In case you missed the new issue: https://www.teamfortress.com/tf07_thedayshavewornaway/To think that the Adminstrator's design started out as a fan portrait that Valve bought. In-lore, she became the ultimate hater
Lemme check if I can find the flashback Helen pages from the old comics
Man, what a story...
Looking back, it must have been shocking for Pauling since this dream was what she thought what the Administrator wanted.
>>146841143
>All this so she could rant a few more hours to Zebediah
>>146841167
>>146841176
>>146841204Also, Engie's the only one in Blu for the whole comic, no?
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>>146841222
>>146841214They used Blue Engie for the Loose Canon comic so he's Blue for narrative consistancy.
The oldest lore portrait
>>146841091ITS HERE
Reposting my Olivia fanart
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>>146841417Forgot the picture like a dumbass
I was so pleasantly shocked at the reveal.
>>146841222You can tell right here that the story of #7 is a massive retcon, but eh, after 7 years I'm just satisfied we get an ending. Would be interesting to see what the original plan was, probably the Abe Lincoln leak from ages ago.
>>146841091Did anyone else think Ms. Pauling was the Administrator's daughter/clone?
>>146841611Obvious that this was not the original intention but eh what we got can still work with that page.
>>146841611Hard to tell. I vaguely remember the original "leak" having something to do with Abraham Lincoln. I wonder if someone has a cap of it.
>>146841619A lot of fanlore (trying to overexplain the respawn and the merc lookalikes) pointed to it but it didn't have a lot backing the theory
>>146841091Is this gonna be your FOTW /co/?
>>146841611Was the original merc pic with Abe Lincoln actually supposed to be a story leak? I thought it was just just a funny little goof that you could kinda' slot into the story otherwise that wouldn't have much to do with things otherwise. Like you could replace Tom Jones with any other sexy crooner from the era and it wouldn't change anything.
Absolutely boss of her
>>146841091Did anyone else notice that Administrator's probably dad is fucking John Wilkes Booth?
>>146841684Reaction pic for you guys
>>146841686Fuck, I didn't notice that. >Booth was later killed in a shootout between himself, Bilious Hale and a large group of people, during which Hale sat on his chest as others took turns shooting him; Hale was subsequently awarded Booth's hat tower for his bravery. - wiki
>Saxton Hale accidentally continued the gravel wars when he retiredlel
>>146841726If they completely replace the Announcer with Pauling (which I know they won't for obvious reasons), then it really would just make the whole story come full circle. The fight continues in the exact same way just now with Pauling at the helm of the merc company and the mercs just getting to have fun while being a family.
>>146841705That actually makes it pretty brutal, maybe Zepheniah or sent Barnabus's son off to kill him, Billious based on photos and artwork seems a lot more grim than his father or his son. Or idk, timeline is kind of weird on this one.
>>146841748I can see any future game using the comic characters as the least bit of fanservice. Zhanna and Pauling would be just as good as hearing Scout and the Heavy sisters cheer the new generation on. But we won't have that. We have Deadlock instead.
>>146841695Geez, even at like 40 she looks so fine
>>146841767I still don't like anyone making a deadlock v tf2 thing, both games appeals to completely different types of people, pitting them against each other because of the developers not managing themselves well is a disservice.
>>146841767I'd prefer they use those 1800s Gravel Wars characters we saw from the catch up comic
>>146841767I'm fine with that. Through its ups and downs, TF2 gave more than any game really had any right to give. It got an ending and deserves to rest.
>>146841705Damn wish they mentioned the original Team Fortress. Abe's already a wild one considering TF lore ( both the pyro and the inventor of the rocket jump )
>>146841777It's hard not to sometimes. People who don't like Deadlock will point at it as Valve's source of distractions when they could be working on insert legacy title here. It hasn't had a chance to prove itself and it stands in-between Marvel Rivals and fatigue of hero shooters and mobas in general. Personally, I'm surprised we didn't have a Valve BR title outside of Counter Strike GO's shortlived mini mode.
>>146841774Lots of 40 ladies look fine. A lot of them tend to let themselves go like army dudes becoming dads. >this is a sixty year old, single
Neither Saxton nor Gray Mann taught Olivia much about sex education...Or how to avoid getting blackmailed...
>>146841222>>146841611no it all still fits into the story. She wasn't talking about australium, she was talking about revenge
What I'd give for a classic HD revival of the grenadefest that was TFC
>>146841222>I even thought I was done onceoh. ohhh
>>146841843Suddenly it all makes sense
>>146841222fuck, I just noticed her child self was crying
>>146841816Valve is usually pretty good about only doing something if they think they have a good idea for it and chasing a trend for the sake of it *cough artifact/underlords* has only backfired on them. Deadlock seems to be popular for now, but give it a little bit of time and we'll see how long that lasts and if they just go back into hibernation.
>>146841785Some of them show up in the flashback, TF1800 Heavy is carrying a cart i think
>>146841204So weird thinking a lot of the Administrator pages, it's so serious. It's like something that doesn't belong in Team Fortress. God I love the colors in all of them.
>>146841449I realize that the specifics are different but big bald dude with a broad chin = heavy. IDK why they designed this dude like this, this could easily have been heavy in a slightly different style than we're used to.
Who would have thought that of all of Valve's IPs, TF2 was the one to get a finale? Portal 2 too if we're talking Chell. Meanwhile, Left 4 Dead 2's still stuck with a bittersweet cliffhanger like Half-Life.
>>146841857The game is losing players, but it is also in a highly volatile alpha state as well that is changing quite a bit.
>>146841886For an early access with no current advertising, it's doing well enough. That said, I only got 10 hours out of it before I moved on to my other games.
Post yours.Rookie numbers, I know. I'd have more but I was split between it and Dota2
>>146841915I also split between tf2 and dota
>>146841915Only recently played it within the last month or so because an old friend wanted to pub. Before that, I hadn't touched it in at least 2/3 years, so all this time is from before then.
>>146841915500 of these hours are from before MYM. I don't know when the other 100 were put in, feels like I only picked it back up for two weeks.
Scout: Jeremy WillisSoldier: Jane Doe (possibly even his government recorded name)Demoman: Tavish DegrootHeavy: Mikhail Engineer: Dell ConagherMedic: LudwigSniper: Mister Mundyand Florence Pauling. Spy and Pyro are the only ones without a real name.
