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2[[caption-width-right:220:He is mighty as the pen]]
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4->''"In 1985, a 10 year old boy created a comic book greatly inspired by political and pop culture of the time. his story, an elite american military force fighting against an elite american terrorist force in a 14 issue series the forces of good and evil will battle it out in a huge orderly world."''
5-->-- '''Jim Sevins''' at the beginning of each episodes
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7[[http://dwenhero.com/ DWEN]] is an independent 14 issue military comic book created by Tim Clark.
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9The series is ''Webcomic/AxeCop'' meets ''Franchise/GIJoe'' meets ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' meets ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' meets the politcal Iran Contra affair but the comic series is both written and illustrated by Tim Clark during 1985 in his 5th grade year in elementary school around math class. Decades later (circa 2011), Tim rediscovered his series as an adult and remade it as an animated motion comic. The first episode debuted at June 14, 2011, Flagday.
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11The story follows a brave military leader named DWEN who leads a RagtagBunchOfMisfits to battle against a terrorist organization called D.O.D, led by Zarring and Qwen who have been hellbent on destroying DWEN's forces.
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14!!''DWEN!'' contains the following tropes
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16%% * ArtEvolution: The art style improves in later issues.
17%% * BattleEpic: The comic has a lot of epic battles exploding across the world even outer space
18* CasualDangerDialogue: DWEN before taking impact from a missile that hit a leaking barrel of gas
19** '''DWEN:''' well, here goes my christmas vacation.
20%% * ClipArtAnimation
21* LimitedAnimation: The first three episodes used camera pans but the animation improves in episode 4
22%% * {{Narrator}}: Jim Sevin narrates all the dwen episodes while the creator chracterized the voices of the characters
23%% * OverlyLongGag: dwen dialing the radio to contact backup
24%% * RecapEpisode: Which [[http://blip.tv/dwen/dwen-previously-on-53839760 recaps what happen in episode 1-3]]
25* ShoutOut: The series was said to be inspired by a list of popular things in 80s for example:
26** Franchise/GIJoe: It pays homage to the 80s comic series as well including the MARVEL logo,and some lookalike characters
27** Franchise/{{Rambo}}: white ninja and black ninja based from the [[WesternAnimation/RamboTheForceOfFreedom animated series]] and a badguy version of Rambo named Zambo
28** WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}: Zarring wears a mask similar to the cartoon but only because he got disfigured by a bomb
29** ''Film/RedDawn1984'': Russia gets involved in the comic as well
30%% * SlashedThroat: This happen to dwen in [[http://dwenhero.com/episode_6.html episode 6 part 2]]
31%% * SuperSpeed: The white ninja has this ablilty
32%% * ThemeTune: The intro music is sung by [[http://www.spiritofoya.com/ Oya]] and its catchy
33%% * VerySpecialEpisode: The series has a [[http://blip.tv/dwen/dwen-4th-of-july-special-5344481 4th of july special]] showing scenes of each issue of the comic.

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