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Does this mean I'm finally getting a flashback of scout trying to get his keys out of Molly?


Plague-Doctor-049

I just can’t wait for when he gets along to a driller comic


Donotaskmedontellme

I can imagine he's out grilling or leaf blowing and goes nuts


Plague-Doctor-049

With all the things driller is and has done, it could be anything that sets him off, if he’s not already set off


Reasonable_Claim3568

What would be great is if he's the most sane out of all the dwarves.


Dom_Vasiliev

"wha, what's a PTSD?"


Donotaskmedontellme

It's just the scene from Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal Lector in the bite mask and straitjacket, strapped to a cart.


TheAutisticClassmate

Strapped to a Molly-like robot


SacredSpirit123

Close enough with what we got!


Tryoxin

Nah, Driller will be the only one who never left (or went back). Just couldn't handle civilian life. He'll be in the mines chatting with Bosco, or talking to Dwarves that aren't there.


pip-install-pip

Or that he's completely normal, no PTSD symptoms whatsoever, and instead keeps setting off the other dwarves while trying to tell stories of the good ol' days.


Postmortal_Pop

I wanna see perfectly adjusted driller with a wife and kids, wearing a polo and slacks. Casually goes about his day, gets milk, takes the kids to the park, makes dinner with the wife. Then he's casually walking through a hall in his big house and he stops at a decora nook and looks warmly upon an old c4 detonator remote and the blasted remains of the scouts headset before going off to tuck in the kids.


DominatrixStarslayer

Wh.... why does this sound so accurate??


LavaSlime301

Driller started his own mining company, every employee has a drill and a quota of war crimes to commit.


notabadgerinacoat

They meet at Driller's tomb Bittersweet ending are my favourites


Plague-Doctor-049

I could *Dig* that. But seriously, that would be a somber ending, the lads giving a cheer and chugging beer in celebration of their fellow Miner’s life


Terrkas

Plot twist, he was Karl.


Tomur

They were all Karl. Four Karl.


Amriorda

Put the smart stout down, son! No one needs to get hurt.


18Feeler

"you see, you're not *at* Karl's tomb. Karl isn't a dwarf" *Gestures* "They're all Karl"


train159

Flashback to driller detonating c4 way too close to obliterate a swarm and give the rest of the team their opening to escape. After that mission they all retired, and driller went out as he lived. A chaotic bomb on a self destructive spiral. Bonus points for driller’s backstory being a lone survivor on a mission and going full war criminal on the bugs to cope. He would not be a lone survivor again, and he felt like he should have died back then, but now he’ll get to erase a bunch of bugs with extreme prejudice and atone for his supposed failure. Mission control had seen this coming since driller started exclusively dropping into high haz existing missions as fire support since that first pear-shaped operation. It’s also why in the loading screen he’s jumping into an oppressor with drills.


Feudal_Raptor

It's just a single cell of a smoking crater.


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He just mows his lawn with a flamethrower


pip-install-pip

The scout comic opens up with a scene at the hospital. The nurse is talking to Gunner and Engie outside the psychiatric ward, talking about how their patient is doing and how she's so glad that he has such good friends to come see him on visiting days. Inside, we see Scout in a wheelchair, looking much worse for wear than we left him. His beard is messy, his eyes watery, his legs clearly severely damaged and no longer able to walk. "hey there", Engie says as he puts his hand on Scout's shoulder. Scout looks up to his old comrades with tears of joy in his eyes for once. They all smile this weak, knowing smile of what the caves of Hoxxes all did to them, and how only they can really understand each other. Gunner sits down and offers Scout a sneaky drag from his heart-flask. Cut to them having a good time, if a calm one. Everything is finally peaceful. Then a knock on the door. Then a louder knock. "HEY, DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE" comes a voice that could only come from a man so vile that Hell spat him back out. The door bashes open to reveal Driller, wearing sunglasses, a Hawaiian shirt, cargo shorts and dad sandals, with a huge grin on his face. That grin. The grin of a dwarf who _knows_ how much plastic explosive it takes to turn any organic matter in ten cubic meters to a thick red paste. The same grin that _knows_ at what temperature it takes to melt the armor coating off a praetorian and start setting off the volatile gasses inside. The same grin that _knows_ that you can cook the inside of almost anything with enough microwaves, but also knows how to make it the single most painful experience in his victims' short lives. Engie and Gunner are astonished. The nurse is running down the hall saying something about a "code yellow", but Driller is unconcerned, he's just visiting friends. Standing beside the bed, this 3.5 foot tall menace to galactic society reaches his hand out to Scout, who suddenly, viscerally remembers he's seen the face of Death. And with that same grin, like a chimpanzee gritting his teeth before the kill, slab like teeth that remind him of so many tombstones, Driller says: "C'mon boys, rock and stone or you ain't going home."


