Super Mario Adventures
Super Mario Adventures was a Super Mario comic that was published in the Nintendo Power magazine for quite a while, beginning in 1992. It featured many of the enemies and characters from the game Super Mario World, but had an original, quite funny storyline. After its run in Nintendo Power, it was published in graphic novel form.
Storyline
Mario and Luigi arrive at the Princess's castle, where a party is scheduled to take place in the evening. Unfortunatly, there is a huge mess in the plumbing! All the pipes are mixed up and disconnected! The Bros. quickly get to work, eventually clearing out the mess, leaving only one disconnected green pipe that they had not seen before. Suddenly, another green pipe, this one VERY large, pops out of the ground. Mario peeks inside and promptly is snapped on the nose by a Piranha Plant. At that moment, the Princess is playing Super Mario Bros. in the courtyard, accompanied by her faithful Toad courtiers. One of the Toad guards runs up with some very important news: Gigantic pipes are popping up everywhere! The Toad courtiers are dubious ("Popping pillars of pipe? Preposterous!!")
But, when they look out the window, they find it is true; not only are they pipes littering the palace yard, but at that moment, tons of monsters (all from Super Mario World, of course) including Monty Moles, Swoops, and Goombas, shoot out of the plumbing! Mario and luigi come up with an unique idea. Mario sticks a pipe in his mouth, wedges a Goomba in, Luigi jumps on his back, and the Goomba goes flying, oliberating all the other monsters. But just
as the Princess and the Toads think that the castle is safe, a gigantic pipe shoots out of the ground, which contains Bowser and his Koopa Clown Car!! Bowser, after testing the mic in his hand, (and getting a gong bang from his kids) begins rapping. The message is that Bowser wants to rule the Mushroom Kingdom now, and he intends to do this by marriage to Peach!!! Of course, the Princess refuses ("IN YOUR DREAMS, and MY nightmares!" she shouts back),but the crafty King of Koopas, of course, won't take no for an answer.
He announces he'll be back in two weeks for her final decision, and to make the deal go a little more his way, he proclaims that if the answer is no, all her people will be turned to stone, giving her a demo on the Toads nearest him! (Even their screams of terror become rock!) Peach becomes extremely upset at this, and tries reasoning with the Koopa King. But Bowser, seeing as he's got her "over a barrel", so to speak, chuckles at her and rockets back down his pipe with the Koopalings. Peach becomes enraged and, with some of her faithful Toad courtiers,
goes down the pipe too, hoping to strike a compromise with the King. Meanwhile, the Toads are trying to find the Mario Bros. to warn them about the Princess's departure, but a calamity has struck! Mario has been turned into a statue too! Luigi, however, doesn't seem to notice the difference, only that Mario isn't talking and is extremely stiff. One of the Toads saves the day by calling up the Minister of Massage, a mystic Toad who works wonders on the stone Mario and, one week later, Mario is back to his old self.
After hearing the news about Peach, the Bros. race down the huge pipe after her. The pipe is extremely long, and, unfortunatly, dangles in the clouds high above the Koopa Kingdom!! After a rough landing, Luigi gets his head wedged into the ground. Mario pulls him up to reveal a giant, green egg! They are quite hungry, so they begin a cookout. But the heat has a strange affect upon the egg, and moments later, a little green dino pops out of it, happily screaming YOSHI!
At that same moment, in the Koopahari Desert, Peach and Co. are hootfooting it to Bowser's Castle. Unfortunatly, their supply of water is gone, the troops are pooped, and everyone's dehydrated! The Toad leader tries to tell her that the search is ridiculous, and that ther's not a cloud in the sky, but just then a cloud appears an the sizzling sky! The Toads rejoice ("Quick! Let's do a rain dance") but the clouds are soon revealed to be Lakitu hideouts! ("HEEEELP! We must have done the wrong dance! It's raining Spinies!!")
