> tfw you accidentally inhaled your grandfather's experimental internet gas
@Grok, is this true?
>>150321007>He accidentally inhaled Grok's gas.
worst freakazoid reboot idea ever
>BRAAAAAP
But why?
>>150321194No no, he said internet gas. Not crud vapors.
>>150321194I want to see what could be done with a Freakazoid reboot
>>150322016I don't, can't trust any of the current writters to believe it would be even remotely good
>>150322087I want to make a design for it that takes the premise seriously but with edgier humor I suppose because it IS the internet after all— I had an idea for it, I just don’t know if it’s any good
>>150322116Who cares, share it anyway, we are all doing that in this board after all.
>>150321614they forgot how to make tech-focused super heroes
>>150322246And it's not like they were super great at it to start with. For like the first 5 years everything Iron Man related was just "transistors" and that was it.
>>150320845
These were never real, they just wanted to drum up some controversy. They never planned to make a full comic right? No way they thought they could do this and it would be a hit.
>>150322178Okay stay with me...My idea for a more edgy take on Freakazoid would have Dexter in college instead of high school for one. Secondly, it would follow Dexter as himself dealing with the blending of his online internet persona, Freakazoid blending into the real world. He's basically be akin to a faceless influencer but Freakazoid is a moniker that's ever-present in this online world and used by several people (sort of like Anon/Anonymous).
>>150322562>two black dyed-hair theythems named fucking Snowflake and Safespace it comes off as bad-faith parody but it's just a shitty writer who started out writing "moral boosters" for Groupon employees and probably "networked" his way into writing a comic
>>150322178>>150322726He ends up meeting a girl via a class project who he's very interested in but seems uninterested in him. That's where Steph comes in, she's somewhat hiding herself because she is mostly "normie-passing" and likes it that way. So even though her and Dexter get along well, she acts like she thinks he's a weird loser in public. And together they kind of make the internet sort of a worse, more annoying place to be for a while before having to clean up their act because the feds are onto them. Which is where Cosgrove would come in, as a figure who's in Dexter's life because of being friends with his parents and wanting to be a mentor figure to him but never really getting close to the boy. Like I said, all very stupid ideas.
>>150322744And Steph is a She-kazoid?
>>150322801It's a secret that only the audience knows, but yeah, essentially both of them are high-profile internet trolls who think they're cleaning up the world wide web
Freakazoid with Max Headroom's backstory
>>150320845So where are these guys now? Have they been in any crossovers?
>>150320845The internet doesn't weigh anything.
if we didn't mock it as hard as we did, we could have had a shitty comic to mock
>>150322502gross!!
>>150322562We know one comic was actually printed and sent to a youtuber.
>>150320845I thought that was one of the dc dial crisis genderbender designs for a second
>>150322502Why is he naked?
>>150322952it weights plenty, it's not some magical fantasy realm we can access with our computers. It IS computers. and satellites, and cables, and a fuckton of energy produced by a fuckton powerplants that also weigh shit
>>150320845What were his power? could he download a car?
>>150322016No! Just no. Not without Cosgrove and Lobe. Still hurts that the callback episode in Teen Titans Go was the last time we got to see them together.
>>150320845>Eating the thermal paste :|>Inhaling the internet gas :O
>>150326764Cosgrove and the Lobe HAVE to be in any reboot! I would never leave them out
>>150326145So that Grandpa's internet gas isn't filtered through clothing
>>150320845but really though, what the fuck were they thinking
>>150320845>tfw when the new guardians had a supervillain powered by cocaine called fucking SNOWFLAMEwe were robbed of cringe kino
>>150326449His brain was permanently connected to Google, so he could find all kinds of information really fast and could also visualise maps in real time through Google Maps.I wish that was a joke.
>>150327851
>>150320845These words are not in the Bible
>>150320845Like in war of the world, the aliens eating the data from facebook.
>>150322726Waiy so Frekazoid is his Interner persona but becomes real and a separate entity?
>>150322726Will he ever film himself laughing at a dead body?
>>150329067My idea was that the internet would be represented as a separate place in universe and Freakazoid would be shown as a different person but you'd know it's an aspect of his personality. >>150329106He has made a severe and continuous lapse in judgement...
