Thread 151190100

originally published as instagram posts, Crisis Zone has, to quote anon, become "the definitive work of the covid era". Recently learned it was compiled into a volume with extra panels and author commentary, I think it's worth dumping and experiencing this wild ride once again.

Thanks OP.

>>151190100 (OP)
Reading. Thanks for the story time!

>>151190249
no problem

>>151190100 (OP)
recently read this, enjoyed it a lot more than the other MMO comic that got posted here. I think it's because the absurdity and progression of events is a lot more intense, and every character here get's shit on, with some moments of compassion. The other one felt kinda like Owl misery porn

>>151190279
yeah this is just hanselmann going wild with the characters as far as he could. Owl growing a spine is my favorite part.

>>151190306
>Owl growing a spine is my favorite part.
This, it's great to see him actually tell others to fuck off, even if he himself can be a really terrible person. I really enjoy how fucked up carrot bottom gets in the story as well

lmao

Thanks OP, bumping.

>>151190853
appreciate it.

>>151190274
Currently reading, bump

This comic is incredibly kino, i wish he'd pump more of these out while he refuses to make Meg's coven.
Bumpo for OP

This is my favorite mm&o comic. Its nice seeing owl be more assertive and take charge. Its rather odd mike out of nowhere decided to be a lady though.

>>151190178
this was 5 years ago, i'm glad people have grown tired of this cancel culture

>>151190178
> thanks for defusing the situation with your cultural irrelevance

the first of many amazing quotes

damn, the lights went out.

>>151191342
Werewolf Jones ripping off Ian's arms for no reason is the greatest moment in comic book history. Thanks for the story time OP.

>>151191342
It’s funny how many times I’ve seen the Twitter panel posted here, I thought it was from 2014 or something when I first saw it

Oh we're doing this again. Nice

>>151190274
WWJ is a good friend.

>>151190211
Woah what's with Owl in this comic? 2017 Owl would never call Megg a bitch straight out like that

don't skip the author commentary, it's pretty funny.

>>151190826
It’s bizarre how, according to Hanselmaan, they were gonna turn Megg into activist in some tv project, considering that pages like this exist

>>151192151
that page might have been deliberate now that you mention it.

>>151191298
Things get really fucked around here

>>151191426
It’s funny how jack is a complete psycho in the other books while he’s one of the most mature characters in CZ

>>151191494
Kek poor mogg

and that was Crisis Zone, the end. truly the masterpiece of our times.

>>151191736
>>151191744
He kinda looks like john dimaggio in his human form

>>151190338
Kek

>>151192260
Thanks OP, that was a really fun read

>>151192214
>works as a construction worker
>doesn’t care about petty political shit
>has a great son
bas-
>wife is a tranny
Dammit Owl

i love megg

>>151191527
Werewolf Jones was the realest guy for this.
He can be the worst thing in your life but boy can he redeem himself. The quintessential wild card.

>>151191527
I'll never not laugh at those characters in the bottom left corner.

>>151192497
I noticed the SU shirt but just now at I seeing the jacks Kek
>>151192462
Shes looks cute but god shes so disgusting

>>151190100 (OP)
Thanks OP. I feel like ass and this is exactly what I needed.

thanks, op

>>151191201
For me, it's the most hilarious page
WWJ's denial about his disfigured face, the anus bleaching, and then dropping a doll of his dead son into a grieving father's arms
>I miss you, I'm in heaven now, desi fuck off i'm recording
>I think this perfectly simulates the experience of his existence
How the fuck does he do it, there's so much insanity in just twelve panels

>>151192260
Thanks OP.

>>151192239
Is this the reading order? Is there anything else? I think I'm behind.

I'm the last storytale Anon for 'One More Year', good job, Crisis Zone is always a joy to read. Modern day classic, loved reading it as it came out daily on his IG.

>>151193315
>Is this the reading order? Is there anything else? I think I'm behind.
Go by publication order really, the chronology itself is all over the place as there is flashbacks and flashforwards throughout the series.

>>151191918
>come at me like a double-decker bus, cunt
>you gormless minger
You can take the comic out of Australia, but you can't take the Aussie out of the comic.

>>151190100 (OP)
Fuck yes let's go lads

I genuinely believe this is the best art to come out of the pandemic. My only nitpick is it's sometimes easy to tell when panels were added from the IG account to make it a graphic novel (punchlines that continue with extra reaction shots), but the format of basically making this page-a-day did wonders to its chaotic energy.

>>151190172
based diesel

I can't believe I just spent hours just reading the whole thing.

