Babylon Sticks: Go Ahead, Kid

April 15, 2010

Categories: babylonsticks, comic, humor

By James Francis | add to favorites | Comments (16)

A custom casual gameplay comic created exclusively for JIG by Babylon Sticks creator, James Francis. Follow Babylon Sticks on Twitter: @babylonsticks.

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16 Comments

And yet...at the same time...I do wish there WERE such things as hovering platforms.

Posted by:

dsrtrosy | April 15, 2010 2:17 PM

quality commander keen reference with the image of the kid. remember that game as a wee lad

Posted by: Fiedler | April 15, 2010 2:19 PM

This cartoon is absolutely keen. Well done!

Posted by:

Steve | April 15, 2010 2:29 PM

I don't really get this one. Is it a reference to some game?

Posted by:

Donut | April 15, 2010 3:01 PM

I could actually see an NPC in a platformer saying something like that.

Posted by:

SonicLover | April 15, 2010 3:13 PM

The Keen reference was.....well....keen.
Captain Comic next, perhaps?

Posted by:

DeeBee | April 15, 2010 3:39 PM

dude, Commander Keen reference!
Kudos!

Posted by: anon | April 15, 2010 4:01 PM

Nice. Although in most of the games I've seen these days, there's some sort of structure behind the platforms that they could logically be attached to. Maybe CK didn't have those? I don't know, I never had that game.

Posted by: nupanick | April 15, 2010 4:58 PM

It's not really a Commander Keen reference. The joke is on the strangeness of platforming games. I didn't want to use Mario as the platform character archetype, so a friend recommended Keen. You could say the metal girders pay homage to the original Donkey Kong game.

Bonus points to whoever can name the game the bananas are from.

Posted by:

James Francis | April 15, 2010 5:21 PM

Bonus Points? It's "Donkey Kong Jr."
Bling! =D

Posted by:

icaruslnx | April 15, 2010 5:39 PM

I LOVE Commander Keen, I wanted to be him when I was a kid!

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123dman | April 15, 2010 8:39 PM

Actually, I think I might've heard this joke before, in the video game "The Lost Vikings". One of the vikings says something like, "When we get home, we gotta get one of those waterfalls that float in mid-air!"

Posted by: Just John | April 15, 2010 9:02 PM

> game the bananas are from

That would be Pac Man. :D

Posted by:

gws | April 16, 2010 5:22 AM

We need six shrooms for those comics :D

Posted by:

Nickyh | April 16, 2010 10:04 AM

Missed this...
Ha, ha, it's perfect.
Neither did I see that with all the abstract gaming. Babylon knows how to circumnavigate our predictions. ;Dcircumnavigate

Posted by:

RedMug | April 16, 2010 12:48 PM

Oh funny, Keep it up!!
The banana is a nice touch

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Blinky | April 16, 2010 5:55 PM

Update