History ComicBook / Noob

* ArtShift: The art changes towards a more manga-like style (specifically [[YaoiGenre yaoi manga]]) when [[YaoiFangirl Gaea]] puts her ShippingGoggles on. There was also a DreamSequence during which the style was closer to American comics.

** Omega Zell to Fantöm in the fourth comic, made even more hilarious by Omega Zell not complaining because it means Fantöm is right next to him and the actual crash being seen through Gaea's ShippingGoggles.

* IMStandingRightHere: Played with. After Tenshirock gets mad at [[spoiler:Master Zen]] for indirectly meddling with his plans, he takes over his avatar, places it in the middle of crowded tavern and makes it sound like he's insulting Judge Dead. The panel that shows this happening includes Judge Dead's presence in the tavern.

The comic to the eponymus [[Series/{{Noob}} web/TV series]] and second addition to the ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' franchise written by Fabien Fournier (the series's scriptwriter and director) and drawn by Philippe Cardona and Florence Torta, the authors and illustrators of ''Manga/SentaiSchool'' who also happen to play Bartémulius and Nostariat in the webseries.

Most of the story happens inside a MMORPG named ''Horizon 1.1'' and follows a guild said to be the worst of the game. In addition to a being a RagtagBunchOfMisfits that only seems to stay together thanks to the Guild Master and the cooperation-encouraging nature of the game, the guild has an actual {{Noob}} as a healer. The first few pages of each book show a DayInTheLife for one of the players, making the comic first to reveal anything about the real life of some characters.

** A Season 3 episode was the first real life meeting between Kevin (Sparadrap) and Catherine (Golgotha), who mentioned she would have liked to meet the absent Stanislas (Arthéon). The fifth comic has Catherine meet both Kevin and Stanislas at a convention that chronologically happened before Season 3. Out of the core members of the Noob guild and Golgotha group, Morgan (Omega Zell) is actually the only one who didn't meet the four others nor got noticed by them due to spending most of the time staring at the player behind Fantöm who was one of the convention's special guests.

** The Noob guild seems to not know of Tenshirock's existence before the [[spoiler:unbanning of Arthéon's old avatar]] incident. In the webseries's continuity, Tenshirock [[GoKartingWithBowser already shared a tavern meal with them]] and established somewhat of a business relationship with Gaea by the end of Season 2. The latter gets revealed to exist in the seventh comic, much to the surprise of the rest of the guild.

* BrokenAesop: An InUniverse case manifests as Feminine TV, the location of Omega Zell's day job. The channel is hinted to be quite feminist and shows "women can be as good as men" documentaries... alternating with [[GirlShowGhetto lame-sounding shows that are stereotypically associated with female audiences]] such as interviews of good-looking male actors or senior cooking contests.
* CallForward: Due to the comic being late on the two other media, quite a lot of in-comic {{Foreshadowing}} alludes to events that have already happened in the webseries or novels by the time the comic containing it gets published.

* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Sparadrap's pets]], demise met in comic 11.

* ForegoneConclusion: By the time the seventh comic's events merged with the series and novel's emerging MythArc, the comic was respectivley two Seasons and one and a half books late on the other media. Anyone following the two other media hence has an idea of where the comic will be going.

* IdiotBall: In a battleground subject to DecapitatedArmy, Dark Avenger and Papy PK decide to leave Précieux, their army's randomly selected leader, so they can help Roxana in making the Empire's RespawnPoint useless. Roxana has to leave right when they arrive to keep Justice from becoming extra protection for their own leader. This rotation of tasks leaves Précieux alone in a situation that seems to have suddenly gone for the worst for his safety the second his guildmates left and Dark Avenger in the same place as the InvincibleIncompetent that has a steady record of accidentally killing him. All this apparently happened only because Dark Avenger got frustrated from Sparadrap (from his point of view) letting himself get killed early in the battle to keep the real range of his talents hidden.

** A scene of the webseries had Arthéon mentions he had flute lessons at his boarding school in a dreadful tone. Guess what instrument he ends up having to play for MagicMusic in the eighth comic.

* NewMediaAreEvil: Arthéon's principal thinks that book are inherently better than computers.

* PerpetualPoverty: The Noob guild's finances are stated to be quite bad. The common funds however tend to be completely empty or just enough to pay for something essential to the plot. Since the situation is in part caused by the member's reluctance to contribute to them, their own finances are doing just a tiny bit better (especially Gaea, who's just greedy). Gabrielle, the player behind Gaea, is in that situation in real life, but also states to make a little money from the ads on her blog and gets good computers and consoles by participating in multiple contests in hopes of winning at least a few of them (and it seems to work). That is probably balanced out by all the geek stuff in her room and possibly having [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Catherine / Golgotha]] as a roommate.