>>151190382
Am I the only one that cracks up whenever Mogg appears on screen? It's literally just a fuckin cat lmao

>>151192220
this panel hits different after trillion webms of children's body scattered unalive

>>151194170
Any panels that have him seething or looking depressed are so funny

>>151191391
So if Drac Jr. can just come back to life because he's a vampire, how come Jr. Jr. didn't?

>>151194186
Are you fear-mongering for "current bomb strikes" like we've never war before AND self-censoring "dead" on fucking 4chan of all places? Interesting post. Not even mad, just confused.

>>151190185
Ma did nothing wrong.

those full page paintings at the end are great

>>151194170
same lol, it never gets old

>>151190100 (OP)
>Tran, Trann & Tranny
Stop shilling this

never read this before
grade-a kino
thanks for the storytime

>>151190589
this is me being a dumbass but are they using the pump as a makshift oxygen thing?

It looks like everybody in this household is like a hairs length away from killing themselves , I wouldn't be very surprised if this series ends with half the main cast dead or in some rehabilitation center , it's even more sad that these types of people actually exist in real life and have children in the most fucked up environments that you can raise one in , truly sick

>>151193859
The page a day format kinda dates the book but in a good way. Crisis Zone is a time capsule of the raw insanity that was 2020

>>151194310
They weren't vertical. And probably because I have kids now...

I remember reading this in real time.

Thank you, anon. I saved a copy with your filenames

>>151190840
Are all witches just drugged up drunk losers?

Sex with Val

>>151192462
Owl pls

>>151191227
>They replaced the Mike mother with black panther
Kek, hadn't noticed that before.

>>151191016
what the fuck is going on?

>>151190854
Pages like this make me realize this is one of the only pieces of media... pretty much ever, that portrayed the BLM movement in a mostly negative light without going full "us whites are being genocided" with it. It's extremely ballsy, especially at the time. Hundreds of thousands of people were calling companies who really didn't have any business getting involved in these movements (like Nintendo) racist just for not posting anything acknowledging them. This was throwing a fire cracker in a beehive. I remember his Instagram comments section seething around this point in the story.

Side note this is a kino reaction pic. OP do you have the calendar drawings that fast-forwarded a year after the epiloge in the story? I think they were hard to find.

>>151196231
>Twitter smeared across the every surface
And Twitter is just late 1990’s Berkeley smeared across the internet.

>>151191352
>the branch and shit flecks on the wall are still there from the beginning

>>151195049
Exactly, an improvised ventilator

I could fix Megg.

>>151191535
>neigbors watching him through the window again

I keep forgetting other people live in the same building.

>>151191347
I think Werewolf Jones might be one of the most detestable characters I've seen in a very long time
He's the literal definition of degenerate scum

>>151190452
kek I love this part and all rare owl wins

>>151193475
>She also calls the fries "oven chips". Fuckin' aussies.

>>151191757
hmm

>>151191942
...

>>151191371
The reveal that there's other people in the unit is one of my all-time favorites.

>>151196231
> that portrayed the BLM movement in a mostly negative light without going full "us whites are being genocided" with it
God I remember when the George Floyd shit was going on, seeing all those random stores and buildings getting destroyed, pretty much for nothing. And you’re right, it’s impossible to find any non “whites are being genocided” media that shits on the movement

>>151192184
No wonder this ended on a more upbeat note that other Megg, Mogg & Owl comics.

>>151191964
Jesus Mogg is just being fucked left and right in this issue , he basically did nothing and became one of the biggest losers in this comic for some reason

>>151190295
>>151190306
rare moment with Owl and Mogg being chill

>>151192220
Why is buff construction worker owl kind of hot?

>>151198227
Seriously. I always felt it a little unfair. Megg was cheating on him all the time, of course he would leave. I guess airing their dirty laundry to the media was a bit shitty though.

Just finished this for the first time and it's pretty kino , I can see why so many memes came from this one issue , Is this the peak/end of the series or does it go downhill from here?

holy shit owl actually won
this is what happens when you grow some balls and get your shit together

>>151198955
Did he though? He got a tranny and some kids that arent his.

>>151198227
Owl started to get his shit together so the pecking order needed a new bottom bitch on the totem pole.

>>151198989
He won in the end. He got back with his slutty witch and it turned out the kittens were his after all.

>>151198971
he got a reliable life partner and the fulfilment of a family
hes doing great

>>151190100 (OP)

This comic is highly satanic because it has witches and demons in it and teaches children to be WHORES

>>151198778
It is an alternate universe spinoff, exists outside of the main continuity so it's a good starting point. Go to MegaHex if you want to start on the main comics.

