Thank you all for waiting so long for this one! :D
Please expect and understand that future scenes will take just as long or even longer to produce and upload. Please follow me on Facebook, Twitter and RSS to stay updated on when I make new posts! :D
Now that I’m fully shifting gears to Green Pixel’s game art, I will be posting updates here about our games’ progress (ie. Dr. Vile and TPD2). I want to get these projects done so you guys can finally play them! :D
Also, for anyone who’s worried about The Pocalypse ending: stop worrying! :D The Pocalypse will not end until the story is over. Yes, updates will be slow but I don’t plan on stopping. On the contrary, I have some pretty ambitious plans for The Pocalypse and I expect to fulfill those plans, even if they take years to do :D As Confucius said, “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.” Great words to work by :D
Enjoy Scene 16 – “Under Attack”!
Again, thank you all so much for sticking by The Pocalypse and I’ll work as hard as I can to make all your waiting worth it :D
Vote to see all the enemies that you’ll be facing in TPD2! Good luck to us humans! :D Please vote for The Pocalypse here everyday! Thank you for voting!
:) excited . :)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! NOT MORE WAITING! THIS IS KILLING ME!
HAHA .. waited long too haven’t you zach? :D
made those comments when i havent read the comic yet.
now that i’ve read it .. all i could say was oh my God. pretty much like when i saw Manny Pacquiao fell in his face and just lied there flat. OH MY ..
AAAAAARGH Joe!
man! you can’t keep doing this to us ):
BUT IT IS INDEED A FUCKIN AWESOME SCENE! Keep up the good work man!
You must enjoy torturing us all with suspense, lol. Its killing me, they better meet finally in the next episode… :p
WAAAH DARNIT Y U SO CRUEL AUTHOR JOE!? *will wait patiently for next eppie*
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System checks : Brain, fully operational.
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING MEEEEEEEEEEEEE D:
Same wait or longer?! Jesus Christ. Welp, I guess I will check every month or so then.
Like the Carlsberg ad using footage from “Ice Cold In Alex”: Worth the wait
This…. will go bad.
HOLY SHIT THAT WAS SO BADASSS worth the wait
Holy cow! Awesome episode! The real threat wasn’t the mutant, the vampire, or the plant. It was Joe!
It was so long too… thank you Author Joe for rewarding our (admittedly thin) patience with a great scene. Definitely worth the wait.
I liked the human explosion part.
I need to see BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.
You are teasing us too much!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still good scene love the suspense.
God Dammit Joe, you son of a bitch. You did it again.
Just kidding. Keep up the fantastic work, even if it does take like a month to come out!
Confucius said, “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop,” but didn’t he also maintain a negative view of women in saying that women have no dignity and less human rights than men and are supposed to be at home, fulfilling the stereotypical roles of wife and mother.
wait a moment, until the story ends? you better never end this story, it has so much potential to turn into separatte stories and the story of a whole world!
It’s been sometime since I commented on a scene. All I can say is: WOW! This was a great scene and it was well worth the wait. Now that Victor is out…crap…..of course, now I’m wondering how they’ll stop him. I wonder if the Plants will help.
Okay author Joe we get it you’ve mastered the art of the cliffhanger. Awesome scene truly worth the wait.
I feel bad for the soldiers…
*browtwitch* what is it with you and cliffhangers?! i swear if you let us wait that long AGAIN (or make the next scene entirely about cross+that ship) i´ll find out where you live and….feed you to my plant! *pants* ok, sorry, but i´m getting frustrated here. i tried to distract myself with playing blockhopper, but with my old keyboard with its dragging keys its damn near impossible aka VERY frustrating…oh well, just date up, will ya?
BEAUTIFUL!
We had the Inner Joe:Outer Joe / Victor:Joe dynamic BACKWARDS!
Either the true ‘joe’ is Victor (it was a codename)
-or-
‘Victor’s and ‘Joe’s alignments have been misunderstood and are reverse what the scientists thought
else
Joe has yet another plot twist with the Elders or some such we have yet to connect to this cliffhanger fest
^,_,*
How many stock soldiers are there in this place? It seemed like they had a small town (beginning), then small colony (after vamp/zombie attack that took some soldiers), then merely interchangeable stock soldiers…how many soldiers are left- after this seemingly wipe-out of the last remaining ones?
Please, can you please please please pleaseeeeeeeeeeee update the scene as soon as possible?? :C
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrlgh so… much… frigging… CLIFFHANGEEEEER…
Okay Joe that is not cool! Not author Joe but Victor or whoever he is! That guy has gone nuts! Annhika might be a key to control maybe still he almost harmed a little kid! Thats a new low!
I was missing you’r Cliff hangers autor Joe n.n
PS: If you continue doing The Pocalipse I dont mind waiting at all n.n
Hey AJ(author joe), i think the next Pocalypse game should be a playable version of the story or some part of it. Think about it, playing as Joe, Bernie, Jess, or all of them with different missions and everything!
HOW DO YOU DO THIS? This stuff is incredible. What program are you using besides flash?
…excitement followed by plot followed by drama followed by surprise followed by cliffhanger…
this is worth the wait and possibly the most exemplar scene so far!
FINALYYYYYYYY!
great scene joe, i was just coming up with voices for the charecters and i think it seems awesome if sam has a russian accent.
I think I have dies [pinches arm] owwweee
Nope this is real
Joe… please… just make them meet T_T
PD: love ya
Well, i saw TP again. It was like… 12 hours or 18 hours(in 2 days), don’t know. Now i understand really MORE than before.
Well that was pretty damn good :D
haven’t commented i n a long time.as with previous scene’s, this is really showing joe’s power, easily beating a vampire who took down an elder, all in all this is pretty tense, also this is the first time i really pay attention to the more warped serious soundtrack you have added.
Oh god. I had another idea. Why not a survival pocalypse game? Imagine, you are a survivor in no colony, and the game is all about that, surviving, scavenging, finding a good place to stay, or being a nomad. Like Minecraft or Don’t Starve, but pocalypse monsters!
Joe should just die. He’s not worth it. No matter what happens he’s a douche and will kill everything and anything. From day one i haven’t liked him, and now i completely admit that even meeting his sister is pointless. Please die joe.
Nice episode.
@ Erik that would be pretty neat
Am I the only one that was yelled: “NO MOTHERFUCKER!” at the end? Because these cliffhangers will surely kill me.
@Marduk how could you say that about Joe he is the main character and the funniest on in the web comic and his sister is not pointless she is a member of the colony and will help Joe concentrate his powers
@keiss: In case you haven’t noticed, Joe will KILL THE ENTIRE COLONY. That is, unless they can control him. If they can, great. If they can’t, they should have killed them when they could have because with technology, Sam, plants and greybane they can stay pretty safe.
RRRRRRRRGH! DAMN IT JOE! WHY DO LEAVE US LIKE THIS!? JUST MAKE THEM MEET!!!
Holy frick that was intense! Joe really seemed evil in this one, and it’s not every day I get that feeling from a villain! I especially loved the part where he finished counting down and killed the soldiers, because it was both creative and awesome. Can’t wait for the next one!