>>146841965Almost 3.5k, nice. That's the standard for PoE and Warthunder people
>>146841915I only have 2 unusuals but both are pretty good
>>146841091Wait. Is it finally over? I could swear the last one I read ended with a To Be Concluded.
>>146841977In the end... the real Pyro was the friends we made along the way.I like that the story had no epic final battle, no terrifying boss... just a story about the emptiness and pointlessness of revenge.
>>146842001Take a look at this shit and tell me it isn't the end
>>146842001Yep. In true Valve fashion, they just shipped it without any prior hype announcement.
>>146842017Somewhere, a radical Team Fortress 2 fan would cope and say Valve's just waiting for the Heavy update to release a new issue after this.
>>146842017Scout could have totally tried his luck again with the Heavy sisters. Then again, that would have made Misha die inside.
>>146841417>>146841446Very nice work.
Choose your milf anon
>they retconned the original photo
>>146840108Is the team as a whole even retarded though? Yeah, Soldier is a delusional wacko, Pyro is an unpredictable force of nature and Scout is an idiot but others are mostly fine. Sure, Medic is a psycho but he's also a genius so he should be considered valuable thanks to his groundbreaking discoveries and inventions, Engie is a genius too but he also has common sense, Heavy is a (surprisingly) highly educated and reasonable dude (as long as nobody touches his Sasha, Medic and his family), Demo is a completely normal guy when he isn't drunk and Sniper might be a loner and kind of a weirdo but he's a professionable who's able to behave like a normal guy most of the time.
>>146842093*professional
>>146842017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-HdGnzYdFQ
>>146842093All-in-all, I think it's a mixed bag of good and bads. Pyro's insane and only talks to Engie, Demo's a drunk liability, and Medic is generally despised for wanting to operate on his teammates. Maybe thematically, they're the guys who didn't make the cut for every other team. That or they're actually the cheapest compared to the others' asking rates.
>>146842017Kino. And Engie's missing in most team pages so that one's the apology.
>>146841322>>146842079did they? soldiers got his thumb on the torn part
>>146842112>>146842093The real question remains what war between the ACTUAL top tiers of the TF2verse even looks like, if there are notionally people who make Heavy, Sniper, Soldier, Spy and Pyro look like rank amateurs out there.I asked myself the same question about what war even looks like in Jason Statham's Transporter movies, because the shit his character does is NOT standard soldier training IRL.
>>146841417>>146841446She is 14
>>146842127Thumb height to the two guys beside it says otherwise. But it doesn't matter since at the end of the day, it was all the Administrator.
>>146842134Out of 18!
reposting my doodle from the /v/ sticky(that was reposted in the previous thread)
Feels good knowing that we were playing the least futuristic, most inefficiently equipped team even though game-wise, they ruined the aesthetic with the crossover weapons and holiday hats.
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>>146842162She's not drunk enough. She needs to be blushing.
>>146842093When isn’t demo drunk?
>>146842128If anything, Scout's the picturesque "amateur" of the group. Sure he does scouting pretty well, but he's also the youngest and has the lowest health. Everyone else is just professional and mental.
>>146841176How does he know it's all gone?
>>146841239Whas this issue 6?
>>146842201he doesn't, but knowing Administrator, she could have been boasting for a long time how much she's been hoarding. The last bit of lore about it was the implied theft of the US cache of australium during the Poopy Joe story.
>>146842215Yep, Issue seven's in the OP.
>>146841830At least she gets an early start at continuing the Mann bloodline.
>we finally have canon unmasked SpyGotta say, I didn't expect it even if there was a timeskip
>>146841091>Scout got to fuck a bunch of women who left him>Soldier got to fuck Zhana twice>>>146842249>>146841091Damn he's good looking
>>146842259>Soldier got to fuck Zhana twiceprobably more than that
>>146842249I'm just glad they didn't try to expound on Pyro or anything.
>>146842259>twiceOh they did it 24/7
reminder that the dyke dei woke mafia got to tf2 and now the ideal dream for men according to tf2 is to raise all of your cuck kids on your own and the one true love of your life likes women
>>146842267They got the most out of Classic Pyro even if it was voiceline-inaccurate. I'd have wanted more gags with pyrovision but I suppose you can't beat the first issue with that.
>>146842259Reminder that Scout's gonna die early according to God. Grandaddy Spy's gonna be raising the lot in their teen years.
>>146842267I'm a tiny bit disappointed that we didn't get a scene where they tease Pyro taking off his mask, and it's this big thing where everyone leans in for it and it's a big reveal; and then there's a smaller mask underneath it.
>>146842272
>>146842267Perhaps the best surprises are the ones kept an eternal secret.
>>146842298>>146842272birthing hips well used
>>146841686So is the cover (the basic structure of it anyway) a reference to this one for Batman Year One? In keeping with how the other TF comic covers are parodies of famous comic covers
>>146842312Yeah. More than that, it also hints that Administrator can't even remember how her parents died.
Posting an edit from the pinned /v/ thread
>>146841686Booth's tower of hats was more varied and wild, her father just seems to be the Gentlemanne of Leisure
>>146842128The real issue seems to be handling and professionalism. Yeah, the Teufort gang are terrifying in their pocket, but they tend to leave a lot of collateral damage in their wake and are really bad at focusing on their goals.Heavy seems like the one most likely to get to the big leagues, but he still suffers from really odious habits and his fixation on guns.In theory, the top leagues should be fast, efficient, focused, and deadly, instead of just dangerous to be around.From personal experience dealing with basic training, as well as with a limited understanding of military history, you tend not to be able to get a crew of people who are willing to get shot at without a level of batshit insanity creeping in.In other words, this is pretty much exactly what you would expect to happen: Nine trained killers with their various brands of dysfunction forming a found family and becoming murderous psychopaths towards anyone that isn't one of them.
>>146842330Somehow it fits /tfg/ too
>>146842330
>>146841417>little pubes sticking out perfection
>>146842331is that TFC Medic I see at the side?
>>146842338The spotlight. The slow aging per panel. It's so perfect.
