History ComicBook / ScudTheDisposableAssassin

* ShoutOut: In issue 3 of the spinoff series, ''Tales from the Vending Machine'', One-shot character, Heartless 666 has tentacles where his mouth should be. [[CthulhuMythos Hmmm...]]

Scud the Disposable Assassin is a graphic novel series by Creator/RobSchrab, set in a [[WorldOfWeirdness bizarre]], [[CrapsackWorld hideously amoral world]] where robotic assassins called Scuds are readily available on every street corner, and dispensed from vending machines. Scuds are deadly, agile, remorseless, heavily armed... and they explode upon terminating their assigned target, so you never have to worry about incriminating evidence.

* [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Benjamin Franklin Is An Occultist Crime Boss]]

** [[TheBananaSplits "Uh-oh, Chongo!]] [[PreAssKickingOneLiner It's Danger Island Time!"]]

* CaughtUpInTheRapture: The Rapture, apparently, took place right after the release of [[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} Ghostbusters 2]], and due to Satan never showing up and God refusing to throw the first punch, it ''never ended.''

The series originally lasted for 20 issues, published from 1994 to 1998, with the final issue ending in a cliffhanger. Four additional issues appeared in 2008, continuing the original numbering. The #24th issue is so far the finale for the series. There was also a video game released for the SegaSaturn in 1997.

Scud the Disposable Assassin is a graphic novel series by Creator/RobSchrab, set in a [[WorldOfWeirdness bizarre]], [[CrapsackWorld hideously amoral world]] where robotic assassins called Scuds are readily available on every streetcorner, and dispensed from vending machines. Scuds are deadly, agile, remorseless, heavily armed... and they explode upon terminating their assigned target, so you never have to worry about incriminating evidence. Our protagonist is just another Scud, hired to clear out a pest control problem, a monstrous creature called Jeff. Realizing that killing Jeff means immediate death, Scud painfully immobilizes Jeff and has her hospitalized. Seeking the necessary cash to keep Jeff's medical bills paid, Scud now has to go freelance, in a world that seems doomed to eternal peril.

The series originally lasted for 20 issues, published from 1994 to 1998. The final issue ended in a cliffhanger. Four additional issues appeared in 2008, continuing the original numbering. The #24th issue is so far the finale for the series. There was also a video game released for the Saturn in 1997.

* CreatorBreakdown: This series was actually the result of one, there's a reason that the ending to the series [[spoiler: which is actually quite happy]] is called Death of the Over-Used Muse.

* ScheduleSlip: Years went between the last two issues, however TropesAreNotBad as this gave the creator a chance to give the series the ending it deserved and suffer a kind of inverse creator breakdown.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to the author the series was going to have a DownerEnding where Scud commited suicide and destroyed the world. [[spoiler: When the series went on a hiatus, the author grew out of his "angry little boy" phase and rethought his life and the comic. He thus decided to give Scud and everybody else a happy ending that basically told readers to tell depression to go fuck itself.]]

The series originally lasted for 20 issues, published from 1994 to 1998. The final issue ended in a cliffhanger. Four additional issues appeared in 2008, continuing the original numbering. The #24th issue is so far the finale for the series.

* DecoyProtagonist: Issue 3 of ''Tales of the Vending Machine'' starts out with a group of children reading a forbidden tome, then [[spoiler:it reveals that they are actually demons in Hell and the focus switches to an angel that they inadvertantly stranded there, who murders the demons and orders a Heartless 666 Scud to accompany him. '''Then''', the angel gets gunned down]] and the focus stays with Heartless 666 for the rest of the story.

* EldritchAbomination: Just about every non-human could qualify do to how downright bizarre they look. [[spoiler:But special mention has to go the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse who's ranks include the already mentioned [[MixAndMatchCritter Jeff,]] a Jason Voorhees-esque serial killer who [[AmbiguouslyHuman may or may not be human,]] a giant worm with the head of a dog and multiple breasts, and a...[[BuffySpeak thing]] that has what can only be described as a ''city on fire'' as it's main body.]]