I don’t know how many time5 you have heard thi5, but thi5 i5 the be5t thing ever, and I don’t mean thi5 update, I mean the pocalyp5e. Thi5 web comic i5 an amazing piece of work and I hope that the thing5 you do with it will be 5hared with the world and that a5 many people a5 po55ible will ob5erve thi5 unrivaled piece of work. I don’t think that anyone ha5 ever put thi5 much work into a 5ingle web comic(other than Andrew Hu55ie)and hone5tly, you are up there with him. I cannot wait for the next update of thi5 and hope thi5 goe5 on for a long time.
good wi5he5
-technoWeasle
Whats with all the 5’s techno??
@Wayne Mangham
LET ME TELL YOU
ABOUT HOMESTUCK
@technoWeasle
you forgot the double i’s
por que no subes mas capitulos, me estoy muriendo de aburrimiento, sinceramente luca
For those to lazy to translate, luca here said “why not upload more chapters, I’m dying of boredom, honestly luca”
I think sincerely would be a more accurate translation for the end.
tambien seria mas provechoso que tradujeran los capitulos a otros idiomas, sinseramente luca
@JOE when TPD2 is out is it for sale in holland/netherland or anywhere in europe
Luca— “It would also be helpful for the chapters translated into other languages, sincerely luca”
@ Luca – Being a bossy person is the same in any language.
Long story short,learn to wait,learn english,brush your teeth. Ty ^_^
@Wayne Mangham- recien estoy en segundo año de ingles
@Luca I’m just in 2nd year english.
I was thinking about translating the comic, but i have to learn swf editing
Luca-> Joe esta teniendo dificultad en dar tiempo a este sitio ahora que tiene un nuevo trabajo. Si bien estamos felices por el, esto resulta en que el tardará mucho más tiempo de lo usual en poner nuevos episodios. Lo mejor que podemos hacer es ser pacientes. Respecto a traducir los episodios a otros idiomas (español), a menos que Joe consiga alguien que traduzca todos los dialogos en todos los episodios y que sepa suficiente del programa que el usa para reemplazar los dialogos, y que sea de confiar, dudo mucho que Joe tenga el tiempo para realizarlo.
@Wayne Mangham Don’t be one of those “Proud to be an American” type of people. English is one of the HARDEST languages known. Don’t think other races are “primitive” or “dumb” Just because they don’t know YOUR language.
ME. ME TRANSLATING THE COMIC. “but i have to learn swf editing” means ME TRANSLATING THE COMIC. I will not try to learn, though. I decided it, i have better things to do with my time.
@JustCallMeBlaze you sir are wrong, English is the complete opposite of hard. Try learning Finnish or Hungarian or Croatian/Serbian. Their grammars are a bitch (pardon my French). The only thing hard about English is proper spelling and that can be learned without too much effort.
Proud to be american,thats insulting on so many levels lol im from the UK and i hate americans,but its funny you say that as they butcher the english language worse than anyone else.
@Wayne Mangham: Keep your opinions to yourself, especially if they insult others. You’re being a real jerk.
language is language
culture is culture
unless you’re accepting and open-minded, shut up
“language is language
culture is culture
unless you’re accepting and open-minded, shut up”
So unless we think like you, shut up. Nice hypocrisy bro.
I agree, you are very close-minded in your open-mindedness.
lol
If you prefer to hear me write for quite some time about how you should show your opinion if it’s equal to all members of a party involved and only if the result is positive, ask. I only wrote that statement to keep these people from going at each other’s throats for a reason as ridiculous as the one they chose. Is it hypocritical to wish for some sort of peace rather than a meaningless debate over “preference” of all things?
@neowarrior no me molesta el idioma, de hecho me ayuda mucho a aprender ingles, pero a veces me canso de no entender muchos terminos que dicen, cinceramente luca.
@luca-> en tal caso es vital preguntar a aquellos que pueden traducir el idioma con mayor facilidad. Aqui hay bastantes listos para ayudarte de ser necesario y aprender idiomas puede resultar entretenido. Personalmente, el español es mi idioma natal, pero el ingles se me da con identica facilidad. Claro esta, a veces desearía que en lugar de inglés hubiese aprendido japonés… (no es un insulto al idioma inglés, sino una observación de que muchas cosas permanecen en Japón y nunca son traducidas a ningún otro idioma).
En resumen: Pregunta y todas tus dudas se aclararan, excepto el significado de la vida que todavía está bajo proceso de decodificación… :P
Wow, what a good way of make some time for Joe…
Lol some time without the comic and every turns into a scientist that knows everything about nothing,Joe needs to make more comics to keep us stupid and sane…
Neo Btw he traductor de google también, sólo que no lo usan para impresionar a las chicas: P
@Joe i think we found out that if we go to long without a comic we speak spanish.YO NO ABLE ESPANIOL!
@ Kingjd – Is that how dora the explorer and diego whats his name was made!?
@Wayne- Don’t give them ideas… The last thing we need is
“Learning Spanish with Joe: Callense estupidos, Edition #1”
0_0
And the month goes by…
reasons why english is hard to learn
-Unusual spelling system -subtle word ordering -word stressing -irregular conjugation of words
-different forms of synonyms
im not saying english is the hardest language, but it is certainly confusing for those that did not grow up learning it
-@Wayne Mangham: i would have to argue that we Americans don’t butcher the english language and what you call that is actually our different dialects due to people from many cultural backgrounds immigrating to America and learning english while keeping some of their old language
I really ought to learn Spanish as it doesn’t seem too hard: I got the gist of NeoWarrior’s posts without knowing a single verb conjugation…
Or maybe I’ll just get on with learning Dutch (for fun). That has its own English-style annoying pronunciation rules.
*sigh* I just can’t wait to see what happens next. HURRY THE HELL UP JOE! THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!
Two weeks later…
WHERE THE HELL IS THE COMIC?
I love how most of these comments aren’t about the comic.
Awesome scene Joe!
Excellent chapter, you must love keeping the audience in suspense XD
With Holy Week i hope you have more time for this :D
Family > Work > Comic @ Erik
Yeah, I know, but… damn, i dont have anything to say.
Awesome scene~ (~^^)~
PS: Hi~ I just wanted to say that, even though you tend to go behind schedule, I still love your flash comics, and I’m not mad that you are almost a month behind. (Well, okay, I admit I am a bit impatient right now D-:<)
However, I think you should try to satisfy your audiences, shouldn't you? C:
WHEN THE #$@% IS THE NEXT COMIC GONNA BE HERE! I’M GETTING TIRED OF THIS JOE!
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Put that bloody table back right now!
[Guys… KJ please stop calling unintelligible names, it’ll only make Joe not want to post the next scene, ok? Later on, we can all scream at you if such a thing happened, got it?]—> read as a calm, cool voice at all moments
I don’t understand why are so many complaining about the comic being “late”. Everybody knows that he has a new job now, one that requires more time from him than the pocalypse does. And honestly, I think Joe has more important stuff to care about other than you complainers needs. The site is still up, so even though he decided to cancel the comic he would probably leave a note here.
If it was me i would delay the comic by a day every time somebody complained,kids with internet = impatience,been like this ever since the internet became more accessible in the late 90s.
I agree, some people should calm down, get out and get a breath of fresh air before posting. Joe is updating The Pocalypse once a month or every two months, so? If you can be patient you’ll eventually see a new scene, if you can’t then it’s your problem. It’s not like Joe got lazy or ran out of ideas or is trolling everyone on purpose: his life is simply a lot busier than it used to be, and you should be grateful that he’s still willing to slowly work on new scenes on his little spare time. Most comic authors in his situation would have just closed the site and left the story unfinished. And the more people attack him verbally for the lack of updates, the more you’ll just make him wonder why he’s still doing this, considering he earns little by keeping this webcomic on track. I just hope he’ll continue ignoring the stupid comments and remember there are also lots of faithful readers who can wait, no matter how long it takes to see each new scene.
considering most people were used to an update or two a week, i can see how everyone is impatient but you guys just need to wait.