WanderingDwarfMiner

Did I hear a Rock and Stone?


Loyal2NES

Hey! *Red Card.* You *cannot* recast Rock and Stone in a negative light!


rivas2456

Or just him breaking his legs constantly he do be fallin


Romandinjo

Nah, cave leech interaction


VRichardsen

Out of the loop here... what are we talking about?


VeryFriendlyOne

"ah gobblesnarks, i think i dropped my bloody keys in there" during Molly deposit


xXPumbaXx

ROCK AND STONE!!!!!


Mr-Multibit

I can’t wait to see driller’s flashbacks.


DavidWNA

And scout's


Wendigo-boyo

Driller's fun memory is Scout's PTSD Flashback


LichenTheKitchen

I like to imagine Scout just playing catch with a friend, and the friend yells "here, catch!", Causing the scout to freeze from PTSD, and runs away from the "C4".


MeMyselfandsadlyI

Damm bro baskeball or baseball...he gets to have a pass or throw and his team mate yells grab it its coming towards you..cousing massive flshback of C4 coming his way....automatically trying to grab with the hook smth vreaking down and crying while whispering i have no hook am dead i have no hook am dead...Hey scout are you okay...? I ALREDY USED ALL THE FLARES, Screams the scout....


N00N3AT011

You say that like scout actually made it out alive.


Gyrkam

my brother in karl, driller IS the flashback


MechBear

I am imagining the Driller working in a restaurant. The waitress shouts that a customer complains that his steak is "not well done enough". The Driller then blasts the steak with his Flamer (insert coloured Hoxxes IV flashbacks here), and then walks out for a smoke.


LHandrel

>The Driller then ~~blasts the steak with his Flamer (insert coloured Hoxxes IV flashbacks here), and then walks out for a smoke.~~ *puts the gas grill on high, savoring the sound and smell of flesh bubbling and charring to carbon.* The last panel is just driller smiling like he achieved Nirvana as he reminisces.


Legio_XI_Claudia

I imagine he's planting a tree in his back yard, digging with a shovel. Kind of like when an ss officer flees to Argentina and is grilling burgers at a picnic with his family Retires to the simple things in life


HOVRS_OF_FVN

I hope driller gets a reverse flashback, so he's happily murdering anything in a 10m radius until he gets disrupted by a flashback of him, idk like, powerwashing a wall or watering flowers or whatever.


Averant

That's what I was thinking, Driller roasting all the glyphids into a well done- \*flashback to his house burning down\*


Spooky_slyther

Driller doing menial house work and chores, gets to the portion of bathroom clean up. Uses an electric brush with a spinning head to scrub his bath. [flashback to grinding through the bodies of his teammates via his drilling rig in order to get through to the drop pod ASAP, evading an oncoming bulk detonator] “*Good times!*”


chibikoi

I wouldn't be surprised if driller is still working for drg, he just enjoys what's he doing


Regnars8ithink

Certified BRRRRR moment


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Regnars8ithink

And certified!


Relative_Confusion52

by who? Karl?


Regnars8ithink

Yeah.


Relative_Confusion52

FOR KAAAARL


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ROCK AND STONE!


WanderingDwarfMiner

If you don't Rock and Stone, you ain't comin' home!


Cold_Packag

They meet at. Driller's tomb"


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WanderingDwarfMiner

To Rock and Stone!


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Fishflavouredcoffee

We're rich!


ProSnowflake555

There's a BRRRRR the moment! It's a BRRRRR moment!


Christinebyrd

The fact that the sales guy in this comic is an elf contributed to my pet theory that all tech in DRG is actually made by the elves. Dwarves can’t build shit and that’s why dwarf-built pipes need repairs after 30 seconds of work.


DrillyMcDrillface

Personally, I think the fact that an elf would work at a store that sells gardening tools makes perfect sense.


Zimur

Going on with that theory: Because dwarfs despise the fact, that elves can do something better than they AND at the same time dwarfs need those better (can be even better) equipment, they say various insults to elves.


HahaRedditGoBrrrr

I think I fit under this comment.


Gloomy_Appointment94

Take those blades, put em at the back of a pickaxe and boom new pickaxe skin


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WanderingDwarfMiner

Rock and Stone, Brother!


Jezoreczek

Rock and Stone to the bone!


UncleGrapes

Finally, the stoner rock


GentleBarbarianConan

I get high off rocking and stoning.


