Conn, Swagge n' Eddy Urban Heroes

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Conn, Swagge n' Eddy Urban Heroes is an action adventure webcomic series posted regularly to NewGrounds by the original series' creator. It is the latest installment of the Conn, Swagge n' Eddy franchise and is a hard reboot of the original series' continuity. It features the adventures of Mr. Connman, Cooleo Swagge and Eddy T.S (now depicted as runaway teenagers), who form their own covert crime-fighting team and take on many dangerous foes in their home of Twiscordopolis, all while avoiding capture from the police.

## Premise

The comic centers around an overachieving 17 year old karate champion named Eddy T.S. who, after being kicked out of home by his strict father, moves from Rantopolis back to his childhood hometown of Twiscordopolis. Upon moving back into the city, he reunites with his childhood best friend Mr. Connman - whom he hadn't seen since moving away as a child, and has since become a member/leader of a street fighting gang - and made a new accomplice in Cooleo Swagge - a mysterious young inventor who carried on a life long mission to avenge his deceased stepbrother. With their combined skills, they take to the streets to stop crime in its tracks. They often come face to face with criminals such as Alejandro "A" Gumon, a silent serial killer responsible for the murder of Cooleo Swagge's stepbrother, and David Wash, a masked robber with unique inventions of his own. The three heroes face each challenge without ever once being caught by the Twiscordopolis Police Department, led by Sheriff Freddy Fine.

## Characters

### Heroes:

* **Mr. Connman**: Conrad Connery Connors Jr, better known as "Mr. Connman", is a founding member of the titular crime fighting trio. He is the muscle of the trio and is an expert street fighter. He is a sarcastic wise-cracker, always making jokes at the expense of his teammates and the villains they face. Despite this however, he remains motivated to fight crime and has a heart of gold, always there to help his friends. He and Eddy T.S. had history as childhood best friends and neighbors, until one day when Eddy's family moved away to Rantopolis. Connman didn't take this sudden news well, so he tried to chase their moving van, but ended up lost in the city and coming across three street fighters who took him in. This was where he developed his peak physical strength and fighting techniques from. He is mainly fueled by the murder of his street fighting gang, whom he discovered dead after catching up with Eddy. His wisecracking nature also puts him at odds with Cooleo Swagge, the inventor and brains of the trio. His original series counterpart is Mr. Connman.
* **Cooleo Swagge**: Leo Stevenson, better known by his alias "Cooleo Swagge" is a founding member of the titular crime fighting trio. He is the brains of the trio and is an inventive genius. He is deadpan, no-nonsense fighter who often uses the gadgets he invents to fight crime. When he was 7 years old, he witnessed the murder of his older stepbrother Chris by Alejandro Gumon, which traumatized him for the rest of his life. This fueled Cooleo's vengeance and his decision to turn his love for inventing towards creating weapons to use on his long hunt for Gumon. When he finally apprehends him, it is with the help of Eddy T.S. and Mr. Connman. Initially, he declines Eddy's offer to join his team, but changes his mind when he remembers that Chris would've wanted him to continue embracing his inventing talents instead of using them only once. Cooleo's no-nonsense attitude clashes heavily with Mr. Connman, who also lost loved ones to Gumon. His original series counterpart is Cooleo Swagge.
* **Eddy T.S**: Eddy Timothy Samuels, shortened to "Eddy T.S", is a founding member of the titular crime fighting trio. He is the leader of the trio and is a black belt in karate. He is a kindhearted, level headed overachiever who leads his teammates with his strategic thinking and seemingly wild ideas. His expert karate skills, ability to think strategically and overachieving ways are most likely a product of the strict parental guidance and training of his father, who always pushed him to be the best as well as independent. Eddy's father kicks him out one day thinking he is finally independent enough to live on his own, and so Eddy takes the opportunity to move to Twiscordopolis, where he and his father used to live before moving to Rantopolis. When he makes it to the city, he soon reunites with his best friend Mr. Connman. After an eventful night where Eddy apprehends a serial killer Alejandro Gumon along with Connman and new accoplice Cooleo Swagge, Eddy gets the idea to form a crime fighting trio with Connman and Cooleo. His original series counterpart is Eddy The Scammer.

