History WebComic / CogaSuro

''Coga Suro'' is a webcomic currently hosted on Drunk Duck. Official party line from the artist/writer is that he started drawing it a few years before actually posting anything, and so it had a lot of raw pages to catch up on from the beginning.
Coga Suro has somewhat of a random plot, jumping between different and increasingly strange plot arcs, but generally keeping to a theme of computer games, RidiculouslyHumanRobots, or some combination thereof. Starting out as more of a 'gag a day' strip with poor artwork, it eventually metamorphosed into a comic given to longer story arcs and gradually-evolving art.

* SidewaysSmile: Styx, in particular, is fond of this, even having a grin so wide that the synthetic skin of its face cracks and splits in a later chapter.
** The first Styx robot seen has a SidewaysSmile as the one expression on its immobile face - thus looking quite odd when the 'wrong' side is facing the viewer.

* Jane: Steve's girlfriend [[spoiler: Later, his wife and mother of his children]], whom he met on the internet and, uniquely, turned out to be just who she said she was. Some form of GamerGirl and onetime user of a [[{{ClothesMakeTheSuperman}} Super Suit]].

%% * SkunkStripe: John and his siblings inherited their blonde streaks from their father somehow.

* SkunkStripe: For no real reason, black hair with blonde parts seems to be genetic in the Taylor family.

* Cloudcuckoolander: Steve, when not otherwise provoked [see BerserkButton]. Also, Lincoln's nonsense speech gives the impression of being a cloudcuckoolander, but this is not entirely true.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The 'Super Suits' Steve makes fluctuate between this and PowerArmour. The first is this trope played straight [A RetCon in Coga Suro 2 explains the exact ''Phlebotinum'' behind this], the second is PowerArmour, and the thrid looks to be a mix between the two.

* Animesque: Totally. See also CrossPoppingVeins and SweatDrop.
* ArtEvolution: The express purpose of the comic was that this happen.

* BlankWhiteEyes
* CerebusSyndrome: Coga Suro is pretty much a textbook example of this, gradually losing more of the 'gag a day' material in favour of longer arcs.

* CueTheFlyingPigs: Played straight in an early strip.
* {{Fembot}}: Lincoln, Persephone, Hades.
* FinalBattle: Chapter 15 of the first run.
* FirstGirlWins: Yeah, [[spoiler: Steve and Jane end up married with kids.]] Who saw that coming?
* FutureMeScaresMe: Steve.
-->'''Steve''': I don't wanna be scarred and stubbly!
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: see also AuthorAppeal.

* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler: How we first meet Steve's son John.]]

* OneSteveLimit: Very literally.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot
* RightBehindMe
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder
* ShoutOut: references to ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' from the outset, Warhammer, Marvel comics and Trigun.

* ThemeNaming: Every robot after Lincoln has a name derived from Greek mythology.
* TronLines: ColorCodedForYourConvenience on Persephone, Styx and Hades.
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn

* Animesque: Again, same style as Coga Suro.
* ArtEvolution
* BashBrothers
* BonusMaterial: 'Coga Suro Review' at the end of each chapter, heavily influenced by Lucky Star's 'Lucky Channel'

* FacialMarkings: On most robots.
* ''Fembot'': [[spoiler: the second [younger-looking] Persephone.]]
* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler: Anna and later John's powers.]]
* SkullForAHead: See the spoiler above.
* SkunkStripe: John and his siblings inherited their blonde streaks from their father somehow.

* HairDecorations: Anne. Given that the only time she's ever been seen without a hairband of some colour is [[spoiler: when she transforms into a lightning-shooting skeleton thing, ]]she is most definitely cuter with it by default.

''Coga Suro'' is a relatively new-to-the-internet webcomic currently hosted on Drunk Duck. Official party line from the artist/writer is that he started drawing it a few years ago, and so has a lot of raw pages to catch up on. The dates on the bottoms of the posted pages seem to confirm this, as does a preview page posted on Website/DeviantArt.

It has recently finished (as of August 5th, 2009), and can be read in its entirety [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Coga_Suro/ here.]] Followed up by the brilliantly named sequel ''Coga Suro '''2''''' [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Coga_Suro_2/ here.]]

* TronLines: ColorCodedForYourConvinience on Persephone, Styx and Hades.

* TimeSkip: Coga Suro 2 is set about 18 years after the end of Coga Suro, and is [eventually] centred more around Steve's grown-up kids.

-->'''Large talking slug''':Hey, don't glare at me. I'm just a figment of your imagination, sonny.

Coga Suro is a relatively new-to-the-internet webcomic currently hosted on Drunk Duck. Official party line from the artist/writer is that he started drawing it a few years ago, and so has a lot of raw pages to catch up on. The dates on the bottoms of the posted pages seem to confirm this, as does a preview page posted on Website/DeviantArt.

