Digital copies of Murder drones comic have been issued out to the backers who pledged for the digital copies. Luckily for my fellow kiwis, I have a pdf copy of it for your viewing pleasure.
Tdlr; Its even worse than we thought. Its a short retelling of the fucking pilot with no pacing whatsoever.
Edit: The file is being dumb as fuck for a PDF. Sorry for the trouble.
it works but why the fuck is this displayed in microsoft word
anyway, you're right, so, about half of the pdf is covers, credits, promotions for other comics, etc that most people don't actually care about, the other half is the actual adaptation in the middle portions, I read it all in about 10 minutes, and I don't even think there was anything substantially cut out, thats just the nature of a comics where it's completely up to the reader to decide their pace, unlike in video format where it can all be controlled by the director, also, going back to the OG animation, it seems that a lot of the jokes, where it requires the right timing and beat, have been significantly cut down here, where it's just related to fractions of a page, that's why this all feels so much faster compared to the original/
For my retrospective?, yeah, this series as bad as I remember it being, at least the ungodly unfunny jokes have been trimmed down but all that results in is the runtime being cut in half and the overall pacing being much shittier, why is the content that people actively paid for a worse version of the one that is freely available on youtube?, its actually surprising how little content is left when you get most of that out, that makes it clear why a lot of people in this thread were left so confused and unable to keep up with the pacing, much of that 8 episode runtime, especially in the earlier episodes were spent on shitty 2010s millennial humor and the rest is actual plot and characterization.
The foundational flaw of the series is still intact, most of the time it's funny-funny dark humor stuff, but it clearly still wants to do plot, worldbuilding, and even some level of character drama that wants to be taken seriously, in the case of the pilot, it's not that egregious because it's mostly kept in the background, but as we know, the plot and worldbuilding becomes front and center once the series goes on, and in the case of character drama, it really loses all dramatic tension when Uzi is le betrayed by her father for abandoning her when the only two interactions we have seen from these two are one comedic exchange about her lying about having a boyfriend and Khan loving doors, or N's heel-face turn happening so abruptly in hindsight after being so loyal to his abusive squadmates, dude switched his allegiances after having ONE (1) short conversation with his would-be target.