These are reviews of various PMD comics originally posted in /pmdg/ thread in /vp/. Some of these have been updated, either because I felt like I had more to say, the comic progressed further, or because I just wanted to fix something.

Each review will include the following information: name of the comic, author, and where to find it; number of pages and status; main character species, any humans, if it has spoilers for the games; genre and theme; and finally the review. I'm going to skip "PMD", "Pokemon" etc in the titles.

When talking about spoilers, I'm answering the question of "will reading this comic spoil the plot of any of the games". Some comics follow the plot of the games, and some comics are set after one or multiple games and reference them. If you already played the games mentioned or don't care about spoiling the plot, you don't need to worry about it. If I'm not mentioning spoilers, the comic is an original story with no direct references to games or otherwise avoids spoilers.

As a foreword: I'm a pro-creativity person, I'm making these reviews because I want to spread awareness and help people read more comics they'd enjoy, and I'm in general not out to put the creators down. This can cause me to overrate the comics sometimes. I'm also not particularly bothered by whatever else the artists do and in general have pretty high tolerance for shenanigans as long as the comic is good. There are some comics I really didn't like, and I'm going to try to be objective with these and say what is good about them. The main purpose of this guide is to help people discover new comics they might like and provide information about them.

Here's a few of my top picks if you're just looking for a recommendation, if you're looking for:
Comedy: Abridgestery, Drillbur, Team Detect
Adventure: Milos from Home, Team Rowanberry, On Borrowed Time, Shadows for Hire
Something deeper and unusual: Anamnesis, Alva

Abridgestery Dungeon (ThatOneAceGuy)

mood indeed

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=abridgesterydungeon

220 pages, finished.

Mudkip human, Pikachu partner. Heavy spoilers for Rescue Team.

Comedy adventure with a lot of emphasis on comedy. Has some emotional moments too, mostly in the second half.

A rare example of a finished PMD comic. The main plot is just Rescue Team, since it's supposed to be like an abridged series. It has good jokes with the main character as a walking meme-spouting machine, and the partner as a straight man. World's reaction to MC's nonsense feels realistic. It has a pretty pixelated artstyle, the first chapters are B&W and gets colored later. There's a nice Q&A, and it wraps up nicely. Also, I really like that the MC being a water type is actually relevant (e.g. him staying underwater), which is a surprisingly uncommon thing to show. This comic is a good first read if you're familiar with PMD, interested in PMD comics, and you want something funny and light-hearted.

On Borrowed Time (Wooled)

best character

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=onborrowedtime

~600 pages, ongoing (Oct 2025).

Alolan Vulpix human, Shinx partner, later joined by a Meowth and a Nidorina plus a few on-and-offs. Relic Fragment is also a character of unclear identity. Spoilers for Explorers.

Plot-based adventure with a decent amount of character interaction.

Despite being Explorers-based, plays around with the plot points and the characters (some are merged), and gives different takes on some events in the game. The worldbuilding is interesting so far, though most of it was setting things up, and how it'll payoff remains to be seen. Has a cute artstyle where most characters look like a fluffy loaf or a spiky loaf, and many characters are hybrids, belonging to one species but with traits of another. The art gets much clearer in later chapters. I find the changes to the characters interesting, though that's contentious. Two of main characters are gay (for each other) and one is trans. This isn't really explored (which I would consider a downside...) but if you're one of the people that start convulsing when seeing that, you might not enjoy it. Also has two pretty emotional side stories. The main problem with this comic is that it's trying to do a lot of things at once, and the depth suffers as a result. The characters have distinct personalities, but a lot of them are pretty shallow, and the comic doesn't dedicate enough time to explore them deeper. Even the main characters suffer from it. The lore is also given out pretty sporadically. Nonetheless, the adventure parts are pretty interesting and the character interaction is fun.

Adventures of Team Sunflower (UmiKit)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=AdventuresofTeamSunflower

Pending a re-read.

Start! (Tatu Wani / Tatsu Wani / 光國)

as you can see they are both dorks

https://www.pixiv.net/user/2227472/series/42431 original / https://e926.net/pools/31010 translated

~300 pages, ~100 translated (Oct 2025), finished.

Pikachu human, Totodile partner. Spoilers for Rescue Team.

Character interaction + comedy.

A B&W manga. It's a pretty enjoyable read. The plot is a carbon copy of Rescue Team. It has pretty good humour and characters. The MC and the partner are quirky and bounce off each other well. The world is also a bit unusual in that it mostly works like a PMD world but with some mixed in concepts from Japanese culture. The comic itself is finished (as far as I can tell), but it's in Japanese. There's an English translation in progress, currently at the start of chapter 5 out of 13. Unfortunately, the translation is pretty sporadic.

Shadows for Hire (TrueScorn)

they have each others names tattooed

https://www.deviantart.com/truescorn/gallery/94687012/shadows-for-hire / https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=shadowsforhire

~150 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).

No humans. Lucario + Sneasel.

Character-driven adventure/story. A bit edgy, but not overwhelmingly so.

Follows the adventures of a pair of bounty hunters. The main body is them doing detective work while also presenting the perspective of the criminal, so you, the reader, know what's going on, but characters don't, and you get to watch the detectives trying to figure out what's going on, and the criminal trying to mislead them. It's a bit similar to Columbo, though the finale is less of a foregone conclusion. The art is professionally drawn, mostly monochrome with occasional colored parts like eyes, moves, or flames. The world isn't a typically whimsy PMD world, and feels like a good, believable mature take on it. The characters and the writing are also excellent, and this is true for both the main characters and the supporting cast.

ICMA (Makotoo)

a common state of main character

https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/4788939 original / https://e926.net/pools/31151 translated / https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pokedanicmaenglish another version

~600 pages, new chapters released periodically.

No humans. MC is a Fennekin in a large cast of characters.