>>146842048One of Heavy's remaining sisters
>>146842356>they didn't get with Sniper Also weird hairstyle change
Ew.
>>146842360>Also weird hairstyle changeI think it's just the angle making the hair blend in
>>146842362>Can't stick my dick in Administrator Dust because it's mixed with Zephaniah DustTrue hell
>tf2 is catering to the gays and ultra sjw feminists nowits over. it is so over
>>146842371Here’s your reply
>>146841091Best dad.
>>146842281Meds. Now.
>>146842376Oh thanks, I've been looking for that.
>>146841684
>>146842360>>they didn't get with SniperSHE'S TRYING
>>146842388Ah that's a good catch.
Weird to think that after all these years, we finally get a good closure. Even the Half Life fans got one in a way, but at least ours isn't a cliffhanger.
>>146842388Ooh, she's bold. The other one will be getting her GILF if she can get Spy away from his grandchildren
Has /co/ always been a LGBT central location? Is everyone here a train or fag?
>>146842017From a oneshot to a loved Doofinshmertz
>>146842413Here’s your reply
Never thought Hale would get the best ending too.
>>146841091Makani's gone a long way.
>>146842093Sniper throws bottles of piss at people and is generally a super loner serial killer, Heavy is kind of poor and has to support his whole family, Demoman is constantly drunk and will actively charge a gunline with medieval weapons like a true scotsman (i mean he survives and thrives but that makes you look crazy), Issue 5 and 6 show that th TFC crew kind of hate the shit out of Medic because he actively experiments on his teammates and can surgically remove your soul, Engi works for Mann Co, Scout is a sex offending idiot who can barely read, Soldier is a delusional psychotic hobo, Pyro is.. Pyro.For me i believe Spy either joined because he already knew Scout was his son or because he's kind of lazy and wants to make money while dealing with idiots. Based on the photos on his wall in Expiration Date, Spy comes off as a bit of an adventurer type who liked travelling the world, he probably blows tons of cash on fancy shit and maybe the Gravel Wars pays just enough to support him
So, the Administrator was Zephinia's sister, right? That's what was implied by Zeph being put in the tiny grave? Am I tweaking? >>146841686I had forgotten about the cover by the midpoint of the comic. What the fuck is going on then, was the mystery never solved?>>146841767>I can see any future game using the comic characters as the least bit of fanservice.That one kid from the Christmas comic as the new spy. Soldier's kids as the soldier and demoman (the one with the eyepatch is obviously the demoman)>>146841726I immediately caught on to *SOMETHING* being set up when one of his two assistants was literally named REDdy. >>146842283>voiceline-inaccurateProbably huffing in smoke more than any other merc, and a cold hard bitch like no other to survive alongside the much grittier TFC lot. She might genuinely just sound like that. We can't exactly hear her voice in the comic. >>146842017The fourth wall break, as sappy as it was, as removed from the game as all of this was, still made me fucking cry.
>>146842373I remember there is a model of the anthro tank in the workshop
>>146842446really? show me
>>146842442>So, the Administrator was Zeph's sister, right? That's what was implied by Zeph being put in the tiny grave? Am I tweaking?No? I think it was to imply that he wants his two sons fighting to the death as early as their toddler years.
>>146842388She's a go-getter
>>146842442Bidwell can't do shit to a man with this much focus and willpower
>>146842425I get that they were running out of time; but it still feels weird that we didn't get a scene where he confronts Darling and wins her back before the timeskip. Even something as simple as Maggie telling him to prove that he's done with the company and Hale rushes off to kill a Kraken or something.
>>146842455>No? I think it was to imply that he wants his two sons fighting to the death as early as their toddler years.She literally says that out loud to him yeah, but like, Zeph dying happens way after that. So we still have no motivation for this bitch? She's just evil? The cover seems to imply her family got killed because of something involving the Mann family, but i've seen talks in this thread that make it seem like her beef would be with saxton more than anything.
>>146842442Just realized one of Soldier's kids having an eyepatch may be a cute reference to the time he and Demo were best buds.
>>146842451https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3038967620
>>146842469I think it's as simple as "she wanted revenge, ended up fetishizing it as the best thing she's ever experienced". In the final two issues, she's talked about how much she loved it and can't get enough of it. And then a sprinkle of immortality insanity here and there. In a meta sense, it might as well be like how we can't let go of Team Fortress 2.
>>146842442She put Zeph in the tiny hole as one final fuck you, denying him the glory of resting with the rest of the Mann 'winners' and relegating him to the forgotten Mann's in the cemetery. His whole life was dedicated towards raising an heir that deserved to be buried in the mausoleum, and in the end, Helen denies him his own spot in it.
>>146842413How fucking new are you? They don't call this place /co/mblr for nothing, you actual election tourist. I don't like lefties either but go pick a capeshit thread to shit in instead of a comic with actual heterosexuality.
>>146842482Power is a drug. She was in control as long as she had the Australium.
>>146842330why are they crying
>>146842491So literally everyone here is a fag or some train?
>>146842495The fuck is a train?
>>146842500It's a vehicle that usually runs on rails.
>>146841091Throwback to the will
>>146842500
>>146841125Im actually kinda shocked how satisfying the ending is.
>>146842506
>>146842495I see you're not denying the election tourist thing. For all intents and purposes, yes and the sooner you realise you're wasting every second you spend here, the better.>>146842506>Throwback to the willSo whatever she told Senator Grey here was a load of bull, right? You'd think "I'm locking up an eccentric rich old man in perpetual agony over a grudge I barely remember" wouldn't take this long to explain.
>>146842503>>146842509It's a way of saying trans without saying it. Why this retard is saying it like this I don't know.
>>146842526No, I'm pretty sure he's scared of transformers.
>>146842519Yep because even Florence didn't know and she's always assumed she was evil.
>>146842530woooooo
>>146842514>>146842506I wonder what she thought of Grey before he was born into the world. She must have thought this would complicate plans.
>>146842547Oh wait never mind, I got the timeline mixed.
