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00:00 Cosmo, issue 1.
00:02 It starts with Captain Max making a final "Captain's Log" that his spaceship lost all power on the way to Mars.
00:10 You'd think the story would start by explaining why it lost all power.
00:15 At least the comic's easier to make myself review than a TV show.
00:20 His spaceship gets put in a tractor beam, and it complains about how bright it's written to be just in this series, when I don't know tractor beams to be bright.
00:29 I picture them to be green, but not extremely bright.
00:33 It makes sense that a tractor beam would come with a spotlight just so the person generating it with a button press could see what it's lighting up from the spaceship.
00:41 Max plans to deliver a message of "I told you so" when he gets home because he got abducted by aliens.
00:48 Why is he smirking when saying "if I get back home"?
00:53 After all, he immediately gets scared at the idea that there's an alien behind him and runs away.
00:59 Cosmo tries to welcome him and asks her to tell him he's bolted, even though he'd be able to immediately see that he's not there.
01:07 This is gonna be a long comic.
01:11 Cosmo pities Max while calling him a thing, and Medulla continues the casual racism that isn't being called out in characters that we're oddly supposed to like regardless,
01:23 because she insists that Earthlings can react unpredictably and violently when under pressure, when she should know the same would apply to any other species.
01:33 Cosmo's smart enough to know they'll be fine at least, and tells friends to split up,
01:38 and Medulla looks forward to lab samples as Aster refers to Max as an "it", which is the most cringe-worthy thing of all.
01:47 It looks like Earthlings barely interact with Martians then, especially since Max just assumes that the aliens are bloodsucking for no reason,
01:56 when aliens aren't known for being vampires, and these aliens know more about Earthlings than he knows about aliens.
02:04 I guess he watched too many movies.
02:06 He hears Cosmo's cheerful greeting and turns dials to activate the sprinkler.
02:12 Cosmo tells him with his hands up that Mars doesn't keep the water on the surface where it could get dirty,
02:18 and Max is unfamiliar enough with Martians that he's surprised he speaks English, and he assumes they gathered intel on Earthlings.
02:26 It's sad when a character in the story has a better grasp on logic, because this will never be explained.
02:32 Sure is lame that despite it being referenced that he might not know his language, it's not immediately explained that he has a universal translator in his head,
02:40 because that'd be the common caring about logic.
02:43 Cosmo calls his friends with no visible phone and tells them stuff, and tells them to bring snacks for him.
02:49 So why would Max still think he's in danger after that?
02:53 That makes the rest of this forced, which makes this worse meaning than I expected.
02:58 Medulla was smart enough to bring every flavor of juice, Max ends up holding Cosmo by the arm threateningly in front of his friends,
03:05 and he gets told that the bar of soap isn't going to hurt anybody.
03:09 Wouldn't he have already known that because he's obviously in the shower?
03:13 Why would there be a weapon here?
03:15 Why would he even be able to smell it from a space helmet?
03:20 Why would someone so stupid even be allowed to train to be an astronaut?
03:24 Why would he mention that he'd surrender his favorite serial name if he was tortured?
03:29 It's just there for a forced joke, which is surprising enough to be charming, but still.
03:36 If this impossibly stupid idiot is the only really charming character in the comic, there's a big problem.
03:42 Cosmo thinks this is funny, and I wonder why Medulla was written to complain about there being no devouring when she was hungry,
03:49 as if she wanted to eat him, when she's supposed to be a sympathetic character.
03:53 I guess what she meant was that she thought he said there'd be no eating in general, and she wanted to eat something besides him.
04:00 Even with panders, I didn't have to explain why sympathetic main character was not cannibal.
04:05 Medulla is charming too, but not here because I'm wondering why she didn't give him the juices she was clearly told to give him,
04:14 and it said the writer forgets about it.
04:16 All the characters do.
04:18 Cosmo says Max steam cleaned his clothes so he's willing to forgive him, calls him friend, and shows him the kitchen.
04:25 There's a floating bowl with knives in it that's called a knife rack.
04:28 Why would it be made to float?
