FADE IN on the ship, later the same day. CRAWFISH has managed to gather everyone on the ship together on the deck. EDWARD is next to him with an old blackboard and a piece of chalk the size of his knuckle. Compared to the lovely weather from earlier, storm clouds are approaching once more.
CRAWFISH
All right, you lily-livered new folk!
(conโt)
I know none of you are used to life at sea, so weโre going to change that starting now!
HARE gags, still a little green in the face.
CRAWFISH
Each one of you has to carry your weight, no matter how high and mighty you may think you are.
EDWARD
None of us want to go through the trouble of training all of ye, so most of this will be cleaning anโ simple chores.
Piรฑata Man is a quirky, wanna-be superhero whose dream is to prove himself to the Mighty Action Force! This comic follows a silly adventure of his, in which he attempts to save The Wizard’s soda which is stuck in the evil vending machine! Will he be able to do it or… will he fail terribly?
BONUS! Here’s my comic making process:
First, I get the script for the page I’m working on (the amount of times I lost it while working on this was actually insane). Using that as a guide, I make a messy doodle of what I want the panel to look like.
Second, I ink the panels. Not much to that.
Then (third), I roughly sketch out the characters. For some reason I decided to use pink for all my sketches and stuck with it the whole comic ๐
Fourth, I ink the comic and detail the characters!
Unlike the other pages, I gave this one a black background to make it โจEXTRA DRAMATICโจ
Fifth, I color the characters and the backgrounds! The colors I used for the characters were not the actual colors of them in-game โ I used simpler, brighter colors to make it easy on me to draw. ๐
Finally, I add shadows and highlights to help bring these silly guys to life!
For the rest of the pages I added speech bubbles for the very last step. But for this page there is no dialogue, so I just added a white outline on the evil soda machine.
And that’s my process! Now repeat all of that 11 times over the course of two and a half months, and you get this comic! ๐ฅณ
Thank you so much for reading this comic! It was a lot of fun to make and I hope that y’all enjoyed it. ๐
Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Magic Kid. Enjoy!
Alright Poptropicans! Magic Kid is back again with the final part of the fanfiction, Murder at Myronโs. (Read parts 1, 2, & 3 first! ๐)ย
The villains are pointing fingers, investigating, and analyzing everything and everyone in order to figure out who murdered Myron Van Buren. It’s extremely difficult, however, to figure out. All the shifty suspects are 100% capable and dangerous, but all claim innocence.
They had just discovered a secret tunnel and some more interesting variables when another well-knownโ yet uninvitedโ villain turned up. More contention will break out as they blame the newly arrived Dr. Hare for the murder. But what happens to him, to our Narrator Merlin, and to every villain at that dinner-gone-wrong?
Youโll have to read this shocking conclusion to the series in order to find out for yourself what happens in the endโฆ
Murder at Myronโs
Part 4/4
All the Villains except Dr. Hare were shock-quiet as Dr. Hare, pink bunny suit and all, stepped inside in the warm house and shivered in the sudden temperature change. And then more chaos, more arguing, and just more contention in general broke out for probably the millionth time that evening.
Captain Crawfish pinned Dr. Hare against the Lincoln Log style walls of the cabin and shouted at him. โWHY DID YOU KILL MYRON? AND TO HAVE THE NERVE TO COME BACK TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME LIKE AND INNOCENT LITTLE SHRIMP? HOW DARE YOU, RABBIT!โ
Everyone else was ganging up on Dr. Hare and joining in on the shouting now. โI see how it is! You got mad you weren’t invited and decided to get a little bit of revenge, right? Daphne poked at him.
โNโno! I got anโโ
I was accidentally pushed roughly against the wall by the villains gathering and this kind of behavior continued.
โWho are you working with?โ demanded Mademoiselle Moreau, who had been the one to discover that breakthrough of the window having to have been unlocked from the inside.
โWhy would you DO this?โ asked Ringmaster Raven angrily.
โMโMyronโs dโdead?โ Dr. Hare asked, barely managing to talk because of Crawfishโs grip on his throat.
โAYE, YOU MUCK OF SLIMEโโ
โWhat should we do with him?โ Director D asked in cold rage.
