Tomodachi Age 4
Yeah, that happened. They got married and have made two babies so far, at no provocation from myself. Their first kid was named named Bella, and that was a weirdly perfect name for a daughter of Best? The second child, in the comic, is Grace – a name I would find believable that Frigg chose ironically. But yeah, Mii Frigg and Mii Best shipped themselves. Don’t look at me, I just let them do what they want.
When a Tomodachi kiddo grows up, you have the option of choosing whether they join the island as a resident or if they become an adventurer a traveler. If they become a traveler, they are in a constant of travel, Streetpassing from person to person, for however long the game is still a thing. That’s kind of weird for me, and kind of awesome? Like when you trade away a Pokémon that you actually liked. And when they become a traveler, they ask you if you want them to deliver a message upon arrival. It’s a really cool thing for gigapets to have evolved into.
And the message I have chosen is “Read Guilded Age.”
Anyway, this was actually a lot harder than I imagined it would be to come up with interesting content for/from. And Tomodachi is not anywhere as well known as I thought it was, either. So I don’t believe we’ll be doing this as chapter-break filler again anytime soon. Or ever again! WOMP WOMP.
But I am considering maybe just taking the most interesting screengrabs that I’ve accumulated from literally thousands and spouting them out into a Tumblr? Who knows.
Now, if you play this game yourself, or if you just want them for your 3DS, you can snap QR codes of these little fuckers and import them into your own island! Huzzah!
See you Monday, people. And if you’re going to Baltimore Comic-Con, see you at table A231!
Their children are absolutely frightening and it’s perfect.
I know! That last picture looks like they all have something vile planned for me O_o
Pure nightmare fuel
Well, it could happen y’ know? Atm Frigg’s totally boxed in. With Scipio barking up Fr’Nj’s bush and even E-Gurl and Bitchzerker taken, Frigg may have one last Best chance for happiness left.
Oh yeah, there’s also Gravy but I doubt Frigg would apply that to her buns.
I find it more likely Frigg will not end this story in any kind of serious relationship. She doesn’t strike me as the kind of person to need that shit for validation, and her character arc is going in a wholly different direction.
Sometimes you don’t need to compulsively pair off all characters in a work of fiction, ya know?
joke
you
There are other men out there besides the other adventurers.
One day she’s just gonna be like, “Oh yeah, I’ve been dating a guy I met at a bar for a few months now. I didn’t tell you? That’s right, because it’s none of your fuckin’ business, asswipes. He’s a butcher and he’s into assplay, that’s all you get to know.”
I got the joke, which is the first thing I have understood all week.
I can’t even recognise the characters and have no idea what they are doing. Don’t anyone try to explain it to me, I just want the comic back so I can forget this week ever happened.
There is no way I am ever going to play this game.
Seconded.
You love it or you hate it.
I choose the latter.
That fifth panel is the stuff of nightmares.
The last 3 pages left me cold, but this page is AWESOME.
Hated it, hated it, hated it, Amused slightly. Still so glad this is over and will never come back.
how do a couple with red and blond hair have a baby with brown hair? Red and blond are both recessive to brown, it just doesn’t work genetically.
if I was the father, I would be asking some serious questions.
Friggs hair must naturally be brown in game.
See the hair colors offered in game are the ones offered in the normal mii maker which are natural hair colors but not Red hair.
All colors from Green (Like Syr’nj’s), blue, purple, white, and Red (from fire truck red to orange) are gotten from hair dye in the game.
It’s okay, we all know the real, canon OTP is Frigg/Syr’nj.
Close, but still holding out for the FriggShell to hatch
If this weren’t for taking a break from art, the last panel here would have to be Frigg waking up in a cold sweat.
This shit has gotta stop.
It would have to resume before it can stop again.
Panel 7 looks like Best happily throwing his protesting child into a body of water, and at a crab, no less.
Why did pregnant-Frigg’s hair turn brown?
Vitamin deficiency?
No time to dye when she’s knocked up.
Thumbs up for Nintendo if they actually programmed that (assuming that those bizarrely-colored hairs are treated as dyed).
Many hair products have so many side effects to pregnant and breast-feeding women that any decent stylist will downright refuse to use chemicals on such people. (Even if those foul substances aren’t to blame, a single mishappen baby is enough to burn your business to the ground before evidence can be gathered).
Or she just dyed her hair brown and this was a coincidence.
But seriously, what is happening in the beach photo?
Baby is crawling after a crab, because she is The Frigg Lite, and she heard how her daddy gave her mummy crabs so she thought she would get and give one as well
She must have just taken a bath (which is given by the player) before she had her kid and he didn’t have the time to dye her hair again.
Her hair is naturally Brown I assume and just dyed red because that and other weird colors can only be gotten through hair dye.
Saving the [b/B]est for last, I see. :D
Grace on the potty is killing me. XD
Agreed!