>>146842512Right?! I've seen so many good things fuck up the ending I'm genuinely still processing how neatly everything wrapped up. Even though I still think out of universe, Valve was building up to something bigger but quietly realised that for whatever reason they just can't bring themselves to do anything new with the game.>>146842533My guess is the bluff was something tantamount to the Australium version of nuclear deterrence. Something that threatened MAD enough that nobody else thinks it's worth trying to send in a third party team to shut everything down.>>146842530Makes sense, Astrotrain is a big guy.
>>146842547I can't decide if Grey is lucky she apparently never thought it necessary to meaningfully factor him into her revenge plans, or if she's lucky (well, luckier apart from the botched suicide thing) that Grey never thought of her as a loose end.
>>146842459He never lost her, he just pursued Mann Co. over a life of adventure and she wasn't willing to wait for him. There's multiple scenes of them having conversations and laughing along until he mentions getting back Mann Co. and her face sours.
>>146842565Pure luck. In the recent issue, he literally missed all the Australium she had that were covered under a blanket. She probably thought about outsmarting him through and through. Equally smart, equally wicked, and if I remember correctly, Grey wasn't too interested in Australium alone at first because he wanted Mann Co, which he felt was easier.
Leaving the noose necklace for this scene was a nice touch
>>146842338GOD I would fuck HER so BADLY
>>146842589Pauline please, she's a dusty old hag!
>>146842298God I love these two retards.
>>146842580Honestly it seemed like a mutual case of blind luck. Maybe they should've just fucked.>(obligatory post about ss being kino)
>>146842519She probably detailed her whole revenge story, being immortal, all the people she's gotten killed for it, etc. I guess the whole plan would be really fucking weird to some people.
>>146842458Reddy should get the company, Bidwell didn’t have the balls to fight for it.
If Pauling said yes, I wonder what would have happened. The cat's out of the bag.
>>146842636What would have happened if Pauling dropped the Australium into the dust pile?
>>146842413
>>146841674I genuinely don't care so no
>>146842643
>>146842643nothing, there is nothing to bring back, is just dust.
>>146842636She would have gone back to exactly what she was doing. Killed anyone who inconvenienced her.Helen had nothing left in her heart but hate, and hate was exactly what she wanted to do, if the chance to keep hating for a few more centuries was available to her she'd kill anyone for it.>>146842643Nothing, It can't resurrect the dead from dust, just breath life back into a body that still yearns for life
>>146842636Let's not kid ourselves. Nothing would change. The Administrator would feed Miss Pauling a crock of shit about how she's totally doing something meaningful here while continuing to use the Australium stock to piss on an old man's grave.
>>146842658there has to be a body that is viable for life, in this case, there is nothing
>>146841915still a newfagoht
>>146842664you got the post quotes mixed up
>>146842636I love how her VA also voiced Glados. I keep looking back to Portal 1's ending with this.
>>146842636>>146842673Here's hoping some fans gets her to voice these final panels.
>>146842673>"One day they woke me up, so I could live forever">"It's such a shame the same will never happen to you"
>>146842604>(obligatory post about ss being kino)By the time Zephaniah died the mann brother's (all born at the same time) were grown men, including Grey. He's not a child in the flashback, he's just a runt.
>>146842425>>146842017THEY KEEP PLAYING SAD SONGS ON THE RADIO AND I FEEL LIKE I'M SO ALONE ON THIS FIFTEEN HOUR DRIVE
>>146842690>Goodbye my only friend>Oh, did you think I meant you?
>>146842172Well, you can think of those hats and weapons as hand-me-downs
>>146842655>>146842658>nothingWhat if we melted a few tonnes of Australium in one of those fancy crucible furnaces and mixed the Administrator's AND Mann's dusty remains in with the melted Australium? I'm sure they'd be alright. A little battered, but ultimately okay.
>>146842710anon, they are gone, there is not even bones remaining, their entire selves collapsed, they are dead and this time not even australium can bring them back
>the very first story comic was released in 2010Time flies by so fast.
>>146842673>>146842690>"It feels so strange not to hate you anymore">"But you wouldn't know, would you?">"I forgive you for everything">"You monster"Also:>Glados canonically knows Batmanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j370EOXd2RY
>>146842720>this time not even australium can bring them backBullshit
>>146842709>some poor squad got mowed down because the aliens sent the wrong squad their equipment
>>146842723I miss 2012 so much
Since the comic is over, lets discuss the unique style they have for advancing and making panels change or adding new details to them. Specifically, what are your favorite moments created by this method?For me it's gotta be what comes next in this part.
>>146842773
>>146842773From this...
>>146842784...to this. And also, Sniper sneaking to the window butt naked
>>146842773I'm a simple man. Seeing them hide the visual gags before my eyes could look down and spoil them for me is the best simple gimmick for me.
>>146839919I appreciate it.I finished it. Great read, there were parts I didn’t like, but those were mostly “me” issues with challenging the game’s canon(like the time skip, something I’ve never been a fan of, or apparent end of their employment), from a story perspective, it’s quite satisfying. Still would’ve been nice if Scout and Pauling eventually got together after the kids.But the game itself doesn’t really have a true canon and does whatever it wants, like Hale trying to retake Mann Co. while Grey Mann has the TF2 mercs try to kill him), so what’s canon is ultimately up to you. I personally am going to believe they kept fighting under Miss Pauling.Good read, and the cheesy invitation for the viewer to the Smissmas party was perfect. Not sure how I feel about Spy being unmasked though, feel like they should’ve left that out.
The comic was good overall but I HATE how they characterized engie. If you look at the games and the voice lines in the games, he has as much of a god complex as medic, but in the comics he's just some humble down-to-earth good-old-boy. What happened? Where's the man screaming 'I AM GOD" when ubercharged and putting robber's souls into pumpkins? THIS TEAM HAS TWO MAD SCIENTSITS GODDAMNIT!
>>146842797>Not sure how I feel about Spy being unmasked though, feel like they should’ve left that out.They did justice by not peeking under Pyro's. I think it just matches the consistent closure theme especially since it's obvious how much bias the writers have for Scout compared to certain other mercs.
>>146841674God, I hope so.
>>146842802The thing is a lot of the mercs here are muted from their Meet The's and their game lines except for Soldier, who was exaggerated compared to his first few comics. It's also apparent that because there were so many characters here, they couldn't find a way to incorporate Engine in without making him a minor character.