Meanwhile, Mario and Luigi have become terrified of the dinosuar, thinking that their lunch is hungry for them! After shooting off from the dino, Luigi collapses ith Mario underneath a bush, which turns out to be a Wiggler's home! Mario tries to "save" (the Wiggler isn't attacking him) Luigi, but when stomped on, the king caterpillar gets all the more upset! Racing away, they find Yoshi blocking their exit, but the cute lil' dino slurps up half the Wiggler, stuns the other half, and has a delicious dinner. Then approaching the Bros., he motions for them to get on his back, and awaaaay they go!
LOCATION: YOSHI VILLAGE
Yoshi and the Bros. arrive at a village filled with the litle dinosuars. At first, Mario and Luigi are extremely nervous ("I hope that they're not discussing ways to cook us!" gulps Luigi) but their fears fade when they see another human. He introduces himself as Friendly Floyd, the salesman who can sell anyone anything. Right now, he's selling the gullible Yoshis light bulbs. As it turns out, he can interpret the Yoshi dialect, and he tells the Bros. that the Yoshi they are riding is the Chairman of the Dino Chamber of Commerce. Why was the D.C. Chairman trapped in an egg? On account of Bowser's curse! When some villagers were yoshinapped, their friend went to rescue them, but he happend upon Bowser, who sealed him into the egg. The brothers are astonished, and decide that they need an interpreter. Folyd seems not to want to hang around, so he sells them an "Acme Yoshi Learner" instead for 3000 coins. "3000!!" scream the Bros. "What a rip-off!" Floyd hastily makes it 10 "since they're friends of Yoshi". After F.F. beats it, they open the book and find... Every word transletes to "Yoshi"! Mario explodes, but suddenly, they realize that a Toad has stumbled into the village! It's the Princesses' guard, and through him, they soon learn that she is now Bowser's captive!
LOCATION: WENDY O. KOOPA'S FORTRESS
At the Koopa headquarters, the Koopalings are watching Ludwig von Koopa play what appears to be "Super Bowser Bros." Ludwig stomps a Mario, and sends it flying into a long line of others for a 1-Up. Suddenly, the TV screen bleeps out and the face of Bowser appears, yelling to "keep this video line OPEN!" He then tells them that he has, of all things, PROPOSED to Princess Peach! Just then, his chef shows him the collosial wedding cake model. He tells the Koopa King that it "will be twice as big, with chocolate". Bowser decides he'd rather have it 100 time bigger, and turns to tell the Koopalings that he wants them to keep an eye on his "bride-to-be", but realizes that they're playing again! "DO YOU HEAR ME!?!" he roars, somehow sticking his head, in classic cartoon form, through the monitor into their room. "Is he tense, or what?" ask Lemmy Koopa, pulling his his head out of the floor. "She's safely behond bars!" Or is she? When Lemmy peeps in, she's GONE! They all pile in, wondering how she could possobly pulled it off. But meanwhile, dangling overhead, the Princess balances herself on the cell ceiling... "HEEEEE-YAAAAH!" she screams, proforming a suprise attack on the awestruck Koopa Kids. "Take that"! she cries, karate chopping them and knocking them out. She then races for the cell door, locking them in their own prision! She's safe! But at that moment, Wendy O. Koopa, Bowser's "favorite", runs in with her personal army of Koopa Troopas! Peach runs for cover, but soon finds herself cornered in Wendy's own room! She despratley throws some articles of clothing at the Koopas then threatens to shred Wendy's favorite sweater! She grabs a cape from the closet and impersonates a bullfighteress, sending Roy Koopa caterwualing into the wall. With the cape, she steps onto a windowsill and bids them good-bye, but loses her balance and plummets to the ground! Fortunatly, she is able to use her cape Super Mario World style, and begins to carefully float outside the moat.
LOCATION: OUTSIDE THE FORTRESS MOAT
Meanwhile, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and the Toad they met have arrived outside Wendy's castle. The Toad saw the Koopas take her in, but they need a way to get across the huge moat! Mario tries swimming, but, as he soon finds, much to his discomfort, the water is filed with ferocious Fishbones, Porcupuffers, and Urchins. The Bros. decide to move on to "Plan B"... ("Code name, Survival" Luigi adds nervously.) When they turn around, lo and behold, their old friend Floyd is here too, selling lipstick to a female Piranha Plant! The Bros. decide to "scram, before he pulls another scam!" After beating it, Luigi sits down on a black, cannon-like object. Mario yells for him to get off, but too late! The cannon is revealed as a Bill Blaster, who shoots a Bullet Bill toward the castle! Mario, who was trying to shove it back in, gets shot with it! On his wild way to the castle, Mario spots Peach shooting toward the ground with the cape! Mario shoots straight into the castle, where the Koopalings are more than happy to welcome him! The Princess shoots straight to the ground in a crash-landing, out cold.
