Help Me!

Help Me! wasn't my first story idea, but it was certainly the first one I had that wasn't a total pile of shit. The basic premise is that this big enigmatic purple cloud of a mysterious substance later labeled "Truth" swirls into a city and totally fucks everything up by transforming everyone into monsters based on their crippling personality flaws. Soon the whole city is deserted by humans in a desperate attempt to escape, leaving behind a gloomy, ruined city populated by bizarre monsters.


The story follows Collin Ampersand, a clueless, timid rich kid who gets abandoned by his asshole parents and gets turned into an uncannily adorable slime kid due to being a spineless homie. He then tries to figure shit out, go on a path of self-discovery, and generally try to survive long enough to escape a city filled with such creatures as murderous giant sperm and crying heads on wheels that explode when thoroughly distressed. I actually came up with a ton of monsters I really liked for this series, but never scanned the majority of them. I probably should sometime.




Almost every story idea I have ever had ends with what essentially amounts to a final boss battle. I can't help myself. The final boss this time is Desire, a giant monster living underneath the city that is basically every primal human urge and desire rolled into one, despite originally being human, like every other monster in the city. He's quite mad, and is only capable of saying "MORE," yet is the size of a Godzilla monster and capable of brainwashing other monsters into doing his every whim. Unlike most final bosses, he has little to no association with the rest of the story's events, only showing up at the end.

So, naturally, once Collin and his posse find the damn thing, they wind up provoking it and it emerges to wreck shit up. Every other monster in the city sees this, freaks out realizing that if they just keep on being self-indulgent monster bastards they'll become like that, and all team up to fight Desire in a climactic final brawl.