>>146842797It's a sendoff at least. Valve can't say goodbye officially and neither could the fanbase. This is their best bet unless they truly pull the plug.
>>146842784>Ms Pauling using Spy's weaponI guess that fits
>>146842797>Pauling after losing the administrator is lost for a while>Not having scout chasing her anymore is actually a bigger blow to her than she expected because now she doesn't feel like there is anyone that needs her>After several years she runs into scout again and in a moment of weakness tries to flirt with him because she needs someone to validate her>It naturally causes scout to go right back to trying to fuck her and being so desperate for the attention she breaks down and accepts>She keeps telling herself that Scout's body is slender and feminine so she can just pretend it's a woman>But scout is God's gift to women after all....>After the sex Pauling is laying in bed with the biggest "Oh shit, what have I done, I've fucked up so bad" look on her face as she realizes she just let Scout turn her straight, or at least bi.
>>146842830>as she realizes she just let Scout turn her straight, or at least bi.Note to anyone who ever fucks a lesbian do not make these kinds of jokes with her, best to just reassure her you're a special one off
>>146841091Only complaint is I initially thought the Administrators revenge would have made more sense if Zeph was respnsible for the death of her child(ren) not her parents, would make her initial plan to target Redmond and Blutarch more of an eye for and eye thing and add a sinister angle to her playing a sort of parent matriarch figure to Pauline and the Mercs. Although I guess that would have conflicted with >>146841222 so I guess the choice is undersandable.
>>146842835do lesbians actually date straight dudes. i thought this was against the whole being lesbian thing?
>>146842892>do lesbians actually date straight dudes.No because they're lesbians but sometimes shit happens
>>146842892From personal experience, it's a mixed bag from lesbians wanting to experiment to bi's in denial and lesbians who are already friends with a guy they're fond of platonically. I once knew a fruity gay guy who became a dad because he had drunk sex with his bestie who is a woman. They're co-raising the kid as responsibly as they could. At the end of the day, it's mostly just confusion and human sexuality.
>>146842915>it's a mixed bag from lesbians wanting to experiment to bi's in denial and lesbians who are already friends with a guy they're fond of platonically>platonicallythe amount of lesbians ive seen who ended up saying theyre bi and marrying some dude friend makes me wonder if lesbian means lesbian
>>146842921It's confusing at times. Usually it falls under either sexuality or preference. It's much less of a headache to just assume every gay person is bi. But anyways, we're getting off track. Here's a pic of Miss Pauling's dating ad to compensate.
>>146842921I'm still not convinced lesbian and gay isn't just a fetish.
>>146842931Every lesbian couple I've seen is completely based on them fucking or some fetish or something related to sex. I'm not saying heterosexual relationships are perfect but those seem to work on some level of mutual understanding and if they have kids, making sure the kids are raised well. Even the gays seem to be able to live like normal people. Lesbians just seem to only be obsessed with sex and only talk about sex openly and I don't know if this is the norm.
>>146842802>>146842819Not like Pyro got to do much either.Mostly just "there" in the background if you're lucky.
>>146842939Being a Pyro fan is suffering. Guess it could have gone one way or the other (that being his identity could have been story or Engie related) but at the end of the day, it didn't matter. I'd still wish for more gags with him.
>>146842929It's funny because Soldier's illiterate
>>146842929>It's much less of a headache to just assume every gay person is bithis seems more true of dykes than fags.>>146842835>fuck a lesbian>as a guylol. lmao even.
>>146842929>>146842915>>146842909i have a lesbian friend who i asked out but got shut the fuck down but still flips the fuck out whenever i talk about some other girl or even talk about other chicks. whats going on here? i thought she was one of the dudes.
>>146842931>>146842938I'm gay and I feel like these people make the rest of us look bad
>>146842939It always annoys me whenever you have a mute or otherwise communicatively disadvantaged character and they're just completely sidelined and reduced to a background prop. Another example is Kenny from South Park. You can absolutely have fleshed-out characters with arcs with little to no speech. It's just writers being lazy and it makes you wonder why the fuck they made them mute in the first place if they're too lazy to work around that disadvantage.
>>146842969Are dykes looked down on by gays?
>>146842965She's either a control freak or has abandonment issues.
>>146842982why would abandonment or control freak stuff matter if theyre categorically disgusted by any intimate relations with guys?
>>146842954>lol. lmao even.She is a radfem who fantasizes about a Y the last Man type scenario trust me on this one if not for me she would be smashing clams on the reg and if I slip up she'd be back to it>>146842939Pyro is hard to write because you have to keep him vague
>>146842970I think it's also the fact that they don't want to actually open the can of worms that is Pyro's lore. They can do deep with him but they decided not to and the deepest we've ever gotten of her is the Meet the Pyro video. Though I'll admit they definitely tried avoiding it since even with Engineer, Pyro's just a support character.
>>146842975I am very indifferent towards lesbians. I can relate to all men, straight or otherwise, because I'm a man. I can relate to straight or bi women because we both like men. But lesbians are like fucking aliens to me and I want nothing to do with them. Nothing personal.
>>146842992Why are you friends with a radfem who explicitly hates you in the first place? I'm not the type of guy to not be friends with someone over their political views, but if their political views are specifically targeting ME, that's pretty incompatible and you're a pushover if you don't have a problem with that. And she's a hypocrite.
>>146842975>>146842995every lesbian ive met has been some angry fuck, perverted, is a fucking cariacture of some butch abuser, or cant hold a conversation like a normal person. either that or they just try to act and turn into a guy and fail miserably because lets be real here. gays blend in a lot better and have better social skills.
>>146842985It's a deep issue. Speaking as someone who's had crazies for friends. One specifically, everytime I spoke about another girl, she admitted she felt jealous because of a weird perceived irrelevance despite her being in a relationship. Worst case scenario, you're seen as a back-up friend or something.
>>146843000>And she's a hypocriteLesbians in a nutshell
Bit of a shame that Engie got so little screentime compared to the others, but I like when he's advising Pauling to let it go.
>>146843005>Speaking as someone who's had crazies for friends. One specifically, everytime I spoke about another girl, she admitted she felt jealous because of a weird perceived irrelevance despite her being in a relationship. Worst case scenario, you're seen as a back-up friend or something.Did she treat you like shit but you still stayed friends and how jealous did she get?