It's a shonen with Pokemon.

I enjoyed the read at first, but very soon it became a constant repetition of fights against the designated villain of the week and various characters saying "I need to get stronger to protect my family/friends/etc". Fights are fairly violent, with blood and deaths or near deaths. It has a decent number of cool moments, a decent number of emotional moments, and some good jokes. It might be worth checking out for the artstyle, if nothing else - it's a pretty well-drawn B&W manga. But the story is basically non-existent (I struggle to remember a single antagonist that has a reason to be attacking people) and the characters are mostly bland and forgettable.

Bloodied Hands/Pure Soul (NovaArtz3699)

that one time I decided to be a good person

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=bhps

~100 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).

Riolu human + Raboot partner.

Edgy Mary Sue adventure, complete with an OP MC with dark, mysterious past.

Riolu MC who's a hitman in his past life, can beat anyone, is immune to psychic moves, can do a cool protagonist glare, and is the best flirt in the world. Raboot partner who's actually a Mew and has a Mewtwo dad. They're an OTP. I'm not disparaging it, that's just a factual description. That should give you a fairly complete picture. It gets pretty bloody pretty quick, too, when the baddies and the MC start stabbing people. It's fairly well-drawn, and it's not a boring read, as far as this genre goes.

Yet Another PMD Comic (Flavia-Elric)

the king of team plasma

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=yapc

~400 pages, ongoing.

Eevee human (probably) + a huge cast of characters. References and mildly spoils all PMD games.

I struggle to define its genre. It's just talking and talking. Endless talking. Characters are on a quest to solve a mystery except it's never actually advanced or investigated.

Incredibly boring. It's the kind of a story that tries to be so comfy that nothing antagonistic ever happens. I think I stopped at chapter 12 and the story has been nothing but pointless chatter, PMD protagonist jerking, and the story acting like the main characters are about to encounter some kind of an antagonist only to turn around and actually nobody's allowed to be bad and they just join the main characters, making the cast grow bigger and bigger with every chapter. I did not like it at all. Some people do like it, and based on what they said, I'll give the comic some credit and say that the artstyle is pretty cute and Bayani is somewhat interesting (though it still feels like jerking to me).

In the Sunset We Saw (Makotoo)

why are his eyes like that

https://e926.net/pools/19900 or https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=inthesunsetisawwithyouenglish

32 pages, finished.

Eevee human (implied) + Shinx partner. Mild spoilers for Explorers.

Short romance story.

It's a short, complete, post-Explorers MC/partner shipping story. The art is pretty nice, and with just 32 pages it's a worthwhile read if you like cute stories.

Anamnesis (borzoiteeth)

theres stardust in my eye

how much of you remains

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmd-anamnesis

~280 pages, split into stories around 10-30 pages long. Currently seems to be on hold (Dec 2025).

Collection of surreal stories. Many characters, some human. Spoilers for all games.

Details vary by story. Each story explores an unusual concept. Lots of deconstruction. Very few happy endings, most are somewhere between bleak and bittersweet.

So, this one is definitely not for everyone. This isn't a regular PMD story, and it's not for the easily unsettled. The stories aren't bloody, per se, but as I said, they are mostly dark. I think the first story isn't very representative of them in general (it's very meta), for the first experience I'd recommend Zaffre or DEADLiNE. The stories have no connection to each other and can be read in any order, and some of them even have distinct, unique artstyles, despite being made by the same person. This is probably the most unique PMD comic out there. Far too many PMD comics jump straight into the adventure part and don't dwell on the theme of being turned into a completely different creature and thrown into an unknown world, which, you'd think, should be a pretty major theme. This comic is very much the opposite and delivers that in spades. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, I would highly recommend that you take a look at this one. Plus, each individual story is pretty short, which makes it easy to pick it up, you don't need to read 100 pages of intro to understand what's going on.

Tales of Elysium (slydragoon16 [story] + Haychel [art])

they were just talking about dicks

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=talesofelysium

~1100 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).

No humans. Riolu + Totodile.

Epic adventure/mystery with a huge cast.

Originally born from the fallout of PMD-E, but fully rebooted and now completely unrelated to it. To be honest, this one feels like an original fantasy story that has nothing to do with PMD except that the characters are Pokemon. It barely uses PMD concepts and does many things that would never happen in PMD. You could replace most of it with a D&D fantasy story and very little would change. It is also EXTREMELY drawn out; in 10 years, with more than 1000 pages it is still at chapter 3 and only fairly recently it became understandable what's actually going on. At this rate it'll be 30 years before we reach the conclusion. This comic combines very grandiose worldbuilding with high stakes and an intense personal drama. A good bulk of the pages is dedicated to fights. The fights are usually pretty bloody, with deaths and dismemberment, and there are also pretty grim torture scenes, the general tone of the comic is often dark, but not hopeless. Overall, it's one of the most high-effort PMD comics, it has a compelling story, pretty good characters, and the artstyle is very good and professional. You can definitely see how having a dedicated writer and a dedicated artist helps improve the comic.

Alliance (HipsterFlamingo)

heres a tone setter for you

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdalliance

~400 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).

Noibat human, Fennekin partner. Set some time after Super, occasionally references it but I wouldn't call it spoiling.

Adventure, fights, character interaction. Very game-y, with stats, levels, IVs, EVs, moves, etc, being a thing that clearly exists and taking game mechanics literally. Generally maintains a serious tone aside from that.

