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Your mind is officially nuked.
Mind-flayinglybizarreSprite Comic barely based on EarthBound. After stealing Giygas's $44,000,000 retirement fund, Pokey reunites with Ness and uses the funds to hunt for treasure. At least, that's how it starts out. What follows is a barely coherent acid trip of an adventure, as Ness, Pokey, Jeff and Mr. T battle monkeys, Mr. B Natural, soul-stealing photographers, the Eagleland education system and pretty much everything they meet.Chicanery canused be found at (the now defunct) Disaster Labs, but much of the series is still available on Comic Genesis. and Archive.org.
Breaking the Fellowship: The protagonists have been split up after willingly inhaling knockout gas, with Ness lost inside a Cube parody with a psychoticPip; Mr. T trapped in a cross between an upscale hotel and a snuff film; Jeff and Pokey locked within a dark, blood-splattered basement... and Mr. Saturn cheerfully counting corpses.
Brother Chuck: Paula appears exactly once, during a flashback to Jeff's memories of the events of the first game.
Click Hello: Jeff skips the "click" and goes straight to "blow you messily in half".
Jeff: Hi!
* PEW!*
* SEVER!*
Cloudcuckoolander: Half of Mr. T's dialogue consists of quotes from The A-Team. At one point, his tendency to randomly throw people/animals/inanimate objects into orbit leads Jeff to commit him to a sanitarium.
Combat Pragmatist: Jeff and Mr. Saturn find themselves confronted by the Boss Rush teleporter room from Mega Man. Rather than battle every opponent, Mr. Saturn fires his gun into each teleporter, killing anyone on the other side.
Ness marks his debut appearance by phasing in out of hyperspace, slaughtering a group of performing actors in the process.
Enemy Mine: Ness's gang (piloting TV's Frank) and RigidShaft (inside Dr. Andonuts's mecha) end up working together to stop all life on Earth being wiped out by a concrete donkey.
Fate Worse than Death: Ness and Pokey are put on trial for skipping class. Pokey is sentenced to death by firing squad, while Ness is sentenced to Ragnarok Online.
Ness: Wanna trade?
Pokey: Hell, no.
For the Evulz: Ness & pals end up cloning and torturing the mayor to death simply to pass the time.
Rigid Shaft: Crap. It's Ness. Standing in filth as usual. I aint fighting that guy. He has stuff that will instantly kill me, if not make me cry uncontrollably or feel strange.
Mission Control: Rigid Shaft is equipped with a "Cellular Brain" to keep him in touch with his superiors - unfortunately, it also tends to make him roll around on the floor screaming whenever someone contacts him.
Mr. T: Using the EarthBound sprite that looks like... well, Mr. T.
Nigh Invulnerability: Mr. T is shown to be capable of withstanding chainsaws, jackhammers and repeated hammer blows to the head without visible injury. In fact, most of the protagonists seem impervious to major damage - not even being on fire can faze them.
Orphaned Series: Work on the comic eventually ground to a halt in 2008. Disaster Labs itself went offline in 2010, taking the archives with it, though most of the comics can still be viewed here.
Schedule Slip: A two year gap exists between #133 and #134. The same length of time passes in the comic itself while the protagonists are left standing in the same spot, eventually growing extremely long hair and beards.
Solve the Soup Cans - Ness gets challenged to a game of Return to Zork's Survivor, which is one of these. Defied, as instead of playing the game Ness launches into a lengthy explanation on how broken the game is and solves the puzzle by kicking it at the ones who challenged him when he's finished.
Sonic Scream: TV's Frank can stop lasers and defuse missiles with his trademark "EEEUUC-OOEEOO!" Somehow.
Stable Time Loop: Averted - Ness and Pokey attempt to gain their GED by modifying the school records, but are warned of the consequences that will occur by their future selves. The pair subsequently change their minds and leave... causing their future counterparts to be painfully destroyed in the resulting Temporal Paradox.
Jeff: This is it... The 3219 armor-piercing, drill-tipped, rocket-propelled, nuclear-powered, high velocity bullet with pneumatic shaft explosion dampener, buzzing flagellatory membrane, and a miniature camera so you can see the look on his face before you go through it.
Took a Level in Jerkass: The formerly kind, altruistic heroes from EarthBound are now profit-driven sociopaths. Partially inverted with Pokey - he has reigned in his omnicidal, reality-destroying ways and become more interested in gaining wealth.
Wall of Text - Subverted, one comic starts off going into Mr. Exposition mode, but the second panel with a text wall has Pokey bringing in Pip to eat the text.
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