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A story about friendships and the rather strange events they can weather. A fancomic based off the hit video game Pokémon Yellow! Check it out at http://pyc.webcomic.ws/ 

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While I haven’t made the next page just yet, something I did get inspired to do recently is finally make a proper Cover for PYC, so, here it is!

Read the Comic at: pyc.webcomic.ws

A Transcript of this Cover can be found after the “Keep Reading”.

[[This cover shows Nozo, Xppo, Surf, Miru, Bklcbkl, CDwxx, & Eevee in front of a backdrop mimicking that of Pokémon Yellow's Japanese boxart. The Main 4, the first four listed in this description, are compositionally front-and-center.]]

Primary Cover Text Info- POKÉMON YELLOW COMICS by Rokko Michi Module 1: Destiny

Decorative Text Elements- WEBCOMIC: a Pokémon Fancomic experience ポケモン同人誌 ("Pokémon Dōjinshi")

[[A black ring with text, though it's mostly obscured by the characters.]] POCKET MONSTER PIKACHU COMICS

[[Small graphics of Comic Pages with a dotted line-arrow pointing between them.]] Navigate Easily from Comic Page to Comic Page!

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Background Showcase.

I went back through and selected Panels where I felt I did a good job with the background, whether if I specifically remember feeling proud during the making, or caught my eye when Captioning the Back Comics.

I also limited the selection to one per Comic.

[Image Descriptions After the "Keep Reading"]

Panel from PYC Comic #54, May 25th 2008: [[An establishing shot of the interior of Cerulean Gym. The entire Gym is a big pool with platforms to stand on. A gym trainer is shown in the pool while the Gym Leader, Misty, is in the center on the wide platform, with a solid, confident pose. The other gym trainer is closest to the camera, and it is impossible to determine if she is in the pool or on a platform. The back wall has a curved sign saying "CERULEAN GYM" on the center, surrounded by two electronic scoreboards, one for "MISTY" and the other for "VISITOR".]]

Panel from PYC Comic #106, April 18th 2010: [[Meanwhile, Nozo is inside the truck, standing on the seat. He's looking pretty confident in his planned plan. The truck interior looks like that of an old truck.]] Nozo: <Now that I'm in, one well-timed jump, aaaand...>

Panel from PYC Comic #128, August 1st 2019: [[Very long and wide view of a silhouetted-Xppo walking from the purple-and-blue forest just outside of Pallet Town to the orange-and-yellow fall palette'd Ochre Woods.]] Xppo: (narration) </I/ was ready to start my new life in the wild!>

Panel from PYC Comic #65, October 19th 2008: [[Inside a darkly-lit house, Bklcbkl and Nozo can be seen in silhouette outside of the window. They're standing in front of some trees facing the Pacific Ocean, labeled by a sign that reads "PACIFIC OCEAN".]] Bklcbkl: Not much of a city, though... There's only one building!

Panel from PYC Comic #92, October 4th 2009: [[An over-the-shoulder shot, showing that Stalker Guy's calculations are correct, because Bklcbkl, with a very blissfully unaware expression, saunters with Nozo towards the Pokémon Center, and thus towards him. The background shadows on this panel suggest it is late afternoon.]] Stalker Guy: (out loud) ...now.

Panel from PYC Comic #96, December 13th 2009: [[Cut to a medium shot of the squirtle, still 'painting' the cart wreck, clearly unimpressed, and a little sneery, at that.]] Squirtle: <Oh, it's one of those "Smart" Trainers.>

Panel from PYC Comic #109, June 6th 2010: [[Back outside, the runaway truck speeds its way towards the Gym, kicking up lots of sand in the process.]] Bklcbkl: NOZO! GET OFF OF THE ACCELERATOR!

Panel from PYC Comic #66, October 26th 2008: [[Inside the cottage, a guy named Bill is sitting at a computer desk atop a pile of computer-related books (and a Latin Dictionary for some reason) to compensate for having Abra's body paired with his head.]] Bill: My name's Bill. Please do not be alarmed.

Panel from PYC Comic #116, November 7th 2010: [[The second one shows the two as pichus, Nozo's sister standing on top of his head so that the two can pick a lum berry off of a tree. Nozo's sister has one ear have extra spikes on it.]] Sister: <Got it, brother!> Nozo: <Good! I almost lost my balance!>

Panel from PYC Comic #122, June 7th 2016: [[It is a dark nighttime, and Nozo is at a food stand, sitting and sobbing under the glow of the hanging paper lantern. The food stand is run by a pokémon, probably slowbro just under the palette limitation of no red-spectrum colors, though the pokémon could be interpreted as a rhydon too. This pokémon is fanning their face with a rigid fan. Objects on the stand are a stout cup with a slowbro head logo on it, some napkins, chopsticks on a chopstick rest, a metal indented surface containing two kinds of food, a small cutting board, and a knife.]] Nozo: (narrating) <I was destroyed. I remember I cried nonstop for a long time.>

Panel from PYC Comic #90, September 6th, 2009: Narration Box: The next morning - on Route 5 [[Morning is evident by the sunny bloom washing over a wide side view of Route 5. Many identical silhouetted pidgeys fly above the trees in V formations. Mt. Moon can be seen in the far back distance. And of course, also in silhouette at the bottom-right corner of the panel, Bklcbkl and Nozo stand in front of a gate-building, looking upwards.]]

