CyberneticTigerZ decides to push on ahead, much to Jim's objections. While they head towards the Destructor-toid they suddenly find themselves surrounded! They are attacked by a number of Red Ring Zombies, failed Xbox 360 bots that are apparently being controlled by the same villain as the Destructor-toid itself. Luckily, RetroforceGO! arrives just in the nick of time ...
This week's winning comment was from Necrozen:
Sterling is on the ground, the Red Ringer has taken him down. He is struggling with it. Sterling: "Bias my arse ... "
Right as Sterling's head is about to be popped by a Red Ringer, Dyson kicks it off and pins it down by the neck with his foot.
Dyson: "You'll never guess what I found at Goodwill ... " Sterling is geting up in the background, Dyson Blasts the Red Ringer in the head in the foreground with the superscope.
Full suggestion after the jump. As is always the case, I had to adjust the suggestion a little, I kept some key points, leaving out what I couldn't fit in.
THE RULES: 1. You have 24 hours from the time this blog was posted to suggest what happens next. After that, I'll choose the winning comment and the page will then be posted the following week.
Large panel. The team gathers around a glowing object that Dyson has produced from his trench coat. It is Dreamcast, that radiates with a spiraling light.
All at once:
Dyson: "I'm not entirely sure, but I get the feeling it's important. Plus it was only $40 bucks."
Topher: "There's something about it that feels ... familiar to me."
The Destructor-toid lumes ominously in the background.
Fourth Panel (or is it the fifth?) actually made me HA out loud. Pretty bad when you're sitting in class. A giant grin soon followed once I saw Chad in the next one.
My idea: You mentioned that Topher would be piloting something (Ikaruga?) and while it would just make sense to fly everyone over to the giant robot, you should have them do the what most games and movies do and have them take the long way for some ridiculously arbitrary reason. Adds more pages to your story, pokes fun at that particular cliche, and I can just imagine hilarious commentary from jim (the comic version, that is.)
Dyson's Dreamcast should be an engine component for the Ikaruga. Like I couldn't fly it because it was missing a part, and then Dyson pops the Dreamcast in there and it powers on. Then I fly away and do something awesome. :D
The Chad Concelmet (TM) is sweet! I'm definitely hoping for a page of everyone doing their own thing. Chad switching through megaman weapons and Topher with the Ikaruga would be great. Also; Rick the hamster requires a cameo.
I have a better idea, but this might span two pages. Hope you like it D.J.
Chad slips on his Calculator t-shirt and attacks, which blows some circuits of the robot, making it mad. When this doesn't work totally, the crew resort to the EDF Superscope attack barrage led by Jim, Rambo style. The robot looses an arm from this.
Robot responds in kind, firing an Atari ET cart attack on the team. (Yes, I'd run from that too, as they've been in the desert so long, their very touch turns you to sand.) Everyone makes a hasty retreat.
Suddenly, there are shots from the dark and the robot is felled, falls almost crushing the team. The team emerge from the smoke, wondering who took out the robot.
A rugged figure emerges from nearby shadows, armed with two NES/Wii hybrid zappers, which he holsters. Under his worn look, facial hair, it is none other than... Captain N.
END of page 1:
Freakin amatuers...he gloats at the team.
WTF...the Captain....!!?? Where the hell has he been? Who's the fucking Captain...?
Afterwards, the team invite the Captain back for beer and pizza, where he explains where he's been, forever and a day.
The Captain goes on:
''Haven't you people heard of the great console wars?
(Cue console war laced battle field flashback scenes, with influences from real wars.)
I was caught behind enemy lines, after they dropped the Genesis 16-bit bomb on everyone. Its power was too great for us 8-bit soldiers to handle. Many died, but I survived. By the time our 16-bit SNES soldiers reinforcements arrived years later, I was a shadow of my former self.
So, I got back to Nintendo HQ eventually. They retired me from service, said I was past it...but that dumb sucker Mario still kept his job. (Much anger expressed). Now that got those Pikachu's and Squirtleshits, they don't need me anyway. Then I spent years trapped in the NHQ vaults, as they chose others over me.....AND I NEVER EVEN GOT MY OWN GAME...DAMMIT...AFTER ALL I DID!!! Then I escaped, hidden in a shipment of Pokemon games.
