Ooooh… so jefbot’s leveled up and is now sporting some glowy green eyes! But what does this mean!? And what is he ready for!? Will he now tell the Cornfather about his new, yarn-born appendages? More questions and answers to come as the storyline continues this Friday!
Awesome.
thanks for the “awesome,” LadyArtemis!
and check you out: you just achieved the Shades of Firsting! wear these to cover up them glowy green pupils, once you’ve mastered your own possessed accessories:
😎
I’m personally in love with the idea of using trolls to master your anger. Trolls have finally proved useful!
yes! nice to know they’re good for something. 🙂
sound to me like a Day…. or more like a weekend^^.
Love the Sithlord expression in Panel 1.
yep, took him the entire weekend without sleep to achieve the mastery, Dengro! and seeing how i’ve not slept yet since my internet went out a few hours ago and i couldn’t post the strip, i’m starting to feel like bot looks in that last panel.
yeah – was totally going for bot-as-emperor in that first panel. heheh. glad you noticed.
3rd…lol
heh. you get the InvisoShades of, uh, Thirding, jf#300! wear them well:
lo.lll…i should get a shade of 3rdness…i usually get 3rd these days
you have been awarded, jf#300. now let’s see if you can achieve Thirding again on Friday! 😉
we will see JB, we will see
Dear God…I’ve seen my old roommate pull stuff like this. He’d be up and on a game when I went to work…and when I came home eight hours later…and usually just going to bed when I was waking up later that afternoon. Is that normal for the serious gaming geeks? I may have to reconsider this idea of mine to be seriouser with my gaming…though I’ve seen his influence in my insistence at getting all the trophies from Dragon Age 2. (Only took three playthroughs with two false starts to get a rogue and a mage to Kirkwall; I prefer to play as a figher/tank character).
And dear Maker, man, get some sleep!!!!
if all goes well, tonight will be a relaxing, early night, and i’ll be able to make up some sleep, T. thanks for the concern!
Did you manage to get any sleep? Your Twitter post doesn’t look promising…getting a bit worried about you, buddy. Especially since your driving day scares the daylights out of (small town) me.
didn’t get much sleep but i ended up being more awake during the day than i would’ve thought. thanks for the concern! (going to try again to make up some sleep tonight.)
That is indeed normal for us gaming geeks 😀
yup. enjoy it while it lasts, Descolada!
i remember the days when i could go a day or two doing nothing but play videogames, Tiana. now i’m lucky if i can spend a few hours a week playing. that’s okay, though: writing, drawing and running JEFbot scratches my gaming itch these days; it’s like playing SIM-Webcomic. 🙂
good luck with those trophies!
It’s funny how one things helps balance another…my fiction/fanfiction writing is both inspired by and balanced by my time on Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 (I prefer Dragon Age 2, just because I can FINALLY hear my character’s voice outside of battle…got a wicked tongue on them, though).
School starts soon, though, so I suspect my balancing act will get infinitely harder, between classes, stage-managing, working at the restaurant, homework, violin practice, writing for fun, and video games. And sleep in there somewhere…
I’ve gotten all the trophies for Dragon Age 2 (and had a happy nerdgasm when that “Ultimate Trophy” thing popped up). Now I’m going back to Dragon Age: Origins to get all the trophies there. Which means making the choices that I don’t like to make. >_< Why do trophies like to make me choose the dark side?
My eyes are already green. What does that mean?
That we with green eyes are automatically leveled up? Though mine are hazel green…maybe I got stuck halfway between leveling.
My mom said that I’m so full of bullshit that that’s why my eyes are brown… I guessed I’ve reached my top most level… sad…
you just need to play videogames for 50 hours straight while mastering your emotions to change your eye-color, Demonpiggies!
hmmm… hazel green might be perfect, T. could mean your rage and serenity are in balance. 🙂
Oh, I like that idea…maybe that diplomacy training is finally keeping my Rage™ in check.
Stooopid computer, erasing my auto-fill-ins…
like Tiana said, you may have already leveled up, dj! or maybe you need to go to yellow, or another level on the spectrum. purple would be cool, but not sure what powers it would bring with it.
Maybe this is what I need to do, to learn to control the rage. Playing games with strangers over the internet usually ends in me walking away in a smoldering rage and feeling an intense hatred for the human race. 🙁
you need to master those emotions and let go of your rage, Kate! only then can you control the one, true Scarf.
Goooooood Morning Boteers, Harem Members, Mancubs and Newbots! (I think that covers everyone) OH and of course the Exhaulted one and the Exhaulted Family! (How could I forget!)
