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[[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

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

[[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!

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.