### Villains:

* **Alejandro Gumon**: Alejandro Gumon, alternatively "A. Gumon", is a serial killer and the antagonist of Issue 1. He is a mysterious, silent man, never saying a single word, and he has a murderous obsession with killing innocents. He has claimed 23 victims in the span of nearly 10 years, including Cooleo Swagge's older stepbrother Chris, as well as the members of Mr. Connman's street fighting gang. He is finally apprehended by the trio in their first ever unofficial team-up and was finally arrested. His original series counterpart is Dark Agumon.
* **David Wash**: David Wash is a masked robber and the antagonist of Issue 2. He is a rather eccentric crook donning a wolf mask to conceal his identity, but unlike any standard crook, he is armed with his own unique weapons which he invents himself. When the trio first encounter him, he draws a rather normal looking gun on them, only to reveal it was a heat ray he built. He doesn't get arrested after being defeated by the trio. Instead, he gets away with the use of smoke pellets after assuring them that he will meet them again sometime soon. His original series counterpart is David Wash.
* **Seamus O'Shawnessy**: Seamus O'Shawnessy is a ruthless feared mob boss and the antagonist of Issue 3. He is of Irish descent and is very temperamental. His anger combined with his raw immeasurable strength and hulking size make him an especially threatening foe. In issue 3, he is after his family's fortune, which he doesn't own due to being the youngest of his brothers. He also has a long scar across his face, presumably from an intense fight he had with his brothers from his previous attempt at stealing the fortune. He is an original character unique to the comic and has no original series counterpart.

### Supporting:

* **Sheriff Freddy**: Freddy Fine is the Sheriff of the Twiscordopolis Police Department. Admired for his hard work, Sheriff Freddy has a highly reputable track record with the highest number of arrests in the city's history. He is very vigilant, often making daily patrols around the city, although sometimes things can slip past his field of vision (which is how Conn, Swagge n' Eddy always manage to defeat criminals without him knowing).
* **Detective Groub**: Barry Groub is a Detective working for the Twiscordopolis Police Department. He is a hardworking detective with a keen eye for detail, which is why he's usually accompanying Sheriff Freddy on patrol. Being a considerably older man than Freddy however, he is way less energetic and slower on the draw than the steadfast Sheriff is. Groub is also shown to have a fondness for radio dramas.
* **The Connman Crew**: Sean Hargreaves, Hal Johnson and Sampson Smith are members of Mr. Connman's street fighting gang. They were the ones to take Connman in when he initially ran away from home trying to chase Eddy's moving van. They trained him to be strong and taught him out to fight, to the point where Connman became their leader within a few years of meeting them. Unfortunately, they were murdered by A. Gumon the night that Connman and Eddy reunited after years of being away from each other.

## Issues

Conn, Swagge n' Eddy Urban Heroes issues
 2
 3
 4

## Development

As early as 2016, there have been plans for a Conn, Swagge n' Eddy Reboot that didn't come to fruition. The cancelled 2016 draft of the reboot was mocked when its concept art was eventually made public. The idea for a reboot laid dormant afterwards, until late 2017 when a joint venture between the original series creator CommanderKeith and Vocaloid producer Syphn resulted in both a new Conn, Swagge n' Eddy comic, as well as a reinvigorated interest in a Conn, Swagge n' Eddy Reboot animated series. Dubbed "Conn, Swagge n' Eddy Rebooted", The new animated series would be a fresh new take on the original series's mythos, while incorporating concepts introduced in the comic.

