Some stories have a message...kinda...

Additional Notes:

WARNING! (The real one)

This story is pretty offensive, it can get graphic and downright ruthless at times so if you don’t like that sort of humor, don’t read this story. But if you read it anyway don’t complain if you get offended, I did warn you and keep in mind it IS only a story.

(Or read it anyway, get offended and leave a hilariously triggered comment, that's fine too.)

Also, don't bother trying to "win" either. You can't. Just heed the moral lessons you may learn.

One musician's tale in a dying world

Additional Notes:

If you’ve read and liked Necromancer, then this might interest you as this story takes place during the same course of events of that story. (Not a prequel, not a sequel, but an equal!)

However, this story is definitely more “story” than “game”. In fact you shouldn’t even bother reading it if you’re intent on “winning”. You can’t. That being said, there is a “true ending” to this story and you’ll probably know if you get it. If you do get it, you can consider it a “win” if you like.

There are a few points in the story where there are links that lead to “Letters to Home”. While not necessary to understand the story, they do provide a little more insight into the protagonist’s thoughts and feelings on various situations.

The last hope for a dying empire

Additional notes:

This story can be very long assuming you're not dying. Years pass and your surroundings will most likely change. You may very well live a life time in the story.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can technically "win" by getting one of the epilogues.

There are 13 epilogues total.

There are also several points in the story where there are links that lead to more background information on various people, places, things and events. While not completely necessary to understanding the story, they do give you more insight into it.

Carnivals aren't all fun and games.

Additional Notes:

While there is only one spot that contains extra histories for this story, it's basically the background information of all the major characters and factions. It's strongly recommended that these are read due to the fact that your character will be interacting with most of these folks in his attempts to successfully accomplish his task(s).

This story has a very factional feel to it, so choose your allegiances carefully to get one of the better endings.

If you see a bright light, duck and cover!

Additional notes:

I should point out that this story can be very long assuming you're not dying. Years pass and your surroundings will most likely change. You may very well live a life time in the story if you're lucky. You will also experience a completely different adventure depending on how you escaped the initial nuclear strike. (Assuming you do survive it.)

As with any of my writings, the "story" comes before the "game". However, this story was written in a "game like" format. So while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can technically "win" by getting one of the 4 special endings. (You'll know if you get one because you'll get an epilogue)

This one's for the kids, no really!

Additional Notes:

This story has clear cut win/lose endings. There is nothing excessively unusual about this story, it's just a simple "children's story".

(Yes, you can still die in it)

Running the family business isn't easy!

Additional Notes:

In a few places there are links for history or certain characters. While not necessary to understand the story, they do provide further background information.

There are several endings varying in degrees of good/bad or neutral outcomes. Technically there is one very happy ending, but it isn't labeled as such.

Underneath the sickness there's love...

Additional Notes:

WARNING!

This story contains a lot of graphic content, if you are offended by ultra violence, explicit sexual descriptions, tons of swearing, blasphemy, inappropriate dark humor, and brutal misanthropy in general then DO NOT read this story!

Of course now that I’ve mentioned all the things it contains, you’ll probably read it anyway, you sick little monkey.

Well don’t complain if you get offended, I did warn you and keep in mind it IS only a story.

(Or read it anyway knowing it'll offend you and leave an amusingly triggered comment. That's fine too.)

This also isn't really a "win/lose" type story. While there are some endings better than others, this is basically just a tale about a very twisted man and his very twisted lifestyle.

Additional Notes:

This story is definitely more "story" than "game", however there are two distinct paths that can be followed, each with their own pitfalls and additional choices. There is also "one true" ending in which can be considered a "win" (You'll know if you got it, because you'll get an epilogue)

This story can get long, and assuming you're surviving, years do pass in it and you and your environment will change. There are a few points in the story where there are links that lead to more background information on various people and things. While not completely necessary to understand the story, they do give you more insight into it. The text that accompanies some of the pics are also done for similar purposes (Your journal entries, personal thoughts, letters written to you, etc)

Humanity never changes...

Additional Notes:

There are links leading to various background information and your character's current thoughts throughout the story. In some cases these may provide greater insight since some mysterious things can occur in this story.

There are also several endings varying in degrees of good/bad/neutral outcomes. Technically there is one ultimate "winning" ending, but it isn't labeled as such.