This comic is a trip. Unlike most comics that use game mechanics, it doesn't use them for silly comedy or throwaway jokes, it's treated completely seriously by characters. So you'll have intricacies of Trick Room or actual eugenics as something that gets discussed. These concepts are only explored locally, though, in individual chapters, we don't really see a wider effect on the world. The setting is modernised, they've got radios, modern cities and medical equipment, crossbows. The characters are fairly good, they feel distinct enough, with defined personalities and interests. The cast is too large to give everyone time in a spotlight, but most of them are well-developed and get their own arc. The story was supposedly halfway done after chapter 9, so there's hope that it gets finished. For a while I thought that the story is dragging out too much. Well, since then chapter 12 came out and chose violence, and now I wish it would slow down a bit. The plot very quickly went insane and I have no idea how this tension is going to last until chapter 18. I guess we'll see. I'm giving the comic a few extra points for having an uncommon Pokemon MC. Also, don't look at ref sheets in bonus pages unless you want really heavy spoilers for one of the characters.

Gleaming Hearts (Fidchell + a bunch of people)

tonights episode

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=gleaminghearts

669 pages, finished.

Early spoilers for MCs: Riolu human, Fennekin partner, plus Sandslash that hangs next to them; I can't call him a main character, sorry, he's literally a space filler.

Adventure, comedy, more comedy early, more adventure later. There's a story, but it's given out in teaspoons until the last chapter, and the rest of it is just moving from point A to B. And I feel like I have to note "Pokemon eating food" as one of the genres because a lot of time is spent on it.

Flat artstyle that makes everyone look pudgy. Peculiar. I'll just say it, the main artist draws vore and it leaks into the comic. This is something I'd normally not mention but it's pretty intrusive. It's one of those "one you see it, you start seeing it all the time" things. YMMV on how much that will bother you.
I have a lot of things to say about this comic, which means most of them aren't good. First, there's a tendency that as soon as the main characters run into a problem, something very convenient immediately happens to either resolve it for them or give them an easy way to resolve it. Second, antagonists turning out to actually have good reasons to be that way or just being misunderstood then befriending the MCs happens way too often. Literally the only time that doesn't happen is the stupid fire birds.
Third, I think the comic spends too much time in a state where the main antagonist is completely untouchable and has all the cards, and doesn't really use that time to advance the plot nor for character development. The epitome of it is (chapter 7 spoilers) the scene where MCs evolve. Very little build-up, the evolution just happens through a purely physical effect, and then there's no resolution either, a couple of people shrug and go "oh, cool" and nothing really changes. Oh, and also in that scene the MC reveals to his partner that he's a human... which gets completely ignored. All of that leads to the story having too little tension, too few stakes to be exciting.
I'm also disappointed in the last chapter. Not only is the way the story is going to end was completely obvious from the moment where MC was told that he could let Hector disappear to save his own life, there isn't really an emotional wrap-up (a running theme at that point). MC pretty much just says "yeah I did a bad thing, but I'm sorry", and that's all we get, we don't even learn what exactly he did beyond vague hints. I mean, why waste time exploring that any deeper? Just throw in a heroic sacrifice and skip all the complicated stuff, you're going to get brought back by yet another convenient deus ex machina anyway. This sacrifice doesn't serve any purpose, it's just a way for Jake to make things up to Hector without actually DOING anything. And even then he's presented as not really being at fault (also a running theme, you may have noticed) because he was pressured.
This one gets such a long write-up not because it's bad; there are many far worse comics out there. It's the opposite: it's on the verge of being really good. But unfortunately, poor pacing, lack of proper build-ups and resolutions, and boring character development really sink the story. It's also finished, which is a milestone many comics do not make.

Another Perspective (MRZoet)

proceed

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdap

~130 pages, ongoing but unreliably (Jan 2026).

Purrloin human, Cyndaquil partner. Story is loosely based on rescue team; no spoilers so far, but there probably will be.

Comedy, character interaction, some fights.

This one's gimmick is that the MC is a team rocket grunt intentionally sent to the Pokemon world. It's pretty nice to have an MC with agency and their own goals, and she and the partner make a good duo. It's traditionally drawn, sometimes pen and pencil, sometimes watercolour. Unfortunately the story is only starting up and the updates are irregular, to put it mildly: as of Jan 2026, the last page was in Jul 2025, the one before that in May. It's a nice read as-is, but any kind of resolution is nowhere in sight.

The Human Connection (EnergyLuxray)

me too riolu me too

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdthehumanconnection

~250 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).

Tepig human, Riolu partner. References all games and isn't shy about spoiling them; ch1p26 and Q&A2 (which straight-up gives out one of the biggest spoilers of Super) in particular. Whyyyy.

It's probably going to be a character-driven adventure, for now we had a lot of character interaction, but they're just preparing for the adventure part.

I like this comic. The chapters that currently exist mostly deal with introducing and examining the characters, and the MC is both struggling with the fact that they've been turned into a Pokemon and being in an unfamiliar world, something my soul yearns for. I mentioned it in another review, but it's surprisingly rare to have it anywhere past the first chapter, if not the first five pages. The dynamic between the MCs is also quite good and well-written. Pages release with reasonable frequency during the chapter, though the artist usually takes fairly long breaks between chapters. The art is also pretty good, styled like a B&W manga and with very good facial expressions.

The Rogue Team (Teeterglance)

idk man what if I want to do both

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmd-trt

80 pages, likely dead in the water.

Fennekin human, Treecko partner.

Unfinished adventure.

This comic has been on a hiatus since Jan 2024. The author assures it'll continue some day. At this point this is pretty unlikely because the author has diagnosed schizophrenia and spent 6 months in a psychiatric hospital. The good thing about the comic is that what is written makes a neat self-contained story and doesn't end on a cliffhanger, so you can read it if you'd like, the art is good and the partner has a fun personality.

Eeveelution Squad (EV-Zero)

no there is no follow up to this is makes just as much sense in context

https://www.deviantart.com/ev-zero/art/Eeveelution-Squad-Cover-603963316

1023 pages total, finished.

No humans, one of every Eeveelution plus Eevee. More characters appear later, including more Eevees and Eeveelutions and the time jumps back and forth which made it very difficult for me to follow who is who.