However, while the comic series eventually came to a sudden end, the animated series would languish in development hell for the coming years. It started conception as just an animated adaptation of Syphn's comic, then it was changed to a 3-act miniseries detailing the trio coming back to crime-fighting after years of retirement, and then eventually a two-seasoned villain of the week series that involved a younger trio starting their new career as heroes. This idea proved to be the favorite, as it would continue to be expanded upon with new concepts, to where the influence of the 2017 comic was nonexistent. From this draft spawned an animated teaser in 2019, a series intro in 2020, and several scripts written for episodes. Finally, however, it was decided that an animated series wouldn't be an option as CommanderKeith wouldn't have the time to animate full episodes. Following the success of his other comic Fantastic Three, he would decide to take the scripts already written for the animated series and convert them to comic format under the new title "Conn, Swagge n' Eddy Urban Heroes".

Conn, Swagge n' Eddy Urban Heroes opts to take plot points and elements introduced in the original animated series and reincorporate them to fit the Urban Heroes mythos. For example, the idea of Eddy and Connman being childhood friends who reunite years after Eddy's move had been a concept introduced in the scrapped initial cut of the pilot episode. The climax of Issue 1 taking place on a destroyed "exploded" bridge was also introduced in the classic series' first episode, almost mirroring how the Comment Bridge was destroyed by a bomb thrown by Eddy at the end of the episode. While new villains are set to make their debuts in Urban Heroes, classic series villains like Agumon, David and a robot version of Guri hinted at the end of Issue 2 make appearances, although updated from their original counterparts. Another confirmed villain set to make an appearance in Urban Heroes is Billy L. Williams, the comic's version of Billy L. from the ill-fated second season of the classic series.

## SOBOSS Comics

SOBOSS Studios was a small independent comic group that broke out into animation with the original Conn, Swagge n' Eddy. Even though the SOBOSS Studios group broke up in 2015, the SOBOSS name was brought back as "SOBOSS Comics" to use as the publisher name for Urban Heroes.

## Callbacks

* Issue 1's plot is similar to the scrapped plot of the original animated series' pilot episode, where Eddy decides to move back to his home city to visit his childhood friend Mr. Connman, but gets caught in unfortunate circumstances that leads to him meeting Cooleo Swagge and kickstarting their crimefighting career.
* Many stores in Twiscordopolis have names that call back to characters from the original series, such as BlueFlame Candles and Duke's Fans.
* Each of the the Connman Crew members' first names are a callback to Sean and Halo (a fanmade prequel series to the original Conn, Swagge n' Eddy). Sean and Sampson's names allude to Sean and Halo's protagonist Sean Sampson, and Hal's alludes to Halo, Sean's sidekick.
* In the flashback sequences in Issue 1, young Connman, young Eddy and Connman's father wear clothes similar to what they wore in their brief appearance on Sean and Halo.
* Issue 1's climax takes place on a destroyed bridge, similarly to the first episode of the original series having its climax set on a bridge that gets destroyed.
* The bridge was revealed to have been destroyed in a bombing incident that took place 9 years prior to the events of the comic, another callback to the first episode. Additionally, the time frame of "9 years ago" matches how long ago the original series had been out at the time of Issue 2's publishing.
* The street in Twiscordopolis known as "32nd ABC Avenue" contains a recurring easter egg present in most of the creator's works - this being a hat store named Max's Hats next to a nondescript apartment building and an alleyway in between them where a dumpster sits. This easter egg can be traced back to the creator's earliest animated project "The ABC Gang", which is what the street is named after.
* When the trio workshops a name for their crimefighting team in Issue 2, Connman suggests using the name "ConnSweddy Z", a nod to a short parody series that spoofed Conn, Swagge n' Eddy and DragonBall Z.
* Issue 3 ends with Eddy asking Cooleo to hand him a hand-made heat canister to throw at Seamus O'Shawnessy's laser cannon. After throwing the bomb, Cooleo compliment's Eddy's talent to which Eddy replies "What can I say? I'm a good bomb-thrower", a nod to the line he says before bombing the Comment Bridge in the first episode.