04:30 Wouldn't it constantly require energy to keep it upright?
04:33 I guess it floats with magnetism, but then don't make the bowl orange because then it just looks like an orange.
04:40 Max gets shown a gym where the bar can be set to any weight, even zero gravity.
04:45 I guess it's for moving the equipment around, and they have a gym to keep fit on very long space travels.
04:53 He tells Astrid to be nice and apologizes for how messy the bedroom is.
04:58 Why is Max surprised that he sleeps in a bed?
05:01 Astrid refuses to let him look at the cockpit, even though he's told Max won't be allowed to touch anything.
05:08 Why are we supposed to find her sympathetic when she's nothing but a jerk for no reason?
05:13 I don't blame Max for not instantly knowing that they're Martians because all of them look a different species,
05:19 and it'd sure be lazy if it was never explained how in the world that's possible.
05:24 You would think that it would've been debriefed on what Martian spaceships look like if they invented them,
05:29 and aliens already have history with Earthlings.
05:32 And he's lucky that he guessed that they're Martians in the first place.
05:36 Max gets told not to open the door because the security containment's containing something.
05:42 There's no justification for why he doesn't tell him what's in there.
05:46 So now I assume one of his worst enemies is in there, because if nothing was there,
05:51 first off, he'd just say that to reassure him, and second, there'd be no point in even showing this off ever.
05:58 So this implies that someone is there and he doesn't tell them that because he doesn't want to scare him,
06:03 and he also doesn't want to lie to him.
06:05 But again, I'm gonna be mad if he unlocks the door.
06:08 And he gets told he'll have to drop him off on Earth after he's done his business on Earth's moon.
06:14 Max naturally assumes that Cosmo has superiors, and gets told that he doesn't and that he travels for fun discovery.
06:22 Aren't everything in the solar system already been discovered if these people have spaceships with full control over gravity?
06:28 Most of the time there wouldn't be anything fun about traveling space because it's just nothingness.
06:33 And again, it's sad when the idiot character has better grasp on logic, because his assumption is more believable.
06:41 Why would a prequel comic not explain how they got the spaceship?
06:45 Max likes the sound of that.
06:47 The moon gets called the child of Earth and Theia, and Max gets condescended to unnecessarily and told that there's a theme park on the other side of the moon that was shut down years ago,
06:58 because it's too far for most Martians to travel, which is a bullshit reason.
07:03 Because if they needed a spaceship just to get to the moon, obviously it wouldn't be any trouble at all and barely require any more fuel for them to just go a little more ahead with a vast spaceship to the dark side of the moon.
07:14 What's too far to travel at this point?
07:17 She should've just stuck to saying the last excuse, that there's a better roller coaster under Olympus Mons.
07:23 Astra confirms that the distress signal is coming from the park, although somehow she can't pinpoint its source with her advanced technology.
07:32 Cosmo assumes that they could use Max's help without knowing anything about him other than the fact that he's an idiot.
07:39 He would've looked believable if he also had a thought bubble explaining that he wants to keep him around to keep him from sabotaging their ship or releasing the prisoner there.
07:48 Cosmo wonders why he spelled out UFO when obviously UFO sounds stupid, and the spaceship takes off and lands.
07:56 Astra gets scared too easily by Cosmo, which is satisfying.
08:01 She yells at him in one word that he's mean, which makes me wonder why she's always gonna be portrayed as if she's the mature one who should always be listened to.
08:10 And Cosmo's smart enough to know that the best place to start looking is the administration building in particular.
08:16 And Medulla wanders off because she detected someone with a convenience person detector.
08:22 It's lampshaded by the annoying coward beside her that this is how horror movies start.
08:27 Cosmo can't open the door, so Astra blasts it open with a laser.
08:31 And somehow he complains about this because it's private property and has to be told so that it's abandoned as justification, when he already knew that.
08:40 You'd think in such an advanced solar system people would've bothered to take it apart to salvage it for free materials.
08:47 It's just a waste to leave it here.