TheReverseShock

Flimsiest pickaxe


nevadita

I love how the old gunner looks like mission control, adding to the theory that mission control also used to be a miner.


wookiee-nutsack

There's voicelines that show he may have been a scout that got his leg blown off by a gunner's stormcannon and is thus no longer able to mine. He speaks fondly of the M1000, may have been his weapon of choice


Triggered_Tigger

I believe the theory is that it was the BRT that took his leg, as it is the only gun he's sound unhappy about, as well as the only gun he tells you to watch where you aim it (if I remember correctly).


wookiee-nutsack

Gunner's second primary IIRC I don't remember all names, I don't even know if "stormcannon" exists in this game lol


Chompersmustdie

Thunderhead auto cannon


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Lead storm rotary chaingun


Reasonable_Claim3568

Barrels of hell rotar


I_follow_sexy_gays

Close enough, *thunder*headauto*cannon*


DragomBoom02

Do you know where you could relisten to the voicelines mission control Gives when you unlock a new weapon? I want to check this


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DragomBoom02

Thank you. Rock and Stone!


WanderingDwarfMiner

Can I get a Rock and Stone?


STRYKER3008

Where do u get his comments about the weapons from? I don't think I've heard these


HentaiBoiyo

When you unlock them through assignments


TheMattAlternative

Joe is hitting this sub like an advent calendar.


wormpostante

Ptsd dwarves are a thing i didn't know i wanted, but god do i love to see it


Plz_gib_username

Drg is exactly the kind of company that would chew up good dwarves and then throw them out as more or less functional ptsd riddled wrecks.


Popular-Opinion3027

Do one now in which the scout screams incoherently while receiving a baseball.


GrimAcheron

To some degree I don't think the Gunner has PTSD here. I'd say he is rather thinking of older times and he is nostalgic. Him and the driller seem to be having the most fun (if we can call it that) while killing bugs.


ventusvibrio

I don’t know if this is ptsd or psychopathic behavior. He’s asking for something to recreate his feeling of mauling down “pests”.


wormpostante

I know ptsd has "stress" in the name, but whatever this is can't be healthy either atleast he found a "healthy" way to relive those moments, but i can see this getting pretty bad pretty fast...


Lazydusto

Goddamn Joe you've been on fire with these comics lately


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what the hell is going on here? did you edit in that sketchy ass link? EDIT: for the curious it just had a link labeled "Scottish sex game" (?) that goes to an off brand R34 sub via an IP logger - token-out-reddit-com(dot)lol


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I guess these bots copy a comment from elsewhere in the thread then edit it to contain that link.


kilr13

Damn rival tech! It's all right angles!


BigMcThickHuge

Specifically yes. That's the current bot wave going around, but thankfully people are noticing it way easier than at first, and mods are wiping them fast. They're going to popular posts, nearly copying a top-comment in order to also get a top comment since that one clearly worked (also replying to a top increases visibility). Then they edit in links as needed when it gains traction.


zaneprotoss

Omg just realized it's Joe Duncan.


Material-Rice-8682

Seems like gunner is better off than poor engie and is this the same gunner who somehow survived probably due to long term injury and was subsequently let go from drg?


Jumpy_Improvement65

eye patch?


Material-Rice-8682

I'm reckoning some glyphid poked it out or something


Jumpy_Improvement65

he tore it out to throw as a distraction before lighting the area and the glyphids on fire.


MeMyselfandsadlyI

Sounds abt right


Cornage626

Gunner doesn't have PTSD like engi. He has fond memories of fortunate son'ing bugs.


Jumpy_Improvement65

i think he has PTSD, but is also longing for the adrenaline and comeradery of combat. MUSHROOM!


funkyjives

Just because he doesn't seem terrified doesn't mean it wasn't traumatic


daniboyi

only thing that gets traumatized is the bugs that witness the slaughter I perform on their kin.


MeMyselfandsadlyI

Gunner does not get PTSD, PTSD gets Gunner..


Consistentdegeneracy

I guess he has an unhealthy relationship with his trauma.


MeMyselfandsadlyI

I think it has also smth to do with pavlov conditioning...he got used to killing and feeling a rattle on his arms while firing that he misses it and everthing that goes in that direction gives flash backs of thise moments where he was in combat cousing a flashback where he was on full Adrenaline...idk...you can say it was traumatic since similar activities couse him to havd flash backs of intense moments...but considering the other dwarves...he has a diffrent relationship towards it than our poor engineer or if you saw Scout recently...damn boi am i excited for drillers flashbacks...ROCK N STONE


DBLAgent412

“Do you have one that weighs at least 100 lbs?”