I stopped being impatient, now i just don’t care about it.
Sooo… Anybody wanna play chess?
I’ll always care. This is my favorite webcomic. I don’t know when Joe will update next, but I still plan on being around to see it. I have to agree though, this is a bit too long. It’s already been a month, and Joe normally at least drops by to say hi, we’ve hardly heard anything from him in that time.
To pass the time, I’m kinda thinking about doing an RP. Anyone else interested?
@BloodWolf I mean i don’t care if he uploads or not, but i didn’t stop watching the comic.
And, what is a RP?
@Erik Role Play
@Erik
RolePlay within the forums
maybe, what kind of RP?
as in what would it be about
last I checked, an apocalyptic world where you determine your character and background, as well as possible powers then go on missions
Sorry for not checking in, everyone! :D Yup, I’m still around and I’m still checking the site everyday! Thank you for your continued patience! Unfortunately, I haven’t found time to work on the next scene yet :( And, I agree with RP-ing in the forums! If you guys start a The Pocalypse-related RP, I may get some ideas from it! :D
Joe, we all miss you. But, those of us with regular lives, read, job holders and college students, we know how hectic life can get. Those of us that really want to see the next scene, and lets face it, most people who watch the entire comic want to see how it continues, will wait around. Do what you have to, but please don’t make us wait until June. :)
Hey Joe. Out of curiosity, how far are we in the storyline right now? How many chapters are you planning to include in the remainder of the comic?
Crossover with The Walking Dead!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTh-U3rK91o
DAAAAAAANM!! So Victor got Joe… well the world might end just because of him…
Hey, Author Joe, just curious but couldn’t Victor be beaten if Sam and Rosa attacked with their minds? Also I think Joe might beat Victor if Annika is involved… so the real question (to everyone but the creators…sorry) Is who will have the body? Joe or Victor?
“Crossover with The Walking Dead!!!!!!!!”
No….. Please no….. Ten thousand times I say please no…..
@hiei I think the real question is who is the original bodies owner and if it is joes body how did victor get in and vice versa
Englisch is ja wohl mal total einfach zu erlernen -.-
Mal davon abgesehen steht euch Amis und euch wannabe Spaniern der Rassismus echt net gut zu Gesicht. Ahja kleiner Hinweis an alle Amis: Ihr habt keine Kultur und ihr seid kein Volk, ihr seid ein bunt zusammengewürfelter Haufen von Nachfahren derjenigen die es in ihrem eigenen Land zu nix gebrach ham. Dieser ganze Rassismus und Fantatismus immer… aber wir sind ja die bösen nech? o0 So und das ganze schreibe ich auf deutsch damit der neue Trend des in der eigenen Sprache schreibens hier fortgesetzt werden kann. — Btw: America sucks and this here is another month without an update…
@Jareth:
Cool story bro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1YmS_VDvMY
@Jareth
That was surprisingly readable, considering I only took the first half a latin class.
Sorry that people often fail at connecting with their heritage’s around here. It can be hard if one only has second hand information to get anything beyond the accent right, much less remember important things from neighboring cultures such as Germany.
I couldn’t read enough of the second half to know the answer to your question, sorry that I have yet to learn that much latin…
Yup think its time to delete this site from my favorites.
The comment box opened again :D
Erik- YEAH! Hopefully this is very goodnews!
could you at least make an update that doesnt add a comic?
@Jareth:
You know another German who liked to start fights for no good reason?
HITLER.
Hitler was Austrian, just saying!
@Jareth:
I respect all races, religions, nations and sexes. What I don’t have time for is bigotry.
I hope you continue writing in german as it is refreshing and allows me to brush up on my less used skills but please don’t post things like America sucks. I mean seriously do you know that ALL of America sucks? Have you seen all the states, have you ever been here?
I would love to visit Germany or anywhere else for that matter! Use my skills but alas I’m not rich. :p As for everyone else, lets keep it civil please. This isn’t a forum board for flaming, this is someone’s personal site. Up until now I haven’t read these posts and sadly i’m at a loss as most of the time the comments are quirky and funny. But ‘as usual’ the internet allows us to become flaming jerks, without borders and claiming total anonymity.
@JOE! Looking forward to the update bud, keep up the good work!
I hate to say this Joe, but please, we are all begging you, PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THE POCALYPSE. OR AT LEAST MAKE SOME COMIC STRIP VERSIONS. THOSE CAN’T POSSIBLY TAKE AS LONG AS A FULL ANIMATION. WE WON’T CARE ABOUT COLOR OR DETAILS. I LIKE TO THINK I AM A PRETTY PATIENT GUY, BUT THIS IS STARTING TO IRRITATE ME
@Pseudonym Just stop caring about it. Look, I was impatient, but I had an idea. Check the page once a day, like at night. Check the scene, if no new scene, check the comments. If not, get into 9gag or play a game!
Wow, some of you guys are pretty ungrateful and impatient. Get a grip. Please ignore them Author Joe, there are more important things in life than providing an awesome webcomic for free. Hope you and your family are well.
@Jareth:
Not sure if you’re a troll, but you are embarassing yourself. Du beschwerst dich über Rassismus, lässt dann aber selbst extrem rassistische Kommentare ab. Da dreht sich mir echt der Magen um.
Guys i have a message from author joe about the future of the comic and of his where abouts,please take a minute to watch the video please its very touching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
@Pauric
Yes, I know, but he also held a German citizenship. Ergo, he is also German.
@Wayne Mangham http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWOwIewXLP0
I wish people would stop posting internet troll videos from five years ago, it makes me sick that this site is being defiles like that.
@Joe I know everyone has been yelling about updates but they do have a point, it has been over a month and now if you look at the update log, you would think it is a last update. we all are hoping you update the comic and are still alive.
also @ the people who don’t read enough homestuck that is MY OWN typing quirk, so no double i’s, or two’s, or word replacement. If you wondering why, I stopped typing with it because it is hard.
@ Erik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwNpTt8Mjhk&NR=1&feature=fvwp
1) whats latin to do with that? well yeah latin is one of the origins of this language but thats it o0
2) Hitler was from austria.
3) Dont call it Schnitzel
4) Nein ich bin weder ein Troll, noch bin ich rassistisch. Ich habe lediglich die Wahrheit gesagt.
5) Ich finde die Ironie hier herrlich, nicht-deutsche die Deutschen die Nazi-keule um die Ohren hauen und vorher selbst rassistisch wie sonst was sind ^^ herrlich. Jemand Popcorn?
Last time he updated we started rumours about the pocalypse end. Maybe that will work now!
an update with news at least would be nice.
Have any of you realized that Joe could be working on the game we donated money too.so which is more important, something you paid for or something you getting for free.
@Jareth:
Wenn du hier als Nazi beschimpft wurdest hab ich das verpasst, was durchaus sein kann. Dich als Nazi zu beschimpfen nur weil du Deutsch bist wäre natürlich unangebracht. Aber einfach mit eigenen rassistischen Kommentaren zu Kontern bringt wirklich gar nichts außer, dass du dir und Deutschland einen schlechten Ruf einbringst.