08:50 The alien that's here is surprised at seeing Martians and says he's unarmed, which doesn't reflect well on the Martians.
08:58 The ridiculous looking character wonders why they let them in, as I'm thinking that it only makes sense for the moon to have sentient beings on it if they weren't native to the place.
09:07 The story ends with them all being threatened by evil looking members of his species.
09:12 Not that it's that intimidating, since they look like pinkish purple Pac-Men.
09:17 The story had no plot until this point. It was all just about Max being impossibly stupid being paranoid of Cosmo, past the point where he should've been.
09:26 And it could've cut out a lot of the expendable panels to fit the next issue's story into this one.
09:31 Issue 2.
09:33 Madolla says she's having a hard time getting a clear reading while running away from a monster that's colored to look nothing like the monsters at the end of the last issue, somehow.
09:42 Cosmo and his friends have no moral qualms about shooting lasers at the monsters, thankfully.
09:47 But I have to wonder how they're missing every shot in a crowded room full of them.
09:52 I guess the monsters are just insanely fast.
09:55 Why does Max think the explosive decompression from shooting out the window would suck them all out of there, when he's the only one in a spacesuit, and he was clearly told that it's a theme park earlier?
10:06 So of course there's an artificial atmosphere to make people comfortable.
10:10 And his response continues with him being impossibly stupid.
10:14 He just makes me wish he wasn't in this comic.
10:17 I'm sure that the token kid could've grabbed the relics at the end of Mighty Marchin', and it'd be just as believable that he got them all to work.
10:24 So Max was unnecessary.
10:26 Astar runs out of the room carrying an alien to safety while Cosmo shoots, and at a time like this, Max wastes time telling him not to give him orders.
10:36 He agrees to follow his order just because he said "please" at least, and he throws something heavy looking at one of them.
10:43 He ends up too stoked to follow them, and Astar wants to leave him behind.
10:47 So are we literally not meant to think she's a good person?
10:50 Why is she written like this?
10:52 She was being smart, at a time like this, but still.
10:56 Cosmo takes too long making his way over to the monsters and falls into Max's arms.
11:01 Well, nothing interesting happened on the way to this point.
11:04 Maduel's shooting monsters with the Carnival Game Shooter's tennis balls, and Astar gets warned that they could run out of them, so she blasts the desk in front of them to send the monsters down.
11:15 And she says she's out of ammo, so the lasers have to come from some combustible material inside of them.
11:21 Eventually their pet turns into a ladder and catches up with them as they're on the roof.
11:25 The kid shows an affection saying "attaboy", and eventually Cosmo's rocket boots cause him to fly up to the roof.
11:33 The kid gets called "buddy" and wonders where Max is, and Max somehow manages to jump high enough to get to the top of the roof in one bound, apparently.
11:42 So I didn't know the roof was that low to the ground.
11:45 It's actually charming that when Cosmo says Earth's spacesuits don't have rocket boots, Max screams at him that no they don't have rocket boots.
11:54 I know the idea is Earth is behind him in technology, but if he's still going around without an oxygen tank on his back, then it still looks like Earth is insanely advanced at this point anyways.
12:04 So it's pretty unlucky that it doesn't have rocket boots with this impossible witch's spacesuit.
12:09 Maduel has to tell them using her scanner that go figure, the creatures below them have the same reading sense as Alien.
12:17 When it was always obvious that they were of the same species, and this alien had plenty of time to tell them that.
12:24 Max assumes that he's gonna transform into one of them any second, and the alien explains that he was trying to restore the amusement park with the crew,
12:32 when a woman came in with a very cheap supply order, which turned out to be the pink gems that turned them into monsters.
12:39 And there's no explanation for why he's the only one they've seen who hasn't been mutated.
12:44 So I have to assume that he isn't the only one, and he's just the only one they've found, and he avoided that fate because he was in a different room.
12:52 He was in the bathroom at the time.
12:54 So they find out that a princess of Venus is the culprit.
12:58 Sure is an inconvenience that the Lunas don't recognize the princess of Venus.
13:04 And I can't help but find it stilted that he calls them lunatics with a straight face.