>>146842814>he gave him the smallest desk he could find out of spitePure ludo
reeeeI can't make up my mind whether I should reread it all first or read the thread first and most likely spoil myself.
>>146843022read it all first dummy
>>146843022I debated the same. Ultimately I went with reading the comic first and I'm glad I did. It's really not that long anyways.
>>146843001I don't know many dykes but the few I met were kind of into the same types of girls EDP liked. Disgusting really.
>>146843016Yeah I kept her around primarily because I didn't have a lot of friends, but we eventually separated after a few years of drifting apart and we found new friends since then. I can describe her jealousy as possessive, but not really toxic outside of our occasional hang outs since we usually visited shooting ranges and buffets together.
>>146843014At least what screen time he got was really good
>>146843022Reread. I was lucky enough to have read the whole thing a month ago out of boredom and a lot of the small details still stayed with me.
>>146843014>>146843038Yeah, I'm an Engie player and it's a shame he's just the important lore guy kept to the sidelines. Then again, ever since >>146842819, he was destined to be one for the rest of the story.
>>146843035I don't get the possessive part though. Do they do that because they're lonely? The one I know gets really really fucking insane mad on her Twitter not directly to me if I even mention chatting up another girl.
>>146843038I'd ask for more. For every comic they released, he hardly got the spotlight he deserved. Okay, he did get a good spotlight in the Expiration Date short, but that was it.
>>146843019It's the same desk she had when she was six; Hal just never bothered to give her a new one as she aged. He set up a trust for her and maybe adopted her(?), I don't think he hates her.
>>146843045Possessive as in "don't talk about other attractive friends while we're hanging" unless it's ranting about officemates, which I presumed she wasn't exactly happy with her romantic relationship and just wanted my platonic company. If your crazy ass friend is how you describe her, my condolences. Better to cut her loose or keep her at a pole's length. Mine was just insecure with shared backstory between us, but not nearly as miserable to be with.
>>146843049Bidwell would have liked to have adopted her, probably. It would have been funny too if she ended up making him her butler and the dynamics he had with Saxton continued with Olivia.
>>146843065>bidwell uses his butlering for oliva as a claim to why he deserves mannco more than reddy
>>146843065She'd kick his ass. She'd kick everyone's ass.
>>146843072The cycle continues.
>>146843065>Bidwell adopted her on Hale's behalf; he found out a week later when she was sleeping in his guest room.>He lets her stay as long as she agrees to let him run the company, which is okay with her because she hates running the company.
>>146843038>>146843047I main Medic so I feel the same way
>>146843098I just realized Hale never really had a color to begin with apart from his brown pants. Not a hint of green either.
>>146843063She's a really good friend but I'm starting to feel like being around her is rotting my soul. She's never happy and just talks down to me all the time. Part of me wishes I never met her but every time I show some sign I want to move on, she keeps sticking on. I don't get it.
>>146843103Medic got a great arc with the devil and Team Fortress Classic though. You guys were lucky.
Posting a cute Ms. Pauling video to celebrate.https://youtu.be/vmBMO9BXoxw?si=a-DgLP7aSxZPsiZS
>>146843104He's not a Mann. He's a Hale. Although I did just realize that Olivia is olive, so she's still fitting the convention.
>>146843108>Part of me wishes I never met her but every time I show some sign I want to move on, she keeps sticking on. I don't get it.Oh anon, that's control freak 101 for you. My narcisist sibling did that to me before I dropped her ass. If you don't have a heart to heart, you'll just keep second-guessing and being miserable. Talk to her as a friend if she ridicules your qualms, she's not really taking you seriously and therefore, not worth your time.
>>146843115My absolute fave. Workaholics with glasses gets me everytime, it hurts.
>>146843113idk manI'm still salty Medic doesn't have any domination lines
How many threads did we have before this? I keep seeing that the comic released twelve hours ago but I just saw the /v/ sticky maybe eight hours prior.
>The comic is telling us to move on
>>146843143I think this is only the second /co/ thread
>>146842388>Sniper's probably the forever virgin now.Also how the fuck is he greying already when he's barely in his 40s.
>>146842547I missed that their mother was a Darling. Did that come up aside from this card?
>>146843188Nothing, not even a reference from Charles Darling.
>>146842938>>146842931I think its just harder to be a Lesbian than gay.There must be a cock.
>>146843193>filenameo no
>>146842814But anon she's a minor
>>146843187People can gray early if they're stressed.
>>146843047>>146842819Personally i imagine he would have had a solution to a bunch of the problems the mercs would face, like a teleporter (australium powered but it probably needs only a sliver)
>>146843218>>146843187I'm guessing Snipin's not a good job after all.
>the final issue came out before Silksong
>>146843228>parents died (but got closure in heaven)>lives alone>buddies with Spy somewhat>final pages, get hit on by hot russian ladyBittersweet run but he's getting back on track
>>146843218Zepheniah's third son must've burned out early, he's been a Gray Mann since he was a baby.
>>146843235his mom is still in the australium rocket in space
>>146843129Amen brudda
>>146843239He literally invented a new form of algebra while in his mother's womb. He's that much of a geezer.
>>146842338>GILF until her literal dying momentFucking wew lad
>>146843243> >>146841167 - "the last bit of australium on earth">there's still a rocket in space full of the shitNow that's a loose end I completely forgot about
>>146842338Overwatch could never
>11 days till 2025>TF2Eugh, people still care about this shitty, tired meme game?
>>146842338One gilf wonAnother gilf won harder
>>146843187Have you seen the guy's lifestyle?
I'm overall satisfied with the ending and I'm glad the shitty ass greentext leak (whether it was from a genuine source or not) did not happen. My only complain is the lack of panels and lines from every merc that wasn't Soldier, Scout, Spy or Heavy, bit weird that characters like Merasmus, Saxton and Olivia (I know the last two were plot relevant but still) got much more focus than half of the main cast.
>>146841091La Grande Madre.....
>>146841322I want more lore of gray mann, and silas mann.
>>146843312Well yeah, it was disappointing that Pyro, Sniper, Medic, and Engie got pushed to the side. At least Merasmus is considered a legacy villain in-game by Halloween standards, but still- seven years waiting and all.