LOCATION: WENDY'S CASTLE (again)
Bowser is boiling, fuming, and explosive over the newfound fact that his bride has escaped! He roars at his kids ("KOOPA BRATS!" he calls them) and they hurriedly make excuses, Lemmy Koopa telling him "She would've been a lousy wife anyway, Pop." "SILIENCE!!" roars Bowser, blowing his top. His anger is so great, it smashes the entire room he is in! "Mellow out, Dad!" cries Wendy. "We may have lost the Princess, but we found someone even better!" Mario is in the prision cell, mumbling through his gag "You rotten Koopa brats!!"
LOCATION: OUTSIDE THE FORTRESS MOAT (again)
While Luigi, the Toad and Yoshi try to revive th Princess, two Mechakoopas come up in a boat. They announce that Mario is being held a prisioner, and that if they fail to put the Princess into their boat, Luigi's brother will pay, giving them all a demo on the Mario doll they brought with them. The Toad announces that it's blackmail, but the stubbourn robot turtles keep insinting. Suddenly, who should burst in on the scene but Friendly Floyd! "Howdy, howdy, howdy! How do you like the book?" he asks cheerfully, advertising the new makeup line that "could turn a frog into a prince!" Luigi announces that he needs a miracle, not a makeover! Floyd still persists with his tagline of "create a new you!" "NEW ME?!? I need a miracle!" Luigi shouts, but suddenly, a lightbulb flashes above his head. He asks the Mechakoopas to be excused for a moment, and he, the Princess, and Yoshi head into the bushes nearby. Luigi grabs Floyd too, needing his kit for some reason. A momnent later, Peach comes out, fully conscious, and asks casually "How do I look?" Meanwhile, in the castle, Bowser's bratty offspring are examining the goings-on with a telescope. "She's on her way! IT WORKED!" they cry with glee, eager over their victory. But, when the Princess is brought in, she cries for some reason "FLOYD! YOU'D BETTER COME THROUGH THIS TIME!"
LOCATION: MUSHROOM KINGDOM (or is it?) Toads from all over are racing to a church for.. Mario and Peach's wedding! Floyd, as the pastor, does the ceremony, but just as they get close for the kiss.. Peach feels a shiver of air, and Mario is in a cage being carreid off by Koopas and Ninjis! She turns around to find Bowser leaning toward her, lips puckered! Suddenly, Peach wakes up (the ceremony was all a dream) to find herself staring into Yoshi's face! Not knowing who he is, she "runs for her life", to come face-to-face with Friendly Floyd! She runs away again, screaming. ("WAIT! You haven't seen my new line of makeup!" Floyd shouts after her). Seeing her Toad bodyguard, she finally calms down and remembers how she saw Mario zooming past her when she was flying. She suddenly realizes that Mario is nowhere to be seen, and the Toad tells her that he is now a prisioner! She dashes toward the castle, but is held back by Toad, who yells the "You'll spoil Luigi's plan!" Suddenly, she realizes that she is wearing Luigi's overalls!!
