Fang. He was the captain on the ship they hired to get to the tomb.
Ow, my sides
I’m looking forward to the inevitable children of Captain Fang and Jone.
Chaotic-Evil vs Batshit-Neutral
It’s really not even a fight.
Brilliant, Richard! This was a perfect match between Fang and Jone, and of course Fang would win every time.
Big cheers not only for Fang’s speeches, but also for the great pacing and wild antics in the panels. Ranna’s facepalm at the end was the perfect finishing touch. Again, bravo!
Fangtastic!
Personally, I think Fang is the eighth lost/unacknowledged son of the Alligator King–he went to sea and became a pirate instead.
(Who else gets that Sesame Street reference?)
Wow. I pretty much called it in the comments on 4/1/2020, didn’t I?
Ranna: I’m the goddess of Chaos! No one can out-chaos me!
Fang: Hold My Root Beer!
Three bluerays for Cap’n Fang!
Blip hip, boo-jay! 😀
Oh, man! This page had me in stitches from start to finish. ^_^
One of your finest yet, BK!
Okay, I already liked him, but now I’m definitely a Captain Fang fan for life. 😀
In RPG terms, he must have a Luck trait of MAX+infinity or something, and his Agility score must make Spiderman’s "tingling sense" look like being caught flat-footed. 😀
Your lines for his dialogue are definitely inspired, but my favorite has to be the one about your bifocals being inadequate for my salad. 😀 😀 😀
In RPG terms, he’s a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toon_%28role-playing_game%29">Toon</a> character in a D&D game. Even if you do manage to get a solid hit on him, it won’t do any good. Crush him with a giant hammer? He’ll look like an accordion for a couple of seconds before going back to normal. Incinerate him in a fireball? He’ll be a solid black silhouette with blinking eyes, then shake the soot off and be back to normal. Cut him in two with a sword? One half will wander around a bit, trying to catch the other half that for some reason will try to run away, and then they fuse back and are back to normal.
Yep, the fight went pretty much as I imagined it. Except for that brief but rather scary moment, when Fang suddenly talked to me…
I wonder now what is Ranna’s next move. Perhaps an order to our favorite genie? 😀
All I have to say is: "Whoops Mrs Gotobed, your hovercraft is full of eels!"
Also, yay for the D&D party! Great come-from-behind rally, ladies; stand strong against the REAL enemy!
I still say "Save vs DM" should be a stat.
Panel 9 is a message for me.
I worked for an answering service for 27 years (yes, I’m a mature halfling) and that was my Boo’s way of telling me he’ll be late for supper but to keep it warm plus he’d like a bubble bath.
(seriously everyone, today’s posting made my evening – especially the comments!)
Panels 10 and 11 are my favourite 😀
Talk about indirection in just two frames…
Who knew the naked boobs you would get to draw would belong to Glon???
Awh, that face on panel one! He’s cute. I would like to hear the story behind him. Perhaps he is a god himself?
Okay, that was … f…ing hilarious!
After Jone showed up, I was like "Oh no! Pages and pages of fightscenes because she´s sooo unbeatable in combat … gnaaah"
But the THIS happened and I´m so very pleased. 😀
Never underestimate Rich’s storytelling abilities (specially when it comes to ‘twists’) 😀
I knew Jone could probably have made this more difficult, and I wanted a Fang cameo, so I used them to get eachother out of the story entirely while still showing up for their part.
I was actually looking for a panel when Glom turns to Shaija and says something like ‘and this why nest time we do thinks my way’
Is this a record number of comments on a single strip? 90 including this one. I’m too lazy to go back and look. If I had to choose, I’d pick Lucas’s wedding as near the top of most comments.
It’s certainly one of the longest comments pages. But it’s very hard to say because when I migrated the site over from its previous location I lost a huge amount of old comments.
I think the /other/ record holder would be one of the ones where I finally got sick of Guesticus’ shit and blew up at him.
This has probably been said before, but based on what I’ve seen of Captain Fang, he may be the most powerful clairvoyant in history. So much so that he cannot focus on a single time period, so he converses in one time while acting in another. Nobody can hurt him because he literally sees everything coming.
Can’t beat bugs bunny in a fight cuz he don’t play by the rules.
I knew I should have taken that left turn at Waterdeep!
For the first time I actually find myself sympathizing with Ranna in that last panel.
One good thing is this miserable virus lockdown is that Rich have more time to do comic stip…. realy like the fun/silly Stip D&D part, to lighten the mod….
I’d swear Fang’s lines in 5-6 change every time I read this.
[Jon Irenicus voice]
I… you… killed me…
This is not…
This… is not…
*dies laughing*
Irresistible force, meet the immovable object.
I don’t think the irresistible force has met the immovable object here. The object seems EXTREMELY mobile to me…..
Naw. Captain Fang is standing utterly still, while the rest of the universe gyrates madly around him.
Joan isn’t the unstoppable force of Chaos that Ranna thinks she is…Capt. Fang is.
"Her favourite force of Chaos"
Pfft! BWAHAHAHA
Wow. Not sure if he's got a bit upgrade or if Jone is just easily distracted, but that was awesome.
And I just love his face in the first panel.