but what does any of this even mean

If pudge is trying to throw hooks like that he should be level 7 or above. If he is level 7 (and has at least urn, bottle and boots) he should be ganking and not wasting his skills by sitting in a lane. Some pudges even do buy wards at this point! But of course never in a pub game.

Not so big fan of DOTA2 but I'm happy expecting some short story at least =D Miss that ones!

As a League player I understand this.

@:D: So I can easily wait for the non=dota ones that pop up :p

@:D: I played the game and I hated the game. But Jo's free to draw what he wants to. I'll just keep poking my head in for the brief interludes between dota strips. Not a fan of them, but I still enjoy his other work. (and it could be worse, some comics i read don't even get monthly updates anymore)

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Look here if you don't believe me.

[url=#user_comment_282532]@Alex[/url]: You do understand Dota 2 is 4-5 times more popular than TF2 now, right?

Correction: nerfnow *t-shirt* - damn you autocorrect

GSD: Yes, too bad - for Jo. If you keep making strips based entirely on Dota injokes than readers who have been following the comic for the first 950 Dota-free comics will leave. Hell, the ad for the nerfnow thirst features... engie-tan. More Dota = less traffic = less money from existing fans

stfu people, if you don't get the jokes then too bad. Since the introduction of this comic series the jokes have always been generally focused on the game content itself. Also at this point from the past comics you should understand support role and wards since it's already been explained.

I thought the comic is a continuation of the last one, where her courier got owned by the sniper. Pudge just gets the shaft since CM wants revenge

Yeah, I seriously didn't get this one. I got that she didn't want him to do his "hook" thing that I didn't know what it was or was good for...but what are those yellow balls? Why is he just standing there? What is he doing now compared to what he was doing then? The last few were improving too..

Haha Jo, good one :D
I find it a shame that Crystal gets bashed so much - because of Nerfnow I started playing her and damn, she is really really... hard to play efficently. But I still try! >_<

And wow, what a lot of bashing here in the comments section o_O

Keep it up, Jo!

[url=#user_comment_282316]@Frelus[/url]: So what you're saying then is that this comic doesn't actually have anything to do with Dota 2, and is your basic "Healer swaps with Warrior" joke that could have used literally any game as a setting and has been done to death. So then the joke lacks effect because the joke is old and bad.

[url=#user_comment_282173]@Censuur[/url]: I don't feel lost. I'm a reader of the comic. Thus, the statement "the readers of the comic feel lost" is either incorrect, or attempting to marginalize those who are not lost as "no true scotsman." And everything I know about DOTA 2 I learned from the NerfNow (characters,roles,hook).

I don't play most of the games Jo plays but I get alot of the jokes anyway because I like games (mostly PC) regardless. Just because I don't play it doesn't make it a bad or irrelevant game. If you have a problem with his choice of subject find another comic to read. Complaining won't change it.

LULZING so hard too the le funny joke xD xD xD xD xD xDXD :D :D LEEEEEEEL

@Better Nerf Irelia: because LoL is shit

(cont) Crystal Maiden, a supporting hero, does not want him to stay there and does not allow him to get kills.
This means he is piss poor and has to do the "dirty job" of the team.

Uhm, Zero...
This has nothing to do with tactics.
Nothing with any even decent level of strategy.
The heros were not changed much (not in any way altering the meaning of this comment) in the time I play DotA 2.
Pudge, the big guy, has a hook he throws to pull (cont)

Im playing both TF2 and Dota, and i dont really get this holywar going on in this comment section.

[url=#user_comment_281917]@EHEHEHE[/url]: leave if you don't like it, it's ZOMG LE DOTA2 AGAIN :DDD's choice to say what he wants. You don't control him. Notice how I managed to convey my point of view without profanities :P

@Solam:
Exempt that it started as tf2 centric comic - so when you suddenly start making lots of strips requiring dota knowledge then the regular readers will be left wondering why they keep coming back to incomprehensible dota injokes (what is "mid"? "Hook"? Why is it funny?)

The problem with Dota comics is that they never make any god damn sense. Unless you're religiously following the game and understand all the super-competitive strategies or know every single balance change. What does this mean? At least in the TF2 comics a loose understanding is sufficient.

"mid or feed"

For once, Pudge looks ugly as shit.

Great comment reference though. I'm not sure if any of the newbies would get it...

[url=#user_comment_282101]@anon[/url]: Oh, please. Like TF2 isn't. Stop whining.

I support DOTA 2 comics if only to spite the crybabies whining about Jo making comics about DOTA 2 instead of TF2.

Why no LoL commics?

pudge face ? did you ever saw lifestealer ?

LEL DIS CUMIC IS LE FUNNY xDDDDDDDDDDD MOAR DOTA PL0X

It is normal in pro gaming to let supports farm if starting ganks/jungling fail. So, not far from reality.

@Some Guy (but not the same one that posted earlier): You just don't get it do you? With the new dota theme the readers of the comic feel lost, so out of solidarity the copied what they learned watching dota: complaining, whining, heckling (DISBAND!) etc. Makes it feel more like Dota ;]

This is one of the first Dota Comics I find funny...
and it's actually extremely funny.