13:09 Not literally the word lunatics either.
13:13 Madua says that she can use the information about this lunatic to make a cure if she gets back to the spaceship's lab.
13:20 The kid says jokingly that they could send Max to run ahead and ram through all of the monsters.
13:26 That'd only work if he was fast enough.
13:28 I actually like that Max stands up to him effortlessly by saying he could use his helmet as a battering ram.
13:34 Cosmo tells the pet to transform into a spin dash to clear the path.
13:39 And sadly it's not a straight shot from here to the spaceship, because the princess is still here.
13:45 But she didn't think any potential enemies would actually be here.
13:48 She could've just had the gems programmed to make the mutants want to spread the gems all over the place.
13:53 And that'd be common sense.
13:55 So she'd have nothing to do here.
13:57 So there's no excuse for the comic night ending in this issue.
14:01 All that happened in this story was that the heroes went through a theme park just to run from monsters failing to hurt them.
14:09 Sure is a lot of pages for that little plot.
14:11 I think it could've been cut down and fit into the previous issue.
14:15 Issue 3.
14:16 As I already have arc fatigue, the comic has the gall to waste an entire page on the unfunny joke where Max is making a captain's log that does nothing but recap the situation when he's in front of a bunch of monsters heading for him.
14:29 I guess they were so far away that they kind of caught up to him in all that dialogue that he didn't read.
14:34 The pet turns into a giant fly swatter for him, which he relatively finds gross and weird, but effective.
14:41 A hammer would've been more effective.
14:44 But at first I just appreciate it for being creative looking.
14:47 At least I get to see him impact one of them.
14:50 But the alien has a point that there's still people.
14:53 He could've easily not called Cosmo by his name and gotten the princess to waste even more time giving out exposition to Cosmo.
15:00 The story thinks that stuff is going on, but really nothing is going on.
15:05 Eventually Orbeet runs away, and Cosmo tells Medula and Asteroid to go back to the spaceship with him.
15:11 Max is the only one who seems effective in the fight because it really doesn't feel like the lasers are doing anything.
15:17 You'd think that outright lasers would either go straight through every enemy or turn them into ashes.
15:23 By going a kid-friendly route, it just makes it seem like they're as effective as shining light on them.
15:28 We don't see burn marks on them.
15:31 It's good that the heroes aren't killing them, though.
15:33 Asteroid says this is a previous mission all over again, and Cosmo says that this time they'll have their pants.
15:39 Did the writer realize how that line sounded?
15:42 I mean, Cosmo's talking to a girl.
15:44 Asteroid runs off, and Cosmo and Max are staying behind to find some time for the cure to get made and spread.
15:51 I just wish there was a time skip to it, because all of this friendly dialogue from Cosmo is insufferably sappy, cliche, and boring as a result.
15:59 I can't really appreciate this when Max is impossibly stupid, so I don't find this a heartwarming friendship.
16:06 It's more of the cardboard cartoon villains have a way to deflect lasers just by spinning her weapon.
16:12 Either that, or she literally is making a force field with it.
16:15 Cosmo is taking way too long to just say that it's cool that Max stayed behind to fight at his side.
16:21 Overly long-winded dialogue is something that's criticized and dubs.
16:25 Eventually, Max shakes his hand as he's called "friend," and it speaks to how disappointing a character Max is that I'm relating to the princess and thinking this is garbage.
16:35 There's no actual plot here.
16:38 It's just the characters doing the same attack over and over as the plot drags out.
16:44 Cosmo says Max's size makes him be a great shield, and the supposedly heartwarming scene is undermined because he immediately accuses them of being evil just for pointing out the truth in a teasing way, which he could have easily not done.
17:00 Naturally, the pack goes out of his hand and growls at him.
17:04 And sadly, the comic insists on padding itself out even more, because for absolutely no narrative reason, it wastes space on a worthless scene in the spaceship that doesn't involve Medula immediately saying she made a cure.
17:18 So Orby angstens that he left his friend behind, which could have been covered in just one panel, and Astrid comforts him.
