PMD: VF - 399-400: On Thunder's Wings by sulfurbunny on DeviantArt

Celebrating 400 pages with a two page spread!

It's hard to believe it took this long--or indeed, that we even got this far. I've been looking forward to this guy's arrival since the start of Victory Fire.

~~so, how many people only just realized that VF was actually a Pokemon Colosseum comic all along?~~

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The-Lawful-Good Featured By Owner Feb 6, 2018

For some reason, when I saw Wes the John Cena meme played through my head...

Rain-Twister Featured By Owner Jan 29, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist

That moment when you've played the games these characters come from and you just can't help but squeel with delight.

Glen-i Featured By Owner Sep 28, 2017 Hobbyist Digital Artist

OK, Bonus points for bringing in Wes of all characters.

Recneps8 Featured By Owner Feb 7, 2017

of course, I KNEW it was going to be him, who else deals with shadow pokemon so swagingly like him?

Emerald4713 Featured By Owner Edited Aug 17, 2016 Student Photographer

Is that the player character from pokemon colosseum in the last panel? 0_0

Lord-Siver Featured By Owner Aug 26, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

NO REALLY? I mean what told you? Cipher organization? Orre man? Maybe it was that he mentioned Pokemon Colosseum in the description?

Captain obvious strikes again

Emerald4713 Featured By Owner Aug 26, 2016 Student Photographer

It was a legitimate question. Cipher organization went over my head and I didn't read the description. Chill :/

Lord-Siver Featured By Owner Aug 26, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

you always should read the discription before asking questions. Spares you from a lot of dumb questions.

Tenshineko01 Featured By Owner Aug 3, 2016 Hobbyist General Artist

I love this guy, what's his name? Wes?

YukiNitta Featured By Owner Jun 23, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Wes? Hoe'd he get to Unova all the way from Orre?

AShinyBluMew Featured By Owner Apr 22, 2016

Wes, but what about Michael? You know, the one that captured Shadow Lugia?

MKBrony Featured By Owner Feb 20, 2016

YES!! I was hoping Wes would be in this!!!

Jestloo Featured By Owner Dec 8, 2015 Student General Artist

YES!! Wes is here! So happy!

wolftail1999 Featured By Owner Nov 26, 2015 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I legit had to take a minute and relieve my sudden influx of emotion (AKA, I spazmed out). I never, in all of my time reading this comic, guessed that Wes would show up. I internally flipped my fucking shit. I love Wes (As in, he's one of my fave characters out of the entire pokemon franchise)
I was not mentally prepared.
Not at all.
What do i do with all of these feels?

wolftail1999 Featured By Owner Nov 26, 2015 Hobbyist Digital Artist

PS. I'm a stup for not guessing that he'd show up. Like srsly.

ArwingPilot114 Featured By Owner Nov 22, 2015 Hobbyist General Artist

DUDE.

CALLED IT.

Freaking waited so long to see Wes appear ever since you first introduced the Shadow Pokemon.

ZetatheSixth Featured By Owner Nov 22, 2015

Alright first, A.) Called it and B.) Shouldn't Wes be like 10 yrs older or something from the time of Colosseum?

Mightyena-of-Hoenn Featured By Owner Nov 25, 2015 Hobbyist General Artist

Well, there's not really any specified time between the majority the games. Since Sulfur did mention Lugia being purified by Michael, it would be at maximum that he'd be five years older according to the time between Colosseum and Gale of Darkness.

Mightyena-of-Hoenn Featured By Owner Feb 10, 2016 Hobbyist General Artist

Whoops. Minimum I meant.

ZetatheSixth Featured By Owner Nov 26, 2015

Longer than that, but had you done your research you'd know that.

Tailbolt Featured By Owner Edited Nov 19, 2015

I have a feeling that those two humans that're Pokemon are going to meet Wes and N. Just a theory. (Yeah I forgot their names XD)

Mightyena-of-Hoenn Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2015 Hobbyist General Artist

I'd expect so, since Jen and Gengar are the main protagonists.

YellowRaichu Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2015 Hobbyist Writer

I only recently found this comic, but now I'm feeling like I should read it right from the start when I have the chance, thanks to this page.

Veneren426 Featured By Owner Edited Nov 19, 2015

You might end up as I did most likely, read a page, fall in love (so to speak) and binge the whole dang comic from start to current point. (assuming you haven't done so already).

sulfurbunny Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2015

If you do end up doing that, I apologize sincerely for the early Mewtwo drawings

EpicJustin Featured By Owner Edited Nov 18, 2015

The Pokemon Coleseum games were the first 3d games in the series...
Also when does Wes get to steal some Pokemon from the badguys?