* {{Mooks}} : Played with in Issues 21 and 22 Voodoo Ben has purchased Scudco, the company that made the main protagonist. As a result, he has a near unending supply of Scud's, some the same model as our hero. The end result is a montage of Scud kicking the crap out of himself.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Jeff is part squid, part plug, part mousetrap, part something or other. She can also replace missing limbs with anything she finds nearby; at her highest point, she was part squid, part plug, part horse, part piano, part, crocodile with a chaingun in its mouth, part clown puppet holding a buzzsaw, and part whatever the hell the rest of her is.

* BagOfHolding: Drywall, along with his brothers, Mess and System.

* CerebusSyndrome

* DecoyProtagonist: Issue 3 of ''Tales of the Vending Machine'' starts out with a group of children reading a forbidden tome, then [[spoiler:it reveals that they are actually demons in Hell and the focus switches to an angel that they inadvertantly stranded there. '''Then''', the angel gets gunned down]] and the focus stays with Heartless 666 for the rest of the story.

* GunsAkimbo: With ''[[UpToEleven four guns]]'', in one issue.

* MoralityDial: The Contempt Meter which measures Scud's sadism.

* [[spoiler:RageAgainstTheHeavens]]: The Seraphim try to invoke this by [[spoiler: killing Sussudio in front of Scud, expecting that killing the only thing he really cares about would drive him into an omnicidal depression]]

* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Drywall.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The giant robot Scud and the mafiosi hijack is never seen again. Neither is the giant gatling gun Scud uses on the Grittites. This tends to happen a lot.

* CaughtUpInTheRapture: The Rapture, apparently, took place right after the release of Ghostbusters 2, and due to Satan never showing up and God refusing to throw the first punch, it ''never ended.''

* EldritchAbomination

[[NeedsMoreLove Could probably use some more love.]]

* [[spoiler:RageAgainstTheHeavens]]

* RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Well, inasmuch as Scud can be considered a male.

** Scud's internalized gun holsters are a pretty obvious shout-out to {{Robocop}}.

* MismatchedEyes: Scud has one black eye and one white eye. WordOfGod says he's taking aim.

* BagOfHolding: Drywall, along with his brothers, Stuff and System.

* BagOfHolding: Drywall

* LogicBomb: Ask a S.A.M. robot to kill a zombie for you. Go on. **Ask.**

* RatedMForManly: The Grittites, a cult that worships "manliness and [[StuffBlowingUp unnecessary explosions]]."

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Scud the Disposable Assassin is a graphic novel series by Creator/RobSchrab, set in a [[PlanetEris bizarre]], [[CrapsackWorld hideously amoral world]] where robotic assassins called Scuds are readily available on every streetcorner, and dispensed from vending machines. Scuds are deadly, agile, remorseless, heavily armed... and they explode upon terminating their assigned target, so you never have to worry about incriminating evidence. Our protagonist is just another Scud, hired to clear out a pest control problem, a monstrous creature called Jeff. Realizing that killing Jeff means immediate death, Scud painfully immobilizes Jeff and has her hospitalized. Seeking the necessary cash to keep Jeff's medical bills paid, Scud now has to go freelance, in a world that seems doomed to eternal peril.

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->''"Vengeance is mine," sayeth the Lord. '''Not anymore!''' Get your bile piled up, get your spite in a bag... It's the best damn vengeance you've ever had!''

Scud the Disposable Assassin is a graphic novel series by RobSchrab, set in a [[PlanetEris bizarre]], [[CrapsackWorld hideously amoral world]] where robotic assassins called Scuds are readily available on every streetcorner, and dispensed from vending machines. Scuds are deadly, agile, remorseless, heavily armed... and they explode upon terminating their assigned target, so you never have to worry about incriminating evidence. Our protagonist is just another Scud, hired to clear out a pest control problem, a monstrous creature called Jeff. Realizing that killing Jeff means immediate death, Scud painfully immobilizes Jeff and has her hospitalized. Seeking the necessary cash to keep Jeff's medical bills paid, Scud now has to go freelance, in a world that seems doomed to eternal peril.