Well, the Grizzly VS. Gorilla debate really heated up last page. We can continue discussing it here, or we can discuss the new question (can a man kill a bear with one punch) this time. If we do decide to continue to debate the first, Gaelen Mibeck has sent in the first piece of Bearmageddon fan art to inspire more controversy:
gorilla: “God gave me a good brain!” bear:”I’m gonna CLAW YOU!”
If you want to contribute fan art, please do! I will eventually start a gallery and post poignant pieces in the blog like the one above. Thanks Gaelen!
As for the whole “one punch to kill a bear” idea… I mean, it would require a perfect storm, a perfect man, a perfect fist, perfect timing, perfect chi (I am probably not spelling chi right huh?) but under all the perfect circumstances just maybe, MAYBE it could happen. It’s sort of like the Big Bang. In fact I think it would be just as big of an event in the annals of the history of mankind and children would read about it’s great mystery in school for years to come. It would be BIG BANG 2.
Actually, now that I think about it, maybe that IS the Big Bang. A guy punched a bear and it died. THAT IS THE EXPLANATION FOR MANKIND. No further research needed.
I may sound like I am in a weird state of mind. There is an explanation. I just watched Birdemic with RiffTrax tonight. It’s one of those bad movies that is seriously insane and you can’t even try to process what the makers of the film were thinking when they made the decisions that led to it as a finished product. I don’t know why I can’t find a clip of the guy who steals the gas dying on YouTube. If you have seen it, you know as I do that it should be the most popular video on the internet. Don’t let that get you excited though, the movie is painfully bad, but it was inspiring for me as the guy making a story about bears taking over the world to see something similarly done with birds. I learned a lot about what not to do as a storyteller…
Oh wait I have to go I just heard a cougar*
Ethan
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*again, you have to see Birdemic to even know what I was talking about right there, sorry about that.
Discussion (50) ¬
I think maybe if the guy was a professional weight lifter, and he had a running start. Also the bear has a running start and doesn’t get a lot of calcium.
I love how surly Besser is! Great character design!
As for one bear one punch, a few people could probably do it… Donnie Yen, Chuck Norris, Jet Li… but the list is very short.
Thanks! He is fun to draw. This was the first page Noah colored for me to show me what he could do. I especially love his work on that first panel.
Chuck Norris could do it without one punch.
This gas-stealing guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wERSymSXah0
Yes! Though I wish the clip started earlier. I think tension has to build more, and it is funnier in context.
Holy mother of God… that’s one of the greatest things I’ve seen… EVAR!
I must find this movie.
It’s so amazing, I felt compelled to make a quick montage: http://i54.tinypic.com/34j2aeh.jpg
I am still wondering if we will ever get to see the fellow with the green hair in a close-mouthed position.
Again, the art is great. I kind of wish I knew nothing about Bearmageddon until the day it was released in graphic novel form so I could just turn the page and see what happens next.
Also, I like the detail of Ken’s “piece of flair”. 😉
At the end, it should come down to a mutant bear vs. a mutant gorilla. The way I look at it is when King Kong fought Godzilla (yes it is a real thing), Kong won because he had a large brain, which I find stupid since Godzilla destroyed Tokyo and should be able to handle an ape. But Godzilla isn’t a bear, so I don’t know. It might depend on the gorilla and the bear.
How would you feel about fan videos?
I’d feel great about fan whatevers. Within reason.
Actually, Kong only won in the American version. The Japanese saw ‘Zilla win. So even that is still open for debate.
One punch killing a bear? It reminds me of this anime clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq_Vaa1ypdo
Maybe if you are really strong.
man an anime punch didn’t even work. I think you have to get it right in the right spot.
Did you realize that Chuck Norris can literally turn into a bear?!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qazTwX4BXkA
(also, please add a G+ button)
Seriously, that question has GOT to be a meme.
Gogs reminds me a bit of Dermot from Venture Brothers
You know Ken is a big shot with Wow-mart because he has lots of pins and patches. Great work Ethan
thanks, he is roughly based on bosses I have had at similar jobs.
This isn’t the same as killing a bear with a punch, but I recently found out that one of my ancestors was know for (among other things) hunting American Black Bears with only a knife. I mean, they’re not grizzlies, and he had a knife, but still, close combat bear hunting is pretty crazy, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Hampton_III
that’s definitely something to be proud of.