“Ich habe lediglich die Wahrheit gesagt”. tut mir Leid aber das ist einfach nur bullshit.
“Hinweis an alle Amis: Ihr habt keine Kultur”. Falsch, Amerika hat eine deutlich ausgeprägte Kultur, ob sie dir nun persönlich gefällt oder nicht.
“und ihr seid kein Volk” klingt etwas seltsam, wie definierst du hier Volk?
“ihr seid ein bunt zusammengewürfelter Haufen von Nachfahren” so ziemlich die einzige Wahrheit in deinen Statement. Heißt aber noch lange nicht, dass sich daraus keine Kultur entwickeln kann.
“derjenigen die es in ihrem eigenen Land zu nix gebrach ham.” Falsch, und hier ist der Rassismus (im Englischen würde ich statt “racism” in diesem fall das Wort “culturism” benutzen, da du dich ja nicht auf eine “Rasse” beziehst sonder auf eine kulturelle Gruppe) am deutlichsten, da du implizierst, dass alle Amerikaner Versager sind. Außerdem ist es einfach nur Respektlos gegenüber den Leuten die aus verschiedenen Gründen (ja unter anderem auch den Nazis) nach Amerika geflüchtet sind. Viele davon hoch intelligent, Wissenschaftler und Künstler etc.
“america sucks”: wenn das keine wertende und verallgemeinernde Aussage ist dann weiß ich auch nicht. Jedenfalls keine fakten!
tl,dr:
Countering racist statements with your own racist or culturist statements helps noone and only makes you look bad.
@ everyone:
Sorry for derailing this comment section. It just bothers me when people engage in racist or culturist discourse. I promise this was my last post on the matter.
@ Everyone
Ever heard the phrase put enough monkeys in a cage with a type writer and they will create shakespeare?
I think it applies here…
Ok, nothing personal Author Joe, but when I start to forget the plot and I had to go back reading every post just to remind this and that, well, that’s the time to quit reading a webcomic. Nice job though… Good luck for the future! Bye!
Joe,
Are you alright? I hope things are going well. This long of an absence tends to make me feel that something really big is happening in your life right now. A fresh perspective can be helpful.
@Mark and all – Thank you for your concern! I feel loved :D I’m just fine, just really, really busy. Busy enough to keep pushing the next scene back and back :( I want to get Green Pixel’s big game projects out of the way (including The Pocalypse Defense 2) so that we can focus on smaller projects and, of course, the webcomic :D With my full-time job taking up my weekdays, I’m sure everyone can understand that these plans will be a slow process. Also, I understand that I will be losing readers as a result. I fully expected that and I understand how you all feel. All I can do is thank the people who are sticking around and supporting The Pocalypse! And, to all the readers who are leaving, I hope I can win you all back one day :D Thanks for checking up on me!
Joe while i understand the frustration of the other readers i also understand how hard this will be for you with the new job. You have done a great job until now, and i for one will not be leaving because of a slow down like this. Good luck to you in your job, and i hope that things settle down for you soon so you can come back to us.
Joe, have you considered getting someone to help you continue doing work on the webcomic? He/she would be responsible for the bulk of the work when you can’t do much, but you would be overseeing and making sure his/her work is consistent with the direction you want to take with The Pocalypse
@Casey Anderson – Thank you very much! I make The Pocalypse for fans like you :D
@Jhfds – Yup, I’ve considered that :D
I really love the Pocalypse, for real. I know that you have a new job and all… But please, as a true fan, make the new scene. This cliffhanger is killing me! :) (English is not my first language, I am sorry if I have any mistakes.)
All i say is: if you don’t stay in the bad times, dont bother to stay in the good times
PS: Glad to hear of you again autor Joe ;=)
Joe, think about my Pocalypse survival game idea! Imagine being a random survivor(customizable!) somewhere in the world. You have to look for a place to live, some food(maybe), and more supplies!
It is very good to hear from you Joe. I feel like I should ask for some reason: How has your baby been doing? I’m guessing this new job is cutting a bit into your family time as well as your comic time…
Just found your comic. Caught up in less than 12 hours…actually yelled profanity, realizing I caught up to a cliffhanger. Now I have no excuse not to do dishes and laundry. Congrats, Sir you have given me a superb story to fall in love with. My hat is off to you.
I check on this website almost everyday to see if you post something new Joe, but if you’re busy, you’re busy. We love you, take care, you and your family. And take it easy ;p
Every time I have the time, I check your site for an update. I really, really love your work. So yeah thank you for your awesome work, so you have my thanks and admiration, well for what its worth. I’ll keep voting as per usual, good luck and have a good day Author Joe! And by the way, don’t let us keep you from your personal life, the story can always continue in due time, not to mention your webcom is free, so I don’t have complaints. Stay safe and good luck!
Joe,
Do whatever you have to. This comic is one of those brilliant ones that will always have a core base, because it is just that awesome. Same with a number of other comics I read. I have also discovered that the best comics I have ever read, sometimes require ridiculously long hiatuses at times. Life is a pain that way. Homestuck, for its flash animations; Bazzelwaki, for all of its brilliant art and the troubled Ben Prager. Hell, even my own artist friend who is incredibly brilliant. As long as you make something worth making, don’t worry about how long it may take. Good art is worth it.
Still waiting and voting :)
good work Joe…
Really enjoy the comic! I’ve been slowly reading it for over a year now. I understand how much a full-time job can put a damper on your life. Can’t wait to see the next episode :)
1 month 18 days since the last scene. I’m getting impatient but i understand that i have to wait and there is no way i’m going to stop reading this comic but please author Joe if you have time, make just a word update and let us know us whats going on with the new game and your new job.
At least make a post about the game progress, post pictures of the game, etc… most of us understand your situation, but you should communicate with us more often.
maybe just a news update weekly or bi-weekly if you dont have a comic made?
Open the comic. dont end it, let the background music play. play songs by Player. pretty good hahaha XD
Hey Joe, you can sell TP soundtrack for the funding of The Pocalypse Defense!
I’m happy to hear that Joe. I’ll keep looking everyday.
Joe, if I recall, there was someone who made a Pocalypse guest comic in the same style as you. You could see if he/she/it would be willing to make a few episodes while you are busy.
There’s a typo in this comic. Near the beginning Bernie says, “T-trust me Joe. I only want the best for you. I want your reunion with Annika to be bring you some peace and clarity.” Shouldn’t be a ‘be’ there in that last sentence. :P
I think Pseudonym is onto something. It’s not a bad idea, and it would keep the less patient among us coming back. I’ll be sticking around regardless, as I’ve always liked your work.
Even tho the wait for the next comic is annoying ill always come back daily and check if its up. U need to make comics, a game, work and raise your kid and be a good husband. dude you get max points from me.
The following of this comic is so loyal and supportive… And anxious! Can’t wait for the next scene!
why do I get a morbid feeling that Joe might be dead
Pass it over to someone else man – one update every 2 months is shit.
Friendly tip to fans here: ignore the trolls. Wayne Mangham just kind of shut up after getting ignored
=)Joe u have my full suport man =) i been checking evryday for the next update and i tottaly undestand why is delay =) so take ur time and do it when u can man =) plus i cant wait to play the game =)
@Thisisnotananymous – i never shut up dude,and us trolls have to find something to do while passing the time,i for one am a patient one and love seeing all the rage from kiddies who want things now now now now or else they tell mummy!
