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A six-issue comic (November, 2010-April, 2011) published by DC Comics connecting Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time to Ratchet and Clank All 4 One. Returning writer TJ Fixman and Adam Archer are, respectively the writer and artist in charge of the series.
The plot revolves around the disappearance of planets from the Polaris, Bogon and Solana galaxies, by Artemis Zogg, a villain with a bone to pick with Qwark. Naturally, Ratchet and Clank get involved in the conflict and aid the efforts to stop Artemis Zogg.
- Ambiguous Situation: Despite freezing over following it being teleported away from its sun, nothing is said of Veldin's habitability once it's returned to its proper place in the universe, leaving it unclear if the planet returned to normal.
- The Bus Came Back: President and Sasha Phyronix and the Galactic Rangers from Up Your Arsenal return as do Talywn, Cronk and Zephyr from Quest for Booty.
- Casual Interstellar Travel: Though only if you know where to fly to. Though averted for teleporting planets. That takes custom-made tech.
- Continuity Nod: In addition to all of the characters who randomly show up after being Put on a Bus (Sasha, Talwyn, Cronk and Zephyr, among others) there are passing mentions of various planets, weapons, and gadgets. Particularly notable are the somewhat-forgotten tether to the Omniwrench, the pocket watch and Alister's omniwrench.
- Chekhov's Gun:
- Qwark was paying attention... for once.
Artemis: Applying negatively charged energy to the shard will create a bridge between realities. We tested this with a few grunthors, but were unable to achieve the same level of success as the lombaxes. Things got... sticky. |
- Played oddly straight. Alister's omniwrench which is visible in the background of the first issue, is used in the fifth issue. And then again in the sixth.
- Duct Tape for Everything: Including keeping Qwark out of harm's way. The best part? Clank was the one who came up with it.
- Deus Ex Machina: As this is the Plumber's stock-in-trade, it would have been disappointing to see the comic go by without him lending a hand where it was least expected. Lampshaded by Talwyn.
Talwyn: Do I even want to ask what he's doing here? |
- Dragged Off to Hell: Artemis Zogg is sent to the same hell as Tachyon.
- History Repeats: As of issue six, Zogg is trapped in a different dimension, on a chunk of planet with Emperor Percival Tachyon. Though no attention is drawn to it, this is, for the most part, the same fate that befell Nefarious and Lawrence at the end of Up Your Arsenal.
- I Choose to Stay: Since it's where most of the action is now taking place for the foreseeable future, Ratchet and Clank choose to stay in the Polaris Galaxy rather than returning to Solana.
- It's All My Fault: Ratchet blames himself for Alister's Sanity Slippage in A Crack in Time and later for Talywn's Disney Death.
- Late Arrival Spoiler: The background chatter from A Crack in Time that establishes that Angela Cross and Max Apogee fled to the Lombax dimension is now common knowledge.
- Retired Badass: What Ratchet hopes to be at the comic's opening.
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Averted for once in Ratchet & Clank. It's flagged several times that the universe is huge and even with the borderline Type IV technology of this 'verse, crossing it takes a hell of a long time and if something is lost in space, odds are that it'll be lost forever.
- Ship Tease: Talwyn and Ratchet.
- Ten-Minute Retirement: Though it's implied to have been awhile since they've retired, Ratchet and Clank get back into the action very early on.
- Unexplained Recovery: Big Al appears for one page, but his face is normal, despite it partially being blown off and replaced with robotics in Ratchet: Deadlocked. This was, probably, just an error.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Cyrus, Qwark's old agent, was probably just looking to make a quick buck by becoming The Corrupter to Qwark. But he is directly responsible for Artemis' Sanity Slippage and the disappearing planets.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Everyone knows that Lawrence teleported Nefarious to safety before the Nefarious space station was destroyed. Where they are now is unknown.
- Your Size May Vary: Clank is drawn much larger than he normally is.