So THAT’S the guy all the bears tell horror stories about. You realize your relations happened to be the stuff of bear nightmares? They probably gather around at night and tell each other Wade Hampton III stories.
“And so Joe went into the cave because he heard there was honey in there but NO IT WAS ONLY WADE HAMPTON THE THIRD WITH A BIG KNIFE AND HE SLASHED JOE TO DEATH!”
Also, bears aren’t conveniently lined up for you to break them along the grain.
I’d like to see these “martial arts masters” break a dozen boards when they’re not separated by chopsticks and do it against the grain.
I absolutely love Rifftrax. I’ve watched almost every single one. This is the best webcomic 🙂
it’s the best comedy out there. I have seen most of them but still need to see more. They drop Axe Cop references in X-Men Last Stand and that one with the Kraken. Not sure why I can’t remember the name.
you mean Clash of the Titans? cause that was my favorite part 🙂
here’s the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVicRSITRCk
Axe Cop reference @ 1:45
Perhaps Gogs will get the chance to test his hypothesis out. I’d really love to see that later on in the story.
Birdemic? Oh dear, my boyfriend laughs that that thing is actually on Blu Ray at Best Buy.
Also,I’m totally loving my new avatar that was provided for me. My bear is chilling.
your bear is all like “check out my junk”
XD!
I saw this thing on tv once where a martial arts expert claimed he could kill an ox with one punch.
I bet that guy could do it!
I did some hard research, and, the bear would win.
1) Bear wins fo’ sho.
2) I assume that I am correct in pronouncing Beardemic as Bear-demic, as this is a comic about bears, HOWEVER, I feel that I must point out that it could also be read as Beard-emic, which is something completely different, although likely equally amusing.
What does a gorilla weigh? 500lbs? A kodiak bear can weigh 1000 lbs more than that. And the bear has got claws. A gorilla with a gun might win, but it would have less chance than a man with a gun. Bear teaks it hands down. A Siberian tiger, however, weighing about 600 lbs can jump like 30 ft and is so freaking fast it could chomp through a bear’s neck without much danger of reprisal.
Ahem. http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p52/ I think the uberninja could probably handle a bear, and by extension…Just sayin’.
Not to mention the largest living liger, Hercules, weighs 904 lbs and could work over the average grizzly pretty badly.
1) There is a case of a 60something year old man who was being mauled by a bear from behind, and managed to knock it out with one punch. (He survived, but I don’t recall his name). Given that he was A) 60something, and B) pre-mauled, a more optimal situation would likely lead to “a human can kill a bear in one punch.”
2) Polar bear > grizzly bear. Polar bear is one of the largest land carnivores to ever walk the earth, and is currently the largest land carnivore still alive. What’s more, unlike kodiacs, they are PURE CARNIVORES. Polar bear is one of the most frightening predators on Earth, the others all being aquatic (a number of whales, a few sharks, and giant cephalopods).
Note the bit about cephalopods? Yeah. It should totally be a giant squid / polar bear hybrid for ULTIMATE TERROR, because… what could be worse? Nothing. Nothing could be worse.
hmmm gorilla VS bear…. i think the gorilla would win i mean opposable thumbs just hold all 4 bear legs and headbut til the bear is knocked out 🙂
but more importantly i like this comic 😀 keep up the good work
just to throw something more into the works, bears are notoriously near-sighted so any ranged attacks from said-gorilla will be effective (poo-flinging?) and, depending on the bear, not usually aggressive unless cubs are involved. i could be wrong as there are usually exceptions to the rules of nature.
Finally got around to reading this awesome thing. I shall continue.
Incidentally, studies show that it’s ten times harder to fracture a human skull covered just in scalp than it is to break bare bone.
I reckon Bear Gryls would be the man to do it, take out a bear with one punch that is. Then eat his eyeballs & use his intestines to fasten logs together to make a raft to get to the helicopter extraction point
I’m still at odds whether a gorilla could take out a bear. Maybe if it was a small bear like errr… Teddy Ruxpin perhaps
I’m calling it now. I want a plushie of one of those bear-octupi. Keep up the hilarious work!
I’m calling Chekhov’s gun here. “Sale on shotguns?”
Also, gorilla wins hands down.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070521135425AAAHKxJ