Emotions can be wonderful or dangerous...

Additional Notes:

This story has a few bits that are probably a bit on the disturbing side. Not many, but they are there in places. So if you don't like that sort of thing, you probably shouldn't read it.

This story in general is probably a bit odd and less verbose than most of my other stories. There are also several endings varying in degrees of good/bad/neutral outcomes. While there are some endings better than others, this is basically just the tale of a teenager who definitely has some issues.

From humble beginning to infamy and beyond!

Additional notes:

This story is a fully self contained one and can easily be read on its own, however it also acts as a "sequel" to Innkeeper.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can technically "win" by getting one of the 12 epilogues.

Things would be so much easier if your name was Mary Sue

Additional notes:

This story is a fully self contained one and can easily be read on its own, however it also acts as:

A direct sequel to the "Good Girl" short story in Tales From The Basement.

A semi sequel to the other TFTB short stories, Repression, TRASH, Love SICK and Geek.

A semi prequel to Ground Zero.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However while there isn't a complex inventory and all of that, you can still "win" by getting one of the epilogues.

There are 16 epilogues total.

Because Basement Dwellers are people too!

Additional Notes:

This story is three stories in one. Your first choice will lead to a separate tale of a different “basement dweller”. Each one is mostly different in tone.

Ebay Escapist is weird and random. It’s the least verbose of the three. (Or my stories in general)

Good Girl is the longest and most descriptive of the three. There is some weirdness going on here too, but is mostly kept much more in "reality". There is a cast of characters link in the beginning to help you keep up with who’s who.

Anime Addict has a lot of offensive language and humor, so if you don't like that sort of thing you shouldn’t read this one.

In all the tales there are several endings varying in degrees of good/bad/neutral outcomes. While there are some endings better than others, these are basically just tales of basement dwellers.

It's an edgelord boogaloo!

Additional Notes:

This story is three stories in one where it follows a different protagonist based on the first choice.

This story is also probably really offensive or something. Probably shouldn't read it if that's not your thing, but feel free to do so anyway and complain loudly in the comments since those are always good for a laugh.

Anyway, there's your extra warning. You can't say you weren't told.

Incel Insanity and Whining Wokie are all new tales, while Film Fanatic is a "reboot" of sorts of an older story called Exploitation Theater. Yes, it's finally here and been greatly expanded on.

As always the story is always more important than the game focus, but also as always, you definitely can get better endings than others.

Three ladies. Three legends.

Additional notes:

This story is a fully self contained one and can easily be read on its own, however it also acts as a connection to Rogues, Eternal and Necromancer.

As with any of my writings, the story comes before the game. However there is an epilogue for each "winning" ending.

Yee Haw! It's a trailer park life for me!

Additional Notes:

This story has a ton of offensive langauge and humor so if you don't like that sort of thing, you probably shouldn't read it. Though given the setting, the language used is pretty accurate.

This also isn't really a "win/lose" type story. While there are some endings better than others, this is basically just a tale about a typical day of a degenerate that lives in a trailer park.

So Kick's a self-loathing tranny, well that explains a lot.

Sounds like one of the paths in Rogues, but you never get turned into a lich in it. You can get turned into a vampire though.

Okay final story. This one is another two parter which appeared in last half of the first main story arc in the Intruder comic. (The one with the Tzara dudes) This is also one I’ve mentioned briefly in passing a few times over the years in the forums. Always liked it.

Also while I haven’t talked much about the games in each these comics much, I will mention the one that came in the comic containing the second part of this story. There was a mini-CYOA version of this story and it even included a few dice roll checks for some of the passages. It of course was a rather easy CYOA since all you had to do really was choose what the main character did in the story if you read it, but there were a couple of different outcomes not in the story.

Anyway let’s get on with this tale.

Mama’s Boy

I like how the reverend didn't correct Morris' assumption that Tony was retarded.

Yep, even in this universe Mormons suck.

Why the hell wouldn't you eat your dessert. The rev's right, they are FOOLS.

Bonus points that they implied there's a whole religious order dedicated to the concept of divine incest

Even not counting the whole "Mom=God" stuff, there's still things like this that make the world a little more alien from ours

The wacky world aside, the comic also does a good job of hitting all the noir detective tropes.

