"Kneel before ZOB!" ... Couldn't help it.

By the way, I love how he's petting the baby Flea like a cat as an homage to classic villains. Nice touch!

Comment by Guest StarBoy91, added Tue, 24 Mar 2015 01:23:45 GMT

Time to listen to the Plok Boss theme while reading this particular strip. ;)

Comment by Guest Tucker Jenkins, added Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:44:11 GMT

@Tucker: Best boss music of the SNES era, for sure.

Comment by Guest The Otaku Nerd, added Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:02:15 GMT

Oh my gosh, Plok knows him?! And Zob knows Plok as well?! Since they know each other, they can settle this situation by talking and listening to each other... Oh who am I kidding, Zob just called Plok a criminal! He'll probably take Plok down by force.

Comment by Guest WJC, added Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:08:40 GMT

So wait...this guy's a FLEA?!?

Comment by Guest Ryusui, added Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:41:06 GMT

Kind of. Genetically engineered for his role. He started out as a flea.

Comment by JPickford, added Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:10:08 GMT

"Die monster! You don't belong in Akryllic!"

Comment by Guest Nathan, added Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:51:14 GMT

[an attempt to make a clever continuation/reply of above post]

"It was not by my hand that I am once again wreaking havoc upon this land. I was called here by cult video game fans who wished to pay me tribute!"

Comment by Guest StarBoy91, added Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:51:24 GMT

Well PLOK seems overly confident. I wouldn't think he would be considering how many times he's been beaten by bosses in my...game...oh

Comment by Guest Nick, added Wed, 25 Mar 2015 01:50:00 GMT

Tribute? You steal my flags, and make gamers your slaves!

Comment by Guest Nathan, added Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:29:28 GMT

"Perhaps the same could be said of all gaming communities..."

Comment by Guest StarBoy91, added Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:26:03 GMT

I love Plok's smug look at the end. Nailed that.

Comment by WarriorWare, added Thu, 26 Mar 2015 02:15:20 GMT

You comments are as empty as your playing skills! Gamers ill needs a player such as you!

Comment by Guest Nathan, added Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:07:41 GMT

"What is a gamer? A miserable pile of secrets. But enough talk, have at you!!"

*cue Star Trek fight song*

Comment by Guest StarBoy91, added Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:43:37 GMT

I will never forgive the PSP version for gutting that exchange.

Comment by Guest Ryusui, added Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:57:06 GMT

Now I wonder what Mr Plok's first name is...

Comment by Caramelman, added Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:53:21 GMT

Funny you should ask that...

Comment by JPickford, added Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:10:18 GMT

Plok's first name is ]'[;

It's the only logical explanation. You'll see why if you think about it hard enough.

Comment by Guest Nathan, added Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:30:59 GMT

Since Greg Johnson was able to take back ToeJam & Earl from the evil clutches of SEGA, I think it's about time The Pickford Brothers do the same for Plok!. Re-release the original game on Steam and set up a Kickstarter for a new game! Now's the perfect time.

Comment by Brad Silvia, added Sat, 28 Mar 2015 19:20:23 GMT

Sega never owned ToeJam and Earl. They just had the rights to publish it, which is why they were not in their Mario Kart ripoff.

What Sega needs to do however, is rerelease Shenmue 1 and 2, as well as make Sonic 4: Episode 3. Maybe publish Plok as well.

Comment by Guest Nathan, added Sat, 28 Mar 2015 22:30:58 GMT

Sega doesn't have a thing in the world to do with Plok, tho.

Comment by WarriorWare, added Sun, 29 Mar 2015 05:06:54 GMT

I'm not sure Plok is famous/popular enough to raise significant funds on Kickstarter. Well, not on name alone.

Comment by JPickford, added Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:36:13 GMT

What's to hurt with trying?

Since you 99.99% chance you own the copyright to the full game, simply port it in its entirety to Flash on Newgrounds or Kongregate, as well as this site, and hype it up for Kickstarter. Might as well do the ZX Spectrum's Zub (which of course, if you didn't allow it to be on World of Spectrum yet, do it), and Wetris (or have a download link to the PC version of Wetrix (or simply remake it yourselves and put it up to date, and as an indie on Steam and the PS Vita).

And if is very slight chance that you don't, then Tradewest is dead, so whatever. Add in new levels in an unoccupied area, make Zob as a new area boss (in which case, Plok "forgot" about him due to sleep related amnesia in the comic), pay off the Follins in royalties if you don't own the music, and then, you have yourself a new fanbase to those too lazy to play it on SNES or to use ZSNES or something.

Comment by Guest Nathan, added Sun, 29 Mar 2015 21:45:50 GMT

>What's to hurt with trying?

Well there's a huge amount of time and effort involved with making the sort of demo people expect to see.

But I'd find it terribly demoralising to fail with a kickstarter. Not sure I want to go through that.

We own the rights to the SNES game but we don't have any source code. There's no way to port it that I'm aware of other than rewriting it from scratch.

Comment by JPickford, added Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:31:58 GMT

The time has come!

Comment by Mr. Polygon, added Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:28:50 GMT

Now, don't set me on fire and throw me out immediately,... but download the ROM take it apart?

Comment by Guest Johan, added Wed, 22 Apr 2015 19:12:38 GMT

What about a Wii U Virtual Console release?

If you have the rights to the original SNES game and licensing isn't a problem, then surely it's just a matter of supplying them with the ROM and asking them to put it on the Wii U VC service?

Comment by Guest Nuclear Muffin, added Wed, 22 Apr 2015 22:07:40 GMT

Oh hiya zob

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