>>146843265>full of the shitpainted on the hull not full
>>146842570No, I get that; I'm just saying that it's weird that after she just exits the story because he's still obsessed with the company, we never really get an answer as to why he stops being obsessed with it. It's just glossed over in the timeskip. He ruined his relationship with Mags over the company and then he just wakes up one day and goes 'actually, I've always hated this company, I'm just going to quit.' There needs to be a catalyst.And sure, you could argue that Olivia was that catalyst, but like, c'mon. That can't be the first time he's had that conversation.>>146843323I love that Merasmus just forced his way into the story by sheer stubbornness. He just keeps coming back, no matter how little sense it makes, he's like a human running joke.
>>146843323>>146843312Heavy and Medic didn't kiss, shit ending.
>>146841214>It's not just for meNOW WE KNOW
>>146843333First off, nice quads. Hale's been shown to be stubborn as hell and the only thing that could match that is boredom. But I think the con has more to do with squeezing as much in the already late comic as possible. Whatever we felt was seen too little in the comiic, we can only hope some fan art can make the most out of it.
>>146842267They probably already did, you just didn't realize.
>>146843333he embodies Team Fortress 2. He keeps dying, he keeps coming back, and he hangs around like a ghost even after taking a beating.
>>146843353I totally agree; it is just an issue of them running out of time, ironically. There's only so much space in the story and the Hale plotline is the B-plot. It's gonna get cut. But it would have been nice to have Hale really question why he's even sticking with the company, why he's gone so far to become the CEO again, when his real love is for adventure. It's unsatisfying to have him just up and leave one day without hitting that grand revelation. It is the entire focus of his plotline.
All the kinda' loose ends and dangling plotlines are basically summed up by "there was a 7 year time skip" and, if you want to be meta about it, that 7 years is the time that people are still going to keep playing TF2 even now. But it seems pretty clear that Valve is saying that they're done with TF2 with the comic and they're giving people plenty of wiggle room in the middle to still have some fun with, but they wrote the best damn ending they really could and thanked everyone along the way. Honestly seems like the best of both worlds.
>>146843187My dad was nearly totally grey by the time he was 35.
>>146843404I'm sorry your mom was such a hassle anon.
>>146841881It was to be a joke that made the scout look like he made solid progress on his gains, stupid.
>>146843501I'm just lucky THAT part of his genetics isn't quite so strong in me. Not even thirty yet but I'm getting grey flecks in my flanks, and that's still better than dad having them in high school.
I've never felt this comic series was anything but random writing and vague coopts of memes or attempts at forcing screencappable memes.Zero plot. Just random stuff. Random lore that means nothing.>American Soldier? Nah, Canadian, also he's impregnated a Russian>Ozzie Snipa? Nah, Kiwi>there's a limited amount of Australium until we just state there's a cave that the Soldier has never been living in has always been living in>the Medic has a deal with the devil or something, who caresIt's a shame this was tied to TF2 which has a solid series of animated shorts that put most modern, professional productions to shame, even if the good people had clearly left by the time of Meet the Pyro and Le Bread Teleportation.I'm glad it's over.>>146841785>>146841839>TFcomic back then: all the mercs are men, just like in the game, just with minor race swapping>>146842172>TFcomic now: womenThe statue and various portraits the mercs were looking at were more Overwatch than TF2. Dumb.
>>146843878>Soldier>Canadian????????
I am 100% sure the daughter spy gave his mask as a gift is Scout and Pauline's daughter because it took a year after the entire lawsuit and she free from her administrator obsession and insane "love" to admit that she loves scout like the expiration date but she was too married to the administrator's shit that only after she died she learned what family and love is from the Mercs and Scout.
>>146843187Probably due to blood loss, I know a guy who started greying before he was even 20 because of that
>>146842287Wasn't that date a joke/reference about some song that was topping the charts at that specific date?
>>146842287>>146843917It was just a dumb pop reference after all
You think the VAs will ever act out at least parts of this? I really want them to be officially involved again
>>146843955I'm sure they will, considering how much fun they have doing other TF2 skits. Although, they will need to find someone else to read Soldier's lines...
>>146843215out of ten!
>>146842388My headcanon is that they are together, but Sniper is just not a PDA kind of guy. He was the one who went with Heavy to save Soldier, so he’s still clearly in touch with him.
>>146841091Wait what? IT FINALLY FINISHED?!
>>146843187He died. He got better but it still takes a lot out of a man.
>>146843982That is Nolan North since he learned how to imitate Rick May's voice and also voiced Engineer
>>146841417>>146841446>smut of the 14 year old instead of Helen, the grown ass woman/co/ never ceases to amaze me.
>>146841785>John Henry Heavy>Fu Manchu Spy>Union War Vet Soldier>Crazed Gold Miner DemomanYou guys have no idea how badly I want this game.
>>146841915>>146841924>>146841965>>146841971I'm an addict, aren't I?
>>146844210Anon, there are people on /v/ and /vg/ saying they preferred her literal child version.
>>146844210Don't act surprised.
I don't even remember half the story that came before this and my heart still has that little painful pang in it when I arrived at the last pages. Damn.
>>146843187Who said he was in his 40s? He's only a few years older than Scout.
>>146844254>>146844284I'm not surprised, I just wanna see MILF/GILF smut of Helen/Administrator. I've fucked a woman like her before and I'm still chasing that high, you anons are missing out.
>>146843323Pyro, Medic, and Sniper already got their big moments in the comic series though. What we really needed is more Engie, but we already read so much about Radigan so it makes sense the final issue focused on wrapping up the Administrator's and Saxton's story
>>146842780Oh yeah, that was awesome.
>>146843295
>>146843014>>146843047I mean, He _is_ a support class
>>146844292That makes it even worse.