* {{Seppuku}}: In the final panel of comic 9 that has [[KindheartedSimpleton Sparadrap]] be chosen as the strategist for a new battleground, Omega Zell is seen pointing is dagger towards his own stomach.

* ShipTease: In addition to Omega Zell's ambiguous relationships with Fantöm, Gaea and Golgotha getting inherited from the webseries, Sparadrap and Couette seem to be spending much more time together than in the two other media.

* YouAllLookFamiliar: Ardacos is basically this handwaved as NewJobAsThePlotDemands. From his own words, he's just running several businesses at the same time and even advertizes for the others when players visit any one of them.

* BrokenAesop: An InUniverse case manifests as Feminine TV, the location of Omega Zell's day job. The channel is hinted to be quite feminist and shows "women can be as good as men" documentariess... alternating with [[GirlShowGhetto lame-sounding shows that are stereotypically associated with female audiences]] such as interviews of good-looking male actors or senior cooking contests.

* SnowballLie: The comic points out more clearly than the two other media that [[spoiler:Master Zen]]'s FrameUp of Gaea ended up being this via the existence of Gaea Worshipper's guild. Gaea herself starts maintaining it the second she finds out about it, because allies in an enemy faction can't hurt.

The comic to the eponymus [[Series/{{Noob}} web/TV series]] and second addtion to the ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' franchise written by Fabien Fournier (the series's scriptwriter and director) and drawn by Philippe Cardona and Florence Torta, the authors and illustrators of ''Manga/SentaiSchool'' who also happen to play Bartémulius and Nostariat in the webseries.

!!The ''Noob'' comic provides examples of :

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the novels and series, Tenshirock decided that all/most of the guild was off the hook during book / Season 3 due to them indirectly serving his cause. In the comic, Gaea negociated that immunity as part of their business relationship, while the extent to which she cares about her guildmates is usually ambiguous. The only part of the deal that doesn't make the trope too strong is Omega Zell's non-inclusion.

* BlessedWithSuck: The battleground strategist position from Gaea's point of view. Away from the frontline, rest of the allied players mandated to protect you? Perfect for a DirtyCoward ! However, you'd better not screw up organising your army or enemy players will kill you on sight.

** Gaea seems to live alone until the short story that reveals Golgotha to be her roomate. In the webseries, Golgotha moved in just prior to the events that got Gaea the dress she's wearing since the start of the comic.

** Tenshirock is seen giving items he takes away from players to Ash, while two or three discussions in the webseries have Ash complaining precisely of Tenshirock's refusal to do so. Tenshirock is also never seen criticising Ash's job joice. As a consequence, Ash and Tenshirock seem to be getting along quite well and possibly have a VillainousFriendship, while it seems to be more "I'm letting you do your thing only because you're an old friend of mine" in the webseries.
** The Noob guild seems to not know of Tenshirock's existence before the [[spoiler:unbanning of Arthéon's old avatar]] incident. In the webseries's continuity, Tenshirock [[GoKartingWithBowser already shared a tavern meal with them]] and established somewhat of a business relationship with Gaea by the end of Season 2. The latter gets revealed to exist in the seventh comic, much to the suprise of the rest of the guild.
** [[spoiler:In this continuity, Nazetrîme's berserker is hinted to be an avatar she used on ''Horizon'' before meeting Master Zen. Since "Nazetrîme" is an anagram of Master Zen's French name and can't be its actual name, the berseker's name is obscured by speech bubbles.]]

* BrokenAesop: An InUniverse case manifests as Feminine TV, the place of Omega Zell's day job. The channel is hinted to be quite feminist and have "women can be as good as men" documentarys... alternating with [[GirlShowGhetto lame-sounding shows that are stereotypically associated with female audiences]] such as interviews of good-looking male actors or senior cooking contests.

* CapturedOnPurpose: Sparadrap gets mistaken to have done this by Dark Avenger and Précieux in the fourth comic. All he really did? He first decided to go along with them because he thought it would be fun, then switched to running after a smourbiff right when they happened to have their backs turned.

* ContinuityCavalcade: Sparadrap is seen walking a bunch of his pets in the eigth comic, including some he got in previous comics.
* ContinuityCreep: Some early short stories seem to get NegativeContinuity, while the later books are quite obviously part of an overeaching arc.

** It's actually possible to peek at the last page of the seventh comic and not be suprised at all as it's basically a retelling of the events between [[spoiler:Fantöm's deletion]] and [[spoiler:his new avatar joining the Noob guild]].

