Line #17 Webcomic/CogaSuro


1	->''"Hey, don't glare at me. I'm just a figment of your imagination, sonny."''
2	-->-- '''Large''' talking slug
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4	''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.
5	Main characters include:
6	* Steve: Resident Cloudcuckoolander and wannabe superhero. Occasionally displays TheHero moments, but most of these are taking care of something that's his fault anyway. Wears a costume [later armour] that uses AppliedPhlebotinum to give him superhuman attributes.
7	* Jerry: Steve's friend and owner of a BadassLongcoat that he wears in almost every appearance; he only owns the one coat, and cleans and maintains it religiously. Smarter and more sensible than Steve, and in charge of robot-related plot advancement. TheSmartGuy.
8	* Frank: Final member of the main PowerTrio, Frank possesses a pair of GoodAngelBadAngel consciences, apparently has some form of acrobatic or martial arts skills, and switches to a new job every strip this is bought up. [[spoiler: Died in the final chapter.]]
9	* 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 GamerChick and onetime user of a [[{{ClothesMakeTheSuperman}} Super Suit]].
10	* Lincoln: RidiculouslyHumanRobot, who, due to a recent botched repair, constantly speaks as if she's a one-man {{DadaComic}}. Possessed large breasts. Recently 'died'. [[spoiler: She got better.]]
11	* Hades: Another RidiculouslyHumanRobot created by two other robots, one good and one evil, fusing together. [Don't ask.]
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13	As of August 5th, 2009, it's finished, 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.]]
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16	!!Coga Suro provides examples of:
17	* AmbiguousGender: Primarily Styx, an android that is meant to be explicitly androgynous.
18	%% * Animesque: Totally. See also CrossPoppingVeins and SweatDrop.
19	%% * ArtEvolution: The express purpose of the comic was that this happen.
20	* BadassCape: Steve seems fond of having a cape when making himself a superhero identity.
21	* 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.
22	%% * BlankWhiteEyes
23	%% * 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.
24	* {{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.
25	* 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 third looks to be a mix between the two.
26	%% * CueTheFlyingPigs: Played straight in an early strip.
27	%% * {{Fembot}}: Lincoln, Persephone, Hades.
28	%% * FinalBattle: Chapter 15 of the first run.
29	%% * FirstGirlWins: Yeah, [[spoiler: Steve and Jane end up married with kids.]] Who saw that coming?
30	%% * FutureMeScaresMe: Steve.
31	%% -->'''Steve''': I don't wanna be scarred and stubbly!
32	%% * GirlOnGirlIsHot: see also AuthorAppeal.
33	* GoodAngelBadAngel: Frank has a pair of these, though his Bad Angel has been known to wander off and influence others.
34	%% * KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler: How we first meet Steve's son John.]]
35	* 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.
36	* NoNameGiven: The name of the man in square glasses is never revealed.
37	%% * OneSteveLimit: Very literally.
38	* 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.
39	%% * RidiculouslyHumanRobot
40	%% * RightBehindMe
41	%% * ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder
42	%% * Shout Out: references to ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' from the outset, Warhammer, Marvel comics and Trigun.
43	* SidewaysSmile:
44	** 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.
45	** 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.
46	* 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.
47	* 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.
48	%% * ThemeNaming: Every robot after Lincoln has a name derived from Greek mythology.
49	%% * TronLines: ColorCodedForYourConvenience on Persephone, Styx and Hades.
50	%% * UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn
51	* WolverineClaws: The fingernail variety is Hades' weapon of choice.
52	* YouWannaGetSued: Steve is interrupted from introducing Lincoln as ''The Vision''.
53	** A later comic has him briefly gain an equivalent of the Black Symbiote, only for the Hulk to appear, promising to 'sue him.
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55	!!Coga Suro 2 provides examples of:
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57	%% * Animesque: Again, same style as Coga Suro.
58	%% * ArtEvolution
59	%% * BashBrothers
60	%% * BonusMaterial: 'Coga Suro Review' at the end of each chapter, heavily influenced by Lucky Star's 'Lucky Channel'
61	* EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler: John]] early in Coga Suro 2.
62	** [[spoiler: Likely what happened to Frank during the timeskip.]]
63	%% * FacialMarkings: On most robots.
64	%% * ''Fembot'': [[spoiler: the second [younger-looking] Persephone.]]
65	%% * ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler: Anna and later John's powers.]]
66	%% * SkullForAHead: See the spoiler above.
67	* TimeSkip: Coga Suro 2 is set about 18 years after the end of Coga Suro, and is [eventually] centered more around Steve's grown-up kids.

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