Stanley the Tool has decided that hardcore gamer Parson Gotti is not the warlord he expected. The hard task of changing his mind is up to Croakamancer Wanda. Hint: it involves a Kimono. A new installment of Erfworld by writer Rob Balder and illustrator Jamie Noguchi.
Title: Erfworld #4
Credits: Rob Balder (writer) / Jaime Noguchi (illustrator) / Carolina Folle (adaptation)
Publisher: Robot Comics
Price: $0.99 US
License: Creative Commons
Screens: 140
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Why did the Titans of Ark create Erfworld, a pretty but deadly world in a constant state of war? And why would such careful craftsmen leave some of their tools behind?
Nobody knows. But trying to collect these “Arkentools” has left Overlord Stanley the Plaid with a problem; everyone hates his guts. His neighbors have wiped out his cities and his armies, and now they’re coming for him.
His long-suffering sorceress Wanda has a plan: they can buy a spell to summon the “perfect warlord,” a military genius to lead their last few forces in a final stand at the city of Gobwin Knob. Stanley is desperate enough to buy the spell. He just won’t pay for the support plan.
Enter Parson Gotti, an obsessive young gamer from Columbus, Ohio. He’s beaten every strategy game he knows, and has started to design his own. Now Parson must stop playing general, and learn to be one. This war is all too real. The game pieces are actual people. Their lives are at stake, and so is his own.
Title: Erfworld #1
Credits: Rob Balder (Written by) / Jaime Noguchi (Illustrated by)
Publisher: Robot Comics
Price: Free
License: Creative Commons
Screens: 162
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Erfworld #1 is available for download on the following platforms:
iPhone/iPod touch
Click on the button below to open Erfworld #1 on the iTunes App Store. Requires iTunes.
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Chosen by TIME Magazine as one of 2007’s Top Graphic Novels of the Year, the cult online hit Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob is soon coming to mobiles in a partnership with Robot Comics! Erfworld is a full-color fantasy epic about an obsessivestrategy gamer who is summoned to lead a real war. Originally published online under the Creative Commons license, Erfworld is today one of the most popular and heavily trafficked webcomic sites, supported by its own wiki consisting of 5000+ fan-created articles about the Erfworld universe, including a complete single panel annotated archive of the comic that would make a Grant Morrison fan proud.
Everything in Erfworld is clever — the dialogue, the sound effects, the complex relationships between the king and his underlings, and the strange mechanics of Erfworld, which are designed to tweak the clichés of strategy and fantasy gaming. Plus the art is oddly beautiful and very witty. If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if a squadron of teddy bears fought a squadron of giant spiders, head straight for Erfworld.” –Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine
Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob is a full-color graphic novel written by Rob Balder (PartiallyClips) and illustrated by Jamie Noguchi (Angry Zen Master).
“[A] riff on the way that property-rights are coming to games, and on the bizarre spectacle of sweat-shops in which children are paid to play the game all day in order to generate eBay-able game-wealth. When I was a kid, there were arcade kings who would play up Gauntlet characters to maximum health and weapons and then sell their games to nearby players for a dollar or two — netting them about $0.02 an hour — but this is a very different proposition indeed.” -Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, Little Brother)
Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Anda’s Game is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for mobile devices.
Title: Anda’s Game
Credits: Original version: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Esteve Polls (art), Robert Studio (colorist), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Ted Adams (editor), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by), Hermes Pique (editor).
Part 2 of the 2 of the first Creative Commons comic released for the Nintendo DSi.
“[A] riff on the way that property-rights are coming to games, and on the bizarre spectacle of sweat-shops in which children are paid to play the game all day in order to generate eBay-able game-wealth. When I was a kid, there were arcade kings who would play up Gauntlet characters to maximum health and weapons and then sell their games to nearby players for a dollar or two — netting them about $0.02 an hour — but this is a very different proposition indeed.” -Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, Little Brother) Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Anda’s Game is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for Nintendo DSi.
Title: Anda’s Game #2 of 2
Credits: Original version: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Esteve Polls (art), Robert Studio (colorist), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Ted Adams (editor), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by), Hermes Pique (editor).
Robot Comics is proud to announce the launch of DSComics.com, a comics site for Nintendo DSi which includes the first comics ever produced for this platform.
Through DSComics.com, Nintendo DSi users will we able to read comics specifically designed and formatted for this console. The service is completely free and doesn’t require to download or install third-party components. Users just need to open the Nintendo DSi Browser and navigate to dscomics.com to start reading comics.
The launch includes 3 free titles (Thunder Road, Anda’s Game and Misery Depot), of which two are Creative Commons licensed, that in this case allows fans to share and remix the comics at their leisure.
“Our goal is proximity in the broadest sense of the word. We don’t want anything -distribution, hardware, even money and copyright-, to get in the way between comics and their potential readers. By releasing free comics for popular hand-helds we are reaching a brand new audience that was largely ignored by the comics industry.”, states Hermes Pique, Robot Comics’s Director.
Not your father’s RPG. “[A] riff on the way that property-rights are coming to games, and on the bizarre spectacle of sweat-shops in which children are paid to play the game all day in order to generate eBay-able game-wealth. When I was a kid, there were arcade kings who would play up Gauntlet characters to maximum health and weapons and then sell their games to nearby players for a dollar or two — netting them about $0.02 an hour — but this is a very different proposition indeed.” -Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing editor, Little Brother) Originally published in the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, Anda’s Game is remixed by Robot Comics to create a new version specifically designed for Nintendo DSi.
Title: Anda’s Game #1 of 2
Credits: Original version: Cory Doctorow (story), Dara Naraghi (adapted by), Esteve Polls (art), Robert Studio (colorist), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Ted Adams (editor), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by), Hermes Pique (editor).
Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now is the Creative Commons comics adaptation of six short stories by Boing Boing editor and science-fiction writer Cory Doctorow. Originally published by IDW Publishing, Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now was converted from traditional print comic to mobile comic by digital comics publisher Robot Comics. The result are eight Creative Commons mobile comics specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices, some of which are also adapted for Nintendo DSi. Combined, the mobile Futuristic Tales have been downloaded more than 60,000 times. Continue reading »
A young girl grows in a city under siege, where the war for the cure of a zombie outbreak destroys the life she once knew. After the Siege #2, a comic written by James Anthony Kuhoric, drawn by Guiu Vilanova, based on a short story by Cory Doctorow. Originally published as the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, After the Siege is remixed by Robot Comics to create a version specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices.
Title: After the Siege #2 of 2
Credits: Original: Cory Doctorow (story), James Anthony Kuhoric (adapted by), Guiu Vilanova (art), German Torres (color), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Tom Waltz (editor), Danny Parsons (cover), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by).
A young girl grows in a city under siege, where the war for the cure of a zombie outbreak destroys the life she once knew. After the Siege #1, a comic written by James Anthony Kuhoric, drawn by Guiu Vilanova, based on a short story by Cory Doctorow. Originally published as the Creative Commons comic Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now by IDW Publishing, After the Siege is remixed by Robot Comics to create a version specifically designed for iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices.
Title: After the Siege #1 of 2
Credits: Original: Cory Doctorow (story), James Anthony Kuhoric (adapted by), Guiu Vilanova (art), German Torres (color), Neil Uyetake (letterer), Tom Waltz (editor), Danny Parsons (cover), Justin Eisinger (collection edited by), Neil Uyetake (collection designed by). Remix: Yael Duckwen (adapted by).
Robot Comics is a digital comics publisher for hand-helds: Apple's iPhone, Google's Android, Nintendo DSi and Amazon's Kindle. We offer titles specifically designed to be read on e-devices. (more)
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