In a closing interview conducted by Doug TenNapel at the end of Issue #24, Rob stated that he would like to see La Cosa Nostroid concluded, but that it would be up to Dan Harmon who helmed the series. It's not so much a glitch in his programming as much as it is awareness that he will self-destruct if his target dies. He's not the only one, either; half of the hospital patients on life support were brought there by Scuds. In the annual Homestar Runner animated Halloween special for 2008, the characters Pom-Pom and The Cheat dressed up as Scud and Drywall, respectively. Great comic books don't always make great video games. Scud: The Disposable Assassin, a terrific comic book from the demented mind of Rob Schrab, proves the point in spades. The futuristic story centers on Scuds, slim yellow robots sold in vending machines and designed to kill. Once a Scud kills his target, he self-destructs. Through a freak accident, one Scud realizes just how short his future is and decides to keep his now near-death target alive. To pay the hospital bills, Scud goes freelance, killing anything for anyone. Although all of this makes for a cool comic, it doesn't translate well to the Saturn.

Woah! It's fun to see what young Schrab and Harmon can do as writers together. Though some of the jokes can be a little not-PC for some modern audiences, I for one find myself smiling when I think about how much the two have grown from what I hear in their podcast. Is....is it weird that I am proud of two grown men older than me? Hell, I don't care. Eyepatch After Time Skip: Drywall, kinda. He doesn't actually wear one, though he's still missing one of his eyes when we see him in the Image run. Our protagonist is just another Scud, hired to clear out a pest control problem, a monstrous creature called Jeff. Realizing that killing Jeff means immediate death for him as well, Scud instead painfully immobilizes Jeff and has her hospitalized. Seeking the necessary cash to keep Jeff's medical bills paid to keep them both alive, Scud now has to go freelance, in a world that seems doomed to eternal peril. Rob Schrab. "SCUD THE DISPOSABLE ASSASSIN #21". Archived from the original on 2007-02-04 . Retrieved 2007-02-06.

But there is a heart to this story, about a robot assassin who comes from a vending machine and is designed to self-destruct once his primary target has been destroyed. Only Scud decides he doesn't want to die, so he keeps his nearly-dead target alive while doing mercenary work to pay for his targets hospital bills. Scud – The robotic protagonist. One of a series of mass-produced android assassins, Scud will self-destruct if his original mission is completed, and sometimes refers to himself as a cowboy. Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Voodoo Ben revives dinosaur bones at once point, creating Zombie Dinosaurs! Funnily enough, a bite from them will also turn you into a zombie dinosaur, as one don finds out. Look, Scud is, whatever else I can say about it, absolutely unclassifiable. Part sci-fi picaresque journey, part satire of America, part gonzo comedy, part relationship allegory, part action film, part supernatural thriller, part Mob drama...the list goes on. And no, it doesn't all fit together, and the ending is a bit jarring and doesn't quite fit the rest of the series, and the tonal shifts towards the end are odd. All of that is true.

Scud isn't your typical hero. In fact, he's pretty much a anti-hero. He looks very impressive in the vending machine, but once he gets out, he slumps over with a look on his face (if you can call it that) that he would rather be doing something else. Tasked to kill a monster, whom he decides to call her (yes, her) Jeff, he finds out through complete accident that once he finishes her off, he will go boom. Thinking "F that, I got better things to do", Scud dismembers this beast and decides to go freelance so he can keep paying her life support bill (almost sounds like a marriage to me). Throughout his entire adventure, he makes some friends, makes some enemies (probably makes more enemies than friends), nearly loses one of his appendages to a werewolf astronaut, does battle with Benjamin Franklin on a almost regular basis, and that's on his good days. At the end, there are a few unanswered questions, but for the most part, the story ends on a good and hilarious note. Co se musí Robu Schrabovi nechat, tak to, jak hezky to do sebe všechno nakonec zapadlo. Když rozečtete podobnou knížku, tak vlastně ani nečekáte, že to bude mít hlavu a patu. Prostě si jenom užíváte ten zážítek a doufáte, že se to vyvrbí. Tady tohle je ale jedna z těch sérií, kde se ukáže, že spousta charakterů měla nějaký smysl a celé to nějak dokupy krásně funguje. Tony Tastey- Scud's first client as a freelancer, who eventually becomes the leader of the Cortese family cyborg mafia, which stars in the spin-off La Cosa Nostroid series. Rogue Drone: Scud was programmed to take down his target and self-destruct, but a glitch in his programming gave him a will to live. The comic loves this trope. Not only do we get zombie dinosaurs, but werewolf astronauts, a cyborg mafia, and... well, whatever the hell Jeff is.Scud the Disposable Assassin was created by Rob Schrab before his fellow college classmate at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Dan Harmon joined the comic creator on the series, receiving his first writing credit on the series in the fourth issue. Scud the Disposable Assassin follows the adventures of a robot assassin whose purpose is to carry out assassinations and then self-destruct immediately after the job is done. However, the main character of the series is a different kind of Scud, one who rejects the idea that they are forced to die after carrying out assassinations. So, this Scud doesn’t ever kill its target, ensuring its own continued existence and acting more as a likable protagonist that fans can root for. Hypothetical Casting: The issues always listed the voices of actors that the creator of the comic imagined would be voicing the characters in animation. The issue begins in an office at Marvin's Manikans, where lowly employee Hershel Roundhead is having a meeting with his boss, Mr. Spidergod, regarding a "monster" that's been eating the employees. Mr. Spidergod tells Hershel that if he doesn't get someone to "take care of it", he would send Hershel down to deal with it. We then find Hershel outside on the street, standing in front of a vending machine simply labeled SCUD. He inserts three "Franks", presses a button and out steps Scud, the Disposable Assassin. Hershel gives Scud a disk containing all of the information he will need to complete "the job" on it, and Scud heads off to the Marvin's Manikans building to take out his target.