Recently been fixating on some comic ideas that I'd love to write and draw now that I have this here alt account and am no-longer limited exclusively to NSFW stuff. Decided I'd do some character designs and post them just so that if nothing ends up coming of them then there can at least be something to show for the time I spent thinking about them, and also an art style study since my normal art style was developed from doing single drawings one at a time, whereas comic pages are multiple drawings at once, making a simpler art style a necessity in order to get anything done, like how in manga the cover art often isn't in the same style as the pages, that's for a reason.

For this one, these are the characters I have in mind for a continuation of Captain N, the old Nintendo commercial cartoon from 1989, the one where Mega Man was green. It's not the best-aged cartoon, it's not one I'd recommend most people put on for casual viewing, but most of what it gets picked on for nowadays applies to pretty much every other cartoon from the time. Ninja Turtles also had cheap animation, corny catchphrases, was more concerned with selling a product than anything else, and deviated heavily from the source material it adapted, so I don't see why Captain N has any less potential to be revived and made good again for a new age just like Ninja Turtles, Thundercats (the 2011 one, Roar does not exist. I'm barely joking. If a TV show airs and nobody watched it did it really air at all?), Transformers, G.i. Joe, etc. But because that's probably never gonna happen because the only people other than me who are unironic Captain N fans are Andrew Dobson and MovieBob, the two people I least want on my side on anything, and if Nintendo wants to do a cool crossover thing Smash Bros. is right there, it's pretty much up to me alone to see it get done.

My idea is that it takes place in the future, (which is actually now the past to us) around 2015 or so, with the Switch still in production. (I'm already pushing it with the amount of characters, there has to be a cutoff somewhere, I'm not designing a Captain NX, at least not for this story) After the events of the original show, Kevin defeated Mother Brain, and instead of going home, chose to stay in Videoland, marrying Princess Lana, and becoming its new king. Since then, with the production of new Nintendo consoles, new video worlds have spawned into existence. The worlds and all the people in them are manifestations of game code that crossed over from computers in the real world, and usually the Ultimate Warp Zone, the gateway between the real world and Videoland, is good at filtering out harmful code, the kind that cause game-breaking glitches. But this time, one slipped through, code from a nonspecific in-production game that causes consoles to brick has manifested in Videoland, becoming an emotionless entity, more of a force of nature, named Cascade, which acts as a video cancer cell spreading its influence with the intention to corrupt everything and brick all of Videoland. Unable to defeat it himself, even with the Power Glove granting him near limitless strength, even with Link wearing the Fierce Deity Mask in his party, Kevin has no choice but to bring in a new set of gamers from the real world.

Sylvester Smalls is a YouTuber who does satirical game reviews and let's plays, Breanne Atwood is the lead singer of an indie garage band that does covers of video game tracks, Gregory Cooper is a troubled kid with divorced parents who uses an inherited game collection as an escapist coping mechanism, and Nick Usher is a stepdad who isn't much of a gamer but learned to love the medium by playing multiplayer games with his kids. Under Kevin's leadership, they form the new N-Team