Spartan Gay Chicken

[blackruzsa]

 The most hardcore version of gay chicken that exists on earth ever. 



That was in December, 2010.

And this was last Monday: 






"Consensus on the debut of this game was that Spartan Gay Chicken ends in a 30 year committed relationship complete with bickering over when to open a joint bank account and where to place the ottoman."
 
Ikeaaaaa!!!!!! The shouty faces seem pretty much the same, too. 

Manly Men Doing Manly Things. If you haven't read it, I weep for you. 


 

Comments

[k_red]

After an hour, I have now read it in its entirety. Thank you.

[blackruzsa]

That's what I did when I learned of its existence. It's great for when I'm depressed.

[drmcninja]

Yeah, they're like that. She's brilliant, one of the best dealers on the internet.

[thanekos]

In a pinch, gay chicken can also serve as a method of determining the real and the fake.

[blackruzsa]

My mind is blown.

[nezchan]

The fact that I immediately recognized that as Decade should probably be disturbing.

[darkblade]

Not really, now see if you instantly recognized say ZX or one of the more obscure Riders that might be more disconcerting.

[darkblade]

It didn't work, sadly.

[icon_uk]

My favourite remains this scene

[blackruzsa]

Oh, that is win xD I'm laughing quietly at five in the morning for this.

Wait, no, six.

[mullon]

That title is becoming more of a subversion with each comic.

[blackruzsa]

It remains perfectly manly.
It does!

[aaron_bourque]

No it doesn't.

It really doesn't.

[mullon]

You're right, I went and looked up what subversion means.

It's more of an increasingly misleading title.

[aaron_bourque]

. . . not really . . .

More like the fact that it includes such characters automatically makes their activities extremely, over-the-top manly.

[blackruzsa]

I do believe it's meant to comment on machismo ideals, like "Yeah, that's manly but --insert insensitive/chauvanistic/racist/sexist/homophobic habit still practiced by guys trying to be manly here-- is not, and should not be considered as such."

[aaron_bourque]

Not always.

[biod]

I had only read the PromQueen of War and the Protmen strips.
Thanks for reminding me this existed.

[blackruzsa]

Promqueen of war.
Loved how they were like "That is EXACTLY how it went" XD

[kirke_novak]

... ok then, new OTP and stuff and stuff. Fo'realz.

[blackruzsa]

It shall spawn fic, I do believe.

[glprime]

Soon as I read your title I knew...

It was a hard sell to my friends on just the title, but once they started reading, it got into the webcomics cycle.

"This weapon is off balance to the point of uselessness. It may as well be scrap metal on a stick. Can I assume you wield it with the intent that it compensates for your inadequate genitals?"

[blackruzsa]

YES.

[drmcninja]

You are a beautiful person.

[q99]

What I love is the comic is not only anti-mysogyny, but anti-transphobia.

It's pro-manly, but pro-*good* manly.

[blackruzsa]

It is the positively sensitive kind of manly.

[q99]

The Commander is how manly Should be.

[shadur]

"Way I figger it, it don't matter two shits what someone's got in their pants unless I'm trying to get inta 'em."

Commander is wise in the ways of the Bran-Dao.

[blackruzsa]

Isn't there like a strip somewhere about the ways of Bran Dao?
Or was that someone else Commander had on his wall that was compared to Chuck Norris? (who Commander refers to as a golden calf that shames the house)

[long_silence]

I got some femmephobia vibes from the anti-anime strip.

[biod]

I think she was more tired of all the requests she got for a type she wasn't the biggest fan of than anything else.

[q99]

It is, admittedly, not big on bishounen.

[aaron_bourque]

Nor should it be . . .

[drmcninja]

Nah, that was her pissed at people recommending clearly-not-manly men. If she can handle trannies like she did, I doubt she's going to go all femmephobic.

[long_silence]

And I understand that and she doesn't have to draw any characters she doesn't want to. And I know that she was just responding to common complaints and comments. But the way she depicted those first two anime characters seemed a bit problematic to me. Everything from their body language to their dialogue seemed to be exaggeratedly "girly" in order to prove that they aren't manly enough to be in her comic.

[blackruzsa]

Well that's how they are, most times.

It definitely wasn't in any way femmephobic. And assuming exaggeratedly bent and 'sexy' poses are immediately attributable to women, as opposed to maybe 'fabulous' men, may be just as femmephobic as that. Which is about 2% IMHO.

[gargoylekitty]

"Trannies" is often considered a slur/derogatory term and definitely not the best way to be referring to trans folk.

[drmcninja]

Is it? My apologies then, I didn't realize it was considered offensive. Won't be used again.

[blackruzsa]

Did you? I got obvious anti-anime vibes but less femmephobia.

Anyway, I don't think it was meant. Partly because the writer puts a lot of effort in sensitivity to gender and sexuality.
And she's a woman.

[kamino_neko]

The strip in question. The Commander's last line cracks me up.

[icon_uk]

I feel like applauding that strip wildly

[likeaminx]

OH SHE DREW IT. I loved the comments on the first strip where they decided they would be 'Married for thirty years with two adopted girls from China.'

This is one of those rare times that the comments make it better

[blackruzsa]

OH.
Waiting for the two adopted girls from China. I feel like they would dote on them. With shouting.

[joasakura]

"YOU CAN BE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO BE!"

"YOU GOT AN A ON THAT TEST, WE SHALL BAKE COOKIES AND THEN HUNT A WILD BOAR IN CELEBRATION!!!"

[blackruzsa]

IF THEY INSULT YOU ABOUT YOUR HERITAGE, SHOW THE SPARTAN BLOOD IN YOUR VEINS BY SETTING THEIR BLOOD FREE. WITH STABBING.

(in which they would argue that they technically have no Spartan blood in their veins, but Spartan blood is so strong it seeps into their veins by sheer force of will and metaphor)

[likeaminx]

They would dote but also argue all the time about how to raise them.

[kenwyn89]

heh, the real Spartans were manly, manly gays too. As in "I'm fighting right next to my lover so I will kill you that little bit extra..."

[da_reap]

As best I can remember, that was primarily Thebans and people ripping them off. Spartans actually made a point of assigning units by skill and ability instead of lovers.

And also having a primitive eugenics program where their PRECIOUS SEED was supposed to be saved for Spartan Women to conceive with... even if the occasional lusting after hairless boys was considered a perfectly normal part of life. (Somewhat shameful, because Spartans are supposed to feel nothing but blood and rage, but something everybody did anyway.)

[kenwyn89]

Nah, the Spartans assigned a young soldier just out of their training school to an older partner- it was pretty institutionalised, being gay in Sparta if you were a citizen (helots another matter). And it wasn't so much eugenics as an older husband saying to his wife go sleep with that very fit and healthy young man so our babies will be fit and healthy and strong. Also, by the later Classical Greek world the Spartan citizen population had dwindled dramatically- they kept on trying to produce heirs to expand their core army but because of the land requirements (each citizen had to have a certain size estate), got a bit difficult (through the generations inheritance meant land was being split up more and more until it was no longer big enough to qualify so at the lowest point there were only a couple of thousand "true" spartan citizens trained up).