Woo, new feature! See the two new buttons underneath the comic? You can use those to save your place and come back to it later on. Kind of a simple addition, but I think it’ll make archive-browsing about 1000x easier.
Let me know if it’s acting buggy, or if there are any other features you’d like to see added into the mix. I, your humble mixmaster, shall try to accomodate.
– CC
I sat down to work on next week’s comics, and somehow this popped out:
– CC
No games have inspired more blatant misinformation, perhaps, than Pokemon Red & Blue. The games hit North American shelves back in ’98, right at the dawn of near-ubiquitous internet access. This was long before the average user could tell the difference between an Authoritative Source and some random jerk’s gif-strewn Geocities page. Random jerks with gif-strewn Geocities pages tended to make use of this fact.
What’s more, the games had already been out in Japan for 2 years at this point… meaning there was a vast body of unexplained images from the TV series, the card game, and other tie-ins that the aforementioned jerks could pore over and misinterpret. An early glimpse of unremarkable Water-type Pokemon Marril from the first Pokemon movie took on new life in the fandom as Pikablu, mightiest of the Pokegods, whose azure thunder might someday shake all Kanto to its core.
Naturally, when evidence of Pokemon Green came to light, people got to talking. What was this strange Japan-only release? Could the game be the key we needed to unlock the mysterious Mew? The secret to puzzling out that Hellraiser Rubik’s cube they called Missingno.?!
The truth is pretty common knowledge now: Red & Green were just the original Japanese titles for Red & Blue! The Japanese Blue version was a spin-off produced a little later, featuring updated art, new monster arrangements, and a new version of famed Mewtwo hangout “The Unknown Dungeon”. The NA release of Red & Blue combined the casts of Pokemon from the original two games with all the updated features found in Blue. So, one could say that we got all 3 games, in a mere 2 packages.
But wait – if you think about it, what this really means is that we didn’t get ANY of the original Japanese Pokemon games! Since the Pokemon games we grew up playing were modded versions of Pokemon Blue, English-speaking fans will never get to see the original Unknown Dungeon, the Blue version’s alternate Pokemon selection, or – most tragically – the art that Game Freak originally devised for the series back in ’96.
Enjoy, dear readers, the following sample… of what may have been:
– CC
Oh hey, apparently we’ve been entered into Comicmix’s Mix Madness Webcomics Tournament popularity contest webpoll thing!
Now, I’m not going to tell you to vote for Badnix. But do consider checking it out – for a miniscule fee, you can actually buy extra votes for your favorite comic, with all proceeds going to the Hero Initiative! Really cool idea.
Having said that, I should note that I was lying before and that you should vote for Badnix, definitely, immediately, and that every moment you delay in doing so is a moment lived in deepest dishonor.
But no pressure.
– CC