@ Wayne Mangham – that and trolls will never truely be ignored.
@Bruce Knode *Cue eerie music*
Exactly,you chop a trolls arm off it simply grows back,according to fantasy anyways…
@Wayne No, that was Piccolo
@Erik, No trolls do that to
I sent him a tweet and he is alive lol
@Oh, you were meaning THOSE trolls. Sorry, i dont play wow.
i miss the comic :(
my hope is drying out guys :(
@Erik Actually “these trolls” are present everywhere. LoTR, a lot of MMOs, and others.
Wow, 2 months and nothing?
I think 2 months is too long. (but I’ve waited longer)
I cant wait to figure out that Annika isnt Joe’s sister
@Nathan Sorry, i’m more kinda like a FPS kid. And LoTR it’s on my list of movies that someday i have to see
When will the next comic be ready Joe?
About every week to two weeks I come to check the comments. Because you guys are HiLAR!!!ouS! I’ve waited longer for my fave show on TV to come back, and I think I can wait on this too.
Joe, I am not trying to make this sound mean at all, but, you have been making us wait for the next episode of the Pococlypse for way to long. Take a break from the game for a day and make an episode please
GARRRRHHHH JOE! Y U NO HAVE NEXT SCENE YET?! I can wait, but I might just implode. Do you want that, Joe?
@Joe, sometimes I wish I could crawl inside your mind and live there. Is it just me?
@Joe, this is cruel… you stopped at one of the moments with the most suspense then make us wait for at least 2 months? Just make an episode to stop the suspense about what is happening because it has been a very long time since the last episode. Maybe you could finish one by tomorrow?
@Niko, Good luck whith that
i guess is time to call it, real life again has claimed the life of a popular webcomic
This is redonkulous.
Wow I dunno it’s been 2 months and no word of anything? I think this is the end :[
Hopefully no one gets pissed about the game he was suppose to be making since he was funded for it and tries sueing or anything >> I mean… he did get ALOT of money out of it.
joe, you need to come back. everything is falling to anarchy!! you used to police the comments soo well in the past. sigh…. also i’m itching for the next scene. it’ll be a huge dissapointment if the story ends here…. or gets rushed to an end. DON’T DO THIS TO US!!!!!
PLEASE MAKE A NEW ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Joe You know how to get people in their toes right? xD
Now, dont wanna be a burden, so i’ll just say that people are losing faith here,
some are scared the comic just stops and all that, so…..you know, it wouldn’t be a
bad idea if you just posted a comment or something right? ;=)
yay! 2 month anniversary without update! (:
Wow…. I have been a reader from the beginning, but with this wait it makes me think that the comic is over…. Maybe have someone else take over so we can actually have a flowing comic?
Don’t give up and call the Eternal Dragon!
Still around and still reading comments/e-mails/tweets/posts (yes, there are a lot of them!) :D Just to maybe squirt a little splash of water onto the fire, the next scene is still planned and, @Zerphoon, TPD2 is still in production – we didn’t reach our funding goal but we did indeed get a lot of support from fans :D The Pocalypse is not over and I don’t plan on ending it anytime soon (otherwise, I would’ve stopped paying for the hosting of this site 2 months ago) :D Please keep posting, commenting, and e-mailing though! You all remind me everyday that people still want this story to go on!
Well, real life sometimes wins. SOMETIMES. Give us some hope, Joe.
=( ='(
Of course we do Joe! As for me, a comic on hiatus is always better than a comic that will be left unfinished. And even rushing up for a short low-quality scene just to make the impatient ones happy isn’t good – I’d rather wait two months more if that means keep the excellent quality standards The Pocalypse got up to this scene.
@Joe, You know how you have said that future episodes will take longer? Well are they still going to take longer to make even after the Pocalypse TD2 has been made and everything?
@Joe, also could you tell us like what day The pocalypse 2 will be out at most by?
Good to hear that you are still there Joe
Good to hear things are well Joe. Hopefully I can have a proper sit-down with Squizzel so you don’t have to leave these guys hanging.
k, that hopes should last for quite some time n.n
Good to hear you still with us Joe! and I’l have in mind that little piece of logic xD
Well, hope everything goes well, we’ll be waiting ;=)
Weird….there’s allways at least 1 coment in this place a day, oh well xD
@Haydn Shaw – That would be AWESOME :D
Thank you again for the support and patience, everyone! :D (I’d say this post has the record for most comments haha)
Lets start a new fun game while we wait,you must state the day of the week and then follow it with a joke.
Sunday
Q: What do you call a blonde skeleton in the closet?
A: Last year’s hide and seek champion.
Sunday
Q:What do you call a bunch of tractors parked in front of a McDonald’s on Friday night in Iowa?
A:Prom
Monday
Q.What do you call a theatrical Performance on puns?
A. A play on words!
Monday
Q:What is the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish funeral?
A:One less drunk
Monday
Q: How do you know you’ve been robbed by an asian?
A: Your computer’s on, your homework’s done and he’s still trying to back out of your driveway
Monday
Q: What do you call a 5 foot psychic that escaped from jail?
A: A small medium at large
Monday
And now a poem (its a kind of joke)
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I have Alzheimer’s,
Cheese on toast.
Monday
Q:How do you kill a Blondie in a pool?
A:Put a scratch and sniff sticker on the bottom of the pool.
Monday
Q: Another how do you kill a Blondie
A: you give her a grenade and say the instructions are inside
It’s been over two months now….. It really pains me to wait this long in anticipation of this. I for one cannot wait for the next episode, but currently I am incredibly dissapointed in how little feedback we have gotten from you personally.
Less of the blonde jokes, Niko. You know they can’t keep up, especially as they’re busy staring at a carton of orange juice because it says “concentrate” on it…
Tuesday
Q.Why did God give women legs?
A. Because he saw the mess slugs made!
A blonde, brunette, and a redhead are at the Dr’s office to find out what sex their babies will be. As they sit chatting in the waiting room the redhead says I will have a girl because I was on Top
arg dumb chatbox lol.
The brunette says I will have a boy because he was on top.
The blonde bursts into tears and the other 2 girls ask whats wrong.
The blonde says I’m having puppies!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Except that they’re not
They’re fucking violet
There was an explosion at the cheese factory – debrie was everywhere
Well according to Ryan Sohmer, Joe doesn’t deserve credit now because he hasn’t updated: http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20080509/
Luckily for us, he is an asshole and we generally don’t care about his opinion on others and his sh*tty comic. :D
Anyway, I hope a new update comes soon, even if it’s just an entry.
As for the joke:
– What is the favourite sport of fruits?
– Squash
(I know it’s bad)
Otter, For your information Ryan made that in 2008 and not once does it mention Joe so don’t get mad at him.
Tuesdasy
Jutin Beiber(He is such a joke)
@Niko Well obviously :) It’s just a notorious comic on the web, that shows how much of a jerk he is.
three things.
1) Pocalypse up till this brake never miss a update.
2) Ryan Sohmer is or runs a comic studio, with over 3 comic he dose and a list of comic that work with him, rights books, and is making a cartoon about Least I could do.
3) this little brake is small compared to some web comic http://dresdencodak.com/ has taken a year off, and dont get me start on http://megatokyo.com/.
@Pseudonym_ I do believe you meant Justin*.