>>150322742Didn't this retard also wrote a gay Santa "children's" book?
>>150322562>>150322742>it comes off as bad-faith parody but it's just a shitty writerI agree this is the most likely case, but it takes a really special kind of shitty writer to get his title cancelled before it's even released, because his original ideas became a laughing stock to all sides of the political and cultural spectrum.I'd honestly have more respect for the guy if it was just a dumb, misguided parody than if he came up with these characters and sincerely believed he was being clever and culturally relevant.
>>150321194i was thinking something like that."internet gas? holy shit. even freakazoid did it better than that, and it's a fucking satire."
>>150326145at a certain age, people lose all sense of shame.
>>150327851like... something iron man, oracle or the fucking bat computer can do in a whiff, but you call it a superpower?ok.
>>150329353So is the internet-verse just an abstract representation of the real internet or is it an actual physical world that interacts with Earth in real tangible ways? Does he just jump into the computer screen and transform into Freakazoid, does he need like a VR rig, or does it work like Shadowrun's technomancers where he basically astralprojects? A specific cartoon "Cyberspace" as an example for what you're going for would be nice.
>>150322016Best you get is something like the new Captain Planet comic. Or the last mask movie.
>>150326145Why not? It's his house
>>150320845a favorable side profile on this one
>>150320845I liked this series.
>>150320845After reading "experimental gas" and seeing the visored image, I thought this was going to be about The Comet.The Comet (Archie Comics)Tthis Golden Age hero debuted in Pep Comics #1 in January 1940. Ater ego: John Dickering, a scientist who injected himself with a gas 50 times lighter than hydrogen..Powers: He could fly and fire deadly "dissolvo-vision" beams from his eyes, which could be blocked by glass.Legacy: In 1941, Comet became the first superhero to be killed in a comic, leading his brother to become the hero Hangman. Notes: you don't want any gas in your bloodstream. Doctors always squeeze a little fluid out of the hypodermic before putting it in your arm. An air bubble would cause an embolism and maybe stop your heart.Ordinary glass blocked his deadly vision. Has any Marvel villain thought of wearing ruby armor when going up against Cyclops?
>>150320845Kino
>>150330412It's an abstract representation of what the internet is, I really would want to lean into old tech in terms of design
>>150320845green is Not a creative colour
>>150333839>Has any Marvel villain thought of wearing ruby armor when going up against Cyclops?Some no name goons in an X-Men issue, who conveniently stood in front of the exact mix of chemicals needed to dissolve their armor with a single optic blast.
>>150327851So basically... He could do everything a person with a smartphone could do?
>>150336990He can shitpost on 4chan with just a thought tho, pretty cool
He would have been really cute and if it was release you know you faggots would have been drawing porn of him and B-Negative bullying Safespace.
>>150320845>tfw you got morbed
>>150338960
>>150322742This background makes so much sense. Pitching characters that feel like they'd be some kind of marketing thing like the Skechers superheroes
>>150320845It sucks that the gay vampire made it into Blade, but this guy was never seen
>>150327851Couldnt he atleast hack someones brain?
>>150327491Snowflake is an old villain from the 80s he showed up in a Black Cat comic last year
>>150327851>GUYS I KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO REPROGRAM THIS ROBOT>*skips add in 5...4...3*>good morning everyone in this tutorial we will use python to>IT'S NOT THE RIGHT VERSION LET ME TRY AGAIN>skip add in 5.. 4...>NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP>O FOR SHIT SAKE OK I'LL CHECKING ON STAKOVERFLOW>*10 million gold point answer* : well actually why would you program on a robot, just use java and a raspberry pi>OK WAIT I WILL ASK CHAT GPT>robot programming was invented by the filthy jew thomas edison in sweden during the great niggers war of 1526, andhis power sucks because he can't install addblock or cookies in his brain
Did this comic ever get made?
>>150338960Kinda cute ngl
>>150343550lol no.They took one look at the public response to the character concepts and canned that shit immediately.
>>150322502A SERIES OF TUBES
>>150338960hear me out...