** Repeat in the ninth comic, but this time he serves as a crashpad for Gaea falling off a tree.

** A story has Gaea disguise as a penniless player and claim that "a mean hacker" stole all her money. She has used a similar excuse in the webseries, this time explicitly naming Tenshirock, whith whom she actually get along quite well.

** A scene of the webseries had Arthéon mentions he had flute lessons at his boarding school in a dreadful tone. Guess what instrument he ends up having to play for MagicMusic in the eigth comic.

* PerpetualPoverty: The Noob guild's finances are stated to be quite bad. The common funds however tend to be completly empty or just enough to pay for something essential to the plot. Since the situation is in part caused by the member's reluctance to contribute to them, their own finances are doing just a tiny bit better (especially Gaea, who's just greedy). Gabrielle, the player behind Gaea, is in that situation in real life, but also states to make a little money from the ads on her blog and gets good computers and consoles by participating in multiple constests in hopes of winning at least a few of them (and it seems to work). That is probably balanced out by all the geek stuff in her room and possibly having [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Catherine / Golgotha]] as a roomate.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Frequently played straight in the first three comics (mostly longer stories that give time for actual changes). Zig-zagged as of the fourth one where progess is sometimes made, but some situations seem to have their own built-in ResetButton. This has stopped being true by the time comic 7 rolls in.

* SuicideAsComedy: The real life sequence at the beginning of comic 9 has a teenager about to jump off a building over a celebrity couple breaking up and changing her mind after finding some resemblance between the guy who kept her from jumping ([[spoiler:Dark Avenger]]'s player) and a famous actor.

** At some point, Gaea hides from two enemy armies for whom killing her would be an InstantWinCondition by climing up a tree. The second she hopes nobody will find her, Sparadrap calls her from the top of another tree quite close to hers and reveals that the other members of the guild saw him climb it. Cut to the rest of the guild looking up Sparadrap's tree and getting noticed by enemy scouts.
** After the Noob guild decides to do another battleground, Omega Zell states that the system randomly choosing the Empire's army leader can't do worse than Gaea. Cue the comic's last panel that is obviously the stategist selection for another battleground: congratulations, Sparadrap!

** His player appears in a convention in Comic 5, wearing a mask indentical to his avatar's.

* TrashOfTheTitans: The few times Gaea's appartement is seen before Golgotha turns out to be her roomate.
* TropaholicsAnonymous: Arthéon is seen attending a support group for players who lost their previous characters because they did RealMoneyTrade and are trying to resist temptation to do it again. His story tends to make everyone else feel better about themselves.
* UnreliableVoiceover: After it turns out that [[spoiler:Master Zen is back on ''Horizon'']], he tells what he's been up to ever since [[spoiler:escaping jail]] via flashback. Part of the anecdote includes him "patiently tracking down" the Noob guild. In reality, Sparadrap found him first, and apparently quite quickly.

** The hairdresser is hinted to be yet a third cousin, suggesting that the situation is slowly slipping towards InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals or UncannyFamilyResemblance ; new cousins however seem to be limited to professions that can create a pun or the original name in French (Ardacoach and Ardacoiffe are the names of the known cousins).

** His player appears in a convention in Comic 5, wearing a mask indentical to his avatars.
** Stéphane (his palyer) get his DayInTheLife scene in comic 11, but he's wereing the mask mentioned above the whole time. This same comic covers the very scene in which the webseries had his mask fall off, but it doesn't happen in the comic version of the scene.
** In comic 12, Kévin happens to be sitting next to Stéphane on the plane, but he happens to have be cleaning his face with a towel when this is shown. Later, he's seen wearing sunglasses and an anti-germ mask.

* SchmuckBait: Arthéon wonders why his boarding school, in which the principal has a NewMediaAreEvil attitude, even has a student-accessible computer room that he seems to be the only one using. It turns out that it's here to trap students that would not resist using the computers, and hence those that would need "detoxing".

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Comic 12 has three players from the next day's rival team plan to basically ding-dong ditch Kévin[=/=]Sparadrap all night so Noob's best fluxball player will be sleep-deprived the next day. They didn't count on the fact that he was sharing his room with someone who is more astute than him, sleep-deprived into a very bad mood and extremely protective of him. The dressing-down they get from the room's other occupant keeps ''them'' up all night (they even consider all moving in together after the tournament because they don't want to sleep alone anymore).

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Gaea tries to bail out of the Centralis battle by claiming she need to go see the eye dentist for an ear infection in real life.

* TheUnreveal: Comic!Heimdäl's real face on a meta level. First, the DayInTheLife portion of comic 11 stars his player, but he's wearing the mask he's wearing at the comic 5 convention the whole time. Second, tha comic covers the very scene in which the webseries had his mask fall off, but it does'nt happen in the comic version of the scene.