17:26 Next!
17:27 What horrible pacing.
17:29 I'm not gonna be artificially forced into thinking this kid is a good character with cheap emotional manipulation when he still doesn't have a single personality trait.
17:38 Medula conveniently has a machine that as robot hands holds the alien still, even though I think this is the first time she's ever had to get samples from an alien, so I don't know why she has this.
17:51 I understand the scissors being above him, but what about the rest that scared him?
17:56 That doesn't make any sense.
17:58 And the results come out of a toaster as if they're toast, because she has a good sense of humor, which at least tries to make up for drama with levity that there isn't nearly enough of.
18:09 But at this point I'm just pissed off at how agonizingly inexcusably slow the pacing is.
18:15 Maybe if there was a lot more interesting stuff happening, I wouldn't be so bored.
18:21 She apologizes and reassures him and runs away, and at least the robot hand is programmed to pat him on the head.
18:28 She runs into an empty room with just Max and Spaceship, and somehow she wonders what to do now.
18:35 That entire scene could've been cut and nothing would've been lost.
18:39 Other than, God forbid, one of the issues in this comic.
18:44 If the princess always had a way to shock Max into submission simply by hitting him with the receptor.
18:50 It's pathetically forced that it took this long for her to do that.
18:55 Granted, I guess the excuse is that he didn't have the pet in his hand to protect him.
19:00 But couldn't she just shock the pet?
19:03 She knocks him into Cosmo and a cage gets put around them just for a cliffhanger ending that could've easily not happened if Cosmo hadn't been given the idiot's ball and taunted someone who's had serious trouble trusting him from the start when they're fighting for their lives.
19:19 After saying that, the only thing I need to do after this to summarize the story is say that the pacing is horrible in this, to the point of pissing me off.
19:29 There's nothing wrong with the story being condensed.
19:32 Too bad the text box taunts me by saying the final showdown when sadly the next issue isn't the final one.
19:39 Issue 4.
19:41 There's just no incentive for me to focus on the villain's bragging dialogue.
19:45 She doesn't have a unique personality. She's still just as hardboiled as ever.
19:50 If the writer knows to have Max lampshade out expositiony she is, he shouldn't have written it.
19:57 So that first page was wasted.
19:59 At least Max says he owes him an apology.
20:02 Oh, never mind. It's Cosmo.
20:04 I think both of them need to apologize.
20:07 There's nothing but padding after this until eventually a spaceship flies near the cage.
20:12 And the kid finally gets a personality trait, which is just that he's a coward.
20:17 But Max already feels that wrong.
20:19 Astro puts the ship on autopilot in this overly wordy dragged out page and throws him directly into the princess.
20:27 It would make sense if she was out of commission for the rest of the comic after this.
20:31 But no, there's one more issue after this.
20:35 Even though she'd have a concussion, he tries to use her weapon to threaten them and makes them bow down.
20:42 It makes sense that he starts laughing evilly because he was so stressed out before this point that he's desperate for any enjoyment in his sense of power that he can get.
20:50 But it's a bit weird for a hero.
20:52 I'd expect main characters of a kid's action series to be pure good.
20:58 And if they're anti-heroes, it should at least be lampshaded.
21:01 It's obvious that he'd be just like her if he was born into her position.
21:06 He makes the aliens do tricks like spell out his name and follow behind him in a marching band.
21:11 Because apparently their instruments were always just off screen for no reason near a theme park.
21:17 It's such a miracle that the princess is able to stand up after her head got rammed into by a helmet.
21:23 She'd still be groggy, wouldn't she?
21:26 It's sad. This is supposed to be her comic and she still doesn't have enough of a character to deserve me memorizing her name.
21:34 He throws the staff over to Cosmo.
21:37 It's pathetic that this issue is the only time it was useful.
21:41 I'm sure if Astro had something heavy to throw at the princess, then she could have done everything he did.
21:46 Cosmo getting the staff is pointless because he has to throw the staff to Max right away after somehow he just orders the mutants to stay still
21:55 instead of telling them to go grab the princess.