>>150329549>it takes a really special kind of shitty writer to get his title cancelled before it's even releasedIt was one of a number of minis that were meant to be part of OUTLAWED, a Marvel event in 2020 involving all the teen heroes. When Covid happened, Marvel's output was drastically reduced for months, and this entire event got downgraded to just the main book and nothing else. The Empyre event also had several minis cancelled, one of them was later re-purposed as a tie in to the King in Black event.Marvel didn't single out this one book and cancel it for the embarrassment that it was, it was one of a lot of books that Covid created a perfect excuse for them to can.
>>150320845he got spiky hair
>>150327851>Imagine the weaknesses, though—I think that's where the REAL compelling part of the power lies. Sure, you might be able to effectively learn how to counter your opponent's moves mid-fight Taskmaster-style, or search up any documentation on their weaknesses, but imagine desperately trying to conjure up a way to disarm a nuclear doomsday device and instead being bombarded by search results for U2's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb". Imagine constantly being notified in your head about natural disasters and genocides and wars that, even with the power and resources of a superhero team, you could never possibly stop. Imagine having to sleep inside a Faraday cage because you literally cannot disconnect and any stray thought, no matter how minor, whips up a million search queries.>god, imagine having those violent call-to-the-void intrusive thoughts and instead of being able to push them away your brain goes "hey look here's ten liveleak videos of the horrible thing you're thinking about">Imagine witnessing a traumatic moment that gets recorded and put on the Internet. Flashbacks but in 4K>>Screentime is very social but he's kind of a shell on the inside due to being desensitized to things like violence and generally terrible shit so he's very extroverted to not be alone with his own thoughts and the internet.>he ends up developing /multiple/ evil split personalities>they develop a tendency to leak out in regular conversations
>>150338960the only good thing to come out of this retarded ass concept
>>150332723Did you really?
>>150321194Lmfao truuuue
>>150320845Worst superpower ever
>>150346816His weaknes is someone sending him a zip-bomb with a million copies of Never-Gonna-Give-You-Up.avi
>>150322502lewd
>>150322502Why is he Walter White?
>>150327851>>150327851It'd be cooler if the internet gas allowed him to like take internet things and make them real, like he could solidify the gas into constructs. he pulls up clip-art of a hammer and rips the hammer out of the computer window and hits you with it.
>>150350351>he starts using troll physics IRL
>>150338960>>150341411 B-Negative never ever https://files.catbox.moe/e30qny.jpg
>>150338960See he looked cool
>>150327851>supervillain destroys google's datacenters and now your power is useless
>>150327851>The enshitification of google slowly turns his brain to mush over the course of the comic as more and more of his data is just AI slop
>>150346993Pretty much, if only he made a proper appearance in 616 though. At least we got that cameo in Darkhold Blade.
What is this design? He looks like if Cyclops and Ben 10 got fused together
>>150351981I have been meaning to "redesign" them but I haven't gotten too far.
>>150322562They don't make promo videos for a prank. They absolutely were all in on this concept and COVID was just a good excuse to pull the plug without much attention.
>>150352382Its Internet Gas Boy.
>>150320845For a split second I thought this was a new Kyle Rayner design
It's been 5 years but i'm still confused, what the fuck did they mean by "experimental internet gas"?
>>150354607Pull my finger
>>150353625I see the potential
>>150354679yes
>>150322246We dont even get gadget based heros anymore. Fucking everyone either has powers or Kung Fu.
>>150355057Trailblazer could have been a really cool gadget hero if she wasn't fat and dumb. A hammerspace backpack that gives you want you need even if you don't know what you'll get is a neat concept that. Like an extension of Ladybug's power.
>>150355090Maybe but "everything and the kitchen sink" hero's like that almost always get defaulted to energy blasters or something because no one can be bothered to do anything creative with the concept
>>150353625Feet, eh?
>>150351741To big this femboy twink has a small cute dick
>>150354607You know, that idea could work. Like some kind of nanotech laced gas that instantly connects your brain to the internet as some kind of weird drug where you're browsing hours worth of stuff in seconds. In a cyberpunk dystopia setting. I could see that working as some kind of commentary, especially when you're basically letting data brokers into your brain during an artificial high where you feel like you're soaring across some kind of endless digital space