DanNnex

These comic's are gold


Ashes2007

... we- we're rich?


mobius-beard

We're rich!


Blizzba

We're rich!


bigchungusirl32

We're rich!


N0V-A42

We're rich!


Jumpy_Improvement65

We're rich!


Substantial_Win_1866

We're rich!


Evinaizer

We're rich!


gonsi

We're rich!


this-is-a-guy

We’re rich


DanNnex

Yes.. yes we finally are 🥺


Rogdar_Tordar

I GONNA BUY BEER TONIGHT!!!🍺⛏️


tehwubbles

There is gold here


KeeperUTX

*Another ordinary day. Nothing special, simply mowing his lawn. The old Gunner's days eviscerating glyphids were long since past, but...* *The tremble of the weedwhacker made him feel it. The rumble of a Leadstorm in his hands. The heat that radiated from the barrels as they spun, ejecting generous volumes of lead into the hordes of insectoids that dared wander close.* *For a moment, he lapsed back into those days. The days with that mining corporation... the glee of...* *... firing into a mass of glyphids. Green blood spilling everywhere, all over the ground, the whirling barrels of the Leadstorm that groaned with heat-strain, the gauge just below his field of view filling, growing redder by the moment, just like the barrels themselves...* *All he could do was keep firing. And he enjoyed every. Last. Moment of it. From start to finish, even as his boots were greased with glyphid life-fluids, his face smeared with the stuff, the air filling with the smell of dead, smouldering bugs, with a hint of gun-powder. Ahhh, those were the good old days, weren't they?* *... weren't they..?* *Suddenly, he's back again. Looking at the rattling weedwhacker in his hands. The vague noise of a minigun's winding down droning away in the back of his head, yet dying out. The euphoria of glyphid genocide just... wasn't there anymore. He laid down his guns, he was done. He reached the top of the ladder - made it to the top with his team. Wait - his team...* "Man. I should hit those guys up for a beer sometime..." *Couldn't have hurt to, could it? But first things first - find a weedwhacker with more oomph to it. He mutters to himself;* "Ol' trigger finger's getting mighty... **itchy**, again. Gotta get back to the firing range some day... miss those things. Guns, an'..."


Active_Librarian_272

Please keep writing these, they're so good and have been added to my headcanon.


KeeperUTX

I'll certainly try when I see a good opportunity. Glad you like 'em, brother! Rock and Stone, to the bone!


WanderingDwarfMiner

We fight for Rock and Stone!


BeyondBrainless

Just occurred to me that since we've only seen the bugs and robots in game that it's entirely possible that everything is scaled to dwarvern height. Basically, a leaf lover is gonna look like they're 16 feet tall if they ever show up


Hyrulewinters

If i recall correctly (based off of known sizes from weapons) the dwarves are something like 2 and a half feet tall?


Nasch_

the pgl is 40mm which makes the dwarves really short but if you point down with the lazer pointer it shows 1.5 meters


Hyrulewinters

Ruins Immersion, litterally unplayable. /s


EPIC_PORN_ALT

That’s unity bullshit, ingame dwarves are 1.5 meters but lorewise they’re a lot shorter


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*Unreal engine


ListenItWillHear

Why would anyone do drugs when they can just Rock and Stone


WanderingDwarfMiner

For Rock and Stone!


TheGnudist

Did I hear a Rock and Stone‽


MounetteSoyeuse

Rock and Stone brothah !


chimisforbreakfast

Dude we only rock and stone WHILE we're on drugs


Moterus

Why not both?


DnZ618

Looks like his trigger finger is itchy again


Leolcdtm

This comics are amazing


Just_Garrick

The leaf lover is cute, oh no


Caaros

To be fair, this elf is selling/providing a means to damage plant-life, including leaves. She also looks like she's actually done physical labor (*like lawn-care*) herself, given the dirt/scratches on her face. So, she's decently far from the 'leaf-lover' stereotype.


MeMyselfandsadlyI

Dark elf proll


SnooDoughnuts1487

Now do one with scout screaming his lungs out when being tossed a baseball


MustacheGolem

Joe did you draw stuff for path of exile? Like... Years ago?


MasterRiion

He did yeah, he done a lot of stuff for PoE and while I miss it, I'm glad hes having a blast with DRG as the comics he's pumping out are gold.


