Comic:Grand Theft Auto: The Webcomic
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| Grand Theft Auto: The Webcomic | |
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| Artist: | Franck Santos |
| Writer: | Franck Santos |
| Characters: | |
| Updates: | Intermittently |
| Began: | June 21, 2005 |
| Ended: | |
| Art style: | |
| Rating: | Web-MA |
| Website | Website |
Grand Theft Auto: The Webcomic is a fan webcomic by Franck Santos, based on the hit game series by Rockstar Games. The webcomic is adapted from a fanfiction written for an RPG thread in GTAForums.com. The comic was originally updated every 4-5 days but updates have become more rare recently due to the author's college commitments.
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Story
| Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. |
After a brief intro, the webcomic opens to the year 1992, and what appears to be a mother, father and son having a nice Christmas lunch in St. Mark's Bistro in Liberty City. Suddenly, a gunman dressed in a black tailored suit walks into the Bistro and starts killing the bodyguards around the entrance. The father, it turns out, is actually the Don of the Forelli Mafia Family, and the gunman - though not explicitly identified - is none other than Carl "CJ" Johnson, on a mission assigned by rival Don Salvatore Leone (St. Mark's Bistro mission, GTA: SA) to wipe out the Forelli family leadership. The Don and his family try to flee to the back lot behind the Bistro but are cornered. CJ kills the Don and his wife before they can escape in their car, and plants a bullet in his son Zeno's chest. CJ presumes him dead but Zeno survives (the author attributes this to the 'miraculous' power of the in-game paramedics to revive anyone).
Over the remainder of his childhood years the Forellis would fall from power as a mob family, culminating in an incident in 2001 (not yet revealed) that would force him to leave the city and the mob life behind.
Fast forward to 2005, and a grown Zeno Forelli has returned to Liberty City, hoping the heat has died down. He also aims to start anew as a wheelman for the city's Colombian Cartel. At the bus station he is picked up (in the style of a kidnapping) by members of the Cartel. They take him to the Cartel's headquarters - a mansion in Shoreside Vale. There he meets (an apparently alive) Miguel, who despite having heard of Zeno's reputation as a street racer is not very enthusiastic to hire him. Nevertheless, he assigns him to an Import/Export garage - familiar to GTAIII players - not too far from the mansion.
Zeno's arrival at the garage with even less enthusiasm by its owner Marcos Lopez, who hires Zeno only because his previous driver had been killed.
The current storyline has Zeno delivering his first car to the Import/Export garage.
Characters
Note: These are the characters listed at the current point of the webcomic story arc. More appear in the written stories but will not be added here yet.
Zeno Forelli
The main antagonist (or evil protagonist) of the webcomic. His defining mark is a scar on the left side of his head suffered from the incident which forced him to flee the city. The scar includes his left ear, of which half is missing. He doesn't talk much (though definitely more than Claude from GTA3. Zeno is mild-mannered but can get the job done with reasonable prejudice when required. He isn't much of a marksman but is superbly skilled behind the wheel. He also knows some street-fighting techniques.
Marcos Lopez
Owner of the Import/Export garage in Shoreside Vale. He has a twin brother Diego, who runs the garage's counterpart in Portland Harbor. Marcos has a quick temper and despises having Zeno as his delivery boy.
Miguel
The leader of Liberty City's Colombian Cartel. He has been relegated to a wheelchair after having been partially impaled through the spine with a torture stick. That however has not compromised his machismo. He's not very open to having people without Hispanic blood working for his organization, much like the Mafia often do not prefer non-Italians under their wing.
Cars
The author follows in the tradition of GTA not using any licensed vehicles despite the vehicles bearing similarity to their licensed counterparts (noted in Parentheses). The vehicles are listed as they appear in the series.
- Sentinel (BMW E28 5 Series) - A sleek German touring sedan and - in tuned form - a vehicle of choice for Liberty City's Mafia. While it appears briefly in Chapter 1 as Don Forelli's mode of transport, only the Leones have used versions of it since the late 90's while others switched to different models to help distinguish their respective families.
- Cartel Cruiser - (Cadillac Escalade EXT/Chevy Avalanche) The standard vehicle of the Colombian Cartel and a symbol of their members' reported machismo. Large enough to be used as a makeshift battering ram when brought up to speed.
- Turismo - (Ferrari F50) Appears briefly in the second chapter, passing the Cruiser transporting Zeno. An Italian exotic that zips past most corners.
- Elegant/Taxi - (Ford Crown Victoria) The first vehicle Zeno has to bring to the garage. The most common - and most average - vehicle found in Liberty City. Despite the prevailing stereotype a few are actually not driven by South Asians in turbans (true in-game as it is in-comic, as both taxi drivers seen are not South Asian).
- Cadrona - (Chevrolet Cavalier Z24) The car driven by Misfile's Ash during her cameo in the webcomic, and a lightweight sport compact often tuned by young racers. Note that the Cadrona is actually an RWD car in the GTA games although its real-life counterpart is FWD.
Trivia
- The author has confirmed that Zeno's first name comes from a character using it as his surname in Mario Puzo's novel Omerta.
- The author's name and initials appear in the first five pages of the webcomic (including the original first page.)
- Misfile's star Ash Upton makes an appearance in the latest of his pages, the author attributes his site's recent upsurge in hits to the cameo alone.
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