Mom in all her June Cleaveresque glory.

"A simple boy". Yep, Mom just confirmed Tony is indeed a retard. (Well maybe idiot savant given his powers)

Even a wholesome ending.

Well that's it for this round of reviews. The Buck Roger's one I'll get around to later at some point and probably a different since it's one of the more fleshed out comics that TSR was publishing mainly because they were really trying to push the game setting, but more on that when the review thread comes about. Stay tuned!

Got a better idea, how about you just stop bragging about being a chicken fucker?

Or don't and we can continue mocking you. That's fine too.

Please don't talk about your weird fetishes here, there are miners present.

I need to update it at some point anyway. There's been some other stuff that's happened since last time.

Alright once again, I’m going to go a little out of order on these since I’m going to save the best for last. Actually the first one is pretty cool too though. All of these short stories start off with a little narration with Alexandria as the back drop showing the worlds the books contain inside followed by exploring one in greater detail.

Innocent Blood

While this might sound like the title of some faggy vampire story, it’s actually an alternate reality of WW2 where magic shit happens. Well you usually can’t go wrong with Nazis in a story, so magic ones must be even better!

The story is partially told as if someone is recounting past events of the war. (We’ll get to the actual narrator eventually) and it starts off with Churchill contacting Hitler to finally surrender. As you might expect this doesn’t go over well (Though Churchill thought it was a waste of time anyway)

Too bad you don’t get to see Stalin in the comic. I imagine him as some sort of barbaric bear pelt wearing shaman type.

Hitler manages to throw a fireball through this magical collect call, nearly hitting Church in the process and disconnecting. He then proceeds to throw a temper tantrum and complete shit fit that he’s losing the war. The allies are surrounding him just like Churchill suggested. While there is magic in this world, its apparently used in conjunction with regular tech of that time. For example, you still see the American soldiers using grenades and guns (Because come on, it’s America, even if magic was a thing we’d STILL use guns)

So Hitler looks fucked again, however, unlike in our boring unmagical timeline, the Holocaust death camps actually have a good use (Y’know besides the whole genocide thing)

Hitler uses the tortured souls in those camps to summon an actual demon on the earth. Hey, see for yourself!

Totally METAL

Okay, we’re already on part two.

So Hitler has managed to bind this demon into some sort of super hell tank which can just utterly destroy shit. It’s destroying all opposition and actually regaining ground for the Nazis, even Patton can’t beat it. Churchill and one of his war generals are talking about how to destroy it.

And this is where the narrator is introduced (Richard). He’s the son of the war general Churchill is talking to. Church says there is a simple spell that can take out the demon Elmic, but it’s a pretty grim one. It requires someone innocent of soul to sacrifice himself. They’re both really not keen on the idea, but that’s when suddenly the narrator pipes up saying that if it will end the war then he is willing to die for England.

So after a lot of discussion, arguing, examination and grief they send Richard to do this suicide mission. Of course they don’t send him alone. They have a special commando team of wood elves (Hey you got demons and magic, might as well have elves too) to sneak past all the Nazi warmages.

It’s a brutal journey and by the time they even get close to their goal, only Major Woodhame survives to protect Richard. (Also says casting spells the further he gets from his Welsh homeland gets more and more taxing. I wonder if all the Welsh are wood elves in this world.)

Lol

So Captain Joe tells the elf and the Richard to get away from this place now since Elmic isn’t too far away, but they tell him that’s where they need to go since Richard is going to kill him. After some disbelief and explanation, Captain Joe thinks this is a shit plan for an eight year old to sacrifice himself, especially when he REALLY doesn’t know anything about life, evil or anything at that age.

“Ya gotta know what the devil’s about before ya can spit in his eye.”

The major and Richard are determined to see this plan through despite Joe thinking they’re crazy. Major Woodhame gives Richard the holy book and tells him to not look up at the demon while he recites passages. Richard leaves while the Major is whispering his own prayer that he hopes the Lord and Lady will have mercy on their souls for doing this plan.

So Richard takes the long walk… (Going to just post the rest here)

And once again America saved the world

Okay so these next two short stories were in the last two Intruder books, (Yeah the one with the shit main story arc that I didn’t even bother covering as much as I’m going to cover these two shorter stories) These are both a little more on the light hearted side.