Lets see… Joke…joke…
Wednesday
Two blondes were driving down the road.
The blonde driving looks at her friend in the passenger seat and asks her to see if her blinker is working. So the blonde looks out the window and says, ”Yes. No. Yes. No.”
Haha :D Who needs scenes when we’ve got jokes? ;D Thanks for keeping the site interesting in the meantime, everyone!
Thursday
Q: What’s worse than a double negative?
A: There isn’t nothing.
Not to detract from your post Chris but updates have been missed/late before. (With late being more common) But yeah, in this last chapter it wasn’t really a problem until now.
Also, keeping in theme with a joke a day.
Why did the Orange stop rolling down the hill?
Because he ran out of juice.
I’m not really proud of that one.
Joe, im lucky that i found your comments below this episode as i have kept checking back day after day and been frustrated to not see a new scene. I think many people will not see your comments and start to assume the pocalypse was dead so if i were you i would post a new update even if it just text to let everyone know you are still here! :)
Thanks for your hard work and all the best
Thursday
Q: How did the hipster burn his tongue?
A: He drank his coffee before it was cool
Lol that was funny. This one is a long one.
Wednesday
So there is a tribe in Africa that kills random people and turn them into canoes. They capture three people. The are feeling nice and they let them decide their own death (Not including old age). So they ask the first person, he says he wants to have it quick and easy, so he take a bullet to the head. The second one says he just wants to be hanged. The third one says get me a fork. The tribe is confused but they get him a fork. He takes the fork, Starts stabbing himself, and yells “YOUR NOT MAKING ANY CANOE OUT OF ME!!!”. Lol.
are you ok? havent heard from you in a wile i hope i all is well
I’ll be honest: This feels to me like you’ve stoped/slowed the update due to lack of donations. You are losing a huge ammount of followers, and that will directly affect your potential customers for the video game.
Friday
Q. What did Mr. Spock find in the toilet?
A. The Captain’s log!
Q. Why can’t Thor play the piano well?
A. He can never find the low key.
@Not going to say Bitch please, Hipsters don’t drink coffee, they take pictures of it.
Friday
Q What if Steam gets out a pack with every Doom game, and then you buy it?
A You picked up a stimpack.
No offence guys, but seriosly, most of the jokes aren’t that funny. We need another new fun game…
Saturday
Q: What’s the difference between a bitch and a whore?
A: A whore sleeps with everybody at the party, and a bitch sleeps with everybody at the party except you.
It’s all well and good not updating the comic because you’re busy, but your lack of communication on here to let us know what is going on is shameful. It would take 30 seconds to keep us up-to-date with how shit is going.
Wow .. I guess ThePocalypse is losing it’s flare huh .. And it was just getting good too .. What with rampaging Joe and all ..
For shit’s sake people, lay off Joe; He has a job that keeps him really busy and has a young kid to take care of, so I don’t blame him for not having updated us lately. Stop acting like ungrateful little shits and understand that he doesn’t have much free time to constantly update you.
What Jhfds said is true! Stop being such a cry babies ¬ ¬ It’s not like Joe said he won’t do anymore comics, when stuff happens one needs time to set up, im not saying updates will be regular shortly but you people should be acting more gratefull and less like “ungrateful little shits”.
Apart from that, it’s funny how the day/joke thing is still on xD
@oh dear you realize he posted 2 days ago right? i men is he supposed to post each and every day to tell you personally that nothing has changed, and he is still not able to update, but fully intends to at some time in the future?
Yeah, I don’t see why he should be supposed to post everyday something like: “Day 72: Still unable to post a new update”. I’m sure he wishes to post a new scene as soon as possible, and as Casey said he even left a comment just a couple days ago. I just hope he ignores the stupid comments by impatient spoiled kids (or grown-ups, which is even worse), or he’ll just end up asking himself “Why do I have to waste my time for them?” and quit once for all. Please Joe, remember there are still many loyal readers :)
I don’t mind the wait for the new comic, but I hope that it eventually does go up, I’ve been a loyal follower of many webcomics over the years that just stop updating midstory. Hopefully if that does happen, we can at least get a outline of what was to happen in terms of storyline :(.
Oh dear, I have a different opinion, therefore I am a “spoiled kid”. Shun the non-believer, shuuuuun.
@oh dear: read my whole post before complaining. You asked for more frequent posts by Joe, and he already posted a couple days ago. Sure he could post everyday, but what far? Would it make you feel better if he starts posting everyday just to say “Still busy, sorry” or he even starts posting blonde jokes himself to follow the stream in this page? He’s free to post even once every three-four weeks or so if he doesn’t have any info to give until then.
Just because you have a different opinion it doesn’t mean you can go “rabble rabble rabble” and expect no one to criticize.
That said, I’m just going to ignore posts made by people who complain without any actual constructive criticism, and I hope Joe will do the same.
Gah, I wish there could be an edit button… I meant “what for” xP
Haha, nice one geezer.
Next time I make sure i’ll offer a lot of constructive criticism then, instead of just an opinion or view point. Otherwise it’s not valid.
Oh Dear, your saying that Joe’s “lack of communication on here to let us know what is going on is shameful” is what ticked me off. That sentence in and of itself makes you sound arrogant and spoiled. Who are you to tell Joe what he should be ashamed of? Why should he be ashamed for being busy and not being able to placate you as often as a result? It’s not an opinion when you are telling someone how to feel.
“Day 72: Still unable to post a new update” ;D Haha, I laughed out loud when I read that!
Feel free to voice your opinions everyone, just please respect each other :D I read every comment and, by now, there’s nothing I haven’t heard/read. All I can do is keep on truckin’ and hope that there’s at least one of you left when I finally post an update :D
Oh, I sometimes post on the Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/thepocalypse) page and/or on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ThePocalypse) (say, when I’m on my phone) so feel free to follow me if you use either/both and you want a few more personal updates! :D
This fishing line is getting heavy. Keep on reelin’
If joe doesn’t show another update there’s gonna be one less joe on this planet!!! #@##%^&%^#$%%&%%^$%^$^%^$^%$#$@$#@#%^$^%#$%#^%&%$^%#$#^^&%^$^%$%*I^&(&*(&)(*&%$%@#^%^*&^&^#%%R^$%#$@#%^&$#%%$%W%%&^&^%*&*^*%%$$%#@@#@##$#@#$#^(**&*¿¿¡¡¿@$#%#%$#@%¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
BRUCE ANGRY!!!!!!
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mainly because Joe is going to the moon or maybe through it. Though I would have to build a really big rocket.
Blonde: “What does IDK stand for?”
Brunette: “I don’t know.”
Blonde: “OMG, nobody does!”
Tuesday:
Q:Arnold Schwarzengger why dont you use windows 7
A:Istillovista baby
Hint:Istillovista= I still love vista
A blonde, a redhead, and a brunette were all lost in the desert. They found a lamp and rubbed it. A genie popped out and granted them each one wish. The redhead wished to be back home. Poof! She was back home. The brunette wished to be at home with her family. Poof! She was back home with her family. The blonde said, “Awwww, I wish my friends were here.”
Please Joe! WE ARE BEGGING YOU. Update the next scene! We know you have bigger responsabilities, but PLEASE! You left us in a gigantic cliffhanger!
-With love and lots of good wishes, FriedPotato98.
:)
Wednesday
Q: Why is it impossible to cook squid?
A: Because the fucker keeps turning the gas off!
