The Unoriginal Comic

Of course, Megs the otaku translates the Technobabble that Dr. Light spouts off. Why does Dr. Light talk like this? Well, one of the jokes in Bob and George is that Dr. Light "swears" by going "Oh, fornicating feces". So I took it to the extreme and had everything he says be indecipherable technobabble.

Meanwhile, Dr. Light works on a pad capable of withstanding the force of a combat android jumping and dancing.


Mmm. DDR pad. ...yeah, I'm stretching for comments here.

"omfg a background" actually became an in-joke with another friend of mine. And, to quote the last panel, "I won't do this again". ^_^

This is also where we start to see Zero's l33t sk33lz. See? He stole the sword as Dante was drawing it, without Dante noticing! ZOMG!


He never did a background, honestly. I do those now. 

A "What If" comic by Kildarre - the aforementioned pose-before-DDR friend. This foreshadows the eventual Dante-and-Roll-get-together mini-arc. It may yet be added to Guest Strip archive - if so, it will be replaced with something even more bizarrely inexplicable. (Forty-two!)


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The mask, and the introduction of Proto Man. I haven't nailed down much of a personality for him, other than "Jerk", I think.


Ah, the Ninja Rope... another staple of the early on comics, as well.

You may already have noticed, but I mercilessly abuse the "Panel of Silence" type jokes. What can I say? I like them. It just amuses me to think of Zero sitting there going "...WTF."

Amusingly, a friend of mine picked this up and for a while, whenever he went to play DDR, he would strike a pose and say "I'm going... to PLAY some DDR!!"


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And here we have perhaps the signature joke of The Unoriginal Comic: The Mask. Somewhat like the "Wily Exposits While Someone Listens" joke from Bob and George. I deliberately placed that second-panel text box to hide Bass's face. Ain't I clever?


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The original text for this "One inch closer to my sword and Megs here gets himself a shiny new X buster." But more than half my audience didn't know much about Mega Man at the time, so I went back and edited it - one of my rare retroactive alterations. This is also the origin of the "X: Ninja in training" plot thread. Not to mention it's the first "Silent 'look behind you!'" joke.


As a MGS baddie would say...
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Ah yes, the origin of DDR in the comic. I'm actually pretty fond of DDR in real life, though I probably don't play as much as I should. Definitely don't play as much as I used to. Also the origin of Crappy TUC MSPaint Furniture^tm, And the beginnings of the Dante/Megs Stylish Asskicker Team.

...You have to admit, though, a fully-featured combat android with armor would be pretty damn heavy.


Haha, this one was great. First time I'd seen DDR used in a sprite comic.

Yanno, for an "unoriginal" comic, we have alot of original content... Hmmm...