When I first reviewed Jay's comics and casually mentioned that they took place "a year after The Myth of the Epic Force ended," I never questioned what "The Myth of the Epic Force" was. At the time, it didn't strike me as important. Today, I got curious and dug into he Deviant Art a little.
As it turns out, his Epic Force comic series is a trilogy. "The Myth of the Epic Force" is the first instalment, drawn back in the heady days of 2019.
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Buckle up, buckaroos. We're going on one last trip up Shit Creek, back to where it all began.
As with the other two, it opens with a musical number, and as per his DeviantArt, he's specifically ripping off Gloryhammer songs. Immediately, we're introduced to the three main characters:
- Chad Golden-Knight, heir to an order of paladins.
- Jamie Forerunner, from a galaxy far, far away. She's apparently learning something new every day, which speaks a lot of her intelligence.
- Holly Cartman, the daughter of Not-Eric Cartman (but we don't know that yet.) She supposedly had an evil master she escaped from.
The enemy is a mighty sorcerer named... Stupidity.
Yes, the enemy is literally called "Stupidity." Yes, I wish I was just making this up.
Let's get this shitshow on the road!
To defeat him, they need to reunite the three relics of Powerkind: the hammer, scythe, and and blade. We join our "heroes" as they've traveled through space and are staying at a cheap motel (in space.) Holly is wondering who she can sleep with (no, not like that, for once) because there's a gigantic, soul-eating monster sitting on her bed. She tries to sleep with Jamie, but Jamie farts in her sleep, and Chad is too busy sleeping to give his consent. Holy is forced to confront the monster alone.
And since she has no soul, you'll starve.
Holly chucks some magic at it, and we cut to heaven, where Jay is playing D&D with God still (though this isn't immediately apparent.) Jay rolls for damage, and after rolling the lowest possible damage, the monster immediately dies. Because not even God will inconvenience Jay.
After vowing to never again stay at a space motel, they arrive at the planet of Scotland, and discover it is being overrun by... My Little Pony. Holly reveals that she accidentally caused the pony flood in order to escape her evil master. Chad is understandably upset at this.
And Jay still doesn't know why the ladies hate him.
After Chad tells Jamie to shut up and stop lusting after Holly, our protagonists go to war with the ponies, only to discover a kaiju-sized pony (or maybe it's flying, I can't tell) chanting "Join us! Join us!"
Don't worry, it is instantly killed before Chad can be put into any real danger.
That poor, poor pony.
After the pony flood is wiped out, they land to discuss their game plan for finding the Hammer of Powerkind. Chad's game plan, as it turns out, is incredibly simple: he's going to masturbate, and then go home to mom.
Masturbate first, mom second. Glad to see Chad's priorities are straight.
Jay's Chad's mom survived the ponies, so Chad graciously decides not to beat Holly like a rented mule. Ma wants to know what happened, and Chad tells all: he was traveling through space when a mysterious dimensional rift opened, and Holly and Jamie fell out. He picked them up in his spaceship and brought them to the nearest habitable planet to recover. They had no clue how they got there, but Chad is such a swell fellow they decide to join him. After helping him with many, many quests (we're not told what those quests were), they buy their own spaceships.
That's when it's revealed Chad is actually singing this to his mom.
I don't think a real guitar could save this.
Ma demands he stop dicking around and get back to the story. Chad reveals he and the girls traveled to a distant space rock, where retard goblins (his words, not mine) freed the evil wizard known as Stupidity. Stupidity declares his intention to infect the heads of everyone with memes and sarcasm, to make men never read instructions, to make women sacrifice entire planets to create their beauty products, and to destroy the accursed apostrophe. Chad and company fight, but Stupidity beats the shit out of them, and runs before he can think to kill them. Chad does some research and learns they need the three relics of powerkind to beat him. He then summarizes the comic thus far and finishes his song.
"Why didn't I have an abortion?"
Meanwhile, the girls are waiting patiently for Chad to finish dicking around. Jamie senses a disturbance in "The Force" coming from Holly, After some prodding, Holly reveals that she's illegitimate, her father having raped her mother. She then pisses and moans about how horrible her life was, while Jamie tries (ineffectually) to comfort her.
