Guest Comic – Matt Schanuel
HAWM, Guildies! We’ve got a fun one today for you courtesy of Matt Schanuel, offering the SECRET ORIGIN STORY of everyone’s favorite Gnoll Luchador… Auraugu!
Thanks for the strip, Matt! I’ve got my temporary living situation under control, and now I’ve got to get the workstation in order somehow. Thanks again for all the condolences to what was once a great roof. A fine roof, mercilessly slain by a guy who puts cigarettes out on his couch.
I don’t want to know how Auraugu’s parents died.
Wait, are you serious?! Is that how this whole mess with the fire happened?! Or are you yanking my left limb?
was that an intentional straight line for which to dive from with various and sundry red rocket euphemisms?
if not, you may be the best straight-man ever.
A semi-intentional caffeine-deprived combination of both. And straight-woman is more accurate :-D
Avatar icon says otherwise. :/
true, but mine used to say i am payet best, so…;)
Looks like Auraugu has things in the bag.
the more i see him the more i think “LUCHADORES” hehe
You’re welcome! Thanks for having me.
Art looks great, and the story kinda fits (hope they make it canon, even just having it be a dream for Augie)
Hey, I really appreciate it! Glad you enjoyed it.
With respect, it’s not fair to say he puts his cigarettes out on his couch as, obviously, the cigarette did not go out.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say he uses his couch for an ashtray.
But given the fact that he uses cigarettes to begin with does not speak well for his ability to make good decisions.
Of course! All know the classy people use a pipe.
Please take your anti-smoking BS propaganda elsewhere
YEAH! Take it to the non-smoking section with the rest of your non-stinky, offensive breathed, impulse-controlling kind!
See? That’s what was talking about “BS propaganda”
Not everyone who smokes smells, or have ‘offensive breath’ (that can be caused by far more things than tobacco) or have poor impluse control
By the way, have nothing personally against non-smokers, just about them (or any other group) trying to force me (or anyone not ‘them’) be the same as them
Currently, our government is attempting to make the country completely tobacco-free by 2020 (or is it 2025?), not by preaching the benefits of good health or anything like that, but by raising the price of the cigarettes and effectively making it ilegal to smoke anywhere (you can still buy them, it’s just illegal to smoke them in your own home, in your own car, in a public building, in a public outdoor area)
That all sounds good to me.
What? You mean the removal of freedom? And personal choice?
If it was a return to prohibition people wouldn’t take it so lightly (and alchohol consumption affects more people than tobacco inhalation does)
Difference being, you can’t harm someone simply by drinking alcohol in the same room as them.
Yeah man, that “people want me to be like them” thing is really kind of a delusional way of looking at it. If you could inject nicotine directly into your veins, I’d say go for it. You wanna snort coke? Be my guest. Wanna get hammered? Just stay out of the driver’s seat. When you start creating a cloud of noxious fumes that fumigates a large area around you, it’s no longer a personal choice. And I know a lot of smokers like to say second-hand smoke dangers are a myth; I won’t agree with you, but if you disregard that, it still fucking stinks.
I totally agree you should be free to put anything in your body you want: drugs, trans fat, high-fructose corn syrup, as long as it doesn’t encroach on other people’s freedom. That’s why drunk driving is illegal and smoking is illegal indoors.
Never said second-hand smoking wasn’t dangerous, but anyone claiming that alchohol fumes is a myth and doesn’t affect non-drinkers is an idiot
Can understand banning indoor smoking in public buildings, but they are talking about private dwellings as well!!!
How many times has someone ended up in hospital or in jail because they had too much to smoke compared to those who have too much to drink? Pretty much none (and talking about the act/action alone, not the social stigma/laws)
admittedly, though i agree with restrictions on public behaviour that is detrimental and breaches others personal rights, non-smoking laws regarding what you do in your own home is ridiculous(albeit maybe to protect children from smoking parents etc).
the problem is, taxing the hell out of cigarette sales doesnt touch the company, but gets passed on purely to the consumer. its addictive, especially in this high stress society we have created, and the way to beat addiction is not to make it harder to access the drug, but to supply education and support to help people break the habit.
but it is their right to do whatever the hell they want to their body, right up until the point it encroaches on another persons rights.
i think it was said “i don’t agree with your beliefs, but I’ll fight to the gates of hell to protect your right to say it”
A quick Googling suggests that over 200,000 people per year end up in the hospital in the US because they had too much to smoke.
Mind you, it was such a quick Googling that it’s probably not a very accurate number, since I knowingly ignored a lot of variables, but the point stands that the answer is “lots.”
Also, I might ask you to cite your sources that alcohol fumes are frequently present in sufficient concentrations to have a meaningful effect on people. Ethanol’s volatile, but it’s not like it visibly boils at standard temperature and pressure.
See, I ain’t against smoking, per-se. I’m against smoking tiny tubes of cancer. Pipes and cigars tend to smell pretty good, and if smoked properly, aren’t quite as dangerous. Still pretty dangerous, but not quite as much.
I’m quite puzzled over whether your icon is ironic or not.
Not sure about the “smoked properly less dangerous” thing, but still: The comment-avatar-combination is hilarious!
Generally, one doesn’t inhale pipe or cigar smoke, so the exposure is largely limited to your mouth and the upper part of your throat.
so i guess we’re saying tongue cancer>lung cancer? XD
that said, tobacco itself is reasonably safe, and that’s what is used in pipes/cigars. the focus is on keeping the taste “pure”, especially with decent quality cigars. The real carcinogenic stuff is what is added to “fill out” cigarettes, and some of that stuff is nasty;)
Adorable.
Take us to Woof speed, Mr Worf.
I don’t like barking orders.
“I am the Champion the Fuzzy Peoples need, AND the Champion they deserve! Hyes!”
Um… I am honestly mystified as to whether that is a… erm… fleshlight type thing in the last panel. If Itilt my head and squinch up my eyes is it supposed to look like something else?
It’s his mask. No alternate sexual practice for Auraugu (except for being a furry, obv)!
But that’s not a suit he’s wearing
He sometimes wears a human suit at conventions.
I guess that would make him a skinny? A fleshy?
A mannie – http://speakwithmonsters.badgods.com/view/gnoll/
Wrong, he is wearing his birthday suit
Is that his strong suit, hye?
Can understand the confusion: we have never seen him without the mask (just as well that he isn’t a real Luchador: once unmasked publically, they are not supposed to re-don a mask {or maybe it’s just not allowed to re-wear the one they took off in public})
Actually, we have seen him unmasked, when he’s talking to Penk.
Ch 28, Pg2
Or “unmasked” as he seems to suggest.
Yep. Used that page for mask-reference.
Auraugu has a weapon of mask distraction.
Ahh, the good ol’ Bag-o’rphans!
how else would you know what was in the bag?
Heh. Bag O’ Orphans.