Crumbs

It starts off with a bunch of gingerbread children playing and going on about “Meat men” and the “Meat world” prompting their grandmother to shut up about it or else they might wake up there.

Their skepticism about this happening prompts their grandfather to tell them tale…

Wholesome!

So he mentions how he just suddenly woke up in meat world AND he was naked! Fortunately he said there was a cloth person nearby he managed to get clothing from since they seemed dead anyway (It was just a doll)

Basically Gramps as a boy woke up on the streets of early 1900s America. After getting dressed he’s basically nearly killed several times. Chased by a dog (A furry meat beast), nearly stepped on, (By the giant meat men), nearly crushed by a carriage, a drunk breathes on him (The alkie mentions getting drunk before prohibition kicks in, so this might place the time in December 1919 which makes sense due to the Christmas theme) and just in general trying to avoid death.

He then sees a beautiful gingerbread girl in the window of this shop. Of course this is a bakery he’s looking into. He immediately goes in to try to save her. Now I should say gramps says a really asshole thing here. One of the grandchildren asks “Even more beautiful than grandma?”

And this ginger dickhead says “Even more than grandma.”

Like what the fuck is that to be saying to your grandkids, never mind the fact that his wife isn’t all that far away where she could have easily heard him.

So he gets in the bakery and tries to save the gingerbread girl only to find that she’s dead, along with a shitload of other ones on a cooking sheet. He’s horrified by all this, but with another meat man approach he doesn’t have time to hide so he pretends to be one of the proper cookies.

He unfortunately gets scooped up and given to a little girl who looks like Alice from Alice in Wonderland (Even dressed like her).

The girl takes him home in a bag and gets ready to Attack on Titan this little fucker.

Plot twist: This whole tale was Alice just tripping on mushrooms and Caterpillar hashish again

So just as randomly as he got to meat world by thinking about it, he also gets home by thinking about that instead.

Just then the grandmother says he finished his story just in time since dinner is ready. The kids go to get seated still skeptical that meat world is a real place, but the you see gramps looking in a mirror fixing his collar and you see a bite mark in his shoulder and him winking to breath the fourth wall.

In any case, he’s not going to be getting any ginger snaps from grandma if she did hear what he said earlier.

Next story

The Toaster’s Tale

Okay this was the very last story in Intruder and they really phoned this shit in. It’s basically a parody of The Brave Little Toaster which granted isn’t terrible and it’s still better than what the main story arc was, but it’s definitely not the best one they could have ended with. (Artwork isn’t that great either on this one)

So it starts off with Tom the toaster talking about a recent event that happened with his owner Simon.

Simon comes home and bangs up his car while parking it. The car wants to get fixed up, but Simon says he can’t afford it and actually blames the car for not looking where he was going. Cut to Simon in the kitchen and now Tom and the coffee pot telling Simon that he should get the car fixed. Simon once again says he doesn’t have the money, the coffee pot points out he’s always got enough money when he goes on a date though. Simon starts getting annoyed and tells them to stop trying to tell him how to spend his money.

The next day, they try to be a little more convincing by burning his food. Now Simon gets mad enough he knocks Tom and the coffee pot around a little. The phone, the tv, even the chair all start trying to convince him to fix the car, but at this point Simon gets pissed enough that he smashes the tv, pulls the phone out of the wall (Hey it’s 90s, there’s still landlines!) and burns the chair to death.

The rest of the appliances now gang up on him, but Simon’s a one man army punching the radio, kicking the toaster and hitting the coffee pot with an iron. Then he cuts the power completely defeating this uprising, stating that if there’s anymore trouble he’s still got a lot more gasoline.

Simon goes to celebrate his victory by taking a bath and expects them all to behave when he gets back. The radio however still has back up batteries and unites with the catcher’s mitt to turn the power back on. The radio then plugs himself in and makes the ultimate sacrifice by jumping in the tub with Simon.

With Simon now gone, Tom says they had to piece back their community and it shows him and some of his buddies at a shop buying another Simon hanging on a rack saying they want a more sensitive model this time.

And that’s basically it for that story.

Alright the next story which I considered to be the best of the bunch I’m going to save for another post and I’ll be posting the entire thing. Stay tuned!