''Now, its just me and my zappers.'' Buuurrrpp!! Aaaahhh!!
Hey, you guys got any more beers?''
END of page 2 or 3.
Feel free to twist this with more dialogue if needed.
Sweeet! I'm glad I got to see what I envisioned in my head actually in the comic, that is so awesome! Once again, let me compliment the fantastic job you are doing. I can't wait to see what happens next!
Also, I like Topher's plan where Dyson's Dreamcast that he found at Goodwill is the motor of the ikaruga. Good Idea!
Start most of the retroforce crew struggling with the bots and in the distance a sound of 'rumble' coming forward. Chad in the DolphTank crushes all of the weak bots. Ends with Chad riding top of the DolphTank saying 'Awesome'. insert lazer eyes as u see fit.
thanks for all of this, it's great and inspiring.
CTZ, all visor analysis like: 'We'll need to stall that thing until we figure out who's behind all this."
"Two steps ahead of you"
Collete, having found a bonfire of dead console bots, begins a summoner dance.
Chad is in the background, cycling through a viritual list of Amazing powers, trying to find the best one. (running gag which ends semi-transparently at the end of the comic...)
Stella: "Who do you think's behind all this?"
Topher: "Dead Consoles and a giant robot? No clue."
Collette ends up summoning a HUGE esper, ready to go toe to toe with the Destructor-toid:
I love the idea of the ET cartridge, how about this.
The team scale the Destructor-toid Shadow of the Colossus style, throwing the cartridge from one to another as the robot takes swipes at them, like a god brushing away insects. Eventually one of the team make it to the weak spot behind the back of his head where they insert the cartridge into the robots CPU. The resulting catastrophic awfulness of the experience being pumped directly into the thing's brain renders it either catatonic or suicidal, whichever sound funnier.
Not really a suggestion, but to take down the Destructor-toid, they should have to climb into it from its foot, and the whole inside of the Destructor-toid should be a Megaman -styled 2d platforming level.
Superb work though, this page turned out truly epic.
the team start fighting the giant and get flung one by one to the background, just as it seems all is lost a lone shadowy figures silhouette appears on a nearby rooftop, one of them jumps towards the robot, its none other than the bearded sam-rye himself yojimbo, as he's flying he whips out his blade called the " ironpikeman" and starts to slice and dice the robots nuts and bolts piece by piece, he's not doing much damage but enough to make a difference. the other silhouette just watches on, waiting it would seem for just the right time to strike. to be continued.
(if we are to be writing this thing, i believe the community needs to be in it, without us dtoid would not be as it is, we are the strength).
'Meanwhile, whilst Jim, Hamza and the Retroforce Go! Team figure out a way to defeat the Destructor-toid, Anthony and Ashly Burch are trying to flee a whole mass of Red-Ringer XBots. Anthony only has a pistol, and inbetween firing shots, is trying to convince Ashly to run away.
Of course, Ashly is standing stock still, glaring at the XBots. Anthony is getting more agitated as the XBots approach the stationary sibling. However, Ashly's iron-willed stare emits a manga-style flash of light between her and the nearest XBot, destroying it and several others in a chain-reaction.
Anthony fails to notice that Ashly is the cause of their destruction, and hauls her away in a fireman's lift, complaining bitterly about her behaviour.
I think you should introduce the villains, so we cut away from team DToid.
Three masterminds, all shrouded in shadows, each in their own base, the city as their warzone, the first is sitting in a high backed 80's style steel throne, controlling his zombie 360 army. Thats right, Fanboys. Next up is the PS3 guy. He is all thugged out (like the PSTriple guy or something) and only has posters for two games, MGS4 and GTA4. Finally the Wii villain is in a childs room, sitting in a large crib, and dressed as Mario.
The reason Destructor Toid looks like he's rampaging, is cause he is out stomping fanboy armies. The final panel is Niero sitting in the pilots compartment of Destructortoid with the president coweing behind him as Niero smiles sadistically at the enjoyment of his job.
Would Chad's costume change color when picking a different weapon ? Also I like the Mega man inspired helmet. Great work as usual Mikey. That is how your name is spelled right?
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