Panel from PYC Comic #114, October 3rd 2010: Miru: (narration) <I saw it.> [[From Miru's Point of View, she sees an overhead view of a human settlement, Cerulean City, with its beautiful river rippling in the cool night. The stars look like a kaleidoscope of crystals in the sky, the windows on the buildings glowing with their electric might.]]

Panel from PYC Comic #130, October 1st 2019: [[Zoom in to Xppo, and now the background has color again. Xppo adds a dash of confidence into the smile, and points to self.]] Xppo: <Hey, check /this/ out!>

Panel from PYC Comic #111, August 8th 2010: [[It's nighttime in Vermilion City, and our heroes are spending it inside a jail cell. This panel is an overhead view of the cell, showing off that the only furniture is an uncomfortable-looking single bed and a concrete toilet. Bklcbkl is sleeping on the bed. Nozo is hanging out with Bklcbkl's shining flashlight over by the toilet. Miru and Xppo are playing Tag over by the cell door and Surf sits by the bed, grumbling to himself.]] Surf: <<GRUMBLE>> Xppo: (to Miru) <I'm it! I'm gonna get'cha! Ha ha!> Miru: (to Xppo) <Are not! Hahaha!>

Panel from PYC Comic #131, November 1st 2019: [[Wide view of the jail cell, facing the wall with the bed next to it. To the left is the bars, and to the right is the barred window. Moonlight pours in through the latter. Bklcbkl is out cold sleeping on the bed (complete with <<zzzZ>> sound effect, and in front of the bed is the important part of the panel: All four of the team gathered around a pointed-up flashlight. At the center-back is Surf, all relaxed and smiling at Xppo. Xppo is to the left, taking a bow. Nozo's at the right, reclining in thinking pose. And Miru is at center-front, in teary-and-starry-eyed applause, which she accomplishes by manipulating the ground to form "hands" to clap with.]] Surf: <You've sure got the knack for storytelling, Xppo. Good job!> Xppo: <Thank you! Thank you!> Nozo: (quietly) <Humans sure are weird...> Miru: Bravo! That was beautiful and I'm so happy for you! <<clap! clap!>>

Panel from PYC Comic #135, Feburary 6th 2010: [[It's deep nighttime over at Bill's Cottage at the end of Kanto's Route 25. The house's windows glow from the lights on inside it while the world surrounding is perfectly still, from the pond outside, to the ocean reflecting the stars in the sky.]] Narration Box: Route 25

Panel from PYC Comic #137, July 1st 2020: [[A duo of waiting panels, tilted at an angle with both overlapping, for kind of a postcard effect. In the top panel, Bklcbkl stands with a goofy smile, waiting patiently in the room. This room seems to be a storage & extra work area for Bill. His desk includes materials to test electronics and there are boxes peppered about. They're labeled with words such as "NERD STUFF" and "POKÉMANIAC MAGAZINE BACK ISSUES". There is also a bookcase, a clock (reading 3:30am), a poster showing a chili pepper transforming into a bicycle, and a crystal that anomalously doesn't fit in with this area's palette.]] Palpable Silence: ...

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Bklcbkl and Nozo find something new and mysterious, this time on Pokémon Yellow Comics!

http://pyc.webcomic.ws/

PYC is a pokémon fan-webcomic, best described as a collaboration with my self from now and my teen self given its long run (despite the page count). Its current update schedule is on the 1st of every month. (Or at least, on months I have enough of my stuff together)

Transcript of the Update Image Gag is after the jump!

[[Nozo and Bklcbkl are huddled around a strange pink crystal. Bklcbkl’s curiosity and wonder is all the way activated while Nozo’s body language is much more dismissive. A poster in the background shows a re-creation of the classic “Who’s That Pokémon?” screen.]]

Poster: WHO’S THAT POKÉMON?

Bklcbkl: Uhhhh... Clefairy!

Nozo: <It’s... ... I don’t freakin’ know!>

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It’s been a while. Anyway, today a loose end gets addressed in Pokémon Yellow Comics!

http://pyc.webcomic.ws/

PYC is a pokémon fan-webcomic, best described as a collaboration with my self from now and my teen self given its long run (despite the page count). Its current update schedule is on the 1st of every month. (Or at least, on months I have enough of my stuff together)

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This is something I felt I’d do for fun, given it’s PYC anniversary today!

