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Is… Dargon directly responsible for the condition of Knightsbridge, then
Of course not.
That’s what subordinates are for.
Shoulda just gone whole hog with it and renamed him to Dragon Chesterfield.
I honestly struggle not to read it as “dragon” anyway, so yeah.
I used to be in a game guild with a guy who went by the name Red Dagon. He was a good guy, but uh…not the brightest.
To clarify, he intended for his username to be Red Dragon and apparently just never noticed the misspelling.
All that being said, he enjoyed playing chess, which is a game i never got the hang of, so I never judged him for the name thing. There are different kinds of intelligence, after all.
Was the misspelling the main thing on which you judged his intelligence? The only thing?
No, absolutely not. There were some developmental issues or something going on there, though it’s been a few years so I don’t remember what he said his diagnosis was…I did my best to take him under my wing even before I became guild co-leader, but while people’s minds work differently, his was not up to the task of understanding, for example, that even if your town is safe under a shield, sending troops out to gather resources made them vulnerable to attack. This was sort of an issue during game events where attacking other players was object. Ah well. He’s the only reason I feel bad about losing interest in the game…well, that and the fact that i was one of the few cooler heads actually interested in diplomacy among the realm’s various guild leaders.
DAGRON
“Strong Mad? You just… keep doing your thing, man.”
I had to re-read it three times.
It DOES seem a bit off: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/surname/dargon
Not to mention the shirts. “For a Man to own and a Woman to borrow.”
(I know it’s the wrong brand. We’ll get to it, I’m sure.)
What does a pirate with an olde english accent sound like?
If the pirate is speaking legitimate Old English, probably unintelligible.
Sprec for þin selfe.
“Speak for yourself” for all the modern peeps.
And if it’s modern English, just from England rather than New England, probably he sounds like the Dread Pirate Roberts.
American, its the British whose accent changed.
What does a *British* accent sound like???
According to my brothers English war bride mother in law, it depends on what street you live on.
There isnt one.
DINGDINGDING!!!!!
David Cameron would probably be the model for boyo.
Like the Pict from the Pink Floyd song “Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict”
Very arrrrrrrristocratic
Like a person with an olde English accent. Why would their career choice affect their accent?
Like Robert Newton in Treasure Island.
“Talk like a pirate” Lessons
Or Johnny Depp?
That is AMAZING.
And yeah, of course he’s from Knightsbridge.
Your old man took her diamond’s and tiaras by the score
Now she gets her kicks in Stepney
Not in Knightsbridge anymore
So don’t play with me, because you’re playing with fire
I’m probably older than Dargon.
That sounds like a very… not happy way to speak of your childhood home.
Or of your father. I haven’t had a lot of dads in the past, but I feel like something’s gone wrong if I describe one of them as ‘cruel’.
Okay but have you been READING this comic
Yes, and I can confirm that something has, at some point during this comic’s run, gone wrong.
He says it’s where his father lives but he doesn’t say it’s his home.
Based on the many Agatha Christie novels I have read, and the many Masterpiece Mystery! series I have seen, I’m guessing he mostly grew up in a series of boarding schools, where he was looked down on by his fellow students, who were actual scions of nobility, unlike his parvenu father.
Okay, he does refer to it as “home.” It’s late and I’m tired and reading-challenged.
Anyway, the rest of my comment stands.
If Jason’s dad is anything like Walkyverse Dargon, then Jason isn’t immune from DoA-parentitis.
But then again, who is?
Hey, at least he doesn’t have any ninjas.
…that we know of. 😛
Buccaneers seem more appropriate.
Which part of Knights’ Bridge was unclear here?
*James Bond villain voice* Never assume an industrialist does not have knights at his disposal.
Pretend I said presume.
Fool! Never presume that a man does not have ninjas at his disposal. ;p
ALWAYS. EXPECT. NINJAS!
Possible retcon for the old AU ninja Rick is a former member of the britrash. This is my head cannon now.
I like to think he’s one of Galasso’s cooks, but he’s an unseen character like Vera from Cheers. Eventually we might see his arm out holding a plate for the wait staff to pick up, or his silhouette in the window from outside, but that’s about it.
Wonder if this is going to be relevant or if it’s just a “hey here’s where these IW! characters are.”
I kind of doubt he’ll concern himself with Jason, but I’m sure there’s going to be some element here of not wanting to be like or near his father, given how distant that wording is.
TIL that “Knightsbridge” is a real location in England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightsbridge
And shit it’s a fancy one, too, from the sound of things.
Think of a one- or two-syllable word. Now put it in front of the word “bridge” and join them together. Chances are pretty good it’s the name of some place in England.
I see there is in fact a Fordbridge, an onomastic oxymoron if ever I heard one.