Best sure looks like a smug fothermucker in the last snapshot. He’s like “and today, I unleash upon the world this, my finest creation.”
Frigg, whether sepia or game, doesn’t strike me as the sort who would ever have kids, either, which is a shame, because the world needs more of her awesome. Best is too full of himself, barring an epiphany, to ever care about anyone other than himself. It’s funny, I thought he’d been reincarnated as Penk, but maybe he’s in Tron-town now?
That smile in panel 5! The stuff of nightmares!!
I get that this has been a bit of an “experiment” and pushing boundaries an the like is not always a bad thing.
And I’ll admit I’ve “read” the whole thing, *BUT*, it’s also been a lot like watching a car crash in slow motion.
There’s the horror of the blood, and the entrails, and the severed limbs and flying bodies, but it’s all so dreamlike in it’s absurdity that you really can’t look away.
You KNOW what is happening is horrible, and that somewhere, people are screaming, but yet still, you watch…
When will this end and we get back to the real comic?
I don’t get this new comic at all and the art work is just ugly, I see by the comments that people are actually liking at least some of this stuff so I’m guessing its referring to something else that they do but based on what I see here I’m not even interested in finding out what that is.
Please bring back your A-game material–this is just painful.
so these are screenshots of a game your playing? omg lol I thought you drew this crap :p GOOD TO KNOW ;-)
“When will this end and we get back to the real comic?”
1. Never (you can’t end something that has already ended).
2. On Monday.
People sure got upset over getting mostly-boring-filler week instead of no-updates-at-all week.
Yeah, I feel super appreciated, let me tell you.
It is testament to your relatively consistent providence of entertainment for all these years that people have essentially begun taking you for granted. The baseline for “normal” was reset.
Thus not being able to do so all of a sudden shakes them out of their comfy entitlement zone.
Proof once again that Gravedust is an idiot for being afraid that people might become accustomed to war. Getting accustomed to war just makes a person look jaded. Getting accustomed to being provided free entertainment just makes a person look like a prick.
Plural “you” by the way.
Panel 9: “Listen here you little shit…Heh. shit.”
I always wonder how this game compares to the newer Sims having never played either of them. I bet you could do a much more accurate simulation there for the next filler ^_^.
As I understand it the Sims is basically a sadist fantasy simulator where you trap mentally challenged people without food and water or toilet facilities as they snap and set fire to themselves based on the reports of people I know that have played it. Looks like you have a lot less control over the environment in TL?
Haha, the sims is what people make of it, and lots of people play it really differently. I know one guy who just builds endless amounts of houses. Never even put people in them, he just likes building houses. I know someone else who makes complicated family legacies. Of course, I also know people who just kill off the sims.
As far as suitability for something like this, sims is rather out. Because the game so in depth with creating every tiny aspect of their appearances and environment, there isn’t really much AI. Sims left alone will often just die cause they’re so dependent. Although sims 3 has a feature where the sims age and “live” when you’re not directly interacting with them, I’ve never seen them do anything to change their lives except die off. They wouldn’t ever do something like this where they make their own relationships and live their own tiny lives.
Um, I’m ready for Guilded Age to come back.. puh puh pleeeease :)
If it helps, I actually really enjoyed it. It was amusing to see how the game randomized our characters, and it sounds like quite a fun game to play. Perhaps the experience would have been more enjoyable if it had been clearer who some characters were, I got a little confused for some, and had been clearer from the beginning that this was a computer randomly generating this content. An interesting look into a real life guilded age, where the computer characters have lives and do what they want. So to speak.
Oh man their child is adorable.
I actually have Tomodachi Life! and much like you I use that game to make my characters just to see what stuff happens (such as the crazy pairings happening here.) Because of that I actually really enjoyed these posts, and feel this worked fine as a filler because it’s always fun to see what whacky things the miis of your characters will do, especially if it’s something incredibly accurate to that character.
darn. now we need a steampunk character with goggles on her head. also must be named grace…
This was the best one. (didn’t realize that was a pun until I was done typing and looked back… Best puns are that easy to do. *shrugs*)
I like that you are always stretching and chose to turn a lul in the comic as a chance to learn and grow. This isn’t my favorite experiment but I’m glad you are doing them cause sooner or later I do get unexpected gems from you. (like I need a bonus to already free entertainment!)
Sorry if those addicted to both your comic and your comment community rubbed you the wrong way. But its a testament to this comic and community that they couldn’t help coming here repeatedly on schedule. (and once here… eh)
Awesome! Scary, but awesome!
Why do I get the feeling that Frigg taped a picture of Tectonicus in the bottom of the training potty?
“Come on, Grace! Use your Toxic Poo-Poo of Death to slay the evil Tectonicus! Quench his flames with your Raging River of Pee-Pee!”
“Poo-Poo! Pee-Pee! Raaaarrr! Bye-bye, Tehtonitus!”