An old sprite comic I did

Way back when, for fun, I did a sprite comic. It pretty much went from sucky to funny-I-guess. It was mostly Mega Man based, but strayed from the formula. It was called Those Darn Robots, and starred 4 Robot Masters sharing a house filled with hillarity, but eventually gained a rather large cast. This was some years ago, but the stuff is still up and existin' here.

I'll touch on one thing here; I stopped making sprite comics before I made the spin-off, Side Characters, which was gonna explain something important. From #36 to #78, the Author character (who I just caved in and named after myself) decides to roam amoungst the characters as a crappy sprite edit (never got to the point where the crappy edit was addressed), and the author's assistant, Billy (who is pretty much retarded) is the substitute author. Up to #78, elements I don't like in other sprite comics are all blatantly used (i.e. recolors as main characters, coddled female character, etc.). Also, Billy uses his position to make the author, his former boss, into a bumbling nincompoop. Problem is I never got to the point where it was addressed that these characters and elements were purposely made into what they are. Though the fact that some are gone forever after the "Return to Normalcy" should be a tip-off. Though the folks reading the comic at the time wanted the forced characters back. So, regardless of purpose, I kept them around, contemplating later how I'd kill 'em off (most likely with that whole Ultimate killing spree, mentioned below).

I also regret never getting to the point where the Ultimate realises Billy gave him a girlfriend, and gets pissed and, in typical Ultimate fashion, kills many, many people.

I always wanted to work on it again, but never got the inspiration. Ah well...

Anyway, I thought I'd pick a few choice ones I particularly like.....

A mock of Girls Gone Wild

Air Man was the jerk of the Robot Master group. He was a heavy drinking womanizer who hated Elec Man and became more homosexual the drunker he'd get. Here's an example of his tomfoolery.

Here's another example. I rather like this one.

Mrs. Shadow Man! She/He/It was pretty popular amoungst the readers.

And so....
Of course....
I killed her/him/it off!

As you can tell by paroozing the archives, my joketelling ability was only budding, though some stuff is still kinda funny. The majority of the plots were done for the readers, who liked plots more than the housemate stuff. Me, I felt more at home doing the housemates (as is evident in that those strips are the more funny ones). That taught me a lesson, I tells ya.

Anyway, enjoy, amd laugh at my inexperience.

This post has been edited by Lord Shmeckie: 01 October 2004 - 05:06 PM

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