He is mighty as the pen
"In 1985, a 10 year old boy created a comic book greatly inspired by political and pop culture of the time. his story, an elite american military force fighting against an elite american terrorist force in a 14 issue series the forces of good and evil will battle it out in a huge orderly world."
— Jim Sevins at the beginning of each episodes
DWEN
is an independent 14 issue military comic book created by Tim Clark.
The series is Axe Cop meets G.I. Joe meets Rambo meets M.A.S.K. meets the politcal Iran Contra affair but the comic series is both written and illustrated by Tim Clark during 1985 in his 5th grade year in elementary school around math class. Decades later (circa 2011), Tim rediscovered his series as an adult and remade it as an animated motion comic. The first episode debuted at June 14, 2011, Flagday.
The story follows a brave military leader named DWEN who leads a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits to battle against a terrorist organization called D.O.D, led by Zarring and Qwen who have been hellbent on destroying DWEN's forces.
DWEN! contains the following tropes
- Casual Danger Dialogue: DWEN before taking impact from a missile that hit a leaking barrel of gas
- DWEN: well, here goes my christmas vacation.
- Limited Animation: The first three episodes used camera pans but the animation improves in episode 4
- Shout-Out: The series was said to be inspired by a list of popular things in 80s for example:
- G.I. Joe: It pays homage to the 80s comic series as well including the MARVEL logo,and some lookalike characters
- Rambo: white ninja and black ninja based from the animated series and a badguy version of Rambo named Zambo
- M.A.S.K.: Zarring wears a mask similar to the cartoon but only because he got disfigured by a bomb
- Red Dawn (1984): Russia gets involved in the comic as well