LOCATION: WENDY'S CASTLE (once again) Bowser congragulates his kids on bringing back his bride, and tells them to take very good care of her. They all agree, but Ludwig tells his dad that it's not very likely that she'll say yes to the marraige. But then, a miracle happens! Peach tells Bowser that she will marry him, and that she really does love him!! Bowser's head almost implodes with his joy, and wonders why she has a cloth over her mouth. She tells them that she's sick, but this just makes the King want to give her a kiss. She hurriedly refuses, telling them that she doesn't want them all to get the "koopa croup", and simply asks to be untied. King Bowser grants her request, solemnly turns off the monitor, turns to the Koopa chef, and yells at the top of his lungs "SHE LOVES ME! IT'S THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE!! ALL RIGHT!!!", completely destroying the cake model behind him that the Koopas were trying to fix. Meanwhile, Mario is sitting in his cell, when suddenly Peach appears... With a moustache?! "HMF M HEFHUF! HIMF IF FU, FEE! (What a getup! Pink is you, Luigi!)" Mario mumbles through the cloth tied around his face. "I do think it flatters my complexion!" Luigi giggles, trying to unlock the cell door, when suddenly Wendy walks in, bellowing "Princess! Are you lost?" Luigi quickly whips around, covering his face in the process. "What are you going to do with him?" he asks casually. "The Prianhas are always hungry. He'll make a fine meal!" W. O. replies nonchonlantly, while Mario turns purple with rage. Luigi quickly changes the subject, suggesting ordering pizza! Everybody is enthusiastic about this (they even begin calling him Mom!), and the Princess imporsonator calls it in. But all is not as it seems, as the Toad outside (now wearing a fake afro) announces to Yoshi "We have a delivery to make!" The Koopalings spot the duo on their way, and open the drawbridge. They eagerly open the huge box... And out bursts Princess Peach in Luigi's overalls, and Friendly Floyd cowring alongside. "SPECIAL DELIVERY!" screams the Princess, as the Koopa Kid's eyeballs fairly bug out of their sockets.
"Free Mario, or be blown to pieces!" Peach orders, as the Bowser's kids teeter in confusion. "TWO of them?! Am I seeing double?" asks Wandy, "DOUBLE TROUBLE! Which is real?" yelps Lemmy. But their question is answered for them when they turn around to see Luigi has pulled off his mask! The Koopalings are, to say the very least, quite indignant, and race for the "real" Peach. But she threatens them with a bomb and a match, telling them to stay back, or bombs away! Wendy, though, calls her bluff, reminding her that she'll go down, or rather, UP, with the rest of them if she lights the fuse! While the Princess is distracted with the loudmouthed Wendy, Luigi sneaks up on Roy Koopa and makes off with his keys! "STEALTH ATTACK!" he cries, effectivly giving away the stealth. Roy sives for Luigi, but the Princess Imporsonator jumps out of the way... getting his own head stuck in the ceiling! "Low overhead!" he screams as the keys drop down, but at the last second, the faithful Toad snags them! "COME BACK HERE, shrimpy shroom!" scream the Koopalings as they chase after him, but at the last second, Toad tosses them to Yoshi, who stows them in his mouth and makes off, tripping Iggy, Morton and Roy, sending Wendy and Ludwig crashing into each other, squashing Larry, puts Lemmy in a wild spin, and the Toad into a victory dance! The kids, of course, give angry chase, but Yoshi goes behind a pillar and Luigi comes out... With the key! The Koopa Kids don't suspect a thing, though, and keep chasing after Yoshi. Luigi races for the cell, but has a bit of a trouble with the many, many keys... "STOP!" Scream the presistent Roy and Lemmy, still chasing the green dino. Yoshi swerves, sending the two headlong into a wall! Floyd, of course, can't resist this ripe opportuity, and begins selling them "Koopa Crisis Kits", while Peach screams at him to "save the sales pitch, Floyd!!" Wendy. though, is VERY bitter toward "that dippy dinosuar", tripping him and sending him into poor Peach, Floyd and Toad! She opens atrapdoor, letting six Thwomps freefall down! At the prison, Luigi has finally picked the door lock! But when inside, he realizizes that Mario still has a ball and chain on his foot. "Even Houdini couldn't break out of all these locks..." he sighs. In the fray, Wendy has also released a horde of Chargin' Chucks into the battle. As the Chucks race toward our Thwomped heroes, Peach gets up and gives Wendy a heavy glare. "You blitz, and I'll BOMB! I MEAN it!" "And your princess pedestal will be koopa kindling!!" answers Wendy smugly. "It'll be a small price to pay to kick your KOOPA KEESTERS!" Peach replies.
