“Yesterday’s” Comic> Tron (2.0) #5

The “Wreck It Ralph” expanded universe didn’t go off so well.

Tron #5

SLG Publishing (February, 2008)

WRITERS: Landry Walker & Eric Jones

ARTIST: Michael Shoyket & Guru-eFX

LETTERER/SFX: Douglas Dlin

EDITOR: Dan Vado

Let’s call them Blue Jet and Red Jet. Blue is the one we’ve been following, and Red later reveals himself to be a back-up from the Tron 2.0 visitation that wants Blue’s life or something. He floods Blue with a bunch of false images of his parents, who was alive and who isn’t, what actually happened to Lori and her ties to Ma3a, scenes with the therapist, scenes with Mercury trying to rescue him, and finally Blue breaks. However, it’s not in the way Red was hoping as Blue finally realizes that Red is right and none of this is real. Red is derezzed or absorbed into Blue or something, and now Blue Jet is Orange Jet, who has decided Clarence is the real enemy, as the reader sees he’s Green Jet. In a bunny suit. Eating Deadly Disks cereal watching all this on TV and deciding he’s screwed.

As Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls once wisely said: Um, yeah…what?

This is where I have to ask if ANYTHING in this comic thus far has been real. Is Alan alive? Is Jet in trouble…from the law, I mean? Has anything in the real world actually happened in this story and why did Jet actually come here? Why is the other evil Jet, and why are there two evil jets, wearing a bunny costume that looks like a bunny costume instead of the cartoony Clarence we’ve seen? Is anything real? Is this another Jet backup left behind without Jet’s humanity? Did Flynn have one of these? And possibly the games explained this but where’s Tron in all of this? We only have one more issue to go and the GPS for this story has just gone off a side road to see the bunny rabbits. Also interesting that the computer program or data or whatever whomever wants from Jet is called the Tron Legacy code given that’s what the official sequel film was called, so that was surprisingly prophetic.

I’m in reviewer mode, so hopefully Landry forgives me when I say…you go some ‘splaining to do because I KNOW you’re better than this. I’ve reviewed better than this with Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures In The Eight Grade, currently still my favorite miniseries, and even Danger Club I could follow even if the action didn’t allow me to connect with everybody because we were too far in and I felt like there were stories missing. I still followed and enjoyed it as I tried to note in my reviews at the time it came out. One of his and Eric Jones’ comics, Little Gloomy, got made into a cartoon (though the show creators decided to focus on and name the show after another character in the story, Scary Larry and I still don’t know how to watch that plus my kind of monsters are the giant city-destroying variety so I haven’t read the comic). I know you’re a darn good writer. I’m also a bit biased because we sort of know each other via the internet and you were one of the people concerned when I took time off in 2016 without warning because of my medical problems at the time,which I appreciate. Look at the various comics posted here I know I’m not in your league…yet. So forgive me for saying right now I have no idea what’s going on in this story and I’m not really enjoying this one. It is reminding me I really need to finish the game though.