#048 – Ragnarok Pt 3: Deus Ex Machina

Kevin

20 October, 2006 13 October, 2020

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COMIC NOTES

‘Ragnarok Pt 3: Deus Ex Machina’ was completed 20/10/06.
This is the final part of the Ragnarok trilogy.
The ‘offer’ was of course made by Sonic at the end of Sonic Heroes.
6.28 seconds? Sounds rather like 2 x Pi to me.
Character death! So much for The Wiseman.
Tails’ line about evil clowns was actually voted for by the Sonic Wrecks fans in a unique poll after AAUK couldn’t agree on what line of several to use.
Wait a minute, the good guys are getting beaten. What the hell?!!
Actually in all seriousness the Ragnarok trilogy as a whole really solidified Sonic Wrecks’s reputation. That the loose story suddenly got super serious really took people by surprise and got a lot of chatter at the time.
There are so many new sprites here I’m not going waste my time listing them.
Note when Angelus goes to the fallen Frost he comes VERY close to losing it and becoming the personification of his divine half ‘Gatekeeper’. As Alzari points out that would be pretty bad.
What’s happened to Omega?
“We’ll see, about THAT!” is from Half-Life 2 Episode 2.
Isaac Asimov wrote the Robots series of books.
“My God (it’s) full of stars.” is a famous line from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Disclaimer time! Yes, unfortunately DC had managed to set his hand on fire at the time of release.
The remarks about name stealing are due to AAUK discovering that the name of the Babylon Guardian boss of Sonic Riders in Japan was curiously known as ‘Angelus The Gatekeeper’ named not long after SEGA Japan started frequenting the site. The timing of which was very suspect.
‘Deaf Canadian huskies’ is a reference to Diefenbecker from the television series ‘Due South’.
“Red, sky of red, red the colour, the colour I hate.” comes from the English version of ‘Rei’s Poem’ in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
The remark about clocks is about the style of artist Salvador Dali.
The bottom image is a parody of the health warnings printed on cigarette packets within the UK.
And no AAUK doesn’t smoke.

Kevin

Writer of words and comics, streamer of games, presenter of radio shows and eternal 'just a guy'. LMC's boss-man has worked on projects for SEGA, Square Enix, Konami, Capcom and more. Once co-created and hosted an international fan-convention because he can do that sort of thing. Used to be known as AAUK/ArchangelUK.