Literature / PopularMMOs Presents: Enter The Mine

This is gonna be epic!

"This experience made me realize that... I'm only really at my best when I'm with you."

—Pat to Jen when they're together again.

PopularMMOs Presents: Enter The Mine is the second graphic novel in the PopularMMOs series of books.

When Pat and Jen from PopularMMOs escaped from the underworld and settled down with their pet Bomby; their cat, Cloud; and one hundred friendly zombies, they thought their adventuring days were over. But since their return, mysterious new holes have appeared—and more and more of their friends have disappeared!

After Jen stumbles into one of the holes, she ends up imprisoned deep within an ore mine by a ruthless villain with a sinister plot—Evil Jen! Pat, of course, rushes in to try to help and winds up getting captured too. Their only chance of survival is to find their friends, stop Evil Jen, and escape from the depths of the mine— before it's too late.

This graphic novel contains examples of:

• Action Prologue: This graphic novel begins with Pat, Jen, and Bomby saving the villagers from the zombies.
• An Aesop: If you work together, it'll work out.
• Bad "Bad Acting": Whenever Jen tries to pose as Evil Jen to distract the zombies.
• Calling Your Attacks: Boulder calls out his attacks when he's fighting the zombies at the beginning of the book.
• Captain Obvious: Whevever Jen fell in one of the bridge's holes, Boulder points it out.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • Jen's ability to look like Evil Jen by making her lips red.
  • The Reality Key when it gets taken by the zombie with the red jacket.
  • The gum Jen finds in the fort is used to distract the zombies and turn her back into look-alike Evil Jen.
• Collapsing Lair: When Valentine sets up the explosion chain reaction that leads to the big pile of Boomium.
• Companion Cube: The broom Jen finds in the fort. Who turns out to be Evil Pat.
• Crazy Enough to Work: When Pat wants to go toward the Boomium that's currently exploding in order to escape.
• Diving Save: Pat saves Carter by diving in front of the zombie.
• Enemy Mine: How Jen works with Hoss and Valentine.

• Dynamic Entry: When Jen enters the secret fort in the desert.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: Valentine wacks the zombies with the broom after they surrender. Jen calls him out on that.
• Let's Split Up, Gang!: This graphic novel shows you why this doesn't work as a strategy. At the very end, the reason why the Reality Key wasn't working was because Pat and Jen weren't together.
• Literal-Minded:
  • Bomby whenever Pat didn't say "one" during his count on three.
    Pat: Bomby, now! What're you waiting for?
    Bomby: [shrugs]
    Pat: Are you being serious right now? Since when are you a stickler for the details?
  • Hoss grabs Jen's broom and smashes the entire control panel whenever she tells him to "smash it all" on the control panel.
• MacGuffin: The Reality Key. It only works if both Pat and Jen are together.
• Meaningful Name: Bomby likes to explode stuff whenever he can.
• Now What?: Jen wonders what they will do after they have defeated Evil Jen.
• Pokémon Speak: All that Honey Boo Boo can say is her name.
• Poor Communication Kills: What drives the main plot of the story. Pat goes temporarily deaf and thinks that Jen should take a break and he goes to the underworld by himself. Pat took Jen's silence as a "yes".
• Mid-Battle Tea Break: Whenever Jen attacks Valentine with his soup.
• Running Gag: The Mayor thinks he's the person in charge when he's clearly not.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • Jen and Boulder do this after Pat tells them to open the portal at ground level.
  • When Pat tries to escape from the mine.
  • Hoss when he abandons Jen after he destroys the mechanism that powers the electric fence around the mine.
• Sadistic Choice: In the form of a hypothetical question presented by Hoss which asks if Valentine would rather save Hoss or Bob in a sinking ship.
• The Silent Bob: Bomby, to the point where everyone that knows him can converse with him.
• Third-Person Person: Valentine refers to himself in third-person when he is introduced.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: Jen says this when she gets "hangry" and finds some stale cookies and gum.
• We Need a Distraction: Pat attempts this when he tries to escape from the mine.
• Wham Line: Evil Jen calls Herobrine "father" during their conversation while he was still in the painting.
• Wham Shot: Evil Jen catches on to a fence after falling and sees Evil Pat (the broom).

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