>>146844308Oh there isIt was actually posted before the Olivia images too
>>146842797>>146842830I like to imagine a bittersweet and/or happy reunion where years after everything, Pauling and Scout meet for coffee or something and talk about their lives.Pauling has gone around the world, doing the most random things like she was doing for the administrator but doing it because she wants to. Boxing, diving, you name it.Scout talks about how proud he is of his family, and how the team comes to visit every so often. Soldier's kids are friends of his and come over practically every week, and Spy is there more often then not. Scout chuckles and remarks that it feels like Spy is watching over him more then he's watching the kids.At some point in the conversation, Pauling brings up the time he "moved on" and ask if he finally found that special girl. >"You know Miss Pauling, I've seen and slept with a lotta woman these last few years. And I think you did your math wrong. I ain't found a woman more beautiful then you yet.Now that the comics are over and they're both technically single its literally all up to headcanon.
>>146843187I started going grey from stress in my late teens, dude.
>>146842723Is Batman a Combine collaborator, or just useless?
Why did the have to ruin it by making the ending woke
I unironically love how miserable, bitter and hate filled the Administrator was. She was just savoring that Domination she had on Zepheniah the whole time.
>>146841977Spy burnt his name well before the gravel wars and Pyro probably can't remember it.
>>146844511Even though she wasn't at the dinner at the end, I feel like Scout and Pauling (as well as the other mercs) will still see each other often. The contract voice clips show she hangs out with all of them outside of work, I don't see why that would change.https://youtu.be/09VnRev8XgA?si=Wg3ZOebsRnlpJ-lk
>>146844251noob lol
>>146844575She stopped by to bring a turkey, dunno why she wasn't in the initial picture.But yeah, as good as ending as anyone could realistically want for the crew.
>>146844511People kind of glazed over the fact that parents legally on the hook for child support are also obliged to pay for major holidays and birthdays. I don't think Scout being a prolific dad and having his holiday funded by Miss Pauling was some sort of coincidence.
Scout having a bunch of babymamas and happily raising his kids is a full-circle thing for him. YES obviously he's gods gift to women and too stupid to pull out, but remember he had 7 brothers and a deadbeat dad, with a mother forced to raise all her kids on her own. While he's arguably in a similar position to her, he didn't abandon his offpsring like his dad did.
>>146842281Anon Jeremy is gods gift to women of course he keeps getting with different women
>>146842172Huh, just realized one of the circle on the rocks is missing. On the bottom area, they have the metal holder, but nothing in it. I wonder what that means
>>146844670What letter comes after E, anon?
>>146844613>Some point after the comics, Scout and Pauling have that coffee talk>Hot coffee ensues, and bam, Pauling is pregnant>Pauling is in no way ready for a relationship or a kid, as she's trying to clean up the remnants of the administrators work, so Scout says he'll be happy to add another munchkin to the group. (At this point his kids kinda learned to expect Scout to bring home a new sibling everything he leaves).>Scout now raises their kid while Pauling does her thing around the world, bur comes back every so often. She pays child support and makes sure Scout is actually taking care of himself.>Everytime she has an argument with spy, he brings out the deadbeat mother card.
>>146842993>Pyro's just a support character.no she’s not, she’s in attack with scout and soldier
>>146844666>>146844664I'm picturing a Fry-like funeral or get together, where every single baby mama returns to talk while he's dead.
>>146843231we got the final tf2 comic before gta 6
>>146844613>pauling is the only one who isnt a deadbeat
>>146844474SAUCE? Awoooga
>>146842310I just realized one of his kids is a cyclops, just like his best bud>>146844682I get that, but why is it missing?
>>146842970At least Snake-Eyes got like a solid couple of decades being the main character of GI Joe.
>>146841091>TF2s comic finally comes to an end.>Actual, factual proof that Half Life 3 is coming.Truly the world is going to end before we get the latter.
>>146844726Team Fortress got shut down some time during the comics (I don't remember why), that's why Pauling had to go around and gather them, it probably has to do with that
>>146844613>>146844686Oh shit you're right.Good end.
I'm bitter. Valve has abandoned this game for 7 years now, ignored a horrible bot issue, never gave us the heavy update, and the sappy sentimental ending tells me that it's over; not just the comics but tf2 as a whole. They're 'sending it off'. No heavy update, no final update of any kind, like the final pages with saxton this game is gonna wither away until eventually it dies an uncerimonious death.The fandom is still alive, it's still going strong, WE annoyed valve until they did something about the bots (they didnt really fix it at all but we all pretend it's better now), and this comic ending specifically how it did feels like they're trying to get us to leave at this point, they want us to move on to something else and let the game die. :(
>>146844825They got rid of the bots
>>146844825Every update for the past few years has been Valve gathering community maps and cosmetics and dropping them into the game. Plus what is there to add at this point? TF2 Classic tried to give Heavy a new minigun and it was badly received.
>>146841091I don't even remember. Was it ever acknowledged who the BLU Team was in the comic? Just clones of the RED Team like in the game or just unseen, vague mercs?
>>146844535Sars/Ma'am, the overwatch comic thread is in the other aisle
>>146844825what did you expect from the comic ending? more open-ended "glad that's over, back to the front, guys!" ending?
Meh I don't know why people like this shit so much it's just lol so random nonsense. Overwatch has an actual story and plot. Things happen for a reason there not just because lol it just did
>>146844917Most of the content Overwatch releases isn't even canon.
>>146844535Scout being a single dad for four kids is the least bit woke thing to ever be written.
>>146844926Cope
>>146842425>his fate is to fight an endless horde of cheetahs >because that's what TF2 has become
>>146844926Aren't the games non-canon as well?
>>146844985Women abandoning their kids is a liberal woke idea you retard
>>146842921most of humanity is bi with heavy preference to one side and it's a matter of circumstance when do you discover you might have a small percentage of liking the other side
>>146845006>>146844926Overwatch has good writers writing a consistent story where stuff happens for an actual reason
>>146842975Despite their combined branding and annual parades, LGBT is actual a very loose conglomation of different groups only united by not being straight.
>>146845032Such as?
>>146842921Bisexual women are straights in denial and lesbians fucking hate them which is why dyke domestic violence rates are sky high.
>>146845006It's hard to find anything Overwatch related that is actually canon.
>>146845013And they're being raised by their loving stupid Father who has loads of money and is athletic as fuck.Lets pretend he doesn't die 8 years from now.
>>146844917>Overwatch has an actual story and plotANYTIME NOW
>>146845064They are saving it for overwatch 3. The ideas they were gonna use for 2 they pushed back to 3 because they can actually count to 3 unlike some companies