What did the blonde say when she saw the Cheerios box? “Omg, donut seeds!”
I have got to say Joe, this has got to be the longest cliffhanger I’ve read.
One day :(
forget the webcomic I caome here for Casey Anderson’s Jokes
A blonde, wanting to earn some money, decided to hire herself out as a handyman-type and started canvassing a wealthy neighborhood. She went to the front door of the first house and asked the owner if he had any jobs for her to do. “Well, you can paint my porch. How much will you charge?” The blonde said, “How about 50 dollars?” The man agreed and told her that the paint and ladders that she might need were in the garage. The man’s wife, inside the house, heard the conversation and said to her husband, “Does she realize that the porch goes all the way around the house?” The man replied, “She should. She was standing on the porch.” A short time later, the blonde came to the door to collect her money. “You’re finished already?” he asked. “Yes,” the blonde answered, “and I had paint left over, so I gave it two coats. “Impressed, the man reached in his pocket for the $50. “And by the way,” the blonde added, “that’s not a Porch, it’s a Ferrari.”
Im sad.. when is more going to come out :(
Hey, im back for another!
Friday
I didn’t know why the ball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
And another, just for fun!
Q. What did the luncheon give to the cannibal who showed up late?
A. The ‘Cold’ Shoulder
Screw it, one more!
I should have been sad when my flashlight batteries died, but I was delighted.
Lols
Q: Why did the baby cross the road?
A: … It was tied to the chicken.
I think I will continue checking as I do, unless in 3 years time there have been no updates of any kind.
@Joe I’m sure be one left for the next update. I always check to comic everyday, and not just because I’m too lazy to find and use a site update checker webpage/program, but because it’s the same feeling when seeing if there is a new comic in the newspaper back in the day :) Also I used to check the unofficial sequel to Concerned (Half-life 2 comic) for a long time, every day, although it has been on hiatus since 2010. I’m used to this stuff. I know you will continue one day.
On the 79th day of waiting Joe gave to me, 79 days of waiting!
Saturday
So a blonde is at the ATM in line while another blonde is putting her pin in. The blonde in line yells “HA I KNOW WHAT YOUR PIN IS ITS 4 ASTERISKS!!!” Then the other blonde says “No it’s not it’s 7962!”
lol
Hope you’re all having a great weekend, everyone! :D I’m still alive!
You are still alive? Damn, my assassin failed again… i mean… good to see you again :)
Shifting gears, Joe??
I think its more like slamming your foot on the brake!!!
But none the less I am still here waiting for the next installment!!
PATIENTLY!!!
The longer I wait, the more I anticipate the next update!! I am absolutely in love with this webcomic and all it’s interesting characters!! Keep it up Joe ^_^
Joe, stop making comments please. I’d rather you give us a progress report than give us some random comment the fact that you are still alive. Anyone who has waited this long for one simple update on the site deserves to have a respectable update to this site, not “Hope you’re all having a great weekend, everyone!”. We are fast approaching 3 months of waiting now. If you have the time to comment on this site, you have the time to tell us why we have to wait so damn long for one new comic of Thepocalypse.
I’m not sure if this comment is already here, anyway quoting somehow one of my favorite characters and books: I DID MY WAITING!!! TWELVE YEARS OF IT!!! IN AZKABAN!!!, the quote will apply very soon if Joe doesn’t comeback soon.
Joe comeback to us, don’t go into the light, or at least not until the comic is over :D
jesus f*ckin christ… its nearly 3 months since last update… just get your shit together Joe and give us new sweet update… maybe you can start with investing the time you are wasting on worthless comments here and Facebook and Twitter (and I dont know where else) into making a new part of Pocalypse :-P
I think the answer is obvious Brenden. Despite statements that Joe wants to “finish the story”, Joe is now involved in other things in life. He has a job as an artist for a company, has a family with a two year old son, and has a lot less free time than in previous months. Hence Joe lacks the time and resources to do anything with this comic. And like many other good internet comics, it is dying as real life interferes with his ability to continue it. But Joe, like any artist, is unwilling to admit this this special project, once his pride and joy, is now way down the priority list in his life. Oh he really does keep intending to get back to it .. and he’ll keep intending to do so as the months tick by. We may even see one or two comics again, a last ditch attempt to restart it on some semi-regular basis. But those efforts will quickly die, leaving nothing by a rotting hole in it’s place.
True, but it shows his commitment to the site is unwavering. He probably doesn’t want to give a progress report because he’s too busy to know yet. If he didn’t come back every week and comment then people’s interest would swiftly drift from the following, and that would make his next comic somewhat in vain provided you are not subscribed to some sort of RSS or Twitter feed. I’m working on some guest episodes but it’ll be a couple of weeks before I have anything. I’m a little bit busy myself, and having made previous obligations, I have to attend to those first before I can properly focus on this. I imagine Joe is only in the same boat.
@Brendan he has all ready told us why we are waiting so long. Why should he do it over and over again just because you are too lazy to go back and read the posts? Chillax this is gonna be a while at this point the man is busy with things beyond his controll, and he will be back when he has time again.
A blonde goes into a nearby store and asks a clerk if she can buy the TV in the corner. The clerk looks at her and says that he doesn’t serve blondes, so she goes back home and dyes her hair black. The next day she returns to the store and asks the same thing, and again, the clerk said he doesn’t serve blondes. Frustrated, the blonde goes home and dyes her hair yet again, to a shade of red. Sure that a clerk would sell her the TV this time, she returns and asks a different clerk this time. To her astonishment, this clerk also says that she doesn’t serve blondes. The blonde asks the clerk, “How in the world do you know I am a blonde?” The clerk looks at her disgustedly and says,”That’s not a TV, it’s a microwave!”
tuesday
blonde sisters own a farm, and they both buy a horse, they don’t know how to tell them apart, so the nick one’s ear, then the other horses ear gets nicked by a tree. Then they cut off one of the horses tails, a week later the other horse’s tail gets cut off by barbed wire. “Anything we do to one happens to the other, how will we tell them apart?” said the younger sister. “How about we measure them?” said the older sister. “Great idea!” said the younger one. So they measured them. It turns out the white horse is three inches taller than the black one.
I think he just wants to prove that he hasn’t forgotten about us.
I’m baaack! I am thinking Green Pixel should expand and add one more person to their “empire”.
Let’s sing a song, kids, shall we? – On the 83th day without updates, Author Joe gave to us, 83 days of no updates, 82 days of no updates, 81 days of no updates…… (please do not take this too personally, Joe, I will stay your reader (and gamer ; D), Green Pixel’s too awesome to neglect for me. Though I might consider marking the 100th day without updates and celebrate it with mourning and a Pocalypse Marathon. I really am capable, I stayed awake a whole 3 days watching all possible episodes of “Hellsing”.)
I’m really sorry I couldn’t donate to the project, and I really wanted to be one of the NPCs, too. And I also apologize for this long, meaningless post for the other commenters.
Over the very few years I have been introduced to the world of webcomics, this is one of the best of what I saw so far. I have seen webcomics stop updating entirely without notices (i keep checking them) despite their success. I do not want you, Author Joe, to be one of them. It is nice enough of you to comment once in a while, though. It proves that you are not dead and the Pocalypse will not turn out to never end. I hope that you can find some time to really get the Pocalypse back in order with regular, hm, not necessarily weekly, but monthly updates.
Wednesday
Q: If real life joe made a movie what would it be?