Yes, as a graphic design nerd this kind of thing is fun lol. By the way, the “DD” referred to is Drunkduck, PYC’s original host (it’s called “The Duck Webcomics” now).

Transcript after the break for Screen Reader/other uses of non-image text:

PYC Logo History

[[Image: Pokémon Yellow Comics's first logo, on a red backdrop.]] May 31, 2006 PYC debuts, and so does this logo, adorning the Comic in all its rough glory. It's basically just an edit & reshuffling of the source game's logo. The font for "Comics" is Dotum.

[[Image: PYC's second logo, on a red backdrop.]] Jun 21, 2006 As early as Comic #4, the logo already begins evolving. The yellow pixel artifacts have been cleaned up, and the space between "Pokémon" and the speech bubble was made yellow to separate the elements more.

[[Image: PYC's third logo, on a gray gradient backdrop.]] Oct 4, 2006 A very short-lived logo. It only appears on Comic #13, which itself has a graphic design style unique to that Comic only. This logo is the previous one but with an emboss effect, which has the unfortunate side effect of making the word "Yellow" undicipherable.

[[Image: PYC's fourth logo, acronym version.]] [[Image: PYC's fourth logo, full title version.]] Oct 16, 2006 Debuting on Comic #14 (incidentally the final sprite page before the change to drawn), this logo sees the first (and certainly not last) use of the font "Psiphoon BB", a Blambot font that just screams "mid-2000s". Teenage Rokko saw a lot of appeal in this font and besides now splitting the logo into acronym and full title variants, she branded everything possible in the old DD layout with this font. Buttons, affiliate links, extra page, that kind of stuff. The graphic design language heavily leans on a yellow-and-dark gray color scheme.

Interestingly, the acronym version, as seen on Comics #14-66, has a slight gradient as well as navy trim.

Variants

[[Image: Clip of the acronym logo in a black-and-white style.]] Miru Wallpaper [[Image: Acronym logo in an orange cloudy style.]] Halloween 2007 [[Image: Acronym logo in alternating red & green colors, with a snowstorm effect.]] Holiday 2009 [[Image: A hand-drawn version of the logo, with "Happy Birthday" added.]] First Anniversary, 2007 (an attempt was made to draw the Psiphoon font) [[Image: Acronym logo with a gradient and slight glow.]] Nozo Wallpaper [[Image: The acronym logo in gray, over a yellow glossy button.]] Button [[Images: Four examples of buttons and banners intended for affiliate linking.]] Various Linking Buttons/Banners

[[Image: PYC's fourth logo, acronym version, but with flat styling.]] From Comic #67-120, the acronym version of the logo was rendered in flat yellow, like this but also very small. (The title bar at the time was tiny.)

[[Image: PYC's fourth logo, full title version, with a heavy glow effect.]] DD title logo, from all I can gather, was after 2006 but before 2010. [[Image: PYC's fourth logo, with a glow but also 3-D effect.]] 2010-2016 DD logo

Weird Sidetrack Nov 6, 2006 [[Image: A very different logo for PYC, it's rendered as the full title: "Pokémon Yellow Comics".]] This logo appears on a piece of promotional artwork for PYC on Rokko's DeviantArt.

It's bizarre in the fact that it's artifacted to heck, and uses the official Pokémon logo, right down to retaining the Registered Trademark symbol, and the font useage isn't Psiphoon BB but rather, Lowrider BB, and with an unflattering stroke weight to boot. What is interesting is the use of the navy speech bubble, which featured in the original PYC logo but would also make a grand return with the 2016 logo. Speaking of which...

[[Image: PYC's 2016 logo, acronym version. The letter "Y" has a thunderbolt styling and is on a navy speech bubble.]] [[Image: PYC's 2016 logo, full title version.]] May 31, 2016 For PYC's 10th anniversary, the logo was significantly overhauled. Bringing back the nacy speech bubble and with a lighter shade of yellow (as well as overall reducing the surrounding graphic design palette's reliance on dark gray), this logo wears the connection to Pokémon on its sleeve, with the yellow with navy stroke, as well as the new styling for the word "Yellow", which combines Pokémon's letterform styling with a thunderbolt twist, to relfect Nozo, naturally. Psiphoon BB is still kept for the "Pokémon" and "Comics", and now the "E" has an accent mark (custom-made since Psiphoon doesn't support the diacritic.)

Neither logo is used on the Comics themselves, but instead the Comics have the Number inside a navy speech bubble, in Psiphoon BB, so it fits in with the logos' design language.

[[Image: A Sample version of the title bar in newer PYC Comic Pages.]]