21:58 I guess all these guys are too self-righteous to simply tell the mutants to swarm and kill her.
22:03 Which could have saved us a lot of padding in the final issue of the Mighty Martian comic because the queen would have gone straight to monsterizing Cosmo.
22:11 He could have also told the mutants to run away.
22:15 Max has nice pass.
22:17 That's pointless too because after she misses her cackle, Max throws the staff to Orbee.
22:23 There's some levity because Astro says she loves playing keep away.
22:27 She intelligently says she could swoop down and really get out of range or just run over Cleo.
22:33 And I assume she won't do that because she knows she'll get nagged for it.
22:37 So it's official. She's not supposed to be a hero.
22:40 It's a miracle she got befriended by Cosmo and sticks with his team then if she's self-serving and pragmatic.
22:46 I thought she was her substitute Sally the whole time, but she's actually like Fiona.
22:51 It's too bad this comic insists on being kid-friendly because if she did run over Cleo, the comic would end here.
22:57 And I don't see a reason for it to be five issues.
23:00 I also don't see why it has to remain kid-friendly just because its earlier iteration was.
23:05 When Sabrina got a grimdark TV series recently, Madula tells her friends she made a cure as "I'm really bored."
23:13 She also reminds me of something to clue into her plan.
23:16 Then the princess threatens Orby with a knife, making me wonder why she didn't try this a little bit earlier.
23:22 That's right after he threw her staff the first time.
23:26 Max tells the pet to shapeshift into the staff off-screen and somehow thinks he can trick the princess into thinking she's holding a fake staff.
23:35 Even though the staff he's holding is obviously the pet.
23:38 And he looks sad because he knows this won't work.
23:42 I admit, that did make me smile. But this is an action series, not Spongebob where it makes sense to have impossible stupidity for the only joke all the time.
23:53 Cosmo calls Orby his buddy as he's apologized to, and finally the spaceship spills a bunch of soapy water on them in a creative way to cure all of the mutants.
24:03 So then why the fuck is there an issue after this?
24:06 At least it won't be as intolerable if it's not there just to extend an arc.
24:11 Sadly Cosmo's out of ammo, as his ray gun sprays water.
24:16 So is he actually planning to shoot Cleo to death?
24:19 I guess not, because then he'd have done that to the other princesses.
24:22 And then he would have avoided his whole team being captured later.
24:26 Max slips on the soapy floor so he can't keep the princess from getting away.
24:30 And I have to assume Cosmo thinks that if they tried to keep her from getting away, they'll slip too.
24:36 That reminds me, I read that the logic for Eggman not already being staffed for good is that he's just really good at getting away.
24:43 But he always stays on Earth's surface instead of retreating to his space station.
24:47 So as soon as the heroes find out which base he's living in, they could still kill him or something at any time.
24:52 So IDW really needs to rely on the idea that there's a billion Eggman bases, and so nobody can narrow down where he is.
25:00 Even if he had a space station to retreat to, the government would just get rid of it.
25:06 The point is they don't need to make Sonic naive and think he's gonna change to justify him still being around.
25:12 He can just get away.
25:14 I have to assume all of the heroes were out of ammo, because instead of them trying to go after her to shoot at her,
25:20 it cuts to a whole page being wasted on them being congratulated.
25:24 I don't care.
25:26 End already.
25:28 It's nice of Cosmo to thank the audience, but I swear, Flynn is the wordiest Sonic writer of all time.
25:33 At least when other writers are wordy, I still cared about the dialogue good enough not to notice.
25:38 Max briefly forgot about the deal where he'd get returned to Earth, and he refuses to go back to Earth,
25:43 because if he goes back now, he'll be forced into months of tests and depositions.
25:49 And the rest of the issue is blatantly wasted.
25:52 Nobody would care about this.
25:54 This story is just blatant agonizing padding, though I do like when they play keep away with the princess.
26:00 But that never would have happened, because she'd have instantly remembered she had a knife to threaten with.
26:05 Issue 5.
26:07 It starts with the spaceship's movement sending the main characters moving around, and the food falling.