Starts as a gag-a-day comedy, except decompressed so not every page gets a gag with a dash of will they won't they. Later turns into... I don't even know how to describe.

It has 1023 pages including all the bonus chapters, but this ain't Tales of Elysium; many pages are really small and simple, particularly early. Anyway, the start of the comic is basically just cute without any serious thought. There's some really basic humour. The dialogue often veers into pure nonsense. It's not uncommon to have several pages in a row where nothing happens that could have been one PANEL. No real plot, just Eeveelutions beating each other up, being horny for each other, talking about random nonsense, or all of those things at once because tsundere. It then takes a sudden pivot to a hard-to-follow plot about secret labs and viruses, which is still kinda nonsense but now suddenly has a lot of close relatives being killed. It's hard to take it seriously when the same page has a flashback to a character learning that his parents are dead and also "I wish you were a girl because you're girly, then I'd have a girlfriend". Somewhere at that point the comic becomes mostly walls of text of nonsense dialogue. If you need a perfect example of why "show, don't tell" is a rule, look no further. I didn't finish reading it because I got bored, but I glanced at some later pages and it seems to just get more insane.

Rising Ashes (RustyEevee)

just look at that cloak seriously its amazing

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=risingashes

69 pages and seemingly on a hiatus (Dec 2025).

No humans; HeartGold nuzlocke, except instead of humans it's just Pokemon characters in a sort of Johto Mystery Dungeon setting.

Adventure, feels.

The concept seems very intriguing and the dialogues are well-written and flow nicely. The art is pretty nice. There's not many pages yet, but I like what I see so far. Unfortunately, the author stopped posting unexpectedly in September AND it's on a cliffhanger. It's still cute enough for me to say that what exists is worth it, but maybe stop before the big fight in chapter 2 if you're worried about the cliffhanger.

Chasing Daybreak (Questmaster)

hashtag relatable

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=chasingdaybreak

~100 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).

Seemingly Explorers-based and seemingly Riolu human + Pikachu partner. Spoilers for Explorers (yes, this early).

Not far enough to determine with certainty, so far mostly character stuff suggests heavy focus on characters and the story blurb suggests upcoming adventure.

Nervous wreck Pikachu who's already in the guild and a Riolu who seems to be a human (mid-Explorers spoiler) from the dark future who hasn't lost his memory. The dialogue hints at deeper lore. The establishing chapters are well-written, and both main characters are pretty interesting. The art is also pretty cute. Every page has alt text. The author is pretty good at keeping tension high, while balancing it against calmer scenes. Also a side note, I like Pikachu's Raichu tail.

Ancient Revival (KazzMcSass)

that fish is giving me bedroom eyes

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=ancientrevival

~300 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).

No humans; MCs are a Slakoth and a shiny Umbreon.

Character-driven adventure.

The premise of this one is a modernised PMD setting, and the MC is a doctor researching cure or at least treatment for "the feral sickness", a disease which he also has that manifests as sort of progressively worsening manic episodes until eventually driving them insane. You might wonder if it's going to be like Omori where it occupies the entire plot, but while it's an important backdrop and the MC having it occasionally pops up, the quest for the cure fades into the background a few chapters in. The characters are well-written, the foundation of the story is solid. I'd say the pacing is pretty good. There's a few things I'd criticise it for. First, the MC has an always-encouraging super-rich mentor figure, which I think takes narrative pressure off unnecessarily, though to be fair, he doesn't pop up very often. Second, the story, while usually driven by character decisions, also has an occasional tendency for random events that kick the plot forward.

TERMINUS (sutihukka)

yep that sure is a human alright

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdterminus

~100 pages, unreliably ongoing (Dec 2025).

Main characters are Eevee, Riolu, and Zorua, though the degree to which each of them is going to be a protagonist is a bit unclear at the moment. No references to games.

Comedic adventure.

First of all - glacial pace, ~100 pages over 3 years. Posted randomly and with long breaks without any warning or explanation. Which is a real shame because it looks pretty interesting so far. The very early (like 5 pages) spoiler is that Eevee is Giratina, which is the main focus of the story. I'd say the parts that are already made are worth reading by themselves. The artstyle is pretty, I like when it becomes borderless. The artist really likes making everyone fat. The characters are pretty funny. I think we're unlikely to see it progress to a resolution given the current rate, though. When I posted this review, it got a lot of heat because of the fat characters and because of the silliness of the plot. And I'm just going to say I disagree, and the plot is not supposed to be taken seriously, but I guess YMMV.

Milos from Home (ReagentNein)

all around me are familiar faces

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=milosfromhome

~750 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).

Eevee human, Torchic partner, soon joined by Magnemite. Based on Rescue Team, but very loosely from the start, and goes completely off-track after the Skarmory mission. Because of that, no spoilers.

Worldbuilding-heavy adventure with elements of mystery.

Great characters and a lot of worldbuilding is what mostly defines this comic. It goes for a much less whimsical and a lot more grounded approach to a PMD world. The tone, while generally pretty light-hearted, goes into dark themes at times. The disasters that are only vaguely mentioned in Rescue Team are a pretty big part of the comic, you'll see Pokemon being affected by them, refugee camps, and so on. The main character is much less of a "stick carried by the water" style that we often get with PMD protagonists, and, in fact, tends to be the one pushing the partner around to do stuff despite his amnesia. The plot gets pretty intense later. The art and the lore both went through some early weirdness; you'll notice the art change in the first couple chapters (picture is from chapter 2 where the theme was "unsettling realism", that passed, thankfully), and there's a fairly early page that directly tells you what's been retconned. The art ended up settling on intentionally distancing from official Pokemon art to some degree, while keeping them recognisable.

