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Just here to say your comics are fun to read! I really enjoyed one where they went shopping :]

Augh, thanks a lot!! It was also very fun for me to draw, I sat around giggling white drawing Soldier.

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I support women’s rights and women’s wrongs

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TF2 COMIC THEORY (and Spoilers)

What, did Zephaniah Mann do?

Look, if there's one thing I know about Valve Lore, is that its really hidden, really coded, and TF2 has been fucking TEASING for decades now.

And as far as I'm concerned...

We know who the mystery man in the rip is... That's Gray Mann, the missing brother. Gods knows he's been teased enough over the years.

But here, I'm interested in...

[ Spoilers below ]

... Where the stinger occurs.

Zephy is not an only child.

Because his brother is Silas Mann, the Headless Horseless Mann. Owner of a mansion, haunting that very mansion. Shown in the first picture posted. They ran "Zephaniah Mann and Sons, Quarterly Munitions" Together.

Its a tradition for Mann sons to kill the other siblings. Its why there was such a rivalry between the Mann twins (erm, Triplets).

Our Admin apparently knew already, was already observing the situation...

She was waiting.

What, did Zephaniah Mann do?

Why does the administrator hate him so much?

Does it have something to do with a little girl...

... Who can't remember how her parents died.

The man in the picture wears a Towering Pillar of Hats. While that's just the TF2 Timeline Aesthetic... there is another significant element.

Its in Coal Town, surrounded by Hales. While its the "Booths" hat, it was around, clearly, before Bilious was a baby--in Barnabas Time.

Zephaniah and Sons would become Mann Co, after being given to Barnabas.

What, did Zephaniah Mann do?

Easy.

He murdered the Administrator's father, Silas Mann, and her mother, out of "Tradition", and then claimed that HE was an ONLY CHILD like the selfish self-centered bastard he is.

And Our Administrator ensured, even through vengeance that lasted centuries, to a point where she didn't even remember why she started, that it would Never Continue.

Vengeance of a little girl who lost her parents.

Arguably, in comic lore, the torn picture isn't exactly accurate anymore.

Because that Gray Mann in the center, and our Mann Twins didn't even know there was a Gray Mann, and in fact, most of the people in the picture didn't even know about him. And if they took a picture, then clearly, someone would've known.

So its more than likely, a portrait or lore symbollic only. Only meant for the fans, to know what we're looking for and Who, about the time of the first Halloween Events.

( Look it took decades to get all the comics, mate, its not gonna be a craft masterpiece. We get what we get. )

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Oh I'm sad to see people didn't like comic 7, I thought it was very well done.

This isn't an invitation to an argument, I just want to say my opinion because I'm seeing a lot of people criticising the last chapter.

We got a lot of answers and everything that seemed conveniently placed for plot was completely in the scope of how the previous stories have worked before. I thought it was funny that soldier lived in a cave of Australium. It's just as convenient as Medic having a deal with the devil and the mercs being unable to die. Or Grey Mann having a daughter who no one wants to punch in a fist fight. Or Sniper's parents coincidentally being involved with the sinking of New Zealand.

I think it was a very good choice to not let the mercs do anything plot driving in this chapter, because this conflict was never a conflict that could have been ended by the mercs. They wouldn't even have cared, heh. We've known that everything was carefully orchestrated by the Admin, so it could only have been resolved by those who are part of the bigger conflict. Hence Miss Pauling, the Admin and Saxton do most of the plot. Everyone else already had a lot of screen time in the previous chapters, but none of their stories were truly contributing to the actual conflict at hand, so the story can't come to an end until we actually see the person who's been pulling the threads actually come to terms with what she was doing. I'm very happy that her ultimate plan turned out to just be a pointless act of revenge, since we've all known from the start that the gravel wars are pointless. This is just one more dimension deeper into how pointless it is.

Managing to resolve the story and making sure all characters receive a happy end the way they did was more than I had hoped for comic 7. But just to summarise how I think everyone received their peace of mind across all comics:

1. Sniper: Finds out he's adopted -> figures out his step parents were his true family after all

2. Spy: Really wants to tell Scout that he's his dad -> actually manages to say the words, even if he wasn't honest with his appearance

3. Soldier: Delusional hater of commies -> marries a Russian woman and stops claiming racist things, because Zhanna as a person was more important to him than whatever he believed about Russian people. Still weird, not with less delusion but genuinely a sweet father and husband. Exaggerated and maximally silly way of how to actually change people's racist opinions in real life.

4. Scout: Upset that he can't get laid and thinks he has to be More Man -> glows up by becoming a dad who steps up and is less preoccupied with getting the girl of his dreams. His kids are what matters to him now and he becomes like his mom

5. Heavy: Worried about his family in Siberia -> his sisters show him they don't need him to protect them all the time and everyone moves to America so he can be with them. His sisters get to live freely.

6. Engineer: Is involved with the conflict since his grandpa, and is contractually unable to stop it -> tells Miss Pauling to sink all Australium in a trench so this never happens again

7. Saxton Hale: Wants to go back to the time when he was still actively doing things, gets his company stolen -> gets his company back but realises it doesn't make him happy. Leaves his company and joins Maggie again because fighting alongside her was what he's always wanted since we got glimpses of his past

8. Miss Pauling: Thinks the Administrator has a great plan that desperately needs her -> learns the plan was nothing at all and decides on the spot to end it by not giving Admin any more Australium because she realises she has been feeding into the conflict

Medic, Demoman, and Pyro never had a personal conflict to resolve. Medic had his moments to shine by sabotaging TFC and being in hell then coming back. Demoman had his arc with his liver leaving him and defeating the robots due to the alcohol in his blood. Medic scooped out parts of his brain to keep him unquestioning about his eye. Pyro is just a very simple character, and I say that with no judgement at all. Pyro is happy with arson, but also with a Dalmatian as their pet.