A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URdSD8UWxLk
UP-FREAKING-DATE!! I already have to worry about one webcomic never updating, I’d prefer not to worry about another!
Eat, dont be inpatient! -_-
Sup Joe! Just saying Hi!
Don’t worry Eat, Joe isn’t going to let us down. Part of why he does pop in periodically is to remind us that he isn’t going to drop the comic anytime soon!
I hope that the episode or game is out by 6/11/13, who ever can tell me what the comment(s) that tells you why that specific date, (It is in an episode way back), Wins.
not sure why people can be so impatient sometimes.take as much time as you need Joe. And if people need a pocalypse fix that badly I could write something non-canon as long as there’s no objections to the idea.
@ Niko – Say whaaaaa?
@Niko ok, slow down…… you just said what now?!
Ok so this challenge applies to every one, In one episodes comments Joe said something about 6/11/13 I replied. So it’s your job to figure out what episode this conversation was in. And you must tell me the exact words of the conversation. Whoever can do this first wins. Plus you have to tell me why I like that day.
Can’t believe it’s June already! I really wanna get to the scene sometime this month. Would anyone be interested in a live stream of me creating the next scene? There’d be spoilers of course and I don’t know how my bandwidth would handle it but it’d be cool to get a few of you pushing me to make the scene :D Tell me what you think!
It would be nice, very nice indeed Joe.
that would be awesome whatever it takes to have the net scene XD
I think, Joe, you should do anything to make then next scene up,Because I like pixelated comics, so does the others.
Regardless of whether there are updates, I’ll still be checking years from now. I’ve known other sites go through 2+ years without an update, and when they return, the fans are still there, so I’m sure you’ll have plenty of people still checking when you do post the next scene.
Oh, and streaming might be awesome, but you’ll likely do it at a time when most people aren’t available. uStream will only take up as much of your bandwidth as Skype or the likes, and can easily be embedded on your site.
YESYESYES PLEASE YES!!!!! My life would be complete if you did a live stream! Not to mention it would definitely bump up everybody’s enthusiasm for the comic again :) PLEASE DO A LIVE STREAM JOE!!!!!!
could be interesting
Live stream or no, I will keep on waiting for the next comic and the ones after that. Your work is worth the wait and you do it for free even. Even if it takes a year I will check in every day. And every time I see the walking zombie loader I get excited, thinking you updated lol. Thanks Joe, for all you do for us, your fans. You=awesome
ayup
three months, no update?
@ Narnia,life complete? Im guessing your life isnt so great right now lol
@Wayne, well, we haven’t had an update in almost 3 months, so yeah, I’ve hit rock bottom! But not really…my life is excellent and all that I need left to complete it is a live stream from Joe!!!
Boy, do I miss twice weekly.
Lets play a game where we make up a pocalypse plot sentence by sentence.
I’ll go first:
“The”
Day 90:
Tuesday
A guy goes to a supermarket and notices a beautiful blonde who waves at him and says hello.
He’s rather taken back, because he can’t place where he knows her from, so he asks, “Do you know me?”
To which she replies, “I think you’re the father of one of my kids.”
Now he thinks back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife and says, “Oh my god, are you the stripper from my bachelor party that I laid on the pool table with all my buddies watching, while your partner whipped me with wet celery and then stuck a carrot in my butt?” She replies, “No, I’m your son’s math teacher.”
Wow, 3 months? D: Jeez. I know webcomics are notorious for not updating, but come on. ._.
knock knock
who’s there
knock konck
who’s there
KNOCK KNOCK
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD WHO’S THERE!
knock
KNOCK WHO….?
knock knock
GAAAAAAAAA!
(has meltdown and breaks door)
no one’s there?
(son goes downstairs)
sorry dad you must’ve heard me playing with my knocking app
(dad passes)
oh boy :(
Good one Bruce xD
Must… have… more… Po-ca-lypse…
is there actually a knocking app out there?
or a doorbell app?
theres been no updates for about 5 days until now
I wonder if a bunch commenting could crash the website?
probably not.
well I sure am chatty today given iI rarely comment in my patience and annoyance.
I guess it’s a good thing I have other things I waste my time on
no offense
Bruce Knode:
Yes. Yes there is.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/knock-on-door/id347957585?mt=8
Even on iTunes where there are loads of idiots in the commentors, it’s gotten pretty bad comments.
@ Bruce – I’m sure your penis is greatful for the attention.
Don’t worry Mr. Joe, I understand you.
MUST KILL THE CHARACTER JOE CAUSE IF AUTHOR JOE DOESN’T POST…. THEN I’LL BE MAKING SURE HE NEVER DOES!
I’m missing updates…. please be well, author Joe!! Hoping and wishing for the next update to come soon!!
Day 98:
A blind millionaire went on a trip in his private jet. At 20,000 feet the pilot called him into the cockpit to tell him he was feeling ill and had chest pains. Suddenly the pilot keeled over with a heart attack. The blind man panicked as he felt the plane nose-diving and rocking violently, so he dragged the pilot out of his seat and strapped himself in. After a lot of frantic fumbling around he located the radio and called into it: “Mayday! Mayday!” Ground control heard the call for help and inquired what the problem was. “I am blind and alone in a plane, the pilot had a heart attack and I’m flying upside down. Mayday! Mayday!” Ground control said: “Calm down, sir. Just to clarify, you are blind, is that correct? If so how do you know you are flying upside down?” The blind man replied: “Because I can feel my shit running up my back!!”
Okay guys, I think it’s about time we got over it:
Joe gave up The Pocalypse. Since it failed gaining any funds and money, he ain’t working on it anymore. Had people paid up, he would’ve probably continued, but he ain’t. So move on.
Some good other web comics to follow are:
LookingForGroup
GoblinsComic
TwoKinds
BearNuts
SDamned
Have a nice day ya all. This site ain’t be updating again, because Joe is not getting dem monies from us. Just go somewhere else. Last flash was 07/03/13 : 3 MONTHS AGO. There’s no excuse – he’s not working on it no more.
Go somewhere else. This site is now removed from my favs, because by comming to this site and seeing the adverts, he’s getting cash for something he ain’t doing.
See you all.
now we are fast approaching 3.5 months of waiting for a single episode. I hope the episode coming out is beyond expectations, otherwise this will end up being the last I end up coming to check on ThePocalypse.
@brendan do us all a favor and stfu, if you dont want to wait, then dont wait. go so something else, but idle threats about not coming back to check the web comic that is provided free of charge to you? thats just low rent. suck a rail road spike.
For those that are upset I suggest re-reading Joe’s last update where he warned us all that future updates are going to be very delayed due to real life stuff. If you want to donate enough money that he can quit his job, support his family, and spend his time making you comics go for it. I’m sure he would love it lol. Otherwise check in and move on just like the rest of us. When he updates it will be good enough for me. Joe – Thanks for an awesome webcomic and all the work you are doing to bring us games based in your universe :)
Woah, hey, I just noticed that VGCats updated on May 20th.
MIRACLES ARE REAL. BRING OUT THE UNICORNS AND LEPRECHAUNS AND LET’S DRINK THE POTION OF ETERNAL YOUTH!
JOE! If this has happened, you can do ANYTHING!
Happy Father’s Day Author Joe! Here’s to you enjoying the day with the family.
Well, that was well worth the wait. And once again, you prove you can do absolutely masterful cliffhangers.