"Towards the end of Deadlocked, we had an interesting opportunity to create some comic work involving a new character in the franchise. For the website we created an online adventure for Captain Starshield where we split duties between drawing and painting. We’re both big fans of comics which made for a great collaboration."
—David Guertin, Blogspot Interview
The Adventures of Captain Starshield is a 6 page webcomic set within the Ratchet & Clank universe. It was created by Insomniac employees Greg Baldwin (not that one) and David Guertin as a tie-in for the then-upcoming game, Ratchet: Deadlocked. The short story shows the adventures of Captain Starshield and ends shortly before his time on Dreadzone.
The comic was initially released on Insomniac Games' official website, however it was taken down during an update some time ago. Fortunately, the Ratchet & Clank Wiki was given permission to host the comic and so it can be read in its entirety here.
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- Action Prologue: The comic opens with Starshield blowing up a villain's spaceship.
- A Day in the Limelight: The comic focuses on Captain Starshield, a minor character from Deadlocked's opening.
- Alien Blood: The Cantor that Starshield crushes explodes into glowing, green goo.
- All There in the Manual: The original upload of the comic to Insomniac's website helps explain what Starshield was doing on Calzon, stating him to be a "renowned statesman" on a routine trip to the planet.
- Canon Foreigner: Every character beyond Captain Starshield himself was created specifically for this comic.
- Cliffhanger: At the end, Starshield gets a distress signal from the Shadow Sector and races off to find out the source. I wonder how that turned out...
- Cool Starship: Starshield's certainly qualifies. It can even self-repair!
- Fangs Are Evil: Both the Kragmites and Cantors are depicted with fangs, and they immediately attempt to kill Starshield.
- Faster-Than-Light Travel: Starshield's ship is equipped with a hyperdrive that lets him hop across galaxies. Unfortunately for him, debris from Baron Masseter's ship damages it, causing him to briefly be stranded in the Kavorian galaxy.
- The Ghost: We never see what Baron Masseter actually looks like, as the comic begins with Starshield defeating him.
- Loincloth: This appears to be the only article of clothing that the Kragmites wear.
- Noodle Incident: Twofold:
- We never learn exactly what Baron Masseter was doing to the residents of Calzon, just that he was "bothering" them.
- Starshield's dialogue on Fractis indicates that he's faced the Kragmites and Cantors befire.
- No-Sell: Starshield's blaster shots do nothing to faze the Cantor.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted — Despite having similar names, the Kragmites of this comic have nothing to do with the Cragmites introduced in Tools of Destruction.