Everyone is still friends with each other and have their own little families. They come together to celebrate Smissmass at Scout's place. I think Saxton's last line "or do you want to live forever" was so well placed, being a nod to the meme from Expiration Date, as well as pointing out that, obviously, things have to come to an end we should embrace that ending when we see it's time.

And as always. If anyone doesn't like that any of these things, we are still free to make our own stories and reinterpret characters.

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always thinking about how talented and skilled you are especially when I see your paintings. Wowee they are amazing

Ugly sobbing.

I think my paintings are the least cool things I can produce, because I'm really bad with colours and I've been wanting to try out acrylic paint irl to get better.

Thank you for your trust in me, nonetheless.

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Hallo Herr Doktor.

Was your halloween nice? I see you made great use of the resurrected boop feature.

I just wanted to tell you that I always get a great hit of dopamine when this blog updates, to the point where I type "tum" into my searchbar and it shows me tumblr.com/vaxxman in the autocomplete.

I hope your job isn't too taxing on you and doesn't hinder you from drawing insane elderly men as much as you want to.

Greetings.

Ashamedly answering this ask 2 months after I got it, yes my halloween was very fun, I got asked to remove my mask at the library once because people were too unsettled by it-

What an honour to be the top auto fill result in your browser, I really mean it 😭 Thank you for enjoying my drawings so much.

Heh I have been. Really busy, but luckily I have very caring friends who have their snipers equipped with sleeping darts installed around every corner and they all force me to take regular breaks that I still get to draw here and there!

There's a short comic queued for Christmas.

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MERRY SMISSMAS FROM TF COMICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yo! I started to follow you not long time ago, and tbh I am mad at myself that I didn't earlier. Your comics are really fun and exciting to read! I love how you plan "frames" and how characters interact with each other!

As someone who loves comics I am really happy to follow you and see your work! 💙

Oh but I'm so glad you are here now! You weren't missing out while you weren't following me, I barely post or reblog anything 😶‍🌫️

I'm so glad that people enjoy the panel composition, it's truly the thing I spend most time on (after researching historical facts, or drawing backgrounds and props, or-). Happy to know the hallucinations I have in my head make interesting character interactions, too. Thank you so much for following me, I hope the content stays fun to you!

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hello Vaxxman!!! I haven’t lurked on your blog for ages and so I get to slurp up everything you’ve posted in the last few months

I hope you are doing well!!!!

I always get happy when I see your art on my dash :)

Grisping you with enthusiasm!

Thank you for always coming around and looking at my comics and drawings, I honestly didn't think people would come back to look at things I've drawn months ago.

Thank you for all of the nice things you are writing, I'm also always happy to see your name on my activity feed, like yaaay gravitytrips saw my comic [|87!!!

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Hai wanted to let you know your tf2 comics are some of the best (maybe even The best) ive seen so far. Utterly entranced by how you characterize the mercs (especially medic, but thats your specialty) and i love the silly and mundane situations you put them in, it gives them a depth i constantly yearn to see out of these guys, and you do it so well! :} have a nice day!!

Breaking down in tears over this.

Thank you so much, I very much enjoy coming up with little scenarios ranging from silly goofy to somewhat bitterweet and sad, I think tf2 lends itself very well to this! I'm glad you enjoy my comics, I put a lot of brain energy into dialogue and panel composition to make them fun to read!

I will be having a very nice day thanks to this message!!

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CHAT CONTROL TO BE VOTED ON THIS THURSDAY

Original tweet

I know americans are busy with fighting KOSA but I urge you to please help us by spreading the word about this, I can't say this enough, if chat control passes, citizen's private messages will be scanned via artifical intelligence,and they must comply,otherwise theyre not allwoed to send pictures,videos,or links anymore. We have a discord server made to organize against it,with emails scripts you can use when contacting your meps : https://discord.com/invite/e7FYdYnMkS

Find your meps and tell them to vote no on this :

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earned a follow from just the most Medic of all time. very shaped. much medicinal malpractice. give this man a break or a large stick

I had to ask a native English speaker what the phrase "give this man a large stick," meant and I still don't quite understand, but thank you for the large stick, and I hope my content won't disappoint you 🕊️

Thank you for following!!!

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How draw so good????? Took me an hour to draw A-Pose Scout by directly copying him from a reference pic.

HOW DRAW SO GOOD?????

You are too kind to me.

I saw your A-pose scout!!! I thought it looked very good!!! I hope you keep on drawing!!!

I also started learning how to draw from tracing and drawing off comics and story books and cartoons! Eventually you'll be able to draw some things from memory, and then expand your repertoire with more things!

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lurking on your blog again bc somebody uploaded panels of your comics onto Pinterest and I wanted to see the unpirated version

Exploding that person with hammers 🔨

Alas I don't quite know if I'm even able to request them to take the work down, since I dont own tf2, and also I don't want to give away my real identity to prove them that Its Really Me, as far as I know, take down claims require that.

But thank you for telling me, I appreciate that a lot!

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Hmmm i should queue some answers to those many asks I got, simply because I'm very grateful for all of your nice words.

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When your medic leaves to go pocket another man or something

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Smissmas secondary weapon for Sniper tf2 but it's just a yellow snowball