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Comic Sperg Alert:
I was thinking the same thing about Cyberfrog’s plot. At least in the old comics you had a cast of villians for Cyberfrog to go against. Like Ben Riley who had an obsession with Heather and Scorpione who was the big bad of the series along with his minions. With this new series, you just got boring giant vampire wasps and all the villains from the old series just hid from the wasps and pulled a twenty year disappearing act just like Cyberfrog did. And we’re supposed to get behind this hero and believe that he can defeat this galactic threat all by himself when he has trouble defeating the villains he had back in the 90’s?
And who does he have for help? A giant Lizard (who I think pretty much gets killed in the second book) and a ran through single mom? I’m guessing ChJell Sinn or however you spell it, is going to be plot armor here where Cyberfrog gets all these crazy upgrades and brings Salamandroid back to life and they manage to defeat a whole world full of bees who have these dumb weaknesses of not being able to fly around through forests or see red. And somehow during this twenty year invasion, no one thought to take advantage of those weaknesses until it was too late?
yeah, real interesting.
in similar comic sperg vein, comic book "writers" like EVS really need to pay attention to how damaging real life weapons, let alone heavy weapons, really are.
I get that aliens have muh alien tech, but essentially the wasps are just... wasps. Tactical nukes, pesticides even would decimate them. They are susceptible to cold horribly compared to a mammal. And so on.
At least bring these points up then dismiss them with muh explanations. Not just - here's another horribly overinked page to be saved by the colorist and people who look like AI drew them except most of them have the right number of fingers.
Cyberfrog is a deeply stupid character, and to save it as a book it needed a rogues' gallery of even stupider characters or a nemesis that was I dunno a giant fucking fly (ONE giant fly, a supervillain, not an infestation of dull wasps) or a scientist or something.
EVS is horribly shallow and I think that's what sinks his actual comic more than anything. It's a bit of green lantern, a rip off the original TMNT, a ripoff of battletoads - nothing matters about ripping other comics off, that's part of comics - but it has none of the heart or soul of anything he's stolen from.
And still, I think it's the least appealing least frog looking frog in the history of comics. There were sixteen year old kids in the 1940 who could draw a better frog. And it's getting worse. Where did its face go? Why are its limbs so ridiculously long? Why have floaty bits at all?
It could be sort of OK as a horror comic but even then, it just all seems so insanely disjointed. And it's obvious he did a page or two at a time whenever someone gave him a "good" idea or the chat really turned against him. All very ominous signs for the "next" book(s) should they ever near completion.
He needs to get a writer and an editor. But it isn't about the books anyway it's the attention and headpats. He likes even negative attention so being so awful all the time and having people harass him for his late books translates through his filter as "people are talking about me and that makes me a star."