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So my next meta-project for PYC is making a cast page. Today I made some sketches that are going towards that.

(I figured sharing these sketches would be okay since the plan is for the final images to be smaller in resolution to fit in a “cast card” format)

Everyone’s pose also fully or partially references relevant official Pokémon art, for nerds like me who love that sort of reference trivia~

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[[Bill's abra is at the computer. It's a very 90's setup with a beige bulky monitor. He's using the equally beige mouse to access PYC's website! He goes over the the "Transcript || Show | Hide" option aaand clicks "Show".]] <<nod nod>>

[[Bingo! The transcript is toggled, with a sample of a transcript, which is now available on any Comic in PYC's archives, displayed. Abra and the mouse cursor give a thumbs up of approval!]]

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As of today, Pokémon Yellow Comics is now fully transcribed! Every Comic that makes up PYC now has an associated transcript.

Check it out, at any page, over at http://pyc.webcomic.ws/!

Hopefully this is useful for others. I know even though I run an incredibly low-traffic fan-webcomic, one in a sea of many Pokémon fan comics, accessibility is something I want to strive for. It's part of why I started the effort to transcribe all 120 of the back pages in the first place.

I'm happy that I managed to get this done before PYC's birthday, which by the way is in a few days!

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Triumph turns into Confusion in today’s Pokémon Yellow Comics!

pyc.webcomic.ws

PYC is a pokémon fan-webcomic, best described as a collaboration with my self from now and my teen self given its long run (despite the page count). My apologies for this page’s lateness. Due to the life circumstances that caused this page to be late, I won’t update in March, but will aim to be on-time for April!

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It’s finally time... After an in-real-life decade in this jail cell (though obviously only one night in-story), our heroes leave, in this update to Pokémon Yellow Comics!

pyc.webcomic.ws

PYC is a pokémon fan-webcomic, best described as a collaboration with my self from now and my teen self given its long run (despite the page count). Its current update schedule is once every month, on the 1st of every month.

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Well, your sci-fi experiments do sound weird when you put them like that, Bill... in today’s of Pokémon Yellow Comics!

pyc.webcomic.ws

PYC is a pokémon fan-webcomic, best described as a collaboration with my self form now and my teen self given its long run (despite the page count). Its current update schedule is once every month, on the 1st of every month. Past me wouldn’t have foreseen PYC going on past 2020... But that’s what happens with brain stuff... sometimes. (This month’s is late, but next month’s won’t be. See you in January!)

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The jailbreak is almost upon the team, in this Update for Pokémon Yellow Comics!

pyc.webcomic.ws

As my update image edit shows, this was originally a super-long comic broken up into chunks, the reasons for which you can find at this Comic’s Author’s Comment.

PYC is a pokémon fan-webcomic, best described as a collaboration with my self form now and my teen self given its long run (despite the page count). Its current update schedule is once every month, on the 1st of every month. (This month’s is late, but thanks to the split, next month’s won’t be. Also because I split it into 3 instead of 2, next update is December 24th, 2019)

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Giving a formal heads up the next PYC will be late. The life situation has been reaching a particularly horrible head which has affected my ability to work on it. I want to say it will probably be out sometime in December, but it depends on how much worse everything gets. I might even have to, if it comes down to it, suspend updates until mid-2020?

I’m sorry to those who have only just gotten on board after I had finally started updating regularly again.

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Some touching moments and not-so-touching moments happen in jail in this update for Pokémon Yellow Comics!

pyc.webcomic.ws

The arc that came to take much longer than thought (thanks to the long hiatus that happened partway) is finally over! The past bows out and now the group’s future is upon them!

PYC is a pokémon fan-webcomic, best described as a collaboration with my self form now and my teen self given its long run (despite the page count). Its current update schedule is once every month, on the 1st of every month. (Yes, I managed to get it done within my timezone’s November 1st; this October and Nov 1st was particularly killer for me, hence the close call)

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Preview of tomorrow’s new PYC Comic Update! Realized the flashlight here seemed coincidentally fitting for a Halloween thing, so decided to show a bit before the update hits!

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Xppo catches up to the “present” day in today’s installment of Pokémon Yellow Comics!

pyc.webcomic.ws

Oh right, I have a tumblr for PYC, why not start using it again? (I’m brainstorming ways to make this sub-blog more active and thus fun, to follow, but for now, update notices)

PYC is a pokémon fan-webcomic, best described as a collaboration with my self form now and my teen self given its long run (despite the page count). Its current update schedule is once every month, on the 1st of every month.

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Edited from a screencap from Comic #124, for use in the author’s notes of Comic #125

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Upon finding out about the new tail-surfing Alolan Raichu, and remembering I had a character named Surf who is on a team with a pikachu, this got spawned.