Chad returns, and the girls obediently fall in line to follow him to Dundee Castle, and the pimp king who resides there (remember, in Chicken of Death he tries to pimp Holly out.) The king doesn't seem to care that technicolored equine doom almost overran his kingdom, and tells the group that he has the Hammer of Powerkind- or rather, he knows where it is. It's in the Forerunner Temple, meaning only Jamie can wield it. She has to travel to the land of unicorns, mount a unicorn (not that kind of mounting), and ride it (not that kind either) to the temple to claim the hammer. The party is sent off on its epic quest with an epic guitar solo from the king's bard.
Trust me, guys, it's epic.
Chad, unable to think beyond his basic bodily functions, decides he's hungry, so they stop at a Scottish bar. There, the patrons pick a fight with them for absolutely no reason, and Holly murders them all in cold blood. But it's okay, because it turns out Holly is on her period.
The Epic Force in a nutshell.
The group then flies into some fog, crashes their ships in a swamp, and has to abandon them there. All of this, according to Chad, means they're on the right track to unicorn land. Jamie was separated from the group, but she finds a unicorn, mounts it, and rides it to the temple. She sings yet another musical number as she claims the hammer and uses it to kill the monster guarding it. Afterwards, she finds a family tree, and realizes she has a distant relative named Jay Forerunner, which explains why the Force is so strong in her. As she leaves the temple, Stupidity's minions accost her, but she easily beats them.
When Stupidity hears that his idiot minions failed to get the hammer, he is furious, but has no one to blame but himself. Stupidity pulls out a keyboard and pays an evil musical number to give himself infinite power or something, and directs his minions to retrieve the scythe of powerkind.
Don't tell me what to do, Jay Stupidity!
Meanwhile, Chad and Holly are speaking, and Chad reveals that he had a twisted backstory as well. When Holly asks about it, Chad reveals that he never got to do what he wanted. It was always "Go to school, Chad!" and "Go to church, Chad!" and "Be an upstanding citizen, Chad!" Chad was never allowed to do what he wanted, resulting in him having a literal stick up his ass.
Chad explains how his special spirit sword works, Holly raises their spaceships out of the swamp, and Jamie reunites with them. They fly back to Dundee, where the king throws a feast for them. They pay homage to something called "Hoots," get a token of the Wish spell from the king (i.e., they get the most powerful spell in Dungeons and Dragons), and the move out to find the next artifact.
When they get close, Stupidity ambushes them with a small fleet of spaceships, and yet another musical number is launched as they fight in what I think is supposed to be an epic battle; it's too badly drawn for me to tell. Anyway, Jamie takes a bullet to one of her breasts, Holly is flung into space (and then rescued), and at the end of this life-and-death struggle, Chad takes the only logical course of action masturbates (after stripping Jamie completely naked, ostensibly to pull the bullet out of her breast.)
Holly decides to wander off on her own, without Chad's permission, and is promptly attacked by a horde of insects. She runs away screaming, and then uses death metal to kill all the bugs and irreparably destroy a significant chunk of a planet's biosphere.
That's what you get for not listening to your man, Holly.
Nature tries to get revenge for this wanton destruction, and a horde of animals and shapeshifting spearchuckers attack Holly. She defeats them all, including the spearchucker chief who has the scythe of powerkind. She's then confronted by trollface bigfoot, whom she brutally slaughters.
Don't look too closely.
Meanwhile, back at the camp, Chad brags to Jamie about how awesome his Gary Stu gear is, and both engage in some useless exposition. After four pages of yammering, Holly returns. Apparently, her pony flood killed the spearchucker's god, and now that makes her evil. Or something. It's really not clear.
Thankfully, Stupidity arrives to rescue the reader from this horrible storytelling, forcing the Epic Force to flee the planet in search of the final relic. Stupidity then leaves to make everyone stupid before the "heroes" can stop him.