-bridge, -shire, -field, -ton, and -by-the-Sea are all useful suffixes for making up plausible English town names.
Littleton. Elmbridge. Sheffield. Farmershire.
Ooh, ooh, Carmel-by-the-Sea!
I live a couple towns away from the actual Carmel-by-the-Sea. Those guys are so snooty their mansions don’t have street addresses.
Fieldbridgetonshire by the Sea
I’m English, and I’m from Bristol, which actually has an area called Shirehampton. It’s probably not the only Shirehampton in the country either…
East-, West-, North-, South-, Upper-, and Lower Shirehampton!
Add “ham,” “hampton”, “bury/ borough” “wick/wich”, “ington”, “ingham” and “chester/caster/castle” to that and you’ve pretty much got the whole set. Rural Wickingtonhamfordcastershire can boast many fine examples…
And by extension, New England town names. For example, Farmington, Connecticut. In the late 1700’s, the south part of the town separated and called itself South Farmington for a short while until it was smooshed into Southington.
New Englanders often updated spelling to match the pronunciation shifts that happened in English. Hertford(shire) in England became Hartford, Connecticut.
Yeah, I have my GPS set to the “English (UK)” TTS voice so it will pronounce all the town and street names properly. The American English one butchers everything worse than the last Californian who came to visit.
Not really. All it means is that they built a bridge over the ford.
So possibly construction, just because some whiny people didn’t like getting their feet wet when they crossed over, but not oxymoronic.
So they built the bridge in the 60’s, and it is where some farmer’s car got stuck in the mud.
My dad was born in Wylam-upon-Tyne, which I assume is just northwest of Hobbiton and looks like something out of Wind in the Willows.
I assume anywhere that ends “upon-Tyne” looks like something out of Milton’s dark satanic mills.
*Googles*
Huh, most of the pictures are of a building that turns out to be a brewery, but definitely looks like it could pass for Toad Hall, so you win.
That was basically my response as well when I discovered it’s right next to Newcastle, but regardless of reality I like my imagination version.
Did it have talking toads?
He didn’t mention any, but this was born during The War so maybe they needed all the toads to fight the Germans.
For somewhere just outside Newcastle, it’s surprisingly picturesque.
Jason, the Term Is Robber Baron. Unless you’re a toady or an upper class Twit.
Then again, Jason treads the line of upper class twitdom every day of his life.
Jason wishes he were an upper class twit.
Robber barony is a specifically American phenomenon.
Given the track record of shitty fathers here and what little I remember of Walkyverse Dargon, I expect whatever we’re about to hear will be painful.
For real though, my partner’s town’s name is the same, so stereotypically British I had to go “seriously?”
“Read my fists: no new taxes”
I read Dargon as Dragon and was surprised Walky didn’t comment on it until I reread the strip.
My first read for it was “Dagon”, which raised all sorts of potential problems…
Sounds fishy to me.
With a name like Dargon, of course he’s gonna be a bastard.
“DARGON”?!
It is, technically, a name. It’s primarily a surname, and not a common one at that, but there are a handful out there with Dargon as a first name. God help them all.
…Shit, now I’m tempted.
I would if not for the fact that in my country, having Brit/american names means you were likely born in a ghetto household. Like, HARDCORE ghetto household, and you were named after an actor.
… That sounds suspiciously like my own country. There’s even a warning given to people named “Kevin” who are looking for a job: “you might want to distract the attention of any potential employer from your first name. People don’t hire Kevins”.
That’s amazing.
In a “wow, prejudice can really stick to any and all things, huh ?” way, yup it’s amazing.
Also, it’d be amazing to send some our “why-can’t-they-have-proper-names-like-normal-decent-people” types over your way and see how they like being on the recieving end of it for a change.
Basically every anglosphere surname ever has been firstnamized so it’s not really surprising.
Go somewhere else then, Jason. You’re a grown man
He may well be dependent on his job-he’s-about-to-lose/support from his abusive parent-figure, similar to the situation Ruth is in with her grandfather.
Grown men can’t talk their options out? 😛
If he’s in the US on a student or working visa, losing his job or academic standing could mean deportation.
Dreadful dadding of age this comic is.
Esp under the current administration…
Would you tell Ruth the same?
So I am just imangining that Dragon is just a British version of Phil Ken Sebben.
Ha-HA! Britjas.
I read the alt text, and now I am picturing Dargon as looking and sounding like J. Jonah Jameson.
SPOILERS: Basically a beefy Jason (with all that other stuff)
Dargonnit.
So…Jason’s father is essentially a James Bond villain?
In IW!, yes.
In DoA, James-Bond-Villain sets too
lowhighmundane of a bar for bad dads.Ha ha ha, considering what’s going on in IW! right now, not an hour ago I was just wondering if Dargon would ever “appear” in this comic!