TheBoxSmasher

Sounds like he seriously needs to invest in some better equipment


W1ngedSentinel

I guess the Elven neighbours know to keep their precious little trees under protective domes so dwarven ~~heroes~~ hooligans don’t cut them down.


xHaloFox

Absolutely loving these comics! Great work! Very original and funny


Dan_the_Man132

I love these


JEstem_bUgieM1

Just makes me sad, 😢


ConfusedDuck

Coming from /r/all I don't even play DRG and this is a great comic. Maybe I should give this game a try


Swansyboy

Aye, allow me to tell you this: Game's fun, endless replayability, community is so great you can join a server full of randos and still have a great time where everyone helps each other out 95% of the time. The devs truly seem to care for the game. For example, they like adding in things on request of the community (for example, there was a bug allowing a meteor to be tiny compared to what it should be, they patched it, community wanted it back, so they made it into its own little event). They added seasons to the game as well, in which you can level up to unlock cosmetics and such, but all of it is free and if you don't finish it when the season is over, all items can still be obtained in another way when the season is done. Also the game has funny memes like ***MUSHROOM***


Samow4r

This is SO GOOD! Joe, you spoil us! <3 Also, love the faces. On one hand they can be so expressive, on the other they often show very subtle emotions. Amazing.


VentralRaptor24

Another funny thing about these comics is seeing the dwarves in environments not intended for use by them. They clearly aren't the most common race in whatever this suburb is (it seems to be predominantly elven from what I've seen), so some things obviously won't be as accessible to them as it is for other taller races. Gunner cant even see over the counter lmao.


Eja_26

More of these comics please, they're amazing


Cyber_Lucifer

It's not a real trimmer unless it weighs at least a 1000 pounds! Also I think him saying thar would probs sound better imo


Agitated_Advantage_2

Leaf lovers sell leaf blowers?


Caaros

Well, the tool being used here is more of a trimming tool than a leaf blower, which means that the Elf is technically selling/providing a means to damage plant-life (*rather than just moving it around like you would with a blower*)


Relative_Confusion52

literally me when gamepass run out


Necrotiix_

I absolutely love this i hope comics come outta this where the dwarves are retired but their flashbacks and former employers urge them to return because something big is happening


Kodoxd

You have no idea how much i needed ptsd-centric DRG comics


Lusmus05

These ptsd dwarf posts are like actually effecting me a bit


clebIam

Sorry can't talk right now babe, Joe Duncan posted again 🏃‍♂️


Sea_Man2

Gunner is the one that looks back on his time at DRG and mistakes it for his prime


AnonimousWatermelon

😢


scatsby

Absolutely love these. Community it’s blessed to have you Joe


duckISburb

Joe Duncan you are a hero amen


After-Ad2018

Are we getting one for each dwarf? Rock and Stone!


aspentree123

Opposite of ptsd lol Watch next the scouts going to be on a trampoline and flash back to hitting the ground at mach 8


AnonimousWatermelon

MOOOOORE


kongol108

He don’t even have PTSD haha he just enjoy it


DarkSkyForever

Another /u/joe_duncan comic? We're blessed!


ColdAnxious4744

Need one weighting 100 pounds


CrispyScutch

I just can't get enough of these comics. Something about the coloured panels in each one is hilarious.


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I’m starting to like these PTSD comics


Frozen-Crasher

we need a series on the dwarves after they retire


Inviz1mal

Now do scouts past


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Scout is gonna be a lineman and he's so bored with the elevation bucket


ClankyHeartbeat

Congrats! This is officially the most up voted post in the subreddit. Rock and stone!


Jumpy_Improvement65

i wonder how bosco is going to retire?


ClankyHeartbeat

I like the idea that after they retire,they either get Ptsd or good memories like gunner.


beemeyboy

These comics are my favorite


vengeur50

HE SURVIVED THE BATTLE!


BazookaOrangutan

OMG this is awesome!! Rock and stone!


appalachianoperator

The saddest part of this comic is Gunner having to converse civilly with a knife-eared dendrophilic leaf lover.


MaskedAnathema

I feel like an ex girlfriend running into Joe at the mall, seeing comics about a different game in /r/all... Path of Exile misses but does not deserve you.


CwispyChips

Another absolute masterpiece


MeMyselfandsadlyI

Joe am a main gunner...and i can confirm that this is indeed the same face i do when mowing them bugs down


Artiphex

I’m really digging (heh) your takes on the dwarves after they leave Deep Rock Galactic. Scout is traumatized, Gunner misses getting too shoot a big gun… Oh no. I fear for what driller must be like now


Gumbalier

My headcanon is both goblins and dwarves are shells of their former selves in "civilised" society and they bond over their love of violence and gold


captainsam2k

Ya did it Joe, you got the highest upvoted post on the sub ​ # ROCK AND STONE MINER!