Wanderlust (collab)

I may or may not have included it on this list just for this joke also yes this is loss and no these panels are sfw

haha nope

not counting the pages either, cancelled and continued as fanfic

Large cast with no specific main character because it's a collab.

Porn.

I'm going to try to be serious. First of all, there's the main comic, which goes nowhere because it ends at chapter 6 because the guy who did most of it left the project. I am shocked, shocked that this kind of a project exploded into drama. It has been continued as fanfic that I haven't read and do not care about. Then it has a bunch of side stories, many of which also go nowhere and end abruptly. And then there's just random art and Q&A. First, for the central plotline. My overall impression of it is that it tries to be ABSURDLY horny to justify porn and also have a serious plot at the same time, and those two things are at odds with each other. Like, the first plot point is that some of the guild members are so horny they literally can't stop having sex in the guild lobby, and that causes actual problems for the guild, am I supposed to take it seriously? Apparently, the answer is yes. Second, the characters. I think the characters are actually mostly fine, but trying to follow any of them would require you to trudge through loads of poorly organised comics, images, and writing, some of which is non-canon, with unclear timelines and made by different people. That requires more effort than I'm willing to give it. And third, the sauce. I have no strong feelings about it, but even if I did, I don't think my opinion would be useful to anyone. Either you like it or you don't. If one of those three things appeals to you, you might enjoy it.

Alva’s Dietary Misadventures (Diabeticus)

mushroom man mushroom man can do whatever a mushroom can

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=adm

422 pages, finished.

Not really PMD, since it's set in a regular Pokemon world, but the main characters are Pokemon. We've got Ampharos, Granbull, and Sobble.

Adventure. Philosophy. Dread. Poetry. Short description won't do it justice.

This is an experience that's hard to describe. First of all, the early pages aren't really representative of the main happenings later. Early chapters might set you up for a comedy adventure, but the bulk of it is actually a psychological thriller. As the comic unfolds, the focus shifts more and more from what happens to what kind of effect it has on the characters, mixed with philosophical musings on the state of things, group and individual psychology, behaviour, difference between Alva's human-like thinking and the other two, and some Pokemon-specific things like evolution. It's fairly heavy reading, and if you're interested, I'd highly recommend taking your time reading through it and always checking the description. The art starts very rough - "my first MS paint comic" level - but improves over time. Later pages are quite pretty, dare I say. One interesting quirk is that almost all chapters start with a synopsis that details what's about to happen in the actual chapter. They don't contain any information that you won't get by reading the comic, so you can skip them if you'd prefer to be unspoiled. Also, the text is hand-written and gets incredibly hard to read in some places, especially Alva's yellow cursive on white background, and this is where synopses can help. (Her dialogue is sometimes posted in the description because of that.)

All We Like Sheep (Diabeticus)

basically shakespeare

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=allwelikesheep

192 pages, finished.

Not PMD at all, only gets here because it's related to Alva's, and the focus is still on Pokemon. We have a human, Ampharos, Spinda, and later Litwick.

Character-driven adventure that happens over a few days.

There's a major theme of difficulties in communication, both literally in the sense that the Pokemon can't speak human and have to do pantomime, and figuratively. Aside from that, it's an adventure. Characters go on it. We learn things about them. It's focused on characters, but it's not a deep examination in the same way that Alva's is. It ties to Alva's, though you can just read it as a separate story. Like in Alva's, we have synopses at the start of most chapters, and again, they don't contain any extra information, so you can skip them if you prefer to be unspoiled. That said, I don't think they reveal any really important plot points, and they help understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. You can read it without reading Alva's; the only thing you really get from reading Alva's first is that it sets you up to wonder if Ampharos in this story is Alva, and if yes, then is it set before or after Alva's. In the middle parts some pages are rotated, and towards the end the frames are compiled into an animation. I have no idea if it's 4D chess meta experience of communication problems or the author just decided to experiment, but I found both of these pretty annoying.

Market of Shoes (Diabeticus)

a sobble named john and a sobble named sobble-john dont get confused

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=adm2

52 pages, hiatus (Dec 2025).

Still not PMD, but I can't not review the sequel if I'm going to review the other two? Unclear main characters; from Alva's we've added a human and a second Sobble.

It's a comedy so far but so was Alva's 50 pages in; though the tone is notably less serious. It's a pretty sharp contrast to Alva's, there's no philosophy in this one.

Direct sequel to Alva's, and both the description and the intro page contain a spoiler for it. Wouldn't recommend reading it separately. The pages that exist currently are pretty funny, but with 52 pages and the last update in March 2025, I don't have much to say about it.

Drillbur With Two L's (Diabeticus)

couldnt decide between this and dick joke next page

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=dwll

~120 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).

Uhhhhh-

Absurdist comedy.

Drilbur, sorry, Drillbur goes around interviewing Pokemon. I already said it's absurdist comedy, so there's that. If you like funny nonsense, you'll like this comic. If you don't, you'll just get confused. It has a toonish, simple artstyle that's not gunning for realism and fits the comic. That's about all there is to it, though I want to call out pages 63 and 64, especially 64, as the funniest PMD shit I've seen the year I made this review, so maybe at least check those out?

Panic!! Mysterious Dungeons! (Virmir)

the shiny is someones oc I think

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmd / https://pmd.virmir.com/

~100 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).

Transformed Eevee and native Axew. No direct references to games. Despite there being a school, it's not based on Super.

Parody/comedy adventure.

