Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS is the third season of a popular anime where a little girl blasted her opponents in order to teach them the meaning of friendship. Now that little girl has grown up, and gathered a team of other high-powered characters to further spread the love.

When StrikerS first came out, apart from a great many comments about the odd capitalization, I also made a series of posts on it. One of them in particular percolated at the back of my brain for a significant period of time, until finally something snapped.

I’m a diehard fan and player of City of Heroes, a superhero-themed MMORPG. Some time ago, CoH ran a contest involving Comic Book Creator, which I was not eligible to enter (being halfway across the world from the US and Canada), but the idea of making screenshot comics intrigued me. I tried it out for a while.

Which led, somewhat inevitably, to this.

At the moment, I have to manually update this page, so expect delays between comics going up and being listed here.

• Episode 01
• Nanoha GamerS I - Now In Bad Comic Form
• Nanoha GamerS II - Pre-Exam Jitters
• Nanoha GamerS III - Don’t Try This At Home
• Nanoha GamerS IV - Subaru Dronesbane
• Nanoha GamerS V - More Gaming Injokes
• Nanoha GamerS VI - The Lowest Form Of Humour
• Nanoha GamerS VII - A Smashing Success
• Nanoha GamerS VIII - Abort, Retry, Fail
• Episode 02
• Nanoha GamerS IX - Fill In The Blanks
• Nanoha GamerS X - Sepia Tones
• Nanoha GamerS XI - Don’t Examine This Too Closely
• Nanoha GamerS XII - The Other White Devil
• Nanoha GamerS XIII - Room Service Fan Service
• Nanoha GamerS XIV - Abandon All Hope
• Nanoha GamerS XV - MRP
• Nanoha GamerS XVI - To Hang A Lampshade
• Nanoha GamerS XVII - Handle With Care
• Nanoha GamerS XVIII - Five Minutes Of Fame
• Episode 03
• Nanoha GamerS XIX - Well This Is Awkward
• Coming… sometime.

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha and its sequels are the creations of Seven Arcs, and no infringement is intended. In fact, considering how amazingly illegal this may turn out to be (Fair Use clauses being a bit murky), I may have to throw myself at the mercy of my relative obscurity.

Major thanks obviously go out to Seven Arcs for creating Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS in the first place, and Planetwide Media for Comic Book Creator. Credit goes to Cryptic Studios and NCSoft for City of Heroes, from whence the large majority of the gaming jokes come from. Despite all my complaining about various aspects of such, without them, none of this would be possible, quite literally.

Several of the comic fonts come from Blambot. I’m particularly fond of Mainframe and Gunhead Chick.

Finally, to head off any comparisons in that direction, yes, I know about Shamus Young’s DM of the Rings, and I must credit it for the numbering scheme I’m using for GamerS. If you like Dungeons and Dragons and the Lord of the Rings movies, go check it out: Shamus is much better at this than I am.