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Pokemon TF Drive Page 1: The Depression
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It is November 20, 1998, exactly one week before Thanksgiving, and everyone under the age of 16* is glued to their TV for another “once-in-a-lifetime must-see TV-event”: Pikachu’s Goodbye. Ash, we were told, would have to decide whether to release Pikachu, as he did with Butterfree nearly two months prior. I would later learn this event was synchronized with syndication worldwide (at least in the western world) to avoid details from being leaked over the internet. The expectations were high… and we all felt let down. They played us like fiddles for a huge fake-out! Before the episode, we thought it had been scheduled for a Friday so we wouldn’t miss it due to homework. After the episode, we thought it was so we couldn’t communicate our disappointment to our friends until Monday, as if hoping we’d forget!
As every fan tried to pin down exactly why the episode felt wrong (Had the ads hyped it up too much? Was the story stretched too long to fit the one-hour special? Was it not stretched enough, warranting three or more half-hour episodes?) I, for my part, wrote this story. This was how I dealt with it.
Obviously, we didn't have a good time in Diglett's Cave, but there's a lot more to this story than just "I was dumb and made the easy part of the game hard".
As the story advances, so will the transformation, the degree of which will depend on the donations through Paypal.
Click here for fun facts about this page!
It is of note that news about what is now known as the “Electric Soldier Porygon incident” was still very, very vague, to the point where it was impossible to find western sources back then that could tell you which show the problem episode came from! The record wouldn’t be set straight for another year when The Simpsons basically speculated it had to be a show about giant robots, since most Japanese shows are about giant robots, and the Japanese felt the need to clarify.
*I’ve obviously avoided depicting myself at the age I was to avoid running afoul of the modern internet (and I’m not happy about that!)
And in case anyone’s wondering why I’d use a pikachu in Diglett’s Cave… she was livid I’d boxed her for my battle with Lt. Surge (in Yellow, friendship resets when the pokémon gets boxed) and I had to rebuild our relationship. It worked only because it took for-freaking-ever to get through Diglett's Cave!
Color by Arcan
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It is November 20, 1998, exactly one week before Thanksgiving, and everyone under the age of 16* is glued to their TV for another “once-in-a-lifetime must-see TV-event”: Pikachu’s Goodbye. Ash, we were told, would have to decide whether to release Pikachu, as he did with Butterfree nearly two months prior. I would later learn this event was synchronized with syndication worldwide (at least in the western world) to avoid details from being leaked over the internet. The expectations were high… and we all felt let down. They played us like fiddles for a huge fake-out! Before the episode, we thought it had been scheduled for a Friday so we wouldn’t miss it due to homework. After the episode, we thought it was so we couldn’t communicate our disappointment to our friends until Monday, as if hoping we’d forget!
As every fan tried to pin down exactly why the episode felt wrong (Had the ads hyped it up too much? Was the story stretched too long to fit the one-hour special? Was it not stretched enough, warranting three or more half-hour episodes?) I, for my part, wrote this story. This was how I dealt with it.
Obviously, we didn't have a good time in Diglett's Cave, but there's a lot more to this story than just "I was dumb and made the easy part of the game hard".
As the story advances, so will the transformation, the degree of which will depend on the donations through Paypal.
Click here for fun facts about this page!
It is of note that news about what is now known as the “Electric Soldier Porygon incident” was still very, very vague, to the point where it was impossible to find western sources back then that could tell you which show the problem episode came from! The record wouldn’t be set straight for another year when The Simpsons basically speculated it had to be a show about giant robots, since most Japanese shows are about giant robots, and the Japanese felt the need to clarify.
*I’ve obviously avoided depicting myself at the age I was to avoid running afoul of the modern internet (and I’m not happy about that!)
And in case anyone’s wondering why I’d use a pikachu in Diglett’s Cave… she was livid I’d boxed her for my battle with Lt. Surge (in Yellow, friendship resets when the pokémon gets boxed) and I had to rebuild our relationship. It worked only because it took for-freaking-ever to get through Diglett's Cave!
Color by Arcan
Share this comic on:
]Twitter[ https://twitter.com/FrankHghTwr/sta.....99353992708472
]FurAffinity[ https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57636493/
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]Tumblr[ https://frankhightower.tumblr.com/p.....6068997341184/
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Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
Species Pokemon
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File Size 3 MB
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