I mean with a name like "kickme" in it, you were sort of asking for it.

Xenia?

Going to do what I’ve been doing which is going over the main arc first and then following up with the short stories that were running throughout the comic series.

So this next comic is called Intruder and as I mentioned I didn’t actually get into this one from the start the reason being it didn’t look like anything I’d be into and also something as simple as the cover didn’t catch my attention.

Now if the first issue had a cover like this:

Much more eye catching

Well that’s why I ended up buying it and I probably had money burning a hole in my pocket at the time or something.

The first arc of Intruder which I never read had a 4 issue arc, this one covered the remainder of the series at 6 issues. Eight to ten issues was usually about the number of what these TSR comics ended up being. I think RIP had the shortest with 8. 

Now despite this one having six I’m actually not going to spend much time reviewing since…well it’s a slog to go through. Or rather the protagonist is sort of fucking annoying to the point that it makes the overall story intolerable.

I didn’t like Jake Brasher much for being unfun, but holy shit even he wasn’t as angsty as Eric Corbin. All the dude practically does is cry and run throughout the comic. 

But I’m getting ahead of myself. What exactly is Intruder about? Well it was supposed to be a comic about tying all of TSR’s “worlds” together. Different planes of existence, alternate dimensions, etc. That sort of thing. Eric is a scientist who sort of stumbles upon all this and gets into adventures, except he’s sort of a big pussy about it. 

Now he is a scientist and I get that not everyone can be Gordon fucking Freeman, but he’s just really not what I want to see in a protagonist. Probably about the bravest thing he does do is his wife gets captured in the first arc during his battle with the main villain in it, Master of Chaos and he does try to get her back and he even ends up killing the Master of Chaos. Of course I didn’t read any of that arc and can only go by the brief summaries I’ve seen. It is entirely possible Eric’s personality was written a bit braver than it is in this arc, but from a quick check and it does say it had the same writer from the start.

And granted there’s a lot of situations where he doesn’t really have much option except run and he’s not a action hero type, but holy shit he could have at least borrowed a bit of Brasher’s stoicism (When he wasn’t being ANGRY of course). By the time of this second arc Eric is already spent one story arc as a plane hopping “Intruder” and has killed a major villain called The Master of Chaos. One would think he’d be used to having experienced all sorts of horrors by now rather than screaming and crying a lot.

So why did I even continue to buy it? Well as usual the short stories are pretty good, plus the main story is another case of there being a good idea there, but the protagonist sucks a lot. (Plus I was always a bit of completionist) 

Well might as well get on with talking about the actual story a bit.

It starts off with Eric still looking for his wife, he hops to some world with a huge fucking library. In fact this is “Alexandria” and it’s basically keeping a book of every plane, world and dimension in existence. He finds a book about the Master of Chaos and he’s puzzled since he knows he’s dead, but upon opening it he learns that the Master of Chaos started off not too dissimilar from him. Cowardly blue alien with a big head (Long before Megamind) and he was even trying to save his wife (He fails harder since she actually dies rather than merely missing). He ended up killing some ruthless overlord that had lots of fancy powers too. 

And then as an Intruder, CM starts acquiring more abilities soon after and he starts using these powers to entertain various folks and generally be a fun person that other people enjoy since he’s got lots of interesting stories to tell.

But as fun as that all is, it’s NOTHING compared to the amount of big fun you can have being a complete dick to people on a massive scale and that’s exactly what happens. Absolute power and all that, CM starts becoming an asshole and doing all the shit that entails until his story ends with Eric busting a cap in his ass.

Eric then sees another book, which now follows the life of the evil overlord that CM killed during his time as an Intruder. Similar story and ends the same way. Eric goes through several of these books and it basically is the same tale just with a different guy. Eric goes into the first of many of his screaming panic fits:

“No, it can’t be! The universe can’t just run on cruelty and blood! There are other paths besides brutality and madness! What of free will? I will choose my own destiny!” 

Apparently this guy never heard of Lovercraft.

Well you can’t take away a man’s right to be a big pussy so that’s basically what happens through the comic arc. Eric going around looking for his wife and running a lot in panic. Now there is a major ongoing threat while he’s looking for his wife and that is, he hops into a dimension where humanity is extinct or practically extinct and he’s pretty much stuck in it for the entirety of most of this arc.