I was unsure how to approach this one; usually I just evaluate the comic and try to isolate it from whatever surrounds it as much as possible, but here? Heck, there's a decent chance that seeing the artist's name or the artstyle will make you go "wait a moment..." So I'm going to start with the review of the comic itself first, and then put extraneous information under a spoiler.
So, the comic is a full-on parody. We've got moves, stats, levels, The Stairs Joke, the quiz, all being a part of the universe and both the narrative and the characters being self-aware. There's also an actual plot and characters, it's not gag-a-day. The characters are pretty good; the comic manages to do the main character with overinflated ego without overdoing it to a point where it becomes annoying. I'd say they could even carry a serious plot. The jokes are alright, especially when you consider that Rescue Team came out 20 years ago and low-hanging fruit (The Stairs Joke) have all been done many times. As an aside, I am shocked that "pmd" was still available as a domain name on comicfury in 2024.
Virmir is a TF/vore/inflation fetish artist who has drawn PMD fetish pictures and comics before and the main characters are his and (best as I can tell) his friend's fursonas (turned Pokemon). Now, to be fair: this comic does not appear to be a fetish comic based on what I'm seeing right now, one joke on page 16 aside, and the MCs are not Mary Sues. But that context is pretty hard to escape from. And I will not be held responsible if the next antagonist starts turning Pokemon into balloons or whatever.

PMD: Light and Ruin (Bokurei)

better get used to this kind of dialogue flow

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmd-lightandruin

~110 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).

Shinx human, partner Eevee, post-Explorers. Spoilers for Explorers.

Confusingly written adventure. I think it's trying to be a light-hearted comedy.

Intriguing premise: it's set post-Explorers where the human disappeared at the end, and then came back five years later. The art is unremarkable but clean and pretty. Unfortunately, the writing is bad. The dialogue flow is incredibly unnatural, all the time. It's the kind of dialogue where the characters just state the information that you, the reader, needs to receive, without considering that it's spoken in a way that no human or Pokemon being would speak. The story is also middling. I'm reading it as it comes out, but almost every page makes me go "I don't care about any of this." The author also made a puzzling decision to have a character Q&A at the end of chapter 1. Q&A should happen, at least in my opinion, after the characters are established, not be used to establish them.

Team Rowanberry (ShrubSparrow)

fetch quest fetch quest

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=teamrowanberry

560 pages, finished.

No humans. Chikorita and Mareep, later joined by a shiny Corsola.

Early parts are mostly one-off quests, and the later part of it is a character-driven adventure. It's fairly grounded and touches on some heavy subjects; the first page of the comic will give you an overview.

This comic has something of a rough start. It was created as a part of PMD-Explorers group, which is a can of worms I won't dig into, but in short, it was a collab project with fairly strict rules on what you could and couldn't do and specific prompts for missions. Because of that, the early chapters don't really serve a greater purpose and also have random things happen directed by what was happening in the group (like Chill leaving, which was due to IRL drama). Some chapters also had to be rushed to meat deadlines. That isn't to say that the early parts of the comic are bad (notably, many early pages are traditionally drawn, it switches to digital later), I still enjoyed reading them, but they are sometimes janky due to rush and often feel like fillers. Now, the reason why I'm saying this is - if you start reading it and think that the early parts are bad, don't be discouraged. The author has decided to continue the comic after PMD-E shut down, and despite PMD-E stuff making up missions from 3 to 8 and post-PMD-E being only two more missions, those two missions make up around 70% of the actual pages.
With that out of the way, to the meat of it. It's a small-scale story that's not trying to be an epic adventure of saving the world, and instead focuses on the characters, their backstories and personalities. And this focus serves it very well. It has good characters, good art, and a good story. I'd highly recommend this comic if you're looking for a complete, down-to-earth story.
You might wonder if it's a good idea to skip straight to mission 9. I wouldn't recommend it. The beginning of the comic is still pretty important for establishing the main characters and laying down some basic rules for the setting.

Victory Fire (sulfurbunny)

theyre boyfriends its canon i can prove it

https://mspfa.com/?s=42766&p=1 / https://www.deviantart.com/sulfurbunny

734 pages, abandoned.

There's a human Audino, but she's just one in a large cast of characters. Really, the main character is Mewtwo. It's set in a world that combines multiple pieces of Pokemon media, including Rescue Team, Explorers, Black/White, Colo/XD, anime, and maybe other smaller references I'm forgetting or missing. Rescue Team gets spoiled pretty heavily, and is the only thing I really recommend you know the plot of before reading this; for others it's mostly passing references and no deeper spoilers than "good guys win in the end".

Character-driven adventure.

Probably the most well-known PMD comic. Despite combining a lot of unrelated work and having mostly canon characters, it manages to create a coherent and believable story with them without breaking character. It also successfully manages to juggle a large cast in a way that most characters are relevant. The background is laid down sufficiently so you don't need to know all canon works it's based on, though it will enhance your experience. It has a very cozy, soft, somewhat anime style. Drawn mostly in MS paint, funnily enough.
This comic focuses heavily on its worldbuilding and the way different sources and characters interact with each other. It starts off as a journey with occasional interjection of side characters, which get more importance over time, evolving into separate story threads that sometimes intersect, and ultimately converge. The story stays easy to follow, the characters are distinct and have clear motivations.
The elephant in the room is that the story has been discontinued. There's supposedly a revival project, but so far it has produced nothing but yearly journals saying they're working on it. Despite that, I think the comic is still worth reading. The story is mostly complete, and I think you can make a pretty reasonable guess about what was supposed to happen after the comic ends.

Team Ballad (Slap_Cycle)

yes you read that correctly

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=teamballad

~150 pages, ongoing (Nov 2025)

Squirtle human, Chespin partner, as well as a plush (ugh) Meowstic and a few supporting characters. Loosely based on Super, is set post-Super, and goes over the main points of the plot.

The main character is a Qquirtle vampire with heterochromia. But, like, a cool vampire, he doesn't burn up in the sun, he just becomes weaker. There's also magic in this world, and the MC can summon ice swords. Is it fun to read? No. The problem with this one is that it is BORING. The entirety of the first chapter (minus a very short mystery dungeon trip) is the MC telling the partner that she needs to study for a school test and her saying "I will" and then not doing it. That may sound like an exaggeration for comedic effect to you, but no. It isn't. Incidentally, if the author is going to include a page where they explain that they just graduated from high school, then I will include that information in the review.