LOVE everything about this strip. Love the whole Sith Lord thing going on in the first Panel, the 6 panel strip and the glowing green eyes.
And I think I know WHAT Jefbot means when he says he’s leveled up! ALIEN HUNTER!!!!!! At least that’s why my lil imagination is running to anyway. The Alien Microbe that the Angry Scarf melded with was an Alien Hunter so when it got smooshed, it needed a new host, hence the scarf then Jef.
morning, Pixie, i think you covered everyone!
and thanks for the love. nothing connotes simmering rage and anger quite like an impliled image of a Sith. wanted to show jefbot could go either way (light/dark) at that point.
as far as your Alien Hunter theory: interesting! i won’t say whether you’re right or wrong, but i like the way you’re thinking. 🙂
Level up!!! Oh YEASH!!!
Nothing like hearing a 12 year old curse on Halo, or any other game like that, to learn how to control “THE RAAAGE”.
Awesome strip as always JB ;D
woo! bot’s levelin’ up!
and, yeah: sometimes i have to turn off the audio when i’m playing online. it’s just depressing.
thanks for the “awesome,” nicobot!
My pleasure 😀
Now….I wonder what new powers has JB acquired in his level up?
So is it Darth Oc now? Wow, this is a cool storyline so far. But playing games all weekend? See, this is why I could never be a Super Hero/Super Villian/Sith Lord. I am tired just thinking about it! 😉 Good thing my vices/addictions seldom require staying up late.
You have really gotten so amazingly good at this comic biz. I just have to tell you how impressed I am with you, young Paduan. 😀
heheh. could be “Darth Ock,” shanna. or “BOTsidious,” maybe? 😉
i haven’t played games all weekend in a looOOoong time. i just don’t have that kind of free time anymore, especially with all the hours and energy this webcomic requires. 🙂
and thanks a ton for the kind words. you’ve been with JEFbot a long time now, so hearing you say the comic has gotten better carries a lot of weight!
well… he used to have glowing red eyes and now he’s got glowing green eyes… red means stop and green means go maybe?
very possible, jiro maeda! green’s at least a friendlier color. 🙂
Love it! We went from red to glowing green eyes…this can’t end well.
thanks, Alana! yep, this is either a good thing or a very, very bad thing.
Lvl 2 jefbot
powers:
Static shock
Wool Slap
Ultamate power:
4 man team vidio game ownage OF DOOM!
i like the Level 2 powers you’ve detailed here, drakeye! you just know a static shock from the Scarf would not be pleasant. heheh.
OK a couple of things with this one…
1) Panel 1 – I sense some Palpatine here… I knew the dark side was strong with bot
2) Panel 4 is genius! I love the 1 Panel showing the 2 day lapse. Very cool bro!
3) Ok, so by the end we know that Bot is like Palpatine and he has leveled up. My worst nightmares are coming true…or is it my wildest dreams…I’m not sure yet!
1) totally, Slave1. maybe you were right to assume jefbot would go to the dark side. heheh.
2) thanks, man! it was either that quick time-lapse or four full panels showing the days go by. or a text box that said something like, “two days later…” which would’ve interrupted the mood i was going for. glad you liked it!
3) wildest dreams, dude. wildest dreams. 😀
Now that’s what I call training. If you had a heads-up display, bot, this is what it probably would have looked like…
Level up!
STR: +1
INT: +5
DEX: +8
VG PWNAGE: +99
nice! can’t wait to see what kind of stat boost bot’ll get at LVL3.
Great story line Jefbot! Love the transition in the day / night panel. Level up!
thanks, FunnyShaffer! glad you’re diggin’ it.
Me, too!
Glad to see Jeff had the same on-line experience I did when I was playing Modern Warfare. Never leveled up though, still suck at that game.
now you know, TPC: you gotta play MW for 40-50 hours with no breaks to level up!
Scrawnscarf has been born, Scrawnscarf has trained, now Scrawnscarf needs an arch-nemesis. Will this be Chubman? Or perhaps another will stand before the might, of the Scarf?
Scrawn totally needs an archenemy, likeacupcake! whether Chubman will be that remains to be seen…
You have learned well and quickly young padawan…
Playing multiplayer will certainly teach one much about rage, back when everyone I knew was playing Left 4 Dead we’d occasionally team up with idiots that would just shoot each other, or run straight into a Boomer, get splatted, then cuss everyone else out when a horde killed them.
indeed, Descolada. maybe the Scarf has accelerated bot’s mind, as well?
and, yes: much can be learned about Rage and human nature (at least that of 12-year-olds) in online multiplayer. it’s a scary, scary wilderness, there.