Now here’s an interesting part of the story. 

In THIS universe humanity was like some warrior race of bad ass conquerors that had a galaxy spanning empire. However they bump into another race called the Tzara who are definitely a warrior race just by their appearance alone:

Being a race of “philosopher kings” was never an option

Naturally a war broke out and after laying waste to half the galaxy, the Tzara kicked humanity’s ass, but this was what they call a pyrrhic victory. Apparently at some point during the war, humans managed to kill all the Tzara females so the plan B was for the few surviving humans to scatter across the galaxy and quietly try to get their numbers back up and just outlive the Tzara. 

But despite being a doomed race, the Tzara weren’t going to just let their enemies outlive them, so they went about hunting down the last of humanity. Which they didn’t have too much trouble with seeing as they still had a titan class ship they could use to bully others into helping them, not to mention humans had been assholes to many other races during their golden age, so wasn’t like humans had many alien allies.

It’s all very METAL and if THAT had actually been the entire story, this comic would have been a whole lot better.

What we get instead is Eric stumbling upon the last human female disguised as a cat furry (Ulrika) at some galactic hive of scum and villainy. Oh and he also stumbles on some drunk bum who is Odin. Yes, THAT Odin. In this dimension apparently instead of properly dying in Ragnarok, he ran away from Fenris. It’s a whole other subplot which honestly wasn’t really needed and just served to make the main story unnecessarily convoluted by trying to tie it altogether.

Part of this tie in is how humanity was in this particular dimension, like I said they were a warrior race and they did semi-dress like space vikings crossed with space romans. Ulrika particularly has a valkyrie style going on after her furry disguise is destroyed. They’re chased by some bounty hunters for awhile looking to get a big payday, but Odin actually helps them out with his godly vaporizing powers. Ulrika is pretty overjoyed about finding a human man though since she’s eager to mate with him and have a whole mess o babies. (She’s also a virgin and doesn’t really know exactly how the actual process works and the time involved in carrying a child)

So you’d think this means Eric and Ulrika got the king of the norse gods on their side, things might not be all the bad, but Odin’s still a big drunk and he’s plagued by self-loathing and sorrow due to the fact he ran away during Ragnarok. So when the Tzara capture ALL of them, Odin’s fairly useless moaning over his failures wondering what the point of everything is. (Great now we got TWO whining faggots in the story) Ulrika is ready to fight, but Eric is like “Yep, this ain’t my fight, I’m off to find my wife, see ya.” and uses his dimension hopping powers to leave. (Okay, that is pretty funny)

However ends up somehow on old Earth or Urth as it’s called here. He talks to the Tree of Life (Which has seen better days) who gives him some acorns to help give life back but it will require sacrifice of his own life. Eric as usual doesn’t want any part of something that invites death, so the Tree tells him of the whole Ragnarok fuck up since Odin was supposed to sacrifice himself to have the whole life and death cycle continue, but since he ran away it fucked everything up. 

Cut back to Ulrika now bald headed and missing an arm and being thrown before the Tzara leader Zatog. He surprisingly mentions that she won’t be killed but instead sterilized and put in an intergalactic zoo. Ulrika is always defiant though and still tries to fight. As for Odin, they got him strapped to a table of some sort, but they’re getting annoyed with his wailing and about ready to just throw him out an airlock. 

Eric pops up again on the ship after his story time with the tree of life is over. Odin suddenly decides to revert to his old self and starts killing the Tzara to protect Eric (of all people) One of the Tzara manages to take out Odin’s one good eye but that just causes a huge explosion of godly power blowing a huge hole in the ship allowing Odin to scoop up Ulrika and Eric and head back to Urth since he wants to finally see how all this will end. Meanwhile Zatog is done with the whole civility thing and orders they take the ship Urth and wipe out humanity once and for all.

The last part of this arc starts off with the Tzara getting to Urth and trying to scan for human life signs. During this time, one of the funnier bits in this comic is a group is taking a tour of their ship.

