According to commentary in the archives, Legendary used to be drawn with colored pencil. If you really want to know how the story ends, just play a Final Fantasy game and replace all the characters with sarcastic dudes with awkward facial hair and a bluebird dressed up like Princess Zelda.Īlthough the writing in Legendary has always been bad, the comic's terribleness became obvious when its creator made the brilliant choice of redoing the entire archive and all future strips in the style of The Order of the Stick. Some ham-fisted foreshadowing tells us that this ragtag bunch of stick figures are meant to save the world, but apparently Zakheim got bored before he could get that far. Other party members are introduced along the way, but the updates end abruptly before we can get a feel for them. The initial quest is derailed by a predictable overthrow of a monarchy, forcing them to team up with a sassy princess and a mute godmoder. The arbitrary main character is a boring and bland white mage named Lionel, who follows around his more capable friend Antonio on an ill-defined quest to do.something. Legendary is a comic that takes place within a generic PlayStation-era RPG. If you've read those, then you don't need to read Legendary, because you ALREADY HAVE. If you like role-playing games, you've probably already read RPGworld, 8-bit Theater, and other similar comics that have been famous for years. It's only fitting that Legendary was linked on a website dedicated to pop culture clichés, because Ol' Rob Z hits upon every single RPG cliché in the snarky, insufferable way that only EVERY SINGLE RPG COMIC PROTAGONIST can do. I first found out about this comic through TV Tropes, and I'm pretty sure either the author himself or a very close friend added the mention. UPDATE- Shortly after this review was written, the author took the entire comic down.

Order of the stick webcomic