>>151190567
>Jaxon's face in the final panel
poor kid's life is hell

>>151198971
He literally stole his bully's abused kids from him and will basically ensure they consider him their "real dad". If anyone is the cuckold it's Werewolf Jones.

>>151190430
>B'oh!

What does this mean? Jones says it occasionally.

>>151195081
That's sort of the point of MM&O. They're based on the author's real experiences to a degree. The thing is that Crisis Zone is a spinoff of the actual canon, where things are sort of going as you say as the cast ages and tries to deal with life.

>>151190216
>>151190185
I don't like these Americanisms spilling in

>>151190488
shalom

>>151190835
Most shocking thing yet is Mogg having a job.

>>151191010
>got a new arm from Build-A-Bear
kek

>>151191298
Werewolf beats vampire confirmed ig.

>>151190100 (OP)
Perhaps a controversial take, but I really wish he didn't add in the "lost" panels for the print version. Almost all of them throw off the comedic and narrative flow of the previous pages, and the coloring on them tends to feel that he came back and added a lot of them after the fact for the sake of having 12 panels per page instead of 11.

>>151199197
>It is an alternate universe spinoff
Bruh you serious? This is literally the perfect ending for something like this , I hope that the author knows that after this issue these characters will never be seen the same way again

>>151190382
>>151190382
why did mogg turn into tim pool

>>151190898
I'm so glad nobody seems to give a shit about netflix documentaries anymore.

>>151200733
It's worrisome they are replaced with the most not going anywhere hourslong podcasts

>>151200240
do you have any explicit examples of where the additional panels are, such as links to the original instagram posts? i can usually make a pretty good guess but i'd like confirmation

>>151191462
Anus King dropping in ratings must be a fucking lie because WWJ is a content machine.

>>151195081
Haha yeah imagine being raised in such an environment and only being able to escape through overuse of the internet haha

Awh sweet. Bumping and reading.

>>151191730
>Mogg assfucks Megg for over a decade
>no kittens
>Mogg assfucks Mitzi for a few weeks
>this
guess Megg being barren is confirmed (thank God)

>>151201913
Does fucking someone in the ass actually get them pregnant?

>>151202124
You must be 18 to post here.

>>151201498
Pretty sure it's always the 12th panel of each page. Don't quite feel like seeing if he still has the originals up on his Insta, and I don't know if the threads are still up on 420chan from where they were reposted (or if 420chan is still alive).

what the fuck why are the segments with jack making me tear up so much? I don't usually get affected by these but this one is making me feel like absolute shit man

>>151202381
The major changes in Crisis Zone are that Jaxon is somewhat sympathetic and Owl isn't such a doormat. Both of those things make for better character dynamics, honestly.

>>151202124
>he doesn't know about ass babies

>>151202495
He probably is an ass baby anon, be kind.

>>151202124
Well you see when a man fucks a woman's ass very, very hard. I think you can fill in the blanks.

>>151202469
I feel like Jaxon has always been sympathetic and Diesel favored once he separated their personalities from just being small versions of Jones.

So does WWJ turn human only when he's completely sober?

>>151202564
Correct. It was a big reveal at the end of the Owl's Birthday arc iirc. Last panel was him in the drunk tank

>>151190254
God I love brutally honest Owl

>>151196231
I mean, does Simon portray anything in a positive light? The world of MMO is absolute shit, even more so than reality. These are shit people, in a shit place, in a shit life, doing shit things.

>>151190254
i think every single megg mogg & owl publication was planned build up just to owl this based

>>151190285

censored poofta detected

>>151200482
NTA but if you read the other comics I think it isn't. It wraps things up well but the canon comic goes through a shitton more of the group's trials and tribulations. Crisis Zone is great as a "good end" but the real group isn't headed for a truly narratively good end IMO. The canon end, if I had to guess, would at best be bittersweet.

>>151202469
Jaxon's always been a good kid who's been ignored in favor of Diesel, who even in canon is shaping up to be more of a sociopath than his dad.

>>151199130
>he got a reliable life partner

I wouldnt call Mike reliable at all man.

>>151202967
Remember that time when WWJ got serious about being sober until Mike got pissed and sabotaged him with booze? Mike's reliable as long as Owl doesn't get 100% clean or aim too high. Bar's in hell, but we all know it can be much worse.

Is this it for the series or is there more after this?