Lol

Cut next to Eric just finishing up fucking Ulrika. Yep, this guy’s been hopping multiple worlds and dimensions looking for his wife and now is the time he decides to cheat on her with some bald cripple. Great job. (Probably another reason why I didn’t like Eric) 

Ulrika is of course thrilled since she didn’t know how pleasurable it was going to be (Well it’s not like she has anyone else to compare him to) and claims she already can feel the future of the human race inside her and the generations that will worship Eric’s memory. Eric’s just like “Well that’s not how pregnancy works, but if by some chance you see my wife, don’t tell her okay?” (Yes, he actually says that)

Odin’s looking for the tree of life, which despite being blind, he’d be able to sense if it was around. Eric finds him and tells him this is all sort of pointless, but Odin isn’t deterred. He doesn’t find the tree of life, but he does find the rainbow bridge which allows him to get back to the battlefield that he fled during Ragnarok.

While all this is going on the Tzara have found Ulrika and despite having only one arm she’s killing a shitload of them claiming that the Tzara aren’t the warriors they once were during the great war with them. Zatog finally gets the drop on her though.

Odin sees his staff of power and says it can make Urth live again, but Fenris soon appears stating he’s been waiting a very long time for Odin to finally return. Odin is about to run, however Eric of all people manages to convince Odin to not be a big faggot and run away stating that spending his life as a drunk clown wasn’t great and the future isn’t always certain so who is to say Fenris will kill him.

Odin finds his courage and battle Fenris who promptly eats him, but Odin tears open Fenris’ stomach killing him and then dying in the process stating that it’s up to Eric to use the staff to bring about life again.

Good ol’ predictable cowardly Eric doesn’t want to actually listen to his own advice, but the same question comes up again as it has throughout this arc and that’s “Do you love life or just YOUR life?”

Odin turns to dust and Eric’s screaming about how he doesn’t know shit about any of this and he needs help, etc. Then he sees the remainder of the Tzara coming over the horizon and Zatog carrying Ulrika’s head on a wooden pole. (There goes the future!) 

Surrounded and not really knowing what else to do, he exclaims that Zatog has won and that he chooses life while promptly shoving the staff of power into the ground. He then starts doing his Intruder mind thing where he attempts to jump somewhere else causing the Tzara to suspect that he’s up to something and they pull out their blasters and shoot at him.

Which results in one of those things where they assume they killed him, but he just managed to disappear in time. With what they assume the last of humanity dead, the Tzara leave and accept their own grim fate that they’ll be heading to the grave soon as well.

Eric rematerializes by the staff and buries the acorns near and says some encouraging words to make Urth green again, before dimension hopping elsewhere.

And that’s it for that arc. There’s two more issues involving Eric where he hops into another dimension, or rather it shows him being thrown into one by the “game masters” 

There’s 3 big aliens monitoring Eric and they’re pissed that he’s not going mad like the other Intruders and it’s terribly inconvenient. One of them states that it was a bad idea to pick a human though I’d say it was more bad luck on their part that they picked a human that wouldn’t get drunk on power. Still, they can still see he’s got enough of an ego that maybe shit will still work out and they figure they’ll guide him to what he’s looking for. 

The world he ends up on is completely populated by womyn. Like they don’t even know what the hell a man is and when they find Eric they think “she” has got some sort of tumor on her. Lol.

He wakes up asking if anyone has seen his wife and they’re freaking out, then soon after Eric’s freaking out because he’s gone full tranny and turned into a woman since apparently a new Intruder power has kicked in which allows him to better blend in with his surroundings. The women of the place have actually heard of Intruders before, so they don’t even mind him hanging around a bit. Of course one is showing him around and…

Yeah it just sort of sucks and isn’t that interesting of an arc.

Long story short, there’s a virtual reality thing going on (Complete with that grid like cyberpunk 80s-early 90s Lawnmower Man style), an evil version of Eric pops up in the virtual world, Eric finally finds his wife Gina who turns out to be The Great Mother in this place and there’s some fighting in the virtual world and eventually Eric wakes up in his own bed with Gina by his side, but it’s not his Gina, it’s some alternate Gina. His real Gina stayed behind for her “daughters” (All those women) mentioning that there’s the whole greater plan going on. 

Finally ends with the GMs getting uneasy since Eric is just becoming too unpredictable and maybe they just need to get another Intruder and kill him already, but since this was the last comic of the series, none of that shit matters. (Head canon is they killed him though because Eric sucks)

Yeah that’s it, we’re done and we can move on to the better stories next posts.