One final adventure... or maybe not?
"Right! (ugh) Sorry! Hey listen... I got a crazy idea. (hrgh) You know that road trip we were going to take to College? What if we left right now?
— Legzi
An eight-issue comic miniseries spun-off from the Role-Playing Game web show Drawga, produced by Drawfee. Set before Season Two, it tells the story of the eponymous Power Trio's last summer before college.
Legzi is estatic to be going to Darkmouth University in the fall with her friends Gina and Rox, only to have her dreams crushed after having had her application denied. Realizing that this could be the end for the Ladies Book Club, she decides to run away from home with her besties and start their college road trip early, without telling them that she's probably not coming along to Darkmouth when this is all over...
The comic was written by Jacob Andrews, Julia Lepitit (who played Ryjinah and Rah'ōxah in Drawga, respectively) and Tony Wilson. Different female artists were chosen to illustrate each issue.
The series consists of:
- Issue #1: Run, Run, Runaways
- Art by Patricia Daguisan.
- Issue #2: Headstones and Microphones
- Art by Sammy Borras.
- Issue #3: Feel Better Soon
- Art by Gabrielle Gomez.
- Issue #4: Thanks for the Memories
- Art by Mady G.
- Issue #5: Fed Up
- Art by Rose Bousamra.
- Issue #6: The Ol' College Try
- Art by Alejandra Gamez.
- Issue #7: Nowhere, Fast
- Art by Gaby Epstein.
- Issue #8: End of the Road
- Art by Amanda Castillo.
Originally published on dropout.tv with US access only, it has since been made avaliable for an international audience on Webtoons
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Shares a character page with the main show.
Tropes:
- All Take and No Give: Rox feels that her relationship with her friends deteriorates into this, with her only role being to save them while they just bicker and otherwise ignore her. For this reason, she decides that they need a break from each other and temporarily leaves the Ladies Book Club.
- Anachronic Order: While set before Season Two of Drawga, the comic was released midway through it. The Ol' College Try goes even further back.
- Animate Inanimate Object: In the Memory Jammer Workshop simulation, #1 Dad brings a stuffed mammtopus — a cross between a mammoth and an octopus — to life, forcing Rox to fight it. Apparently this isn't exiting enough for her, as she tries to call in another one! When that doesn't work, the LBC decide to end the simulation, realizing that they're being played with.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When listing possible destinations to visit, our heroines bring up The Shrieking Chasm of Orgoth, The Obelisk of Eternal Despair, and... Mount Rushmore?
- Big Damn Heroes: In Nowhere, Fast, Rox manages to save Legzi at the last moment, having found the villain's hideout after spotting the light reflecting off Button's newly shined shoes.
- Broad Strokes: Seems to be in effect. The name for the setting — Somewherica — was introduced here and later brought into the main Drawga show. The Vanguard has also been shown to exist in a flashback. However, the death of Legzi's mother is an important plot point here, while the show has stated that she is still alive. (It was Rah'ōxah's dad who was a single parent.)
- Call-Forward: It's pointed out that our heroines aren't getting their questing licences until they start at Darkmouth, meaning that unlike the proper assignments they undertake in Drawga, here they have to rely on a "bootleg quest" from a shady peddler.
- Cassandra Truth: Dahlia and Olive don't actually believe Legzi when she claims to be seventeen, and congratulate her on her supposed attempt at deception.
- Combining Mecha: The Dads cars all combine to form "Dadbot." Parodied with the Ladies Book Club, who try to pull of this trope by simply riding on each others shoulders. It... doesn't go well.
- Continuity Cavalcade: The Drawfee versions of the Pokémon Machamp, Virizion, Gardevoir, Maractus and Uxie appear as spectators in the Porfdome.
- Contrived Coincidence: Out of all the people in a crowded bus station, Dahlia Delilah Deep Pockets just happens to chose Rox — one of Legzi's closest friends — as her pickpocketing target.
- Cute Monster Girl: The Lovely Assistant at the Porfdome is a centipede woman.
- Dark Secret: Legzi spends most of the comic hiding the fact that she didn't get accepted into Darkmouth, not wanting to ruin what might be her last vacation with her friends. She finally confesses in the last issue, at which point her father takes pity on her and talks the Dean into letting her into the school after all.
- Deconstructor Fleet: Fed Up in particular is all about deconstructing various tropes found in Role Playing Games:
- Legzi spent their last savings on the sidequest in the last issue. As it turns out adventurers need to eat too, so our protagonists have to do a risky bootleg quest just to put food on their table.
- Not eating for a few days make Ryjinah and Legzi very irritable, leading to a lot of Teeth Clenched Team Work.
- The local shopkeeper does not accept whatever random (literal) crap you throw at him.
- The Treacherous Quest Giver does not have Plot Armor, so there's really nothing stopping Rox from going back and robbing him.
- If the knitterer is any indication, the Quest Placement Center provides all sorts of paid services, some completely unrelated to fighting.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: Rox wants to beat Mr. Mooshy, the reigning master of the Tournament of Strength. To her dismay, it turns out to be a contest of emotional strength.
- Demonic Possession: Legzi is possessed by a plethora of ghosts in the haunted house, giving her Glowing Eyes and causing her to levitate. Gina makes her snap out of it by throwing the lunchbox containing Don Juan's possessed poop at her.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Rox manages to win a drinking contest against the mighty demon Bierruh'n the Brew-Bringer. Afterwards she claims that she has "consumed a lifetime's worth of alcohol", and "shall never be able to drink again."
- Gina: That's right! Our friend is an amazing and occasionally disgusting oddity!