Team Detect (REE-Quester)

just one scarf thats lame

https://archive.org/details/smackjeeves-185670/185670/comic/pages/chapter_01-1.png

39 pages, abandoned (or is it deliberately left unfinished?).

Are the main characters a) Eevee, Vulpix, Riolu, Shinx, or b) Gliscor, Marowak, Alolan Marowak, Kliklang? Answers on a postcard.

This is a full-on parody of PMD comics, particularly comic cliches. It's great. Go read it, it'll take you 10 minutes, 15 if you're a slow reader. Ends on a cliffhanger, which may be by design.

FLOODWATERS (Mango Cat)

my favorite part of pmd

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdfloodwaters

52 pages, finished.

Omanyte and Eevee. No spoilers.

A short, complete story with a melancholic tone. It's hard to describe without spoiling it because it's really short. I enjoyed the read and it was short enough to read it in one sitting. The characters were pretty fun. The first part of the ending felt random because the comic isn't really built up to it, and the second half just made me go "huh, I see". Still, the artstyle was pretty interesting, and it's a pretty neat self-contained story.

PKMN: Project Amulet (Blazermaze00)

come on ledi lets go parti

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=projectamulet

120 pages, ongoing (Jan 2026).

Zangoose and Ledian, no humans. No references to games.

This will likely be an emotional character-driven journey adventure with great stakes and saving the world. The story isn't far enough to make definitive statements.

I don't really like the setup of the main character being a Very Special Boy that holds the titular Very Special McGuffin, but the comic isn't far enough to say definitely if that's going to be good or bad. It hasn't gotten around to explaining what's the deal with the main character and with the amulet and where exactly the comic is going yet. For now I'm leaning towards it being a reasonable implementation. The characters shown so far are believable, and they have some decent groundwork laid down for future development. The emotional parts are also written really well. This comic uses specific Pokemon moves, but the Pokemon aren't limited to four slots, which I think is a good call and gives a pretty good variety in the fight scenes. The author also puts the names of the moves being used in the image hover text instead of slapping "X used Y" text over the move, which I think is a nice balance between allowing the reader to know which moves are being used without disturbing the verisimilitude. I also like small details like the main character walking on twos when he needs his hands, but switching to fours when he walks long-distance, or Zangoose being immune to Shadow Sneak. My biggest complaint is that the characters and the plot feel pretty generic and archetypical. So far everyone is a one-way street, the plot is literally The Hero's Journey and the blurb opens with "The balance of light and darkness is at stake." Being archetypical is not a killer, per se, it is executed well, and this is something that could change as the story develops.

Broken Code (lxvepup)

by the way the old version showed espeons both eyes immediately and in the reboot she has this cool hair tuft covering one eye so you dont see she has heterochromia for 70 pages

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdbc / https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=brokencodearchive old version

~220 pages, ongoing (Jan 2026).

Plusle human, in a team with Espeon, Dragonite, and Darkrai. Throws a vague but pretty big spoiler for Explorers in your face for no reason. Aside from that, no connections to games.

Grand-scale "save the world" character-driven drama/adventure. The blurb calls it a coming-of-age story, which hasn't yet been realised, so I can neither confirm nor deny. Occasional dark themes listed on the first page as content warning.

The first 20 pages of this comic feature Arceus, Mew, Darkrai, and a shiny Espeon with heterochromia (and the new version's Dragonite was a Yvetal in the old one). I think that's a good way to start a review of a comic that starts by showing you Arceus. First, I'll get pre-reboot out of the way. It ended at around 80 pages; the rewrite is about 80% shot-for-shot the same. It cleared up some badly written dialogue lines (characters knowing things they shouldn't, logical leaps, sentences that aren't clear) and improved some of the panel and page arrangement. There are few changes aside from that and there's no point reading the original. Overall, the story so far is alright. Some of the characters feel underdeveloped and have unclear motivations. The emotional parts aren't done very well (it feels more like an infodump than processing grief). There's also occasional "characters do unreasonable things for the sake of plot advancement/drama", and minor plot holes. When the Delibird catches up to Rose, she sarcastically thanks her for "leading" her to Team GlowHeart... I'm sorry, you missed a shiny Espeon and a DRAGONITE standing five steps away from you and needed to bump into a random Plusle to notice them? While actively searching for them? For positives, it's pretty cute, the character interactions are mostly pretty good, and the HD remastered edition has pretty clear improvements on some of the weakest parts of the original, which shows promising capability for improvement. A legendary and a shiny on a team is still too much, but you know, it's better than two legendaries. If the author focuses on improvement of the characters, it could turn into a decent story.

Mountain Luxio (sugarmasonmearii)

exfloria is what they call grass continent because thats where explorers games are set and youll never guess what rescuia superia and infini are

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdaumtlu

~183 pages, indefinite hiatus (Feb 2026)

The author mentioned in a blog post that they wanted to make "a No-Eeveelution-Characters story", which is why the main character is a Luxio, supporting characters are a Murkrow, a Floragato, and a Torracat, and a minor side character is a Sylveon. No humans. Some vague references to games, so vague I wouldn't consider them spoilers. Oh, and major spoilers for Celeste.

Celeste is a 2018 platform video game. The main character is a woman named Madeline on a journey of self-discovery through climbing a really tall mountain where metaphorical becomes literal, and she will have to face her inner insecurities- no, wait, the comic. Mountain Luxio is a 2022 comic. The main character is a Luxio named Louise on a journey of self-discovery through climbing a really tall mountain where metaphorical becomes literal, and she will have to face her inner insecurities.

