History ComicBook / JohnnyTurbo

* {{Hypocrite}}: The Second Comic advertises about how; "Johnny Turbo continues the fight against the deceptive propaganda of FEKA Inc.'s Master Plan!". As Linkara points out; [[SarcasmMode "What better way to fight propaganda than by portraying your business rivals as hideous, demonic creatures, who laugh about how evil their plans are, like]] CaptainPlanet [[SarcasmMode Villains!? What a WONDERFUL way to fight against propaganda!"]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: The Second Comic advertises about how; "Johnny Turbo continues the fight against the deceptive propaganda of FEKA Inc.'s Master Plan!". As Linkara points out; [[SarcasmMode "What better way to fight propaganda than by portraying your business rivals as hideous, demonic creatures, who laugh about how evil their plans are, like]] CaptainPlanet [[SarcasmMode Villains! What a WONDERFUL way to fight against propaganda!"]]

* Hypocrite: The Second Comic advertises about how; "Johnny Turbo continues the fight against the deceptive propaganda of FEKA Inc.'s Master Plan!". As Linkara points out; [[SarcasmMode "What better way to fight propaganda than by portraying your business rivals as hideous, demonic creatures, who laugh about how evil their plans are, like]] CaptainPlanet [[SarcasmMode Villains! What a WONDERFUL way to fight against propaganda!"]]

* Hypocrite: The Second Comic advertises about how; "Johnny Turbo continues the fight against the deceptive propaganda of FEKA Inc.'s Master Plan!". As Linkara points out; [[SarcasmMode "What better way to fight propaganda than by your business rivals as hideous, demonic creatures, who laugh about how evil their plans are, like]] CaptainPlanet [[SarcasmMode Villains! What a WONDERFUL way to fight against propaganda!"]]

* MaliciousSlander: The comics show FEKA trying to scam customers to purchase the CD Console, withot telling them that they need to get the 16Bit System for that to work...despite this being advertised on every Sega CD Box, Sega never tried to lie about that! So, the Comic was accusing Sega of things they weren' even doing!?

Today, Johnny stands mostly as a curious and forgotten footnote in the history of a company which was losing ground in the US to Creator/{{Sega}} and [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} the Big N]], but thanks to the internet and webmaster Sardius, you too can experience the entire saga of Mr. Turbo [[http://sardoose.rustedlogic.net/reviews/jturbo/ here]]. The first two "issues", as noted above, are fairly typical gaming attacks, with Feka presented as a faceless man assisted by [[MesACrowd identityless goons]], but then the third one -- most likely an utter last-ditch attempt for NEC to just make ''some'' sort of impact on the average gamer's mind -- got... [[MindScrew weird.]] [[HoYay Very,]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs very]] [[BrainBleach weird.]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: When Johnny is shilling ''Lords of Thunder'' at the end of issue 2, the screenshot used is from its precursor, ''Gate of Thunder''.

* EpicFail: When Johnny is shilling ''Lords of Thunder'' at the end of issue 2, the screenshot used is from its precursor, ''Gate of Thunder''.

Okay, quiz time. To effectively market your video game console when it's struggling against two [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem well-established]] [[SegaGenesis competitors]], what would be the best course of action to take?

If you answered C, you may have been working for NEC in the early 90s as a marketer for their console the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16, because that's exactly what they did: they presented multi-page ads in gaming magazines centering around a "computer expert" named [[AwesomeMcCoolname Jonathan Brandstetter]], better known under his alias Johnny Turbo, and his [[HoYay loving sidekick Tony]] in their quest to teach gamers the [[BlatantLies completely unbiased]] truth about the TG-16 compared to NEC's self-appointed rival [[{{Sega}} Se]]--err, [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Feka]].

#Episode 43: The Master Plan! -- Johnny learns that Feka is marketing [[SegaCD a CD system]] as "the first of its kind," and [[FelonyMisdemeanor this simply will not stand.]] Johnny takes out the Feka goons who were selling the CD systems, and more in the shadows promise their revenge.

* DamnedByFaintPraise: Johnny's heroic claim that the Turbo CD got ''Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective'' first comes across as this nowadays.

* OffModel: Whoever drew these comics seems to have gone to the RobLiefeld school of comic artistry, and not just because of Johnny's infatuation with belts.

#Episode 44: Let 'Em Dangle! -- [[RecycledScript See above]], only this time, there's a great focus on the more recently released [=TurboDuo=], which combined the TG-16 and its CD addon into one unit, a capability which the Genesis and Sega CD lacked at the time. [[SarcasmMode Because everybody who wanted the Sega CD obviously didn't own a Genesis at the same time.]]

!! Johnny Turbo and his advertising campaign provide examples of:

* UnusualChapterNumbers: Starts at 43, then goes to 44 and 45.

Okay, quiz time. To effectively market your video game console when it's struggling against two [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem well-established]] [[SegaGenesis competitors]], what would be the best course of action to take?

If you answered C, you may have been working for NEC in the early 90s as a marketer for their console the TurboGrafx16, because that's exactly what they did: they presented multi-page ads in gaming magazines centering around a "computer expert" named [[AwesomeMcCoolname Jonathan Brandstetter]], better known under his alias Johnny Turbo, and his [[HoYay loving sidekick Tony]] in their quest to teach gamers the [[BlatantLies completely unbiased]] truth about the TG-16 compared to NEC's self-appointed rival [[{{Sega}} Se]]--err, [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Feka]].

* SmallReferencePools: For no good reason, the JT ads chose to focus exclusively on (admittedly very good) ShootEmUps ''Gate of Thunder'' and ''Lords of Thunder'' as being the {{Killer App}}s of the [=TurboDuo=]. Even the most casual Sega owner could probably name more games than just ''SonicTheHedgehog'' at the time.

* EpicFail: When Johnny is shilling ''Lords of Thunder'' at the end of issue 2, the screenshot used is from it's precursor, ''Gate of Thunder''.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Feka goons selling their system on a street corner in the first issue are very obviously made out to resemble ''drug dealers'', including giving away free games to hook customers.

* HomoeroticSubtext: To the point where it might as well just be called Homoerotic Text.

* StrawmanProduct: The [=TurboDuo=] has '''the arcade feel!''' And Feka's pack-in shooter game (''Sol-Feace'', for those wondering) '''doesn't even compare!''' to ''Lords of Thunder''! But of course, at the same time, Sega was doing the same thing to Nintendo in their own ads.

* CharlesAtlasSuperhero: Johnny has no superpowers other than his surprisingly impressive strength.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Johnny and Tony. Driven beyond the bounds of human decency in "Sleepwalker" in as much as could be shown to kids.

* ShoutOut: "Sleepwalker" takes its splash page almost straight from ''StarWars: ANewHope'''s poster. Sardius is only too quick to point out that Tony is occupying Leia's position in the pose.