26:12 Meanwhile, Medulla's finally shown up as a genius instead of a ditz or evil,
26:17 because she's sitting comfortably sipping tea in her lap.
26:21 And mocks the fact that her friends told her that four inertial dampeners in her lap was overkill.
26:27 Eventually the spaceship lands, Astra talks to it because she'd rather be reassuring to an inanimate object
26:33 than most of her friends most of the time, and she screams at Cosmo even though he's nice to her.
26:39 It turns out they landed on a planet outside the solar system, Arcadia.
26:45 Which really makes me want to call it Arcadia as that sounds better.
26:48 It's somehow an entire planet that's just a resort.
26:52 And Cosmo is humanized because he even has the Platinum membership.
26:57 Finally, he asks how they got so far off course when they were headed for Saturn.
27:01 It turns out Max screwed them over because he went to the wrong room looking for a can opener in this labyrinth of a spaceship,
27:09 and somehow did something that wrecked the ship's stabilizers.
27:13 It's almost as if having anyone be capable of going there was a bad idea.
27:18 How is there not a can opener in the kitchen?
27:21 Is the spaceship so large that it can't have found anyone to guide him to the kitchen?
27:26 It makes sense that he was too overconfident to look for anyone.
27:29 They go to the planet and a kid gets thrown over their head because somehow one of the arcade games
27:35 punches its customers and he's somehow happy with it.
27:39 This is the worst way to write alien stuff.
27:42 It's not an excuse to abandon all logic.
27:45 I like that the pet can give himself superhuman hearing.
27:48 It's cringey to have Cosmo put a Z at the end of a few of his words when trying to act cool asking for vital intel.
27:55 And that might be intentional, but this isn't the time for that.
27:59 He gets told that the one who ran the juice counter was the town's biggest gossip until she vanished.
28:06 He puts a coin into an arcade machine for fun because he doesn't know what else to do and he says oops.
28:12 I guess he got put into a VR game and trapped there.
28:15 He got sent to another dimension and the story is too lazy to explain it.
28:19 Asked for fangirls over technology to buy, which you'd think would be what McDola's doing.
28:26 But instead it's being creative because all she's doing is drinking too much apple juice
28:30 while wishing it was alcoholic to the point where she pretends it is, apparently.
28:35 Eventually, it turns out Max is controlling Cosmo in the game.
28:39 This would only be possible if the arcade machine was rigged to do so on purpose.
28:44 But it'd be such a terrifying experience for someone on the first time.
28:48 Why should I care about anything that happens here?
28:51 Eventually, Cosmo ends up I guess recognizing the juice bar lady.
28:55 Because otherwise he'd just assume she was a part of the video game.
28:59 She had been kidnapped by Princess Shin.
29:02 Why is the bad guy attacking him all the time Cosmo's talking?
29:06 He calls the pet Buddy and they both suddenly get armored because they're power-ups.
29:11 So he shoots energy to instantly beat the bad guy and the girl thanks him in this anti-climax.
29:17 I can understand not seeing a whole bunch of panels of him punching him though.
29:21 Because I can't really hate him because he's just a part of a computer simulation.
29:26 They get out of there and Cosmo hugs Max.
29:29 Sadly, the story is padded out with exposition-filled flashback panels.
29:34 One instantly knew what happened to her as soon as I first saw her.
29:37 So that isn't worth reading.
29:39 I could've assumed she had kidnapped her because she wanted her to be the first person to be mutated on this planet.
29:45 I mean it's for a different reason than that, but what's the point of finding that out?
29:51 She thanks Cosmo and the story ends. Finally, it's over.
29:55 I admit this was probably the only good issue by Flynn for this franchise.
29:59 And now it's just very impatient for it to end because of the padded out bullshit that preceded it.
30:04 But it's also a very basic plot where nothing truly happens until Cosmo gets sucked into an arcade game.
30:11 It's great if that only happened to him and his pets.
30:14 But it never would've happened.
30:17 I like that there's variety because his other friends have other stuff to do.