>>151190906
love the booger is lowkey a cunt

>>151200482
The main storyline is semi-autobiographic, WWJ is based on a real person who Simon was friends with and died IRL as well.

>>151203748
He goes into how his relationship with his mother is similar to Megg's here as well >>151192205. I can't even imagine that shit, it's like my greatest wish that I had the means to support my family, imagining being in that situation only to watch them piss it up the wall on drugs would be as fucking maddening as it would be upsetting.

>>151204141
Yah, feel like if people actually listened to what Simon had to say about his life and what's gone on in his life in the last decade, they'd be a bit more understanding with why Megg's Coven is taking so long. Shit is the most painful part of the story clearly, the most personal, and he's not like at the same place he was in life when he first started writing these. He has a kid and a family of his own now, probably has some thoughts about what he puts out in the world that his kids could see before talking to them about it. For all the craziness we see in his work, he is a very down to Earth cunt it seems like.

I honestly didn't think I'd like that as much as I did. Kinda encapsulated everything about the world during COVID, and up until now. I got a lot of shit I gotta work out man

>>151191010
love ian face. kek

>>151204475
It helped he was writing it in real time basically from the start of major lockdowns in April 2020. He was pumping out strips on the daily then, insane amount of work at the time, I don't think that pace can be recreated. Was so fun to read at the time, I would read every strip during lunch at work during the shittiest of times.

Thanks OP, now I need to take two showers

>>151191186
hit legit hard

>>151193315
Like the other anon says, the chronology of MM&O is all over the place but Bad Gateway is the latest "canon" release after Owl leaves and the others have to try and survive without his moderating influence.

>>151195081
He's depicted it in offhand non-canon strips, but Hanselmann has stated outright that Werewolf Jones' ultimate fate will be ODing under a bridge on Christmas Eve, based on how some friends of his in Tasmania died

>>151195081
We have a couple flash forwards, so far only WWJ is dead out of the group and Megg has a daughter.

>>151198227
Granted but Mogg is arguably one of the worst guys in the comic. He doesnt work and he's not even a fun hang. Megg at least plays music with WWJ and goes through manic phases where she wants to do something besides sit around stoned watching TV

>>151205086
Mogg comes from money as well, his parents support him through most of the series till they finally cut him off but he just continues to mooch off Megg even though their relationship collapses like a neutron star when they aren't high as shit watching How I Met Your Mother.

>>151196932
>>151199331
After reading more MM&O, seeing WWJ in such a pathetic state is kinda cathartic. I feel bad, but not that bad

>>151190100 (OP)
I liked it a lot, although I thought it could do with slightly less crying.

>>151205371
but that's the funniest part

>>151205158
though owl was the comes from money guy and he was the unwanted part of the circle because he ponied up for drugs

>everyone saying megg is fucking gross
>apart from the drugs and pissing she seems normal to me

>>151205158
>comes from money
>gets cut off
Mogg wishes he was like Ian. Now Ian was a real trust fund mooch who secured the bag.

>>151206070
>apart from the drugs and pissing she seems normal to me
So spending all her time watching TV, sitting in the dark playing vidya and not showering until she starts to hallucinate? That might be 4chan normal but it's not normalfag normal.

>>151190100 (OP)
Oh yeah, what has the author done since this?

>>151192034
wait the house wasn't his?

>>151191084
Poor Ian is so sad lmao

>>151206059
Owl's family is more middle class, Mogg's has actual wealth. Owl mooched for awhile before he bought his own drugs honestly, there's a whole strip where Megg & Mogg give him oregano to smoke because wants to bum off theirs.

It's a complicated relationship. Also don't forget Owl was paying 2/3 of the rent before he left.

>>151206143
He has done another alternate universe series on IG that is a bit more horror/depressing, still very funny however. Not sure if he has finished it yet.

>>151206431
The one about the zombie apocalypse?

>>151206413
I think the most unbelievable strip is when they go to weed store and get so fed up with the customers and hippies behind the counter that they decide to go find a dealer. I don't know, though, maybe they're really into watching some friendless dude play Mario Cart for an hour before he's ready to conduct business.

>>151207344
MMO are boomers who got scared off by modernity and went back to what was comfortable. They might complain that the weed store was soulless or whatever at the time, but they're addicts they'll be back.

>>151207818
Makes sense.
Here in CO when you go in, real boomers are usually the majority of people there. FWIW, though, I've only been 3 times this year.

>>151190812
It took me so long to realize that the kidnapping and rescue of Jaxon was one long Red Dead Redemption 2 reference.

>>151190512
Fucking Owl is killing me