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Legzi's dad serves as the main antagonist, trying to stop his daughter from going to college as he wants her to focus on the family business.
- Fate Worse than Death: Dahlia puts kids who misbehave — or just get too old — on a literal bus to nowhere, which never reaches its destination, ever!
- Foreshadowing:
- Feel Better Soon is largely set in and around the Porfdome in Porfopolis. This is perhaps the first indication we get of Porfo's influence within Somewherica.
- The Dean of Darkmouth is said to have two sons, so of course he's on the Council of Dads too.
- Fountain of Youth: Legzi decides to make herself and her friends younger in the VR simulation, so that it will be as if they truly never missed the field trip.
- Fury-Fueled Foolishness: Legzi and Gina basically pass the Idiot Ball between themselves, deliberately making every mistake in the book, because they're so hungry, angry and just plain fed up with each other that they simply don't care. Rox ends up having to save them both.
- Inside a Computer System: The Memory Jammer Workshop allows people to experience shared, hyper-realistic VR simulations between at least three people.
- Kill It with Fire: Rox lets out a fair bit of frustration by destroying the VR machine and all simulations in it, which causes the whole building to burn down. Granted, the simulations were never really alive to begin with.
- Milkman Conspiracy: The "Council of Dads", of which Legzi's father is a member. They hold meetings in a secret chamber wearing Black Cloaks and everything.
- Mundane Made Awesome: The "Tournament of Strength" is actually just a storytime session/acting face-off... performed in a fighting ring in front of a highly enthusiastic crowd more suited for a sporting event.
- Mundane Wish: When given the chance to simulator any fantasy coming true, Legzi simply chooses to go to a museum she never got the chance to visit before. Even Ryjinah thinks it's a pretty lame wish.
- Murderous Mannequin: Quadzo sends out enchanted mannequin legs after his daughter in an attempt at bringing her back home. They are probably not meant to kill anybody, but they do still attack the LBC while driving! We later learn that the burning pile of "dead" legs left on the road after the chase ended up killing 227 innocent people. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero indeed...
- Nailed to the Wagon: Exaggerated. The bus passengers are so obsessed with getting exactly the right kind of pastries that a riot breaks out when Legzi replaces them with a different, similar-looking type. Nobody seems to notice that the pastries which disappeared are the same ones which just showed up in another stand only five feet away and vice versa.
- Never Meet Your Heroes: Ryjinah is very disappointed to see that her former idol Don Juan Di #Micdrop has become a gross, narcissistic Lazy Bum.
- Noodle Incident: Feel Better Soon starts off with a mild Time Skip, during which the LBC apparently picked up a hitchhiker who turned out to be the son of the Lord of the Radigator Empire, and reunited him with his father, whom he hadn't seen in 30 years.
- Nothing Is Scarier: The first sign that something is wrong with the previously rather loud-mouthed Legzi in the haunted house is that she suddenly goes completely silent.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In the haunted house, Rox saves her friends by somehow knocking out the ghosts. (She claims that it's hard, but certainly possible.)
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Unlike in the main Drawga show, Rah'ōxah and Ryjinah are referred to exclusively by their nicknames Rox/Roxy and Gina, respectively.
- Pisstake Rap: Ryjinah ends up facing off against Don Juan in one. She wins by uttering his real name, cursing him to a Fate Worse than Death.
- Pre-Sacrifice Final Goodbye: Legzi bids farewell to Rox in a letter, believing that Deliah will banish her into the nothingness due to her refusal to rob her friend.
- Dear Rox,
Everything you said was right. I was inconsiderate.
The only thing that hurts more than your absense is knowing that I hurt you.
But I know this, I would rather disappear into nothingness than ever willingly betray you.
Love always,
Legzi.
- Questionable Consent: Ryjinah apparently thought it was appropriate to fill the VR simulation with lecherous (and seemingly non-sentient) "hot dudes", even though she never asked her friends for permission and they were all inhabiting pre-pubresent bodies at that moment. Rox takes it upon herself to literally punch the apparations out of existence.
- Random Events Plot: The very episodic roadtrip premise leads to our protagonists driving from town to town and having a new adventure in each issue. There is Character Development which carries over between segments, however.
- Sleeping Dummy: Legzi puts mannequin legs under her sheets, in order to sneak out using a Bedsheet Ladder made — again — out of mannequin legs.
- Slippery Skid: Legzi tries throwing both Rox's mazes and sandwiches from the Vanguard at the pursuing mannequin legs, to little effect. Then she throws a single banana peel, which somehow causes all of them to fall over.
- Spoof Aesop: End of the Road, which ends with the Asop that Nepotism solves everything, and connections are more important than talent.
- There Was a Door: The Dean of Darkmouth is rather angry at Quadzo Shortstack for busting the school gates open, as they could have just unlocked them. Quadzo himself couldn't care less.
- Quadzo Shortstack: We Shortstacks do what we want!
- Two Beings, One Body: The announcers at the Tournament of Strength are siamese twins — possibly an ogre — with four arms, two heads and slightly different facial features.
- Video Phone: Legzi has an even more advanced version, which is basically a smartphone with a hologram projector.
- What You Are in the Dark: In the VR simulation, Legzi and Ryjinah start fighting, which culminates in the former calling the latter stupid, which they are both stunned by. They apologize to each other at the end, understanding that while the system was rigged against them, the words they threw at each other were all their own.
- Whole-Plot Reference: Nowhere, Fast is essentially a condensed version of Oliver Twist, with Legzi being recruited by a Fagin-like villain and her young gang of pickpocketers.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Don Juan is finally freed from his shit-infested lunchbox prison in the last issue... only to be immediately squashed flat by the Dadbot.
