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6/19/2025, 12:09:00 PM
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Alliance (by HipsterFlamingo, comicfury)
Noibat human, Fennekin partner. Set some time after Super, occasionally references it but I wouldn't call it spoiling. The setting is also modernized, basically having 21st century Earth level of technology. This might be a turn-off for some, but honestly it's pretty unobtrusive, it's not like they have guns; this is still a PMD story.
Adventure, fights, character interaction. Very game-y, with stats, levels, IVs, EVs, moves, etc, being a thing that clearly exists and taking game mechanics literally. Generally maintains a serious tone aside from that.
Toony artstyle that gets better over time, though it remains kind of blobby. Also somewhat anthoified.
I'm personally not a huge fan of the level of silliness it operates in regards to the game mechanics, but that's a me problem. Unlike most comics that do this, it doesn't use them for jokes, it's treated completely seriously and actually used for drama. (Do you still call it eugenics if the characters are pokemon?) The story was intriguing enough for me to binge-read the whole thing, which took me a few hours. It wasn't amazing, but I am looking forward to more. The characters are fairly good, they feel distinct enough, they have their own personalities, interests, and goals, and meaningfully contribute to the story. Finished 10 chapters over 5 years, and was supposedly halfway done after chapter 9, so there's hope that it gets finished.
I think the central mystery is being dragged out a bit too much, because the questions posed in the first chapters made very little progress so far, and I hope it's not going to be just a big infodump in the last chapter - so far, the fact that MC is a human is only important in that it makes him a McGuffin. I'm giving the comic a few extra points for having an uncommon pokemon MC. Also, don't look at ref sheets in bonus pages unless you want spoilers.
Noibat human, Fennekin partner. Set some time after Super, occasionally references it but I wouldn't call it spoiling. The setting is also modernized, basically having 21st century Earth level of technology. This might be a turn-off for some, but honestly it's pretty unobtrusive, it's not like they have guns; this is still a PMD story.
Adventure, fights, character interaction. Very game-y, with stats, levels, IVs, EVs, moves, etc, being a thing that clearly exists and taking game mechanics literally. Generally maintains a serious tone aside from that.
Toony artstyle that gets better over time, though it remains kind of blobby. Also somewhat anthoified.
I'm personally not a huge fan of the level of silliness it operates in regards to the game mechanics, but that's a me problem. Unlike most comics that do this, it doesn't use them for jokes, it's treated completely seriously and actually used for drama. (Do you still call it eugenics if the characters are pokemon?) The story was intriguing enough for me to binge-read the whole thing, which took me a few hours. It wasn't amazing, but I am looking forward to more. The characters are fairly good, they feel distinct enough, they have their own personalities, interests, and goals, and meaningfully contribute to the story. Finished 10 chapters over 5 years, and was supposedly halfway done after chapter 9, so there's hope that it gets finished.
I think the central mystery is being dragged out a bit too much, because the questions posed in the first chapters made very little progress so far, and I hope it's not going to be just a big infodump in the last chapter - so far, the fact that MC is a human is only important in that it makes him a McGuffin. I'm giving the comic a few extra points for having an uncommon pokemon MC. Also, don't look at ref sheets in bonus pages unless you want spoilers.
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