@ZOMG LE DOTA2 AGAIN :DDD: Oh fuck off and let Jo draw what Jo wants to draw.

there is so much to talk about in dota so pls make more! only those who never played the game hates dota comics!

A support Pudge is not a bad idea actually, since he isn't gold reliant. He can just roam and gank while the carries farm. Buying a Ward or 2 isn't going to hurt him at all unless he din't manage to kill a lot of people (Or anyone for that matter).

You realize that for every day, there are complainers. Literally every single day half the comments are complaints about the content. If you dislike it that much,you can always stop reading.

perfect response to that kind of thing:
http://www.sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2013-02-23.gif

Not necessarily wishing for the TF2 days again... but DOTA is really incomprehensible to the outsider... and this is coming from someone who's actually played a few games and recognizes... some of the characters.

Looks like someone just grew a pair... and someone else lost his pair! XD

so bald pudge in panel two but luscious locks in panel 3?

Screw DOTA

[url=#user_comment_282079]@anonymoud[/url]: Since his last name is "Pereira", his initials would be "JP".

[url=#user_comment_282058]@Maphysto[/url]: No, not really. It's always been a Games-that-Jo-plays comic (or just a games comic). Seems like he's more into dota2 than TF2 these days, ergo the change of game most often used. Dota has a much larger character gallery so it's probably easier to make jokes about it as well.

i meant jo not jp. and everyone stop being so mean to him. he works hard on this comic. he doesent have to keep it up you know, you guys criticize so much, jo could get upset one day and just delete the site

hey jp dont let it get to you man. your doing great in this arc! lets see cute little crystal maiden go slaughterhouse on who dared to hurt her cute little pet

Hey, someone've been playing Gears, XD.

Remember when this was a TF2 Comic? Those were the days.

Hey I catched the joke from the note, am I a nolife yet?

I'm surprised there was no The International comic

That said, gotta love this CM miniarc. Serves pudge well for letting that courier die.

Also scary CM is best CM.

I understood... nothing.

I preferred the previous pudge design, his rugged good looks were fun irony in my taste, also thought o making red Engie as Lina? Would fit good in my opinion

And then she waked up.

@ZOMG LE DOTA2 AGAIN :DDD: : Crawl back inside your cave.

And then John was the demons.

@My two pence:
I think they will end the beta when all DotA 1 heroes are out.
Given there are now major bugs, but I do not see any even now, so...

Going support with Pudge apparently makes him grow hair.

if you need a Dota 2 Invite, message PulseNeon on steam. I don't need them anyway.

Maiden ordering pudge and taking mid for herself? Not in this world.

p.s. Jo, you're playing too much dota...

[url=#user_comment_281919]@LockeZ[/url] Anyone who has been playing it for more than, say, three months must have at least some invites. I have nearly 20 after a year or so. :) Besides, the game is practically out - it has a working shop system, user-submitted content and new heroes added about monthly already.

[url=#user_comment_281919]@LockeZ[/url] 'Play it? What? Man, it isn't even out yet. ' I seriously hope that was sarcasm and I fell into it. But if not, why don't you ask any of your Steam friends for a Dota invite? They must have tons of them by now. It's not a limited trial - you get onto the bandwagon right away!

Instanteneous hair growth is a known side effect of being degraded to a ward bitch

Why is he bald in panel 1 and 2?

[url=#user_comment_281915]@Miku[/url] Dat reference. Epic.

*B-But what am I supposed to do now?

Looks like a DOTA arc to me...

Play it? What? Man, it isn't even out yet.

I don't particularly mind the DOTA2 comics though. I played a good five or ten hours of League of Legends, so I at least get the idea of them, mostly.

I never played TF2 either though. I started reading Nerf NOW because of the first Starcraft arc.

@ZOMG LE DOTA2 AGAIN :DDD
Go fuck yourself. leave if you don't like it, it's the creator's choice to make what he wants. You don't control him. prick

Black Rock Shooter doko e itta no?

I rather liked your old Pudge face. It made him look dashing. Yeah, so maybe he's less pretty in the actual game, but CM is less adorable.

DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA DOTA !

sad to see that happen to an original dota char D:

JUST SAY 'NO TA' TOO MUCH DOTA!

I'm happy with Dota2 comics. And if SOME OF YOU GUYS actually play this game more then 2 rounds on bots you COULD understand what is going on on it. Just saying....

@ZOMG LE DOTA2 AGAIN :DDD: Each to their own.

OMG I LOVE HOW THE LAST 50 COMIX HAVE BEEN ABOUT DOTA2 ^_^ BESTEST GAEM EVAR AMIRITE LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWL

seriously even when you did mostly tf2 comics this much they got annoying and the l4d one was refreshing, however unlike tf2, dota2 comics fucking suck(like the game), enough already.

Then, not than

-sigh- I feel dirty for that.

Not often I get this opportunity... FIRST