Let there be panic. (CoH comic)

[Zwebbie]

What is 'Let there be panic'?

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Back in July, I started the 'Company of Heroes fan art... sort of' thread in the Studio, with cartoonified versions of some of the in game unit icons. The response was great and after some tweaks, they were added by Ionfish as the CoH Cartoon avatar section. With these cartoon CoH characters also came the idea of a CoH comic - as far as I'm aware, there's none save for Ratbones' Dogs of War and the game's great use of voice acting makes the unit characters ideal for a comic, in my opinion. After great responses and a link from GR.org's forums (to a thread in Riess' obscure Studio, mind you ! ) to the test comics, I've decided to make this thread for any further ones. Akranades told me I could, I swear!
This is not likely to be a weekly comic - my new education is hella busy and I can't promise anything, but I'll do my best.

It is now named 'Let there be panic' after the infamous blue cubes from Beta, saying "Missing RGM! Let there be panic. Consult warnings.log for answers."

What critics outside the forum said about 'Let there be panic'

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You totally stole Dr. Badman's format!

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No comment

Disclaimer

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This comic is not at all about World War II, Nazism or whatever happened back then. It's about Company of Heroes, and if the Germans look cute or likable, that's no attempt at justification of the Nazi policy and conquests, bla bla. I think this speaks for itself. Those wussy Pioneers in their purple suits just looked too silly not to be made fun of.

The test-comics:
Lightbulb
Immersive campaign
30!
Pimp my Panzer

And now,

#1

Mosqueireality

It's only three panels, but that'll give you extra time to see the cleverness I put into it! Harr.

#2 Volksgrenadiers - Very useful scientific facts

#3 Axis tank veterancy & friendly fire

#4 Fallschirmjaëger Infiltration

Have fun. Here's hoping it lasts !

[cf_nz]

lol, nice. Nebelwerfer bikes ftw.

[nichtganz]

Poor Josh. XD.

[Sprinkles]

Glad to see your taking this further. Good Job!

[Shas'Aun'Vre]

Why not a Solviet Union expansion, have each squad have about 20 men to it but the problem is Stalin kills off about 4/5ths of the squad on creation due to being a 'political enemy' so your left with only two or three guys. They would be the true Spamming Army!

[Ermak]

pimp my panzer

[Hellraiser]

I can see where you got the inspiration from for the first comic strip "So the panzer elite will be about these HUUUUGE tanks"

[v00lks]

lol nice dude

[_Agent_]

i lol-ed.

30 rifleman ftw

[Trystero]

Ha! "30" makes me glad.

Hope to see more in the future.

[Jimmythefoot]

Ok the 30 rifles one rules!
"This is rifle SPAM!"

[Melonplant]

Hey, you're my new hero! The 30 was really funny man. Keep it up!

And how can the french counter the imba bike of doom?

[E-Bass]

30 one is fantastic

[Gh0stbuster]

lol nice i like it

[Moe]

Nice one Zwebbie! I do like the test comics

[BlackLabel]

Great stuff....can you make a bigger version of the Funkbike "Zombie" ?

*edit* still laughing...the mosquereality one is the best till date.

[kingofshao]

I rofl'd at pimp my panzer and "30"

MOAR!

[Lord Abaddon]

Good stuff you have here : )

[Hirmetrium]

rofl its all awesome :P

"KRIEG MASTERS!"

[Integrity]

Yay Nebelbikes! I need to go mod that. Now.

[Stokes52]

That was hilarious, I LOL'd at every one so far. OMG I want Nebelwerfer bikes now.


The "30" one was hilarious too.

Make more, make more!

[Ashmole3110]

The "30" one was fucking brilliant.I liked the bike messenger part.

The Tiger ace one was also great.Keep it up.Its a good way to cheer up a shitty day.

[Unsung Duck]

They were all good but 30 was my favourite. Great job.

[Synthmon]

Nice style on your drawings. "30" was pretty good, need to go post that to all my buddies.