If you want a short review of this comic, it's a lot of work and effort put into a beautiful but very derivative product. The central plot is simply a retelling of Celeste. While the author said they're planning to deviate from the game's story, with the comic being put on ice (their own words), that hasn't materialised. Now, being fair, the story isn't entirely made from the plot of Celeste. For one, the comic goes into a lot of details about what actual mountain climbing is like, such as acclimation, weather, camping, food, gear, all of which I know absolutely 0 about, so I have to trust that the author is either familiar with mountain climbing or did a lot of research. These parts are pretty interesting.
The comic tends to flip-flop between realistic mountain climbing parts where you can almost forget the main characters are pokemon, and mystery dungeon-esque parts that operate on fairly literal game logic. It's not complete gameplay elements, but mystery dungeons are an explicit thing, full of wild pokemon, that the MC has to occasionally fight through, there's a reference to monster houses, moves are explicitly called out. Imagine a comic about mountain climbers, except the mountain has angry natives and the climbers have to sometimes box them to get through a cave. It feels like they're just there because it's a PMD comic so it must have mystery dungeons, they don't serve any story purpose, and in my opinion, don't mesh well with mountain climbing. The fights aren't even interesting, you'll usually see the MC use a move or two, then a shot of her dashing through the dungeon.
The characters are nothing exceptional. The main character, for the most part, has one character trait of wanting to climb the mountain. Floragato is also largely lifted from Celeste, with his photography being swapped for setting-appropriate drawing, and for some reason he randomly says Spanish words. Murkrow is also a Celeste character, an old mysterious lady giving out cryptic advice, except she appears a lot more in the comic, which makes her less interesting. Did she really need to show up to give the main character... a bag for berries? It makes her lose her charm. Torracat is the only actual new addition, and the totality of his appearances is to belittle the MC and tell her she's not strong enough to climb the mountain so she can defiantly say "no" to him.
The comic has really good art, probably the most detailed artstyle I've seen. It's very high-quality, with detailed backgrounds and shading. The pages are quite dense, so it feels longer than you might expect by the page count. I liked the sections where characters discuss or perform mountain climbing. I want to emphasise the art here, the comic is very well-drawn, both in terms of skill and effort. The character designs are striking a good balance between standing out and not being overdesigned, and the backgrounds are incredible. I'd even say it might be worth reading for the art alone. The amount of effort required was, unfortunately, one of the contributing factors to the comic's hiatus. The central story, however, is really boring, because, and I mentioned this before, but it's literally the plot of Celeste. The author clearly has a lot of artistic skill and dedication, so it's unfortunate that the writing doesn't match up.

Endless Blue (PanoramicArts)

his cape sorry scarf is always heroically flapping in the wind

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdendlessblue

~150 pages (Jan 2026).

Scorbunny human, Froakie partner, a few more characters join the main group later.

Classic heroic adventure.

When I say classic heroic adventure, I do mean classic and heroic. Characters will constantly strike a Cool Pose to deliver a Cool Monologue for Maximum Aura Farming before charging into battle. Or before having dinner. What you see in the prologue is the tone for the rest of the comic. It's very shonen. This is the kind of a comic that works best if you don't take it very seriously, because it doesn't take itself very seriously. The artstyle also fits it, with characters tending towards human-like with noodle limbs, which departs from official designs to let them pose like humans. The setting of this comic is that the known world is a group of small islands floating in the air, with sky ships (which look like sailing ships) that travel between them, and, of course, sky pirates. I can't say much about its plot yet, and it doesn't spend too much time on the characters; they're established, but are pretty archetypical and straightforward. Mostly you just get "yep, he has glasses, he's the nerdy one", the two main characters are even colour-coded red and blue, adding to the feel of classic heroic story. Most of the story so far has been establishing the setting and the characters, and it should make for some decent light reading if it maintains the current tone, which I expect - it doesn't look like the type of a comic to suddenly start throwing curveballs.

Souls (NathGlitchy64)

this is from a later chapter i just wanted to include that zigzagoon because i like his hat

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmds

~350 pages (Feb 2026).

Mudkip human, Charmander partner, more characters join later. I guess the banner now spoils it anyway: rest of the team is Rowlet, Haunter, and Mimikyu.

Fight-heavy story-driven adventure.

The start of this comic is mostly silly and close to what you'd expect to see in a comic adaptation of RT: two-man rescue team, mission from a job board, mystery dungeon. It does not stay that way for long, however. The focus very quickly shifts to a high-stakes large-scale conflict with the antagonist that involves a large number of characters. Main characters move around trying to uncover and stop antagonists' plot, get new team members, meet new people, and have big fights. The writing is decent, if a little too simple and juvenile. Earlier chapters often have very inconsistent speech bubble placement that makes it hard to understand the dialogue order. The artstyle starts out simple but serviceable, and improves over time as it starts using more difficult poses and complex backgrounds, while remaining cute. Chapter 9 even has an animated intro (link in the cover description, don't miss it). The comic manages a large cast pretty well, characters are distinct and have their places in the story, while also balancing giving them fitting accessories without turning into an OC fashion festival, and it also tends to lean towards uncommon Pokemon species. The comic is pretty bloody, characters often get severely beaten and bleeding, but the actual impact never goes beyond being knocked out and needing bandages and rest. If someone is targeted by a very powerful attack or if it looks like someone is about to die, you can almost certainly expect that on the next page someone will leap in to save them just in the nick of time. This jumping in at the last moment happens very, very often. Overall, about half of the comic is made up of long fights, and the rest is given to regrouping, conversations, and planning. We don't really get deep dives into characters. It's a good read if you'd like to see a diverse cast of Pokemon fighting each other with a simple plot to serve as connecting tissue.

Edit

Pub: 01 Dec 2025 00:34 UTC

Edit: 09 Feb 2026 01:43 UTC

Views: 230