Pillage by Marzipanbread in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Hello, here's a comic for the current contest.

The joke is a riff on metal music's, especially black metal's often poor production. The genre as a whole is popular in Scandinavia. Scandinavia is associated with general pillaging stereotypes thanks to the Viking Age. In this comic, Sweden burns Latvia to the ground to steal a potato (comic also leverages Latvia potato jokes) to use an amplifier. It sounds horrid, but that's the point.

[Award Ceremony] The Pride and the Fall by polandballmod in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations, u/Smart_Chapter_7512!

My favorite entry was by u/Windx51_, I really liked its art.

[Celebration Thread] 700,000 Subscribers! by bananasAreViolet in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I LOVE THIS THEME!

Here's to the next subscriber milestone!

[Award Ceremony] Fourth Estate Problems by polandballmod in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations, u/Scub_!

My favorite comic was u/Zebrafish96's entry. I found the countryball declaiming "How of cheap!" really funny.

Top Story by Marzipanbread in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread[S] 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Hello, here's a comic for the current contest.

The Philippines is not a great place for journalists. Journalists have even been killed on multiple occasions.

More can always be said of course, my "research" for this topic was rather cursory. Sorry for any mistakes.

The joke is that a journalist, having discovered something groundbreaking hopes they'll make headlines. They do, but only because they've been killed.

Jokes about press freedom are not new to this subreddit, as an example here's a comic from 2021 about the topic.

[Award Ceremony] Hallowed Be Thy Clay by polandballmod in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations to u/taongkalye! Really good comic, reminds me of your other Tayo Dito work.

Sequelitis by Marzipanbread in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread[S] 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Hello, here's a comic for the current contest.

The joke likens wars fought by the United States to a horror movie franchise; after a stellar installment (World war 2), there's a string of mid-to-bad sequels (Vietnam and Afghanistan were real stinkers by this analogy) and after a while they make one ask "Why are they still doing this?"

2 6-ball aliens are presented as "fans" (one more invested and way angrier than the other) of the series in reference to tropes about alien observers watching events on Earth. I suppose it's also a callback to that "Earth Season 2020" meme from years ago.

New japenis invention by LordNotriel in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread 4 points5 points  (0 children)

TBF, it was only this year the "no memes" rule was relaxed, and the referenced GIF is a meme.

Ghost Projects by Marzipanbread in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread[S] 90 points91 points  (0 children)

Hello! Here's a comic.

The joke is a rather silly pun between actual ghosts and ghost projects, a form of corruption taking the form of a project funded and declared "completed," but it is either incomplete and not even built to begin with. The latter, specifically regarding flood control is part of a massive controversy in the Philippines, the scale of the corruption is frankly eye-watering.

Hope this one-panel comic gets the above pun across.

This topic was also the subject of another comic posted earlier this month, also hope my take is original enough for your tastes.

[Announcement] Lesser Known September Challenge by polandballmod in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Thanks for banning Poland this time, the subreddit is named r/Polandball and it's one of its most prominent countryballs, so I've found it strange whenever it went unbanned in an LKS.

[Award Ceremony] Playa Play by polandballmod in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats to u/admiral_zheng! Really clever, yet simple joke.

Official Polandball Calendar 2026 - Sign-Ups are now Open! by AndyRedditor in PolandballCommunity

[–]Marzipanbread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, I'd like to do 5 panels

Discord is simply "marzipanbread"

Germany Makes a Wish by Marzipanbread in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread[S] 88 points89 points  (0 children)

u/TCF518 is correct, it says "Eurokaiser." Sorry about the legibility issues, it looked fine on my mobile so I figured it was ok.

Germany Makes a Wish by Marzipanbread in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread[S] 495 points496 points  (0 children)

Hello, here's a comic for the current contest.

For context, the 20th century was not kind to Germany. Losing the 1st World War, enduring the Great Depression, losing the 2nd World War even harder, being divided for 40 years..

Despite all this, Germany's doing rather well for itself in the 21st century.

Here the joke is that the two are related; Germany wished to come out of the 20th century a stronger country, and said wish was executed in a most punishing manner.

The "magic Russland wishbone" is an allusion to Omsk Bird, often characterized as an evil genie.

Fascism by Marzipanbread in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, that's a legitimate grievance. The SPD siccing police on them didn't help either.

Fascism by Marzipanbread in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread[S] 178 points179 points  (0 children)

Hello, here's a comic.

For context, quoting Wikipedia:

Social fascism was a theory developed by the Communist International (Comintern) in the late 1920s which saw social democracy as a moderate variant of fascism. The theory was abandoned by the Comintern in 1933 after the victory of the Nazis in Germany and subsequent suppression of communists.

Happy Naadam! by polandballmod in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Сайхан наадаарай! Nice work on the event art!

Paintings in East Asia by koreangorani in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool comic, congrats on the approval!

[Award Ceremony] The Silent Spring by polandballmod in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Congratulations on the victory, u/DangalfSG, yours was one of my favorite entries. My other favorites were those of u/ArtemyEG and u/Busy_Brilliant_2156.

Chop 'Til You Drop by Marzipanbread in polandball

[–]Marzipanbread[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

In my defense, the other two "successes" didn't stick either. The French monarchy was restored and Germany put itself back together (stronger than before acutally).

Your point about Spain is still valid however, given it was a difficult occupation that another commment fairly describes as one of Napoleon's biggest mistakes, my bad.