Arriving at the final planet, the "heroes" arrive to retrieve the mythical sword of powerkind (which is the naturally most powerful of all the relics, since it's going to be used by Chad.) Chad tries to fly to the top of the mountain to retrieve the sword, but the mountain is protected by some kind of mystical disintegration barrier, forcing Chad to climb it normally. He sings yet another musical number to encourage himself as he climbs the 30 kilometers in a matter of minutes.
I thought it was the Myth of the Epic Force. Thanks for clearing that up.
He retrieves the sword, kills the dragon guarding it in an anticlimactic battle, and descends. He then enters a museum of legendary guardian warrior people, and telekinetically speaks to Jay himself. Jay, not allowing anyone to get in the way of his power fantasies, reveals that he's level 240 in D&D (a game where the level cap is only 20), he's playing D&D with his best friend God, and the meaning of life is... Dungeons and Dragons.
Fifth edition was a horrible mistake.
Jay also discovered the word "googol."
Jay then reveals that the entirety of the Epic Force is descended from him, and God will let him reincarnate if they can fulfill their destinies.
He reunites with the girls, they salivate a bit over him, and then he falls asleep and crashes his spaceship. After running from a monster (can't let mere women upstage Chad Golden-Knight, can we?), the girls drag his sleeping carcass to a large skyscraper (on a world supposedly overrun with monsters, we can still have nice things.)
And... I'm not sure what happens next. It's all so horribly drawn, even by Jay's low standards, that it confuses me. From what I can make out, they enter the skyscraper, realize it has no elevator, and fly their (wrecked) spaceships into the upper floors, because there's an airstrip there, not because they're imitating 9/11. They use what they find to repair and upgrade their spaceships and fly them at speeds which would make light slink away in underachieving shame.
They arrive at another space hotel, and
bribe pay the nigger manning the front desk gold coins to let them stay for the night. After dumping Chad in his own rooms, the girls have another chat, and swoon over how strong and noble Chad is despite his horrible upbringing (because being conceived by rape is nothing compared to being told to eat your veggies and go to bed on time.) Holly gets so horny from this that she masturbates rather loudly.
Chad, meanwhile inadvertently astral projects himself in front of Stupidity, who is so shocked he can't react. Upon returning to his own body, Chad gives a heroic speech (in his pajamas) and the group flies off to confront the sorcerer. They accidentally warp into a dimension full of gigantic Lovecraftian bees, however, and during their panicked fighting Chad is separated from the others.
I couldn't even crop the image correctly, his art was so terrible.
Chad finds himself surrounded by monsters, and thinking he's about to die, regrets only not fucking Jamie and Holly when he could have. The girls swoop in and save him, and they go to face Stupidity's massive space fleet.
The musical number that follows is a full
twelve sixteen pages long, and somehow the quality and art are even worse than the preceding pages (and the lyrics are a rip-off of The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.) The Epic Force tears through Stupidity's space fleet, crash lands onto his base, and proceeds to massacre his goblin army. Jamie and Holly put up a good fight, but ultimately fail to make any impression, and it's up to Chad, who wastes their Wish spell to make himself more epic and batter his way through the goblins and their king. At this point, the girls recover and join Chad for the final battle against Stupidity.
Stupidity mocks the heroes, using his mind-reading abilities to hit them in their egos, and reveals he's only doing what he's doing for shits and giggles.
It sure is, pal!
The group has none of that, whips out their mythical weapons, and the final battle finally begins.
Why do I hear boss music?
The group tries to charge head-on, but they're too drained from the preceding fights to actually damage the guy. Jay summons the power of his awesomeness to inspire the group into defeating the sorcerer with the artifacts of powerkind (which never show up again in the following comics.) Holly is injured, but she's revived by deus ex machina (namely, the Wish spell artifact the king gave them.)
Chad goes home and tells the story to mom. The girls go to the pool, have a physical, and decide to join Chad. The Epic Force becomes the official champions of the king of Dundee. There's a party held in their honor. Jay thanks people better than him for giving him something to rip off to make this utter abortion of a comic.
And after fourteen pages of nonsensical exposition, we finally end this tale.
Out of all three Epic Force comics, this was by far the worst.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go lie down, because I think I can taste colors now. As always, I'll let Jay have the last word:
You're welcome. Now give it back.