Well he IS in England. It’s not like the fact that he just got mentioned by name means he will automatically be summoned all the way to Bloomingtoyeah okay he’s going to show up.
Wait, isn’t Jason’s dad a big actor? Walky even has a picture of him on his bathroom door.
…that is Robert Wagner
…Robert Wagner is Jason’s dad?
Number 2 from Austin Powers
Does that make Michael Weatherly his brother?
Yeah, that’s the one.
But Jason doesn’t look anything like Robert Wagner. Maybe he’s adopted.
Robert Wagner is adopted?
By a dog called Max.
Home base!
Green card wedding?
Might work but who ?
Faz, obviously
nah, Faz is a minor
This is the US, still legal to marry a minor.
Now, the two males bit…
In those states, I believe parental permission is required. Faz. So basically, no problem then.
In Indiana, he’d have to be 17 even with parental permission, except in cases of pregnancy.
Which is unlikely with Jason.
Well, I meant Walky. Cuz they’re drunk and someone’s facing deportment. That’s the point in any sitcom where there’s an ill-advised wedding
And Jason DID comment on Walky’s attractiveness…
“Do not make me return to the life of a Charles Dickens protagonist.”
Well THAT would be a twist.
I’d bet a copper (field) on that outcome.
Dammit, you Pipped me to the post on that one…
Good pun. Please sir, can I have some more?
I admit I never read Dickens, but wouldn’t “healthy through less than moral deeds” more what’s is expected of an antagonist in his works, “A Christmas Carol” notwithstanding ?
Just throw a stick at him. Should distract him for a while.
Panel 3 Jason look so sad I want to give him a hug ):
(also Jason please leave your hair kinda scruffy it’s doing wonders for your attractiveness)
Jason’s dad is evil in all universes.
Heads up, there’s another abusive patriarch!
I wonder what flavour of evil he’ll be.
(Everything that’s wrong with capitalism, for a start.)
If Monopoly were a person.
I’m trying really hard not to psychoanalyze that
His dad has the eye patch in this AU too !? For some reason I’m loving that and I’m also loving the name of that British town as well “Knightsbridge” that’s fucking awsome.
Though I’m not loving how depressing his situation is with his father, I guess we can add another horrible parent to the list that Amazi-girl might haft to force herself out of retirement to punch.
I wouldn’t call it a town…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightsbridge
For the record, Knightsbridge is a district in west-central London. It’s where you find the big department stores like Harrods.
Yeah, if someone said “I live in Knightsbridge” my mind would automatically translate that to “I am UNIMAGINABLY wealthy”. In fact, the fact that Jason studies where he is says quite a bit about him
Also right next to Kensington with lots of embassies, the V&A, Natural History Museum, Science Museum & Albert Hall
You’re having fun with these names, aren’t you
JASON’S FATHER’S ORGANIZATION RETURNS!!! :–D
The only thing that stops Jason’s father from being a pirate is the lack of a ship. Otherwise, pretty much everything else is in place, including a lack of morality and a rapacious avarice for anything upon which his gaze falls.
Oh ye of little faith. You know perfectly well that the DOA commenters will find him a ship in no time. And not a few of them will be with Faz, just because.
Good thing he only has half the gaze of a typical person then.
Dargon sounds more like an alien starship captain to me.
Maybe Jason could get his father to pull some strings and save his job?
Goddamit, I’m invested in all these storylines
Just askin’, but does this Da(r)gon live near water and is he in a cult of fish-people?
I blame Jason’s granddad. He thought that giving his son a dramatic-sounding name, it would inspire him to greatness. It inspired him to be an ass but I doubt that he achieved any of the good versions of ‘great’.
Great wealth, I guess, if he’s living in Knightsbridge.
I was trying to work in a Conan the Destroyer reference, but your Lovecraft reference is far better.
It’d be cool if Ruth’s grandpa, Jason’s dad and Amber’s dad all hung out in the same bar and that bar got crushed by a meteor while the waitstaff and bartender were all in the parking lot.
Can Ryan and Toedad be there too for some reason?
I mean, I understand why you’d say that, but they will be/are in prison.
I think they got what was coming to them already.
Can it be a prison in the vicinity of the meteor?
(meta) We’re spending a lot of screen time on a character who’s about to leave the comic… (/meta)
No he’s not. It’ll take years before a committee can meet. Plus its time for Sal to make an appearance.
Leave his job? Probably. Leave the comic? I find it unlikely.
Dargon is actually Billie’s high school mascot. Ruth just put the letters back on wrong.
Nah mate, only Russian bankers live in Knightsbridge.
Can relate. Drunk and mixed feelings about having gone home eventually.
Sometimes it goes okay, though.
Yeah. *sip*
The eyepatch is actually a monocle.
Jason should keep his hair like this.