Gretchen replied in equal anger โI donโt know! I think we should just let Crawfish have him at the moment!โ
โNo! Waitโ I didnโtโโ
โWhy else would you come here uninvited?!โ Mordred shouted.
TIMMY FAILURE (continuing to brag): That kind of advanced detective technique is why I was able to solve this case in the first place, totally unassisted.
NARRATOR: In the background, Icy Snake is making a disgusted face at the polar bear eating trash.
FRIENDLY THUNDER (automatically): Wait just one minute. You didnโt solve this case by yourself.
DIZZY CLAW (confused): He didnโt?
TIMMY FAILURE (arrogantly): Of course I did! Iโm the greatest detective alive. My case notes prove it.
FRIENDLY THUNDER (speaking so automatically, heโs confusing himself): Thatโs not how I remember it. Not how I remember it at allโฆ
NARRATOR: Suddenly, the dream guardian from the prologue, so long ago, I almost forgot him, comes out of nowhere โ but only the trio can see him!
DREAM GUARDIAN (apologetically): Sorry. I have to do this.
NARRATOR: Quickly, he transports the trio back to shortly before the events they are seeing now, happened!
ICY SNAKE (dazed): Where are weโฆ?
NARRATOR: The trio stumble over to the left โ to encounter Timmy Failure himself!
TIMMY FAILURE: You three there! Newcomers! Step lightly. There are evil doings afoot!
DIZZY CLAW (remembering Dr. Hare and hilariously comparing it to him): Such as?
TIMMY FAILURE: Someone stole my pants!
ICY SNAKE: Weโllโฆ be careful, I guess.
TIMMY FAILURE: You threeโll need to be more than that. Since you three are new around here, youโre the only people I can trust. Will you help me collar the criminal?
FRIENDLY THUNDER: Far be it from us to stand idly by while a pants thief terrorizes this fair city.
DIZZY CLAW (chirping up): Plus, we once stopped a villainous pink bunny that wanted to take over the world! You can trust us!
TIMMY FAILURE: Great. Weโll have to split up, but Iโll leave pages from my detective log around to help you out… To start with, you may want to investigate my former business partner. (dramatically) His loyalty is in question.
FADE OUT.
And โ letโs wrap this chapter up! Will Timmy Failure find his pants, with help from Friendly Thunder and company? Who is the mysterious Dream Guardian? Youโll have to tune in to find out!
Hope you enjoyed this guest post by Serious Heart. If you did, you might also enjoy other fanfictions weโve shared.
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Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Young Rider. Enjoy!
Hey everybody! Itโs me, Young Rider, back with part two of Smart Lightningโs story. Sorry to keep you waiting โ the next one should be here in the upcoming weeks. In case you missed it, here’s part one.
Smart Lightningโs disappearance has had no effect on New Tropican, and nobody has noticed the flash.ย
Meanwhile, Smart Lightning panics as she reappears in a tree, near a golden fruit.
โHello?โ she calls out, taking in her situation.
Another flash appears above her, making her jump.
A loud voice booms out, โWhy have you summoned The Flashing?!โ
โWho are you?โ Smart Lightning responds.
โI am the controller of The Flashing! The wielder of storms! I AM ZEUS!โ Zeus shouts, causing Smart Lightning to step back.
Zeus appears above her, along with three cloaked figures. He whispers what sounds like nonsense.
But the cloaked figures step forward, making Smart Lightning take yet another step back. The figures corner her, and she suddenly begins to glow. She does not realize the change, and starts to maneuver around her enemies. It is not until she starts to run that she sees her glowing legs. She stops and stares in shock.ย
โNow you see, now you will pay!โ Zeus takes the advantage, rushing forward along with the figures.
Smart Lightning seems to be paralyzed with shock, and it is not until she is handcuffed with bonds of light that she regains her senses. She is trapped, and reality sets in as her captors grab her. She stops struggling and lets her captors carry her awayโฆ
Meanwhile, Brave Star paces her room with a worried expression on her face. She decides to head out to look for Smart Lightning, bringing an umbrella with her. She asks the people she meets on the way if they have seen her, but nobody has.
She starts to head home, but scorched marks on the path make her pause. They form words: โThe friend you seek has left your world, moved on to the land of the rulers.โ
Brave Star gasps, remembering her medallion collection. She heads off to a rusty shed, uncovering a worn, yellow blimpโฆ
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