Comic:Planescape Survival Guide
| Planescape Survival Guide | |
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| Artist: | Travers Jordan |
| Writer: | Travers Jordan |
| Characters: | Torin, Elera, Archimedes, Tchicktandolaptrexilbra (to name a few) |
| Updates: | weekly |
| Began: | April 21, 2005 |
| Ended: | n/a |
| Art style: | Hand/Computer drawn, computer colored/shaded |
| Rating: | Web-PG |
| Website | Website |
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Planescape Survival Guide
Planescape Survival Guide is drawn, written, and colored and all that stuff by Travers Jordan. The comic is a parody of TSR/Wizards of the Coast's 'Planescape' Campaign Setting. The ongoing plotline focuses on the misadventures of a group of heroes trying to save the Multiverse (that is, multiple universes) from total destruction.
It updates once a week. Though some early comics are in black and white, all the new comics are fully colored.
Characters
The comic features a rather huge number of characters, including two sets of heroes, a cadre of villains, and numerous others. Also see Planescape Characters Page.
The Main Good Guys
The main good guys are born and bred to the Planes, with the city of Sigil as their homebase. Torin, Elera, and Talanard have been sent on a quest to gain intelligence on the Nothing.
- Archimedes, a sarcastic talking owl.
- Tchicktandolaptrexilbra (Tchick), a multiple-eyed, floating blue beholder. Has an odd love of apples, which he can generate out of thin air.
- Torin, a massively strong planar. Doesn't always think before he acts.
- Elera, a red-haired healer whose hair seems to actually be on fire. In fact, it is warm to the touch due to her father being from the Plane of Fire.
- Talanard, a half-elf wizard with partial amnesia. The memories that do recur aren't very happy ones.
The Other Good Guys
The other good guys hail from Shadowdale, a town in the Forgotten Realms. They are in pursuit of Varlan, Vec Trasden, and Delia, who kidnapped a number of children from the town for nefarious puproses of their own.
- Eldon, known as the D.O.M. (Dirty Old Man), a middle-aged cleric whose primary lines of thought focus on women and booze.
- Gerand, the requisite sarcastic guy. Also a wizard.
- Telvrin, scatter-brained crazy elf. Occasionally plays the banjo as he is a bard.
- Twagnonalirathon (Twag), half-elf thief with a bad habit of disarming traps by triggering them.
- Tommy, a series of human fighters clad in full plate and wielding long swords. Through some strange quirk of fate, every Tommy that dies is quickly replaced by another. They have names, but our heroes don't usually try to learn them.
- Milny Boldoffin, endlessly talking halfling girl. Usually seen smiling widely or talking.
- Fred, a big orange dragon. Milny's old buddy, he doesn't eat humans because they taste so bad, and elf is even worse.
The Bad Guys
- The Nothing, not a bad guy so much as an unstoppable force that is consuming all of existence.
- Merrel, a black-robed cultist whose wizardly powers are rather strong. He seems bent on propagating the Nothing's advance.
- Varlan, battle-cleric of Cyric, a god of Faerun.
- Vec Trasden, Varlan's faithful assassin.
- Delia, haunted wizardess and sometime follower of Varlan.
- Sarn Kellfrock, high priest of the dark god Jergal, creator of the Nothing.