[Lord Abaddon]

"It's a good way to clear up a shitty day"
Well, you're right. Nothing like art (sort of =) to make you feel better.

[chains]

GREAT STUFF!

[TornadoADV]

Oh GAWD! "30!" I just can't...stop...laughing! *dies*

[rakgitarmen]

I love it, keep them coming

[Sepha]

Those comics are classic, Pimp my panzer = gold.

[bavbav]

oh man this comic are so funny haha. great work.

winter retreat, krieg masters and funkbike zombie? hahhaha nice parody

[Bentguru]

Pure Awesome. Keep going, I want one a day. Screw work.

[Relic]

Very nice! I sent it out to the team

[Lord Abaddon]

You could post a tutorial how to make such thingies =)

[Croner]

Tutorial for the community! =O

[Lord Abaddon]

Zwebbie!!! Iz ya 'ere?
Any progress with the artwork? (I know it's hard to make, I've tried. It takes time.)

[Zwebbie]

I'ze here. I'm working, I'm working, but you have no idea how much homework I have for 3D class next week.

As for a tutorial, it's dead easy. I just create every panel at twice the size it'll actually be (that's usually 500x500 for 250x250 panels) because this should make my drawing errors less obvious. Then, I roughly sketch in what I want to draw and add the text to see how much space it takes and where. After that, it's just drawing the lines with a 4px brush and coloring in a layer beneath it.

[Zwebbie]

Okay, this is a silly one and might not work out as well as I'd thought originally... but apparently I thought it was funny at the time.

Volksgrenadiers - Very useful scientific facts

In reference to the Rayman Raving Rabbids ads, of course. I can imagine anyone who hasn't seen those being rather confused at this.

Yeah, because that one's so silly, here's one that makes more sense - or made more sense, because I created it back in the 1.5 days when Sherman Crocodiles were unstoppable and Allies were definitely OP.

Disturbing to see

Apparently, writing all silly to make the German perspective clear seemed a good idea at the time. Reference to the intro of one of the campaign missions - the one after Sottevast, I believe it's St. Frohmond. The Allies just couldn't believe what kind of advanced stuff the Germans had, while showing blueprints of Goliaths, Nebelwerfers and V1 Rockets.

[Busby]

You create ze funny!

[kingofshao]

That's just plain win right there. I don't know how anyone can come up with this stuff

[BlackLabel]

LOL *but they can dance...*

[Synthmon]

Yeah, this rocks.

[Ashmole3110]

I really liked the croc one hahah!

[Croner]

Give us tutorial with pics. We wanna make such cool comics, too! LOL!!! Nice OP-scetches^^

[Nurizeko]

I dun giggled.

Nice stuff Zweb.

[Hellraiser]

"totally OP explosive load" haha good one, nothing like making fun out of the good old US pocket nuke. That cutscene was also used in one of the pre-release COH teasers.

[lordkosc]

cool stuff

[B4_life]

gotta love youtube, i had no idea what the firs comic was.

[Lord Abaddon]

VERY nice, Zwebbie.

I noticed something about one of your comics (first one here, mising sense, Krieg Masters)
The bike's name is ZwebbieZwobbler, is it not?

Once again, VERY nice.

edit: And another thing

Why not a Solviet Union expansion, have each squad have about 20 men to it but the problem is Stalin kills off about 4/5ths of the squad on creation due to being a 'political enemy' so your left with only two or three guys. They would be the true Spamming Army!

What the hell?

[Zwebbie]

The bike's name is ZwebbieZwobbler, is it not?

Below the unit, there's always the player name; in this case, I just used ZwebbieZwobber, my own online account.

New:

Axis Tank Veterancy

Having some fun with smaller brushes:

Friendly fire

Don't expect one for next week. Lots'o home work and all that, as much as I'd love to joke about stuff with the biggest CoH thing since release.

[lordkosc]

Hehe I liked the armored skirts one <3