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Episode published on Monday 10th of July, 2006.
This is the first extended story arc of Detulux Incorporated. Any resemblance to a certain survival horror video game is probably accidental, and Capcom should not be concerned about this comic drawn by some egotistical nobody for the amusement of himself.
I'm pleading the fifth. And the seventh through thirty-sixth while I'm at it. Not the sixth though - it smells funny.
Alright, I'll come clean. This is an extended parody of Resident Evil 4. Why that game? Because I enjoyed it immensely enough to want to poke fun at it. You shouldn't need knowledge of the game to enjoy this story arc, but it would certainly help!
The quote on this title page is from the villain from the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies. Johnathan Pryce as Elliot Carver was deliciously evil, and didn't even want to take over the world as such. No, all he wanted to do was cause World War 3 so that he could acquire the monopoly of broadcasting rights in China, which is not only horribly unethical but frankly is brilliant at the same time - he was creating news that he could then broadcast! A sarcastic, well-dressed man of cutting wit, he was let down by two problems:
- The fact that he owned the only newspaper that was delivering stories that nobody else knew about yet was a bit of a giveaway, because even these days a politician can't fart without the blogoshere erupting with thousands of unread posts about it by hundreds of aspiring "internet journalists" (a title that comes just under "janitor" and "internet lurker" but just barely pips "webcomic creator").
- His ultimate undoing was that his secret weapon of doom (a buzz-saw missile) was on a track designed to travel through the glass window into the control room, which seems a bit of a bad design decision in my mind.
That second point was pointed out to me by my girlfriend, and it rather ruins the climactic showdown of the film. Still, he's definitely one of the better Bond villains to my mind, as he was a 90's rendition of a throwback to the Bond villains of old.
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Title: Detulux Incorporated
Subtitle: Story Arc 01: Occupant Sin 4
The image on this cover is a parody of the cover to the video game Resident Evil 4. The top of this cover has a Gamecube-esque header, which says "ONLY FOR Detulux Incorporated". The cover displays "Occupant Sin 4" in the manner of the cover it is parodying, and the cover is made up of several elements. In the foreground Pain stands with his Magnum revolver, while behind him a worried henchman in armour smoking a cigarette and carrying a pistol puts a hand on his shoulder to get his attention. The henchman is looking to the viewer's left, where there is a large crowd of people dressed in rustic farming gear and carrying farm equipment like weapons. At the front of the crowd is a portly man with a sack on his head sticking out his tongue through the sack and hefting a chainsaw above his head. In the background there is a hill and a church. On the hill three silhouettes stand near a withered tree. The first silhouette is a robed figure raising his finger in a commanding way, while his other hand holds an oddly-shaped staff. The second silhouette is more feminine, and is clearly wearing long pink dress. The third silhouette is of a tall, muscular person. Underneath this image follows a quote.
Quote: "Soon I'll have reached out to and influenced more people in the history of this planet, save God himself. And the best he ever managed was the Sermon on the Mount." Attributed to Elliot Carver, Megalomaniacal Media Magnate.