I figured it out when Cipher was first mentioned...

jurassiq Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2015 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I just made the happiest face. xD Wes is one of my all-time favorite Pokemon protagonists, and I'm excited to see you two's take on his personality! I already adore him just from his first few lines in the comic haha. x3

Congrats on 400 pages! I hope you both enjoy creating this comic for many pages to come. c: I certainly enjoy reading it! It's got some of the best pacing, writing, panel layouts, and art I've seen in a long time.

sulfurbunny Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2015

Trivia: Wes was originally only going to have a brief cameo, but he absoutely stole the show here in his first appearance, so he will be a major recurring character after this. I don't think that's too much of a spoiler to say!

jurassiq Featured By Owner Nov 21, 2015 Hobbyist Digital Artist

That's not too much of a spoiler, more neat behind the scenes facts. x3 I'm excited to see more of him as the comic goes on!

Hyperion1997 Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2015 Hobbyist General Artist

what? wait what?

gamer2332 Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2015

Holy crap, Wes!?

ScykraelicSpider Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2015

I am elated as I am disappointed.

Side note: So what did Wes/Leo do with the previous snag machine after the plot of Colosseum?

Pilinonamae Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2015 Student Digital Artist

MICHAEL/WES/LEO, he is there! *Yells to world* Orre's hero is back!

Dedalo-el-Hispano Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2015

*EXCITEMENT*

Ferngirl Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2015 Hobbyist General Artist

Aaaah, you have a way of choosing some of my favorite games and characters @__@

Kylemon123 Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2015

And just like that, I've shotgunned the entire series in the space of an hour and a half. You do some damn good work, sulfur. Some unexpected twist and turns, really cohesive storytelling, and from what I noticed, not too many off-model moments for the characters. You should be proud of what you have managed to create so far, and I look forward to more in the future.

sulfurbunny Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2015

Y-you mean some of the characters are sometimes off-model? bursts into hysterical tears
...haha ~~yeah it's mewtwo isn't it~~
Thanks for the kind comments! Plenty more of VF to come yet, we're not nearly done.

Piplup-Luv Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2015 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Is that who I think it is? The main character from the Colosseum game? :D (Big Grin)

I honestly never thought you'd incorporate Colosseum into the comic as Gale of Darkness is the more well-known game featuring Shadow Pokemon. But yay! More games more epicness! I am a dummy!

blaze000925 Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2015 Hobbyist General Artist

so what of the ice dragon where is he

Readrunners Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2015

Why the text is there. Why is Zekrom only shown half-body. I was going to use it as a wallpaper
(whining)

sulfurbunny Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2015

Would seem an odd choice, it wasn't designed for use as a wallpaper. Is it Wes or Zekrom you're particularly after? Because I could maybe draw a wallpaper-suitable image, but canonically they don't really go together

Readrunners Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2015

Ahaha, no I know you don't mean it to be a wallpaper. However, some of the earliest page DO indeed make a nice wallpaper in my mobile phone. It's exactly because I've never seen Wes and Zekrom together, it makes a nice picture. It's a personal taste, but I prefer your style in the comic rather than your full picture. Like the one with Darkrai vs Mew after he vote.

UBA3 Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2015

Anyone else think it's interesting that Wes arrived on Zekrom, pokemon of IDEALS? Canonically, Wes presumably gets Ho-Oh, so it's not like there wasn't another way for him to make a big entrance. This could be hinting at something here.

MythicEnder Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2015

Sulfurbunny....You are Badass

( never thought colosium would get mixed up In this)

HikariOkami Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2015

Yeah! He looks so cool the way you draw him. So glad it was him and not the kid from XD.

sulfurbunny Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2015

No offense to Michael, and XD was a great game, but I really hated him after going from Wes and the coolest motorcycle on the planet to a pre-teen doofus on a scooter. On the plus side, Michael didn't have Rui permanently attached to his side like an organic restraining bolt. ~~ever wondered if she followed Wes into restrooms to make sure he didn't snag any pokemon in there~~

HikariOkami Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2015

I remember that it was possible to get Rui caught on the edges of ramps in Agate, separating her from Wes. I had quite a bit of fun with that back then.
Maybe that's where she is now in VF, stuck perpetually on a corner, haha.