Half the Battle!
#18 — Beachheads
Sorry this one took so long. As you have probably read from countless people who try to put up something semi-regularly on the internet, my actual life took over, and I just didn’t have the time to keep this going. I’ve been working close to 14 hour days for the past two months, and blah blah blah. Like I said, you’ve probably heard all this before. I’m going to try to get back to a weekly schedule for this when I have a little more time in August…
On to the strip above, this is actually the impetus of starting the Half the Battle strip. My friend and I were watching an episode of GI Joe (specifically, “Once Upon a Joe”), and at the end of the episode, Lifeline and Beachhead were talking. It was basically the dialogue from the first two panels of this strip. Now, one of the things that I love to do when I watch GI Joe is to talk over it. There is a lot of things that are genuinely good about the old cartoon, but there is just as much goofy weirdness, and it is that mixture of the two elements that makes it such an enjoyable show to watch. I riff over the show when I watch it with my friends, and during this episode, we basically said, word-for-word, what you see above. I wrote it down, and talked about making it into a comic strip. Soon, other ideas came to me, and I decided to make it into a regular thing. This strip never seemed like a good first strip, so I kept putting it off, but here you have it — the first Half the Battle strip I ever wrote…
One last thing to note: this strip heavily implies that Beachhead is committing war crimes of a pretty high order. Obviously, war crimes in real life are not funny at all. In the GI Joe world of my strip, Beachhead likes to pull pranks on Lifeline (see strip #1), so let’s just call this another (much more involved) prank.
Now you know…
UPDATE: Spelling error on panel 5 is now fixed.
4 thoughts on “Half the Battle #18 — Beachheads”
Too preachy, jerk!
Victor
Classic.
Jeff
you misspelled court martial.
f
Thanks, f. The spelling error is now fixed.
Sugardanny