* AmbiguousGender- Primarily Styx, an android that is meant to be explicitly androgynous.
* Animesque- Totally. See also CrossPoppingVeins and SweatDrop.
* ArtEvolution- The express purpose of the comic was that this happen.
* BadassCape- Steve seems fond of having a cape when making himself a superhero identity.
* BashBrothers- Steve is delighted both times he gets to invoke this trope- once in the future with his older self [citing the need for a double-Steve combo move] and again in the sequel with his son.

* CerebusSyndrome- Coga Suro is pretty much a textbook example of this, gradually losing more of the 'gag a day' material in favour of longer arcs.
* Cloudcuckoolander- Steve, when not otherwise provoked [see BerserkButton]. Also, Lincoln's nonsense speech gives the impression of being a cloudcuckoolander, but this is not entirely true.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman- The 'Super Suits' Steve makes fluctuate between this and PowerArmour. The first is this trope played straight [A RetCon in Coga Suro 2 explains the exact ''Phlebotinum'' behind this], the second is PowerArmour, and the thrid looks to be a mix between the two.
* CueTheFlyingPigs- Played straight in an early strip.
* {{Fembot}}-Lincoln, Persephone, Hades.
* FinalBattle- Chapter 15 of the first run.

* FutureMeScaresMe- Steve.

* GirlOnGirlIsHot- see also AuthorAppeal.
* GoodAngelBadAngel- Frank has a pair of these, though his Bad Angel has been known to wander off and influence others.
* KidFromTheFuture- [[spoiler: How we first meet Steve's son John.]]
* MundaneFantastic- It's basically the real world, but with added robots [that it seems anyone can build?] and superheroes. And other odd stuff. So much that the 'mundane' is less visible every day.
* NoNameGiven- The name of the man in square glasses is never revealed.
* OneSteveLimit- Very literally.
* OnlySixFaces- Subverted. The author was aware of this from when he started drawing, and took pains to give every character a different nose. More recently, as the art has improved, characters have been exhibiting unique jawlines and physical builds.

* ShoutOut- references to ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' from the outset, Warhammer, Marvel comics and Trigun.
* SidewaysSmile- Styx, in particular, is fond of this, even having a grin so wide that the synthetic skin of its face cracks and splits in a later chapter.
** The first Styx robot seen has a SidewaysSmile as the one expression on its immobile face- thus looking quite odd when the 'wrong' side is facing the viewer.
* SpeechBalloons- The usual convention of robots having square speech balloons. Most of them, anyway. Styx, an evil example, has black speech balloons with white text. For a few chapters, each character had a different font, but this was dropped later.
* StripBuffer- Due to starting drawing the series two years before starting to post it online, Coga Suro has an enormous strip buffer of raw scans.
* SkunkStripe- For no real reason, black hair with blonde parts seems to be genetic in the Taylor family.
* ThemeNaming- Every robot after Lincoln has a name derived from Greek mythology.
* TronLines- ColorCodedForYourConvinience on Persephone, Styx and Hades.

* WolverineClaws- The fingernail variety is Hades' weapon of choice.
* YouWannaGetSued- Steve is interrupted from introducing Lincoln as ''The Vision''.

* Animesque- Again, same style as Coga Suro.

* BonusMaterial- 'Coga Suro Review' at the end of each chapter, heavily influenced by Lucky Star's 'Lucky Channel'
* EmergencyTransformation- [[spoiler: John]] early in Coga Suro 2.

* HairDecorations- Anne. Given that the only time she's ever been seen without a hairband of some colour is [[spoiler: when she transforms into a lightning-shooting skeleton thing, ]]she is most definitely cuter with it by default.
* FacialMarkings- On most robots.
* ''Fembot''- [[spoiler: the second [younger-looking] Persephone.]]
* ShockAndAwe- [[spoiler: Anna and later John's powers.]]
* SkullForAHead- See the spoiler above.
* SkunkStripe- John and his siblings inherited their blonde streaks from their father somehow.
* TimeSkip- Coga Suro 2 is set about 18 years after the end of Coga Suro, and is [eventually] centred more around Steve's grown-up kids.

* ShoutOut- references to NeverwinterNights from the outset, Warhammer, Marvel comics and Trigun.

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Coga Suro 2 provides examples of:

Coga Suro is a relatively new-to-the-internet webcomic currently hosted on Drunk Duck. Official party line from the artist/writer is that he started drawing it a few years ago, and so has a lot of raw pages to catch up on. The dates on the bottoms of the posted pages seem to confirm this, as does a preview page posted on DeviantArt.

It has recently finished (as of August 5th, 2009), and can be read in its entirety [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Coga_Suro/ here.]] Followed up by the brilliantly named sequel ''Coga Suro '''2''''' [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Coga_Suro_2/ here.]]