Ambitious, engaging storyline! Great entry into the new year of Jefbot! 🙂
hey, big thanks, #1JF! glad to see you’re still with us as we go into Year 5!
Clearly, the drama of this storyline will be undercut when Cel slaps Jefbot back to reality (possibly slapping the sentience/control out of the scarf along the way).
no doubt, it’ll be interesting to see how cel reacts when/if she encounters the Scarf, Joe!
Please, oh, please, let Jefbot keep the Jedi cloak!
ha! it’s a definite possibility, bbullock. it’s much more imposing than his Scrawn outfit, at any rate. 🙂
Bot, even if the organism is benign. It still has the possibility of lashing out at dangers or irritations, if you passed Wil Weaton on the street who knows what could happen. Between the flood scarf and the super car, L.A. might sink into the pacific several hundreds of years ahead of schedule.
yikes! good point: depending on how jefbot really feels about Wil (he seemed to have resolved his issues with him during their last encounter, but you never know) he should probably keep his distance when he’s wearing the Scarf, just to be safe.
I absolutely loved this. Though, in my head while reading this, I heard the Phobos Lab music. So I did some ‘tubing, and have a link to it, so everyone can read it the same way I did. Haha.
that music takes me back, Twigus Maximus. i definitely approve of its use while reading this strip! 🙂
Should I be concerned that the new “green eyes” reminds me of Bruce Banner right before he turns into the Hulk, or the current version of Sydney Burns in Author Ninja’s Mob Ties?
green eyes would definitely give me pause, too, NeoDarklight, especially with the “Bruce Banner” reference in mind. only time will tell if they’re something more or less to fear than the red ones!
I was sort of hoping he’d use his super powers to go all kinds of “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back” on the trolls, but this is a good choice too. 🙂
Just noticed that ‘Bot’s cheeks and chin are baby smooth at a time when he should have a 3-day beard. Does the scarf have super depilatory powers?
No, Jefbot (and Jeff) just lack the ability to really grow a beard as was explained a few dozen strips back.
good memory, Fijiman!
😀
yeah, like Fijiman said, bot doesn’t grow facial hair at a rate consistent with most humans, GB. he might have a few sprouts, but nothing too visible. here’s the strip mentioned: JEFBOT.329_Facist
it’s possible he had more than a few angry words with the trolls over the course of the weekend, GB, but he seems to have gotten it all out of his system by the time Monday rolled around. 🙂
……. HOLY YARN BALLS ON A STICK OF EPICNESS! This has got to be one of your best (if not THE best) strips EVER. I LOVE IT! And yes, the squeakers and immature a-holes that inhabit the online community can really try your patience at times.
I’m sure most of you have heard about or experienced the earthquake we had on the east coast yesterday. Well suffice to say that when it happened I was in my basement (playing video games 🙂 ) got thoroughly freaked out.
thanks for such an enthusiastic response, Fijiman! happy you’re enjoying the “epicness” of the storyline so far! (and, yeah: too bad about some of those online players that ruin it for the rest of us.)
re: east coast earthquake. i was actually on a teleconference with a company from the east coast when it hit and the phone lines went out over there. was very strange. anyway, glad to hear you’re okay!
Nice work Bot. Love the strip today. 😀
So what do I get for posting the 7th comment Jeff? 😛
Can’t wait to see where this story goes next ^_^
I’ve said it once before and I’ll keep saying, this webcomic just goes from strength to strength, 😀 Keep it up Jeff!
Dang 3Am tiredness 😛 I meant to say
“So what do I get for posting the 70th comment Jeff? :P”
But dang! 70 comments in less then a 24hr period? Be proud Jeff, be very proud!
Im loving this! LOL on troll definition. It has been said a hundred times already – even on this forum – yet it needs to be said again. Trolls are sad little people. They deserve pitty. (Just imgine how much pittying them must piss them off.)
Cornfather Im very disappointed in you. You shuld have drag him out to meet some people if you are so concerned about his social skills and preferences. Besides its beech house! Shame on you, leaving your bro behind.
Those green eyes are so cool. Nice going on nonverbal communication in close encounter of fourth kind Jefbot!
I mentioned last time that Scarfliens might not want to part with their host but now I think they wont make trouble for our favourite ´bot but HE wont know when to loose the extra appendages.
I’m up sick and figured I’d try to catch the new post… After refreshing for 9 minutes, I gives up….
I also just realized that it is only 2:06am HERE let alone whatever it is over in Cali… Yeah, I’m going back to bed now. *shlunks away from the computer*
:eyes widen: OMG that’s awesome